living the edge. generally, seriously, one slip would kill me because i d feel like there would be no going back. a sharp scratch. at a time when drug and alcohol deaths are soaring, something has to change. i simply hope that people who have been treated rather like lepers are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition and that they have hope that it can be better. hello. mike? yes. jeremy. didn t recognise you with your mask on, mate. you all right? yeah, good to see you. thank you. it s early may 2021. come on, we ll have a seat. yeah, that s fine. ..and i m meeting mike. you look younger in person than on. yeah. my god, i almost look like your granddad! yeah. we ve spoken before on zoom, so i already know he has got plenty of troubles. but now it is time for a brew. thanks so much, that s brilliant. cheers, lovely. time for some more detail. when i used to have a drink, cocaine would come hand in hand. so i d have a sip of a pint and then i would
care of, for a change. i the chancellor is rasing some of the cash from a one off tax on oil and gas companies. we ll have their reaction, too. also tonight. the texas primary school mass shooting questions about how long it took for police to challenge the gunman. up to an hour, some say. the actor kevin spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men. the allegations date back to when he was in the uk. abba as you ve never seen them before. a0 years after they last toured, digital technology takes them on the road again. and coming up on the bbc news channel. rhys mcclenaghan is told he won t be allowed to defend his gold medal at the commonwealth games in a move that s been described as reprehensible. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. timely, targeted and temporary the three words chancellor rishi sunak used this afternoon to sum up a £15 billion package to help millions of households across the country through the cost of l
school shooting. memorial site from the texas primary schoolshooting. memorial site from the texas primary school shooting. meghan markle. allegations dating back to when he lived in the uk. and the american actor ray liotta known for good fellows and other films has died at the age of 67. hello, very good evening to you. if you ve justjoined hello, very good evening to you. if you vejustjoined us, warm welcome to bbc news. timely targeted and temperate. three words that the chancellor used to sum up his £15 million package to help millions of people across the country through one aspect of the cost of living crisis, the rising fuel costs. here are the measures. all houses will receive a grant of £400, it will replace alone, it was money that would have been have to be paid back in the future, and that has been scrapped. on top of that, those on the lowest incomes, 8 million households in this country, will receive an additional payment of £650. pensioner households
following the mass shooting at a school in texas, local police are now being blamed for a slow response. we meet the mother of two boys, both of whom were apparently forced to serve in the russian army, despite president putin s assurances. and from the palace archives the rare images of the queen s life being shared with the public for the first time. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we have the latest from the french open, with another win for world number one iga swiatek, but britain s number two, dan evans, is out. good evening. faced with clear evidence of a worsening cost of living crisis for millions of households, the chancellor, rishi sunak, has unveiled a new support package worth £15 billion. it will be funded in part by what he called a temporary, targeted energy profits levy in other words, a windfall tax on the energy companies, a policy the government has resisted until now. these are the main elements of the package. all households regardless of
news, are the latest in the so called partygate controversy, prompting further accusations that the prime minister has been lying over his version of events. now on bbc news, addiction: the road to recovery . cocaine is a. ..devil, to be fair. this is a story of drugs and booze and addiction. i think with addiction the end result for anybody is death, prison, or institution. it s the story of the fight to get clean for those living the edge. generally, seriously, one slip would kill me because i d feel like there would be no going back. a sharp scratch. at a time when drug and alcohol deaths are soaring, something has to change. i simply hope that people who have been treated rather like lepers are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition and that they have hope that it can be better. hello. mike? yes. jeremy. didn t recognise you with your mask on, mate. you all right? yeah, good to see you. thank you. it s early may 2021. come on, we ll have a s