Economy and help families with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. Ben king reports. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means Better Health care services. Itsjust much more important. I would prefer not to have a tax cut, but to see more money invested in the community. If the Public Services were properly organised, theres more than enough money to do it
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Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
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Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe