![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityBusinessMarket DataEconomyYour MoneyCompaniesTechnology of BusinessCEO SecretsAI BusinessBoom times for US green energy as federal cash flows inPublished9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022By Zoe CorbynSan FranciscoIn February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil.The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a “big influence”, says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive.The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia – the world’s first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant.”We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled down on building here in the United States because of the tax credits in the IRA, and because of the overall support system that the US government has put in place.” Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to funnel billions of federal dollars into developing clean energy. The aim is to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and incentivise private investment, to encourage the growth of green industries and jobs: a new foundation for the US economy.With a 10-year lifespan, and a cost originally estimated at $391bn (£310bn) but now predicted to reach over $1tn – the final figure is unknown – the IRA offers new and juicer tax credits, as well as loans and loan guarantees for the deployment of emissions reducing technology.The tax credits are available to companies for either domestically producing clean energy, or domestically manufacturing the equipment needed for the energy transition, including electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries.Consumers can also receive tax credits, for example for buying an EV or installing a heat pump. The tax credit for SAF producers like LanzaJet is new in the IRA and, offers between $1.25 to $1.75 per gallon of SAF (though it only lasts five years).Complementary is the BIL, which runs for five years and provides direct investment largely in the form of government grants for research and development and capital projects. Under the BIL, about $77bn (£61bn) will go to clean energy technology projects, according to the Brookings Institution which monitors the law. Image source, Ascend ElementsImage caption, Ascend Elements extracts useful materials from old batteriesOne company to benefit so far is EV battery recycling company Ascend Elements.It has won BIL grants totalling $480m (£380m), which it is matching a similar amount in private investment to build its second commercial facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. “[The IRA and BIL] are massive investments… larger than the infrastructure related provisions in the New Deal,” says Adie Tromer from the Brookings. “There is a clear sense that America has become more serious about transitioning to a cleaner economy.”While rules for some tax credits are still being finalized, tens of billions in actual public spending is flowing into the economy, says Trevor Houser at the Rhodium Group, an independent research provider. Rhodium, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, runs the Clean Investment Monitor (CIM) to track US clean technology investments.According to recently updated CIM data, in the 2023 fiscal year, the federal government invested approximately $34bn (£27bn) into clean energy, the vast majority through tax credits.The extent to which the policy instruments are so far spurring not just announcements – of which there are plenty – but real extra private investment is harder to know: clean energy investment has been on a general upward trend anyway and the IRA hasn’t been around long. But experts believe it is rising.Total clean energy investment in the US in the 2023 calendar year including from both private and government sources reached a record $239bn (£190bn), up 38% from 2022 according to the CIM data. Clean energy investment in the US, as a share of total private investment, rose from 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 5% in the fourth quarter of 2023.The IRA has had two main positive effects thus far, says Mr Houser. It has “supercharged” private investment in more mature technologies which were already growing very rapidly like solar, EVs and batteries. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Emerging technologies like CO2 capture have seen “dramatic” growth in investmentIt has also, combined with the BIL, led to a “dramatic growth” in investment in emerging climate technologies like clean hydrogen, carbon dioxide capture and removal and SAF. While the total magnitude of those investments are still relatively small compared to the more mature technologies, “the IRA fundamentally changed the economics” says Mr Houser.But the IRA is failing to reach some parts of the green economy: so far it hasn’t lifted investment in more mature technologies which have been falling like wind and heat pumps, though Mr Houser notes things may have fallen further without the IRA.On the industry’s mind is the fate of the laws, particularly the longer-to-run IRA, should there be a change of government in the US November elections. Repealing or amending the IRA (or BIL) would require Republican control of the Presidency, Senate and House – though wholesale repeal would likely face meaningful opposition from within. The rub is many of the projects that the IRA is incentivising are being or will be built in Republican states or counties. Yet a Republican president alone could potentially frustrate things for example by slowing or deferring loans