good afternoon, it was a cold and frosty start today, but at least we had the sun out for many places and the highest temperatures today are likely to be across western parts of scotland. whilst it is sunny for many of us we have seen some cloud bubbling up a cross eastern side of england and there are a few showers coming in across east anglia, the southeast, at the moment, mainly to the east of london. this was the scene earlier on in norfolk, there is a rainbow in the shot as well. one or two of those showers could be on the sharp side and there is a cool north easterly breeze filtering them in as well, breezy through the english channel too. winds light, typical temperature is 11 13 . higherfor western parts typical temperature is 11 13 . higher for western parts of scotland and western parts of northern ireland, cooler in the south east of england where there are showers and those could drift towards hampshire before fading away as the sun goes down. skies will clear ove
has virtually gone. good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. the environment secretary george eustice has told the bbc that the government will look at any recommendations made to change the rules around lobbying. inquiries have begun into former prime minister david cameron s communications with cabinet ministers while working for the collapsed firm, greensill capital. it comes as a senior conservative mp warns borisjohnson he ll lose support from former labour voters unless he resolves the lobbying row. our political correspondent nick eardley has this report. david cameron s lobbying of ministers on behalf of a finance company he worked for has led to wider questions about the relationship between government and the private sector and about possible conflicts of interest. a number of inquiries have been set up to look at the issues. the environment secretary used to work for mr cameron. he insisted his former boss hadn t broken the rules, but there was a hint the rules might
is going to be dry with some sunshine. there will be more sunshine. there will be more sunshine to come on saturday, a decent sort of day, breezier towards the north west. it will be a dry day, temperatures again up to 14 or 15, near normalfor the day, temperatures again up to 14 or 15, near normal for the time of the year. forthe 15, near normal for the time of the year. for the second half of the weekend, a few changes, particularly towards the north west, with weather fronts coming in from the atlantic bringing more cloud and a pitch of patchy, light rain. for england and wales, we will have light winds, more sunshine through the midlands, and the eastern side of england, where it will be getting a bit warmer as well. that s all from the bbc news at six so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. hello, welcome along to sports day. a stunning win at the monte carlo masters briton s dan evans shocks the world number one novak djok
in paris, workers are finally preparing to begin the huge restoration project. this is one of the thousand oak trees that have been specially selected for notre dame. smaller tree trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters. big ones like this will go to reconstruct the spire. and while the coronavirus pandemic has kept most of us locked down it s given the animal world loads more freedom. we thought that animals for example, penguins in south africa have survived perfectly well, we think. but in fact, when we retreated we discovered that the penguins actually normally would be doing very much better than they have been doing for decades. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the number of people waiting to start hospital treatment in england has reached a record high of 4.7 million people. the figure, from the end of february, is the highest since records began in 2007. there were also nearly 388,000 patients waiting more than a year for non urgent surgery
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