News. Theresa may has announced a series of measures ahead of the conservative Party Conference which she is hoping will appeal to younger voters. Theres to be a freeze on tuition fees and students wont have to start paying back loans until they re earning over twenty five thousand pounds a year. The Prime Minister says these are the first steps in a wider review of university funding. Labour which has promised to abolish tuition fees has called the proposals desperate. Our Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. Bruce davidson has told delegates to unite and fight for the country, in the past hour. The first day of conference, a big day for the Prime Minister. Reporter happy birthday, Prime Minister she has not had much to celebrate lately. Theresa may knows she has a lot to prove, to her party and voters. Her first pitch is to the younger generation, with the promise to look again at how tuition fees work. When we set the policy, what we expected would happen would be a range,
This week as an opportunity to try to stamp her authority on a party that has got very used to squabbling amongst themselves. Laura, thank you. Our Political Editor there. As weve heard theres to be a a review into University Funding as well as a freeze on tuition fees in england. But what do the Younger Voters make of theresa mays make of theresa mays hopes to tempt them of the conservative plans . Of theresa mays hopes to tempt them our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has been finding out. Just a mile from the tory conference, a student cafe. Chewing over the changes, liam and grace. I cant imagine it being any more expensive than £9,000. It is expensive enough as it is, really expensive. As it is, really they dont take into account things like maintenance and stuff like that. Like maintenance and liam says freezing fees doesnt go far enough. They should be encouraging more people to get into university and things like that. So scrapping them is the best idea for me. But im not re
We have restored cell coverage to many parts of downtown napa and areas in sonoma. The reality is in these kind of fire situations, it happens and you can get it immediately. Because the fire is active we need to work with fire officials to coordinate that recovery. We are bringing you a update from state officials were bringing you live pictures from skyfox. Lets listen in again. It looks like the briefing may have just wrapped up. Thank you for joining us on the news at noon. Getting the latest. The priorities continue to be firefighting and lifesaving and taking care of the thousands who were evacuated and looking at a longterm recovery effort. Specifically cal fire mentioned a few cities that they seem to be focused on. Calistoga where there are mandatory evacuation, downtown sonoma where in the last half hour there was an expanded mandatory evacuation. The north part above east napa street from Fourth Street east. Thats on the east side of the downtown area. And also middletown as
Security in the city of love. There has not been at time when we have felt u nsafe. Has not been at time when we have felt unsafe. Birthday celebrations in the basket country. We are ready for the future. And how to stay in london for a tenner a night. First today we are in paris. The decades, the french capital has been one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. The city tops many peoples travel bucket list and there are no shortage of reasons why people are drawn here. You have to visit paris, the river, everything, the history. Romance, the atmosphere, the history, the culture. The food, the people, the culture, the arts. It is really not difficult to see why people all in love with paris, the city is spectacular and crammed with iconic sites but last year the french capital saw a drop of around 1. 5 million visitors. The decline in numbers of was mostly blamed on high profile terrorist issues including the attacks at bataclan and across the attacks at bataclan and ac
Freezing so crisp fresh start to sunday morning, quite the breeze blowing especially in the south west, showers of scotland and Northern Ireland gradually easing, showers will be fewer in number, some afternoon showers in the far east of england but full many a lovely but cold autumn day. Hello. This is bbc news with me, shaun ley. The headlines. The conservative mp for dover, charlie elphicke, has been suspended by the party after it said serious allegations had been passed to the police. He denies any wrongdoing. Political parties are considering how to strengthen codes of conduct for mps, as the westminster harassment scandal deepens. One conservative backbencher has likened the current atmosphere to a witch hunt. Police in new york say they have a viable case against the hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein. An actress has accused him of raping her seven years ago. The white house has downplayed a major report on Climate Change compiled by Us Government scientists. The report says