or grants, or amending the rules which serve the laws. “A Trump presidency would definitely chill the atmosphere and possibly more,” says Ashur Nissan of Kaya Partners, a climate policy advice firm.The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank and purveyor of hard-right ideas for the next conservative President, advocates repeal for both the IRA and BIL. For the organization’s Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Trump administration official, it is fiscally irresponsible for the US, with its vast deficit and debt, to be spending like this.It is also time, she says, that renewable energy such as solar and wind, into which subsidies have been poured for years, stood on their own feet. Yet others argue the US can’t afford not to do take this path. And the point of the loans program is to take risks to help unlock new solutions that scale. “It would be failing if there weren’t any so called ‘failures’ within it,” says Richard Youngman, of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm.More technology of businessThe rise of magnets – from surgery to outer spaceWhy there’s a revolution on the way in glass makingCould AI take the grind out of accountancy?‘I want to help people fly – and keep them safe’How Temu is shaking-up the world of online shoppingMeanwhile, the US’s approach is putting competitive pressure on Europe to do more.Some European clean energy manufacturing companies are now building facilities in the US to take advantage of the tax credits that otherwise would have been built in Europe including solar panel maker Meyer Burger and electrolyser manufacturers Nel and John Cockerill. “The US wasn’t a market for some of these companies in the past because Europe was more active,” says Brandon Hurlbut, of Boundary Stone Partners, a clean energy advisory firm.The EU’s Net Zero Industrial Act (NZIA) is expected to enter into force this year. It doesn’t involve new money, but seeks to coordinate existing financing and introduces domestic favourability for the first time – putting in place a non-binding target for the bloc to locally manufacture 40% of its clean energy equipment needs by 2030.In the UK, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has made clear he isn’t interested, nor can the UK afford to copy the IRA’s approach in some “distortive global subsidy race” and will stick to other ways of helping. The Labour party recently scrapped its $28bn green investment plan seen as a stab at leaning into an IRA style policy.A global audience will be watching as the US’s clean energy juggernaut unfolds. And if it leads others to ask what more they can do to produce clean energy products – even if just for reasons of economic opportunity – it will be good for humanity’s sake, says Mr Hurlbut.Related TopicsTechnology of BusinessJoe BidenTop StoriesLabour vows to fund pledges by tackling tax dodgersPublished8 minutes agoMurder suspect was bailed on threats to kill chargePublished1 hour agoSpectacular images of eclipse that transfixed North AmericaFeaturesEclipse seen in Scotland but rest of UK misses outThe eclipse at Niagara Falls: ‘Wow! Spectacular’ VideoThe eclipse at Niagara Falls: ‘Wow! 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityBusinessMarket DataEconomyYour MoneyCompaniesTechnology of BusinessCEO SecretsAI BusinessBoom times for US green energy as federal cash flows inPublished9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August 2022By Zoe CorbynSan FranciscoIn February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil.The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a “big influence”, says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive.The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia – the world’s first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant.”We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled down on building here in the United States because of the tax credits in the IRA, and because of the overall support system that the US government has put in place.” Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to funnel billions of federal dollars into developing clean energy. The aim is to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and incentivise private investment, to encourage the growth of green industries and jobs: a new foundation for the US economy.With a 10-year lifespan, and a cost originally estimated at $391bn (£310bn) but now predicted to reach over $1tn – the final figure is unknown – the IRA offers new and juicer tax credits, as well as loans and loan guarantees for the deployment of emissions reducing technology.The tax credits are available to companies for either domestically producing clean energy, or domestically manufacturing the equipment needed for the energy transition, including electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries.Consumers can also receive tax credits, for example for buying an EV or installing a heat pump. The tax credit for SAF producers like LanzaJet is new in the IRA and, offers between $1.25 to $1.75 per gallon of SAF (though it only lasts five years).Complementary is the BIL, which runs for five years and provides direct investment largely in the form of government grants for research and development and capital projects. Under the BIL, about $77bn (£61bn) will go to clean energy technology projects, according to the Brookings Institution which monitors the law. Image source, Ascend ElementsImage caption, Ascend Elements extracts useful materials from old batteriesOne company to benefit so far is EV battery