Denied any wrongdoing. Thanks to a major gas network failure, heaters and portable cookers have events distributed to Vulnerable People in scotland and schools in the area have been closed. Weve been talking to some of those affected. At the start of winter, thousands with no gas, no heating, no hot water. Have you got anything to cook on . The temperature has risen slightly here, but it is still very cold, and all day, there has been a constant flow of people here picking up heaters for their homes. Has it been a cold night . Yeah, just a tad. Weve all been cooped up in the one bed, trying to stay warm. We had candles lighting up the house, and trying to heat the place withjust the candle flames. There you go yeah. Angeline perry has four children. The youngest is nine months old. Their gas supply was turned off yesterday, and they are using portable heaters to warm one room. So were just using the kettle just now, to boil all our water, and we dont have any gas on the hob either. How
So the focus has to be getting to net zero carbon by 2050, and anything that distracts that that will just make it more and more difficult, but if we have big arguments about policy and ownership structures, all we do is slow everything down, and that is the worst thing we could do right now. Right now we need to be speeding up. Labour plans to nationalise the Big Six Energy suppliers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into m regional agencies. Along with energy, the rail industry, water, the royal mail and bts broadband business would also be nationalised. How much would it cost . Tricky one. Labour Say Parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners, which include Workers Pension funds, but the independent ifs estimate it would add at least £200 billion to government debt, but the government would collect the revenue, apart from broadband, which it eventually wants to give away for free. Arguments about whether the government or the private sector is better
Particular because on monday south western trains will go on strike for almost one month, one of the longer strikes in history in the uk trains. That will not please passengers i guess, but thank you very much indeed, katie. Lets get the weather now with louise lear. Hello, frost and fog was an issue this morning as most of the country was under an influence of High Pressure. That said, this weather front is drifting into the near continent and bringing some cloud and rain across the far south west, so here, not quite as cold, but on the pc side with rain at times. Elsewhere the fog lifts, it is dry, settled and sony into the afternoon, with just a few isolated showers across the north and east coast, temperature struggling to up to 8 degrees, quite widely, with the exception of the far south west. That light and patchy rain drifts off to france through the night, mona of a breeze preventing frost and fog here, but further north, again, under those clearer skies, the temperatures are l
For me to go to paris. Todays announcement means many commuters face an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work. For example, a season ticket from eastbourne to london goes up £136, tipping it over the £5,000 mark. A season ticket between glasgow and edinburgh will set you back by £4,200 a year, up £116. But the Rail Industry defends the increases, saying 98 pence from every pound spent on fares goes into running the railway. At the moment were going through a record splurge on the railway network, more money is being put onto the network now than at any other time since the victorian era. So, we are replacing half of the entire nations fleet, but we are also putting money elsewhere, by adding extra services where they are really needed. Train companies and passengers say they would like to see a new, more flexible system for tickets put in place. But the future of fares and indeed the railways will be in the hands of whoever wins the election. This week o
Hello, this is bbc news with marine croxall. The headlines. After the attack at london bridge, the Prime Minister says the licences of 7a other people out on Early Release after terror offences are being reviewed. I absolutely deplore the fact that this man was out on the streets. I think it is absolutely repulsive, and we are going to take. That repulsive thing happened under the conservatives. It was conservative legislation and a conservative regime. A failure to recruit has left huge staffing shortfalls with staff supervising more cases than ever expected, posing again a security two people, including 25 year old jack merritt, were killed in the attack by a man who had beenjailed in 2012 for his role in an alqaeda inspired plot. Former wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas says he wants breaking the stigma around hiv to be his everlasting legacy in an interview with prince harry to mark world aids day. Police in hong kong use pepper spray as thousands of protesters return to the street