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brother s girlfriend by setting them on fire as they slept. also in the next hour. are your eggs safe to eat? the eu s food safety commissioner has called for an urgent meeting of ministers and regulators to discuss the scandal over contaminated eggs. and a friendship forged through football. one month after the death of bradley lowery, jermain defoe speaks for the first time about how they met. for me, there is no bigger motivation to think, if he can go through that and fight, then i can go through anything. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the pensions regulator has approved a plan by tata steel to give thousands of its workers in the uk less generous pensions but safeguard their jobs. the deal should secure the pensions of 130,000 steelworkers and stop the company becoming insolvent. finalising the pension arrangements is expected to clear the way for a possible merger with a rival german company. our correspondent, simon gompertz reports. it s the deal des ....
and a friendship forged through football. one month after the death of bradley lowery, jermain defoe speaks for the first time about how they met. for me, there is no bigger motivation to think, if he can go through that and fight, then i can go through anything. and, strange flotsam giant segments of pipe wash up on a norfolk beach the longest measuring nearly 500 metres. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said the rhetoric from washington and pyongyang has now gone over the top and he helps now gone over the top and he hopes common sense will prevail. he has also said there is a russia chinese plan to defuse the crisis. the intervention follows president trump stepping up the rhetoric against north korea. he warned that us military options are locked and loaded , should pyongyang act unwisely. the united states and north korea have been engaged in a war of words for days with pyongyang threatening to fire missil ....
in the transfer market, the real action starts as arsenal take on leicester at the emirates. and, strange flotsam giant segments of pipe wash up on a norfolk beach the longest measuring nearly 500 metres. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. eleven members of the same family have been convicted in a series of trials involving modern slavery thought to be the largest of its kind in british legal history. members of the rooney family from lincoln ran a company called lincolnshire driveways that specialised in tarmacking and block paving. but their ‘workforce‘ were vulnerable slaves who they picked up from the streets some of which were alcoholics, homeless or suffering learning difficulties. our correspondent linsey smith reports. patrick rooney, seen posing for pictures with staff at the family business, lincolnshire driveways. it looks professional, offering tarmacking and block paving, but some of the workers were slaves, kept in appalling conditions and ....
will be available from next year. good evening and welcome to bbc news. 11 people from the same family have been convicted, in a trial over modern day slavery in lincolnshire. it follows one of the biggest police investigations of it s kind. members of the rooney family targeted vulnerable homeless people, keeping them in squalid conditions in caravans, with no running water or toilets, and using threats and violence including punishment beatings, to keep them in line. victims were forced to work in the family s construction business, for little or no wages. our north of england correspondent judith moritz reports. fathers, sons, cousins across the generations, 11 members of one family, whose cruelty has spanned the decades. the rooneys were the masters, this is where they kept their slaves. they were forced to live in these caravans in squalor and in filth, conditions not fit for human habitation. whilst those who controlled them lived in comfort and luxury. the rooney ....
and lesbian christians in its stance on gay marriage and harrison ford lands himself in trouble after flying his plane onto the wrong runway narrowly missing a packed passenger jet. before we turn to events in the united states, some news hasjust come through regarding tata steel. workers have voted to accept reforms to their pensions. this is coming through from the unions in the last few moments. thousands of tata steelworkers had been balloted on this and all this in essence is about trying to save people s jobs. members were asked whether they would accept moving from a final salary pension scheme to a less generous scheme. the flip side of that would be continued commitment at port talbot and no compulsoryjob loss. the price was effectively accepting a less generous pension scheme. a 70% turnout in that ballad from one particular union. 72% of those workers accepting the deal. that is to give you a sense of the turnout from the community union. in essence, overal ....