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sterling hitting the weakest level against the dollar since june after the bank of england raised the benchmark rate to 5.25%, the highest in the developed world. stay with us here on bbc news, plenty more to come. hello there. thursday was a relatively quiet day for many of us. in fact, we had some sunny spells and a little bit of warmth coming through. cambridge was the top spot with 23 celsius by the middle of the afternoon. not all of us had beautiful blue, sunny skies. in fact, the cloud, the shower cloud gathered across whitley bay by the end of the afternoon. and some of those showers intense, with rumbles of thunder and lightning mixed in there. so, a similar story as we go into friday. still got this north—westerly flow. that's going to be driving some fair weather cloud around. and through parts of the afternoon, we will start to see a cluster of sharp showers, particularly down through eastern england. a few isolated showers for scotland and northern ireland, the best of the sunshine in sheltered western areas. but temperatures will be a little bit disappointing because of that north—westerly