with you in a couple of minutes. hello. yet another day of lightly butter come across the uk this wednesday. lively weather. we start the bay with up band of rain. it should quickly move through, but as the sun comes out, anticipate some lively showers as well. here s the rain out towards the southwest, and through the morning, it quickly pulls out of northern ireland and comes to settle across central scotland. brightest skies following on, yes, it will stay windy throughout the day, gales possible around her either seacoast and those winds are going to carry in some pretty punchy showers and carry them a fair way in. we could see some showersjust about
cooler day ahead today, we will also have a rain across southern and eastern scotland that were clear, leaving brightest skies. drier in northern ireland but for england and wales, once again, some torrential thundery downpours but they are hit and miss. paying tribute to a legend of british comedy impressionistjon culshaw s here to tell us about transforming into les dawson. look at that! it s tuesday 16th august. our main story. dame deborahjames raised millions for charity and was an inspiration to so many people living with bowel cancer. now her mum heather has spoken for the first time since her daughter s death, to our reporter graham satchell, about her final days with deborah and her long lasting legacy. dame deborahjames, surrounded by herfamily at her mum and dads house. in the final weeks of her life, deborah s mum heather
parts of northern ireland, and still this brisk wind coming down the north sea and also done the west coast, as well. fresh across the north of the country, nine to 11 degrees, but still in the far south east it will be quite uncomfortable for sleeping. in due tomorrow, here are our thunderstorms. pushing south eastwards, becoming largely confined to southern areas through the day. brightest skies the most part across the north and west, but you can see our next weather front waiting in the winds and these are our temperatures. 12 to 25 point thank you very much. we will catch up a little bit later. let s take a look at today s front pages. the news that the uk has become the first country to approve a dual variant vaccine leads many of this morning s papers. the times reports that over 50s are likely to be offered the jab as part of a booster campaign due to begin within a month. according to the telegraph, the royal navy is going to stop its operations in the channel aimed at stoppin
in south yorkshire, for example, underneath all of this cloud yesterday, the temperature just topped out at nine celsius. it is much brighter out there today, and the temperature is heading up closer to the average for the time of year, 1a or 15 celsius. and that is the story across much of the uk. high pressure, plenty of dry weather again. an area of cloud, though, through much of the midlands, east anglia, south east england, and hanging on through much of the afternoon. only beginning to clear later on. in fact, the odd lighted shower out of that towards essex and kent can t be ruled out. and the cloud here will be holding temperatures back compared with elsewhere where you get the brightest skies. early drizzle in north east scotland petering out. the odd shower popping up in central and eastern parts of scotland. sunnier day in northern ireland, and temperatures are higher than yesterday, but there will be a few spots in south east england, with the thickest cloud that may just h
to the south east and east anglia, as well as the channel islands, this is where the winds will fall lightest. the brightest and driest conditions in scotland and northern ireland, with a mixture of sunshine and showers. the best of the brightest skies the further west you are. the winds are coming from a south to south westerly direction, so it will be milder. no blue sky in cardiff for wales against scotland and there could be some heavy rain around on the approach. that rain does start to fizzle a bit tonight, reaching east anglia and the south east for a while, and then more wet weather gathers towards the west into tomorrow morning. blue skies tonight, here a chance of frost and ice to get your sunday under way. the weather chart for sunday is all telling. an area of low pressure spilling off the atlantic, the first of several deep areas of low pressure this week. strongest winds on the southern edge, but the heaviest rain will transfer to the north. part of the south and south we