this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm: flash floods hits the lizard peninsula in cornwall. a coastguard helicopter has been airlifting people to safety. appalling conditions in youth custody centres make a tragedy inevitable according to the chief inspector of prisons — he says he's staggered by the decline in standards in england and wales. we were unable to say that any of the young offender institutions or secure training centres that we inspect. we couldn't say that any of them were safe to hold children and young people. after grenfell tower — a bbc investigation reveals how councils are failing to offer social housing despite a statutory duty to do so. and in the next hour we'll look at the speed of a tyrannosaurus rex. new research suggests the dinosaur would not have been able to move more than about 12 miles per hour. how can such a pretty wife make such

bad coffee? i heard that! sexist ads, endorsing stereotypes could be banned, under plans from the industry watchdog. good evening and welcome to bbc news. major flash flooding has majorflash flooding has hit major flash flooding has hit the lizard peninsula in cornwall. the coastguard says it has airlifted two people to safety in the village of coverack which has been particularly badly affected, four people are still in a property and waiting to be rescued. many fire crews are on the scene and this footage shows water has been sweeping through the

village and poring over a wall into the sea, a four foot torrent of water according to one eyewitness. bill frisken, a local councillor in coverack told me a little earlier that the main road has burst its banks. we are not able to touch base with the centre of the village because the centre of the village because the main road down into coverack has been blocked, just buy one of the largest rivers bursting its banks coming straight across the road and washing the sides of the road away and carrying with it large boulders the size of a man's head. it is very very dangerous and a couple of feet of water going straight across the road. the amount of water that has come from the land carrying huge amounts of soil with it is making the sea waters for the first half a mile out where i am looking brown,

further than that, it is the wonderful bright blue that are expected in cornwall. so, this all follows very heavy rainfall in the afternoon, is that right? it was enormously heavy rainfall, it was a tropical type downpour having worked in the tropics i know what it is like their but with huge hailstones in itan like their but with huge hailstones in it an inch across. we were really quite worried about the glass in the house, one of my panes of glass in the greenhouse has been broken. give us an the greenhouse has been broken. give us an idea of the size of the village, how many people would be affected ? village, how many people would be affected? well, there are about 250 houses in total in the village. i can't say exactly who is affected by it because the village has been effectively cut in half, you cannot ci’oss effectively cut in half, you cannot cross the river either where they

normally go underneath the road, they are now flowing across the top of the road. and the rivers further inland of course are flooded as well. they broke their banks right throughout. we gathered the coastguard helicopter has been in action this evening rescuing people from at least one house. yes, we saw it flying around, it is going —— doing good work. the police are here and everyone is trying to sort things out. one problem coming down the main road is that all the manhole covers lifted and washed away completely so you have lots of very large holes in the road. dangerous for walkers, not just traffic. the smaller road on the other side of the village is still usable but onlyjust. it has been quite traumatic but we are each sort

of limited to our own neighbourhood, small neighbourhood, because we cannot get around. have you seen anything like this in coverack before? not this bad, no. i'm afraid global warming is taking its effect. the fire service said there were life—threatening incidents, do you know whether everybody is safe or have you got any information on any potential casualties? know, as far asi potential casualties? know, as far as i know the only one i heard about was one of the people who lived near the main river and they had to get their mother out through a window because the water was rising so rapidly. my wife and i were busy this afternoon bailing out the kitchen quite literally, was coming m, kitchen quite literally, was coming in, through the doors come even though they were closed the garage was flooded anyway and the door from

the garish side, the water simply the garish side, the water simply the pressure of it was forcing its way and need it and so was the main door to the outside and were busy bailing out. it sounds like all this happened so fast you did not really have time to make any preparations to defend your property? none at all. it was absolutely almost instantaneous. a number of us had been to the local crematorium in camborne for the burial, the cremation of a resident from coverack and we got back to the house where they were giving a small eats and to discuss things and i left there and five minutes after i arrived in my house it started to rain very heavily, thunder and lightning, quite dramatic. again come almost as bad as the tropics.

it then poured with rain and then the hailstones started. and another resident tony marsden, a business owner was saying resident tony marsden, a business owner was saying there was a four foot torrent sweeping through the village, does that sound right to you? absolutely. it was several feet of water coming down off the field behind our house and pouring into the house. i can quite confirm that the house. i can quite confirm that the depth of water is immense and it is flowing very fast so you cannot walk through it. because your feet would get washed from underneath you. a local councillor in coverack describing the tropical downpour that led to the flooding and we heard from another eyewitness respected at hailstones the size of 50p pieces were smashing glasses, small panes of glass on the windows.

