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cuts that are coming. john swinney argues that the snp has taken a progressive approach to taxation in scotland and that has led to an additional £1.5 billion being available to spend on public services here. i think in effect his argument is that the snp has an unwavering conviction, he would say, that strong public services and a strong economy go hand—in—hand. he is trying to form a narrative for the voters in scotland who are making up their minds who to vote for injuly. as he...

in music history. its friday the seventh ofjune. our main story. a search is continuing on the greek island of symi this morning for the tv presenter, michael mosley, who has gone missing while on holiday. his wife raised the alarm after he failed to return from a hike on wednesday lunchtime. simonjones has the latest. in the scorching greek sunshine, the searches are continuing — both on land and from the air — trying to find out what has happened to michael mosley. this picture �...

questions from the audience. the parties have made policy pledges and the conservatives have said they will raise child benefit tax threshold to £120,000 and charge it to households rather than individuals. labour have said if it wins power, it would make permanent a skin that ensures low deposit mortgages are available for first—time buyers —— a scheme. the lib dems have offered a bad month of paid leave for new fathers and a doubling of statutory maternity pay —— dad month...

godlike personality that has grown around him, that is not seen as invincible any more. russia has faced repeated rounds of western sanctions, but its economy has continued to grow thanks to help from china. it means the mood at russias equivalent of davos — welcome to newsnight. our political panel tonight — philip collins, who was tony blairs speech writer and worked alongside sir keir starmer on his 2021 conference speech, and mercy muroki, who is a former policy adviser to the ...

Decade. However, what it doesnt say is that title is that overall, immigration went up and so we are actually acquiring more people but a lot of them are from outside the eu because restrictions are not going to change necessarily to them, are they . Lets look at the Financial Timesjust quickly. Here they . Lets look at the Financial Times just quickly. Here on the top, a photograph of one of the Many University lecturers who decided to ta ke University Lecturers who decided to take strike actio...

Look across the pond its a mixed pictures over there. The tenyear note yield. We have some employment data, there is the 232 our road map starts with wall streets record run. U. S. Stock futures pointing to a higher open, the s p at its longe streak of records now in 20 years. Plus delivery wars u. P. S. And fedex shares are following on reports that amazon is testing its own Delivery Service. And bill ackman rumphing up his push for changes at adp, well hear why he thinking that company could b...

Weinstein. A sharp rise in young people struggling with debt. We speak to one young woman about the risks of easy credit. Ijust i just used to ijust used to ignore the letters. I would rip them up as soon as i got them and the letters kept coming and them and the letters kept coming and the phone calls and i knew i was way in over my head. And from one storm to another. Its exactly 30 years since the uk was battered by the great storm of 1987. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc ...

Life changing. Plus, marine a is a free man. Royal marine Alexander Blackman, who was jailed for shooting dead a wounded taliban fighter, has been released from prison. Overnight. He received a life term in 2013 for murder, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. His wife spoke to this programme in march when she heard the news that he would be released. I spoke to him shortly afterwards and i think it took a little longer for the realisation to hit. I think he had worked very hard to pr...

The chance discovery of some rare 500 year old printed pages from William Caxton which were stuck in another book. Strictly has a new head judge find out more about the queen of latin later in the programme. And coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news a lucky escpae for chris froome the Tour De France champion was unhurt after getting knocked off his bike by a hit and run driver. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The Prime Minister says britains Energy Market isnt w...

Alexander blackman, the former royal marine who was jailed for killing a taliban fighter in afghanistan, tells the bbc how he regrets his actions. A ride at Drayton Manor theme park closes after a girl was airlifted to hospitalfollowing an incident. And International Ballroom champion Shirley Ballas is the new head judge on Strictly Come Dancing, replacing len goodman. Its 5pm, good afternoon. Our top story concerns mixed signals over brexit from the labour party. In a bbc interviewJeremy Corbyn...