now this all can be attributed in large part to a fall in contribution from energy. fuel prices have declined and electricity and gas prices have stabilised, albeit at a higher level. the dark orange bars in this chart show how the contribution from energy prices is falling and turning negative, we think, in the coming months. now, given ofgem's price cap on electricity and gas bills, and the way it slows down the pass through of wholesale energy prices to consumer bills, we expect inflation to take a further step down in thejuly data, which will be published in two weeks�* time. we think that will come down to around 7% at that point, followed by another larger step down in october's data, which will be published in november to around about 5% on that basis. now, this more gradual pass also substantially helps to explain the difference between current headline inflation in this country

and in the euro area, where wholesale energy prices feed through more directly to consumer prices. where there is more uncertainty is around the time it will take the other non—energy components of the consumer price of consumer price inflation to come down as well. price inflation for food and non—alcoholic beverages has been very high, but it does appear to have peaked. and as you can see in this chart, there are signs in the monthly figures that it has started to ease. and evidence collected by the bank's regional agents suggests that a moderation in food inport prices is being passed through the supply chain to consumer prices. so we do expect that food price inflation will come down gradually over the rest of this year. the shadow chancellor has said the interest rate rise we've seen today is "another hammer blow" to families who are seeing

their mortgages increase. rachel reeves said that the government needs to force the banks and lenders to do more to mortgage—holders help including making the package of measures the government negotiated with banks mandatory not voluntary. well, the rate rise that we've seen today is just another hammer blow to families across the country who are seeing their mortgages increase when it comes to remortgaging. at the moment, a family that's looking to remortgage their property is going to be paying on average, more than £200 extra every single month. and for some people, it's much more than that. now, of course, the bank of england have independence and that's as it should be. but the government need to take responsibility for the fact that inflation in the uk is much higher than it is in comparable countries. in the us it's 3%, in the eurozone is 5.3%. and yet here in britain, inflation is stubbornly high at 7.9% because of a decade or more of mismanagement by the conservative party.

you say that, but the big spending commitments in recent years, which of those do you disagree with because you were happy for us to have a big expensive furlough package, to have an energy price guarantee? i haven't seen you oppose any tax freezes or tax cuts. so where have you been? well, there are three things that the government should have been doing that labour would be doing right now to try and get inflation under control. our anti—inflationary measures include boosting our energy security by investing in home grown renewable energy and insulating homes to get down people's bills. sorting out the brexit mess to reduce prices in our shops because extra bureaucracy and checks at the borders are pushing up prices for uk consumers. and also we need to help more people get back to work after the pandemic. but one thing government could be doing right now is making the mortgage support, forcing the banks to make that mandatory. at the moment, it's a voluntary scheme. hundreds of thousands of people risk slipping through the net and not getting the support they need.

and the government should expand the windfall tax on the huge profits that energy giants are making. those are two things government could be doing right now to ease some of the pain for people. but closing the loophole in the windfall tax only raises a relatively small amount of money on mortgage help. your policy is effectively the same as the government. you're asking people to go to interest only or to have big long mortgages. i mean, would you want a 36—year mortgage? so i think the package of measures that labour are putting forward are quite substantial. first of all, we could raise something like £10 billion more by extending the windfall tax, including closing those loopholes, which is a huge giveaway to the energy companies that are already making huge profits. and that money could help people right now with their gas and electricity bills. although it's summer now, we'll soon be going into the autumn and winter and people really notice those higher bills, and on mortgages, our package of measures would be

mandatory, not voluntary. we need to force the banks and the lenders to give the support to customers that they need. look, nobody wants to extend the term of their mortgage or go to interest only. but if the alternative is losing your home, then people need to be given those options. british triathletes preparing for next month's world championships have been forced to abandon open water swim training because of continuing problems with sewage in the sea in fleetwood on the lancashire coast. health warnings have been put in place on multiple beaches across the uk by the environment agency, who are using special state—of—the—art equipment to detect bacteria. paul murphy has this report from the coast in east yorkshire. a red warning flag is raised in the rain on bridlington beach. it's to advise the public that if they enter these waters, there's a risk they could fall ill. flagging the beach because the water quality has been

pretty bad recently. just to make sure no one goes in the water and swims. could get quite ill. do people pay attention to the red flag? yes, quite a few people pay attention. a lot of people come up to us and ask us for the warning about the water quality. the rain does mean that very few people are on the beaches today, but for many here, the warning is a worry. i mean, in this day and age, you honestly think that the legislation and policing by the local authorities, etcetera, that this just wouldn't happen. all the schools are off. parents are going away on holiday, bringing their children. _ they want to go down to the beach and go in the water. _ but they can't, can they? yeah, it's not acceptable. sources of pollution include sewage overflows, run by our water companies. during heavy rain, they are legally allowed to release sewage to prevent it backing up into homes and businesses. in this area alone, five beaches are on a pollution risk warning.

