the best place to appreciate the size of the sydney harbour bridge is to stand right underneath it. nt on the north side of sydney harbour. the bridge stretches 503 metres across to dawes point on the south side and it weighs an extraordinary 52,000 tons. it was made 90 years ago, but it's still one of the biggest bridges in the world, it is just extraordinary. archive: his majesty's message is as follows, i have learned with great pleasure that the sydney harbour bridge has now been completed. cheering i cross the bridge twice a day going to and from work and i just love it. it doesn't matter whether the peak hour traffic is banged up or not, because the slower the traffic the more time you have to appreciate the bridge as you go over it. it is just a wonderful structure. here we are, we are going under the structure now, and you just see the unfolding series of girders, it is just beautiful. there is track north and south for trains, there are i think three, four... eight lanes of traffic. two of those take up what used to be tram lanes. the sydney harbour bridge gave sydney, and a

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more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge.edia. search bbc travel show on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. until then, from the chaos of xochimilco, safe travels and i'll see you very soon. bye— bye! hello. we have some warmer weather to come for the uk in the days ahead, notably warmer for england and wales. it was a pretty chilly start to tuesday. it's going to be a much milder start to wednesday. we start as we mean to go on. we've sourced our air around an area of high pressure all the way from close to the azores. so through the night, we're actually going to be pulling in mild air all the while on a north—westerly breeze behind a warm weather front. and that weather front will bring some quite heavy rainfora time for scotland and then some quite persistent but lighter rain sets in across western scotland for the day on wednesday, perhapsjust fringing into northernmost england as well. northern ireland hopefully brightening up as the day goes on. best of the sunshine will be across england and wal

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge.arch bbc travel show on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. until then, from the chaos of xochimilco, safe travels and i'll see you very soon. bye— bye! hello there. sunday brought a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. through the week ahead, we're going to see the temperatures picking up, particularly in the south, with many of us seeing more in the way of dry weather as high pressure gradually builds its way in from the south and west. the exception to that, the far north and west where we'll see weather fronts just flirting with the north of scotland could bring some wet weather at times and some blustery conditions. and that's certainly what we've got as we go overnight into monday, fairly blustery across the north and west of scotland in particular, scattering of showers for scotland, northern ireland, northern england and feeding into the north of wales into the early hours. to the south of that largely dry with patchy, cloud overnight lows of 8 to 13

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits at the top of the sydney harbour bridgesuch bbc travel show on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. —— search. but from now, from the chaos of mexico, safe travels and i will see you very soon. bye— bye. hello. there will be some decent sunny spells out there for a fair few of us at times this weekend, but always be on the lookout for skies darkening, showers will never be too far away from the forecast throughout this weekend, and there will be a cool breeze to go with it. temperatures down a little bit than we would normally expect at this stage injuly. the bulk of the day's rain is linked to this weather system here, it is linking across scotland at the moment, to the far north and north—west, this is where we will continue to see the more persistent rain. this one here, drifting through the midlands in the direction of east anglia, south east, producing showery bursts of rain, eventually reaching east anglia, south east into the evening, but the bulk of the day remains dry. where we started with clo

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge. on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. until then, from the chaos of xochimilco, safe travels and i'll see you very soon. bye— bye! hello there. part two of the weekend is looking fairly unsettled as well. we'll have more showers around, some of them could turn out to be quite heavy in places, maybe some rumbles of thunder. the winds light in the south, quite breezy across northern areas, and it's because we've got low pressure to the north of the uk, high pressure towards the south and a couple of weak weather fronts crossing the country. these will enhance the shower activity. now, one such front will be lying across central parts of the uk through the morning, so it'll be rather cloudy here with some showery rain, some sunshine across the south, showers. quite breezy across scotland and northern ireland. but into the afternoon, all areas will see sunshine and showers — some of them could be heavy across some central and eastern areas. it could turn a bit drier

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge.ravel show on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. until then, from the chaos of xochimilco, safe travels and i'll see you very soon. bye— bye! hello there. temperatures are set to rise through the coming week, particularly across the south and south east. but, first of all, through today, we are looking at a mixture of sunny spells and showers. the weather watcher photos show the contrast in conditions nicely. this photo sent in from the highlands, blue sky and sunshine overhead in this photo sent in earlier from east sussex. now we take a look at the pressure chart. we have low pressure the north, so quite blustery breezy conditions across scotland through today. and high pressure building into the south so we have got a scattering of showers and a north north westerly flow through this afternoon, particularly for eastern areas, temperatures generally sitting in the high teens, low 20s. as we go through tonight, it will stay fairly blustery across the far north o

more l australians are supporting that the aboriginal flags at the top of the sydney harbour bridge.show on facebook and instagram and look for the little blue logo. but from now, from the chaos of mexico, safe travels and i will see you very soon. bye—bye. hello there. july has got under way just wherejune left off with lots of heavy showers around. this was one of the showers crossing the skies of aboyne in aberdeenshire, and if we take a look at the radar and the lightning detector, you'll see today's biggest storms have been across eastern scotland and down this eastern side of england as well. but already, our attention is turning to this next area of rain that's moving in from the west and, over the next few hours, that is going to extend from northern ireland across scotland, a good part of northern england, wales, eventually reaching the south—west as well. now, temperatures, as we start off saturday morning, well up into double figures — just like they've been, really, over the last few days — and as far as saturday's forecast goes, this area of low pressure is dominating th

