and it isn't just and it isn'tjust the orkney islands that are and it isn'tjust the orkney islands thataren'tjust the orkney islands that are brimming with history. it reckons there are tens of thousands of sites of archaeological interest. across scotland. so here is the travel show‘s pick up some of them. the west coast of lewis which is the most northerly island in the outer hebrides is rich in ancient remains. the standing stones of callanish are famous worldwide. and a must see for any visitor. these gigantic rocks stand between 1—5 metres high and are believed to have been constructed around for — 5000 years ago. the site also includes a burial camp where human remains have been found. i've on the mainland, you will find the sight of the fort close to bird had fought in more rate, the north—eastern part of the country was one of the earliest centres of power for the pic ‘s, country was one of the earliest centres of powerfor the pic ‘s, or painted people as the greeks and romans knew them. head the nikkei hills in aberdeenshire to find a series of distinctive hilltops of the harbour

orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic pastm the scottish orkney islands to help uncover theirou never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! hi there. we're going to look at the satellite picture, first of all, because we have quite a typical autumnal setup, really. cool north—westerly winds working across the atlantic meeting milder southerly winds, a weather front in between. what of course is not normal is this — hurricane ophelia, a category 2 hurricane, near the azores, with winds gusting to 120 miles an hour. that will be affecting our weather early next week. but for the time being, we have these warm winds wafting their way across the british isles, dragging out that warm air for the time of year. so, over the next days, we could see temperatures go as high as 2a

and it's notjust the orkney islands that are brimming with history.of sites of archaeological interest across scotland. so here's the travel show‘s pick ofjust some of them. the west coast of lewis, which is the most northerly island in the outer hebrides, is rich in ancient remains. the standing stones of callanish are famous worldwide and a must—see for any visitor. these gigantic rocks stand between im and 5m high and are believed to have been constructed around 4,000—5000 years ago. the site also includes a burial camp where human remains have been found. over on the mainland, you will find the site of a pictish fort close to the small town of burghead in moray. this north—eastern part of the country was one of the earliest centres of powerfor the picts, or ‘painted people‘ as the greeks and romans knew them. head to the bennachie hills in aberdeenshire to see a series of distinctive hilltops that are the site of an iron age hill fort. historians have suggested that this was the place where the caledonii tribe took on the might of the roman empire

and krista heads to the scottish orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic past.re could be anything right here. yes. you never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! well, it's certainly been a very dramatic period on the weather front and the remnants of hurricane 0phelia still barrelling across the uk. but the worst of the winds affected the south of ireland. our friends there experienced winds gusting up to nearly 100 miles an hour that even here in the uk, we had winds in excess of 70, 80 and even 90 mph. here's the ex—hurricane, what's left over. still very powerful winds. the core of that storm with some of the gale force winds blowing through the irish sea will still be moving across northern ireland, scotland and northern england during the course of

and krista heads to the scottish orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic past. be anything right here. yes. you never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! good evening. after the relative weather calm of sunday across the uk things set to get livelier for parts of the uk into monday. the met office has issued an amber be prepared weather for strong winds, damaging potentially disruptive across northern ireland through the second half of the day. all due to what is currently hurricane ophelia to the south of us but notice the strea m to the south of us but notice the stream coming to the northern half of the country, producing rain at the moment in parts of northern ireland and southern scotland. through the night turns wetter. rain pushing northwards. the

and krista heads to the scottish orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic past.ould be anything right here. yes. you never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! good afternoon. you might be wishing for sunnier climes over the next 2448 for sunnier climes over the next 21148 hrs. we have some pretty disturbed and potentially disruptive weather on the way. we've been keeping an eye on this for several days now. hurricane ophelia is a long way east of the atlantic, it is just beginning to break apart a little bit and beginning to weaken. slowly but surely it will weaken as it heads towards us. it brings very strong winds in western areas. an amber warning for northern ireland tomorrow. today things are quieter. windy across scotland and northern ireland. some

and krista heads to the scottish orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic past.re could be anything right here. yes. you never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! hello. unusual weather in the next few days. some warmth and then the next hurricane heading our way. a category to hurricane with sustained winds of 100 miles an hour. it won't be as strong as that's because it will weaken as it heads towards us. there will be rain to the north—west though. ahead of the cloud we are drawing warm airfrom though. ahead of the cloud we are drawing warm air from the south, pushing it into our shores and where we get from sunshine, we could see a headline temperature in the next few days of 2a degrees. we went all get the sunshine, it's been clouded western areas al

and krista heads to the scottish orkney islands to help uncover their neolithic past. yes. you never know. that's next week. in the meantime, why not head over to our social media feed, where you can check us out on the road in real—time and catch carmen's hong kong pictures as well? all the details you need are on the screens right now. but for now, from me, and from all the travel show team here in bermuda, it's goodbye. have a bermuda—ful day! good morning. well, after hitting category 3 status on saturday, a rarity for the eastern atlantic, hurricane ophelia here on the chart to the south of the azores will weaken as it pushes towards our shores in the next 2a hours. wins in the next 2a hours. were 150 miles an hour on saturday wins were 150 miles an hour on saturday afternoon. it will weaken over the next 2a hours, but to the east of it, it is helping to push warm air in our direction. that is why it is so muggy out there at the moment. we start sunday with temperatures in the mid teens. coolest of all, temperatures are still above where they should be that this t

and at 10:30 the travel show heads to scotland's orkney islands to see an archaeological dig aiming toover their neolithic past. good morning and welcome to bbc news. spain's prime minister, mariano rajoy, is chairing an emergency meeting of his cabinet which is expected to start imposing central control over catalonia. the regional government says it will respond with a unilateral declaration of independence. my colleague tim willcox is in barcelona for us. welcome to a beautiful and sunny barcelona. i'm standing here high above one of the best—known streets in barcelona, just behind me on my left the cathedral designed by architect gaudi. in the next few hours we are expecting hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets here, pro—separatism, very much against direct rule imposed by madrid as a result of article 150 five. an article that has never been used before. about an hour ago spanish prime minister mariano rajoy convened an extraordinary meeting of the spanish cabinet to discuss which measures they plan to impose here on barcelona in the next few days. it's a

the orkneys are a remote archipelago of islands about 30 miles off the northern coast of scotland.r before, and some say we're in a golden age of scottish archaeology. it was this sort of technology that, in 2003, helped reveal a hidden treasure — a building complex up to 5,000 years old buried under a farm on orkney‘s brodgar peninsula. the site stretched over 2.5 hectares beneath the ground, comprising temples, paved streets and outbuildings. it's since been dubbed the mess of brodgar and hailed as the greatest neolithic find in the modern era. the scale of it, which is really... archaeologist nick card is responsible for excavating the mess of brodgar. the site is so big that even, you know, this trench behind us, it's still only about 10% of the whole area. wow! so what we're doing is just gradually unpicking it, trying to refine the chronology, seeing how all these buildings relate to each other, which ones were in use at the same time, and taking thousands of samples to try and work out how these buildings were actually utilised. the site is open forjust eight weeks a year an