:00:00. > :00:00.British astronaut Tim Peake has just arrived at the International Space
:00:07. > :00:17.He blasted off from Kazakhstan this morning with two other astronauts
:00:18. > :00:21.from Russia and America at the start of a six month journey in space.
:00:22. > :00:23.Minutes after lift off, a thumbs-up from Tim Peake -
:00:24. > :00:29.the first British astronaut to go into space for 25 years.
:00:30. > :00:33.Waving goodbye to his dad - six-year-old Thomas watches
:00:34. > :00:36.on with the rest of the family, as Tim Peake makes history.
:00:37. > :00:41.I'm very very humbled and proud that our son is up there,
:00:42. > :00:47.In the last half hour, the astronauts completed one
:00:48. > :00:49.of the trickiest parts of the journey, when they successfully
:00:50. > :00:59.More than 1,000 schools in Los Angeles are closed
:01:00. > :01:01.for the day, after a security threat.
:01:02. > :01:09.Police say they'll search every campus.
:01:10. > :01:12.The UK's inflation rate turns positive for the first time in four
:01:13. > :01:15.months. Star Wars - the most hotly
:01:16. > :01:20.anticipated film of the century - The country's ambulance crews say
:01:21. > :01:25.half their call outs at weekends are due to alcohol-related
:01:26. > :01:27.incidents. And a Christmas strike
:01:28. > :01:29.on the Caledonian Sleeper Service Good evening, and welcome
:01:30. > :01:52.to the BBC News at Six. The British astronaut Tim Peake has
:01:53. > :01:55.made history this evening as he docked at the
:01:56. > :01:58.International Space Station. The 43-year-old former army pilot
:01:59. > :02:00.is the first publicly funded The Soyuz space capsule carrying him
:02:01. > :02:07.and two other astronauts arrived at the space station half an hour
:02:08. > :02:11.ago, after a six hour This is the Soyuz as it approached
:02:12. > :02:18.the ISS a short time ago - it docked a little later
:02:19. > :02:21.than expected after a tense Let's join our science
:02:22. > :02:24.correspondent Palab Ghosh, who's in Khasakstan from where
:02:25. > :02:37.Tim Peake blasted off this morning. Sophie, I am in Baikonur city's
:02:38. > :02:41.community hall, and it is here that Tim Peake's family will be coming to
:02:42. > :02:46.speak to him, from the International Space Station. It will be their
:02:47. > :02:47.first chance to hear about his remarkable journey, which began this
:02:48. > :02:56.morning. A momentous day for Tim Peake. And
:02:57. > :03:02.an historic one for Britain. How do you feel? Fantastic. Really good. We
:03:03. > :03:07.are ready. He is finally on his way to space. Tim and his fellow crew
:03:08. > :03:09.mates are at the cosmodrome in Baikonur, to get ready for the
:03:10. > :03:14.launch. On the other side of the glass, his
:03:15. > :03:23.family. This will be the last time they will see him, before he blasts
:03:24. > :03:27.off into space. Space. He is waving and smiling and giving the thumbs
:03:28. > :03:31.up. His wife Rebecca and his two son, next stage to go on the the bus
:03:32. > :03:36.to go to launch pad. With him, on his left, is his
:03:37. > :03:41.commander, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and next to him, is
:03:42. > :03:46.Nasa's Tim Kopra. So how does Rebecca feel a few hours before the
:03:47. > :03:50.launch? I am really happy, you know, it has been a long swrurny to get to
:03:51. > :03:57.this point, we are really excited to get to this stage in the game. He
:03:58. > :04:02.looks so ready for it, it is great. A final wave goodbye, before Tim and
:04:03. > :04:07.the rest of the crew get onboard their Soyuz rocket. It stands on the
:04:08. > :04:11.same launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin set off to become the first
:04:12. > :04:20.man in space, more than 50 years ago.
:04:21. > :04:32.The final countdown begins. 3, 2, 1!
:04:33. > :04:37.Look at that. Bye daddy. Bye. And lift off. Lift off of Tim Kopra,
:04:38. > :04:46.Yuri Malenchenko and Timothy Peake on their way to the International
:04:47. > :04:51.Space Station. So far getting good first stage
:04:52. > :04:55.performance, the Soyuz delivering 930,000 pounds of thrust from its
:04:56. > :05:03.single core engine. First stage of the Soyuz 68 feet in length, 24 feet
:05:04. > :05:06.in diameter, it will be burning liquid fuel four the first two
:05:07. > :05:10.minutes and six seconds is of the flight.
