Eight years after her death, the Family of Suzanne Van Hagen New Figures show the Covid Infection Rate in scotland has again risen to its highest level since estimates began in october 2020, with about one in 45 thought to have had the virus last week. You cant tell anyone. And Coming Up at 5. 45, its the Film Review, where Mark Kermode will be giving his verdict on herself, a drama about a single mother who escapes from her abusive husband. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. We start with a warning from the head of mi5, who says there is no doubt that recent events in afghanistan and the rise of the taliban are likely to have emboldened so called Lone Wolf terrorists. Ken mccallum told Bbc News that 31 late Stage Attack plots have been foiled in the uk in the last four years. The taliban has promised that afghanistan would never again be a base for terrorists after taking over the country last month. The Mi5 Warning comes on the eve of the 20th Anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. We
Of Eastern England overnight. Temperatures in the mid to low teens. That area of low pressure brought the horrific flooding into germany moving slowly South East but with torrential downpours. High pressure over us will extend to those areas which have been so exceptionally wet. There is the Weather Front in Northern Scotland. That will be around at the weekend, so windy conditions, cloudier, cooler, a bit of Light Rain for the southern and eastern scotland, northern Ireland Opera club is not, seeing warm sunny spells and warm to hot sunny spells in england and wales. A bit of misty low cloud around i received coasts. Highest temperatures for saturday be yorkshire, around 30, very high uv and pollen. A hot weekend for the british Grand Prix at silverstone, with high track temperatures, and that golf in kent, the Northerly Breeze will be easing. Saturday evening, the sunshine will continue across most areas until sunset. Overnight into sunday, The Rain were pepped up overnight into sund
Many of us, certainly still a bit of rain to come through the rest of day. Particularly through Northern England, into wales, a few scattered showers moving in across the north and the east of scotland and that cool northerly breeze. Sunshine for Northern Ireland, and for southern parts of england in particular, Sunnier Skies developing two. One o too. Temperatures in the warmest spots getting up to 21 but contrast that with stornoway, just 12 degrees through the afternoon. Now into the evening hours, one or two heavy showers across parts of wales, perhaps the midlands, east anglia, too. If you catch a shower, there could be some hail and thunder. Most of the rain should ease away through the course of tonight. It stays cloudy with Mist And Fog around, temperatures in double figures first thing tomorrow. So into saturdays weather. This fairly stubborn slow moving system is with us but it tends to peter out. So through the weekend, a bit of sunshine a few showers on saturday, by sunday
Later today because they are first up later today because they are first up in the Knockout Stage at five Oclock Kick off On Saturday against denmark. Rob page has a full squad to choose from a head of that Knockout Tie and just looking at the draw now clive, we are on foreign england wales semifinal, but lets not get too carried awayjust yet blimey, that would be again, wouldnt it . Olly foster englands Training Camp in staffordshire. Anton Du Beke is to become a judge on strictly come dancing. Hell replace bruno tonioli, who says he cant take part because of uncertainty over international travel restrictions. Anton Du Beke says its a dream come true, and he promises to be kinder to the contestants than any of thejudges have been to him. Time for a look at the weather. What marks out of ten for the weather, a soggy five a bright and cheery nine in some places. The warmest weather in the North East of england with some sunshine although there are one or two showers that will drift into
From her father. And astronomers find evidence of the Cosmic Dawn the moment when the first stars began to form. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. Ministers are preparing to announce the latest update to englands Traffic Light System for travelling abroad, and theres speculation that malta could be added to the so called Green List with no quarantine required on returning home along with the spanish Balearic Islands of ibiza, majorca and minorca. This lunchtime, the Prime Minister hinted that in future, Foreign Travel without quarantine might be possible for those whove been double jabbed. Business leaders are hoping the government will relax restrictions on holidays, but any changes come amid rising concern, here and abroad, about the continuing spread, of the Delta Variant. Heres theo legget. Summer is here. Travel companies and would be Holiday Makers are desperate for restrictions to be eased so people can go to more destinations abroad without facing quarantine on their retu