i met david on a much sunnier day last week, on his farm in gloucestershire.her in 1913. this budget has just ripped the heart out of us because i know my son cannot, will not be able to afford to pay inheritance tax. david says his son could face an £800,000 inheritance tax bill. he could have to sell the farm off to pay up. that's why the family have come to westminster, to raise their concerns. first stop, a mass lobby of mps organised by the national farmers union. how are you feeling about the situation? for 34 years i've had to go back to the family farm and produce food for the nation. it's a huge worry for me that that dream of mine won't be there. as an estimated 10,000 protested outside, the environment secretary steve reed faced questions in parliament about the new tax rules. the family had a chance meeting with him after leaving their mp's office. so, how did it go? i asked steve reed, to his face, explain to my son how he's going to pay the inheritance tax on ourfamily farm. and i gave him the figures. he doesn't really have an answer, because th

also tonight — i'm on a farm in gloucestershire, as thousands protest over the government's inheritancens. tractors and farmers rolled into westminster today, angry at the surprise changes in the budget. the government insists very few will be affected. but the man who owns this farm tells me tonight he doesn't believe that and farmers are digging in for a fight. and in other news tonight... live in texas, donald trumpjoins elon musk for the sixth test of his starship rocket — while in new york, lawyers discuss delaying sentencing for his hush money conviction. 0n bbc london... 0n newsnight at 10.30pm, we'll bring you fresh insight on the stories of the day, with big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters, and of course look at what the papers are saying about tomorrow's news. good evening. just a day after the us finally gave permission for ukraine to fire american long—range missiles into russia, kyiv has done so. its attack on a target within russia's recognised terrritorial borders was confirmed by both moscow and by officials in washington. the change in us policy comes a

jenny kumah, bbc news, gloucestershire.ominantly rural seats for the first time, but now they are being accused by some founders of betrayal. the conservatives, now in opposition, say this inheritance tax policy is cool and the liberal democrats say it could be potentially disastrous. tim farron, rural affairs spokesperson for the liberal democrats. i think it�*s a deeply damaging proposal. we�*ve seen from what bella was just saying just now that farmers, so many of them, i mean, for example, in my constituency, earning significantly less than the minimum wage, in some cases nothing at all, and yet technically sitting on an asset that�*s worth a significant amount of money. and so the only way that people can then pay the inheritance tax is to literally get rid of the farm. so what happens? the corporates buy it. as bella was saying, we end up with private equity firms taking on this farmland and not farming it, not producing food. so it is cruel, it�*s unfair, but it�*s also incredibly stupid. if you think about it, brita

jenny kumah, bbc news, gloucestershire. tax particularly so. what are the changes farming families are facing and what might they be able to do to plan for those changes? joining me now is kirsty stone, a chartered financial planner at the family office. they are a wealth management company. thank you forjoining us on bbc news, tell us what the rules for agriculture, land and inheritance tax have been so far and what will change? previously farmers or families could qualify for something called agricultural property relief meaning there was no inheritance tax bill to pay if the owner of the farm died and passedit the owner of the farm died and passed it to the next generation, that is if they could to evidence and meet certain criteria that this was a farm and that is why it could qualify. there will be a tax liability on death now that previously was not the case and there is a lot of dispute about how many farms will be impacted by this. the threshold is in place and the headline is that it is £1 million that can be passe

baby sons — born ten weeks early at 29 weeks and six days, they're being looked after at the gloucestershirets. we're lost for words, to be honest. it's still... i don't think it's quite sunk in. i think until we get them home, it's not really sunk in that we've got three identical boys. the couple's ivfjourney began two years ago. having been together since they were teenagers, they wanted a family. you can be so sort of swallowed up by ivf and doing the right things and doing everything. i think we were very, very lucky with it being our first round. so we have had it very good and very, yeah... really lucky. at first they were told they were having twins. it took a while to get used to the thought of twins and how we were going to do it... yeah, we were shocked but we were happy yeah, we wre shocked but we were happy with twins, weren't we? yeah. kind of all along we wanted twins. at their next scan, they were told it was triplets. speechless, weren't we? yeah, like i said, we drove an hourjourney home and we didn't say a word to each other. we didn't know what to say. we were just thinki

have been affected, listening to our colleagues on the bbc local radio stations in wiltshire, gloucestershire in bristol. they were all talking about the flood waters and how people were having to clear up. you mention some of the other places that have had to clear up this morning. there are still those alerts enforce. you also mentioned the trains. great western railways are the main intercity provider that runs from london paddington down here into south wales and also into the south—west of england come into devon and cornwall police. they are advising people not to travel today because they really don't have any services running and they say if they do manage to get some of them running they could have to stop them because a number of lines are flooded. down in devon the line between exeter and plymouth regularly gets flooded and that has happened again, meaning they can't get any trains done that way. some of the smaller branch lines in devon and cornwall police are also having problems, for example the one that runs from exmouth down to barnstable. the line from crediton to okehampton

richard's a dairy farmer in gloucestershire, wearing an argument of the heart as well as a colourfuljacketar—old son is with me. he was with me, milking with me on saturday morning. i'm sorry... it's all right. i'm part of a long chain that i don't want to see broken. back outside, opposition politicians are revealing whose side they're on. this policy is cruel, it is unfair and it is going to destroy farming as we know it. you are feeding our families and struggling to feed your own. that is just so wrong. as for the prime minister, the man himself�*s not here. he's meeting world leaders in brazil. i do understand their concerns. what i have pointed out is firstly in the budget l we have put £5 billion - into farming in the next few years and that is the biggest single amount of money put| into farming because i want to support our farmers. - once people appreciate that in a typical case, l it is a £3 million threshold before income taxes paid, most people will see - the vast majority of farmers are therefore exempt. the government's determined not to give in, insisting the existing syste

