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The boardmasters festival in newquay is cancelled just hours before it was due to go ahead because of fears of severe weather. We because of fears of severe weather. Are live there have these plagued your Summer Holiday . Apparently you need to master the hard stare if you want to protect yourself and your chips from seagulls. Good morning. Today we are looking ata good morning. Today we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. The heaviest of which will be in scotland. Drier tomorrow, then some torrential rain and gales coming your way on friday and saturday. Ill have more later. Its wednesday, the seventh of august. Our top story. Uk supermarkets are seeking permission to Work Together to co ordinate Food Supplies in the event of a no deal brexit. Theyre hoping the government will waive strict competition rules which normally prevent rival businesses from forming pacts. Victoria is at a wholesale market in birmingham. Victoria, what more can you tell us . Good morning to you
Travel and weather. We have unusual wet and windy weather on the way starting on thursday night and into friday where we have rain pushing right the way gcioss we have rain pushing right the way across the country from the south west. That will be followed by heavy and thundery showers and the wind starts to pick up. The strongest winds across england and wales on saturday. That could impact other Outdoor Events and possibly some travel disruption as well. It is due to that developing area of low pressure and at the moment we still have low pressure that weve had in the past few days bringing a mixture of sunshine and showers. The cloud is looking a bit more threatening so we could have showers anyway. Most of the showers in Northern Ireland and scotland, heavy in the east. Again in the Sunshine Feeling warm enough for the time of year at around the low 20s. Any showers will decay for many areas this evening, keeping going for longer into the night across scotland. Temperatures overnig
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