Related. With more heavy Snow Forecast across Northern Scotland this weekend well talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. Dont, dont shes kicked him out and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default Domestic Energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. Ofgem defended the decision, saying that its in the interest of customers to start allowing Energy Companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. The price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. But this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers . The price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose discounted deals have expir
their celebrations, that s for sure. also celebrating today, is kate cross. she s been named in england s squad for the ashes test with australia after recovering from illness. the pace bowler needed multiple rounds of antibiotics to treat a parasite infection, but has been included in a is player squad for the four day test at trent bridge starting on 22nd june. she said on social media, it s always so special . the test is followed by three t20s and three one day internationals. full details of the squad are on the bbc sport website and app. it s a huge day for women s sport in england. last year was the baroness this morning euros. this summer at the ashes. the winners of the ashes in particular, for us, i think is much as we can we would encourage people to get out. and watch what we are hoping will be some really entertaining cricket. meanwhile, the men s ashes starts in four days time and australia got the perfect warm up by beating india on sunday to become world tes
and said that his career was now over, and he had lost everything. in his first broadcast interview since he quit itv, he said the relationship only began several years after his first meeting with the young man, who was then 15. mr schofield strongly denies grooming him, but says he regrets the relationship and lying about it when itv tried to investigate. he also said he believed that homophobia had fuelled the media coverage of events. he s been talking to amol rajan. phillip, come on in. good to see you. thank you. thanks for coming in. you ve had quite the week, how are you? um, ithink. i understand how caroline flack felt. last week, if my daughters hadn t been there. ..then i wouldn t be here. and they ve. .. ..guarded me. it s like a weird. ..numbness. you feel strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. why? why do you want to do this interview? because there is an innocent person here who didn t do anything wrong. ijust have to say, stop with him. ok with m
walking around the capital and giving their viewpoints, saying how they plan to vote. lots of republicans expressing their disappointment at the bill. there s a lot of confidence, president biden is confident it will pass, the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy as well. and a key figure people might not have heard of, the majority whip for the republican party. they need 218 votes, the republicans control the boat with 222. he said he is confident republicans will pass it through the house, and he says those making the noise haven t probably fully read the 99 page bill and when they do, he thinks they will get on board. ., , ., board. you just mention the republicans board. you just mention the republicans control - board. you just mention the republicans control the - republicans control the house, are we seeing any defectors? there is the house freedom caucus, they are members of the republican party who expressed a lot of anger yesterday at a press conference. they don