:00:00. > :00:00.Unravelling the secrets of the universe - the most important
:00:00. > :00:09.scientific discovery for a generation.
:00:10. > :00:13.We have detected gravitational waves.
:00:14. > :00:20.Scientists prove that Einstein was right after all -
:00:21. > :00:24.gravitational waves ripple through space and time.
:00:25. > :00:26.The discovery takes us closer than ever to understanding
:00:27. > :00:33.Gravitational waves provide a completely new way of looking
:00:34. > :00:38.The ability to detect them has the potential
:00:39. > :00:44.We'll find out how the scientists managed this feat.
:00:45. > :00:51.No more talking - the government will impose a new contract
:00:52. > :00:57.Do you hear the anger and frustration out there?
:00:58. > :00:59.MPs give a Google boss a grilling over the company's tax affairs
:01:00. > :01:06.Doping in athletics - now Kenya could be kept out
:01:07. > :01:13.The weird, wild world of Heronymous Bosch -
:01:14. > :01:19.a new exhibition brings his work together for the first time.
:01:20. > :01:21.On Reporting Scotland at 6.30pm: The country's only women's prison
:01:22. > :01:25.Instead, there'll be a shift to addressing the causes
:01:26. > :01:30.And history is made at Holyrood, as MSPs prepare to vote on income
:01:31. > :01:50.tax levels for the next financial year.
:01:51. > :01:52.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:53. > :01:55.It's the question that's as old as astronomy itself -
:01:56. > :02:00.Today, scientists are much closer than ever before
:02:01. > :02:05.They've proved the existence of so-called gravitational waves -
:02:06. > :02:08.that's what Einstein called them 100 years ago.
:02:09. > :02:10.Here's our science correspondent, Palab Ghosh, on what's
:02:11. > :02:21.being described as landmark in scientific endeavour.
:02:22. > :02:28.Powerful telescopes can see distant stars and far-away galaxies. From
:02:29. > :02:33.now, astronomers will be able to see much deeper into space and further
:02:34. > :02:41.back in time. Eventually, right up to the moment of the Big Bang.
:02:42. > :02:45.Scientists have been searching for ripples in space called
:02:46. > :02:49.gravitational waves. Today, they told the world they had found them.
:02:50. > :02:57.Created by two black holes colliding more than a billion light years
:02:58. > :03:05.away. We have detected gravitational waves. We did it! Professor Stephen
:03:06. > :03:09.Hawking told me it was a ground-breaking development.
:03:10. > :03:14.Gravitational waves provide a completely new way of looking at the
:03:15. > :03:19.universe. The ability to detect them has the potential to revolutionise
:03:20. > :03:25.astronomy. This discovery is the first detection of the black hole
:03:26. > :03:30.binary system and the first observation of black holes merging.
:03:31. > :03:34.Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves 100
:03:35. > :03:38.years ago, but what are they? Gravitational waves are created
:03:39. > :03:43.whenever there is a seismic event in the universe such as an exploding
:03:44. > :03:48.star. These waves ripple across the galaxy at the speed of light,
:03:49. > :03:52.stretching and squeezing space as they go. But they are incredibly
:03:53. > :03:56.hard to detect because, when they hit the Earth, they give it the
:03:57. > :04:02.tiniest of jobs, barely the width of an atom. Researchers developed a
:04:03. > :04:08.powerful laser system capable of measuring such a tiny distance. The
:04:09. > :04:12.beam runs along a tube just under the ground and it is stretched by a
:04:13. > :04:19.minute amount when a gravitational wave passes through. This is mind
:04:20. > :04:23.blowing. It really is, when you consider that these black holes
:04:24. > :04:28.actually spiralled in over a billion years ago and the signal has been
:04:29. > :04:33.travelling to us since then. We turned on our detectors at exactly
:04:34. > :04:36.the right time to detect it arriving. Those gravitational waves
:04:37. > :04:45.can be turned into sound. Listen carefully for the chirping. That is
:04:46. > :04:50.the chirping we have been looking for. That is one of the beautiful
:04:51. > :04:56.things, we are not only going to be seeing the universe but listening to
:04:57. > :05:01.it. Today's result opens a new window into how the universe began
:05:02. > :05:03.and it will reveal a new view of the cosmos beyond our imagination.
:05:04. > :05:08.And with me is our Science Editor, David Shukman.
