:00:00. > :00:07.Life sentences for the two teenage girls who battered a 39
:00:08. > :00:13.Angela Wrightson suffered a brutal ordeal over several hours -
:00:14. > :00:22.those who knew of the girls are shocked.
:00:23. > :00:25.You don't think anyone of any age is capable of the injuries
:00:26. > :00:32.that were committed - let alone by a 13 and 14
:00:33. > :00:36.We'll be looking at how the law deals
:00:37. > :00:40.No apologies from David Cameron over that ?9 million referendum leaflet.
:00:41. > :00:43.Leaving the scene of an atrocity - new video footage of the third man
:00:44. > :00:53.in the Brussels airport terror attack.
:00:54. > :01:00.What has the flu jab got to do with the biggest increase in deaths in
:01:01. > :01:01.England and Wales or more than 40 years?
:01:02. > :01:03.And how you can help save endangered penguins from the comfort
:01:04. > :01:06.And coming up in the sport on BBC News:
:01:07. > :01:08.Rory McIlroy goes for a career Grand Slam.
:01:09. > :01:29.He'll tee off at the Masters at Augusta in the next hour.
:01:30. > :01:35.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:36. > :01:37.Two teenage girls who subjected a 39 year old woman
:01:38. > :01:40.to a violent ordeal that ended in her murder have been
:01:41. > :01:45.The girls, who were in care, were 13 and 14 when they attacked
:01:46. > :01:49.Angela Wrightson in her home in Hartlepool in December 2014.
:01:50. > :01:52.The whole case and the life sentences raise questions about how
:01:53. > :01:54.we deal with juvenile murderers in Britain.
:01:55. > :01:56.More on that in a moment, but first here's Danny
:01:57. > :01:58.Savage with his report - parts of which you may
:01:59. > :02:07.In the dock, wiping away the odd tear, two 15-year-old girls,
:02:08. > :02:10.about to be jailed for as long as they have been alive,
:02:11. > :02:14.punishment for slowly murdering a vulnerable woman.
:02:15. > :02:17.Giving the teenagers a minimum of 15 years each,
:02:18. > :02:20.the judge told them they had carried out a cowardly attack, sustained
:02:21. > :02:23.over a long period of time, carried out with weapons,
:02:24. > :02:32.This is the pair on CCTV, just after they had killed,
:02:33. > :02:33.laughing and sniggering as they called police
:02:34. > :02:37.There's no need to be swearing, ringing up and swearing,
:02:38. > :02:42.Listed as vulnerable, they were used to officers
:02:43. > :02:51.We will get somebody along there as soon as we can, all right?
:02:52. > :02:54.Their victim, Angela Wrightson, was a 39-year-old alcoholic.
:02:55. > :02:57.It was a torturous attack on a helpless woman,
:02:58. > :03:00.using anything in her house they could lay their hands on.
:03:01. > :03:02.This man's daughters used to occasionally hang
:03:03. > :03:09.Scared, but it sort of makes me wonder what could have happened,
:03:10. > :03:12.God forbid, if she had been with them that night.
:03:13. > :03:15.I'd like to think that she would have run a mile and made
:03:16. > :03:19.But it is something that when your own kids are near to it,
:03:20. > :03:23.She was such a happy-go-lucky girl at the time.
:03:24. > :03:25.Another neighbour, who did not want his face shown,
:03:26. > :03:33.He used his dog to clear freeloading youngsters out
:03:34. > :03:37.He believes today's sentences are not long enough.
:03:38. > :03:39.I've been to jail and I know what it is like.
:03:40. > :03:46.Our jail sentences should be like America.
:03:47. > :03:49.If you commit murder, minimum 50 years before you even get out.
:03:50. > :03:53.In court, the older girl said she did not believe such
:03:54. > :04:00.She thought people could only die of cancer or if they were shot.
:04:01. > :04:02.Their life stories, though, are complicated.
:04:03. > :04:04.They were both in care and came from troubled,
:04:05. > :04:12.When the older girl was asked in court what her date of birth was,
:04:13. > :04:16.That same girl did this drawing before the attack.
