tony soper was a pioneer of wildlife television.team, which went on to become the world famous bbc natural history unit. one early programme he worked on was animal magic. but the funny voices were not quite his thing. tony soper was happiest out filming in the wild. among those paying tribute today, sir david attenborough, who said he was one of the pioneers of natural history on television, the colleague who was, he says, kind, gentle, and extremely knowledgeable. tony soper, who has died at the age of 95. now it is time for the weather with ben rich. hello there. for some parts of the uk, there is a big change on the way weather—wise, particularly in the south, where on thursday we saw a lot of sunshine. temperatures in london got above 26 celsius. but we're watching this area of low pressure swirling up from the south, increasingly bringing some showers and thunderstorms over the next few days. and the rainfall is really going to accumulate. some spots could be looking at around a month's worth of rain from these intense downpou

tony soper initially worked as a wildlife cameraman and film producer for the unit.'s ben rich. looks sunny, but is summer drawing it looks sunny, but is summer drawing to a close? there is a change in the way for some of us but today it was beach weather on the south bank, that was bognor regis, temperatures in the south bank, but very close to 25 degrees today but this area of low pressure swelling up, that will bring some showers and thunderstorms and across parts of the uk the rain is starting to pile up, this is what we expect to accumulate over the next few days, may be close to a month was �*s worth in a few places but notice it stays largely drive across the north of the uk, if you are in northern western scotland, north—west england should be lots of sunshine, close to these coasts you are likely to be plagued by a lot of power, that will make a cool and the threat of thunderstorms down towards the south. back to the here and now, tonight, just like the last couple of nights we will bring this large area of cloud in from the east, may be the odd spot of driz