Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. We have got some pretty hot midsummers weather in the cards for you through the coming week. Its not going to be dry everywhere, but the heat and humidity are increasing, so lots of warm sunshine around. Some rain across the north west of the uk, and some wind as well over the next 2a hours or so. Middle of the week sees thundery downpours with all that heat and humidity around. Now, through the rest of this evening and overnight, we have got a bit of rain across Northern Ireland, scotland as well. A few showers possible for north west england into north wales, too. But further south and east, you should stay dry overnight, and temperatures staying in the mid teens. Monday morning starts off on a bit of a grey note, but it will be an improving day, the rain clearing out of Northern Ireland and northern england, but still sitting across the west of scotland, where it could be quite heavy at times. In the developing su
Me, tania beckett. Im here at the British Library to guide you through another five extraordinary moments from the recent past. Well meet the Government Official tasked with solving one of ethiopias worst ever famines. The widow of a former russian spy assassinated by the kgb. And one of the showgirls from londons windmill theatre. But first we go back to the soviet union in 1957 and a stray dog called lyka who was the first animal ever to orbit the earth. We speak to the medical officers an who looked after lyka. The russians sent sputnik the second into orbit around the world with lyka as passenger. Months of training, sometimes with a companion, prepared lyka for her lonely journey. Translation she was a very patient dog, very affectionate, she was very easy to train. She was considered very clever, she had very expressive, dark eyes. My father wa nted expressive, dark eyes. My father wanted to take her away from the official environment of the lab and brought her home to run around
Today, it will feel chilly. The slightly lighter wind might make it feel perhaps not quite as raw. Monday, milder weather feel perhaps not quite as raw. Monday, milderweatheralone feel perhaps not quite as raw. Monday, milder weather alone fax to this covering of cloud and rain. A little bit milder to get the new week under way. Even by the end of the day, behind that weather system, coming into the north on monday, calder are once again. Lets move the weather front away and you can see what happens to the isobars on tuesday and wednesday, opening the pipe from the arctic and flooding is with cold air and a biting northerly wind. In the next few days, the story remains one of the cold weather week. Next week, sunshine around. Milder that fast but the cold weather comes to dominate, along with that very, very chilly wind. A quick glance ahead to the way that maundy looks. I think we will see quite a lot of cloud to the south. Elsewhere, and improving picture in terms of brightness but i
The year of the royal navy, a capstone to everything we have had, and coinciding with the formal commissioning of hms queen elizabeth. My team have worked really hard to get ready for it, not something we are traditionally famous for, marching, in the navy, but the guys have worked really hard and we hope to put on a good show. Able seaman alex stacy, who only joined the service injanuary, said it was an extremely proud moment. I onlyjoined up injanuary, i finished all of my training injuly, so it is still very new in the navy, so it is a great honour and privilege to be able to do Something Like this. And they will be undertaking further duties at stjames palace, the tower of london, and, tomorrow, at windsor castle. After a weekend of sitting in cold northerly winds and arctic air, we have something milder coming in from the atlantic, but only really overnight tonight and first thing tomorrow. We have westley and north westerly winds. Wet and windy conditions to content with. In Nort