Louise Beale

Reporting for @5_News from Manchester airport - meeting passengers coming home on one of the only flights from Dubai

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC understands bbc.in/3OQ7BmL

Glasgow’s going to be lively tonight! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scooooooootlaaaaaand!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳🤩

Reporting for @5_News on the fly tipping epidemic in the UK. I was in Bristol where the council spend nearly a million on it every year

@manorfarmshopuk @StuartMaggs Lovely!

@StuartMaggs Yes agree with all this. It’s literally impossible to plan anything, even IHT legislation is yet to be finalised. It’s is depressing to say the least. Thankfully in my job I get distracted by lovely things!

I have moved from being shocked and disappointed at the Treasury to being angry. I spent some time with an elderly client today who is confused and distressed over what to do, and a huge portion of responsibility for her upset rests with unprofessionalism from the Treasury. Starting from a manifesto that promised not to raise national insurance they then tried to argue that didn’t include employers’ national insurance. Then non-doms, private school fees and the craziness of the IHT changes and pension charges, none of which will actually raise any money if you adjust for the economic impact and uncertainty. All alongside the winter fuel debacle and failure to actually cut welfare costs. And then, within six months of the Budget, came the Treasury Insiders and Well-Placed Sources leaking crazy plans and half-baked ideas to test the political water. Wealth tax, extending PETs, gifts of own income, reductions in pension allowances, caps on pensions, NICs on rental income and dividends, shifting income tax up but extending NICs, capitals gains alignment with income rates, tax hikes for lawyers, accountants and GPs, oil and gas and banking levies, additional costs on landlords and employers, VAT increases, mansion taxes, every awful idea that has ever had economists sitting bolt upright in bed at 3am in a cold sweat, this Treasury has embraced them all, leaked them to the papers and sat back to watch the slow motion catastrophe as their strategy paralyses the markets and dries up investment. In my 30-odd years in practice I have never experienced such a devastatingly incompetent budget process that over the course of 12 months has, in my view, inflicted such horrific damage to business and consumer confidence. Tax should be boring, not front page news every week. It currently feels like an angry school council has been given the economic reigns to the country and it has no idea what it wants to do beyond “Rich people bad”. This morning, I tried to calm down an upset elderly woman and reassure her that as best we could we will help her through this. I place the blame for this awful situation wholly at the door of the Ministers currently in charge of the Treasury. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Copenhagen airport shut thanks to drones. Apparently one person arrested

Stuck in Copenhagen as 2-3 drones over the airport. Apparently people arrested. Not sure when I’ll get home 😬

@manorfarmshopuk @5_News It was also a lovely colour! Not sure how important that is though..

@LouiseBeale @5_News Proper car that one…no fancy mod cons!

I’m in Solihull reporting on the latest developments in the #JaguarLandRover cyber attack. I’ll be on @5_News at 5pm

Met the loveliest people today but the Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack is having huge knock on consequences for many businesses

Is there any person or business in the supply chain of Jaguar Landrover who’d like to talk to me/us at @5_News about the cyber attack and the knock on affect it’s having on you?

@manorfarmshopuk He was lovely

@LouiseBeale Legend of a man.

I interviewed Ricky Hatton about Man City about 13 years ago. He was absolutely lovely - a real gentleman. (I’m a lot younger and pregnant in this photo) So sorry to hear the news today

We’ll never forget the lives we lost on September 11, 2001. Let’s continue to honor their memories, and the courage of our first responders who put themselves in harm’s way.

Today, the nation mourns the deaths of the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attacks on America 24 years ago. At nightfall, the Tribute in Light will light up the New York City skyline in memory of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.

Just seen Prince Harry at St Pancras station!

How are this year’s heatwaves and last year’s wet weather affecting our farmers and food security? My report on @5_News today