Brecon and radnorshire by election. Borisjohnsons effective majority in parliament is nowjust one. My very first act as your mp, when i arrive in westminster, will be to find mr borisjohnson, where ever he is hiding, and tell him cloud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities. Two holiday firms, with bookings from more than 50 thousand people, have ceased trading. England make stready progress in the first ashes test at edgbaston 0pener rory burns is closing in on his century. Well, thats dissapointing. And coming up on the film review, Jason Solomons shares his thoughts on the latest angry birds movie along with the rest of this weeks cinema releases. Welcome to the bbc news at five, im jane hill. Raf helicopter crews are trying to save a dam in derbyshire amid fears it could burst and engulf much of the town of Whaley Bridge. The chinooks are dropping bags of sand, gravel and stone to shore up the dam wall. Experts say the situation is critical. About 1,500 residents have been moved out of their homes the Prime Minister has said his thoughts are with them. The governments Emergency Committee cobra has been meeting this afternoon. From Whaley Bridge, laura foster reports. The rain has gone but the hard work goes on. Chinooks have been flying every ten minutes since 530 this morning, each armed with tonnes of sand and gravel. They have moved 200 tonnes so far but engineers say they need to move at least double that to shore up the dam wall. All of the gravel coming from local quarries. It isa gravel coming from local quarries. It is a difficult task, we are being asked to get a real precision drop, you have to get as low as you can. The guys and girls are taken as a bit of time to get in there because we have to make sure it is done not too high so we dont put more stress on the dam itself but also we have to get into centimetre square areas so to get into centimetre square areas so it is like a big lego block that we are building, we have a foundation there and we are building each on top of the other. The problem is this spillway, damaged after a months worth of rain fell in after a months worth of rain fell in a week. It is putting hundred of homes injeopardy. A week. It is putting hundred of homes in jeopardy. The plan for the fire service is to stop what is coming into the reservoir, using the chinooks and raf can a it to dam up those inlets, at the same time to get as much water out of the reservoir out so get as much water out of the reservoir out so we can get as much water out of the reservoir out so we can take pressure out of the reservoir. It could collapse. The Structural Engineer on site is very concerned about that and basically the information we have had is we have to do something here because it is not going to go away on its own. Meetings like this have been happening throughout the night and all through this morning, it is a really joined all through this morning, it is a reallyjoined up all through this morning, it is a really joined up operation all through this morning, it is a reallyjoined up operation here. Right now, the engineers are trying to clear land so they can put more water pump same, the idea is that if you can reduce the amount of water in the reservoir it reduces the pressure on the dam. After the dam is lack spillway partially collapsed yesterday afternoon, People Living in Whaley Bridge were told to evacuate, as the town could be flooded. Most stayed with friends and family, some were put up in hotels, others used camper vans. Our houseis hotels, others used camper vans. Our house is about 30 feet from the river so it is pretty, pretty risky really. I dont know, if the dam went, i dont think we would have a house, to be honest. Engineers are still assessing what caused the dam to partially collapsed but all the people who live here care about is that the warm sunny weather continues and if and when they may be able to go back home. The chinooks are still very much in operation, that work is ongoing trying to shore up the dam and while we look at those pictures, lets bring in our correspondent, laura foster, who we were just hearing from. Certainly, a second night facing local people, a second night out of their homes, and i think they are being held at more information about everything as we speak. Yes, residents meeting starts at 5pm, where the urgency Emergency Service are telling residents what the latest situation is, what i have done so far, and what they will do next. At the moment, everything remains the same as it did this morning. Whaley bridge still not allowed in, residents still not allowed in, residents still not allowed back into their homes. As you can see, the Chinook Helicopters which have been coming since early this morning, they are still arriving, still bringing with them. What has been happening this afternoon is quite. It is all part of water pumps, they were originally planning to bring in four, now it is six and now we are hearing aid will be brought in. High volume water pumps, they are still being petered together by the fire service and the engineers. When that is operational, they will be able to start reducing they will be able to start reducing the water level in the reservoir even more than they have done already. We understand it is about over half a metre that has dropped so over half a metre that has dropped so far, and the weather has stayed dry, so the weather is on their side. In truth, the engineers wont be happy until the level of the reservoir is lower than the problem here. Laura, thank you so much, i know you will be back to us once we hit a little more from that residents meeting that as you say is going on at the moment. Lets talk to someone else going on at the moment. Lets talk to someone else now. Dr paul shepley is a lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the university of sheffield. As you are watching these pictures and following all of this on television, what strikes you about this operation . Should we even be in a position where this work is necessary . I mean, i think a position where this work is necessary . I mean, ithink we a position where this work