21 Nov 2024

UK: Birth certificate mistake, inflation up, farmers' protest

From Nine To Noon, 9:47 am on 21 November 2024
A view of the Palace of Westminster with Big Ben a day before General Election, in London, Great Britain on Jult 3, 2024. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: JAKUB PORZYCKI

Correspondent Matthew Parris shares the latest news from the UK, including the parents who have been told there's no way to change the mistake that left their baby with the wrong sex on her birth certificate.

Energy prices have pushed inflation to its highest rate in six months, thousands have turned out to protest changes to the inheritance tax for farmers, Essex police are under pressure over non-hate crime incidents and a study has found the Scots and Irish are the best at sniffing out a fake accent.

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