equal fourth warmest on record, and quite alarmingly with only two months to go we are on track for one of the warmest years on record. some of the warmest years on record. some of us need rain, but only northern ireland were substantially above normal. there will be some over the next 2a hours, but it is the wind that will feature tomorrow night. widespread gales, and potentialfor disruptive and damaging gusts of wind. all linked into this area of cloud. that s a developing area of low pressure. a gap between that and the showers we have at the moment. lively showers this evening. they are clearing off, clearing skies, a few showers later on in the south and west. most will become dry and clear. not the coldest mornings tomorrow morning, two or three degrees in parts of rural scotland, but a bright start for many ahead of this. an area of low pressure i was mentioning. it will be slowly pushing from the west. the wind picking up through the day. for many, the driest and brig
the governor issues a state of emergency in six counties and warns hundreds of people will lose their homes. the end of the so called wagatha christie trial rebecca vardy and colleen rooney will find out today which of them has won their high court libel case. # everybody needs good neighbours. and it s farewell to neighbours after four decades as fans here in the uk prepare for tonight s final episode. birmingham put on a spectacular show last night for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games. 30,000 people gathered at the alexander stadium, while millions more watched around the world. the show kicks off 11 days of sporting action, with more than 5000 athletes from 72 nations and territories across the commonwealth all taking part across 280 medal events. competition has already started, with lawn bowls the first sport to get under way. today will also see commonwealth games debuts for women s t20 cricket, basketball and wheelchair basketball. but it all started la
fire. forthe responsible for the effects of the fire. for the first time, counsel has admitted they knew that the building was defective. the infected blood scandal of the 70s and 80s thousands of surviving victims should receive immediate six figure compensation, rules a judge. and coming up in half an hour, foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider s view of events in the uk in dateline. hello, welcome to bbc news. it is good to have your company this evening. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case at the high court. in what had become known as the wagatha christie trial, the wife of the former england footballerjamie vardy had sued coleen rooney after she accused vardy of leaking private information about her to the tabloid press. in a statement after the verdict, coleen rooney said she was pleased with the judgment, but added that the case should never have gone to court. rebekah vardy said she was extremely sad and disappointed , and that it wasn t the
against colleen rooney. we re going to start in ukraine. we re getting more details about the rocket attack that s thought to have killed a0 ukrainian prisoners of war being held by russia. it happened in the occupied part of the donetsk region. these images have come in of the attack. the russian defence ministry claims ukraine was behind it, and claims the rockets were us made. but ukraine says russia fired the rockets and moscow is trying to cover up evidence of torture and war crimes at the site. the bbc s paul adams is in kyiv with the latest about the incident. this is a war of competing narratives over a particularly gruesome episode. what i ve seen, and i do not recommend that people watch this, are horrible scenes of aware knives a warehouse that was housing a significant number of prisoners of war. there are mangled metal bunk beds and in among them, many charred bodies. there are also bodies lying outside on the ground. none of the circumstances surrounding this