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Hull bus ticket discount for city travel over Christmas
Posted onDiscounted bus tickets are in place for people travelling across Hull over Christmas. The Hull Bus Alliance announced a group travel discount which started on Monday and will end on 31 December. Stagecoach East Midlands and East Yorkshire Buses are offering the Hull Card Group ticket for up to five people for £7. It is…
Baby bank supports BBC Radio Solent soapbox appeal
Posted onSophie CridlandSouth of England BBC Kelly needed to use the baby bank when her daughter was a newborn In a warehouse on an industrial estate a group of volunteers are sorting through items donated to a Dorset baby bank. One of those helping out is Kelly Fahy, from Weymouth, who said she wanted to give…
Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK
Posted onFaisal IslamEconomics editor BBC There has been more than a bitter twang in the glasses at British breakfast tables. Only five years ago, a typical supermarket own-label carton of orange juice could be bought for 76p for 1 litre. It now costs £1.79. That’s a rise of 134% since 2020, and it’s up 29% just…
Why the Wests farmers are paying the price for the US – Iran war
Posted onThe war has seen large oil and gas facilities attacked and it has effectively closed a key shipping channel, the Strait of Hormuz, which runs close to the Iranian coast. One fifth of the world’s oil passes through here, so the disruption has sent global oil prices soaring, and the price of diesel has followed.
US says ‘all options’ on table to help stabilise Argentina’s fiscal turmoil
Posted onGetty Images US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the US is “ready to do what is needed” to help stabilise Argentina’s escalating financial turmoil. “All options for stabilization are on the table,” Bessent wrote on social media, calling Argentina a “systematically important US ally in Latin America”. The message helped to calm financial markets,…
