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You've noticed that food is more expensive. in the last year, the price of eggs has jumped more than 35%. a dozen eggs will now cost you about $1.84, last september it was $1.35. the price of bacon is up more than 28% in the past year from 5.52 per pound to more than $7. brief prices also up, price of a sirloin jumped 25% since september of 2020. a growing supply chain crisis is driving much of the price surge and limiting supplies. the bottoming neck is also threatening to derail the economic recovery from the pandemic. agriculture secretary tom vilsack is with us now. mr. secretary, thank yo...

Apps, organisations and initiatives. prince william plans to take some of his winners to the big climate change conference in glasgow next month to provide inspiration, and maybe a bit of pressure too. we can't have more clever speak and clever words but not enough action. and that is why the earthshot prize is so important as we are trying to create action. the prize itself will stimulate solutions and action that a lot of people have not necessarily produced yet, so i'm hoping that the prize will galvanise a lot of people in positions of responsibility to, you know, go further, bigger and ac...

The first earthshot prizes in a ceremony this weekend. i wasjust coming back home from school, and i noticed the ironing vendors in my street using charcoal. the 15 finalists include solar—powered gadgets, apps, organisations, and initiatives — all competing for royal recognition. adam fleming, bbc news. and you can see the full interview on newscast on bbc one at 11.35pm tonight. a new effort is under way to try and count walruses from space. it's a project that's been set up by the british antarctic survey and wwf — and they are asking the public to help. they say getting an idea of ho...

But it has also found that to offer the good service it wants to it's having to pay higher wages. if we're going to start paying our staff as professionals and treating them as professionals, then they need to have a decent living wage, which is what we as a business have started to do. and of course that is going to have a knock—on effect on how profitable our business is. whereas we're happy to take a slice of the pie, our slice, and give it away, and share it with our staff, at some point, some of that pie is going to have to come from the customer as well. 0verall, consumer prices were u...

We have to pay them a decent living wage, which is what we have started to do, and that will have a knock—on effect as to how profitable our business is, and while we are happy to take a slice of the pie, our slice, and give it away and share it with our staff, at some point some of that— pie is going to have to come from the customer as well. overall, consumer prices were up by 3.2%. stripping out the effect of eat out to help out, it was 2.8%. the biggest single factor was petrol, with unleaded up 21.5 p over the year to £1.35 a litre. like the bank of england, the office for national s...