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge. instagram, and look for the little blue logo. until then, from the chaos of xochimilco, safe travels and i'll see you very soon. bye— bye! hello, there. are conditions for northern ireland, wales and the best of the sunshine perhaps the further east you are, the best of the warmth into the south—east, 23 degrees is not out of the question. a similar story as we move into wednesday. the high pressure still with us, the weather front could bring some significant rain into the far north—west of england —— scotland for a time and behind that it will introduce somewhat milder, more humid conditions generally through the country. some outbreaks of showery rain in the north west, gladys goes to scotland and northern england, the best of the sunshine and the warmth further south with highs of 2a degrees. this is bbc news, i'm david eades. our top stories: police in chicago arrest a suspect, following a mass shooting at a july the fourth parade. gunfire at least six people were killed when a g

harbour bridge in australia. the aboriginalflag had been flying over the sydney harbour bridge this past week for an australian observancere story to bring you, definetely one for neighbours fans. more than twenty years after ramsay street's, scott and charlene tied the knot, they're finally back together. kylie minogue and jason donovan have shared behind the scenes shots of them on set, filming for their appearance in the long—running show�*s finale, which will air at the end of the month. jason tweeted "so good to be back with this absolute legend", whilst kylie said "now we're back together". their iconic wedding episode pulled an audience of almost 20 million when it was shown in the uk in 1988. that's all for now, stay with bbc world news. hello there. it's still very warm out there. the heat is still in place, and it follows the warmest day of the year so far in wales, with the temperature 29 degrees. for much of england, though, it was even hotter than that, with 32 in northolt west of london. that was monday�*s temperatures. tuesday's temperatures, well, they look a little bit different. cooling off by a few deg

announced the aboriginal flag will permanently replace the new south wales flag on the top of sydney harbour bridge government described it as a practical and pragmatic solution. i think we should catch up with chris fawkes for the very important weather forecasts. temperatures have widely reached the low 30s. it's it�*s going to get even hotter as we head into the weekend. the met office have issued an amber heat warning where we�*re more likely to see impact on people�*s hail and infrastructure. railways could run with the ladies into the weekend as those tracks really heat up. we�*ve got a weather front bringing some fresher air to scotland and northern ireland. i of that, temperatures at 11 o�*clock in london. it�*s going to be on uncomfortable night. our cold fronts continue to slide southwards. here, we�*ve got a comfortable feel with temperatures generally in the low 20s, but it�*s hot across central and eastern areas and temperatures in places reaching the low 30s. hello and welcome to sportsday — i�*m holly hamilton. coming up tonight�*s programme. northern ireland feel the heat in southam

head down under as sydney harbour bridge celebrates its 90th anniversary. good evening.e conservative mps have now joined the contest to succeed borisjohnson as the leader of the party and as prime minister. the soaring cost of living has put the candidates�* tax policies under particular scrutiny. the former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt, have said they will cancel the planned rise in corporation tax and reduce it further. but the former chancellor, rishi sunak, has suggested tax cuts may have to wait. this report is from our political correspondent, jonathan blake. the pace is picking up in the race to be the next prime minister, and this morning, two key contenders put forward their plans. one has kept his distance from borisjohnson. there are a lot of very angry voters after what's happened in the last few months, and they're not going to come back to us automatically. choosing me would be a very strong signal that the conservative party has listened to that anger. the other�*s resignation triggered his departure. once you lose confidence in your bo

the sydney harbour bridge represents modern australia, and has done since it was built in 1932.it's blowing a gale. you can see everything, that of the best part about this bridge, you see a 360 view of sydney, my favourite viewing is bennelong point where the opera house sits. i do a special tour called the burrawa, which means upwards above, i get to explore, take people up on this iconic bridge and take them back 230 years ago, pre—colonisation. 230 years ago the first fleet arrived right here in the harbour. 1788, we had 11 large ships, big white sails, captained by arthur phillip bringing with him what we know as australia today. just an abundance of convicts. when the first fleet arrived, it did bring disease and unfortunately they did wipe out more than 70% of the indigenous people here in australia. unfortunately, when i was in school, _ and i've only been out of school for 11 years, i was never taught any of the indigenous history. i feel like that was a lot throughout the older generations as well. luckily, today we do have a coming into our school curriculum which is

the aboriginal flag will permanently replace the new south wales flag on top of the sydney harbour bridgefans are in for a treat more than twenty years after ramsay street's scott and charlene tied the knot, they're finally back together. kylie minogue and jason donovan have shared behind the scenes shots of them on—set, filming for their appearance in the long—running show�*s finale — which will air at the end of the month. jason tweeted "so good to be back with this absolute legend" — whilst kylie said "now we're back together". their iconic wedding episode pulled an audience of almost 20 million when it was shown in the uk in 1988. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell: hello. love it or loathe it, we are going to be talking a lot about heat through the week ahead. widely today across the uk we are going to be seeing temperatures above average. what we are not seeing very much of through the week ahead is rainfall. we'll get some rain overnight tonight and some showers for western scotland through the week, but many parts of uk seeing little to no rain in our 7—day

more australians are supporting that the aboriginal flag sits atop of the sydney harbour bridge.johnson and luxmy gopal. our headlines today: holidaymakers warned to expect more travel disruption, with airlines set to announce a new wave of summer flight cancellations in the coming days. the foreign office says it's working with the ukrainian government to secure the release of two british men, reported by russian state media to have been charged with being mercenaries. hundreds of people gather for a vigil in memory of zara aleena, who was killed in east london as she walked home from a night out. one of the most controversial matches in years at wimbledon. nick kyrgios is accused of being a "bully" by stefanos tsitsipas. krygios went through in an ill—tempered match. we'll have more on the fallout. looking for a place to call home — the demand for more affordable housing on the western isles. we are in a predicament now where if we are not able to find something long—term, we are going to have to do start living away again. and while there will be a few showers around today, mo