at the world snooker championships, glorious goodwood racing festival and in country cricket friendlies. we will pilot larger gatherings in venues like sports stadium with a view to a wider reopening in the autumn. from october, we intend to bring back audiences in stadium, these changes must be done in a covid secure weight subject of the successful outcome of pilots. for now — sport continues behind closed doors — and at the bio bubble at emirates old trafford, it's day two of england's second test against the west indies. england resumed this morning on 207—3. they are now on 235—3. they are now on 235-3. dom sibley is approaching his century. second day

of the second test at old trafford there. there's a huge game at the bottom of the premier league tonight. 16th place west ham take on 17th place watford. they're both only three points clear of the relegation zone. watford have won their last two matches, while west ham go into the game having picked up seven points from their last 12. we have our noses slightly in front and we have to try and stay in front and we have to try and stay in front and we have to try and stay in front and we have to do everything to try and we have to do everything to try and stay in that position. i would rather be in our position than a couple of other teams' position, that's for sure. but we have not done thejob, farfrom it, the players are aware of that, had we have to at least play another game. they are doing what we are doing, and that is fighting for our lives. it is what i would expect, they have got good players, i think they have found some decent form of late and i'm sure david will be expecting a tough game in the same way that we are expecting a tough game. "we are a weak team,"

and "things have to change". they're the stinging words from lionel messi, as his barcelona team lost the spanish league. it's real madrid who won the la liga title — their first since 2017, under manager zinedine zidane. translation: this title has got a special feeling, translation: this title has got a specialfeeling, especially translation: this title has got a special feeling, especially after being locked up at home for two months. we came back and we prepared ourselves in a different way and we managed to win the spanish league, which in my opinion is the most difficult to win. rugby union use now. —— news. maro itoje is the latest england player to sign a new—long term deal at saracens — despite their impending relegation from the premiership. the 25 year—old — who's made 38 appearances for england — had been linked with loan moves to leicester and racing 92 while saracens dropped out of the top flight after breaking

salary cap rules. after winning in austria — lewis hamilton's looking in ominous form ahead of the hungarian grand prix. he went fastest in first practice — finishing ahead of mercedes team mate valtteri bottas. racing point's sergio perez and lance stroll were third and fourth with red bull and ferrari further back. in around an hour's time, rory mcilroy and tiger woods begin their second rounds at golf‘s memorial tournament in ohio. mcilroy‘s made a promising start. the world number one is on two—under—par — four shots off the lead. and he's playing alongside woods — who's a shot further back in his first competitive event since february. he's chasing a record 83rd pga tour win. that's all the sport for now. a reminder you can see live tennis on our website right now at the progress tour championship as some of britain's best women's players go head to head at the national tennis centre. we will see you later on. you're

watching bbc news, i'm geeta guru—murthy. let's recap what the prime minister just announced on the roadmap to reopening england. he outlined a timeline for back—to—work plans. the government will give a detailed update on 1st august. but he said that employers must use their own discretion. and that it will only be ok for employees to go back to work if it is safe. he went on to say that as of 1st august most leisure centres can reopen, along with bowling alleys, skating rinks and casinos. and close—contact beauty treatments will be allowed to resume. from october in england, audiences will be allowed back into stadiums and conferences will be allowed to resume too. the prime minister then said that this would all be reviewed in november, to see if ‘normal life' can return. as we've been hearing, the prime minister outlined that the government advice to work at home will change from 1 august. instead of government telling people to work from home, we're going to give employers more discretion and ask

them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely. that could mean, of course, continuing to work from home, which is one way of working safely, which has worked for many employers and employees. or it could mean making workplaces safe by following covid—secure guidelines. whatever employers decide, they should consult closely with their employees and only ask people to return to their place of work if it is safe. as we reopen our society and economy, it's right that we give employers more discretion while continuing to ensure that employees are kept safe. borisjohnson also announced more funding for the nhs in england, to help it cope with a possible second wave in the winter.

