miratowa on the left and somete on the right. the mascots were chosen by japanese school children.atowa will represent events for the olympics and somete will be the symbol for the paralympics. organisors say the olympic mascot "embodies both old tradition and new innovation" and the paralympic mascot is a "cool character" with cherry blossom ears and supernatural powers. coming up on the programme, the headlines, but first, the weather. well, looks like the temperatures are going to soar over the coming

the characters were originally chosen in february — miratowa on the left and someta on the right.he mascots were chosen by japanese school children. miratowa will represent events for the olympics and someta will be the symbol for the paralympics. organisors say the olympic mascot "embodies both old tradition and new innovation" and they say the paralympic mascot is a "cool character" with cherry blossom ears and supernatural powers. william and kate will be celebrating prince george's fifth birthday today. this new official picture of the prince has been released, showing him looking rather happy. the photo was taken after the christening of his brother prince louis in the garden of clarence house, the official residence of the duke and duchess of cambridge. to mark prince george's birthday, a new £5 coin has been issued by the royal mint, showing st george and the dragon. that's all from us for now. could

the characters were originally chosen in february, miratowa on the left and someity on the right., and someity will be the symbol for the paralympics. organisors say the olympic mascot embodies both old tradition and new innovation, and they say the paralympic mascot is a cool character with cherry blossom ears and supernatural powers. thank you very much for watching. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @nkem|fejika. well, looks like the temperatures are going to soar over the coming days in some parts of the country. we got up to 29 on saturday. sunday will be similar. so we are technically already in a heatwave, but the really hot air is set to return from monday. temperatures will be in excess of 30 celsius, but this is true mostly for south—eastern parts of the uk. in the short term, we have weather fronts close to north—western parts of the uk. in fact, this weather front is responsible for bringing a lot of cloud through the early hours of sunday morning, and also very humid air, stuck in this air mass which is coming off the atlantic. so temperatures dropping no lower than 15