Prices have increased at their fastest rate in nearly six years. Inflation rose to 3. 1 per cent in november as the squeeze on households continued. Consumers are facing pressure from rising food prices in the lead up to christmas with Grocery Price rises reaching the highest level since 2013. The governor of the bank of england mark carney will now have to write a letter to the chancellor to explain how the bank intends to bring inflation back to its two per cent target. Our economics correspondent andy verity has this report. At this baker on the outskirts of barnsley, its not just at this baker on the outskirts of barnsley, its notjust the bread rolls that are on the rise, its buns, loads and mince pies end up in pubs and restaurants and as far afield as the middle east and asia. Ingredients like butter and flour have shot up in the past year and a half, so it has had to do everything it can to make sure its costs are covered. One thing we have done with suppliers is to take a radic
Monica airlines, has gone into administration. The company has begun laying off staff at its luton headquarters. The Civil Aviation authority is flying its passengers back back to the uk. The chancellor says there needs to be unity and focus on brexit so that the uk can secure a deal that will be good for jobs and prosperity. Violence at the ballot box in spain the European Commission says catalonias independence referendum was not legal and calls on both sides to talk. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. At least 50 people have died and more than 400 have been wounded, after a gunman opened fire at Country Music festival in las vegas. Its the deadliest gun attack in recent us history. Police say the suspect is a 64 year old local man who has been named as Stephen Paddock. He opened fire on the outdoor event from the thirty second floor of the mandalay casino hotel on the citys sunset strip. Police say the suspect killed himself before they arrived and had more than ten guns. Video
Film review with mark kermode. Now its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Heres whats coming up this evening. Wales without gareth bale remain on course for a place in a world cup qualifying play offs. The ecb confirms ben stokes will not travel to australia for the ashes as it stands. A West Yorkshire derby in the grand final, veterans against debutants. We will the grand final, veterans against debuta nts. We will take the grand final, veterans against debutants. We will take a look at where the match will be lost and won between leeds and castleford. All of that to calm. We will also hear from Anthony Crolla ahead of his fight with ricky burns. And we will look ahead to the final of the womens world gymnastic championships. First football, pat nevin, former Scotland International is here to look at how the home nations are getting on in world cup qualifiers. Wales havejust under 20 minutes to go and they are 1 0 up, tom lawrence with the wales goal, fantastic to sco
Bill cosby denies the charges against him. The conservatives have been warned that their chaltion to the social care in england could fail because of variations in how some councils administer the payments. Well bring you all the details. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. The green party launch their General Election manifesto at around 10. 30am. Well bring that to you live and well look at how internal facebook documents appear to show that in some cases its moderators tolerates violent threats, bullying and self harm. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Labour is promising english students who Start University courses in england this autumn wont have to pay tuition fees if the party wins the election. Labour has pledged to abolish fees from 2018, b
Operations. Really interesting detail is that salman abedi, the manchester attacker, and also khalid masood, who committed the westminster attacks several weeks ago, were both former subjects of these enquiries. They will not live suspects at the time of their attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fa ct attacks. Its quite a jittery sort of fact to learn, that they had been under suspicion that they had been deemed safe enough to move on enquiries from. You wonder how the Security Services are meant to cope with that number of potential suspects. Extraordinary. 20,000 who featured in that previous risk category, which is pretty scary. I heard an interesting debate on radio 2 today about, if we did not renew trident, we would release 400, sorry, £40 billion. Somebody was suggesting, we could put that straight into Security Services, because it takes 30 officers to monitor one suspect. Its incredibly labour intensive. They are just overwhelmed with work at the moment. There isjust too muc