that £400 we all got from the government last winter that s gone. standing charges the kind of line rental for your energy supply is going up. so most people won t see much difference and some analysts say the worst off amongst us will, again, be disproportionately hardest hit. the government say they have provided unprecendented support to families, £40 billion worth and that help now is more targeted. labour has accused them of siding with oil and gas companies to the detriment of consumers. so we can get into the politics, how we got here and what next for our energy market. we ll have various experts on hand, eager to answer your questions on that. but more importantly, it s getting darker out there, so what are you making of the months ahead? how did you cope last winter? are you dreading facing up to that again particularly if you re already struggling? the debt charity stepchange says the trouble is you can count the pennies as much as you like plenty
the decision of a coward, unwilling to listen to parents of the babies she murdered giving the most emotional and moving testimony that you will ever hear. it s far from the first case of its kind either. in the past 18 months, the killers of sabina nessa, zara aleena, and olivia pratt korbell have all failed to attened sentencing. that is just in the past year. so, 08085 909693 do we need to force the guilty to face court? what can we do when an offender doesn t want to come to the courtroom? particularly if they re likely to be disruptive if they do attend? streaming the proceedings to their cell has been mentioned. do we go the american way, bring them forcibly into court? it s more than a year since rishi sunak, when he was running for tory leader, first promised to change the law on this. yesterday he said letby was cowardly for refusing to face sentencing. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has promised to close what he called the shamefully exploited loophole i
let me bring you some breaking news on the nhs. the average response time in february for ambulances in england dealing with the most urgent incidents, defined as calls from people with life threatening illnesses or injuries, was eight minutes and 25 seconds, nhs figures show. this is down very slightly from eight minutes and 26 seconds injanuary, but is above the target standard response time of seven minutes. ambulances took an average of 36 minutes and 20 seconds last month to respond to emergency calls such as heart attacks, strokes and sepsis. this is down from a0 minutes and six seconds injanuary while the target is 18 minutes. response times for urgent calls, such as late stages of labour, non severe burns and diabetes, averaged two hours, four minutes and 12 seconds in february, down from two hours, 12 minutes and 48 seconds in january. back to our top story. the communities secretary, michael gove, has told the bbc why the government is introducing a new definitgion
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