when they do come, what a time soon, when they do come, what a yorkshire welcome they will receive from pocklington. thank you very much indeed, enjoy that! time for a look at the weather. these are the scenes up the road in pickering, for the tour de yorkshire, specs looking good for stages one, two and three, sunny spells taking us through the weekend, strong breeze, giving us a flavour of the forecast for all of us, convocation comes, what will happen to this cloud, that is a few days away, broken cloud across most parts of the uk, producing the odd shower, here and there are, particularly across western areas, but some of the cloud will continue to break up, sunny spells going through forjust to break up, sunny spells going through for just about all, lengthier sunshine across parts of east anglia, and of course, lighter winds then yesterday, starting to feel that little bit warmer. the exception, parts of north—east,

eight to 10 degrees. into tonight, the showers we have push away, then it will be a clear night, a bit of rainfor it will be a clear night, a bit of rain for the hebrides but most will be dry, clear skies around, a touch cooler, on the hills, a touch of frost, foremost, a frost free start to the holiday weekend, a little on the cool side, it will get warmer, breeze picking up, chance of rain, only a chance, many will spend two days dry, if not the whole lot, and when you consider these, average temperatures, we will never be far off that. bank on the day we can forecast which actually doesn't look too bad! gets off to find fettle, lots of sunshine around on saturday, early—morning rain in the hebrides clears, breeze picking up, southerly direction, one or two isolated showers but most will be dry and by this stage, temperatures around 13 to 17, 18 degrees. warmest day of the week so far and it has been a rather cold week. should stay fine

into the evening, not often that i give you a boxing forecast, but for those heading to wembley, should stay dry, clear skies. the convocation, weather front, developing pressure into sunday. that will bring rain in through the day across south—west england, not going to rain all day long but by the end of the day, reaching london, birmingham and belfast, amounts of rain may vary. dry day on sunday, breezy of a saturday, a touch cooler, and some of the rain will go gci’oss cooler, and some of the rain will go across the south, pushing north, into northern england, where it will fizzle out, sunshine and showers for england and wales, many will avoid it, parts of northern ireland and scotla nd it, parts of northern ireland and scotland may stay dry throughout the bank holiday weekend. best of the rest for the sunshine, and out of the breeze, should feel quite pleasant. a reminder of the top story, police say that they have foiled an active terror plot. 0ne suspect, a woman in

her 20s, was shot and is in serious condition. in the last few minutes, a ruling from nottingham crown court, after dozens from nottingham crown court, after d oze ns of from nottingham crown court, after dozens of unnecessary operations undertaken by a surgeon. good afternoon, i'm hugh woozencroft with a look at the day's sport here on bbc news. and we start with the build up to what may be won of the fights of the year in boxing as britain's anthonyjoshua takes on wladimir klitschko with the ibf and wba world titles at stake. the weigh—ins are happening in wembley arena this afternoon, our sports reporter 0lly forster is there. the anticipation is building the ahead of what could be a very special night? the fight of the year

is the way they are selling this one. it's a fight of a generation. the weigh ins are still going on for the undercard is. the intercontinental belt way in lightweight event is going on. i think that is the last way in before we see the two men, anthonyjoshua, the ibf champion heavyweight champion of the world against vladimir klitschko. a very strange position. challenger because he ruled the heavyweight divisions are so ruled the heavyweight divisions are so many years. 80 months ago he lost to tyson fury. tyson fury went off the rails so the heavyweight division is the taking, and anthony joshuais division is the taking, and anthony joshua is unbeaten in 18 fights. so much debate about which way this will go because over 350 rounds as a

professional, joshua, because he such a professional puncher, his fights have lasted less than 50 rounds. yesterday i spoke to carl froch whose spoke to me and fought joshua three years ago. i spoke about how joshua joshua three years ago. i spoke about howjoshua should approach this super fight. this is his acid test. 67 fights. vladimir klitschko, he knows how to survive when he needs to. joshua i think we'll be nervous, apprehensive, and i think wembley stadium will add to those nerves. carl froch things the atmosphere could go against vladimir klitschko. we know it's very noisy where you are. vladimir klitschko will have plenty to deal with at 41? yes, he is a1. anthony will have plenty to deal with at a1?

