the top of the to be challenging at the top of the leaderboard come this evening. she fights it out for her third potential major title of the year. that's all the sport for now. coming up: the travel show looks at transforming tourism in northern ireland and the best of the uk. that's at 1.30pm, here on bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. we have some very heavy showers in the north this afternoon, but in the site you might be wondering what all the fuss is about editors —— as it isa the fuss is about editors —— as it

is a very nice day here. through the midlands into the north of england and scotland is where those heavy thunderstorms will be. there is a yellow met office warning for these thunderstorms. the dawn ports will tend to move towards the north and east through the evening. low pressure firmly in control of our weather for monday and for much of the week, with plenty of showers and thunderstorms mixed in, mainly gci’oss thunderstorms mixed in, mainly across northern and western areas. there could be localised flooding in places.

hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: two mass shootings in the united states — the first in a walmart store in el paso, texas, where 20 people were killed. a suspect has been taken into custody by police — he has been identified by local media as 21—year—old

patrick crusius. the second shooting took place in dayton, ohio, where nine people died. officials said the speed of the police's response could have saved hundreds of lives. if dayton police had not gotten to the shooter and under a minutes, think of that, 26 injured, nine dead, hundreds of people in the oregon district could be dead today. police are stopping whaley bridge residents from returning to their homes, as more heavy rain is expected in derbyshire amid the battle to prevent the town's dam from collapsing. now on bbc news, it's time for the travel show. coming up on this week's travel show: we are in the united kingdom, a place that attracts almost a0 million visitors a year. more than half of them will head to london,

but this week we're going off the beaten path, exploring some of britain's best kept secrets are now being discovered by travellers. we begin in northern ireland, where forgotten places are being visited thanks to a hit television programme. yes! well done, you. before heading to england where cat is retracing the footsteps of the men who carved out the lake district's dramatic landscape. i don't know if my legs are shaking, because i am cold or because i am nervous. then we are in scotland with a man who's on a mission to walk the entire coastline of the uk. we start in northern ireland, in county down, because here,

in places once rarely visited, something unexpected is happening. now, people are coming from across the world — and it's all because of one television programme. game of thrones. one of the biggest in history. in the fantasy series, of which the eighth and final season concluded this year, different houses battle to claim one ultimate throne. it was here in remote locations south of the busy capital of belfast that many of the programme's most iconic scenes were filmed. and where some of its cast can still be found. ok, so i have a confession — i am a giant game of thrones geek. and i am super excited, because this place has to be top

of the list for any true super fan. welcome to castle ward, or to what many tv viewers will know as winterfell. and well, when in winterfell... arrrgh! evening, my lady, where do you hail from? from london. london. and which house do you represent? house of larwood. house of larwood, never heard of them, sounds like something the night's watch would have dragged in. i believe you are here to learn how to do archery. i need people to hunt or to fight. are you up to the task? i hope so. i hope so too, otherwise there is a penalty.

oh, a beheading... that seems measured. absolutely, because you are no good to me here at winterfell if you can't hunt and you can't fight. i will do my best. in this series, no character is safe from a grisly end, so it never hurts to know what you are doing with a bow and arrow. select your arrows by the tip, never by the feathers and never further down the shaft. think of it coming out of a quiver, three fingers on the drawing string and then draw back... so that it brings to your right eye. loose! all right. i hit the target! your first arrow ever and you hit the target. 0k. archer ready. draw! hold... loose! look at that. yes! well done. so this place used to be a farm and yet now it is a huge tourist attraction. how did that happen? we are where game of thrones

started, so it is a perfect place to start your journey, to go on and do some of the other sites that are around. yes, they have gone off to croatia, yes, they have gone off to iceland, yes, they have gone off to morocco and so on, and that's fine, but most of it is shot here. and it has turned into what we now know as screen tours, something we have never had before. yes we have the giant's causeway, a unesco world heritage site and it is beautiful, and all that, but people used to go there and there alone, and then they would take off. now they come to see many other parts of our province. and we'll be finding out more about these sites later in the programme. but first we had across the irish sea to england's lake district, where cat moh reports. here in the uk's biggest national park, in the mountainous rugged lake district, you will find the green and beautiful landscapes this country is known for. but there's also something else. scars to the mountainsides tell

a story of a defining industrial area for the country and the communities in this region. at the uk's last working slate mine, travellers can come to walk in the treacherous footsteps miners used to take up the mountain. they call it the via ferrata. but first i wanted to see what life was like for these miners working deep within the network of mining tiles before modern machinery transformed the practice of extracting the slate. it's a bit low down here. wow! look at this! it's an absolutely amazing space... i can hear my voice echoing off the rocks. it represents a huge area where they found an off a lot of good rock, and it also represents some 11 miles of tunnels and caverns.

