i am going to break the number one rule of making news. not a huge amount has happened today, but that in itself is news. it is certainly a change. my feeling on day three of the rishi sunak era is thatjust, the thing is that we re talking about feel much more normal already, like classic politics. and i think they will look far as mission, not accomplished, but the start of the project is how they want it to be, which is, to use the line from michael gove, the new levelling secretary, boring is back. and just thinking of it in news terms, we have spent, those of us here at westminster, running around like mad things for quite a while, and today, i was on the radio briefly this morning but that was it because there has not really been any news here. and it has gone from gale force to the most gentle of breezes. and yet there are still things happening. so, today, the suella braverman reappointment controversy rumbles on. with the opposition parties trying to keep that alive.
the met has apologised to carrick s victims after it emerged he was allowed to stay in the police force despite allegations about him over many years. also this lunchtime. the drive by shooting in london that left six people injured a 22 year old man is arrested. investigators in nepal find the black box flight recorders of the plane that crashed yesterday killing at least 68 people. counting the cost of christmas. fears that some people got into so much debt over the festive period that it will take them years to pay the money back. and emma raducanu puts aside her injury worries and makes it through to the second round of the australian open. and coming up in sport on bbc news, on the day that the new england head coach steve borthwick announces his first six nations squad the former england boss eddiiejones becomes australia s new head coach. good afternoon. a serving metropolitan police officer has admitted he s a serial rapist who carried out sex attacks over almost tw
sometimes there is an economic crisis because of all the events that cannot be predicted. this is self inflicted in downing street with backbenchers last week. humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks patients put at risk due to a toxic culture at one of the uk s biggest mental health hospitals, bbc panorama reveals. health officials are urging those eligible to get their flu jabs and covid boosters. experts have warned of a big, and early wave of the flu this autumn. millions of people in florida preparing for life threatening storms and there will be high winds and flooding at hurricane ian approaching. the bank of england has stepped in to prop up the government bond market, after uk interest rates soared, and gilts tumbled, following the government s mini budget. the bank warned the market s reaction to the government s measures now represented a material risk to uk financial stability . it says the market for gilts, in which the british government borrows, has beco
how about that? desert island discs last and now found. louise is here with the weather. it looks likely we will see cloud around today but a beautiful sunset this evening in east yorkshire. sunshine certainly at a premium as we go into tomorrow because of the amount of cloud spilling in as we speak. sun down to the south west but it is this cloud which will bring the heaviest of the overnight rain across north west scotland and northern ireland. it weakens as it pushes its way south and east and further south of that, it is a drab affair, a lot of low cloud, drizzly and murky, perhaps persistent rain pushing into the far south west. but at least that cloud keeps temperatures up so a mild start to friday morning but a murky one, there could be fog around and it stays overcast and drizzly for much of the day with much of that rain sitting and hanging around across the south coast. there will be sunshine, north wales, northern england. eventually that frontal system from scotla