bulb energy is set to appoint administrators. he energy firm, which has 1.7 million customers, is the latest uk energy company to face difficulties, after a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices. empty streets as austria becomes the first country in europe to reimpose a lockdown amid a surge in covid cases. a memorial service and procession is held in southend — to remember the mp sir david amess — who was stabbed to death last month. a bbc investigation has found that two mothers who died of herpes after giving birth could have been infected by a single surgeon. and going the extra mile — rugby league star kevin sinfield attempts to run 101 miles in a day for motor neurone disease research. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. five people have been killed and more than a0 injured after a car was driven at high speed into a christmas parade in the american state of wisconsin. children are among the victims. police in the town of waukesha have arrested the driver of the vehicle. they say it does not appear to be an act of terrorism

britain's seventh biggest energy firm — bulb energy — is set to appoint administrators — the latest ukhit financial problems. a bbc investigation has found that two mothers who died of herpes after giving birth could have been infected by a single surgeon. a memorial service and procession has been held in southend — to remember the mp sir david amess — who was stabbed to death last month. good afternoon. borisjohnson has insisted that his plans to overhaul social care in england will overturn a decades—long injustice for people with dementia. mps are expected to vote this evening on whether benefits received from local authorities should count towards an eighty—six thousand pound cap on how much people should pay for their care. labour argue that not including benefits would amount to daylight robbery. we were expecting that debate on the health and care bill to have started by now, but we are still waiting, of course, when it does we hope to be able to bring it to you live. borisjohnson has described the government's plans for reforming our political correspondent ione wells is at we

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i've got to say, and you brought this to my attention earlier, this headline that came across with bulb energyd into special administration. basically, javier blas is going to be joining us shortly, saying this is the biggest casualty of the energy crunch in the united kingdom, and this basically puts the massive energy supplier into government control at a time when energy prices are spiking ahead of the winter. tom: they do a nice layout of this. for our american viewers, jon ferro is hardwired on this. all of a sudden, your bills can go up. i want to look on a monday of this week, waiting on the fed pick, that once again, equities have a bid. lisa: given the fact you have the second, third wave in europe that does seem to be getting worse, perhaps the fed moving quicker than people previously priced in. all of this doesn't matter, and that is notable to me. tom: and a market drawdown. you do the drawdown, it is under 1% from record highs. tom: 60 -- lisa: 66 record highs this year. i will find a reason to be depressed. [laughter] tom: robert tip coming up -- robert tipp coming up. stay with

bulb is the biggest - green energy company... bulb has been in trouble for a while.nally announced that the company will be put in administration. bulb has more than 1.5 million customers, which is way more than any of the other energy companies we have seen go bust over the last couple of months, so the regulator had decided that is simply too many customers to just pass on to another provider, and, this time, they're going to do something different. an administrator is going to be appointed by the courts to run the company behind the scenes, but customers shouldn't see any change. they should keep paying their bills to bulb, bulb staff will still be able to answer calls and any credit is protected. but that doesn't mean customers aren't disappointed. i anticipate that, at some point, that we will be bounced over to one of the big six, because that's what's left now, pretty much, and i'm not comfortable with that. i've had experience of dealing with some of the bigger players before and i don't feel that their customer service is good at all. it's an administrator's

bulb is the biggest - green energy company... bulb has been in trouble for a while.ave finally announced that the company will be put in administration. bulb has more than 1.5 million customers, which is way more than any of the other energy companies we have seen go bust over the last couple of months, so the regulator had decided that is simply too many customers to just pass on to another provider, and, this time, they're going to do something different. an administrator is going to be appointed by the courts to run the company behind the scenes, but customers shouldn't see any change. they should keep paying their bills to bulb, bulb staff will still be able to answer calls and any credit is protected. but that doesn't mean customers aren't disappointed. i anticipate that, at some point, that we will be bounced over to one of the big six, because that's what's left now, pretty much, and i'm not comfortable with that. i've had experience of dealing with some of the bigger players before and i don't feel that their customer service is good at all. it's an administr

one of the uk's biggest energy suppliers, bulb, is being saved from imminent collapse.ut has too many customers to be taken over by another supplier. 1.7 million people will continue to have their energy supplied by bulb, while a special administrator considers how to deal with the situation. here's our business correspondent ben king. bulb was one of the most successful companies in taking on the big six energy suppliers which have dominated the uk market for the past couple of decades and i think what happened was that it got caught in the same bind that a lot of these other energy companies have got caught in. it says that energy prices were going up so fast and it could not pass those on to its customers. it said that a unit of gas that it paid 50p for a year ago was now costing £4 and the energy price cap met that its bills could not go up and that was the situation that proved to be unsustainable. here in the uk, a memorial service has been held for the conservative member of parliament sir david amess, who was killed last month. danjohnson has this report. sir da

the energy company, bulb, is to be put into administration. customers, struggled to make a profit after a sharp rise in wholesale gas prices this year. still to come a bit later in the programme: we'll tell you about a rapper whose popular song has been banned in mainland china — and why he says he has no regrets. but first, a private investigator has been describing the lengths he says he went to around 15 years ago to get information about prince harry and his then—girlfriend, chelsy davy. speaking for the first time, gavin burrows has told the bbc that he targeted her voicemails for a newspaper. prince harry is part of a group involved in on—going legal action against the news of the world and the sun that could culminate in a trial. the private investigator is a witness in the legal case. his claims have yet to be heard in court and are strongly disputed by the publisher of both papers. news group newspapers has though previously accepted that some unlawful activity did occur at the news of the world but denies wrongdoing at the sun. here'

