At the emirates. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Downing street has described as unacceptable remarks alleged to have been made by one of the conservative partys biggest donors about the mp, diane abbott, during a Business Meeting in 2019. The guardian claims that frank hester said ms abbott made him want to hate All Black Women and that she should be shot. This morning diane abbott has called the alleged comments frightening. Mr hester has admitted making comments about her which he described as rude, but his spokesperson has said this is not a confirmation of the quotes in the guardian. Henry zeffman has the story. Some people who give millions to Political Parties have high public profile is. Frank hester didnt. Until now. This is what the guardian says mr hester told staff at the Health Care Software company he built from scratch at a meeting back in 2019. Its like trying not to be racist, but you see diane abbott on the tv and you just want to hate All Black Wom
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
Thats slightly higher than expected and driven mainly by higher costs for gasoline and rents. In the 12 months up to february, the cpi rate increased by 3. 2 , compared to 3. 1 injanuary. The core rate, stripping out those volatile elements such as fuel and rents, fell to 3. 8 from 3. 9 injanuary, but that was still higher than the 3. 7 expected. This latest data suggests there is still some stickiness with inflation that will be scrutinised by the Federal Reserve as it weighs up a highly anticipated Interest Rate cut injune. Lets head over to new york and speak to our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. As far as the fed is concerned, it is about how they respond to this number. It is not going in the direction they wanted it to. The tricky word direction they wanted it to. The tricky word that direction they wanted it to. Tue tricky word that you direction they wanted it to. Tte tricky word that you were stumbling over, sticky, and a lot of this is to do with housin
They have set their with the boss a Player Lastjune and the season, the 40 Player Lastjune and the season, the 4 0 defeat in one of his other former clubs around madrid left them on the two points outside of the relegation places. Tennis, they are in action looking to make the Quarterfinal Stage of in action looking to make the Quarter Final Stage of the tournament and applicant hungary and currently 2 1 in the first set at the moment going third in that nice of her early stages and the spaniard who will be perhaps buoyed by another Novak Djokovic exit and cruising past the scene in the previous round. Strange to see them leave the tour for live golf speaking ahead of defending his title at the players championship and he will miss competing against him but the tour must move on. He was him but the tour must move on. He was always someone him but the tour must move on. He was always someone that i love competing against that is something we talked about after the cup. Weve had some goo
Large tree falls in the area. The mess it left behind. Good morning to you. It is tuesday, march 12th. Yes, and its a rainy start to the morning. Going to check in with you for our forecast. Yeah. And this rain doesnt linger all that long. Just the next couple of hours. And this is probably the last storm we have for about a week. We enter a dry pattern after today. Live doppler seven showing you where we have those showers. They are light in nature, but i do want to point out the back edge. The end of this front already moving through the north bay. Its about to move into the city and the east bay. So were not in this rain too much longer through about 9 a. M. This morning. Its a level one for those light showers, those wet roadways, a little bit of a breeze and those showers do taper after 9 a. M. Looking at your day planner today, you can see its wet out there from our bay bridge toll plaza. Right now. We end those showers after 9 a. M. Clouds linger a bit, but the afternoon will ac