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for not backing a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry to give vulnerable residents of high rise buildings personal fire evacuation plans. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we will have more news on that breaking story aboutjordan gatley, the former british soldier who has been killed fighting in eastern ukraine, from our correspondent in kyiv. we willjoin him injust we willjoin him in just a few moments. but first, aleading business group has told the bbc that households have been cutting back on spending because of the cost of living crisis, and will go into their own recession this year. tony danker, the director general of the confederation of british industry, says the government needs to take action. meanwhile, the competition regulator has promised to look into government concerns that the 5p cut in fuel duty is not bei ....
and the public sector equality duty, it is unfair to treat disabled people differently. and, queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. a former british soldier has been killed fighting in ukraine, his family have announced. jordan gatley, who left the british army in march, died in the battle for the eastern city of severodonetsk the scene of intense fighting in recent days. he s the second british man to die fighting russian forces in ukraine. i asked our correspondent in kyiv, joe inwood, what we know about mr gatley and how he died. we understand jordan gatley had been a british soldier, he left the army in march to come and fight in ukraine. according to his family, he had been involved in training at the start of this, but oviously that had changed, because he was in the city of severodonetsk, which is very much the front line of this war, and it was there that he died on friday. according to ....
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