it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter who s been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun newspaper claims the presenter broke covid restrictions to meet another individual he met on a dating site. charlotte gallagher has the latest. another day of damaging headlines for the bbc and a male presenter who is still unnamed. this morning s front page of the sun bbc star broke lockdown to meet another young stranger . this individual has told the newspaper the presenter travelled to another county to meet them in february 2021. this was during the third national lockdown. the sun says
the people who are affected most by high interest rates would tend to be younger households. older people, older house holders, are more likely to have paid off their mortgages they are mortgage free so they don t feel the impact of the increase in mortgage rates. you could spread the pain more broadly, so those households that, perhaps, aren t facing higher mortgage rates currently households that don t hold mortgages would potentially contribute towards the squeeze in demand by paying higher taxation. you could argue for a property tax, for example. yet there are also practical problems with using tax and spending policy to control inflation. history suggests it s hard to get the timing right, and when it comes to tax and spending political considerations often interfere unhelpfully. this is why the practice in recent decades has been to leave inflation control to the independent bank of england. however there is certainly more open thinking going on among respectab
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i understand th
way for coal mining. come here, protect life, and fight for survival. as long as people are here, lutzerath stays. takeaways, restaurants, and cafes in england will have to stop using plastic cutlery, plates, and bowls from october as part of a new government plan to tackle plastic pollution. and new hope how hormone replacement therapy, which helps control symptoms of menopause, may reduce the risk of alzheimer s in some women. iran s state media has reported that a british iranian national, alireza akbari, has been executed. mr akbari, who was a former deputy defence minister for iran, was detained three years ago and charged with spying for the united kingdom. the british government says the execution was politically motivated and will not go unchallenged. in the last few hours the uk s prime minister rishi sunak says: i am appalled by the execution of british iranian citizen alireza akbari in iran. this was a callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric reg
A modern city like many others but theres one big difference its located in the middle of a desert in one Nine Hundred Fifty the population was barely One Hundred Thousand then the age of Air Conditioning gone the electricity to power this convenience was supplied by coal plants suddenly it became possible to live under the Blazing Sun The Population skyrocketed today phoenix is home to one point six million and is the fifth largest city in the United States thomas basso moved here more than twenty years ago. Despite the climate he can enjoy his hobby all year round golf One Hundred And Eighty Four golf courses have sprung up here in the desert and. I live in st louis at the time and every winter id put the clubs or couldnt play golf. The good things. Live in phoenix is that you can get up in the morning i got a day like today harry are in april and its sixty eight degrees sixty nine degrees fahrenheit you can come out and enjoy a beautiful round of golf in a beautiful breeze and you g