tonight one of the hashtags is curse dominic where people wish bad things to happen to him due to his cavalli of course, we will cover everything including the tory party manifesto release on the weekend here on election cast. earlier this week we saw the coldest weather of the autumn so far but since then things have been turning a little bit milder. most places yesterday had a dry day with a little bit of sunshine coming through. we will see the temperatures continuing to rise a little bit day and night but it is turning milder because the warmer weather is more unsettled with more rain in the forecast. most of the rain today will be near the area of low pressure that has been with us for a while, sitting to the south—west. that is we will see most of the rain. few showers coming in off the north sea threatening towards the north—east of scotland and we have a few showers to come across northern ireland. they should fade away, getting blown away by brisk south—easterly winds. a grey day for the midlands, towards the south—east of england, feeling chilly in the breeze, sunshine further north