that and your reaction to the news that and your reaction to the news that tory chief whip has reportedly known about these allegations since january. known about these allegations since janua . a, a, , , known about these allegations since janua . a, a, a, january. there are obviously a lot of unanswered _ january. there are obviously a lot of unanswered questions - january. there are obviously a lot of unanswered questions in - january. there are obviously a lot i of unanswered questions in relation to these allegations. not least why it seems the conservative party took so long at and why they have —— whether they have reported it to the police. i will be honest, there is a degree of frustration as well, we're weeks away from important local and oral elections when there is a lot of positive arguments that we want to make about the change we could bring about in these elections, and yet again we are talking about this behaviour by tory mps. if ever you need it, evidence of why we need to turn the page on their shower and have a fresh start with labour, it is in these allegations coming out today. at is in these allegations coming out toda . �* , ., ., ., .,

is in these allegations coming out toda. ,., ., ., today. a question about one of your own colleagues, _ today. a question about one of your own colleagues, angela _ today. a question about one of your own colleagues, angela rayner, - own colleagues, angela rayner, suggestions the police are investigating multiple potential offences. do you still have complete faith in her?— offences. do you still have complete faith in her? angela has answered no end of questions _ faith in her? angela has answered no end of questions on _ faith in her? angela has answered no end of questions on this, _ faith in her? angela has answered no end of questions on this, she - faith in her? angela has answered no end of questions on this, she is - end of questions on this, she is happy to answer any further questions, i have complete confidence in her. the police investigation allows a line to be drawn in relation to this. angela rayner will be out with us campaigning because we have really important local elections where we have a positive case to take to the country on anti—social behaviour, housing, the health service, which i know matter to the very many people who will be venting into week's time. ., ., ., ., , time. on to rwanda, labour lords dela in: time. on to rwanda, labour lords delaying the _ time. on to rwanda, labour lords delaying the bell _ time. on to rwanda, labour lords delaying the bell last _ time. on to rwanda, labour lords delaying the bell last night, - time. on to rwanda, labour lords delaying the bell last night, does| delaying the bell last night, does they show labour isn't really taking reducing immigration seriously? it reducing immigration seriously? if is reducing immigration seriously? it is absolutely important that we start the small boats coming across the channel, that has got to be

done. that is why i've always said we have to take down the criminal gangs that are running those bouts in the first place. i am determined we will smash those gangs. what will not help is rwanda gimmick which has cost an absolute fortune to remove a fraction of the people, £2 million per person, that money could be used to smash the gangs and stop this vile trade in the first place. i would roll up my sleeves and tackled this in an effective way, not a gimmick. this in an effective way, not a gimmick-— this in an effective way, not a uimmick. , gimmick. the government says it hasn't ruled _ gimmick. the government says it hasn't ruled out _ gimmick. the government says it hasn't ruled out using _ gimmick. the government says it hasn't ruled out using the - gimmick. the government says it hasn't ruled out using the raf, i gimmick. the government says it| hasn't ruled out using the raf, do you think they should be used? i think the government should be concentrating on how they will stop small boats arriving in the first place rather than wasting time and taxpayers' money on a gimmick, however they travel to rwanda. their attendance of thousands of people waiting to have their claims processed and the government is

talking about removing a few hundred. more people came in one day last week than this entire scheme will remove under its current provisions. it is a gimmick, it won't work, it is a waste of money, let's do what matters, smash the gangs that run this trade. in the next hour we are expecting the scottish government to confirm that it is ditching its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emission by 75% by 2030. we will be live in holyrood for that announcement. earlier, stuart haszeldine professor of carbon capture & storage at the university of edinburgh gave me his reaction to the expected scrapping of the target. very disappointing that scottish government is going to be in that position. but this has been building for a few years. so in some ways it's not a surprise. but it's also really important to state that we in scotland and in the uk have got halfway towards the net zero target from 1990.

so there's a huge amount of progress has been made and so there's a huge amount of progress still to make. and what this is doing is recognising the the collision, if you like, between words and policies which can easily be stated versus the difficult reality of delivering this on the ground with real numbers and real change. how difficult is it going to be to get that changed, things like transferring from petrol and diesel cars to electric cars and the infrastructure around that? yeah. so it's going to, i think this is going to be difficult and there's been no secret of that. this is a fundamental change into the way which all normal people like me or you actually live our lives. and so that's never been done before. we're in an experiment. we're all proceeding on this journey of invention, innovation and change altogether.

so it's not surprising in many ways that if you try and make a change annually, sometimes that doesn't stack up annually. but the key thing is to do this over a period of time, over ten or 20 years, and achieve the end result of net zero. so we're seeing the change in cars, for example, and transport vehicles. there are hydrogen buses being introduced, which emits just water out of the back end rather than carbon dioxide. we're seeing changes to electrification of cars that will progress through the economy over a period of years. anybody facing that decision knows that that's difficult, but it is a change for the better in the future. and we also need to solve big problems like, how do we deliver heat to houses, how do we deliver heat to industry? how do we change our emissions from land use and farming? all of these are complicated and interacting changes we have to make and have not been

done before, and it is more complicated than just building windmills. so had great success in building windmills, but now the debate and the activity needs to move on. more now on another of our main stories today. a global cyber gang accused of industrial—scale fraud has been busted by police. it's accused of offering a service to criminals which allowed them to steal from victims using fraudulent text messages. 37 people worldwide have been arrested — 2a of which are in britain. well, listeners to the nicky campbell show on bbc 5 live have been talking about their experiences of being scammed. he was responding to my messages exactly like my son does. anyway, to cut a long story short, he asked me to help him to get a phone and people are going to cringe at this. i actually gave him ,thinking it was, my card number,

