an 18 year old man has also been arrested on suspicion of affray. hsbc has become the latest big uk lender to start the year with mortgage interest rate cuts. it comes after the uk s biggest lender, the halifax, cut some rates by almost one percentage point. 0ur cost of living correspondent kevin peachey is here. so, what s the prospect for people with mortgages in the coming year? more than1.5 more than 1.5 million homeowners are going to be renewing their mortgages because their current deal is expiring this year. that new deal is likely to be more expensive so this renewed competition between lenders is really good news for them, it may relieve some of that financial pain and might make it a bit less intense. rememberthat and might make it a bit less intense. remember that landlords, the pressure on them my teaser little and that could feed through to tenants who may see those rent rises go a little less sharply. all
and let s start with this, sam, because your company works with big uk brands like boots, the pharmaceutical giant plus marks and spencer. what kind of advice are you giving companies about reaching menopause age women? that s a great question, aaron. thank you. so, gen m, the menopause partner of brands, exists to help brands understand this audience better and to support them, to empower them, to inspire them to better support through improved products, services, better education, awareness, etc. i think the other important thing to say is that everything that we do is underpinned by research. and the first report we commissioned, we called it the invisibility report back in 2020. and it was this data, aaron, that we believe really compelled and provided the catalyst for these businesses to come on board. a1% saying they felt lonely,
sam simister, thank you so much forjoining me. and let s start with this, sam, because your company works with big uk brands like boots, the pharmaceutical giant plus marks and spencer. what kind of advice are you giving companies about reaching menopause age women? that s a great question, aaron. thank you. so, gen m, the menopause partner of brands, exists to help brands understand this audience better and to support them, to empower them, to inspire them to better support through improved products, services, better education, awareness, etc. i think the other important thing to say is that everything that we do is underpinned by research. and the first report we commissioned, we called it the invisibility report back in 2020. and it was this data, aaron, that we believe really compelled and provided the catalyst for these
growing every year. so my next guest, she s a pioneer at researching and working with brands to sell products to women experiencing symptoms. sam simister, thank you so much forjoining me. and let s start with this, sam, because your company works with big uk brands like boots, the pharmaceutical giant plus marks and spencer. what kind of advice are you giving companies about reaching menopause age women? that s a great question, aaron. thank you. so, gen m, the menopause partner of brands, exists to help brands understand this audience better and to support them, to empower them, to inspire them to better support through improved products, services, better education, awareness, etc. i think the other important thing to say is that everything that we do is underpinned by research. and the first report we commissioned, we called it the invisibility report back in 2020. and it was this data, aaron,
paul, many licence fee payers who ve long been watchers of the news channel are really unhappy that they no longer get a dedicated uk bbc news service. and it s not like you can use as boring right now. are you going to have to rethink this? well, again, there s a couple of things there. as you said at the beginning, the channel operates in a couple of ways. there s a combined feed when it s the same content, it s going out to the world and to the uk. but we also have periods when the feed is separate as well with a global feed and a uk feed. and so obviously then that is very uk facing. we also have the ability to break stories out and spend more time on on a big uk story through the day. for example, when those terrible events in nottingham occurred a couple of weeks ago and we were able to spend the whole day covering those events for uk audiences. and it s interesting because we ve just run some audience an audience survey, which is just run by our audience team which hasjust come