:05:09. > :05:16.What has changed as a result of this? Suddenly we have got a
:05:17. > :05:19.completely new way to look at the universe. It is as revolutionary as
:05:20. > :05:24.the moment 400 years ago when Galileo looked through his telescope
:05:25. > :05:28.and he saw things in space that nobody could imagine existed.
:05:29. > :05:32.Scientists are now stunned about information about this incredible
:05:33. > :05:36.event in space, two black holes colliding, sending out a ripple of
:05:37. > :05:41.gravitational waves. The potential is huge, to look for things and
:05:42. > :05:45.confirm things that they know exist and to stumble across stuff nobody
:05:46. > :05:53.can predict, even to go back right to where it began with the Big Bang.
:05:54. > :05:56.How did they do it? Five decades of patience and determination.
:05:57. > :06:01.Scientists in America, Britain and Europe coming up with the design for
:06:02. > :06:05.an incredibly delicate network of laser beams, sensitive enough to
:06:06. > :06:07.pick up those ripples coming through space. It has been a difficult
:06:08. > :06:14.journey. I went to see the first space. It has been a difficult
:06:15. > :06:18.it wasn't working well, picking up the sound of trucks on the nearby
:06:19. > :06:19.highway but nothing from space. Nobody knew
:06:20. > :06:46.as one of the great achievements in modern science.
:06:47. > :06:55.Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, reports.
:06:56. > :07:03.It has lasted not months but years, a long-running and acrimonious
:07:04. > :07:06.dispute with a stop start talks process and two strike at hospitals
:07:07. > :07:12.in England. Today, the Health Secretary said enough was enough and
:07:13. > :07:16.the junior doctors' contract would be imposed. We have demonstrated
:07:17. > :07:22.time and again our willingness to negotiate with the BMA on the
:07:23. > :07:24.concerns they raised. However, the definition of negotiation is a
:07:25. > :07:27.discussion where both sides demonstrate flexibility and
:07:28. > :07:35.compromise on their original objectives. And the BMA ultimately
:07:36. > :07:37.proved unwilling to do this. He said he'd taken advice from the
:07:38. > :07:44.government's chief negotiator, a leading hospital chief executive. I
:07:45. > :07:49.have to conclude we have reached the end of the road of negotiations and
:07:50. > :07:51.I have therefore advised the Secretary of State that, in the
:07:52. > :07:57.health service, we should not continue with the disruptions that
:07:58. > :08:02.come from the uncertainty, that we need to bring the matter to a close.
:08:03. > :08:08.The new contract will apply from August. It will see basic pay rise
:08:09. > :08:12.13.5% but there will be cuts to unsocial hours payments. 40,000
:08:13. > :08:17.doctors will be affected as they move jobs as part of their training,
:08:18. > :08:22.about 75% in the first year. Both sides said the issue of pay for
:08:23. > :08:27.Saturday's was the deal-breaker. The announcement is came soon after the
:08:28. > :08:31.end of the 24-hour strike by junior doctors in England which affected
:08:32. > :08:34.routine but not emergency care. The BMA will now consider its next move.
:08:35. > :08:38.routine but not emergency care. The We were always hoping the government
:08:39. > :08:42.wouldn't come to in position but unfortunately they have taken this
:08:43. > :08:46.damaging course of action. We need to talk to our membership now and to
:08:47. > :08:50.see what doctors across the country think is the right thing to do. One
:08:51. > :08:57.doctor who took part in the strike told me some leaks would quit as
:08:58. > :09:02.part of the new contract, so compromising hospital safety. --
:09:03. > :09:06.some colleagues. There is already a shortage in the NHS doctors. This
:09:07. > :09:10.contract will make it worse and they will not be enough doctors to look
:09:11. > :09:18.after patient safely. Some would say that if reality and we need -- that
:09:19. > :09:23.that is scaremongering. I would say it is reality. Now the BMA will have
:09:24. > :09:27.to decide what further industrial action or processed it wants to
:09:28. > :09:33.take. It does seem that this highly charged row will rumble on for some
:09:34. > :09:37.time yet. As demonstrators gathered outside the Department of Health
:09:38. > :09:41.this evening, there was speculation about whether ongoing contract talks
:09:42. > :09:46.with consultants might falter and there was talk of junior doctors
:09:47. > :09:48.choosing to move to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, where Garneau
:09:49. > :09:50.planned changes to the existing contract.
