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lets start here in the uk where the new chancellor has been holding crunch talks with the prime minister on sunday to thrash out plans on tax and spending. jeremy hunt says his focus is on growth underpinned by stability. the value of the pound has gone up against the dollar in early trading today in asia. we will look at the market numbers in a moment because the new chancellor has the tough task of restoring economic credibility in the financial markets. our international trade corre...

the prime minister and scotlands first minister meet for the first time in inverness. one of the things they discussed was a law passed in scotland last month to make it easier to change gender. what im concerned about is the impact of the bill across the united kingdom, and as is entirely standard, the uk government would take advice on that. millions more people in england will be prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs to cut their risk of heart attacks and strokes. good morning and w...

employer asks you to work from home, so if you decide as a freelancer you fancy working from home, its not the same as if an employer ask you to work from home. you can claim that and you can also backdate it for the last couple of years as well, so its not a huge amount and every penny counts and it is worth about £60 a year, so you can do that, and obviously if you are living in rented accommodation and you are working part—time, then the rules are that your landlord should be pas...

hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we start here in the uk — where the bank of england is poised for the biggest rise in the cost of borrowing for 27 years — to rein in the soaring cost of living. economists expect the central bank to raise its main interest rate by half a percentage point — something it hasnt done in one go since 1995. that would take it to 1.75% the most expensive borrowing costs the uk has seen for almost a decade and a half — wit...

we start today with the problem staring at us every time we go to the shops and look at our bank balance: the cost of living crisis. today well get the latest estimate of inflation here in the uk for the month of may. well go back to april to set the scene: inflation that month was running at 9%, the highest rate here in the uk for a0 years. looking into the future, the bank of england has warned inflation might exceed 11% later this year as the prices of fuel and food put pressure on ...

Isjust not falling £300 billion in one single year. It is just not falling quite as fast as everyone had hoped, really. A lot of thatis everyone had hoped, really. A lot of that is due to the governments high interest Debt Payments which is not going to go away. I think in general this kind of dampens a bit of the chatter we have heard over the weekend about the chancellor hoping to cut taxes again in a fiscal event before the next election. That to cut taxes again in a fiscal event before the ...

These are some of the latest pictures from our team there. Joining us now on the line, the bbc� s tom symonds who has been in calais in Northern France this morning. Lets start with what has happened in the last few hours and those deaths. What more do we know . Were ustt in deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to work this deaths. What more do we know . Were just trying to wor...

of a large explosion. explosion there was panic and confusion in the hospital courtyard following the explosion. the news agency associated press, which supplied these pictures, said there was a fire in the area and the remnants of what appeared to be a missile. the hamas—run health ministry says 13 people were killed. people sheltering in the grounds also recorded the moment, and its aftermath. israels military says it is investigating reports that the areas around the hospitals hav...

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britains ecomomy is expected to have gone into reverse — shrinking by 0.1%. and if that continues for the rest of the year — two quarters of negative growth — that would constitute a recession. the bank of england has raised the cost of borrowing to a 15—year high, to try to rein in soaring prices, and thats weighing heavily on many businesses and households. on thursday, official data showed a steep jump in the number of people falling behind on mortgage payments. our cost—o...