rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
the way to avoid that. the oil and gas industry has been critical of snp energy policy, though, because the snp isn t supportive of new oil and gas licences. the snp has made very clear that we want to work with the oil and gas sector as we manage the transition to net zero, and there s absolutely no way i m going to preside over a situation where there is industrial damage done to the north east of scotland and to the economy of scotland by the way in which we go about that transition to net zero. we ve got to manage that transition carefully, we ve got to make the shift to renewables, but we can do that in partnership with the oil and gas sector. and that s the approach that i ll take as we take forward our commitments to deliver on climate action. they conservatives seem to be the only party that are in support of new oil and gas licences, though. as you know, many people in this city are highly supportive and rely on oil and gasjobs they ll be looking on and wondering
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Beyond awful horrific and heartbreaking flanks of the Scottish Parliament will fly at half mast today a climber who survived an avalanche on Ben never since paid tribute to his 3 friends who were killed on the mountain in a post on line must you be 6 thank the 3 for their friendship and said his thoughts were with their families the 30 year old was the only survivor from the group were caught in an avalanche in number 5 gully on the U.K. s highest mountain on Tuesday he s understood to be in a stable condition in hospital in Glasgow Theresa May is to spend the next few days trying to persuade M.P. s to back her breaks a deal in a 3rd vote next week last night M.P. s voted overwhelmingly to ask the E.U. To delay brakes it seems round us in the Brussels based breakthrough that is aren t website political things E.U. Leaders will agree to that I think when push comes to shove they won t want to have the responsibility if you like for throwing Britain over the cliff of the no deal breaks