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well, i hope you canjoin us for that if you can. don't forget, if you want to follow the rest of the travel team on theirjourneys, in real—time, you can sign up to us on our social media feeds. all the details should be on your screen now. but until next time, from me, carmen roberts and the rest of the travel show team here in hong kong, it's goodbye. great ormond street hospital says its staff are receiving death threats and "outrageous" abuse over the charlie gard case. it says doctors and nurses have faced "a shocking and disgraceful "tide of hostility" with thousands of abusive messages online and families of patients harassed in the street. it comes as the high court considers whether critically ill charlie would benefit from the experimental medical treatment demanded by his parents or should be allowed to die. as the us congress prepares to question donald trump's family over alleged collusion with russia, the president insists he has the authority to issue pardons for wrongdoing. boots says sorry after initially rejecting calls to cut the price
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of its emergency contraception pill. and another milestone for british cycling as chris froome all but seals his fourth tour de france title good evening. the hospital which is seeking to remove life support from the seriously ill baby, charlie gard, has contacted the police after staff received death threats. great ormond street hospital said doctors and nurses had faced a "tide of abuse", in the street and online. it comes as the high court is considering whether charlie's parents should be allowed to take him to the united states for experimental treatment. that's opposed by the hospital, which argues that it's not in charlie's best interests.
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our correspondent laura tra nt reports. it is the case that has touched people around the world, but attracting a growing number of campaigners who disagree with the campaigners who disagree with the treatment of the critically ill baby boy. 11—month—old charlie gard has a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible rain damage. his parents want to ta ke rain damage. his parents want to take him to the us for pioneering treatment but great ormond street hospital says it is in charlie's best interest to turn off his life support and allow him to die. tonight, the hospital said in a statement that their doctors and nurses have been subjected to a shocking and disgraceful tide of hostility. staff have received abuse industry and online. thousands of
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abusive messages have been sent to doctors and nurses who is life's work is to care for sick children. many of these messages are menacing, including death threats. the hospital has reported the abuse to the police. it comes as the high court decides on charlie's future and a day after the judge urged any campaigners outside the hospital to respect the needs and wishes of six children being treated there and their parents. and laura trant is here. and laura you've been in court following these proceedings 7 i was there yesterday when the judge said protesters should not harass anyone going in or out of the hospital and to bear in mind they might have a sick child being treated there. the issue of abuse has been addressed. staff had great ormond street hospital have been sick tested to vile abuse and threats. —— subjected to vile abuse.
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thejudge warned threats. —— subjected to vile abuse. the judge warned perpetrators would be punished if there are densities became known. denied, —— tonight, charlie got‘s parents have said the following. we don't condone abusive behaviour. week to get abuse, we have to endure nasty and hurtful comments on a daily basis. people have different opinions and we accept that but there is a line that should not be crossed, it makes a stressful situation worse and is upsetting for all involved. the health secretary has also commented this evening. he says it is a sad and complex case but it is totally unacceptably for dedicated doctors and nurses of one of the great nhs institutions to suffer this level of abuse. on monday, the high court was looking at the future and the judge
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said he hoped the decision would be reached by tuesday. donald trump has insisted that he has complete authority to issue pardons for wrongdoing. it comes as investigators consider whether he or his aides colluded with russia, during last year's election campaign. the president's son — donald junior — and son—in law jared kushner — are due to be questioned in congress next week. our washington correspondent laura bicker reports. donald trump is gearing up for what could be one of his biggest battles. he's clearing the decks to try to fight off claims the kremlin helped him win the white house. his core message has become engulfed by the many investigations — as he launched a new aircraft carrier in virginia, he gave the kind of sales pitch he'd prefer americans to hear. american steel and american hands have constructed a 100,000 tonne message to the world.
