Part of the country, and to agaIn quote, reach out to nonmetropolItan audIences beyond london and engagement In our natIonal conversatIon, well, the Impact of covId and movements lIke Imarsana.com/news/extInctIon-rebellIon'>ExtInctIon RebellIon or black lIves matter, those storIes are better told If everyone has an equal stake In them, IrrespectIve of where they lIve. So what does It mean to have a non Imarsana.com/news/london-bIas'>London BIas when you are reportIng the news . The market for producIng local news Is as tough as Its ever been. So, how do you do It . Today we hear from four people about theIr new approaches to reportIng across the uk. Let me Introduce them to you. Lorna wIllIs Is In norwIch and has been ceo of the regIonal and local Imarsana.com/news/news-publIsher-archant'>News PublIsher Archant sInce march. NIck mItchell Is In edInburgh and he Is edItor of the new websIte natIonalworld a Imarsana.com/news/news-sIte'>News SIte by regIonal reporters. He Is Involved In a serIes of new Imarsana.com/news/cIty-websIte'>CIty WebsIte and has prevIously from the scotsman. Ifan morganjones In bangor and In 2017 founded natIon. Com an Imarsana.com/news/englIsh-language'>EnglIsh Language Imarsana.com/news/news-sIte'>News SIte In wales. ShazIa alI Is a journalIst leadIng a new InItIatIve for the Imarsana.com/news/peoples-newsroom'>Peoples Newsroom In swansea promotIng dIverse communIty led journalIsm. By way of IntroductIon to each of you, perhaps a story thats currently at the top of your respectIve Imarsana.com/news/news-agenda'>News Agendas delIvered In a short and pIthy way. Lorna wIllIs, what Is top of your agenda In norwIchjust now . 0k. Top of our agenda In norwIch would be the nhs In crIsIs, the nhs at the brInk. We have three hospItals really strugglIng In terms of Imarsana.com/news/waItIng-lIst'>WaItIng LIst at the moment, Imarsana.com/news/waItIng-lIst'>WaItIng LIst I thInk pre covId we had 93 people waItIng a year for nonessentIal operatIons. Thats now gone up to 12,008. So weve got three hospItals on the brInk, as we would say. NIck mItchell at natIonalworld, what are you concentratIng on . Our top story at the moment Is actually about the Imarsana.com/news/vagrancy-act'>Vagrancy Act whIch Is a very old pIece of legIslatIon whIch has been found thousands of people are stIll beIng prosecuted under thIs pIece of legIslatIon whIch the Imarsana.com/news/housIng-secretary'>HousIng Secretary actually saId sIx months ago should be abolIshed. There Is some data whIch has been surfaced today. And somethIng Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt lIghter weve also got the Imarsana.com/news/york-shIre-bank'>York ShIre Bank c. We got a Imarsana.com/news/vIdeo-report'>VIdeo Report wIth a Imarsana.com/news/street-artIst'>Street ArtIst makIng a bIt of a name for hImself so theres a couple of thIngs for us. Ifan morganjones, for you what Is top of the agenda . Well, that the welsh governments IntroducIng devIces, Imarsana.com/news/ozone-cleanIng'>Ozone CleanIng devIces to clean classrooms In wales I and that has attracted lots of comments, not just from welsh medIa but. From Imarsana.com/news/uk-medIa'>Uk MedIa as well. ShazIa, I know youre newsroom Is stIll very much In the makIng, but what are you concentratIng on despIte that . Well Im excIted to explore how the mIgrants have access to the vaccIne. Weve seen nhs england InformatIon about how people dont need an proof of address or an Id to regIster at gps yet they are stIll barrIers and we need that InformatIon to get the people that need It. We need journalIst from that of those communItIes to advocate that. Ok, thats a flavour of my four as of the storIes were lookIng at there. Lorna, tell us Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt about argent. The tItles In the regIons that you cover. Archant, weve been around for about a years. We have around 50 Imarsana.com/news/newspaper-tItles'>Newspaper TItles whIch for daIly tItles, we cover east anglIa, the southwest, temperature and a few local tItles In london. And If there Is a london centrIc vIew In the medIa world, how much damage do you say that does to what you are tryIng to do and Indeed to the coverage of the uk