into the spring months, march, april, may. that is the largest difference in rainfall that we have seen from a notably wet season, the winter season, into spring. we've never seen that before. and we do shift from wetter seasons to dry seasons and vice versa, we have seen prolonged droughts in the past, we have seen wetter seasons in the past. but it's the largest difference that we have ever recorded and that is why i use the word unprecedented. you can blame the jet stream. that is the high—level wind that can lock in place weather patterns in the uk. whether they are wet or dry. is man—made climate change playing a part? well, we know it is warming the arctic. melting ice and causing wildfires in places like siberia, which hit record temperatures recently. is this affecting the jet stream? scientists are not yet sure. they do know this fine spell is set to end, so enjoy it while you can.

roger harrabin, bbc news. he isa he is a man who can tell you how long you can. here's tomasz schafernaker. thank you. once again, today and tomorrow, june and july —like temperatures and tonnes of sunshine on the way, but there is going to be a trend, changing our weather patterns over the next week or so. it will turn cooler. now, at the moment, there is hardly any cloud gci’oss moment, there is hardly any cloud across the uk, so tonnes of sunshine beating down on a bus with high levels of uv, but —— on us, but to the north, we are starting to see the north, we are starting to see the change happening and the winds will change direction and rather than coming in from southern climes, a plunge into cold air all the way from the arctic, so we are looking ata from the arctic, so we are looking at a potentially 10 degrees drop. more importantly, for gardens and growers , more importantly, for gardens and growers, this is good news, some rainfall in the way. the not so good news is it is going to be only hit

and miss, so notan awful news is it is going to be only hit and miss, so not an awful lot of rain and in fact nowhere near enough, and we do need it. this is what it looks like this afternoon, mid, may be high 20s across the south of the country. the lowlands of scotla nd south of the country. the lowlands of scotland still getting up to around 25. that change to cooler and more unsettled weather i was talking about is more evident here during the course of the night across the very, very far north—west of the uk but the vast majority of the country and right across the continent further east and south, the skies are clear. essentially, it is high pressure that is sitting sort of weather fronts stuck in it and this basically means increasing amounts of cloud and some rain for scotla nd amounts of cloud and some rain for scotland during the course of tomorrow, maybe even some heavy showers drifting down into the very far north of england later in the day, but, essentially speaking, again it is another very sunny day for the vast majority of england and wales and those temperatures, mid 20s at the very least. then that change, that drop to something a

little cooler in terms of temperatures happens on wednesday. a weather front sitting on top of the uk, that means more cloud. are coming in from the north, so a much cooler source out of the norwegian sea, but you can see the rain is very blotchy and patchy here and there, so if you are a gardener and hoping for some of that rainfall, there will be rain around but it may not necessarily be in your area, it could be 20, 30 may be even 100 miles away, hard to say but the temperature will be the real story. the biggest drop will happen between tuesday and wednesday and back in the teens by the time we get to the end of the week. tomasz, thank a reminder of our top story. the biggest easing of lockdown measures since the restrictions were introduced in march is under way. ministers insist they're following the science, you very much. but there are concerns over the pace of change in england. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me

good afternoon. you're watching bbc news. it's just after 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... two and half months since the last meeting before lockdown, horse racing has returned, it's a 10 race card at newcastle behind closed doors and we've already had the first winner of the day. let's head live to the course and speak to our sports correspondent katie gornall. katie, a very significant day, but it must have been very odd without the cheers from the crowd when the first horse went what a race. stonemason was heavily backed coming into this but was left

well behind by the eventual winner coming in at 22 to one just hedging out his stablemate strike to glide the so great result for the trainer who had the first two horses home in that race and azalea because the first british winner in 76 days in the racing really does come thick and fast now we've got ten races here today in total, another three weeks here in newcastle opening up to some pretty big races further on in the calendar, bias got catching the eye further in the month, but mason coming thick and fast in, was way to get started. how is it all working there? it is strange because as you

say there are some features that are familiar to say there are some features that are familiartoa say there are some features that are familiar to a race course but so much about it does feel very different. numbers have been very strictly limited. this fence behind me is keeping the hat all but essential staff. the chair of the bha who i spoke to early is not allowed in, only people who have essential to have been very strictly limited. this fence behind me is keeping the hat all but essential staff. the chair of the bha who i spoke to earlier is not allowed in, only people who essential to race day. all of the jockeys have to wear masks around the site, there is a one—way system is well trying to keep people socially distance. they have even built a separate changing room for the male jockeys, have even built a separate changing room for the malejockeys, change from the original ones, to allow these to meet a inside so everybody can socially distance so they are really trying to think of everybody here to try and make racing as safe as possible, seeing how they cope with everything, they are aware that there is a lot of attention on them here, so they feel that responsibility as well, but so far from what we have heard things seem

