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Getty Images By Simon Jack Business editor The UK’s electricity network needs almost a further £60bn of upgrades to hit government decarbonisation targets by 2035, according to a new plan. About 4,000 miles of undersea cables and 1,000 miles of onshore power lines are needed, said the National Grid’s Electricity Systems Operator (ESO). The investment
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Getty Images Five episodes of GB News programmes hosted by serving Tory MPs have been found to have broken broadcasting rules by media regulator Ofcom. They include two episodes of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation, and three of a show fronted by married MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies. Politicians are not normally
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PA Media By Helen Catt, political correspondent & Lauren Turner BBC News Councils in England will have to consider local residents’ views before introducing new low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) under new government guidance. In LTNs, vehicles are stopped from using some residential roads. The draft guidance says councils should be confident such a scheme has
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sean Seddon BBC News Sir Lenny Henry has been hailed as “utterly irreplaceable” after co-hosting Comic Relief for the last time – 39 years after co-founding the charity. The comedian said it had been an “honour
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Welsh government/BBC By Adrian Brown BBC News The winner of the Welsh Labour leadership election – and the man set to become Wales’ new first minister – will be announced on Saturday. Vaughan Gething and Jeremy Miles have been competing to replace Mark Drakeford, who officially stands down next week. Labour Party officials will declare
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PA Media By Hannah Miller & Chas Geiger BBC Politics Only 10% of funding promised to reduce inequality as part of the levelling up agenda has been spent, MPs have said. The Public Accounts Committee found ministers were “unable to provide any compelling examples of what levelling up funding has delivered so far”. It also
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Tom Pilston / BBC By Nathan Standley BBC News A knifeman who put a school into lockdown for nearly two hours has been detained indefinitely in a secure psychiatric hospital. Matthew Lennox entered St Joseph’s Catholic High School, in Slough, on 27 March last year, with a large knife tucked into his waistband and telling
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has resisted opposition calls to return money to a Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott “should be shot”. The PM said Frank Hester’s alleged comments were
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EPA Failed asylum seekers are to be offered up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda under a new voluntary scheme. The plan, first reported by The Times, is understood to be a variation of an existing voluntary returns scheme, where failed asylum seekers receive cash to return to their home country. It will be open
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Getty Images By Sam Francis Political reporter, BBC News Diane Abbott has said comments allegedly made by a top Tory donor that the MP made him “want to hate all black women” and that she needed “to be shot” were “frightening”. Britain’s longest-serving black MP said the “fact that two MPs have been murdered in
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Getty Images By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News A major Tory donor has apologised after reportedly saying Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”. The Guardian reports that Frank Hester made the remarks about the then-shadow home secretary during a 2019 meeting. Mr Hester, who
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent The Home Office is dysfunctional and in urgent need of reform, the recently-sacked independent borders inspector has told the BBC’s Today Podcast. David Neal said immigration failures went to the
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PA Media By James Gregory BBC News Two people have been arrested and 34 bodies removed from a funeral directors in Hull which police are investigating. A man of 46 and woman of 23 were arrested on suspicion of prevention of a lawful and decent burial, fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of
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Getty Images By Ione Wells, South America Correspondent & Damian Grammaticas, Political Correspondent BBC News Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew to Venezuela last month for a private meeting with the country’s President Nicolás Maduro. The talks were unofficial and not paid for by the UK government, the BBC has been told. Mr Johnson’s spokesman
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