i can't imagine how long it would have taken to carve out a space this huge in here. it's a huge amount of time. paint a picture for me of what it would have been like back in its heyday. when was that? back in its heyday, after the first world war when production was getting going again, and it built up to some 2000 tons of roofing slate produced per year. and that would have been in places like this, lit by early carbide lamps, which is the next generation of lamp after using just candlelight, we would have the dust of the rock in their lungs, and they always have the potential, when you are working the rock, for it to come down onto your head which would have been covered in a cloth cap. back out of the mine, it is time to head up to the via ferrata. so the old miner's route starts way over here, and the only way to get there is on this narrow bridge.

my mouth has suddenly gone dry. and it gets worse — it's me first. here we go... this is where it gets interesting. you are doing really well. 0k... how high are we? we are 3,000 feet above sea level, approximately. we are quite high up from the road, just the fact that the cars are like micro machines from here. yeah, these cars look tiny. probably isn't the best conversation to be having while we go over this. at over 150 metres, this bridge is the longest of its kind in britain, and as i creep my way across, i could not be more aware of every remaining step to go.

ok, i can do this, doing my best ballet feet. 0h! just keep breathing... ok, all right. this is really hard. oh, gosh. with the wind lurching the bridge from side to side, i have to be so careful when i put my feet. oh, my gosh! this wind! ahh! 0k? yeah, just waiting for the wind blow past me. if i actually stop and think about it, the view is, it's amazing up here. but to be honest, i haven't really been concentrating on the view so much as my feet and my arms so i don't fall into the view.

actually, it is really quite long. now i can appreciate the view. so pretty! well done. whoo—hoo! solid ground! safety! i would jump for joy but it is a bit windy still. well done! we did it! while cat catches her breath, we are headed up to the very northern tip of scotland, where one man has taken on an even bigger challenge.

i have seen the land and the landscape, i see it completely different, i feel more connection now with the uk now as a whole than i ever have in my entire life. my name is chris lewis, and this is my dog jet, and we are walking the entire coastline of the united kingdom. i started in swansea. the united kingdom isn'tjust one island, there is loads of separate islands of the united kingdom, in fact 700 off the west coast of scotland, so we have tackled those as well. so we're the north—west coast of scotland, just about to turn the corner having been on the move now for two years, so i reckon about another 1.5 years until we finish. we are on the mull of kintyre now, heading... i think people would be very

surprised to hear that the uk coast, including the islands in northern ireland is surprisingly about 18,000 miles. to put that into perspective, if you were to fly around the world as the crow flies, that is around 25,000 miles. before i started this, i suffered really badly with depression, i had anxiety, and this went on for a long, long time. i went for a surf one day, and i remember coming out and looking down the cliffs and i honestlyjust thought to myself, walk home. so i started walking along the coast, and i have been going for two years now. i have got a lot to thank this place for. there is no plan, it really is this simple — i keep the sea to my left—hand side, and eventually that will take me around to where i need to be. i go as far as my legs can take each day, and i camp when i think it's time to camp, and i repeat the process

the next day. i'll show you where i slept last night, not complaining at all. jet, my dog, i rescued her on the way. she wasn't in the best nick when i first had her. she was very thin, very skinny. but there was immediate connection betweenjet and i. i felt that kind of brokenness in her. that maybe i had felt before. we bonded immediately. some of the stuff that she tackles on this coast i wouldn't ask another human to do. we have such complete trust for each other that if i go and do something or if i go and climb something before i know it she's shooting past me because she knows if i'm doing it she'll do it. yeah, i've just arrived in gretna. which means i'm in scotland. but, yeah, i'm stupidly happy. the wonderful thing about the united kingdom is that every single part of the united kingdom that you go to there is a change and it's not subtle, it is there in your face.

