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welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% — the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fal...

everywhere affects every one of us. warnings of blackouts to uk ministers... we do have good energy supplies in the uk. we can get through the winter. ..struggling to keep control after spooking the markets... i get it, and i... and i... are you sorry?! i changed the policy. are you sorry? of course im sorry. ..and plenty of the public. the question that confronts us, wherever you are this morning — how to be sure this... ..doesn�*t happen. this morning werejoined live in the aberd...

Crisis, i think, where we can no longerjustify letting them get away with that. While vulnerable families are pushed to the brink. Theyre raising their prices and theyjust dont understand that for us electricity is the difference between life and death. It is an Essential Need for ourfamily and our child. One, two, three, four, five. Lauren lives in birmingham with her partner sam and their two year old son arlo. Shes a Primary School teacher, and hes an illustrator. They take home just above th...

with the murder of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel. she was shot in her home in liverpool in august. king charles and the queen consort camilla visited dunfermline on their first official engagment since the period of royal mourning came to an end. and coming up we meet mr doodle — the man from kent who makes his living from doodling and has covered his whole house in drawings. hello, if you havejustjoined us welcome to bbc news. just to remind you we will have live coverage ...

energy bosses have held talks with the government to discuss plans to help customers struggling with soaring bills. ministers are promising more help in the coming months. a british man accused of being a member of the islamic state group is remanded in custody charged with terror offences. and the crisis of local swimming pools. the bbc finds more than 60 have closed across the uk in the past three years. hello. welcome to bbc news. welcome to bbc news. a&e departments in england had ...

river basin, close to the sea. the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. debts owed by consumers to energy suppliers have tripled since last september, according to the comparison service u—switch. almost a quarter of households owe an average of more than 200—pounds to their provider. households are thought to owe £1.3 billion to their energy suppliers — an all time high. it comes as eon — the energy supplier f...

office has an amber extreme heat warning in floors and temperatures could reach 37 in some of the south. —— in force. in sport, the beginning of the end for serena williams as the 23—time grand slam champion says the us open this month could be her last tournamnet. "a force of nature strong and kind" — olivia newton—john remembered. well speak to close friend and singer delta goodrem. its wednesday, the 10th of august. our main story. households owe more money to their energy...

senior republicans in the us condemn the fbis search of donald trumps florida home. the white house insists it only learned about the operation from media reports. four days of extreme weather is forecast in england and wales. it comes as environmental groups say some rivers are starting to dry up — seriously impacting wildlife. that, as western europe is facing its worst drought in decades — with water levels in rivers and reservoirs already running low — or even dry. a beluga w...

mr biden called the ruling "an exercise in raw political power" good saturday morning to you. now on bbc news: brenda emmanus explores the global impact of african fashion, and travels to ghana to look at how designers are putting culture and traditions front and centre of their designs. african creatives are shifting the landscape of fashion by simply being themselves. there has evolved a single—mindedness when coupled with creativity has produced a generation of innovators who have...

and nowadays, youve got something called a calculator, and these are just marvellous things. anybody that gets one of these, it does all the work for you. in other news... the investigation into the murder of nine—year—old olivia pratt—korbel continues — police are questioning a former drug dealer, who was the intended target of the attack. a think—thank campaigning on behalf of low—and—middle—income families has warned that "a catastrophe is coming this winter", unless...