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animals has gone up. 0urfeed has gone up 50%, our electricity has trebled, water has gone up probably 15%, labour 10%, so everything has gone up astronomically. at one stage last year, it became too expensive to even produce these eggs, leading to shortages in the shops. have the supermarkets started paying you more for the eggs? yes, it has gone up. it did take quite a while really to filter through the system. then obviously some people like ourselves took the decision that we stopped producing for a while. they're paying a rate now that it's sustainable to carry on producing eggs. and in among all the symbols of easter, this year higher prices are fast becoming a tradition as well. hannah miller, bbc news. plenty of treats here, and i have
that ends up being key in terms of potentially saving lives like you saw with peter. >> i don't know if my kid's school has this. i think and i a lot of parents -- >> i asked at my own kid's school. everybody should do that. >> all right. doctor, thank you for doing this piece. you can read the essay about keeping high-schoolers safe on cnn.com. >> there was someone in the lobby a couple months ago that went into cardiac arrest. >> really? >> and we have one in the lobby. they came to borrow ours and saved the person. >> it's amazing versus cpr how much better it is. astronomically better do that than cpr. during the pandemic, mark marin wasn't sure if he would ever do stand-up comedy again. three years later he is back with his patented optimism and positivity. sarcasm. >> i don't want to be negative, but i don't think anything is ever going to get better ever
asian people have increased astronomically, i would just expect that the head of an academic institution would just behave with some more sensitivity than he did. and even that apology, we'reual human. yes, we are human. we make mistakes. again, in your role, those mistakes are unacceptable. >> yeah. and, look, it seems like when someone says something insensitive or racist or hateful they go on this rehabilitation tour where they are meeting with interdisciplinary teams, meeting with the specific groups that they offended. this is what chancellor keon is doing. he said in that statement that he had formed a diversity equity inclusion team in the fall and that he is heading an interdisciplinary team to address issues important to the aaip community. is this lip service or is it
welcome. millions of people face an 80% rise in energy bills because there has been a new price cap. let's talk about that with jack munroe, and author and anti—poverty campaigner. and the finance specialist at royal london and kevin peachey, a personalfinance peachey, a personal finance corresspondent. peachey, a personalfinance corresspondent. let'sjump into the questions. but sarah, why are we seeing the sort of increases? we often talk about things being unprecedented, but the scale of the increase that people are going to see down the line, is very scary? it is frightening and unprecedented. in terms of why, the gas prices have ridden astronomically on the wholesale markets. they were starting to rise before the russian invasion of ukraine because after that covid lock down ease, there was
pay whatever it is not going to pay for the state i'm not going to go to the movies and i'm not going to drive my car i cannot afford to buy gas in it. that is what is happening. i do think though gasoline is with us since we cannot live without. we probably would see a rise in prices later in the summer. in the short term i may see a dip. ask broader economic of the high gasoline prices during summer travel. you could you mention hotels, mike, the price of the lodging has gone up astronomically as well. we can live in the country as much a $600 more a month.
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at a key point in the pandemic, the government signed a £107 million deal to buy ppe from a northern ireland sweet company. lyndsey telford investigates what happened next. it might not look like much, but last year, this box was worth an awful lot of money. during the global scramble for ppe in the early stages of the pandemic, the cost of protective gear shot up astronomically. this box is part of a ppe deal worth over £100 million. this involved a northern irish sweet company. people were dying. it was almostjust buy as much as you can. it may not be worth its weight in gold any more, but today this box gives us a window into the pandemonium that surrounded ppe purchasing last year, because it arrived in the uk at such great expense, health officials could not even agree what these items were or how they could be used in hospitals.
lyndsey telford investigates what happened next. it might not look like much, but last year, this box was worth an awful lot of money. during the global scramble for ppe in the early stages of the pandemic, the cost of protective gear shot up astronomically. this box was part of a ppe deal worth over £100 million. this involved a northern irish sweet company. people were dying. it was almost, just buy as much as you can. it may not be worth its weight in gold any more but, today, this box gives us a window into the pandemonium that surrounded ppe purchasing last year. because when it arrived in the uk, at such great expense, health officials could not even agree what these items were or how they could be used in hospitals.
now on bbc news... at a key point in the pandemic, the government signed a £107 million deal to buy ppe from a northern ireland sweet company. lyndsey telford investigates what happened next. it might not look like much, but last year, this box was worth an awful lot of money. during the global scramble for ppe in the early stages of the pandemic, the cost of protective gear shot up astronomically. this box is part of a ppe deal worth over £100 million. this involved a northern irish sweet company. people were dying. it was almostjust buy as much as you can. it may not be worth its weight in gold any more, but today this box gives us a window into the pandemonium that surrounded
if you're boosted, that will be a big point of emphasis for the president on tuesday, you are protected from serious illness and hospitalization. that is the dichotomy that this white house is now dealing with, and at the same time i've also been told that white house officials have been looking at ways to shift the public focus to hospitalization, severe illness and death rather than just this case count which is going to rise astronomically in the weeks ahead. but that doesn't mean the hospitalizations and the deaths will follow in the same way that it did in previous portions of the pandemic. >> that's something i want to touch on. you and kevin liptack did a stellar piece on this. quote, we're getting to the point where it's about severity. it's not about cases, it's about severity. which seemed like a preview of what the white house is going for. katheryn, that message, it's nuanced. can they get that out? how does it apply to day-to-day life for americans?