early in the day. heavy rain affecting the south west of england. through the day, the rain becomes lighter and more patchy in many places become drier. we have a lot of dry weather across other parts of the uk, hunting ascension, just a few showers in the north west of scotland. certainly fewer and lighter than today. it will feel pleasant in the sunshine with temperatures 17 18. now on bbc news the media show. hello and welcome to the media show. as i am sure you have seen, these are tomorrow s times for the uk economy and this is a story as complex as it is important and there are ways to get the journalism right around the story but there are also ways of getting it wrong. we will look at bats. we will also hear from a man behind a whole raft of things. this man from the sunday times tells us how he lands his stories and then we will also hear the story of others leaving the abc. we will hear the story according to their agent. let s start with the situation with the uk e
a well known lobbying firm, very active in westminster had been consorting with this velutini character. and i ve got to say, much of investigative journalism nowadays i mean, i m sure this has always been the case, but i think we feel this very acutely in the newsroom right now much of what we do involves dealing with lawyers both our lawyers at the sunday times and the lawyers of maybe our adversaries isn t the right word but for legal reasons, we never managed to publish anything. it was only months later when ct group s director, mr mark fullbrook, became chief of staff in downing street, that we thought. do you remember that name coming up a while ago? and in the intervening period, charges had been brought, indictments had been unsealed, and the reporting environment became much, much easierfor us. and i wonder, as you deliver scoop after scoop on a sunday, do those scoops become easier in some ways because people come to you, because they associate you with someone