glorious across eastern parts of scotland and england but the cloud has a built in, heavy rain across northern ireland which was followed by a rash of heavy downpours and thunderstorms across much of ireland. if you popping up into wales as well. this band of rain, some heavy and fragmented, will continue northwards and eastwards this evening and overnight. in between, drier spells but further heavy and thundery downpours likely. these are the mean wind speeds. a breezy night, gusts hire around the coast and over hills. but a mild night, temperatures no lower than 14, 15 celsius. low pressure is parked on top of us for friday so another day of sunshine and showers, longer spells of rain for the east and north east of scotland, risk of flooding here. dan was likely in northern ireland, northern england down to wales. a better chance of seeing some prolonged spells of sunshine in the south where we could see 22 celsius, otherwise 17 to 20 celsius. this feature runs across the s
again for the first time at these olympic games. another gold for team gb injapan as matt walls triumphs in the velodrome, taking the olympics medal tally to 51. seven men have beenjailed for life for the murder of a law student during a botched drive by shooting in blackburn. a wildfire that has raged for eight days in turkey reaches a thermal power plant on the aegean coast. and uk adults spent more than a third of their waking hours watching tv and online video last year because of the pandemic. and strictly come dancing is to have its first all male partnership in the show s history after last yea r s first all female partnership. good afternoon. british holiday makers who are fully vaccinated can more easily travel to france this summer as part of significant changes to the covid travel rules that will come into force in the early hours of sunday. france will be brought into line with other amber list countries, so anyone who s had both doses of a vaccine will no longer
are you ready black people? are you ready? and at 5.45, mark kermode has the film review including a look at new release summer of soul. this afternoon it s been announced the uk has recorded more than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time since mid january. in the past 2a hours there were a further 51,870 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk and another 49 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for covid bringing the uk total to 128,642. earlier this afternoon official figures suggested that one in 100 people in the uk had coronavirus last week. it comes just days before the end of restrictions in england and scotland on monday. our health correspondent james gallagher is here. that top line takes us back to january. explain the context of all of this. , , ., , of this. let us rewind six months and we had of this. let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 of this. let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 cases - of this. let us rewind s
smell of the exhaust are what formula i is all about for many fans. so how does a sport born out of the awesome explosive power of fossil fuels go green? that s the challenge taken on. the enders engineer says he s determined to put sustainability at the heart of f1, and electric engines are a nonstarter, he told me. there is no electric solution nonstarter, he told me. there is no electric solution today. nonstarter, he told me. there is no electric solution today. we - nonstarter, he told me. there is no electric solution today. we don t i electric solution today. we don t want them looking at power conservation and trying to make the battery lasts long enough to get to the end of the race or saving the battery up so the last five laps, they can really go. that doesn t seem to engage the fans of. your instinct is that seem to engage the fans of. your instinct is that possibly seem to engage the fans of. your instinct is that possibly hydrogen is maybe the solution y