The red arrows flew over central london, and there were flypasts in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. Music a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square by vera lynn i may be right i may be wrong but im perfectly willing to swear. And, ahead of a special evening of celebration, well speak to the welsh soprano, katherinejenkins, who has performed a medley of wartime favourites to an empty Royal Albert Hall. In other news, theres to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. At 5 00, well bring todays Coronavirus Briefing from downing street, led today by the environment secretary, George Eustice. Good afternoon and welcome to this bbc news special. Well be bringing you all the latest on coronavirus with the downing street News Conference at 5pm. But first, a two minute silence has been held across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day. Events are taking place all day, but public gatherings have been cancelled as the country remains in lockdown because of coro
19 people are arrested as police say theyve broken the uks biggest ever drugs operation more that 50 tonnes of drugs are seized. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport jane dougall. It looks like the andy murray comeback will continue, he will play singles at the Australian Open in january, for the First Time Since major hip surgery at a grand slam earlier this year. Repeat mode at the moment, blustery winds, scattered showers not only for today but also in tomorrow, more details shortly. The Prime Minister calls Extinction Rebellion protestors unco operative crusties as he urges them to stop blocking londons Streets Police have arrested over 400 people so far. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im ben brown. Borisjohnson has been accused of engaging in a stupid blame game after downing street said the eu had made a brexit deal essentially impossible. A source at ten downing street claimed Angela Merkel is reported to have told borisjohnson in a phone call this morning, that a br
The big names on the move. He is on his way to inter milan from manchester united. And welcome to edinburgh, where we have singers, we have acrobats. A little worried about them in their warmup this morning. 4 Million People come to edinburgh throughout the month of august for the Edinburgh Festival. We have the red sofa here, all with the wonderful backdrop of edinburgh castle. Good morning. Today we are looking at another day of sunshine, and fewer showers than of late, but later, a deep area of low pressure is going to swing into the south west, bringing some heavy rain and strength ending when. I will have more in 15 minutes. Strengthening wins. Winds. It is thursday 8 august. Our top story a Police Officer is in a Critical Condition after being repeatedly stabbed with a machete in east london. The attack happened at around midnight. A man in his 50s has been arrested. Lets get more from our reporter simonjones, who is at the scene in leyton. Simon, what do we know . Well, the poli
Addison. Addison. Thanks, dawn. One minute past thanks, dawn. One minute past midday. Heres our top story. The met office is warning of possible danger to life as storm anthony hits parts of the uk. Theyve issued an amber warning for southwestern parts of england and wales until 7 pm. This evening. Strong winds could cause flying debris , power cuts cause flying debris, power cuts and travel disruption. And travel disruption. Meanwhile, a yellow weather warning for rain is in place for Northern Ireland with flooding possible where the journalist nathan rao told us what to expect at wind speeds of this storm. Storm anthony are expected to be around 75 mile per hour gusts on the coasts and 55 mile per hour inland. Its not the strong storm that weve seen, but because of the time of year, the leaves, the trees are all in full leaf and its holiday season. The schools are off. And where its going to be hitting the this storm hitting the impact of this storm hitting today is likely to be grea
There today than august as storm anthony brings widespread heavy rain, a risk of gales and disruption. Ill have the full details coming up soon. Yeah, well be telling you everything you need to know about that. Good morning. Im anne diamond. And im Martin Daubney and this breakfast on gb news. This is breakfast on gb news. Its going to be a very stormy , very nasty weather wise. Stormy, very nasty weather wise. This weekend, isnt it . Where did Global Warming go . Where is august gone. Yeah, well, its like were writing it off already. Its gone down the pan and. And, of course, it coincides with the school holidays. My family are in scotland. Hello. If youre watching, youre probably going probably not. Theyre going to miss think first its miss it. I think at first its going batter into the going to batter into the south west up way. South west coast up that way. But what a british but yeah, what would a british summer be without terrible weather . I know. I mean, ive just recently been