Is a rate rise good for you . Really looking forward to speaking to you, to hearing from you this morning, by telephone, by text or social media. Lets get the neatest News Headlines from karishma patel. The Bank Of England is expected to raise its main Interest Rate to 5. 25 at lunchtime. It will be the 14th time in a row its gone up. Inflation has slowed down in the past few months, but is still at nearly 8 four times higher than the official target. Deputy Prime Minister, oliver dowden, says migrants will start to be housed on a barge in dorset in the coming weeks and that inspections are being carried out. They were meant to move in earlier this week but there have been concerns over fire safety and port staff. Ofcom says older viewers are switching away from live tv as part of a record drop in people watching traditional television. The Broadcasting Watchdog says audiences now have an all you can eat buffet of broadcast and online content to choose from. Scientists say a Prehistori
of the government s plans. hundreds of thousands of workers go on strike in uk today more could be the biggest walk of industrial action since last year. a state of emergency has been declared in malawi with more than 200 people now confirmed dead after storm freddy hit southern africa for the second time in a month. and a small number of wolves have started to settle in belgium, for the first time in more than 100 years, as numbers increase across europe. hello and welcome to bbc news. let s begin today with the latest from pakistan, where the police appear to have stopped the operation to arrest the former prime minister imran khan. it appears to be due to a cricket match taking place. they say they will resume trying to arrest him afterwards. unrest continued in lahore through the night as imran khan s supporters clashed with security forces after police made another attempt to arrest him on a court order. he has accused the authorities there of acting outside the law in t
Value, so we are managing to still see some growth but not as much as before. we have protected our staff, their salaries with a real living wage increases, so higher than that, but they have. they are a great team. they re helping and they maximise the sales, to keep with the business rates. the possible future decrease in sales, but definitely the shop and the website at the moment are holding up surprisingly well. ., , moment are holding up surprisingly well. . , ., ., , well. that is good to hear, but tricky times- well. that is good to hear, but tricky times. thank well. that is good to hear, but tricky times. thank you - well. that is good to hear, but tricky times. thank you very i well. that is good to hear, but i tricky times. thank you very much, ruth. ruth is there from wrexham. let s have a look at the telegraph s editorial today which i thought was worth sharing. it is a point of view, but we were talking about the balancing act that the bank of england is facing curre
Firstl ? , what is your broad reaction to that, firstl ?~ i, ., what is your broad reaction to that, firstl? ,, .,. , what is your broad reaction to that, firstl? ,, .,. firstly? any support to families and arents firstly? any support to families and parents who firstly? any support to families and parents who split firstly? any support to families and parents who split the firstly? any support to families and parents who split the cost - firstly? any support to families and parents who split the cost of - parents who split the cost of childcare is absolutely welcome but i think the biggest challenge we have here is how much of the 4 billion the government are going to announce will actually plug the hole, in terms of the underfunding for the current system. the sector is in crisis, we ve seen nurseries closing up and down the country, simply because the funding rate has not kept up. all because, like inflation, their salary bill, it s going to go up 40% in april, that is becau