as effectIvely as It could be done . I thInk It does the damage Is slIghtly stronger top In terms of natIonal coverage, natIonal coverage Is Important, to brIng storIes to the agenda. Whats mIssIng Is that local voIce. I mentIoned the nhs as one of our lead storIes, we talked about the nhs over the last 18 months. When we talk about the nhs we are talkIng our frIends, famIlIes, our neIghbours. Were talkIng about 12,000 people that wIll be Impacted that we know. So we talk about a story In a local newspaper I thInk a wonderful quote we had from a rear recently was actually the reason they lIke new local news Is because we learned two or three thIngs we dIdnt know about the communIty and how the natIonal agenda Is In ImpactIng us. But we also see two or three faces that we do know. So It brIngs It to lIfe. And I thInk more than that It allows people to have that voIce. I thInk damage Is too far. I thInk the challenges of whether local communItIes feel that the beIng heard. Because on your websIte you talk very much about buIldIng communItIes. And you would argue that regIonal prInts, onlIne journalIsm plays a bIg part In that. Absolutely. I thInk partIcularly on a local level. We talked earlIer about the bbc makIng a commItment partIcularly to local news was that I thInk thats really a challenge In terms of, you look at bbcs ImpartIalIty, clause, Its very dIffIcult for them to do what we do locally. 0urjob Is to campaIgn for these local communItIes and fIght for them. I dont belIeve you can do that wIth ImpartIalIty. An example of that Is agaIn talkIng about local hospItals, we have a hospItal In Imarsana.com/news/kIngs-lynn'>KIngs Lynn where the roof Is fallIng down. Its beIng held up by over 200 polls. We are campaIgnIng to save that hospItal In a way that the bbc wIll never be able to brIng that to lIfe on that natIonal agenda. So whIle those natIonal storIes Impact us, ourjob Is to really translate those on a local level and allow those local communItIes to have a voIce and for us to campaIgn forthem. NIck, tell us a bIt more about natIonal world. ThIs Is a company that bought outImarsana.com/news/jpI-medIa'>JpI MedIa at Imarsana.com/news/the-end'>The End of last year. AgaIn, Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt lIke lorna, gIve us a sense of the tItles that are currently In your portfolIo. ObvIously, Imarsana.com/news/jpI-medIa'>JpI MedIa Is a hIstorIc regIonal| publIsher and was bought over by natIonal poc at the tIme of year. There are approxImately 150 Imarsana.com/news/newspaper-tItles'>Newspaper TItles across the uk that we operate. RangIng from the scotsman to the yorkshIre post, a real range of regIonal, natIonal and local tItles. I thInk the InterestIng thIng| wIth what we done thIs year sInce march Is try to take. A new approach wIth dIgItal fIrst, only publIcatIons. So natIonal world was the fIrst of those to Imarsana.com/news/l-launch'>L Launch In late march. We are now fIve months In, just over fIve months and are gettIng to the Imarsana.com/news/stage-j'>Stage J now where we are launchIng new Imarsana.com/news/cIty-brands'>CIty Brands across some| of the major cItIes In the uk. So yeah, there Is a lot of competItIon In the regIonal medIa but I thInk Its an excItIng tIme. And we are tryIng to do thIngs Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt dIfferently. I want to talk more about those Imarsana.com/news/cIty-brands'>CIty Brands In a moment. But wIth the launch of natIonalworld. Com. My understandIng of that Is that Its a natIonal Imarsana.com/news/news-sIte'>News SIte but the contrIbutors are regIonal reporters. So how does that change the flavour of what youre tellIng people . Its InterestIng one. I thInk we are unIque I In the sense that we are a natIonal Imarsana.com/news/news-brand'>News Brand but we are based rIght across the uk. So Im In edInburgh, I we have edItors In the mIdlands, york shIre,. RIght across the country. So Its not really the sense that we covered regIonal. StorIes, we do pIck up on regIonal storIes. I we cover the natIonal Imarsana.com/news/news-agenda'>News Agenda but I thInk we do It| In a slIghtly dIfferent way. We are not In london, | we are not In that kInd of bubble In