this is bbc news, and these are the top stories developing at 11.003m. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they've been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren't invited for breast screening. ididn't i didn't receive the letter. who knows if it would have made a difference? i think it may have made a difference, because it was less than two years and i had three breast tumours. donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy an adult film actor's silence about an alleged affair. the president didn't know about this... i believe... he didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as i know. but he did know about the general arrangement. michael would ta ke general arrangement. michael would take care of things like this. cambridge analytica — the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal

— shuts down. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier warned a health trust that he was collecting knives before he murdered a dog walker. also coming up — temperate house at kew gardens re—opens after a refurbishment. speaking in an exclusive interview at the opening sir david attenborough warns of the environmental dangers of plastics. we use plastic, or have done until now, with total abandon, without any ca re now, with total abandon, without any care or concern now, with total abandon, without any care oi’ concern about now, with total abandon, without any care or concern about where it's going to go and what it might do. good morning. it's thursday the 3rd of may. i'm rebecca jones. welcome to bbc newsroom live. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they've been affected by an nhs computer error in england

which meant they weren't invited for breast screening. over 200 have called the official helpline and cancer charities say thousands more have been in touch. questions are being asked about why senior health officials didn't realise sooner that there was a problem. since 2009, 450,000 women aged between 50—70 had not been given their final appointment. of the women who missed screenings, 309,000 are still alive and will be contacted before the end of may. it's estimated that up to 270 women in england may have died prematurely as a result. andy moore reports. a breast cancer support group meeting in surrey last night. many of these women owe their lives to early detection of their cancer by screening, so they are well placed to understand the enormous consequences of the government's announcement. very shocked. just to think there is an awful

lot of women out there that have been missed. and the consequences of them having been missed can be terrible. ijust think it's really sad, and ijust wonder what happened. you know, at what point was it picked up and why did people not pick it up earlier? the institute for public policy research says there were signs something was wrong. in a recent report on the nhs, it highlighted the proportion of 50 to 70—year—olds who accepted an invitation to be screened. that percentage fell to the 71.1% in 2016-17, the lowest in ten years. the ippr says health chiefs should have examined the data earlier to see what was happening, but it will now be the subject of an independent review. i feel extremely sad for the women affected by this colossal administrative disaster, really. it's hugely significant.

there is an opportunity for people who may have developed breast cancer to have their individual case reviewed as a vacancy if this lack ofan reviewed as a vacancy if this lack of an invitation actually have had an impact on their own disease cause. women in scotland are not affected by the error because it has different it. wales and northern ireland have similar systems to england, but the health department says there is no reason to think they were affected. an estimated 309,000 women still alive who missed their invitations for screening in england will be contacted by the end of the month. those under 72 will be be offered a catch—up mammogram which is due to be completed by october. andy moore, bbc news. i'm joined by dr emma pennery from the charity breast cancer care, whose helpline has received

over a0 calls injust the first 15 minutes of opening this morning. i know you been doing interviews this morning but i'm assuming you have received many more since then? so, how worried should women be? i so, how worried should women be? , the important thing is only certain women are affected by this, and missing a screening is appalling that most women who attend for screening did go on to develop breast cancer. the important thing is that women get the information and support to understand if they we re and support to understand if they were affected but it's only certain age groups and most importantly, for women who don't have breast cancer, missing that screening doesn't increase the risk of getting breast cancer. you are cautioning people to stay calm and keep calm, but i'm sure you can understand how women might be very worried about this? of course. and they don't presumably

wa nt to of course. and they don't presumably want to wait for a letter, they don't want to be weight record —— they don't want to wait to be called. we would urge them to try and wait for the letter. they are promising a catch—up mammogram to all of the women affected. 0f catch—up mammogram to all of the women affected. of course, it will ta ke women affected. of course, it will take a little bit of time to instigate all of that. so, people will get the chance to have that follow—up, catch—up mammogram. women ofa follow—up, catch—up mammogram. women of a certain age will be automatically invited and don't need to do anything. i understand potentially there could be as many as 300,000 extra mammograms. can the system coped? are there enough nurses? it isn't actually nurses who do the screening. they are probably not an issue. it is radiographers who provide the screening. it is fair to say the screening programme has difficulties with capacity anyway and they have a lot of work to put through obviously thousands more

people going through will take time. can you tell us a little bit about how important the three yearly screenings are? the whole purpose of screening is to detect breast cancer before it can be felt. in other words, finding it as soon as be felt. in other words, finding it as soon as possible because the soonest we detect breast cancer, the more likely the outcome will be successful. how does treatment differ if breast cancer is detected early? we know that people who are detected through screening before they got any symptoms are less likely to need any symptoms are less likely to need a mastectomy and more likely to have it diagnosed. a final question— is there a lesson here, that this is clearly awful for patients but women also need to take more responsibility, rather than relying on computer programmes to get tested ? well, certainly, yes, we have irresponsibility as well but bearing in mind the previous screening would

be three years earlier and these are women going into their 70s so sometimes it is difficult to remember. iam very remember. i am very grateful for your time. thank you for coming to talk to us. if you believe you have been affected a helpline has been set up. you can call the breast screening helpline on 0800169 2692. the advice is not to contact your gp. one of donald trump's lawyers has contradicted him over a payment to a porn actress to keep her silent during the 2016 election campaign. the us president denies having an affair with stormy daniels and that his lawyer, michael cohen, paid her 130,000 dollars. speaking to sean hannity on fox news, rudy giuliani, the former new york mayor who's now on mr trump's legal team, said the president had personally repaid mr cohen legally. 0ur washington correspondent chris buckler reports. hi, everyone.

president trump has always denied having an affair with the adult film star stormy daniels. but his personal lawyer michael cohen did pay her $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election. did you know about the $130,000 payment made to stormy daniels? last month, when questioned byjournalists and air force one, the president denied any knowledge of the money and said they would need to put their questions to mr cohen. however, in an interview on fox news the former new york mayor rudy giuliani, who recently joined president trump's legal team, seemed to contradict his client. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. they funnelled it through the law firm? funnelled through the law firm, and the president repaid it. 0h, he did? yeah. there's no campaign finance law.

zero. in denying accusations that the payment might have broken campaign finance rules, he said mr trump had fully repaid michael cohen. a revelation that will lead to further questions. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal is shutting down. cambridge analytica was accused of improperly obtaining millions of users‘ information. in a statement it says its customers were "driven away" by recent negative coverage but insists its employees "acted ethically and lawfully". the uk data watchdog says it will continue its investigation into what happened. let's cross over to our southampton studio and speak to our technology correspondent, zoe kleinman. this scandal broke about six weeks ago, so why has it taken until now for cambridge analytica to close?

cambridge analytica has been fighting hard for survival. it has consistently denied doing anything wrong. it said it used data that was freely available to all these sorts of companies at the time. we are talking about 2013 when the data of all of these people was collected. but it just all of these people was collected. but itjust could not shake the ongoing scandal that also engulfed facebook about whether or not people we re facebook about whether or not people were aware that their data... they we re were aware that their data... they were taking part in what they thought was a personality quiz and somehow their data ended up possibly being used to try to recruit president donald trump during the us election. there was no transparency there and they couldn't shake the accusation, no matter how they insisted they hadn't done anything that everybody else wasn't doing at the time, which is kind of true. how real is the closure? 0r the time, which is kind of true. how real is the closure? or will the staff and the techniques they use carry elsewhere? it is really difficult to know at

this stage. they have said that they are closing down and their parent company scl elections is also filing for bankruptcy. whether or not they p0p up for bankruptcy. whether or not they pop up in anotherform is unknown. there are many data analytics firms that exist who are doing this, using data to try to target advertising. it isa data to try to target advertising. it is a practice that is commonly carried out and the facts about the way cambridge analytica is said to have got hold of this data, by buying it from someone else, that is the nub of the scandal and it should never have changed hands. thank you, zoe. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has appealed to the united states not to withdraw from the international deal designed to curb iran's nuclear capability. speaking to the today programme mr guterres told nick robinson that the middle east was in a dangerous position and there was a risk of war if the deal, known as thejoint plan of action orjpoa was not preserved.

i believe it was an important diplomatic victory and i think it is important to preserve it, but i also believe that there are areas in which it would be very important to have a meaningful dialogue because i see the region in a very dangerous position and i understand the concerns of some countries in relation to the iranians influence in other countries of the region. so i think we should separate things. in short the message to donald trump is don't tear up the agreement, build on it. this agreement is an important achievement and if one day there is achievement and if one day there is a better agreement to replace it, it is time. but we should not scrap it u nless is time. but we should not scrap it unless we've got a good alternative. the mother of the murdered toddler james bulger says attempts to remove anonymity from one of his killers is a "waste of time". the two—year—old's father ralph has begun a legal attempt to reveal the new identity ofjon venables.

