fact ffistit if‘ai‘ii fact that i ffistit if‘ai‘ii u rr fact that i did not ffistit if‘ai‘ii u rr wit films “u the fact that i did not think in this lifetime i would read the telegraph, the telegraph ladies and gentlemen, and this is a quote and i thought it must be from somebody else because it seems so extraordinary, but" the need to movement has been like a breath of fresh air exposing the harassment that has gone on for too long and too many workplaces. there's been a cultural shift with bullying. unacceptable on its own terms. " there you go, ray! you're right, the telegraph, i didn't think i would agree with you but we just have. but i hope it continues. does that slight shift in focus goes to the whole of the paper and stays there forever. take us to the daily mail before we move on. here we are again with another. still philip green. this time in his own philip green. this time in his own philip green. this i think is the first woman who was identified herself as an alleged victim of green's bullying since this affair broke. a former pensions

minister, and before that the pensions campaigner, she is saying here that she was bombarded with a "torrent of unpleasant late—night texts from greenwich were frightening and beyond the bounds of decency" and she said his behaviour was rooted in sexism. that is what she believed. she had to leave as pensions minister was involved in the fallout from the end of the nhs pension scandal and as it has been referred to. the daily mail also reveals where philip green is. he is slumming it on a luxury 150 acre health spa in arizona. see, you have got to love the daily mail for that. 150 acres, a particular twist of the night, just in case you were wondering. he's been enjoying daily mountain hikes. i'm sure he has. let's move on while reiterating the fa ct let's move on while reiterating the fact that he has denied specifically any unlawful sexual or racist behaviour. it is important to make sure that we say that as well. the i

we kim, page one, natalie. a little look forward to be budget which is monday. you probably have been waiting for it with bated breath. it is good news for shopkeepers and particularly good news for people who have small shops by the look of it. it seems that for so long there it. it seems that for so long there it felt like they are in an uneven playing field with large companies like amazon that don't have high street presence, that they are paying vastly more proportionately rates for their businesses than big internet companies are. this looks like a chance to try and level things in their favour. like a chance to try and level things in theirfavour. we like a chance to try and level things in their favour. we will have to see if that means fewer close to shops on the high streets. there has been a sense that there's quite a lot of pressure on the government do something about this in the shops situation. so many people are not talking about a typical high street. having so many more in the premises and they would normally have. there

is huge pressure without a doubt. the government has been trying to act in this area for as many years asi act in this area for as many years as i can remember. under david cameron there was a high street task force, which is quite high profile. making renovated — — force, which is quite high profile. making renovated —— making recommendations. it doesn't seem to have saved the situation so i guess this is another go. the government gets a good news about the budget before the budget, they will take the chance to do that. in this case, it appears the announcement will be a help, helping one third of small businesses. half £1 million. to the small retailer. two things not in the announcement are one about the big shops. that is where the focus is at the moment. you think of the troubles of bigger shops, this is to help the smaller retailers and not the big ones. those are seen by city centres and town centres as the anchor stores, the ones they really

need, the smaller retailers. maybe it will be specific who will pay for this and monday's budget book. clearly there is not a level playing field in the minds of those who have high street or misses. between those and the online retailers. does this necessarily produce this level playing field? i suspect not. no. i will be astonished if he did. i think you are right to focus on the larger stores because in many ways it feels like it is sort of tonight. there are the entire book trouble. house of fraser is already in terrible trouble. i think it is almost certain it will be too little too late. i suppose the hope is that small... and the most undeniable and dispiriting representation of the high street at the moment seems to be that you walk past in the shop front after in the shop front with people slipping outside. that is what the high street looks like. that is in a relatively prosperous area. but it comes to the online world the other side of it is whether they should be digital tax on the online giants, which is

something the tessler hinted in his co nfe re nce something the tessler hinted in his conference speech a few weeks ago. i don't know whether he is going to be ready to act on that as soon as the budget on monday. i think they're looking for international action there. that will be quite a big step if it was done just in this country. that is what he said in this party co nfe re nce that is what he said in this party conference speech. he was ready to act unilaterally if other countries did not, if there was a failure to achieve international action. that is clearly a preference. if only there were somewhere we could discuss this other countries! some big opportunity, no hang on a second, i can't think what it could be! just a word on looking ahead to the budget more broadly. barely, here is a story that has been put out there in order to make the budget look appetizing. when it is actually delivered. i do not suppose it will be the last time that happens between now and monday. what is the process? who nudges him at this stage in the process, a few days before the budget, to start this? we don't need to reveal our steps. we are not your sources. what

is the process? an interesting thing is the process? an interesting thing is the process? an interesting thing is the chase in the process i have noticed. templars used to disappear into their shell. —— chancellors. you had to wait for the budget. they've got their tabulator out. exactly. if the budget was leaked decades ago, and a chancellor resigned for it. that is all different now. you tend to get these trail of announcements. the treasury are very happy to hand them out in the days before to create a sense of expectation. then on sunday the chancellor will pop up on the andrew marr show and talk about his budget ahead of it. in the old days you had to wait until the actual date. that a lwa ys to wait until the actual date. that always a slightly curious exercise. you will, the television and the specifically about specific things "i cannot sell you until monday afternoon" you think this is later strains. anyway, i digress. natalie, ta ke strains. anyway, i digress. natalie, take us to the front of the independent. in a just translations of children surgery up 58%.ij independent. in a just translations of children surgery up 58%. i think this is also going to be connected

