Many of the top awards. The budget the government unveiled on wednesday has left the Shadow Chancellor with a major headache. Jeremy hunt cut National Insurance by 2 pence for the second time in six months, as well as stealing two of labours revenue raising policies. The party had planned to use these to Fund Breakfast clubs in schools and reduce nhs Waiting Lists, if it wins the next election. Earlier, the Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves spoke to the bbc s Laura Kuennsberg about how they plan to raise money now, and began by discussing her plans to create a National Wealth fund. Yes. We have committed to an extension of workers rights, including banning zero hour contracts, getting rid of fire and rehire and having a real minimum wage. Obviously, the low Pay Commission will set that, but this is a big extension of the rights of working people, because if an economy is not working for working people, its not working at all. And at the moment, too many people are stuck in insecure, pre
The battle of the blockbusters will be decided later at the biggest night in the entertainment calendar. Will barbie or oppenheimer win big at the oscars . As we heard earlier the budget the government unveiled on wednesday has left the Shadow Chancellor with a major headache. Jeremy hunt cut National Insurance by 2 pence for the second time in six months, as well as stealing two of labours fund raising policies. The party had planned to use these to Fund Breakfast clubs in schools and reduce nhs Waiting Lists, if it wins the next election. Earlier, the Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves spoke to the bbc s Laura Kuennsberg about how they plan to raise money now, starting with establishing a taskforce to help create a National Wealth fund. The National Wealth fund is a key component of the growth plan and the idea is to leveraging the private Sector Investment alongside a Government Endowment to invest in some of thejobs Government Endowment to invest in some of the jobs and industries of
James anderson getting gill. Hes nowjust one away from a landmark 700th test wicket. There was also a half century from debutant devdutt padikkal. There are always going to be thoughts in your head and noises around so that was still there. I got igota i got a message saying that there was a possibility that the next night. I was nervous about that game. It was a tough night of sleep, but that is how it is, and that is something you also enjoy at the same time, you look for those days, so i was really happy. Well, england captain ben stokes bowled for the first time in eight months and took the wicket of rohit sharma with his first ball. He isa he is a freak, isnt he it was almost written in the star that he was going to bowl it, when he bowled out sharma. We all know how he can round out our takeout, especially in conditions like these where youve got usually two spinners, two seamers and you want your third as stokes. A nice to see him back at the crease, which is to be careful that
The first place. More on that breaking story on the bbc sport website. Two time winnersjeonbuk were held to a 1 1 by ulsan draw in the first leg of their all korean semi final of the afc Champions League. It tookjeonbuk less than four minutes to make the breakthrough as song min kyu made no mistake from close range. The hosts were handed a great opportuity to double their lead from the spot 16 minutes later when lee dong jun was fouled for a penalty but brazilian thiago orobo was unable to capitalise and it proved costly. Ulsan took full advantage of that reprieve as Lee Myung Jae equalised 14 minutes from time. The second leg is on march 12th. The Champions League returns later, with the first Quarterfinal Spots to be claimed. Paris st germain take a two goal lead to Real Sociedad in the second leg of their last 16 tie, while Bayern Munich have it all to do against lazio. They trail the serie a club by a goal to nil. Having fallen 10 points behind League Leaders Bayer Leverkusen in th
Bitcoin hitting record highs, the continuation of a rally that has been building for a couple of months. There are a couple of factors the mainstreaming of bitcoin. You may recall earlier this year regulators in the us open and investing opportunities attached to crypto currencies to more investors, and since then funds have been pouring into that. There was a report that huge figures have been raised. That has definitely increased things on the demand side. On the supply side, there is a 0n the supply side, there is a process called halving, part of the bitcoin protocol, only a certain number are issued, and once every four years, a reward for bitcoin miners, that number decreases. That may also have an impact on what investors think the supply will be. All of this i think you can safely say is leading to that craze for laser eyes, the meme that bitcoin fund is used when they are feeling optimistic about it. ~. , they are feeling optimistic about it. We will come back to it. Michelle.