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Lot about omicron. we dont know a lot about omicron. we dont know a lot about omicron. we dont know a lot about it at the moment, but i would say this, it certainly does have an effect on activity in the economy. we are seeing impacts on mobility, footfall in retail outlets, restaurant bookings and so on. it is not clear whether it will cause inflation pressure to come down or even go up, and that is a very important factor for us. with me now is yael selfin, chief economist at kpmg uk. thank yo...

Degrees. through the weekend drifting up towards iceland through sunday and that will allow some cold air to move down from the north—east. friday a similar story, a lot of grey and misty and murky weather around, the best of any of the brightness around the north—east of the uk, temperatures in single digits, but for most, particularly in the south and west, we are looking at ten and 11 degrees. at the weekend it will be drier, but cloudy for most entertaining caller as well.

The chances of passing it on. getting boosterjabs into as many arms as possible remains the governments main tactic for tackling the new wave. this vaccination centre in kent has seen the number ofjabs being delivered increased fourfold. the prime minister denied there was any confusion between the message from health experts and ministers. there is a lot of omicron around, be careful, exercise caution if you want to avoid isolation, getting unwell over christmas. implement plan b, but get boost...

This is bbc news. im annita mcveigh. the headlines: the countrys chief medical officer says the uk could surpass previous records of people admitted to hospital with covid—19 and warns of major challenges in the days ahead. a lot of people simultaneously fall ill and be unwell, isolating or caring for others at the same time across the whole economy. so that side of things, i also do think we need to take quite seriously. the chancellor will hold talks with representatives of the hospitality s...

Unusual. i do welcome the reports recommendations, there are ten of them. they focus on speaking to your children. if you dont tell them about the harm on the mobile phone from pornography, from people sending them indecent images, from people trying to pretend to be other teenagers on chat rooms or social media, they wont know that if people approach them. speak to your children before you give them a smartphone, that is crucial. we know the online safety _ smartphone, that is crucial. we know ...

They havent been forced to close but people have been advised to think twice before going out, and many are choosing to stay at home. that meant an awful lot of cancelled bookings. during lockdowns, hospitality businesses could call on government support. thats not the case now, and the industry says help is badly needed. firstly, we need local authorities to distribute the cash they are currently sitting on thats available to them to give grants to businesses to maintain employment. secondly, w...

Hello there. we are keeping hold of this benign weather for the foreseen future. all down to this large blocking area of high pressure which will dominate the weather. there will dominate the weather. there will be a lot of gloomy, cloudy skies but also some sunshine. most places will be dry. we have had that weather front bringing further light and patchy rain to scotland and the northern ireland. the best of the sunshine has been eastern scotland and eastern england. it has been mild with capt...

Weekend, then drifting towards iceland by sunday and into the start of next week. that will allow some cool air to move in from the north sea. on friday, a similar story, dry, light winds, a lot of cloud. the best of any brightness and eastern scotland and north—east england. temperature wise, may a notch down on todays values, seven to 11 degrees. the weekend, very little change, largely cloudy and grey, and dry, and turning cooler. you can see a lot of cloud around on saturday, may be some b...

Four months, it could get to around six. we are seeing further upward pressure on wholesale gas prices. it went up a lot after august, they are going up again. it is directly related to some of the tensions we are seeing on the border between russia and ukraine, where a lot of europes gas supply comes through. that will feed through when the next price cap is set for all of us as domestic customers. that will feed through to the next price cap. the ci did through to the next price cap. the city ...

This is bbc news. the headlines: the countrys chief medical officer says the uk could surpass previous records of people admitted to hospital with covid—19 and warns of major challenges in the days ahead. a lot of people simultaneously fall ill and be unwell, isolating or caring for others at the same time across the whole economy. so that side of things, i also do think we need to take quite seriously. the education secretary says the government will try to encourage recently retired staff to...