The family of a policeman who survived a frenzied machete attack, say theyre proud of his bravery. And coming up well be taking a look inside kashmir as tension continues to rise between india and pakistan over the disputed region. Major power failures have been reported across large areas of the uk, affecting homes and transport networks. Large parts of england have been affected, including london, the south east, the north west, and other parts of the country. The Uk Power Networks says the outage was due to a failure on the outage was due to a failure on the National Grid. In the past half an hour, the National Grid has released a statement, saying, we experienced issues with two Power Generators causing loss of. The power cut has caused a knock on effect on the friday night rush hour, with disruption across the nail work rail network. Lner trains are telling passengers not to travel and network rail are warning of delays. Then ando has the latest. National grid say the problem has
Degenerate on twitter. The number of people dying from asthma in england and wales is the highest for more than a decade. The number of people dying from asthma in england and wales is the highest for more than a decade. Nine year old ella kissi debrahs died after an asthma attack. Experts have linked her death to air pollution. And tomorrow, qprs loftus road stadium will be renamed after a member of the teams Youth Academy who was stabbed to death when he was just 15. Well talk to kiyan princes dad, mark, about why it means so much to him. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 00 this morning. Its something we dont often think about until we have a to bury a loved one the cost of cremations. The bbc has discovered that the cost of a local authority cremation has risen by nearly a fifth in the last four years and varies hugely across the uk. In belfast, you could payjust under £1100. Compare that to almost £1,000 in milton keynes. Thats before youve paid for flowers, a
Now on bbc news, its extra time with rob bonnet. Welcome to extra time. I am rob bonnet. In many ways, the most anticipated game might not be the final but this weekend pakistan versus india, which someone described something between sport and war. The stadium holds only 25,000 but they were a million application. My guest will be there. Wasim khan is the managing director of the cricket bonn and he wants pakistan to win the cup but what is his Long Term Plan for pakistani cricket . Rocky units said that they dump it a war. But it is notjust sport either. It is somewhere in between. The former cricketer. Particularly the players, they all try to play it down because there is so much right emotion running through india versus pakistan, if you take in history and what is going on that there is so many what is going on that there is so ma ny fa cets what is going on that there is so many facets of play and because the health of the nation isjudged by how well india are performing or pakis
Because labour dont have any plans to reduce taxation. It sort of makes my point for me, their plan is basically that tax should remain at its current levels. We say we dont have to levels. We say we dont have to accept the status quo. If you make difficult decisions, if you stick to our plan for the economy, thats seen inflation falling and growth starting to rise, we can bring down the tax burden. Burden. News in from kyiv tonight, where the uk has pledged a further £125 million of military support to ukraine in a major move against putins invasion. Our home and security editor mark white joined me earlier with more on what that announcement tonight will mean for ukraines war efforts. This extra package , announced this extra package, announced by grant shapps on a visit to ukraine is very significant. Hundreds of pounds and millions of pounds in extra commitment from the uk to provide 10,000 military drones. Now the vast majority will be first person view drones, fpv drones , which
Good evening. From the newsroom. Im sam francis, a quick look at the headlines. At just after 9 00, government ministers are challenging labour to set out its own funding plans after it backed the governments decision to cut National Insurance. The non dom tax status will be scrapped with the aim of raising revenue to make up for the £0. 02 cut, though figures suggest any benefits for the taxpayer are likely to be cancelled out by an expected rise in council tax. Earlier, jeremy hunt told gb news that his budget is proof that the government, he says, is making their fiscal plan work. We want to end the unfairness, the direction of travel weve gone is to reduce National Insurance by one third. The fact that labour are opposing this today is really because labour dont have any plans to reduce taxation. It sort of makes my point for me, their plan is basically that tax should remain at its current levels. We say we dont have to levels. We say we dont have to accept the status quo. If you