See you in australia. And sarah has the weather. An awesome feeling day today with outbreaks of rain across the country and a strengthening breeze. I will bring you the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may has announced a freeze on University Tuition fees and an extension of the help to buy scheme in a bid to win over younger voters. It comes as the conservative Party Gathers in manchester for its annual conference. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. The security sweeps are complete. This whole will soon be packed. That you do not need to look hard at outside the Conference Venue to be reminded of the topic that dominates politics. Expect a clear attempt here by senior conservatives to change the subject. So, in the next financial year, starting in april, graduates in england will only begin repaying their tuition fee debts once they earn £25,000 a year. This is an increase from the current threshold of £21,000. Conservatives say this
Hello. Are a this is bbc news. The headlines at 11. 31 one the first day of the conservative conference, theresa may says shes sorry the party didnt win a majority at the general election. Spanish riot police have clashed with voters in catalonia as they try to stop an independence referendum organised by the regional government. The Catalan Leader has condemned what he called police brutality. The low cost travel company, monarch, has been granted a 24 hour extension to its licence to sell package holidays. And an air France Flight was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the atlantic. Now on bbc news, click. This week. Explosions. Big taps. And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the dinorwig pumped storage power station and it is basically a monster battery. It Stores Energy by pumping water from this lake to a lake at the top of the mou
To back her remaining in office. The sunday times continues the theme. One of its headlines claims borisjohnson believes mrs may will be gone in a year. A rather kinder front page from the sunday telegraph which says the pm is set to announce a tuition fees revolution to help students. Thats more like it, mrs may is the verdict in the sunday express. It reports the pm will launch the change as part of a policy blitz to woo younger voters. The mail on sunday says shes gambling that the tuition fees changes will head off a tory coup but the paper calls it another huge u turn. And more on the conservatives in the sunday mirror which claims the prominent pro life tory mp Jacob Rees Mogg has admitted to benefiting financially from a firm which produces drugs to end pregnancies. Now on bbc news, click. This week. Explosions. Big taps. And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the
And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the dinorwig pumped storage power station and it is basically a monster battery. It Stores Energy by pumping water from this lake to a lake at the top of the mountain and then letting it flow back downhill, releasing that energy at times of peak demand. See, when you pop the kettle on during breaks in championship matches of that sport they call football, this bad boy springs into action to supplement our National Grid, delivering power to our homes in under 12 seconds. Its an incredible view. Its one of the fastest responding power stations on the planet and well have a nosy inside the thing later in the programme. Dinorwig offers a semi Renewable Energy solution at a time when our National Resources are being used up. As solar, wind and tidal power alternatives advance, were craving a method of using their generated energy 24 7 des
That briefing earlier today. Before the passage in the ways and Means Committee this afternoon of the republican tax reform bill to mark the markup session wrapping up today, the vote was 416. Heres some of the Committee Debate ahead of the final passage vote this afternoon. Mr. Brady are there further questions . Mr. Neal will there be sufficient time to digest the document, understanding were going to the floor quickly to vote for the last series of the week and because of time constraints the obvious view we hold on this side that we want time, to be able to take a look at whats in the managers amendment based on whats happened as of monday evening and the short notice we received on thursday, it appears likely that we will at this schedule and pace have very little time to see the managers amendment and then to professionally react to it. I suppose the second question, based upon what weve seen this morning with the delay is, has there been a possibility for republicans to actually