there s new guidance for health professionals to spot eating disorders after hospital admissions rose by 84% in the last five years. the number of young men affected is higher than ever before. the line up for the queen s platinum jubilee star studded concert has been revealed, and it includes soul legend diana ross. rangers suffer an agonising penalty shootout defeat in their fifth european final as eintracht frankfurt picked up their second europa league trophy. ministers are facing growing calls to bring forward large increases in benefits and the state pension which will be paid from next april. charities want benefits to increase now to help people struggling with the cost of living, particularly energy bills. last night the chancellor rushi sunak warned the next few months will tough as he spoke to business leaders about the rising cost of living. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. high and getting higher. prices are rising faster than they have for dec
Environmental campaigners have already criticised the plans to scrap that key Climate Change targets. Indeed, Friends Of The Earth Scotland branded it the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament. We will be live in holyrood for that statement which we are expecting around 25 past two. But first i want to take a look at some of the days other news. A conservative mp has been suspended by the Parliamentary Party after claims he misused campaign funds. The Times Newspaper alleges he use the local party funds to pay off what he reportedly called bad people who had locked him in a flat. He strongly disputes the allegations. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago and says it is investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent reports. The honesty needs to start now, the lack of clarity needs to stop. This was marked last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. The allegation about his o
zero secretary in parliamentjust shortly. they are still taking questions on housing at the moment. we should be hearing from her. parliament does have a tendency to run a bit late sometimes. there was a government briefing to journalists just a short time ago, some of the questions that included whether the first minister ever believed in the 2030 target and the government were saying that 2030 was a stretch and ambitious, and it is ambitious as well. preparing for the net zero secretary to take her place to give her statement. to take her place to give her statement- to take her place to give her statement. . , ., ., statement. that will be followed by some questions statement. that will be followed by some questions from statement. that will be followed by some questions from the statement. that will be followed by l some questions from the opposition. the conservative saying this is an embarrassment for the government and a similar line from the labour party as well. arian
is having those discussions and no decisions have been made. so everyone is weighing in with their favourite bit of support that could be offered, and you can see that with this idea of the windfall tax as well. it has been put forward by opposition parties that you tax the excess profits of the oil and gas companies, who are making billions because of the increase in global oil and gas prices. at the moment, the covenant has a holding position which is that they are not in favour of it, but they are not ruling it out if it s needed further down the line. government ministers are now picking their favourite half of that sentence, with some saying we don t like tax rises, it shouldn t happen at all, and other saying actually, it could be a good idea. so there is some growing pains around the government position on the windfall tax as well, so when you read the papers you can see one half of the government briefing against the other. ., ~ , ., government briefing against the other. . ~
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