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there s new guidance for health professionals to spot eating disorders after hospital admissions rose by 84% in the last five years. the number of young men affected is higher than ever before. the line up for the queen s platinum jubilee star studded concert has been revealed, and it includes soul legend diana ross. rangers suffer an agonising penalty shootout defeat in their fifth european final as eintracht frankfurt picked up their second europa league trophy. ministers are facing growing calls to bring forward large increases in benefits and the state pension which will be paid from next april. charities want benefits to increase now to help people struggling with the cost of living, particularly energy bills. last night the chancellor rushi sunak warned the next few months will tough as he spoke to business leaders about the rising cost of living. our political correspondent jonathan blake reports. high and getting higher. prices are rising faster than they have f ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 08:07:00

Is having those discussions and no decisions have been made. so everyone is weighing in with their favourite bit of support that could be offered, and you can see that with this idea of the windfall tax as well. it has been put forward by opposition parties that you tax the excess profits of the oil and gas companies, who are making billions because of the increase in global oil and gas prices. at the moment, the covenant has a holding position which is that they are not in favour of it, but they are not ruling it out if it s needed further down the line. government ministers are now picking their favourite half of that sentence, with some saying we don t like tax rises, it shouldn t happen at all, and other saying actually, it could be a good idea. so there is some growing pains around the government position on the windfall tax as well, so when you read the papers you can see one half of the government briefing against the other. ., ~ , ., government briefing against the other. . ~ ....

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