:05:11. > :05:16.On the ground jubilation, from his friends, and family. Very emotional.
:05:17. > :05:20.I have to confess, it was. It has been such a long time an he has want
:05:21. > :05:27.it for such a long time and finally it is here. We have done it.
:05:28. > :05:32.In the capsule, Tim tells us he is feeling fine. Pitch and roll
:05:33. > :05:38.nominal. The crew are weightless. The danger from the launch is now
:05:39. > :05:43.over. And coming into view, the Soyuz
:05:44. > :05:49.capsule, a scene from the International Space Station. And
:05:50. > :05:54.then, the spacecraft docks. Tim will have to wait until the hatch is
:05:55. > :05:58.opened, and he begins hiss mission in space. We had expected to see
:05:59. > :06:03.pictures of the moment they docked with the space station, we didn't
:06:04. > :06:09.get those. It was a pretty nerve-wracking approach, wasn't it.
:06:10. > :06:12.Well docking is supposed to be completely -- completely automatic
:06:13. > :06:16.but as it approached it was clear that the automated process failed.
:06:17. > :06:20.Something, it seems had gone wrong with the guidance radar so the
:06:21. > :06:25.commander Yuri Malenchenko took manual control. Now, although it was
:06:26. > :06:31.a little tense, they are all prepared for manual docking, and as
:06:32. > :06:33.you know it ended successfully, there were champagne corks popping
:06:34. > :06:39.here, what happens next, what we are waiting for is that hatch to open,
:06:40. > :06:42.and for Tim Peake to glide through, and become the first British
:06:43. > :06:48.astronaut to serve onboard the International Space Station. And the
:06:49. > :06:51.UK Space Agency hope he will be the first of many Britons that will
:06:52. > :06:53.serve on the space station and perhaps even explore the moon.
:06:54. > :06:57.Thank you. Well, Tim Peake has a very busy six
:06:58. > :06:59.months ahead of him. While in orbit he will be conducting
:07:00. > :07:02.experiments and working on projects designed to draw more young
:07:03. > :07:04.people into science. Here's our science
:07:05. > :07:15.editor, David Shukman. Wild commitment at the sign museum
:07:16. > :07:20.in London during the launch. 3,000 children caught up in exactly the
:07:21. > :07:24.kind of enthusiasm that taec wants to inspire. -- Tim Peake. Watching
:07:25. > :07:29.closely the first Briton to go into space Helen Sharman. Tim is going
:07:30. > :07:32.through pretty much what I went through, I did it 24 years ago, and
:07:33. > :07:38.Tim is really going through that now. It brings back the memories,
:07:39. > :07:42.actually. For the next sixth months this will be Tim Peake's home, in
:07:43. > :07:47.Orr bits where everything feels weightless which makes life onboard
:07:48. > :07:53.unusual. So, you can't wash your hair in the normal way. You use dry
:07:54. > :08:01.shampoo. A great sleeping bag. There are no bedroom, you zip yourself
:08:02. > :08:06.into a pod. That is good core. You have to exercise for two hours a day
:08:07. > :08:11.to avoid your muscles wasting away. So it will be a strange existence on
:08:12. > :08:16.the space space, and will take some geding used to. It is the largest
:08:17. > :08:21.structure assembled in space. It is about the size of a football pitch.
:08:22. > :08:26.Where is it? It is about 250 miles above us, that might not sound much,
:08:27. > :08:29.but it is beyond the atmosphere and definitely in the hostile
:08:30. > :08:35.environment of space. This outpost of humanity is travelling round
:08:36. > :08:39.earth at 17,500 miles an hour, an extraordinary speed. Because each
:08:40. > :08:43.circuit round the earth takes 90 minute, the crew can see at least 15
:08:44. > :08:47.sun rises an sunsets every single day.
:08:48. > :08:51.Now, the space station was built section by section over the last 15
:08:52. > :08:55.years an one module is European. Here it is. It is called Columbus.
:08:56. > :09:00.It is a laboratory where Tim Peake will spend much of his time. So let
:09:01. > :09:07.us imagine that we could be right inside it. It is cramped. Filled
:09:08. > :09:11.with experiments that make use of those weightless. One project looks
:09:12. > :09:15.at metal alloys to help work out how they can be improved for the
:09:16. > :09:19.electronic devices we use. Another is testing, if bacteria can survive
:09:20. > :09:24.in space, to see if they could be living on Mars. And there is a study
:09:25. > :09:30.into house fluids behave inside the brain. That could help with faster
:09:31. > :09:35.diagnosis of medical problems. This is going to go in your ear.
