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
Tea m Lizzy Yarnold, she has been named as team gbs flag bearer. More from her later. Louise has the weather. that is 1; our l. That iseeeizz they that is ; they are they are glorious start, cold and frosty, 6 vii; fiifc in southern england. Unfortunately, the cloud has arrived and we have a weather front. It is the cloud has arrived and we have a weatherfront. It is bringing rain, if we look at the Lake District, we ¥ w 7 12 ; ii can see rain pushing east overnight. More coming up. Thanks, louise. Also coming up well be giving a warm handshake and not in any way a dodgy one to the head of the freemasons in england and wales. Hell tell us why he thinks theyre getting an unfair press. We always seem to talk in a negative way when we discuss seen on the ie Interest Rate rises, have seen on the banknotes, is the seeing eye, but for millions of savers efi ourselves z z ~ of course they are good news. They, at least, will take cheer from bank of england chief mark carneys suggestion that
The story that those journalists were working on a detailed investigation into a mass execution in a village in eastern myanmar. And weve seen their report. Our reporter, James Clayton, is across the story and is with me now. What has just happened tonight . Reuters have tonight decided to publish a story that it claims is in the International Public interest, why they have published now is they have been working on the story for weeks been in touch with those journalists in myanmar, in a prison there, and they say they have their consent to publish this story now. What were they investigating . Well, reuters say that their investigation is the first to obtain evidence from some of the perpetrators of this horrific violence, so they spoke to Police Officers in myanmar and members of a paramilitary group, and spoke to local villagers in inn din, and what they managed to amass was testimony of really quite nasty crimes and they implicate the military, they found pictures or were given pi
Our main story is the bank of englands view that Interest Rates will probably rise earlier than expected because of strong growth in the global economy. The key lending rate has been left unchanged at half of one per cent. But the banks governor, mark carney, said that increasing growth in the year ahead meant that action would be needed to control inflation. The pound surged leapt in value against the dollar, as our economics correspondent andy verity reports. If the whole economy performed like this manchester maker of branded clothing, its biggest problems would be almost solved. Its growing fast, exporting to europe and boosting productivity through investment. And while inflation caused by the weak pound boosted its costs, its been able to absorb out and carry on winning new orders. The last 12 months, weve grown by 20 in the uk but europe has been much stronger than that, so we have more than doubled the growth rate in the uk. Im cautiously optimistic about the future. We are mak
That can cause problems. Vehicles are being damaged and in some cases people are being seriously hurt in the cause of all this misery is the humble pothole. Here is martin friend. Potholes are the bugbear of every road user and it seems there are more now than ever. They are the cause of a big spike in breakdowns this time of year. You cant make it out now, but at this very spot five years ago there was a massive pothole on the road. It was a dangerous pothole, over four inches deeps of it if you keep it in the car, you could hear the flood. People were trying to avoid it because obviously they didnt wa nt to it because obviously they didnt want to damage their vehicles, but we have heavy goods vehicles coming, very dangerous. I reported it to the council and nothing happened. I reported it to the police and it was repaired within two hours. I needed to make sure i could do everything i could to make sure no one was injured. Thats what started your passion to rid the roads of potholes