Watch Thursday's ITV Lunchtime News as oil price oil price tops $100 a barrel again

The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

That's according to the International Energy Agency - it warns that the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz - through which around 20 per cent of the world's oil usually passes - will mean less supply and higher prices for consumers.

Also on the programme:
-Sir Keir Starmer is set to face fresh questions over what he knew about Mandel's links to Epstein before appointing him as US ambassador
-A new scheme has been launched designed to protect women on night's out across Britain.
-Post Office Subpostmasters have accused Royal Mail of deliberately targeting their customers by placing new digital postboxes outside their shop

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