recycling company Ascend Elements.It has won BIL grants totalling $480m (£380m), which it is matching a similar amount in private investment to build its second commercial facility in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. “[The IRA and BIL] are massive investments… larger than the infrastructure related provisions in the New Deal,” says Adie Tromer from the Brookings. “There is a clear sense that America has become more serious about transitioning to a cleaner economy.”While rules for some tax credits are still being finalized, tens of billions in actual public spending is flowing into the economy, says Trevor Houser at the Rhodium Group, an independent research provider. Rhodium, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, runs the Clean Investment Monitor (CIM) to track US clean technology investments.According to recently updated CIM data, in the 2023 fiscal year, the federal government invested approximately $34bn (£27bn) into clean energy, the vast majority through tax credits.The extent to which the policy instruments are so far spurring not just announcements – of which there are plenty – but real extra private investment is harder to know: clean energy investment has been on a general upward trend anyway and the IRA hasn’t been around long. But experts believe it is rising.Total clean energy investment in the US in the 2023 calendar year including from both private and government sources reached a record $239bn (£190bn), up 38% from 2022 according to the CIM data. Clean energy investment in the US, as a share of total private investment, rose from 3.7% in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 5% in the fourth quarter of 2023.The IRA has had two main positive effects thus far, says Mr Houser. It has “supercharged” private investment in more mature technologies which were already growing very rapidly like solar, EVs and batteries. Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Emerging technologies like CO2 capture have seen “dramatic” growth in investmentIt has also, combined with the BIL, led to a “dramatic growth” in investment in emerging climate technologies like clean hydrogen, carbon dioxide capture and removal and SAF. While the total magnitude of those investments are still relatively small compared to the more mature technologies, “the IRA fundamentally changed the economics” says Mr Houser.But the IRA is failing to reach some parts of the green economy: so far it hasn’t lifted investment in more mature technologies which have been falling like wind and heat pumps, though Mr Houser notes things may have fallen further without the IRA.On the industry’s mind is the fate of the laws, particularly the longer-to-run IRA, should there be a change of government in the US November elections. Repealing or amending the IRA (or BIL) would require Republican control of the Presidency, Senate and House – though wholesale repeal would likely face meaningful opposition from within. The rub is many of the projects that the IRA is incentivising are being or will be built in Republican states or counties. Yet a Republican president alone could potentially frustrate things for example by slowing or deferring loans or grants, or amending the rules which serve the laws. “A Trump presidency would definitely chill the atmosphere and possibly more,” says Ashur Nissan of Kaya Partners, a climate policy advice firm.The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank and purveyor of hard-right ideas for the next conservative President, advocates repeal for both the IRA and BIL. For the organization’s Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former Trump administration official, it is fiscally irresponsible for the US, with its vast deficit and debt, to be spending like this.It is also time, she says, that renewable energy such as solar and wind, into which subsidies have been poured for years, stood on their own feet. Yet others argue the US can’t afford not to do take this path. And the point of the loans program is to take risks to help unlock new solutions that scale. “It would be failing if there weren’t any so called ‘failures’ within it,” says Richard Youngman, of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm.More technology of businessThe rise of magnets – from surgery to outer spaceWhy there’s a revolution on the way in glass makingCould AI take the grind out of accountancy?‘I want to help people fly – and keep them safe’How Temu is shaking-up the world of online shoppingMeanwhile, the US’s approach is putting competitive pressure on Europe to do more.Some European clean energy manufacturing companies are now building facilities in the US to take advantage of the tax credits that otherwise would have been built in Europe including solar panel maker Meyer Burger and electrolyser manufacturers Nel and John Cockerill. “The US wasn’t a market for some of these companies in the past because Europe was more active,” says Brandon Hurlbut, of Boundary Stone Partners, a clean energy advisory firm.The EU’s Net Zero Industrial Act (NZIA) is expected to enter into force this year. It doesn’t involve new money, but seeks to coordinate existing financing and introduces domestic favourability for the first time – putting in place a non-binding target for the bloc to locally manufacture 40% of its clean energy equipment needs by 2030.In the UK, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has made clear he isn’t interested, nor can the UK afford to copy the IRA’s approach in some “distortive global subsidy race” and will stick to other