but why? i ll have the details. in sport, with less than a week until wimbledon, heather watson looks in great form. she beat the defending champion dominika cibulkova to reach the last 16 at eastbourne. and we meet the couple on a journey to every single train station across britain. what is it? it s the cutest train i have ever seen! and carol has the weather. showers on the way, some of which will be heavy and boundary but i will be heavy and boundary but i will have more details in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. the government and the democratic unionists insist that the deal agreed at westminster yesterday, makes the restoration of power sharing in northern ireland more likely. but other parties say the arrangement under which northern ireland will receive more than one billion pounds of extra funding is nothing more than a bribe. we re joined now by our political correspondent john campbell at stormont, but first let s speak to leila nathoo who s a
disappointing. what will it look like this week? all week long we will have this low pressure over us. there is a fair bit of rain with it. there is a fair bit of rain with it. there will be some sunshine from time to time. but today hardly any sunshine across the uk. just over cast, right across the board and for some of us it will be a grotty day. this what is it looks like now. we have had some thunder storms in the south east. and more of them to come. there could be some thunder storms in northern ireland as well. let s start the afternoon with the south east. look at that 18 degrees, rain and the rain will get heavier and heavier through the day. the south west, wales and the midlands, the rain is more patchy and in the the north we have had the heavier rain last night. but in northern ireland after the soggy morning, here showers will be breaking out during the afternoon. so there could be some down pours in places. and look at that eastern coast of scotland from inv
in consumer borrowing through credit cards, personal loans and car finance deals. and one of germany s most decorated war time pilots takes to the skies above england, in a spitfire. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the scottish government has put plans for a second independence referendum on hold. this afternoon, scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said that she wants to reset her plans on a second vote and ask the scottish electorate instead in the autumn of next year or the spring of 2019, once the brexit negotiations are over. ms sturgeon has also told msps that she would now redouble her efforts to keep the country in the european single market. our scotland correspondent, lorna gordon, is in edinburgh with the latest. calls for nicola sturgeon to take the idea of an independence referendum off the table in but clearly she wants to have it there asa clearly she wants to have it there as a possibility, she says, depending on the outcome of brexit an