of demolition, because it doesn t take into account the energy that was used to create the bricks, concrete and steel in the first place. our environment correspondent roger harrabin reports. another one gone. and another one gone. and another one bites the dust. we can t keep knocking buildings down. in the uk, we currently demolish around 50,000 buildings a year and we really must stop doing this. why s that? well, the answer is in this brick. it started life as a lump of clay. imagine how much heat was needed to make the brick and the emissions created in the process. now look behind me. how many bricks there? hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, maybe. who knows? but imagine the emissions created to make those bricks to create
and we have a direct impact on one of the parts that we are destroying it. we can change our diets and improve the state of the planet. his comments came under fire from, you guessed it, the agriculture minister who said it denigrated the work of the country s farmers. then the prime minister pedro sanchez interrupted a trip to lithuania to weigh in. translation: on this | controversy, i will put it in very personal terms for me, there is nothing that beats a well done t bone steak. the average spaniard consumes more than ikg of meat a week and each kilogram takes around 15,000 litres of water to produce. in a country facing a rapid expansion of its deserts, at the very least, it s food for thought. sophia tran thomson, bbc news.
the murderer was in their ranks. two days after he had kidnapped sarah, couzens had bought two builder s bags at b&q. her body was found in one. couzens lived 30 miles away in deal, married with two children. a man who served in the territorial army, in the civil nuclear constabulary and, two and a half years before killing sarah, he joined the met police. questions for the force, how could he have been cleared to carry a gun when he would go on to kill? and questions about what officers did when couzens was reported for exposing himself twice in a takeaway restaurantjust days before the murder. could he have been stopped?
to find her remains. as metropolitan police officers searched, the murderer was in their ranks. two days after he had kidnapped sarah, wayne couzens had bought two builders bags in bm). her body was found in one. couzens lived 30 miles away in deal, married, with two children, a man who served in the territorial army in the civil nuclear constabulary. two and a half years before killing sarah, he joined the metropolitan police. questions for the force how could he have been cleared to carry a gun, when he would go on to kill? and questions about what officers did when wayne couzens was reported for exposing himself twice in a takeaway restaurant just days before the murder. could he have been stopped? the murder of one woman resonated with thousands of others.
how much difference does all of that make in terms of business confidence? i think we are seeing business confidence rise. we have also got through the pattern earlier in this year, so january, february, where a lot of exporters were holding back from the market because they were scared or they were finding difficulties with filling in forms, for example to trade with the eu. and one of the interesting things is actually trade has gone up with the eu and non eu. so, that is something that is actually very positive to take away from all of this. and there will be a feel good factor. there is already a feel good factor. we are beginning to see the end of lockdown restrictions, euro 2020 is making a big difference to people s sentiment, so we may see our way through this with some spending increase. but markets had a bit of a wobble yesterday. there are concerns globally about the delta variant and it is one to watch.