the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
your day? fix. are still standing. what was your day? your day? a little smidgen optimistic your day? a little smidgen optimistic decompression | optimistic decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the s&p tomorrow and there is still the treasury union congress rearranged in the morning a little after that. they were both extraordinary. labour was extraordinary and newsworthy. it was kinda quite serene. it was a party that was upbeat. they weren t buyers breaking out in the corners or political fights that. frankly for labour they have been frequently in the past. for the opposite reason, the conservatives, there were political scraps breaking out very visibly in public. then, that kind of briefing that was going on and private from seniorfigures down was going on and private from senior figures down was also volcanic as well. you have a conservative party to put it at its gentlest is not at ease with itself with a new prime minister
the school district in uvalde has suspended its entire police force responsible for campus security. at ten o clock, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s chris in the streets in south london. james cook, scotland editor, here in the studio. and it s alex forsyth, also in the studio. so, chris, you are currently in a street, but you ve just come back from the labour and conservative conferences. i m amazed you re still standing, albeit in a street. i mean, how were they? what was your take on the whole thing? it s a little smidgeon, alex, of domestic kind of decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the snp, which i m heading to tomorrow. and then there s still the tuc, the trades union congress, rearranged after the mourning period to come, a little after that. how were they? they were both extraordinary and for completely opposite reasons. so,
it s the biggest demonstration by the iranian diaspora ever. iranians from across europe are calling on western governments to sanction the powerful revolutionary guard and to throw out iranian diplomats. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to unspun world, the programme where the bbc s experts give us clear answers about the big questions of the moment. this week, britain s political and economic crisis entered a new and even more difficult phase, and so did the war in ukraine. all of this has rather overshadowed the already slightly muted celebration of the bbc s 100th anniversary, which falls this week. in october 1922, the bbc started up and quite soon became the world s most famous and respected public service broadcaster operating from its headquarters here in central london. and london is where our programme starts this week with the extraordinary political and economic goings on. pretty much unprecedented in my experience. that the whole
rishi sunak officiallyjoins the race to be the next conservative leader and prime minister, this afternoon culture secretary michelle donelan has gone public with her support for him. penny mordaunt is still in the running. she told the bbc she believes in cabinet led politics. i have my views but i will not be imposing i have my views but i will not be imposing policy that i have just made imposing policy that i have just made up imposing policy that i have just made up in a room by myself. the question now does borisjohnson have enough backers to stand as well? labour leader kier starmer says his party hasn t got complacent and repeats calls for a general election. the schools struggling to keep the lights and heating on headteachers warn spiralling energy costs could see most schools in england run out of money next year. and jodie whittaker is set to make her final appearance as the doctor. more headlines at six o clock. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn