Good evening. Jeremy Hunt has said he is comfortable with Britain falling into a recession if it is necessary to defeat inflation, days after the IMF said Britain would avoid a downturn. And scroll down to Sport to read how Emily Bridges has launched a scathing attack on British Cycling, accusing it of 'genocide' against transgender cyclists.

The Chancellor said he would back the Bank of England in raising interest rates further, as he insisted that the “only path to sustainable growth” is to bring down the high prices behind the cost of living crisis. 

Chris Price and Melissa Lawford have more on Mr Hunt's comments, as he said prioritising measures to slow rising prices was necessary even if rate hikes damage the UK's GDP. 

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Britain's equality watchdog has suspended an investigation into its chief amid a growing backlash over an attempted coup by trans-activist civil servants. 

Baroness Falkner of Margravine, 68, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), was the target of a dossier of complaints from officials. 

Ewan Somerville details how the investigation plunged the watchdog into crisis and sparked outcry across the political spectrum.

Parents who smoked large amounts of cannabis and later went on to kill their baby on Christmas Day have been jailed for life. 

Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden have been ordered to serve minimum terms of 29 and 27 years respectively after they inflicted 130 separate injuries on 10-month-old Finley before he died in 2020.

Roger Waters | Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is being investigated by Berlin police for incitement to hatred after he donned a Nazi-style uniform at a concert in the German capital. You can see a picture of Waters wearing the uniform here.