to the budget. there has been a real sense over the last few weeks i'm a really since party conference that they were going to try and bring an end to austerity, that the pressure is not too great. and this is certainly being presented as that. given the numbers it is hard to see it any other way. write a 58% in cancellation of children's surgeries. those are things like cancer treatment and pregnancy termination. they're not trivial things. as the search" that they haveis things. as the search" that they have is that cancellations worsened by financial pressure, mental anguish for children. i imagine he has caused mental anguish for their families as well. i don't see how it can be fairto families as well. i don't see how it can be fair to them. this is obviously labour tried to pile pressure on ahead of the budget. in that important area of the nhs. we know the government has promised an extra £24 billion for the nhs over the next five years. usually that was announced in the summer. 0r the next five years. usually that was announced in the summer. or is it could have been announced in the

budget. a sense that the prime minister has stolen the chancellor's budget announcement when she did that in the summer. and those for a five minutes we have no idea how it is going to be funded. i'm not sure we know how it is hard to be funded after monday either. the prime minister claimed it was good to be funded from a brexit dividend, which irememberarguing about funded from a brexit dividend, which i remember arguing about and is very seat. now of course that is a total fa nta sy seat. now of course that is a total fantasy because there is only a brexit forfeit and no brexit dividend. would you expect more nhs announcements whyte i think we might learn a bit more about the money is coming. perhaps more about what area of the nhs is this going to go into. that is one of the governments be promises, that £24 billion, half of that could be swallowed up simply by paying off the nhs's existing debts. but somebody would think should be done because that to get the server is on an even keel but clearly that is on an even keel but clearly that is not a great headline. they've got to clear up the mess that has been left behind. search for something thatis left behind. search for something that is going to be more favourable than that. whether we will find out

how the money is 20 be funded, time will tell. yes, and of course the end of austerity line, every time a story like this appears, that is going to be revisited. anything interesting shift in focus because normally when we talk about nhs funding we are talking about the fa ct funding we are talking about the fact that an ageing population and an increase in the unhealthy population is just eating an increase in the unhealthy population isjust eating up an increase in the unhealthy population is just eating up the money as it were while we are all standing still. so to focus on children and operations which are not happening for children more than 18 and a half thousand under 18 having surgery cancelled or delayed, perhaps that will sharpen our focus. let's end with a rather better news. one of those heart—warming photographs which sometimes the newspapers will carry in it is nice to see one on saturday morning. a photograph of ruth davidson with a new baby. one a few months ago that the scotch considerable leader was pregnant. here she is with her bubble of joy. the pregnant. here she is with her bubble ofjoy. the modern conservative party. i guess that is the way many would like to see it. it is going to be the first—ever

party leader in britain, or she is the first, to give birth while in office. and she will be taking time office. and she will be taking time off and being the first to do that. he prime minister might be hoping that she will be so busy on her maternity leave that she will forget to rebel over what the government is going to do at the irish border and brexit, which is what she was pretending to do two weeks ago. and this is young finn. what is really interesting is that she has done a good job of adding herself. being this acceptable, fuzzy face of torres. where once you could not get elected as a conservative politician in scotland. and i think she is, well you would note better than me, roundly feared in westminster for being seen as a normal human person. which all too often i think westminster conservative party finds that they are not viewed as. she has no ambitions to she says. she doesn't. as she says. for many

conservatives that kind of yarn for her to comes out and save them. she has insisted she is not going to do that. indeed. on that note thank you very much for the time being. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers — and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, natalie and rob. goodbye. good evening. there is a definite chill in the air out there tonight. that will remain the case for the weekend. temperatures on the low side. it will be quite windy. yes there'll be some sunshine, there will be some showers as well. some of them have ian winter he over high ground in the north. that air is cold. it is coming from a long way north, coming from the art below employing in our direction on a

brisk northerly wind. many areas keeping hold of clear and starry skies tonight. we will continue to see some showers through parts of west wales and far south of england. sometime the east coast and some from northern ireland. these showers will be wintry over high ground. we could see snow down as low as around 250 metres. temperatures dropping, close to freezing him a little bit going places. there could be icy stretches especially for parts of northern ireland and northern scotla nd northern ireland and northern scotland first thing on saturday. as we go through the day, there will be quite a lot of sunshine. areas exposed to the wind, the strong wind will see some showers. northern ireland again parts of pembrokeshire and cornwall. tending to drift westward through today. showers continuing across northeast scotland in eastern england. we're likely to see some for a time in land across central and southern parts of england. with that noticeable breeze, the temperatures on the thermometer will read between around about six and 11 degrees. and on the strength of the wins, these are the feels like numbers. this is what it will feel like if you head outside.

newcastle and aberdeen are barely above freezing. perhaps seven there in plymouth. we go through saturday night. continue to see some showers in eastern areas exposed to this northeasterly flow. perhaps the showers are getting together for a time across the southeast and the channel islands. another thing to bearin channel islands. another thing to bear in mind into the first part of sunday morning is that the clocks go back an hour. you get an extra hour in bed. if you are up early on sunday there will be plenty of sunshine to greet you. still some showers blowing into eastern areas. quite windy across the south. those winds are easing significantly across northern areas. temperatures are still not particularly spectacular between 8—12d. into the start of next week, this area of low pressure will have made for a really rough week and across the western mediterranean, starts to drift in our direction. that is likely to bring some operates of rain. maybe some snow over high ground in the north. usually it will turn it was cold. —— gradually it will turn less

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