A round of relief
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Government backtracks on a planned pub business rates rise after industry backlash. Our Friday panel unpacks this latest government U-turn along with the big stories from this week.
Plus, January is traditionally the most popular month for holiday bookings. We speak to one of the UK's leading independent travel agents to find out where's hot and where's not in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, |
| 0:27.9 | it's really all about the traitors uncloked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and |
| 0:32.6 | podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:39.4 | Hello morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:41.4 | A U-turn on business rate rises for some. |
| 0:44.3 | We'll be hearing why not everybody is celebrating. |
| 0:47.1 | Also on the programme today, we'll look back at the big economic stories of the week with our Friday panel. |
| 0:52.2 | And tomorrow is apparently Sunshine Saturday. Traditionally, the most popular day to book your summer holiday. So is this you this weekend? Not enjoying the nasty weather, so I need some nice. Nice sun, hopefully. It's just really cold, isn't it? And I want to feel the sun in my skin. Yeah, we'll have a travel agent. Join us a little bit later on to tell us where the hot destinations are for 2026. |
| 1:12.6 | Wake up to Money with Will Bade. |
| 1:16.0 | Morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money on Friday the 9th of January. Just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:21.3 | We're with you this morning. Great as always to have your company. Yes, lots to pick through from the week that's just gone, isn't there? |
| 1:26.2 | What's going on with the price of oil? |
| 1:28.2 | Some big news potentially today on tariffs from the United States and lots of results from those |
| 1:33.4 | companies that we use all the time this week, the big supermarkets, the High Street retailers for over that key Christmas period. |
| 1:39.7 | So lots to pick through there. We'll also, as I say, be chatting about business rates relief |
| 1:43.7 | because it |
| 1:44.4 | looks like there may be a U-turn for pubs in England in terms of how much their business rates |
| 1:50.5 | might rise, but others in hospitality and in fact across the High Street asking what about |
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