you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.combye. hello there. we saw mixed fortunes of weather on easter sunday. a lot of cloud across large parts of england and wales. best of the sunshine across scotland and northern ireland. for easter monday, again, there will be some rain around through central parts of the uk, top and tail of the country should see some sunshine, but there will be further showers. central parts of the country affected by this weather front, that is where the rain will be through the day on monday. some of it fairly heavy at times, north wales, north midlands, northern england pushing into southern scotland as well, maybe across the irish sea into the isle of man and north northern ireland. much of northern scotland should be dry with some sunshine, best of it in the west. the rest of england and wales, sunny spells, scattered showers, some of these may be heavy and also slow—moving. we will see top temperatures of 111—15 celsius in the southeast, still chilly across this northeast corner with a nagging nor

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com for the time of year, and it's going nowhere for the next couple of days. but of course, the sunshine's helping to lift the temperature somewhat. lots of blue sky across many parts of scotland, 13 celsius in edinburgh, butjust seven degrees for these north sea facing coasts such as scarborough. lots of clouds, and a brisk, a bitter northerly wind blowing, too. and as we head through the rest of tonight, there's a little feature running southwards bringing the threat of some further showers, possibly wintry over the hills of scotland. temperatures dipping very close to freezing into thursday morning. watch out for some icy stretches perhaps. and it's still blustery for those north sea facing coast, and across the northern isles as well. a mixture of sunny spells, but also some showers across many northern areas of england, scotland and northern ireland. more cloud and some showers pushing southwards across england and wales. temperatures again towards the east, just 8—10 degrees celsiu

you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport story at the moment, is it? but we still got that west—east divide across the country. on tuesday, we had the highest temperatures across south wales with 16 degrees, and there was some glorious sunshine at times with a little bit of shelter from the breeze. but out the east, it was disappointingly cool. a brisk northerly wind, temperatures struggled — only around seven degrees across the east yorkshire coast. we're going to keep quite a lot of cloud as well over the next few hours that will prevent temperatures from falling too far. lowest temperatures to start the day on wednesday morning will be in the far north and west of scotland. we could have some thicker cloud and a little bit of drizzle first thing wednesday morning, easing away from south wales and south—west england. but again, west will be best in terms of sunshine. a brisk northerly wind feeding in cloud from time to time, few scattered showers, and keeping those temperatures pegged back to single figures. so a top tempe

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.comthe bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. it was a very unsettled day on monday, very windy for many of us with widespread gales and a whole mixture of weather conditions. tuesday looks a little bit quieter. it'll still be quite blustery. there'll be sunshine, a few showers around, but it'll stay on the cool side for the time of year. in this cooler air mass, which was introduced across the uk by monday's area of low pressure, will be sitting to the east of the country for tuesday. so it's here where we'll see most of the showers, the strongest of the winds, the further west you are, closer to this area of high pressure, then it'll be a little bit quieter. so we start off on a chilly note for tuesday morning. quite a bit of sunshine around. a few showers from the word go across northern and eastern areas, and these showers will affect northern scotland, wintriness on the hills. into the afternoon, some heavier showers, perhaps some hail and thunder affecting the midlands into southea

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.come. hello there. weather for the remainder of this week is going to stay very unsettled. it's going to be a frustrating week to try and make plans for those who have children off for the easter break. there will be some sunny intervals, but spells of wind and rain at times. and as we head into the weekend, it will turn windier but milder. in fact, in east anglia, we could see a high of 20 celsius, 68 fahrenheit — way above the average for this time of year in that area. bearthat in mind, but we are all starting to be aware that a warmer atmosphere means a wetter one. and you can see these areas of low pressure waiting in the wings to influence the weather story. so the first low is moving through on wednesday, bringing rain into northern ireland, southern scotland. behind it, there'll be a few sharp showers to come as well. so by the middle part of the afternoon, expect some sunny spells, perhaps more than we saw on tuesday. and temperatures will peak at highs of 15 celsius. some of the