:09:51. > :09:52.Our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is at Westminster
:09:53. > :10:03.I called it a controversial move and presumably it is risky. It is a big
:10:04. > :10:08.decision to take and a big risk. This has gone on and on, not four
:10:09. > :10:13.months but for years, and it will be seen as very aggressive by thousands
:10:14. > :10:17.of medical professionals right around England, many of whom are
:10:18. > :10:20.quite fed up with what is happening in the NHS, a system under real
:10:21. > :10:24.pressure. It has been branded a failure by Labour very vehemently,
:10:25. > :10:30.although the government is adamant they don't feel they had any options
:10:31. > :10:35.left but to go ahead with this. But I think, over time, the really
:10:36. > :10:41.fraught question for both sides is, if this really bad blood continues
:10:42. > :10:46.and turned into a long, drawn-out and increasingly bitter dispute and
:10:47. > :10:50.patients begin to notice a distant -- a different and potentially they
:10:51. > :10:53.begin to suffer, who will the public blame, doctors or politicians?
:10:54. > :10:55.Britain's most senior police officer, the Metropolitan Police
:10:56. > :10:57.Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has been given
:10:58. > :10:59.a one-year extension to his contract.
:11:00. > :11:02.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, said the extension recognised
:11:03. > :11:05.the vital work the Commissioner had done in fighting crime
:11:06. > :11:08.and in reforming the Metropolitan Police Service.
:11:09. > :11:11.Mr Hogan-Howe has defended the way his force handled high
:11:12. > :11:19.The man in charge of Google's operations in the UK faced some
:11:20. > :11:21.tough questions from a committee of MPs today.
:11:22. > :11:24.It follows the outcry after it emerged that the company paid
:11:25. > :11:30.?130 million in back taxes for a ten-year period.
:11:31. > :11:33.But Matt Brittin said the company paid corporation tax at a rate
:11:34. > :11:37.of 20% on its UK profits - just like any other business.
:11:38. > :11:43.Our Economics Editor, Kamal Ahmed, has the story.
:11:44. > :11:47.Google, a company that likes to help us answer questions.
:11:48. > :11:50.It is a search powerhouse that makes billions of pounds of profit
:11:51. > :11:56.Today it appeared to have a little difficulty answering this question -
:11:57. > :12:03.For the Head of Europe Matt Brittin, it was not that simple.
:12:04. > :12:07.I don't have the figure, but I will provide it.
:12:08. > :12:15.A bit of knock-about maybe, but MPs insisted it showed just how
:12:16. > :12:18.out of touch the technology giant is.
:12:19. > :12:21.He seemed on surer ground when defending their settlement
:12:22. > :12:28.We are paying the tax the HMRC believes is the highest amount,
:12:29. > :12:31.they cannot settle until we are paying the tax fully,
:12:32. > :12:33.based on the facts, we cannot pay more,
:12:34. > :12:39.I understand we are in the spotlight, but we are paying
:12:40. > :12:45.Here at their HQ, I am told they are pretty relieved
:12:46. > :12:50.The company has stuck steadfastly to the argument
:12:51. > :12:56.that it is an American company that pays its taxes in America.
:12:57. > :13:00.There was a more interesting witness before MPs today,
:13:01. > :13:06.Could they convince a sceptical public that this was not
:13:07. > :13:13.The key question for that tax collector, did Google run
:13:14. > :13:18.We don't get outmanoeuvred by these big firms, we make
:13:19. > :13:23.If I am honest, I would like to see more recognition of that.
:13:24. > :13:29.We have a fine set of tax inspectors who do an extremely good job.
:13:30. > :13:31.Google says it wants to see a simpler tax code.
:13:32. > :13:41.We have to have confidence that they are not getting better treatment.
:13:42. > :13:50.But I think we need a process in place which reassures the public.
:13:51. > :13:53.Mr Brittin was still being thrown questions as he left the inquiry.
:13:54. > :14:07.But for now, the technology company decided it had said quite enough.
:14:08. > :14:14.Scientists say they've found evidence of gravitational waves.
:14:15. > :14:19.They say it's one of the biggest discoveries of the past 100 years.
:14:20. > :14:23.And still to come, when is the right time to draw a line under the past?
:14:24. > :14:28.A report from Northern Ireland about how to remember the Troubles.
:14:29. > :14:31.And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6:30pm.
:14:32. > :14:35.Only one change for Scotland as Vern Cotter's men head to Cardiff
:14:36. > :14:37.for their Six Nations clash with Wales.
:14:38. > :14:40.And, from Barbados to Banchory, how rum, the spirit of the Caribbean,
:14:41. > :14:55.Kenya has been given a deadline of the end of today to prove
:14:56. > :14:58.to the World Anti-Doping Agency that it's tackling cheating in athletics.
