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To make some of these, beautiful pictures of rainbows you have been sending so thank you for those. Through the rest of today, we will keep a lot of the cloud for england and wales and it feels quite humid. Patchy outbreaks rain, mostly light through the rest of the day. Eventually, brighter skies across scotla nd eventually, brighter skies across scotland and Northern Ireland and thatis scotland and Northern Ireland and that is where the fresh air is so temperatures down a bit, but feeling a little bit more comfortable. Overnight tonight, the last humid i will start see those humidity levels dropping, 11 or 12 degrees overnight. Wednesdays forecast is probably the best day of the week weather wise. Sunny spells forecast to most of us. Many of starting with almost clear blue skies but a patch of showers to cumbria and orson scotla nd of showers to cumbria and orson scotland as well. It will feel pressure compared with recent days, temperatures 16 to 20. After wednesdays well at every q
Committed to challenging the government and scrutinising its decisions but also to proposing our own alternative way forward in what i hope will be a spirit of respectful debate. That is with a clearaim to respectful debate. That is with a clear aim to use the powers of this parliament to make a difference to the lives of the people who live here. Or at least thats the plan. So in response to the first minister, please let me begin by seeking out what Common Ground exists and to find out what i can welcome in her speech today. Given how much the snps poached from the conservative manifestos over recent months, im tempted to suggest their programme for government should be called something borrowed, something blue. Today im happy to welcome the governments proposalfor an education reform bill, thats because the principle of reform has been consistently put forward by the scottish conservatives these last five years. However, support for the detail of that bill will limited because there
Police officers and firefighters deserve a fairer deal for the future. And a french celebrity magazine is ordered to pay one hundred thousand euros in damages for publishing topless photos of the duchess of cambridge. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Four serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned far right group and planning terrorist offences. The men aged between 22 and 32 were arrested this morning in england and wales in an operation involving the police and the army. Earlier i spoke to our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani and i asked him how the operations to arrest the men unfolded. It started with the West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit, one of the largest in the country, working with colleagues in wales and the east midlands. Theyve obviously been trying to investigate this group, National Action, which was banned last year. The four arrests, three are men in their 20s, so they were arrested in birmingham, ipswich an
As an extremely dangerous as it heads towards the caribbean and the southern United States. The duchess of cambridge is awarded thousands in damages after a french magazine published topless photos of her sunbathing. It is 5. 00pm. Our main story is that four serving members of the army have been arrested under the terrorism act on suspicion of being members of a banned Neo Nazi Group called National Action. The men were detained as part of a pre planned operation. West Midland Police say there was no threat to the publics safety. National action has been described by the home office as virulently racist, anti semitic and homophobic and it was the first extreme right wing group to be banned under terrorism laws last year. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani is here with the latest. Eand e and what we know today. This morning we got a statement from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit saying that four men had been arrested, three of them in england, in birmingham, ipswi