Showers around. Heres a lovely picture from angus, showing how much sunshine there is across scotland but there have been fog patches in central and southern parts of england, gradually clearing away and allowing sunshine. We have the belt of cloud through the midlands. The best of the sunshine across much of central and western scotland. Well start the tour this afternoon across the south and west. They will become the south and west. They will become the there will continue to be some sunshine across cornwall and devon, once any mist fog clears away. To the midlands, in towards wales, a lot of cloud here. Maybe a few holes in the cloud. We could see a few showers towards the east coast. Across Northern Ireland, a mixture of sunshine and showers, but for scotland, the lions share of the sunshine but it will be cooler because of that cold start. As we head into this evening and overnight, the cloud starts to build across most, including scotland. A few showers affecting western scotla
Discover the tapanuli orangutan a new species of great ape in indonesia. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. England manager Gareth Southgate opts for youth in his latest squad, as he calls up three uncapped players for friendlies with germany and brazil. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Interest rates have gone up for the first time in a decade. The bank of england has increased the rate by a quarter of one percent, to 0. 5 , as it tries to control inflation. The banks governor, mark carney, said households across the uk are generally well positioned to deal with the rate increase. The decision will mean higher Monthly Payments for millions with variable rate mortgages. But its good news at last for savers. Heres our economics editor, kamal ahmed. One small step upwards for Interest Rates, affect millions of savers and millions of borrowers. Its more expensive if you have a mortgage, and for games in south london, its time to cut costs. Weve been very lucky without
Inside the Great Pyramid of giza. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. In the last hour, labour has announced that its suspended one of its mps, Kelvin Hopkins, from the party. A spokesman said that it was on the basis of allegations received. This comes amid a raft of allegations against numerous mps of inappropriate behaviour reports that have seen sir Michael Fallon resign as defence secretary. Lets talk to emma vardy, our political correspondent. What is known about Kelvin Hopkins at this stage . This has come about after a statement sent by the party in the last hour, saying on the basis of allegations received by the labour party, Kelvin Hopkins has been suspended from Party Membership and therefore the labour whip while the investigation takes place, and Kelvin Hopkins is the labour mp from luton and has been since 1997. A supporter ofjeremy corbyn. We are not clear about what these allegations are but clearly they are serious enough for the labour party to have taken a serious
Women and fail to do that myself. The bank of england will announce its decision on Interest Rates in an hours time, with many predicting the first increase for ten years. President trump has called for the Death Penalty for the man accused of killing eight people in new york by driving at them with a truck. Also this hour, bonfire night should be fun for the whole family. But as the annual safety warning about fireworks is issued, we hearfrom one family directly affected by injury. Their five year old suffered severe burns after an accident. And the dictionary truth about about fake news, as collins reveal it is their word of the year. Good morning. Its thursday 2nd of november. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. In the last half hour the Prime Minister has named Gavin Williamson as her new defence secretary. Gavin williamson, who was the governments chief whip before this appointment, has never held ministerial office. The mp for south staffordshire has been serving as
Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Interest rates have gone up for the first time in a decade. The bank of england has increased the rate by a quarter of 1 , to 0. 5 , as it tries to control inflation. The banks governor mark carney said households across the uk are generally well positioned to deal with the rate increase. The decision will mean higher Monthly Payments for millions with variable rate mortgages. But its good news at last for savers. Heres our economics editor kamal ahmed. One small step upwards for Interest Rates, affect millions of savers and millions of borrowers. Its more expensive if you have a mortgage, and forjames in south london, its time to cut costs. Weve been very lucky without realising it. I think its going to start, it will probably bite more from now on. For so long we thought, its always going to be like this, but its got to end sometime and we never realised it was going to be this soon. The governor of the bank of england knew it was a delicate bala