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america might is second to none. donald trump is reshaping and upgrading his team just as the scope of the investigation into russian meddling in the us election widens to include his finances. and that has infuriated the president. the focus of the enquiry is also no longer outside the white house gates, it's focusing on his inner circle, his own family, who will give evidence to congress later this week. mr trump's son—in—law, jared kushner, is one of his closest advisers. seen so often at his side, but rarely heard. he has done some talking, though, to russians during the campaign. he'll be asked about that in congress on monday. donald trumer is also in discussions about testifying after it was revealed he met with a russian lawyer, who'd offered incriminating information about hillary clinton during the campaign. white house spokesman sean spicer often struggled to convey the president's message,
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amidst a barrage of questions about russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a russian connection. he's now saying farewell, making way for a new face, the slick wall street financier anthony scaramucci. ijust think it was in the best interest of our communications department, of our press organisation, to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. because he reportedly didn't want to work for anthony scaramouche chief. donald trump relishes a good fight. he's described the enquiries into his campaign's links with russia as a witchhunt, a hoax. he's getting combat ready, just in case investigators do not agree with him. boots — the pharmacy chain — has apologised for dismissing calls to cut the cost of its contraceptive morning—after pills.
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it had initially refused to drop the price of the medicines, because it claimed that doing so would ‘incentivise inappropriate use‘. andy moore reports. the british pregnancy advisory service launched its campaign with a video mocking the high prices charged in the uk for the morning after pill. they said it would be cheaper to fly to france and buy it there for about £5. wait, so that's. .. 30 quid. 30 actual pounds? tesco and superd rug reduced their prices, but boots refused to back down, saying: there was a vigorous saying: there was a vigorous campaign on social media critising the company and calling for a boycott. 30 labour women mps sent a letter to the company yesterday saying boots was taking a moral position on what should be a personal choice for women. then came a late—night change of heart. in its statement, boots said it was truly sorry for its poor choice of words.
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it said it was committed to finding cheaper forms of the drug. it also said that emergency contraception services were freely available on the nhs in many of its stores. campaigners said boots had spectacularly misjudged public opinion. our only disappointment is it's taken this long, and the threat of a boycott by its customers for boots to reach this position. this was a position reached by superdrug, tesco far earlier. but not everyone agrees with the decision by boots. their original position was absolutely fine. they were saying they did not want to encourage irresponsible use of the pill. and you have to remember, the morning after pill is a large dose of synthetic hormones. it's not something that needs to be taken like sweeties or like a paracetamol. one of the mps that signed the letter yesterday said on social media overnight, "welcome news, but shame boots responded the morning after."
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andy moore, bbc news. so far this year, more than 80 thousand migrants have arrived in italy from across the mediterranean — a significant increase on last year. the government in rome is planning to house the new arrivals in towns and villages across the country. but the growing number of migrants is causing rising anger among some italians. and, as our correspondent james reynolds reports from sicily, the towns themselves are resisting the plans. this year, more than 90,000 migrants have landed in italy, many including these men from south africa art centres more in the states smallest towns and villages. this time, here atan towns and villages. this time, here at an emergency meeting has been told to take in around 20 migrants. i want guarantees, says this retired teacher, they need medical
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and criminal checks. they were already checked when they landed, argues another. "i don't think they will damage our country. " the italian government is struggling to find a solution that works. it wants to scatter migrants as soon as they land here in big ports, but that just shuffles the problem from built—up areas to the depths of the countryside. translation: it's not good, it's not good because these here have not been checked by a doctor. we do not know who they are, it's no good. translation: i certainly don't want to become their hero. they need someone else to defend them. our town is too small. the state has agreed that
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half the new arrivals will go back to messina. at night, amid cheers from volunteers, migrants are escorted out. they barely know where they are going. i was told i'm going to messina. do you know where that is? no sir. italy's relocation plan, improvised and haphazard, has to start again. james reynolds, bbc news, sicily. now with news of all but certain victory for chris froome in the tour de france, and the rest of the day's sport — here's olly foster at the bbc sport centre... barring something extraordinary, chris froome will win his fourth tour de france title. the british rider extended his overall lead on the penultimate stage and as is traditional, the yellowjersey holder won't be challenged when the race finishes in paris tomorrow. here's our sports news correspondent richard conway. it is known as the race of truth.