is necessary . I mean, i think we should be focusing of the succession of the operation so far. The conditions in the field will be fought, they will be tense. Youve got to give them testa m e nt to be tense. Youve got to give them testament to the success of getting the pumps in, get in the raf involved and bringing the situation closer to being under control. Given your experience, do you think it is possible to get it under control . Because we keep hearing from, well, we sadly heard from the police and the Environment Agency that there is a real risk that the dam could collapse. I think the risk remains thatis collapse. I think the risk remains that is something that everyone is concerned about. So far, everything has gone as best as you can imagine. The fact that the weather is dry, the water level has dropped, just over half a metre at this point, the fa ct over half a metre at this point, the fact that they have got so much material into the eroded zone bodes well. This is as good as it could be, andi well. This is as good as it could be, and i think wejust need to give them time and space to operate and hopefully that will continue to be successful. Of course. Is this a potentially very lengthy operation . This could well take two to three days to get anywhere close to what, being safe, because obviously you have been hearing that the number of pumps has doubled, in terms of how much that was required. We are looking at thousands of metre cubes of water that needs to be removed. In terms of this huge operation that is under way at the moment, i am very much using an immense manga language, but is this a temporary stepping plaster . Sticking plaster . Getting people safely in their homes and then another team will have to look to the future and think about what needs to be done to ensure that it doesnt happen again . Absolutely. This is definitely a kind of how do we get the situation back under our control . How do we bring the water level is below the open gate that is there . How do we get residents back in their homes and businesses to open . This is the first step of what will take a few yea rs, first step of what will take a few years, in terms of repairing this to its former glory. To go back to where we started, should people be concerned about these that are of course very old structures . These exist in lots of places up and down the country. If you are losing living in a flood risk area, somewhere where you have had problems in the past, our people rightly going to be a bit nervous . Its a difficult one to answer. I will segregate flood risk from living in the shadow of the dam first. These are earth dams, there are hundreds of them in the uk, thousands of them worldwide, they are generally a phenomenally safe structure, they have been holding back water for hundreds of years in some instances, they tend to be quite stable. Where we get problems of this type is where we get unprecedented levels of rain, where we can is to date these spillway structures that are only there in terms of high emergency points, and where these things can occasionally go wrong. Yes. Well, it is really good to have your expertise, we appreciate the remarkable work that the teams on the ground are doing. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you so much for your time. Borisjohnsons effective parliamentary majority has been cut to just one after the liberal democrats won the by election in brecon and radnorshire. The party overturned a conservative majority of 8,000, to clinch the seat by just over 1,400 votes. Labour were beaten into fourth place by the brexit party. The new mpjane dodds said voters had chosen hope over fear. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports. In a brexit voting area, a remain party coming out on top. I do hereby declare thatjane dodds is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency. The clear message from the constituencys new mp to borisjohnson. My very first act as your mp, when i arrived in westminster, when i arrive in westminster, will be to find mr Boris Johnson, wherever he is hiding, and tell him it loud and clear, stop playing with the future of our communities. It was celebrations all around in brecon this morning. The liberal democrats victory means the party finally has a seat again in wales and it is a first boost for their new leader. This result sends the message that liberal democrats are winning again. And it comes off the back of her local election success, our best ever European Election results, and it is clear that people dont have to settle for either borisjohnson orjeremy corbyn. The liberal democrats are providing a positive alternative and here in brecon and radnorshire people have voted for that in their droves. This by election was triggered following conservative chris davies conviction in march of submitting false expenses. The result means the tories have a narrow majority ofjust one in westminster. It is never easy having a tiny working majority but the broader point is it will not distract us from what we have explicitly promised to do. That is deliver brexit so we can seize the opportunities it provides. This constituency lies within the county of rural powys, where the brexit party came out on top in the european parliamentary elections. It comes as no surprise that the brexit party came third. And brexit was no doubt a hugely contributing factor amongst constituents. We voted to come out and that is the reason we are here. It is driving us up the wall. I have heard too much about brexit, yes. I dont believe in brexit. I voted liberal alliance. The narrow victory for the lib dems was helped by the other remain parties, clyde comrie and the greens, choosing not to stand, handing the victory to jane dodds with just over a thousand votes. Labour suffered a significant blow, falling to fourth, prompting further questions about its stance on brexit. Ambiguity has not helped us in the last few years. We have tried to say to brexit voters, we are in favour of brexit, but we are in favour of remain. Without a doubt this is a blow for the new Prime Minister. He was in wales only on tuesday and came to the constituency to try and gather support for his man, but that just wasnt enough. His first Electoral Task failed. Borisjohnsons task of getting any future brexit vote through parliament has become trickier. So how do the numbers now stack up in parliament . There are 650 seats in the house of commons. The government now comprises 320 of those seats ten of those are members of the Democratic Unionist Party theyve propped up the government since the 2017 general election. 