during saturday, petering out. some patchy rain in the morning, scotland and northern ireland and then brightening up, not much rain for england and wales, mainly west and wales and north west england, brightness and sunshine ahead of that and very warm once again, 2627 celsius, low 20s in scotland and northern ireland. of uncertainty about sunday. this slice of cloud and rain across the middle third of the country, dry out to the to the north. the rain could be further south and it could be heavier. at the moment southern areas dry and still very warm in the sunshine in the south east. sophie. thanks, stav. and that s bbc news at six, from the six team it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our welcome to sportsday. i m jane dougall, and we are live from birmingham as the city prepares to host the biggest sporting programme in commonwealth games history. the countdown is on to the opening ceremony at alexander stadium, where 72 nations an
Ray Shaw hustled out of the rain and back towards his city transit department van after turning off the parking meters on an eastbound block of Chapel…
those differences. thank you. en oy duran duran later! i now, someone who knows alexander stadium very well is the midlands very own denise lewis. the track and field athlete won gold in herfirst commonwealth games in canada in 1994 and her second in kuala lumpur in 1998. she s been sharing what it means to have the games so close to home. my my childhood growing up in wolverhampton, travelling back and forth to birmingham, was literally like a ritual. i hustled and bustled through the station. i was a regular child, but with big ambitions. i remember visiting the alexander stadium for the first time as a school athlete. walking into the
london bridge would have been bustled at the time in the city. the reaction, an indication of how such attacks are in london. one of the people who helped take down the attacker was tom gray. here is what he said happened. when we got there, he was wielding two knives, one was duct taped to his hand. all i could do after the guys held him down and were sort of pinning him to the ground, kind of try to stamp as hard as i could on his wrist, try and release the knife, as it were. so i kicked the knife away, went northbound up london bridge and after that, the police got there almost instantaneously and at that point we were told he had a