mother of zeus. good afternoon, guys. it's a really wet one today. nice to have the scottish weather back. oh, my goodness. hailstones and they hurt like hell. some of my favourite moments on this walk have been when my tent‘s been getting smashed from side to side and i've peeked out and i've watched the seas and the waters and i see how powerful it is. oh, my word. i feel so old and haggard. yeah, obviously i'm not feeling well at all... i started this walk with £10 in two days worth of rations. i'd just given up the house so i had nothing really. i've pretty much relied on foraging and this kind of stuff. on anglesey i soon realised i did not know enough. i ended up doing the full 126 miles with nothing to eat. i've been coming around anglesey since sunday, monday, it's a cracker.

i'm a bit annoyed at myself that i smashed it round. but i had my reasons. yeah, that was a big mistake. i lost a lot of weight and was very ill after that week. lesson learned. making my way up the west coast. good afternoon, folks. look at this. i'm on an island on my own and this family came up and brought me christmas dinner by boat. i am going to go over and say hello to them. bear with me. i have gone from being one of the most isolated people you would ever meet, you know, shutting myself in a bedroom for three weeks, not seeing anybody, scared to go to the shops, to being the most confident, most outgoing, happiest person you'll ever meet. i do think this is a lifestyle now. so this will never end for me. now, you know, it's a great lifestyle. i don't have tvs or anything. i don't need one, do i?

welcome back. as we continue our look into the far—flung corners of the uk, i'm back with the game of thrones fans in county down. it's amazing as we're walking through here how many people will are wearing the big capes for game of thrones, clearly because game of thrones was filmed here. it's such a beautiful area. did you come to this part of the world because of game of thrones? yeah, idid. i mean, northern ireland is a fascinating country. lots of history. i think if not for game of thrones are probably would not have come all this way. really are you like a big fan? on a scale of one to ten, like an 11. i'm 2a, travelling alone, my father grew up during the troubles so he thought it was absolutely insane. but he has seen all my photos and it has been a great trip.

has been a great trip. for three decades, up until 1998, northern ireland endured a violent and deadly conflict known as the troubles. since then, a kind of dark tourism exploring the locations and rules of the conflict has been popular here. but for some local people there is now a more positive story to tell about what their country has to offer. so here we have summer, which is bran stark‘s direwolf. now, you're going to go meet him later on. this is obviously — he's not a puppy any more. but he's stilljust as cute, trust me. ah, the runt of the litter. that one's yours, snow. the big draw behind my coach tour were local celebrities. william played a white walker in the programme, but it is his two dogs that people come from around the world to meet. who do we have here? this is odin and is thor. summer, bran stark‘s direwolf, and grey wind, rob stark‘s direwolf. aren't you beautiful. he's so fluffy!

yeah. shall we take them for a walk? yeah. do you want to take this one? sure. it has changed from being only a couple of dogs to suddenly you've got a tourism operation now. well, you know, people started wanting to meet them. they contacted us through social media and so we decided that instead of them coming to our house we had to make it more official. so my brothers and i started up our own tour company. so tell us a little bit about the impact game of thrones has had on your community. county down, i think, was one of the least visited tourist—wise counties in ireland. now i think it is one of the highest because of game of thrones. you look like a game of thrones extra. do you buy into it? are you a game of thrones junkie? i was actually contracted to keep this while filming. my whole family have long hair and beards, but anyway... yeah, i am a massive game of thrones fan. well, while i finish my walk with odin and thor, we end with cat

who's getting hands—on at the slate mine. so, apparently, the traditional practice of splitting slate has barely changed in generations. in the workshop they now split 100 tons of it a year. paul here is riving the rock, that's our word for splitting. and the beauty of this rock is that it does split so beautifully into roofing slates. now, i have an idea. would you like to have a go yourself? sure! will i have to pay for the slate if i ruin it? absolutely! i am told it takes a lifetime for rivers to learn this skill. about there. but i'm not sure even that would be enough for me. i just start anywhere in the middle rather than on the edge? you didn't see that!