it's possible that the virus will be more virulent in the winter months, and it's certain that the nhs will face the usual annual winter pressures. we've taken a number of steps, therefore, to get the nhs ready for winter. we've massively increased the number of ventilators available to patients across the uk, up from 9,000 before the pandemic to nearly 30,000 now. we've substantially increased the pipeline for personal protective equipment for the nhs and social care, constituting over 30 billion items of ppe over the course of the pandemic. we will be rolling out the biggest ever flu vaccination programme in the history of the uk and we will also, of course, give the nhs the resources it needs. and today, i can confirm that we are providing an additional £3 billion of funding to the nhs in england to get ready for the winter. scotland, wales and northern ireland

will also receive additional funds. this will allow the nhs to continue to use the extra hospital capacity acquired from the independent sector and also to maintain the nightingale hospitals until the end of march. this new funding comes on top of the additional £30 billion of funding for health and social care that we've already announced this year. so, we're making sure we're ready for winter and planning for the worst. baroness dido harding, head of the nhs test and trace scheme, spoke at the press conference alongside the prime miniser. she said there's still more that needs to be known about covid—19 antibodies and immunity before further antibody testing can be rolled out. we have tested over1 million people for the antibody test in health and

social care in only a few weeks, continuing to roll that out to people working in the nhs and social care. but at this stage the science isn't clear enough yet to tell us whether or not the presence of antibodies and the level of antibodies and the level of antibodies in your blood gives you immunity. and so at this stage the only information that you get from an antibody test is that you have or haven't got antibodies. we are learning all the time thanks to all of those health and social care workers participating in the studies and having those antibody tests done. but at this stage it is too early to be able to say that it is 01’ early to be able to say that it is or it isn't a game changer. i think we all wanted to be, everybody wants to believe we will find that silver bullet in the science that means that we know we are going to be safe, particularly for people who have suffered and been very ill. but at this stage we don't know that yet and there are no plans immediately to extend that antibody testing u nless to extend that antibody testing unless or until the science gives us that answer we searching for.

baroness dido harding there. we have been focusing on the government's announcements in the last hour or so, but of course this pandemic is a huge issue globally still and coronavirus infections have passed the 2 million mark in brazil. nearly 77,000 people have died there with the virus — the second highest figure in the world after the us. gustavo ribeiro is an author at the brazilian report. thank you for your time. do we have a really accurate picture of what the numbers are in brazil? absolutely not. the confirmed cases arejust a fraction absolutely not. the confirmed cases are just a fraction of the real extent of the pandemic in brazil. experts say that the figures could have already topped the 10 million mark in terms of cases and we are actually never going to know the full extent of the outbreak because brazil lacks accurate testing, we never had massive testing in the country, among the top ten countries

with most infections only mexico and india have tested fewer people per million than brazil. who has been most badly affected? the amazon states are the ones which show higher mortality rates and higher infection rates per million people. and now the outbreak has slowed down a little bit in big urban centres but is spreading fast in the interior of the country, where we have a feeble health care network, where we have fewer icus and few hospitals. so we should expect a bump in deaths in the nearfuture. and of course like many countries there is a big informal economy with people not being underpinned by any measures to prop them up to keep them going. exactly. in brazil, we have tens of millions of people, not

that they are living paycheque to paycheque but they have to go out and work every day in order to make ends meet and the government has been criticised a lot for having been criticised a lot for having been slow to enforce a coronavirus stipend of around 110 us dollars, it doesn't sound like much but it has helped millions of people to avoid falling below the poverty line and it has been a major source of income for millions of people. however, the government says the government is cash strapped and there is no way it can continue this stipend for more than a couple of months ahead. and what about the public health service itself? again, every country is facing huge challenges. well, brazil is an enormous country and we have different realities depending on the state. when we are talking about sao paulo and rio dejaneiro, we are talking about in more developed

