where funding is coming from. the alzheimer s society has delivered a letter to the prime minister today, calling on the government to publish its dementia plan and to honour its commitments on research and diagnosis. the department of health says it wants to offer high quality and compassionate care to everyone with the condition. £17 million was spent last year tackling dementia waiting lists and diagnosis. funding for research, will, it says, double to £160 million a year by 2024. but for ananga, his family and many others with the condition, dementia isn t getting the attention it urgently needs. tim muffett, bbc news. king charles has asked for an increase in profits for the crown estate to be used for the wider public good , rather than for the royal family. the property business owned by the monarch is due to benefit from an offshore wind farm deal.
another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. new zealand s prime minister jacinda ardern makes a surprise announcement saying she ll stand down in less than three weeks time. a day of national strikes begins in france over plans to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64. king charles asks for millions of pounds in profits from the crown estate to be used for the wider public good rather than for the royal family. the government has released details of projects which will benefit from its levelling up fund,
as a result of deals for six offshore wind farms be kept by the treasury for the wider public good . the sovereign grant, which pays for the costs of working royals, is currently based on a quarter of crown estate profits but king charles is proposing to reduce that proportion. (read 0n) an aristocrat whose daughter has gone missing with her partner and newborn baby has made an emotional appeal for her to contact the police. constance marten and mark gordon were last seen on cctv in east london over a week ago. officers have revealed that mark gordon is a registered sex offender who spent 20 years in prison in the united states. napier marten, who s estranged from his daughter, made a please for his daughter to turn herself into the police to the independent website. my name is napier martin. i am gratefulfor this opportunity to appeal directly to my daughter constance, following the public revelations concerning her partner mark gordon and having lived with the family in great co
that as the king s wish that rather than those profits going to fund the working members of the royal family, he instead wants us to go back to the treasury and effectively to be distributed, in his words, for the public good. if you think back to the christmas speech was very much the theme of a christmas speech about the cost of living crisis and understanding the difficulties that families are undergoing at the moment. in his succession speech, which was in september, he talked about the fact that he pledged his willingness to surrender the income from the crown estate again for the public good and this phrase the public good, and this is his perhaps a first opportunity to put his money where his mouth is. i think, contrary to that, and i think the statement from the anti monarchy group, republic, says this cynical pr to pre empt a government decision to reduce the percentage calculation and i think their perspective is that the pr would be awful if all this came out that the king h
king charles has asked that a surge in crown estate profits as a result of deals for six offshore wind farms be kept by the treasury for the wider public good . the sovereign grant, which pays for the costs of working royals, is based on a quarter of crown estate profits but king charles is proposing to reduce that proportion. (read 0ur royal correspondent sarah campbell explains. in order for the sovereign grant, that being the amount of tax payer funding that is given to cover the running costs of working members of the royal family and also palace refurbishments, the upkeep of palaces, so 25% of the profits from the crown estate currently go towards making up the sovereign grant if that makes any sense? if you can imagine, these six leases for these wind farms are generated to fees of billions per year so that would be a huge upsurge in their profits, which would mean a huge upsurge in the sovereign grant. so, the detail today is that buckingham palace has made it clear