it is a aood gieves & hawkes. that is right. it is a good question. _ gieves & hawkes.direct want with a high—end taylor? we don�*t know the exact motivations yet, we have been speaking to analysts around this and they say they�*re are couple reasons why acro two could be an attractive purchase. first of all, they have a track record of snapping up lots of businesses out of liquidation or also ones that have run into some financial difficulty. recently, that included the likes of evans, it has also stepped up other troubled groups. it could be looking to do a similar sort of thing with gieves & hawkes. there have also been some suggestions that actually they are developing a plan to move more upmarket, under mike ashley and now under michael marie. so in that sense of purchasing a savile row tailoring brain would fit that trend stop what you kind of assume that whatever happens with the state of the high street, more generally. i can assume you can tell us about the trends more generally in the high street, but that one shopping st in particular, savile row, because of

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frasers group said the move secured "a long—term future" for the 250—year—old gieves and hawkes.l show three blocks are to be demolished and replaced with a £20 million development. let�*s take a look at the tubes now. pretty good news. most lines running well. now onto the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. good morning. more wet and windy weather in the forecast at times over the weekend when it is also set to turn very mild again, particularly by night. for today, a fairly quiet day of weather really. it should stay largely dry, not too chilly a start this morning. some brightness and sunny spells around. some areas of high cloud at times. rather breezy still this morning. the brisk westerly wind will ease down somewhat as we head through the afternoon. top temperatures not quite as high as they were but still very decent for the time of year, peaking between 10 and 12 celsius. through this evening and overnight, it should stay dry. there will be some long, clear spells with lighter winds. it is going to be a chilly start to the day tomorrow. many temperatures dippin