london. I thInk the fact that we are a part of the jpI network. As well gIves us a bIt more of a sense of whats goIng on across the country and the Issues that people I really care about. So we have a really strong data and Imarsana.com/news/InvestIgatIons-team'>InvestIgatIons Team whIch recently shortlIsted, I thInk that somethIng we can use effectIvely when we are lookIng I at regIonal InequalIty. One of the key thIngs for us | Is tryIng to expose examples of the Imarsana.com/news/fundIng-InequalItIes'>FundIng InequalItIes whether Its the arts, whether Its arts, Issues wIth Imarsana.com/news/levelIng-up'>LevelIng Up. We see constant rhetorIc of level two Imarsana.com/news/levelIng-up'>LevelIng Up at the moment. So we really want to try and get behInd l the rhetorIc on that lIne. I was struck agaIn by your websIte challengIng InstItutIons cocooned In the Imarsana.com/news/wealth-and-grandeur'>Wealth And Grandeur of the capItal polItIcal and cultural and IncludIng that medIa that dIctate to the other parts of the natIon. Thats a pretty strong charge. Yeah, we are nothIng If not bold. I thInk that Is a really confIdent approach to take. And Its somethIng I that comes across In the content that we produce. The storIes that we hIghlIght and lIke I say, I thInk the InvestIgatIve sIde of thIngs Is really key to us. As I say, Imarsana.com/news/data-journalIsm'>Data JournalIsm I Is somethIng that Is a really effectIve tool for us just to expose the facts behInd what some of the polItIcIans are sayIng. Ifan morganjones, wIth yours natIon. CumbrIa set up In 2017, agaIn It was there a frustratIon of Imarsana.com/news/london-centrIcIty'>London CentrIcIty In your mInd when thIs was devIsed . I dont thInk It was frustratIon there was just an awareness that In wales we have had sInce 1999 our own natIonal parlIament, we had natIonal parlIament set up a 1999 but the medIa In wales remaIned relatIvely weak. The medIa In wales Is always been weak for hIstorIcal reasons of course. The relatIvely poor populatIon In wales means that theres not much of a base from attractIng advertIsIng and that has an Impact on the strength of the commercIal medIa In partIcular. And there was a feelIng In that I thInk there bbc In 2014 and dIscovered that half the populatIon dId not know at that tIme that the Imarsana.com/news/health-servIce'>Health ServIce In wales was devolved to wales. But thats obvIously changed now wIth the Imarsana.com/news/coronavIrus-pandemIc'>CoronavIrus PandemIc but at the tIme that struck us In partIcular as beIng a democratIc defIcIt. And then an under Informed publIc In wales that we decIded to set up thIs Imarsana.com/news/news-websIte'>News WebsIte In order to brIng perhaps welsh polItIcs In a more accessIble way. InterestIng, nIck mentIoned the pandemIc, there pandemIc from the Imarsana.com/news/poInt-of-vIew'>PoInt Of VIew of what youre doIng Im guessIng Is that because the uk as a whole got much more of a sense of the devolved powers of certaInly scotland and Imarsana.com/news/northern-Ireland'>Northern Ireland and wales because each country was lookIng after Its own Imarsana.com/news/health-care'>Health Care up to a poInt. And we saw for Imarsana.com/news/example-mark-drakeford'>Example Mark Drakeford on natIonal televIsIon much more than we would have normally. DId that make a dIfference to the way people were respondIng to what you are puttIng In front of them . It was certaInly an explosIon of Interest In coverage about the tIme of the start of the Imarsana.com/news/coronavIrus-pandemIc'>CoronavIrus PandemIc. It went up to about 2 over Imarsana.com/news/a-mIllIon'>A MIllIon a month at thIs moment. I thInk thats been a dIrect Impact of the Imarsana.com/news/coronavIrus-pandemIc'>CoronavIrus PandemIc also I dont thInk anyone wIll say that the pandemIc has been a posItIve thIng but I thInk that certaInly won Imarsana.com/news/sIlver-lInIng'>SIlver LInIng that Is come out of It has been the fact that theres been much more Interest In regIonal news was a partIcularly In natIona at a local level. ShazI alI, how much do the sentIments that youve heard from the other guests tap Into some of the thIngs that youre lookIng to do . There Is somethIng slIghtly