the economy with its new plan to cut tax and increase borrowing. don t forget, don t forgive. the only way to stop this is with a labour government. applause and nasa has deliberately flown a space craft into an asteroid to push it off course in the first test of a planetary defence system. voting has ended in widely discredited referendums organised by russia in four occupied regions in ukraine. as expected, russia is claiming that an overwhelming majority of residents are in favour ofjoining russia, but not all the votes have yet been counted. ukraine and the west have condemned the five day vote as a sham and an attempted land grab by moscow. russia s president claims hejust wants to help people living there. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia were to attend polling stations and vote. the areas in question represent 15% of ukraine s territory roughly the size of portugal. b
yorkshire down to about norfolk and suffolk. there are a few showers pepping up suffolk. there are a few showers popping up in southern counties but with the cloud lingering across the midlands and east anglia, it will stay cool for the majority, with temperatures struggling for a few of you round 13 or 1a. where the sunshine comes out it is warmer than that, with temperatures high teens to low 20s. overnight tonight, we don t see an odd patch of rain in north east england, the south east, but otherwise a dry night with clear spell, where we keep cloud, temperatures about #1e7b or 11, we are looking at six or snippety the chilliest parts of the uk. tomorrow morning there is still the threat of rain, north east england, south east england clearing away, it should be a drier brighter kind of day for many of you, a bit more in the way of sunshine breaking through the cloud but a few showers developing through the afternoon in england and wales, so not entirely dry. given more su
The green light to develop one of the largest untapped oil and gas fields in british waters. Rosebank lies in the north sea, about 80 miles west of shetland. Experts say it contains about 350 Million Barrels of oil. Production could start in 2026, with extraction continuing until at least 2030. Its thought that about 69,000 barrels of oil could be produced every day. That would equate to about 8 of the uks total output. There would also be natural gas, with about 44 million cubic feet produced per day during the projects lifetime. The Energy Secretary Clare Coutinho says. The news has not gone down well with climate campaigners. Heres tessa khan, executive director of uplift, a group that has been working to stop Rosebank Being opened up for oil and gas production. I think we need to be clear that this is a huge mistake on economic grounds, on Energy Security grounds and on Climate Grounds and the uk public do not stand to benefit from this field. With me is our Business Editor simonja
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