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for chris froome, this was a race of destiny. the start line is not a place to reflect on three gruelling weeks of racing, and ignoring booing from a partisan french crowd, froome focused on the task in hand, an individual time trial set over a 14 mile course through the streets of marseille. a potent demonstration of the britain's dominance. he goes into tomorrow's largely ceremonial final stage with a lead of 5a seconds, knowing he will be crowned for a fourth time as winner of cycling ‘s most famous race. there have been ups and downs over the past three weeks but i think it has been very much a grand tour, in the sense it has been really about the three weeks,
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and doing those three weeks, in the most conservative but efficient manner. tomorrow, chris froome will sip champagne as he makes his way into the capital. a fitting finale for another vintage year. it was an emphatic time trial performance by chris froome but nevertheless this is then close tour de france, he has been pushed all the way by his main rivals. behind me, paris is getting ready to welcome them tomorrow, the grandstands are being built on the champs—elysees will soon be close because tomorrow the tour de france arrives here and chris froome will be crowned tour de france once more. after eight years, tom daley has won his second individual world diving title. he was 15 when he won his first and he was back to his best at the world aquatics championships in budapest. again, his gold medal came in the ten metre platform and he beat the olympic champion chen ai—sen from china.
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daley also won silver today with grace reid in the three metre synchro springboard. the american jordan spieth will take a three shot lead into the final day of the open. in favourable conditions, a new record was also set for the lowest round scored at a major championship but hopes of a british winner have faded. our sports correspondent andy swiss is at royal birkdale of a british winner have faded. the calm after the storm. for one early starter, historic results. no man had ever shot 62 at a major until branden grace. commentator: amazing grace. that suggested anything was possible and overnight leaderjordan spieth promptly picked up leaderjordan spieth promptly picked up where he left off. behind him, rory mcilroy began an equally inspired style with a flurry of birdies. but that early lustre faded, and
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erratic finish leaving him nine off the pace. there was also does abutment ian poulter, hopes of a home win here soon seem to be over. —— also disappointment for ian poulter. canada's austin surely with the shock of the day. but at the final hole, spieth struck what could bea final hole, spieth struck what could be a telling blow, with a three shot lead over compatriot matt kuchar, he will take some stopping. a day of astonishing scoring for some, and frustration for others. it ends as it began, withjordan spieth on course for open glory. finally, great britain's para athletes won three more golds at the world championships in london tonight, all the details are on the bbc sport website. an amateur poker player, who normally enjoys a ten pound game at his local casino in hull, is celebrating a win worth two million pounds at the world's most prestigious tournament in las vegas. john hesp, a 64—year—old caravan salesman, finished fourth in a field of 7,000 entrants.
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he's played pokerfor 20 years, but always as an amateur. despite his success in sin city, he said he had not plans to turn professional. i would like to take my wife on holiday. she's not that bothered about going on holiday but was happy to go to our humble static caravan in the yorkshire dales at paisley bridge. so that's about it, really. can't say any more than that. always treat the wife. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. that's all from me goodnight. hello, this is bbc news. more now on the insistence by donald trump that he has the complete authority as president to issue pardons for wrongdoing. his claim comes as investigators are weighing up whether his campaign colluded with russia during the election campaign, and at the end of a week which saw the resignation of the white house press
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secretary, sean spicer. earlier i spoke to anneke green, a former speech writer for george w bush, and i asked her whether she was surprised by mr spicer‘s resignation. i'm not surprised he resigned, i am surprised it took this long. ultimately it came down to his ability to work the way he needed to, i have heard that with anthony scaramucci coming on board, the plan was he would not report to sean spicer, he would be his own boss, he would be on tv. so sean spicer would be left with the responsibilities of the commiserations director job. be left with the responsibilities of the commiserations directorjob. as well as the press secretary. —— communications director. how do you rate sean spicer in his role? he was good at the rnc then created some puzzlement when on his first day of thejob, he puzzlement when on his first day of the job, he scolded the press.
