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aircraft at airport in california. good morning. it is wednesday, february 22. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the government has won its legal battle to stop thousands of british citizens from bringing their foreign husbands or wives to live in the uk without a minimum income. for the last five years, the uk based spouse has had to prove they earn at least £18,600, for them to support their migrant spouse. that figure is £22,000 for couples with a child. but the supreme court also ruled that the rules, as they currently stand, are defective and need to be changed, because they do not take enough account of the welfare of children affected by them, and do not take all sources of earnings into consideration when calculating income. 0ur correspondent dominic casciani is at the supreme court. it is not an entirely clear decision? no, it is very complicated. there is a belief that the couples have been degraded by this fear income rolling. the supreme court has in practice ....
welcome to bbc news. the education secretary justine greening has been heckled by angry headteachers after she defended government plans for more grammar schools in england. she was addressing the association of school and college leaders conference in birmingham. she insisted grammar schools helps disadvantaged children close what she described as the attainment gap. but the head teachers general secretary attacked the grammar school plans saying there was no evidence they would raise standards or improve social mobility. she also faced criticism from heads over schools funding, they say lack of money is pushing up class sizes and forcing them to cut gcse subjects. correspondent gillian hargreaves is at the conference for us. hargreaves is at the conference for us. between now and easter there will be a number of teaching union conferences. first this morning, headteachers here in birmingham. justine greening could have been left in no doubt about how strong their grie ....
welcome to bbc news. the education secretary justine greening has been heckled by angry headteachers after she defended government plans for more grammar schools in england. ms greening was addressing the association of school and college leaders conference in birmingham. she insisted that grammar schools helped disadvantaged children close what she described as the attainment gap . but the headteachers general secretary attacked the grammar school plans, saying there was no evidence they would raise standards or improve social mobility. ms greening also faced criticism from heads over schools funding. they say lack of money is pushing up class sizes and forcing them to cut gcse subjects. 0ur education correspondent gillian hargreaves reports. peter woodman at the weald school might be a head teacher, but he still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it and partly because it saves money for the shcool. the only reason we can survive is we are car ....
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unreasonable eu is demanding of us, and this time the key number is 8 billion, but we have had numbers in the millions and billions, this is not a particularly new story. what is new is that there are now reports that this is being considered as pa rt that this is being considered as part of the negotiation on the british side to help us get the transitional deal which i think will probably make some hard brexiteers very upset, that we will continue paying the eu bill until 2020. there isa paying the eu bill until 2020. there is a case that this is money we committed. the eu budget frameworks are seven years so committed. the eu budget frameworks are seven years so this is money that was allocated to these projects. it is definitely showing that one of our key negotiating chips is going to be our contributions. we have the money, they need the money. so i think you can put a fairly positive spin on this. so it will be about the bill versus the trade deal we get as a r ....