plus the crypto crash deepens. could it spell disaster for el salvador s multi million dollar gamble on bitcoin? we start in the us where the federal reserve has announced the biggest rise in borrowing costs in 28 years. the fed raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percent and signalled more big increases are on the cards. as our correspondent michelle fleury reports, from washington, it s battling to control the worst inflation in four decades. intensifying its five figure inflation which is currently at a a0 year high reserve raised its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5 to one and three quarters of a percent, move that will push up borrowing costs for and company. us interest rates haven t been hiked by this much in one go since bill clinton was in the white house in 199a, the size of the mood something federal chair reflected on during his press conference. clearly the 75 basis point is an unusually large one a
A public alert is to be issued warning residents and visitors to the Forest of Dean not to attempt to feed the Forest s population of wild boar as fears heighten over the spread of the deadly African Swine Fever virus (ASF).
The move, planned by Forestry England and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), comes amid growing fears that ASF could breach the UK s borders from Europe and get into the wild boar population - with a consequent need to "wipe out" the Forest s boar population and the potential triggering of a nationwide cull of farmed pigs.
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