To help Homeless People living on the streets. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A father who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter out of school for an unauthorised holiday has lost his case at the Supreme Court. Jon platt, whos from the isle of wight, had argued that all the law required of him was to ensure that his child attended school regularly. The high court had originally ruled that the holiday did not constitute regular absenteeism but this morning the Supreme Court has overturned thatjudgement. This is how lady hale announced the ruling. Unauthorised absences have a disruptive effect. Not only on the education of the individual child, but also on the work of other pupils and of their teachers. If one pupil can be taken out whenever it suits the parent, then so can others. Different pupils might be taken out at different times, multiplying the disruptive effect. Any educational system expects people to keep the rules. Not to do so is unfair to those obedie
abc reporter clint jasper is on the ground in echuca. essentially last week we had a pretty epic rainstorm. our local bureau of meterology described it as a tropical rain bomb. in the year that s been very wet in australia, different parts of the country have been flooding since december last year, the soil is already soaked with moisture and all the dams are full. there s only one way the water could go and that is across the land and down the murray river, our biggest river. residents of echuca are waiting for that huge flood peak to hit. the forecasts change every day so everyone is nervously waiting to find out when that water will come down stream. this of course is a country still reeling from previous disasters. yes, feels like we can t catch a break. we rolled from the summer bushfires which spread right up and down the east coast, straight into the coronavirus pandemic and just as we were coming out of that, the floods began in christmas last year.
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