It says house prices are falling. So whats really happening to the Property Market . Ill get an expert view. In sport, a match english women cant afford to lose. Australia is batting first. They have lostjust one wicket. And carol has the weather. A cloudy start the day for many of us a cloudy start the day for many of us but patchy light rain drizzle. The skies will filter slowly southwards as a go through the day. More details in 15 minutes. Good morning, first, our main story. Theresa may is under pressure to restore stability to the government after the second resignation from her cabinet in a week. The International Development secretary, priti patel, stepped down last night after more questions were raised about her unauthorised meetings with israeli politicians. The departure of ms patel has fuelled opposition accusations that the government is in chaos, and mrs may is losing her authority. Heres our Political Correspondent, alex forsyth. Arriving in london, priti patel could ha
And up up and away. A british inventor sets the first world speed record for flying a body controlled jet engine power suit. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Theresa may is under pressure to restore stability to the government after the second resignation from her cabinet in a week. The International Development secretary, priti patel, stepped down last night after more questions were raised about her unauthorised meetings with israeli politicians. Ms patel was a prominent brexit supporter, and the Prime Minister is facing calls to replace her with someone who also backs leaving the eu. Labour are demanding to know what the Foreign Office knew about priti patels meetings with israeli politicians. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is at downing street. Pressure on the Prime Minister from all directions, can she emerge from this with a semblance of authority and a sense of stability in government . I would say that people inside downing street are not getting too e
Very early on, i heard people shouting from very high up. Ijust desperately hope these people managed to get out. Itjust seems so all consuming, the fire, i dont even know how the Fire Services are even know how the Fire Services are even beginning to deal with it. It isjust, even beginning to deal with it. It is just, you start up at absolutely extraordinary. It isjust. Absolutely extraordinary. Access seems so absolutely extraordinary. Access seems so difficult with the narrow streets. Lets come from the other way. We were trying to calculate how many flats there might be in the building, given it is 27 stories, maybe 200 or more. That means many more people. No indication how many men have got out, how many have been evacuated into the Latimer Christian Centre or else were . Know, many people have been milling about, there have been groups of people taking water and clothing and things like that no. They have been taken down to the cordon and taken by police. Nothing definite on how
Very early on, i heard people shouting from very high up. Ijust desperately hope these people managed to get out. Itjust seems so all consuming, the fire, i dont even know how the Fire Services are even know how the Fire Services are even beginning to deal with it. It isjust, even beginning to deal with it. It is just, you start up at absolutely extraordinary. It isjust. Absolutely extraordinary. Access seems so absolutely extraordinary. Access seems so difficult with the narrow streets. Lets come from the other way. We were trying to calculate how many flats there might be in the building, given it is 27 stories, maybe 200 or more. That means many more people. No indication how many men have got out, how many have been evacuated into the Latimer Christian Centre or else were . Know, many people have been milling about, there have been groups of people taking water and clothing and things like that no. They have been taken down to the cordon and taken by police. Nothing definite on how
Developing situation. We are watching and waiting to get any more developments. Celeste thomas joins us developments. Celeste thomas joins us live. She is across the road from the fire. Described to us where you are and what you can see. The fire. Described to us where you are and what you can seelj the fire. Described to us where you are and what you can see. I am in my house at the moment. I live across the road from Grenfell Tower and i have been told by the police to stay away from the windows and keep the door shut. I cant see anything at the moment. I was able to see the building from my kitchen window. When you first of all were made aware of this Emergency Situation Taking place, talk us through what you heard, and what initially use all . I initially heard the siren at about 1am this morning and saw the blue lights flashing. Looked out the window and saw people beginning to gather outside and then i noticed that there was some smoke coming from Grenfell Tower and went outside