home secretary did not break ministerial rules in the way she handled a speeding offence last year. the baby boy murdered by his parents on christmas day three years ago it s emerged finley boden was returned to them more quickly than social workers wanted. and welcome to the world of unified football where players with intellectual disabilities are part of the team. and coming up on bbc news. valencia are punished with a five match partial stadium closure over the racial abuse suffered by real madrid s vinicius junior this weekend. good afternoon. inflation the rate that prices are going up has fallen below 10% for the first time since last august. in the year to march, inflation was 10.1%. figures out today show that last month it slowed down to 8.7%. so prices are still rising but at a slower rate than before. part of the reason for that is a drop in the wholesale cost of energy though food price inflation is still close to a as year high. here s our economics
new figures here in the uk show that the rate at which prices are rising has fallen sharply, hitting single figures for the first time since last august. the annual rate for april fell to 8.7%, down from 10.1% in march, but still higher than predicted. a quick global comparison in the us, the rate of inflation stood at 4.9% in the 12 months to april, falling for the tenth month in a row. the eurozone rate rose slightly in april to 7%, but that figure is still down from 8.5% in february. the bbc s economics correspondent andy verity explained. if you want to be half full, at least it s in single digits now. for three months in a row, it s defied expectations it would drop into the single digits, and it stayed in double digits. so that has been coming down, and there are some nice signs like for example, petrol is cheaper than it was a year ago, some second hand cars have been coming down in price, and generally goods price inflation, which has been driving this, has subsid
it s down from just over 10% in march to 8.7% in the year to april. but the drop is less than many expected, driven by food prices which have continued to surge at their fastest rate in nearly 45 years. the uk looks poised to win a battle with spain and host a multi billion pound electric car battery plant in somerset. and a life changing medical breakthrough, as a man paralysed in a cycling accident walks again thanks to implants in his brain. later in the hour we was discussed bbc sport. good evening. there have been more details from south wales police about the events leading to the death of two boys in cardiff. but their account has raised fresh questions. security camera footage showed a police van following the teenage edges on the electric bike moments before the accident. kyrees, who was 16, and a 15 year old harvey evans were both killed. the police say they had no vehicles on the road where the crash happened. at the families are both boys have said the pair were b
Sebastian vettel past lewis hamilton, signalling an end to mercedes domination. And The Blues Guide Thinking that has led to new Cloud Formation Being recognised officially. Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far today, more of that glorious sunshine for custody, so you can expect more of these blue skies. A full forecast in the next half hour. Good morning. First, our main story. Police say they might never find out why Khalid Masood killed four people near the Houses Of Parliament on wednesday. Scotland yard now say they believe he was acting alone. The family of Pc Keith Palmer who was killed by masood have released a statement, thanking those who were with him when he died. Alexandra mackenzie reports. 82 seconds. That is all it took. In that time, Khalid Masood caused the deaths of three people on westminster bridge, and injured many more. He crashed his car into the railings, ran through a gate upper Houses Of Parliament, and stabbed pc keith wallis Pc Keith Palmer to d