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today. this evening and tonight, many of the showers will fade. cloud and some patchy rain into the western isles by the end of the night. through tomorrow that cloud and patchy rain will spread across the north of scotland is moving towards orkney and shetland through the afternoon. a lot of cloud for scotland and northern ireland, best of the sunshine for england and wales, highest of the temperatures as well. temperatures are set to climb through the coming week. south east of england could get to 31, 30 two celsius by friday. cooler further north and west, but easier, cloudier, with some rain at times. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. a leading business group warns that they believe households in the uk will go into recession this year. the british government is looking at plans to change the law to allow agency staff to be brought in to cover for some striking workers. fierce street fighting in eastern ukraine president zelensky says his forces are holdin ....
fierce street fighting in eastern ukraine. president zelensky says his forces are holding on , but warns troops are running low on ammunition. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. good afternoon. if you have just joined if you havejustjoined us, welcome to bbc news. a leading business group has told the bbc that households have been cutting back on spending because of the cost of living crisis, and will go into their own recession this year. tony danker, the director general of the confederation of british industry, says the government needs to take action. meanwhile, the competition regulator has promised to look into government concerns that the 5p cut in fuel duty is not being passed on in full to customers. our political reporter peter saul has this report. is there a more visual manifestation of the cost of living crisis than this? eye watering forecourt prices up and down the country. ....
you through the experiences. absolutely, yeah. um, yeah, 0k. clapper bangs. you re literally lying face down, pressed your face into this frozen earth, thinking, i don t want to die here. why? yeah. you know, that, i think well, it was, for all of us, it was hugely traumatic. there s corpses of your enemy, corpses of your friends, you know, just lying there. it had a massive effect on me and i know it had a massive effect on a lot of my friends, too. that scene of horror will never, never leave my mind. not a single day in the last 40 years have gone by when i vel not thought about it. not one day when i don t think of those boys. - i knew every one of them. on the morning of the 2nd of april, 1982, argentine troops invaded the falkland islands. the country s ruling dictatorship had long laid claim to the remote archipelago. en nombre de la. margaret thatcher, against a backdrop of unrest in britain, was determined to take it back. a task force was quickly assemble ....
for not backing a recommendation from the grenfell tower inquiry to give vulnerable residents of high rise buildings personal fire evacuation plans. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. a very good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we will have more news on that breaking story aboutjordan gatley, the former british soldier who has been killed fighting in eastern ukraine, from our correspondent in kyiv. we willjoin him injust we willjoin him in just a few moments. but first, aleading business group has told the bbc that households have been cutting back on spending because of the cost of living crisis, and will go into their own recession this year. tony danker, the director general of the confederation of british industry, says the government needs to take action. meanwhile, the competition regulator has promised to look into government concerns that the 5p cut in fuel duty is not bei ....
and the public sector equality duty, it is unfair to treat disabled people differently. and, queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. a former british soldier has been killed fighting in ukraine, his family have announced. jordan gatley, who left the british army in march, died in the battle for the eastern city of severodonetsk the scene of intense fighting in recent days. he s the second british man to die fighting russian forces in ukraine. i asked our correspondent in kyiv, joe inwood, what we know about mr gatley and how he died. we understand jordan gatley had been a british soldier, he left the army in march to come and fight in ukraine. according to his family, he had been involved in training at the start of this, but oviously that had changed, because he was in the city of severodonetsk, which is very much the front line of this war, and it was there that he died on friday. according to ....