in the skies above wiltshire, the pilot of a light aircraft plotted his flight pilot of a light aircrafth to spell out his gratitude. while on the ground, the social distancing red arrows. from bin collectors in norfolk, to the royal family. back in the midlands, sarah and her husband gary, who is a delivery driver have moved into a caravan on the drive. see you soon, we love you loads. so they don't put sarah's mum at risk. gwen is 83. clapping for her daughter, and for thousands of others, and she will be saying thank you again, next week. jon kay, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. welcome to bbc news. we arejoined by we are joined by the arrays in the uk and watched by viewers all around the world. coming up in the next 20 minutes or so we'll be live at the white house for the daily briefing. at briefing. the latest plans are in terms of opening at the latest plans are in terms of opening up some of the states, something he mentioned and his press conference yesterday and indeed has been for the last few days. and before that

from this cloud the sign of very active convention in wiltshire.lfalling from those clouds and bucking hampshire and further north in scotland, had this in funnel cloud dropping from the storm clouds. over the next few hours there are still a few showers darted around across england, wales, northern and western areas of scotland. not too cold though for most of us we're looking at temperatures around 47dc. low pressure then still in charge of our weather as we head on into friday. it's another date where no one is immune from seeing a shower or two. even the parts of southern england there will be further showers driven on by what a fairly risk wind here. the heavy showers will be in northern ireland into southern scotland and northern england. it's across these areas through the afternoon that you'll most likely to see some flashes of lightning, rumbles of thunder and a bit of hail mixed in. could be some sunshine around at some of the showers across the norm ——north the uk will also be slow—moving. it'll manage to give some fairly downpours as we

from this cloud, the sign of very active convection in wiltshire.d this file dropping from the storm clouds in galloway. over the next few hours, they are still a few showers dotted around across england, wales, northern ireland and northern and western scotland. it's not too cold. we are mostly looking at temperatures around four to seven celsius. low pressure in charge of oui’ celsius. low pressure in charge of our weather as we head onto friday. it's another day where nowhere is immune from seeing a shower too. even parts of southern england, there will be showers driven by a brisk wind here. the heaviest showers to the day will be across northern ireland into southern scotla nd northern ireland into southern scotland and northern england. at the cross these areas through the afternoon that we are most likely to see some flashes of lightning. sunshine around, but some of the showers across the north will be slow—moving. this weekend the winds will tend to fall much lighter. there will still be showers around the north and east. some sunshine but

showers were particularly impressive from this mammatus cloud — the sign of very active convection in wiltshireis funnel cloud dropping from the storm clouds in dumfries and galloway. over the next few hours, there are still showers dotted across england and wales, northern ireland, and across northern and western areas of scotland, too. not too cold — for most of us we are looking at temperatures around four or seven. low pressure still in charge as we head on into friday and it is another day where nowhere is immune from seeing a shower or to even in parts across southern england, there will be showers driven by a fairly brisk wind but the heaviest will be across northern ireland into southern scotland and northern england. it is across these areas through the afternoon that you are most likely to see some flashes of lightning, rumbles of thunder, and hail mixed in. most showers will be slow moving in the north so they could merge together to give some fairly lengthy downpours as well. this weekend the winds will tend to fall much lighter. there will still be showers around the north and east

in the skies above wiltshire, the pilot of a light aircraft plotted his flight path to spell out hisnorfolk, to the royal family. back in the midlands, sarah and her husband gary, who's a delivery driver have moved into a caravan on the drive. see you soon, we love you loads. so they don't put sarah's mum at risk. gwen is 83. clapping for her daughter, and for thousands of others, and she will be saying thank you again, next week. jon kay, bbc news. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some —— lets go to bristoljust before you go. a famous picture by ba n ksy before you go. a famous picture by banksy has been given a makeover. it is a mural on the side of a building in his home city. it is a take on the girl with the pearl earring. we don't know whether banksy added the mask. that is it. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. this is bbc news. i i. —— bye—bye. hello there. many places across the uk had gin clear skies from dawn till dusk on thursday. in actualfact, parts of the south—east saw highs of 2a degrees, 75 fa

the owner of the longleat estate in wiltshire has died aged 87 after testing positive for coronavirusmitted to the royal united hospital in bath about a week ago. longleat safari park confirmed the news in a facebook post on sunday, expressing their "deepest sadness". they added... "the family would like to express their great appreciation for the dedicated team of nurses, doctors and other staff who cared so professionally and compassionately for alexander in these extremely difficult times." now it‘s time for a look at the weather with susan powell. hello there. there is a lot of fine weather across the uk at the moment. high pressure is to thank for that and it has been bringing a lot of sunshine to many gardens on sunday, this was cambridge cellist leslie. not too although, lanarkshire has hazy sunshine as has the north—west of the uk in general because we have got a front that is draping its way around the north—west of the high. as that cloud is streaming its way northwards after a strong southerly airstream that is what has been piling on with such warm air and that strong sout