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.combbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. areas of low pressure are forming an orderly queue in the atlantic, heading our way over the next few days bringing further bouts of rain. there will be some drier, sunnier interludes and then by the weekend, two things will happen. it will turn warmer, but it will also turn windier. now, the area of low pressure heading our way for the weekend is just starting to take shape behind me. not much to see just yet, but that low is set to deepen. in the shorter term, you can see a couple of different low pressure systems working through. thursday morning, starting with some pretty heavy rain actually across parts of england and wales. that will tends to pull away eastwards as the day wears on. then we'll see some sunny spells, scattered showers. then later on, more rain will push across the south—west of england and into wales. for northern ireland and scotland, expect largely cloudy skies, some bits and pieces of light, rain and drizzle, but also a bit of

up with all the drama from those games, as well as the rest of the day's sports news from the bbc sport appme and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. tuesday was another fairly cool day, winds a little bit lighter. but we had further showers, some heavy with hail and thunder once again. next few days, it's pretty similar, it stays on the chilly side. there will be further showers or longer spells of rain, a bit of sunshine. nights will be cool. we're still in this chilly air mass, as you can see here, for wednesday. so it means things starting off rather chilly. further showers across eastern areas, and this tangle of weather fronts will bring thicker cloud and some rain to western parts of the uk through the day. so we'll start with some showers across eastern scotland, some snow on the hills, showers, windy weather affecting the northeast of england. could be quite cold and windy for north sea coasts of yorkshire. this area of cloud and rain pushes across the hebrides, northern ireland down into parts of wales, southwest england through the course of the da

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.como. well, it has been gradually warming up over the last couple of days, at least for most of us. the weather, on the other hand, a little hit and miss. and in fact, that is the outlook for the next few days. some warm sunshine, yes, but also a chance of catching some rain. now, weather fronts are close by — you can see it here on the satellite picture — and that also means some damp weather through the early hours and into wednesday morning, particularly around the irish sea coasts and also around the north sea coasts. but for most of us, it's a dry start to the day, a little misty and murky in places. here are the temperatures first thing — around 9 in london, 8 in belfast maybe, the glens of scotland around 11—5 celsius. now, many of us will wake up to some sunshine, maybe hazy skies in places. and i think it should stay generally dry through the day, although a few showers are possible inland in central parts of the uk, and also damp conditions at times are possible along the north

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.comntre, goodbye. we will see you again next time. hello. slowly but surely, the weather is going to turn a little bit drier, but not an awful lot warmer as we head towards the end of the week. high pressure is tantalizingly close — sitting to the west of the uk, but still far enough away that weather systems can move in around the top of that area of high pressure — bringing cloud, bringing outbreaks of rain. that's exactly what we're going to see through the day on thursday ahead of that cold, frosty start, but we will see some spells of sunshine. that will hold on across southern counties of england, but further north, it's a story of increasing clouds, some outbreaks of rain. rain for a good part of the day across scotland, some patchy rain for northern ireland. temperatures just a little bit up on where they have been recently, eight to 15 degrees. now through thursday night, we'll see clouds and increasingly light and patchy rain pushing southwards. behind that, a northerly wind kic

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.uk goodbye. hello, you are watching bbc news. more now on a story we're following. police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a woman who was pushing her baby in a pram in bradford. the man — who's 25 and from 0ldham — was arrested in the early hours of this morning. kulsuma akter — who was 27 — died in hospital after the attack on saturday. 0ur reporter aruna iyengar updated us on the arrest. yes, there's been some major developments in this police investigation in the search for a man who attacked this woman, kulsuma akter, in bradford. habibur masum was arrested in the early hours of this morning, tuesday, in the aylesbury area that's in buckinghamshire. police had been searching for him since saturday. he has been arrested in connection with the murder of the 27—year—old woman, kulsuma akter, also from 0ldham. she died after being stabbed in the westgate area of bradford on saturday afternoon. this was a particularly tragic incident as kulsuma akter was pushi

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.come, goodbye. hello. well, some of us are in for a fine day. thursday's expected to bring warm, sunny spells to many northern and eastern parts of the country. certainly won't be like it everywhere — in fact, farfrom it in the morning across many western and southern areas of the uk. right now, a lot of cloud shrouding the uk. weatherfront is crossing us, bearing rain and dribs and drabs possible anywhere through the night and in some areas even quite heavy for a time. but this weather front is caught in a current of very mild air streaming in from the southern climes, quite a breezy end to the night is expected as well. but i think by the time we get to around 6:00 in the morning, you can see the skies are clearing across many eastern and some western areas of the uk as well. temperatures will be in double figures in most major towns and cities. so here's the morning, then, the forecast. you can see still a fair amount of cloud across some southern and western areas, dribs and drabs of

you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sportthe bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. the weather will be throwing all sorts at us over the next few days. some wet weather, some warm weather and some windy weather — particularly driven by storm kathleen. a storm named by the irish weather service for impacts it will have in the republic of ireland over the weekend. but for northern and western parts of the uk it will bring gales and the risk of disruption. here is storm kathleen developing, still well away to the south—west of our shores. but low pressure already in charge of the scene for friday — rain and snow across scotland. that tending to peter out, but more rain pushing into southern scotland later. for northern ireland, bands of showery rain with sunny spells in between. england and wales, seeing a day of sunny spells and showers. it will be quite windy, particularly around western and southern coasts, but pretty warm — 15 degrees for belfast, 18 for norwich. still cold in the north of scotland, but it will turn milder here

