branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester.have been minted, and will be circulated from december. coins featuring the late queen will remain legal tender. hywel griffith reports. freshly minted, and coming to a till near you. the new 50p is the first of the carolean coins. for now, they're under tight security — you need special permission just to touch one. but from december, they'll circulate alongside the queen's coins, which won't be withdrawn. keeping the currency current is a significant moment. martin was the man charged with creating the image and getting everything in proportion, knowing eventually his work would end up in millions of pockets and piggy banks. you don't want to make it, for example, too cheerful because this is a serious... this is a very serious symbol. and yet it needs to be light enough to put across his humanity. it's getting in the subtlest of possible ways those emotions, rather than, as it were, ears or nose or eyes. these days, cash isn't really king. only 15% of payments are used using coins a

branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news now newswatch.ello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. i don't know, i don't think i'll be voting again after what happened to boris johnson. that reporter's staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last week's programme, is one of the key goals and challenges for bbc news. it wasn't long before the fraught nature of that ambition was exposed again, with the addition of the paper review on the news channel on sunday night, shortly before it was broadcast on a day of high political drama, it emerged that borisjohnson had withdrawn from the race to lead the conservative party. this is how the programme started. well, this is all very exciting, isn't it? hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorr

branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester.t highlands of scotland are having very different experiences of the cost of living crisis. in one, energy bills are well above the uk average, while in the other, a hydroelectric scheme has led to no increase at all. as part of our series looking at how energy costs are affecting different regions, our scotland editorjames cook has visted glenelg and knoydart. winter is coming, and in the highlands, they're worried. energy bills here are way above the uk average, and rising. life in rural scotland does bring great rewards. just look at the scenery, for a start. but it also comes with great challenges, and many people here will tell you those challenges are now intensifying. this community ferry hops to and fro between glenelg on the mainland and the isle of skye. but the cost of diesel to run it has jumped 70% in the past year. how difficult is that, as a business? well, it is difficult because we always run on really quite tight margins here. and we're still expected, as a social ent