that's three foot square, but this could be the answer if and when the music calls. john henderson, bbc spotlighther with phil avery. hello once again. it was a pretty decent day for many parts of the british isles and the satellite imagery really tells the tale. yes, it's pretty obvious there was quite a bit of cloud to be had to the eastern side of the pennines but even here in one or two places there was some sunshine getting through eventually. further south, quite a bit of cloud close by to the channel islands, some sharp showers running through the channel area, but elsewhere the skies will stay pretty clear overnight and that will allow the temperatures again to dribble away, in the countryside particularly well down into single figures, something perhaps a little bit barmier for the greater part of western england, wales and northern ireland. and that is how you start the new day on thursday. i think thursday marked by a greater chance of seeing some of those hefty showers, maybe the odd rumble of thunderjust coming in from the near continent, getting into some of the southern counties of

bbc news, at the grenfell tower inquiry. now, in france president emmanuel macron seems to enjoy being in the spotlight and meeting people, buted the president as "manu" — short for emmanuel. but macron wasn't impressed — let's take a look. i spoke earlier to agnes poirier, uk editor for the french weekly marianne, and asked her how mr macron‘s comments had gone down in france. it hasn't gone down normally that is to say he did not address of the head of state or indeed a teacher or anybody in a position of authority with such nonchalance and he is about 1a this young man is and he was just told off by the president. what is interesting accident, a lot of heads may have chosen not to hear it and continued shaking hands but emmanuel macron is not that kind of head of state and is not shy away from a confrontation and he never avoids questions and he likes to ta ke avoids questions and he likes to take them on and it is interesting because of the most interesting bit of the exchange happened just later andindeed of the exchange happened just later and indeed resident mccrum —— president emmanuel macron tweeted the whole exchang

bbc news. mps will decide whether to build a third runway at heathrow airport later — in a vote likely to expose splits in both labour and tory ranks. the spotlightretary borisjohnson, who vowed to lie in front of bulldozers to stop expansion, but is missing the vote because he's abroad. it is widely expected that the expansion plan will get commons backing. our political editor laura kuenssberg has the story. loud with protest today... no ifs, no buts, no third runway! but those sounds could be replaced by the thunder of passengerjets in the years to come. in this village on the western outskirts of london, parliament was urged to say no. i think what has happened is something that is a disgrace to any civilised country. it makes me feel completely disenfranchised more than anything else. they are just going to knock my house down almost irrespective of what i have said. theresa may, when we had the labour version of this, she was against that, as was philip hammond, another local mp. get into power, whoops, we have changed our mind! after decades of wrangling and those tory promises that it would not happen, the government is onside to expand l

spotlight, roger, good to see you, looking very smart. if you'd like to see more on those stories you can access them via the bbc iplayer and a reminder thatreland because it's an easier way in. this route is still fresh and the police do not focus on it as they do at gatwick or heathrow. dunkerque and calais, northern france, transit point for illegal migrants trying to reach the uk. from here the smugglers drove them to paris where boarded a flight to dublin. he got into ireland using a genuine greek passport belonging to someone who looked like him, fraudulently sourced by the smugglers which he handed back to them in dublin. from dublin, though, he travelled by bus crossing the irish border to belfast khachanov ferry to scotland. he then got a train from glasgow down to london. on hisjourney train from glasgow down to london. on his journey to train from glasgow down to london. on hisjourney to britain he says train from glasgow down to london. on his journey to britain he says at no point did he show any identification. if there are wea knesses identification. if there are weaknesses in irish ports or irish airports they will exploit