these businesses, peter express, wagamama, the last timei peter express, wagamama, the last time i wasto be struggling. —— pizza express. and a lot of small firms also complain about this. and one of the problems is the government has been slowly strangling councils for the last six years. massive cuts in their budgets, and they are coming up their budgets, and they are coming up with these solutions that you can raise rates and council tax, but actually, i think we all know that local council funding will need a lot more than they will raise through these rate rises. there are a lot of stories around tonight, an important one here. north korea. they are sizing up the trump reaction to this missile launch. it is fascinating. north korea sets off yet another one of its missiles, at the very time when president trump is meeting and playing golf with the japanese prime minister, so mr trump comes out and says i supportjapan. that is at least a clear statement of policy, isn't it? it is good that he got the name of the country right, and didn't insult anyone. he didn't mention south korea,