:14:59. > :15:01.It comes after a spate of positive tests in the country,
:15:02. > :15:03.which has come to dominate global distance running.
:15:04. > :15:06.The BBC understands Kenya is unlikely to provide
:15:07. > :15:10.the assurances required and could face punishment,
:15:11. > :15:13.the most serious of which could be exclusion from the Rio Olympics.
:15:14. > :15:17.Our Sports Editor Dan Roan travelled to the Iten,
:15:18. > :15:23.the home of Kenyan athletics, and sent this report.
:15:24. > :15:25.It's one of sport's most unique settings.
:15:26. > :15:31.Iten, nestled in the Rift Valley, home to Kenya's champions.
:15:32. > :15:34.For decades, this small town has provided a high-altitude training
:15:35. > :15:37.base to thousands of world-class athletes, many of whom have gone
:15:38. > :15:39.on to establish their country as the dominant force
:15:40. > :15:45.Kenya's prowess was underlined at the World Championships
:15:46. > :15:49.in Beijing last year when it topped the medal table.
:15:50. > :15:53.1,500 metres winner Asbel Kiprop claiming one of his team's seven
:15:54. > :16:00.Back in Iten, he is now in training for the Rio Olympics,
:16:01. > :16:04.but doping has cast a shadow over his country's preparations.
:16:05. > :16:07.40 Kenyan athletes have been banned to cheating in the last five years,
:16:08. > :16:10.and Kiprop told me of the damage it's doing.
:16:11. > :16:14.It is a disgrace, especially to the sport and ourselves
:16:15. > :16:20.It is a disgrace to hard-working athletes when an athlete is found
:16:21. > :16:26.to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
:16:27. > :16:31.The BBC has obtained previously unseen secretly-filmed footage
:16:32. > :16:33.of an athlete receiving an injection from a doctor.
:16:34. > :16:36.We cannot verify what substance was, but the athlete, who doesn't
:16:37. > :16:40.want to be identified, told me it was a banned substance.
:16:41. > :16:44.Have you used performance-enhancing drugs?
:16:45. > :16:54.In Kenya, most people are using, so if you don't use,
:16:55. > :16:56.you will just be training, training, training all year.
:16:57. > :16:59.In November, athletes staged a protest in Nairobi
:17:00. > :17:02.against the sport's leaders amid corruption allegations.
:17:03. > :17:05.This week, officials had to deny new allegations of extortion,
:17:06. > :17:09.but we spoke to another athlete who said he had been blackmailed
:17:10. > :17:15.by other members of the sporting body after he failed a drugs test.
:17:16. > :17:17.TRANSLATION: They asked me for 500,000 shillings.
:17:18. > :17:20.I said I couldn't afford to pay, so they told me I would receive
:17:21. > :17:26.The governing body said it couldn't comment as it's under investigation
:17:27. > :17:28.by the International Athletics Federation,
:17:29. > :17:32.but did ask those with information to come forward.
:17:33. > :17:35.Kenya's now at serious risk of being dragged into the doping
:17:36. > :17:40.Another of the sport's powerhouse nations, Russia,
:17:41. > :17:43.has already been banned from international competition
:17:44. > :17:46.because of state-sponsored cheating, and now the spotlight
:17:47. > :17:52.The BBC has learned that Kenya has been set a deadline of today
:17:53. > :17:54.by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or Wada, to show it's making
:17:55. > :17:57.progress in the fight against cheating, but all the signs
:17:58. > :18:01.are it will now be placed on a watchlist of countries at risk
:18:02. > :18:07.I think that is the biggest threat right now, that Kenya would be
:18:08. > :18:15.declared non-compliant should we not meet the expectations.
:18:16. > :18:18.And any non-compliant country, the IOC does have the right
:18:19. > :18:21.in its rules to deny it access to the Olympics, for example.
:18:22. > :18:24.Yesterday, Kenya's top sports officials held last-ditch talks
:18:25. > :18:26.agreeing the need for legislation and funding for a new national
:18:27. > :18:30.anti-doping agency to finally become operational.
:18:31. > :18:40.and the Kenyan athletes you'll see will be running clean.
:18:41. > :18:43.In a country of limited resources, the temptation to take short cuts
:18:44. > :18:47.is obvious, and the cost of educating and testing
:18:48. > :18:51.Authorities insist that cheating is not systemic,
:18:52. > :18:54.but at a time when sporting integrity is under scrutiny
:18:55. > :18:57.like never before, Kenya is in a race against time to prove
:18:58. > :19:04.It's been another turbulent day on global markets.
