Uk businesses will be expected to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august. Hello and welcome. Ahead of the daily downing street News Conference which is today led by transport secretary grant schapps. Boris johnsons top aide Dominic Cummings is facing calls to resign after it emerged he had travelled more than 250 miles with his sick wife to be near relatives during the long term. Downing street says mr cummings drove from london to County Durham to ensure his young son would be properly cared for if he too became unwell. His actions were in line with the coronavirus guidelines. He told reporters he behaved reasonably and legally. Helen kat reports. Youre supposed to be more than two metres apart. Dominic cummings at his london home, insisting he did not break lockdown rules. I behaved reasonably and legally. Thats not a good look so is it, mr cummings . Who cares about good looks. It was about doing the right thing. Its not about what you guys think.
particularly around exeter saint david s, they have a lot of flooding and the line between taunton down to somerset into devon and then on into cornwall is the one that always has problems. i am just looking at exeter saint david s, these are the live trains at the moment and i m seeing the service to penzance, 29 minutes delayed, cardiff central, one hour delayed. the service to london waterloo is cancelled and the one to london paddington via bristol is 41 minutes late. cancel to painting, cancel to edinburgh and cancelled to london paddington. we are seeing a lot of these building up, the cancellations on these lines. we saw in that report, flooding on some of those branch lines, so a lot in the south west as well as the main line that runs from london paddington right through to penzance, a lot of those little branch lines that go off in devon and cornwall and there is flooding on the list card to lou line at the
minds. we know it is notjust about leakage, it is about people using less water and having resilient infrastructure for the future, as well. ., ., , ., ~ , ., , well. regan harris, thank you very much indeed- full reaction to that wonderful night of football for the lionesses coming up at 7am. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i m alice salfield. rail passengers are being urged not to travel this morning unless absolutely neccessary because of strike action by the rmt union. it s expected to stop the vast majority of services running. there are no trains at all through this core of london, the thameslink service from st pancras through to london bridge. and, really, we re only running on our main line, so that line down to brighton the brighton main line is running, but any of the branch lines are off. many of those we re not able to run on. so please, please, do check before you travel and please only travel
good morning from bbc london, i m alice salfield. rail passengers are being urged not to travel this morning unless absolutely neccessary because of strike action by the rmt union. it s expected to stop the vast majority of services running. there are no trains at all through this core of london, the thameslink service from st pancras through to london bridge. and, really, we re only running on our main line, so that line down to brighton the brighton main line is running, but any of the branch lines are off. many of those we re not able to run on. so please, please, do check before you travel and please only travel if absolutely necessary. meanwhile another tube strike has been announced. members of the rmt union will walk out there in three weeks time on friday august 19th in a long running dispute overjobs and pensions. urgent change is needed to improve the performance of fire services in london, according to a watchdog. london fire brigade s response to last week s