55 miles off the yorkshire coast, the world s largest offshore wind farm is now on stream, covering an area more than four times the size of manchester. hornsea two consists of 165 monster turbines, each more than twice the height of big ben. this is fantastic news for the british consumer, for everybody in the uk. a single turn of these enormous turbines will produce enough power to power a home for a day or to drive an electric car for something like 75 miles. we ll see what it s like in the morning. this is the control centre where the output from each of the individual wind turbines can be monitored in real time. the bigger these wind farms get, and they are huge, the cheaper the power that they produce becomes. and in the long term, that s good news for all of us and our electricity bills. but big offshore wind projects like this take time.
working for canada. thousands of royal mail workers stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. full speed ahead for the world s largest operating offshore wind farm. hornsea two, off the yorkshire coast, will power more than one million homes. and defending champion emma raducanu is out of the us open losing in the first round to alize cornet. president putin has sent a message of condolence to the friends and family of the last leader of the soviet union,
strikes is not. caroline davies, bbc news. our top story this lunchtime. mikhail gorbachev, the soviet leader who ended the cold war, has died in moscow at the age of 91. and still to come. fishing crews take legal action, after thousands of dead shellfish washed up along a stretch of coastline. coming up on the bbc news channel. emma raducanu s us open title defence falls at the first hurdle after she is beaten 6 3, 6 3 by france s alize cornet. the world s largest operating offshore wind farm becomes fully operational today. hornsea two is located 55 miles off the yorkshire coast and when the wind blows it will generate enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes. our environment correspondentjonah fisher reports from grimsby. in the midst of an energy crisis, there s at last some positive news.