health care network. when we talk about the amazon it is a whole different story. you have, for instance, in the state of amazonas, where we have the biggest city in the amazon, only the capital city of the amazon, only the capital city of the state has an icu, and for many people they have to get on a boat and ride for hours before reaching and ride for hours before reaching an intensive care unit. when we talk about the network in brazil it really depends on where you are to discuss the quality of the health ca re discuss the quality of the health care service discuss the quality of the health ca re service you discuss the quality of the health care service you are going to have at your disposal. 0k, many thanks indeed, gustavo ribeiro. russia has dismissed allegations it tried to steal research into a coronavirus vaccine and meddle in british politics. the uk, the united states and canada say hackers in russia have targeted organisations trying to find a vaccine. separately, the british government says it's "almost certain" there were russian attempts to interfere in the uk's last parliamentary election. we heard a little

earlier from security ministerjames brokenshire, who explained the uk government's response. this is incredibly serious, it is appalling that any government should act in this way, and why we have called this out we have given advice to different companies as well in terms of the steps they can take to protect their systems. and also to mitigate action. but i think it is right we have worked collaboratively, collectively at the national cyber security centre, determining that it is right to call this out. their attribution is about 95% plus in terms of who is responsible and therefore the actions that have been taken by them and the information has been given. james brokenshire there. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, it is a very warm day out there for some of us but for others there for some of us but for others there is a bit of rain in the forecast, a weather front is creeping further south across

scotla nd creeping further south across scotland and into northern ireland bringing a bit of rain although northern scotland is brightening up. northern areas of northern england are seeing some brighter spells, for the rest of england and wales will see sunny spells, warm and humid and temperatures into the upper 20s in parts of south—east england. this weather front with cloud and rain isn't moving very far very fast. still some rain overnight, parts of northern england, especially west of the pennines, north wales and parts of the midlands later in the night. northern ireland and scotland, cooler overnight, some spots in single figures, quite muggy to the south of the weather system. tomorrow we will find our weather front still bringing rain to parts of northern england, wales, the midlands, warm and muggy in south—east england. for scotland and northern ireland, sunny spells. you may blustery shower. —— you may catch a blustery shower.

we will be moving to a weekly press conference now the senedd term is at an end and hold that on a tuesday. if the virus changes over the summer

we will hold these conferences more regularly again and we will be having an additional briefing in the week in which the three weekly cycle of reviewing the regulations comes to an end. given that this is the last in the long sequence of daily press c0 nfe re nces , last in the long sequence of daily press conferences, i thought it would be a to look back over the whole of this extraordinary experience. the first time i spoke on the coronavirus at any press conference was here in this room when i held what was a routine start of the month press conference on the 2nd of march. we had just confirmed oui’ 2nd of march. we had just confirmed our very first case of coronavirus here in wales, someone who had tested positive from the virus having come back from holiday in the north of italy. back then, nobody at all had died from coronavirus in

wales. and right across the world there were less than 100,000 cases. but within weeks we saw the virus rapidly accelerate in wales and the decision to introduce the uk wide lockdown. we asked everyone here in wales to stay home to protect the nhs and to save lives. and now in the middle ofjuly it's difficult to remember how, in those very early days, we faced so very many real fears as the virus changed the way we lived our lives. we were genuinely worried that supermarkets may run out of foods, that the nhs would be overwhelmed, that we made to have had neither the beds nor equipment for those who needed them. we feared we were run out of places to bury the dead and our most vulnerable people that would have no

access to basic supplies but the poorest families in wales would be without the safety net of services on which they rely and that our economy would be overwhelmed. now a great many sad things have happened here in wales since march. livelihoods and businesses have been lost, children's education has been affected, families have been unable to see loved ones and more than 21100 people have died from coronavirus here in wales alone. i know for those families, as we said so often in these press conferences, those families of those people, this crisis are certainly not over. but because of all the efforts we have made, because we have followed the stay at home at rules, the state local rules, the worst of those

