the prime minister meets retailers and farmers to work out how to boost production and lower prices. we are live in the newly crowned world surfing reserve of north devon, but elements of surfing are not as wild and natural as you might think. we have been investigating. is it the end of the line for leicester? after defeat to liverpool the former premier league champions look destined for the championship with just two games remaining to save their season. and good morning, quite a cool, fresh start to the day to day but plenty of sunshine in the forecast. still a few showers in scotland, northern ireland, northern and eastern england. all of the details here. it s tuesday the 15th may. a british businessman, whose foreign companies were at the centre of an international money laundering investigation, has been revealed as a major donor to the conservative party, by the bbc. javad marandi has donated more than £750,000 pounds to the party. he isn t subject to criminal actio
for primary producers, that they are achieving a fair return for what they re producing, because if they re not, they re going to cut back what they re producing, which is what we saw with eggs last year, what we re seeing with tomatoes and cucumbers this year, lowest levels of production since records began in 1985. so government has a role to act. new research from the consumer group which shows that the price of some supermarket products has doubled over the past year. for example, it found that a 300 gram packet of cottage cheese from lidl went up from an average of 67p in 2022 to £1.34 this year. that s twice the price. a four pack of brown onions, and morrisons has gone up by more than 90%, from 65p to £1.24. and at asda, which found that a packet of frankfurters has risen from £1.25 in 2022 to £2.42, an increase of 94%. three main factors energy, labour, and commodity prices. and all of those three have combined
laced fake prescription pills. this year lab testing found that six out of every ten fake pills seized nationwide contains a lethal dose of fentanyl. up from four out of ten last year. 2022 saw a record increase in deadliness and supply of the drugs. the dea seized over 50 million, more than double last year and nearly 11,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. that s essentially enough to kill every single american. if you look at this. we have two milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill. that s a fraction of the size of a penny. to put in other words, if this one gram packet of sweet and low was filled with pure fentanyl it is enough to kill 500 people. the dea seized the equivalent of 5 million packets of sweet and low filled with fentanyl powder this year. astounding. look at this map. the deadly fentanyl originates