from £1,900 a year or so tojust £1,620 from april. that s a fall of more than £300 a year, or 16%. just a reminder, 0fgem sets this cap every three months, it s the maximum suppliers can charge per unit and these figures represent a typical bill if you use more, you pay more. we spoke to dr craig lowrey from cornwall insight and asked him why the situation in the middle east isn t pushing up energy prices. the situation we have is that the uk market and indeed the european market is being relatively well supplied by liquefied natural gas cargoes from america, so that is just coming straight across the atlantic and, as a consequence, what is occurring in the red sea isn t currently affecting uk or european suppliers. energy, of course, plays a big role in that basket of goods that adds up to inflation. this good news obviously, does this look like the cost of living is starting to ease now? can i tell my wife she can put the heating back on? well, certainly what we saw wh
in place across the uk as a powerful storm sweeps towards the country. winds have already reached 90mph in snowdonia, in wales and storm isha is still hundreds of miles away. scotrail has announced that all rail services will be suspended from 7pm that sjust under two hours from now. planes are still landing at heathrow airport, in london, but some have faced difficulty. at least one british airways flight had to take off again just as it was coming in. you can see itjust managed to get one wheel down there. some flights due to arrive at cardiff airport have been cancelled. we re keeping a watch on several different locations across the uk this afternoon these are pictures from shetland. you can see the webcam is pause there, possibly due to the winds coming. this is porthleven harbour, in cornwall. again, you can see the swell crashing up against the town s seawall. and this is a webcam on berneray island, which is also off the scottish coast and storm isha is alread
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. and we begin with the art of the deal that never was. tonight the washington post reports that donald trump rejected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case and to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president, but that never materialized because trump listened to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. now, cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activist tom fitten in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake. and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. and behind the scenes, cnn is
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. we begin with the arch of the deal that never was. tonight, the washington post reports that donald trump projected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, chris skies, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case. to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president. but that another materialized because trump listen to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activists tom in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake, and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. behind the scenes, cnn is also learnin
the powerful iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah, says it s launched a barrage of rockets at northern israel, in response to an explosion in beirut that killed a top hamas official earlier this week. a statement said they hit an air traffic control base in meron with sixty two rockets. the israeli military said it had identified about forty launches from lebanon, and that it had responded, without giving details. these are live pictures from the lebanese israel border we will keep across those and bring you any developments from there over the course of the hour. the eu s top diplomat. josep borrell is in lebanon for talks on the situatoion in the middle east. live now to our correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. this is what hezbollah said is the response to the killing of the hamas leader but how calibrated is it? it is interesting because this is happening one day after the influential leader of hezbollah gave a speech and said this attack that happened here in beir