to be running relatively smoothly. there is a bit of a glitch with the system to bring people in this morning and get people temperature checked but they have sorted all that out here and they have got racing away and that is the main thing is this industry tries to recover from a real financial hit that it has taken due to this lockdown, a £50 million hole in their finances at the moment so a big relief that they have been able to get back on track here in newcastle today. we will be watching intently. thank you very much indeed. snooker also returns today, the championship league is a round robin format for 64 players, it's taking place in milton keynes at a venue that also has a hotel attached so players and staff can be fully isolated and monitored over the next 11 days of competition. everyone is tested for covid—19 when entering the venue. world number onejudd trump plays today, he's described how unpleasant it is to have a swab taken on arrival. another former world champion mark selby says some players could be a little bit rusty.

we have had no tournament now for few months. the last time we played in was in gibraltar which was in march before the lockdown. i am fortunate to have a table at home and have been practising little bit but it is not the same asjust getting that competitive match practice and bit playing other players on the tour. it will be good to play, obviously by closed doors and fora to play, obviously by closed doors and for a long period time i think you might as well get used to it, it isa you might as well get used to it, it is a good way to start. the qpr chief executive lee hoos says the club is ‘stunned', "appalled" and "vehemently opposed" to the football league's plan for the championship to resume onjune 20th. he says there was no consultation with clubs before last night's the qpr chief executive lee hoos says the club is ‘stunned', "appalled" and "vehemently opposed" to the football league's plan for the championship to resume onjune 20th. he says there was no consultation with clubs before last night's announcement by the league. the qpr manager mark warburton says they are going too quickly with players yet

to start contact training. the efl say the date is provisional and "subject to the strict proviso that all safety requirements and government guidance is met". meanwhile, with the premier league set to resume on the 17thjune, manchester united have extended odion ighalo's loan from chinese club shanghai shenhua tiljanuary. the original deal expired yesterday. england's three—match rugby league test series with australia has been cancelled because of the pandemic. new england coach shaun wane was due to take charge against the world cup holders in october and november, but the series has been called off due to what's been cited as the "the continued complications surrounding global travel." the british basketball league have cancelled the the current season saying it wouldn't be financially viable to play behind closed doors. the season was suspended in march with glasgow top of the championship table with five games left to play. it's now been voided meaning no title will be awarded. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.

sport has a tentative return in june, which is good news. i will have an update for you in the next hour. that's bbc.co.uk/sport let's get more now on what's happening in schools in england. some have been welcoming pupils back — but lancashire county council is advising its schools not to open to more pupils today — but instead to continue with the current arrangements. the authority believe that they are currently unable to meet all five of the government's tests in lancashire — which would allow this decision to be taken safely. the announcement follows a call from the the lancaster, morecambe and district primary headteacher‘s group, who shared their concerns about the reopening of their schools. one of those headteachers is keith wright — and we can speak to him now. what happened this morning at the reopening time? it was business as usual with key worker children. we

had planned just for a year six children coming. our key worker children coming. our key worker children who are used to coming in two main groups were in smaller bubbles this time, we can only fit eight ina bubbles this time, we can only fit eight in a bubble across the school, so it is a bit unusual for them and some of the thing to be put into place, but at least they have got a taste of what we have got in mind when we do open wider eventually. but where their parents turning up the children this morning expecting to be able to get the children? no. we communicated lancashire's decision to advise us to stay how close do since we got that information. we have even very much —— we have a very active facebook account and were able to get the information across. we were able to openjust for the information across. we were able to open just for the essex information across. we were able to openjust for the essex is initially to see how that man so nobody turned up to see how that man so nobody turned up unexpectedly. do you think pa rents up unexpectedly. do you think parents and the whole serb port your