he had been honestly so convincing. yeah, it was just. everything just slotted into place. and all the times i've not answered scam messages and got involved in anything unless i bring them back. this particular occasion itjust caught me. i was 100%. i spoke with this fantastically helpful irishman, happened to be irish, so friendly, and i work in tech and i've actually written reports on cybercrime in uk further and higher education. i feel like i'm switched on to scams and anyway, i fell for it because what happened was he sent me his details. i got his details. i checked them all out. they seem kosher and i passed them on to my mum and dad. and that was that was the beginning of the scam, basically. and long story short, he extracted £45,000 from them. born more than four months early, little baby wren could fit in palm of her mother's hand. she was the smallest baby the luton

and dunstable neonatal intensive care unit has ever known — but she has now celebrated her first birthday. this is your first dummy. little baby wren one year on, after the most difficult of starts in life. for the family, the toughest of times, not knowing whether she'd survive. the first two weeks are very up and down. they call it the honeymoon period, but she sailed through it, and then it was after that that she had then deteriorated. it was then that she, we were having conversations and withdrawing treatment. and that was a whole week of hell, to be honest, it was the worst experience of our life. and i remember thinking, i'm never going to be ready to say, "ok, let's withdraw. "let's take these tubes out and turn the machines off." and then she just started making the good noises on the machines.

she was having cuddles with her dad, of course, from that week. that's when she started to improve and you could see it. baby wren was born atjust 22 weeks and six days, weighing just a10 grams, making her the smallest and most pre—term baby the unit had ever seen. now the family's returned to thank those who saved her life. it's a bit overwhelming, really. last time i saw her, she was the size of my hand. so it's lovely having a good cuddle with her. she's obviously grown a fair bit, hasn't she? but no, it's lovely. it's amazing just to see the growth in a year. the survival rates are quite low, then quite| challenging to look after. i so it's really wonderful to have i achieved such a fantastic outcome and it's really rewarding i to see her looking so well and alert and interacting so nicely with everyone. |

the team at the unit says families are at the heart of everything they do. now wren�*s family are sharing their experiences with others, like new mum briony. it's really good. it's so reassuring having them talk to you, tell you their experiences, what they went through as a family and have... yeah, just, it helps you understand absolutely everything that goes on, being a premmie mum. now baby wren has celebrated her first birthday, the family have a time to reflect on how far they've come. very proud of both of them. could not be prouder. and naomi was amazing through it all. and then this one has been an absolute dream. when you look at her and you think, you are not my iii—ounce baby, she used to fit in my hand. she's the happiest smiley baby. she's... we got so lucky with her. we really, really did. and i'm just...

i couldn't be more proud of her. it's hoped by sharing that pride, they can give hope to others. emma baugh, bbc look east. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. it was a chilly start to our thursday morning with temperatures as low as minus four in the lake district. so, yes, a touch of frost here first thing in the morning. but the weather story is changing. high pressure trying to squeeze in from the atlantic. toppling across the high is a weather front, bringing a lot of cloud and, yes, some outbreaks of rain, showery rain moving its way across scotland, some heavier bursts from time to time. it will push its way into northern england and north wales, perhaps just clinging on to some late afternoon sunshine across east anglia and south east england with highs here of 15 degrees. but the rain will sweep its way steadily south through the evening and overnight, a blanket of cloud and rain then preventing temperatures from falling too far here. but still some clearing skies,

a brisk northwesterly wind and a few scattered showers. so a coolish night to come in scotland. some of the showers with elevation once again falling as snow. so into tomorrow, a blustery day. a northwesterly wind really dominates. once again, strongest gusts across the east of scotland, a scattering of showers across the country. but the showers should be few and far between. but the wind direction and the strength of the wind, particularly in the east, will make it feel quite cool once again. so here, highs of eight degrees. elsewhere, ii to ia celsius. what's in store into the weekend? well, a west—east divide really. we will be chasing cloud amounts around. but if you get some sunshine, there's a potential to see some warmth into the weekend. the exception is perhaps along the east coast where temperatures may well struggle due to the wind direction once again. so high pressure is going to dominate the story. a weak weather front producing a little bit more cloud and some showery rain from time to time. but we're drawing in the wind direction from scandinavia and pushing over the cool north sea.

so never a great story here along that east coast. it means that there's a potential for more cloud to push in off the north sea during saturday. there'll continue to be some breaks out to the west. and here's where we'll see the highest values. but generally between 9 and 11 degrees on those exposed east coast and potentially on sunday, it stays cool and breezy with quite a lot of cloud around further west. that's where we'll see the best of the sunshine. temperatures in northern ireland could peak at 17 celsius.

live from london. this is bbc news. scottish government is set to ditch a flagship targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the conservative mp is suspended from the party after being accused of misusing campaign funds, claims he disputes. the government says an investigation is under way. the verdict in the inquest 48 people who

died in a nightclub fire in dublin more than 40 years ago are due shortly. and prince william is given get well soon cards for his wife as he makes his first appearance since catherine announced her cancer diagnosis. welcome to bbc news now, the scottish government is expected to confirm it is a ditching its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030. the bbc understands that the government's annual climate targets could also be scrapped, but the final goal of reaching 80 by 2045 will remain. we will be live in holyrood for the emissions target statement, that is going to come from the scottish net zero and energy secretary.