tim davey, the we was director—general, says that we are deeply saddened about the news ofjohnnie's passingit was a pioneer, entertaining millions of beloved listeners on the bbc across decades. most recently, he hosted two shows on radio two. there will after the audience as much asjohnnie and we loved him back. johnnie walker, who has died today, announced by bob harris a radio two in the last few minutes. 0ur two in the last few minutes. our thoughts are with his family. around the world and across the uk. you are what you bbc news. —— you are watching bbc news. wayne rooney says that plymouth will always hold a special place in his heart, he was sacked earlier today, just seven months into a three—year deal, leaving the club bottom of the championship. the former manchester united and england striker was in charge for 25 games, and managed just five wins in that time and failing to win any of their matches away from home. it was his third stint managing a side in english football's when second—tier following spells with derby and birmingham city. first team coach kevin nancekivill and c

. ♪ ♪ >> this year's holiday spectacular kicked off at the davey symphony hall. castro theater is undergoing renovations. while the address changed, the group promised the fun would not be left behind. kelsi thorud caught the show and caught up with a couple of fans about their special connection to that tradition. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: for over 15 years, linda zimmerman has made it her annual tradition to see san francisco's gay men's chorus christmas concert. >> it's just fun. it's just fun. they have some serious music, but then they do a lot of parodies and lot of laughs. >> reporter: linda moved to san francisco from the east coast back this the '70s. she says in recent years, the concert has become a sort of home away from home for her. >> i'm an elder orphan, which means i don't have family. i have a limited support system, so i come to see them just to lift my spirits. and they always do that for me. >> reporter: then one year, the chorus brought something even bigger into linda's life. >> but i met susan at the herself theater probably seven years ago. >> rep

. >> leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey. >> may i associate myself with the prime minister'semarks about the terrible impact of storm bert and all the flooding? our thoughts are with all those affected, with thanks to our amazing emergency services. christine's father was told that he needed end-of-life care, but after a few days it was removed due to funding cuts. he was told that he would not get it and he died a few weeks later in excruciating pain. christine said it was terrible to watch him suffer. does the prime minister agree that whatever the house decides on friday, it is urgent that we improve access to high-quality end-of-life care? will he make that a key focus of the 10-year nhs plan, and will he now commit to protect hospices from the national insurance rise? prime minister starmer: i thank you for raising that case. i am sure the thoughts of the whole house are with the family involved. mr. speaker, obviously there is , a very important vote on friday. but whichever way that vote goes, we must invest properly in care across our health service. that is why, in a

meanwhile, lib dem leader sir ed davey has paid tribute to young carers, sharing his own experience ofooking after his sick mother as a child. there's been more christmas eve frustration today for morrisons customers, with deliveries either late or even cancelled, and that comes more than 24 hours after a system glitch first disrupted orders yesterday. the chaos on the 23rd of december, the busiest grocery shopping day of the year, left shoppers waiting for deliveries worth hundreds of pounds. morrisons has apologised but hasn't revealed the cause of the problem, despite repeated requests . and nasa's parker requests. and nasa's parker solar probe is set to make history today on christmas eve, with the closest ever approach to the sun. the spacecraft will skim just 3.6 million miles from the star's surface, enduring temperatures of nearly 1000 degrees and speeds of 430,000 miles an hour. scientists say the mission will uncover secrets about the solar activity of the sun, helped to protect satellites, power grids and even astronauts. the spacecraft will then reconnect with earth on the

lib dems 58 ed davey sort of theme park strategy not paying sort of theme park strategy not paying offpoll, and snp at 37. so this is just a poll, of course, but reform do very well in this theoretical poll. >> yes. it is interesting to see that also that they're focusing on that part of the seats that are taken away from labour. of course, the conversation at the moment, certainly today is tories reform, but they do also have an impact on on labour as well, don't you think? >> i mean, it's so far out that who knows what the playing field would be like when we get to another election. but surely it's a case of let labour implode and then take on the tories. if you were reform and i'm not, and stop talking about reform. >> it's great you love me, i love kemi, i heart kemi is what i've got tattooed. >> but that would be the strategy wouldn't it? because laboun strategy wouldn't it? because labour, the way things are going, they're tanking themselves in the polls. so you want to attack the tories right now? that's how you win. >> i mean, but this is the thing about polls, isn't it? the el