james‘ mother, denise fergus told bbc radio five live that she didn't want any revenge attacks on her son's killers. it was on the release they probably realised they are out in the real world now and they will be looking over their shoulder. i have said i don't want them to because i don't wa nt don't want them to because i don't want blood on my hands either. i don't agree with killing someone. i just think all i've ever wanted is justice forjames, getting that justice forjames, getting that justice would have been for them to go to justice would have been for them to gotoa justice would have been for them to go to a proper prison from the young offenders and spend the time in there, and yet to be released one day and maybe jon venables there, and yet to be released one day and maybejon venables would have been a better present. i'm not sure. i'm not saying he would have been. i don't think a leopard can't change its spots, but at least in prison they would have had time to realise that what they did was wrong and they wouldn't get away with it,

but they basically did get away with his murder. the headlines on bbc newsroom live. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they've been affected by a nhs computer error in england which meant they weren't invited for breast screening. donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was allegedly used to buy the silence of the porn star, stormy daniels, over claims of an affair. cambridge analytica — the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal — shuts down. the race is on for champions league final tickets. liverpool and we agreed have got 16,000 each. liverpool booked their place last night with a 7—6 aggregate win. justin langer has been named the new australian cricket coach. he takes overin australian cricket coach. he takes over in the wake of the ball tampering scandal and will start against england next month.

and the women were first to set off from beverley this morning. the men get going this afternoon and the four day race ends in leeds. royal military police in germany have started a new search for a british toddler, 36 years after she disappeared. katrice lee vanished during a trip to the supermarket with her mum. since then, detectives have failed to establish what happened to her and have begun digging up a riverbank in the german town of paderborn, close to the british army base where she lived with her family. 0n the banks of a german river, a slow, painful search begins. underthe mud, clues, perhaps, to a case which has baffled detectives for decades. katrice lee disappeared during a supermarket trip with her mother. it was her second birthday. the family lived on the nearby british army base. despite the huge search,

soldiers, police, volunteers, she was neverfound. in reality, what the family's got is a shadow, or a damocles sword, hanging over the family for five weeks. i am sat here talking to you, and i am hoping that they find nothing, but my belief does not change. i am 100% certain that katrice was abducted. over the years, artists‘ impressions of a girl growing up. detectives think it‘s possible katrice is alive, but unaware of her background. this is, they think, what she would look like today. the police admit they made mistakes during their original investigation. they‘ve now rea nalysed old evidence, and it‘s that, they say, which has led them right here to this spot. and to a search which opens old wounds, but aims finally to expose the truth. jenny hill, bbc news, paderborn. the operators of a nuclear power station in ayrshire have

confirmed that fresh cracks have been discovered in one of their reactors. reactor 3 at the hunterston b power station was shut down in march for a routine inspection, during which new cracks were found in its core. edf energy says the reactor could remain offline for the rest of the year but have insisted that the plant remains safe. it‘s the largest victorian glasshouse in the world so the temperate house in kew gardens is a very special place for horticulturalists. the doors have been closed for the past five years due to restoration but will reopen this weekend. tim muffett reports. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill is at kew gardens for her now. hello. it is looking absolutely beautiful in the sunshine. we are squinting as the sun is beaming through the glass. 15,000 panes of

glass that were all replaced in this ambitious restoration of this incredibly fragile building and what had to be put together with this amazing collection of some of the most rare and endangered plants from around the world, from temperate zones where the plants are protected from frost. 0ne zones where the plants are protected from frost. one of the first visitors in this house was the great naturalist sir david attenborough, who took the opportunity of wandering around this collection to talk about threats to our environment, including some of the species, of our use and disposal of plastic. we can never go far enough. at the moment, we are using plastic in a pretty function is way. it baffles me. people send me letters, if they are important they put them in a plastic envelope and then put that in another envelope. why? i can‘t understand. i mean, isuppose it

makes them look precious or something. but it is quite function is. we use plastic, or have done until now, with total abandon, without any care or concern about where it‘s going to go and what it might do. if we can follow us —— if we can pull ourselves together and recognise it is a manger danger, particularly in the sea, we are stepping in the right direction. it lot of people are working now on ways in which he can deal with plastic waste. 0ne ways in which he can deal with plastic waste. one of the problems is plastic is notjust plastic, there are lots of different kinds, chemically. what works for one kind does not necessarily work for another. those are the problems. was it a conscious decision in the programme to highlight the pollution of plastic? well, it was certainly part of in the mind of the producers that it

would be in the series. but i‘ve been saying that and we‘ve been making programmes for that sort of thing for decades. i mean, i have certainly talked about plastic many times before and many other people have to. why is it happening just now? i really can‘t tell. itjust struck a particular moment in the national mood when people were sensitive to that particular danger. why, i don‘t know. but it certainly have had a a huge effect. and recently you made a conversation with a cream into a television programme, talking about the common wealth canopy programme. i have been lucky enough to have been making natural history programmes, and a lot of other people to. we have all worked together and produced a great corpus

of stuff. i would like to think that there will not be any of it which you couldn‘t do again, and perhaps better, but it could be that quite a lot of those things will become extinct in 50 or 100 years‘ time, in which case that would be a legacy that future generations could... think about what it would be like if you could see a pterodactyl coming across and a brontosaurus coming thundering through these newly planted palm trees. thank you very much indeed, sir richard adam byrne. let‘s go before the —— sir david attenborough. let‘s go before the pterodactyl scam. and somebody who knows a lot about the endangered species is the director of horticulture, richard bazley. thank you for giving us a

tour. first of all, how much of a challenge was it to protect and safeguard some of these delicate pla nts safeguard some of these delicate plants is this huge restoration was undertaken? there is a huge diversity of temperate plants, many of them quite rare and difficult to grow so it took all the skill of our expert horticultural team to ensure that they were lifted carefully, propagated if necessary and looked after for the several years while the building works went on and then we re the building works went on and then were brought back in and replanted, with much more material as well. and it is more thanjust with much more material as well. and it is more than just a with much more material as well. and it is more thanjust a beautiful collection of plants. it is a real arc of some of the incredibly endangered species. can we talk about this plant over year? this has been described as the lonely as planned in the world. why is that? this plant, it is one of a handful of representatives of this species held in botanic gardens around the world. it is extinct in the wild so

the sole parent plant from which this one grow is no longer in existence. they have separate male and female plants so all the plants that exist are all male because they have been cloned. they don‘t have a girlfriend and they cannot reproduce naturally. it needs to find a mate. is there any chance of finding a female one? people still look. you always hold out hope that someone will find another one of the species but in reality, it is emblematic of quite a serious issue around the world, which is ensuring that plans on the brink of extinction do not actually fall of the brink and they are saved from extinction. it must be wonderful to see the pla nts it must be wonderful to see the plants in this fabulous collection in the completed house. do you have a particular favourite? i have many. i suppose my accent gives me away, i come from australia and we have some wonderful australian plants here. look, there

are fabulous plans end to end of this magnificent house and some of them really exotic and unusual things that people will not see anywhere else in the world. they are here at the temperate house. thank you for bringing us in and it has been lovely to have a preview. we will be wandering around this greenhouse which is a world tour of some of the life around the planet in one glass house. it looks glorious. many thanks. i wa nt to it looks glorious. many thanks. i want to bring you some breaking news coming in here at the bbc. the defence secretary has said he has made clear that afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers that have come to the uk should be allowed to stay in the country. it might be worth me giving you some context to this. more than 150 interpreters from afghanistan had written to both the home and defence secretaries to demand a change in immigration rules after being told they needed to pay up to £1000 for a visa to allow them to

stay in britain indefinitely. basically, the interpreters work with the british armed forces in their home country and has since settled here. the defence secretary, gavin williamson, has now made clear that those afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers and came to the uk should be allowed to stay in the country. he also said he is confident the home office will waive any fees so that they can remain. he described those interpreters as brave individuals who had every right to be in the uk. let‘s start with this latest report

into dementia care. what has it found? there was no evidence of institutional abuse. this report was commissioned after the 17 bed ward at glan clwyd hospital closed in 2013, and it was following concerns of patient care. this investigation concluded that the care and treatment provided by doctors and nurses was, as he said, ofa doctors and nurses was, as he said, of a good overall general standard. however there were faults found and failures included significant financial restrictions, poor service design and ineffective governance arrangements. these feelings were not just arrangements. these feelings were notjust in arrangements. these feelings were not just in relation arrangements. these feelings were notjust in relation to the ward but across a wider range of services, the report says. it said dementia services were not planned or coordinated and governments across the health board was weak, which said it prevented a robust approach.

wider problems also meant patients didn‘t receive the right care in the right place or at the right time, which resulted in delays, distress and lack of dignity. patients didn‘t get enough advice and support and structures within the health board we re structures within the health board were not long enough to protect adults at risk. the report makes 15 recommendations to improve elderly ca re a cross recommendations to improve elderly care across the health board area. this is the second report into this ward. tell us about the differences between the two reports. they are very different, the first report interviewed 18 families and 40 report interviewed 18 families and a0 members of staff. the latest report is actually looking at the cases of more than 100 patients. you might remember the headlines from the first report, one family describing the conditions is like visiting animals in a zoo. it was said that patients were left to lie naked on the floor or in you‘re in soaked sheets. this report says the

evidence of that report was incomplete, misinterpreted, taken out of context and based on misleading information and misunderstood. if that there is no evidence to support prior allegations of deliberate abuse or wilful neglect and it‘s interesting what the family estate, very different accounts. some say there was abuse while others said there was abuse while others said there was kindness and compassion in the care. very contradictory reports. what happens next? there is still another report to come out, it has been long delayed and it is written by the person who wrote the first report. that is long delayed and will be about why there are governance issues. this report is significant because the last report, the critical one, was one of the factors that led to betsi cadwaladr university health board being placed in special measures and it was the first health board for that to happen to in wales. the health secretary here, vaughan gething, has said that he wants the health board to increase the pace of improvement.

