i think i might carry on for a bit and thenjust see where it goes. see what next adventure i do. he's already raised hundreds of thousands of pounds, which will help families cope with extremely difficult times. night—night sweetie, love you. night, mum. see you in the morning. just a couple more sleeps till maximus. john maguire, bbc news, north devon. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich. it is not the best camping weather this weekend. for clouds like this, never a great sign if you are sleeping under canvas. we have some pretty impressive shower clouds,

this one taken by some warm in cornwall. turning wintry in places, cold air rushing its way in from the west behind this cold front. as the cold front has gone through, it has brought a band of very heavy rain, some squally, gusty winds. if you haven't seen that across east anglia or the south east, you are just about to. behind it, some sunshine but also some showers with some hail and thunder and over high ground up towards the north—west, though showers are starting to turn wintry. some squally, gusty winds particularly with our frontal system and as this clutch of showers pushes in from the west as well, temperatures dipping as the afternoon goes on. seven, eight or 9 degrees at best. as we head through this evening and tonight we will see further showers and more of the showers will turn wintry and in scotland over the high ground we could see five centimetres of snow. but a brief covering over high

ground in northern ireland, northern england, north wales, the west and the south malls of england. clear spells elsewhere, a chilly night and some places will be below freezing and that could lead to icy stretches in places tomorrow morning. on saturday morning, the driest and brightest window of whether through the weekend with spells of sunshine. but the window of sunshine will close in the afternoon with cloud pushing in and the winds will strengthen out west, rain later into northern ireland, western scotland, parts of wales and the south—west, but temperature showing signs of creeping up. this cold spell quite shortly. saturday night looks pretty windy. the frontal system is pushing in from the west will bring outbreaks of rain but also gales for a time across northern ireland and parts of scotland. the clocks go forward an hour during saturday night. a sunday, wet weather left behind for a time across central areas. to the north, sunshine and a few wintry showers. to the south the clive drew break to reveal some sunshine and at this stage we should

see some warmth kicking in with temperatures getting up to around 15 degrees. into the start of next week, some weather contrasts, northwesterner is coming scotland particularly could see rain and enough are some flooding. the further south you are, it should be dry, bright and potentially one. easily i9 dry, bright and potentially one. easily 19 or 20 degrees and some places could get to 23 degrees. a reminder of our top story... thousands of asda supermarket workers win a major victory at the supreme court in their battle for equal pay. that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. good afternoon — it'sjust after 1.30pm, and this is the latest from the bbc sports centre... england are off to a good start

in their bid to score the daunting 337 they need to win the second one day international against india in pune. they're currently 102. jason roy with 5a. england captainjos buttler, filling in for the injured eoin morgan, chose to field first. they made some headway, in reducing india to 37 for 2. but big hitting from rishabh pant, and a 5th odi century from kl rahul, helped india to a total of 336—6. india lead 1—0, in the three match series. chris thompson and stephanie davis qualified for the tokyo 2020 olympics — with victory in the great britain marathon trials at kew gardens this morning. thompson, who will turn a0 in april, will be competing in his second olympics having run the 10,000 metres in 2012. here's our senior sports news reporter laura scott so, in the marathon it was a looped course here at kew gardens. the route had been done 25 times to shave off seconds here and there and

in the men's events, it was won by chris thompson, age 39. he welcomed his first child earlier this week and he got apb here today to earn his spot on the plane to tokyo. ben thomas... in the women's race it was stephanie davis. she was the main contender today. she is on the plane to tokyo as well. she is on the plane to tokyo as well. earlier callum wilkinson won the 20 kilometre walk. he didn't get the qualifying time though so has to wait until tuesday to find out if he gets to go to tokyo. tom bosworth came second today, but he'd already made qualifying time in a previous race — and so is going to the games in july. in the women's event heather lewis, the fastest briton over 20 kilometres in 2019 got the better of her big rival bethan davies. the new formula one season is under way in bahrain with max verstappen

