Suggesting she supported hamas, but the cost of that payment is covered by taxpayers. The science secretary, michelle donelan, has now retracted her comments about professor kate sang after a government investigation found the allegations were baseless. And allegations were baseless. And finally thousands of staff at greggs are to get, shall we say, a slice of the profits. More than £17 million in bonuses. Evidently, its after the high street bakery saw profits rise by 27 in the last year, so staff can expect to see their extra dough in their pay packets at the end of this month to recognise their hard work, and its all the icing on the cake for the workers, who already get a share of the profits each year for the very latest news stories, do sign up for gp news alerts. Scan the qr code on your screen to gb news. Common screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Welcome along a message alerts. Welcome along a message to the Prime Ministerjust boots out the jihadis. Its not hard. France a
Are you an extremist . Next. Are you an extremist . Next. Im Polly Middlehurst and the top story in the gb newsroom tonight i at 9 01, Birmingham City council has approved a wave of budget cuts that have been described as a devastating double whammy of tax cuts and fewer public services. The fewer public services. The labour Led Authority is planning a 21 increase in council tax over two years, and £300 million worth of cuts to public services. Council leader john cotton, unrwa , vividly apologised to the unrwa, vividly apologised to the citys residents , blaming tory citys residents, blaming tory austero , 80, birminghams austero, 80, birminghams conservative leader, said though the cuts will mean streets arent clean and broken, street lights arent repaired and jeremy hunt is expected to ask councils to cut wasteful spending on equality and diversity programmes as he announces britains budget tomorrow. Its being suggested tomorrow. Its being suggested he could announce a £0. 02 in t
Into the record books. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news england women are pegged back on the opening day of the ashes test in sydney, one that they cant afford to lose. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. For the second time in just a week, theresa may is embarking on another cabinet reshuffle. She is carrying out a delicate balancing act as she decides who will replace priti patel as International Development secretary. Ms patel is a prominent brexit supporter, and the Prime Minister is facing calls to replace her with someone who also backs leaving the eu. 0ur Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports from westminster. Cleaning up after a chaotic week. Notjust one but two cabinet ministers gone within days. No pressure on the Prime Minister to get her Government Back on track. How damaging is all this for the government . As the rest of a cabinet like the brexit secretary and fresh faces like the new chief whip try to get on with theirjobs
Process is gone through now. Labour said the exact allegations of the nature of the details that carl sa rg ea nt nature of the details that Carl Sargeant and his family were looking for when not going to be forthcoming for when not going to be forthcoming for quite some time. Under the rule book of the labour party, when allegations of a sexual nature are made, both parties need to provide written statements and then the accused received the exact nature of the allegations so that was going to come in time. There have been questions about the first ministers conduct in all of this, for example why the labour party initiated this independent inquiry last friday after he was sacked from the Welsh Government and the labour party initiated that, why then did carwyn jones on monday of this week to a round of interviews in which he spoke about those allegations. The familys solicitor had accused him of prejudicing the inquiry by giving those interviews. The Welsh Assembly said its important
We are talking to edward st albert about his new novel, dunbar, the story of a media mogul whose life becomes a retelling of the tragedy of king lear. Coming up, on meet the author. King lear. Welcome to bbc news. Good evening. For the second time in a week theresa may has been forced into a mini reshuffle of her cabinet. Penny mourdaunt has been appointed as the new International Development secretary replacing priti patel. She resigned last night, admitting she had not been transparent enough about high level meetings with israeli politicians while on holiday. Like her predecessor, penny mourdaunt backed the leave campaign in the eu referendum. Heres our political editor, laura kuenssberg. One for sorrow, two for joy. One brexiteer cabinet minister departs through the back door and another is about to arrive. Even the driver of the shiny ministerial car was expecting Penny Mordaunt as the favourite but neither he all we knew for sure, until gates opened up. So a little bit before hal