the father of an aristocrat who s gone missing with her newborn baby and her partner appeals for her to get in touch with the police. shock in new zealand as the prime ministerjacinda ardern unexpectedly stands down she says she doesn t have enough left in the tank. and the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s bafta film awards. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. levelling up has been one of the government s key policies the idea of spreading public money more evenly across the uk. well, today ministers have announced more than £2 billion worth of projects acoss the country. they say the north of england and wales will do best, per head of population. but labour claim the system for allocating money is unfair. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart blackpool, one area that was a winner in today s levelling up allocation announcement, with £40 million for a new education campus. levelli
large demonstrations drawing tens of thousands of people like this one in marseille are expected across the country. p&0 ferry services to and from calais and dover have been suspended until 2pm today, because of a national strike in france affecting services. an aristocrat whose estranged daughter has gone missing with her partner and their newborn baby has appealed for her to contact police. constance marten has been missing for almost two weeks with her partner, who served 20 years in jail in the us for rape. sean dilley has the details. have you seen mark gordon or constance marten? police say they could be anywhere in the uk. 35 year old constance was raised in a wealthy family but relations with them have been strained since she met mark in 2016. mark gordon is a convicted sex offender, deported back to the uk from the usa in 2010
current year but so far there has been no improved offer made and health leaders are immensely concerned that great disruption to an even more fragile nhs, so they are urging both sides to get together and find a solution. mass strikes and protests are underway in france in response to president s macron s plan to raise the age of retirement by two years to ga. public transport has been badly hit and many schools are closed. large demonstrations drawing tens of thousands like this in marseilles are expected across the country. p&0 ferry services to and from calais and dover have been suspended until 2pm today because of the strikes in france. a new report from leading climate experts says that technology to remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere must be urgently ramped up. scientists say big cuts in co2 emissions won t be enough to limit global warming. and nature alone will not remove enough of it from the air.
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