319 seats now belong to Opposition Mps from labour, the liberal democrats, the snp, the greens, plaid cymru, change uk and independents. 11 seats in the commons belong to members who do not vote in parliamentary ballots they include sinn fein mps, the Commons Speaker and his three deputies. The outcome of the brecon and radnorshire by election means the government now has a working majority ofjust one mp. Nick eardley is in westminster. It emphasises just how tough it is going to be how borisjohnson to get anything through parliament over the next few months. If you add up eve ryo ne next few months. If you add up everyone who votes with Boris Johnson in terms of Political Party affiliation and all those who vote against him, he hasjust one more, and that means in theory if one conservative didnt like a policy and voted the other way, it wouldnt go through. It is much more complicated than that. There are some people in parliament who dont sit with the tories who might vote for them. And we all know when it comes to brexit that some of the normal party allegiances ball away because there are some of the labour side who will vote with the government and some of the tory side who wont. It emphasises to the new Prime Minister as he tries to navigate extraordinarily tricky waters here over the next few months, that it can be much more challenging. It is always dangerous, isnt it, to extrapolate a by election result into a general election result . But i suppose my this is unlike any other scenario we have been in, and october the 31st is not that far away. You are absolutely right and what i find really interesting about this result is the role that tactical voting played. As you heard in that piece there, you had played camry and the greens are standing aside so the lib dems could have crack the whip because they had the most chance as a remain party of winning. 0n the other side, that didnt happen so the tories went up against the brexit party and that potentially cost them the sick. The consent it got all the photos that went for the brexit party, they would have won. So there are huge questions for that number parties to look at over the next few months. Cute questions for labour as well. A humiliating result to almost lose your deposit, 5. 1 , and again there are people in the labour party saying today we are suffering for not having a clear position on brexit, those people who wa nt to position on brexit, those people who want to stay in the eu know where to 90, want to stay in the eu know where to go, the lib dems, those who want to get out know where to go, the tories at the brexit party, labour, some would argue, are stuck in no mans land at the moment. There are huge tactical questions for how by elections are approached in the next few months, also about how a general election might be approached, that comes up as well. But the main thing borisjohnson will be thinking about in downing street tonight is he has a hell of a ha rd street tonight is he has a hell of a hard time to get anything through parliament. These are tonights headlines. Raf crews race to shore up a collapsed dam wall thats put a derbyshire town at risk of flooding. The lib dems win the brecon by election, reducing borisjohnsons working majority tojust one. Two holiday firms, with bookings from more than 50,000 people, have ceased trading. In sport, rory burns scores a maiden test century as england eat away at the first innings on the second day of the first ashes test. England trailed by 7a runs, 210 for four at edgbaston. Harry maguire will become the world for that most expensive defender after Manchester United agreed to pay £18 million to buy the england internationalfrom leicester. And three english women are within three shots of the lead in the british open. Ill be back with more on all those stories at 5 30pm. Yes, its the holidays and a terrible time for a holiday provider to go under. In this group, super break has has 400 people overseas and 53,000 forward bookings, many of those within the uk. Then there are customers who have booked hotels via laterooms. The advice is, because the payment goes straight to the hotel, they should be ok. The stories have been emerging on social media of people who think their breaks may be ruined including winter bookings in iceland, for instance. Weve researched the company thoroughly before we actually sort of paid out the money and there was no hint. No. At that time, just a month ago, that there was any Financial Difficulties at all. Super break was drumming up business close to its end. Never too late to visit manchester, it said. And in a statement after its failure, it added that hotel only bookings could be cancelled and people might be asked to pay twice. This is a massive worry for thousands of people, who might have booked tickets to shows in londons west end, or entries to a theme park, along with the hotel rooms to put the family up for the night. And the concerns are, well, the hassle factor, trying to sort it all out, whether theyll be allowed in and whether theyll lose their money. There is some reassurance. The deep, hulls aquarium, said it would honour entry vouchers from affected families, saying it wasnt their fault. The owners of legoland and alton towers said theyd charge 50 of the gate price. But the travel body abta says many should be able to get their money back later. If youve got rail tickets plus a theatre ticket, for example, that is a package holiday, which will be protected by abta. If youve got a package holiday which involves a flight, that will be protected by atol. So, if youve got what we call accommodation only so, for example, a Hotel Booking on it