Evening. Temperatures have now reached a new record for the Late August Bank Holiday weekend, the met office has announced. 32. 7 degrees celsius was recorded at Heathrow Airport earlier today. Forecasters expect temperatures to get even hotter on monday with a possible temperature of 33 degrees in the south east of england. Already this summer the uk has recorded its highest ever temperature with the mercury hitting 38. 7 at cambridge in july. There have been a few exceptions to the gloriously sunny weather we have seen across the uk today. Those exceptions across coastal areas of wales and parts of South West England where we have seen a bit of cloud moving in from time to time. Blue skies all the way and that was the glorious scene earlier on and around the fort william, the highlands of scotland. Overnight, we will keep the clear skies, patchy cloud will develop across Western Areas and move into perhaps western scotland. A warm night for sleeping, after a warm day. Temperatures be
Fires in the amazon. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing the region of the amazon. Hectare facing the region of the amazon. Hecta re after facing the region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forest, just going up in smoke. And coming up. The huge street party begins. More than a Million People are expected at Notting Hill Carnival this bank holiday weekend. Good afternoon. It was one of the most astonishing innings in the history of test match cricket. With england heading towards a humiliating defeat which would have seen australia retain the ashes, ben stokes hit an amazing centiry to give england an unlikely one wicket victory. After collapsing forjust 67 runs in the first innings, this time england needed 359 to clinch the game. That looked a long way off when stokes was joined by the last manjack leach, still needing 73 to win. Stokes then launched a stunning solo assault to win the game and bring the series level at 1 1. 0ur
Hello, this is bbc news with chris rogers. The headlines borisjohnson says the chances of a brexit deal are touch and go ahead of his meeting with the Eu Council President at the g7 summit. I do think that they understand that there is an opportunity to do a deal, but i think they also. Do you think it is more likely than it was . It is going to be touch and go. President trump says a very big trade deal after brexit is on the menu as he holds a working breakfast with the prime minister. Batting brilliance from ben stokes his sensational century leads england to a nailbiting victory over australia and keeps the ashes series alive. 40,000 troops begin a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im holly hamilton. Ben stokes is headingleys hero his miraculous knock stuns australia and levels this ashes series. An aguero double seals a comfortable victory for Manchester City at bournemouth. Joelintons strike mak
Whimpering. Thats no ordinary flood, is it . No, but you can see the jaws iness to it, or elements of it. Theres another one called bait, putting sharks in a supermarket. This basically does what it says on the tin. This film cost around 13 million, has already taken 65 million. Its a perfectly efficient, exploitive b movie creature feature in which it works partly because it has decent performances and you like the characters. The father Daughter Relationship works well and because partly there are no surprises, but that includes there is no surprising mistakes. Sometimes you can see the edge of production in the film a little bit, but it is done well. The director Alexandre Aja knows how to put this stuff together. There are a few laugh out loud funny lines in it, like, we are not going to be out smarted by these pea brained reptiles which reminds me of a line from snakes on a plane, but it does exactly what it sets out to do. It is a straightforward, unpretentious monster rampage mo
Fires in the amazon. From this vantage point, you get a sense of the scale of the disaster facing this region of the amazon. Hectare after hectare of pristine forest, just going up in smoke. And its the hottest Late August Bank Holiday weekend on record, with the top temperature reaching 33. 3 degrees in west london. It was one of the most astonishing innings in the history of test match cricket. With england heading towards a humiliating defeat which would have seen australia retain the ashes, ben stokes hit an amazing century to give england an unlikely one wicket victory. After collapsing forjust 67 runs in the first innings, this time england needed 359 to clinch the game. That looked a long way off when stokes was joined by the last manjack leach still needing 73 to win. Stokes then launched a stunning solo assault to win the game and bring the series level at 1 1. This is ben stokes in the dressing room after the match, reflecting on what hes accomplished. And afterwards stokes e