that the government should do some things to improve the situation for those on the modest means, for example, the warm homes discount could be extended, etc. but then you ve got the impact of something the government s doing quite deliberately, which is to raise taxes, national insurance going up by 1.25 percentage points for everybody who is working, at the same time as the thresholds below which you don t pay the higher rate of tax are being frozen, so that will drag more people into the higher rates of tax and national insurance, and they calculate that for the average family, that will be about £600 per year extra. so in april, you re talking about £1200 a year out of families budgets, which in addition to the inflation we ve got of 5.1% rising to 6%, it s going to be a difficult thing to cope with for most families. actress, model and activist april ashley has been hailed as a trans trailblazer following her death at the age of 86. ashley became only the second briton
it s sad we have to live through that, you know, to make it feel that way. as southgate and sterling continue to help redefine what is possible for the england national team, it s clear that for them, those aspirations now extend beyond just success on the pitch. adam wild, bbc news. actress, model and activist april ashley has been hailed as a trans trailblazer, following her death at the age of 86. ashley became only the second briton to undergo male to female gender reassignment surgery, in 1960. she then became a prominent campaigner for the transgender community, and was awarded an mbe for her work in 2012. she spoke to the bbc the following year, and took a look back at her career. if you go through life and you meet einstein, you meet sir winston churchill, dali wants to paint you,
when her story was revealed in a sunday newspaper. in 1970, her divorce proved to be a landmark case when a judge ruled it was not possible to change sex, so her marriage to aristocrat arthur cameron corbett had been invalid. when you go through life, and you meet einstein, you meet sir winston churchill, dali wants to paint you, picasso looks you over three or four times, you know, to know all these people was extraordinary. the singer boy george tweeted that she was a force of nature and a transgender high priestess. peter tatchell, the lgbt rights campaigners said she was the great trans trailblazer for decades. i was so honoured to know and support her in a past era when she was reviled after being outed as trans. ashley left britain to live in america, but returned in 2005 after the gender recognition act was passed. aruna iyengar, bbc news.