getting the victory byjust eight hundredths of a second. the men s sprint team also took bronze, as did jess roberts in the women s scratch race. which was even more significant for her just days after the death of her grandfather. i m really happy with that. i m actually quite emotional because my granddad passed away on saturday, so, yeah, like, he took me around everywhere as a youth, like, taking me around races, this is a race for him so, yeah, i m really happy. and finally, with the rugby league world cup starting on saturday, there ll be a special guest of honourfor the opening game. a man familiar to breakfast viewers, the former england scrum half rob burrow will be present when the tournament gets underway at st james park this weekend when england take on samoa. he was diagnosed with motor
need to talk to carol with prospects of temperatures in the 405. it is interesting. yesterday we did not quite get to the record although some breakfast viewers said they had their monitors in the shade and they were peeking above a0 where they were. all the data has not been collected yet. we think the hottest yesterday was 38.2 celsius in suffolk yesterday. when you have a thermometer and you hold it up, for example, in the sun, you find the thermometer warms up and it does not record the air temperature around it because it is in direct sunlight. the way we measure temperatures is on a uniform unit everywhere. it is at a certain height, in the shade.
intervals. the cloud across scotland and northern ireland and eventually england. some rain in the finals with highs of 20, possibly 21, 22 somewhere in the south east. lovely numbers. you later. carol arranged them just for you. for those of us receiving an energy bill this month, it ll be the first time we ll have seen one since the energy price cap increased by about 50%. however, some breakfast viewers have told us their direct debits have actually gone up by as much as 300%. nina s here. less lovely numbers from me. we expected on the 1st of april this big increase. it was 54% for the average direct debit if you have the same gas and electricity through the same gas and electricity through the same company. we have been hearing stories about two or 300% increase. i spoke about about an arrogant and we have had dozens of e mails since then. trevor is 72, a pensioner. his
figure clad will be moving in across western scotland with northern ireland introducing some rain. cooler than the one just gone. you can see all of this air pumping out from the south west. it will be warmer than today. the highest temperatures in the south of england and wales seen a fair bit of sunshine with fair weather cloud developing through the day. in northern ireland and scotland, the keg clad with splashes of rain. temperatures 17. somewhere in the south east we could hit 72 fahrenheit 22 celsius. we south-east we could hit 72 fahrenheit 22 celsius. we love a bit of old money! it s 6:13am. for those of us receiving an energy bill this month, it ll be the first time we ll have seen one since the energy price cap increased by about 50%. however, some breakfast viewers have
we didn t expect that such people exist that can help so much. we value the help very much. we are very grateful. heather and mark have already started talking to sophie about her extraordinary beginning and her remarkable family. it s a unique family, i d say. but somehow it works, it just works. so everybody is happy. i think sophie is very happy, too. aren t you, sophie? zoe conway, bbc news. wonderful and so nice for them to be together. we have had a couple of nice stories this week about people coming out of ukraine. nice news to tell you about for once. music can be a comfort for those living with dementia, and now a new report suggests melody can actually improve the lives of those with the illness in some cases, even reducing the need for medication. breakfast viewers might remember how the power of music changed the lives of those involved