just days before ballot papers arrive with tory members rihsi sunak and liz truss set out new promises on health and education. the chair of the public inquiry investigating the post office scandal has called for the process of compensation for victims to be sped up. hello and welcome to wembley where we are just a couple of hours away from the kick off between england and germany in the women s european championships. of course germany have won against england many, many more times. but in this competition england have scored 20 goals and they have only conceded one. there is no doubt that they will have the home advantage here, we have seen the last few hours thousands and thousands of people walking down wembley way, heading towards the stadium. the atmosphere is like that of a carnival or a fair, everyone is hoping for a really good match and they do want england to win. joe lynskey looks ahead. five wins down. goes for goal! oh, my word! one more match to go. through t
cheering. time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. some beautiful weather watchers last night. as you can see from the skies, these are from highlands scotland but it s a strong our rowrah at the moment so if we get clear skies we may see it. towards the north we have that coming in to parts of scotland and perhaps a bit further south as well. we do have cloudier skies here, you see at the moment, on that weather front. lots of showers and still the remnants of the overnight rain, pacific oceany rain in the south. between it, sow good spells of sunshine and we have lost the humidity. so while we have a blustery breeze and showers continuing across scotland, northern ireland, they tend to ease, temperatures aren t quite as high, as they were last night, because we have lost the humidity. sorry, yesterday, but it feels pleasant out there. we should see evening sunshine as the showers fade away, so an opportunity to witness the northern lights in the north but not
expect to accumulate through the weekend. the dark blue and green colours for parts of northern ireland and south west scotland indicate 50 100 millimetres of rain indicate 50 100 millimetres of rain in places, so that could cause some issues. certainly some heavy, thundery rain at times this weekend, always wettest in the west, often quite windy. dare i say, it will feel a little autumnal. for many today brings some sunshine, scattered showers across england and wales, north east scotland mainly dry but increasingly windy, with rain setting in across northern ireland and south west scotland, highs of 18 25 c. through this evening and tonight, northern ireland and south west scotland, the rain really sets in, some really heavy bursts through the night, some getting into parts of wales, the far south west of england. it stays windy to the far north east, and partly because of the strength of wind and where it is coming from, a mild direction, a mild night, 13-16 c. mild direct