john kay isjust small panes of glass on the windows. john kay is just outside coverack and sent us this report a few seconds ago. this is the cordon in coverack, we are not allowed any further beyond these vehicles there are dozens of emergency service ci’ews are dozens of emergency service crews trying to do what they can to work out what has happened down there and try to help people who might be stuck. it sounds like it started at lunchtime, early afternoon, the beginnings of a storm, some rainfall, some hail, big heavy hailstones people said did not stop several hours and hours and thunderstorms and lightning cascading of water and the dramatic images bbc news viewers have sent to us today. people say it sometimes floods in the brooks and streams around the upper parts of the village but one local doctor said he has lived here for 50 years and has never seen anything like he

has today, 50 times stronger water. that is the coastguard helicopter, one of a number of aerial vehicles we have seen over the last few minutes circling and looking out to who they might be able to help. other local people come out as well to see if they can do anything, people with brooms and mops were not that will do much the moment. there isa that will do much the moment. there is a will to do anything possible to try to help. that helicopter from the coastguard we understand has been airlifting people to safety, at least two people rescued from the property be heard and earlier on i spoke to another eyewitness. a little earlier i spoke to eyewitness karla wainwright who works at the paris hotel in coverack. about lunchtime, i could see the sea was getting choppy and there was a storm coming in. it didn't really kick off until about 3pm. it literallyjust came over like a mass of mist, and the restaurant area

has windows all the way has windows all the way round and between 3pm at liz30pm could see anything beyond here, and we had massive hailstones coming down the size of 50p piece coins. it smashed if you windowpanes and we had a few leaks. it wasn't until a sort of cleared up at liz30pm and we could see to the other side of coverack, we could see a stream coming down the main road and going straight off over the wall, into the sea, and we realised how bad it had been and how much water and rain had come down. there was a business owner who was saying a four—foot torrent had swept through the village. is that how you would describe it? that was from the opposite side, but from where we are, we have one of the best views of the hill. it literally only just started to ease off, now. when we first managed to see it it was about liz30pm.

still water coming down the hill, but we could not believe it. one of the locals that had been in the pub. i've only been down here for a month, myself, but the locals said they had never seen it that bad, even in winter. we have heard reports, i don't know if you saw them, the coastguard helicopter risking people from homes and properties. we saw the helicopter around. i did not see them rescuing anyone. over at the bay hotel on the other side, the lower ground floor there was completely flooded and they lost all their electricity. we have been quite lucky, apart from a few broken window panes, we have not got that much damage. we have a lot of people coming in from the village and from other places saying that their houses on the lower floors have been completely flooded and that has happened to the bay hotel, as well. the fire service has been talking about life—threatening incidents. we can see that tweet major

flooding in coverack, please avoid this area and do not attempt to drive through floodwater. is everyone safe and well as far as you know? as far as i know, everyone is fine. it is quite a small village, so, word does tend to spread fast, so we have not heard anything and hopefully that is a good sign. more information about that rescue by the coastguard helicopter, we gather six people at least were trapped in their home, two were airlifted to safety, four others listed in the house last time we heard but were not believed to be injured and were waiting to be rescued by the helicopter. we saw it injohn kay's rescued by the helicopter. we saw it in john kay's report rescued by the helicopter. we saw it injohn kay's report from the outskirts of the village. we have had some pictures from coverack this

evening showing the harbour as well. we were getting descriptions of that four foot torrent of water racing down through the village as one of the main rivers burst its banks, water from the field is the main rivers burst its banks, waterfrom the field is higher up above the village heading right into the sea, turning the sea a brown for all the mud that was swept down through the village. and there, you getan through the village. and there, you get an idea of that torrent of water cascading down through coverack down towards the harbour and an idea of the tropical rainstorm that witnesses have been describing that caused all this and the hailstones as big as 5p pieces smashing some windows. extraordinary weather conditions and extraordinary flash floods. let's talk more about it with david braine, the bbc spotlight weather presenter. david, talk us

through what has happened on the lizard peninsula. the first problem we have is there are not many rainfall gauges to give us an idea of exactly how much rain fell in the area but we tracked the main thunderstorm, the cell of the storm it started at 2:30pm coming into the eastern side of the lizard peninsula and then travelled north but very slowly so for about two hours, the rain was intense and pretty heavy and we can work out how intense the rainfall is from the colours we get from the rain radar. the rain radar tells us how intense the rainfall has been falling and we reckon that it has been falling at around 30 to 40 it has been falling at around 30 to a0 millimetres and our which is across this part of the lizard peninsula for more than two hours so it gives you the amount of rainfall we are likely to see, we could about

