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it s wednesday 21st september. our main story. businesses will learn today how the government will help ease the pain of soaring energy bills this winter. the business secretary, jacob rees mogg, is due to announce more details later this morning, but it s understood businesses could have their bills cut by up to a third. nina is in huddersfield this morning. good morning, nina. what details do you have to tell us about so far? good morning. it has been a long and very painful two weeks for businesses. it has almost been a fortnight since that announcement by the prime minister of household bills capped at £2500, but saying businesses would have to wait. we now understand some of the details. there won t be an average cap on use, but there will be a cap on the price per unit of gas and electricity. it s quite complicated, but we understand how that will translate a savings of around a quarter to a third for businesses like this one in huddersfield. so here they use £40,000 ....
Well be live in washington. Important covid developments in a number of countries. First, the uk, where thejoint Biosecurity Centre has recommended the covid alert level should be raised. Its currently at level 3 which as you can see here means the epidemic is in general circulation. The recommendation is that it should move to level 4, where transmission is high or rising exponentially. And weve had this stark message from governments top scientistific advisors. Is, and quite a big if, but if that continues unabated and this grows, doubling every seven days, then what you see of course, lets say they we re you see of course, lets say they were 5000 today and 10,000 next week, 20,000 a week after, 40000 and after, you can see that by mid 0ctober if that continued, it would end up with Something Like 50,000 cases in the middle of october per day. 50,000 cases per day would ....