Begins, cheltenham roar, is the festival begins, kicking off four days of racing. Begins, kicking off four days of racing, culminating in the gold cup on friday on friday. Good morning. A fairly on friday. Good morning. A fairly cloudy day for most of us today. Patchy light rain in the north. Heavy rain in the south. The temperature continues to climb in the next few days. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its tuesday, 12th march. A long awaited report into Veterinary Services will be published this morning, after concerns pet owners are facing expensive bills when paying for treatments. The Competition And Markets Authority launched the review last year, and has previously said that fees were rising faster than other goods and services during the cost of living crisis. Nina has the details. Good morning. Are you paying too much to care for your furry friend . Why have vet costs been rising faster than general inflation . Are you getting a fair deal when it comes to costing
In the 90s and early 00s. Now this comes hot on the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday showing exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic. Global demand for chinese made goods is falling, down more 14 in the year tojuly. But domestic demand is down too with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Earlier, i spoke to janet mui, whos the head of Market Analysis at rbc brewin dolphin, and she explained where the deflation was coming from. Deflation data, basically mostly coming from food prices and also commodities prices like raw materials, energy, etc. Actually, if you look at the underlying inflation, things like services, things like tourism, leisure, hotels, actually they are up. The Core Inflation is up from 0. 4 to 0. 8 , but obviously its still pretty muted. So overall, i think it is a concern that china prices are contracting and it could be lasting for a while as well. How likely do you think it is, though, that china is going to be
morning and cloud conditions for glasgow, and the remnants of that frost still across the south. here is a cold front moving through northern england, into the midlands by the time you get to the afternoon, wales catching some spots of rain. the best sunshine tomorrow is across northern ireland, sunshine scotland, and the lake district enjoying fine weather and further south it will be cloudier and notice the rain reaches east anglia and the south east in the evening and clear the kent coast by the time we get to around ten or iipm. the kent coast by the time we get to around ten or pm. in this large area of high pressure, sort of mango shaped, it noses into the uk for thursday, which should be a nice day for many of us. a bit more a breeze on the north sea coast, maybe one or two showers, but on the whole a fine day for many of us. let s have a look at the outlook. those temperatures starting to rise into double figures across western areas of the uk, variable amounts of
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