yes, he is a1. anthonyjoshua is 27. lennox lewis was on stage in the last half an hour and he said fighters feel fresh when they are sparring at his age could catch up with him when he steps into the ring tomorrow night about 10pm. don't forget, it is live on five live radio. thank you very much for joining us. we are going to carry on with football. the arsenal manager arsene wenger believes the only way to avoid players betting on matches would be to eliminate gambling altogether in society. wenger says he's not surprised many people become addicted since betting is ‘found everywhere'. his comments come in the wake of burnley midfielderjoey barton's 18 month ban for breaking rules concerning gambling. it is like smoke. if you don't want people to drink, don't sell alcohol. if you don't want people to bet, don't make betting official but everywhere you incite people, so out

of 100 people you get five to get addicted so if you don't want to have a problem, for bid to betting. that's all sport for now. more on those stories on the bbc sport website. plus there's coverage of the semifinal between ding junhui and mark selby at the world snooker championship, selby currently winning 8 frames to 7. i'll have more in the next hour. thank you very much indeed. good afternoon. nicholas 0wen here. we have just been hearing afternoon. nicholas 0wen here. we havejust been hearing in afternoon. nicholas 0wen here. we have just been hearing in the last few minutes this bit of news. breast surgeon ian paterson has been convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding by a jury at nottingham crown court after being accused of carrying out a series of unnecessary operations. dominic hughes reports. surgeon ian patterson, well liked and trusted by

patients, facing the frightening prospect of breast cancer but for some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. 0ne some of them it was an entirely false diagnosis. one such patient is francis perks, who underwent a series of operations and a mastectomy, all unnecessary. how can somebody do that? and say things that he did knowing that you didn't need these operations? how can anybody in their right mind do that to people? i'd just find it unbelievable. and how he's made us all suffer, people as well who's lost their lives. it's pure evil to me. your evil. during the trial, the jury me. your evil. during the trial, the jury had a succession of patients describe a pattern of behaviour, how ian paterson told them they were at risk of cancer, had precancerous cells are needed to have lumps or

entire breasts removed. and expert witnesses told the court the risk was nonexistent or greatly exaggerated and no reasonable surgeon exaggerated and no reasonable surgeon would have acted in the way ian paterson did. this case revolves around ian paterson ‘s work at to private hospitals in the west midlands although he also worked for the nhs and treated hundreds more patients. the ten patients whose treatment form the heart of this case were drawn from a sample group of more than 200 people whose medical notes were assessed by a group of experts that we may never know exactly how many people were affected by the actions of ian paterson over a long career here in the private sector and the nhs, after he cheated thousands of people. the police say, even at this late stage, as motives remain unclear. he just wanted to play god with their lives, and he took pleasure in telling them that they needed procedures but he could make them better, and he received some perverse pleasure from those

practices. since 2011, hundreds of patients, men and women, like diane, have been recalled to hospital to be told they were operated on for no good reason and are struggling to comprehend what has been done to them. i stopped and thought oh my god. this is all adding up. and now making a bit of sense what i've just been told was the truth and what i was led to believe from 2002 all the way through to 2011, it was all a pack of lies. two highly critical enquiries into his private and nhs work had been carried out and now the career of this once respected surgeon the career of this once respected surgeon lies in ruins while his patients are left to deal with the knowledge they have been assaulted bya man knowledge they have been assaulted by a man they trusted. sima kotecha joins us now from nottingham crown court. good afternoon. just bring us right

up good afternoon. just bring us right up to date on what has happened there in the last few moments. this trial has been going on for around ten weeks now. 59—year—old ian paterson was found guilty of the 17 out of 20 counts of wounding with intent to. we're talking about ten patients involved in this trial and he was found guilty of 17 of those 20 counts and most of them were unanimously agreed upon by the jury. thejury unanimously agreed upon by the jury. the jury was unanimously agreed upon by the jury. thejury was made up of unanimously agreed upon by the jury. the jury was made up of ten people and just before 1pm, the judge asked for a majority verdict and shortly after, five minutes after, thejury came back with their verdict. ian paterson, 59 years old, qualified since 1981, a breast surgeon who was very well appreciated in this area, really well—regarded but when the verdict was read out, he put his

