papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. it comes as the government decides whether to give the firm s yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. let s get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. what did you find? this is about a power station in england. this is the world s biggest woodfired power station. it does say by burning wood pellets. it receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. the power station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6.5 million tonnes. all of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax r
effective bankruptcy in the next few years unless the funding system is reformed. a report by the local government information unit has found services like parks, leisure facilities and libraries are at risk of being cut, while council tax could rise in some areas. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. yay! well done. alex is about to turn 18, and on top of the regular worries parents have about their children, mum, sylvia also has to think about alex s autism and the extra support he needs to gain independence. support that s under fire for her and other families as birmingham city council struggles with financial difficulties. what you get is families that are on their knees with a trauma presentation, traumatised kids, and they never get decent outcomes. theyjust end up constantly trying to get the basics, which everybody else s child gets naturally. and it s notjust birmingham that s struggling. across the country, councils are warning that front line neighbourhood se
west coast responded with the latest on the strike action. the last time both actors and writers were on strike at the same time in the 19605 when ronald reagan was president, not of america, but of the screen actors guild. they will go on strike tomorrow when the writers walked out nearly over two months ago now, they brought a halt too much of the production in hollywood. now the actors ijoined them, that will bring almost a complete halt to the whole industry. that will cost the californian economy ten5 that will cost the californian economy tens of millions of dollars every day. it will mean financial hardship for many people working at industry still recovering from the pandemic and it will mean a major delay to scooting settles student schedules. the student schedules. the im act student schedules. the impact will student schedules. the impact will be student schedules. the impact will be very - impact will be very significant. can you tell us some of the
correspondentjonathan blake. clu bs clubs don t pay the bills! stop on the strikes clubs don t pay the bills! stop on the strikes as clubs don t pay the bills! stop on the strikes as the - on the strikes as the government does not hope that afterjunior doctors walked out yesterday, they said the 6% rise offered yesterday was not enough. appointments and cancellations again, amounting to the ministers urging unions to the ministers urging unions to say yes to the increases offered, they warned they could be more common. i offered, they warned they could be more common. be more common. i think there will be a be more common. ! think there will be a new be more common. i think there will be a new wave be more common. i think there will be a new wave of be more common. i think there will be a new wave of strikes i will be a new wave of strikes in the nhs and what really needs to happen as the government needs to come to the table, pay a proper pay rise to these workers.