into radio, watching here on the television or online. you can be sure we will keep you up to date with everything the chancellor promises in that budget. do stay with us here on bbc news. hello. this week, we ve got some very big swings in temperatures from one day to the next. yesterday, widely, we had temperatures double figures, whereas today, it s been about nine celsius colder than that. for example, boulmer, 1a yesterday, just 5 this afternoon. now, that drop in temperatures has brought with it much colder air, and in turn, we ve seen some snowfall over the staffordshire moors again here and here at low levels in the carlisle area. so, across parts of northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, we have seen some snow getting down to quite low elevations, risk of a few showers pushing across the midlands, east anglia, southeast england, but clearing later in the night and with clear skies
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer has frozen the duty on draught pints and promised up to 30 hours per week of free childcare for eligible households.
The British finance minister s 63 million pounds of funding for pools arrived days after a media report about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lavishing money on the pool at his private home in northern England.
Some calm appears to have returned to financial markets in early trade in Europe this morning but how long will it last? While everyone will be hoping that the
janet yellen, says she was working closely with banking regulators to respond to the collapse of the bank and protect depositors, but said a major bailout was not being considered. and mr sunak said he recognised the anxiety over the collapse of silicon valley bank but his government was working to find a solution that will secure customers liquidity and cashflow needs. the uk chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been meeting the governor of the bank of england, andrew bailey. he offered some reassurance. the governor of the bank of england has said that there is not a systemic risk to the financial system, so people should be reassured by that. there is a serious risk to some of our most promising companies in technology and life sciences. the prime minister, i, and the governor of the bank of england were up late last night, we ve been working through the weekend to come up with a solution. of course, what mr hunt wanted to talk about when he appeared on the bbc earlier on sunday was the