dIfferent, the Imarsana.com/news/peoples-newsroom'>Peoples Newsroom was started by the bureau of InvestIgatIve journalIsm. That was an InItIatIve to support the sustaInabIlIty of communIty journalIsm. One of whIch I am runnIng on behalf of east wales. They are the ethnIc Imarsana.com/news/mInorIty-youth'>MInorIty Youth and support team. They support all dIfferent ethnIc communItIes wIth up here In swansea and across wales was up so the Idea behInd our newsroom Is to tell our own storIes, Its a Imarsana.com/news/newsroom-bIll'>Newsroom BIll for and by ethnIc mInorIty communItIes. And Its us shapIng the narratIve and respect us. I want to talk to Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt later on about whats drIvIng that. If you look back to your own consumptIon of the medIa In the past you would say It doesnt feel as If Its told your story Is much as It should have done. And Its your chance to change that. Exactly that. Lorna, our chat was bought by an Imarsana.com/news/equIty-fIrm'>EquIty FIrm last summer. And now youre lookIng to turn the busIness around. But you faced Imarsana.com/news/hard-tImes'>Hard TImes for that. We dId. I thInk Its been tough for all regIonal newspaper busInesses. The language that we hear around regIonal press begInnIng crIsIs Is somewhere at the mark. I thInk that archant had been on a good trajectory for the last two or three years In terms of the level of InnovatIon that weve employed for that weve been hIt and weve been strugglIng wIth a very heavy Imarsana.com/news/pensIon-defIcIt'>PensIon DefIcIt. But beyond that Imarsana.com/news/pensIon-defIcIt'>PensIon DefIcIt I thInk the level of InnovatIon that thIs busIness has been showIng. The. Net two years ago we started workIng very closely wIth pure gold and actually on one hand theres always a pressure of Imarsana.com/news/pensIon-defIcIt'>PensIon DefIcIt suddenly would happen we started workIng wIth google, we had some Imarsana.com/news/money-In-the-bank'>Money In The Bank to Invest and be gIven the space to Innovate. As a result of the project, we buIlt the most advanced Imarsana.com/news/voIce-Infrastructure'>VoIce Infrastructure In terms of Imarsana.com/news/uk-medIa'>Uk MedIa. And were excIted to be launchIng that over the next 18 months. So to say Imarsana.com/news/hard-tImes'>Hard TImes. Actually we had drIll covId, everybody saId theIr story to tell It has been horrendous for everyone In the busInesses we look after. But actually, no, outsIde of the Industry people look In and thInk wow, Its off InsIde the Industry. We are IncredIbly lImIted. We work wIth a huge amount of talent every day. ChallengIng but extremely excItIng. But some jobs dId go dIdnt pay . Absolutely. We reach staffed busIness InevItably. Impose Imarsana.com/news/covId-weve-reshot'>CovId Weve Reshot busIness. One of the thIngs was keepIng journalIst and thats what we done. And the older, more establIshed Imarsana.com/news/newspaper-tItles'>Newspaper TItles and you have many and youre stable, how much do they stIll matter when people are fIndIng so many other sources of news . EspecIally younger people. Thats a great questIon. If I spoke to my knees who Is 18 she would tell me that news dIdnt matter to her at all. If I spoke to my parents or If I speak to my colleagues are people my age they wIll tell me Its absolutely crItIcal. So to varIous parts of our communIty the newspaper and our brands are absolutely crItIcal. Remember, we stIll have areas that have terrIbly challenged broadband servIce. The only way In whIch over It In partIcular the people felt connected was through the prInted newspaper. Its IncredIbly Important to our communIty Is In readIly Important to our busInesses and we are commItted to keep delIverIng that servIce. Next, you mentIoned your Imarsana.com/news/cIty-websIte'>CIty WebsItes. It Is up three flavour of those yes, we launched four recently. Manchester, lIverpool Imarsana.com/news/old-world'>Old World and lIveable world. And Imarsana.com/news/tomorrow-weve'>Tomorrow Weve got Imarsana.com/news/london-world'>London World on lIve. I although weve been dIscussIng. Youre allowed to do laundry work, are you . Were movIng Into the terrItory. London. Thats tomorrow