nine year old angie loves space and reading about it at school in oldbury has got a whole lot easier thanks to an online reading tutor who s more than 80 years older than her. we read different books, different books style, like, like space or environment. diana iddles is 91 and angie is one of five children she helps from the comfort of her home in wolverhampton. she s a retired teacher and she became a volunteer after losing her husband. it s absolutely filled a huge hole in my life and it s made life worth living. it really has. i ve got some purpose in life. i hope that i am helping the children. why not do it? it s so rewarding. the lessons were arranged through a charity which links schools with volunteers across the country. the online volunteers means that they re really confident that the children are getting 30
you re very much on your own. the thing is, we never left you behind. we waited for you. for the relay team, the cross channel swim is nowjust days away. it will be the culmination of nine months of training, walking across frozen beaches to enter winter seas. so it may be lumpy, as they call it, today, but the water feels warm. the chat, though, that s still cold. we ll go out a wee bit, not too far out, and then we ll go to the left and see how that is. he s got no clue. i m sounding like i know what i m talking about but i know. he said it earlier. he s going to go out somewhere out there. we ll keep an eye on them and then manage to sort of cajole him. tosh, you ll know me because i m the one at the back. once we get in there, it s every man. every person for himself! since graeme announced the challenge, the response has been extraordinary. everyone involved in debra, the charity that supports families with the genetic disorder epidermolysis bullosa or eb, says the fundraising and
we start in the us, where the white house has denied starting a subsidy war following criticism of its massive support for green investments. president biden s administration is spending billions to help electric carfirms, chip makers and the green energy industry with loans and tax breaks. one uk manufacturer has told the bbc it s worried britain can t compete on a level playing field and warns that companies are considering moving their investment to the united states. our economics editor faisal islam reports. british industry is facing a new dilemma and deciding where to invest to build key components for future green technology. massive handouts from the us government had changed the game. this isjohn neill he runs unique part which makes parts for every major uk calm and extra is worried. the
welcome to world business report, i m ben thompson. we start in the us where the white house has denied starting a subsidy war following criticism of its massive support for green investments. president biden s administration is spending billions to help electric car firms, chip makers and the green energy industry with loans and tax breaks. one uk manufacturer has told the bbc it s worried britain can t compete on a level playing field and warns that companies are considering moving their investment to the united states. our economics editor faisal islam reports. british industry is facing a new dilemma when deciding where to invest to build key components for future green technology. massive hand outs from the us government has changed the game. morning, guys, how are you? this isjohn neil, he runs unapart which makes parts for every major uk car manufacturer,
shape. one uk man decided to take a shortcut, laura. he achieved his beach body by have abs tattooed on to his belly. it s not a slight belly. he had a tattooed and i guess from a distance maybe it looks all right. in retaliation, very thick guys i guess are having beer bellies put on to their tight ribs. laura: or man breasts as they say. man breast tattoo, that would be going in the other direction. i have a wish to add to the list. oh, you do? yeah. okay. i wish vendors would stop trying to fo tips ouf customers. every time you go for coffee, grab a burger, some of the smaller, you know, pharmacies, the pad shows up, the pad. and there is a tip amount, it s 15, 25, 30 then other. of course you tip and