this is bbc news, our latest headlines. a man is killed after flash flooding in the west midlands — with some areas getting more than a month's rain injust one hour. i would say it was probably about two inches of breathing space in the car to the roof of the car. a migrant from mali is to be made a french citizen after scaling a building in paris with his bare hands to rescue a dangling child. the labour partyjoins calls to change abortion laws in northern ireland, following the referendum elias 55“? eb? e§fi§§4%??¥é§§%%w a of the ss tuscania and hms otranto. 100 years ago, war‘s grim tide swept this coastline. as the island of islay‘s sons fought away on the western front, at home their families could not escape the conflict. the carnage came to them,

in two separate shipping disasters. this is the almost forgotten story of how islay cope with mass casualties in the first world war. to wake up in the morning going out to a day's work and to be ending up with this tragedy and all these dead bodies about, must have been horrific. islay‘s small community share the grief of an emerging superpower and one enduring respect. the fact that they so lovingly cared for the soldiers and cared to make