he said the report includes the important reassurance that they couldn‘t prove previous claims of institutional abuse or neglect but he says it does reinforce wider failures across the health board. he also urges caution when comparing the two reports, and the contradictions found there. we will have reactions from the families later and from the health board. in the meantime, plenty on the bbc wales website. thank you. from many parts of england and wales it will be a decent and warm day with temperatures getting up into the high teens. further north and west we have more clout and that is producing some outbreaks of rain across northern ireland and coming into the far north—west. patches of rain across western scotland. elsewhere there will be a bit more cloud into the afternoon but still some breaks in the cloud to bring is bright and sunny spells. around 30

degrees in northern areas. 80 degrees in northern areas. 80 degrees in northern areas. 80 degrees in the north—east. 0vernight not a great deal of change, taking us into friday were there is a fair amount of cloud. still a few spots of rain here throughout the day. us we re of rain here throughout the day. us were some breaks in the cloud give some brighter and sunny spells. turning warmer in the north—east of scotland. up to 20 degrees here. even further south those temperatures in the high teens and low 20s. into the bank holiday weekend it will warm up for all others and be mostly fine and dry, apart from some rain in the far north—west of some sunshine. this is bbc news. our latest headlines... thousands of women have been calling helplines, concerned that they weren‘t invited for breast cancer screening due to an nhs computer error in england. donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 of ‘hush money‘ that was allegedly

used to buy the silence of the porn star stormy daniels over claims of an affair. cambridge analytica — the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal — shuts down. investigators vow the probe will still "pursue individuals and directors". the parents of a mentally ill former soldier, now jailed for life — had warned a health trust that he was collecting knives before he murdered a dog walker. plenty happening in sport. let‘s catch up with all the news. here is ben mundie. it will be liverpool against real madrid in the champions league final then. the reds booked their place with a 7—6 victory over roma. and now the race is on for tickets to the game in kiev. liverpool and madrid have been allocated just over 16,000 each

for the final on may 26th. the remainder of the 63,000 capacity going to the likes of sponsors, officials and hospitality. and jurgen klopp is promising his liverpool side will put on another show. yeah, we will be ready then but it is real madrid so we don‘t have to talk about anything, you can not be more experienced in that competition than real madrid. pretty much 80% of their team played all these finals four times their team played all these finals fourtimes in their team played all these finals four times in the last five years, they are still together. so they are experienced, we were not, if you talk about experience, but we will be really on fire. attention turns to the europa league this evening, as arsenal look to seal a place in the final. they‘re in spain to face atletico madrid. arsene wenger‘s side drew the first leg of their semifinal at the emirates 1—1. if arsenal do progress, it‘ll give wenger the chance to win silverware in his final match in charge. i would like to walk out of arsenal one day and think,

i have focused on arsenal. and when myjob is finished, we go from there. i want to finish with this love story well. elsewhere this morning, justin langer has been named as australia‘s new cricket coach. the former opening batsman takes overfrom darren lehmann in the wake of the ball—tampering scandal. langer was quick to point out how he intends to improve australia‘s reputation on and off the field. 0ne one of the things really important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to me respect is with more than all the gold in the world. in respect on and off the cricket field. also i know the really important foundation over the last six years in western australian cricket is we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people. if we can encourage great cricketers and greatest italians over the next four years starting from day one i think that is really important foundations for us. there‘ll be another big star leaving

northampton saints this summer. ben foden has announced he‘s going after ten years with the club. saints have won one premiership title and two european challenge cups since the full—back joined from sale in 2008. he also won 3a caps for england during that spell but saturday‘s match against worcester will be his 250th and last. fodenjoins the likes of george north and stephen myler in deciding to leave. john higgins is through to the semifinals of the world snooker championship, after beating judd trump in a dramatic encounter at the cruicible. the four—time champion drew on his experience to come back from a four—frame deficit to beat trump. he‘ll now face kyren wilson for a place in the final in sheffield. that match starts at 1pm this afternoon. the semifinal, i considered before, is the hardest game ever to get through because once you get through toa through because once you get through to a final er in the showpiece, there is nothing as you can do you just had to give it your all but if you paul dummett the semifinal stage it is the worst defeat you can have in any tournament, so hopefully i

will not fall down. mark williams will face barry hawkins in the other semi final. hawkins beat ding junhui, while williams completed a 13 frames to 8 win over ali carter. that‘s a 7 o‘clock start. the semis are best of 33 frames, you can watch them both on bbc2 and the bbc sport website. and the tour de yorkshire has begun this morning. the women were first to set off from beverley and will finish stage one in doncaster. the men get going this afternoon. it‘s a four day race ending on sunday in leeds. that‘s all the sport for now. i‘ll have more for you in the next hour. back now to our main story. tens of thousands of women are waiting to hear if they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. it‘s estimated that up to 270 women may have died prematurely because they were not invited to routine screening. questions are being asked about why senior health officials didn‘t realise sooner that there was a problem.

the authors of a report for the ippr think tank — which found the take—up for breast screening among women aged between 50 and 70 had fallen — say action should have been taken more quickly. this morning we put that point to jenny harries of public health england. the ippr says that they look at things in 2016 and that screening had fallen to 71.1%, the lowest in ten years, and they said yesterday that health chiefs said examined that health chiefs said examined that they do little earlier. so the screening percentage will be a percentage of the number of women who have been invited and not accepted, not come forward to actually take the screen forward, it won‘t include women who have not been invited. so the numbers are not comparing, not directly comparable and importantly what that shows is we do review in very great detail

each year the percentage of women who are digging up screening for breast screening or other screening programmes and trying to look at what is causing that, including things like geographical distribution and any particular groups of women for this programme. reporter: if that is the case why wasn‘t that blinked in the january when an 80 update... they are not directly comparable. that was a percentage figure of the number of women who are digging up the invitation of those who have been the dead, whereas the problem we are looking at here is we are offering catch up screening is because a number of women at the end of the 50-70 number of women at the end of the 50—70 bracket have not been given the invitation. this is affecting an awful lot of women, you have known about this since january. why the time like to announcing its now? why is it still only over 60 by women who will get there that is in the next week? i realised that has had the public may see it but we are trying to do what is right for

women. during that time we have not been idle. we have been putting in fixes to the it all the way through as we have found them we have mended them as rapidly as we can. we picked up them as rapidly as we can. we picked upa them as rapidly as we can. we picked up a problem which we thought was short lived and had gone right back to check where it started and butted right. but i think the most important thing is as we have noticed the newspapers and we are all part of that system, we want to be sure that we have the red systems in place to respond to women sensitively and we have had an expert advisory group running with expert advisory group running with expert clinicians who have told us they are very clear that women need to have a helpline in place to have all those things and for us to have the complete picture before we go out to them so we don‘t cause them all the more anxiety than the current situation. they have visited yesterday that up to 271 may have lost their lives earlier because of this. do you think that the realistic number or is that going to grow? obviously whatever number it

is it is the wrong number. we don‘t wa nt is it is the wrong number. we don‘t want that. we are saving lives through the breast screening programme and we don‘t want to be causing, we want to maximise the benefits. i think it is likely to be an abreast of it. it is extreme the difficult because every individual screen for women is different clinical context and so we have set up clinical context and so we have set up the helpline numberfor women clinical context and so we have set up the helpline number for women to access and there is an opportunity for anybody for example they may have developed breast cancer to be treated very sensitively through that and to have their individual case reviewed so they can see if this lack of an invitation has actually had an impact on their own disease course. earlier the victoria derbyshire programme was joined by a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer after failing to receive an invite to a mammogram. patricia minchin says her treatment might have been different had the cancer been found earlier.

i was disappointed that i didn‘t receive a letter. who knows if it would have made a difference. i think it may have made a difference because it was less than two years andi because it was less than two years and i had three breast tumours and some of them were quite deep. at that point something small might have shown up in that last mammogram which would have made the whole journey less hazardous, less traumatic. and that journey involved a mastectomy... yes, and absolute clea ra nce, a mastectomy... yes, and absolute clearance, chemotherapy, herceptin, more chemotherapy, radiotherapy, a number of long and ct scans because i have some lung nodules. and it is tough to get through that. very tough, yes. ithink tough to get through that. very tough, yes. i think it is quite tough, yes. i think it is quite tough when you are older as well. if you believe you have been

affected a helpline has been set up. you can call the breast screening helpline on 0800169 2692. the advice is to not contact your gp. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier have told the bbc that a health trust was warned their son was collecting knives months before he murdered a dog walker in norfolk. alexander palmer was jailed for life in march for fatally stabbing 83—year—old peter wrighton in august last year. the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust says an investigation is underway. matt precey reports. can get you to introduce yourself please with your full name and date of birth? alexander palmer, born out of birth? alexander palmer, born out of the ninth 1982. were you involved in the murderof of the ninth 1982. were you involved in the murder of peter ebdon? no

comment. former soldier alexander palmer seen here on military parade is now serving a life sentence for a crime he repeatedly told medical experts he was going to commit. his family say that mental health services missed chance after chance to prevent the killing. according to them he started suffering from paranoid schizophrenia after he was attacked by a colleague. his mother and stepfather, who have asked for the face is not to be shown, told me what happened. alex was struck from behind by one of his colleagues. he was then dragged to a kerbstone where the attacker then started stamping on his head which caused head injuries and a brokenjaw. stamping on his head which caused head injuries and a broken jaw. alex unfortunately not just physically came out of it badly, but mentally he came out of it badly. he just didn't recover from it. he was a different person. following the attack alex was medically discharged