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puzzlement when on his first day of thejob, he scolded the press. the day after the inauguration, he said these were the greatest size crowds, period, in person around the world, which if you were counting around the world, that was his defensible claim, but in person he said this was the record—breaking crowd, and eve ryo ne was the record—breaking crowd, and everyone who was there which included me, we know thisjust was not true. so that set him to have already broken the credibility with the press that he came into the job with, and he really was not able to come back that. there are always going to be tensions between the white house principal press spokesperson and the media, who often asking questions that he or she would rather not answer? there will be that back and forth, but it does not have to be hostile. it's interesting to look at the different styles of press secretaries over the yea rs. styles of press secretaries over the years. there was a lot of respect, even though there was not always the same politics with someone like ari fleischer for example, who was early the bush administration. there was not as much for scott mcclellan, who
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came next, ben heaton out not to be great. he turned on president george w bush, but the last press secretary he had, tony snow, a lovely man. he had that same gift that george w bush had of getting along with people, even people who absolutely opposed to his policies, would very much like him in person and would wa nt to much like him in person and would want to work with him. so what does anthony scaramucci potentially bring to the role? he certainly brings the president's trust, and the trust of a bunker and jarrett, who apparently we re a bunker and jarrett, who apparently were pushing for him and reached out to him about getting the communications director role. —— the trust of ivanka trump and jared kushner. reince priebus and steve allen apparently were not in favour putting him into that role because he does not have the traditional public relations experience. reportedly he was supposed to have a job in the trump administration much earlier because of his early support. he headed up part of the transmission, committee, and helped with the inauguration festivities but have them locked and apparently,
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this is anonymously sourced but i have read the reince priebus, the chief of staff actually offered scaramucci thejob chief of staff actually offered scaramucci the job he chief of staff actually offered scaramucci thejob he had previously blocked from which was the director of public liaison is, to keep him from the communications director job, that was not successful and now sean spicer has resigned. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are martin lipton, from the sun and rosamund urwin, from the london evening standard. here the government plans to introduce a registration system for drones because of growing concern about the risk they pose to aircraft. drone owners will have to complete a safety awareness course. dozens of near misses have been reported in the past year, asjoe lynam reports. gatwick airport has confirmed that some flights have been disrupted this evening by a drone in the area. it wasn't the first time that a drone had flown worryingly close to a runway, but it was enough to close down gatwick airport for a short
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while three weeks ago. pilots have long complained that unmanned aerial vehicles could fly into their engines, causing accidents. drones are also being used to fly drugs and mobile phones into prisons. and now the government wants to act by forcing all drone users to register. the new rules mean that any drone weighing more than 250 grams will have to be registered, and their new owners will have to complete a safety awareness test when they buy them. a new technology to prevent drones flying near airports or prisons will be expanded. they can present a danger to aircraft and to individual users, so it's about introducing a registration scheme, it's about geolocations and geo—fencing to stop them being flown near aerodromes and sensitive areas. so it's worth getting the balance right between the different needs of users and the dangers on the other part. the government wants all drones of more than 250
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grams to be registered. but that's not much heavier than a mobile phone. but military experts say that drones as light as 400 grams could damage a helicopter window, whilst drones of two kilograms could take down a plane. but serious drone enthusiasts say the new rules may penalise responsible users. the problem is other people who have no knowledge, they don't know how to fly, theyjust go and buy the drone and go up in the sky may be 1000 feet high. this is the problem, not us a problem. and the new rules might be hard to police. after all, criminals are unlikely to sign up to a public register. and anyone that imports drones from abroad would be covered anyway. joe lynam, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: great ormond street hospital says staff have received death threats
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and abuse in relation to the case of the terminally ill baby, charlie gard. president trump takes part in the commission ceremony for a new aircraft as members have his family prepared to be questioned over links to the russians during his election campaign. airline pilots welcome plans to introduce tougher rules for owners of drones — due to concerns about the risk to aircraft. sport now, and time for a full round up from the bbc sport centre. britain's chris froome is all but certain of securing his third straight tour de france title — and fourth in all — when the race concludes in paris tomorrow. remarkably, he'll take the yellow jersey without having won a stage. froome had to settle for third place in today's penultimate stage, the time trial in marseille. but crucially froome extended his race lead to sa seconds over rigoberto uran and he won't be challenged tomorrow in paris. sunday's final stage is, by tradition a procession,
