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
Live withjohn. Hell give borisjohnson the fight of his life in the conservative leadership contest. Slow progress for the cricketers . Coming up on afternoon yes, sri lanka have asked advantage. Live, all the Sport England chase its turn in 33 3 for england are on top against sri lanka as they go for the win that will victory. England made a good start, return them to the top of the Joffrey Archer took a total of 15 standings in the cricket world cup. And sarah has the weather. Wickets, making him lead out in the competition. In reply, jonny it is the summer solstice today and some summer it is the summer solstice today and some summer like weather on the ba i rstow, competition. In reply, Jonny Bairstow, james vince, owen morgan cards. Heat and humidity rising, the all went cheaply. England are now weekend is looking decent for many, but we are likely to see some thunderstorms late on sunday. You 1193 all the detail throughout the all went cheaply. England are now afternoon. 119 3 aft
Friday night, so a bridge could be demolished and national highways say the planned gantry was installed overnight and work is on schedule to reopen for monday. Rush hour at 6 am. Steve harley best known as the front man of the british rock band Cockney Rebel, has died at the age of 73. Come up and see me to make me smile. The age of 73. Come up and see me to make me smile. Well, that me to make me smile. Well, that was their big hit back in 1975. A number one hit, make me smile, steve harley had continued touring until recently, but had touring until recently, but had to cancel dates to have treatment for cancer. His daughter greta says he died peacefully with his family by his side. And revellers have his side. And revellers have been gathering in cities around the world to celebrate Saint Patricks day in belfast. Thousands turned out in the city centre to watch a noisy and colourful procession. No shortage of shamrocks, music and leprechauns in dublin, where locals usually vie with
Coordinator at the migrant charity samphire, says that there are safe and legal ways for migrants to come to britain are not. A lot of people do know what the options for safe legal routes are, but of course we use humanitarian visas with the ukrainian situation , people were ukrainian situation, people were brought here safely legally brought here safely and legally , never having to navigate the asylum system or get into a small boat. So it can done. Small boat. So it can be done. We do have have mechanisms available, but theyre very , available, but theyre very, very they dont catch very narrow and they dont catch everyone that is allowed to be here. So its we know now that nothing is going to work, nothing is going to work, nothing is going to work, nothing is going to deter people. So we need to start looking at how them safely and how we get them here safely and process them quickly. Process them quickly. People in scotland and in wales could soon be able to get access to nhs tre