内容摘要：The council’s budget suggested parking charges would bring in additional income of £185,000 for 2024/25 and £268,000 in future years, helping to plug a £1.5m deficit in its on-street parking service.

The council’s budget suggested parking charges would bring in additional income of £185,000 for 2024/25 and £268,000 in future years, helping to plug a £1.5m deficit in its on-street parking service.

And the scale of this Budget is likely to be huge. There is no doubt it will include a major set of measuresfor employers we’ve confirmed today; billions and billions of pounds of extra borrowing.

A government source said: “It is a big budget because there is a hell of a lot to do to get finances back on firmer footing, and to make sure public services can keep going."But note the "to deliver change" in the Budget strapline as an add on - a sign - that the chancellor is under pressure to spell out what the point of tax rises are, what the merits of squeezing some spending is.If you put up with the pain, what do you get in return?

That pressure is behind the chancellor's decision to flex the spending rules she used to boast about being "ironclad". She wants billions to spend on roads, rail, to invest, in the hope of getting the economy growing – and extra spending on theand also, likely, for schools.

We’ll hear more about that tomorrow with Education Secretary Bridget Philipson joining us on the show.

As well as a big Budget in monetary terms, it’s a big moment in history too. The first Budget of a government with a gravity-defying majority. The first delivered by a female chancellor. And the first Labour Budget in 15 years.He also said that visitors to the area were not staying as long as they used to, and that going to the cinema was no longer a "priority".

For cinemas to stay open, "people need to come to them", he added.Mr Morris, who runs several cinemas, said: "I've been depressed about it for quite some time.

"I've put a lot of time and money into the cinema, we moved up here to take over the Royalty and our principal reason for our being here is no longer."So it's lots of sad things all rolled into one, really."