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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.75% today, despite price rises accelerating due to Middle East conflict.
The Monetary Policy Committee meets amid rising global energy prices, with economists expecting rates to remain held for a sixth consecutive meeting. While benchmark rates influence borrowing and savings, analysts remain divided on potential rate rises before the end of the year.
New research shows England needs above-average rainfall for the next seven months to recover from drought by spring 2027.
The Environment Agency states that despite early September rain, almost three-quarters of England remains in drought following a dry spring, summer, and heatwaves. Devon, Cornwall and East Anglia could still face drought conditions by spring, even under Met Office predictions of a wetter autumn.
UK prosecutors have lodged a formal request to extradite brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate from the US over rape and sex trafficking charges.
The US State Department is reviewing the applications following their receipt last week. Dual citizens Andrew and Tristan Tate deny all wrongdoing, while their lawyer claims British authorities failed to provide necessary supporting documents for the fifty-nine total charges.
There is something slightly unusual about being Gen X. We grew up in a world that was largely analogue, became teenagers as technology was beginning to change everything, and entered adulthood just as the internet was starting to reshape everyday life. We remember a time before mobile phones and social media, but we also became adults in the years when computers, CDs, the web and mobile phones began moving from […]
