:00:18. > :00:22.Britain to withdraw dozens of staff from Yemen. America orders its
:00:22. > :00:27.citizens to leave too. It follows Communications picked up between
:00:28. > :00:32.senior members of Al-Qaeda. We will look at how the US and UK can
:00:32. > :00:37.respond. Also this lunchtime: A report into
:00:37. > :00:41.the safety of patients in hospitals in England calls for new legal
:00:41. > :00:47.sanctions to tackle cases of wilful or reckless neglect.
:00:47. > :00:52.An inquest is held into the death of Hannah Smith, 14-year-old who hanged
:00:52. > :01:00.herself on Friday. A welcome boost for the high Street
:01:00. > :01:04.- last month's heatwave saw shops do their best sales the seven years.
:01:04. > :01:09.An escaped African python kills two young boys in their sleep after it
:01:09. > :01:14.escapes from pet shop Canada. A reward of nearly �1 million is
:01:14. > :01:22.offered for the jewellery worth 90 million stolen on the French
:01:22. > :01:25.Later on BBC London: Businesses say they're still suffering, two years
:01:25. > :01:35.on from the riots in the capital. And a bed-in-a-shed fire that killed
:01:35. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:04.a man - claims the council could Britain has shut its Embassy in
:02:04. > :02:06.Yemen because of increased security concerns. And the US has told its
:02:06. > :02:10.citizens to leave Yemen immediately and ordered all nonessential staff
:02:10. > :02:13.to follow suit. The warnings came just hours after a US drone strike
:02:13. > :02:15.killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. America has
:02:15. > :02:17.already closed 19 diplomatic missions across the Middle East and
:02:17. > :02:19.north Africa after intercepting messages between the two most senior
:02:19. > :02:24.figures in Al-Qaeda. Here's our security correspondent, Frank
:02:24. > :02:27.Gardner. Guarded but empty, Britain's embassy
:02:27. > :02:33.in Yemen was closed this morning after threats of a major terrorist
:02:33. > :02:38.attack. Yemeni security forces will remain outside but the embassy says
:02:38. > :02:42.all British staff have been flown home. America has closed more than
:02:42. > :02:47.20 of its diplomatic missions around the Middle East and beyond. This is
:02:47. > :02:51.the reason - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsular are believed to be
:02:51. > :02:56.planning a large-scale attack on US Western interests, most likely in
:02:56. > :03:03.Yemen, but possibly elsewhere in the region. The US said it learned this
:03:03. > :03:08.through an intercepted conversation between this man and the Al-Qaeda
:03:09. > :03:12.leader, hiding in Pakistan. It reportedly spoke of a strategic
:03:12. > :03:18.attack on US interests. Washington believes it could be the most
:03:18. > :03:26.serious plot since the 911 attacks. What we know is the threat emanates
:03:26. > :03:29.from and focused on occurring in the Arabian peninsular, but it could
:03:29. > :03:33.potentially be beyond that or elsewhere. So we cannot be more
:03:33. > :03:39.specific, which is why we have taken some of the actions we have taken
:03:40. > :03:45.and made the statements we have made. Yemen's tribal provinces offer
:03:45. > :03:50.the perfect refuge for Al-Qaeda. Its leaders are constantly being
:03:50. > :03:54.targeted by US, unmanned drones, but several times it has been able to
:03:54. > :03:59.smuggle bombs onto international flights sending them as far as
:03:59. > :04:04.Detroit. This is their master bomb maker, and he is still at large. The
:04:04. > :04:10.foreign office says it hopes to reopen its office in Yemen soon, but
:04:10. > :04:15.when it does the threat of attack is unlikely to have gone away.