80 millimetres of rain. when you look at the picture you can see whether colour is there is a large royal navy base at culdrose which is just to the west of the peninsular and that had very little rainfall so it isa and that had very little rainfall so it is a localised downpour of rain and along with the rain came the hailand and along with the rain came the hail and thunder. people describing the brainstorm as like something out of the tropics with huge hailstones which seems extraordinary on such a warm day, large hailstones the size of 50p pieces, we were told. typically when you get big thunderstorms you can get hail and that has been apparent notjust in this area but other parts of the south—west as well. having said that, parts of somerset also in a broadcast region that had little or no rain and temperatures up to 20 degrees today so it has been very localised. what we are watching carefully a nd localised. what we are watching carefully and you will notice on the screen is all this colour down here,

thatis screen is all this colour down here, that is approaching the isles of scilly but it looks like it would travel northwards so we hope it will travel northwards so we hope it will travel north, the upper—level winds should steer it to the north away from the affected area and are keeping ourfingers from the affected area and are keeping our fingers crossed. from the affected area and are keeping ourfingers crossed. i used to live in coverack and i know there are some shops along the front that could have been affected by those downpours of rain and flash floods so downpours of rain and flash floods so it is a close—knit community, an old fishing community but the village itself has very steep approaches, any road you go down into coverack is very steep and i'm sure the roads have contributed to the rain coming down the roads as well. is this kind of flash budding, does that happen often in this part of the world? not very often. the famous occurrence similar was way backin famous occurrence similar was way back in the floods in boscastle, that was quite a few years ago, similarsetup, that was quite a few years ago, similar setup, slow—moving intense thunderstorm, we had some rainfall

gauges close to that and they recorded in the afternoon some 200 millimetres of rain, i'm not sure we have seen that much in this area but certainly when you look at the intensity of the rainfall from 2:30pm to a:30pm, would not be surprised if the recording 80 millimetres of rain. wow, that is plenty. thank you very much. let's bring you up—to—date with what we know, flash flooding after that heavy rainfall between 2:30pm and a:30pm this afternoon producing these raging torrents of water moving at really fast speed down the road, through the village and the coastguard helicopter called into action rescuing people who were trapped in their homes, the fire service responding to what they said

we re service responding to what they said were life—threatening incidents, thatis were life—threatening incidents, that is a car you can just see being swept down and that is a huge torrent of water. new pictures coming into us. that car reallyjust being carried away, a hire car, we gather. i wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few others. that isa raging there were quite a few others. that is a raging torrent and no wonder there has been a lot of damage in coverack and we are hearing from the various eyewitnesses we have spoken to come including a local councillor, no casualties at the moment but some people have been rescued from their homes and who will bring you the latest from there as the evening progresses. john kay has reached the village and will be reporting from there as well. not one of the youth custody centres in england and wales is safe for children or young people. that's the shocking warning by the chief inspector of prisons who says a tragedy is inevitable and the decline in

standards is ‘staggering'. describing the men's prison system, peter clarke says he is often appalled by the conditions in which inmates are held. the government has acknowledged that prisons have faced a number of challenges and says it's taken immediate action two, amongst other things, boost the number of prison officers. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has more. medway secure training centre in kent, a place where young offenders are held and hopefully rehabilitated. 18 months ago, an undercover investigation by bbc panorama shone a light on daily life in medway. teenage inmates were seen being mistreated and abused. a number of staff were sacked and the police launched a criminal investigation. medway, then run by gas, is now the responsibility of the prison and probation service. but it is still struggling,

and only last month inspectors denounced it as inadequate. and it's not alone, according to today's damning report by the prison watchdog, which says: the chief inspector of prisons says he was so alarmed at what was found that he alerted ministers earlier this year. violence, giving rise to repressive regimes, more discipline, longer being locked in cells. i have seen children being held in cells for 22 hours a day, not eating any of their meals in association with other children. when inspectors went into feltham young offender institution in west london, they found that violence was so acute that the site was unsafe for both staff and boys. jennifer blake, who runs an anti—gang charity, was in feltham last month. their toilet systems are overflowing.

the stench in there, the fact that they're more afraid to be inside the prison than outside because of the gang rivalry inside the prison. she began offending when she was 13 and spent 20 years involved in knife crime, drugs and robbery. through my own life experience, i know that i wasn't stopped and i went down the wrong path. so if these young people are not stopped, they will take it through to their adulthood and they will continue reoffending. the ministry ofjustice said no minister was available for interview, and in a statement, it said: when it comes to adult jails, today's report warns that prison reform will be blighted without less violence, fewer drugs and more time spent out of cells. all these require additional staff. let's speak to tim rosier, a former probation officer

and is now head of the charity reflex — which works with young people to break the cycle of crime. he's in our derby newsroom. do you think this warning today from the chief inspector of prisons is accurate? absolutely. i agree with him 100%, this is an outrage. this is nothing short of a modern injustice, what were talking about here are children and young people who should be and the care of the government. this was an ofsted report about the local school, people would be outraged and incensed the government communities and society would be wanting some sort of response but as it is prisons it often demands a different response but make no mistake this is an injustice, what we are seeing here are children and young people being let down by those who are supposed to be looking after them. if it is an injustice, what is the

