Hello, this is bbc news with me, the quest the headlines are. A power cut is affecting large areas of the country its thought to be due to a National Grid failure and is affecting trains, airports and homes. A churchwarden found guilty of murdering an author he had tricked into changing his will. Now police warn hed drawn up a list of future targets. Here is a cold, calculating, devious man who took pleasure from inflicting both physical and mental torture on his victim. The chancellor says he doesnt expect the uk to slide into a recession after the economy shrinks for the First Time Since 2012. Im not expecting a recession at all. And in fact, dontjust take my word for it theres not a single leading forecaster out there that is expecting a recession. The family of a policeman who survived a frenzied machete attack say theyre proud of his bravery. Heavy rain and strong winds cause disruption across the uk. Many Outdoor Events and festivals are cancelled. In a few moments, we will have
Gusts of wind, maybe 50 or 60 miles an hour, could cause disruption gcioss an hour, could cause disruption across england and wales. With lively and thundery downpours elsewhere, you will want to join lively and thundery downpours elsewhere, you will want tojoin me for the full cup full forecast here on breakfast. Its saturday, the 10th of august. Our top story the Energy Watchdog has demanded an urgent report from National Grid, after yesterdays massive power cut which affected nearly a Million People in england and wales. 0fgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning, as andy moore reports. Darkness at clapham station. The lights went out, the display boards died, even the ticket machines were com pletely died, even the ticket machines were completely dead. After four hours o
are a couple of stories here, yesterday was 17 degrees, back down to around eight or nine for thursday and friday but it will get chillier because we have a weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weatherfront is the coming, some much needed rain. this weather front is the colder air but once that weather front moves through there is very little rain on the horizon for the rest of february. high pressure is in, by friday staying into the weekend and the beginning of next week and we need the rain, it could turn out to be one of the driest february is on record, scotland have only had about 50% of the rainfall, in england only a few millimetres and even though we have cloud with us it is dry for the most part. misty and murky around the coast and we have that weather front looming but again even though we expect heavy rain in the room lest it might petered out in the east. where we see sunshine, perhaps around the mor
atlantic, head of atmore cloud moving up from northern france, which could lead to some showers in east anglia and the south east. ahead of the main rain band which was the growth northern ireland into scotland and eventually into wales and western parts of england. some clear spells following to the north west but generally with a lot of cloud it will be fairly mild, temperatures down to around 5 or 6. tomorrow the rain and eastern scotland moves away, sunshine and showers, wintry over the high ground. sunshine and showers and cooler airfor northern ground. sunshine and showers and cooler air for northern ireland. ground. sunshine and showers and cooler airfor northern ireland. it may brighten up later in wales, the south west and the midlands, some showers here and still quite cloudy for many northern and eastern parts of england. a chance of some rain. hla-dr of england. a chance of some rain. hla dr day, temperatures will be around 9 celsius and it is more chilly because