glass in county durham.wage packets. all the gas—related price rises have come through in rock glass terms, circa 30%. drivers wages, 26%. the last four months. general wages, 10% in the last 12 months. should inflation get to 5%, i don't believe that that level of inflation and cost purchase we have seen in a business is sustainable at all. but that's exactly what the bank of england is now forecasting that means interest rates will go up, just not at today's meeting. heading to around 1% in the next year. so, rates are on hold this month, but they're going up in the nearfuture. it was a close—run thing, because although the bank says those numbers it can do about inflation hitting our % by april, it wants to stop a spiral of price rises leading to even more price rises. and deepen the forecast was some other news about post—tax, post inflation pay packets. the outlook for wages and pay after inflation and taxes is notjust sluggish. it will in fact go down over the next couple of years before the financial

fiona trott, bbc news, county durham. arena attack in 2017 has said that the response of the emergency services on the night was shameful and inadequate. saffie—rose roussos was eight years old when she was killed in the bomb attack. her father andrew said the response should go down in history as "one of the worst failures from start to finish", as our correspondent judith moritz reports. saffie—rose roussos loved pop music, especially ariana grande. she was so excited when she got tickets to the star's manchester concert for christmas. she went on a girly night with her mum lisa and sister ashley. the three were in the foyer when the bomb exploded. saffie called out for her mum and lay on the floor for half an hour. there were no stretchers, so she was taken down these stairs on a hoarding and a passing ambulance was flagged down. her father andrew arrived at the arena and had no idea where his little girl was. the response on that night was shameful and inadequate. everyone in that sitting room was let down and the peo

and northumberland, county durham and north yorkshire, are still without power. pennines in cumbria in some of the outlying villages there which have been heavily affected by snow. no power means no heating, hot water or hot food. on top of that, some of these places simply haven't had any fresh water supply at all. they are also without mobile phone and internet and are starting to feel really quite isolated. we know that in a lot of these communities, the frustration they are starting to feel is that they are being given times when the power is meant to be coming back on, but those deadlines simply aren't being met. northern power grid, which covers this part of the country, says it has been dealing with hundreds of incidents of power cables being knocked out by storm arwen, and it is doing everything it can to deal with them, but people here today have told me that they are starting to feel forgotten. they are relying on places like the local pub here in blanchland, which is helping to check up on the elderly, using its generator to charge up everything from h

fiona trott, bbc news, county durham. the time is quarter past six. our top story this evening...eight—year—old saffie roussos who died in the manchester arena bombing says the response was shameful and inadequate. the response was shameful coming the response was shameful up in sports day in the 50 coming up in sports day in the next 50 minutes on the bbc news channel, we will hear from the england cricket captain joe we will hear from the england cricket captainjoe root we will hear from the england cricket captain joe root who says we will hear from the england cricket captainjoe root who says he has been in touch with azeem rafiq, former yorkshire team—mate, who claims he was a victim of racism at the county. prince charles has arrived in barbados to mark the moment it severs its ties with the queen. the caribbean island has had the monarchy as head of state for nearly 400 years. tomorrow it will become a republic but will remain in the commonwealth. celestina olulode reports from barbados. gearing up for a moment in history. this island nation is making a strong statement abo

the economic picture is not as transparent as the main manufacture of clayton glass in county durham. in the packaging, and here at least in the wage packets. all the gas—related price rises have come through in raw glass to us, circa 30%. drivers' wages, 26% in the last four months. general wages, 10% in the last 12 months. should inflation get to 5%, i don't believe that that level of inflation and cost pressures we're seeing in the business is sustainable at all. but that's exactly what the bank of england is now forecasting. that means interest rates will go up, just not at today's meeting. heading to around 1% in the next year. so, rates are on hold this month, but they're going up in the near future. it was a close—run thing, because although the bank says there's not much it can do about inflation hitting 5% by april, it wants to stop a spiral of price rises then wage rises leading to even more price rises. and deep in the forecast was some rather depressing news about post—tax, post—inflation pay packets. it is energy prices that will push inflation to a decade—high next year,

this was the picture in county durham earlier today, but after the mild start to the weekend, thingsuse of the weekend. november has been very mild so far, but things are about to change now. we still have high pressure to the south, bringing quite a bit of mild and dry weather for today, quite a bit of mild and dry weather fortoday, but quite a bit of mild and dry weather for today, but this weather front is working south through of today and overnight, so by the time we get to tomorrow morning, we are all in the colder air mass, the wind is coming down from the north. today we have some rain for parts of southern scotland and northern ireland for a time, shifting further south into the far north of england and north wales, too. some are brighter skies to be south of that for a time, but cloudy with a few spots of drizzle in the far south. turning to sunshine and scattered showers for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures reaching potentially i2 celsius. showers can be quite heavy across the north of scotland, winds up across the north of scotland, winds up to 45 mph through t

