who are using the power of boxing to help improve the lives of people with parkinson s. good afternoon. the government has defended its sweeping range of tax cuts from criticism that they favour the better off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny moves the government says will promote growth. the institute for fiscal studies says the richest who pay the most tax will benefit most from a cut. our political correspondent, helen catt, reports. it s an all out attempt to grow the economy with the biggest tax cuts in four decades. at spitalfields market, in east london, they are taking stock of a mini budget that s signalled a massive shift in political direction. what do you make of moves like reversing the national insurance rise? will that help, do you think? i think it probably will help, yes, to a degree, but it depends what bracket you are in in t
gas, the electricity companies, particularly the water companies. i think there are questions to be asked about whether these industries are properly regulated, because when you look at not only the salaries of these chief executives, but also the bonuses and tips they are being paid, and it s a nice table in the metro, naming and shaming photographs of some of the big packages. then you look at the performances, you look at there are so many leaks and these old pipes that they are pumping more sewage into our seas and rivers. but they are about to impose, and some have already imposed, hosepipe ban and some are about to. and ijust think that the ordinary person who s paying the charges for these senses, it s actually pretty fed up. so the regulators i think have failed to do theirjob, they failed to hold these companies to account and make sure they deliver a proper performance. and certainly in the case of the water companies, the likelihood of climate change, we ll see dro
strike, but two. they ve identified a huge crater off the coast of africa of a similar age to the one in the gulf of mexico associated with their extinction 66 million years ago. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sian griffiths, who s the education editor at the sunday times, and the broadcaster and journalist james lewer. 0 nto onto tomorrow s front pages. let s start with the i that says liz truss is to be told by the office for budget responsibility that she has billions of pounds less than she thought to fund her promised tax cuts. the ft has another story about the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, saying she has city of london s top regulators in her sights with an immediate review if she wins. now to exam results day, as the daily telegraph features a picture ofjoyful students celebrating with the headline that 20% of our top university places have gone to foreign students. the daily mirror asks w
james anderson and stuart broad take three wickets each on the first day of the second test at old trafford. space as you ve never seen it we ll speak to the man who s remastered these amazing images of the apollo missions. good morning. some mist and fog to watch out for this morning, some quite dense across the southeast. some starting with sunshine but generally we will see cloud build and some splashes of rain in parts of the west. i will have all the details later on the programme. it s friday august 26th. millions of households in england, scotland and wales will find out at 7am what they could be paying for gas and electricity in october, as the energy regulator ofgem announces a new price cap. this is the maximum amount companies can charge consumers for each unit of energy. it s expected to mean that the average household bill will rise to more than £3,500 a year. jo black reports. the waterfront at ipswich. but behind the attractive facade and expensive boats, so