from the army. his mental health ca re from the army. his mental health care was provided by the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust. eight months before the killing the trust wrote to alex‘s gp. the letter states... the family had to be trust he was purchasing those and the letter says... basically he was told by the caseworker, you are 2a, living at home, move out. get the job and get a life. that was their a nswer to job and get a life. that was their answer to his mental health issues even though i am sitting there saying, even though i am sitting there by even though i am sitting there saying, by the way, he has got a selection of knives. in august last year alexander palmer stabbed the dog walker a5 times in the woods near east harling. he received a life sentence with a minimum of 28 yea rs life sentence with a minimum of 28 years for murdering the 82—year—old grandfather peter wrighton. palmer

was arrested by the police after they were tipped off by a military mental health worker who had previously treated him. during questioning he told officers about hallucinations and voices he had in his head that he called little alex. he used to manifest himself as physical hallucinations but now he isjust a voice. is he still with us? is he here today? yet. where is he now? always in my head. after the trial the daughter of the victim said they were shocked that palmer could take himself off his medication. we believe this crime could have been prevented. before the trial palmer was held at rampton secure hospital near nothing but following his conviction he has been put into the general prison population at wakefield. his parents are desperate to get him transferred back to a secure hospital. when we saw him the first time he had lost

two stone. he had help with them across his arm. he counted himself. —— cut it himself. across his arm. he counted himself. -- cut it himself. literally when he walked in i didn‘t recognise him. another concern his parents raised about the mental health services was how they wouldn‘t listen to him. mental health specialists we have spoken to say recognising the voice of the patient is regarded as best practice. unfortunately they believe they had to listen to the patient. the premier source of the information. during this time you're telling me there is a dangerous person. what were they saying to you? that they could we listen to what alex had to say. a number of occasions they seemed to feel that i needed mental health care. at the time alexander palmer was being treated by the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust. they were rated as inadequate by inspectors. the care quality commission ‘s most

recent report highlights the lack of bed availability, stating people did not always receive the red care at the right time. he said he is going to kill somebody and said how he is going to kill somebody and he said it is inevitable. it will happen. and it did. he said it himself. and they misjudged to stop this? without a doubt. maybe we should have done more. but the amounts of times that we we re more. but the amounts of times that we were treated like we were interfering and that we didn‘t know if, they just, interfering and that we didn‘t know if, theyjust, iwasn‘t interfering and that we didn‘t know if, theyjust, i wasn‘t the experts what line of? unfortunately the old peter wrighton paid the price and his family continues to do so. in a statement norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust said an internal, independently chaired review is currently underway. it says after the conclusion of the internal review, expected in the summer, a wider investigation examining the details of the events which led up to mr wrighton‘s murder is expected to take place.

in a moment a summary of the business news this hour, but first the headlines on bbc newsroom live. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was allegedly used to buy the silence of the porn star stormy daniels over claims of an affair. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier tell the bbc they warned a health trust that he was collecting knives before he murdered a dog walker. hello. these are the top business stories. tesla has posted a record quarterly loss of almost £523 million for the three months to march — more than double the same period last year. the carmarker says it

will be profitable in the second half of 2018 — but only if it can make 5,000 model 3 cars every week. reaching that goal is in doubt given the electric car maker produced just 2,270 in the last week of april. cambridge analytica, the firm at the centre of the facebook data—sharing scandal, is shutting down. the firm was accused of improperly obtaining personal information of up to 87 million facebook users on behalf of political clients. activity in the services sector rose in april, according to the markit/cips purchasing managers‘ index — but it just missed analysts forcasts. it follows a post—brexit low in march. we start with electric carmaker tesla. its vehicles may not burn any fuel — but the company is burning through cash at an alarming rate — almost £5,000 a minute according to bloomberg. that‘s starting to try the patience of once—loyal investors.

on wednesday elon musk — its chief executive — promised that the firm will finally be profitable in the second half of this year — despite another quarter of huge losses. tesla lost about £523 million between january and march this year. that was its worst ever quarterly loss — and well over twice as much as this time last year. tesla has been pouring money into the model 3 — its first truly mass market car. that is paying off — total car production is up a0% this year. but tesla still has hundreds of thousands of customers waiting. they need to get those cars to them before they can make any money. joining us now is anna—marie baisden, head of autos, bmi research. nice to see you. it is a real challenge for tesla because they say

yes we have got to these customers and they willing to buy the car but they can‘t make them quickly enough. yes and i think this was always going to be a challenge for them going to be a challenge for them going from being a niche manufacturer to being a volume manufacturer and they said some pretty lofty targets for themselves and they keep falling short. they need to be at 5000 a week. they are still nowhere near that. they say they will do it byjune but at the moment it is hard to see how they can reach that figure. if they don't reach that figure it means the figures will continue to look bad as far as the profits are concerned. elon musk the boss is pretty robust and optimistic they can do it. but will investors have enough patience to see it through? i think he is definitely trying their patients at the moment because the share price stayed pretty steady after the results themselves but the cold but the analysts whether they refused to a nswer the analysts whether they refused to answer some key questions made do i start the ball. customers, investors

and analysts, everyone wants start the ball. customers, investors a nd a nalysts, everyone wa nts a nswers to the big questions as to how they will start to turn things around. the problem is when we look at the electric car market everybody sees that the technology is now dipping into the mainstream and we accept that electric cars will be here to stay at some point in the future but it is getting customers on board and on—board to this extent or to a mass extent and that is the key issue, getting the numbers eyeing these ca rs. getting the numbers eyeing these cars. it is and to some extent the arab against the clock, competition is starting to mobilise. a lot of the premium brands are getting the electric cars out there. also they are burning through the cash incentives in a lot of countries have a very finite time period whether it be when you reach a certain amount of unit is in the us, or you have a fund that will eventually run out, so they really need to get models to market while this will have that level of support. we watch it closely. good to see you. vauxhall is understood to be co—operating

with a criminal investigation into how it handled fires in its zafira b models. the driver and vehicle standards agency has teamed up with trading vauxhall recorded the first fire in a zafira in 2009 but there were 160 more cases before it launched an investigation in 2015, leading to the recall of more than a00,000 cars. a company which owns hotels close to heathrow has unveiled a rival plan for a new runway and terminal at the airport. arora group wants to break the monopoly at heathrow. the budget for its proposal is roughly the same as the airport‘s own plan. heathrow says that arora‘s design shows a complete "lack of understanding of airport operations" but airlines iag and virgin say they should be considered. customers of talktalk are the least likely to recommend the telecoms provider to theirfriends. it‘s the second year in a row that it‘s come bottom of a customer survey run by 0fcom.

talktalk has described the results as "disappointing" but says it‘s rolling out major service improvements. the beast from the east has taken a bite out of profits at insurance firm esure. along with storm emma, severe winter weather caused £8 million in claims for the firm, £6 million more than expected. talktalk has come last for the second year running in a broadband service report released by regulator 0fcom. esher is even higher although it had... the ftse100 pretty flat on the day in which there is inflation news from the eurozone. starting to slow a little bit across the eurozone. that is a problem because in the past we have been aiming for targets in the uk of about 2% which

means the economy is growing pretty healthy but the visitors to slow too much that will be a cause for concern for the central bank as whether they need to start raising interest rates to try and spurred demand or indeed lower it to get that demand back up and running. that is what the market are doing. more for you throughout the afternoon. that is all from me. polling stations across england are open for voting in local elections, in the biggest test of public opinion since the general election 11 months ago. the prime minister voted this morning in london, as did labour leaderjeremy corbyn. most councils will be counting votes overnight, but others will declare results during the day on friday. and you can watch coverage of the local election results from 11pm here on the bbc news channel. a chinese company has broken the guinness world record for the most drones flown simultaneously, despite them failing to coordinate for a light show. this fleet of 1,37a drones was programmed to fly in set patterns, and set a new world record despite failing to spell out the date.