in the skies above wiltshire, the pilot of a light aircraft plotted his flight path to spell out hissarah and her husband gary, who is a delivery driver have moved into a caravan on the drive. see you soon, we love you loads. so they don‘t put sarah‘s mum at risk. gwen is 83. clapping for her daughter, and for thousands of others, and she will be saying thank you again, next week. jon kay, bbc news. well done. that is it from us. back with headlines in a minute. hello. many places across the uk had gently skies from dawn till dusk on thursday. in actual fact, parts of the southeast saw highs of 24 degrees, 75 fahrenheit and is probably going to be the warmest day this week. slightly different story coming in across east and england. in across eastern england. a breeze from the north sea and a little more cloud here at temperatures struggle at a ten or 11 degrees. we start our day on friday with cloud across parts of eastern england, stretching and as far as the east midlands may be but as we go through the day, that should melt away and dry and settle. just an outside chance later on

so when this guy came up with an offer to protect castle combe in wiltshire, the prettiest village, votedtury fox. so we planned to blow up the dam, which they had made this lovely river into a big lake forfilming, and yes, i was thrown out of the sas for misuse... yes, let's be honest, you went a bit rogue. you undertook a freelance operation, and they took a very dim view of it. but the point of the story, in a way, is that there you were, pretty much penniless, newly married, now without a military career. you thought the way through this, to continue to travel, to have the adventures, but to not do it with the military, was to launch a series of expeditions. yes. luckily, my wife — late wife of 38 years, she was into the same sort of thing. she'd been a mountain guide up in the north of scotland. and she was a very determined person, and she decided that we would have to be polar because of the british media at the time were only interested in polar stuff, and if you don't get media coverage, you don't get sponsorship — which we depend upon. and therefore, we would do the only polar e

at the laboratory at portadown and wiltshire scientists are trying to find out which areas of the countryn most affected —— one key way out of the epidemic. scientists believe that younger people —— some believe that younger people —— some believe that younger people, released at risk, should be out sooner than others. we can't release people just yet but we do need to take steps to save the economy allowing young people, say, between 20 and 30, to go back into the workplace, as long as they don't live with parents. that would help to boost our economy, boost our incomes, and they would be the safest amongst us. all the time there is the risk of a second peak of infections, a resurgence of the outbreak. for the scientists trying to predict the course of the outbreak, the big fear is that people will get fed up with the restrictions and that politicians will relax them too soon, which would mean the virus getting out of control once again. even in singapore, which has been praised for its handling of the disease, tougher measures are now being imposed for the next four weeks. there is a pa

at the public health laboratory at portadown in wiltshire scientists are trying to find out which areasroups, have been most affected. some researchers believe that younger people, the least at risk, should be out sooner than others as a first move out of lockdown. we can't release people just yet but eventually we need to restart the economy, allowing young people — say, between 20 and 30 — to go back into life and the workplace, as long as they don't live with parents. that would help to boost our economy, boost our incomes, and they would be the safest amongst us. all the time there's the risk of a second peak of infections, a resurgence of the outbreak. for the scientists trying to predict the course of the outbreak, the big fear is that people will get fed up with the restrictions and that politicians will relax them too soon, which would mean the virus getting out of control once again. even in singapore, which has been praised for its handling of the disease, tougher measures are now being imposed for the next four weeks. there is a pattern emerging in most countries that contain

day in 1967, the san francisco warriors were playing, coming up short in the nba finals, losing to wiltshire berlin and the 76ers 4 games to 2. and david robinson was feeling it on this day in 1994, but he had help. drilling orlando's shaquille o'neal by an average of less than one point per game, robinson's teammates that him the ball all night in the regular-season finale. robinson totaled 71 points, and got that scoring title. >> yes, 71 for david robinson. that's this day in sports april 24, i'm joe fonzi.>> we wrap this thing up with friday levity, check this out. nfl draft on the left, roger goodell on the right. and first-round pick judy, both doing the slide. and then you've got this during the second round, espn cuts away to bill belichick's room, but that is not belichick, that is his dog, nike.>> good to have some live sports to talk about with the draft. honestly given all the hurdles they had to clear just to get this production done remotely, i think they did a pretty good job, it was good tv.>> looking at the setup that so many of co see that so many of them were able to still