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that�*s bbc.comre. monday brought some bright and breezy conditions for some of us, and in the sunshine it felt pleasantly warm, particularly if you had a little bit of shelter. in fact, we saw temperatures around 17 degrees through east anglia and down into the london area. it was a very different story furtherwest, however. cloud and rain lingered for much of the day and in some spots we had just shy of half an inch of rain. now, if we take a look at what�*s going to come through tuesday, it will be a similar kind of story. unfortunately, out to the west we�*ll see quite a lot of cloud and some outbreaks of rain. clearer skies further east and with lighter winds we�*ll see a little more in the way of sunshine. so showery rain across south—west england, wales and into northern ireland through the morning. that low pressure not moving very far, so it�*ll stay rather grey and damp. we could see a few scattered showers across east anglia and south—east england into the afternoon. but sandwiched in betw

of course, you can get more on that and everything else from the bbc sport website or download the bbc sport appxt time, it's bye for now. hello, there. areas of low pressure are forming an orderly queue in the coming days, with some drier, sunnier interludes. then by the week, two things will happen, it will will turn warmer but it will also turn windier. the area of low pressure heading our way for the weekend is just starting to take shape behind me. not much to see just yet but that low is set to deepen. in the shorter term, you can see different low pressure systems working through. 0n systems working through. on thursday morning, rain will pull east as the day wears on. then we'll see sunny spells, scattered showers and later on, more rain in the south—west of england and into wales. for northern ireland and scotland, expect largely cloudy skies. some bits and pieces of light rain and drizzle but also a bit of snow mixing in over high ground in scotland. temperatures in the north of scotland only up to five or six degrees, 16 in the south—east of england. through thursday night, we'll see

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app or the website but from me and the restonday was quite a quiet day of weather, really. we had some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, for example, here in cambridgeshire. and across large parts of england, it was a warm day for april, with temperatures topping out at 19 degrees celsius at kew in london. these temperatures are around 5 or 6 degrees above average. it's going to be a much cooler kind of day for tuesday. notjust cooler, it's going to be wet and windy for many as well. the change is down to an area of low pressure. this area of cloud you can see swirling to the southwest of the uk and that's essentially pushing northwards and eastwards over the next 12 hours. we already have quite a bit of rain with us at the moment and the rain across northern ireland and scotland could be heavy enough to cause some localised flooding. 20—40 millimetres of rain, not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, however, edinburgh, for example, has already had over one and a half times the april average rainfall, even thoug

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.uksport centre, goodbye. you're watching bbc news. i'm nicky schiller. we will be back live at the post office inquiry in the next half an hour — it's been the biggest day of the inquiry so far. angela van den bogerd, a former senior executive, has apologised for the "devastation" caused to branch managers. she will continue giving evidence this afternoon. first, let's get more on another of our top stories. scotland's first minister is facing a no—confidence vote after ending his party's power—sharing agreement with the scottish greens this morning. humza yousaf said he came to the decision after tensions between his party, the snp, and the greens over the scrapping of key climate targets. its co—leader, lorna slater, has accused the snp of "selling out future generations". so how did the power sharing agreement in scotland come about? and what led to its collapse? my colleague, sofia bettiza, is in the newsroom to explain. the power—sharing deal between the snp and the greens in scotla

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.ukgoodbye. i'm azadeh moshiri. let's get more on one of our main stories today — the start of the government's plan to expand childcare provision in england. rishi sunak has been talking about that this morning — and some other stories in the news, including the deaths of the aid workers in gaza. they started with childcare — let's have a listen. it's a positive week for the expansion of our child offer, supporting families, giving them the chance of how to juggle childcare and their career and moving towards and their career and moving towards a system where working parents will have 30 hours of free childcare from the time their maternity leave ends at nine months untilfour the time their maternity leave ends at nine months until four years when they start school, this week expanded to two—year—olds, really positive, i've been talking to families for whom that will make a big difference, we have fully funded the programme and increase the rates we are painted nurseries, more childcare

