is being investigated seriously for a crime. that is unprecedented. heat health alerts come into effect at midday across england, with temperatures in some areas forecast to reach 35 celsius later this week. the backlog of people waiting more than two years for a routine operation on the nhs in england has shrunk from more than 22,000 at the start of the year to fewer than 200. school pupils in scotland begin receiving their results from the first set of formal exams held since the start of the pandemic. tributes are being paid from around the world to dame olivia newton john, who s died of cancer, aged 73. the iconic singer and actress was best known for playing sandy in grease, one of the most successful film musicals ever made. her co starjohn travolta has described her impact as incredible . 0ur arts correspondent, david sillito, takes a look back at her career and legacy. # summer loving, had me a blast # summer loving, happened so fast. olivia newton john. for anyone o
train and travelling across the country and quite often, these sorts of temperatures in the mid 30s can affect the network. we can see delays. i m not saying it will happen this time but it makes us prepared for that eventuality, something you might want to factor in and fire incidents are that much higher as well when you get the dizzy heights. but not today, today it sort of more of a typical hot summers day, 30 degrees at so in the south. tomorrow, temperatures start at around 15 degrees in the south. in stornoway also around 15 degrees and sunshine right from the word go. i think again tomorrow, we are talking mostly about the low 30s across some central and southern parts of england and wales. but notice already newcastle up to 27, belfast, 26, so getting quite a lot in parts of the north as well. on thursday, that is when the real hot weather arrives at this time it will be travelling from the near continent, from the east, carried on a gentle breeze which will push the
on thursday and cooler across the north west of scotland as we have a bit more cloud and at times rain but by friday we could see 35 degrees towards the london area and this is the outlook into the weekend, still going to be pretty hot with temperatures in the mid 30s across england and wales. the mid 20s or parts of scotland and northern ireland. then we are hopeful there could be a change. sunday night and into monday as well. we are hopeful there will be heavy and potentially thundery showers on the way but at least the next five days are looking dry. and that s bbc news at six now its time tojoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello, welcome to sportsday. i m austin halewood. here s what s coming up tonight. she s won 23 grand slam singles titles as one of the sport s all time greats, but serena williams says she ll be evolving away from tennis after the us open. i can t do this forever. it s just like, sometimes, yo
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overnight they don t come around dawn temperatures briefly get down to these lows so we start tuesday on a very warm note, in fact this is the hottest wedge of air of this whole period of hot weather, it will sit in place tomorrow, coming in from the west we have frontal systems trying to introduce cooler air, or that hot air stays in place across eastern parts of it stays sunny long enough we could see unprecedented high temperatures so out to the wet summer showers, the odd thunderstorm, belfast and plymouth cooler than today but further east is where we expect the core of the heat, parts of the east midlands and eastern england, lincolnshire could temperatures of 42 celsius tomorrow, that would break the all time uk record but things changed tomorrow night, the showers and storms creep east, most of us will be a bit cooler by wednesday morning and this is the rest of the week, temperatures closer to where they should be, some rain at times but before we get there another v