Announcements from the budget starting with tax. The chancellor has announced that National Insurance will be cut by another 2p. He says the cut which will begin next month is worth £450 a year for each worker. Mr hunt also announced. 0n taxes there will be a new tax on vaping products that will start in october 2026. The chancellor says thatis october 2026. The chancellor says that is to maintain the financial incentive to choose vaping over smoking. The chancellor finished his statement by Attacking Labour for the economy. We statement by Attacking Labour for the economy the economy. We today put this country back the economy. We today put this country back on the economy. We today put this country back on the the economy. We today put this country back on the path the economy. We today put this country back on the path to the economy. We today put this | country back on the path to lower taxes. Allowed to grow the economy versus no plan. A plan to Better Public Services versus no p
Central typically only 8 or 9 degrees. It is a similar day on friday. Again, a lot of dry weather. More sunshine by friday across the southern half of the british isles, but more of a breeze as well. Cloudier in the north and cool around Eastern Scotland and north east england, but double figures further south. What about the weekend . Things turn more unsettled, so some spots of rain moving north, particularly for england and wales. You will notice the breeze at the weekend, but it wont be a wash out. There will be some sunshine and temperatures are typicalfor this stage in some sunshine and temperatures are typical for this stage in march. I will hello, welcome along to sportsday. Im molly foster. Manchester city continue the defence of their european crown, get Past Copenhagen and theyre into the quarterfinals. Well head to riyadh two days out from a fight that antonyjoshua cant afford to lose. And another step forward in Womens Rugby League saints will pay their players match fees
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the wreck of the titanic does belong to the missing tourist sub. all five people on board have died, among them three british citizens including a father and son. contact was lost with the many sub on sunday for the parts of the titan craft were spotted by remote control vehicles sent to miles down the atlantic. the official in charge of the search spoke at a news conference in boston in the past hour. this morning in a remote operated vehicle from the vessel horizon arctic discovered the tail cone of the titan submersible approximately 1600 feet from the bow of the titanic on the seafloor. the rov subsequently found additional debris. in consultation with experts from within the unified command the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. that a short taste of the press conference we will play a fuller version at about a half now it s time it was difficult to listen to at times because confirmation are very difficult news that so many peopl
they have a range of up to 560 kilometres about 350 miles and can only carry conventional warheads. the move prompted an instant response from the kremlin saying it would require in adequate response from our military. in december i informed the house that i was developing options to respond to a russia s continued aggression in a calibrated and determined manner. today i can confirm that the uk is donating storm shadow missiles to ukraine. storm shadow is a long range, conventional only precision strike capability. it compliments the long range systems already gifted including himars and harpoon missiles, as well as ukraine s own neptune cruise missile and longer range missions elsewhere gifted. the donation of these weapons systems gives ukraine the best chance to defend themselves against russia s continued brutality, especially the deliberate targeting of ukrainian civilian infrastructure, which is against international law. ukraine has a right to be able to defend its