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
police in california say a man who went missing last week while hiking in mountains is the british actor, julian sands. the 65 year old star has appeared in films including a room with a view and leaving las vegas . conditions in the mountains have been treacherous recently, with torrential rain and freezing temperatures. last year, the government promised to prioritise dementia care and create a seismic shift in how the condition is tackled. eight months on, campaigners say that commitment has fallen by the wayside . today, they ve delivered an open letter to the prime minister urging him to keep dementia on the political agenda. tim muffett has been to meet one couple learning to live with the disease. i was so happy that day. i think i was crying most of the time because i was so happy. i thought how lucky i was. ananga and joanna, married for a8 years. you had hair! a lot of hair.
olice will drive the nature of the inquiry? tt2 police will be concerned that there is not, for example, going to be a tragedy coming out of this very worrying situation. that is why we have seen the police are appealing as widely as they have been throughout the media for people to come forward. if you have seen constance or marc gordon and the baby, perhaps you may have seen three people concealing their faces like we have seen on cctv, if that allows you, if you see them, then please pick up the phone and speak to the police. and if you have some reluctance about speaking to the police these days, in times of catastrophic levels of lack of trust in the police, then that admirable charity, crimestoppers, whose telephone number is 0800, 555, 111, will happily receive your information anonymously. they won t want to know details about you
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this is bbc news. the headlines: towns and cities are set to receive more than £2 billion worth of funding in an attempt to reduce regional inequality. rishi sunak insists it s the north of england and wales who will benefit the most. if you look at the funding and you compare it to the number of people that live in each region, the region that has done the best in the amount of funding per person is the north. this is not the right way to allocate money, creating winners and losers around the country, and ministers playing favourites with the projects that they like the look of. two retired metropolitan police officers have been charged with child sex offences as part of an investigation into a serving met chief inspector who was found dead before he was also charged. another ambulance strike this time in wales as nurses in england also stage