temperatures across the uk rose with a level three alert, and some rider means the uk could be hosting next year s eurovision contest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more reliable service for passengers. usually 900 flights run a day, but it ll be 825 injuly, and 850 in august. it comes after the government and regulators wrote to airlines telling them to make sure their summer timetables were deliverable . the decision means thousands of people will have their holiday plans disrupted, as theo leggett reports. this is what airlines and airports want to avoid. over easter and around the jubilee holiday, hundreds of flights were cancelled. some while passengers were preparing to board. people want to travel, but staff shortages at airlines and ground handling companies have become a s
plus, coming to a car park near you: cheap solar charging for your electric vehicle. but does northern europe have the weather for it? we start with the cost of living here in the uk because, as we were anticipating this time yesterday, the chancellor rishi sunak has announced a financial support package to help people with soaring bills. the 15 billion pound plan will be funded, in part, by what he called a temporary, targeted energy profits levy. in other words, a windfall tax on the energy companies, a policy the opposition labour party have been calling for, but the government has resisted, until now. all households, regardless of income, will receive a grant of £400 towards their energy bills, which won t have to be paid back. on top of that, those on the lowest incomes, around eight million households, will receive a one off payment of £650. and pensioners receiving the winter fuel allowance will also get an extra one off payment of £300. those receiving disability b
Scandal later today. Between 1999 and 2015 Hundreds Of Sub Postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faulty software. Its the first time shell publicly speak about her role in the scandal for nearly a decade. Our Business Correspondent emma simpson has the details. Its 2012, and Paula Vennells is in herfirst year as the new boss of the post office. Shes already spent half a decade with the business. And here shes on a visit to the shop floor. Retail is detail. I dont know whoever it was that said that, but it is that. And you come to places like this and you find out the Little Things that make the operation much more efficient. Back then, the post office was haemorrhaging money. The pressure is on to turn things around. But did she put profits before people . Theres a sack full of questions waiting for her now. Lee bought the Bridlington Branch in 2003. The losses soon began. Here he is after the post office made him bankrupt with huge legal costs as they pursued him in court. So imp
Security. We will have more on that later myanmar is a country in the grip of a war largely forgotten, by the outside world. And today we have a Special Report from the frontline. Rebel forces there are fighting an intense battle against the military regime. In the past seven months, a country wide insurgency has made gains conquering large swathes of territory. The fighters, among them a group known as kndf, are now presenting the Myanmar Military with the biggest threat to its rule in years. Press freedom in the country is restricted, hundreds ofjournalists have beenjailed, and getting into myanmar to report first hand is tough. But a bbc team has managed. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville spent a month with the rebels at theirjungle bases and on the frontline. A revolution is rising across myanmar. Hidden from the world by its remoteness. Few countries are more isolated, few conflicts more unseen. We spent a month with the insurgents on back roads and Jungle Tracks in karenni st
Preventing the growth of native organisms. Scientists say it appears to thrive in our warmer waters. It shows just how fragile some of our marine ecosystems can be. Justin told us more, from anglesey in wales. All these records are important because what they tell us is the story of ever increasing temperatures, but the run of records that we have had isjust extraordinary. As you say, 11 months and a new Monthly Record for temperatures in the air, and new treatment year where every single day has been a Record Temperature for the day, and these have not been broken by a small margin, theyre not being edged past, they being smashed, so around 47 days over the course of the last year, the temperature, the previous High Temperature, the previous High Temperature was exceeded by no. 3, a third of a degree, celsius. That may not sound much, but we are talking about a global average of all the oceans are nice, so that is a huge margin, it tells us is steadily over the years Global Temperatur