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Its tuesday 19th december. Im ben brown. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The royal navys new £3 billion Aircraft Carrier, hms Queen Elizabeth, is leaking. The navys future flagship, which was commissioned by the queen earlier this month, has a problem with one of its propeller shafts. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. Earlier this month, amid much fanfare, the royal navys largest, most expensive warship was being commissioned into service by the queen. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. Hailed as the most powerful capable warship ever to raise the white ensign. But what the navy ...

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<p>A newly published review of the CABI-led <a href="https://prise.org/about/#:~:text=PRISE%20models%20risk%20to%20crop,to%20growers%20in%20particular%20regions.">Pest Risk Information Service</a> (PRISE) project shows that smallholder farmers in four African countries who received pest alerts created using earth observation data benefitted from reduced crop losses and higher incomes compared to farmers who did not.</p> <p>This review is a keystone paper that brings together six years of work on PRISE. The highlight of the review, published in the <em...