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hit 4.73 in april. 3.59 ed davey day before the fed started easing on september 18. points, 10-year yields have risen, closing the year at 4.57. kind of a counterintuitive response to the rate cuts. this is again, what our live blog is saying. that that trajectory and those moves, just when we think we have understood the treasury narrative, the fed throws us a curve for traders throw us a curve. jess: even when the fed begun its cutting cycle in september, it was an aggressive pace, coming off the back of a few disappointing jobs reports, but since then, we have had growth. so they were trying to signal there wouldn't be as aggressive cuts as traders hope for. we continue to have that debate, where is the neutral rate? they potentially might be a lot higher now than coming out of the housing crisis. before covid, it was thought the neutral rate would be about two and a half percent. but when the fed started cutting rates in 2018 the economy began to slow. but coming out of covid, year after year, it has continued to outpace growth. so if it is higher, not as many ra

ed davey has even pledged that he'll do a skydive if the single gets 10,000 downloads next week. are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sven hill. i'll be back in an hour, but now it's time for saturday night showdown for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you, sophia, and welcome to the saturday night showdown now! onlyfans model lilly phillips sparked controversy this week when she slept afternoon. ulez of the haaland. davey was joined by the bath philharmonia carers choir at their christmas concert at the bath forum. the single was written by six young carers and has climbed the charts since its release, with all proceeds going to the carers trust and bath philharmonia. ed davey has even pledged that he'll do a skydive if the single gets 10,000 downloads next week. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sven hill. i'll be back in an hour, but now it's time for saturday night showdown for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news ale

well ed davey's for is love.ell ed davey's bid for christmas number one is heating up as his charity single love is enough jumps to number six on the itunes charts. the song, recorded with a full orchestra and 20 singers, was inspired by the lib dem leader's own experience as a teenage carer. now it is not only winning hearts, but it's also raising funds for the career carer trust and bath philharmonia. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. do go and check out that wonderful single from sir ed davey on itunes now though, it's over to free speech nation for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr to gbnews.com/alerts . code, or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> free speech in universities descends into chaos again. labour mps call for the reintroduction of blasphemy laws and nigel farage calls for stricter abortion laws. this is free speech. nation . welcome to free speech. nation. welcome to free speech nation with me , josh free speech nation with me, josh

ed davey has even pledged he'll do a skydive if the single hits 10,000 downloads next week.hose are the latest tv news headlines. for now, i'm sven hill. i'll be back in an houn sven hill. i'll be back in an hour, but now it's back to mark. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> brilliant stuff. nice job sophia. sophia returns in an hours sophia. sophia returns in an hour's time. how are you? it is saturday night. it is your perfect saturday night in. pour yourself a glass of something cold and bubbly, because we got a lot of work to do in my take at ten. how do you solve a problem like prince andrew? lots to get through. but first, it's my big opinion. now, the decision by a young woman on the erotic website onlyfans to sleep with 100 men in one evening is not heroic. it's not groundbreaking, it's not innovative. it's a tragedy. it's also reckless, irresponsible, deeply immoral and dangerous. now, of course, it's a free country. this is a grown woman who invited these chaps to p

ed davey has even pledged he'll do a skydive if the single gets 10,000 downloads next week.e are the latest gb news headlines for now i'm sophia hill. more from me in an houn sophia hill. more from me in an hour. but now it's time for the saturday five. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> it's saturday night and you're with the saturday five. i'm darren grimes, and i can promise that you're in for a very lively show. we're going to crack on with tonight's first debate, and i'm going to abuse my position in the middle here and kick us off. we need to be absolutely blunt. as a nation, another innocent little girl is dead. and once again, the people who should have protected her were too scared to act. ask yourself why.7 because in britain today, it's apparently worse to be accused of racism than it is to ignore a child being beaten, tortured and ultimately killed. the tragic case of sara sharif, just ten years old, is a damning indictment of a society that's utterly paralysed by

