Good afternoon. The Cyclist Laura Kenny has become britains most decorated female olympic athlete, after she and Team Mate Katie archibald won the Womens Madison Event in the velodrome. The pair dominated the 120 lap race, winning 10 of the 12 sprints. It means kenny has won gold in three consecutive Olympic Games, and archibald in two. Elsewhere after their gold in rio, britains Hockey Women have taken bronze in tokyo, with a narrow victory over india. And Team Gb s 18th Gold Medal of the games came from Kate French in the womens moden pentathlon. And in the last few minutes, Team Gb s Laura Muir has won silver in the 1500m final. Sport and for a full Round Up, from the bbc sport centre. Two more golds on Day 1a of tokyo 2020 have taken Team Gb up to fourth in the overall medals table. The first of the two was a historic one for Laura Kenny. She has become the most decorated female olympian in british history. She and Katie Archibald were crowned the inaugral Womens Madison champions
Just Gas And Electricity but also Petrol And Diesel we have fed that through to the calculation. Most remaining coronavirus restrictions in wales will be scrapped from tomorrow limits on the number of people that can meet indoors will end, Social Distancing Rules will ease and nightclubs can reopen. A fifth of all the uks covid, Hospital Patients are aged between 18 and 3a Doctors warn of the dangers facing the young and unvaccinated weve a special report. Firefighters in greece continue to battle wildfires across the country its predicted that worse is still to come. And The End of an Era Barcelona say Lionel Messi will leave The Club after 21 years due to financial obstacles a Warm Welcome To Tokyo where the olympics has entered day 1a. In the last few minutes, Laura Kenny has become Team Gb s joint most decorated female olympians as she and Team Mate Katie archibald win a Cycling Gold in the Womens Madison final. Team gb has also added another medal with the Womens Hockey Team beati
Hockey earlier today, the temperature on the thermometer may have read 31 degrees, but factor in the humidity and it felt more like 43 degrees, so that is really quite incredible. And although the temperatures are falling away, only slowly, so the athletics about to get under way, the temperatures will still be sitting into the high 20s, still be sitting into the high 20s, still with that humidity as well. Back to reality, however, lets get that focus closer to home. I was settled Summer Sunshine has abandoned us come up with low pressure still dominating generally across the country. The heaviest rain so far today has been through eastern scotland, drifting steadily westwards and these bands of showers moving out of Northern Ireland, North West England and North Wales, some of these are heavy and thundery for the remainder of the afternoon. Further south, fewer showers around and the best of the breaks with the best of the sunshine, but it is a diSappointing story. Top temperatures of
Labour. Nissan has announced a major expansion of electric Vehicle Production at its Car Plant in sunderland, which will create more than 1600 newjobs dont like the japanese carmaker says it will build its new generation of electric models there with batteries on site. These are the new engines of the world automotive economy. A new Battery Factory will make 100,000 of them a year, to be fitted to a brand new model at a plant supplied by its own renewable energy grid. A £1 billion investment, creating over 6,000 jobs here and in the supply chain. Today were announcing the worlds first manufacturing ecosystem, in sunderland, because of the skill and competencies of our workforce and the competitiveness of this plant. And i do believe that sunderland will become our Flagship Business Model to apply in other parts of the world. The Prime Minister was on site, as you might expect, after a Government Contribution of around £100 million to the project. Money well spent, according to borisj
Now on bbc news, its time for the Travel Show. Coming up on this weeks show rajans washboard recital in New Orleans. Christas underwater concert in denmark. Thats so cool Woo Hoo and a bit of Bell Thumping in bavaria. Hello, and welcome to the show. Now, if youre still dreaming of packing a suitcase and heading off on your travels although you probably cant do thatjust yet stay with us for the next 30 minutes and hopefully well give you some inspiration as we Take A Look back at some of our favourite films and destinations here on the show from the past few years. And this week, our choice definitely has a musical note as the Team Attempts to play a tune or two. So lets kick things off with a Trip Rajan made to The Deep South of america back in 2016. Now, he was there to learn about a style of music called zydeco, but little did he know that hed end up performing in front of thousands before the day was over. So lets Take A Look at how he got on. That is New Orleans, exactly how i imag