Most economists think the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will opt to keep rates on hold when it meets on Thursday.

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that if the Israeli strikes on Iran stop, then ‘our responses will also stop’.

According to Goliath’s official record, he hatched on the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos on June 15 between 1885 and 1890.