Related. With more heavy Snow Forecast across Northern Scotland this weekend well talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. Dont, dont shes kicked him out and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default Domestic Energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. Ofgem defended the decision, saying that its in the interest of customers to start allowing Energy Companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. The price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. But this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers . The price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose discounted deals have expir
Good morning, welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. Our headlines today a call for schools in england to open at evenings and weekends. The childrens commissioner says theyll be safe spaces to keep pupils away from gangs and violence. Hundreds flee the chaos created by dorian in the storm ravaged bahamas as the death toll rises to a3. Mps from across the political divide are ready to go to court to force the Prime Minister to seek a delay to brexit. Late wickets leave england in trouble, in the fourth ashes test. Theyre still nearly 300 runs behind australia so face a battle to save the match and the series. Ahead of tonights strictly launch, saffron barker and i check out fellow dancer, will bayleys moves, as the Paralympic Champion prepares for the european para table tennis championships. Good morning. Theres lots of dry, settled weather through the weekend. Just the odd isolated shower, but with clear skies by day, that means chilly conditions overnight. Ill have
china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top diplomat antony blinken to travel to beijing for rare talks about covid, trade disputes and the security situation over taiwan, but mostly to calm sky high tensions. this crisis shows just how fragile re