:09:36. > :09:38.Here they are testing a new system for measures pressure inside the
:09:39. > :09:43.brain and they are looking or ward to what Tim Peake finds out.
:09:44. > :09:45.For decades the Government never wanted to pay for British
:09:46. > :09:50.astronauts. Now Tim Peake is the first to have official backing. And
:09:51. > :09:53.there is huge interest in investigating the potential for
:09:54. > :09:58.longer missions. I think the most exciting thing is of course we want
:09:59. > :10:03.to build bases on the moon and Mars, hopefully in my lifetime and beyond.
:10:04. > :10:09.So the way that space impacts the human body over six month, 12 months
:10:10. > :10:13.that is what he is focussing on. From now until next June Tim Peake
:10:14. > :10:19.will be living away from earth. At the same time encouraging the next
:10:20. > :10:20.generation to become scientists, engineers, and maybe astronauts as
:10:21. > :10:22.well. Millions of people will have stopped
:10:23. > :10:25.this morning to watch Tim Peake People gathered at the Science
:10:26. > :10:30.museum in London and also at a school in Sussex,
:10:31. > :10:33.in the village where Duncan Kennedy was with the school
:10:34. > :10:45.children watching lift off. Yes, they are all back tonight, here
:10:46. > :10:49.in the village hall, to witness Tim Peake here dock with the spacecraft
:10:50. > :10:53.and eventually to see him crawl inside the space station, just as
:10:54. > :10:57.they were all here this morning to witness that incredible take off,
:10:58. > :11:01.and I do mean all. It seems like the entire village and all the people
:11:02. > :11:06.from his former school here turned out to witness this event. To see
:11:07. > :11:14.one of their own finally make it into space.
:11:15. > :11:23.If you could bottle pride, this is what it would look like, when the
:11:24. > :11:27.cork is popped. These are Peake's people. Brimming
:11:28. > :11:32.with joy for Tim Peake. The local boy who became a spaceman.
:11:33. > :11:37.What did you think of that take off? It was brilliant. I can't believe
:11:38. > :11:40.someone from West Brom Primary School is going up in space to the
:11:41. > :11:47.national space station. -- west born. Are you proud of him? Yes.
:11:48. > :11:52.Really cool that somebody who is used to come to our school is
:11:53. > :11:56.actually going up into space and to see the space station. You going to
:11:57. > :12:02.be an astronaut? Maybe. You could be. Yes. Tim was. Yes, He went to
:12:03. > :12:08.this school. It could be you. Any time. 20 years' time.
:12:09. > :12:12.You can tell just how proud they are here at west born primary by the
:12:13. > :12:18.size of the arrow on his school photo. Who knew then what this
:12:19. > :12:21.little boy would become. Certainly not his school best friends The
:12:22. > :12:25.whole village was buzzing. It is the biggest thing that has happened to
:12:26. > :12:31.west born since I was born to be fair. Proud. My heart is pumping
:12:32. > :12:36.really. 3, 2, 1. There was another countdown at his old school today.
:12:37. > :12:42.This time, in a gravity experiment. Another sign he is an inspiration to
:12:43. > :12:46.his successors. Before he took off, Tim even sent a personal message to
:12:47. > :12:50.everyone here. Thank you so much. Have a great tale and the next time
:12:51. > :12:55.I talk to you will be from up there. -- great day. Today, although this
:12:56. > :13:02.wave from Tim may have been to the world, here, they saw it as a
:13:03. > :13:06.gesture to the place it all began. A small village in Hampshire, whose
:13:07. > :13:13.star pupil is now circling the world.
:13:14. > :13:16.More than 1,000 schools in the city of Los Angeles have been closed
:13:17. > :13:18.The announcement affects nearly 700,000 pupils.
:13:19. > :13:21.The alert comes two weeks after 14 people were killed by a radicalised
:13:22. > :13:23.Muslim couple in nearby San Bernardino.
:13:24. > :13:32.Our correspondent David Willis is in Los Angeles
:13:33. > :13:39.Across this sprawling city, school buses were left idle and city
:13:40. > :13:43.schools closed, after a threat was received at five o'clock in the
:13:44. > :13:52.morning. Prompting officials to shut down more than 1,000 schools.
