most of the time patients have a great experience but we must not paper over the problems we face. we expect backlogs to rise before they fall. a teenager is arrested after a 15 year old boy was stabbed outside his school in huddersfield in west yorkshire. five british captives who were held by russian backed forces in ukraine are released in a prisoner exchange. ministers lift their ban on fracking in england in a bid to increase energy production but critics are warning about environmental damage and a risk of earthquakes. retiring tennis champion roger federer will play the final match of his career in a doubles team alongside his long time rival rafael nadal as part of the laver cup tomorrow. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. interest rates have been raised to 2.25%, the highest level since 2008. it s the seventh consecutive time that they ve been increased by the bank of england, in an attempt to curb soaring prices. the rate has gone up from 1.75%. the bank of e
was taken to hospital. his condition remains unknown. mark lobel, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. no need for heroics, i m sure. stabbed danaos is here, looking rather pretty. this is scotland, the only place i could find a rainbow. most of the showers will be across scotland, western scotland, because close to the area of low pressure there more isobars on the chart so quite windy across northern areas but this area of high pressure is building and across the south bringing a largely fine day for much of england and wales. right across england and wales. right across england and wales of eastern areas, compared to yesterday, just the odd shower but most of the showers in scotland and northern ireland, longer spells of rain for the north west of scotland. temperatures impacted a bit because of the wind and rain, 14 degrees, but we could see the high teens across the south east of england, so warmer than yesterday. tonight it stays quite breezy, variable cloud, most
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