head in his hands and his two daughters began to cry. he left his eyes covered by his hands throughout the duration of the verdict which went on for about 15 or so minutes. so we have been called into court again at 2:30pm and that could be when they deal with the sentencing that, at the moment, as you have it there, breaking news, he has been convicted of 17 of those charges. thank you very much. of course, we will go back to nottingham to get the latest on that case. the former royal marine alexander blackman, whose murder conviction for killing a taliban fighter in afghanistan was quashed, has been released from prison three years into a seven—yearjail term. sergeant blackman was known as marine a during the case. john davies, who managed the campaign that led to his conviction being reduced to manslaughter on appeal last month, has been talking about his release in the early hours of this morning. i'm finding it very, very surreal.

it's been as very long journey, a battle, but it's amazing. especially this morning to see al and claire together has made the last three and a half yea rs together has made the last three and a half years worthwhile without a shadow of a doubt. when that car pulled up and a storyteller and he had been released from prison, what was that moment like for them and also for you, having led this campaignforso also for you, having led this campaign for so long? obviously for them, i can't comment. for me, it really was an amazing moment. to see them together. to know everything we have done has actually worked, despite obviously being against all odds really. and how was al on his release? very relaxed. is the most relaxed i've seen both al and claire. it was great to see them like that to be honest. i've not

experienced it before because they did not know al before. how do you think he will be able to react now and cope with having been released from prison? i think it's going to bea from prison? i think it's going to be a fairly difficult transition period, but both al and claire are extremely level—headed individuals, so although there will be difficult times, i'm sure he will cope really well. going back three and a half yea rs, well. going back three and a half years, why did you set up this campaign? what was the reasons why, explain it to me. two reasons, one is his royal marine and we don't leave people behind, not what we claim to do. it's not what we believe in. it seems nobody else was doing anything, so itjust seemed like the right thing to do for one of our own really. that campaign grew and grew. just talk me through the stages of the campaign. grew and grew. just talk me through the stages of the campaignm grew and grew. just talk me through the stages of the campaign. it was pretty strange. i've never done

anything like this before. a social media presence, a campaign started on facebook and twitter and overnight it really did grow some legs. we raised 107 thousand signatures on a petition. gained a parliamentary debate headed up by richard drax, the mp for south dorset, and, from there, we got frederick forsyth, the daily mail, and our legal team headed by jonathan goldberg involved and, from there it just jonathan goldberg involved and, from there itjust flourished, once we highlighted the areas in the court martial system that took place. how are you personally feeling this morning? the first morning here is a free man? tired. it is odd. i'm finding it very, very strange. but amazing in the same light. i think

it will take a few days to really sink in what we have achieved has been amazing. that was john davies managing the campaign on behalf of sergeant alexander blackman who got released from prison early this morning and that wasjohn davies speaking to us a little earlier. the japanese prime minister shinzo abe has arrived at chequers for talks with theresa may. the meeting comes amid growing concerns over north korea's nuclear programme. downing street would not confirm what the talks would cover but the pair are expected to address global issues. the headlines on bbc news. breast surgeon the headlines on bbc news. breast surgeon ian paterson has been convicted of intentionally wounding patients by performing completely unnecessary operations. the police say they have foiled a terrorist plot as six people are arrested after a raid in north—west london in which a woman was shot by police

officers. and if is understood a man arrested if they was 27 and grew up in north london. the uk economy grew byjust 0.3% at the start of the year, the slowest growth rate since the first three months of 2016, according to the office for national statistics. troubled royal bank of scotland has reported its first quarterly profit since the third quarter of 2015. shares in the bank opened up almost a% after it posted profits of £259m in the first three months of 2017. that compares with a £968m loss a year earlier. profits surged at three us tech giants in the first three months of the year. alphabet, which owns google increased 28% compared with the same period the year before, to to £a.2bn. there was a boost from advertising

