julia james in kent last year. he fought the curse of drugs and booze and now mike helps other, a glimmer of hope, but addiction related deaths keep going up. the first mail professional footballer to come out in over 30 year, what does that say about the beautiful game about the beautiful game and coming up in sportsday, later in the hour on the bbc news channel, there is still everything to play for in the final week of the premier league season. tonight arsenal will try and climb back into the top four. good evening. and welcome to the bbc s news at six. britain s most senior military officer admiral sir tonied are kin says ukraine has guaranteed its is vieful as a nation. he said ukrainians are winning the war, but, as we report now, that doesn t mean the fighting is anything like over. far from now, that doesn t mean the fighting is anything like over. farfrom it. ukrainian forces are have been retaking territory in the north east of the country, in cent day, pushing the
wet weather in store for tomorrow? a weather front is approaching south western parts of the british isles. through the morning into the afternoon the rain will become more extensive, you can see that expanding area of rain spreading northwards. to the east we are talking about bright weather at the very least, perhaps even sunny skies and turning quite hot for a time, just that one day in london at the 26 celsius so a very warm summary day. on tuesday evening, that raini talked about in the west will move further northwards into scotland, giving a wet end to tuesday. after that, the weather will continue to be very changeable, very volatile through the week. lots of sunny spells, you can see showers as well, very changeable picture for many towns and cities but staying i think on the warm side. thank you very much. that s all from the bbc s news at six, it s goodbye from me and on bbc we hello and welcome to sportsday. the watershed moment for british footballers? the champi
Paterson, bbc news. that brings us to the weather. drama in the skies. this picture sums it up today for that we have had sunny spells, dramatic landscapes and now it is all kicking off in northern ireland and north west having that with thunder and lightning. a very big downpour, and lightning. a very big downpour, a lot of rain and not short space of time. i wouldn t be surprised if there was some flash flooding fault of the weather has been drifting in from the south, it is never really been called. here s the radio that shows us where it has been raining. and the lightning flashes, the lightning bolts are pretty self explanatory! let s have a look at the forecast for this evening. the thunderstorms will ramble away for a few more hours in some areas, rain in the north of scotland, not particularly thundery. by the end of the night, it will be relatively quiet, still a chance of some storms but i think many clear skies but mist and murk falling in places. not particularly cold, 7 to