showing he'll challenge lewis hamilton again this year. in first practice, the dutchman's red bull was more than a quarter of a second quicker than mercedes�* valtteri bottas. seven time world champion hamilton wasn't even the quickest briton as mclaren�*s lando norris pipped him to third by a fraction of a second. sarah hunter returns to captain england women for their six nations title defence. she was named in the squad for the upcoming tournament. england completed their second consecutive grand slam in november, but the 2020 tournament was hit by postponements and cancellations amid the coronavirus pandemic. hunter was out with injury as the red roses sealed their 16th six nations title against italy, but she is back to lead the group for the 2021 tournament. and the men's six nations finally ends tonight. scotland's trip to france was postponed last month, due to a covid—19 outbreak in the french camp. and this one will now determine who wins the trophy. after beating wales last saturday to deny them the grand slam, the french can now snatch the title too, if they can score at least four tries against scotland and win by 21 points or more.

however, the scots have been wound up, by all the talk about france being champions and hope to win themselves with a bonus point, which would mean their best ever 6 nations finish of second. we read a quote from one of the players saying that they've got a trophy to win. so, as a proud scotsman that hurt me a lot. a lot has been said about what they need to do. we won by eight points and we finished with the highest score that we have ever finished in the six nations. so, that's the motivation for us. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website.... including the build up the start of the rugby league season... that's bbc.co.uk/sport a baby—sitter, who threw and violently shook a 21—month old girl, causing a "catastrophic" brain injury which led to her death, has beenjailed in birmingham for life with a minimum tariff of 20 years. lilly hanrahan died two days after being found collapsed with six broken ribs in northfield in birmingham. our correspondent there phil mackie

told us it was a dreadful case. this is another one that can be added to the list of young children who were known to social services at the time. the circumstances of this word 2017, she was being looked after by a legal guardian and sean sadler was in a relationship with her guardian. he had been left in charge of her while she was out as a baby—sitter and he had sustained a violent attack —— he had carried out a sustained and violent attack —— he had carried out a sustained and violent attack against the little girl who was just 21 months old. it led to catastrophic brain injuries amongst others. she was taken to hospital two hours after an ambulance was called. she was taken to the hospital. that's where she died and there was nothing left to be done to save her. and actually, on further examination, they found a total of a0 injuries, so there had been a earlier assault,

sometime seven or ten days before the attack. they had been a trial at birmingham crown court which ended earlier this week, where he had been charge of murder and wounding with intent. he denied those charges, always maintained his innocence throughout but the evidence was just damning against him and thejury found him guilty. guilty of both of those charges. so, today he was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence with a minimum tariff of 20 years. three years separately for assault, although that is concurrent. we also heard a really moving statement from lilly's cousin, sophie hanrahan. she read out a very long statement that represented the whole of the family's feelings. she said that lilly was a funny, happy little girl. too pure for this evil world and she said that her death had rocked our world to the core and changed our lives forever. now, i mentioned that at the time, they were obviously known to social services in birmingham. subsequently, an independent trust has taken over the running of the children's services and a serious case review into lilly hanrahan�*s

death is suspected to be published in june. an actress who took part in a bafta initiative, aiming to improve diversity in the film and tv industry, says she was subjected to racist comments while on the scheme and wasn't given appropriate disability support. bafta says the vast majority of its participants have a positive experience. tom roles has more... that one is called dennis. actually, it's called... this is india eva rae appearing in channel 4's on the edge series in 2019. she was encouraged while working on the show to apply to bafta's programme. she thought that the scheme would further help her overcome some of the obstacles that she faced in the industry as someone from a minority ethnic background with disabilities. but instead, she says, she was subjected to racist comments at a meeting with the casting director at bafta's hq in central london.

she said, i don't really have industry advice for you. the advice i have is more about you understanding what you need to meet when you are going up as a lead. and then she went like this. and then said, exotic talent in these rooms with our british talent. i have been listening to you my darling, and i quote, she said, i can't understand the english coming out of your mouth. miss rae then said she was advised to learn english and to take elocution lessons. when she went to ask a mentor on the scheme for advice, she said she was told she might never work again if she spoke up. bafta says it has not received any complaints about either incidents but if it had, they would have been taken extremely seriously. we were made aware that the participant had a negative experience with the casting director as they mentioned it in passing during a session with another actor. we are not aware that this incident happened as part of the elevate programme. miss rae also has a condition which makes processing spoken

