From the newsroom. Birmingham city council has effectively declared bankruptcy in a statement, the council said its issued a section 114 notice which prevents all but essential spending. It says its part of spending. It says its part of plans to meet its financial liabilities relating to equal pay liabilities relating to equal pay claims. The council also says its facing a financial gap within its budget currently standing in the region of £87 million. Finances related to protecting Vulnerable People and Statutory Services remain in place. However all other new spending will cease with immediate effect. The schools immediate effect. The schools minister says the government has been very proactive in dealing with the concrete crisis in schools and has been issuing guidance to schools since 2018. In speaking to gb news nick gibbs, comments come after the education secretary apologised for using Strong Language while expressing her frustration at the situation. Both rishi sunak and Gilli
In, she says vapes are a gateway for young people into smoking. We know theyre there to try and woo people off smoking. Go to a vape shop. I like the flavours, you should. They should be prescription only if its meant only in my opinion if its meant to you off cigarettes, then to get you off cigarettes, then lets do they targeted lets do that. They are targeted to children is working. To children and it is working. Let thoughts this let us know your thoughts this morning. Gb at gb views morning. Gb views at gb views. Com is the email as always, particularly if your kids are going be affected youre going to be affected and youre to going affected maybe your to going be affected maybe your grandchildren these grandchildren by these School Closures touch this closures do get in touch this morning. Of all, though, morning. First of all, though, heres in the heres Tatiana Sanchez in the newsroom. Newsroom. Bev, thank you very much and good morning. This is the latest from the newsroom. Rish
Yesterday. And also, if youre to going anybody at to going headbutt anybody at football, really dont want football, you really dont want it to be roy keane, do you. 7 it to be roy keane, do you . Well have your latest and well have your latest Weather Forecast on duty this morning. Alex burkill , hello. Morning. Alex burkill, hello. A little bit of mist and fog around first thing this morning, but otherwise plenty of sunshine and temperatures even and temperatures rising even further as we go through the week. Ill have more later. So it was first day back at school yesterday. Well, not for school yesterday. Well, not for school kids really, but for mps at the houses of parliament and Gillian Keegan amongst the stories fighting to keep her cabinet position this morning after she apologised for claiming she was doing a good job. But she said stronger than that actually. But she was that actually. But she was unaware that she was being recorded. I just want to say , recorded. I just want
With chief williams report. That evening on the 7th, i went to Mclaren Lodge where there was the park and tree lighting, and then, on the 11th, i had a meeting with raiders that had been brought in, people that had expertise in the field of Fire Investigation and Fire Prevention. They bring colleagues in from throughout the nation to kpum in and score exams, so they had expertise in those areas to score the lieutenants exam for the bureau of fire chiefs and bureau of Fire Investigation. I believe we had 33 people take the h22, bureau of fire presentation exam, and then, 13 participated in the h24 over at the bureau of Fire Investigation exam. And also in the last period, we had the full h20 exam administered. Its the lieutenants exam. There was three parts to it, and my understanding is there was roughly about 250 that that took all three parts of the exam, so were awaiting results in the new year on both of those exams. And i believe that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you, chi
Event, and id like to congratulate dan on receiving that award. Weve met with dpw on december 7th to get an update on all the easter projects, so station five, station 16, chief williams will address it. Adf, which is our ambulance deployment facility. We like to have regular updates to make sure that theyre keeping up on the timelines and so forth. And i feel pretty good about everything. We do have a significant delay in station 16, which you will hear a little bit more about with chief williams report. That evening on the 7th, i went to Mclaren Lodge where there was the park and tree lighting, and then, on the 11th, i had a meeting with raiders that had been brought in, people that had expertise in the field of Fire Investigation and Fire Prevention. They bring colleagues in from throughout the nation to kpum in and score exams, so they had expertise in those areas to score the lieutenants exam for the bureau of fire chiefs and bureau of Fire Investigation. I believe we had 33 peopl