ways of helping. The Labour party recently scrapped its $28bn green investment plan seen as a stab at leaning into an IRA style policy.A global audience will be watching as the US’s clean energy juggernaut unfolds. And if it leads others to ask what more they can do to produce clean energy products – even if just for reasons of economic opportunity – it will be good for humanity’s sake, says Mr Hurlbut.Related TopicsTechnology of BusinessJoe BidenTop StoriesLabour vows to fund pledges by tackling tax dodgersPublished8 minutes agoMurder suspect was bailed on threats to kill chargePublished1 hour agoSpectacular images of eclipse that transfixed North AmericaFeaturesEclipse seen in Scotland but rest of UK misses outThe eclipse at Niagara Falls: ‘Wow! Spectacular’ VideoThe eclipse at Niagara Falls: ‘Wow! Spectacular’The Syria I came back to is not the one I leftThe Papers: Labour’s tax loophole plan, and council ‘fat cats”Why I rewrote Huckleberry Finn to give slave Jim a voice”Carrot harvest helped me detect ancient coin hoard’BBC reporter: How I was targeted in the Westminster honeytrapWhy is Russia trying to frame Ukraine for concert massacre?Amy Winehouse film: ‘Paparazzi are the villains’ not BlakeElsewhere on the BBCThe huge challenge and risk of climbing EverestRebecca Stephens, the first British woman to reach the summit, explores the global obsessionAttributionSoundsThe Monty Python star’s overlooked radio work…John McCarthy invites Michael Palin to celebrate his career, as heard on BBC radioAttributionSounds’She was the right side of cheeky’Dua Lipa makes a surprise visit to her old schoolAttributioniPlayerHow did the Queen jump out of a helicopter?The writer of the scene for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games reveals allAttributionSoundsMost Read1One in hospital after flooding at holiday camp2Murder suspect was bailed on threats to kill charge3Labour’s tax loophole plan, and council ‘fat cats’4Record hot March sparks ‘uncharted territory’ fear5Wragg quits Commons job over Westminster honeytrap6Eclipse seen in Scotland but rest of UK misses out7David Cameron meets Trump in Florida during US visit8Living near Sure Start boosted GCSEs – study9Labour vows to fund pledges by tackling tax dodgers10Together in wonder: North America awed by total solar eclipse
[ad_1] Signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, the IRA, along with the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) enacted in November 2021, are intended, amongst other things, to…
![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaChannel migrant deaths are rising. Who’s to blame?Published1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsCalais migrant crisisImage source, ReutersImage caption, Deaths are rising among people trying to cross the Channel to the UK. Who’s to blame?By Andrew HardingParis correspondent, CalaisFrench police have expressed alarm about a sharp rise in the number of deaths among people trying to cross the Channel in small boats. Already this year nine people have drowned attempting the journey, compared with 12 for the whole of 2023.The latest to die was a seven-year-old Iraqi girl, one week ago, when a smuggler’s boat capsized on a French canal.But a sharp debate is also emerging over how to explain, and who to blame, for the rising death toll.French police say increasingly smuggling gangs are forcing migrants, year-round, into ever more crowded and unseaworthy boats. But critics say that a more “militarised” coastline, bristling with new policing equipment paid for by the UK, is compelling people to take ever greater risks in their determination to cross the Channel.In recent months, the small resort town of Wimereux, south of Calais, has emerged as a focal point for the smugglers, with hundreds of migrants from Iraq, Sudan, Vietnam and elsewhere, gathering on clear nights in the hope of a successful crossing.”You can see the cameras, and the antenna,” said Wimereux mayor Jean-Luc Dubaele, showing visitors new CCTV equipment installed on 12 poles. The cameras are all paid for as part of a three-year, £480m UK support programme that is a year old on Sunday.”I’m convinced this will work. It’s indispensable. Last night we had 200 migrants coming into town. We’re targeting the smugglers, looking for car number plates at those places where they drop off their equipment,” said Mr Dubaele, whose town is the first to be fitted with the new cameras.Image source, BBC/Lea GuedjImage caption, The new CCTV will play a key role in deterring people smugglers, says Mayor Jean-Luc-DubaeleSome of the CCTV footage will soon be screened, live, at a new police facility in the French city of Lille, where officers are already monitoring remote infra-red cameras scanning the region’s ports and beaches.”Much of this equipment is financed by Britain. It enables us to intervene more quickly, and more safely,” said Mathilde Potel, the French police commissioner who heads efforts to tackle the migrant issue. She said her teams were now able to identify and intercept boats and other equipment long before they reached the coast.But Potel expressed concern about “worrying trends emerging this year”.She cited 40 confrontations on beaches so far this year between police and increasingly violent smugglers who have begun to supply migrants with “sticks and stones to attack our forces and prevent the boats from being intercepted”.”We have more hostility. So we are forced to use tear gas in order not to become victims ourselves,” she said, showing a video on her phone of a recent encounter.
