bill to more than £3,500. here s marc ashdown. help is coming. that is the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bills, but when, how and who will receive it remains difficult to tell. in an interview with the daily telegraph, nadhim zahawi warns high bills could be here to stay for the next two years, and says while he is concerned about helping people on benefits and pensioners, those on middle incomes will need help too. if you re a senior nurse or a senior teacher on £45,000 a year, he says, you re having your energy bills go up by 80%. it s really hard. we are looking at all the options. the energy price cap is set by the regulator 0fgem. it s rising by 80% in october. currently a typical annual energy bill paid by direct debit is £1,971. in october, that will rise to £3,519. prepayment meter customers pay a little extra a typical usage bill from october then will be £3,608. becky has a full time job. for the first time she is having to think about wheth
scientists are trying to identify why thousands of fish have died in a river between poland and germany. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe, have been found in a back garden in portugal. jimmy anderson strikes at old trafford as england look to level up the series against south africa. we ll have the latest from manchester in the sport. good afternoon. the chancellor nadim zahawi has said the country is in a national economic emergency which could last for 2 years, leaving even middle income earners in need of support. his comments come as another minister defended the deferral of an announcement on further government help with energy bills, untila new prime minister is in place. yesterday, the regulator, ofgem, announced an 80% rise in the energy price cap from october, taking the average annual household bill to more than £3,500. here s marc ashdown. help is coming. that s the message from the chancellor on rocketing energy bi
known land animals. palaeontologists say the reptile was about 12 metres tall about 39 feet and 25 metres or 82 feet long. well a little earlier my colleague joanna gosling spoke about the discovery to dr sally reynolds. she heads the institute for studies of landscape and human evolution at bournemouth university, and specialises in mammal palaeontology. it s such a wonderful discovery, it means that there may actually be more of this very large dinosaur waiting in this back garden in portugal to be discovered. why would it have taken so long to get to this stage of the excavation? because the initial remains were spotted in 2017? yes. i assume what the landowner days was the right thing, was to call in the help of a local university or museum team to come out and have a look. i suppose at that point they had to decide how to proceed, get experts together, then covid happened and i suspect they have onlyjust now had a chance to do one or two mac years of excavation and t
a deaf woman is suing the promoters of a little mix concert because there wasn t a sign language interpreter for the support acts. and all these years of hard work is paying off now aged 11, anna hursey is thought to be the youngest ever competitor in the commonwealth games. and coming up in the sport on bbc news: defending champion roger federer is through to his 14th australian open semifinal, beating tomas berdych in straight sets in melbourne. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the organisers of a men only charity dinner have said they re appalled by allegations of sexual harassment at the event, and have launched an investigation. undercover journalists from the financial times say they were groped and propositioned at the presidents club annual charity fundraiser in london. in light of the allegations, the bank of england said anyone who d bid in the event s auction won t be able to take up the prize of tea with mark carney, and great ormond street h