the canal and river trust is asking anyone thinking of swapping bricks for boating to think carefullywhere kerry and pete have a lot of work. when it comes to boats sinking, we're definitely getting busier. they run river canal rescue, helping boat owners in trouble, teaching canal users basic rules, which, to their exasperation, many are unaware of. you drive on the right—hand side when you're passing another boat. so, it's port—to—port, left—to—left. these are metal boats. they rust in the water. if you don't take it out of the water and treat it, it will rot away to nothing until the boat sinks. after years of neglect, many canals are busy once more, and those who look after them say that canal users, especially those new to all this, need to ensure they know what they're doing. well, one of the issues that we have is the sheer popularity of canals means they're used by more and more people. the canal and river trust manages 2,000 miles of waterways in england. from the dangerous misuse of locks to the dumping of human waste, the boom in canal use has many downsides. what you have

the canal and river trust manages 2,000 miles of waterways in england.ther, which is effectively quadruple mooring, narrowing the channel and causing obstruction for other craft trying to get through. the trust records incidents when it can. but in london, where the problems are the most severe, it's a huge task. boat numbers here have risen by 72% since 2012, to more than 4000. the majority of boat—owners in london have what are known as continuous cruiser licenses, and don't need to pay for a permanent mooring, but the boats can't stay in the same place for more than 14 days. just moved out of a flat in brixton because i can't afford to live there any more and here there's a boat. nick is typical of many that are new to the canals, attracted by a lower cost of living. it's not particularly comfortable. we don't have a toilet on—board. we don't have a shower. at the moment the motor‘s broken, so we don't have any electricity. there's no power. you prefer it to paying a lot of money on a flat? for the moment, yeah. nick and his friends stress they're res

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£200 million plan to build a bridge covered with trees over the river thames in london has officially been abandoned. the garden bridge trustlondon mayor sadiq khan. more than £40 million worth of taxpayers' money has already been spent on the project. a car has crashed into a pizzeria near paris killing a young girl and injuring several others. the incident happened in the town of sept sorts east of the capital. the driver has been arrested. 0ur europe correspondent james reynolds is in paris for us tonight. france has been on high alert after a string of terrorist related attacks. what are the police saying? a french interior ministry spokesman has told the bbc that the driver was a 32—year—old citizen, not previously known to the authorities, he is in detention, and there theory is he was trying to kill himself. that is from conversations with him and they are working on the understanding that his motive was personal and not political. that may change the scale of the reaction, but it will not do anything to lessen the fear and the grief of those caught up in his actions. this isa those caught up in his actions. this is

million plan to build a bridge covered with trees across the river thames in central london has officially been abandoned. the garden bridge trustmayor, sadiq khan. more than £37 million has been spent so far on the project. the headlines. president trump has spoken out against racist violence two days after a woman was killed during a rally by height supremacists. it follows criticism of president's previous statement blaming violence on many sites. thousands are dead following a mudslide sierra leone. pakistan is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its creation as a sovereign state. the air force put ona sovereign state. the air force put on a display to... here is the sport. police have received complaints about hibernian court neil lennon's conduct during the game against readers at ibrox on saturday, he was criticised by some rangers fans or so—called inflammatory actions. it comes as police investigate offensive comments made against neil lennon on social media. the ibrox stage was set for a hotly anticipated fixture. the recent rivalry between rangers and hibernian spiced up even further as the former celtic player and ma

million plan to build a bridge covered with trees across the river thames in central london has officially been abandoned. the garden bridge trustayor sadiq khan. more than £37 million has been spent so far on the project. as promised, here is the weather. good afternoon. it's certainly not been a sunny story for all of us today. there's been quite a lot of rain around in western areas. where we have seen some sunshine, things have turned warm. this was the scene in kent. not far away at gravesend we've got close to 25 degrees today and believe it or not that makes it the highest temperature we've recorded so far this august. as we go through this evening and overnight, staying largely dry until the end of the night when we will see some thundery rain working in. elsewhere areas of wet weather sweeping in towards the north—east. some rain first thing tomorrow but that should clear away quite quickly to leave a bright day. there will be some showers, some heavy and thundery, especially in northern areas. many places will avoid the showers and stay dry. 17—19 degrees generally. wednesday mainly fine and dry for central and eastern

million plan to build a bridge covered with trees across the river thames in central london has officially been abandoned. the garden bridge trustect. farmyards across the uk are becoming fortresses — that's the warning from a rural insurer today. nfu mutual says crimes in the countryside have risen by a fifth in the first half of the year. last year, england bore the brunt of rural crime with the cost atjust under £34 million. next was northern ireland, at £2.5 million. and then scotland with 1.6 million and wales, 1.3 million pounds. our midlands correspondent sima kotecha reports. for farmers, it's an added pressure — having to constantly think about their vehicles and animals being stolen by criminals targeting the rural community. so this was the dome that was stolen. three of these off each tractor. just weeks ago, will had his gps systems stolen off his tractors, worth more than £30,000. it makes you feel sick that someone has been in your shed. everything was locked up. all the tractors were locked up. but they can just get in and take everything. and it is stolen to order as well, i would say. because you're not going t

