they are quite a bizzare things, aren't they? yeah, i wouldn't expect it. perhaps she is tapping into the whole staycation thing that's going on at the moment. we're from london. this is the first time we have been here because it's difficult to travel abroad at the moment. i thought you were going to say purely because of taylor swift's song. well, that too. big fan. she is inspired, we are all inspired when we visit the lake district in cumbria and it's great that she's an american artist and she is selling the lake district in cumbria to the american audience. i could be wrong, but it's my guess that taylor swift probably watches this very programme. if she is watching, what is your message to her? taylor, you will be really welcome to come back, you can help us create some fantastic content that we can get out there to the us audience and invite lots of your fellow country people to come and enjoy the lake district as well. chuck in a couple of i heart lake district t—shirts, she'll be down here in a flash. let's hope so.

ian haslam, bbc news, grasmere in the lake district. now, as you can imagine, police are used to picking up some unusual things, but it's not often they need to pick upa penguin. officers spotted it waddling down a road in the village of strelley in nottinghamshire, in the early hours of this morning. it had escaped from a farm one mile away. it's now been returned. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello, there. we have seen widespread thunderstorms across england and wales through sunday afternoon and some of them have been quite spectacular. look at this! out in the bristol channel, view from portishead, north somerset, yes, a waterspout. and further east, we have had some torrential downpours across east anglia, working in across the midlands and lincolnshire, these storms will continue westwards into wales. perhaps around the merseyside kind of area as well. these storms are capable of bringing

30 or a0 millimetres of rain in the space of an hour, so there is the risk of seeing some flash flooding and transport disruption, we have already seen a bit of that. through the rest of the night, quite murky conditions around coasts and hills, a few patches of drizzle, mild temperatures, 13 to 16 degrees for most and then tomorrow, for england and wales it is another day of bright spells. a bit of sunshine and then heavy showers and thunderstorms, those thunderstorms again are capable of bringing some localised flooding. notice there is a risk of some rain working into scotland and northern ireland for a time as well. that's your weather. hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: anger and confusion for thousands of a—level and gcse students in england, as the exam regulator withdraws its guidance on appealing against grades, hours after publishing it. lancashire police say two bodies have been found by the coastguard, during the search for two teenagers. the department of health

and social care neither confirms nor denies reports that there's to be a shake—up of public health england. an enormous crowd of opposition supporters gathers in the centre of the belarussian capital minsk, to protest last weekend's disputed election. we will have more at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, the travel show. this is the mighty river sava, flowing for nearly 1,000 kilometres from the alps in slovenia, right across to belgrade, in serbia. it's the longest river within the balkans. a vital artery that's borne witness to so much history, stretching all the way back to ancient and medieval times and of course

the turmoil of recent decades. today, the sava connects four countries that just a generation ago were at war. 0n myjourney i'll be exploring how today this river is healing wounds by boosting trade and tourism and creating a new identity for the region. and finding out why locals call this the "vital heart of the balkans". a nation ofjust two million people, slovenia prides itself on its close relationship with nature. it's one of the most densely forested countries in europe and nearly two thirds

of its landscape is green space. this river, the sava, has been a crucial trading route for centuries, dating back to 400 bc, when the celts named it after their river god savus, protector of merchants and travellers. and this is the river's source, the magnificent savica waterfall, bursting from two separate points on the cliff face there. and my intention is to follow the river from here, at its very beginning, until it meets the danube, in belgrade. it's a near 1,000 kilometre course, flowing through four countries that just over 25 years ago were joined as part of yugoslavia. the emerald waters snake through the cliffs and then widen into one of the sava's main tributaries, which has now become famous for watersports.

and i'm getting a face first perspective. this is bellyaking. and, yep, there's a hint in the name. it looks like a kayak, but you lay on top of it and use your hands to paddle. like many slovenian kids, luka grew up in the countryside and the sava was a huge part of his childhood. i spent my whole life in the same house about 50 metres away from the river, so when i wake up, if i had my window open, i can already hear it. here in slovenia, the river isn't just used for watersports — it's an important source of hydropower, and luka thinks the river also has an important role to play in uniting the communities who live throughout its course. we were formerly part of yugoslavia,

so we are sort of still connected. while our languages may not be that similar, they still have the same origin, so we are still sort of one nation and it's sort of nice to have the sava river connect us all. the river isn't always this placid. it can rise a metre higher in the autumn and winter and turn a lot more aggressive. frankly, the relative calm of these rapids is more than enough for me to deal with. ah!