for their lowest paid workers. rmt members who work for the 1a train operating companies are still due to go on strike, but this vote todayis due to go on strike, but this vote today is being seen as a breakthrough. we will have more of that on the news channel and the bbc news at six. time for a look at the weather. here s ben rich. good afternoon, today is the spring equinox, the beginning of the astronomical spring. and certainly, we have been feeling the days getting longer. the sunrise this morning in the east of england was just before six o clock in the sun won t set in parts of northern ireland until nearly quarter to seven this evening. but you may not get to see too many sunrises and sunsets this weekend because the jet stream, high up in the atmosphere, is blowing strongly across the atlantic feeding what is essentially a conveyor belt of weather systems in our direction. it will often be cloudy and there will be quite a lot of rain. this is the rain we expect to a
fredricka reynolds used to do all the flowers for the weddings, but in an instant, that key part of her business was snatched away. they rang me on the thursday before the asylum seekers came on the monday, and cancelled all my weddings for the foreseeable. that s a huge amount of work and income to me. and she told me it s notjust the loss of thousands of pounds. me and my boys used to go swimming every saturday there. i ve got two little ones and every time we drive past there, they want to go swimming and, unfortunately, that s closed now. because of the small boats crossing the channel, the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone from 3,000 to 51,000 in just three years. it s the government policy that almost no one is in favour of not even the government and it s costing the taxpayer £6 million a day. daniel sandford, bbc news, kegworth. more than 100 metropolitan police officers, who are being investigated for domestic abuse or sexual misconduct, are being allo
the weekend, the temperatures fall away a little bit, and as we head into sunday this is where we have the drier weather and there will be more in the way of sunshine. for saturday, still a lot of cloud coming in. some rain, especially across northern ireland, wales and southern england. this cloud coming in from the north sea could have drizzle in there and it will be called in eastern scotland and the north of england with temperatures north of england with temperatures no higher than seven or 8 degrees. elsewhere ten or ii. the second half of the weekend, we have drier air this time coming in from the north sea, the winds will be lighter and there will be more sunshine around across western areas, but we still have temperatures on the low side. typically ten or ii celsius. have temperatures on the low side. typically ten or 11 celsius. typically ten or 11 celsius. darren, thank you. typically ten or 11 celsius. darren, thank you. and typically ten or 11 celsius. darre
Mauricio Pochettino believes VAR is “damaging the game” after Chelsea were denied a winning goal against Aston Villa. Axel Disasi thought he had won the match for the visitors to Villa Park only to see his stoppage-time goal chalked off following a review by the video assistant referee. The Frenchman’s header was initially allowed to stand before VAR Chris Kavanaugh advised on-field referee Craig Pawson to review what was later ruled to be a foul by Benoit Badiashile on Diego Carlos in the build-up.Pochettino who had watched his side come back from 2-0 down was left fuming and pointed to inconsistencies with a failure to award Chelsea a penalty in the FA Cup semi-finals against Manchester City a week ago.He believes his side were wronged and that replay interventions are impacting the game as a whole."Everyone that was watching the game will feel disappointed," Pochettino told TNT Sports.More from Pochettino below