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million plan to build a bridge covered with trees across the river thames in central london has officially been abandoned. the garden bridge trustm the london mayor sadiq khan. more than £37 million has been spent so far on the project. time for a look at the weather. it was sunny when i was coming in. not sure how it is now. it is certainly not sunny everywhere today. that is the story of this week. some sunshine if you know where to look. there will be spells of sunshine in places over the next few days, but there will generally be a cool feel to the weather and at times, we will see outbreaks of rain. quite a lot of rain in western areas at the moment and heavy burst of rain beginning to push towards the south—west of england and wales. tonight, these pulses of heavy rain will track northwards and eastwards. northern ireland has a mostly dry night. by the early hours of tomorrow, we will see a fresh clutch of showers pushing into the far south—east. the wettest weather should clear away quickly tomorrow morning, and then a decent day in prospect. some showers around, yes, but many places will avoid them. divided fortunes for

river, very different kinds of sites. history shows that where there is money in the trust fund, the epa gets more money. there is nothing that precludes the appropriations committee saying we are going to give them more money. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> i was an original co-author of the superfund law in 1980 on the committee. one of the issues that came to me was one and anderson, a mother with a young son visited maine in her office -- in my office and told me the boy had leukemia. she had organized other mothers in massachusetts to go door to door to find other children with leukemia. along with love canal and a couple of other sites that became the motivating force for the creation of the superfund. it became the movie, a civil action -- the book a civil action. the mothers identified this problem. not the experts. it was the mothers. in the movie the lawyer the hero. -- it was the mothers. jimmy duncan leukemia. on that site is a huge development. the jimmy anderson purification center. importantand most goal we had was to make sure kids didn't die. they were drinking the water. they were put i

people being at risk and new bedford arbor and hudson river and the passaic, those are different sites but history shows where there is money in the trust fund epa gets more money and there is nothing that precludes appropriations committees from saying we will give them more money but that is -- >> thank you. >> thank you, mister chairman, very much. i was an original co-author of the superfund law in 1980, on the committee. one of the issues that came to me was when an anderson, a mother with a young son, jenny anderson, visited me in her office and told me the boy has leukemia and she had organized other mothers in massachusetts to go door to door to find other children who had leukemia and along with love can now and other sites that may be the motivating force for the creation of superfund. it became the movie a simple action, the book the simple action. mothers were the ones who identified this problem, not the experts, not city officials. it was the mothers. in the movie they make the lawyer the hero. it was the mothers. to me died from leukemia. on that site is a huge industrial developments. the jimmy anderson transportation ce

trust. he went on to the george patton museum, which first got him involved with world war ii, and while doing all that he's written fantastic books, one on perryville and one on stone's river and the tullahoma campaigns. i'm specifically interested in tullahoma. chris's work illuminates the importance of that campaign, which totally gets overshadowed by gettysburg and vicksburg. it was equally monumental in its strategic success. he's here to talk about stones river, the first portion of that that sets up tullahoma, which wrap up 1862 and literally bring us into 1863 with this battle in one of the great defenses of the civil war. ladies and gentlemen, chris kolakowski. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chris. it's great to see everybody here today. i have a very tough job, and i guess i should take it as some sort of offhanded compliment that i get this slot, because not only do i have to follow those two, i'm also all that stands between all of us and lunch. so, i'm going to move with some lackity and keep ourselves on point, but what i want to do is talk about the battle of stones river or murfreesboro, depending how you look at it. i had relatives from wisconsin who

trust to remove the statue and the push to remove it has grown stronger over the years especially now following violence in charlottesville. michelle: the surge of heavy rain in washington turned a river. they did their best to maneuver the strong current. stephen tschida has more from those caught in the downpour. this was rough. stephen: michelle, we are at connecticut and nebraska avenues. both head downhill. check out what happens across the intersection. nebraska avenue drops off steeply today after the heavy rain. it looked like a water fall. it came hard, fast and in an instant overwhelmed drainage system and flooded nebraska avenue. >> it was a little scary. drivers on connecticut avenue and nebraska avenue suddenly surrounded by water. isabelle frightened her car would be swept away. >> a river going down nebraska. i was going up in my cars and i had a flashes of am i going to float away? stephen: a lot of people worried about floating away. another big problem in the neighborhood after today's big check on the forecast. get the chief meteorologist doug hill. doug: we are seeing the showers moving out. that is good. we get a break for tonight and tomorrow. but then thursday a

river, and you can see the rest of the family up there. the national guard has done a wonderful job as they wave goodbye. wow. look at that. as i said, national guard, wonderful job. they trust them with a baby in his hands. i'm not sure if he's done this before, but there you go. the little brother has up there. and they will go. most people and that's where the three or four feet are going to go. and there you go, neil. it's been an incredible few days to see the people are getting to safety, as you reported at the outset. that is the -- that's the priority. people getting to safety right now. we're still not in recovery mode. we're still in let's get people to safety mode. and there they go. neil: that's a good mode to be in, jeff. flock, thank you very, very much again a lot about these rivers that are swelling and all of a sudden flood levels deemed severe, if not very severe. the greens bayou, these names will become very familiar, especially. that is expected to happen later today, if not tomorrow in the case of all three. and those are just three key areas. i didn't even mention a couple of bayous that would be here. a lot of the people looking up at the sunny skies