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Pupil. catching up won't be quick, easy or cheap. for schools like this one, at the heart of the community, there is a long road to recovery. elaine dunkley, bbc news in halifax. let's speak to our political correspondent ben wright. the education secretary says this is a hefty amount of money, 1.4 billion. his critics says this is catch—up teaching on the cheap. that's right, ben. the government talks about levelling up, closing the economic gap between wealthy and disadvantaged parts of the country, but the pandemic has clearly widened the learning gap between children who have had lots of...

And "hugely disappointing". the amount announced is lower than had been previously suggested — with the education policy institute calculating a recovery plan would cost £13.5 billion. our education correspondent, elaine dunkley has this report. this is our reception children here. there's all sorts going on. this is ash green community primary in halifax. how are we doing? some of the children have missed nearly a year of in school learning. we're re—going over things that they did in reception and in year one. so, simple things like holding your pencil correctly. got a nice firm grip, i...

Are not, are not anyone nefarious and then the pilot and the personnel on the plane will be interviewed. the plane will be searched. anyone at the airport who is not on the plane is safe and distant from where we are. we are pretty far off from any of the terminals. so just to explain what that picture is. these are response trot cols. they come into place the second something happens. this is what people train for and it's probably happening, you know, at any, for the other plane that left dulles as well. >> mary schiavo is a secretary general for the united states transportation. she joins u...

Gall airport if paris. 65 on its way to charles de gaulle landing safely in salt lake city. the other landing safely 55 in halifax. what do you make of this? >> well, unfortunately, we seen this before. a few years back there was a space where people were targeting senior airlines. there were several bomb threats called in on a single day. here it was targeting air france. it certainly does seem to be related to the horrible tragedy in france. but i am recalling, as an inspector general, we worked another attack on air france, which involved a cyber attack, which involved someone or people sys...

Threat or economic threat. it's terrific. just a different kind. but sadly, i suspect it's possible it's not over. there will be others called in. >> mary, let me give you this information. we are being told that a passenger on board the halifax flight, flight 55 air france, not the one you are looking at now t. one that lanned in halifax. it was en route to paris says an official said it was some kind of security threat, mary. >> well, yeah, a security threat can be everything from a bomb threat to a passenger saying odd things on the plane. i mean, have had situations in the past where passe...