Cut earlier this month. And is this dramatic new evidence of Climate Change two kayakers get the shock of their lives. The Eu Council President donald tusk has rejected borisjohnsons fresh demand for the irish backstop to be removed from any brexit deal. The backstop would keep the uk in the Eu Customs Union preventing the return of border checks between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. It comes as the government annouces that British Government officials will no longer go to most eu meetings from the ist of september. In a statement, the department for exiting the eu says the decision to unshackle officials from these eu meetings is to enable them to better focus their talents on our Immediate National priorities. The brexit secretary Stephen Barclay said officials will only go to meetings that really matter, reducing attendance by more than half and saving hundreds of hours. Heres our Political Correspondent iain watson. No roadblocks any longer on the irish border, but how t
Weekend. The humidity will pick up as well so it will feel quite uncomfortable for the start of the weekend. This is the picture for friday. Venti of sunshine around, this weather front trying to move in but most will be dry. Turning hats are across Western Areas but still quite cool along some eastern coastal areas. We do lose that easterly breeze across eastern areas. This weather front trying to encroach into britain dropping the temperature and some chances of thunderstorms as we head into saturday mainly across the north of the uk. We still have this hot southerly with high humidity across much of england and wales and this is where we will see most of the high temperatures, low 30s, that will make it the hottest day of the year so far. Those temperatures will start coming down across the west as we had to saturday night and into sunday. A risk of heavy showers and by the storms and perhaps if you further cells, some uncertainty on that. The warmest weather will be across the far