:04:15. > :04:19.Frank Gardner joins us now. What does this tell us about Al-Qaeda
:04:20. > :04:27.operations and how real is this threat perceived to be? A few people
:04:27. > :04:32.will be thinking in the wake of the Snowdon revelations about
:04:32. > :04:35.surveillance, is this an elaborate story to get people to think about
:04:35. > :04:39.while it is worth intercepting peoples messages? It would be
:04:39. > :04:43.far-fetched to think the Americans would make this up, causing, not
:04:43. > :04:48.just their embassies to close, but for British, German and French
:04:48. > :04:54.embassies to close in Yemen as well. The threat is twofold, locally they
:04:54. > :04:59.have plenty of people willing to drive trucks into embassies and blow
:04:59. > :05:03.things up. They have done it in the past, they have tried and they will
:05:03. > :05:10.carry on trying. The reason it is considered to be so dangerous, they
:05:10. > :05:16.have people like that master bomb maker, who has been very clever, he
:05:16. > :05:20.is a Saudi. He is clever at designing ingenious bombs to put on,
:05:20. > :05:25.or even inside volunteers and getting them onto aeroplanes. Three
:05:25. > :05:31.times they have got bombs onto aeroplanes, undetected. One got as
:05:31. > :05:34.far as Detroit, the Nigerian nearly blew himself up on that plane over
:05:34. > :05:40.Detroit. They think he has now mastered some of the technology and
:05:40. > :05:43.overcome some of the glitches and is ready to put more bombs on planes,
:05:43. > :05:46.which is why the Americans have extended their warning to the travel
:05:46. > :05:51.industry. Thanks for that.
:05:51. > :05:58.A report into the safety of patients in hospitals in England is calling
:05:58. > :06:05.for a new criminal offence of wilful or recklessly black. A review by
:06:05. > :06:14.Doctor Don Berwick was set up after the mid Staffordshire Hospital
:06:14. > :06:18.trust. Infection control, we are doing well
:06:18. > :06:23.on. Every day, the nurse in charge of this ward monitors how patients
:06:23. > :06:29.are doing, checking the number of infections, whether elderly patients
:06:29. > :06:33.have had a fall, along with each prescription and dosage given. This
:06:33. > :06:40.Birmingham Hospital has developed a computer system to make care saver.
:06:40. > :06:44.It knows exactly how each doctor, nurse or ward is performing. We know
:06:44. > :06:48.what percentage of drugs are given to patients by the ward, by an
:06:49. > :06:53.individual nurse, and individual doctor who is prescribing them and
:06:53. > :06:58.we can hold individual teams to account. This kind of focus in
:06:58. > :07:02.reducing mistakes is at the heart of this report, which aims to create a
:07:02. > :07:10.culture of 0-harm in the NHS. The report stresses the need for
:07:10. > :07:15.sufficient staff on wards, but falls short of minimum level staffing. In
:07:15. > :07:20.a no blame culture, and there should be legal sanctions against staff in
:07:20. > :07:27.rare cases of wilful or reckless neglect. The expert behind the
:07:27. > :07:32.reporter believes this policy is achievable. It is hardly a single
:07:33. > :07:37.problem but developed somewhere in the NHS that someone else in the NHS
:07:37. > :07:42.has not solved. If this wonderful system can learn together so you are
:07:42. > :07:48.exchanging information all the time with trust, openness and optimism,
:07:48. > :07:53.the sky is the limit. The report follows the scandal of appalling
:07:53. > :07:56.care at Staffordshire Hospital. Today the government said it would
:07:56. > :08:02.consider the recommendations, but the report is one of the series into
:08:02. > :08:06.hospital care and patient groups are asking if it will make a difference.
:08:06. > :08:11.Back in Birmingham, they know what a difference small changes can make,
:08:11. > :08:15.just like in Scotland where there is already a patient safety programme.
:08:15. > :08:21.The question is whether similar schemes will be rolled out across
:08:21. > :08:27.the NHS in England. Our health correspondent has been
:08:27. > :08:35.looking at the recommendations. What do we understand to be meant by this
:08:35. > :08:41.holding people to account? Berwick was clear in explaining his
:08:41. > :08:44.report. You need to have staff being able to speak up. If a nurse see
:08:44. > :08:50.something on the ward going wrong, they are not afraid to say something
:08:50. > :08:54.to their managers. There has to be a transparent and open culture in the
:08:54. > :08:58.NHS. But if there is something going wrong, it's somebody wilfully
:08:58. > :09:04.neglect is a patient to the extent it causes them serious harm or
:09:04. > :09:07.causes their death, they should be held to account potentially through
:09:07. > :09:12.a new criminal offence. That is something the government said it
:09:12. > :09:16.will look at. But the test for that will be very high and it will be in
:09:16. > :09:21.rare cases of extreme neglect. you.
:09:21. > :09:27.The father of a 14-year-old goal macro who was found dead in a
:09:27. > :09:30.bedroom has called for stricter controls on social media sites after
:09:30. > :09:35.his daughter received abuse online. The inquest into Hannah Smith was
:09:35. > :09:41.opened and adjourned at Leicestershire Coroner's Court this
:09:41. > :09:48.morning. Pupils and staff at her school are shattered by the news.
