it is an increasingly cheery looking picture today, with plenty of sunshine already across scotland and northern ireland, skies like these on the way for many others but we have the last dregs of a weather front bringing patchy cloud across southern wales, south west england, east anglia and the south east are slow to brighten up too. take a cloud on the way into scotland a0 so make the best of the sunshine today. the winds are coming from a north westerly direction for the most part, onshore wind keeping northern scotland a little cool, 17 in cardiff, the warmest day of the year so far in wales. overnight, clear skies initially, temperatures dropping quite quickly, colder than last night, there could be some main stand pulpits staying mostly clear and patches of frost in the coldest areas. high scale to the west on thursday but we have a weather front coming the north east which could threaten a passing shower, just about anywhere, to be honest. as potatoes by a warm front w
through the afternoon and the weather system is diving south across the north sea which will bring showers to the eastern half of england and some of those could become extensive. the northerly winds are blowing across the cold north sea where the temperatures are only six celsius and the change in the wind direction will bring lower temperatures to central and eastern england and northern and eastern scotland with typically ten or 12 degrees but still very mild in southern wales on the south west of england. they will be the warm spots. more generally dry weather on thursday, some cloud around but the exception is eastern england where there is the threat of rain coming off the north sea and although it s cloudy for most, there will be breaks in the cloud across the western side of the country. temperatures again around 11 to 14 celsius, something like that and this quiet spell continues on friday and into the weekend beyond. however, there will be chilly winds blowing acros
good morning. when ourfree range eggs are not free range? well, when the hens are kept inside to stop them from getting bird flu. from tomorrow, new labels will appear on your packs. i will have all the details. it in sport, no problem for leicester. the faltering champions record their first premier league victory of 2017 with a 3 1 win over liverpool. and carol has the weather. good morning. a cold start to the day with the risk of ice but for many of us it is dry. however, showers in the west and through the course of the day they will cross into england and wales depositing snow on the hills. first, our main story. a bbc investigation has revealed there were more than 20,000 allegations of abuse made against home care workers over the past three years. many of the cases involved neglect but there were also allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. the uk home care association has described the findings as horrifying but warns the system is under extreme pre
tragically lost their lives, they must never be forgotten and their families hope that nobody else will ever have too suffered the same fate in future. the other headlines at 4pm a deal to help restore the pensions of staff at the collapsed retailer, bhs. former owner sir phillip green has reached a cash settlement with the pensions regulator worth up to £363 million. a senior police officer says not all paedophiles should be prosecuted lower level offenders should be rehabilitated. and found in a field in staffordshire the gold necklaces thought to be more than 2000 years old go on public display. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. we are at the royal courts of justice. the families of some of the victims of the tunisia terror attack say they now plan to sue the travel operator tui, the company responsible for their relatives holidays. the coroner at the royal courts ofjustice concluded that all 30 victims had been unlawfully killed but said he could not make a
some athletes were cheating and in some athletes were cheating and in some cases those suspicions were confirmed, given all the testing i am so many confirmed, given all the testing i am so many others i ve been through, i have a hard time understanding this. in addition to the tests and competitions, i had to notify usada as to where i was everyday so they could conduct random testing during. outside of competition. this whole process takes a toll. but it s absolutely worth it to keep the sport clean and fair. i can t describe how frustrating it is to see other athletes breakthrough performance barriers and unrealistic timeframes knowing what i had to do to go through that. i have seen this affect my teammates as well. even the suspicion of doping is this illusion inc for clean athletes. you need to believe in the system that safeguards clean sport and fair play. michael phelps. liverpool s mayor says his city is ready to step in and save the 2022 commonwealth games after th