simon heffer, author of the age of decadence, thank you very much. thank you.ive calm of sunday across the uk, things getting livelier into monday. met office has issued an amber be prepared warning for strong winds, damaging disruptive across parts of northern ireland through the second half of the day. all due to currently hurricane ophelia. away to the south of us but notice a stream of cloud out of it into the northern half of the country, producing rain in parts of northern ireland, southern scotland. through the night it turns wetter and rain pushes northwards. away from that most dry and winds strengthening towards the north—west. mild away from the north of scotland, muggy conditions, temperatures in the teens to start the day. but this is it. the re m na nts of the day. but this is it. the remnants of hurricane ophelia, no longer a hurricane but a significant storm pushing into southern parts of ireland. southern ireland will feel the worst effects of it but around western areas winds strengthening throughout. much of england and wales after a cloudy s

simon heffer author of the age of decadence, thank you very much. thank you. hello.peratures aren't going to dropa moment and temperatures aren't going to drop a huge deal. winds coming in from the south. strongest across western areas, maybe gale force across the high lands and islands later. outbreaks of rain here becoming heavy and persistent. the odd spot of rain or drizzle for scotla nd odd spot of rain or drizzle for scotland and northern ireland but most will be dry. clearest of the skies to eastern parts of england where we saw the best of today's sunshine and where see the best of the sunshine on sunday. scotland and northern ireland outbreaks of rain and drizzle. some write shall shall the wind not quite as strong. with cloud breaks across england and wales temperatures could be higher than showing on the chart. one or two spots could hit 23. then it gets interesting. sunday into monday, the remanents of what is currently hurricane ophelia reaches the republic of ireland. monday, western fringes of england and wales and northern ireland could see wind gusts

simon heffer, author of the age of decadence, thank you very much. thank you... things set to get livelier in parts of uk on monday and the met office has issued an amber be prepared warning for strong winds, potentially disruptive across parts of northern ireland in the second part of the day. all of course due to what is currently hurricane 0phelia, still way to the south, but notice a stream of cloud into the northern half of the country, producing rain in parts of northern ireland, southern scotland and it turns wet here overnight and the rain pushes north. away from that, it is dry, with strengthening winds. so no longer a hurricane, but still a significant storm putting in the southern parts of ireland. all around these areas, the winds strengthened. rain in scotland, but winds strengthening, 70 mph in west cornwall and 70—80 around the irish sea. monday afternoon into the monday evening rush hour, the strongest winds around the irish sea coasts. 70, potentially 80 mph and big disruption to ferry services and damage potentially. the rest of the uk complet

simon heffer author of the age of decadence, thank you very much. thank you. good evening.r most of us the cloud is increasing, this is how it looked an hour or two ago up in highland scotland. that's because we have some weather fronts approaching. this looks as if it will bring persistent rain and especially to the north—west of the uk. rather damp night, windy across scotland and northern ireland. we will see that drizzly rain rolling on to the hills of north—west england and wales. as we approach friday we have a warning out for the cumbrian fells in particular where it's been so wet of late, particularly yesterday. milder tonight for most of us but still quite dry and bright across southern and eastern areas but on the whole more cloud around on friday. we will see the cloud clearing and the sun returning to the north of scotland and later in the north of scotland and later in the afternoon into northern ireland as well. quite wet for cumbria and north wales. that weather fronts wea ke ns into north wales. that weather fronts weakens into saturday morning, there will b

we talked to simon heffer about his new book. good evening and welcome to bbc news.uropean union has warned the brexit negotiations have entered a state of "very disturbing" deadlock, with disagreement over the money the uk will owe when it departs the biggest cause of the impasse. the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, said that as a result he can't recommend to eu leaders next week that trade talks begin. brexit secretary david davis however talked of the significant progress that has been made. our political editor laura kuenssberg's report contains flash photography. she wasn't there to help. eu super girl and anti—brexit campaigner had slinked her way in today. but listening to the eu chief negotiator, it will need a real superhero to get this moving. translation: we have had useful technical discussions michel barnier said. but we are in deadlock. it is disturbing. that means the talks won't go his way for now. to start talking trade, in the future. the position we are in now is defined by the council's criteria of sufficient progress. the next step is the