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 uk s covid, hospital patients are aged between 18 and 3a doctors warn of the dangers facing the young and unvaccinated we ve a special report. firefighters in greece continue to battle wildfires across the country it s 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 women s madison final. team gb has also added another medal wit
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, let s 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 temp
a trend for rates across most of the uk is falling as nearly 89% of adults in the country have had their first vaccine jab. and coming up in half an hour, foreign correspondents based in london give an outsider s view of events in the uk in dateline. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the cyclist laura kenny has become britain s most successful female olympic athlete, after she and her team mate, katie archibald, won the women s madison event in the velodrome, at the tokyo olympics. they dominated the 120 lap race winning ten of the 12 sprints. kenny has now taken gold in three consecutive olympic games. our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, now reports on a historic achievement. two special athletes who complemented each other beautifully. when nine years of brilliance culminates in one record breaking moment. joy for katie archibald, history for laura kenny the first british woman to win gold at three successive olympics. the madison was a new olympic eve