victoria hislop, author of cartes postales, thank you very much. thank you. good evening. picture in the weekend. 23 in the south—east, but further north and west, low pressure has been dominating, that stays with us as we head through the night and into monday. towards the south and south—east, mainly clear and dry, further north we have the weather front bringing rain across parts of the south west, south wales and the midlands, and to the north of that from northern england, scotland and northern ireland, clear spells and scattered showers, we have the weather front in central parts of the country and that could bring rain in parts of the south west of england and a few showers in east anglia, but further north across the country, sunshine and further scattered showers for scotland and northern ireland, shouldn't be too heavy, temperatures around 17—18, and a few showers in the file north, but improvements for the likes of yorkshire and wales —— for north. they should have some sunshine on monday. 0utbreaks they should have some sunshine on monday. 0utbrea ks of they sh

in cartes postales, she takes a new step: you see the pictures, from the mysterious postcards that beginarrive one by one for ellie from... she knows not by whom at the start. and it is the story of a journey of discovery to greece and its past, its culture, its whole history that unravels the secrets of the cards. welcome. this is a novel about postcards, or at least it begins with the arrival of postcards. and we actually see them on the page! now, what made you decide to do that? i wanted to give my readers real, live images of greece. when i'm researching i always take a lot of photographs myself, so when i'm back in england writing i'm surrounded by them. you put them on your wall? desk? put them on the wall! i print them out in a very old fashioned way. so you're in greece? i am in greece! i thought why can't i share images of greece with the people who read my books? why not? the idea for the story... did it come from this notion you wanted to show pictures? yes. in other words it was that way round, rather than the other? absolutely. it was the starting point. and then the idea o

victoria hislop, author of cartes postales, thank you very much. thank you. hello there.rbulent weather day for the first part of this weekend. we had the downpours with the hail and the fun and, some stunning weather watcher pictures we re stunning weather watcher pictures were sent in of course, but it was quite cool certainly in comparison with the dangerous heatwave we've seen across with the dangerous heatwave we've seen across europe with the dangerous heatwave we've seen across europe which has shifted further east of today across the balkans and that will continue but again low 40s quite widely, 41! in court over in spain and it will be hot again through sunday, only slows the evening —— slowly easing sunday onwards. back home a ridge of high pressure is saying the showers will diminish as we continue through the night and diminish as we continue through the nightand in diminish as we continue through the night and in contrast with europe it will be chilly here, temperatures 11 01’ will be chilly here, temperatures 11 or 12 will be chilly here, temperatures 11 or1

and coming up: bestselling author, victoria hislop, talks tojim naughtie about her latest novel cartes postaleseece. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn rentoul, political columnist for the independent, and ruth lea, who's an economic adviser to the arbuthnot banking group. we agreed on half of the stories and rubbished the other 50%. you get what you pay for. the sunday telegraph has a photograph of usain bolt and justin gatlin after their controversial 100m final tonight, but its main story is about brexit. the paper reports the uk is prepared to pay up to £36 billion to settle the brexit divorce bill. it says it's the first time a precise figure has been proposed. the independent on sunday also focuses on brexit and a warning from scientists about the government's intention to leave the eu's nuclear agency. the observer concentrates on advice from the children's commissioner, who's concerned that many kids are bingeing on social media likejunk food. the mail on sunday says it has found th

victoria hislop, author of cartes postales, thank you very much. thank you.cast as we start the new working week, low pressure still in charge but there will be sunshine. there was sunshine around on sunday, this is how we ended the day in cambridgeshire captured by the weather watchers. through monday we have this slow—moving weather front bringing rain from the south—west of england and south wales towards the middle and through the morning. north of that, not a bad start to the day in scotland and northern ireland, fresh, single figures in the countryside first thing. showers of northern england than an improvement in the well of the north wales, sunshine returning to anglesey. cloudier in south wales this had to through to devon and cornwall. the likes of essex, kent and sussex should stay dry and bright. a few showers in london in the afternoon with rain in the south—west. to the north of that, a better day for much of wales into northern england with a mix of sunshine on scattered showers in scotland and northern ireland. for the athletics world champio

she will be talking about her new novel, once again set in greece, cartes postales.ing and welcome to bbc news. the bank of england has said families are facing the worst squeeze on their incomes for more than a century. it has warned of slowing economic growth and rising inflation. the bank's governor mark carney said that uncertainty over brexit was curbing pay rises and leading to delays in business investment. here's our business editor simonjack. there hasn't been much summer cheer on the beach in margate this week. the weather, overcast, and some bracing headwinds, much like the uk economy. and there was precious little sunshine shed when the bank of england governor delivered its latest forecast. he explained how the recent fall in the pound was starting to make us all poorer. households looked through brexit—related uncertainties initially. but more recently, as the consequences of sterling's fall have shown up in the shops and squeezed their real incomes, they've cut back on spending, slowing the economy. the bank cut its growth forecast for this year from 1

victoria hislop, author of cartes postales, thank you very much. thank you.scotla nd spells and showers for much of scotland and northern ireland. overnight temperatures, from ten — 11 in the north, 40—15 in the south. to the north, sunshine and showers across scotland and northern ireland but the weather front will bring more persistent rain to central and southern areas. good sunny spells in between the showers across scotland and northern ireland, temperatures, 17-18, and northern ireland, temperatures, 17—18, light winds and southern scotla nd 17—18, light winds and southern scotland could stay dry altogether. south wales and south—west england, persistent rain and some of it could be heavy at times. further east, a few heavy showers into east anglia, but the far south—east will stay dry again with sunshine so it is looking pretty good at the london stadium. we don‘t have a shower through the afternoon but essentially dry, temperatures around 20. the weather front remains in situ across central and southern areas through monday not, tending to fizzle out