Glorious across eastern parts of scotland and england but the cloud has a built in, heavy rain across northern ireland which was followed by a rash of heavy downpours and thunderstorms across much of ireland. If you popping up into wales as well. This band of rain, some heavy and fragmented, will continue northwards and eastwards this evening and overnight. In between, drier spells but further heavy and thundery downpours likely. These are the mean wind speeds. A breezy night, gusts hire around the coast and over hills. But a mild night, temperatures no lower than 14, 15 celsius. Low pressure is parked on top of us for friday so another day of sunshine and showers, longer spells of rain for the east and north east of scotland, risk of flooding here. Dan was likely in northern ireland, northern england down to wales. A better chance of seeing some prolonged spells of sunshine in the south where we could see 22 celsius, otherwise 17 to 20 celsius. This feature runs across the south of th
Donald trump s been ordered to hand over his tax returns to congress. The usjustice department overturned a ruling made when he was in office that the information could stay private. Medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. Bbc news understands the government is no longer considering making it compulsory for students to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures in england. A british satellite has launched from french guiana in a boost to the uk tele communications industry. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. We start in tokyo, at the olympics, where it s been another great start for team gb. They ve added two more gold medals to their tally in new events involving both men and women. The first came in the triathlon mixed relay. Alex yee and georgia taylor brown added to their individual silvers from the opening week at the games; they were joined byjonny bro
Including another medal for team gb from emma wilson afghan security forces are battling to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban reports say militants have breached front lines in herat. Medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called an oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. Bbc news understands the government is no longer considering making it compulsory for students to be fully vaccinated to attend lectures in england. And, borisjohnson and his wife carrie have announced they are expecting a second child. Their first child, wilfred, was born in april last year. And coming up later this hour the media show. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Adding two more gold medals to their tally in new events involving both men and women. The first came in the triathlon mixed relay. Then, in the swimming pool, great britain claimed another in the mixed 4 by 100 metre medley. In athletics jamaica secured a clean sweep first
With us to accelerate that. Secondly, we believe that driving should be recognised as a skilled shortage and therefore open up temporary visas for the industry to be able to bring european drivers back into the country. The government says the industry needs to find the solutions to this, which means better working conditions, better pay. What are you doing? i would absolutely agree with that and arla, through our third party hauliers who do our distribution for us, has significantly increased pay. In fact, this week we have announced a 2,000 signing on bonus for the drivers tojoin and work on weekends. And we ve introduced an academy to make sure that we re growing the home talent, because what we really want in the long term is for british young people to come into the industry as well. How serious is this? well, i think when you re not able to supply 10% of the stores that would be expecting to get milk every day, i think that s quite worrying for a customer walking into a store and