And clear and quite warm. Cooler and cloudier and wetter weather on the way for the south west of england, showers could be heavy and sundry for a time, working westwards into wales, even the london area as well. More low cloud pegging the temperature back around the north sea coast but ahead of the developing storm is the highest temperatures from north west england down through the midlands. These areas will see showers probably by the evening and overnight with the weather front continuing to push them northwards. Becoming fewer and lighter by thursday with showers clearing away from northern england and to scotland. For many parts of wales and northern ireland, after a fairly cloudy will brighten up with more in the way of sunshine. The temperature not as high on thursday, and by the end of the day, maybe some more showers are arriving across southern england, some could contain the thunder as they develop in the midlands heading north into eastern england and eastern most parts of
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are polly mackenzie, chief executive of demos, and claire cohen, women s editor at the telegraph. welcome back to both of you. let me bring you up to date with the front pages, got a few more in since our last review. the front page of the i focusses on the reports of another party in downing street during the first coronavirus lockdown this one, a surprise birthday party for borisjohnson. the guardian also features the news of downing street lockdown parties, saying the prime minister is facing renewed anger from mps and bereaved families over the allegations. the times says about 30 guests sang and ate unionjack cake at the celebration organised by the pm s now wife carriejohnson. the metro s front page reports that nato has ordered warplanes and battleshops to eastern europe, as borisjohnson accuses russia of planning a lightning war on ukraine. the daily express also focusses
at number two or three minister in a huge department, the government can be quite a frustrating business. does that offer any defence against what lord agnew was saying today? in what lord agnew was saying today? in a sense, the treasury has a defence, which was that this was a global pandemic pretty much unprecedented, and they had to get these loans out all the support that went through the income taxes and furlough out at fast speed, and obviously the checks weren t going to be as good as they would like them to be. but i think that you are right, often people with policy ambition come into government and find, as dominic cummings did, that the mechanisms of government, the civil servants just aren t quite set up to be as responsive as they would want to. but it s much easier to diagnose a problem then it is to actually do the patient work of resolving the problems. i think it s a shame in a way that lord agnew has resigned, and wonder if other ministers have shared his
and unwrapping the secrets of an ancient egyptian pharoah. we ll hear from the researcher who peeled off the bandages using modern technology. hello, and welcome. us health authorities have halved the recommended isolation period for people who test positive for covid, but don t exhibit symptoms. they ve previously warned of a half a million cases a day in the coming weeks as the omicron variant takes hold. that isolation time goes from ten to five days. officials insist this is being guided by the science. so, why is this step being taken now? we put that question to david edwards, an aerosol scientist and a harvard university professor and bioengineer. i think understand the logic. it s important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there s nothing about vaccination that prevents that happening. what s cleary true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or has been vaccina
hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. england cricket fans have spent the last three weeks waking up to bad news, but the final nail in the ashes coffin came before they even went to bed. everyone in that dressing room is gutted. that s not a good enough performance. we all know that. we need to put some pride back into the badge. west ham swap places with spurs as they win for the first time in five premier league games to go fifth. and the three time champion becomes the third player to withdraw from the pdc world darts after testing positive for covid. hello again. in the end it took less time than the team had to quarantine on arrival in australia. england s ashes hopes turned into dust in just 12 days of cricket. the final nail being bowled out for a measly 68 in melbourne to lose the third test by an innings. it leaves england three nil down in the series. and a significant fallout to deal with both down under and back home. joe