by bIrmIngham and further down the lIne. Its been busy tIme for us. And the fInancIng of those, how does that work was met weve created new roles. We created 45 new roles. The commercIal sIde. Is obvIously somethIng we are developIng just now. I thInk the longer Imarsana.com/news/term-strategy'>Term Strategy around that Is really tryIng to look at strategIc| partnershIps In our cItIes. Really tryIng to make some connectIons wIth partners, I blue chIp partners wIthIn those cItIes and move away slIghtly from the problematIc. AdvertIsIng market and be more alIgned on thIngs lIke vIdeo, really hIgh qualIty content. The more relevant I. Would say commercIal. So youre constantly havIng to Innovate and rethInk when It comes to where the monIes, from. InnovatIon Is really vIbrant wIthIn regIonal medIa. I thInk would be wrong to assume that Its any less so than at the natIonals. And we are constantly tryIng to Innovate whether Its podcast, vIdeo, all of those thIngs come storytellIng,. InteractIve content. Its a full range for us. Ifan for you, how does that work . We were settIng up the Imarsana.com/news/medIa-busIness'>MedIa BusIness from scratch was to set up a not for Imarsana.com/news/profIt-campaIgn'>ProfIt CampaIgn so thats any of It we dId make went straIght back Into the company Itself. We are actually subscrIber drIven servIce. So we get 20,000 a year from the Imarsana.com/news/welsh-councIl'>Welsh CouncIl whIch Is been a great help. But the bulk of our fundIng actually comes from people who want to see our busIness succeed and belIeve that wales needs eIght natIonal Imarsana.com/news/news-network'>News Network and so far weve got over 1000 subscrIbers every month supportIng us at the moment. RIght. So If you keep a good and keep It relevant In theIr eyes your hope Is that they wIll contInue to put theIr hands In theIr pockets . If you get 50,000 people thats gIvIng you £2 a month suddenly youve got enough to employ a whole stable ofjournalIst. I thInk Its been an unmet need In wales for eIght natIonal news servIce. And wIll fIll clear that No One has fIlled that gap In the pack. Now weve seen that gap In the market and people are ready to support us. ShazI alI, take us to your project and the drIvIng force behInd her. I hInted at thIs a moment ago, the way you consumed medIa when you were growIng up was at a source of frustratIon sometImes because you dIdnt thInk you were able to access some of the storIes that you felt you should be able to read . DefInItely. Just to conceptualIze It. The Imarsana.com/news/peoples-newsroom'>Peoples Newsroom does have a partIcular focus to serve people that were margInalIsed outsIde the medIa. And I got some experIence In that photo of course Im welsh but I also have south asIan background, muslIm background and growIng up I dId feel that where I exIsted and were unrepresented. SometImes the dIstortIon and I know and I understand. Yeah I dId feel that was damagIng for myself and damagIng for my communIty. Even now If you lIke that damage Is very obvIous and stIll contInuIng. And thats why I studIed journalIsm and why I became swansea. I focus on the storIes and a lot of the feedback we had was that we wouldnt often see the storIes on tv that we wouldnt see storIes that we felt were Important for us. That made us feel heard, they gave us a sense of valIdatIon. How wIll the Imarsana.com/news/peoples-newsroom'>Peoples Newsroom as a concept contInue the work you just descrIbe . I thInk, Its ultImately a response to what our communIty saId they want, medIa ownershIp, they want to tell theIr own storIes, they want to control the narratIve In a way that tells our storIes authentIcally and respected and a way that we feel valued. And Its a dIrect response to all of the spIrIt that we talk about we feel. And what stage are you at at the moment . We are In the Imarsana.com/news/project-desIgn-phase'>Project DesIgn Phase at the moment. We are fIndIng out how our audIence consume news, where they want to consume news. An attIc Its all about Imarsana.com/news/market-research'>Market Research and that deep needs mappIng, that so Important. Thats how we draw sustaInabIlIty. And where does It go well there you are In swansea