ed davey has even pledged he'll do a skydive if the single gets 10,000 downloads next week.hose are the latest gb news headlines for now and that's me done for the day. but now it's time for headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners, your first look at tomorrow's top stories with three comedians. before we dive in, let's have a look at what cressida and lewis will have to work with on sunday's front pages. the sunday times, andrew's chinese spy confidante, met two former prime ministers. one of them wasn't liz truss, so it really does count. observer pm condemned for allowing a new wave of slum housing. the sunday express has. boris warns of keir brexit threats. the telegraph goes with chinese influencer at heart of whitehall. the mail on sunday has starmer surrender squad to undo brexit and the daily star sunday a room with a who. well that's i think that was well delivered, even if i do say so myself. but ignoring all that into the actual im

sir keir starmer�*s stat answer to ed davey was constructive. he said that this was constructive.ent. we hoped it could be a turning point, but he said that in the past, what comes next is not necessarily better. he was looking forward to developments cautiously. given the history of what has happened previously, particularly with the arab spring in the middle east and what happened following the fall of other governments.— following the fall of other rovernments. ., ,, , ., , . following the fall of other rovernments. ., ,, , . ., governments. thank you very much for talkin: us governments. thank you very much for talking us through _ governments. thank you very much for talking us through that. _ governments. thank you very much for talking us through that. a _ governments. thank you very much for talking us through that. a police i talking us through that. a police watchdog has published a report in the investigation of the ira firebomb attack on an hotel in bay file belfast. the 1400 00:1

meanwhile, lib dem leader sir ed davey has paid tribute to young carers sharing his own experience ofooking after his sick mother as a child. there's been more christmas eve frustration today for morrisons customers, with deliveries either late or even cancelled, and that comes more than 24 hours after a system glitch first disrupted orders yesterday. the chaos on the 23rd of december, the busiest grocery shopping day of the year, left shoppers waiting for deliveries worth hundreds of pounds. morrisons has apologised but hasn't revealed the cause of the problem, despite repeated requests . and nasa's parker requests. and nasa's parker solar probe is set to make history today on christmas eve, with the closest ever approach to the sun. the spacecraft will skim just 3.6 million miles from the star's surface, enduring temperatures of nearly 1000 degrees and speeds of 430,000 miles an hour. scientists say the mission will uncover secrets about the solar activity of the sun, helped to protect satellites, power grids and even astronauts. the spacecraft will then reconnect with earth on the

leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey spoke to gb news earlier on. >> it's particularly relevantthe waspi pensioners, the these women who've campaigned for a long time, that they had an independent review with the ombudsman. the ombudsman looked at this subject for five years and focused on the period back in the last labour government, when the dwp failed to notify women and many of them just didn't understand what was going on and weren't aware of it. and it's the independent ombudsman that's made these recommendations. i think the government needs to look at this and needs to change its mind, actually. >> those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's time for bev and andrew for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to. >> gbnews.com/alerts. >> gbnews.com/alerts. >> good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom. are you ready? not really. you're sorted. you've got your phone plugged in. you got your laptop charging. marvellous, right. bev and andrew with you until midday. >> so promise after promise after promis

care about the issues and they should do between them what the prime minister, keir starmer and ed davey did in the run up to the last election, which was effectively labour and the lib dems had an undeclared informal pact harnessing the anti—government sentiment and organically in each constituency, voters worked out who was best placed to remove the tory, and both labour and the tory, and both labour and the lib dems did amazingly well in terms of seats. and if i was advising kemi badenoch, i would say that's what you've got to look at. you are not going to crush reform. you know, the tories aren't trusted enough to get reform down to 4 or 5% in my view, so work with them a bit better. well, certainly don't turn it into a personality clash or a feud if you can't reach some kind of workable accommodation with farage. and it doesn't have to be a pact with a handshake, then more and more tory mps will start to wonder whether you are the person to lead them into the next election. >> it goes back to the fact that the tories revealed how many members they had at that leadership election. re

