The energy supplier, npower, is to cut to up to a500 jobs in the uk, as part of restructuring plans to make it more profitable. Three call centres, in sunderland, hull and worcester could be closed. Our economics correspondent, andy verity has more details. Sunderland, where workers used to be told that manufacturing was the past and call centres were the future. Not any more. A few miles away, near the town of houghton le spring, 2500 Call Centre Workers were among those told by npower today theirjobs were going. Disappointment, but its a shame, theres nothing else we can do. Ill take it one step at a time. Im still going to do myjob, still going to do the best i can, and take it from there. Its a heavy blow for an area already reeling from bad economic news. The future does look bleak, to be honest. Youve got tata, youve got british gas. For 2000 people to lose theirjob, what else is going to replace thatjob . Where are they going to go . Its just another nail in the coffin in this a
To sell their home again, and you have no idea what it costs. The metropolitan police is to pay the former mp Harvey Proctor £900,000 in compensation and legal costs he was wrongly accused of being part of a westminster paedophile ring. A manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered a translation of a book praising the monarchy, complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. Unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The energy firm npower is set to cut up to 4,500 jobs in the uk as it plans to restructure to make itself more profitable. Unions have called the move a cruel blow for workers. The company, which is german owned, described the uk market as particularly challenging. Npower has a uk workforce of around 5,700 staff. They announced plans injanuary to cut 900 jobs. Npowers owners, e. 0n said that profit for the first nine months of its Financial Year fell 27 to two billion pounds. Lets get more from our B
Also this lunchtime. Borisjohnson sets out what he says are the benefits of brexit, promising it will be easier to protect british jobs. We will back British Business by ensuring that the Public Sector buys british. Well scrap the tampon tax, well back british industry by making sure we can intervene when great British Businesses are struggling. And these are some of the benefits which will directly result from leaving the eu. Scotland yard pays former mp Harvey Proctor £500,000 compensation after its disastrous investigation into claims of a paedophile ring. Arsenal sack their manager unai emery after 78 games in charge. And rediscovered a 42 page manuscript written by elizabeth i. And coming up on bbc news, englands bowlers are frustrated on the first day of the second test in new zealand, as tom latham hits a century. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. 4,500 workers are to lose their jobs, after the energy firm npower announced its closing three Customer Service cen
Year and the long nights it means we pick up the frost again but increasing amounts of fog. It might not be as sunny but it is dry. The satellite picture is largely sunny with bubbles of cloud providing us with bubbles of cloud providing us with some showers down the east coast. Still the legacy of yesterday and its cloud across the far south west but again, clutching at straws, for most of us its cold but dry and bright and sunny. Soon after dark, temperatures plummeting below freezing. We had a fairly widespread frost last night and an even wider one tonight. There will be an ice risk. The far south west keaton of cloud and breeze to escape the frost but temperatures will be a degree or two down. Frosty and by morning potentially more fog. Already warnings are out for that, the fog patches can become quite dense by the time we get to the morning and that will be clearly hazard rate users. Critically for england and wales, even in southern areas. It shows you how widespread it is. Som
Of the next Un Climate Conference starting in chile on monday. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport gavin has the details. And turmoil at arsenal. Yeah, absolutely. Arsenal sacked head coach unai emery after a dreadful run of form. Reaction later. Thanks gavin. Thomas has the weather details. Not hard a cold snap is upon us. A lot of sunshine, crisp autumn weather. Also, some fog. More in a bit. Thanks, tomas. Also coming up, a manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered a translation of a book praising the monarchy, complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. Hello everyone. This is afternoon live. Im rebecca jones. 4,500 workers are set to lose theirjobs, after the energy firm npower announced its closing three Customer Service centres in the uk. Unions have called it a cruel blow in the run up to christmas, but the company, which is german owned, says its been struggling for some time and that the british market is particularly challenging. The cuts represent three qu