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
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it s how you use your radar. we typically are focused on things that are moving fast. and so it s a bit more difficult to collect on slow moving objects like a balloon. and as they made adjustments, they were able to seize that. the secretary of defense giving an explanation for the string of unidentified objects over the northern united states. it comes as president joe biden may address today how his administration will deal with other objects in the future. also happening this morning, we ll get our first look at pieces of the grand jury report investigating donald trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. and meanwhile the former president s only challenger so far in 2024 kicks off her campaign with comments about her former boss and president biden that are getting a lot of attention this morning. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president j
for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the