In the race and the winners red jersey. Thats all from sportsday. Therell be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening. Coming up next it is meet the author. Coming up next it is meet the author. If you have read any of the four mick herron novels featuring jackson lamb, you will know what to expect in the fifth, london rules. Skulduggery, streets alive with lowlife a nd skulduggery, streets alive with lowlife and a threat of terror, a Political Class that is self centred, often incompetent, sometimes corrupt. Time is pressing and the threat is real and jackson lands ramshackle outfit never playing by the rules has to try to save the day. Welcome. Jackson lamb and his merry men and women are pretty rough lot. Sort of. They are quite ordinary people in many ways. I am very keen of spies having daily lives in contemporary london and seeing part of those lives as well as the jobs they do. They do not lead gilded lives in a nyway they do not lead gilded lives in anyway and they are not pampered and they are under enormous pressure and there is a terrorist threat in this book. We will go into that in some detail, but not enough to spoil the plot, but they are pretty rough with the way they deal with each other. What strikes me is that very seldom i had what strikes me is that very seldom ihada what strikes me is that very seldom i had a really nice to each other. Very seldom. But there are certain bonds that developed between different characters. Not as a group very much, but there are pairings that happen throughout the series. Indeed. I like to think that in the group scenes in particular, there is a lwa ys group scenes in particular, there is always one scene where everybody is theyre all at once, and in those occasions they reach some kind of harmony usually when they are working on a problem. It may be harmonious in that sense and they do ca re harmonious in that sense and they do care about each other and help each other, but you never get them saying, what are you really like . They seem to be driven by a desire not to show too much of themselves. Do you think that is a characteristic of people who find themselves in that world . It might bea themselves in that world . It might be a characteristic of people who work in offices. I focus on the ordinariness of these people. They are spies but to an extent they could be anything really. The relationships are determined by the fa ct relationships are determined by the fact that they are all frustrated in their ambitions in their careers and they all have to Work Together when they all have to Work Together when they do not want to. If you met any of them in the street or the tube, you would have no idea what they did by the way they behave. Indeed, yes, i was looking around this morning trying to spot characters. One of the thing that happens, and we will be careful not to give too much away because it is a tense plot, but there is a blackmail threat made against someone and it is made directly by someone who is quite high up in the security establishment. Do you think that in that form could happen as directly as that . Almost certainly, yes. A real threat. We have got this photograph, and we can say, it involves somebody who is involved in cross dressing and therefore is going to produce an embarrassing series of stories in the papers. The question is, will he brazen it out and say this is me or will threefold at the threat of blackmail . Part of the reason for introducing that is because i was interested in allowing this character, who mostly is a pleasa nt this character, who mostly is a pleasant character, to have some integrity and bravery. He is facing a decision, shall he tough it out or cave in . The decision that he partly makes to tough it out indicates there is a core of integrity. When you are writing a character like that in circumstances like that, do you try to put yourself in that position and say what would i do . Always. I write characters from the inside out. The only character i do not do that with is jackson lamb himself. You never get to know what he thinks and feels, whereas with all the other characters you do. To somebody who has not read the four preceding books who will pick this one up and go back to the others, how would you describe jackson lamb . The best way of describing him would to meet him, to enter the department of the secret service were all the failures get assigned and go around the back of the building and go through the door that jams the back of the building and go through the door thatjams and up the stairs to the top attic and when you open the door you would find very dark room with no Natural Light because the blind is always down. You would see a large man with his feet on the desk, the air would be awful because he smokes and hes aggressively flatulent and that is how he marked his territory as it were. Do you knowjackson lamb very well yet or are you still discovering him . Still discovering him. In the book i am working on at the moment there is more you will know about him than ever before. You talk about not doing him inside out. He will say things he has never said before. What will we learn about him without giving away the plot . before. What will we learn about him without giving away the plot . A bit more about his past. That is the core to the character of jackson lamb. That is a sense in which we are always meant to ask the question how did he end up here . We might know a bit of the story but we dont know a bit of the story but we dont know the whole story. That is partly because i dont know it either yet. It was not deliberate to conceal his background, it was as you began to tease out his character you discovered as well there was a mystery about him which is a mystification you share with the reader . Yes, the character was never meant to take the central role that he has come to do, but as soon as i started writing, there were opportunities there in terms of bringing that injection of humour into the books and also that larger than life character who has a past that is cloaked in mystery. The other fascinating thing about this story, and it is unusual, is you set it not just story, and it is unusual, is you set it notjust in the contemporary world in london principally where the threat of a terrorist act is ever present, but you have been very specific. There has been a referendum on brexit. There are political figures in here referendum on brexit. There are politicalfigures in here who bear not a resemblance in an imitate of way, but a broad resemblance to characters we might recognise on the political spectrum. Not as individuals but as people with points of view. That is a risky and bold thing to do. It did not seem to me at the time that was the case. I was writing about the world i found myself in. A lot had been in preparation before the referendum andi preparation before the referendum and i started writing it before after that and it changed a lot of things. I had not foreseen the result of the referendum, few people had, but as soon as it happened a lot of things became clear. It was clear from the terrified actions of the cabinet ministers who had orchestrated it, from the cowardice of the Prime Minister who realised what he had done and from the backstabbing that happened afterwards. It was clear from these things we were in for a long period of fires and chaos and that is the background to the book. London rules isa background to the book. London rules is a thriller and dramatic events happen, but the political backdrop is the one we have all lived through. The other thing finally about this book and the others is that you resist very deliberately the idea that on the last page everything can be neatly tied up. It is all over. Maybe something has happened that avoids a cataclysm, but the idea that khan has been restored is not really one of your things, is it . We live in a period of continuous tension, and that cannot be ended in the final chapter. So you are saying do not relax, it is not all over. Yes. Nick heron, author of london rules, thank you very much. Sunshine was much more limited today, there was a very different look to the weather out there. Cloud has come in from the west bringing rain and drizzle. We do see a few breaks in the cloud and those could emerge in western parts of the uk tomorrow. In those breaks in the cloud we have got this milder air and temperatures could get up to 13. Mild night tonight, still a few brea ks mild night tonight, still a few breaks in east anglia, and this cloud is pushing slowly eastwards. The rain and drizzle becomes lighter and more patchy and there will be missed and hillfort in the rain. Temperatures between 5 7. No frost on monday morning. We have two weather fronts getting close to the uk. It is in between them that we get the breaks in the cloud in the mild air. But the change of fortunes because eastern scotland and Eastern England will be drab with rain and drizzle. Further west a little sunshine, especially in coastal areas. The next weatherfront sunshine, especially in coastal areas. The next weather front brings the next area of rain into western ireland later on. Ill stay, cooler in the east. That will still be around overnight tomorrow night. You can see the areas of rain converging. The cloud breaks later in Northern Ireland and across western scotland. Turning a bit chilly, not too cold because there will be a breeze. Mild under the clouds as we head into tuesday. A chilly wind in the midlands, east anglia and the south of england. That rain peters out through the afternoon and further west in england and wales and Northern Ireland you are more likely to see some sunshine. Decent temperatures at ten or 11, but colder in Eastern England. But High Pressure is building in across the uk and it will keep these whether france across the uk. We have not seen much High Pressure over the past few weeks. After a mild start to the weeks. After a mild start to the week it will gradually turn colder. But it should become dry in most areas. This is bbc news. The headlines at 8pm brendan cox has stepped down from two charities set up in memory of his wife, apologising for causing hurt and offence. 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