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Pretty quickly afterwards. Well come to that in a moment. First to the actual problem. A type of concrete in schools that can crumble. It means some parts of School Buildings can be unsafe. The Prime Minister had to defend his decisions, as he was accused of not investing enough in school repairs. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was ...

Lets start with the story thats dominated the uk Political Agenda for the last few days. Rishi sunak says its Utterly Wrong to blame him forfailing to tackle the issue of unsafe concrete in school buldings. As thousands of children return to classrooms today after the summer break, its emerged that more than a hundred schools in england and scotland will be closed or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. O...

The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chancellor in my first Spending Review in 2020 was to anno...

Without you and your views. Let me know your thoughts on all of the stories well be discussing today by visiting gb news. Com forward slash york. Join the conversation with me there or message us on our socials. Were gbnews first up though, folks, heres the news with sofia. Darren. Thank you. Good afternoon. Its 1 01. Im sophia afternoon. Its1 01. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. Chancellor jeremy hunt has vowed to compensate victim...

The battle for iraqs secondlargest city. We meet the many training to take mosul back from i. S. I. L. Ditching foggy cities for a life in the country. Why more in china are embracing the rural life first to yeg where houthis are tightening their grip on the capital. A day after dissolving parliament and taking control. There has been protests against the takeover in sanaa, and other parts of the country. International condemnation of the coup has been swift. U. N. Security council raised the po...

The battle for iraqs secondlargest city. We meet the men battling to take back mosul. It had devastating consequences. But how do you predict sun storm. Well there is a way. We tell you about it later. But we be given in yemen where people have been demonstrating against a coup carried out by the rebel houthi group. This was a scene in the Southern City thousands on the streets. Protests in the capital sanaa. Houthi fighters arrested 17 people for taking part in demonstrations. They are outraged...

Thousands of pilgrims gather at the vatican ahead of a ceremony to declare two new saints. And remembering those from tena men square. A new museum opens in hong kong. Prorussia Gunmen Holding a group of International Observers captive in ukraine say they are willing to carry out a prisoner swap. The selfproclaimed separatist leader in slovyansk says hell trade the International Observers for kiev political prisoners. Eight observers have been missing for 24 hours. They are held behind he is bar...

Directs routing proportion of imports through Gwadar port

Privatisation of both profitable and losing-making entities given nod

ISLAMABAD: The federal government, on Thursday, added six additional public sector entities in active privatisation...