the police ban on protests by the climate group extinction rebellion across london last month, is ruled unlawful in the high court. nicola adams has announced her retirement. and the weather. we have been looking at the latest climate statistics. and also the forecast over the next few days with particularly heavy rain for england and north wales. thanks, chris. also coming up anger as firefighters responding to an out of control bonfire are attacked by a gang of young people throwing fireworks. idid not i did not define what young actually meant there. we will talk about that later on. hello, everyone this is afternoon live. it s not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their election campaign. as borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street the news that a cabinet minister was resigning. welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aide‘s role in the collapse of a rape trial. certainly not the best start for a
heavy rain, very strong winds, but equally along the south coast of the country. but today part two of the weekend is looking much better. we will see later winds, some sunshine, but light winds and the forecast. i will have all the details later on. good morning. it s sunday, november 3. our top story: as the general election campaign gets into full swing, labour and the conservatives are making big spending pledges. borisjohnson has promised to end the benefits freeze in place since 2016, whilejeremy corbyn is proposing to insulate almost every home in the uk, which labour say will create hundreds of thousands ofjobs. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley. over the next few weeks we are going to hear a lot from our politicians about what they would do with power and big spending pledges are starting already. today the government is saying it will end the benefits freeze in april next year. it s been in place since 2016 and has meant things like universal credit a
lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth, but is still poised to win the world drivers‘ championship. good morning. as the general election campaign gets into full swing, labour and the conservatives are making big spending pledges. borisjohnson has confirmed the benefits freeze in place since 2016 will end in april, whilejeremy corbyn is proposing to insulate almost every home in the uk, which labour say will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley. over the next few weeks we are going to hear a lot from our politicians about what they would do with power. and the big spending pledges are starting already. today the government is saying that it will end the benefits freeze in april next year. it s been in place since 2016 and has meant things like universal credit and job seeker‘s allowance haven t gone up. from next year ministers are saying that will change and it will go up by the rate of inflation
lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers‘ championship. order! order! and bercow bows out. a retrospective look at the house of commons speaker s time in the chair. that s in half an hour, here on bbc news. in the past hour, the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he won t stand in next month s general election. he says instead he will be campaigning across the country against the prime minister s proposed brexit deal. it comes as the election campaign gets into full swing, with labour and the conservatives making big spending pledges. borisjohnson has confirmed the benefits freeze in place since 2016 will end in april, whilejeremy corbyn is proposing to insulate almost every home in the uk, which labour says will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. our political correspondent jessica parker is here. first of all, let s talk about nigel farage. he is saying that his party
lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers‘ championship. and click checks out what ‘made in taiwan‘ means in the 21st century. that‘s in half an hour, here on bbc news. the leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he won‘t stand as a candidate in next month‘s general election. speaking on the andrew marr show, he said that instead he will be campaigning across the country against the prime minister‘s proposed brexit deal. i‘ve thought very hard about this how do i serve the cause of brexit best? that‘s why i‘m doing this, not for a career. i don‘t want to be in politics for the rest of my life. do ifighta politics for the rest of my life. do i fight a seat or do i serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the united kingdom supporting 600 candidates because mike andi supporting 600 candidates because mike and i decided the latter course is