Image copyright PA The Unite union has urged Ford to convert its UK engine plants to making electric cars and battery technology. Currently Ford makes engines for the Ford Fiesta and Jaguar Land Rover vehicles at Bridgend in South Wales and diesel engines in Dagenham in Essex. Both plants faces uncertainty, as Jaguar plans to...
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRussia’s defence ministry released footage of the Kinzhal missile test-launch Russia says it has successfully test-launched a hypersonic missile, one of a range of nuclear-capable weapons announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. The country’s defence ministry released video footage showing the missile detaching from a...
A mother of five who spends her spare time working as a retained firefighter says being a mum is “harder than tackling fires”. Tania Robinson works with the retained crew at Saxmundham Fire Service in Suffolk. She described herself as “just a normal mum,” adding: “It is definitely harder being a mum than a firefighter.”...
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says he won’t be appearing on Russia Today any more and will encourage Labour colleagues to follow his lead. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show the Kremlin-backed TV station had crossed a line after the Salisbury spy poisoning and gone beyond “objective journalism”. Source link
Image caption Creative Scotland chief executive Janet Archer said the youth theatre would be able to apply for alternative funding The boss of Scotland’s arts agency has said it may be able to help save the Scottish Youth Theatre from shutting under an alternative funding plan. The theatre has announced its immanent closure, after failing...
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChancellor Philip Hammond: “There is light at the end of the tunnel” Chancellor Philip Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his spring statement on Tuesday. He is expected to unveil the smallest budget deficit since 2002, thanks...
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRichard Leonard says he is angry with the “callousness of the Tories and the complacency of the SNP” Richard Leonard has used his Scottish Labour conference speech to underline his “mission” to “fundamentally change” the economic system. The party leader told delegates in Dundee that “our economy...
John Farnworth spent the last 10 days juggling a football all the way to Mt Everest’s base camp. Source link
Image copyright Reuters The water regulator for England and Wales is to investigate why thousands of homes suffered water shortages in the wake of the recent cold weather. Homes and businesses faced days without running water after pipes burst during a thaw which followed freezing weather conditions. Ofwat will look at how prepared water firms...
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who died in London from radioactive polonium, says she was given assurances this wouldn’t happen again. Source link