laughter. you want to have it dead straight. more? you just want to make a line. sojust keep going. it's actually quite tricky keeping the chisel straight. can you hear that change? yes. i can feel it in my hands as well. i can hear it. idid it! there you are. give it a little twist and make there you go. you have just split a slate. it looks absolutely glorious. i feel like i've have like a little workout. we've not actually started the miners‘ route, have we? no. back with my guide, jenny, it's time to continue on to the old miners‘ route up the mountain. i can see why you love climbing around her. it's pretty fantastic and it's always changing., the environment, wherever you go in the lake district. it was changing just then. it was.

so the via ferrata, also known as the miners‘ route, goes all the way up there. is that actually what they did? so this incline that you can see there is basically following the footsteps of the miners that they used to take to work. these added bits that we have on the fell side as well so that‘s just fun. so, i think i‘m ready. are you? no. shall we do this? yes, let‘s do this. don‘t look down. 0k. i don‘t know if my legs are shaking because i‘m cold, because i‘m nervous, or because they‘re really exhausted from the bridge still. just watch that clip there, cat. 0k. things are getting real now. while i‘m safe and hooked on, i know that one wrong step on these thin metal bars could see me test my harness much more than i‘d like.

the miners wouldn‘t have climbed the wall this way. this is just for fun. but i‘m told this section does help travellers get a sense of the type of dangerous terrain they faced every day. make sure you leave a bit of space again for your next foot. that‘s it. then step up. how do i do this next bit? you can use the rock again. just a big step. i don‘t know what‘s worse. here we go. but, finally, i‘m up and onto the miners‘ footpath. that‘s it! just making our way up the incline now. so this is part of the well trodden route they used to take? indeed. walking the miners‘ footpath it‘s amazing to think what this must have

been like four generations of people working this incredible landscape. ok, it sounds good. and as my time in northern ireland comes to a close, i know it‘s thanks to amazing people like the ones we met along the way that so many hidden places this country has to offer will continue to be revealed. wow. what a view. look at that. the bottom of the world. is that scotland over there? it is! it is scotland you can see in the distance.

hello, they are. some places it had a pretty decent weekend, particularly in the south—east, but it is not the case further north and west. showers and storms yesterday and today scattered downpours are likely to affect northern england and scotland. already developing in northern england as we speak. some cloud on the aral sea coast. not a bad day, though. the best of the sunshine and central, southern and eastern portions of england. he is the —— hazy at times. further north, we will have the torrential downpours. the met office yellow warning stays in force for northern england and scotland, affecting some of the flood hit areas of northern england, as well. there could be a lot of rainfall in a short space of

time. they will be fairly slow more —— slow moving. the brighter colours showing up clearly hear through the latter pa rt showing up clearly hear through the latter part of the afternoon and evening. the showers and storms push off to the north and east. try for a time than another band of rain pushes them from the west through the early hours. a bit drier in the far west by dawn. 13 to 16 degrees overnight, buggy in the south. low pressure firmly in control of our weather to start the new working week. this area of new pressure will stick around for quite a while. it will bring quite a few showers through the day. through monday morning, showers in the north of england, northern ireland and scotland. in the south—east, sunshine will break out and it will be warm again, but humid. 25 degrees here. a bit more unsettled on

tuesday, low pressure in the north—west of the country. northern ireland, northern england, northern wales and scotland will see most of the rain, some of these will be torrential with standing water on the roads. the first south—east could escape most. a little bit cooler on tuesday. the outlook, then, it remains unsettled. some of then, it remains unsettled. some of the showers will continue to be happy and thundery places. watch out for the risk of localised flooding. the best of the brightness will be reserved for the south and east of the uk. an unsettled week coming up. you later.

this is bbc news. i‘m lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2: two mass shootings in the united states. the first in a walmart store in el paso, texas, where 20 people were killed. a suspect has been taken into custody by police. he‘s been identified by local media as 21—year—old patrick crusius. the second shooting took place in dayton, ohio, where nine people died. officials said the speed of the police‘s response could have saved hundreds of lives. —— ten people died. if dayton police had not gotten to the shooter in under a minute... think of that, 26 injured, nine dead, hundreds of people in the oregon district could be dead today.