keir starmer we understand he has been gaining a lot of support in the constituency labour party is, including ajeremy constituency labour party is, including a jeremyey, and so there is a sense that it is a very tight race and that is going to lead to their being concerns in the different teens about ways that they can perhaps put their own candidate ahead of the other. in terms of the hustings, there was supposed to be a hustings, there was supposed to be a hustings today in dudley, that has been cancelled because sir keir starmer is having to take some time off campaigning at the moment because his mother—in—law was involved in an accident and is in a very serious condition in hospital. so, that was cancelled, the one yesterday which was held in nottingham, sir keir starmer was not able to attend, and we are expected able to attend, and we are expected a lot more hustings over the coming weeks and the new leader of the labour party will be in place on fourth april. have a back. oh, my goodness, yes, we are getting some very dramatic images in from our weather watchers so far today, particularly around the coasts. it is high tide, so, coastalflood