Christmas in quarantine. Good morning. The battle lines are drawn, the wait is nearly over as anthonyjoshua returns to the ring to defend his heavyweight titles against kubrat pulev at wembley arena tonight. Stayin alive its more than a0 years since the bee gees had seven us number one singles in just one year. Now the last surviving member barry gibb lifts the lid on life as a disco king. Good morning. It looks like today will be the better day of the weekend. It looks like we will see some sunshine around, particularly gcioss some sunshine around, particularly across Western Areas, tomorrow a low pressure system was weeping, bringing wet and windy weather to our shores but it will be gradually milder. Ill have all the details for you a bit later on. Good morning. 0ur good morning. Our main story borisjohnson has chaired a meeting to check the uk is prepared for a no deal brexit as the trade negotiations with the eu, which are currently stuck in stalemate, are expected to end tomorrow
You have steam trains, we have the magic of christmas and we have these wonderful lights, so, its just simply magical. Magic that now runs all the way to christmas and beyond. Light amid the darkness of 2020. Duncan kennedy, bbc news, in hampshire. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren. Hello there. It was a very wet scene for much of the country today, and an umbrella could come in handy over the next few days. Were turning into more showery weather actually overnight tonight. The more persistent rain is heading its way out into the north sea, but a lot of showers do come packing in on some fairly brisk and blustery winds. Some of the showers could be heavy, potentially thundery as well. It should be a mild night, mind you, and in actual fact, temperatures rising through the night in scotland and also northeast of england, eight or nine degrees here by the morning. But it could be quite a wet start for scotland, parts of Northern England and the showers just keep packing
The president of the European Commission ursula von der leyen has welcomed what she described as movement in talks between the uk and the eu on a trade agreement with the uk. She was speaking as negotiators from both sides continued the intensive discussions in brussels. 0ur Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has the latest. How long can this go on . Vital talks grinding on to agree a new way for the uk and eu to do business. Whether there is a deal or not, the status quo disappears and time will run out in 17 days. Hes the one whos always said the clock is ticking. The eu negotiator seems to have softened brussels position a little since last week when the uk said there was just no way they could agree. Will be when we reach an agreement both on fair and free competition and reciprocal access to water and markets. The brussels cliche is nothings agreed until everything is agreed. Months of talks have stumbled over how much fish the uk and eu can catch in each others waters, how to shar
On the show this week. West of england, wales, moving into northern england, into scotland as well. This is 3pm in the afternoon. The panto survivors keeping the show on the road. The native American Woman making waves in the grand canyon. The roman empires sunken party town. And how to run up a sand dune. Not only will there be its tough. A lot of heavy rain, it will be drier in the south east. Ijust keep thinking, relentless forward motion, but the gusts just one step in of wind will reach around 60 mph three exposed front of the other. Parts of the irish sea, 30 110 mph gusts of wind elsewhere. Northern ireland will see that rain clearing to leave sunshine and some scattered showers, but a wet end to the day for much of scotland, northern england, wales and the south west. Very mild once again, 13 14 degrees. We could see 15 celsius and one or two spots. That rain will continue its progression, across east anglia and the south east, during friday evening and overnight into saturday.