Following an incident outside a bristol nightclub. What a great shot and tributes for Cyrille Regis, the man who led the way for black footballers in britain who died at the age of 59. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Cabinet ministers have tonight been holding an emergency cobra meeting to discuss the financial collapse of carillion. The firm had government contracts across school catering, hsz, the nhs and prisons, and its demise has left its own employees and many more who work for it indirectly facing a worrying future. Carillion itself employs almost 20,000 workers in the uk. The company has a50 government contracts a massive portfolio. It sub contracted thousands of small firms to do some of that work. Carillions demise has raised questions for government about the way Public Sector projects are handed out to private sector businesses. Heres our business editor, simonjack. This bypass near aberdeen is in scotla nd this bypass near aberdeen is in scotland was my biggest const
Is through to the second round of the australian open, with a straight sets win over american Madison Brengle. Coming up in the sport on bbc news, Roger Federer reaches round two in melbourne but isnt expecting another fairy tale year after two grand slams aged 35 in 2017. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A growing number of businesses are saying they are facing big losses and have already had to lay off staff because of the collapse of carillion. Firms working on private sector deals for the construction giant have been told theyll receive only two days of government support. One Industry Group estimates that up to 30,000 firms are owed money by carillion. The government has ordered a fast track investigation into the companys directors. Our correspondent Simon Gompertz reports. This is the sort of work, painting offices in newly built flats that the carillion collapses putting in question. A london decorating company which had 30 people turn up for a job to find sud
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Our main story is the fallout from the collapse of the construction and Service Company carillion which went into liquidation yesterday putting thousands ofjobs at risk. Workers employed by carillion on private sector contracts will no longer be paid by the government after tomorrow. Ministers have ordered an urgent investigation into the directors of the company. They also want the conduct of previous directors to be examined. Ministers are due to meet trade Union Representatives within the hourm as a growing number of firms say they are facing big losses. The chancellor has said that essential Public Services contracts will continue. 0ur correspondent Simon Gompertz has the latest. This is the sort of work, painting offices and newly built flats, that the carillion collapse is putting in question. A london decorating company which had 30 people turn up for a job to find suddenly there was nothing to do and £2 million of orders had disappeared. Carillion took on the contracts, then f
Good morning. Its wednesday 17th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. More nurses left the nhs in england last year thanjoined. The statistics, given exclusively to the bbc, reveal that more than 33,000 gave up jobs with the service, thats 3000 more than signed up. The Royal College of nursing says more must be done to support younger nurses at the start of their careers. Heres our Health Correspondent, dominic hughes. She became a nurse to help people, excited at the prospect of making a difference but in the end, the job overwhelmed mary trevelyan. I would end up in tears during a shift because there wasjust so much pressure and stress. A never ending list of things to do, guilt over not having enough time to care for patients. Stress led to depression and mary has had to leave thejob she loved. I want to be a great nurse and i want to give my patients my best but i feel i cant do that at the moment because we are just too short staffed, too busy. Theres far too