hello if you re watching in the uk or around the world, i m frankie mccamley. 118 people have been have been arrested at one of the most prestigious horse races in the world, the grand national. they were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and public nuisance offences in relation to disruption at the grand national. protesters made their way onto the track at aintree, which had delayed the race. animal rights activists had warned they would try to disrupt the world famous race. a large number of police had been deployed to the ground and went onto the course to remove the protesters. the start of the race was delayed for 1h minutes whilst the group were cleared, but it did eventually go ahead and was won by corach rambler, ridden by the jockey derek fox. our correspondent, sharon barbour, spent the day at aintree racecourse. it s been a day of real drama. it began with the protesters which threatened to disrupt the most important race in the calendar, due to start at 5
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Heres stav da naos. Good afternoon. A little more unsettled today than yesterday but you could almost still call this the calm before the storm, tomorrow will be very windy, this afternoon will be sunshine and showers. The storm tomorrow, storm agnes, is still out at the atlantic. We have a couple of Weather Fronts that have brought pretty heavy rainfall today and rumbles of thunder. It has almost cleared into the north sea but the next rain band is bringing heavy rain to Western Scotland and will continue to rattle north and east through the afternoon, becoming confined to the north of scotland. Elsewhere, sunshine and showers, most towards western areas, better chance of staying dry towards the east and south east where it could be up to 23 degrees. The showers rattle for a time this evening but will fade away, winds will turn lighter, clear skies across the northern half of the country, quite chilly in Scottish Glens but temperatures will rise across the south as the wind and cloud
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It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london, and 4 00am in the morning in mosul, in iraq, following a day where thousands of Iraqi Government forces have advanced on the city, the opening day of an offensive to recapture the western part from so called Islamic State. The first target appears to be mosuls airport. Is militants are fighting back. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville is with the iraqi forces. This is his report. Just after sunrise, iraq began what it hopes is its last major battle against the so called Islamic State. Thousands of men, and hundreds of armoured vehicles, ina line of attack that spread for miles. The iraqi army are starting their assault on Western Mosul, theyve breached their own defences, armoured vehicles are lining up ready for the Islamic State. Theyre only a couple of kilometres over that way, and they know that these men are coming. Theyre dug in, and the assault on Western Mosul has started. Leading the attack, iraqs Emergency Respons