the richest prize in one—day cycling, the ride london event, featuring 150 of the world's top professional cyclists, was won by italy's elia viviani. the 169km race started out in central london, before heading into the countryside, and finishing on the mall in front of buckingham palace. viviani powered through in a bunch sprint finish to take home the main share of the 100,000 euro prize. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. now, it's time for the travel show. see you soon. 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... aargh! 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. 0h, 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 head 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 awful lot of good rock, and it also represents some 11 miles of tunnels and caverns.

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 2,000 tonnes of roofing slate produced per year. and that would have been in places like this, lit by early carbide lamps, 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. here we go... this is where it gets interesting.

you are doing really well. 0k... how high are we? we are 3000 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... 0k, 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! aargh! 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. woohoo! 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 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. 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 murals 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 0din 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.

hello, there. another evening of drenching downpours or parts of the uk which sets the theme for the week ahead. it will not be raining all the time but where it does rain could be very intense, could bring some for the disruption from these showers and thunderstorms. this is the radar picture from a little earlier on. you can see the way the showers and thunder storms got under way in the midlands across northern england and parts of scotland. these are still covered in a met office have a warning valid until midnight and extended fairly recently down into parts of lincolnshire as well. the showers and storms continue to drift northeast words as we go. another band of shari rain pushing in from the west. some clear spells in between. particular breezy from the west, it will be muggy with lows of 13-16

west, it will be muggy with lows of 13—16 degrees. monday is looking like another day of widespread showers. but actually across england and wales things will tend to improve. you can see the shares pushing away eastwards. the odd sharp one for east anglia and the southeast but increasing amounts of sunshine. but in scotland there will be sunshine as well but still some showers breaking out. sundre ones and some are persistent rain moving across the northern aisles. 90 degrees to 25 degrees in london. as you move through monday night into tuesday, you bring this area of low pressure into the picture and where you are pressure into the picture and where you a re closest pressure into the picture and where you are closest to the centre of low pressure a cross you are closest to the centre of low pressure across the northern half of the uk, that is where you see the heaviest and most widespread showers during tuesday. some showers developing for the south. at least a fair chance of seeing a shower across southern england and parts of well. the winds are very white. the showers to do proper will be...

generally speaking a cougar feel across the british isles. through the middle part of the week, another showery day on wednesday. beside things touring temporary dryer on thursday. that will not last long. heavy rain pushing in from the west as we go through friday and another area of low—pressure taking up residence for next weekend so it stays very unsettled.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm. two mass shootings in the united states — the first at a walmart shopping centre in el paso in which 20 people died — the gunman is in custody. we are treating it as a domestic terrorism case, and they going to do what we do with terrorists in this country, which is deliver swift and certainjustice. the second shooting took place just hours later in dayton, ohio where nine people died. the gunman in that shooting has been named by police as 24—year—old connor betts. a six—year—old is airlifted to hospital after falling from a viewing platform at the tate modern art gallery in london.