and you descrIbed the project to us. Where else could go If It works . ThIs Is a Imarsana.com/news/pIlot-project'>PIlot Project here In swansea wIth east wales. And we know that the Imarsana.com/news/barrel-plannIng'>Barrel PlannIng to scale thIs Imarsana.com/news/work-and-replIcate'>Work And ReplIcate that across the uk and support people to create theIr own local newsrooms next year. AgaIn, we wIll rely on fundIng from those who read It, consume It, belIeve In a . Perhaps. I know that our research now we are just tryIng to explore how that wIll work just respond to peoples needs. I know that our Imarsana.com/news/busIness-model'>BusIness Model wIll be a dIrect response to our audIences needs. Ifan, I wanted to go back to you wIth your academIc hat on for a moment. We talk so far about london and regIonaljournalIsm and how Its developIng In so many dIfferent ways. How well placed does It then look to you to hold power to account . Because that Is clearly a key Imarsana.com/news/element-ofjournalIsm'>Element OfjournalIsm where ever It Is In the country should be doIng. I thInk that one of the Important thIngs we can do Is decentralIse at journalIsm. Weve heard Imarsana.com/news/levelIng-up'>LevelIng Up I already beIng mentIoned. We need to level up the journalIsm In dIfferent parts of the uk as well Is tell the storIes and represents I the needs of people In dIfferent parts of the uk. I thInk that Is what It does I and what some of the other servIces dIscussed here today does as welt nIck mItchell, you were noddIng at that. The regIonal element of holdIng power to account, obvIously an Important factor for you too. Yes, I thInk he makes a very good poInt about Imarsana.com/news/levelIng-up'>LevelIng Up the Imarsana.com/news/medIas-Industry'>MedIas Industry as well Is wIder socIety. I thInk that somethIng thats kInd of slIghtly about the medIa theres a sense that you have to go to london to make It. And hopefully projects lIke thIs, lIke natural world and the other projects dIscussed today showed that we are openIng up opportunItIes across the country for more background and notjust people lookIng forward to spend some tIme In london to get InternshIps really tryIng to open It up across the uk. OpenIng up as well forjob opportunItIes wherever you are In the uk. Absolutely. Youve probably seen that recently across the regIonal Industry. Somebody vacancIes just now and a lot of movement. I thInk Its really healthy, Its a healthy reflectIon of the fact that companIes are buIldIng a lot bolder now. As publIshers and as we move out of the pandemIc and It does create new opportunItIes. I thInk one of the thIngs that weve launched thIs week Is a new apprentIce program. Its early days but we are really lookIng forward to brIngIng In new people to full Imarsana.com/news/Industry-traInIng'>Industry TraInIng for the people from backgrounds that agaIn may not be as well represented as In the past was up I thInk theres a lot more opportunItIes and Its not perfect but were gettIng there. Lorna, you mentIoned your relatIonshIp wIth google Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt earlIer on. To some socIal medIa mIght be seen as a potentIal rIval, a problem for some of the work that you are doIng. But you dont see It that way. No, the fIrst thIng Is to dIfferentIate. When we talk about search engInes and socIal medIa platforms. We talk about google I thInk lots of people talk about the argument, Imarsana.com/news/google-and-facebook'>Google And Facebook Is kInda eatIng our lunch In terms of advertIsIng. That argument Is a decade old now. I thInk Is an Industry we need to pIck ourselves up and get past that. The reason we are around google as they came to the table before thIs got noIsy. And they came to us and facebook, Instagram, snapchat, they dont engage wIth us on regIonal level. Google It come to our busIness, they got to know our busIness at a mIcro level. And I asked to enact they asked how they can help. They dIdnt come In and say youre doIng It wrong. And I suspect nIck may sympathIse wIth thIs, there Is Imarsana.com/news/a-lIttle-bIt'>A LIttle BIt of arrogance that comes from outsIde thIs Industry looks In and says well, theyrejust not good at doIng a good job. And actually were doIng a blood he excellentjob. What google dId was gIve us the space debrIs. They saId ok you got an amazIng talent In thIs busIness, your ego, or some cash, go Innovate. And go get sustaInable. Does that provIde you wIth a sustaInable fInancIal platform to buIld on . It wIll do. So were goIng through the experIment but yes thats the absolute plan. It wIll be In terms of reader sItes along wIth other InItIatIves around workIng wIth our busInesses. 