cause of it, what is going wrong? what you're seeing here is a member of multi—complex needs and these people in custody have so many different needs because the prison population has reduced over 15 or 20 yea rs, population has reduced over 15 or 20 years, what are left with is a small cohort who have high needs, multi—complex risks and for the mental health, fatherlessness, addiction, the result of growing up in care, low educational attainment, the result of new psychoactive substances, the impact of guns and removal of being away from your family and friends having a contact over many many weeks if not months so over many many weeks if not months so these young people and children are fearful, they are scared about their surroundings and we are seeing here is the result of all these needs coming together like a pressure cooker. 0k, thank you very much. a few problems with the camera

but we got the gist of what you are saying. thank you for being with us. there's been an unexpected fall in inflation. the rate , as measured by the consumer prices index — was 2—point—6% injune compared with 2—point—9% the month before. the drop is partly due to a fall in fuel prices. but some economists are warning the drop could be just a blip with inflation set to rise again. here's our economics correspondent andy verity. we're used to petrol being the motor of inflation, but last month it dragged it down. between may and june, the cost of fuel dropped by more than a percentage point and instead of edging higher, as many expected, inflation generally fell back from 2.9% to 2.6%. one of the biggest elements that held inflation down was culture and recreation, everything from theatre tickets, to sports tickets to video streaming on the internet and another big downward pressure came from these, cheaper tablet computers. this afternoon, the governor of the bank of england

gave his reaction to the figures. i think the first thing is, one doesn't want to put too much weight on any specific data point. the bigger picture remains the same. the reason why inflation is above the 2% target is because of the depreciation in the pound following the referendum or associated with the referendum, and that's a judgement of the market. we'll see in the fullness of time whether that judgment is right, but it's the judgment of the market about the relative incomes in this country as a consequence of those decisions over the medium term. this carpet factory in kidderminster is an example of a growing business dealing with that weaker pound. it means it has to pay more than it once did to buy the yarn that goes into its carpets from abroad. it's adapted to that and more of its yarn now comes from british sheep. that's helped it to trim its costs and keep its price rises contained. our prices have had to go up. we've increased prices by around 2% this year and that's been a natural consequence of increased wage costs, yarn costs and energy costs. we have had to pass that

on to our customers. while inflation is lower than last month, prices are still rising faster than the average worker's pay. the squeeze on living standards isn't over yet. it looks as if inflation might be dampened a bit by softer fuel price growth over the next few months, but underlying price pressures from post—brexit falls in sterling are still there and they look set to continue to push inflation up a bit further as we move to the end of the year. for now, the pressure on the bank of england to tame inflation by raising interest rates sooner rather than later has eased. in the city, they are still betting a rise in interest rates will be needed, but not until next march. andy verity, bbc news. with me is seamus nevin, head of employment and skills policy, at the institute of directors, which represents thousands of businesses. were you expecting this fall in

inflation? no, we were surprised as many economists were at the figures indicating there has been a reduction in inflation but at the same time wages are continuing to lag behind affecting consumer spending, fuel costs reduced and that will be of that too many consumers and businesses. at the same time, food and household goods have increased and that has an effect on the purchasing power of ordinary workers then that will have a knock—on effect for the economy and businesses. do you think this drop isa and businesses. do you think this drop is a one—off, the general trend is growing inflation? economic consensus is it seems to be a bit of a surprise which might indicate things will go back to the path that was expected previously. today's results suggest one of the positive benefits is inflation will be slightly less overall over the course of the year than anticipated which will be of some benefit to

consumers in terms of increasing the value of the pound in their pocket. what about the implications on interest rates, there has been talk ofa hike interest rates, there has been talk of a hike in interest rates, does this put that to one side? the bank of england gave indications they are considering an increase. today's results suggest there is less pressure for that to happen and the bank ina pressure for that to happen and the bank in a difficult position between the interest increasing inflation and the effect that would have at the same time wanting to recognise it might also have a detrimental effect on homeowners and their cost of living so given the uncertainty around the economy with brexit negotiations kicking off and we don't know what effect that will have an economy in a long one, a holding pattern to now and waiting to see is not bad thing. it doesn't seem to see is not bad thing. it doesn't seem long ago we had almost no inflation in the economy, some people were saying there was not enough inflation, if you like. what

has changed, was at the brexit vote and the fall of the value of sterling? the fall in the value of sterling? the fall in the value of sterling got a huge amount of coverage for the period immediately after the referendum, consumer demand continued on but today we are seeing the effects of that list of the other side is we have seen a number of regulatory and cost increases the businesses, notjust the value of the pound, a collapse that has faced but things like the apprenticeship levy, pensions, migration of skills and a number of other regulatory requirements which are increasing the costs on businesses and preventing them investing in their workforce and in productivity. the other side is brexit and we do not know what kind of measures businesses will have to ta ke of measures businesses will have to take and businesses are keen to get as much guidance from government on that they can start making the right planning and steps to prepare for 2019 when we leave. thank you for coming in. a man has died after a building

