members are on strike. and at 3.30pm on the bbc news channel, talking business with aaron heslehurst. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the government, who pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the business, but now a deal has been struck that it is hoped will give relief notjust to customers, taxpayers, but also hundreds of staff. today, 0ctopus were confident
false claims after moscow said uk forces helped with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. coming up at 5.40pm, we ll bring you the latest technology news in click. i m maryam moshiri. the household energy supplier 0ctopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means 0ctopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administration. it was only kept going by the govern
senior republicans in the us condemn the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. the white house insists it only learned about the operation from media reports. four days of extreme weather is forecast in england and wales. it comes as environmental groups say some rivers are starting to dry up seriously impacting wildlife. that, as western europe is facing its worst drought in decades with water levels in rivers and reservoirs already running low or even dry. a beluga whale that swam up the seine river in northern france and became stranded, has been removed from the water in the first stage of a rescue operation by marine experts. # we re walking in the air.# the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. debts owed by uk consumers to energy suppliers have tripled since last september, according to the comparison service uswitch. almost