really will be quite heavy, even as we go through thursday night, so the chance of localised flooding in places is that rain moves north east on friday for a dip linked in with this area of low pressure, which means on friday it s going to remain quite unsettled. further showers spreading the northern ireland into much of england, wales and scotland. some bright, sunny spells in south eastern areas but again that milder air is with us, so no frost orany milder air is with us, so no frost or any problems with ice or snow. temperatures will be seven to ten or 11. over the weekend, temperatures will be seven to ten or 11. overthe weekend, it temperatures will be seven to ten or 11. over the weekend, it stays unsettled. there will be spells of rain and also some sunny spells at times. it s not going to be completely wet temperature is ten to 14. thanks, simon. and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. now it s time to join ou
live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost their lives. inevitably, in the course of trying to handle a very, very difficult pandemic in which we had to balance appalling harms on either side of the decision, we may have made mistakes. i don t want to try to anticipate the discussion which i m sure we will get into about the timings of lockdowns. .. will get into about the timings of lockdowns. inevitably, we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time, given what we knew, given the information i had available to me
can spot carol. that is somerset house. somewhere there is carol, morning. good morning. the perfume around here is gorgeous. you can smell the eucalyptus. i am surrounded by trees. it is the london design be an alley taking place until the 27th of june. it is reflecting different concepts that affect us, for example, climate change, poverty and inequality. it is a very interactive design that we are walking through at any moment. lots ofjuvenile trees. we will be talking more about them as we go through the course of them as we go through the course of the morning and showing you how you can interact with this fabulous design. as sally was saying, it has been very warm. yesterday was actually the warmest day of the year so far. the temperature reached 25.1 celsius in scotland. and today we
see you. a lovely start to the day in london, the sky is blue. yesterday temperatures reached 25.1 celsius in scotland, making it the warmest day of the year so far and today we might see a bit higher than that. the forecast for today is sunny and also very warm. what is happening is high pressure is still in charge of our weather but we have a weather front to the west that is producing the spot of rain as we go through the night in the western isles and also northern ireland. we have another weather front coming up from france that will not affect us until tomorrow. today we are starting with a lot of low cloud once again through parts of east anglia and up the coast of eastern england up into north east england. that will be back to the coast as we go through the force of the day. if you are under it it will hold back temperatures. the weather front in the west pushes into the north sea, surrey, the atlantic, so these will