for now, the cartmill family is thankfulfor olly's new lease of life. stephen watson, bbc news. yay! time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. thank you. good afternoon. further wet and windy weather expected for the rest of the week, exacerbating flooding issues across the country. numerous weather warnings in force across the uk, go online to check them out. a mild, wet and windy afternoon thanks to the area of low pressure, lots of isobars, active weather front bringing heavy rain, already less cold start to the day, turning milder overnight and into tomorrow. the rain falling as snow over the pennines, increasingly across the north of scotland over the hills, turning back to rain as the hills, turning back to rain as the milder air moves on. very blustery, gales in the southwest, surveyor tails inaughty scotland and northern ireland, heavy and persistent rain —— severe gales in north—west scotland. double figures later in the day, increasing for the rest of the country, as the rain moves north. very wet and windy weather confined to the northern isles tonight. man