the and has been huge disruption the airport itself with flights cancelled and flights delayed but they are due to resume in the next couple of hours. wandsworth prison in south—west london has been described as unsafe and inhumane, according to the prisons independent monitoring board. they said they'd seen no real progress" in the past year, which reflects the failures of the prison system as a whole. the report was written before the alleged escape by daniel khalife last month. bhavanni vhadi has more. built during the victorian era and now not fit to function effectively, a damning new report found wandsworth prison in south—west london to be inhumane and unsafe. it covers the period before the alleged escape of daniel khalife from that prison in september.

if you have a host of inexperienced, not terribly well trained staff, a lot of young staff, and they are all overstressed because there are not an awful a lot of them. so they are all under pressure. and because the men, most of them don't get out of their cells for more than a couple of hours each day, that adds to the pressure. the issues are all contributory. they do not help towards the event that happened in september. severe staff shortages and overcrowding were highlighted as problems and in two wings there were only 11 showers for 265 man. chris aitken is a film—maker who spent nine months in wandsworth prison for tax fraud. my reaction to the report is extremely depressed and upset that it seems to have actually got worse since my time there back in 2016, 2017. the prison is an inhumane,

dysfunctional mess that is not fit for purpose and actually makes people's rehabilitation worse not better. it is the kind of environment that if you put animals in, you would be rightly prosecuted by the rspca. the report also found that levels of violence were of great concern. assaults had risen by 25% over 1,000 in that year, on average there were ten assaults on staff per week, the use of force has increased by 49% to just over 2,200 incidents. a prison service spokesperson said that they had taken decisive action to address the serious issues raised. by increasing front line staffing by almost a quarter in the past six years, and that the government was spending more than £8 million on new cctv for the prison. but the report found unless the years of underinvestment is reversed, then conditions for staff and inmates at wandsworth are unlikely to improve.

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he is a8, and from warsaw and was detained by nca officers as he arrived at the port of dover yesterday. should it be illegal to discriminate against someone for growing up in the care system? several councils have already decided to treat "care leaving" as a protected characteristic like race or disability. about why it's an issue. four, go on, girl! you can see how much yolanda loves being a personal trainer here in melton, but getting this far hasn't been easy. yolanda spent most of her childhood in foster care. well done. i suppose your family is what you make it. and ifound my family here. i can see on your face, it's going... people said to me growing up, they'd be like, "oh, "is it like living in tracy beaker�*s house?" you know, they'll treat you differently. they'll be like, "you're going to be good for nothing," basically. "this person's going to struggle with life, "alcoholics, drug addicts..." it's genuinely conversations that i've had with people. a lot of them can conform and go, "you know what? "you assume this of me, so i'm going to be it." like, "if that's all you think i'm good for." are we cursed...? and tyrone's a poet who's supporting youngsters in the care system in leicester, and drawing on his own personal experience to sit

on foster panels. i'm an artist. i've had friends who have been freelance for years and say, "oh, "why don't you just be a freelance artist?" and i'm like, "well, that's not the same because you "live with your parents." and that's the thing about being a caregiver. i went to university. i didn't like my course. i didn't want to be there. but had i not been in university, i would have been homeless. so i had to pick another course. there is not a safety net, but this is how yolanda achieved her dream without that safety net. singing and dancing to adoring crowds as part of this tribute act. i've not had all that dance training. i've had to fight for my place in this industry, knowing that everyone expects you to fail. ifeel like it'sjust as important as equality with grace. they won't be allowed to say, you've been at foster care, so you probably won't be worth this job. having these things in place for the next generation is going to be a massive game changer. jeremy bull, bbc east midlands today. henry fraser was left paralysed from the shoulders down, after an accident on holiday in 2009 when he was just 17 years old.

but since his injury he's gone on to inspire many people with his positive outlook on life. now he's become a successful artist, after learning to paint using only his mouth, and now his story is being told on the west end. tim muffett has been to meet him and the cast. told on the west end. tim muffett reports. henry fraser creates stunning works of art. and he lives by this motto. i was 17 years old, in 2009, just on holiday with group of mates. we went to praia da luz in the algarve in portugal. went to cool off in the sea. i went head first straight into a kind of sandbank and kind of blacked out for a bit and just totally unable to move anything. you know, severely damaged the spinal cord. causing the paralysis i have now. since his accident, henry has been paralysed from the shoulders down. the very first day i was put into a wheelchair, just sobbing and crying uncontrollably, and all

i wanted to do was hug my mum and i couldn't even do that, which made things a million times worse. and it was that night i was just lying in bed and i think ijust, you know, ithought, "well, there's no point me kind of being sad or angry about this — ijust need to get on with it." the sheer physicality of painting with a paintbrush in your mouth — how long did it take you to reach a standard which you were happy with? about two years to get to a point where i was really confident. ijust kept trying to, you know, try different things, try new techniques, different colours, different images, whatever. just trying to challenge myself to... to kind of push that progression. henry is now a successful artist with a huge following on social media. and his autobiography, the little big things, has been turned into a west end musical. # i wish forever. could feel like this. # so you both play henry fraser. jonny — a young henry fraser, pre—accident.