fears we had at the start of the crisis, those worst fears have been averted. today, i want to say thank you to all of those who work in our public services and to have done so much to keep us all a safe over these very difficult months. i want to say thank you to our health and social care staff, of course, for the astonishing efforts that they have made to. but also to those at local authority housing staff and eve ryo ne local authority housing staff and everyone working in the housing field to to find accommodation for more than 2500 homeless people here in wales. to the staff and volu nteers in wales. to the staff and volunteers who have provided food and comfort to those who are shielding, and many other vulnerable people. to the teachers and support staff who have kept our help schools running and have been back at work in all schools in wales for the last

three weeks. to the people who collect our bins, drive our bus and have kept our shops open. today is an opportunity to say thank you again. thank you so much to you all. now, in the starkest days of april, when the virus was at its peak here in wales, there were 290 positive new cases being reported every day. yesterday, there were just 18 cases in wales, despite more than 5000 tests being carried out. back then, 149 people were admitted to hospital for coronavirus treatment each day. today, that's 100 fewer, atjust 49. there were 164 people with coronavirus in intensive care in the middle of april. today, that figure

is down to just ten. 43 people were buying a day. ended last week, we have had several days where there had been no new reported deaths at all. -- had been no new reported deaths at all. —— 43 people were dying a day. when things were at their toughest, there were days we had real concerns we we re there were days we had real concerns we were close to running out of some items of personal protective equipment to. and the fact that this did not happen was because of the enormous efforts of welsh businesses to produce ppe for ourfront line health and social care staff and to our colleagues in the nhs and the welsh government who worked so hard to find new suppliers of ppe when global demand was at its most competitive. we have supplied more than 250 million items of ppe, including 92 million items to social ca re

including 92 million items to social care alone since march. we've increase our testing capacity. today, we can carry out a 15,000 tests in wales with moore again available from the home testing kits. over the period of the crisis, more than 300,000 tests have been carried out in wales and just under 17,000 have been positive. when coronavirus was at its peak, 43% of tests every day turned out to be positive. this has now fallen to less tha n positive. this has now fallen to less than 0.5%. everything i've said so far this afternoon demonstrates the enormous impact that this pandemic has had on every corner of life here in wales. and while coronavirus is and has been in retreat in wales, the crisis is not

over. coronavirus is still here in wales. and in the absence of a vaccine, it will be with us for some time yet to come. here in the welsh government, i and time yet to come. here in the welsh government, iand my time yet to come. here in the welsh government, i and my ministerial collea g u es government, i and my ministerial colleagues will be spending the summer planning for the rest of this year. we will be working on our economic resilience fund to go on providing support to businesses. we will be refining our plans for schools to reopen in september. we'll be working with the nhs on plans for this winter, including ensuring that field hospitals are ready and able to operate here in wales if we need them. we will go on replenishing our ppe stocks and planning ourflu replenishing our ppe stocks and planning our flu vaccination campaign. will be working with our ca re campaign. will be working with our care homes to make sure they are

protected against any revival of coronavirus in the winter, and we will be working with our local authorities to support the most vulnerable in wales. coronavirus is not yet over, you are government here in wales will be there with you as we face what may still be difficult days to come during the rest of 2020. but together, provided we do all the things that we have done together, we will still be able to go on keeping wales safe. thank you all so much. happy now to take some questions, and the first question now from adrian masters at itv wales. i would like to ask you about the possibility... a couple of weeks ago, you said you needed to establish exactly how much extra

money was coming from the uk government. will remember talking about that figure of £59 million. since then, there has been some dispute about individual amounts, but the overall amount has been confirmed by the finance minister on the 14th ofjuly, confirmed by the finance minister on the 14th of july, so confirmed by the finance minister on the 14th ofjuly, so given all that, you say now to organisations who are worried about the future that there will be rescue packages for then, those arts organisations?” will be rescue packages for then, those arts organisations? i will come to those questions in a moment, but before that, i wanted to thank you and all your colleagues for everything you've done in attending these press conferences over the 97 press co nfe re nces these press conferences over the 97 press conferences that we have held, with over 34 organisations from student newspapers to national broadcasters involved in them and keeping the welsh public informed during this crisis has been a really important part of how we have got

