Sort of surety to vulnerable households about the support they will be. The households about the support they will be households about the support they will be. The report makes secific they will be. The report makes specific recommendations specific recommendations including ensuring that all households are missed out on the Energy Bill Support Scheme last winter receive their payment immediately. Extending the warm homes discount, considering implementing a form of social tariff, working to replace the current unfair and regressive Standing Charge Structure and accelerating the smart metre rollout. The mps also urged ofjen to take steps to ensure all customers are given time energy and support from their suppliers. The report follows an enquiry on how government and Energy Companies can prepare for the winter months. Mps heard the last year some people were turning to dangerous Coping Mechanisms and making other significant sacrifices to heat their homes and how excess wintered death
This week that Northern Rock, the bank headquartered here in newcastle, collapsed and caused chaos for the Financial System so ive come back to find out what difference it made to our lives. In sport roys return. Hodgson looks set to return to football management with Crystal Palace, fifteen months after resigning from the england job. This is the second time and you get the sense, im sweating and quite uncomfortable, to be brutally honest. Theyre the fighter jets at the forefront of the battle against so called islamic state, but piloting a typhoon is no mean feat, as our defence correspondent has been finding out. And he tries to hold on to his brea kfast. And he tries to hold on to his breakfast. It looks amazing. Compared to yesterday, a little bit drier brighter and a bit warmer. But there is something wet and much windier on the way tonight. All the details 15 minutes. First our main story. One of the governments key pieces of legislation on brexit has won its first vote in the c
Its tuesday the 12th of september. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The cost of living has risen again, blamed on the higher cost of imported goods like clothes and shoes. Its now back at the peak of 2. 9 it last hit in may this year. Our Business Correspondent ben thompson is here to explain. Ill let you talk us through the latest figures. Inflation is the cost of living, it shows how quickly things dont work the price of things dont work the price of things is rising. It has hit 2. 9 . Todays figure was expected to come ina todays figure was expected to come in a little lower than that. Why are prices rising so quickly . It is a cost of imported things, issues, household goods. All of those sorts of things. They are more expensive because after we voted to leave the eu, the value of the pound fell which means things we import from overseas are more expensive. It is the first indication we are getting all those things we buy from overseas are adding to the overall cost of things that we