To advise on immediate measures to improve building safety. The Bank Of England issues a financial warning, as Consumer Borrowing rises at its fastest rate in more than a decade. Google is fined more than £2 billion by the European Commission for illegally favouring its own shopping services. And 50 years on from the first cash machine, we take a look at the changing face of banking. Hello, good evening. Welcome to Bbc News At Five. Scotlands First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her government is delaying plans for a second Independence Referendum. Speaking in holyrood, she said she Still Believes the country needs to be given a choice about its future, but not until after the Brexit Process. She said that since the general election, in which the snp lost 21 seats, she had listened to voters, and understood their concerns about another poll. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon is in edinburgh. Nicola sturgeon call this a reset, but what in effect i think it means is whilst a
more than $15 trillion in growing. politicians are deadlocked on how to fix it. only you can tackle your own personal debt. lynnette is the founder of askthemoneycoach.com. are americans back to their bad old ways? we saw consumer credit up. are people more comfortable or living paycheck to paycheck? i think they are living paycheck to paycheck. we saw debt in november. american consumers added $20 billion to their credit cards. i think that people have this sense of frugal fatigue. we have hunkered down so long. it s the holidays, i have deprived myself so long, i m going to go spend. some people are comfortable because the economics numbers are going down. i asked people what they are doing to stay out of debt. one guy said save is my diet. stop eating and stop spending money. it s not easy. it s easy to say it s a money diet. how do you keep the resolutions? don t see it as a diet. if it is a diet, you are debrooifing yourself. if you get great advice about just use
it s going to work. consumer credit up by the largest amount in two years. that s enormous. and, again, that s what he wants. in fact, if you look at the economic indicators that we ve had over the last week, everybody s talking about unemployment. but if you look at things like consumer confidence, if you look like housing, if you look at things like credit, there have been some real positive signs. sure have. so what we have here is a gamble, a political gamble by this president that the economy is going to get better, and he s going to get credit for it. now, if you re on the republican side, let me tell you that what i m hear trg republicans is, you know what? we may be helping this president get reelected because you get the tax extension, you get a better economy coming, and then people are going to be more saying, well, you know what? who the republicans have, it s obama. okay, we know this guy. his personal approval ratings remain pretty high as opposed to his performance