through it together, so thanks to you and all your colleagues for that. happy to confirm that the £59 million consequential has come to wales for the arts sector. conversations we are having, the pla nts were conversations we are having, the plants were drawing up with the arts council for wales and others are drawing to a conclusion, there will be further ministerial meetings on that during the rest of today. we'll confirmed the final details at the start of next week, and we are optimistic now will be able to make detailed announcements of the first tranche of funding that we will be able to make, the purposes for which it will be provided and the support that we want to provide here in wales to that very important sector. we are trying to do it in ways that we have gone through things throughout the crisis, to make the planned first and then to announce, and we are now very close to being able to do that. just to pick in

your comments, the attendances on press co nfe re nces your comments, the attendances on press conferences and a wide range of media organisations and local organisations that have taken part in this has been, speaking as a member of the media, it has been helpful to have those different perspectives raised at these press conferences and i hope that continues long into the future. is asa continues long into the future. is as a second question, can i ask you about british vaults, which is today announced it is reached a memorandum of understanding with you to build a factory here in wales by koke given what happened with ineos concerns around that, how concerned are you with concerns that the company will go ahead with just a memorandum of understanding? signing a memorandum of understanding with this company is an important step on the journey. what has happened is what often

happens when deciding where to locate, they start with a long list at the outset, that has been narrowed down well were our a shortlist of two locations, and signing the memorandum of understanding means that the two companies —— the company is now and a set of exclusive discussions with wales hoping to bring that factory and those jobs here. wales hoping to bring that factory and thosejobs here. but wales hoping to bring that factory and those jobs here. but it's wales hoping to bring that factory and thosejobs here. but it's not wales hoping to bring that factory and those jobs here. but it's not on the bag until it's in the bag, so what today is an important step on the journey and we're very glad to welcome it, there will be a further detailed discussions and the uk government needs to come to the table were funding through its automotive transformation fund and we will continue to work very positively with this company, with the shared ambition now of bringing these jobs and the sorts ofjobs they are, jobs of the future, here

to wales. thank you very much, over to wales. thank you very much, over to james williams at bbc wales. can i ask you about reopening stadiums, have you had any discussions about doing that here in wales? i know you set in the past that mass gatherings are set in the past that mass gatherings a re pretty set in the past that mass gatherings are pretty much at the last thing on the list, has been a consideration yet? professional sport is being played in it stadiums in wales, but obviously without anybody there to watch. stadiums will open up further in wales for those sorts of purposes. we haven't had discussions yet about bringing large crowds of people back together and it wouldn't be sensible to be doing that, given the state that coronavirus has been in here in wales. i think that we're learning today that the uk government intends to pilot the possibility of bringing crowds back to stadiums and i've spoken to

michael gove about that this morning. we reach an agreement that we will learn with them on the results of those pilots. if the pilots demonstrate that it is safe to bring people back as spectators stadiums, then of course we will consider that very carefully in wales, but we will want to learn from the pilots to see what is possible. very often, as we learned in the schools context, it is not the stadium itself and the organisation inside the stadium that may be the issue. it will be how people get to the stadium, how they behave on the way in, how crowds gather around the stadium when things are going on inside the stadium, where it's very carefully and tightly organised, it may be possible to make it safe, relatively straight but it's more than that, it's what goes on outside and around the stadium that we will want to be interested in and see how that goes

in the pilots. he speaks welsh. studio: that is mark drakeford giving that briefing now in wales and he has just giving that briefing now in wales and he hasjust announced giving that briefing now in wales and he has just announced that it is going to be the last daily briefing in wales for now, they will move to weekly briefing over the summer and if things change, they might have to increase that, and he summed up the experience that everyone's been through in wales, wanted to thank eve ryo ne through in wales, wanted to thank everyone in the public sector and eve ryo ne everyone in the public sector and everyone who has contributed to this incredible effort to get people through the darkest days of april, where 43 people were dying each day. now, he says there are many days where there are no new registered deaths. he talked about the level of ppe erfurt and the sheer numbers of items that have been supplied to