bridlington north, bridlington, south, wilsthorpe, and cleethorpes. it's unusual to have so many alerts on this coastline, but heavy rainfall is raising the risk. pollution risk forecasts are issued by the environment agency and they're basically a warning that during heavy rainfall, there's a risk that a variety of bacteria from a number of sources, including human or animal sewage, could wash into our beaches. that warning can remain in place for several days and the advice is always not to swim. paul murphy, bbc news, bridlington. some breaking news to bring you now. police in north yorkshire have concerned that they have been for a rest over the protest that took place at rishi sunak�*s house this morning. forarrests place at rishi sunak�*s house this morning. for arrests have been

confirmed by the police. the background to this story is that activists climbed on the roof of the prime minister's home to protest 200 new north sea oil and gas licences. we have had from police that for protesters there have been arrested. the patient and surgeon who were part of a ground—breaking brain operation, which made headlines around the world in 2020, have been reunited to celebrate its success. dagmar turner was able to play her violin during the proceedure to remove a tumour which her surgeon said was an indicator that no damage was being done to the part of the brain responsible for her hand movement. they've been speaking to our reporter, wendy hurrell. it was a musician's need to play violin after removal of a brain tumour and a surgeon's understanding of the intrinsic value of music that led to this moment in medical history.

my oncologist was very, very good. he said to me, "dagmar, we need a plan." 0nly that plan didn't involve my music. so in the end, i said to them, "do you think i should play my violin during operation?" and he looked at me and said, "well, we need to discuss this with the professor, but what an interesting idea." i said, "yes, we can try that." and the rest is pretty much history. music was so important to dagmar's quality of life and everything that she was. she was kind of hesitant to have this conversation with somebody who was a great surgeon but didn't understand the musical side, whereas because of my musical background, dagmar felt that, 0k, we can at least have that conversation. now they're part of the newly refurbished hunterian museum at lincoln's inn fields. pretty cool, isn't it? it is pretty cool! i mean, as a medical student, i mean, this is hunterian museum, royal college of surgeons, probably the most coveted museum

of anatomy and surgery in the world. as a medical student, you only dream of actually coming to london to see this. now, kind of we are both, thanks to dagmar, part of this for generations to come. so this is really massive. it did sort of take off around the world, that picture. yeah, somebody asked me for a violin lesson from south africa! and i said to someone, i said, look, what do you expect? i'm a woman, i'm blonde, and theyjust take most of my brain out. they didn't put it back in! and you expect an answer from me? and the guyjust looked at me, like, i'm so sorry. and as you can see, we haven't knocked out her sense of humour centre in the brain at all! it works perfectly well. yeah, but i'm german. i never had any! she's from germany and she arrived in the uk and the tumour was discovered. i was born in iran, travelled, lived in the uk and some other fate brought us together to deliver this one operation.

and that is interesting, isn't it? that's how we ended up in the hunterian museum. yes, exactly. how we ended up in the museum, absolutely. wendy hurrell, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello. the weather is not looking too bad over the next couple of days, generally sunshine and showers knocking around. however, as we head into saturday, it's going to turn very wet, particularly so across northern ireland, england and wales. and bear in mind parts of the south of the uk, even though we're only three days into the new month, have already had a third of the average rainfall. there's more on the way, as i say. today is an ok day, though. sunny spells and passing showers. the showers probably most frequent across parts of the midlands running into eastern england. quite a few showers for northern ireland, but they'll tend to be quite light and i suspect the showers become a little bit less widespread for wales and south west england. so more in the way of dry weather here increasingly

through the afternoon. so some of you will stay dry with sunny spells coming through from time to time overnight. a few more showers will keep going, particularly around coastal areas and especially across northeast england, north and east scotland. temperatures about 11 to 14 degrees overnight. and then tomorrow, yeah, it's another showery kind of day. however, as we head into the afternoon, the showers will want to concentrate in one area especially, and that's across eastern england. that's because we've got one of these convergence zones where the winds bash together. it will concentrate the showers here. but if you're away from that, for example, across wales, western england, parts of northern ireland, west scotland, it should be largely dry tomorrow afternoon with some fairly decent sunshine coming through, but temperatures still a bit below par for the time of year. it's through friday night and into the weekend that we've got our next batch of really wet weather to come through. also very windy too. now the heavy rain will initially start off in northern ireland. quite gusty winds here for a time

too, before it works in across england and wales, especially as we go through saturday. and with gusts of wind around 50 or 60 miles an hour across parts of wales, a0 to 50 miles an hour or so for parts of southern england, could bring some localised disruption. then we've got the heavy rain factor in as well. now it won't be raining everywhere all the time across scotland. it'll be ok. sunny spells here a few passing showers, but the unsettled theme does continue, i'm afraid, through sunday and into the early part of next week as well. however, after that, it looks like we'll see our first area of high pressure building in for some seven weeks and come thursday, might only last a day or two, it looks like we'll see something drier, sunnier and warmer. temperatures in the warmest spots could reach the high twenties or even low thirties.

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hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now. we start with that announcement by the bank of england — raising interest rates from 5% to 5.25%. that's the highest rate for 15 years. it'll mean higher costs for many mortgage holders — as well as individuals and businesses with loans. but it will also benefit some savers. it's the latest attempt by the bank to tackle high inflation. the bank england isjust one of many central banks around the world — raising interest rates to curb rising prices. here's the rate of inflation in five advanced economies since the start of the year. as you can see there's a downward trend, especially in the us. but in the uk, inflation is still atjust under 8% which is four times the bank's target of 2%. that international comparison was underlined by the opposition labour party in the uk. here's the shadow chancellor — rachel reeves. the government need to take responsibility for the fact that