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app or from our website but from me and hello, there. some beautiful rainbows spotted again on thursday, particularly across parts of scotland, such as here in aberdeenshire. and there will be more rainbows on friday with sunshine and showers still very much the theme of the day, but lots more dry weather to come in the forecast as we head through the weekend and into the start of next week now with high pressure starting to edge in from the west, killing off some of those showers by the time we get to the end of the afternoon. it's a cloudy, mild start to the day across england and wales, it's a little brighter further north across scotland and northern ireland, the focus of the showers gradually shifting further southwards as we head through the afternoon across the midlands, down through central southern england. now, there will be quite a brisk and a chilly northerly to northwesterly wind blowing, lightening again by the time we get to the end of the day. quite a range of temperatures, too, just eight celsius in aberdee

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app or from our website — that's bbc.co.ukre, goodbye. hello, you're watching bbc news with me, catherine byaruhanga. the prime minister has called for an end to what he's called the uk's "sick note culture". in a speech on welfare reform mr sunak said he is considering moving responsibility for assessing fitness to work away from gps to "specialist work and health professionals" in england. a record high of 2.8 million people are out of work as of february, according to the office for national statistics. we must be more ambitious in assessing people's potential for work. right now, the gateway to ill health benefits is writing too many off, leaving them on the wrong type of support and with no expectation of trying to find a job, with all the advantages that that brings. in 2011, 20% of those doing a work capability assessment were deemed unfit to work, but the latest figure now stands at 65%. that's wrong. people are not three times sicker than they were a decade ago and the world of work has changed dramatically. now, of c

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, from me and the rest of the team ate of our main stories — rishi sunak says his government's rwanda bill will become law — despite fierce opposition from the house of lords. speaking earlier this morning, the prime minister said mps and the lords will have to vote tonight, until the bill — to send some asylum seekers to rwanda — is finally passed. mr sunak said the first flight to rwanda would leave "in 10 to 12 weeks" — and the legislation will again be put before the commons in the coming hours. there has been a prolonged stand—off between the two houses of parliament for the past four months, amid concerns about how safe rwanda actually is for asylum seekers. mr sunak set out a timeline for his plan. the first flight will leave in ten to 12 weeks. now, of course that is later than we wanted, but we have always been clear that processing will take time and if labour peers had not spent weeks holding up the bill in the house of lords to try to block these flights altogether, we would have begun this process weeks ago.

go to that on your bbc sport app but for me and the rest of the team goodbye. a boxing club in north yorkshire is helping people with parkinson's disease to improve their strength and mobility through specialist fitness classes. westway boxing club in eastfield has eight students with the degenerative condition, who've been training for six months and have seen an improvement in their symptoms. our reporter carla fowler has been to meet the boxers. five, four, three, two, one. fighting to keep fit for as long as possible. westway club has been training boxers for three decades in scarborough, but this is a new group of fighters facing a different kind of battle. everyone here has parkinson's. it's a heavyweight opponent, but they're slowing down its progress through boxing. you start to learn your balance quite early on. you get the coordination and the strength builds up. of course, once you can do that, you can punch harder. so i think it affects all of those things. and they're very important because what parkinson's does is take away the ability of the mind

of course, you can get more on that and everything else from the bbc sport website or download the bbc sport apprest of the sportsday team, until next time, it's bye for now. hello. areas of low pressure are forming an orderly queue in the atlantic, heading our way over the next few days, areas of low pressure are forming an orderly queue in the atlantic, heading our way over the next few days, bringing further bouts of rain. there will be some drier, sunnier interludes, and then, by the weekend, two things will happen — it will turn warmer, but it will also turn windier. that but it will also turn windier. weather front and area low that weather front and area of low pressure later in the day will steer the rain northwards and eastwards on thursday night and eastwards on thursday night and into friday morning. most of the rain will sit across northern scotland and there may be snow over the mountains for a while. following the rain, we'll find sunshine. now, it's going to be chilly across northern most parts of scotland this time but across the midlands and eastern england temperatures could re

bbc sounds. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website at bbc.co.uk/sport're watching bbc news. hello, i'm azadeh moshiri. let's look ahead now to the prime minister's statement to the house of commons on the iranian attack on israel. a reminder that downing street confirmed rafjets shot down iran's drones. the pm's statement is due in about two hours' time. let's speak live to our political correspondent helen catt, who's at westminster. i want to start with a line that has come out of the pm has mac office about iran's claimed that they gave advanced warning about the attack. what can you tell us about that? downing street has addressed that and rejects categorisation, that clearly the uk and its allies were not briefed. there had been reports and intelligence which is why they were aware of the attack coming, but it did not come from iran.— it did not come from iran. there have been _ it did not come from iran. there have been a _ it did not come from iran. there have been a lot _ it did not come from iran. there have been a lot of _ it did not come from

