pressure. lots of isobars on the charts, hence the strong winds, and outbreaks of rain. it is pushing its way eastwards and some heavy showers follow on behind it. you see flashes of lightning there and this rain band becomes confined to england and wales and the south east towards the end of the night. the wins are a real feature, end of the night. the wins are a realfeature, gusting 50 or 60 miles an hour on the irish coast, after 70 on the coast of western scotland. that becomes confined to the south and it stays very wet in scotland. but the ones eased down for part two of the night. a cooler feel two things across the north and the west. double figure values in the south east where it will remain wet into tomorrow morning. as we head through thursday that whether frank clears away and the next feature runs into the southern half of the country in the afternoon. a wet start for east anglia and the south and the rain is slow to clear, but eventually it will. elsewhere it i
is taking aim at more than scotland s historic st andrew s course. it may look more like an oil rig and an oil painting but this former north sea platform standing more than 100 feet high is being brought into weston super mare to become a major art installation. fix, into weston-super-mare to become a major art installation. major art installation. a pleasantly warm day for major art installation. a pleasantly warm day for many, major art installation. a pleasantly warm day for many, feeling - major art installation. a pleasantly warm day for many, feeling a - major art installation. a pleasantlyj warm day for many, feeling a good deal more comfortable than of late. it continues in the south east of england. the full forecast coming up here on breakfast. it s wednesday, the 13th ofjuly. our main story. conservative mps will cast their first vote today for who they want to replace borisjohnson as party leader. eight candidates are left in the race to become the next prim
# happy birthday to you. and as the duchess of cornwall turns 75, we look at the mark she s made on public life. and coming up on the bbc news channel. we ll be live at the home of golf as we count down to the start of the of the open championships which gets under way in st andrews tomorrow. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. dj tim westwood is facing allegations from a woman who said they had sex several times, starting when she was 14. she says mr westwood was in his 30s at the time and describes him as a predator . the woman is one of several to come forward after an investigation by bbc news and the guardian, with claims of misconduct and abuse dating from 1990 to 2020. mr westwood did not respond to a request for comment. this report from our correspondent chi chi izundu contains distressing accounts of alleged sexual assault. the archers was a club in vauxhall and tim westwood would be there holding his club night, so it was really popular. it was a bi
that there may be tax cuts, possibly, in the way, and one of my guests said that could give a sugar rush to some mps and voters and it might be a popular policy although whether that would keep a lid on rising inflation is debatable. let s focus on the action at westminster. we have had prime minister s questions in the last couple of hours and in one hour the prime minister will be facing a committee of senior mps, the liaison committee, so he hasn t returned here, he is staying in the houses of parliament before that committee meeting. borisjohnson says he is keeping on with the job despite a wave of government resignations which have continued today. we have seen a growing number of ministers resigning today with many expressing unhappiness at the prime minister s style of leadership and concerns that the work of the government is being overshadowed by questions about the prime minister s integrity. we can have a closer look at what has been happening. so far today we have
that tune will be in your head all afternoon! time for a look at the weather. we need it to be fine over birmingham. yes, it s not going to be bathed in sunshine for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games but it is looking dry and timbers easing down from 20 degrees during the course of the ceremony. where we are seeing sunshine today is to the north and north west of scotland. very limited elsewhere. whilst there is a lot of dry weather around, we have also seen some heavy rain so far today, impacting parts of northern england, into southern scotland, thundery rain through the isle of man for a time and it is edging further north. we have high pressure close by so overall, a lot of dry weather and also a weather disturbance has been brought into that wiltshire will continue to feed these outbreaks of rain, slowly a little further north in scotland but still holding the sunny spells in the north and north west. a few patches of rain or showers in wales and south west