having watched the report that followed, viewer heather lunt sent us this response.s contacted us this week about a report on the cost of living, which featured recently on the six and the ten o'clock news. it was introduced like this. rising prices are affecting everyone, but it's being felt more in the north than the south of the country. that's according to new research. the centre for cities think tank says the impact of the cost of living crisis is significantly higher in blackburn and burnley, for example, than in cambridge and london. it says the disparity was down to the higher proportion of poorly insulated housing in the north and the fact that workers in the north tend to earn lower wages and so spend more of their income on essentials like food and heating. all those references to "the north" annoyed steven tate, who wrote in from roswell in midlothian. the state of the economy has been in the headlines this week. on tuesday, the international monetary fund downgraded the uk's growth forecast for this year. but also in the spotlight has been the bbc�*s ow

having watched the report that followed, viewer heather lunt sent us this response: some viewers contactednomy has been in the headlines this week. on tuesday, the international monetary fund downgraded the uk's growth forecast for this year. but also in the spotlight has been the bbc�*s own reporting of economics. the international monetary fund has predicted that the uk economy will shrink and perform worse than all other major economies, including russia this year, as the cost of living continues to hit households. while the report into the bbc�*s coverage of taxation, public expenditure, government borrowing and government debt was commissioned by the bbc itself. it was the first of a series of reviews assessing whether due impartiality is being achieved across the corporation's output. it made some striking findings. although the report's authors, the journalist michael blastland and the economist sir andrew dilnot found plenty to applaud, they also concluded that too manyjournalists lack an understanding of basic economics, and they said there were risks to impartiality from presenti