the south china morning post called the event an "epic fail". the spectacle lasted for 13 minutes. the headlines are coming up on the bbc news channel. in a moment we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two — first we leave you with for a look at the weather. here‘s simon king. hello. those drones but pretty decentin hello. those drones but pretty decent in this guide but this could be even better i think. with the bid was ina be even better i think. with the bid was in a moment at the beach there in cornwall. for many of us this morning we started with some sunshine. a fairly chilly start but with that sunshine it is turning pretty warm. as you can see from the weather watcher in cornwall, also very nice. the satellite shows we have that more cloud towards the north and west. that cloud is moving in and producing some outbreaks of rain across northern ireland into

the surface of scotland and also in the surface of scotland and also in the north—west of england, so u nfortu nately you have the north—west of england, so unfortunately you have not got the blue skies in that sunshine in northern ireland. patchy rain which will become more patchy into the afternoon but that spreads into the far north—west of england. elsewhere the cloud increasing during the afternoon but still some good holes in that cloud to give some bright and sunny spells. it will feel warmer than yesterday. up to around 13 in the north. 17 or 18 in the south—east of england. 0vernight denied there would be a great deal of change. quite a bit of cloud to figures into the rowdy morning, the lengthily clear spells will allow temperatures to drop fairly low towards the south—east of england. generally temperatures staying at around 6—9. friday quite cloudy from any. 0utbrea ks of around 6—9. friday quite cloudy from any. outbreaks of rain affecting the far north—west of scotland throughout the day. some holes in that cloud giving us some bright and

sunny spells from time to time. but despite that cloud it will turn quite warm and humid for many of us. pictures 15—18 or perhaps 20 in the far north—east of scotland. 20 in the south—east. even warmer through the south—east. even warmer through the bank holiday weekend. lots of dry and wet weather around and some sunshine as well. saturday still some cloud and outbreaks of rain in the far north—west of scotland. elsewhere some dry weather with bright and sunny spells. temperatures are getting into the mid—20s across the south—east of england. even further north quite widely does temperatures in the high teens. sunday very similar. lots of sunshine for england and wales. always more cloud than the breaks of rain in the far north—west of scotla nd rain in the far north—west of scotland with temperatures 25 and the south—east. going up each day. 17-19, 20 a the south—east. going up each day. 17—19, 20 a degrees in the north—west of england. bank holiday monday does temperatures again in the high teens to mid—20s. lots of

dry weather with warm spells as. this is bbc news and these are the top stories developing at midday. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was allegedly used to buy the silence of the porn star, stormy daniels, over claims of an affair. the president didn't know about this... i believe... he didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as i know. but he did know about the general arrangement. michael would take care of things like this. the defence secretary says afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers and then came to the uk should be allowed to stay. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier warned a health trust that he was collecting knives before he murdered a dog walker.

he said he‘s going to kill somebody and said how he is going to kill somebody, and he said, well, it‘s inevitable. it will happen. also coming up — an iconic victorian glasshouse reopens at kew gardens after a refurbishment and speaking in an exclusive interview at the opening sir david attenborough warns of the environmental dangers of plastics. we use plastic, or have done until now, with total abandon, without any care or concern about where it‘s going to go and what it might do. good afternoon. it‘s the third of may. i‘m rebecca jones.

welcome to bbc newsroom live. thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. over 200 have called the official helpline and cancer charities say thousands more have been in touch. questions are being asked about why senior health officials didn‘t realise sooner that there was a problem. since 2009 — a50,000 women aged between 50 and 70 had not been given their final appointment. of the women who missed screenings, just over 300,000 are still alive and will be contacted before the end of may. it‘s estimated that up to 270 women in england may have died prematurely as a result. a breast cancer support group meeting in surrey last night.

many of these women owe their lives to early detection of their cancer by screening, so they are well placed to understand the enormous consequences of the government‘s announcement. very shocked. just to think there is an awful lot of women out there that have been missed. and the consequences of them having been missed can be terrible. ijust think it's really sad, and ijust wonder what happened. you know, at what point was it picked up and why did people not pick it up earlier? the institute for public policy research says there were signs something was wrong. in a recent report on the nhs, it highlighted the proportion of 50 to 70—year—olds who accepted an invitation to be screened. that percentage fell to 71.1% in 2016-17, the lowest in ten years. the ippr says health chiefs should have examined the data earlier to see what was happening, but it will now be the subject of an independent review. i feel extremely sad for the women affected by this colossal administrative disaster, really.

it's hugely significant. a helpline has already received over 200 calls. there is an opportunity for people who may have developed breast cancer can see if this lack of an invitation actually have had an impact on their own disease course. women in scotland are not affected by the error because it has different it. wales and northern ireland have similar systems to england, but the health department says there is no reason to think they were affected. an estimated 309,000 women still alive who missed their invitations for screening in england will be contacted by the end of the month. those under 72 will be be offered a catch—up mammogram which is due to be completed by october. andy moore, bbc news.

0ne helpline receiving high volumes of calls has been the charity breast cancer care — they reported receiving over a0 calls in just the first 15 minutes of opening this morning. earlier i spoke to their clinical director dr emma pennery about some of the concerns. the important thing is only certain women are affected by this, and missing a screening is appalling but most women who attend for screening don‘t go on to develop breast cancer. the important thing is that women get the information and support to understand if they were affected but it‘s only certain age groups and most importantly, for women who don‘t have breast cancer, missing that screening doesn‘t increase the risk of getting breast cancer. if you believe you have been affected a helpline has been set up. you can call the breast screening helpline on 0800169 2692. the advice is not

to contact your gp. in the next half hour we‘ll be speaking hour we‘ll be speaking to oncologist karol sikora, who also is a former assessor of the nhs breast cancer screening programme. one of donald trump‘s lawyers has contradicted him over a payment to a porn actress to keep her silent during the 2016 election campaign. the us president denies having an affair with stormy daniels and that his lawyer, michael cohen, paid her $130,000. speaking to sean hannity on fox news, rudy giuliani, the former new york mayor who‘s now on mr trump‘s legal team, said the president had personally repaid mr cohen legally. 0ur washington correspondent chris buckler reports. the truth of what happened between the president and the porn star

continues to be a cause of much dispute. donald trump denies ever having an encounter with the adult actress stormy daniels, but there are some very contradictory messages when it comes to the details of the alleged affair. did you know about the $130,000 payment made to stormy daniels? 0n—board air force one last month, donald trump said he knew nothing about the payment made by his lawyer to stormy daniels. he directed all questions to mr cohen, whose office was raided a few weeks ago as part ofa criminal was raided a few weeks ago as part of a criminal investigation into his business dealings. in the meantime, donald trump has been building up a new legal team which includes a former mayor of new york, rudy giuliani. he appeared on fox news last night and seemed to contradict his client, suggesting the president did know about the cash. the money was not campaign money.

sorry, i‘m giving you a fact now that you don‘t know. it is not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so they followed it through a law firm? funnelled it through a lawful the president repaid it. the money intended to keep stormy daniels quiet about her claims was paid injune the days before the 2016 and action. the intention of this statement seem to be to dismiss claims that the payment could have broken campaign finance rules, but it has led to new questions, particularly as rudy giuliani said it was repaid disguised as legal fees. it is clear that donald trump is continuing to struggle with that stormy issue. 0ur president is still looking for some protection from his allegations from his past. we can bring you the latest on this story because president donald trump have been sending tweets. three

treats, they are quite detailed. you will be able to read them. and that is key, sarah. donald trump saying that there was no money from the 2016 presidential election campaign involved in this issue. the defence secretary gavin williamson has told the bbc afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers should be allowed to stay in the uk. it comes after more than 150 interpreters wrote a letter to mr williamson to demand a change in immigration rules at the home office after being told they need to pay up to £1,000 for a visa to stay indefinitely in the uk. mr william says he is confident the fees will be waived. they have served alongside our armed

forces, done an amazing job in afghanistan, and we have a personal duty to do the right thing by them. i know that is thing that is felt right across government so what we have been proposing is making sure that this fee is waived. these are people that have been so to us and have done so much for our armed forces and i have no doubt we are going to get this matter resolved and our government is going to ensure that we deliver for them, they have always delivered for us. the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal is shutting down. cambridge analytica was accused of improperly obtaining millions of users‘ information. in a statement it says its customers were "driven away" by recent negative coverage but insists its employees "acted ethically and lawfully". the uk data watchdog says it will continue its investigation into what happened. for more on this let‘s cross over to our salford newroom and speak to martyn bryant who‘s a media and technology consultant. thanks very much for coming in to

talk to us. cambridge analytica said they did nothing wrong and that lots of data analytics companies use the same methods. is that right? they use very similar methods to many forms of digital marketing. usually the kind of marketing that might tell you or try and get you to change your brand of drink you buy or whatever. product marketing, really. what we found with this case is that there is really a line that a lot of people draw where they don‘t mind this kind of behavioural targeting, hyper targeted advertising, and then when they are finding out about a new product but when it is political advertising trying to influence their political views and they don‘t know who is trying to influence them or in what way, they don‘t like that. is itfairto way, they don‘t like that. is it fair to say that the customers we re is it fair to say that the customers were scared off by the brand but not

the approach? absolutely. i don‘t think we will see the end of this approach, and i think see more companies like wayne bridge analytic in the future and certainly some of the same people appear to have formed a new company that we will have to keep an eye on. i think one of the big things we will see is more regulation of political advertising when it comes to social media. tell us a little bit about how well regulated the sector is at the moment. not really at all when it comes to social media data and targeting people through social media. facebook has lobbied hard over the yea rs, facebook has lobbied hard over the years, for example, to keep that the case. it has succeeded in the us. but i think even now they have conceded there will have to be some kind of regulation in the future and now that it‘s an issue we are aware of and it has become a national or international discussion, it is

really going to have to happen. and how easy is it going to be to impose that kind of regulation? if you look at the way social media advertising happens, it tends to be self—service, so people log on and upload the details of who they want to target and what they want to say and no human, in a lot of cases, will be involved in giving it a cursory glance before it goes live. so we are going to have to see a lot more human intervention in background checks about who is being allowed to promote different political causes and facebook has actually started doing some of that itself, saying only terrified people, people with a verified identity, can advertise politically on its platform. but i think people see some that codified in law in due course. briefly, do you think there will be more scandals? i think certainly in terms of the

way data was used by cambridge analytica, data that people didn‘t really know was being used in that way, we are going to see more of that because for a few years that data was easy to access and lots of companies will have it. we will see a lot more facebook data from the past being exposed as having been used in ways that users didn‘t expect. good to talk to you. thanks. the headlines on bbc newsroom live: thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. it‘s emerged donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was allegedly used to buy the silence of the porn star, stormy daniels, over claims ofan affair the defence secretary says afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers and then came to the uk should be allowed to stay . here‘s the sport with ben mundy.

