Here are the headlines for Monday, March 4
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will announce pre-budget investments to make the UK “a world leader in manufacturing”.
The funding, estimated at £360 million, is earmarked for progression studies and projects (R
It includes a joint government-industry investment of £92 million to expand facilities to manufacture life-saving medicines and diagnostics. There is also a joint investment of £200 million in zero-carbon aviation generation to expand a more sustainable aviation sector, and only around £73 million in car generation.
School leaders are calling for a “double-digit” pay rise days after the government said school salaries are “returning to a more moderate level. “
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said England has lately had the same number of vacant coaching positions in more than a decade, with one in seven schools in England reporting at least one vacancy.
An increase of at least 10% in all teacher salaries is needed to counter the “recruitment and retention crisis” and that increase will have to be above-average pay arrangements in other sectors across the country, he said in his presented evidence. to the Independent Framework of School Teachers. Review Body (STRB) which makes salary recommendations in England.
The Conservatives’ commitment to use vehicle tax revenue to fund projects has been abandoned.
The Treasury told news firm PA that proceeds from the excise duty on vehicles (VFDs) will go into the Consolidated Fund, a general reserve of tax revenues, despite a promise to release a new National Highway Fund (NRF) in 2020. He insisted that VED “is being reinvested” in road projects.
The RAC said the government “appears to have made a U-turn and quietly hopes it will go unnoticed. “
Chris Packham has been granted permission to conduct a judicial review of the government’s decision to rescind some of its policies.
The naturalist and TV presenter challenged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in October after the government eased policies to reduce the UK’s overall emissions to 0 by 2050, known as net zero.
Sunak announced the reversal in September, which included postponing the ban on the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2030 to 2035, reducing the phase-out of fuel boilers from 100 percent to 80 percent by 2035 and removing the energy output requirement. . home improvements.
The UK is making fairly rapid progress in the energy transition, the head of Siemens Energy’s UK division said.
Darren Davidson, who runs a company that employs another 6,000 people in the U. K. , said the country is not on track to meet its offshore wind targets.
“Siemens Energy employs a further 6,000 people in the UK in transport, power generation, wind and hydrogen fuel turbines, so we have a presence across the force landscape,” Davidson said. “I think what we want to do is be on the front lines, leading and helping our clients and the government come up with plans for what we can because, if I’m absolutely honest, we’re not fast enough. “
Malaysia’s government has said it may resume the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a U. S. technology company proposed a new search in the southern Indian Ocean, where the plane is believed to have crashed a decade ago.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Loke said Texas-based Ocean Infinity had proposed another “no-search, no-cost” base to explore the seafloor, expanding from where it first searched in 2018. He said he invited the company to meet with him to evaluate new clinical evidence it has to locate the plane’s final resting place.
If this is credible, he said, he will seek the company’s approval to sign a contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the search.
Lord Alan Sugar is set to relaunch his famous Amstrad logo with the launch of a new digital marketing company run by his grandson, 17 years after selling the company to Sky.
The business tycoon, who hosts BBC One’s real-life series The Apprentice, has bought the rights to the famous logo from start-up Amstrad Digital.
Lord Sugar has criticised Sky’s former “belligerent” management, before it was acquired through US media giant Comcast in 2018, for not allowing him to bring the name back. “I have asked, since 2007, to get it back because I need to give it to his circle of relatives to use in their businesses,” he told the PA news agency.
A chilly start with the fog lifting, reports BBC Weather. It will generally be a clear and bright day, with clouds and rain blowing from the southwest. Temperatures will range from seven to 12 degrees.
This rain band will move northeast tonight over the UK maximum, leaving clear skies in the southwest.
James, or Batch as he’s known, started at Car Dealer in 2010, first as a professional kid and eventually became editor-in-chief in 2013. He worked for Auto Express as an editor and the face of Carbuyer’s YouTube reviews. In 2020, he became independent and now writes for several national titles and is a regular contributor to Car Dealer. In October 2021, he became Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Car Dealer.
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