going into many millions, and also talks about what they're going to be doing now in the summer, running for the next stage of the year, looking at the economic resilience to replenish ppe supplies, to make sure there's enough flu vaccine, looking at care home provision for the autumn and winter, with everyone worried about a second speak. he was just as there about stadiums opening, because boris johnson just as there about stadiums opening, because borisjohnson has been talking about a potential change there in the autumn/winter, and he said he had spoken to michael gove today, saying they will learn from a pilot and whether more spectators could be allowed in a mass gatherings. .. commission that was published by the academy of medical sciences this week has talked about preparations that need to be put in place for a potential second wave, some absolutely eye watering things in that report. have you commissioned a similar report

here in wales about what needs to be done here or are you learning from that report, and could you just brought about a little more as to what exactly is the welsh government and welsh nhs doing over the coming months to make sure that if there is a second wave they are in a better position? we have access to the report of the academy of royal colleges, i have been reading it myself earlier today, it is important to say that the worst case they set out, as they made clear, is an unmitigated worst case, it is what might happen if nothing at all was to take place to prevent those outcomes from happening. we will get advice on translating some of those figures into the welsh context, and we will prepare against a reasonable worst case scenario that we set out in that document is. so, amongst the actions that we will be working on over the summer, will be a field hospital preparation, as i mentioned

earlier, we have it needed to use our field hospitals as we once feared we might, but we need to make sure we have that additional capacity available in the autumn and will be working to make sure we have the right capacity and it is staffed and ready to go if we need it. will also be working carefully with our ca re also be working carefully with our care home sector. we've learned a lot over these months about how to keep care homes are safe. seven out of ten at care homes in wales haven't had a single confirmed case of coronavirus, we want to make sure we do more to safeguard the whole of that sector. we will be working on our influenza immunisation programme for the autumn, because one of the differences come the autumn compared to the spring will be that flu will be in circulation and will be difficult for people to decide which between the symptoms they have if they are a beginning and onset of flu and coronavirus, so we want more people to take up the flu

vaccination this autumn and will be working on plans to make it more widely available, thinking about whether there are groups we can make it available a freebie onto the groups we normally do. —— free beyond the groups. we will be working with those doctors and nurses that came back from retirement to help us in the spring it to see how we can give those people a break from it over the summerand people a break from it over the summer and then be able to call on their services again if they are needed if we had back into more difficult times in the autumn. that is just difficult times in the autumn. that isjust a small difficult times in the autumn. that is just a small selection of a much longer list of things that we have identified that we need to work on. they are all designed to put mitigation measures into place so that the worst outcomes identified by the royal college report can be avoided here in wales. over to my cues. avoided here in wales. over to my cues. “ over avoided here in wales. over to my

cues. -- over to mike hughes. you started the cross conference by running through a timeline of where we have come since march in this pandemic, i wandered we have come since march in this pandemic, iwandered i we have come since march in this pandemic, i wandered i could get you to cast your back once again. yesterday, sir patrick vallance, the chief scientific advisor, told a house of commons science and technology committee that the advice to lockdown was issued on either at the 16th or 18th of march, but a full lockdown wasn't imposed until the 23rd of march. when precisely was the welsh government advised to lockdown? my memory, and you're asking me, i'm relying on my memory, is that it was that meeting of the 23rd of march when the cobra meeting that we attend and the first ministers of scotland and northern ireland are tense, it was that meeting of the 23rd of march when the advice was put to cobra to institute a lockdown. they had been

meetings in the previous week where there had been the evolving pattern of coronavirus was identified, but my memory is pretty clear that it wasn't until the 23rd that cobra we re wasn't until the 23rd that cobra were advised that a full lockdown was imitated right answer to the spread of the virus the united kingdom. studio: mark drakeford there, just talking about when the lockdown advice was actually brought in. he is of course the first minister for wales, and again coming going over what they are planning to do over the summer, perhaps trying to wrestle with existing medical staff by bringing back some of the retired staff, preparing, as we heard earlier, for potential flu staff, preparing, as we heard earlier, for potentialflu outbreak, making sure as many as possible can get flu jabs. and he outlined at the start of the briefing that this is the last of the welsh daily briefings, they will move to weekly briefings, they will move to weekly briefings over the summer. that might change if the numbers go up,

