another warning on energy bills half of all uk households could face fuel poverty this winter. a record day for channel crossings in small boats on monday nearly 1,300 people arrived in the uk. and man s emotional best friends how dogs can cry with joy. and coming up on the bbc news channel: after ellen white s retirement, jill scott is the latest lioness to call time on her football career after 20 years at the top. good evening. police in liverpool have named the nine year old who was shot dead in her home last night. olivia pratt korbel s death has sent shock waves through her community and beyond after she was shot in the chest by a gunman who was targeting a man who d run into the house. let s go straight ot our correspondent danny savage who s at the scene. danny. i think it was shocking enough for many people to wake up to the news a nine year old girl had been shot home, but then came the detail and i think this is the most tragic series of evends surround
disabled grandfather stabbed to death on his mobility scooter. these are not age groups that are generally victims of violent crime and if you look at the surveys that have been done, back to 1994, violence has been falling. but if you look at offences reported to the police, gun offences for example, there is a different story. look at these figures. the gun crime rate in england and wales, you can see it fell until about 20 15 and then started to rise. during the pandemic dropped after. there is no yet no sign of it coming back, but these figures don t include the summer and we have seen shootings in merseyside and in london. another set of figures for assaults using knives, again from 2015 a rise, up to the point of pandemic. a dip during the pandemic. but the number starts to go pandemic. but the number starts to 9° up pandemic. but the number starts to go up again after the pandemic and