but his opponent liz truss says the solution lies in lowering taxes which he brought in as chancellor. also on the programme. urgent polio boosters for children under nine in london, after the virus was detected in sewage. a four day amber extreme heat warning for parts of england and wales is due to come into force at midnight. # we re walking in the air. and the storyteller who enchanted us all, author and illustrator raymond briggs has died at the age of 88. and coming up on the bbc news channel. golf s big battle reaches court again with three liv golfers told by a judge they cannot overturn their ban to compete in the pga tour s lucrative end of tour play offs. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. with fresh warnings about soaring energy bills over the next few months, and with borisjohnson due to step down next month, the chancellor nadhim zahawi has said the treasury is preparing options for the next prime minister. but there are concerns that households
been injured in a series of incidents involving a firearm on the isle of skye and the kyle of lochalsh, in scotland. all children in london aged between one and nine will be offered a polio booster vaccine after more traces of the virus are found in the capital s waste water. four days of extreme weather is forecast in england and wales. # we re walking in the air. the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. hello, good evening. with fresh warnings about soaring energy bills over the next few months, the chancellor nadhim zahawi says the treasury is preparing options for the next prime minister. but there are concerns that households could fall further behind in paying for their gas and electricity. at the moment, annual energy bills for an average household are £1,971. but those bills are predicted to soar to around over £3,500 in october. and forecasters say they could rise to more than £4,200 injanuary wh
that a support package is being developed. also on the programme: all children in london between one and nine will be offered a polio booster vaccine, after the virus was detected in wastewater. as the heatwave continues, we report on the extreme problems faced by farmers and the agriculture industry. and the storyteller who enchanted millions the author and illustrator raymond briggs has died. and coming up on the bbc news channel: a night to rememberfor will smeed, scoring the hundreds first ever century to inspire birmingham phoenix to victory over southern brave. welcome to bbc news at ten. higher energy bills for millions of households could be on the way sooner than expected, according to the energy regulator ofgem and the industry body energy uk. earlier this evening, they confirmed that it was possible for suppliers to put up direct debits in advance of the new price regime in october. ministers, who ve been widely accused of doing too little to help households, are
$40 billion dollars in aid for ukraine. and going back to the past the company trying to prove that sailboats are a greener way to transport cargo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. security forces in sri lanka have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. since last month, the country has been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicines. at least eight people have died in the violence and 200 have been injured, as our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports from colombo. a capital under curfew. troops told to shoot at sight at anyone who damages public property or threatens lives. the skeletons of a bustling city scorched by an economic crisis. reeling after a day of violence. yesterday, supporters of the prime minister attacked anti government protesters, who until that point had been peacefully demonstrating. at the cit