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wigan and newport. let s speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. how rapidly have rents been rising? the bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. for the areas which have seen the biggest increases. this graph tells a story. this is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31%. these are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. but six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. these are towns within touching distance of cities. they have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. nearly 39% over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15% injust the last year. one of the estate agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasn t seen anything like it, he described a staggering. baez hasn t seen anything like ....
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twist after twist. instant panic. instant, instant panic. i still get chills. people have secrets. people have a lot of secrets. the family that lived in this cozy house on this quiet street never came back after the awful thing that happened here. it s terrifying. it s terrifying to think of. it was april 10th, 2008. portsmouth, virginia, police sergeant robert mcdaniel was right nearby when the all points fullerton went out to law enforcement. and then the call comes out and it s literally one block away from where i m standing. did the address ring a bell? it did and it didn t. all he knew was that someone had been killed inside that house. so, you go there and what do you discover? i went into clear the house out of anybody who was inside of the house to make sure this scene status pristine as possible. and when i looked down, i realized, then, that it was meghan. meghan landowski the teenage victim was someone he knew. he knew ....
election. the court says it will. it s unclear which ruling they will release, but this is notable colorado votes on tuesday the justices might very well wish to settle once and for all the question of whether donald trump is disqualified from that state s ballot. and therefore, other states where this is upending question and this tuesday, the super tuesday, when voters will likely end the republican primary, give donald trump his party s nomination. that s at least what trump wants. thursday, president biden, he will get a primetime platform to sell his own track record for a mammoth america, his state of the union, offering a rare opportunity to speak to millions of americans, tried to convince them that he deserves four more years. it happens as a spate of new political polls show that biden there s more vulnerable than ever with general election voters joining me now to discuss all this democratic congressman from new york, tom suozzi, he just won a special electio ....
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. senate democrats are trying to push through legislation to protect ivf treatments, in response to the alabama supreme courts ruling that embryos are people. lots going on either side of the pond on reproductive rates. but, in the wake of the alabama supreme courts ruling that embryos are people, senate democrats are putting down a bill to protect ivf treatments. the illinois senator tammy duckworth is daring republicans to obstruct legislation which would establish a federal right to ivf and other fertility treatments that are at risk in the post roe era. senator duckworth is an iraq war veteran who suffered grave injuries in combat in 200a. her two children were conceived through ivf. the bill she has proposed would require unanimous consent in orderfor it to pass, and although many republican lawmakers have registered disappointment over the alabama ruling, at least one conservative senator is expec ....