High street chain wilko says it has appointed Administrators after failing to secure a rescue deal. You will remember this chain has been in the news for the last couple of weeks with concerns over whether it will be rescued. It looks like the rescue deal has fallen through and they have appointed Administrators. 12,000 people, it looks like, at risk potentially, following the news that wilko has appointed Administrators. We will bring you any more detail when we get the story but the Breaking News, wilko, the high street chain, has appointed Administrators. Here in the uk, police and the West Midlands say they are treating a fire at a Well Known18th century pub near dudley as arson. The cricket house, described as britains One Ovest Pub was largely destroyed by the blaze, it was then bulldozed with the local council said was unauthorised, unacceptable and possibly unlawful. Here is louisa pilbeam. Whats left of the 250 year old pub has now been searched by a Specialist Fire Service do
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and even dialects plus, it is 70 years since this chap became the first on screen tv weather presenter in the uk. i will look back at the archives and also bring news today of what will be a cloudy and cold day. good morning. it s thursday, the 11th of january. our main story. the public inquiry into how hundreds of former sub postmasters, resumes today. it follows the prime minister s announcement to overturn hundreds of convictions, after the itv drama raised the profile of the scandal. benjoins us from outside the inquiry. morning to you. give us more details about the evidence that is going to be given today? about the evidence that is going to be given today? yeah, after years of slow progress be given today? yeah, after years of slow progress developments - be given today? yeah, after years of slow progress developments have i be given today? yeah, after years of. slow progress developments have been moving quickly this week. we heard that the prime minister has foll
Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. We start here in the uk. Defence secretary grant shapps said it would be irresponsible to carry on Pumping Money into the h52 high speed rail line if costs had spiralled and there was a perfectly legitimate question about its sequencing. Mr shapps, the uks former transport secretary, told the bbc s Victoria Derbyshire that costs had increased significantly, citing inflation as having been part of that. He stressed that hs2 was not the be all and end all for northern transport projects. On hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets on hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets that have been hit not only by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine by coronavirus but by the war in Ukraine I By Coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. Ithink by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. I think any responsible government looks at that and says, does this government looks at that and says, does this still stuck up for what the country requires in terms of where the coun
Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Its been described as the new High Speed Railway that will form the backbone of britains transport network. But there are now questions over the future of the h52 project which had planned to connect london, the midlands and the north of england. The uk government says it would be crazy not to review the project given soaring costs due to the war in ukraine and a rise in inflation. Defence secretary, and former transport minister grant shapps told the bbc the government would need to make serious decisions on how affordable it is. The hs2 project was originally due to link london with manchester and leeds, via birmingham. There is speculation that the link between birmingham and manchester may be under threat as costs have increased significantly. The line to leeds has already been scrapped. With more, heres our political correspondent, jessica parker. Hsz hs2 is this enormous rail project, and they actually already scrapped a bit of the leg of the line t