First lady of the united states, jill biden, talking about military veterans. The couple are, says time magazine, part of a community that in a year of crisis have leapt into the fray. Jonny dymond, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. He is chris fawkes. We ve seen a bit of patchy cloud since the clear blue skies, nevertheless a lot of dry, fine weather. However, the northern ireland we ll see the cloud continue to thicken here with outbreaks of rain starting to spread in, as these weather fronts just our west start to approach and these fronts will be bringing more of us rain over the next couple of days as we will see in a moment. Over the next few hours turning wet in northern ireland. The rain most persistent across western counties. Turning quite cloudy for western scotland but east scotland along with england and wales dry and sunny spells, feeling warm, temperatures as high as 23 degrees. Overnight tonight the rain will begin to spread from northern ireland into scotland.
just a week away from the new school term for most state schools in england, the government has said more than 100 of them will have shut some buildings immediately because of the danger of crumbling concrete. why so last minute? the department of education said today, this may come as a shock and is likely to cause disruption. that sounds like a lesson in stating the obvious. we ll be speaking to an expert about the danger of aereated concrete panels, the shadow education secretary and a headteacher. also tonight: today was the deadline for afghans on the government s resettlement scheme to leave hotel accomodation in the uk. we ve spoken to some who are still there. a former mp has objected to being named by an academic as the descendant of a slaving family. joining us are two experts in slavery the academic in question and a historian from oxford university. and the prime minister plans to criminalise possession of nitrous oxide otherwise known as laughing gas by t
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good evening. the chancellor has been putting his final touches to his budget as he prepares to unveil it tomorrow it could well be the last one before the general election. what is now expected is a 2p cut to national insurance and another freeze on fuel duty. but could jeremy hunt go even further? our political editor chris mason is here with his thoughts but before we hear from chris our economics editor faisal islam has been weighing up how much room for manoevre the chancellor has. the chancellor is hoping to use his big red box moment tomorrow to declare a definitive economic turning point after years of crisis and shocks. certainly the path and forecast for inflation looks like that. look at this inflation is falling back from its energy shock highs towards the bank of england target. on the other hand, it s a little tricky to talk about a turning point when as you see here, the economy just started shrinkng at the end of last year you can see a shallow rec
the west at the moment enhancing shower activity. this massive rain will arrive to tonight across the southern half of the country. it was a nice start to the day across many areas but that is fading with heavy rain pushing through wales, northern england and the midlands. that will tend to clear, showers following on behind. the rain pushing into northern ireland over night. and also very windy. a bit quieter across the north of the uk with a lighter wind and fewer showers. but turning quite cold with sub zero values. forthursday turning quite cold with sub zero values. for thursday the front across the south of the country with low pressure pushing into the north west of the uk. some sunshine around northern and eastern areas but then the low pressure bringing gales into northern ireland and the west of staying blustery across southern britain but in between a slice of dry weather. miles in the south and chile in the north. on thursday night those gales transfer from northe