Fire brigade advice and fled the fire that killed 72 people. More than a hundred families with children at a nursery in south devon have been contacted by police, following the arrest of an employee in relation to allegations of sexual offences. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougal. Rugby union is in shock as saracens are docked 35 points and fined more than £5 million for violating salary cap regulations. The club says they didnt deliberately breach them. Thanks, jane. And louise lear has the weather. Bit of a mess out there today, a lot of cloud around, the best of any such iron is across scotland. It is colder here. The best of any sunshine. I will have all the details coming up later. Thanks, louise. Also coming up, well report from bristol, the city that could become the first place in the uk to ban privately owned diesel vehicles from its centre in an attempt to cut pollution. Hello, this is afternoon live. I and simon mccoy. The liberal democrats have lau
Biggest trading partner. European stocks are open, as you can see, they are looking pretty flat. And well be taking stock of some of the biggest financial stories of the week, including majorjob cuts at Deutsche Bank. Today we want to know as new figures show a big fall in concert revenues, do you think rising ticket prices are to blame . Are high costs putting you off going to a live music event . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Dos santos your thoughts, we have had a huge response already. Do send us your thoughts. Hello and welcome to business live. We start with the struggling British Travel giant thomas cook, the worlds oldest package holiday company. It could be headed for a new departure under chinese ownership. Shares in thomas have slumped around 90 in the past 12 months and debt has soared amid growing fears for its survival, as it competes with Budget Airlines and Online Travel firms. In the first half of this year, it announced losses of 1. 88 billion as it str
We will have more on the oval celebrations plus the latest on england at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later england at the netball world cup. They take onjamaica later on. England at the netball world cup. They take on jamaica later on. Nick is looking at the weather. High pressure to start, low pressure later. I have the forecast plus i will be getting on your goat, simon, with news of something old but increasingly popular in the way of dealing with spreading wildfires. More celebrated in death than in life alan turing the mathematician who helped invent modern computing and break the german enigma code will be the face of the new £50 note. 1966, 2003, and now 2019 the years we heard the words england have won the world cup first in football, then rugby, and now of course cricket. And those words are still echoing in our ears after that remarkable cricket game yesterday described by many as the best final ever. And one of the most remarkable games ever. The players he
China is experiencing a rare episode of sliding prices. Japans economy experienced this back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, this comes hot the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday, which showed that exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic, dropping by more 14 in the year tojuly, with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Joining me now is duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at pantheon macroeconomics. Thank you very much for being with us today. The Rest Of The World looking on in amazement. Considering the inflationary pressures the rest of us are dealing with. What do you read Between The Lines in this latest data . Between the lines in this latest data . Latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm latest data . Ok, i mean, there are some shortterm factors i are some short term factors that push down the data for this month, there has been a surge of seasonal vegetables, the big pictu
helped to slow down the rate of price increases for non food products, which eased injanuary down from over 3% in december. i m joined now by shanti kelemen, chief investment officer at m&g wealth. good morning. this isjust what we want to hear before the bank of england has its first meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday. meeting of 2024, which happens on thursday- on thursday. yes, we will have a decision on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them - on thursday. yes, we will have a decision from them on - a decision from them on interest rates, wiley expected to keep rates unchanged and thatis to keep rates unchanged and that is positive news for inflation and a prices, on the other side we do have the economy still not in a recession and wage growth has been pretty strong. there are some factors balancing inflation, thinking it might not be a sharp drop in the next few months. to not be a sharp drop in the