decision? we understand the frustration because many and need to get back to work but what we are very grateful for is a very supportive community of parents who totally understand what we're having today. one of the challenges we have isa today. one of the challenges we have is a 600 pupil primary school is fitting 600 pupils into bubbles of no more than eight so we have got to create up to 81 different spaces to work in which is a challenge in itself and that is why we have been very cautious about how we would start the process when we're ready to start and because we have been very open with the parents about the benefits of what we want to do, the risk assessments, but also the challenges we have got, they have been incredibly supportive at this challenging time. that is in the classroom. what about breaks and lunch time? breaks and lunch time, basically the staff that are in for the start of the day are with those children in those bubbles throughout the day, a little bit of respite at lunt the day, a little bit of respite at lu nt steyn the day, a little bit of respite at lunt steyn when we have got some welfare staff and to look after their children and then i back in, but the lunchtimes have to be staggered for the staff and they understand that, we have done all

the preparation to make sure that the preparation to make sure that the staff are aware of what they need to do to make themselves contained and isolated to some degree to protect the children in the bubbles. what help and support and understanding are you getting from government, do you think? the government has the intention of opening the schools and they gave us that three weeks notice. i think what was frustrating was the lack of guidance that came to start with. the heads that we had been given the three weeks and will see what we can work with and they were setting up a rota system then we got guidance from the government to say that they did not want to say that they did not want rotor systems which confused is a bit and then also i think the biggest challenges capacity because across the lancashire and yorkshire area at many schools, different shapes and sizes, very old buildings, narrow corridors, and it would be physically impossible to do the social distancing actions and the biggest challenge of wall which is what we wanted to stress to the

authority was literally, the social distancing of the very youngest children because they are here, straightaway they would see a different school to what they have been used to with their friends and things, but actually getting across to them that they can actually be as close to each other as we would hope and that is a challenge itself without discussing the children but also keeping the staff safe as well. the final decision i guess are going to be yours, with the governors say as well, but i'm just wondering what needs to be changed. you can't change the size or layers of your school, what needs to happen? we we re very school, what needs to happen? we were very grateful that lancashire took the decision, it hard as it was took the decision, it hard as it was to pause the process for now, obviously they didn't have all five keep tests in place for three other -- 05 keep tests in place for three other —— 05 keep tests in place of the three of them, and they were very supportive of the schools of the challenges they have got, i am hopeful that things are sensible and controlled that the bubbles could be

bigger so we could accommodate more children but as it stands at the moment we would not be able to accommodate all the children together before the end of the term and also allow some time for our new inta ke and also allow some time for our new intake of children in reception, we have not forgotten about those, they have not forgotten about those, they have been very much the forefront of our thoughts, along with our years sixes who are going to be leaving in a few weeks' time, and we want them to have some time in school, so they are our critical year groups in school, so they are our critical year groups at the moment. with what is happening elsewhere in the world, like south korea finding that they are having to close 200 schools at the moment because there is a search, personally i have got a bit ofa search, personally i have got a bit of a bad feeling about this, but something is going to happen and we will be back to lock down again, so we're being incredibly cautious and the government are totally —— the governors are totally aware of what our risk assessments are to make sure that if we are able to coordinate year groups once the local authority gives its go—ahead is that we can do that in a manageable way but what we also understand is that local authority

understands individual schools and are allowing us to work according to the system that we think will be the safest in our individual settings. so you are pretty frustrated? more anxious, really. ultimately, i'm responsible the safety of the children at school, i am responsible for the safety of the staff. i have gotan for the safety of the staff. i have got an incredibly good staff team. we have been working so hard since we close the school, key worker children in the whole time apart from bank holiday days when they have been closed and had some best buy and they want to move on, they wa nt to buy and they want to move on, they want to see the children, but we wa nt to want to see the children, but we want to make sure that everybody is safe. —— closed and had some respite. at the moment, i don't think we are confident that we are in that position but i think time will tell whether the relaxation in the lockdown measures in addition to the lockdown measures in addition to the ve day celebrations a few weeks ago will have a bad effect on the

downwards trend. i'm hoping we get see what the impact that is. thank you very much forjoining us. a head teacher of a primary school in morecambe. the headlines on bbc news... less and start again. millions of people able to leave their homes who we re people able to leave their homes who were shielding. anger grows in the united states after the death of an unarmed black man restrained by police. people have been seen jumping from the cliffs on dorset‘sjurassic coast — in southwest england — despite three men being seriously hurt at the weekend. the casualties were airlifted to hospital afterjumping 21 metres from durdle door on saturday afternoon, an activity known as tombstoning. the coastguard and police have warned against leaping from the landmark arch into the sea. however, despite this advice to stay away, officers said on sunday some people still attempted the jump.

