to bring the party together. we ll be looking at the week ahead as the conservative party chooses its third leader in three months. also on the programme. the social care system in england is gridlocked, says the watchdog, with staffing shortages a majorfactor. covid infections rise above 2 million for the first time since the summer. and the first baby bison born in britain for thousands of years. on bbc london. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll have the latest on cristiano ronaldo s fall out with manchester united as their star player gets benched. and booted out of first team training after he walked out on them on wedneday. good evening. in a day s time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons, has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet, but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. mrjohnson left offic
temperatures. again, made for this time of year. highs of 19, possibly 20 degrees, if the sunshine continues to come through. then all change for the second half of the weekend. another loom is on and just like yesterday it could bring some heavy rain for a time. it is drifting steadily north and gusty winds as well. not raining all day. behind it, they could be some sunny spells and possibly sharp thundery don t post. 0nce spells and possibly sharp thundery don t post. once again, those temperatures staying on the mild side at this time of year. reeta. thank you, louise. that is it from the bbc news at six. you can keep up with thank you, louise. that is it from the bbc news at six. you can keep up with all thank you, louise. that is it from the bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the thank you, louise. that is it from the bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest thank you, louise. that is it from the bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest dev
coast, in fact, but the other face of autumn can look a little bit like this. yes, some rain today and some of that really quite horrendous, pushing up from the south west saw widespread showers in the east midlands through this afternoon, moving up from cornwall, pushing into south wales, across the south midlands into the east midlands through the afternoon and they have brought a lot of heavy rain in a very short space of time, so some of those showers will be moving across eastern england where it has been dry and sunny today but through the night they will fade away. the tail end of that frontal system lingering in the far north of scotland and into northern ireland and southern scotland we will see another frontal system bringing some showers. a light southerly wind keeps it mild once again and temperatures widely into double figures. maybe a little mist and fog around first thing in the burning but not a bad day on saturday. much of england and wales dry, settled and sunny. rain