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This is bbc news. the headlines at 11am: the government unveils details of one of its 2019 election pledges — trying to reducing the gap between richer and poorer areas by �*levelling up�* the country. plans include improvements to buses and trains, 5g, and more town and city mayors across england. what government will be judged by is our ability to deliver over the course of the next two years and then on to 2030, and that is why we are laying out the basis on which we can be judged and the basis on which future spending reviews can be judged as well. let me know what levelling up means...

Coming. finally we are getting reports that some help might be offered. h, ., reports that some help might be offered. u, ., ., offered. good morning, we will get definitive facts _ offered. good morning, we will get definitive facts from _ offered. good morning, we will get definitive facts from the _ offered. good morning, we will get. definitive facts from the government later because rishi sunak the chancellor will make a statement to parliament and then we'll do a televised press conference later. this will come after 11am, when ofgem will announce the new sky high level of the energy pri...

Bands but we will have to wait and see for the details. what seems to have changed in the treasury's thinking is up till yesterday they were saying they would help only the most vulnerable and the poorest. it now looks like they will do something to help everyone at least a bit, but there are big questions about who gets helped, how much they get helped, what difference it makes to the energy bills, and crucially, how it will be paid for because rishi sunak the chancellor does not like borrowing extra money. my suspicion is quite a lot of this may be suspicion is quite a lot of this may he goe...

On the economic sanctions and there, the uk has been out in the lead for a while. what we are doing is targeting particular russian banks, russian companies and making sure that we take steps or take even more steps to unpeel the facade of russian property holdings, whether in this city or elsewhere, whether london or elsewhere, unpeel the facade of russian ownership of companies. and also take steps to stop russian companies from raising capital on london financial markets. that is a very, very tough package of sanctions, it is ready to go if russia is so rash, so reckless as to invade ukrain...

Of pre—pandemic levels. it's national apprenticeship week, highlighting the positive impact that apprenticeships make to businesses and the wider economy. the met police apprenticeship scheme has been running for more than a year now, but with the current controversies surrounding the force, what do new recruits think of the organisation's culture and if it can change? so there is no hiding, or hiding behind the recent failures of some of our colleagues, but that is why you need to recruit, you know, good people and good officers that want to be part of the change. and the metropolitan polic...