Terry Macalister Energy editor
Thursday 17 March 2016 19.26 GMT Last modified on Thursday 17 March 2016 22.01 GMT
The French government has promised a financial bailout for cash-strapped energy group EDF so that it can proceed with the 18bn plan to build the first nuclear reactors in Britain for 20 years.
France’s economics minister, Emmanuel Macron, said it would be a mistake for the 85% state-owned company not to build a new Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset and he would (…)