France agrees bailout for EDF to proceed with Hinkley Point C

Money will be made available to help build nuclear plant, says economics minister, as union repeats call for project to be shelvedThe 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 a