:13:53. > :13:59.We need the cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today. We need
:14:00. > :14:04.families and neighbours to work together with our schools and with
:14:05. > :14:10.our employees. To make sure our kids are safe. The Los Angeles unified
:14:11. > :14:16.school districts an area of more than 700 square miles and accounts
:14:17. > :14:21.for some 6440,000 students. Teachers and other staff were also told to
:14:22. > :14:26.stay at home. Schools here are closed today, and
:14:27. > :14:32.maybe for longer, depending on how long it takes to search every single
:14:33. > :14:37.city run school in the second largest city in America.
:14:38. > :14:44.At every school here, packages and backpacks are to be searched. The
:14:45. > :14:53.circumstances in the neighbouring San Bernadino, I think what has
:14:54. > :14:57.happened in the nation, I think what happened initially, I am not going
:14:58. > :15:02.to take the chance with the life of a student.
:15:03. > :15:05.Officials in New York say they received a similar threat but deem
:15:06. > :15:06.it a hoax. Here in the light of recent events nobody is taking
:15:07. > :15:13.anything for granted. Tim Peake has become the first
:15:14. > :15:16.British astronaut in space In the last hour, his Soyuz space
:15:17. > :15:21.capsule safely docked at the International Space Station
:15:22. > :15:31.after a nerve-wracking approach. The main teaching union says it's
:15:32. > :15:35.confident there will be a deal with the Government on the return
:15:36. > :15:42.of national testing. As engineers work on fixing
:15:43. > :15:44.the Forth Road Bridge for its replacement,
:15:45. > :15:52.it's work in progress. The birth rate in England is rising
:15:53. > :15:55.so rapidly that almost a million places for secondary school pupils
:15:56. > :15:58.will have to be created over Councils are considering creating
:15:59. > :16:01.super-sized schools that take up to 3,000 pupils to accommodate
:16:02. > :16:05.the growing demand. Primary schools will also need
:16:06. > :16:08.to expand, as our education editor, At the heart of its community
:16:09. > :16:22.for more than a century, Edmund Waller Primary
:16:23. > :16:23.could double in size. A baby boom has created
:16:24. > :16:26.a demand for more school Parents told me they fear something
:16:27. > :16:30.really special would be lost. We lose a lot of the community
:16:31. > :16:32.sense of the school, a lot of the parental
:16:33. > :16:34.involvement that is so key. The relationships
:16:35. > :16:36.with teachers, I think. Is it going to get really
:16:37. > :16:38.competitive, aged eight, to be in the football team,
:16:39. > :16:41.if you've got four classes? And that's not what
:16:42. > :16:43.primary's about, is it? It's a big step going to school
:16:44. > :16:47.aged four, you know, and if you're going into
:16:48. > :16:50.a playground with 1,000 What happens here isn't yet decided,
:16:51. > :16:58.but school sizes are booming and with them, the debate
:16:59. > :17:00.about what that means for children. You're going to read
:17:01. > :17:04.through each chapter extract. These year sevens are at one
:17:05. > :17:07.of England's biggest schools, More on this scale are planned
:17:08. > :17:15.by several councils. Finding your way is a challenge,
:17:16. > :17:17.but pupils thought parents I was like, dad,
:17:18. > :17:25.don't worry about it. It might be a big school,
:17:26. > :17:28.but I'll make friends and we'll be So you learn to find
:17:29. > :17:36.your way through. When you see the whole
:17:37. > :17:38.school you're like - you never expect this many people
:17:39. > :17:42.to be in one school at once. Really, year seven, you're
:17:43. > :17:44.old enough to realise your way around and realise
:17:45. > :17:46.what you've got to do. And that includes navigating
:17:47. > :17:55.the mega queue at lunch. When this school opened in 1964,
:17:56. > :17:58.with 1,500 pupils, it was one Now, there are more than 2,500 and,
:17:59. > :18:02.just to give you some idea of the scale, this dining room
:18:03. > :18:06.serves up 6,000 lunches The choice of subjects
:18:07. > :18:11.is a reflection of the school size, from hairdressing to
:18:12. > :18:13.three modern languages. There's not much evidence school
:18:14. > :18:20.size makes academic results any worse, but how do you create
:18:21. > :18:25.a community with good discipline? Through a very strong pastoral
:18:26. > :18:28.system, having very, very clear expectations
:18:29. > :18:31.about our standards and what we'll accept and what we won't accept,
