The idea of expanding the BBC licence to cover viewers of services such as Netflix and Disney+, is among the list of options being talked about by Labour ministers, it has been revealed.
Some 4.5 million people received emergency alerts on their phones in Scotland and Northern Ireland warning of the incoming storm in the 'largest real life use of the tool to date' on Thursday.
The proposed bill rises would take effect from April next year. But the move comes at a time of public outrage over pollution in rivers, and, huge salaries paid to water company bosses