lord botham, who is more accustomed to performing at a different lord's, took the oath in the tradititional — if socially—distanced — ceremony. i, ian to her majesty, the queen elizabeth, her heirs and her successors according to the law, so help me god. lord botham's was one of 36 new peerages announced by downing street in august. he'll sit as an independent, or crossbench peer. that's stumps for this monday in parliament. thank you for watching. i do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for tuesday in parliament. until then, bye for now. hello there. i thought i'd start with a reminder ofjust how grim a start to the month we've had. across a swathe of southern england and parts of eastern scotland too, over recent days, we've seen more rainfall than we'd expect to see in the whole of the month of 0ctober. and we're only in the first week, of course. winchcombe is in gloucestershire — 118mm here over recent days, compared with the october average of 81. now, we have got a bit more rain to come, over the next couple of days, but i'm going to zoom out into the western atlantic, because this is a developing area of low press

i, ian, lord botham do swear prithee by god, true allegiance to her majesty in accordance with her andhelp me god. lord botham, swapping one lord for another. it has been described as possibly the largest miscarriage of justice in our history. problems with an it system led to hundreds of postmasters being unjustly accused of fraud, many were prosecuted or bankru pted and some were jailed. the post office will not contest appeals against convictions in 44 cases, which means they're extremely likely to be quashed. the government asked the retired high courtjudge sir williams, to gather evidence into the horizon system to see if lessons have been learned. some mps fear that inquiry could be a whitewash, although the post office decision has been welcomed, up to a point. but it actually belies, the agony and the torment which has gone on for these individuals and hundreds of other individuals who have lost their livelihoods, lost their good names and in some cases, lost their freedom. in other cases, people have lost their lives. and i'm sorry, minister, but what you have said today is no