high. iwill average monthly payment hit a record high. i will be looking at why and whether there is an end inside to rising housing gusts. newcastle are edging closer to the champions league with a win at goodison park. that leaves everton deep in relegation trouble. good morning. a bit of a grey and drizzly start. the weather will brighten up today and it will be warmer than recent days. all the details for today and the bank holiday weekend throughout the programme. good morning. it s friday, the 28th of april. our main story. head teachers in england will be balloted for strike action, in a move which could see further disruption for schools and parents. the union last held a strike vote injanuary, which supported taking action but did not reach the required 50% turnout. ministers say the pay deal is fair and reasonable. our reporter frances read has the latest. empty hallways, empty desks, children at home, because the teachers say they aren t getting paid what they need
a deepening area of low pressure. this has been named storm otto, named by the danish weather service for likely impacts in denmark. but for likely impacts in denmark. but for others across the northern half of the uk it is going to bring some very strong and gusty winds. for the time being, relatively quiet this afternoon. a few glimmers a brightness for england and wales, splashes of rain for northern ireland and scotland and it is mild. through this evening we will see rain across northern ireland, scotland and parts of northern england and the winds are starting to ratchet up, very windy across these northern areas. further south breezy, mostly cloudy and it is going to be a mild night. if he had travel plans late into tonight and early tomorrow morning across scotland, we could see wind gusts of 80 mph, but easily getting to 70, 70 five miles per hour elsewhere. the other place where the winds will cause problems is across the tops of the pennines and just to the east of
is back returning to the streets of west london for the first time since 2019. i m back at three, but right now on bbc news. the dark side of direct sales reporter lora jones asks if workers are being exploited, and if #hustleculture has gone too far. the world of door to door sales and selling on the street has been rebooted for the social media age. young people are being promised big money, glam work trips abroad and the chance to work with some of the biggest brands in the uk. but the reality can be very different. i m lora jones and, for the past year, i ve been investigating the dark side of the direct sales industry. are young people chasing a dream they can never achieve? just, like, chews you up and spits you out. i probably blew about £2,000 in, like, road trips and stuff. wow! and i don t think i made that in the whole three months i was there. can t afford shampoo. you were trying so hard to project a kind of wolf of wall street image. i don t want to sound d
the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello. a lot of fine settled weather in the forecast for the rest of today and tomorrow. much of the week ahead, too. high pressure really dominating things out there. one or two showers as we head into the evening for northern ireland, perhaps north west england, one or two for central scotland. many places, though, seeing a bit of late sunshine into the evening hours, 6pm, temperatures still above 20 degrees for much of england and wales, a little bit cooler for scotland, particularly towards the north and the east. 12 degrees there for the shetland isles. now, through this evening and tonight, then, we re set to see an area of rain developing for parts of north west england, across the isle of man, northern ireland, perhaps into dumfries and galloway too. but either side of that, a lot of dry and fairly cloudy, mild weather overnight. so temperatures holding between about 11 to 15 degrees first thing tomorrow. now, through monday, a bank
Across the northern half of scotland. through this evening and tonight we keep more cloud scotland in particular. a few spots of rain, even a bit of snow over the highest mountains overnight. further south, a few splashes of light rain, but fairly clear skies but we are likely to see mist and fog patches developing like last night. and they can start to saturday, temperatures four to 8 degrees. what about the bank holiday weekend? bit of a mixed picture. some scattered showers, some sunshine around, but a little warmer than it has been. saturday, we start off with a fair amount of cloud, especially in the north. a few splashes of rain for northern ireland, perhaps northern england, sunshine and showers developing further south across england, wales and northern ireland. cloudy skies across parts of scotland but we could see the temperatures perhaps up could see the temperatures perhaps up to about 20 degrees or so for saturday. into sunday and bank holiday monday, it s that mixture of