Good afternoon, and welcome to Bbc News. The Business Secretarys been holding crisis talks with Energy Firms this morning, amid worries of big rises to Energy Bills in the coming weeks. Five smaller Energy Suppliers have already gone bust, unable to cope with a 70 hike in the cost of wholesale gas since august. Its understood the government is considering offering Emergency State backed loans to companies. 0fgem has confirmed British Gas has agreed to take on an extra 350,000 customers from the collapsed firm peoples energy. And the uks sixth largest Energy Company, bulb, is seeking new funds to try to stay afloat. Downing street says it wants to fix the issues as fast as it can. Our Business Correspondent Emma simpson reports. Gas, the cornerstone of our Energy Supply and the cost of it is rocketing. There has been a surge in global demand and not enough supply. Energy firms here are now battling to stay afloat. In the current market as it is we are not going to see it through the win
Day, and beFore you know it, three weeks later, i am in the final, and i cannot actually believe it. Good Evening And Welcome to Bbc News. We start with a warning from the head of m15, who says there is no doubt that recent events in afghanistan, and the rise of the taliban, are likely to have emboldened so called Lone Wolf terrorists. Ken mccallum told Bbc News that 31 late Stage Attack plots have been foiled in the uk in the last four years. The taliban has promised that afghanistan would never again be a base For terrorists after taking over the country last month. The M15 Warning comes on the eve of the 20th Anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. Well have more that in a moment, but first heres our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera on Ken Mccallums comments. For 20 years, Surveillance And Security have become ever more entwined in our lives a sign of a threat that has not gone away, as the head of m15 told the bbc today. We do face a consistent global struggle to defeat extremism and
Hello, this is Bbc News with annita mcveigh. The headlines a change to the Quarantine Rules for travellers to france double vaccinated people arriving back in england and wales will still have to self isolate. And france insists Uk Travellers not double vaccinated must get a covid 19 test less than 2a hours before entering france. The former conservative Health Secretaryjeremy Hunt warns Lockdown Restrictions may have to be re imposed in the autumn if Case Numbers continue to rise over the summer. Pop up Vaccine Centres open in venues across england this weekend in a push to get more people vaccinated before the Country Unlocks next week. The race to find survivors of the floods that have wreaked havoc across Western Europe more than 150 people are dead, most of them in germany. Hundreds of others are still missing. Now on Bbc News, panorama Long Covid will i ever get better . Bbc correspondent Lucy Adams is one of more than A Million people in the uk with Long Covid. Shes been sufferi
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