And in a rare interview, Sir Alex Ferguson talks about helping with dementia through music, and reflects on his life after football. And coming up on Bbc News. Can anyone stop chelsea getting their sixth womens super League Title in a row as they begin the defence of their crown this evening . Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. Lawyers say theyre representing 37 women who were raped or sexually assaulted by the late owner of harrods, mohamed Al Fayed. Theyve also revealed that more have come forward after the allegations were made public in a Bbc Documentary yesterday. The legal team is now calling on the department stores new owners to help the survivors getjustice, after they say staff members working for mr Al Fayed helped to enable and cover up his crimes. Our reporter frances read has the latest. The billionaire, infamous in british society, now alleged to be a serial sexual predator. The accusations made by multiple women giving extremely distressing accounts of
In about 90 minutes time well get the latest health check on the economy and everyone is asking the question will the numbers reveal we are officially out of recession . Well, most experts predict yes, and say we will see a smidgen of Growth Injanuary of 0. 2 . This would confirm the Bank Of Englands suggestion that the downturn is behind us. During the final three months of last year, the data showed the uk slipped into recession and inflation injanuary was at 4 so its still twice the Bank Of Englands target. Lets discuss all of this with azad zangana, Senior European Economist at schroders. Good morning to you. Are you with the majority believing today will give us a Growth Number . Today will give us a Growth Number . ~. ~ ~ number . We are. We think it could be number . We are. We think it could be even number . We are. We think it could be even a number . We are. We think it could be even a little number . We are. We think it could be even a little higherl could be even a little h
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
wash out, and it will be windy, particularly on saturday. saturday s low pressure hurtling in will bring a band of wet weather, tight isobars. on sunday, more low pressure moving through. you will notice how much milder it will feel than last week. rainfall totals will continue to mount up over the next few days, particularly southern and western areas, and we have a number of severe flood warnings or flood warnings in place across the uk. this is likely to increase over the next few days with all the rain expected. if you have concerns, head to the bbc weather website to check out the details. this afternoon, it looks unsettled for large parts of scotland, northern ireland and north west england and wales. heavy rainfall at times, blustery winds, very windy across the northern isles, with further rain. the south east quadrant of england escaping the rain, not a afternoon, with sunshine. double figure temperatures in central and southern areas, single digits in the north. ton
pga tour are concerned how sympathetic are they to teaming up with the saudi arabia? that is what is going to be hammered out in the days and weeks to come. the deadline of december the 31st for this framework agreement to be turned into a substantiated deal, that is racing towards us at a fair rate of knots. well staying with saudi arabia s growing influence in sport the nations sports minister says claims of sportswashing against the country are very shallow . prince abdulaziz bin turki al faisal was speaking to the bbc s sports editor dan roan injeddah as he defended its right to host the men s football world cup. the bbc were accompanied by saudi ministry of sport officials while filming at venues and events. critics say unprecedented spending on sport has been used to improve the oil producing kingdom s reputation over its human rights record and its environmental impact. our ambition is to host the best events around the world for the people of the kingdom to see b