bringing gales and heavy rain. as the rain moves through, temperatures will drop, so it will feel chilly despite there being some sunshine as the rain band moves eastwards. you can see this complicated weather story. low pressure to the north. the heaviest rain is across southern scotland, northern western england and wales. lots of heavy showers behind that rain across scotland and northern ireland. but in the south east, we are still mild, cloudy and dry at the moment, but that rain will push its way eastwards as the afternoon wears on. there could be heavy bursts for a while. it stays blustery for all areas, gusts in excess of a0 mph in the windiest spots. but the windiest weather will be associated with that weatherfront across the south east. plenty of showers, some of them thundery, for western scotland. temperatures will be lower in the afternoon than what we have had in the last couple of days. it stays blustery this evening and overnight, further showers rattling int
Environmental campaigners have already criticised the plans to scrap that key Climate Change targets. Indeed, Friends Of The Earth Scotland branded it the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament. We will be live in holyrood for that statement which we are expecting around 25 past two. But first i want to take a look at some of the days other news. A conservative mp has been suspended by the Parliamentary Party after claims he misused campaign funds. The Times Newspaper alleges he use the local party funds to pay off what he reportedly called bad people who had locked him in a flat. He strongly disputes the allegations. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago and says it is investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent reports. The honesty needs to start now, the lack of clarity needs to stop. This was marked last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. The allegation about his o
And a further £14,000 was spent on private medical bills. He strongly disputes the claims, according to the times. The Conservative Party was made aware of the allegations three months ago. It says its investigating. 0ur Political Correspondent nick eardley reports the honesty needs to start now. The lack of clarity needs to stop. This was mark menzies last week in a local campaign video. When this was filmed, he was still a conservative mp. But last night he was suspended from the party. It came after allegations in a newspaper that he used funds from donors to pay thousands to so called bad people who had apparently locked him in a flat. The bbc has checked details of some of the allegations printed in the times this morning that mr menzies called a 78 year old local activist in the middle of the night, asking for money. It is claimed he said he was being detained against his will, that he needed money as a matter of life or death. The £6,500 was provided by a local activist, the m
Competition this evening. Liverpool face the toughest task of all in trying to avoid elimination from the Europa League tonight. They go into their second leg against italian side atalanta 3 0 down, after defeat in the first leg at anfield. Thats really not easy for them as well, so we will see who deals better with the situation and all of these kinds of things if it goes through, congratulations, they deserve it, if not, the something would have happened, but i dont know at this moment if this is possible. West ham also have work to do tonight to reach the semi finals. Theyre 2 0 down against the newly crowned german champions bayern leverkusen. Elsewhere, roma face ac milan and marseille are at home to benfica. In just over ten minutes time, aston villa will be aiming to book their place in the Europa Conference League semi finals. They have a 2 1 lead against french side lille, heading into their second leg. If unai emery s side are successful, they will reach their first major eur