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with froome being crowned champion on the champs—elysees. coming into the stadium with romain just ahead of me, knowing if i had navigated the last two corners correctly, that would be it for this year's tour de france battle. there have been ups and downs over the past three weeks but i think it has been very much a grand tour, in the sense it has been really about the three weeks, and doing those three weeks, in the most conservative but efficient manner. it wasn't about one single stage. that's what grand tour racing is. a masterful performance from jordan spieth has given him a three shot lead going into the final day at the open. spieth carded a second bogey free
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round of 65 at royal birkdale, so he's 11 under par for the tournament. fellow american matt kuchar isn't too far behind. a group of four — including rory mcilroy — lead the british contingent on two under, so they're unlikely to be challenging for honours. with spieth playing so well, his rivals struggled to keep up. so what will speith‘s game plan be for tomorrow? i think we set a goal. we see what the conditions are in the morning, we see what is forecasted, same thing we did amount to. knowing that 65 is not realistic tomorrow, that pa rt 65 is not realistic tomorrow, that part will be a better score and therefore we change the game plan. eight years after he first won an individual world title at the age ofjust 15, tom daley has won gold again in the same event — the ten metre platform at the world diving championships in budapest. in a really competitive final daley led from the first round, but he was pushed all the way by the olympic champion, chen aisen of china. it all rested on daley‘s final dive, but he was awarded two
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maximum scores to secure a second world title. it was daley‘s second medal of the day — earlier he took silver with grace reid in the mixed three metre springboard final. it was tough out there. the olympic champion was not going to let me have it easy but i wanted to fight until the very end. i really wanted to prove a point and go out there and do the best i could. i'm just so happy with the way it turned out on the score, a personal best, i think it would have got the gold last year at the olympics. i'm just over the moon. it's been another golden night for britain's para—athletes at the world championships in london. we've seen three golds and one silver this evening. sophie hahn took gold in the t38100 metres. she beat off competition from two other brits who've both already won gold medals at these championships, with kadeena cox getting that silver in second. hahn set a new world record for the second time after she did the same in the 200 metres last weekend. another double world champion
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is georgie hermitage. she added to her gold in the 400 metres with victory in the t37100 metres. after the year i have had, i wanted to win. obviously the four is my event, that is the one i knew was or was going to be tough, at 1.1 thought i could even be squeezed out the middle. to come and do that, under that amount of pressure,... and the third gold of the night came for aled davies in the shot putt. he threw a massive 17.52 metres to break his own world record. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour.
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the actorjohn heard, best known for his role in the home alone films, has died at the age of 72. he was found dead on friday in a hotel room in palo alto, california, according to celebrity news website tmz. it's understood he was staying at the hotel after minor back surgery. the cause of death is unknown. train firms could be forced to reduce first class seats on busy commuter lines to ease overcrowding. the transport secretary chris grayling says travellers will see "less first class in the future" with busy suburban trains having "one class" instead. the minister also suggested operators may be forced to scrap first class areas when franchises are awarded in the future. a british man has won more than $2 million after making to the final table in a poker tournament. he has come forth in the main event in las vegas, the grandfather of seven has
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little experience and usually plays a £10 tournament at his local casino. earlier, we spoke tojohn as he was celebrating in his hotel room in las vegas and he told us how unexpected his win was. it's been quite awesome and i've said it many i came here not expecting to win. you know — money, big money. i wanted to just play some poker with some professionals and other people that i don't normally do. the legendary poker player donnacha o'dea, who also took part in the tournament alongside john hesp has described his win as a great achievement. i spoke to him a short time ago. irate him very highly. i have played in the tournament myself and i'm a little overwhelmed. i got through to the third day, i was feeling quite tired. to make the final table, he had to play seven days of ten or 11 hours plus — it would end up about 13 or 14 hours
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taking dinners and toilet breaks into account. my son actually finished about 160th and he said he was really tired as well and he is in his 305. so, it's a great achievement. there is quite a lot of concentrating to do here clearly? yeah. it's the most skilful tournament, because they only increase the lines and the antis every two hours whereas a lot of tournaments, like the small local tournaments, they will increase them every 20 minutes, so it's a bit of a lottery. it's a very skilful tournament, and with so little experience, it's amazing to come forward. just fantastic. that's what i was keen to get at. here's an amateur, he normally plays for very little money in hull. he is in las vegas, winning what to him must be a fortune. how likely is it that somebody from an amateur background can make that sort of impact?