information more difficult despite actors with a disability being specifically encouraged to apply for elevate, she says she had to ask bafta repeatedly for support for her needs. why would bafta create a system, where we are set up to fail? why did bafta fail to organise any access coordinators, access audits... when miss rae tried to raise an official complaint, she was told by a senior bafta figure that her place on the scheme could be at risk if she did so. in response, bafta says it might pause participation to ensure a complainant was supported and that they would consider extending their place on the programme. the charity disability rights uk says there is still not enough understanding of hidden disabilities in wider society. there are 14 million disabled people in this country, which is about 21% of the population and you won't find anywhere near that as a percentage represented in most organisations. it is certainly harder for people with hidden disabilities though because people just see you as presenting as non—disabled. in response, bafta said...

it says it doesn't have in—house disability advisers but that it draws on a wealth of independent experts and if an access support worker was needed, it would cover the costs. it says that in this case, it was confident that everything was done to support miss rae. this year saw one of bafta's most diverse film awards nominations list to date but these allegations will raise questions about whether more could have been done to help emerging under—representing talent, even on a scheme dedicated to supporting them. retail sales rose slightly in february, recovering some ground from a steep fall injanuary. the office for national statistics said sales were still down by 3.7% on a year earlier, before the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. food and department stores benefitted from essential retailers remaining open, but clothing shops have continued to struggle. online sales have continued to grow and hit a record 36.1% of all uk sales.

the communities secretary robert jenrick has criticised protests outside a school in yorkshire and called for them to end. demonstrators gathered in front of batley grammar school this morning, following claims that a teacher showed his students a cartoon of the prophet muhammed. a teacher has been suspended. mrjenrick, has said that teachers should respect faith but "it must be right" for such images to be allowed to be shown in a free society. well, the scenes in batley are deeply disturbing. no teacher or members staff should ever feel threatened or intimidated going into school and doing theirjob. of course, it is incumbent on teachers to show respect and to behave appropriately to communities. we also live in a free society and we want children to be taught contentious issues appropriately and for nothing to be censored in the classroom.

this is a matter that the school now has to consider very carefully. but as a minimum, we need to ensure that the scenes that we are seeing outside the school gates need to come to an end. it must be right that the teacher can appropriately show images of the prophet muhammad in a free society. we want religions to be taught to children and four children to question and query them. however, this is a matter that the school needs to consider carefully. we don't have context here, so it is not appropriate for me to question that. but we must see teachers protected and no one should be feeling intimidated or threatened as they go into school and the students that i saw yesterday and this morning in batley are deeply unsettling. the headlines on bbc news.

thousands of asda supermarket workers in the uk have won a major victory at the supreme court in their battle for equal pay. china has imposed sanctions on nine british citizens, including five mps, after the uk took action over human rights abuses. wales will end its "stay local" rules from tomorrow, meaning people will be able to travel within its borders without restrictions. tourist accommodation will also given the green light to reopen. the highest number of unaccompanied minors travelling to the us are from guatemala. it's an extremely dangerous journey, especially for children. but the migrants say they are fleeing extreme poverty, drought and hunger. injanuary, 16 guatemalan migrants were murdered as they passed through northern mexico. almost all of the victims came from one impoverished region, san marcos — from where our correspondent will grant reports. when anderson anturio set

off from his village in the guatemalan highlands, he no doubt carried its name, meaning new hope in his heart. atjust 16, and travelling alone, his journey ended in the worst possible way, he was brutally murdered just miles away from the us border. his parents are still trying to comprehend the decision to allow their eldest son to leave and accompanied on the treacherous trip north. the sad truth is that anderson's grim and will not dissuade other teenagers from his community from attempting the same trip. not even in his own family. translation: working the land here, i would only make about $6 a day. - that doesn't go far. i know i'm young but if i don't go, i will have to work in the fields with my father, where often there isn't work every day. sometimes, just two