it was a very nervy night for liverpool and their supporters. losing to roma a—2 in italy but reaching the champions league final 7-6 reaching the champions league final 7—6 on aggregate. they will now play the kings of europe, real madrid, in the kings of europe, real madrid, in the final later this month. liverpool fans will be a for tickets. both clubs have been allocated just over 16,000 each for the match on maybe 26. the remainder is taken up by sponsors and hospitality, many of them falling into the hands of fans at a price. the ukrainian capital will be painted red and a mouthwatering final, and liverpool determined to put on another show. we will be ready then, but it is real madrid so we don‘t have to talk

about anything. you cannot be more experience in that competition than real madrid. i think pretty much a percent of the team have played all these finals four times in the last five years and are still together so if you talk about experience, they are experienced and we are not, but we will be really on fire. as expected, justin langer is australia‘s new cricket coach. the former opening batsman takes over in the wake of the ball tampering scandal. he says his firstjob will be to bring the respect and the trust of the cricket world. 0ne trust of the cricket world. one of the things that is really important is that we keep looking to earn respect. to me, respect is worth more than all the gold in the world so earn respect on and off the cricket field. thing also another really important foundation over the la st really important foundation over the last six years in western australia cricket is that we look to encourage great cricketers but also great people so if we can encourage great australians over the next four

years, starting from day one, i think that's really important. the first of the world snooker championship semifinals gets going in the next hour. john higgins is backin in the next hour. john higgins is back in action after beating judd trump by one deciding frame in sheffield last night. he faces wilson. you can watch that live on bbc and on the website. barry hawkins and mark williams start the semifinal this evening. tour de yorkshire started this morning. the women set off from beverley. the men get going this afternoon. it is a four—day race and it ends in leeds on sunday. if you follow the bbc sport website for that as well. some lovely pictures coming in as it winds its way through the yorkshire could he said. more in the next hour dust. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier have told the bbc that a health trust was warned their son was collecting knives months before he murdered a dog walker in norfolk.

alexander palmer was jailed for life in march for fatally stabbing 83—year—old peter wrighton in august last year. the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust says an investigation is underway. matt precey reports. can i get you to introduce yourself please with your full name and date of birth? alexander palmer, born 8/9/1993. were you involved in the murder of peter ebdon? no comment. former soldier alexander palmer seen here on military parade is now serving a life sentence for a crime he repeatedly told medical experts he was going to commit. his family say that mental health services missed chance after chance to prevent the killing. according to them he started suffering from paranoid schizophrenia after he was attacked by a colleague. his mother and stepfather, who have asked for

their faces not to be shown, told me what happened. alex was struck from behind by one of his colleagues. he was then dragged to a kerbstone where the attacker then started stamping on his head which caused head injuries and a brokenjaw. alex unfortunately notjust physically came out of it badly, but mentally he came out of it badly. he just didn't recover from it. he was a different person. following the attack alex was medically discharged from the army. his mental health care was provided by the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust. eight months before the killing the trust wrote to alex‘s gp. the letter states... the family had to be trust he was purchasing knives and the letter says... basically he was told by the caseworker, you are 2a, living at home, move out.

get the job and get a life. that was their answer to his mental health issues even though i am sitting there saying, by the way, he has got a selection of knives. in august last year alexander palmer stabbed the dog walker a5 times in the woods near east harling. he received a life sentence with a minimum of 28 years for murdering the 82—year—old grandfather peter wrighton. palmer was arrested by the police after they were tipped off by a military mental health worker who had previously treated him. during questioning he told officers about hallucinations and voices he had in his head that he called little alex. he used to manifest himself as physical hallucinations but now he isjust a voice. is he still with us? is he here today? yes. where is he now? always in my head.

after the trial the daughter of the victim said they were shocked that palmer could take himself off his medication. we believe this crime could have been prevented. before the trial palmer was held at rampton secure hospital near nottingham but following his conviction he has been put into the general prison population at wakefield. his parents are desperate to get him transferred back to a secure hospital. when we saw him the first time he had lost two stone. he had "help" written across his arm. he cut himself. literally when he walked in i didn't recognise him. another concern his parents raised about the mental health services was how they wouldn‘t listen to him. mental health specialists we have spoken to say recognising the voice of the patient is regarded as best practice. unfortunately they believe they had to listen to the patient.

the primary source of the information. during this time you‘re telling me there is a dangerous person. what were they saying to you? that they could only listen to what alex had to say. a number of occasions they seemed to feel that i needed mental health care. at the time alexander palmer was being treated by the norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust. they were rated as inadequate by inspectors. the care quality commission‘s most recent report highlights the lack of bed availability, stating people did not always receive the right care at the right time. he said he is going to kill somebody and said how he is going to kill somebody and he said it is inevitable. it will happen. and it did. he said it himself. and they missed chances to stop this? without a doubt. maybe we should have done more. but the amounts of times that we were treated like we were interfering and that we didn‘t know

if, theyjust, i wasn‘t the experts what do i know? unfortunately dear old peter wrighton paid the price and his family continues to do so. in a statement norfolk and suffolk nhs foundation trust said an internal, independently chaired review is currently underway. it says after the conclusion of the internal review, expected in the summer, a wider investigation examining the details of the events which led up to mr wrighton‘s murder is expected to take place. royal military police in germany have started a new search for a british toddler, 36 years after she disappeared. katrice lee vanished during a trip to the supermarket with her mum. since then, detectives have failed to establish what happened to her and have begun digging up a riverbank in the german town of paderborn, close to the british army base where she lived with her family.

0n the banks of a german river, a slow, painful search begins. underthe mud, clues, perhaps, to a case which has baffled detectives for decades. katrice lee disappeared during a supermarket trip with her mother. it was her second birthday. the family lived on the nearby british army base. despite the huge search, soldiers, police, volunteers, she was neverfound. i am 100% certain that katrice was abducted. over the years, artists‘ impressions of a girl growing up. detectives think it‘s possible katrice is alive, but unaware of her background. this is, they think, what she would look like today.

the police admit they made mistakes during their original investigation. they‘ve now rea nalysed old evidence, and it‘s that, they say, which has led them right here to this spot. and to a search which opens old wounds, but aims finally to expose the truth. jenny hill, bbc news, paderborn. an investigation into the mistreatment of more than 100 dementia patients in north wales has contradicted a previous inquiry‘s finding of institutional abuse. the report has been looking into allegations of poor care and record keeping on the tawel fan mental health ward near rhyl and found care and treatment was of a good overall general standard. the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has appealed to the united states not to withdraw from the international deal designed to curb iran‘s nuclear capability. speaking to the today

programme mr guterres told nick robinson that the middle east was in a dangerous position and there was a risk of war if the deal — known as thejoint plan of action orjpoa was not preserved. i believe it was an important diplomatic victory and i think it is important to preserve it, but i also believe that there are areas in which it would be very important to have a meaningful dialogue because i see the region in a very dangerous position and i understand the concerns of some countries in relation to the iranian influence in other countries of the region. so i think we should separate things. in short the message to donald trump is don't tear up the agreement, build on it. this agreement is an important achievement and if one day there is a better agreement to replace it, it is fine. but we should not scrap it unless we‘ve got a good alternative. the operators of a nuclear

power station in ayrshire have confirmed that fresh cracks have been discovered in one of their reactors. reactor 3 at the hunterston b power station was shut—down in march for a routine inspection, during which new cracks were found in its core. edf energy says the reactor could remain offline for the rest of the year but have insisted that the plant remains safe. mirror group newspapers have settled their latest phone—hacking case against a number of celebrities. the high court ordered that undisclosed damages should be paid to the former footballers andy cole and dwight yorke the actress jennifer ellison and the model danielle lloyd. none of the celebrities were at london‘s high court on thursday for the settlement of their claims for misuse of private information. one of the worst storms to hit india in decades has killed more than 70 people and officials believe the death toll could rise. many of the dead were asleep inside their homes

when they collapsed, after being struck by intense bursts of lightning. the northern indian states of rajasthan and uttar pradesh were worst affected. the bbc‘s justin rowlatt is in delhi. blue into the west of the country, bringing up power lines and uprooting trees, collapsing houses onto occu pa nts. uprooting trees, collapsing houses onto occupants. more than 70 people died and scores of people have been injured. a really, really terrible storm and of course, because these trees have been brought down because the power lines had collapsed, the electricity systems were down, roads and railways were blocked and it was really ha rd and railways were blocked and it was really hard for the relief teens to get in to the people who needed help, so it has been a terrible time. i was flying back from south india yesterday and there was terrible turbulence. when we landed in delhi. it was clear that there was debris on the ground and a bad

storm had passed through while we we re storm had passed through while we were in the area. ten people have been injured when a bonfire lit to celebrate the eve of a jewish holiday exploded and sent a fireball into a crowd. this is what happened. the emergency services were called to the event at stamford hill, in north london, yesterday evening. police say there were no serious injuries. bbc radio 2 presenter chris evans has paid a moving tribute to his mother, who died this morning. he pulled out of his breakfast show to be with his family, but sent a message saying his mother minnie was an incredible woman who needed and deserved to be at peace. sports reporter vassos alexander stepped in to host the show. chris has been here, but he has had to go home. i will try and get

