rain across some eastern counties of england. but further north and west, it should be largely dry, spells of sunshine, a bit more cloud here as well, into the north west of scotland, maybe only iii degrees for stornoway, but given some sunshine, glasgow could get to 19, 19 in cardiff as well. some spots likely to get to 20 degrees. and this area of high pressure still with us as we head into the weekend, but with some fairly large areas of cloud circulating around it. so it won't always be sunny. on saturday it does look like we'll see quite a lot of cloud across parts of england, maybe into wales and another bank of cloud trying to roll into northern ireland and the north west of scotland. but where we do see some sunshine temperatures doing quite nicely, 20, perhaps up to 21 degrees. and as we head into the second half of the weekend, i think similar temperatures, high teens, low 20 celsius, a fair amount of cloud at times, but still with some spells of sunshine.

rishi sunak has been in south—west england today. he said his party would replace what he called "rip—off" university degrees and fund 100,000 more apprenticeships instead. the south—west is a key battleground for the conservatives. 0ur political editor chris mason has been following the prime minister on his campaign train today and sent this report from dunkeswell in devon. bodmin in cornwall, one week into the general election campaign. and the verdict from some folk here? it is ok, really. i think it is a good idea to have it. they are looking for your vote, of course, but ijust think they are fighting with each other and it is ridiculous. what do you make of the whole election fun and games? it is a total nightmare. i can't bear it. i can't watch television... it isjust dreadful. you can't be telling me you're not watching television! i am trying not to. planes and policies, trains and yet more trains.