70 years of marriage. And women are being advised to sleep on their side in the last three months of pregnancy, to avoid having a stillborn baby. To cut the risks of stillbirth. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Theresa may has met senior cabinet ministers in downing street in an effort to make progress on the stalled brexit talks. Discussions were expected to focus on a decision on raising the amount the uk will pay to leave the European Union. Today, the eus chief brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said brussels was ready to offer the uk the most ambitious trade deal, but only if its terms were met. Also today, its been announced that amsterdam has been chosen as the location for the European Medicines Agency when britain leaves the bloc in 2019. Another london based organisation, the european banking agency, is to be relocated to paris. Heres our Political Editor, laura kuenssberg. Number ten is always a special place to visit. But today it was the scene of vital conversations f
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The order of 20 million on a preliminary basis. More flexibility with Priest Reservoir supply and also hydro power benefits which are currently under evaluation. And so the schedule for this project would be essentially to begin our ceqa and nea process immediately. That would take a little over two years. In parallel, we would do our design process and also the rightofway accusations that are needed for the project for staging areas and access and we would expect to issue notice to proceed on construction in the spring of 2020. At that point, the contractor would mobilize and start doing the excavations necessary for the downstream control new portal at priest. They would do that work in isolation from the existing tunnel and then in 2021, which is our first shutdown, which is shown in red on that chart, we would tie that new downstream control facility into the existing tunnel. Now that is a 60day shutdown. If you recall, before we had that control, we have to drain Priest Reservoir.
Conveyance capacity benefits, operational flexibility, maintenance, reduction costs excuse me, reduction in maintenance and Operations Costs over the 100year life of the tunnel, expected to be on the order of 20 million on a preliminary basis. More flexibility with Priest Reservoir supply and also hydro power benefits which are currently under evaluation. And so the schedule for this project would be essentially to begin our ceqa and nea process immediately. That would take a little over two years. In parallel, we would do our design process and also the rightofway accusations that are needed for the project for staging areas and access and we would expect to issue notice to proceed on construction in the spring of 2020. At that point, the contractor would mobilize and start doing the excavations necessary for the downstream control new portal at priest. They would do that work in isolation from the existing tunnel and then in 2021, which is our first shutdown, which is shown in red on
In the Champions League draw. Arguably the draw wasnt the kindest to chelsea though theyll face five time winners barcelona. Well look at how others fared not a huge amount of snow. Temperatures falling away quickly. It isa temperatures falling away quickly. It is a we are worried about this evening and overnight and into tomorrow. I will have more later. Thank you, darren. Mount hope. It is now the tallest mountain in the country after being re measured. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Snow and freezing temperatures are continuing to cause widespread disruption in many parts of the uk and across the channel. Heathrow airport is trying to clear a backlog of hundreds of flights, the port of calais is closed, while roads and rail have been affected. Its all making travel difficult and even hazardous. Tens of thousands of pupils are having an unexpected day off after the cold weather prompted local authorities to shut their schools. A large swathe of Central England and most of wal