内容摘要：About 600,000 homeowners have a mortgage that "tracks" the Bank of England's rate, so the latest base rate change has an immediate impact on their monthly repayments. Typically, their monthly repayments will now be £29 cheaper.

About 600,000 homeowners have a mortgage that "tracks" the Bank of England's rate, so the latest base rate change has an immediate impact on their monthly repayments. Typically, their monthly repayments will now be £29 cheaper.

She believed the services should be "regulated better, so it doesn't impact people's journeys".A spokesperson for Thameslink said: "Reliability has been better since the start of the year but our service has still been affected by external events, such as named storms, people trespassing on the track and fatalities.

"Other issues such as signal failures, power and track issues, lay outside our direct control, but we work closely with Network Rail to improve their reliability."Over the Christmas break, Network Rail replaced most of the rails on the Thameslink route across central London, and they have started nine weekends of engineering work to upgrade the overhead power lines."It added that seasonal sickness and annual leave had caused difficulties with driver availability, but since the start of the year cancellations had fallen by two-thirds.

Every single person in his platoon knew someone who was killed. Yuval Green, 26, knew at least three. He was a reservist, a medic in the paratroops of the Israel Defence Forces, when he heard the first news of the 7 October Hamas attack.“Israel is a small country. Everyone knows each other,” he says. In several days of violence,1,200 people were killed, and 251 more abducted into Gaza. Ninety-seven hostages remain in Gaza, and around half of them are believed to be alive.

Yuval immediately answered his country’s call to arms. It was a mission to defend Israelis. He recalls the horror of entering devastated Jewish communities near the Gaza border. “You're seeing… dead bodies on the streets, seeing cars punctured by bullets.”

Back then, there was no doubt about reporting for duty. The country was under attack. The hostages had to be brought home."I thought he was going to kill me....it is so scary because there is nobody there to help you."

Clare says the weeks and months rolled into one and she described herself as a "walking zombie", often sleeping in car parks or on the streets.She credits One25 with helping her turn her life around, saying they saved her and she is no longer selling sex.

Rachel Collins-White is the operations manager for One25, which runs several different projects for street sex workers, including the outreach van.The charity believes the increase in women seeking their help since 2021 is due to a number of reasons.