collapsed in cardiff. a spokesman for south wales fire service to the casualties had self rescued from the site. more from cornwall and the flash flooding in coverack. but let's get the weather with ben rich. good evening. the weather is on the change. something cooler and fresher on the way. before it arrives, some of us will get some thunderstorms. some of us have already seen thunderstorms, actually, spreading up from the near continent, affecting parts of the south—west, the channel islands, across the south coast. during tonight, those showers and storms will move eratically northwards. not everywhere will catch

a downpour, some places will avoid them and stay dry, but if you get a storm, it could be a lot of rain in a short space of time, frequent lightning, large hail, gusty winds, probably staying dry much of the night across scotland. into tomorrow, these bands of heavy downpours will continue to journey northwards. it dries up and brightens up for a time across england and wales, but further heavy downpours will push in from the west later in the day. across east anglia and the south—east, it will be another very warm day, 30, 31, maybe 32 degrees, but turning cooler and fresher out west, and we'll get into the fresher feel for the end of the week with some dry spells hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines at 20:30. flash floods hit the lizard peninsula in cornwall. the fire service says it's despatched a number of crews to the area. appalling conditions in youth custody centres make a tragedy inevitable.

that's according to the chief inspector of prisons, who says he's staggered by the decline in standards in england and wales. we were unable to say that any of the young offender institutions or secure training centres that we inspect, we couldn't consider that any of them were safe to hold children and young people. inflation has unexpectedly fallen to 2.6% injune. it's the first fall since october, 2016, although prices continue to rise. after the grenfell tower disaster — a bbc investigation reveals how councils are failing to offer social housing despite a statutory duty to do so. president trump's political difficulties over obamaca re continue as republican fail to reach agreement on a replacement. those are the headlines. let's get

the latest sports news. england beat south africa by two wickets in a tense semifinal to reach the final of the women's cricket world cup. england restricted south africa tojust 218 in bristol, which looked like a comfortable target. but the home side lost wickets cheaply through the middle order and were five wickets down, still needing more than 70 to win. it went down to the final over of the match. this was the first ball anya shrubsole faced, but she smashed it through the covers for a boundary to take england to the world cup final at lord's. england goalkeeperjoe hart has completed a loan move to west ham from manchester city for a season. the 30—year—old had been told by city boss pep guardiola that he could find another club after spending last season with italian side torino. there's no option to buy in the deal and should west ham want him next summer, they'll have to bid for him like any other club.

three—time winner chris froome is still in charge of the leader's yellow jersey at the tour de france. it took a photo finish, but stage 16 was claimed by the australian michael matthews, his second stage win. froome retains his 18—second lead over italy's fabio aru, with just five stages remaining. the open golf is back at royal birkdale this weekend. it's the tenth time the world's oldest major has been held there. one of the most memorable championships was in 1998, when a 17—year—old justin rose chipped in at the 18th to win the amateur prize and finish fourth overall. that set him on his way to a successful career. he has a us open title and olympic gold to his name, but he'd still love to win at birkdale. it's the one tournament i have dreamt about since i was that young boy. i think especially at royal birkdale, you take an open championship anywhere, you take a major championship anywhere, but

one, if they line up at special venues, that club has something extra about it, and obviously, for me here, to do it at royal birkdale would be a full so cool —— full circle moment of what i did in 1998. it isa circle moment of what i did in 1998. it is a special venue, and like you say, lots of good memories. britain'sjohanna konta has told the bbc that she's working towards becoming world number one. the latest rankings have moved her up to four after she reached the semi—finals at wimbledon where she lost to venus williams. she is taking a short break. konta is the first woman to reach the last four at the all—england club in 39 yea rs. four at the all—england club in 39 years. interestingly, these championships and this time around, where i managed to get far in a grand slam, at home at wimbledon, i actually felt i did a reasonable job with my team, and also myself, on almost died testing it as it went along with each match. i really appreciated each day and eat

experience i got. i was very fortu nate, experience i got. i was very fortunate, i got such great matches and a few battles during this year's woodward. emotionally, it was an incredible experience. i got to play in front of a home crowd, who were so in front of a home crowd, who were so supportive and living every single point with me. which is quite overwhelming. it is quite an experience when you have thousands of people cheering for you in quite an intimate setting. i think, emotionally, i died just did it, definitely, after every event, but especially after a slam, if you are fortu nate to especially after a slam, if you are fortunate to make it to the latter stages, it is tiring, so i definitely enjoyed relaxing a bit and trying to switch off. that's all sport for now. i'll have more at 10:30. flash flooding has hit

the lizard peninsula in cornwall. the coastguard has airlifted two people to safety in the village of coverack, which has been particularly badly affected. talking about life—threatening incidents, this stream of water sweeping through the village, poring over a wall and into the sea, turning it browner according to eyewitnesses. emergency services have asked people to avoid the area, not to try to drive through any of the floodwaters. our correspondentjon kay is just outside coverack and sent us this update. this is the cordoned in coverack. we are not allowed to go any further beyond these vehicles. there are

