warmer air, pulling in drier, warmer air, south—easterly wind which should give more sunshine, there will be fair weather cloud mulling round, the remnant of the weather front we have had today. lengthy spells of sunshine, of warm, sunshine, light winds, coastal sea breezes but to the north—west later on friday into sunday we have this weather front to give heavier bursts of rain. that will be the question mark, how far south that comes, but it looks as if the majority of northern ireland, central southern and eastern scotla nd central southern and eastern scotland will be warm and dry and in england and wales temperatures are building. 25 on sunday, possibly even higher on monday. by monday we are pushing the weather fronts out of the way as the high pressure extends its influence further north. we will see things warming further north. bye for now. hello.

this is bbc news with ben brown. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment — first the headlines. the polls have closed in the local elections — they're the first test of public opinion in england since last year's general election more than 8000 women have contacted a helpline set up to deal with a failure in the programme to screen for breast cancer. president trump has admitted covering the cost of a payout to silence a porn star about an alleged affair, but he insisted no campaign money was used. fierce dust storms in northern india leave more than a hundred people dead and many more injured. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former trade minister lord digbyjones and broadcaster and campaigner henry bonsu. thank you so much for coming in. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times leads with bt‘s overhaul — the paper says analysts expect 6,500 job cuts to help win back investors. the i reports on the thousands of people who have called the breast cancer helpline after the nhs screening error. more claims about the behaviour of the speaker of the house of commonsjohn bercow — he strongly denies the allegations. the daily mirror shows an 81 year old windrush victim, being met by her son and grandson at the airport after nine years exile. the daily telegraph says ministers

have been told britain won't be able to leave the customs union before 2023. the sun shows six police officers and the footballer ian wright in a group photo — the paper claims the local force were too busy to investigate a nearby burglary. the guardian focuses on britain's new drive to strengthen an anti—russia alliance. so hardly surprising the local elections make many of the front pages, so let's have a closer look. digby, we have the daily mail, big front page about the breast screening scandal, it's the sort of scandal, the more details are beginning to emerge after the announcement yesterday. it heads into every individual who will ever read a newspaper because it's a female, but it might be a male who is white, mother, daughter, sister, whatever, living here, the paper has

picked up on his ministers knew about this a year ago and said nothing. i was in the lords this afternoon when the statement was read out about the government saying this is what it was about, this is what we are going to do about it and it started under the other government, the labour government, this was not a party, tribal issue. i understood from that why this is a bit misleading because they were saying look, we found out about it but we did not know the scope of that, how extensive it was, where it hit, for instance, wales have the same software that it did not have the same effect, scotland does not have the same software, it did not apply, we wanted to go to the public with this is the problem, this is what we are going to do and we are very, very sorry. i understood that, it's a shame, this is a paper if you

come off when you look at the headline, ministers were covering this up, they actually want. 0n the other hand, it is not my mother. you have the faces of three women, one had stage three cancer, another going through gruelling operations. we talk about the national health service but there are several bits, not all of them talk to each other, sometimes the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, we have public health england, nhs england, we have outsourcing to an it company that flagged this up in march 2017, apparently ministers did not know until march this year and they were told it was a local issue, that's why the public health england decided not to proceed at the time people not getting the information and we note the biggest factor when it comes to survival rates is catching diseases early, whether it's breast cancer or prostate cancer. remember the first duty of any government, any party at any time is to look after the people.

exactly, i think this means ministers will have to get operationally involved, the gabba windrush fiasco, they are working here, the civil servants are working down there and we are not hearing about it until it is a crisis.|j agree. - move on to politics, agree. let's move on to politics, local elections, henry, the polls have closed, we don't know any of the results yet, how significant are these elections? 4000 seats of for grabs. it is national, we've got the big cities like newcastle, manchester, birmingham, the mayoral elections as well, london, all 32 burners orup, labour elections as well, london, all 32 burners or up, labour would expect to sweep the board, the tories will be nervous about places like richmond, kensington and chelsea. there is a picture ofjourney carbon praying. iam not there is a picture ofjourney carbon praying. i am not sure if he is. is he an atheist, i don't... is that praying. i am not sure if he is. is he an atheist, i don't. .. is that a

marxist slogan? but i mean... he will be quietly confident. except in barnett for the anti—semitism issue may cause people to move against them. i think they have a problem, look at emily thornbury, diane abbott, jeremy corbyn, contiguous north london constituencies, john mcdonnell as a constituency of way, they will say we have done really well in london, fine, you arejust a north london marxist party now, you are not worrying about the rest of the country. you watch and see the results coming in in manchester, newcastle, you wait. i love the cartoon on the front of the telegraph, a winning candidate in a local election tonight doing his a cce pta nce local election tonight doing his acceptance speech, it could be and that says i promised to work for eve ryo ne that says i promised to work for everyone in the borough, notjust the 12 people who voted. let's go on

