Improvements with being able to view the night skies, it looks like high pressure will be building and for the bank holiday weekend. That is pretty good news after such a wet and cloudy and cool month of may so far. Temperatures will be closer to the seasonal norm. This afternoon, we have got a ridge of high pressure bringing plenty of sunshine and some cloud building up which could just bring the odd shower to eastern scotland and eastern england. But they will be isolated. Most places will stay dry. Finally, temperatures will stay dry. Finally, temperatures will be getting up to 20 21 across southern areas. But cloud will be thickening out west, with a new weather front coming into thickening out west, with a new weatherfront coming into northern ireland. Overnight it will be pushing eastwards. Generally drier the further east you are. But there will be more cloud around, so it should be a bit milder across the board. This weather front affecting the western half of the uk on friday,
hello, good morning. welcome to bbc news. one of the front runners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. in an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldn t rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. our political reporter peter saull explained why mr gove may have decided to talk about his past. his message really in that interview is, judge me on my record in parliament and not what i may or may not have done. michael gove is clearly one of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. he may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. he does
of the front runners in this conservative leadership contest which gets under way this week, with the first round of voting taking place on thursday. he may feel that this is about clearing the decks, so to speak. putting it out there, past misdemeanours, and i suppose he will still rely on the support of a lot of his colleagues within the conservative party. he does have quite a lot of support within parliament. the question mark really for him is whether, if he makes it to the final two, the conservative membership at large take a more dim view of his activities in the past, because the clue is in the name. they are conservative members, aren t they? they are indeed, and i suppose the other impact of this is that we now have a range of candidates who in their youth, some in the last ten or 15 years, some further back, have acknowledged that they ve used illegal drugs. now, as he wasjustice secretary subsequently, in part of his cabinet career, and that raises questions abou
to tackle supply chain problems. and. adele is back herfirst new music for six years released at midnight. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the queen has appeared to suggest she s irritated by a lack of action in tackling the climate crisis. her remarks were picked up in clips of a conversation at the opening of the welsh parliament the senedd in cardiff reported in this morning s daily mail. the queen was talking to the duchess of cornwall and the parliament s presiding officer, and seemed to be referring to the forthcoming cop26 climate conference. she can be heard saying she doesn t know who is coming to the event, which will begin in glasgow at the end of this month. let s take a look at the two clips. the queen s remarks come after both prince charles and prince william spoke to the bbc earlier this week about the forthcoming cop26 summit and the urgency in addressing the climate change crisis. the narrative has changed. you know, a
hello. i m victoria valentine. the un has said a 72 hour ceasefire between the sudanese army and a rival paramilitary group appears to be holding in some parts of the country. thousands of foreign nationals are still trying to get out of the country, with numerous governments organising evacuations of their citizens. this is the first uk evacuation flight landed in larnaca in cyprus with 39 people on board. another flight has landed in the last couple of hours. as thousands flee, residents in the capital khartoum have spoken of theirfears the world is abandoning them, with supplies of food, water and medicine running low. nearly all the shops in the city have closed. and residents say prices of even the most basic goods have doubled. live now to nairobi and our correspondent ferdinand omondi. the british prime minister has warned of a critical 2a hours as evacuation flights leave sudan. a temporary and shaky truce appears to be holding. what do we know of movement of troops a