dozens beyond these vehicles. there are d oze ns of beyond these vehicles. there are dozens of emergency service crews doing what they can to work out what has happened down there, is to help people that might be stuck. it sounds like it all started around lunchtime, early afternoon. the beginnings of a storm, some rainfall, some hailstones, big and heavy hailstones, which did not offer hours. thunderstorms and lightning, cascading water, and the dramatic images that viewers have sentin dramatic images that viewers have sent in to us today. locals say it sometimes floods around the upper parts of the village, but one local doctor said to me, he has lived here for more than 50 years, and has never seen for more than 50 years, and has never seen anything like he has today. it is about 50 times stronger water than ever. that is a coastguard helicopter, one of a number of aerial vehicles we have seen over number of aerial vehicles we have seen over the last few minutes, circling, looking out for who they might be able to help. other local people have come out as well to see if they can do anything. people with brooms and mops, not that that will

do much here at the moment. at anything. there is able to do anything. there is able to do anything to to get help. that isjon kay outside coverack. eyewitnesses have told us that the downfall of rain was absolutely tropical with hailstones falling, the size of 50p pieces and smashing windows. david brain has been telling me that up to 18 millimetres fell in cornwall in just two hours this afternoon. the first problem we have at the moment is there are not many rainfall gauges to give us an idea of exactly how much rain fell in the area, but we tracked the main thunderstorm, if you like, the main cell of the storm, starting at 2:30 in the afternoon, on the eastern side of the lizard peninsula, travelling north very slowly. for about two hours, the rain was intense and pretty heavy, and we can

work out just intense and pretty heavy, and we can work outjust how intense that rainfall is from the colours we get from the rain radar. the rain radar basically tells us how intense that rainfall has been falling. we reckon, we estimate it has been falling at 30—a0 millimetres in the hour, it is across this part of the lizard peninsula for more than two hours. that gives you the rout of rainfall we are likely to see. we could have had 18 millimetres of rain. you can see where the colour is, you can see a large royal navy base at ouartararo ‘s, which is just to the west of the main pollutant sealer. that had very little rainfall. it is a very localised downpour. but along with the rain, came the hail and thunder. people describing the rain as out of the tropics, huge hailstones, which seems extraordinary on such a warm day. very, very large hailstones,

the size of 50p pieces, we were told. when you get big funder storms, you can get hail. that has been apparent not in just this area, but in the sub was. parts of somerset were also having temperatures of up to 28 degrees. you will have noticed on the screen, all the colour down here. that is approaching the isles of scilly at the moment, looking like it will travel northwards. we hope it will travel northwards. we hope it will travel northwards, the upper level winds should steer it to the north away from the affected area. we will keep ourfingers away from the affected area. we will keep our fingers crossed. i know coverack well, i used to live there. i know the shops along the front could have been affected by those downpours and floods. it is a close—knit community, an old fishing community, but the actual village itself has very steep approaches. any road you go down into coverack is very steep. i am sure the roads

have contributed to the rain coming down the roads, as well as the rivers. is this kind of flash flooding, does it happen often in that part of the world? not very often. the famous occurrence of a similar setup was way back with floods that happened in boscastle, that was quite a few years ago, a similar set that was quite a few years ago, a similarset up, and that was quite a few years ago, a similar set up, and intense thunderstorm. we had rainfall gauges close to that, and they recorded in the afternoon some 200 millimetres of rain. i'm not sure we have seen that much in this area, but certainly, when you look at the intensity of the rainfall from 2:30 to a:30, i would not be surprised to hear we had recorded 80 millimetres of rain. let's show you a picture of the brochure is whether that we saw a little bit earlier on this afternoon. as he was telling us are afternoon. as he was telling us are a couple of hours of very, very

intense rainfall falling between 2:30 and a:30 this afternoon. these are the pictures we have seen of the torrent of water streaming through the village, very steep roads, as david was telling us. another witness told us how one of the rivers broke its banks and fed into that torrent of water. you can see it cascading over the harbour wall. the coast guard telling us they had been a lifting some people to safety, who had been trapped in their homes. as far as we know, no casualties, no injuries, but we will update you on that as we get more news. jon kay, our correspondent, as you were seeing has reached the village now. hopefully, he can find out more on that. it is just approaching 8:a0 five. a leading health academic has warned

that improvements in life expectancy have almost ‘ground to a halt‘ in england. professor sir michael marmot, from university college london, says the rate of increase, which has been rising for decades, has halved since 2010. he says it is entirely possible that austerity is affecting how long people live, but the government says its policies aren't responsible, as sara smith explains. for years, we've been getting, well, older. for a century, average life expectancy has been rising. in england, it's now 83 for women, 79 for men. but the author of a study at the institute of health equity says he's deeply concerned that increases have now levelled off. and that while he can't make any firm conclusions, what he describes as miserly health and social care spending could be contributing. it's entirely possible and i think it's urgent that we try and sort that out. that they try and work out if it has, and if it has, it's yet one more argument

why we should be more generous in our social expenditure, if we want to address the quality of life of older people, and if we want to address inequalities in health at all ages. historically, for every five years later you were born, you'd expect a year longer life span. it was every 3.5 years for men. but since 2010, life expectancy has only increased a year every ten years for women and every six for men. care for older people was particularly pressing, said sir michael, because of the increase in those with dementia, who would need more, not less funding. when teb moema's father developed the disease, she says the family struggled to get the support they needed to have him looked after properly. by the time we started to make headway with them, and they put together a package for us, unfortunately, for us, his condition had deteriorated so badly that he became quite sick and was admitted to hospital.