at the public health laboratory at portadown in wiltshire scientists are trying to find out which areas which age groups, have been most affected. some researchers believe that younger people, the least at risk, should be out sooner than others as a first move out of lockdown. we can't release people just yet but eventually we need to restart the economy, allowing young people — say, between 20 and 30 — to go back into life and the workplace, as long as they don't live with parents. that would help to boost our economy, boost our incomes, and they would be the safest amongst us. all the time there's the risk of a second peak of infections, a resurgence of the outbreak. for the scientists trying to predict the course of the outbreak, the big fear is that people will get fed up with the restrictions and that politicians will relax them too soon, which would mean the virus getting out of control once again. even in singapore, which has been praised for its handling of the disease, tougher measures are now being imposed for the next four weeks. there is a pattern emerging in most countries

rain across parts of south wales, through towards wiltshire and hampshire and thatis towards wiltshire west midlands through today, brighter skies in the far south—west. scotland, northern ireland, frosty stack for a few of you. some sunny spells and then heavy showers developed here and there. some will stay dry, temperatures in the northern half of the country where they should be, birmingham in birmingham. 10 degrees down on recent days but if you have hay fever, pollen levels will be lower. he finished the day with heavy rain and the extent of that rain is the m 62 corridor. it will ease overnight and then patchy rain and drizzle across eastern northern ireland and northern england and east midlands. temperatures up and a touch of frost tomorrow morning. into tomorrow, most of at the start drive but another rain bearing weather system pushing its way in. we open the door to outbreaks of rainfor we open the door to outbreaks of rain for the rest of the week. mostly dry, cloudy for england, northern ireland. frosty and sunny start for scotla nd northern ireland. frosty and sunny star

an joker who is in lecture on renaissance art and also anjoker who is in her early 70s and from wiltshires which is the city of venice in italy, but i think what is very important for all of us as we stay at home is to try to keep our imaginations working because it is very draining to be dealing with this level of attrition and fear and i think one of the things that we need to do is to stay mentally healthy, particularly those of us who can‘t get out so my lecture is partly about venice, which is now empty, but only a few weeks ago would have been overwhelmed by tourism, and i want to take you back tourism, and i want to take you back toa tourism, and i want to take you back to a period in the 16th century when venice was not a tourist trap, it was actually one of the greatest cities in the world with a maritime empire, with luxury trade all round and i‘ve tried the lecture which looks at venice dressed, full of power and splendour, and venice undress, which is high class artisans, and i‘ll be working with the art society cosmic images. sitting at home, i will show people in this lectur

the moment how many beds they you moved here because you were expecting george to start the job in wiltshire he will get thatjob. will leave cyprus, when he's coming home or if he will get that jobm you had known what we know now about lockdown, do you think you still would made that move out of living in military life on a base. there are currently about 9000 troops deployed abroad. with many countries on lockdown, many have no idea when they will next see loved ones. the charity working with military children says they have seen an increase in people reaching out for support because of the instability. we know roughly when the separation period will come to an end and we have an end point that we are reaching for. at the moment there is just no timescales. people are coming and saying a six—month deployment is going to be a year—long deployment. for children to have a parent absent from the family home for up to a year is just really difficult for families to be coming to terms with. they are now calling on the mod to help families, like amy whose husband is in the raf in nigeria. we were

here because you we re course you moved here because you were expecting george to start a job in wiltshirehe will go to anotherjobm you‘d have known what we know now about lockdown do you think you would have made that move, out of living in military life on a base? no, probably not and if i‘d known this was probably going to happen i would have gone to cyprus. there are currently around 9000 uk troops deployed abroad but with countries across the world in lockdown, flights grounded and leave cancelled, many now have no idea when they will next see their loved ones. a charity working with military children says they‘ve seen an increase in people reaching out for support because of the uncertainty. you know, we often don‘t have exact days but we know roughly when that separation period is going to come to an end and we have an end point that we are reaching for. at the moment, there is just no reaching for. at the moment, there isjust no time reaching for. at the moment, there is just no time scales, you know, people are coming to us saying, six—month deployment is looking like it‘s going t

and you moved here because you are expecting george to start a job in wiltshire.n't know when he is going to leave cyprus, when he is coming home or even if he will get thatjob or will have to go to another one. if you had known what we know now about lockdown, would you still have made that move out of living a military life on a base? no, probably not. and if i'd known this was going to happen, i would have gone to cyprus. there are currently around 9000 uk troops deployed abroad, but with countries across the world in lockdown, flights grounded and leave cancelled, many now have no idea when they will next see their loved ones. a charity working with military children says they have seen an increase in people reaching out for support because of the uncertainty. we often don't have exact days, but we know roughly when that separation period is going to come to an end, and we have an end point that we are reaching for. at the moment, there isjust no timescale. people are saying, a six deployment is looking like it is going to be a year. and for children, to have