Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 16 Oct 2012

The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, will apply to the High Court to have the verdicts of the Hillsborough inquests quashed. The move comes after an independent report last month said that 41 of the 96 victims could have been saved. Inquiries into the actions of police during and after the disaster in 1989 have already been announced.

The UK inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, dropped to 2.2% in September, its lowest level for nearly three years, according to the Office for National Statistics. The Retail Prices Index measure of inflation, which includes mortgage payments, fell to 2.6%. The Treasury said the fall would bring "welcome relief to the budgets of families and businesses".

BBC director-general George Entwistle has offered to face MPs on the Culture Committee as early as next week over the allegations against the late Jimmy Savile and in particular why a Newsnight investigation was dropped last year. Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said the BBC should not be leading their own inquiry into the scandal.

In the latest reform introduced by President Raul Castro, younger brother of Fidel, Cuban citizens have been told they will no longer need to obtain exit permits before travelling abroad. From 14 January next year, the hated permits will be abandoned and Cubans will need only a valid passport to leave the country.