also tonight, an about turn for bp — the energy giant scales back investment in renewable energy and returns focus to oil and gas. battle to deal with it. the sink holes in surrey — now dozens of residents have been coming up on bbc news. embarrasment as england go out of the champions trophy all 58 recommendations from the grenfell tower inquiry but survivors and the bereaved question why it has taken so long. start tonight with bp.

is increasing revenue from oil and gas production. its rival shell also doing the same. simonjack is also doing the same. simonjack has report. which it said there was no turning back. direction. and we went too far, too fast. gas, 20% more versus previous guidance, enabling us to build more, over time?

as you heard, today, that so why the change? well, look at this. exxonmobil. both of those have a much smaller renewables focus. the truth is, oil and gas is more profitable than renewables. the uk government has vetoed new oil and international and other governments feel very differently. we will drill, baby, drill. cheering.

low carbon transition is coming. than nearer today. simon jack, bbc news. independent climate advisers say almost all cars should be electric in the next 15 years, and half of all homes should have heat pumps. the climate change committee has recommended that the uk should be gases it did in 1990.

can it be achieved? cutting carbon has been easy so far. to more renewable power. but increasingly it will depend on the choices are going to need to be electric, and half of our homes a heat pump. to electrify everything. so what have we here, lucy? but there's a problem with electricity prices. as lucy hayden's home illustrates.

power all day long. a month to run my home. a gas boiler and so i was still heating the home with gas. it might be a small amount, but not really, no. without an expensive battery, the savings are tiny. and remember, heat pumps are also more expensive to buy than gas boilers. which explains the committee's key recommendation. you have to make electricity cheap, but it is also the fuel of the future. it will benefit the economy. and the committee has other recommendations. it says no new boilers should be

installed from 2035, just ten years' time. for the industry to be decarbonised, so your foreign holidays could get now, you might be thinking this sounds like hard work. the climate change committee's response — it says investing in net zero is an investment in the country's future prosperity, justin rowlatt, bbc news. trump has us president will travel to washington on friday to travel to washington onfriday to an agreement tgrgvéel to washington onfriday to an agreement rare earth sign an agreement on rare earth mineral

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companies for wrongdoing, or at least prevent them from bidding for public contracts. refurbishment of grenfell tower. seven are now being investigated by the government, the housing ministry said today. on charging likely next year. inquiry. for another couple of years. just too long for some of those whose lives have been affected by this disaster. this just goes on interminably. it's glacial. it's impossible to be free.

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louisa palmisano, known as lulu, was hit by the vehicle after it was forced off the road on saturday morning. rawal rehman, from manchester, has been charged with causing death in scottish legal history. it comes after a harrowing court case revealed a horrifying pattern cameron buttle is in wick. at wick sheriff court, police scotland took the highly unusual step of bringing a civil action against booth. the court heard carried w carried punishment he carried out punishment beatings in an underground �*in he carried out punishment beatings in an underground �* in his in an underground chamber in his house in a remote part of the his victims highlands. his victims were vulnerable women he had brought back various countries to the lodee

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