内容摘要：“We want redress as quickly as possible," he said. "What we don’t want to do is set an absolute cut-off date which would result in some claimants missing the deadline.

“We want redress as quickly as possible," he said. "What we don’t want to do is set an absolute cut-off date which would result in some claimants missing the deadline.

During Tuesday's speech he insisted egg prices had declined 87%, a claim contradicted by the latest government price figures.Inflation, energy prices and mortgage rates have fallen since Trump took office, although unemployment has risen slightly, consumer sentiment has sagged and the stock market was plunged into turmoil by the tariffs.

Before the speech, Joe DeMonaco, who owns a carpentry business in Michigan, said Trump's patchwork of on-again, off-again import taxes were starting to increase prices, which he will have to pass on to his customers."I was hoping. . . he would approach things a little bit differently seeing that he's a little seasoned coming into a second term," Mr DeMonaco told the BBC. "But we're just treading water and seeing if things get better from here."But it's clear that Trump's most steadfast supporters stand by him.

"I'm just thrilled," Teresa Breckinridge, owner of the Silver Skillet Diner in Atlanta, Georgia, told the BBC."He's handling things wherever he can, multiple times a day, and he's reporting back to the people. . . I think the tariffs will end up definitely being in our favour."

Healthcare waiting times have improved over the last year, despite increasing numbers of islanders being referred for treatment, the States of Guernsey has said.

A Health and Social Care (HSC) report found the inpatient waiting list fell from 2,799 at the end of 2023 to 2,207 at the end of 2024, a drop of more than 20%.The lawyers also raised the issue of "voluminous discovery, including evidence located in other countries" and the need for the defence to determine how best to defend Masud.

US district court judge Dabney Friedrich agreed to delay the 12 May starting date.A status conference on the case is due to take place at the court next month.

Scottish and US prosecutors first named Masud as a suspect in 2015 when the collapse of the Gaddafi regime in Libya breathed new life into the Lockerbie investigation.Five years later, the then US attorney general William Barr announced they were charging Masud with the destruction of an aircraft resulting in death.