1000 years of mont st michel. there is the shadow of mont st michel on the sand. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. give them some time. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. you kind of get an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see, i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont st michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary. it is the 1000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1000 years ago? yeah. this is the best of mediaeval engineering. and it started off as a sanctuary dedicated
we have got some impactful showers and thunderstorms at the moment, especially across parts of scotland and england, for the rest of the weekend, thunderstorms and showers will not be quite as potent, the air is turning fresher from the west. this cloud is moving northward and eastwards, this is that cool frontier from eastwards, this is that cool frontierfrom earlier eastwards, this is that cool frontier from earlier that will eventually bring that big drop in temperature, for the rest of the afternoon and evening into england and scotland, showers and thunderstorms, humid air in places, high 20s across east anglia. tonight, showers and thunderstorms, northern england and scotland for a time. later, across the channel islands and the far south east of england we could see some more storms return. in between those two, most leases become dry, partly clear skies, not assume it as the night