remarkable. remarkable. with that we will hand you back to the studio. studio: thank you. let s talk about a little furry creature with bright eyes and a bushy tail the red squirrel. it s still relatively rare to see one in the uk, but four babies have been born at the yorkshire arboretum after a project was launched to boost their population. our reporter michelle lyons went to meet them. bright eyed and bushy tailed these cute little kits are only a few months old and, already, they re a bit of a handful. the york arboretum welcomed their new arrivals back in the spring and the first baby red squirrels were born shortly afterwards. we opened this project in april and it s been incredible.
the industry some 225 million. the government says it wants to simplify the alcohol tax system while protecting producers in pubs. but it has to raise revenue, too. and for those who like their alcohol strong, drinks will get more expensive. ben king, bbc news. news now about food prices going up. retailers say the rate at which food prices are rising in shops is at its lowest level since last december. food inflation slowed to 13.4% injuly, helped by the price of some staple foods such as oils, fish and breakfast cereals falling. overall, shop prices are still 7.6% higher thisjuly than a year ago. the uk s biggest farming insurer says criminals have laid siege to the countryside, after it recorded a 22% increase in the cost of rural crime last year. nfu mutual says some
as you might imagine, getting to the most northern point in the uk is a bit of a mission in itself. first up, a flight from mainland uk, then onto one ferry and then onto another ferry before you reach your final destination. but its remoteness is just one of the reasons unst in shetland could soon become something of a super highway that way. 0nce part of an raf radar base, the land was bought by frank strang and his wife around 15 years ago. never in my wildest dreams did i think we d be building a spaceport. it s all about geography and location, location, location. and it s really we re the most northern tip of the united kingdom. so when we launch, we re launching over sea. we ve got a clear trajectory into the orbits that we re trying to get to and the airspace itself is very uncongested.
we will be talking about the weather and whatjuly has been like and what august has been like will be like. i can like. ican sum like. i can sum upjuly, wept. wet. let s take a look at today s papers. shoplifters will be hit with mandatoryjail sentences for repeat offences, according to the front of the times. the paper says facial recognition software and ai could also be used by police and retailers to catch criminals. the daily telegraph reports on a study that claims the coronavirus lockdown harmed almost half of children. a survey of more than 6,000 parents in england found that youngsters are now more worried and less confident. the guardian leads with rishi sunak s pledge to max out the uk s oil and gas reserves in the north sea. however, the paper reports that his plans could be catastophic for our climate , according to scientists. take a look at these pictures.
thieves are using drones and social media to scope out valuable agricultural equipment. joe inwood reports. for luke, this is now part of his daily routine. every day, he spends two hours securing his 4,000 acre cambridgeshire farm. he s even hired private security. that s because he s been the victim of 30 different crimes in just one year. what i ll do is i ll take you to the other side and i ll show you some of the issues. speaking last winter, he told the bbc that not one had been solved. we ve had generators stolen, we ve had batteries stolen off machinery, pieces of stainless steel. if it s not bolted down well enough, they ll come and cut it out and take it, anyway. according to new figures from the insurer nfu mutual, rural crime in cambridgeshire has more than doubled in a single year. across the uk, it s up by a fifth. expensive machinery is often stolen,