fiona trott, bbc news, county durham.h i found a tad distracting. not that i begrudge a bit of tinsel in the current climate. but what do we make of that, is it me or is it a bit overkill on the baubles. what do you in your house, do you go full monty around the fireplace like that? it's quite traditional isn't it? anyway this is a job normally given to the first lady — and this isjill biden's first attempt at putting out the decorations. the theme this year is �*gifts from the heart'. (00v 2 so it features lots of photographs of former presidents and their families — including donald trump. you see!! that there is the spirit of christmas. good evening. i'm sure you don't need me to tell you that in many parts of the uk, it has been a very cold day, with afternoon temperatures in the staffordshire moorlands no higher than one degree above freezing. but changes have been beginning to take place. we've had more cloud rolling its way in from the west. with that, the first signs of some milder air, which made its presence fel

fiona trott, bbc news, county durham. arwen later. the trial of ghislaine maxwell, on charges linked to her relationship with the convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, has begun in new york. she denies trafficking and grooming under—age girls. ms maxwell, who's 59, is the youngest daughter of the disgraced media tycoon and former mp, robert maxwell. let's get more from our correspondent in new york, michelle fleury. michelle, hello. a busy day in court today? it michelle, hello. a busy day in court toda ? ., michelle, hello. a busy day in court toda? ., , michelle, hello. a busy day in court toda? ., i, , today? it got off slowly but things, the ace is today? it got off slowly but things, the pace is picking _ today? it got off slowly but things, the pace is picking up. _ today? it got off slowly but things, the pace is picking up. the - today? it got off slowly but things, the pace is picking up. the jury - today? it got off slowly but things, j the pace is picking up. the jury has the pace is picking up. thejury has

some of those 20,000 or so houses across the north—east, we are talking about northumberland, county durhamin cumbria in some of the outlying villages there that have been heavily affected by snow. and with no power means no heating, no hot water, no hot food. on top of that some of these places simply haven't had any water supplies, freshwater supplies at all. there are also without mobile phone and internet and are starting to feel really quite isolated there. now, we know that in a lot of these communities the frustration they're starting to feel is that they are being given times when the power is meant to be coming back on but those deadlines simply aren't being met. northern power grid, which covers this part of the country, says it has been dealing with hundreds of incidences of power cables being knocked out by storm arwen and it is doing everything it can to deal with them but people here tell me that they are starting to feel forgotten. what they are doing is relying on places like the local pub which is helping to check upon the elderly and use its generator to charge of everythi

weathering the storm in cumbria, both hartside pass and the a66 between county durham and cumbria have power at all and are concerned about their water pipes because it's obviously freezing, but we are a pretty tough bunch so most are kind of saying it is what it is but can we have the power back as soon as possible, please? northumberland fire and rescue service received around 600 emergency calls and attended 170 incidents over the weekend. this afternoon officers are working across the county to help with the clear—up. we continue to work really closely with council, colleagues and other emergency services, utilities and the local communities themselves, really, to support residents and keep the county moving. we've got multiple resources deployed across all partner groups across northumberland to mobilise towards the needs of the local communities. nobody could have second guessed the impact storm arwen would have on our region. the gusting winds brought damage to property and vehicles with falling trees and bricks. in bamburgh many trees in the centre of the village were brought d

northern power grid has been reporting that around 55,000 houses are without power across county durham morning. thank you very much, and worth _ 10am this morning. thank you very much, and worth saying _ 10am this morning. thank you very much, and worth saying this - 10am this morning. thank you very i much, and worth saying this morning, i know a lot of you will be waking up i know a lot of you will be waking up this morning, it is still dark and you look out into the gardens and you look out into the gardens and it might be a bit of a mess. we are hearing anecdotal reports of people coming to work here in the north—west and saying they have seen trees down. something has happened, if it has crossed your path this morning, let us see the pictures. i know some places have had quite a lot of snow this morning. we saw quite a lot of it on the motorway. send the pictures in and we will try to get a better sense of what the picture is. to get a better sense of what the icture is. : ,:, to get a better sense of what the icture is. ~ ,., i. ., to get a better sense of what the icture is. ~ i

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