Raheem sterling last december. More on that and the latest in the gareth bale transfer saga coming up shortly. Then has the weather. then has the weather. I dont need to tell you that there has been lots going on lately with the weather, heavy downpours this week, but why . We will be taking a broader perspective on our weatherjust before 2 30pm. Thanks, ben. Also coming up visiting the fairway to heaven well take you round the crazy golf course thats been created in a cathedral, but critics arent happy, arguing you cant feel holy in one. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. Yesterday scotland, today wales. Boris johnson continues his whistle stop tour of the uk today, and once again hes facing opposition to the increasingly likely scenario of a no deal departure from the eu. This afternoon its welsh farmers who are taking him to task. The Prime Ministers expected to promise agriculture will thrive with new trade deals but the Farmers Union of wales is warning of ci
Everything is so much more expensive than what we thought it was. The met office has invited the British Public to name next years big storms. The last big public naming competition gave us boaty mcboatface. Heaven help us. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Donald trump says he is the least racist person in the world and African Americans are very happy with his performance. Christ his remarks come after more president ial twitter attacks on black politicians. And just hours ahead of Democrats Holding their second round of debates to try to determine which of them is best equipped to take on this combative president. All 20 democrats wholl be on stage in detroit know that beating donald trump wont be easy. The president is consistently under 50 in his Approval Ratings but he could still be re elected. The eventual democratic candidate has to offer both a positive alternative vision while also responding to mr trumps incendiary rhetoric. Tod
at least 18 were killed and more than 30 are still missing. britain s farmers cutting back on the amount of food they produce as costs soar. u nfortu nately we a re costs soar. unfortunately we are not put enough money at this moment in time to cover or cost of production and every single pig we re selling we are losing in the region of around if not more. emma rather emma raducanu is outgunned by garcia. and coming up on the bbc news channel. rain hampers play on the third day in taunton but england s women are still in control against south africa in their one off, four day test. good evening and welcome to the bbc s news at six. the duke and duchess of cambridge have paid tribute to dame deborah james they described her as an inspirational and unfalteringly brave woman, whose legacy will live on. charities have also praised dame deborah s work as a cancer campaigner, blogger, and broadcaster. she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. last month she launched the bow
New Coronavirus Infections continues to increase, the virus is moving further into southern england and also spreading from the younger generations to older more vulnerable people. Our medical editor fergus walsh has more. The nightingale hospitals in manchester, sunderland and harrogate, set up for the first wave of coronavirus, are now being mobilised for the second. There are more patients in hospital with covid 19 than when the National Lockdown happened in march, and government scientists warn the numbers will rise. Government medical advisers. We have baked in additional hospital admissions, and sadly, we also have baked in additional deaths, that are now consequent upon infections that have already happened. There have been almost no hospital admissions among the under 18s, the flat line there, and there has been some increase among those aged 18 64. But now look at those aged 65 84, a sharp rise in hospital admissions, and even more striking among those aged 85 plus, reinforcin
But i suspect in sheltered areas where we see the best of the sunshine we might see 15 or 16 degrees, noticeably cooler along the east coast. As we move out of sunday afternoon, we will start to see that cloud and rain gathering from the west, so western fringes of scotland, Northern Ireland, seeing some wetter weather through the night. Cloudier weather ahead of it, but we could see more across the east and south east, temperatures here dipping down into low single figures. A bright start, not for long, clouding over quite quickly, the cloud and rain moves steadily out of Northern Ireland and scotland down through northern england, and here it may well linger for much of the day, and if that does so, temperatures really could struggle, perhapsjust a maximum of nine or 10 degrees. The rain not arriving into the london area until the end of the day, but a brighter story by the end of the afternoon to scotland and Northern Ireland. Now, that weather front could linger for a time on sunda