the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
when keir starmer was first leader, a lot of people did not in anyway think that in one term he could turn the labour party around. they were talking in terms of him doing five years, losing the next election and someone also come in and we don t know who that will be. for them, it has been a big surprise as well. they actually lost the hartlepool by election, it was an absolute low point for labour and then things turned around. lots of people say keir starmer has been a lucky leader, it has come at the same time that in scotland the snp have had their own troubles, socks scotland is a country where labour used to rule and then were absolutely decimated at the last election and went down to one seat. all of thing these things have a line for him but he will say he has change the party from the party it was underjeremy corbyn. the change the party from the party it was underjeremy corbyn. the left of the labour party was underjeremy corbyn. the left of the labour part
now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament. hello again and welcome to tuesday in parliament. in this programme: a lockdown warning for ministers: if you open up too fast, a lot more people die. a lot more people die. advice on what to do when that pandemic order of protective equipment doesn t arrive. will the minister commit to recovering public money from the companies which did not meet their contractual obligations? and experts say football s handling of head injuries is a shambles. we find that the risk of dementia is about four times higher than it should be. but first, england s chief medical officer, chris whitty, has warned that lifting the lockdown too quickly would lead to a substantial surge in covid infections. professor whitty told mps that would be dangerous and risk lives among the many vulnerable people not yet protected by the vaccine. the day after the full return of schools in england, he told the science and technology committee that despite vaccines there w
Make Funding Pledges to tackle Cash Shortages in schools in england. The boss of barclays will be facing pressure today over his pay and also his handling of a controversy surrounding recruitment in the bank. Ill have the details shortly. In sport, the french opens a fortnight away and andy murray says he still needs to get better but hes through to the third round in madrid. Our build up to this years Eurovision Song Contest starts here the bbcs Steve Rosenberg is in kiev with all the tunes and all the facts you need to enjoy the worlds biggest singing competition. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Thank you. Iam in kew gardens next to the Japanese Gateway. I will tell you more about it through the morning but if you adjust stepping out it is a chilly start although most of us will have a day of plenty of sunshine, except in the north of scotland where we have some patchy rain. Good morning. First our main story. President trump has fired the head of the fbi james comey in a mo
Of birds underneath the 840 motorway in buckinghamshire. Fifa has announced it is investigating paul pogbas £89 million transfer from juventus to Manchester United last summer. Good morning. Its wednesday, 10th may. Im joanna gosling. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. We start with Breaking News that the Crown Prosecution Service has said no concept of politicians or official would be charged with breaking rules on Election Campaign spending in 2015. The cbs have been considering file sent by the police for nearly 30 constituencies. The party has insisted administrative errors were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared. We have a statement through from the head of special crime at the Crown Prosecution Service. It says, we are files of evidence from 14 Police Forces in respect of allegations relating to conservative Party Candidate expenditure during the 2015th general Election Campaign. We considered whether candidates and election agents working in constituencies that