:09:48. > :09:54.Our reporter is there in Loughborough.
:09:54. > :09:59.Hammersmith was found at the family home by her 16-year-old sister
:09:59. > :10:04.upstairs on Friday. -- Hannah Smith. Well-wishers have been leaving
:10:04. > :10:10.messages outside the house. Family and friends are devastated by what
:10:10. > :10:14.has happened. The headteacher at her school has described her as a
:10:14. > :10:20.bright, popular and thoughtful girl who had everything to live for. Last
:10:20. > :10:25.night I came to the family home and spoke to David Smith, her father. He
:10:25. > :10:30.told me that while he is grieving for his daughter, he is extremely
:10:30. > :10:34.angry. In the months running up to her death, he said she suffered a
:10:34. > :10:42.torrent of abuse online. Like millions of people across the
:10:42. > :10:48.world, she was a user of the Latvian -based website, Bo Xilai, where
:10:48. > :10:54.people can ask questions of other users. Mr Smith told me she was
:10:54. > :11:00.receiving messages including, you must die. He is calling for David
:11:00. > :11:05.Cameron to act on this. Mr Smith is part of an online campaign against
:11:05. > :11:13.the website. Last month's heatwave gave the high
:11:13. > :11:23.Street a boost and stores recorded their best figures in the seven
:11:23. > :11:33.years. The British Retail Consortium sales were up 2.7% on last year.
:11:33. > :11:34.
:11:34. > :11:42.The scene was set for the summer of sunshine. Then there was this!
:11:42. > :11:49.waiting is over. Which added to the feel better factor, and then... The
:11:49. > :11:53.Royal baby. All, retailers say adding to confidence and getting the
:11:53. > :11:58.tills ringing. The sun comes out on people like to spend more money and
:11:58. > :12:04.get in the summer mood and go shopping. People talk about caching
:12:04. > :12:10.tales, but the mood of shoppers helps people. They are feeling
:12:10. > :12:18.better? I certainly do, anyway.Is that more money? No, but people
:12:18. > :12:21.still spend. Sellers were some addresses, shorts and sandals, and
:12:21. > :12:26.in the supermarket, burgers and sausages for the barbecue. Shop
:12:27. > :12:32.sales in July grew by 2.2% in cash terms compared to July last year.
:12:32. > :12:38.The amount of goods sold grew by 4.4% because there were so many
:12:38. > :12:42.price cuts. In July we had a number of special factors. The combination
:12:42. > :12:48.of some fantastic weather and the confidence factor, being driven by
:12:48. > :12:54.the combination of the Royal baby, the Lions tour, Chris Frome and the
:12:54. > :12:59.Tour de France, the Ashes. It is still tough on many high streets,
:12:59. > :13:04.and while some are favourites have been flying off the shelves,
:13:04. > :13:09.furniture and flooring did not go well. Could July have been a blip?
:13:09. > :13:13.Underlying conditions are very tough and people are squeezed financially
:13:13. > :13:18.and unemployment is high. Probably more tough times ahead. We cannot
:13:18. > :13:22.get ahead of ourselves. A lot of the sales were driven by discounts, and
:13:22. > :13:28.they cannot go on for ever. In future months, this shopping revival
:13:28. > :13:38.could falter. No boom yet, but another debt fuelled consumer boom
:13:38. > :13:43.might not be a good idea anyway. Two young boys have been killed by a
:13:43. > :13:47.rock -in eastern Canada after it is -- it escaped from a pet shop.
:13:47. > :13:52.Police say it coiled itself around the boys, aged five and seven, as
:13:52. > :13:57.they slept. It apparently got into the flat through a ventilation
:13:57. > :14:01.system. This is little Noah and his brother,
:14:02. > :14:05.Connor. Their sleepover ended in tragedy. Police sealed off the New
:14:05. > :14:10.Brunswick building where the brothers were killed. They had been
:14:10. > :14:15.staying with a friend in the first-floor flat above the pet shop.
:14:15. > :14:18.It is believed a snake, Captain the ground floor shop, slipped out of
:14:18. > :14:23.its cage, travelled through the ventilation and into the room where
:14:23. > :14:27.the boys were sleeping. They had been staying with the shop owner's
:14:27. > :14:33.Sun, the three children were best friends. I thought they were
:14:33. > :14:37.sleeping until I saw the hole in the ceiling. Everything had fallen. I
:14:37. > :14:43.turned the lights on and saw this horrific scene. The snake was gone.
