with malta and north macedonia with a shoulder injury. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a senior officer involved in the stephen lawrence murder case was corrupt, according to a secret metropolitan police report from the year 2000 uncovered by the bbc. it said ray adams was cleared by a corruption probe which relied on false testimony from a man linked to the family of one of stephen s killers. the revelation contradicts years of police denial about the role of corrupt officers in the case. daniel de simone reports. the spectre of police corruption has long haunted the stephen lawrence murder. for three decades, scotland yard kept the secret we now expose. the met knew about it, that s what s so shocking. today we reveal a met police report concluded that a senior officer involved in the case, ray adams, was corrupt. the early failure to bring stephen s killers to justice has led to suspicion that corruption infected the investigation. the father of one kill
we start with some breaking news. the bbc has learned that a police officer working as part they were telling us they were contacted by the gambling, and these are these officers that are allocated in this and don t like incense. in this is it. obviously, they will hear things about what a prime minister is played inc. . they were looking into these alleged bets around one of their officers. the metro police telling me that they matter was immediately referred to officers in the directorate of professional standards. they open investigation. to put it in another language, while suspended, the officer was arrested on monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. he was taken into custody and vales further. the gambling commission is leading the investigation. the investigation by the police is running in parallel to the. news that we can bring you the an officer very close to the prime minister charge with over bets on the timing of the general election. clearly, a co
thanks forjoining us on bbc news. uk inflation has hit the bank of england s target of 2% for the first time in almost three years. the figure which tells us the rate at which prices are rising hit the target in may, coming down from 2.3% in april. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. gary in sussex used to have seven butchers shops. he now has four. forced to make cuts as he s been caught between soaring costs over the last few years and customers with lean budgets looking for value. but things are easing. the price is probably 10 15% more than they were at the beginning of covid, but the actual price of the product is pretty much stationary now. well, we hope it s stationary. it would be nice if it would come down, but i can t see that, not in the foreseeable future anyway. it s global food and energy costs, which triggered the rise in inflation to ii% in 2022, which have also helped it fall to the 2% target, along with the rate rises over the last
the figure which tells us the rate at which prices are rising hit the bank of england s target of 2% in may, coming down from 2.3% in april. our chief economics correspondent dharshini david reports. gary in sussex used to have seven butchers shops. he now has four. forced to make cuts as he s been caught between soaring costs over the last few years and customers with lean budgets looking for value. but things are easing. the price is probably 10 15% more than they were at the beginning of covid, but the actual price of the product is pretty much stationary now. well, we hope it s stationary. it would be nice if it would come down, but i can t see that, not in the foreseeable future anyway. it s global food and energy costs, which triggered the rise in inflation to 11% in 2022, which have also helped it fall to the 2% target, along with the rate rises over the last couple of years. as you may have noticed, the prices of goods are rising more slowly as the impact of the w
that means workers, public and private, are getting poorer. in the public sector, average wages are no higher than they were in 2005. from refuse collectors to ambulance staff, that large real time pay cut has prompted strikes across a public sector suffering an acute acute shortage of staff. 467,000 working days were lost because of labour disputes in november, the highest for 12 years. but some economists welcomed a stronger set of figures than they expected. we are still seeing job vacancies exceeding 1.1 million, for example. that is quite remarkable, it is quite striking and i think it will perhaps add pressure on the bank of england to raise interest rates further in the coming months. on the latest indicators, employers reported even bigger pay rises in the year to december of 7.7% as firms compete for staff from a small pool of available workers. that too will add to pressure on interest rate setters at the bank of england to raise interest rates sharply when they meet next mon