this is bbc news. the headlines: towns and cities are set to receive more than £2 billion worth of funding to reduce regional inequality. rishi sunak insists it s the north of england and wales who will benefit the most. if you look at the funding and you compare it to the number of people that live in each region, the region that has done the best in the amount of funding per person is the north. this is not the right way to allocate money, creating winners and losers around the country, and ministers playing favourites with the projects that they like the look of. another ambulance strike this time in wales as nurses in england also stage more industrial action.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: towns and cities are set to receive more than £2 billion worth of funding in an attempt to reduce regional inequality. rishi sunak insists it s the north of england and wales who will benefit the most. if you look at the funding and you compare it to the number of people that live in each region, the region that has done the best in the amount of funding per person is the north. this is not the right way to allocate money, creating winners and losers around the country, and ministers playing favourites with the projects that they like the look of. two retired metropolitan police officers have been charged with child sex offences as part of an investigation into a serving met chief inspector who was found dead before he was also charged. another ambulance strike this time in wales as nurses in england also stage
strikes are happening in wales. what they are demanding is fair pay and that is the central issue in this dispute. it is the third ambulance strike we had in wales this winter. the first by the gmb. this one held by the unite union, who get a quarter of the membership in wales. there was an offer last week made by labour, which is in charge of nhs pay in wales, and the offer was of a one off cash settlement, not of a substantive pay rise that would be available year on year. it was turned down by this union, all ambulance workers in fact, in fact all the health unions within wales including representatives of nurses and physiotherapists and midwives, all of whom are involved in industrial action, so as things stand, we are no closer to a settlement.
it s the third ambulance strike we ve had in wales this winter. the first by the gmb. it s the third ambulance strike we ve had in wales this winter, the first, too, by the gmb. this one held by the unite union, who get a quarter of the membership here in wales. there was an offer last week made by labour, which is in charge of nhs pay in wales, and the offer was of a one off cash settlement, not of a substantive pay rise that would be available year on year. it was turned down by this union, all ambulance workers, all the health unions within wales including representatives of nurses and physiotherapists and midwives, all of whom are involved in industrial action so as things stand, we are no so as things stand, we re no closer to a settlement. the welsh labour government says it wants to continue the dialogue. it s tried to offer every single penny it can find in its budget, but it claims ultimately, it can t offer a long term pay rise