mike wiley was paddle—boarding near the site on saturday and rescued two men from the water. the final guy that jumped, the final guy thatjumped, again, just ina the final guy thatjumped, again, just in a pair of shorts for my ridiculous height, hit hit the water when his side and just went straight to the bottom. yes, me and my friend again, he had swam outjust to be a safety, and sure enough when he hit the water he didn't come back up, he must have well, he knocked himself unconscious hitting the water in that way that he did, the air was taken that way that he did, the air was ta ken completely as that way that he did, the air was taken completely as there is lungs and he sunk straight to the bottom of the sea bed. we bothjumped off our board is trying to search for him, trying to find him, took as a good few minutes, there were more people swinging out trying to help out as well, i managed to finally locate the body after maybe two or three minutes of searching, i could see a white figure deep in the

water, again, there were about ten other people trying to drive round but none of us can get him. i don't how i did it, it maybe took me about five attempts. in the last attempt i just compose myself and just one as steep as could go. and i swim with my eyes open anyway, i don't need goggles anyway, i could see him just led with on the cal and the seaweed at the bottom just completely motionless, his hands were floating, i tried to push him off the floor, he had drown, he was at the bottom of the sea, when i try to get a measure to push up the floor but i had no purchase, i had no boost, and i'd let all the lair at air out of my lungs when i got him just give myself more time and as i was dragging himi myself more time and as i was dragging him i didn't thinki myself more time and as i was dragging him i didn't think i was going to make its first surface and

was so close to letting go of his hand just so i could get myself back to be able to breathe. your mind does crazy things in those sorts of situations. i managed to get him to the surface and he was completely purple and there was blood coming out of his mouth and foam and myself and dylan he was close by, we both just grabbed him and slamming back to shore with the help of a couple of other people in the water and dragged him up onto the beach and he was... he was dead, you know, there was... he was dead, you know, there was no heartbeat, he wasn't breathing and luckily for the sheer amazement of his four female i don't know if there were doctors or nurses but they just took over and just passed away at cpr on him and managed to bring him back to life after about ten or 15 minutes. it is an actual miracle that he is still even a life because i was beating myself up thinking that we haven't got to him super. that was mike wiley talking to azalea. talking to

us wiley talking to azalea. talking to us earlier. in the last hour first minister for scotland nicola sturgeon gave an update on the situation in scotland. she said the virus has been suppressed but it has not gone away and it still extremely dangerous. it is very hard to see how all of that kind have been caused by local residents are by people travelling ina residents are by people travelling in a reasonable distance to meet loved ones so we will be considering all of this to continue to do to assess the impact of the phase one changes. last week we deliberately allowed some flexibility as we change the lockdown restrictions, weaving recommended that people don't travel more than five miles from their creation, but we left room for some discretion so that we can go further to visit family. we also strongly recommended that where two households make there should be no more than eight people in total

and a group but again we put that into guidance rather than into law because we too trust and continue to trust the majority to keep those groups small and stay within the rules. but it is worth being clear, in fact rules. but it is worth being clear, infacti rules. but it is worth being clear, in fact i have a duty to be clear with you, but if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, if people meet up in larger groups or if there are making journeys which risk spreading the virus, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law, and we won't hesitate to do that if we think that is necessary for the collective safety and well—being of the population. first minister nicola sturgeon there. let's get more now on the opening up of some businesses — car dealerships can start operating again today, after closing in march in line with government coronavirus advice. would—be buyers will now be able to talk with sales staff while following social distancing protocols, and potentially able to test cars alone as long as trade plates and the relevant insurance are in place.

retailers will then follow strict guidelines when handing over cars, including ensuring that the vehicles, keys and anything else you may touch are disinfected. ben thompson has been atjaguar land rover lancaster, in reading... there is hand sign that either he here, they took my temperature when i arrived this morning, plastic screens, constant reminders about staying two metres apart, if you wa nt to staying two metres apart, if you want to test drive the car they will let you inside but they will make sure it is fully cleaned before the next customer can have a look at it, but what has it been like for customer trying to get any advice on the cabin lockdown? let us speak to jan he was with me this morning. morning, we have been up against it, trying to get help with your car and a bit of advice about what to do in this place has been close to ten weeks. what have you done?”

