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and this was in dubai yesterday. we will look at the impact a year s worth of rain had in the space of one day. in the uk, it stays cool and showery but there are signs of something a bit more dry this weekend all coming up here on bbc breakfast. it s wednesday 17th april. in the next hour the latest inflation figures will be released, telling us how much the price of our everyday shopping is going up by, and if cost of living pressures are easing. the rate of inflation fell last month to its lowest level in almost two and a half years. but it s still above the bank of england s target. our business correspondent marc ashdown has this report. the weekly shop, energy bills, and eating out the costs for all are continuing to ease, bringing welcome relief for household finances. the pace of inflation continues to slow down from a peak of 11% in october 2022, to around 3% now. you d have to go back to the autumn of 2021, at the height of the covid pandemic, to find pric ....
on the rise in recent years, with cases increasing by almost 60% across england and wales between 2019 and 2023, according to action fraud. the bbc estimates that romance frauds have cost victims more than £320 million over the last five years. it s a crime that santander s break the spell team, based in bootle, are all too familiar with. the romance scams often are the ones that take the longest for us to break the spell on. if you think you re in a relationship with someone who s asking you for money again and again, maybe over a year, longer, to the point at which you ve taken even loans out to pay some of that, if you ve never met that person in real life, no one s ever going to ask you for money to pay for emergency care or whatever else, and the fraudster will play on your emotions to do that. it takes a lot of time, a lot of effort to obviously try and coach them round and to make them realise that they are actually a victim in all of this and it isn t somebody ....
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