:19:05. > :19:08.The Ftse 100 was down nearly 2.5%, while markets in Frankfurt and Paris
:19:09. > :19:26.How concerned should we be? If you are as worried as the people in the
:19:27. > :19:33.city behind me about what is going on, you would be fretful, they have
:19:34. > :19:36.seen a big plunge in stock prices on Tuesday, they bounced back
:19:37. > :19:42.yesterday, and today we saw a renewed drop. Bank shares are down
:19:43. > :19:47.6% on the week, some banks are down 30% on the year. What are they
:19:48. > :19:53.worried about the? The global slowdown, and central banks' ability
:19:54. > :19:58.to do anything. Today we heard from the sweetest central bank which is
:19:59. > :20:02.cutting its interest rate even further, but they are already
:20:03. > :20:08.negative. If a bank wants to deposit money with them, they are going to
:20:09. > :20:12.charge them. That is how anxious the central banks are to get the banks
:20:13. > :20:17.lending and the economy going, but it is not happening yet, so you have
:20:18. > :20:21.a flight to safety, investors taking their money out of risky investments
:20:22. > :20:27.and putting them in safe ones like have and bonds. -- Government bonds.
:20:28. > :20:30.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:20:31. > :20:33.Psychiatrist Adam Osborne, who's the brother of
:20:34. > :20:35.the Chancellor George Osborne, has been struck off the medical
:20:36. > :20:37.register after having a two-year affair with a vulnerable patient.
:20:38. > :20:38.Mr Osborne had admitted an inappropriate relationship
:20:39. > :20:40.with a patient, which a medical tribunal ruled was profoundly
:20:41. > :20:44.The Scottish Parliament's devolution committee has extended the deadline
:20:45. > :20:47.for a financial deal between Westminster and Holyrood.
:20:48. > :20:51.The committee's given until February 23rd to agree the fiscal framework
:20:52. > :20:54.that will underpin the Scottish Parliament's new tax
:20:55. > :20:58.They had initially hoped the negotiations would be completed
:20:59. > :21:04.It's thought a lightning strike was the spark for a massive blaze
:21:05. > :21:07.at Tata Steel's Port Talbot factory this morning,
:21:08. > :21:09.which started in the plant's coke oven.
:21:10. > :21:15.The company has confirmed that no-one was hurt in the fire.
:21:16. > :21:17.The decades of conflict in Northern Ireland known
:21:18. > :21:20.as the Troubles saw more than 3,500 people killed.
:21:21. > :21:24.The majority of them by Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries.
:21:25. > :21:27.But the Northern Ireland Secretary says she's worried that the focus
:21:28. > :21:31.on deaths involving the police and army means there's a danger that
:21:32. > :21:36.The province's chief constable has told the BBC that he would
:21:37. > :21:39.support at least a debate about whether to draw a line under
:21:40. > :21:54.What happened during these years when Northern Ireland seemed
:21:55. > :22:00.permanently in a state of chaos is well-documented. But the grainy
:22:01. > :22:06.images gathered on days of death and despair to not reveal the whole
:22:07. > :22:11.truth of a conflict that is still cutting deep. This film is bloody
:22:12. > :22:14.Sunday, when members of the British Parachute Regiment shot civilians
:22:15. > :22:19.and 44 years later soldiers are being arrested and questioned about
:22:20. > :22:35.killings that still cause pain. I cry. How often? When I talk about
:22:36. > :22:43.it. Quite often. What do you think when people say to you, you need to
:22:44. > :22:48.put that behind you? How will I get justice? There are soldiers who feel
:22:49. > :22:52.the idea of prosecutions should be left in the past. This man served
:22:53. > :22:56.with the Army in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and because he says he
:22:57. > :23:01.still has concerns about security, he asked for his appearance today
:23:02. > :23:06.not to be shown. You don't have any senior Government ministers in the
:23:07. > :23:10.dock, or senior Army personnel. It is the soldiers on the ground. We
:23:11. > :23:16.cannot keep going on investigating the past. Paramilitaries committed
:23:17. > :23:20.the vast majority of murders during the troubles. But the UK Government
:23:21. > :23:23.knows recent allegations and revelations about security force
:23:24. > :23:29.collusion have put the actions of the state increasingly in the
:23:30. > :23:34.spotlight. That is not right, you are swallowing the narrative that is
:23:35. > :23:38.being pushed. That by definition there was an agent involved, there
