Wigan and newport. Lets speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. How rapidly have rents been rising . The bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. Between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. For the areas which have seen the biggest increases. This graph tells a story. This is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31 . These are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. Manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. But six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. These are towns within touching distance of cities. They have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. Nearly 39 over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15 injust the last year. One of the Estate Agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasnt seen anything like it, he described a staggering. Baez hasnt seen anything like it, he described a
And Christian Fraser is in london. The clock is ticking and President Trump has just one day to make an important decision on the iran deal. The trouble is that even at this late stage, no one knows whether hes going to bring back us sanctions against tehran tomorrow or not. In a deliberate display of unity, britain, france, germany and the European Union today all urged him not to blow up the deal. Its known as thejcpoa. British foreign secretary Boris Johnson went so far as to challenge mr trump to prove there was Something Better than the current iran deal. The eus Foreign Policy chief also stressed that the deal is working and iran is in compliance. The European Union remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreement is, including to make sure that the lifting of Nuclear Related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran, including benefits for the uranium people. For the iranians are people. For the iranians are peop
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