ed after the accident. what's it like portraying henry? it's an honour, first of all, quite a responsibility. but it's also an absolute joy. # little big things- that stay on my mind. # boy henry actually sticks around as kind of a representation of who man henry used to be. but also, there's something that henry talks a lot about in his book, which is comparing himself to that former version — to that past version of himself. ed, you're the first wheelchair—user to play the lead in a west end musical. how does that feel? i feel very proud, but it also feels like quite a responsibility. - because i'm the first, _ i feel like there's a sense of kind of paving the way for, _ like, future people in the industry.

and also, if i'm honest, - there is a sense of a little bit of sadness that it's taken this long. . # i was the kind - who gave up easily... when you first saw the production, what was that like? it was the best night of my life. you know, there's very few people that get to say that their life is a west end musical. # ..sat beside me till i fell asleep. i # the silence as you held my hand. # it's just... it's the first time i felt seen as a kind of disabled person onstage. we don't very often get to see ourselves. it should have happened years ago. this is all a step forward and there's going to- be lots more, i hope. this is the first time a wheelchair user has had the lead in a west end musical. how important is it that that has happened? absolutely important. i was crying all the musical! i couldn't stop. it was, oh, so beautiful.

# i wish forever. could feel like this. # just us and the sound of the ocean. _ # there is this line in the musical in which the younger pre—accident version of you says to the post—accident version of you, "i can't wait to be you." that seems an extraordinary thing for that younger version of you to say. i mean, does that ring true? i'm definitely much happier now than i was before my accident. i always defined my pre—accident life by my physicality, by sport, by being in the gym. whereas now i kind of had to completely reverse that. that's going to get that physical strength and put it in my head and just look at life and approach life in a completely new way. wouldn't be able to do these things and enjoy life as much as i am now had i not had the accident. # little things. # that mean the big things to me. #

the little big things is at london's soho place theatre until march. let's return to luton now. we can bring you more of these latest pictures from the airport, where a fire in a car park overnight has disrupted thousands of passengers and halted air traffic. you can see the extent of last night and spread rapidly and witnesses have spoken of a car exploding and setting of have spoken of a car exploding and settin: o’ , ., , ., setting of explosions in other vehicles. as _ setting of explosions in other vehicles. as you _ setting of explosions in other vehicles. as you can - setting of explosions in other vehicles. as you can see - setting of explosions in other| vehicles. as you can see quite extensive damage. the fire chief for battleship said it was too dangerous to tackle from inside the car park and also said he didn't think the car park had close and if it did

they may have had a positive impact. —— the car park had sprinklers. it's almost time to rejoin lucy hockings with the latest on the developing situation in israel and gaza. but first here's the weather with ben rich. hello. for some of us over the last few days, it has felt as if summer has been trying to cling on deep into 0ctober. but autumn is going to be arriving over the next few days. in fact, already feeling quite autumnal in the northern half of the uk. here some sunshine, but some rather cool air working its way in from the north—west. conversely, south—westerly winds bringing warm and muggy air down towards the south, and the dividing line between those air masses is this weather front bringing some outbreaks of rain across parts of wales, the midlands, into east anglia and lincolnshire. particularly heavy rain i think across parts of west wales with the risk of some flooding and some disruption. to the south of that, often quite murky but warm and humid. further north, something cooler and fresher. 12 degrees, for example, in aberdeen and glasgow.

some sunshine, scattering of showers, the wind slowly easing a little bit in the north of scotland. now, overnight, ourweatherfront moves a little bit further southwards and then tends to stall across southern counties of england, parts of wales and the midlands, very mild here, 16 degrees in plymouth overnight. compare that with two or three degrees for many spots further north. but here we will see some sunshine to take us into tomorrow morning. north—west of scotland. this band of cloud never really clearing the south of england or south wales. we could see some pockets of rain and drizzle at times. some warmth trying to cling on here, but for most a cooler feel. 17 degrees there for london, 13 for belfast, 12 degrees in glasgow. but instead of clearing through, that weather front actually tries to push northwards again during thursday night into friday, looking very wet for parts of england and wales. at the same time, this cold front pushes its way into scotland and northern ireland. so quite a complex look to the weather chart on friday, but we will see some outbreaks of rain, particularly across england and wales. but across scotland and northern ireland we see sunny spells and some showers. some of those showers could start to turn wintry over the very highest

ground as some colder air starts to dig its way in. and that's the story for the weekend. we finally lose all of these weather fronts, all of us get into this cold north—westerly wind. if anything, temperatures by day will be a touch below the average for the time of year. and at night we've got the chance for quite a widespread grass frost. bye for now.

live from london — this is bbc news. electricity in gaza has just gone out as the sole power station runs out as the sole power station runs out of fuel. more than 1000 palestinians have been killed after israeli air strikes. i had to take this six or seven—year—old child, a beautiful young girl to the operating room, with horrific facial injuries. while in israel, the military says 1,200 people are now known to have died in the attacks by hamas gunmen on israeli soil. this is the scene live in gaza — we'll have the latest on the escalating conflict. hello, i'm lucy hockings. welcome to

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