navtej johal, bbc eadt midlands today. navtej johal, bbc east midlands today.aylight on the pavement. the snake — thought to be an abandoned boa constrictor — was found on high road, leytonstone this weekend. the rspca has since taken the snake to a wildlife centre and is appealing for information about the incident. tributes have been coming in for the veteran entertainer, barry chuckle — one half of the chuckle brothers — who has died at the age of 73. alongside his brother paul, he became a fixture on children's television from the 1980s onwards. david sillito looks back at his career. i tell you what, move it towards me a bit. right. to me... to me, to you. for more than 30 years, barry elliott was barry chuckle. it was a comic career dominated by a never—ending struggle with awkward bits of furniture. you could saw a bit off the cue. their children's tv show began in the 1980s. the act was made up of the classic musical routines that they had grown up with. the whole family was in show business. can you stop the music and let me out... 0h! their dad was a

navtej johal has the details.eat. these people have been without water since the early hours and have come to bingham leisure centre to collect some of the thousands of bottles provided by the company this afternoon. it's kind of crazy. it's so difficult. it's like somebody cuts your arm off. it's dreadful. i live in an area where there are five houses all in a very close community, so they have given me water for everybody. we have just woken up and we have had no water at all in the house. we also have two elderly neighbours and they have got nothing. they are boiling in this heat as well. thousands have been affected, many of them with no running water at all. the taps have been dry in jo's home in bingham all day. we came down the stairs to make a cup of tea, turned the tap on. nothing happened. so it was a bit like, "oh, nothing, absolutely nothing." this burst water pipe in epperstone in nottinghamshire is where the problem began. workers were on site here at 1:30am this morning to repair a 20—inch pipe, one