people are dying in a way that they shouldn't need to because of that lack of support. that needs addressing. we're an affluent country, we should be able to support people with dementia as well as we support people with cancer or heart disease. we're not doing it and it's about time we started to provide that support. but the department of health says more money is going into the nhs and social care, that life expectancy continues to rise. sara smith, bbc news. most councils have a statutory duty to offer half accommodation in all—new large building projects as social housing. but bbc news has found that the council where g re nfell tower found that the council where grenfell tower is located, kensington and chelsea, agreed that vela pers could give them nearly £50 million instead of building the

required social housing last year. as michael buchanan reports now, the council is not alone in doing so. a rarely seen view of one of britain's richest areas. but kensington and chelsea, like everywhere else, does have social housing, just not enough of it. kalpesh shukla is currently living in a local hostel, desperate for a home. i've tried to get a house for two years. it's just impossible to get any sort of housing. i've tried so many times, and they just won't listen to you. they just say there's nothing for you and can't help me. they won't even get me on the housing list. just minutes away, a huge new development in knightsbridge that kalpesh will never live in. there'll be shops, offices and luxury flats. given the size of the build, council rules say half the homes should be affordable, but the architect said the flats were too big, the service charge would be too expensive. so kensington and chelsea council

allowed the developers to pay them £12 million, which they should now spend on affordable homes. research for the bbc shows that in 2016, kensington and chelsea agreed to take nearly £a7.5 million from developers in such deals. of the money property companies have paid them, more than £9 million remains unspent. however, just 336 affordable homes were built in the area over five years. in one year, just four were actually added. we're exporting the poor population... the leader of the labour group of the council is appalled. one of the great things about living in london is that you do have a balanced population. and i do think we have a duty not to produce the prettiest ghost town in western europe. our first loyalty should be maintaining and strengthening our

communities, and we've fallen down on that job terribly. kensington and chelsea told us they're struggling to provide affordable homes, due to being a small, densely packed area with limited sites and high land values. they say they do what they can, sometimes pushing developers to give more. but ultimately, they say they have limited capacity to provide housing. average house prices around here are more than £1 million. despite that, the council has a target of building 200 affordable homes each year. developers, however, seem increasingly keen to ignore such goals. kensington and chelsea is an inner borough, and it also has relatively high land values. therefore, there's more likelihood of developers wanting to build entirely private schemes and give the payment to the council in lieu of a affordable housing coming through as part of the new—build application. lots of english councils take money from developers instead of forcing them to build affordable homes. but in kensington and chelsea, many luxury flats lie empty. it's the only london borough

with a falling population. striking such deals can make sense, but only if the money is properly used. michael buchanan, bbc news, west london. we can all think of adverts that portray women as always in the kitchen, or men failing at simple household tasks. well now the advertising standards authority is to crack down on ads featuring stereotypical gender roles. a review carried out by the asa, suggests such commercials have a cost, for the individual, the economy and society. here's our media correspondent david sillito. oven pride, so easy a man can do it! so easy a man could do it? orthis? girls do ballet, and of course, boys, maths, or this. the advertising standards authority is looking at tightening

up its rules on how men and women are portrayed in adverts. women, don't expect any help on a thursday. it's going to be ok for an ad to show a woman shopping or cleaning. it's going to be ok for an ad to show a man doing a diy task in the home. what we're going to be looking at is ads that go beyond that, ads that paint a picture that it's, for example, the woman's role to tidy up after her family, who trashed the house — that's herjob in life. we're worried about that sort of depiction. similarly, ads that mock men for being hopeless at performing straightforward parental or household tasks just because they're a man. "look like a girl but think like a man if you want to be the boss." or this... "are you beach body ready?" the asa's concerns are about stereotypes or ads that pressurise women and men to look and act in a certain way. of course, things have changed since an era that produced this. the question is, what is the dividing line? how can such a pretty wife

make such bad coffee? i heard that! nannette newman spent years over a washing—up bowl. at what point does that become gender stereotyping? one of the arguments is that ads are too orientated towards making women buy products that are for cleaning, cleaning the loo, cleaning the house, washing—up and everything. well, you know, so what, really? people can either take it in or not, and very often, those women who are watching those ads, their husbands in the kitchen doing washing—up anyway. and some feel the asa is beginning to stray into politics. its primary role is to ensure that advertisers aren't misleading their audience. they shouldn't be making arbitrary judgments about gender stereotypes that they randomly decide they don't like. it's got nothing to do with them. and this isjust an organisation trying to put the left—wing agenda onto the free market,

