the bison move through so this baby bison could be just the beginning. jonah fisher, bbc news, in kent. time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. high. good afternoon. it is going to stay mild over the next few days but big downpours lurking on the horizon today and indeed the weekend is going to be quite changeable. certainly not a wash out, we have some sunshine on the way but it will change. this is what the satellite picture looks like now. quite a complicated sort of pattern of clouds, you can see there are vortices, low pressure swelling around the uk, and the air is crucially coming in from the south, from the southern climes so hence it feels so mild out there. as we go through the weekend you will see areas of low pressure sweeping across the uk bringing further outbreaks of rain through that very changeable autumnal picture. the temperatures today, 19 in london, more typical in the mid teens but the average in london this time of year is closer to
Today. Britains governing Conservative Party has made dramatic gains in local elections, a month before a general election takes place. As well as winning hundreds of Council Seats, their candidates were elected as mayors in the north east and midlands, traditional strongholds of the opposition labour party. Brexit and the unpopularity of the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn appear to be the main reasons for their success. The conservatives picked up more than 500 extra seats across the country. They gained many from the left of Centre Labour party, which lost more than 300. The Scottish National party, which is currently in government in scotland, also lost seats to the conservatives. But it was the uk independence party, which campaigned for the country to leave the european union, that fared the worst, losing almost all of its councillors in seats it contested. Reacting to her partys huge gains, the Conservative Party leader and british Prime Minister stressed her need for a big mandate a
Of the championship table looks, and if it all stays the same itll be forest who go down to league i it it will be black burn. There are two matches today in the scottish premiership. Second placed aberdeen are at hearts later on but theyre into the second half at firhill park in the early kick off. Partick thistle took the lead midway through the first half through a Great Headerfrom kris doolan. The jags have won four of their last five league games. Rangers, who are third in the table, are trying to close the gap on aberdeen. Its the Second One Day International between england and ireland. Its the first time ireland have ever played at lords. They could have to chase a big total. Ireland restricted the home side to 64 2. Include. Lets look at the exact score. Just over. 300 looks impossible. 200 3. Scrum half ben youngs has withdrawn from the British And Irish Lions tour to new zealand. Hes staying in england to be with his family after his brothers wife was diagnosed with terminal
Of the championship table looks, and if it all stays the same itll be forest who go down to league i it it will be black burn. There are two matches today in the scottish premiership. Second placed aberdeen are at hearts later on but theyre into the second half at firhill park in the early kick off. Partick thistle took the lead midway through the first half through a Great Headerfrom kris doolan. The jags have won four of their last five league games. Rangers, who are third in the table, are trying to close the gap on aberdeen. Its the Second One Day International between england and ireland. Its the first time ireland have ever played at lords. They could have to chase a big total. Ireland restricted the home side to 64 2. Include. Lets look at the exact score. Just over. 300 looks impossible. 200 3. Scrum half ben youngs has withdrawn from the British And Irish Lions tour to new zealand. Hes staying in england to be with his family after his brothers wife was diagnosed with terminal
Under fire after announcing plans to raise gas and Electricity Prices by nearly 10 . Tadcasters bridge re opens, more than a year after it collapsed in the floods in christmas 2015. In this weeks film review, well look at loving a true story of one couples fight to change Interracial Marriage Laws in 1960s virginia. Mark kermode will give us his take on this and the rest of the other new releases. Its 5pm. Our top story a royal marine has pleaded guilty to terror charges after he made bombs and stored weapons for dissident Northern Irish republicans. Ciaran maxwell was arrested in august last year after police discovered two arms dumps containing mines, pipe bombs and mortars in county antrim. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. He was a member of the uks elite Royal Marines unit a0 commando after passing the gruelling 32 week training course. But today, Ciaran Maxwell admitted that for five yea rs, maxwell admitted that for five years, he was also helping dissident