on mobile phones and the popular youtube video service. amazon profits climbed more than a0% giving them their eighth quarter in a row of profit. microsoft also had a strong quarter — profits up nearly 28%. uk house prices fell for the second month in a row during april. figures from nationwide said prices dropped 0.a%, and the annual rate of price growth slowed to 2.6%, the weakest pace for almost four years. the building society said the slowdown may indicate that households were reacting to the "emerging squeeze on real incomes". for more on this we can speak to roger gardner, chief economist at the nationwide. when you look at the conditions, at

the moment, we have low mortgage rates, low unemployment, so is this quite surprising that house prices are falling month by month? in some respects it is quite surprising that the pace of growth has slowed. we have unemployment to its lowest levels for a0 years, employment at an all—time high, mortgage rates at record lows, so it's surprising especially because the supply side of the market is quite constrained with not many homes on the market but it could reflect on a fact that inflation is rising and expected to rise further so it may be that the squeeze on how cells is starting to feed through and impact the housing market. of course a homeowners would be so pleased the price growth is slowing, but this is good news for those first—time buyers who struggled to get on the property ladder. if you look back over the

last few years, house price growth, even though it's been modest, 3% and 6% every year, it has outpaced earnings growth by a significant margin throughout that period so if you look at affordability at uk level, house prices compared to incomes, affordability has been more stretched. there is a massive variation across the country and if you look at places like london and parts of the south—east, affordability is very stretched but in wales, northern england, scotland, it's much easierfor first—time buyers to get into the market because prices are much lower thanit market because prices are much lower than it is to incomes in those areas. this is the second month in a row that month on month house prices have fallen. monthly figures can be volatile but do you think that is enough of a patent to say this is now a trend of or is it too soon to draw that conclusion? have soon to say but we think household budgets will remain under pressure so there

is scope for it to soften a little bit more but the lack of stock on the market will prevent decline in the market will prevent decline in the near—term. the market will prevent decline in the near-term. ok, robert, thank you very much indeed. in other business news. mps have accused the car manufacturer vauxhall of showing "a reckless disregard for safety" in allowing customers to keep driving zafira cars after a fire risk was identified. the fires started behind the glove box in the heating and ventilation system, and were a problem in zafira b cars, which are still subject to a recall. the company said there were lessons to be learned. it could be good news for marks and spencer food fans as the retailer has announced its preparing to enter the crowded market of online food orders for home delivery. the move comes as part of a wider push into the food sector that involves opening 200 new food—only stores. m&s currently has 959 uk stores, of which 615 are food only. the retailer is being cautious about its plans, saying that it

wants to undertake "a soft trial in the autumn". the rbs and natwest banking app failed for nearly an hour this morning. the rbs group said both app and online banking were still running slowly. many customers have been complaining on social media that payments and money transfers have not been getting through. an rbs spokesman said some but not most of its millions of customers were affected, adding no customers would be left out of pocket. the bank has not yet issued an explanation for the problem. let's ta ke let's take a look at the markets. the ftse100 is down this afternoon. shares in barclays were the biggest fallers on the ftse100, despite the bank reporting a doubling of quarterly profits. but analysts were disappointed by the performance of ba rclays' investment bank, and the shares fell. shares in royal bank of scotland were having a better day,

rising after it reported its first quarterly profit since third quarter of 2015. us gdp figures — just out came in a little lower than expected that's all the business news. thank you very much. the general election will be a tipping point for education, according to headteachers, who claim the stability of the whole system is at risk. a survey by the national assocation of headteachers found that nearly three—quarters of heads say their budget will be untenable within two years. 0ur education correspondent marc ashdown reports. and when you square something what do you do in your maths when you square something? pupils at the corbett school in shropshire are on top of the figures. today, head teachers are warning that they are struggling. many have already had to make savings to balance the books and schools funding will be a key issue during election campaigning. we are going to have to look very carefully at our staffing levels. if you start doing that in a small school like the corbett you are in danger of restricting your curriculum, you are in danger of having to increase school class sizes, all of that affects

standards, all of that affects the quality of education. money is tight at schools across england. ahead of its national conference, the national association of head teachers surveyed its members. 72% said their budgets will be untenable by 2020 and 18% said they are already in deficit. it comes as the institute for fiscal studies says to keep up with inflation and freeze funding in real terms the next government will need to find an extra £2 billion over the next parliament. anything less would effectively amount to a cut. all the main parties have said funding schools is a priority. we will have to wait for the manifestos to see how they will make the figures add up. marc ashdown, bbc news. pope francis is due to arrive in egypt, on a trip aimed at encouraging dialogue between the christian and muslim faiths. earlier this month a5 people were killed in the bombing of two christian coptic churches.