the energy company bulb has become the largest casualty of the increase in wholesale gas prices whichhis autumn. the company — which has 1.7 million customers — has called in the administrators. because of its size, they will continue to run the business for the time being and billpayers are advised not to take any action at this stage. an investigation by bbc news has found that two women who died of herpes could have been infected by the same surgeon working in kent. the women died six weeks apart within days of giving birth — of what is usually a mild infection. east kent hospitals trust said they could not identify the source of the infection, and the surgeon had no history of the virus. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchca nan uncovered the story. these two women, both new mothers, died 44 days apart. their families were led to believe their deaths were not linked, until now. she was a real fun—loving girl. great personality. had lots of friends. in may 2018, kim sampson gave birth to a son, her second child. she was a brilliant barber and a brilliant mum. the 29—year—

rachel: you're referring to bulb, the seventh biggest energy supplier in the u.k.iggest supplier to fail. we have seen 20 before them and this is significant because for the first time the government are stepping in to try to smooth the administration process. they will help take on the customers at bulb and pay for that so it does not cause market chaos. we understand that use volatility -- the huge volatility on the gas market was the final straw for bulb deciding they cannot stand the volatility and they would have to go into administration. guy: it will get cold in the next few days. when we will get an understanding of whether or not europe will have enough gas for the winter. there is forecast for snow. where do we stand on terms of inventory and supplies to get through the winter? rachel: as we have been saying in the weeks leading up to this, cold weather is what will test the situation. we have the beginning of that. it is starting to get cold. nothing unusual. that is when we start to use stores of gas. the more we use earlier in the season the less we ha

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the energy company bulb is entering special administration, the biggest of the energy firms so far toxpecting a high volume of calls today so please only call if it's an emergency, in a vulnerable situation or struggling to pay your bills. obviously, as we have heard, when other energy companies have gone under, there is now this process where ofgem basically takes over switching the customers from that firm to another, so it should be seamless if you are a customer, but that one of the biggest casualties of what's been happening in the energy market. bulbs gone into special administration, which affects 1.7 million customers so we will bring you more on that as we get it. as we've been hearing, a memorial service for conservative mp sir david amess, who was killed last month, will get underway soon in his southend constituency. he'll not only be remembered for his work as a politician, having served as an mp for nearly a0 years, but also for his friendship and compassion as zoe conway explains. let's go live to southend where people are gathering for that service. the locals wait for

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the government has set aside nearly £1.7 billion to allow the energy firm bulb to continue supplyingpecial administration yesterday which means it can continue trading until a buyer is found. bulb is the latest of 22 energy firms to fail since september following a spike in wholesale gas prices. let's take a look at some of today's front pages. they all lead on yesterday's tragedy in the channel. the daily telegraph quotes the prime minister saying france must "step up" and stop migrant crossings. the paper pictures two of the 255 people reported to have successfully made the journey to england yesterday. it's a "human tragedy" says the daily mirror's headline. the paper pictures children sitting in a dinghy that it says was launched "under the noses" of french police. no reason to believe that was the actual craft that sank. borisjohnson�*s comments also lead the daily mail. the picture shows a french police car appearing to stand idle behind a group of people placing a dinghy into the sea. according to the guardian, the french interior minister said the boat that sank had been "ver

the government has set aside nearly 1.7 billion pounds to enable the energy company bulb to continuetwork, which dates back to the third or fourth century ad, shows the epic battle between achilles and the trojan hero, hector, in homer's the iliad. archaeologists say it's one of only a handful of such mosaics in europe. the farmer, jim irvine, spotted what he called �*unusual pottery�* during a walk and began excavating the field, before calling in historians. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. looks like potentially a bit stormy? todayis looks like potentially a bit stormy? today is the calm before the storm. not much change through the day. most places dry and cold and quite sunny. more cloud pushing into scotland and northern ireland which will continue southwards overnight tonight. it will bring some rain and drizzle followed by broken cloud and showers. still quite cold first thing in the morning in the south—east, temperatures just above freezing. the cloud, rain and drizzle continues south across england and wales tomorrow morning. brightens are from the

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that is preventing energy suppliers passing on them higher wholesale prices to their customers and that is why you have seen two dozen firms in the uk go bust and the biggest one is bulb has had to set aside £1.7 billion to keep the company running because there is not another company to take on all those people. there have been criticisms of eight systemic failure in the uk industry because so many of these small firms took on risky decisions offering low prices and have not been hedged on energy. in future there is a plant to lift this cap in times of volatility of wholesale energy prices and there is likely to be a big increase in this energy price cap next april.— cap next april. what is the advice if — cap next april. what is the advice if your _ cap next april. what is the advice if your supply - cap next april. what is the advice if your supply goes | advice if your supply goes bust? ,., �* advice if your supply goes bust? �* ., ., , advice if your supply goes bust? .,._ , , bust? don't do anything because ou will bust? don't do anything because you will either _ bust? don't do anything because you will either be _ bust? don't do anything because you will eithe

energy are to cease trading. entice supplies around 5,400 customers and 0rbit, 65,000 and they'll be switched to a new supplier. meanwhile, the government has set aside nearly £1.7 billion to enable the company bulbarp rise in the wholesale price of gas. a new report has found that water companies in england and wales issued more than 5,500 alerts of sewage being discharged into coastal waters in the last year. the surfers against sewage campaign group say that's 88% higher than last year's figure. southern water scored worst for the total number of sewage overflow discharges, and for the average number per location. a security guard who was on duty when a taxi bomb exploded at liverpool women's hospital says he's still having flashbacks to what happened. darren knowles, from runcorn, ran towards the taxi just after it blew up on remembrance sunday. in his first broadcast interview mr knowles spoke to our reporter andy gill. this is you buy your redcar? we spoke to him at the offices for the security firm he works for. on the cctv footage he is in high viz vest next to his red car when the bomb goes off. next to his red car when the bomb aoes off. ~ . , next to his red car when the bomb aoes off.