through his message that he asked me to pass on to you all again. this is vassos alexander. good morning eve ryo ne vassos alexander. good morning everyone says chris. the reason i am not with you today is because just before we came on they are my mum passed away and they needed to go straight back home to be with my family. but it is all 0k. straight back home to be with my family. but it is all ok. in fact it is very 0k. none needed to be at peace. moreover she deserved to be at peace. we have been ready for this for some time now and as she has throughout her life in death she has throughout her life in death she has put us together. she was an incredible woman. anyone who has ever met her will tell you that. and ultimately there was no battle lost, only a life won every single day. i will be back tomorrow, says chris. if mum had the first idea i might not have shown up today because of her she would have been furious. i hope you all have a lovely thursday, see you tomorrow. the voice of

vassos alexander there with the words of chris evans. now the weather. chris fawkes with the forecast. the weather is cheering up just in time for the bank holiday weekend. pretty decent today across england in particular. plenty of sunshine. we keep the sunny skies all day. western england and wales the cloud thickening up with one or two light showers this afternoon. the rain in northern ireland will gradually push away but it will be quite wet across the north and west of scotland. tonight a bit more cloud than recent nights. that will keep temperatures up a little bit. 0vernight lows not as low as last night. between seven and nine. for most of us with clear skies in

north—east england and east anglia could still quite charlie. largely dry tomorrow but a few spots of rain across western scotland. thinning and breaking cloud for spells of sunshine. temperatures not too bad. highs ofaround sunshine. temperatures not too bad. highs of around 18. that is your latest weather. this is bbc newsroom live. our latest headlines... thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. donald trump has said that his lawyer, michael cohen, did not use presidential campaign funds to pay the porn actor stormy daniels to stop talking about an alleged affair. in a series of tweets, he said the payments were part of a contract designed to prevent her making what he called "false and extortionist accusations." cambridge analytica — the company at the centre of the facebook data scandal

— shuts down. investigators vow the probe will still "pursue individuals and directors". the defence secretary says that afghans who served as interpreters alongside the british army should be allowed to stay in britain, and their immigration fees waived. the parents of a mentally ill former soldier, nowjailed for life, had warned a health trust that he was collecting knives before he murdered a dog walker. the mother of the murdered toddler james bulger says attempts to remove anonymity from one of his killers is a "waste of time". the two—year—old‘s father ralph has begun a legal attempt to reveal the new identity ofjon venables. james‘ mother, denise fergus, told bbc radio five live that she didn‘t want any revenge attacks on her son‘s killers. eight years on a offenders is no

symptoms at all. especially when they have the best of everything. they have better lives in my opinion when they killed james. they got given everything. the god—given bedrooms, wallpaper, carpets. they got to do basically what they wanted. 0n got to do basically what they wanted. on their release they probably realised out in the real world now they will be looking over their shoulder. i have always said i don‘t want them to because i don‘t wa nt don‘t want them to because i don‘t want blood on my hands. i don‘t agree with killing someone. ijust think, all i ever wanted wasjust agree with killing someone. ijust think, all i ever wanted was just as forjames and getting justice would have been those two from the young offenders to go to proper prison and get proper time in there and maybe

ve na bles get proper time in there and maybe venables would have been a better person, i am venables would have been a better person, iam not venables would have been a better person, i am not sure, venables would have been a better person, iam not sure, i venables would have been a better person, i am not sure, i don‘t think they can change their spots, at least imprisoned they would have realised what they did was wrong and not get away with it but they did basically get away with his murder. they talk about not wanting to have blood on your hands and the court case happening now to remove john venables anonymity, that has nothing to do with you. no and i know my name was thrown all over it yesterday but it is what ralph wants to do and if he believes he can get that then good luck to him. hats off to him. but in my personal opinion i think to do what he is asking it will and do everything that the government have done. it‘ll be a total waste of time. they have spent millions on them to protect them so all that good will be undone and not only that people will be looking out for them now. has anybody ever said to you, offered duke said they would

ta ke to you, offered duke said they would take action on your behalf, physical action, the violent against them? they have never come to me to say that but, i am not going to protect them, definitely not going to protect them. i will not say to people leave them alone because i don‘t know everyone on this planet andi don‘t know everyone on this planet and i don‘t know what those two are up and i don‘t know what those two are up to other than what venables has just been charged with again. ijust think it is going to be a total waste money to release the identities. i think it will open a can of worms. a lot of people will come forward for the same thing. does it make the healing more difficult when they keep reappearing like this? you can't knock them out because something happens and they are back in the news again and it is ha rd are back in the news again and it is hard to avoid. i expected it. i said yea rs hard to avoid. i expected it. i said years ago hard to avoid. i expected it. i said yea rs ago because hard to avoid. i expected it. i said years ago because they were never honest, they would go on to criminal crimes and that is what has happened. i said that. venables is

doing just that. a lot of people are saying you don‘t hear of thompson, thatis saying you don‘t hear of thompson, that is because everything they do wrong is getting swept under the carpet. if it is serious that is the only time they get to know it. the newspaper picks up on it then they will get to know but if it is kept quiet they will keep it quiet. that must frustrate you. it is because we don‘t know what two them are up to. would you want to know? would it help? yes because at the end of the day i don‘t want anyone else died the same way james day i don‘t want anyone else died the same wayjames died, by their hands. we know where venables is now, we don‘t know where thompson is, you don‘t do what he has done over the years. you don‘t know if he has broken the law again. unless it is something really serious like ve na bles we is something really serious like venables we will not know. does change the way you work as a mum?m definitely dead. i was very quiet. i

found it —— hints definitely dead. since it happened to james i have become a stronger person. i have learnt how to fight james‘ corner. i have done more fighting of the living it but that is the way and i intended it to be and that is what they want to do, the fight for james. 0bviously will do it for him. that was james bulger‘s mother, denise fergus speaking to anna fosterfrom bbc five live. let‘s return to the news that the defence secretary has told the bbc that afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers should be allowed to stay in the uk. it comes after more than 150 interpreters wrote a letter to gavin williamson to demand a change in immigration rules at the home office. he‘s been speaking about the issue in the last hour. they have served alongside our armed forces and done an amazing job

working with our armed forces in afghanistan. we have a personal duty to do the right thing by then and i know that to something that is felt right across government, so what we have been proposing is making sure that this is is waived, these are people who have been so committed to us and done so much for our armed forces and i have no doubt that we will get this matter resolved. government is going to ensure that we are delivering for them as they have always delivered for us. we can speak now to lord dannatt — former head of the british army — who has called for a change in immigration policy. he also spoke to mr williamson about this matter earlier today. iam i am mentioning you welcome this news. it has been a rather, i certainly welcome the news, it has been rather dynamic morning. i took the matter to the defence secretary does my attention this morning and publicly supported it on an earlier

programme exactly as mr williamson has just programme exactly as mr williamson hasjust said, programme exactly as mr williamson has just said, these programme exactly as mr williamson hasjust said, these people have served alongside us and shared our risks, they have an absolute right to be in this country and it is ridiculous that we are going to charge them money to be able to enjoy that right. i think all credit to gavin williamson foreseeing this issue for today‘s and raising it with the home office. as i think i said earlier on a lot of programme this morning, i think this is another indication of the home 0ffice previously having this hostile environment to immigration at putting these afghan interpreters into the sink a degree which is doubly unfair. —— same category. i would die to see a lot of change in that aspect of our —— i would like to see. credit to coming out behind it and giving them hope for the rest of our lives and thanks to what they have done in our service. of our lives and thanks to what they have done in our servicelj of our lives and thanks to what they have done in our service. i am intrigued, did you just pick up the

phone to gavin williamson?” intrigued, did you just pick up the phone to gavin williamson? i know him quite well. i sent him a text this morning and drew his attention to the matter and he took to his officials and realised that they had to do something about it. what changes would you like to see going forward to prevent dislike of thing happening again because it does almost seem, i think i‘m right in saying that if a similar situation had happened with iraqi interpreters, it is most as if this policy is in place and until people make a fuss about it nothing gets done. at the certainly held seams. i think we need to have a rethink of the whole issue of language assista nts the whole issue of language assistants interpreters. when used them widely in the falklands and iraq and afghanistan so i think we need to have a policy that in future interventions where local citizens and local people have worked with us often worn a uniform, very much shared the risks with us and go on

patrol with us, if there is a threat to them we should have a very open attitude and not make them prove it‘s also be there is a threat to the family and situation that if they have taken our queen ‘s shilling to work with us then they have themselves the right. if necessary to come into this country and live here. in peace and safety and live here. in peace and safety and enjoy our thanks. of course this would be down to gavin williamson to decide, this will be done to the home office to approve, how confident are you that it will back you? i think it will be down to public opinion in a sense and public opinion shares the view that i have just voiced and that which gavin williams was buzzing i think it will be reflected by members of parliament in the house of commons andi parliament in the house of commons and i think it‘ll be very difficult for the home office to take a tough attitude on this. i think we need to be generous to those citizens who have shared our risks and interventions in the country and we should be generous to them. can you give us a sense of the background to this. how long have these rooms —— rules been in place at the moment?”