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i'm pretty amazed. about ten years ago, jamie gold was a complete novice who won the main event. but he did a lot of trash talking to people, he'd confused everybody with all his talk. he took them out of it. i don't thinkjohn was doing anything like that. i didn't actually see him play but i saw he was wearing very colourful outfits, so maybe he just dazzled everybody with his outfits. he seems to be a really fun guy. yes, we havejust flashed up a photograph of him wearing something, well, something you would certainly notice. well, why not! tell me about the skill levels required. some say there is an element of luck as well as clearly skill. where do the percentages lie? it's very difficult to tell. in any one—day tournament, luck can play a huge part. over a period of nine days, the skill has to come through. obviously he has got very
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good sense of situations and reading his opponents. he may not have as much experience as a poker player but he's obviously very skilful at reading his opponents. also knowing when to back off in certain parts. over that period of time, you are going to walk into situations where you are going to lose a hand and try to lose as little as possible. when you have a good hand, to try to maximise. he has won big money. you clearly have in the past, what's your advice to him now he is very wealthy? i think not to really get involved and play cash games, to stick to the tournaments where you can only lose a finite amount of money. obviously if he's got seven grandchildren i think he can dish out a few bob to each of them. keep them happy. sound advice. let's get the weather
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prospects now. few of us avoided at least one hefty shower today that this afternoon we have fared quite well in northern england, some sunny spells. along the south coast, this was a water spout photograph by one of our weather watchers, a tornado over water. some fierce downpours around today. gradually fading over the next few hours but we will keep some showers around overnight in scotland and eastern england. elsewhere, drier, clearer, cooler. around ten to 14 degrees overnight. when it is clear, some fog patches could develop into the morning. should last longer you notice tomorrow low pressure is still close by. that means there may be a flying start for many of us with some sunshine, showers will get going once again. a cooler, fresher feel to the showers will get going once again. a cooler, fresherfeel to the morning, again fog patches clearing away. a
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lot of dry and fairly sunny weather around england and wales, nine o'clock in the morning just a few isolated showers around. northern ireland mainly dry, the western side of scotland, but this area cloud, rain with a cool breeze, affecting parts of eastern scotland to begin the day and the north of the central belt. onto the day, that will push its way further sell—through scotland, avoiding the far north—west, the odd shower developing in northern ireland but actually not very many, thing in wales, the showers get going and become more widespread again drew the afternoon and early evening. there will be some heavy ones particularly through north western and eastern england perhaps with a rumble of thunder but it is still quite warm in the sunny spells and around these areas, it does cool down quickly in any showers. looking fairly promising in the opening round at the open at royal birkdale, just a slim chance of a shower that will be a little bit breezy compared with today, the women's world cup final at lord's, there's a chance of catching the odd shower but there
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will be lengthy sunny spells in the field and it will fill a bit warmer than i did on saturday. this is sunday. showers gradually fading that the area of rain i mention pushing down on north east england, gradually edging further south and east during the day on monday. becoming lighter as it does so. elsewhere on monday, a drier picture, some are warm and sunny spells to be had away from a breeze, along the north sea coast. a fine day on tuesday for many, but turning u nsettled day on tuesday for many, but turning unsettled from the west again on wednesday.
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