And, the tale of the reservoir thats getting rid of all its fish. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news the successful run continues for englands youth teams as the under 17s reach the world cup final. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The economy had higher than expected growth in the three months to september, raising the prospect of a rise in Interest Rates next month. An initial assessment by the office for national statistics, suggests the level of gdp, or the total amount of goods and services produced in the uk, rose by 0. 4 , with strong performances in the services and manufacturing sectors. However, construction is continuing to perform poorly. Heres our economics editor kamal ahmed. Not exactly firing on all cylinders but today better news on the economy that will have cheered the chancellor. He visited the Francis Crick Research Centre in london, just the kind of high skilled innovation he would like to encourage. Well, its a solid performance by the uk economy
Welcome to bbc news. Pro unity demonstrators are gathering on the streets of barcelona, as the Spanish Government continues to take powers back from catalonia. Catalonias leadership was sacked and the regions autonomy was revoked after it declared independence on friday. But madrid has said former Catalan Leader Carles Puigdemont will be free to take part in new elections in december. Sarah corker reports. Spain is gripped by its biggest political crisis for a0 years, and the standoff is excalating. On friday, catalonia declared independence from spain. Madrid responded by imposing direct rule and sacking the entire catalan government. But its deposed leader, Carles Puigdemont, says he isnt going anywhere. Translation we do not deviate, we continue persevering in the only way that can make us winners without violence, without insults, in an inclusive way. But in madrid, thousands of people turned out on saturday calling for national unity. The Spanish Government has announced new elect
To those wanting catalonia to be independent of spain . Join us tonight at 7. 45 here on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Jeremy corbyn is under pressure to explain why he appointed the labour mp, Kelvin Hopkins, to the shadow cabinet months after hed been reprimanded for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards a young Party Activist. In the past few minutes mr hopkins said he absolutely and categorically denied allegations of Inappropriate Conduct. Earlier this evening, labour said it would appoint an independent organisation to offer confidential support to anyone affected by Sexual Harassment. Theresa may has issued the partys own new code of conduct. Meanwhile the labour activist who accused mr hopkins Ava Etemadzadeh has told bbc news she feels disillusioned by the partys response at the time. Our deputy political editor, john pienaar reports. Step by step, one by one, in one party, then another and today, young labour activist with more allegations of Sexual Miscon