think there are a whole series of rules and what to do with interpreters from iraq and afghanistan, the issue has been raised by many people over the last few years so i am not totally familiar with all the rules but i have raised it in the past. there has been accompanied the dancer which i had on previous occasions that there is a process locally in afghanistan which looks to people‘s cases and ways of the risks to their security and weighs up the risks to theirfamilies security and weighs up the risks to their families and a decision security and weighs up the risks to theirfamilies and a decision is made but often it has been quite a slow process. it seemed the burden has been placed in the former interpreter to convince british officials that they should come to this country. i think what i‘m suggesting is that we turn it around and the presumption should be that if they have worked for us and there isa if they have worked for us and there is a threat to them than the presumption should be certainly they should come to this country. lord dannatt, good to talk to you. i know

you have spoken to victoria derbyshire as well but thank you for coming and talking to us again. polling stations across england are open for voting in local elections, in the biggest test of public opinion since the general election 11 months ago. the prime minister voted this morning in london, as did labour leaderjeremy corbyn. most councils will be counting votes overnight, but others will declare results during the day on friday. and you can watch coverage of the local election results from 11pm here on the bbc news channel. bath oils used to help treat eczema in children offer no meaningful benefit, a trial has found. a study published in the british medicaljournal, says the 23 million pounds spent each year by the nhs on the emollient oils could be used better. eczema is the most common inflammatory skin condition in childhood. the headlines on bbc newsroom live... thousands of women have called helplines worried about whether they‘ve been affected

by an nhs computer error in england which meant they weren‘t invited for breast screening. it‘s emerged donald trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was allegedly used to buy the silence of the porn star stormy daniels over claims of an affair. the defence secretary says afghan interpreters who served alongside british soldiers and then came to the uk should be allowed to stay. it‘s the largest victorian glasshouse in the world — so the temperate house in kew gardens is a very special place for horticulturalists. the doors have been closed for the past five years due to restoration — but will reopen this weekend. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill is at kew gardens for us now. it looks rather glorious. it is

looking rather glorious. it is in full resplendent is today because we have the beaming sunshine shining through the newly replaced glass. 15,000 panes of glass that have been replaced in total in this fast glasshouse. but it is housing is an arc of the most endangered and rare pla nts arc of the most endangered and rare plants from all over the planet. this is a geographically laid out collection of just stunning this is a geographically laid out collection ofjust stunning plants that will be even more stunning. they have been invented for the future. even better in 25 years. one of the first people to visit this great building was the naturalist sir david attenborough who took the opportunity at his visit to talk about the threat to the environment and some of the species here of plastic. we can never go far enough. at the moment, we are using plastic in a pretty functionless way. it baffles me. people send me letters, if they are important they put them

in a plastic envelope and then put that in another envelope. why? i can‘t understand. i mean, i suppose it makes them look precious or something. but it is quite functionless. we use plastic, or have done until now, with total abandon, without any care or concern about where it‘s going to go and what it might do. if we can pull ourselves together and recognise it is a major danger, particularly in the sea, we are stepping in the right direction. a lot of people are working now on ways in which we can deal with plastic waste. one of the problems is plastic is not just plastic, there are lots of different kinds, chemically. what works for one kind does not necessarily work for another. those are the problems. was it a conscious decision in the programme to highlight the pollution of plastic? well, it was certainly part

of in the mind of the producers that it would be a sequence. but i‘ve been saying that and we‘ve been making programmes about that sort of thing for decades. i mean, i have certainly talked about plastic many times before and many other people have too. why is it happening just now? i really can‘t tell. it just struck a particular moment in the national mood when people were sensitive to that particular danger. why, i don‘t know. but it certainly has had a a huge effect. and recently you made a conversation with the queen into a television programme, talking about the commonwealth canopy tree programme. what about your legacy? i have been lucky enough to have been making natural history programmes, and a lot

of other people too. we have all worked together and produced a great corpus of stuff. i would like to think that there will not be any of it which you couldn‘t do again, and perhaps better, but it could be that quite a lot of those things will become extinct in 50 or 100 years‘ time, in which case that would be a legacy that future generations could treasure. think about what it would be like if you could see a pterodactyl coming across and a brontosaurus coming thundering through these newly planted palm trees! thank you very much indeed, sir david attenborough. let‘s go before the pterodactyls come. sir david attenborough there i think we all associate with nature. there is so much nature contained in this

be double—spaced. later there will be double—spaced. later there will be 600 people in this building to witness sir david officially opened this great building. somebody who is very familiar with this project and who will finally be getting some rest hopefully tonight is georgina who has coordinated this whole project. thank you for inviting us in. just how much of a mission has it been to overhaul this fast and really fragile building? this is a project that has been five years under construction and a further two yea rs under construction and a further two years and planning so it has been a labour of love for an enormous amount of people and it is the complexity of this building that has made it such an important project. in this building alone 69,000 individual elements had to be removed and carefully catalogued and put back because this is an old building and everything moves and it has to be very precise. the project has to be very precise. the project has been about improving the growing conditions for the pan so we have been very careful about building in some new 21st—century technology to make sure you have good ventilation

and later these plans. think about the difficulty of 155—year—old building and trying to bring these sustainability and light technologies into which it has been complex. the blood is absolutely spectacular today especially in the sunshine that we are lucky to have beaming through this. such a huge project. now fully restored, how important is this building in terms ofan important is this building in terms of an icon for britain and the world ? of an icon for britain and the world? how important is this as a structure ? world? how important is this as a structure? this is the largest surviving victorian glasshouse in the world so they thing is so fragile. it is a unesco rescued that i recognised site. it is the last known of its kind. in many ways for us this signifies the history and science ex—oration and development of science so it is important to bring it back to life and bring it to the public in a way that it deserves. thank you. we will be spending the rest of the day

exploring this place, the geographically laid out arc of some of the rarest and was endangered pla nts of the rarest and was endangered plants from temperate zones around the world. thank you. many professional musicians are thinking about changing career because they don‘t earn enough to live on — according to a study by the musicians union. the report says nearly half of its members are considering giving up. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. a position with a leading uk orchestra would be a dream come true for gemma freestone, but she knows there‘s likely to be a cost. in the musicians union survey, almost half said orchestral work isn‘t enough to live on — luckily, gemma is keen to embrace additional work, like teaching, but for many, taking on extra work is a financial necessity. we don‘t do what we do the money, of course we don‘t, we love what we do but we have to earn a living and if people have families

and children — obviously not me yet — but looking towards the future, if you want to have a family and live comfortably, you need to be able to earn a decent amount of money. percussion player nigel charman has played in all the royal opera house‘s major productions in recent years. he says he feels lucky but that colleagues elsewhere are struggling because of the way he‘s seen orchestras and music changing over the last a0 years. the cost of instruments, the cost of insurance of instruments has gone up. the training is now costing a fortune, in time and in money, and it's not being supported by the money that we can earn. would you advise your children to go into the same profession? i have two children and i have done my best to make them grow up loving music and loving drama and loving sports and to go into the real world and go nowhere

near the music business. the musicians union say archestras are an important part of our culture and aren‘t just for regular concert—goers. even if you‘re not a classical music fan, you probably interact with orchestras more than you realise, so watching your favourite tv programme, film, playing your favourite video game, orchestral musicians are on those soundtracks. also, our members do a lot of work in dementia homes, hospitals, and they also plug a gap in music education. they‘ve started a campaign to try and increase awareness of the way orchestras affect everyday life, from visiting homes for the elderly to providing music on the soundtracks for hollywood‘s biggest movies in the hope that better recognition might lead to a musician‘s work being better rewarded, something that might ensure that talented young players like gemma won‘t be put off from playing in the many orchestras that touch people‘s lives in so many ways. lizo mzimba, bbc news. in a moment the news at one with reeta chakrabarti.

first the weather with simon king. the weather is looking fine in the run—up to the bank holiday weekend. today many areas have had some fine spells of sunshine. the best of the crossing point. this was a picture from earlier in the day near the rotherham area. it has not been dry everywhere. we have had low pressure bringing rain to northern ireland. it has brought a few showers to the north—west of england and wales as well. across much of eastern england there has been lots of sunshine. that stays through the afternoon and evening. further north and west will be more cloud. that continues overnight although they will generally be a bit more cloud. a milder ninth and last night. temperatures between around seven and nine. that takes us to friday.

ta na iste to and nine. that takes us to friday. tanaiste to the day across southern parts. area of high pressure in charge. further north—west risk south—westerly winds but with rain across the far north—west of scotla nd across the far north—west of scotland during friday morning although that will tend to ease. elsewhere some bright sunny spells breaking through the cloud. some of this across eastern parts of england and eastern scotland. those temperatures up little bit. highs of 18 and aberdeen. 19 in london and the south—east. for the bank holiday things are looking pretty good. some spells of sunshine. warmer. and it will be dry from most. high pressure in charge across much of the uk. weather fronts being steered to the north and west. this area of high pressure dominating the picture increasingly we will start to get winds coming in from the continent and it is that that will boost the temperatures. suddenly looks of this. cloudy weather with a bit of rain across the far north—west of

scotla nd rain across the far north—west of scotland could get heavier as the day goes by but otherwise it is bright and dry with sunny spells. temperatures 18 in aberdeen but 23 towards london and things will get warmer still during the second half of the weekend. increasing sunshine. rain never too far away from the north—west scotland where it could be heavy and brisk winds. in the sunshine it will get warmer. highs of 25 towards london and south—east england. that is the latest weather.