:14:43. > :14:48.I found the snake in another spot. I pinned him down and put him in a
:14:48. > :14:55.cage. The snake, similar to this one is thought to be an African rock
:14:55. > :15:00.python, approximately four metres wrong -- long. The boys were dead by
:15:00. > :15:05.the time their bodies were discovered. It is an extremely rare
:15:05. > :15:11.incident. Snakes only constrict for the food. Was it hungry?
:15:11. > :15:15.Absolutely. It does not mean it was being neglected. One media report
:15:15. > :15:21.said customers had complained about the conditions the pets were kept
:15:21. > :15:25.in. City authorities say the shop was properly licensed. Five-year-old
:15:26. > :15:35.Noah, and seven -year-old,, 's parents are described as grief
:15:36. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:43.stricken. Our main story this lunchtime... Fears of a terrorist
:15:43. > :15:53.attack from Britain to withdraw embassy staff from Yemen.
:15:53. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:59.Still to come: Good news as exam results come in for thousands of
:15:59. > :16:05.pupils across Scotland. Later on BBC London, the lump of fat
:16:06. > :16:09.so big it blocked one of the largest doers in the country. And Beth
:16:09. > :16:19.Tweddle retires from gymnastic but leaves her mark on the sport here in
:16:19. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:26.in the dispute between Britain and Spain over fishing rights of
:16:26. > :16:32.Gibraltar. The Spanish Government says it may introduce a fee to cross
:16:32. > :16:36.the border and close Spanish airspace to flights bound for the
:16:36. > :16:44.rock. The UK has promised to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people
:16:44. > :16:51.of Gibraltar. In the misty early light, Spanish
:16:51. > :16:55.fishermen ready their nets. In the Shadow of a British rock. These men
:16:55. > :17:03.claimed Gibraltar has polished their trade by restricting fishing in the
:17:03. > :17:08.disputed waters nearby. It is madness. For years we got on well
:17:08. > :17:15.and now we have fallen out with our neighbours. We took a boat from the
:17:15. > :17:19.other side of the border to see the other side of this story.
:17:19. > :17:25.Gibraltar's Government wanted to show the location of something
:17:25. > :17:30.controversial lying hidden underneath the water. We are not far
:17:30. > :17:35.from the rock, and we are clearly in Gibraltarian waters but the Spanish
:17:35. > :17:39.Government disagrees, and down here in the water you cannot see it, but
:17:39. > :17:45.below is the source of the tension, the row between Spain and Gibraltar
:17:45. > :17:50.and Britain. Several days ago, Gibraltar says it created an
:17:50. > :17:55.artificial reef to protect marine life here. Spain says the large
:17:55. > :18:00.concrete blocks were dumped to keep Spanish fishermen away. In
:18:00. > :18:06.retaliation, Spain has increased checks on the border into Gibraltar,
:18:06. > :18:11.creating long queues. This morning, a smooth commute for thousands, but
:18:11. > :18:16.Spain threatens a 50 euros charge for this crossing and the people
:18:16. > :18:23.here are fed up. I have been in it for half an hour and that is bad
:18:23. > :18:29.enough. There is a lot of anger from the Spanish that needn't be there.
:18:29. > :18:33.The waters here are disputed but they are the lifeblood for song, and
:18:33. > :18:38.Spain is now considering how it will respond.
:18:38. > :18:43.Dog owners who allow their pets to attack members of the public could
:18:43. > :18:48.face life in prison under Government proposals to clamp down on dangerous
:18:48. > :18:52.dogs in England and Wales. Ministers believe harsher penalties are needed
:18:52. > :18:59.to deal with irresponsible owners. They are speed is the has welcomed
:18:59. > :19:06.the idea of tougher sentences. Last year when Carlton was training to be
:19:06. > :19:13.a guide dog, he was attacked by a bull terrier. His owner had to pull
:19:13. > :19:19.the dogs apart with the help of two other men. Mercifully, Carlton
:19:19. > :19:28.survived. If the damage had been more permanent, it would have meant
:19:28. > :19:35.he would have been scrapped as a guide dog, I would have had to take
:19:35. > :19:39.up to two years to train another dog. The Government is suggesting
:19:39. > :19:49.tougher legislation to prosecute the owners of dangerous dogs who attack.
