With these five severe warnings, 16 Flood Warnings elsewhere in scotland, anotherfive in wales, and 133 in england, where the majority of those are in the midlands, where we have seen disruption to transport and schools are being closed as well. In terms of looking at the future, the Weather Warnings, Amber Warnings across the pennines, the peaks and the Scottish Borders today. They are joined peaks and the Scottish Borders today. They arejoined by peaks and the Scottish Borders today. They are joined by further warnings in scotland overnight. And those scottish warnings stay in force for tomorrow. Another red Weather Warning for parts of angus in aberdeenshire where another 70 to 100 millimetres of rain falls on top of what we have already seen, that is likely to cause further severe flooding. In terms of the red with a forecast, through the rest of today, the heaviest rain across Eastern England weather forecast. The heaviest rain across Eastern England weatherforecast. Driven in by
And coming up on bbc news. New zealand look to erase Rugby World Cup scars of 2019 as they look to reach a record fifth final when they face argentina later. Good afternoon. The labour leader sir kier starmer says his partys two by election victories last night are history in the making. Labour overturned huge conservative majorities in the previously safe tory seats of Mid Bedfordshire and tamworth in staffordshire. In Mid Bedfordshire, the former seat of nadine dorries, the tory majority of more than 2a,000 collapsed with a swing to labour of 20. 5 . While in tamworth the swing was even bigger 23. 9 . The conservatives have blamed low turnout, saying their voters stayed at home. Our Political Correspondent iain watson reports. Two previously tory seats, two big wins for labour. Keir starmer has been to visit both with big swings for his party from the conservatives in tamworth, but his first stop this morning was to celebrate his close victory in Mid Bedfordshire. We know that voters