I cringed here. It s enough to scare the pants off anyone, this. Now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Good afternoon. A burst of spring warmth for many today. Temperatures across eastern england already up to 21 degrees. Not as warm further west but still warmer than it has been. Certainly not sunny everywhere, we have areas of cloud around, showers for northern ireland especially and tonight we will see heavy downpours and thunderstorms drifting across the south east, east anglia and perhaps north england by the end of the night. It will be frost free for just about all of us, 12 degrees, the overnight low in norwich. Tomorrow, it is sunshine and showers with persistent rain in north east scotland but elsewhere showers get going through the day, some will be heavy and thundery but there will be dry and sunny interludes in between. Not as warm as today but warmer than it has been, 14 to 70 degrees. Through the week ahead we will see heavy downpours, dry interludes but
To reshuffle his team after the party s disappointing performance in the elections. He s already removed his deputy angela rayner as campaigns chief. Police are granted more time to question a man arrested in connection with the murder of community support officerjulia james. And disruption continues on some of britain s busiest rail lines after small cracks are found in some high speed trains. Now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. It barely merits international headlines these days, but america s guantanamo bay prison is still operational. A0 inmates are left. Most have been held for nearly two decades without being charged or tried. For m years, my guest today, mohamedou ould slahi, was held there, having been identified as a high value alqaeda terrorist. He was eventually released without charge, and now a film, the mauritanian, has been released, telling his remarkable story. What is the guantanamo legacy? mohamedou ould slahi
To question a man arrested in connection with the murder of community support officerjulia james. The government is expected to end the advice against hugging each other, as part of the relaxation of lockdown rules in england. And disruption continues on some of britain s busiest rail lines, after small cracks are found in some high speed trains. Now on bbc news, click goes shopping on the high street to see how new tech may get us more interested in visiting retailers and to find out how shops are getting a makeover post covid. This week bikes. Boats. Bots. And shops. Hey, welcome to click. This week we re going to talk about locking stuff and keeping stuff safe, which is why lara currently has a safe on her lap. Well, it s a safe with a bit of a difference. You know when you re at the dining table and it feels like everybody has a reason that they have to do something on their phone there and then? laughs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this aims to overcome that. It s somewhere to lock a
Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said any attempt by the westminster government to block a second independence referendum would show a lack of respect for scottish democracy. She was speaking after the cabinet office minister, michael gove, said the snp s failure to win an outright majority at holyrood proved that people in scotland weren t agitating for a new poll. Mr gove said the snp should concentrate on recovering from the pandemic instead. From edinburgh, here s our political correspondent nick eardley. Back in power, back to work. Nicola sturgeon says her immediate priority will be the pandemic, but a battle is coming. The snp won the election by some distance, and even though they were short of a majority alone, with the greens there is a comfortable pro independence majority and the first minister says that is a mandate. The people of scotland have voted for the snp on the strength of offering, when the time is right, an
The weather. Here is matt taylor. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am sure some of you who had outdoor dining plans and second odds this morning, this was a snowy view shared across some parts of wales and southern england first thing and if it wasn t snowing it was certainly frosty. In western parts of scotland we saw temperatures as low as “9. 4 degrees, the coldest april morning here in the coldest april morning here in the uk since 2013. We won t be 1 million miles off that tonight, gardeners take note, plenty of sunshine at the moment, worth to the sun, i showers developing across eastern areas but the greatest chance of showers will be across the channel islands, northern ireland, wintry in places and look at the temperatures. 0nly single figures for most of us. Into this evening and overnight temperatures will drop away quickly, there will be a bit more cloud and one or two showers in the west, not as cold in parts of western scotland and northern ireland tonight but in the grampi