western isles first thing tomorrow. temperatures tonight sitting in the mid if not high teens so another uncomfortable night out there but it s a warm start tomorrow and a zone of cloud and patchy rain all the way from the south west to the wash which will work to the south east and not much rain at all for the gardens in the south and then sunshine breaks through more widely. a few showers dotted around through scotland and northern ireland in the afternoon and the of heavy and thundery one and starting to feel fresher but a reasonably humid day across england and wales, especially east anglia and the south east, 29 or 30 degrees but humidity dropping a little and you will notice it in birmingham tomorrow but with increasing sunshine for the commonwealth games. a fine end to tomorrow, a few showers through scotland and northern ireland and northern england to take us through the night and into thursday morning and starting to feel more comfortable out there but we still see
the games are notjust about these 11 days but they are part of a bigger plan for the future. this week, take a left from the bullring and you get to the beach, birmingham s volleyball venues at smithfield market. and there s basketball here too. it s not the gold coast, but this place has its own history. archive: the bullring has been birmingham s shopping centre | for a thousand years. the temporary venues are built on birmingham s old market. now spectators will watch from what was recently the fruit stands. this site has been important to the people of birmingham for hundreds of years. it s for the first charted market in the 12th century was set up, and later on in the 19th century, the police were trying to control the peaky blinders, only around the corner from here. but this has also been a site of leisure and recreation, all the way from bull baiting in the mediaeval bullring to basketball and