内容摘要：Despite these successes, the pressure on the council is increasing.

Despite these successes, the pressure on the council is increasing.

The main inflation measure, CPI, was, down slightly from the previous month.

Although that is far below the peak of 11.1% reached in October 2022, inflation remains above the 2% target.As well as inflation, the Bank has to consider how the UK economy is doing more generally.It also pays close attention to the performance of the global economy, which has been thrown into chaos by the widespread tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump.

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey previously said he would take a gradual and careful approach to cutting rates.But the uncertainty caused by US tariffs may mean UK interest rates fall further than predicted as the Bank seeks to help boost the economy. Some analysts believe rates could fall to 3.5%.

Just under a third of households have a mortgage, according to

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.In the UK, SAF is mainly made from cooking oil, some of which is shipped from Asia, and shipping is responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions.

Alternative methods of creating SAF require large quantities of electricity as part of the manufacturing process. This would involve a vast amount of renewable energy to make it sustainable."It's very hard, to think there is such a thing as a sustainable aviation fuel,” says Sir Dieter Helm. “There are aviation fuels that are less polluting than the ones being used at the moment, and you can use elements of biofuel and chip fat and so on.

"Think about the scale that's required to do it.”There is another more unexpected way that airlines could reduce emissions. That is, making their flight paths more direct to reduce fuel consumption.