Its tuesday the 12th of september. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The cost of living has risen again, blamed on the higher cost of imported goods like clothes and shoes. Its now back at the peak of 2. 9 it last hit in may this year. Our Business Correspondent ben thompson is here to explain. Ill let you talk us through the latest figures. Inflation is the cost of living, it shows how quickly things dont work the price of things dont work the price of things is rising. It has hit 2. 9 . Todays figure was expected to come ina todays figure was expected to come in a little lower than that. Why are prices rising so quickly . It is a cost of imported things, issues, household goods. All of those sorts of things. They are more expensive because after we voted to leave the eu, the value of the pound fell which means things we import from overseas are more expensive. It is the first indication we are getting all those things we buy from overseas are adding to the overall cost of things that we
Have made their way here to escape the violence at home. Also this hour, tributes to a giant of british theatre. Sir peter hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare company,has died at the age of 86. Give me actors, and a text, and i instinctively know what to do. And a stones throw away; a plan to ease Traffic Congestion around stonehenge is given the go ahead. For the first time in seven years, the government is partially lifting its pay crap. Prison officers in england and wales will receive a pay rise of 1. 7 this year, above the 1 freeze which has been in place for yea rs. Freeze which has been in place for years. Police will receive a 1 pay rise plus a 1 bonus for the years. But unions are demanding far more for all public second for workers given current levels of inpolice station which today hit 2. 9 . Well ta ke station which today hit 2. 9 . Well take about inflation later this hour but first this report from ian watson at the tuc conference in brighton. Police and prison office
A visiting the other hospitals and showing the support of the city and then obviously we have our congressman ruben cueing he is in town to also show us our support. So any other questions or the members standing before you. Well we have to establish what his motivation is person and theres motivating factors associated with terrorism other than distraught person just intending to cause mass casualties before we label with that itll be a matter of process. No we have not. No we have not we have not located any items within the room or his house at this point. Yes maam it was a matter of normal practice and whenever we are dynamic entry. When. We have information hes been there since the twenty eighth of september. So i have no idea as to whether he remained in the house keepers remunerate the room or not thats just a matter of continue to investigate. All right thank you very much well provide you an update probably in the next two hours thank you. So youve been listening to an update
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Fifty eight dead and five hundred fifty injured after a gunman attacks a las vegas Music Festival its the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History. Defiance on the streets but in the political sphere the moves towards mediation between spain and catalonia over secession and the British Government launches a massive operation to repatch read tens of thousands of passengers stranded by the lapse of Monarch Airlines. Im joined again with your days sports news including barcelona is political football the company its playing behind closed doors had nothing to do with security in everything to do with the catalan referendum. A gunman has killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred others at a country Music Festival in las vegas its the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History and the countrys at two hundred and seventy third this year alone President Trump has called it an act of pure evil police say sixty four year old Stephen Paddick opened fire from the th