as sian lloyd reports.n area where the adventure tourism market has been growing. but taking the leap into working in the outdoor activity sector has been challenging for some. growing up in north wales, there were very few opportunities to take part in outdoor activities. there was certainly no outdoor club in my community so we grow up. we don't have the skills, the knowledge, the confidence to use our natural resources on our doorstep and that cultural vicious cycle develops. so what the outdoor partnership has been doing in the last 15 years is starting to break that cycle. and they're doing it through groups like this one. ryan gibson is now a fully qualified climbing instructor, but for most of his teenage years was homeless, living on the streets in holyhead. be able to get the qualifications and be able to progress — that was that was the hardest step really from — for someone from my background, if you like. you know, because we've always been led to believe the outdoors is for the middle class, re

sian lloyd, bbc news, cardiff.no girls singing in the prestigious german choir soon. a court ruled it was not guilty of sex dissemination by declining an application by a nine—year—old girl. judges said to be 500 year old choir had an artistic right to reject the goal to preserve its distinctive sound. but they allowed to go's mother a right to appeal. she says the choir turned down her daughter on the grounds of gender rather than ability. now, for the first time, the annual eataly food festival in bologna has created a chinese lantern extravaganza, combining a lot of fresh italian produce with an ancient tradition from the other side of the world. chinese tradition in the heart of northern italy. there are more than 80 works of art, some inspired by chinese myths and legends, others the fun and colour. translation: these artworks were built entirely here by a0 chinese men and women in 20 days. under the scorching bolognese sun, they made these wonderful works with iron wire and silk fabric. zigong lanterns are fa

sian lloyd, bbc news, cardiff. good luck to her. time for a look at the weather.ountry as the rain came down quite heavily. if we look at the radar picture, although the rain has cleared from scotland and northern ireland, the majority of england and wales are still underneath this area of rain, which is coming down very heavily. the rain is quite slow moving and it will be the early hours of saturday morning before it clears away from east anglia and south—east england, but showers will follow. we have seen but showers will follow. we have seen those for scotland and northern ireland, and some will work into western england and wales as well. a mild night with temperatures of 12-16dc. the mild night with temperatures of 12—16dc. the weekend will be dominated by this low pressure. the closer you are to this low centre, the more showers will be feeding in. showers from the word go for scotland, northern ireland and the north of england. a breezy day for many areas, but through the afternoon, the showers will merge to give lengthy spells of rain across western scotl

sian lloyd went to meet tian—yi lu as she began herfirst week in thejob. music plays. way. i think a rehearsal should be like children playing. let's try this, let's try this, oh, wow, this works, and sometimes an orchestra or a chorus might give me something i hadn't thought of. tian—yi lu is one of only a handful of women to have titled roles, the top jobs among the several hundred conductors on the staff of british orchestras. perhaps sometimes, the second beat of the bar, go a little bit. as she begins her position as first female conductor in residence with welsh national opera, she takes that number to eight. even at the very beginning of my career, when i tried conducting for the first time and i loved it, the thought of conducting didn't even cross my mind because i had never seen a woman in a professional context conducting before at that stage. i therefore didn't think it was possible. that shortage of role models is something the opera company is trying to change. with this newly created post, it's one of a growing network of organisations creating opportuni

sian lloyd, bbc news, cardiff.eld in central manchester to demand political representation — at a time when only wealthy landowners could vote. their peaceful protest turned bloody when manchester magistrates ordered a private militia to storm the crowd. 18 people died and more than 650 were injured, as nina warhurst reports. on these busy streets, you'd never know that this is where they died, fighting for nothing more than the right of men to vote. it was a baking hot day by the time they arrived here, at what was st peter's fields. some people had walked for more than 20 miles, all through the night, and they couldn't have known about the violence, the panic and the bloodshed that they were about to witness. one of them is david hilton, standing at the back of this photograph. a weaver from east manchester, he met up with peterloo veterans every year to remember and to fight on. and this year, manchester metropolitan university is uniting as many descendants as possible. so this gentleman here... oh, wow. he is

sian lloyd went to meet tianyi lu, as she began her first week in thejob. ‘toreador song' plays.a rehearsal should be like children playing. let's try this, let's try this, oh, wow, this works, and sometimes an orchestra or a chorus might give me something i hadn't thought of. tianyi lu is one of only a handful of women to have titled roles, the top jobs among the several hundred conductors on the staff of british orchestras. perhaps sometimes, the second beat of the bar, go a little bit. as she begins her position as first female conductor in residence with welsh national opera, she takes that number to eight. even at the very beginning of my career, when i tried conducting for the first time and i loved it, the thought of conducting didn't even cross my mind because i had never seen a woman in a professional context conducting before at that stage. i therefore didn't think it was possible. that shortage of role models is something the opera company is trying to change. with this newly created post, it's one of a growing network of organisations creating opportunities to give wo

sian lloyd reports.. but taking the leap into working in the outdoor activity sector has been challenging for some. growing up in north wales, there were very few opportunities to take part in outdoor activities. there was certainly no outdoor club in my community so we grow up. we don't have the skills, the knowledge, the confidence to use our natural resources on our doorstep and that cultural vicious cycle develops. so what the outdoor partnership has been doing in the last 15 years is starting to break that cycle. and they're doing it through groups like this one. ryan gibson is now a fully qualified climbing instructor, but for most of his teenage years was homeless living on the streets in holyhead. be able to get the qualifications and be able to progress — that was that was the hardest step really from... for someone from my background if you like. you know, because we've always been led to believe the outdoors is for the middle class really. a study carried out by bangor university found there w

in a moment we'll hear from sian lloyd who's in cardiff bay and then in belfast our ireland correspondentnd editor sarah smith is at balmoral where the queen met the leader of the house jacob rees mogg and signed the order to agree a suspension of parliament. the queen may have had no choice other than to agree to prorogue parliament when she was visited here at palmyra by ministers earlier today that she will have been very clear about what the implications, potentially, could be. you can hear there are potentially, could be. you can hear there a re protesters potentially, could be. you can hear there are protesters outside the gates of our moral already. being in scotland, the queen will have been aware of what this could mean for the union. the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, has already said that she thinks boris johnson has now made to scottish independence completely inevitable. scotland, of course, voted to remain inside the european union. the snp say they will work with any other opposition parties to do whatever they can to try to stop a no—deal brexit. but at the s