traces of uranium arrived at london s heathrow airport last month. a star studded comeback for the golden globes in hollywood, as colin farrell picks up the best actor award for the dark comedy the banshees of inisherin. good morning and welcome to bbc news. thousands of ambulance workers in england and wales are walking out for the second time this winter in a dispute over pay. managers have warned the impact is likely to be worse than that of the strike held before christmas, saying pressure facing the nhs means it s in a more precarious position. well, in total, around 20,000 ambulance workers, including call handlers and ambulance dispatchers, are going on strike. two thirds of ambulance staff, from the gmb and unison unions, are involved in the industrial action. but bosses say they will still respond to the most urgent calls. gareth barlow reports. it s the second walk out by ambulance staff this winter. workers, including paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulanc
sexual harassment offences among girls and teens on london transport. good evening. welcome to the bbc news at six. junior doctors in england will walk out again on strike just a week before millions of people go to the polls. the five day strike will begin at 7.00am onjune 27th and end early on tuesday 2nd ofjuly, just two days before election day. it means there ll be thousands more hospital appointment and treatments cancelled. it s their 11th strike since march last year. the government says it s a highly cynical tactic during an election campaign. the prime minister says it s politically motivated. the doctors say there ve been no new pay offers, despite talks. our health editor hugh pym is outside a hospital in london. sophie, the nhs was always going to be a big issue in this campaign, even more so now with this planned strike in england disrupting hospitals days before polling day. rishi sunak has said it is politically motivated. the doctors union the bma says it is
crashes into the side of a house and bursts into flames. welcome to bbc newsroom. the foreign secretary has become the latest member of the cabinet to put pressure on the chancellor to relax the public sector pay cap. the limit is due to be in place by 2020, that a government source says borisjohnson 2020, that a government source says boris johnson strongly 2020, that a government source says borisjohnson strongly believes pay writers can be achieved without putting undue pressure on public finances. how would this pay cap be paid for. i think what it tells us is the chances of being able to stick by the public sector pay cap for the next couple of years looks increasingly remote because we have now had up to six cabinet ministers weather themselves through their intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this i% intermediate trees, saying that they need to look again at this 1% cap. borisjohnson suggesting this can be done without what he calls fiscal pressu
Academic research commissioned by the civil service union PCS has concluded: “. UK Civil Service wages have dramatically eroded in real terms due to persistent below-inflation pay rises. Depending on the inflation indicator used, at best, real wages in 2023 were at where they were two decades ago. Since 2010, median annual pay has fallen between 15 and 38% in the civil service, depending on the grade and inflation indicator.”
Is if you have an appointment today, please show up at it unless you ve been called by the hospital saying otherwise. these strikes, of course, continuing now for the next four days, a lot of disruption caused and they hope that that means that they will get some action to their pay claim. students in scotland have been allowed to sit their exams using british sign language since 2004, but, until recently, many crucial scientific terms were missing. almost 20 years since the exams were first introduced, more than 200 new signs have been added to the bsl dictionary to help deaf students learn about environmental science. 0ur science editor, victoria, gill has more. victoria gill has more. an afternoon learning about the science of climate change. true orfalse plants and oceans remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.