lorna gordon, bbc news, ben nevis. confirmed there won't be cross channel ferry services over the holiday weekend. passengers are being warned that travel networks will be "extremely busy" across the holiday period. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin reports. this soft play centre is a hive of activity this week. it's a busy time for travel, too, but some people have decided to stay put. so we wanted to go to london for the weekend, obviously being the bank holiday. we would have driven down because there would have been four of us and the baby, so luggage and pram. but we just decided it's not really worth it, because of the petrol prices especially. to fill the tank of my car would have been over £100. as a fallback, we would have travelled by train, but with cancellations, i can't risk getting to the train station and then for it to be cancelled or delayed. others are going ahead, anyway, including ravinder, who's thinking of driving to bournemouth on saturday with her family. try to leave early, to leave time,

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lorna gordon, bbc news, ben nevis.ts sunshine and it will feel quite warm. weather fronts to the west have already brought rain to northern ireland and western scotland. then seems to peter out in many places, but some light, patchy rain pushing north through scotland. sunny spells through wales and england, the chance of catching an isolated shower. up to around 20—21 in south—east england. into tonight, low, misty cloud into wales, south—west england, may be some drizzle. cloud in northern ireland and south—west scotland. clear spells elsewhere. wales, south—west england, south—west scotland seeing the cloudy skies for good friday, maybe a few showers into northern ireland. the odd shower elsewhere is possible, but for many places it will be dry, broken cloud, sunny spells. into the start of the weekend, cloudy first thing on saturday, patchy rain. we will start to see some sunny spells coming through, a weather system approaching northern ireland and into the western isles stop later any day, an increasing chance of