or three days a week. families in these highland community say their young people aren't just leaving they are being forced out. obliged to leave their homeland through a potent combination of high unemployment and poor soils, damaged by climate change and drought. little wonder that many see no alternative than to pay for a people smuggler and to head north. opportunities if you are young in san marcos are scarce. the players for the local club dream of playing in europe some day but the likelihood of breaking through is slim. most of these players have spent the morning working fields before training. amid the town's grief for its lost children, the authorities can provide little incentive for young people to stay with few resources for education or employment. translation: the migrant hasjust two options - - reach their destination or die trying. that's that's the only dream

they have at this time. it's no use me telling the young person, when you get there, you will be washing plates and sleeping in a fleapit. they are not thinking about that. many here won't be put off by either the dangers of the road or by seeing others fail before them. when most family eatjust once a day, twice at most, the motivation of poverty in san marcos is stronger than the obstacles ahead, and until that improves, most young people will opt to flee. when twins louie and neve, were delivered early by emergency c—section, it was feared they might not survive. neve weighed just one lb, seven ounces, while louie needed specialist care. but after two weeks apart they're on the mend — and have been reunited for their first cuddle together. ian haslam has been speaking to their proud parents. reunited with a cuddle. after being separated at birth, this was the moment twins louis and neve were finally allowed to be

in the same incubator together. when we got told our baby was moving to a different unit and neve could come in the same room as louis, i wasjust made up. but when they got put in the incubator together, the first thing they done was put their legs over each other, theirarms, it looked like he was kissing her on the head. and then she had her hand round his neck at one point. they're just dead funny to watch. and what was your reaction when you saw that happening, you saw them instantly bonding again? i just felt like crying. it was just dead nice, to watch them both back together again. the siblings getting back together is all the more joyous given what they've overcome. doctors feared neve might not survive in the womb because she had reverse blood flow and wasn't getting enough nutrients, while louis had complications after birth including collapsed lungs. this picture, are you surprised that it's just gone everywhere? it started off on a virtual pub on facebook. my mum put it up there, a status on and everyone was asking for updates.

so i put my own up and itjust went off from there. just thousands after thousands liked it. thankfully the twins are making good progress and could leave liverpool women's hospital by may. it will be nice but will be up the wall. we've got all our family members who can't wait to meet them. he'sjust dead calm. like when you do his nappy and stuff, hejust lies there, he's not bothered. she kicks off when she's got a dirty nappy. and when you're trying to change her to put a clean one on, she's still kicking off. she's just dead feisty, she's unbelievable for a two—pound baby. the fun starts here! it does. for the next few weeks, though, they'll continue to get stronger together. what do you think they'll think when they look back on this in years to come? they're going to be embarrassed, aren't they? yeah, but i think they'll be happy at the same time because we are going to do a little memory box. louie, when he wasn't well, had this hat on, that was holding his oxygen thing on his face together. there's a page in the echo for them

so we're just going to put that in and when they're older, show them it. don't forget about us as well! yeah, and yous! they'll probably kill us, like, but it's got to be done, hasn't it? i think they'll be fine with it. ian haslam, bbc news, liverpool. at least five people have been killed in northern alabama after a series of powerful tornados tore through the state destroying entire neighbourhoods. bbc news spoke to a meteorologist who described the situation as unprecedented. this is pelham, alabama, and the terrifying moment a tornado tore through. rattling. oh, no! you can see and hear the sheer force of the wind — an incredibly lucky escape for those in this vehicle. 0h, bleep. oh, my god. what the bleep.

and this is the aftermath. george ran downstairs, and the whole roof was off... difficult to comprehend — this home ripped to pieces, looking more like a doll�*s house. you see the bed frame? yeah. i was out there watching the president on tv. there was about a minute left — he was just about to finish — and the power flickered off. i didn't think much about it, came back home. picking through the debris, the family doing its best to salvage whatever possible. it was one of multiple tornadoes to ravage southern states on thursday. this afternoon wasjust unprecedented across northern alabama. we really feared for our lives there in the birmingham area when that tornado touched down. i began tracking that storm this afternoon in alabama at around 1:30, and we were still tracking it at 4:30 in the afternoon. this tornado was producing winds of at least 150 miles per hour

