spike in gas prices pure planet and colorado energy have ended trading. and star trek s william shatner at the age of 90 makes history as the oldest person to go into space for a 10 minute journey injeff bezo s capsule. what you have given me is the most profound experience i can have. and coming up protestors are dragged away by angry motorists in essex this morning as they continue to block roads one of the uk s biggest toy retailers is warning that a backlog of shipping containers at ports combined with a shortage of lorry drivers could cause supply issues ahead of christmas. the entertainer toy store chain says shops are well stocked at the moment, but it s concerned demand will outstrip supply. the shortage of hgv drivers is having a knock on effect on ports around the uk. felixstowe is the biggest. it has 50,000 containers waiting to be collected and ships are having to wait for up to 10 days to unload. the port has blamed several factors for the build up i
long waits for council properties combined with rocketing prices mean that in some areas, if you re on a modest income and looking for something that just suits your needs, you might be out of luck. to understand the problem, we re in a city where it s at its most acute. ..edinburgh. edinburgh enjoys its status as a tourist hot spot, and it s also the financial and political nerve centre of scotland. but all that comes at a cost. house prices here are skyrocketing, rents are rising faster than in any other part of the country, and it has one of the highest rates of families in temporary accomodation. and at the same time, there is a shortage of social housing. this is michael urquhart, his partner, kara, and theirfour children teagan, holly, michelle and james. and this is where they live. michael has offered to show me around. hi, michael, how you doing? hey. cheers. going to give me a tour? yeah, no problem. this is room number one. i have one bed here where both the girl
for social housing. so, now what happens? usually. nothing, normally. ..and young people squeezed out of their own communities. if people are wanting to buy a home here, | maybe they should think, - well, who s losing out on this? is the community - actually sustainable? is scotland doing enough to tackle its housing problems? i think we re talking about the difference between managing the housing emergency and ending the housing emergency. we have a judgment to make with limited resources. where do we put those limited resources? or has a whole generation of scots been priced out? campaigners are calling it a housing emergency. long waits for council properties combined with rocketing prices mean that in some areas, if you re on a modest income and looking for something that just suits your needs, you might be out of luck. to understand the problem, we re in a city where it s at its most acute. ..edinburgh. edinburgh enjoys its status as a tourist hot spot, and it s also the
who went missing more than a week ago has been confirmed as katie kenyon. 200 migrants are understood to have been intercepted by uk border force officials in the english channel today in what s believed to be the first crossings for 11 days. researchers create the most intricate sd model of the female body ever produced to help provide a better understanding of their anatomy. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are parliamentary journalist, tony grew and journalist and broadcaster caroline frost. good evening to you both. tomorrow s front pages now, starting with. the i says. rebels have warned that the prime minister could face a leadership challenge if the party loses councillors on thursday. staying with politics with the front page of the telegraph, which says boris johnson wants to give more than 2 million households in england who rent properties from housing associations the power to purchase their homes a