The rain since it began, 175 millimetres at the moment and still very wet towards the north of wales. You get a sense of the misery of it all from these pictures sent in by oui all from these pictures sent in by our weather watchers. The sun not shining in keswick, yet anyway. Underneath that cloud that is the sort of thing you would run into. But behind that weather front no complaints i suspect from the far north of scotland. There will be some showers around through the afternoon and into the evening. A similar prospect in Northern Ireland. Brighter skies eventually getting in towards the cumbria area as this weather front begins to ease further south and east. But the wind becoming more extensive. And noticeable breeze as well and you may have had some rain in the south east and east anglia but i suspect the rain will come after dark from this weather front. And as that moves away and the sky is clear, we still keep some trees. Quite a cool night to come especially in the countrysi
And britains gold medal winning swimmer adam peaty is honoured with an mbe at buckingham palace. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that the chancellor Philip Hammond has rejected calls for him to spend money now on preparing for the possibility of britain leaving the European Union without a formal brexit deal. Mr hammond, wholl unveil his budget next month, told a Parliamentary Committee that hed make money available in a timely manner when needed but he was not prepared to take funding from other areas such as health or education. The bbc has been told that yesterday at the Cabinet Meeting at downing street there was a row between some ministers on this issue of contingency funding in the event of ano contingency funding in the event of a no deal brexit. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo has more details. Still smiles for now but brexit talks are faltering, and so, the no deal scenario has begun to loom. This morning, in the times, the chancellor Philip Hammond, a key remain voi
The world cup finals. More from you later. Thank you. Phil has the weather. It is miserable in the legs. It certainly is and if you wa nt to legs. It certainly is and if you want to know whether you are going to go from Something Like this to something a little bit brighter, i will have all the details with simon in the studio in about 30 minutes. See you then. Also coming up as Harvey Weinsteins hollywood past catches up with him, well talk to an agent to the stars about the impact on the business of show business. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. The chancellor Philip Hammond has said taxpayers money will not be spent on preparing for a no deal brexit just to send a message to the eu. Mr hammond also warned that flights between the uk and the eu could be grounded if there were no agreement before march 2019. Heres our Political Correspondent leila nathoo. Still smiles for now, but brexit talks are faltering and so the no deal scenario has begun to loom. This morning in the ti
Heres phil avery. A mini heatwave coming . You are getting excited, arent you . Your word. It was a glorious and a start, as yet again evidenced by one of our more artistic weather watchers and thursday are always was going to be one of the more better days of the week, with regard to the amount of dry weather and the amount of sunshine on offer. Thats not to say that its sunshine all the way. Its quite breezy across scotland and come the latter part of the afternoon there will be enough cloud around for there to be just a gaggle of showers running through on that rather noticeable breeze and you will lose the sunshine late on gcioss will lose the sunshine late on across the western side of northern ireland. Those are the exceptions to a drywall. A fresh appeal to today compared to yesterday. Will still make 18 somewhere. Then we will push the weather front cover which we seen the first sign of the cloud, there comes the rain again, and pretty strong winds. Theres a gale to be had acro
Until at least 2020. And the National Trust votes on banning hunting with hounds on its land even when theyre not chasing a fox. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, scotland begin the search for a new manager, after Gordon Strachan leaves the role, following their failure to qualify for next years world cup in russia. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Brinkmanship or genuine frustration . Whichever it was, there was no doubting the downbeat assessment of the state of the brexit talks by the eus chief negotiator. Michel barnier said there remains a disturbing deadlock over how much the uk is prepared to pay when it leaves the eu. He said as a result he cant recommend to eu leaders next week that trade talks begin. Brexit secretary david davis however talked of the significant progress that has been made. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has more. This contains some flash photography. She wasnt there to help. Eu super girl and anti Brexit Campaigner had slinked he