great stuff. we will be live in westminster and all the latest after that damning report by the committee of mps. so we will be live on that, live in ukraine and all the other headline stories we have coming up in the next hour or so, a really busy hour coming up, but first let s have a peek at the whether with ben rich. hello. some of us have seen thunderstorms this week, but for others it has remained stubbornly dry. so what chance of rain over the next few days? actually the chance will be increasing, thanks to what is currently just a swirl of cloud a long way to the west of us, a developing area of low pressure. in the short term, this afternoon most places fine, dry and sunny, chance of one or two showers, particularly in the west and where they do occur, they could be heavy and possibly thundery, temperatures getting up to 26 or 27 degrees, some likely to get to 28 or 29. through this evening and overnight we will see largely clear skies overhead, some low cloud rolling into the
moron all those headline stories any moment, but i want to return to her main story more on all those headlines. i want to return to the attack in nottingham. the sons of the school caretaker describing their father, the third the school caretaker describing theirfather, the third of the school caretaker describing their father, the third of those three people, two students and in coats, the school tier cake, ian coates, his son describing him as a great man and a great father. tributes coming in from families and friends and those who knew those three people, two students and ian coates and ian s school paying
of its contract. fever heats up in 16 countries take the stage in liverpool and later for the second semifinals. let us start with one of those headline stories and interest rates are not the highest level from the 15 years at lunchtime, he raised them by a quarter of 1% of 4.5%. the increase means some mortgages and loan costs will rise for many, but is that the uk was no longer expected to go into recession and predicted moderate but positive growth. let s speak now to the chief economist of red flag alert and company monitoring the financial help of firms. thank you so much for being here and just to assess the impact this rise will have. it
latest on that story and other headline stories in just a moment or two. do not go away. hello. some big contrasts in the weather today and a tale of two halves, and this is the overall message for the next few days. it will turn quite a bit colder over the uk especially northern and eastern areas. today, we have an easterly wind which has dragged in a fair amount of cloud and this weather front circling over england and wales, this is the radar for the last couple of hours, it has been over the midlands and wales and the south west. the best of the weather in scotland and northern ireland today and also our warmest weather. in between it is very blustery especially over northern england and especially the pennines