:18:32. > :18:35.and through working with youngsters through the pastoral care system
:18:36. > :18:37.to ensure that they understand. More super-sized schools
:18:38. > :18:41.are on the horizon, but some parents A Metropolitan Police firearms
:18:42. > :18:51.officer is to be suspended after a man was shot dead
:18:52. > :18:55.in north London last Friday. 28-year-old Jermaine Baker
:18:56. > :18:59.was killed during a police operation The Independent Police Complaints
:19:00. > :19:03.Commission is investigating what happened and suggested
:19:04. > :19:05.the officer be suspended from duty European politicians
:19:06. > :19:11.are considering raising the age of consent for social media websites
:19:12. > :19:14.and email from 13 to 16. It could mean teenagers under
:19:15. > :19:17.the age of 16 would be banned from using internet
:19:18. > :19:20.services like Facebook unless they have
:19:21. > :19:24.parental permission. Industry and child protection
:19:25. > :19:26.experts say the move The coffee chain, Starbucks,
:19:27. > :19:53.has said it has paid ?8 million in corporation tax in
:19:54. > :19:56.the last year off the back Pre-tax profits jumped
:19:57. > :20:15.to just over ?34 million compared with less than ?2
:20:16. > :20:17.million a year ago. The company said in 2012 it
:20:18. > :20:20.would pay significantly more in tax after a public outcry at how little
:20:21. > :20:22.it had paid in fourteen The rate of inflation turned
:20:23. > :20:26.positive in November for the first But it remains close to zero,
:20:27. > :20:30.at 0.1% with low oil prices and competition between supermarkets
:20:31. > :20:32.keeping prices down for consumers. Our economics correspondent,
:20:33. > :20:34.Andy Verity, reports. It's not just fuel that's getting
:20:35. > :20:36.cheaper before Christmas, Second hand car prices are 4.6%
:20:37. > :20:40.lower than they were a year ago. To these buyers that means
:20:41. > :20:43.they're getting a bargain. There's better much
:20:44. > :20:50.better value now. The reason car prices are coming
:20:51. > :20:52.down is the same reason that the price of most goods has
:20:53. > :20:55.been coming down right through the past year,
:20:56. > :20:57.plentiful supply of the products In other words, fewer buyers buying
:20:58. > :21:01.the products which means the buyers have the upper hand and they can
:21:02. > :21:04.pull the prices down. While second hand car
:21:05. > :21:06.and fuel prices fell, it was by less than
:21:07. > :21:08.the previous month. One reason the cost of living
:21:09. > :21:10.overall ticked up by 0.1%. Break that down and goods prices
:21:11. > :21:13.fell by an average of 1.9%, while the price of
:21:14. > :21:15.services rose by 2.4%. Earlier this year, the Bank
:21:16. > :21:17.of England governor, Mark Carney, was confident prices
:21:18. > :21:20.would be rising much faster than now and it would be clear
:21:21. > :21:22.when to raise interest rates. We expect inflation to be very low
:21:23. > :21:25.for the next several months, but over the course of the year,
:21:26. > :21:28.as we get towards the end, inflation should start to pick up
:21:29. > :21:31.towards our 2% target. But that was before the slowdown
:21:32. > :21:34.in economies like Brazil or China, which meant less demand worldwide
:21:35. > :21:36.for goods from fuel to steel and, For the next few months, at least,
:21:37. > :21:42.a rise in interest rates by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy
:21:43. > :21:44.Committee looks unlikely. I don't think the MPC is going to be
:21:45. > :21:48.in any hurry to follow the US in raising interest
:21:49. > :21:50.rates very quickly. We think that they'll probably wait
:21:51. > :21:53.until the middle of next year and, even then, interest rates
:21:54. > :21:56.here are going to rise That puts us on a different economic
:21:57. > :22:00.path to the United States where today the latest data
:22:01. > :22:02.showed inflation of 0.5%. Tomorrow, the US Central Bank
:22:03. > :22:05.is widely expected to announce a rise in interest rates,
:22:06. > :22:07.the first in nine years. It's probably the most hotly
:22:08. > :22:21.anticipated film of this century. And last night, the latest Star Wars
:22:22. > :22:24.- the Force Awakens - had its world premiere
:22:25. > :22:26.in Los Angeles. Disney has paid more than $4 billion
:22:27. > :22:28.for the film rights. So will the film's global power
:22:29. > :22:32.prove to be a price worth paying? Our entertainment correspondent,
:22:33. > :22:35.Lizo Mzimba, reports. John Boyega, one of the film's
:22:36. > :22:43.young British leads, reunited with Mark Hamill
