hawkins, bbc news. it is sunny, airline food is the one thing i don't miss about flying. let's have a look at the weather with sarahlooking a bit mixed. it's something of a north—south split. across much of england and wales, we've got a fairly decent weekend ahead. it's looking largely dry, pretty warm as well with some sunshine on offer. but for scotland and northern ireland, a different story. here, things will be turning increasingly windy, particularly through saturday, and there'll be some rain at times. heaviest for the north—west of scotland on sunday. but for the here and now, we've got this weak weather front that's been slipping its way slowly south of the past 2a hours or so. but a more active weather front waiting out in the atlantic. that is what will bring the rain to the north—west. but for saturday morning, we just got a band of cloud on this weak weather front pushing south. could be the odd spot of drizzle for southern england first thing, but that clears away. much of the uk looking dry with some long spells of sunshine, but there will be more of those blustery showers for scotland and for north