sir ed davey gave us more of his fun stunts for all to enjoy.orm uk also held its biggest ever conference and had some fun in birmingham. >> this weekend is when reform uk comes of age. >> labour had a wet welcome in liverpool and the mood felt not as joyful as you might have expected from a party that had been out of power for 14 years. but the conference went along without incident. well, nearly. >> i call again for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. the return of the sausages, the hostages. >> and finally, it was the turn of the conservative party. but we'll leave that there for now. we're now at the general election results. the campaign has happened. were you surprised by the election landslide, kevin maguire? >> the scale of it, yeah. it was quite clear labour were going to win and labour were going to win healthily. but i didn't think they'd unseat liz truss when a lot of the rural seats and they were helped. they run a very strategic campaign that paid results, but they were helped massively by that split on the right between the conservati

while liberal democrat leader sir ed davey paid tribute to young carers sharing his own experience ofking after his sick mother while he was a child. the race to go green is back on as the government launches a consultation on phasing out new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. transport secretary heidi alexander promises clarity for the auto industry, updating targets for zero emission vehicle sales and threatening £15,000 fines for manufacturers if they miss their quotas. but car makers, including ford, warn that demand isn't keeping up and say bold government incentives are urgently needed. in brighton, police are searching for two men after the rape of a 19 year old man in the city. the victim was approached near a restaurant early on the 21st of december before being attacked. he later managed to find help from a passer—by and is being supported by specialist officers. detectives are now asking anyone who may have seen anything take place or recognises the men in two pictures released to get in touch. in the united states, there has been christmas eve chaos earlier for half a million

here, the liberal democrats leader, sir ed davey, is calling for the uk to work with allies to make sure assad faces justice for his crimes. he says the conflict's end must bnng says the conflict's end must bring peace , democracy and bring peace, democracy and security to syria and the wider region. well, breaking news that we brought you in the last hour or so from edinburgh that the leader of the city council there has been suspended by the labour party after claims he sent inappropriate sexual messages to ukrainian refugees, including through a dating app. police are now investigating a report of kami david's kami days behaviour rather made through the council's whistleblowing service . council's whistleblowing service. opposition leaders, including from the snp, are calling for his immediate resignation, describing the allegations as beyond shocking. the leader of scottish labour, anas sarwar, says the claims are deeply distressing and insists the party acted swiftly when alerted on saturday. mr day, who denies any contact with police, has not yet commented on the allegations . yet

leader of the liberal democrats, sir ed davey is calling for the uk to work with allies to make sure assad faces justice for his crimes. he says the conflict's end must bnng says the conflict's end must bring peace, democracy and security to syria and the region . security to syria and the region. strong winds are hammering the uk just days after storm dara left two men dead and thousands without power. a yellow weather warning is in place with gusts of up to 70 miles an hour threatening more blackouts and travel chaos. flooding fears are rising too , with over 200 alerts rising too, with over 200 alerts issued across england, wales and scotland. travel is heavily disrupted. train services are delayed and the severn bridge remains closed. 250,000 homes are still without electricity after the storm brought 93 mile an hour winds on saturday. in other news, the leader of edinburgh city council has been suspended by the labour party after claims he sent inappropriate sexual messages to ukrainian refugees , including ukrainian refugees, including through a dating app. police are now inves

. >> the lib dem leader, ed davey, has already criticised the speech, accusing the government of movinggoalposts and creating milestones on the road to nowhere. others have questioned why starmer's ambition for the uk to be the fastest growing economy in the g7 has been quietly dropped, but there were plenty of good intentions to be welcomed in the pm's speech. ben lots to be welcomed. there surely some common sense themes that everybody can get around. >> well, i mean, when you declare you're going to build homes, when you declare you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to mend the nhs, you're going to get extra police on the on the beat, come down hard on crime. no one can disagree with you. it's whether or not any of those things actually result in genuine action. you know, and we had sunak's famous five pledges. do you remember. and i think eventually i do remember ben inflation eventually came down. but i'll believe it when i see it. the budget that, you know, i have to go back to the budget, the budget that rachel reeves revealed included £36 billi