to your favourite subject, both of you, brexit. but in the telegraph, the headline... but the uk may stay in the customs union until 2023, we've been talking about the customs union pretty much, for months, particularly this week, the brexit cabinet committee. this subcommittee that could not come to a decision because a couple of remaining orders we nt because a couple of remaining orders went brexit, sajid javid, because a couple of remaining orders went brexit, sajidjavid, gavin williamson, amber rudd no longer pa rt of williamson, amber rudd no longer part of the picture, the customs partnership whereby we would collect taxes on behalf of the eu so businesses would get paid back later is dead in the water, the european research group led byjacob rees mogg has made clear in the mr macro pushes ahead with this she is toast. it would need the kind of technology thatis it would need the kind of technology that is not operational until 2023. that is the reason. when you think

of the 52% who voted to come out... do not presume to speak for the remainder is, you are not one of them. people must presume to speak for brexiteers. brussels, a sense of brussels, they were being done to buy brussels under was a lot of that. it's been going for 45 years. a lot of people remain still did not to be done to buy brussels, they thought it was the lesser evil, when you look at this, the customs union means britain cannot go to america, china, brazil, australia and do its own trade deal, it has two take it from brussels and therefore it's being dishonest. if i was michel barnier doing the deal i would let the remain camp room in britain, i would say carry on, you are going to do myjob for me. would say carry on, you are going to do my job for me. 0k, henry, let's go to the guardian, talking about a diplomatic drive by britain to

strengthen the anti russian alliance in the wake of salisbury and syria. talking about the big reveal, several major summit is taking place this year, the g7, 620, nato several major summit is taking place this year, the 67, 620, nato and the european union, britain wants to use this as an opportunity to deepen the alliance against russia because of what has ta ken alliance against russia because of what has taken place with the poisoning of sergei skripal and his daughter in salisbury, the chemical weapons use in douma, russia's saying it did not happen. what britain wants is to make sure there is no stalemate, we have sanctions, we have had a recall of diplomats but advanced to turn the screw because the real concern is that this is a matter of national security, it's notjust about corruption and financial misdemeanours, we are talking about national security we are talking about cyber terrorism. also in the guardian, digby, economists warning

donald trump, don't replay the 1930s in terms of economic protectionism. iam in terms of economic protectionism. i am convinced of my own decision on this because i am a free trader, instinctively in my soul i don't do protectionism, i have spoken for yea rs protectionism, i have spoken for years and speeches all over the world about how the french and the americans do protectionism and tha nkfully americans do protectionism and thankfully britain does not, the eu does for more of that than is healthy for the western world. so when you have economists writing letters like this i think it is excellent, it says to donald trump, if you want to lead, i did a speech the other week... but let's cut to the other week... but let's cut to the chase, should he be a protectionist or not? of course you should not, i in the speech said if you want to make america a great again you need to define great for me because that to me means lead and lead means the free world, a free trading world, be part of that, be strong in it, my worry, i am convinced my decision, the last load

of economists, who wrote a letter to the newspaper was 1981, margaret thatcher, saying you are trying to achieve led to one of the greatest events of prosperity that britain ever had, one of the people who signed that was mervyn king. while we are talking about donald trump, suggestion in the independent that he might speak in digby‘s place. that is right, the royal gallery, we've had other people like bill clinton and ronald reagan making addresses from that particular gallery. i've had a thought, i know who could ride the presidential speech, digby! tell him not to be a protectionist. and you are so right. i have something to say about this to the mail online and then they be printed it in the independent. what did you say? i am quoting myself in the newspaper, marvellous. narcissism, can you see the

reflection in this murder? exactly. he said it would be an excellent idea for mr trump to speak in parliament, as the democratically elected leader of the largest trading partner, biggest inward investment and the guarantor of an 0live said and done of our security. the bosses of china and saudi arabia have been invited so why not him? that's enough digbyjones! last story. in the daily mirror. it's another human angle on the windrush scandal. we must remember the human and stop obsessing with process, we are talking about a grandmother, i am not sure if she is coming from jamaica. she was not able to get back into the uk. nine years. she has probably been in the uk for 50—something years, so many of these examples, i suspect she is the tip of the iceberg, people caught up in the hostile environment, people who have passports who have gone to jamaica and cannot get back and there are loads of people like that,

this is the next flag of the story. cani this is the next flag of the story. can i ask you, i don't understand this. there was a civil servant who at some point thought, this woman has been here since she was knee—high to a grasshopper, she is 60 something, we are stopping her coming back in, didn't a civil servant think this is wrong? because the default position from the home office is no, this is the problem, i wonder what is wrong with these people. it's like the afghan interpreters. same thing. what person would sign a form saying a person would sign a form saying a person who has risked his life to help written and we would say to him goodbye. he is a human being. this tells you about use of a country and they are not looking good. we were talking about a slight change on the afg ha n talking about a slight change on the afghan interpreter situation, is that because we have a new home secretary? it's partly because of that but it's because the shame people are linking it to what happened with the windrush generation and they know how rotten

it looks. i think there has been a big disconnect and i hope sajid javid puts it right. between ministerial direction and civil servant execution, there is an enormous gap which they should not be. and by the way, i would like to see a bit more blame going on in the civil service because ministers should take the rap, they are in charge, they should resign, there is a lot of people who should do some thinking. we have got to wrap up, henry and digby, thank you so much. that's it for this extra helping of the papers tonight — thanks for staying digby and henry. next here on bbc news, huw edwards will be bring you all the latest coverage of the results in the local elections.