:23:39. > :23:42.was wrongdoing. In many instances, these were individuals dividing
:23:43. > :23:47.information to the police to try to save lives and prevent terrorist
:23:48. > :23:53.attacks. A political deal could mean revealing state files on and the
:23:54. > :23:56.police alone hold nearly 10 million documents, leading some officers and
:23:57. > :24:01.soldiers to fear their past could come back to haunt them. That is
:24:02. > :24:08.fair to say, people have that concern. It is also right to say
:24:09. > :24:12.that Aaron military and terrorist groups did not keep minutes of their
:24:13. > :24:17.meetings. Is there a time where you have to draw the line and say, we
:24:18. > :24:25.have to move on? That is a political question. That is a debate that is
:24:26. > :24:26.worth having. For now, the past continues to threaten political
:24:27. > :24:30.relationships in Northern Ireland. They are paintings filled with some
:24:31. > :24:33.of the most bizarre images Now, for the first time ever,
:24:34. > :24:37.the strange and terrifying works of the painter Hieronymus Bosch have
:24:38. > :25:04.been gathered in his home town He is telling us about good and
:25:05. > :25:12.evil. Heaven and hell. Seven deadly sins. He was the master of the weird
:25:13. > :25:14.and strange, Hieronymus Bosch. This exhibition a homecoming for
:25:15. > :25:20.paintings that have been scattered across the world but are rooted
:25:21. > :25:27.here. To understand, we climbed the cathedral. This is the view he would
:25:28. > :25:33.have seen. The view and changed in 500 years, is this an echo of it?
:25:34. > :25:41.This image, locals recognise it, but to see it, you have to take a boat
:25:42. > :25:46.under the city. Where are we? It is the whole of hell, it is like hell.
:25:47. > :25:54.A lot of dead soldiers were buried here. There are echoes of him
:25:55. > :25:58.everywhere, this market square, the buildings have changed, that it is
:25:59. > :26:02.still the medieval landscape he would recognise. This is his old
:26:03. > :26:11.house. There is one thing you will not find. The paintings. Which is
:26:12. > :26:17.what makes this so extraordinary, is great paintings have come home. This
:26:18. > :26:23.is the Hay Wain, back for the first time in five centuries will stop I
:26:24. > :26:28.am walking across the market Square where he lived and worked every day,
:26:29. > :26:33.and to have a painting like this after 500 years back here, it is
:26:34. > :26:38.astonishing. This painting was kept in a store room for decades. But the
:26:39. > :26:46.Fox faced creature, what does it mean? Nobody knows. We know the owls
:26:47. > :26:50.are not wisdom, but evil. But what is certain is that 15 years of
:26:51. > :26:55.coaxing and cajoling the world's great galleries has paid off. If we
:26:56. > :26:59.are ever going to understand him, it will be here.
:27:00. > :27:11.Some parts of the country have had almost a hint of spring, the days
:27:12. > :27:18.are getting longer. Hear what the sunshine. We saw some glorious
:27:19. > :27:23.sunshine, and equally some clouds have given some sharp showers. This
:27:24. > :27:28.evening and overnight, we keep the clear conditions for many areas, but
:27:29. > :27:32.one or two showers continue. We will see them across parts of Northern
:27:33. > :27:37.Ireland, Wales and southern England. Further north, the clearer skies and
:27:38. > :27:46.lowest temperatures, and there could be icy stretches. Further south, a
:27:47. > :27:51.milder start to Friday morning, less frost than today. Friday is shaping
:27:52. > :27:54.up as a cloudy day, with some outbreaks of showery rain across the
:27:55. > :28:01.southern half of Wales and England. Further north, writer skies and snow
:28:02. > :28:08.showers. Several centimetres of snow possible. The temperature is a
:28:09. > :28:12.little below par for the time of year. On Saturday, low pressure
:28:13. > :28:16.moving in from the Atlantic, bringing wet and windy weather to
:28:17. > :28:21.southern areas. Gales are possible for the South West and the Channel
:28:22. > :28:27.Islands. A cold easterly wind to the North. Still some snow showers
:28:28. > :28:35.heading into the north-east of England, they could cause some
:28:36. > :28:39.disruption. Another cold day. A bit of a quieter story into Sunday, the
:28:40. > :28:46.wind and rain easing from the South, and snow showers easing away further
:28:47. > :28:50.north. Ecole day ahead. It stays cold into the new working week. You
:28:51. > :28:53.can check the latest warnings by heading to the website.
:28:54. > :28:57.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,