:19:49. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :20:00.Currently the law does not legislate, and from now on if a
:20:00. > :20:04.person is killed life imprisonment could be introduced. Since 2005, 16
:20:04. > :20:10.people have been killed by dogs in the UK, including Jade Anderson.
:20:10. > :20:15.This boy was killed by a pit bull in 2009, both children's parents have
:20:15. > :20:20.called for tougher sentencing which the Government is now considering.
:20:20. > :20:26.In these sickening cases, where a dog has attacked a toddler and in
:20:26. > :20:33.some cases even killed a child, is it appropriate the judge can only
:20:33. > :20:35.sentence that owner to a maximum of two years in prison? The RSPCA
:20:35. > :20:45.believes the Government should concentrate on preventing dog
:20:45. > :20:49.
:20:49. > :20:54.attacks in the first place. RSPCA has recommended things like
:20:54. > :21:01.dog behaviour classes so that owners can learn how to control their dogs
:21:01. > :21:04.better. Under the current rules no one has been prosecuted for the
:21:04. > :21:09.attack on Carlton. His owner supports tightening the law and
:21:09. > :21:13.hopes others will agree. A former US Army psychiatrist stands trial today
:21:13. > :21:18.charged with killing 13 people in a mass shooting in Texas.
:21:18. > :21:27.The shooting took place four years ago but the trial has been set by
:21:27. > :21:32.delays. It is expected he will claim to have been acting in defence of
:21:32. > :21:38.Muslims. The makeshift memorial in Texas, outside the nondescript
:21:38. > :21:41.building which in 2009 witnessed the worst noncombat attack in history on
:21:41. > :21:51.an American military base. 13 people were fatally wounded, more than 30
:21:51. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:02.other s injured. On the day of the shooting, this man allegedly shouted
:22:02. > :22:09.the Arabic for, God is great, then started firing indiscriminately. It
:22:09. > :22:13.is said he carried out the killings because he wanted to protect the
:22:14. > :22:19.Taliban from US forces. He will defend himself at the US
:22:19. > :22:24.court-martial. This has been described as an act of workplace
:22:24. > :22:29.violence, and they are alarmed that he will get to personally
:22:29. > :22:33.cross-examine some of the people he tried to kill. The nearby facility
:22:33. > :22:39.where the court-martial will take place. Now encased with blast
:22:39. > :22:43.walls, it has been turned into a virtual bunker. Inside it is
:22:44. > :22:48.believed military prosecutors will present evidence that the soldier
:22:48. > :22:53.became increasingly radicalised. He was on the Internet searching words
:22:53. > :23:00.like Jihad and Taliban before the attack. If found guilty, he could
:23:00. > :23:07.face the death penalty. More than 150,000 students across
:23:07. > :23:13.Scotland received their exam results today. The overall pass rates have
:23:13. > :23:23.increased. Our correspondent has been speaking to students and has
:23:23. > :23:23.
:23:23. > :23:26.more. Welcome to this most North Westerly secondary school on the
:23:26. > :23:36.Scottish mainland, and the students here spent an anxious morning
:23:36. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:49.waiting for news. Today, along with bills and birthday cards, here,
:23:49. > :23:55.pupils at the high school are waiting anxiously to learn their
:23:55. > :24:05.fate. The Jacqueline, the news is good. Oh, my God, I got into
:24:05. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:12.university. I got another A and a B. Other pupils are heading in a
:24:12. > :24:17.different direction. I failed maths, but it is not compulsory, I
:24:17. > :24:25.have a job anyway as an apprenticeship joiner so I don't
:24:25. > :24:35.need it anyway. The pass rate for maths was down 0.8% on last year.
:24:35. > :24:36.
:24:36. > :24:41.The overall pass rate for Scottish highers was a rise of 0.5%. As for
:24:41. > :24:44.standard grades, they are on the way out. These pupils were amongst the
:24:44. > :24:51.last to sit them. They are being replaced by new qualifications
:24:51. > :24:55.called nationals. The curriculum is changing emphasis more on
:24:55. > :24:59.classwork, the opposite to what is happening in England, but focus here
:24:59. > :25:05.is now on the immediate future which for some pupils will be very
:25:05. > :25:12.different. For them to move from a small community to a city location,
:25:12. > :25:15.and quite a few of them are going to Strathclyde or Aberdeen, it is a
:25:16. > :25:20.massive leap. There will be more people on the course then who live
:25:20. > :25:30.in the entire Northwest area! changing moment is happening today
:25:30. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:35.all over Scotland. Not all of the two years tears of joy today, but
:25:35. > :25:40.the Government insists help and advice is on offer to any students
:25:40. > :25:46.who need it. Whatever the future holds for them, today is the end of
:25:46. > :25:54.one journey and the beginning of many others. The journey perhaps
:25:54. > :25:58.over for the Olympic bronze medallist, Beth Tweddle has
:25:58. > :26:01.announced her retirement from gymnastics, she says she no longer
:26:01. > :26:11.has the time to devote to the training she needs to stay at the
:26:11. > :26:11.