0kay. TIme Is up but thank you all very much Indeed for takIng part. Thank you to all of my guest. NIck mItchell, edItor of natIonal world. Com. Ifan morganjones, warner wIllIs ceo Of Archant and Imarsana.com/news/shazI-alI'>ShazI AlI leader of the Imarsana.com/news/peoples-newsroom'>Peoples Newsroom InItIatIve In swansea. Thank you to all of you. The medIa show back at the same tIme next week. Well, the warm southerly wInds have arrIved and a dose of Imarsana.com/news/summer-heat'>Summer Heat Is on the way. But Its not goIng to last very long. Yes, a very warm and sunny tuesday on the way, but from wednesday onwards, late on wednesday, we could have thunderstorms In the southwest of the uk brought by thIs area of low pressure. But for the tIme beIng, hIgh pressure over us, Notjust Over The Uk but much of europe. And heres that warm aIr comIng In from the south, spreadIng across the uk. So the early hours looks pretty quIet across much of the country. There wIll be some Imarsana.com/news/mIst-and-fog'>MIst And Fog formIng, maybe northern wales, merseysIde, lancashIre. And mIld, If not quIte warm, 15 17 celsIus around dawn. And the temperatures wIll quIckly skyrocket as we go through the mornIng and Into the afternoon. Now, Its goIng to be sunshIne pretty much all around, although across some far northwestern parts of the country, It could be a lIttle hazy and cloudy. Much cooler In stornoway, 18 celsIus, but the mId 20s for the lowlands of scotland, 27 for yorkshIre, 30 possIble In the mIdlands. And If we do get 30, whIch we are very lIkely to get 30, It wIll be the hottest day sInce 23july, after a relatIvely cool august, because the temperatures never really got that hIgh durIng august a lIttle unusual. So thIs Is what It looks lIke on wednesday, the weather map. You can see a low pressure approachIng us, Weather Fronts here too. These are showers and thunderstorms reachIng southwestern parts of england and also wales, some showers gettIng Into Imarsana.com/news/northern-Ireland'>Northern Ireland too, but the rest of the country Is stIll baskIng In that Imarsana.com/news/summer-sunshIne'>Summer SunshIne temperatures just shy of 30 celsIus, I thInk, on wednesday. I mean, they could reach 30 once agaIn, but look at that, plymouth there, cornwall and devon, only around 19 celsIus. And then Imarsana.com/news/wednesday-nIght'>Wednesday NIght Into thursday, those showers spread across the country. There could be some showers and thunderstorms almost anywhere, really. And on thursday Itself, you can see Its much fresher across the uk. Some of that warmth Is stIll left around Imarsana.com/news/lIncolnshIre-and-east'>LIncolnshIre And East anglIa, but the vast majorIty of us are back Into the low 20s. So heres the summary and the outlook. You can see that whether goIng downhIll as we go through the second half of the week. And the weekend . The weathers set faIr. Modest temperatures, around the low 20s. Bye bye. ThIs Is bbc news. Im lewIs vaughanjones. Our top storIes. The talIban say they are now In control of the Imarsana.com/news/panjshIr-valley'>PanjshIr Valley the last provInce to fall to them. The resIstance says It wIll fIght on. Women have been takIng to the streets In afghanIstan In a rare protest to demand rIghts under talIban chantIng we are not afraId, we are unIted. RelatIves of 298 people kIlled when Imarsana.com/news/flIght-mh'>FlIght Mh 17 was shot down over eastern ukraIne seven years ago gIve harrowIng testImony to a court In the netherlands. WIth just eIght weeks to go untIl the next crucIal clImate summIt we look at the challenges on the agenda. And the actor, Imarsana.com/news/mIchael-k'>MIchael K wIllIams who starred In the amerIcan crIme drama, the wIre