and it has no place there. a move then against the sexist ad, the challenge is deciding what that exactly means. david sillito, bbc news. i want to bring you the latest from cover rahkeem cornwall on the lizard peninsula, where we have been reporting flash flooding. we can show you some pictures that have been sent in from coverack. you can see a torrent of water raging through the village. a village of about 250 homes, that is what we we re about 250 homes, that is what we were told. according to one eyewitness, the village has suffered biblical damage after flash flooding this afternoon. jon kay is there and will bring us more throughout the evening. in the film jurassic park, the t—rex outruns a jeep.

but dinosaurs may not be the ferociously fast predators we've all seen in the films. researchers from the university of manchester think t—rex may have been, less a hare and more a tortoise. earlier i spoke with professor bill sellers is from the school of earth and environmental sciences at the university of manchester one of the researchers behind the study. what we reckoned was that you couldn't actually get t rex to go faster than a walk. but of course, t rex had really long legs, so a walking t rex can go at around 12 mph. so no slouch, but not a fast runner. and what do you base that on? what is the science behind that theory? what we did was we digitised every single bone in the t rex skeleton, and reassembled it together in a computer. and then we put muscles on the skeleton based from dissection work we've done on crocodiles and birds,

so we produce a very anatomically realistic model. and then we actually gave this to a robotic simulator, which uses artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, to try and work out how such an animal could have moved. and initially, we got quite good speeds. it could run at around 18 mph. and then we realised that, actually, the forces it was applying to the skeleton were just too high. and that a t rex running at 80 mph would probably have shattered its legs. so in terms of what the implications of that are, what does that mean? i mean, would t rex then have struggled against other predators if it is not as fast as we thought? the thing is, we think that most predators of that sort of size would probably be quite similar in terms of their speed. so, what it really means is that t rex wasn't chasing down, sort of, prey for itself.

maybe it was more of a scavenger, or more of an ambush hunter that didn't rely on speed so much. i was talking about the film there, jurassic park, it seemed to race along, out pacing a jeep as we have seen. do you think that is all mythology, notjust t rex, but the dinosaurs in general were pretty rapid when they moved across the ground? what we've found before is that it depends all upon body size. so smaller dinosaurs, but of them were much smaller, were still very fast. it was only the big ones like t rex that were quite slow. it's important to remember, of course, t rex laid eggs about the size of a football. that means that over the scope of 20 years, you've got something that grows up to an adult t rex, but an angry, adolescent t rex could well have been very fast moving indeed. that sounds quite scary, angry adolescent t rex with all the angst to of a teenager!

so just tell us, are you surprised by your own findings on this? is this what you were expecting to find when you set out with this research? i have to confess, i was a little bit disappointed actually. i was hoping to show that t rex was quite a fast moving animal, because it's been described that way because of its long legs. so yes, i was surprised when it turned out that it really couldn't have managed to run at all. let's look at the weather forecast, we have seen the torrential rain in cornwall, ben rich has the latest. the weather is on the change, and the change has been dramatic in places. this is the radar sequence from this afternoon and this evening. you can see the heavy downpours that have set in around cornwall. thunderstorm spreading across south—west england, and other southern counties of england now getting into the action with hit and miss thunderstorms. that is how it looked for a weather watcher in

plymouth earlier, and as these thunderstorms continue through this evening and into tomorrow morning, there could be disruption, perhaps localised flooding. your bbc local radio station will keep you up—to—date. southern areas through this evening, drifting into the midlands, across wales, perhaps later into northern england and northern ireland. all these areas prone to thunderstorms, but not everywhere will get them. some places will avoid them and stay dry. the temperatures are muddied towards the south, cooler and fresher across northern areas. tomorrow, a messy day. further showers and storms pushing northwards out of northern england into scotland. dry weather across england and wales for a time. rain pushing into northern ireland, and showers in north wales and north—west england in the afternoon. before the wet weather, east anglia tomorrow could get up to 32 degrees. a lot of heat and humidity to be had. more cloud for the south—west

of wales, a hint of storms returning to north wales and north—west england later in the day. scattered thunderstorms across scotland, turning increasingly wet from the west, across northern ireland as we go through the day tomorrow. the clu m ps of go through the day tomorrow. the clumps of rain will work erratically eastwards through tomorrow evening, tomorrow night and on into thursday. as the wet weather clears to the east, it will bring about quite a bit of change in the field of the weather, some fresh air pushing in from the atlantic. with that, dry and fine weather on thursday. rain into northern ireland later, but look at the temperatures, way down on where they have been, 16—22. we stick with the cooler and fresher feel, into the weekend there will be dry weather, but spells of rain as well. temperatures around 16—21d at best. hello, i'm christian fraser,

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