:22:44. > :22:45.who reprises his role as Luke The recreation or simply the return
:22:46. > :22:55.of much-loved figures a key selling point for the movie,
:22:56. > :22:59.the first in more than 30 years to feature the main actors
:23:00. > :23:03.from the original trilogy. How do you feel at the fact that now
:23:04. > :23:07.so many fans are going to get to see how your character, how the saga
:23:08. > :23:10.continues for something people have That's the idea, is to continue
:23:11. > :23:15.to build on the stories that Is this the day you've been waiting
:23:16. > :23:23.for when it finally goes out then, No, because then I think
:23:24. > :23:26.I would have wished away It's very exciting
:23:27. > :23:30.for it to be here now. Disney paid George Lucas more
:23:31. > :23:39.than $4 billion for the rights to the series along with other
:23:40. > :23:41.Lucasfilm properties. Thanks to one of the biggest deals
:23:42. > :23:46.in Hollywood history, they now plan top
:23:47. > :23:51.release a movie a year. It was exciting, there
:23:52. > :24:12.were lots of surprises. Even if box office takings
:24:13. > :24:16.and merchandise sales don't reach hoped for levels, it's
:24:17. > :24:17.all still good news The current plan is to make
:24:18. > :24:23.all the films at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire, a commitment
:24:24. > :24:30.worth tens of millions of pounds. The whole picture may not be clear
:24:31. > :24:34.for another few years because Disney needs not just this one,
:24:35. > :24:37.but each of the new forthcoming movies to keep delivering
:24:38. > :24:39.huge audiences. In those films, the characters face
:24:40. > :24:47.monumental struggles and battles. With their multi-billion dollar
:24:48. > :24:49.investment, in financial terms, for Disney the stakes
:24:50. > :25:04.are almost as high. Not far until Christmas Day. It is
:25:05. > :25:09.still so mild? Crazy. We might break records over the next few days.
:25:10. > :25:12.Mild, mucky. A lot of mist and murk over the last few days. That will
:25:13. > :25:18.continue I think generally in the outlook period. For some it's still
:25:19. > :25:21.a winter wonder land. This is Dallas, Dallas in Scotland, not
:25:22. > :25:26.Texas. Even here the snow welcome back thawing away as the warm air
:25:27. > :25:36.moves up from the south-west. How warm will it get? Into the mid teens
:25:37. > :25:41.by day, four to six degrees above what it should be for this time of
:25:42. > :25:45.year. Rain around this evening, heading northwards and eastwards.
:25:46. > :25:51.Heavy rain to Wales with gusty winds. That will move into the
:25:52. > :25:55.Midland and England. The worst of the overnight rain will have eased
:25:56. > :26:03.away by morning time. A dull, murky start to the day. Look at the
:26:04. > :26:08.temperatures. 8.00am, 13 or 14 degrees widely. Northern Ireland and
:26:09. > :26:13.Scotland dryer. As the thaw sets in across the highlands and the
:26:14. > :26:18.Grampians we will see mist and fog developing, I think. Through the day
:26:19. > :26:21.I'm hopeful we will see break developing in the cloud cover. Some
:26:22. > :26:27.places will see watery sunshine at times. Although there will be
:26:28. > :26:34.drizzly bits towards western exposure a lot of drooi weather.
:26:35. > :26:38.Where there is sunshine temperatures rising to 15-16 degrees. Milder than
:26:39. > :26:43.it has been across Scotland. Another weather front will come in from the
:26:44. > :26:48.west tomorrow evening into Thursday. We will see persistent rain for the
:26:49. > :26:53.likes of Cumbria and given the state of the catchments here we will keep
:26:54. > :26:58.a close eye. Warnings are in force. Rain heading in from the west to the
:26:59. > :27:03.south and east despite a gusty wind exceptionally mild. All the latest
:27:04. > :27:07.on weather warnings of course can be found on the BBC weather website
:27:08. > :27:08.much we will keep an eye on the forecast and those temperatures over
:27:09. > :27:24.the next few days. Thank you. Now, before we go,
:27:25. > :27:31.more on our top story. Well, in a moment we join the BBC's
:27:32. > :27:34.news teams where you are, but I'll leave you with
:27:35. > :27:36.images of the day - the moment the British astronaut,
:27:37. > :28:03.Tim Peake, launched into space. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Lift off
:28:04. > :28:11.with Tim Koprast Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Peake on their way to the
:28:12. > :28:22.International Space Station. CHEERING It makes me think I want to
:28:23. > :28:29.go to space when I grow up.