to be a lovely day. lots of sunshine in northern scotland, that will change, where the cloud has been there will be outbreaks of rain, heavy spurs towards the channel islands. starting to ease, cloud and there will be further rain. becoming more and more confined towards the english channel later. brightening up, through the afternoon, wales, northern england, sunshine on blue skies, but scotland will have cloud in the second half of the day. rain quite the north western parts of scotland, western isles and isles and 0rkney and shetland, to go with that college of scotland, western isles and 0rkney and shetland, to go with that, later into the evening some pretty strong and gusty winds gusting in excess of 50 miles an hour for gusting in excess of 50 miles an hourfor some. a pretty blustery gusting in excess of 50 miles an hour for some. a pretty blustery and white into the day here, they want to remain south west but not a huge amount of rain leapt into the south of it before we arriv
hourfor sports day. as many support for now. we ll be back in an hour for sports day. as many people struggle with the cost of living crisis, there is a warning that some people in england are even going without their prescriptions in order to try to save money. the royal pharmaceutical society has told bbc breakfast that it is seen a rise in the number of patients not collecting medicines, requesting cheaper substitutes or even asking what medicine they can do without. our correspondent has this report. it s a choice between food or prescriptions. zoe is a mum of two and a bus driver. she takes multiple medications daily. i ve got polycystic kidney disease, which is an inherited kidney disease. and because of that, i ve had to have a transplant. so i have to take these immunosuppressants to keep my body from rejecting my kidney. without those tablets, my kidney would reject. now i d either end up back on dialysis, which actually
but this from our weather watcher on the essex coast earlier. there will be some patchy, light rain and drizzle at times in the west and in the east through this afternoon but what you will notice is for a february morning, it doesn t feel like it. it is very mild out there. temperatures above where we should be on a february afternoon never mind first thing in the morning. the cloud is reasonably well broken in the south. western parts seeing the light rain or drizzle, with thicker cloud pushing its way eastwards. some of you will stay dry all day. brightening up in the west. the heaviest rain across orkney, brighter in shetland, still very windy after quite a wild night but the wind is easing, coming all the way from the mid atlantic, this is speeding in the mild hourfor this stage in the year. you will get some sunshine, maybe 15 degrees for one or two. this evening and overnight, clear skies to begin within the east
amazon says that 86% of us, almost nine in ten people have bought at least one service from the firm that it is still having to make cutbacks. it is cutting 18,000 jobs, including the closure of three uk warehouses, putting 1200 ukjobs the closure of three uk warehouses, putting 1200 uk jobs at risk. the dispute here today is about the pay offer amazon has made to its workers in the uk, an increase of 50p an hour, taking the starting wage to £11 45 p. then hour, taking the starting wage to £1145 p. then national minimum wage is going up in april to £10.42 an hourfor is going up in april to £10.42 an hour for anyone is going up in april to £10.42 an hourfor anyone aged 23 is going up in april to £10.42 an hour for anyone aged 23 upwards. let s hear more details. my colleague zoe conway has spoken to two workers, who are striking today. darren and garfield have never organised a picket line before. the picket line is going to be set up here. they have only been members
the semifinal itself is not enough it is enough and it would be for anyone and you go into the games going to the semifinal is nothing and i know the players feel the same way. me and my coaching team feel passionately about it that we want to make the final but we have to navigate these two games, they will be very difficult as i say. england s netballers have missed out on a place at the final of the quad series in cape town. the roses lost to new zealand s silver ferns 55 45 despite leading until the final quarter. it means australia will play new zealand in the final of the series tomorrow. that s all the sport for now. backin back in an hourfor sports back in an hour for sports day. back in an hourfor sports day. in the last hour the university and couege the last hour the university and college union across the uk has announced a series of strikes on 18 daysin announced a series of strikes on 18 days in february and march in total