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.ukto chetan and the sports team in salford. you're watching bbc news. i'm nicky schiller. let's get more on our top story this lunchtime. rishi sunak has welcomed a report on children's gender care in england, which said young people had been let down by a lack of research. the landmark review found that medical intervention such as the use of puberty blockers had been based on weak evidence, with health professionals afraid to air their views because debate around the issue had become toxic. the report's author, dr hilary cass, said gender services needed to operate to the same high standards as other parts of the nhs. well, i think it is very important to be concerned about a group of children and young people who are not getting the services that they need and they deserve, in order to thrive and be well as they grow into adults. so i, of course, would hope that considerable note is taken of this report. earlier i spoke to our health editor hugh pym, and the observer's chief lead writ

you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app or from our website.her over the next few days. some warmer weather on the way this week, but with that, we will still see some outbreaks of rain at times, so don't be expecting blue skies and sunshine all the way. and certainly low pressure in charge of the scene for monday, this frontal system pushing in from the west. that'll make for a really soggy start to the day across northern ireland. conversely, central and eastern parts of england and a good part of scotland starting with some sunshine. a touch of frost first thing across parts of scotland. outbreaks of rain spreading from northern ireland, into southern and central scotland, north—west england, wales and the south—west as we go through the day. but for central and eastern parts of england, where we hold on to some brightness, temperatures could climb to 18 degrees. more generally, 11 to 14. now, through monday night, this first band of cloud and patchy rain passes a little bit further eastwards and northwards. we'll see further heavy rain retu

go to that on your bbc sport app but for me and the rest of the team goodbye.kinson's disease to improve their strength and mobility through specialist fitness classes. westway boxing club in eastfield has eight students with the degenerative condition, who've been training for six months and have seen an improvement in their symptoms. our reporter carla fowler has been to meet the boxers. five, four, three, two, one. fighting to keep fit for as long as possible.

claims the tournament could be moved, saying: you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport appoodbye. hello there. we had some big weather contrasts across the uk on monday. now, for central and eastern parts of england, it was a cloudy day with outbreaks of light and patchy rain around. it was a cold day. temperatures just seven or eight degrees, well below average for this time of the year. and actually, these kind of temperatures are much closer to the averages you'd see in february. so, if you thought it felt a bit wintry, well, you weren't too far off the mark, but it was a different story further north. in scotland, we did have some brighter skies and some sunshine and we had temperatures 16—16.5 degrees or so in glasgow, so was actually warmer than average here. now, the reason we've got these kind of contrast at the moment is we do have some slightly milderair coming in off the atlantic into generally western areas of the uk. but this trough in the jet stream across europe is dragging in cold northerly winds across a good part of central and eastern england. really, the

you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.ukhe first prime minister's questions since mps returned from their easter break was dominated by the issue of tax and spending. the labour leader sir keir starmer raised conervative plans to further cut national insurance. he said the conservatives were refusing to say where the money would come from. we've been trying for months to get to the bottom of this, so now is his chance. no more spin, no more waffle, no more diversion — i know that will be difficult. he can either... mr speaker, this is the choice — he can either cut state pension or the nhs that national insurance funds — that's route one — or he can put up income tax. which one is it? prime minister. mr speaker, mr speaker, we've just cut taxes by £900 for a typical worker. we've delivered the biggest tax cut for businesses since the 1980s. but while we're cutting taxes, labour is already putting them up in wales, putting up taxes right now for small businesses. in birmingham, putting up council tax by 21%. and in london, hi

players in the bayern munich side against arsenal, you can find out full line—ups and more on the bbc sport app scotland at 735, you might need for television screens and just as many radios. that's it for now. bye. hello. tuesday was another wet, windy and fairly wild day of weather for many of us. we've had some really big waves around the coast, some coastal flooding, too, across parts of southern england and wales. this was the picture in new brighton, in wirral earlier on in the day. but the strongest of the winds, the heaviest of rain will be easing fairly quickly. so turning much quieter tonight and colder, especially in the east. as low pressure clears away into the north sea we've got this ridge of high pressure with us, at least temporarily, before the next weather system arrives. but under the clearing skies through this evening and tonight, those temperatures are going to drop quite quickly. so by the time we get to the early hours of wednesday morning, especially for central and eastern parts of scotland, central and eastern england, too — those temperatures 2—3 degrees in some of