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they are so cute! good morning and happy st david s day. it will remain very cloudy, a little bit of rain here and there but not a lot, colder into the weekend and especially next week. all of the details later in the programme. it s wednesday the 1st of march. our main story. a major search is still ongoing for a two month old baby who police fear may have come to harm in freezing conditions near brighton. the child s parents, constance marten and her partner mark gordon, are being held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter but are refusing to give any information about their baby, as vincent mcaviney reports. monday night in north brighton. after 53 days on the run, constance marten and mark gordon are spotted on cctv walking down a residential street. while shopping in this convenience store, they were spotted by a member of the public who called 999. shortly after, they were filmed again. officers arrested the couple without their baby walking towards an a ....
will be finding out what people make of the chancellor s announcement. there s big changes to pensions to encourage people like doctors to stay in work butjeremy hunt s plans prompt accusations his budget favours the rich. check before you travel. rail workers in the rmt union take part in another strike in their discpute over pay, jobs and working conditions. no miracle in madrid for liverpool as they lose their second leg against real and are knocked out of the champions league humbled 6 2 on aggregate. and we hear from kate middleton s childhood piano teacher, who s written a song for the nation to sing on king charles s coronation day. good morning. a much milder day for most of us today, compared to yesterday, but it is going to be cloudy with some showers, and longer spells of rain at times. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, insists his budget will get people back to work and won t just benefit the rich saving for retirement. his comments come after labour criticised his pla ....
criticising the small boat policy, resulting in him being taken off air for breaching bbc guidelines. he accused rishi sunak of not standing up accused rishi sunak of not standing up to what he called keir starmer, snowflake conservative mps who he said wanted to cancel gary lineker for criticising the government and saying so publicly. he then questioned why it was that rishi sunak s former boss, the chairman of the bbc, a conservative donor, richard sharp, was still in his position, asking if it was still tenable when there had been allegations about a conflict of interest in terms of trying to facilitate a loan for the conservative prime minister, boris johnson. that was pmqs. let s have the statement from jeremy hunt. madam deputy speaker, in the face of enormous challenges, i report today on a british economy which is proving the doubters wrong. in the autumn, we took difficult decisions to deliver stability and sound money. since mid october, and your guilt rates have f ....
welcome to the programme. there are tentative signs that inflation is coming under control, and the recession forecast last year will be shallower and shorter than expected. butjust to make sure, the central banks are raising the interest rates again. yesterday it was the fed, today the bank of england increased the base rate, half a point, to 4% the highest it has been in m years. we think inflation will come down rapidly, and a lot of that is down to energy prices, which have fallen rapidly. but i m afraid there are big risks out there which mean that it may not happen in that way. yet we re still seeing stronger pressure from price and wage setting in the economy in the question is, will that start to ease off? coinciding with the bank s decision came a profit announcement from shell and a rather blunt illustration of why we re all getting poorer. the oil and gas giant has reaped profits of £40 billion last year. the taxman has reaped far less. shell said it p ....
then, for sunday, much more sunny but noticeably cooler, light winds. for next week, it looks like staying chilly with overnight frost. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six on wednesday 1st february. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our hello and welcome to sportsday i m laura mcghie. shattered spending records, excitment and disappointment, we look at the biggest news and moments from january transfer deadline day. they ve had no trophy since 2017 but can manchester united make the league cup final tonight? we ll be live at old trafford ahead of their game against nottingham forrest. with reports that saudi arabia s tourism authority is to be named an official sponsor of the 2023 women s world cup, the co hosts of the competition are disappointed they weren t consulted. also coming up in the programme. this time it s for good . seven time super bowl winner tom brady says he is retiring after 23 seasons in the nfl, a year on from reversi ....