Growing at a slower rate for the past two months, but inflation remains at nearly 8 , four times higher than the official target. Hannah miller has this report. For father of two peter, sorting out the Family Finances is proving hard. He and his wife bought their first home using the help to buy scheme. But when their mortgage comes up for renewal early next year, theyll have to find an extra £750 a month in repayments. Somehow were supposed to spend less and find £750 extra a month to pay for that. So, you know, for many families, its a terrifying situation. If you have young families like ourselves who have been swayed into the Housing Market by government, whose advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things become unaffordable, you cant simply turn around and say, thats your problem. A rise of 0. 25 Percentage Points would take the Bank Of Englands base rate to 5. 25 , the highest since april 2008. For someone with an average Tracker Mortgage of £200,000, tha
are trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flam
three candidates have been nominated by parliament to replace the outgoing gotabaya rajapaksa. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are natasha clark, who s a political and environmental correspondent for the sun, and eleanor langford, political reporter at politics home. welcome back to you both. let s take a look at tomorrow s front pages. burning hot britain is the headline in the metro which leads with the record breaking temperatures and fires across the country today. for the mirror, this was the hottest day in history. it shows the damage caused by fires in wennington where several homes were destroyed. the telegraph also leads with the devastation in wennington, describing how hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes. the i says the uk became a tinderbox as fire services as far apart as yorkshire and suffolk declared major incidents. the express leads with the tory leadership contest, and an i
are a clear and present danger to american democracy. after a second resignation in as many years, downing street says borisjohnson is looking at whether the role of an adviser on standards is needed after lord geidt stepped down last night. and the bank of england hikes up interest rates to a 13 year high and warns that inflation could hit 11%. tonight with the context, chief political commentator at the i newspaper paul waugh and former adviser to hillary clinton amanda renteria. welcome to the programme. we start in washington, where the third day of the january 6th committee hearings has just wrapped up. it s been focused on mike pence and connecting donald trump s intense pressure campaign on his vice president not to certify the election results with the violent intentions of the mob that stormed the capitol. democrat bennie thompson is chair of the committee. he spoke of the danger mike pence faced in his opening statement. we re fortunate for mr pence s courage onjanu