at a huge financial announcement to come. you ve got to do two things at once. you ve got be tougher on the county lines gangs, you ve got to be tougher on the criminals who are doing it, but you ve also got to make sure that you find those 300,000 people and you help them away. you can t simply arrest them time after time and put them back in prison again and again. you ve got to do rehab as well. the £780 million for treatment and recovery programmes in england will provide for more drugs workers, more residential rehab places and morejob opportunities to help people stay off drugs. overall, a far bigger settlement than expected. the last two drugs strategies have been accompanied with lots of promises, but no cash. so, it makes a welcome change to have a drugs strategy that is backed up with the cash that is needed to invest in effective drug treatment services. essex police recently conducted raids in southend and other towns in the county to disrupt the dealers, but despite decad
across the southern parts of scotland and north east england, in the order of around a0 or maybe 50 mph at worst. here is storm barra developing to the west of us through the afternoon. there is this slight gap ahead of it, and that means tonight as the showers start to fade, a few will continue north and east of scotland, it s going to be a cold night and a frosty night. widespread frost through east wales, england and also scotland that could lead to some icy conditions, but it s in these areas, a sunny, quiet start, almost the calm before the storm. and it s generally gradually through the day, we will see storm barra working its way into bring that disruption, the latest weather warnings are on the app and on the bbc weather website. but we start with the strengthening winds accompanied by heavy rain, maybe a bit of hill snow moving across ireland into wales and south west england through the morning rush hour gradually, and then that will push its way in across the rest of wales,
many of us are more focused on trees for tinsel. that one there, is it? rather than tackling crime. the government giveaway will cost £2 million. so, will people want to plant one? i think most people would be quite pleased to do that and i m glad that the government is actually doing something to sort of help the environment. it will be more how these people look after the trees because when you plant a young tree, they take a look of looking after, to start with. so, it seems like a lot of money. the trees will be native species planted in people s gardens or they could be added to what will become a national forest for wales. how much difference can they really make? at the moment across europe, forests only absorb around 10% of greenhouse gases. a lot comes down to putting the right tree in the right place at the right time. in mass planting, around a third don t survive. we are essentially then disturbing the soil and putting more co2 into the atmosphere. so, we need to get this
to the old bailey here this morning. they walked in through the front door, but this evening they are not walking out of court. they are going to prison, because the judge here has sentenced them each to two years and nine months in prison. now, in his sentencing remarks, thejudge told the pair that their conduct was appalling and inexplicable. the officers at the time had been assigned to guard the crime scene where the bodies of the sisters were found, but instead they left the court and, they took photographs of the bodies of the sisters. lewis superimposed his face on one of the photographs. inside court, the mother of the sisters, mina smallman, was listening to that sentence being handed down and after the sentence happened, she spoke outside court. i think the judge really got it. and i think also the groundswell of the public feeling about this story and breach of conduct,
daily covid cases are climbing again. as some of that, do you think i m a down to the spread of the omicron variant, or is this the leg from the thanksgiving weekend? what from the thanksgiving weekend? what we are auoin from the thanksgiving weekend? what we are going to from the thanksgiving weekend? iw iat we are going to see is from the thanksgiving weekend? wiat we are going to see is a from the thanksgiving weekend? writ we are going to see is a hard winter. we have delta spreading widely, increasing before omicron becomes widespread. we have the beginning of flu season, and then inevitably, omicron will come. there are three fundamental questions about the new variance first, does it spread more readily than delta? the answer seems to be yes. second, does it evade our vaccine induced are naturally created immunity, and we do not know the answer to that question, and that is urgent to find out. third, does it cause disease thatis out. third, does it cause disease that is more