pretended to be shot. our current wait time for a doctor, seven and a half hours. telling it like it is the reality for patients at an essex a&e department and a new report that calls for better nhs leadership to tackle its problems. the commonwealth games in birmingham, the showcase sporting event of the summer, but organisers are still trying to recruit thousands of workers. and coming up on the bbc news channel. wales are back in action after the high of reaching a first world cup in 64 years. they take on netherlands in the nations league tonight. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s the prefect travel storm. the next few weeks are likely to see anyone on the move facing misery whether they re on the roads, planning a railwayjourney, or hoping to get away by air. the price of petrol saw its biggest dailyjump in 17 years yesterday straining family budgets even more than they are already. on the railways the rmt union is planning a walk out of thousands o
lightning, and we have seen some of that today. if you took a straw poll with the weather, i think it would be a split decision today, if you had scenes like this, absolutely glorious, feeling quite warm. but once the showers arrive, they really did mean business today. this photograph came from west sussex, torrential downpours. irate photograph came from west sussex, torrential downpours. torrential downpours. we have seen some and stones torrential downpours. we have seen some and stones and torrential downpours. we have seen some and stones and thunder- torrential downpours. we have seen some and stones and thunder and l some and stones and thunder and lightning. this has been the story over the last few hours, persistent rain easing its way through northern scotland, some sharp and thundery downpours across north east england, one ought to endorse it and along the south coast over the last couple of hours, they will be easing away this evening. you can see this line of cloud