richard's a dairy farmer in gloucestershire, wearing an argument of the heart as well as a colourfuljackets with me. he was with me, milking with me on saturday morning. i'm sorry... it's all right. i'm part of a long chain that i don't want to see broken. back outside, opposition politicians are revealing whose side they're on. this policy is cruel, it is unfair and it is going to destroy farming as we know it. you are feeding our families and struggling to feed your own. that is just so wrong. as for the prime minister, the man himself�*s not here. he's meeting world leaders in brazil. i do understand their concerns. what i have pointed out is firstly in the budget l we have put £5 billion - into farming in the next few years and that is the biggest single amount of money put| into farming because i want to support our farmers. - once people appreciate that in a typical case, l it is a £3 million threshold before income taxes paid, most people will see - the vast majority of farmers are therefore exempt. the government's determined not to give in, insisting the existing system is neither

wales that has been hit, i go down from london this morning and our other areas in and around gloucestershirely is unless you have to go out in weather like this, then don't. the residents here are having to come out to try and clear the rubbish out of their homes which has been affected by the floodwater. irate which has been affected by the floodwater.— which has been affected by the floodwater. we will be with you throughout _ floodwater. we will be with you throughout the _ floodwater. we will be with you throughout the day. _ floodwater. we will be with you throughout the day. thank - floodwater. we will be with you throughout the day. thank you | throughout the day. thank you for joining throughout the day. thank you forjoining us from pontypridd. young backpackers in laos have spoken of their fears after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning in the town of vang vieng. three of them, including briton simone white, died last week. the laos government has now confirmed that three others, an american man and two danish women, who died the previous week — were all staying at t

what we've been working in berkeley, gloucestershire, england, for the last ten years. and we're actually fascinated in trying to uncover the story of berkeley, the famous berkeley 100 that was established here in 1619 by people that came from england. one of the big mysteries is where berkeley settlement of 6019 is actually located. i mean, it's clearly somewhere here on the property. it's known as be known as berkeley or berkeley for hundreds of years. but the precise location of where the settlement is located has never been what was discovered by archeologists or by historians or even in the memory of the people that lived here. so our task is to use modern scientific machinery, geophysics, equipment and so forth to see if we can actually find where the 17th century settlement really was. well, we've been surveying this this huge field here because we think that this is the most likely place where they would have been. there's a small spring over here. there's a shallow landing by the river where they could have brought their boats up. and there's a fantastic view o

becky whittle and luke browning were on their way to gloucestershire royal hospital on sunday when theirvoid flooding caused by storm bert but got stuck. it was a stressful arrival into the world for baby noah — but everyone's doing fine. all the best of them, what a very cute baby. we were talking about storm bert fair. what do we expect in terms of the weather? with all the details, here is sarah keith lucas. hello. we've seen a real change in the weather type over the past 24 hours or so. it was cold and frosty earlier in the week, but we've got much milder air that's been moving in and that's the way it looks through much of the weekend. we keep that mild theme often, a lot of cloud around, some outbreaks of rain, especially so tomorrow, because this area of low pressure is approaching from the west. at the moment, though, we're between weather systems. one of them pushing off towards the east here and that means the winds are going to be coming in from the south. so that's bringing this mild air right across the map through the course of the weekend. quite a lot of cloud out there f

this football club in gloucestershire more closely resembling an outdoor swimming pool.just all got to muddle round, get involved and try and get everything back to normal as quick as we can. but without football being played, financially, it's going to be a massive struggle for us as a club. across england and wales, there have been criticisms about insufficient warnings and a lack of preparation. parts of the scottish highlands have been warned of the risk of flooding due to a mix of melting snow and heavy rain. and for those areas in england and wales already under water, more rain is on the way. nickjohnson, bbc news. in a moment we'll speak to our reporter steve knibbs in chippenham but first let's go to nicky schiller, who is in northampton where residents have spent the night at an evacuation centre. nicky, i imagine it has not been particularly comfortable for them there. ., ., , , . there. no, absolutely. the council are doinu there. no, absolutely. the council are doing what — there. no, absolutely. the council are doing what they _ there. no, absolutely. the c

gloucestershire police have confirmed that hannah roberts has donned a variety of hairpieces to get aroundshoplifting ban in gloucester city centre . the 33 year old had city centre. the 33 year old had been banned from the city safe scheme from entering multiple shops, but had repeatedly ignored the sanction . nice curly ignored the sanction. nice curly ginger one would go very well with that neck tattoo . those are with that neck tattoo. those are your headlines for the moment. now it's back to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome along. labour have betrayed farmers and betrayed britain. do you remember when keir starmer said this losing a farm is not like losing any other business? >> it can't come back . >> it can't come back. >> it can't come back. >> well, yesterday rachel reeves took a hammer and sickle to british farming inheritance tax relief for farms will be limited to £1 million. the family farm tax, as it's now being called, will mean t

gloucestershire police have confirmed that hannah roberts had donned a variety of hairpieces to get arounda shoplifting ban in gloucester city centre. the 33 year old had been banned by the citysafe scheme from entering multiple shops, but had repeatedly ignored the sanction. i'd have thought the neck tattoo may have given it away. anyway, you're right up to date with the headlines. now it's back to nigel for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . alerts. >> good evening. i promise you, this story is not just about me, although i happen to be in the middle of it, but it raises some really serious issues about our borders, about some of the people that are coming into our country illegally, and about the fact that if they come from certain original destinations, we simply can't get rid of them. you may remember a couple of weeks back i talked to you about the case of a guy called madda parsa, and he got in trouble. he was arrested in malmo for carrying a knife . he fled the carrying a kn

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