thank you giles kenningham and george eaton. goodbye. good evening.r weather maps over the last few days. and we have a bit more of that to do as we head into the weekend. this is how it looked in leicestershire earlier on. the storm clouds really bubbling to life. we saw some outbreaks, pretty heavy rain there in edinburgh. and as we go into the weekend there is the risk for some further thunderstorms. not for everyone, but if they do turn up, it could give some localised flooding and some travel disruption. your bbc local radio station will, of course, keep you up to date. now, this is a look back at how things turned out during today. you can see the showers and storms, particularly focused across parts of wales, northern ireland, north west england, southern scotland. we've had a few breaking out across the far northwest of scotland as well. one or two showers and storms elsewhere as we go through tonight. most of those showers will fade away. but we're going to be left with a lot of clouds and misty, murky conditions once again because of the hum

former conservative director of communications and the political editor of the new statesman, george eatonre already in. the express says that millions of britons were unable to use their visa cards today because the payment system, not only here, but "across europe", according to the paper, crashed. the guardian also leads on that. it points out that visa issued an apology without explaining what had gone wrong to spark the chaos. supermarkets will be banned from selling sweets and chocolates at check—outs, as part of government plans to tackle childhood obesity, the telegraph reports. christine lampard features on many front pages. in the mirror, it's claimed that her stalker threatened to write her epitaph on the the television presenter‘s gravestone, according to evidence heard in court. the lead in the times is that google is apparently making money from the sale of a mobile phone ap that is being used by abusive men to spy illegally on their partners. the i newspaper says that the british car industry fears that it will be the next target of trump's trade sanctions policy. a picture

party communications director giles kenningham, and the political editor of the new statesman george eaton

party communications director giles kenningham, and the political editor of the new statesman george eatonthat's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm azi farni. it's been a good day for england against pakistan, we'll be live at headingley on day one of the second test. gareth southgate defends raheen sterling over the controversy caused by his gun tattoo and tyson fury says it's been a tough road to his long awaited return to boxing. i was almost at the bottom of no return and i've been brought back andi return and i've been brought back and ijust return and i've been brought back and i just want to show to everyone that if i can do it anyone can do it because i'm no different to anybody else. because i'm no different to anybody else. hello and welcome to sportsday. thanks forjoining us. england have had the perfect start in the second test against pakistan, as they look to bounce back from their nine wicket defeat at lord's. stuart broad led the attack, with three wickets for 38 runs, as england the visitors out for 174 at

the house of commons i'm joined by katy balls, political correspondent for the the spectator and george eatonatesman. thank you both forjoining. this whole idea of a compromise, this concession the government has put forward , concession the government has put forward, this confusion as to whether or not they've done that, but it was certainly enough earlier in the day to convince the backbench mps who were thinking of rebelling not to rebel? i think anyone who says they know exactly what's going on is probably sitting right now. —— telling a fib. tory mps, labour mps, brexit mps all have different ideas. but what is clear is that... rebels decide not to do that because they have something. but now the government tends to row back or there was a misunderstanding. right now it's not clear, maybe it will be clear on monday when we start to see the wording. that the interesting thing, george. this potential motion that will be put forward by the assistant general on behalf of the government in the lords. what does i have to say to keep those rebels on side of the tory party? what ultimately has