a little earlier our correspondent 0rla guerin who's in cairo gave us more on the story. i think is mere presence is going to give them an incredible boost. it's a sign of solidarity. it quite literally a demonstration that is not afraid to come here and be with them. coptic christians have been saying recently that that means a great deal to them that the visitors going ahead and nonetheless it happens at the time when they are experiencing unprecedented persecution here. it's not new done attacks on christians and it's not new for them to face discrimination and sectarian tensions. what is new is an orchestrated campaign by the so—called islamic state which has managed to carry out three separate bombings here in the past few months and one of those attacks was here in cairo in december at the church called saint peter and paul is. the

pope will visit this afternoon there and lay flowers and say prayers for the dead but another key aspect of the dead but another key aspect of the visit for him is to try to build bridges and deepen dialogue between the christian and muslim faiths. for this pope and particular and now more than ever, that is a priority. he sees it as a means to combat extremism and will go to the seat of sunni islamic theology, the first pope to make a visit there and will have a meeting with the grand imam so have a meeting with the grand imam so he's making a very strong demonstration of reaching out. he has said before coming here that he wa nts to has said before coming here that he wants to bring a message every conciliation to the muslim world and there is no doubt in anyone's to copper fasten the dialogue which is taken place and tried to use that as a means of working together to combat terrorism. time now for a

look at the weather. it's a bank holiday so fingers are crossed. it's a bank holiday so fingers are crossed. my my forecast will please more than it will disappoint. 0ut there at the moment, an improvement. from the satellite imagery, various lumps of cloud. southern england, wales, central scotland, a few showers at the moment. the vast majority of the uk will continue with a dry clean through the afternoon. some good sunny breaks appearing as well. insta nt scotla nd sunny breaks appearing as well. instant scotland and england summer temperatures creeping up. without the breeze it doesn't feel as chilly as it has done. a few showers pushing across eastern england, and they will fade away. damp wet weather. attached on the cool side. cold enough for a touch of frost

here and there. —— a touch on the cool side. warmer weekend as breeze picks up. a chance of rain but the crucial thing is two days will be dry and all parts of the uk could get away with it completely. saturday looking good. dry weather across much of the uk. 0ne saturday looking good. dry weather across much of the uk. one or two isolated showers in the west. some good long sunny spells for most. the cloud broken. in the sunshine, the wind ina cloud broken. in the sunshine, the wind in a southerly direction and it will feel pleasant. 13—17dc. cooler with an onshore wind. that will be a theme throughout this weekend. the breeze will pick up for those going to yorkshire. it will be dry with some sunny to yorkshire. it will be dry with some sunny spells. a rarity for us, the forecast for the outdoor boxing at wembley stadium on saturday night, and the rain will not stop

the fight, because there will be dry weather continuing with clear skies. low will form. there will be a few timing differences and where we see the rain in sunday, it looks like it'll push across south—west england and wales. not raining all day any means. breezy with reasonably sunny weather but by the end of the day, the rain may reach london, birmingham and belfast. we could see some welcome rain across the south but for most, it will be by night. pushing northwards into the bank day monday weekend before it fizzles away and then sunshine and showers for england and wales. dry conditions in scotland where it could stay dry throughout the weekend. temperatures above where we have seen this week. bye—bye for now. a breast surgeon — ian paterson —

has been convicted of intentionally wounding patients by performing unnecessary operations. the police say that they have foiled a potential terror plot. the armed entry was necessary due the nature of the intelligence we were dealing with and involved armed officers firing cs gas into the address. it's understood that the man arrested in whitehall yesterday is mohammed khalid 0mar ali, who's 27 and originally from north london. britain's economy slowed sharply at the start of the year. official figures show gdp grew byjust 0.3%. also, love in the