i wonderfor the flying i wonder for the flying weather will be like tonight. time for a look at the weather here s darren bett. it isa it is a fine and late spring day. for many parts of the country it stays dry today because we were close to the area of high pressure. more cloud coming in to bring rain to northern scotland tomorrow and that weather front has brought more clout from the north across scotland and this is actually where we have seen most of the showers. northern scotland should improve this afternoon and showers move down into northern ireland, northern england. further south you may squeeze a shower from the cloud but on the whole it is dry and a little bit warmer, not quite as breezy and the temperatures peaking at 17 degrees. some showers this evening and they could affect eastern parts of england before fading away, we are left with cloud across the east and more cloud coming into the north west of scotland. maybe not quite as chilly as last night, temper
coming months. and what is getting no backdrop of itch s back up at the italian open? we start with the footballing news, inter milan have overcome ac milan to progress to the champions league final. martinez handed them a 3 0 aggregate victory over both legs. john bennettjoins me. how big psychologically was the 2-0 how big psychologically was the 2 0 victory in the first leg last week? take a monumental effort for milan to get back into it but they did have hope because there was rafael recovered from a thigh injury, they started the game really well. the first half hour, they put inter under pressure, diaz and hernandez as well and just over half time, rafael leao with an effort that went inches wide from the tight angle, second half different story. one shot on target and then martinez finished the job, he scored with a shot which the goalkeeper should have done better but beat them 1 0 on the night it was always going to be lautaro martinez because no player has scored m
heavy rain in northern scotland, a little bit of brightness sticking out across parts of eastern england. the weather is cloudy, wet or bright where you are, we are all in this wedge of mild air so it does feel unseasonably mild. but as i say sunshine quite limited. the best of it across eastern and southern parts of england, some other eastern parts of england, some other eastern parts of wales, but northern ireland seeing thick cloud, the odd spot of drizzle and that heavy rain continuing to affect northern parts of scotland. 11 13 the top temperatures. turning increasingly windy across scotland as we head into the evening, and this band of increasingly light and patchy rain sinking a little further southwards before beginning to drift northwards again by the end of the night. these are the overnight lows, very mild indeed, 6 10 so a very mild start friday morning. this band of cloud and patchy rain drifting its way through northern england and then up across scotland as we
good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the bank of england has raised interest rates from 3.5 to li% their highest level since 2008. the increase will leave millions of households facing higher mortgages at a time when many people are already struggling with energy and food bills. it will also have an impact on repayment charges on bank loans and credit cards but it is better news for savers, who should get a higher return. the bank of england says the increase will help to curb rising prices. our economics correspondent andy verity reports. in leeds like every where else, the cost of keeping up a mortgage isjumping, because of interest rates. stu is used to saving after spending much of his life on a minimum wage. he got a better paying job as a librarian, but like many, his wages have stagnated. when his mortgage expired his payments went from £90 a month to £360. i thought the days of checking the bank balance were gone. but they re back with a vengeance now. it is
enters talks about pay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalist, john crowley, and joe twyman, who s the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the financial times leads with covid cases in china, which the paper says have reached up to 250 million in december since the country eased lockdown restrictions. the times reports on an initiative by the government to cut down early retirement the paper says prime minister rishi sunak plans a midlife mot to get over 50s into work. the daily mail says the nhs is wasting money on equality, diversity and inclusion related positions. the i leads on yesterday s vote in scotland on gender identification reforms, saying it could lead to what it calls an unprecedented constitutional clash with westminster. it s also on the front page of the telegraph, which says labour leader sir keir starmer wants updat