dramatic scenes, and looks pretty dramatic on the way down radar picture as well. it was the showers and storms coming up from the south which really meant business. the lightning strikes numbering into the thousands, a lot of rain in places and even this morning there were more thunderstorms coming into the south east corner. there was are clearing away, though, and actually things have calmed down quite considerably now, so for this afternoon it does not look too bad out there. some sunshine for england and wales, the small chance of a shower down towards the south. a bit more cloud for northern ireland and western scotland. temperatures, i9 western scotland. temperatures, 19 degrees for aberdeen, 22 in london, still feeling relatively warm in the sunshine. tonight should be a quieter night, with more cloud coming up from the south which could introduce some outbraked of rain by the end of the night. also some showery rain in western scotland and parts of northern ireland.
stephanie rawlings blake, the former mayor of baltimore, and lord peter ricketts, the uk s former national security adviser. hello, welcome to the programme. borisjohnson will face no further action from the metropolitan police over the parties that were held in downing street while covid restrictions were in place. borisjohnson and the chancellor, rishi sunak, were both fined last month for breaking covid laws at a birthday party in the cabinet room injune 2020. in a lengthy statement, the met said they had issued a total of 126 fixed penalty notices, fines to 83 men and women most of them understood to be civil servants who were at events on eight different dates between may 2020, at the height of lockdown, to april 2021. here s our political editor chris mason. it was not long before christmas that partygate was first exposed, and since january, officers here have been investigating it, investigating the prime minister and the government he runs and whether they abided b
Tomorrow. friday s weather chart looks like this, one frontal system coming in from the west, another down to the south east, which will bring some heavy, thundery rain across the near continent, some of it perhaps touching the south east of england. certainly we will see some cloud and rain across the eastern side of england tomorrow morning. and then the band of rain from the west will break up into showers, some of which could be heavy and thundery. there will be sunny spells in between. but it will be breezy tomorrow and feeling a little cooler. temperatures about the average for the time of year. into the weekend, high pressure to the south of us, so there will be a fair amount of the south of us, so there will be a fairamount of dry the south of us, so there will be a fair amount of dry weather, but frontal systems to the north west bringing some rain, not huge amounts, i suspect. bringing some rain, not huge amounts, isuspect. more bringing some rain, not huge amounts, i suspect