In Northern Ireland and the best of the uk. The travel show in half an hour, here on bbc news. Our top story today engineers have spent the night pumping thousands of gallons of water from the toddbrook reservoir, in derbyshire which is threatening to burst through a dam and flood the town beneath it. Attempts have been made to shore up the dam at Whaley Bridge, which was damaged on thursday, and yesterday raf helicopters spent hours trying to reinforce the structure. The Authorities Say there is a substantial threat to life if it fails completely, and a Severe Weather warning remains in place for the areas seen here in red. Borisjohnson visited the area last night to meet some of the 1,500 residents whove been evacuated so far, and to talk to teams about the work theyre doing to repair the damage. It is looking dodgy but stable is how i would describe it. The Chinook Helicopters have done hugejob bringing in aggregate, and you still cannot tell that the hole has been filled. So there