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regular petrol or diesel car. bbc scotland s lisa summers got behind the wheel in edinburgh. this is biobutanol which we re making here in belgium. it s the world s first ever of this type of fuel produced by whisky residues. you can feel the excitement. it was five years ago that scientists based here had an idea to turn the wastage from whisky into fuel. lisa, ready to make history? thanks, martin. i honestly have no idea how this happened, but they ve asked me to be the first person in the world ever to drive a car powered by whisky residue. let s give it a go. we have movement! a low key start to a journey with huge potential. that s because this biofuel works in any ordinary petrol or diesel engine. it s pretty good. just drives like a normal car. nice and smooth. it s a simple concept and it started here at the lab in napier university. makign whisky, you get the sugar from the barley and ferment that to make the whisky. so the remaining barley, this stuff is ca ....
the pride parade in london today. the event will mark 50 years since homosexuality was partially decriminalised in england and wales. for the first time in the event s history, a rainbow flag will be projected on to the palace of westminster. just ahead of the weather, it it finished in a drawer, 15 15, which means the test finished in a drawer. shaping up to be a decent weekend. plenty of dry weather to come. less cloud in the north with more sunshine but we do have this weather front approaching the hebrides, orkney and the far north west of scotland. elsewhere, more sunshine than yesterday, north wales as well, so than yesterday, north wales as well, so feeling warmer. it will be bright with strong sunshine and pretty warm as well, though not as hot as yesterday. overnight the weather front makes further progress the central scotland and northern ireland. it will be a day or so before we lose the humidity. it looks set to be worn one across england and wales, of suns ....
djokovic are in impressive form as they reach the final 16. and it s game, set and. mo? four time olympic champion sir mo farah is the latest athlete to take on our breakfast mug challenge. i wonder how he went. and helen has the weather. good morning. it looks like any other mostly fine and warm day for england and wales but for scotland and northern ireland there are changes. i will fill you and northern ireland there are changes. iwill fill you in and northern ireland there are changes. i will fill you in on in about 15 minutes. good morning, first our main story. the number of mobile phones and drugs smuggled into prisons is unacceptable according to the government. more than 20,000 phones and sim cards and over 200 kilograms of narcotics were found in jails in england and wales last year. the seizures follow a £2 million pound investment in technology to detect contra band, as james waterhouse reports. many will say this continuing trend of contra band being man ....
warm and muggy night, but those nights will be cooler and fresher eventually, as we go through this week. let s look at things tomorrow morning. a fine start for most of us. morning. a fine start for most of us. in the northern half of scotland, the odd shower around. we pick up on the weather system that is affecting scotland and northern ireland at the moment. an area of showers from southern scotland, north west england and into north and west wales. the sun will come out and we will see a future hours. still the odd heavy shower around the wash and into east anglia to begin the day and one two around the far south west. for a large part of england and wales it will be dry start. through the day, umbrellas up the ready, sunshine and showers. as ever, some will miss them and stay completed dry, you might get a heavy downpour. it looks like there will be heavier, thundery downpours affecting east anglia, essex, kent and east sussex. maybe around the london area as well ....
of the british poet philip larkin. but they re all part of a new exhibition of his belongings. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. when getting my nose in a book cured most things, short of school, it was worth ruining my eyes to know i could still keep cool. philip larkin‘s poem a study of reading habits. now we know more about his own reading habits, because his personal book collection has gone on display, and there is a lot of agatha christie, billy bunter and beatrix potter. so here we ve got 3,700 of philip larkin‘s own books. they are part of an exhibition of his personal objects at the university of hull library, where he worked for more than 30 years. but what do ties, a lawnmower, and his tiny animal figurine collection tell people about one of the nation s greatest ever poets? well, what they will learn is what they cannot learn in books. lots and lots of words have been written about larkin, but what you can see here are the things he ....