but also wanted thank everyone who has worked so hard in recent weeks and months. more now under prime minister's earlier briefing when he outlined a plan for england. he said there will be a plan on the 1st of august on how people can go back to work. we all want our society to reopen in the economy to start growing again, so look at the details of this plan, but the key now is confidence, do the public have confidence in the measures that come in from's putting in place, the business have confidence in the advice they are being given, and do we have confidence that the government's scientific advice and support these measures? this can't be done and a wing and a pair, it requires a credible plan a national leadership. we will look at the details of the plan but confidence is absolutely crucial. what is the guidance, two businesses have confidence in that?

what are the measures in place, to the public have confidence in that and what are the sign to say? there's going to have to be guidance, there has got to be more than the prime minister said today, but businesses have to be confident that it but businesses have to be confident thatitis but businesses have to be confident that it is said to come back to work of the need to be confident that the government has taken the measures necessary , government has taken the measures necessary, that is where tractor and isolates, look and measures are crucial and confidence is going to be key in all of this. —— track, trace and isolate. it is important that our businesses can get back to normal, we can grow our economy, we are going to have to look at the details of the plan, but in the end, it's clear guidance, a credible plan a national leadership that will give confidence. but first it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good afternoon. summer sunshine has deserted us a little recently, hasn't it? but i've managed to find some today. the cloud has broken up. we have seen some sunny

spells coming through. this was the stafford just a few hours ago. the best of the sunshine across the south—east. there is, however, a weather front and it's bringing some outbreaks of rain, and to the north of that the isobars are squeezing together, the winds are strengthening as well. so, marked contrast across the country. cloud and rain spilling out of scotland into northern ireland, slowly pushing its way steadily south and east. brightening up behind with sunny spells and scattered showers, under the cloud and the light rain we will see temperatures peaking at 17—21d. but in the sunshine, it is warm out there, humid for some, mid 20s quite widely, maybe as high as 28 degrees, 82 fahrenheit. so it's going to be a warm evening and overnight in the south—east corner. our frontal system continues to push its way into northern england and wales, there will be some heavy bursts through the night as well. it is going to be a relatively mild night, temperatures widely into the mid teens. so it does mean we are going to start off on saturday with that front still with us. it really is going to take its time to clear. it is going to bring some rain across northern england and wales.

not moving very far very fast. it gradually pushes its way into central wales and the midlands as we go through the afternoon. may be increasing is cloud into the south—east. with sunny spells and scattered showers accompanied by a brisk breeze across the far north—west, so here it will be 14—16 degrees. highest values through saturday afternoon, 24, that's the mid 70s. but it does mean that there is a little bit of a question mark about how much play we are going to see for the second test with that front slowly easing through. hopefully improving as the day continues. but it's still with us and as we move out of saturday into sunday it still has to take its rain into the south—east corner. something else that's interesting is that behind it there is a cold front, so as that front continues to clear its way south and east there will be a noticeable difference in the feel of the weather. sunday morning could start off in marked contrast, cloudy with light outbreaks of rain easing through. sunny spells and scattered showers continue, most of those showers up in the far north. but look at the difference in the feel of the weather, widely we will see temperatures into the high teens,

maybe if we are lucky, 21.

borisjohnson announces a timetable for easing lockdown in england. employers will be asked to decide if it's safe for staff to return to the workplace, and local authorities will get new powers to deal with spikes in their areas. it is my strong and sincere hope that we will be able to review the outstanding restrictions and allow a more significant return to normality from november at the earliest, possibly in time for christmas. can we have confidence that the government's advisers support these measures? this can't be done on a wing and prayer. it requires a credible plan, and national leadership. the nhs in england will get an additional £3 billion to prepare