Bills. Football pundit and presenter jermainejenas says he s consulting his lawyers, after being sacked by the bbc over allegations of inappropriate behaviour. England are on top going into day three of the first test against sri lanka, as half centuries from harry brook and jamie smith nudge them ahead at old trafford. And it pretty well start to friday morning for some, especially for england and wales. Ston lillian is rolling in. Details on breakfast lycra. Good morning. It s friday, the 23rd of august. Our main story. Kamala harris has formally accepted her nomination as the democratic candidate for president, in a speech at her party s national convention. Speaking in chicago, ms harris promised a new way forward for the united states, and warned that the consequences would be extremely serious if donald trump was returned to the white house in november s election. Our us correspondent, emma vardy, has the story. Please welcome the democratic nominee for president, vice president
Of the bank holiday weekend. And coming up on bbc news: england s charley hull was the overnight leader at the women s open at st andrew s. We ll have the latest from the old course. Good afternoon. The annual energy bill of a typical household will go up by £149 from october, under a price cap rise announced today by the regulator, ofgem. The cap is increasing by 10%, putting up the average annual household bill in england, scotland and wales to around £1,717 a year. Higher wholesale gas prices have been blamed as ben boulos reports. At this cafe in doncaster they know how much their customers are already struggling with energy costs. I’m struggling with energy costs. I m feelin: it struggling with energy costs. In feeling it too, i have struggling with energy costs. In feeling it too, i have a young family, and it is a worry. We do turn things off now at the plugs when we go to bed and it is always there in your mind. The when we go to bed and it is always there in your mind. t
About donald trump s policies. Merlyn thomas told me what they d found. . . So, over night we were looking at her speech and she spoke about her career, her upbringing, donald trump s record and some of his plans. She focussed specifically on women s reproductive rights. . . As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without congress. Let s focus on that first claim, she said that he, referring to trump and his allies, would limit access to birth control, that s misleading because he said he would not do this. He responded on his social media platform, truth social, and he said. . . I do not limit access to birth control, that is a lie. In terms of her referencing his allies, who was she actually talking about? she appears to be referencing project 2025, that is a document produced by the right wing research group the heritage foundation and in it, it is nearly 900 page document and