Visit ironworks in richmond that served as the main artillery manufacturer for the confederacy during the civil war. It was an iron foundry that operated on the bank the james river from 1837 to 1957. Its greatest claim to fame was the chief armor, to the confederacy during the civil war producing a large majority of the cannons used by the confederacy. Richmond had a lot of infrastructure that no longer exists from battlefield hospitals to the battlefield themselves. Fewironworks is one of the remaining structures that existed before the civil war, played a. His history dates to the 1800s and southeastern wales in the united kingdom. There was an ironworks that was the main supplier of iron for the British Industrial revolution era when richmond businessman wanted to begin an ironworks here they contacted engineers and millwrights to come over here and design their mills and ironworks here. Francis dean, who started tredegar, had a good amount of imagination but not a good businessman
Good afternoon. Weve got to get control of this. That was the uncompromising message from the countrys top scientists as britain enters a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. At a televised briefing, professor chris whitty and sir Patrick Vallance said the country could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases daily by mid 0ctober if the infection rate isnt brought down. But they stressed that outcome is not inevitable as long as people follow the rules to stop the spread of the virus. On that, the Prime Minister had meetings with senior ministers at the weekend to discuss whether further restrictions are necessary, and within the past hour, its emerged that there will be a meeting of cobra tomorrow morning. Richard galpin reports. Six months after the government ordered a full lockdown across the country to try and stem the rapid spread of the virus, its now clear we are facing a serious second wave. Case rising rapidly. This morning, the uk governments chief medical adviser warning it co
Authorities were leaked to Buzzfeed News and passed to the International Consortium of investigativejournalists and bbc panorama. They reveal some of the International Banking systems most closely guarded secrets. In one example, a payment of 8 million flagged as suspicious was sent to a russian businessman and former minister living in britain, vladimir chernukhin, in 2016. It initially came from this man, suleiman kerimov, a billionaire ally of president putin. In 2018 he was sanctioned by the us who were targeting those they said played a key role in advancing russias malign activities. Mr chernukhins wife, lubov chernukhin, has become famous for donating large sums to the conservative party in exchange for tennis matches with David Cameron and Boris Johnson. And paying £135,000 for a night out with theresa may. In total, shes donated £1. 7 million. Most of it since her husband received the 8 million from kerimov. The chernukhins, pleasant people that they may be, are not fit and
Around coastal areas of too, particularly across eastern scotland and the north east of england. The fog is still lingering, it will start to thicken again in the same areas. We will see the weather changing across more northern parts of the uk, mind you. Low pressure in the north sea will push toward scotland, strengthening the winds and bringing wet weather. Further south hardly any breeze at all so the mist, fog and low cloud will become more widespread again in those same sort of areas. You can see how it turns wetter, there could be some snow, i think mostly over the mountains, into Northern England as well. Further south we are more likely to have a frost as well as the fog, and there may also be some frost and ice around too. For travellers through tonight, this evening and tomorrow, we have the fog around. Again lincolnshire, east anglia and parts of southern england too, that should still be around causing transport difficulties. Further north, stronger wind spells of rainfor