and this was the glorious sight over stonehenge. maybe the image of the night. and if there are clear skies tonight, there could be an action replay. our scotland correspondent, alexandra mackenzie joins us from oban on the west coast. time for a look at the weather. here s louise lear. it is happening again. i was pessimistic if you were watching the six o clock news about how much of the northern lights we would be able to see. this was the western isles around an hour ago and it isn tjust scotland. where we have breaks in the cloud we have beautiful dancing light displays. this was actually in wiltshire about an hour ago. the reason why i was pessimistic is because we have more cloud today and there is certainly more cloud around. might not be quite as widespread but take a chance on it, just take a peek because if the cloud breaks up you might get to see it. the reason why we have more cloud is this high pressure, still sitting with us and this nagging north easterly wind
creatures grew so big or how they came to die out, but their size and their success for millions of years puts our own existence into sharp perspective. rebecca morelle, bbc news. now it s the weather with darren bett. we had more rain today but at least it is a little bit warmer. temperatures in northern ireland reached 16 degrees today and it s actually a bit warmer than normal for the time of year across many western parts of europe. in south west france temperatures were topping 30 degrees. of course it will not last and as we change month we will change the weather. it will turn cooler across many western parts of europe but it should also be turning drier at the same time. looking at the rain we had over the past few hours, this is continuing to push across scotland. heavy rain developing across england and wales. a bit further north now. that rain will tend to slide away into the north sea but we will keep some patchy rain going across northern england. 0therwise turni
suffering from a type of dementia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the prime minister rishi sunak is holding talks with northern ireland s political leaders in belfast today with hopes that a deal between the uk and the eu on northern ireland s brexit arrangement could be reached as early as next week. the current trading arrangement know as the northern ireland protocol was negotiated during brexit talks. it was put in place to deal with the fact that northern ireland is in the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. some goods passing from england, scotland and wales into northern ireland are getting checked when they cross the irish sea, as the current deal prevents checkpoints on the island of ireland. unionist parties argue that this places an effective border across the irish sea which undermines northern ireland s place within the uk. the largest unionist party, the dup, is currently refusing to take part in the country s po
tejeda denying. a moment later opening goal denied. casemiro s header. united in the lead and soon in total control. marcus rashford s finish was a deflection and fingertips not quite enough. and neither were newcastle s best efforts as united held firm. erik ten hag getting his first trophy as the boss at old trafford. and for newcastle a long wait goes on. massive performance if you cannot deliver massive performance if you cannot deliver this it tells you that we are fit, deliver this it tells you that we are fit, physical fit, deliver this it tells you that we are fit, physicalfit, mentally deliver this it tells you that we are fit, physical fit, mentally fit. and energy so i think it was a great performance in the respect from us today history has repeated in the scottish league cup final. last season celtic s kyogo furuhashi scored twice to help celtic lift the trophy and today he did it again as they beat old firm rivals rangers at hampden park. celtic made the
that was the goal which took chelsea into the quarter finals 2 1 on aggregate. benfica are through to the last eight of the champions league after a 7 1 aggregate win over club brugge. rafa silva opened the scoring for the home side before goncalo ramos got himself on the scoresheet in first half stoppage time. ramos quickly added a second shortly after the break to put benfica three up on the night. a flurry of goals would follow, with bjorn meijer grabbing a late consolation for brugge with this superb finish three minutes from time. the former croatia defender slaven bilic has been sacked as manager of watford, in the championship. the side have won just once in their last 8 games, as they attempt to return to the premier league. it s a 9th manager in less than four years for the second tier club, who are now outside the playoff places, in 9th position. bilic had been there forjust over 5 months. former sheffield united and middlesbrough boss chris wilder has taken over un