and was on the ground for 150 miles. in a given afternoon, you might see a tornado warning last for maybe 15, 20 minutes — this was three hours! the damage is significant, many now facing the arduous clean—up and recovery effort. tanya dendrinos, bbc news. now, thejob of a postman can bring many different challenges. they have to cope with all weathers, and even deal with the occasional barking dog. but for one postie in the norfolk village of brooke, he's got a more unique issue — he's being terrorised by a rather unpleasant pheasant, as our reporter mike liggins has been finding out. this is kevin the postman on his round in the village of brooke, not farfrom norwich. he's friendly, popular with

the locals and does a greatjob. but for weeks now, kevin has been battling with a filthy—tempered pheasant, called mr angry. he gets very angry, he goes for your ankles and there was one occasion at 2a round the corner, where he flew and knocked the letters out of my hand. mr angry lives in the garden at number 36, and every time kevin comes near, the pheasant gets upset. kevin has to dodge behind gates, but that doesn't always work. squawking. on occasions, kevin has even had to leg it, and seek refuge in his van. to start with, it was a bit of fun, you know, got a couple of nice photos of him in the snow, thought he was a friendly pheasant. and then he went for my ankles, and ever since that, he's always been in this mood. would mr angry be on patrol today?

well, yes, he was and at the start, he had kevin surrounded. why is he angry? is it because kevin wears red? or is he looking for a mate, and thinks kevin might be a female pheasant perhaps? well, no, localfarmers say, he's just being territorial. perhaps he knew he was on tv, but today, the bolshie bird wasn't so much mr angry, more mr mildly annoyed. he seems to be in a good mood today, which is unusualfor him. so it was honours even today. kevin got on with the job and mr angry predictably went off in a huff, unimpressed by his first tv appearance. mike liggins, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello. there are some big shower clouds out there today.

some drenching downpour is drifting across the british isles, in fact, some of those showers over high ground are wintry because we have got some really cold air rushing in from the west behind this weather front. now, the front itself is bringing a band of very heavy rain accompanied by gusty winds that continues its progress eastwards through what's left of the day. behind that, yes, some spells of sunshine but plenty of showers, some heavy and some thundery with some hail. those showers turning wintry over high ground. as we go into the evening, it's going to be getting quite chilly with temperatures between five and 7 degrees at 6pm. as we head through this evening and tonight, we will see plenty more showers pushing in from the west and over high ground, even over a fairly modest hills in scotland, northern ireland, parts of north—west england and the highest grounds of wales and the south—west, those showers could be wintry enough to give a covering of snow. maybe two to five centimetres of snow over the high ground in scotland. temperatures dropping down to freezing in places,

so there could well be some icy stretches tomorrow morning. now, the first part of tomorrow brings a window of drier weather. some spells of sunshine. notice, some clouds will be thickening through the west in the afternoon and we will see some rain splashing into northern ireland, western scotland and perhaps parts of wales and the south—west by the end of the day. those temperatures are starting to creep upwards again, 8—11 degrees. now as we head through saturday night, there are some very windy weather on the way for some of us stock frontal systems pushing in from the north—west and notice the white lines, the isobars, squeezing together. we will see some very strong winds, gales likely the parts of northern ireland and western scotland. some very heavy bursts of rain drifting through as well. on sunday, some of that rain will linger across central parts of the uk stock to the north of that, sunny spells and wintry showers. to the south, cloud will tend to to give some spells of sunshine, and actually, for southern areas

on sunshine, a little bit of warmth is starting to creep its way in — 13 to 15 degrees. into the start of next week, parts of western scotland will see some awful lot of rain piling up with potential for flooding. the further south you can, temperatures start to climb. across southern parts of the country, we could see highs of 23 or maybe 2a degrees for a time.

this is bbc news. i'm kate silverton. the headlines... the former scotland first minister alex salmond is launching a new political party — the alba party will contest seats in the scottish parliamentary election in may. he'll announce the details in the next few minutes and we'll bring it to you live. thousands of asda supermarket workers win a major victory at the supreme court in their battle for equal pay. asda says the case is a long way from being settled, but those bringing the claim are delighted. ijust can't put into words how much this means to me, and every other claimant as well, because it'sjust, we never could have dreamed it would go this far, but we've kept going and we've kept fighting and we're going to see it through to the end. coronavirus infections stop falling and begin to level off —

and there's a rise among some pupils in secondary school.