this place has been close to ten weeks. what have you done? i have been e—mailing the guys here and theyin been e—mailing the guys here and they in turn have come back to me advising me what to do as the car has been in the garage not moving the eight to ten weeks sol has been in the garage not moving the eight to ten weeks so i really wanted some advice on how or what i need to do with the carjust a little bit of reassurance, really. and normally you would kind of drop into this garage, conference service, get the car valet, stuff like that, but you haven't been able to do that? no, not at all but they always come back to me straightaway even by e—mail. i am not sure about foa m even by e—mail. i am not sure about foam because i have never found them but they came back to me straightaway on that one. so you are pretty ha p py straightaway on that one. so you are pretty happy that they reopen? exactly, yeah. let me introduce you to carl again. you are picking up your car today. he. all of the systems they put in place, the online service shares, all the

things have been great for the elsa celexa and do the whole transaction. a lot of people would worry that you couldn't get take it for a test drive, push all the buttons, try out the wheels, take it for a spin, and the wheels, take it for a spin, and the car was the one behind you on the car was the one behind you on the turntable, you get your hands on it today. that is a concern but obviously it is not like buying a car off of ebay or something like that so obviously there is an element of confidence there, even the material they give you beforehand, the material they give you before hand, the the material they give you beforehand, the videos and all that sort of thing to shave and vehicle is all kind of... building confidence in that sort of thing. and this morning you got like me temperature checks, hand sanitiser, he found that strange? what have you had to go through just to get the keys? a little bit. it isjust the new normal now. i kinda expect them to throw the keys out the door to me but that was not the case, it is been really, really well set up. enjoy your new car. we will see

later on. they have all sorts of things in place to make sure that people can remain safe. all those procedures that you have got to go through but they are really glad that they have been able to get back up that they have been able to get back up and running one of the first nonessential retailers to do so. that was ben thompson who is now in the fourth hour of his test drive. laughter. as lockdown restrictions and leads many people have been able to see each other for the first time in months. when parents have been amongst them so if you are you reuniting the 1p a or introducing them to agency a family we would love to see your pictures, please send them to the e—mail at the bottom of the screen. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz.

another little temperature blip on the way in the next few days. from mid week onwards we will have a 10 degrees drop compared to what we have had recently. the skies are clear across the uk but to the north of us we are starting to see changes closer to iceland in the norwegian sea and over the next few days we will see wind currents shifting rather than air coming will see wind currents shifting ratherthan aircoming in will see wind currents shifting rather than air coming in from the south it will start to come in from the north again in the wins will strengthen again so it will feel a little bit colder. one thing that many gardeners and growers are hoping for is a little bit of rainfall and at the moment it looks as though the rain is going to be very hit and miss across the uk in the next few days. the late afternoon temperatures today, not a lot of training and very warm, 26 of 27 degrees, to the very far north—west you can start to see the changes in that weather, so the first one the front approaching in the very far north west of scotland by the end of the night but really, for most of us, it is clear again

and it is copycat conditions on tuesday. high pressure is essentially still in charge but there is this week whether font that has sort of smoke into its edge here so that does mean more cloud and the possibility of some rain across the highlands and there could be one or two showers in spots across scotland in the very far north of england but the vast majority of us on tuesday will have another sunny day and another very warm one too. then from roundabout when state starts to change. you can see a weather front pretty much slicing the uk in half. that does mean increasing amounts of cloud and the possibility of rain but i want to stress that this rain is going to be hit and miss. yes, in one or two spots it could be a little bit on the heavy side, many of us will probablyjust have overcast skies and little bits and pieces of rain, some of us will actually end up having mostly bright weather but the main feature is just how much cooler it is going to be, look at that 12 in newcastle and in

the teens for everybody and back colour trend with more cloud and the thanks of some rain which is good news will continue through the week. professor va n

tam this is bbc news. the headlines... the biggest easing in lockdown restrictions is underway — primary schools in england re—open and it's back to business too for outdoor markets, car showrooms, and horse—racing. the overall view from vail is that you must do this cautiously which is precisely what we are doing —— the overall view from sage is that you must do this cautiously. in england, hundreds of thousands of children returned to primary schools this morning — but not all parents agree that it's safe enough. how is it safe enough? the pressure is being put back onto us and the children. i woke up this morning and i felt anxious, i know the science, but it is still