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lots of tributes today and rightly so to the great motown songwriter barrett strong, who has died aged 81. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. today we had some decent sunshine and a lot of dry weather. probably one of the best days of the week, with sunshine and relatively mild area as well. but we have got a change on the way. the weather is about to get a lot windier. zooming into the north atlantic, we can see this beautiful area of low pressure with the weather fronts spiralling down into the centre of the low pressure like water down the plug hole. actually, although this is over 1000 miles away, the fronts are connected and dangling right across the uk at the moment and pushing the rain south and east. they will bring outbreaks of rain overnight, the one here is quite weak and the cold front bringing some heavier rain for a time southwards across scotland, northern ireland and into parts of northern england and north wales by the end of the night. alth
hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far the markets seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. and other stocks are up too. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly
good morning. a quiet weekend of weather ahead. a west east divide. the best of the sunshine out west. further east, a fresh cold winds driving and plenty of showers. all the details from the coming out shortly. all the details from me coming up. it s saturday, the 25th of february. our top story: a fifth man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of an off duty police officer in county tyrone. two gunmen fired several shots at detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell at a sports complex in omagh on wednesday. he remains in a critical but stable condition. a rally will be held in the town later today condemning the shooting. our ireland correspondent chris page reports. john chris page reports. caldwell s friends, neighbours and john caldwell s friends, neighbours and colleagues have paid tribute to his bravery and selflessness. eyewitnesses say that he shouted to children to run to safety, even has he was being attacked himself. this sports complex in the town o