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for plaid cymru, not a great day, losing formerly debt leanne wood in the rhondda valley i'm not makingnot so great for the tories or plaid cymru. lib dems holding their seat and not seen so far with only four left for abolish the welsh assembly. only four left for abolish the welsh assembl . . ~ only four left for abolish the welsh assembl . ., ,, , ., in other news, officers investigating the death of serving police community support officer julia james in kent have arrested a man in connection with her murder. sean dilley is in snowdown. well, the offices is absurd that a man from the canterbury area in his 20s was arrested at around 9:30pm last night in connection with the murder of the 53—year—old police community support officerjulia james. now, officers are saying that this, notwithstanding, they are still asking people to come forward with any information that relates to two the 27th of april, particularly keen to speak to anybody who was in the area between 1pm and apm, maybe you felt uncomfortable, you had to cross the road, or you had to change your route? any of that informa

labour managed to gain rhondda from plaid cymru, and that was a big gain for them, a big swing from plaidvative performance. conservatives gaining seats all over england, including cannock chase, which has never been conservative before. you can also see, conversely, labour had a bad night of it. they lost harlow to the conservatives and they lost southampton to the conservatives. there was a crumb of comfort in the mayoral elections, though, for labour. here, you'll see rather more red on the board. they held doncaster, liverpool, salford amongst others. and in the west of england, they gained the mayoral seat from the conservatives. reeta chakra barti. remnants of a large chinese space rocket are due to plunge back through the atmosphere in the next few hours. us and european tracking sites are monitoring the uncontrolled re—entry of the long march rocket, which was used last month to carry into orbit a section of the permanent chinese space station currently being built. the monitors say the chances of damage from a ground impact are low, and the chinese foreign ministry say it expects

labour managed to gain rhondda from plaid cymru and that was a big gain for them, a big swing from plaid local elections and here the story has been of a very strong conservative performance. conservatives gaining seats all over england, including cannock chase which has never been conservative before. you can also see conversely, labour had a bad night of it, they lost harlow to the conservatives and they lost southampton to the conservatives. there was a crumb of comfort in the mayoral elections though for labour. here you'll see rather more red on the board. they held doncaster, liverpool, salford amongst others. and in the west of england they gained the mayoral seat from the conservatives. reeta chakra barti there. let's go live to westminster and our political editor laura kuenssberg. questions about the union coming to the fore again now?— the fore again now? certainly, there is a fault line — the fore again now? certainly, there is a fault line that _ the fore again now? certainly, there is a fault line that stretches - the fore again now? certainly, there is a fault line that st

with the tory party, looking to take areas like llanelli, but looking to hold on to areas like the rhonddarying hard, leanne wood standing there. and the liberal democrats, they have one seat, in brecon and radnorshire, fighting hole to hold onto that, they were wiped out in the general election 2019 so they will be hoping that will not happen again on thursday. and they will be challenging in areas like cardiff central here. held by labour since 2019, ten years ago, not 2019, sorry, ten years ago, 2001, but the three parties will be challenging in different areas here as well. one other sentiment i should mention, abolish the senedd, the party, gaining some momentum, they will be looking to get some regional seats, if they can, and it will be interesting to see how that dynamic works, but some pundits suggest that the independent sentiment from plaid cymru and this abolished sentiment from some of the other parties probably won't resonate enough with the welsh public and really it will come down to who the welsh public think can steer wales through the rest of the pandemic.— think can ste

and the fact— from plaid cymru in the rhondda and the fact that adam price completely overplayed hise minister and everyone else in this has that you cannot deny democracy. you cannot deny the right to the people of scotland that have voted in 70 members of the scottish parliament that had a commitment of an intense referendum. i hear people saying 2014, but the point is that we were told in 2014 that if we said in the united kingdom, our rights as eu citizens would be respected. —— independence referendum was that we were told scotland was to be respected. we know what happened in the brexit referendum in 2016. scotland voted by 62% to stay in the european union. and we were simply told by this house, well, tough. there is nothing that we are going to do for you. you�*re going to lose that access to the single market. you�*re going to lose that access that you have craved. you�*re going to lose that right that you have had to work and live get an education in europe because the prime minister and the conservative government are going to decide the people of scotland. while the peopl

plaid cymru, a bad day for them really, losing leanne wood in rhondda. seats. they were in the same position they were before. the question for mark drakeford will be what does he do in terms of forming a government. but theyjust decide to go it alone as a minority government as they are just one shy, or will they maybe look for their one seat somewhere, perhaps the liberal democrats. as for why the tories and plaid cymru haven't been done as well as they had been expected, they say they haven't had the same airtime as mark drakeford. however, plaid cymru especially may be thinking again whether it was the right time to really be pushing independence, because it is clear from the polls at least and the results that they have not been able to get the growing sense of independent in wales onto the ballot papers on thursday. so we will see what happens with that. really, a resounding and very strong day for welsh labour and for mark drakeford. as you say, stronger than they actually thought. in terms of forming their government, as you say they are only one

so i think all that played in a difficult context for adam price and really to have lost the rhonddaid cymru. and if we look at scotland, england and wales, more than ever now we have three very different entities with labour still in power in wales, the conservatives more or less in england as we know on all those local authorities bar a few places like liverpool and some other greater cities and of course in scotland the snp still in power. so a very mixed picture now and if a distinctive picture for each of those nations.— distinctive picture for each of those nations. , , , �* those nations. massively so, i've been saying _ those nations. massively so, i've been saying in — those nations. massively so, i've been saying in the _ those nations. massively so, i've been saying in the media - those nations. massively so, i've been saying in the media in i those nations. massively so, i've been saying in the media in the i those nations. massively so, i've i been saying in the media in the past 2a hours but i think this was the first proper welsh general election where voters understoo

in the rhondda, which is one of the most iconic valleys you can think of in terms of coal mining ands standing again in this campaign. i have just had a was standing again in this campaign. i havejust had a message was standing again in this campaign. i have just had a message from was standing again in this campaign. i havejust had a message from one very senior labour figure i havejust had a message from one very senior labourfigure in i havejust had a message from one very senior labour figure in wales are saying that they are looking to an easy win in the rhondda. he is suggesting that it will be a pretty painful defeat in leanne wood of plaid cymru, no result in it yet. i am just telling you what they are telling me, so that is quite significant as well. we were talking about the mayoral contest in liverpool later on and issues around that and the important local authority battles as well. i'm gonna bring in —— going to bring in yunus mulla. as you get the award for most patient reporter. tell us about this if you can assign fellow labour has managed to hold on to a number of th

llanelli, the most marginal seat in wales, plaid cymru are really keen to get from the labour party, rhonddaaigns began. two very different campaigns b boris began. two very different campaigns by itoris johnson _ began. two very different campaigns by boris johnson in _ began. two very different campaigns by boris johnson in wales _ began. two very different campaigns by boris johnson in wales and - by borisjohnson in wales and scotland. he was in barry on tuesday but has not set foot in scotland throughout the whole campaign, what my that calculation be? that's right, i have spoken to a number of sources in the conservative party and they acknowledge that borisjohnson is not particularly popular in scotland, but the picture is different in wales. sources on both the conservative side and the labour party here in wales have characterised this campaign is a bit of a contest between borisjohnson and the welsh labour leader mark drakeford. interestingly, the uk labour leader keir starmer is not playing as big a role in this campaign in wales. we have heard a lot this morning about hartlepool a