bills will come down about £430 starting injuly, good news, hopefully we are over the worst and they will keep coming down. but we need to make sure this doesn t happen again and they keep coming down, so we need to have more energy, so we are investing more in renewable energy, building more nuclear power stations, but also making sure that we beget more energy here at home that we will needin energy here at home that we will need in the next few decades as we transition to cleaner future, so we are investing in that also. is another area, weekly shop, gone up far too much in the past three months, especially. we are looking at the supermarket, making sure they are behaving responsibly unfairly when it comes to pricing all those products to make sure we are easing the burden is on your weekly shop. when it comes to jobs, most of you probably reading the paper that businesses everywhere really need people to work at the moment, and they are finding a hard to find them, almos
in sport, he s done it luke littler s dream run continues, as the 16 year old becomes the youngest person to reach tonight s world darts final. tha nkfully thankfully not as windy today but there are now over 300 flood warnings across the uk following storm henk. at least the prospects are a little bit drier. full forecast on breakfast. good morning. it s wednesday, 3rd january. our main story. junior doctors in england are about to begin a six day strike the longest in nhs history. tens of thousands of routine operations and appointments are likely to be postponed as hospitals focus on emergency care. members of the doctors union, the bma, have asked for a 35% pay increase. the government says that is unrealistic. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! a new year, but still no end in sight to the junior doctors pay dispute, which started last spring. the six day walk out is their longest yet, and comes
and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who s died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency, 35% waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls ever, record waits in a&e, new figures today show in blunt terms the pressure the nhs is under. martin started feeling chest pains in his home in east sussex in november. his family rang three times for an ambulance. we kept thinking, the ambulance will pull up any minute, it is going to ar
on patients? in what impact is this likely to have on patients? what impact is this likely to have on atients? . , , on patients? in the last few minutes the unior on patients? in the last few minutes the junior doctors on patients? in the last few minutes the junior doctors went on patients? in the last few minutes the junior doctors went on on patients? in the last few minutes the junior doctors went on strike, i the junior doctors went on strike, tens of thousands ofjunior doctors right across england. they will be handing over now to the consultants, who will be taking over. the impact will be huge for patients in the sense that appointments and operations have been cancelled, tens of thousands, and that will be an underestimate because many would not have been made once they knew the strike date. the waiting list is longer. but for patients arriving we can expect long waits in a&e for those who are not in emergency. the consultants and specialist doctors will not be doing