:26:11. > :26:16.top. Now, a reward of almost �1 million
:26:16. > :26:26.is being offered for any information leading to the recovery of jewels
:26:26. > :26:29.
:26:29. > :26:34.worth 90 million, stolen from the French Riviera resort of Cannes. It
:26:34. > :26:39.took barely a minute, the jewel thief walked in through the windows
:26:39. > :26:45.of this hotel and held up the organisers with a semiautomatic
:26:45. > :26:51.pistol. Simple, effective, highly lucrative. The insurer estimates he
:26:51. > :26:55.escaped with over �88 million worth of precious stones, but belong to an
:26:56. > :27:05.Israeli billionaire, on display in the same hotel that had featured
:27:06. > :27:07.
:27:07. > :27:14.Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief. This statement says that a
:27:14. > :27:16.reward of up to 1 million euros will be offered to the first person who
:27:16. > :27:26.provides information which leads to the recovery of the goods. They will
:27:26. > :27:27.
:27:27. > :27:31.be hoping for similar success in 2008 at this luxury store in Paris.
:27:31. > :27:36.On that occasion several informants came forward with information
:27:36. > :27:41.leading to dozens of arrests and over half of the gems were
:27:41. > :27:46.recovered. Some of them were hidden in the waste drain of a house and
:27:46. > :27:52.in the waste drain of a house and sealed in a cement block.
:27:52. > :27:57.Time now to take a look at the weather. Nothing to sparkling, but
:27:57. > :28:02.after the downpours of yesterday the weather has calmed down with some
:28:02. > :28:08.average August weather for the rest of the week. Most will see some
:28:08. > :28:12.sunshine, there will be cloudy spells and some showers around with
:28:12. > :28:16.temperatures around average so it will feel pleasantly warm when the
:28:16. > :28:21.sun is out. The cloud is bubbling up particularly in western areas, and
:28:21. > :28:26.that cloud will provide some showers through Northern Ireland, and
:28:26. > :28:34.northern and western parts of Scotland. The most, it is dry and
:28:34. > :28:40.bright with temperatures climbing for the last three days. It is
:28:40. > :28:46.cooler further west, where we have more cloud, some showers for Devon
:28:46. > :28:50.and Cornwall, and possibly some in Wales, but for most in England and
:28:50. > :28:55.Wales and central and southern Scotland it will remain dry. Even
:28:55. > :29:00.here, when the sun pops out between the showers, the temperatures will
:29:00. > :29:04.be in the high teens. It will be turning wetter across the north-west
:29:04. > :29:11.overnight, something salty for the north-west of Northern Ireland and
:29:11. > :29:16.the Highlands of Scotland, and in rural areas we will drop to single
:29:16. > :29:20.figures, but cloudy tomorrow across the south-east and cloudier
:29:20. > :29:24.certainly for much of Scotland and Northern Ireland. This band of rain
:29:24. > :29:30.will turn more showery in the afternoon, maybe some more showers
:29:30. > :29:34.dotted across England and Wales but in the sunny intervals, high teens
:29:34. > :29:43.or low 20s again. The threat of rain in the south-east tomorrow comes
:29:43. > :29:48.from a bigger zone of thunderstorms. Torrential downpours across Europe
:29:48. > :29:53.tomorrow, but for much of the Mediterranean it is sunny and hot
:29:53. > :29:59.with temperatures in Tunisia close to 40 degrees. It will be a pleasant
:29:59. > :30:04.enough day on Thursday with some showers dotted about, but
:30:04. > :30:08.temperatures in the high teens or low 20s. This weather front is
:30:08. > :30:13.approaching for Friday, so perhaps there will be more cloud across the
:30:13. > :30:17.UK and that weather fronts sending a band of showers from west to East.
:30:17. > :30:24.Some may affect the crooked in Durham, but either side of that some
:30:24. > :30:28.dry and bright weather with temperatures creeping into the low