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BBC/Paul PradierWe have more confrontations. More hostility. So, we are forced, in order not to become victims ourselves, to use tear gasMathilde PotelPolice commissionerPotel acknowledged that the number of crossings so far this year was similar to 2023, but she said she was “most worried” that those crossings were becoming “more and more dangerous. Last year we had 12 deaths. In 2023 it is already nine.”Potel said the smugglers were increasingly supplying “extremely poor-quality boats, produced in China”, which at least partly explained why almost 40% of crossing attempts failed.”We are dealing with thugs, with people involved in organised crime and arms trafficking. Those responsible [for the deaths] are the smuggling networks that make these people take enormous risks and then make enormous profits for themselves,” said Potel.Image source, BBC/Paul PradierImage caption, French police have set up a new facility in Lille to help tackle illegal Channel crossingsLouis-Xavier Thirode, a government official in charge of security for the whole of northern France, acknowledged that there was no quick fix to the migrant issue. Regardless of how many smugglers they arrest – 700 in the past three years – new gangs will emerge because “these crossings are very profitable”, he says. But he stressed that France had a duty to “prevent by all means those seeking to head to sea in risky conditions”. The three-year funding deal with the UK, Thirode added, transformed efforts to clamp down on small-boat crossings.Across the Channel, in London, the UK’s Home Office said its co-operation with the French had already prevented a significant number of crossing attempts this year.”The severity and brutality of the criminals facilitating these journeys, as we have seen this week with a seven-year-old girl losing her life, reinforces our commitment to disrupting the gangs and breaking their business model,” said Charlie Eastaugh, who heads the Small Boats Operational Command.But in Calais, local charities involved in assisting migrants in distress argue that it is wrong to lay all the blame for the deaths on the smuggling gangs.
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BBC/Paul PradierThe presence of police officers on the beach… doesn’t mean fewer crossings will happen. It’s actually going to make it more dangerousJulie HernandezUtopia 56″The presence of police officers on the beach, [the increased] militarisation, and the equipment does not mean that fewer crossings will happen. It’s not a deterrent, but it is actually going to make it more dangerous,” said Julie Hernandez from the Utopia 56 organisation. She argued that migrants, often having already taken huge risks to cross the Mediterranean, were now so close to reaching the UK that they would willingly put themselves in even greater danger on the French coast.In Wimereux, Mayor Jean-Luc Dubaele was also keen to put the British and French police efforts in a wider context.”We can slow it down, but we can’t stop the crossings. For me it’s become my life, night and day, unfortunately,” he said, stressing the widespread French belief that the only long-term solution is for Britain to regulate its jobs market far more strictly.”Why do the migrants want to go to England? It’s for work. The answer, as I see it, is to forbid migrants from working in England without an employment contract. If the English solve this problem, then we’ll have taken a big step,” said Dubaele.And if that doesn’t happen?”It will continue,” said the mayor, turning his head back towards the beach, the flat expanse of water, and the White Cliffs of Dover glinting, beguilingly, in the distance.Related TopicsCalais migrant crisisFranceMore on this storyHow many people cross the Channel in small boats?Published23 JanuaryTide turns for Channel smugglers but people keep tryingPublished21 December 2023Migrant crossings fell in 2023, official data saysPublished1 JanuaryTop StoriesArmy’s top IRA spy ‘cost more lives than he saved’Published6 hours agoFertility clinic licence suspended over concernsPublished5 hours agoDestructive Joshua knocks out Ngannou in second roundAttributionSportPublished2 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: ‘Camilla to the rescue’ and ‘Budget falls flat’On patrol with the anti-social behaviour squadFF7 actress’s nervous wait for fan reactionsDid State of the Union change how voters see Biden?Why mass abductions have returned to haunt NigeriaWest Bank violence: ‘My child’s destiny was to get killed’Singing, sculpture and a sprint: Photos of the weekWhy does International Women’s Day matter?Weekly quiz: Which billionaire hired Rihanna to celebrate a wedding?Elsewhere on the BBCThe ultimate bromanceWatch the masters of satire Peter Cook and Dudley Moore with a look back through the archivesAttributioniPlayerDid one man from Iraq make Norway rich?Meet the man behind Norway’s rise to oil richesAttributionSoundsCan new evidence solve aviation’s greatest mystery?Ten years after the Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared, new technology may explain whyAttributioniPlayerHow Trump’s golf dream turned into a nightmare…His controversial golf development in Aberdeenshire was greenlit with awful consequencesAttributionSoundsMost Read1’Camilla to the rescue’ and ‘Budget falls flat’2University of Cambridge painting damaged by group3Meghan: ‘We’ve forgotten our humanity’ online4Destructive Joshua knocks out Ngannou in second roundAttributionSport5The Brit up for three visual effects Oscars6Five killed in Gaza aid drop parachute failure – reports7New ‘national stadium’ task force unveiled8Fertility clinic licence suspended over concerns9Police investigate ‘care of dead’ at funeral homes10Boy, 11, found driving BMW towing caravan on M1](https://newsinsightplus.com/wp-content/uploads/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/12E73/production/_132872477_reuters.png)
