16 May 2012 Last updated at 12:09 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Sir Mervyn King: “Our biggest trading partner the euro area, is tearing itself apart” The Bank of England has cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.8% from 1.2%, saying the eurozone “storm” is still the...
9 May 2012 Last updated at 15:14 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Queen sets out the government’s plans for the year ahead David Cameron has hailed the coalition’s plans for the year ahead as a “Queen’s Speech to rebuild Britain”. They include flexible parental leave, breaking up the...
30 April 2012 Last updated at 15:59 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Aerial video shows Somerset floods It has been the wettest April in the UK for over 100 years, with some areas seeing three times their usual average, figures from the Met Office show. Some 121.8mm of rain...
27 March 2012 Last updated at 14:00 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Panel chairman Darra Singh: “Where people feel there’s no consequences to their actions, they’ll go out and damage, loot, and wreak havoc” A lack of support and opportunity for young people contributed to the outbreak of riots...
23 March 2012 Last updated at 14:15 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Home Secretary Theresa May: “People who like going to their local pub have nothing to fear” The government is proposing a minimum price of 40p per unit of alcohol in England and Wales in an effort to...
17 March 2012 Last updated at 12:50 ET Unions have reacted angrily to plans to scrap national pay rates for some public sector workers in the UK. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say civil servants, such as Jobcentre and DVLA staff, should have pay brought into line with private sector salaries in their...
16 March 2012 Last updated at 10:53 ET Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has announced he is to stand down in December. He will take the position of Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge from January next year, his website says. Dr Williams, 61, was appointed the 104th Archbishop of...
Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is just one of many children struggling with the death of an addicted parent When I heard about Whitney Houston’s death, my thoughts turned to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 18, and the struggle she must be facing in dealing with the loss of her...
15 February 2012 Last updated at 12:46 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jamie Jenkins, Office for National Statistics: “The north east has the highest rate of unemployment” UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, official figures have shown, the smallest...
10 February 2012 Last updated at 13:04 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Mr Lansley rejects claims he’s lost the support of Conservatives over the NHS bill Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says the government is “committed” to the NHS bill, amid reports that three Tory cabinet ministers have concerns. Tim...