:04:17. > :04:24.What does this say about her mindset?
:04:25. > :04:30.My feeling about their behaviour in this is that they have never been
:04:31. > :04:32.given any boundaries about what good behaviour is and what
:04:33. > :04:39.The events in this street are now subject to serious case reviews.
:04:40. > :04:41.The two selfie-taking girls sentenced today described themselves
:04:42. > :04:47.They join a short but notorious list of children who kill.
:04:48. > :04:55.With me now is our Home Editor Mark Easton.
:04:56. > :05:03.Shocking details, what does it say about the way we deal with these
:05:04. > :05:06.cases? This was an utterly sickening crime and the sentence and it
:05:07. > :05:11.reflects the court and public's discussed. They will remain in jail
:05:12. > :05:15.for at least 15 years, and even then the Home Secretary must agree to
:05:16. > :05:20.their release, but the UK is very different from how other countries
:05:21. > :05:25.in Europe treat children involved even in the most grave crimes,
:05:26. > :05:29.British judges can impose life sentences on juveniles, and when it
:05:30. > :05:35.comes to murder they are obliged to do so, and yet only 2-mac other EU
:05:36. > :05:40.countries give life sentences to children, Cyprus and France, and
:05:41. > :05:44.very rarely, and since 2004, the courts in England and Wales have
:05:45. > :05:47.sentenced over 200 children to life imprisonment but in the whole of the
:05:48. > :05:52.rest of the European Union the courts have handed out just two. We
:05:53. > :05:57.seem to have a different attitude. It is different. Some countries have
:05:58. > :06:02.upper limits on how long a child can be sentenced, three years in some
:06:03. > :06:06.countries, but many see juvenile offending as a welfare issue rather
:06:07. > :06:12.than a criminal issue and in this case the two children who murdered
:06:13. > :06:15.Angela Wrightson, there will be questions for Hartlepool social
:06:16. > :06:18.services, there will be an inquiry, the youngsters has an appalling
:06:19. > :06:23.childhood and they were well known to social services and they had been
:06:24. > :06:26.in care for two years. On the day of the murder one of the girls went to
:06:27. > :06:34.see her mother wanting to spend time with her, be mum said, go away, in
:06:35. > :06:36.the strongest terms, it gave her side and strong painkillers, and
:06:37. > :06:42.said, why do you go and kill yourself? -- cider. It poses real
:06:43. > :06:46.questions, about parents, and also about the state. Thanks for joining
:06:47. > :06:49.us. David Cameron has strongly defended
:06:50. > :06:52.spending more than ?9 million of taxpayers' money
:06:53. > :06:53.on a leaflet setting out the Government's case for staying
:06:54. > :06:55.in the European Union. Fellow Cabinet Minister Michael Gove
:06:56. > :06:59.- who wants the UK to leave the EU - described it as "one-sided
:07:00. > :07:01.propaganda". Our Deputy Political Editor
:07:02. > :07:05.James Landale reports. Coming to a letterbox near you,
:07:06. > :07:09.a booklet written by the people who work behind this door,
:07:10. > :07:12.who want you to vote to remain A document that makes the economic
:07:13. > :07:24.case for staying in, A document that today
:07:25. > :07:28.the Prime Minister defended, as he appealed to young voters
:07:29. > :07:31.in the South West to vote in I absolutely make no apology
:07:32. > :07:36.for the fact that the government has a strong view and wants everyone
:07:37. > :07:38.to know that strong view. But I don't want anyone to go
:07:39. > :07:41.to the polls not knowing Those campaigning to leave say
:07:42. > :07:50.many of the booklet's It says 3 million jobs are linked
:07:51. > :07:57.to exports to the EU. But the Leave campaign says those
:07:58. > :08:00.jobs are not dependent It says prices would rise
:08:01. > :08:04.if Britain left. Those for Leave say it is EU
:08:05. > :08:08.membership that raises prices. And it says Britain can
:08:09. > :08:12.control its borders. The pro-Leave camp says EU citizens
:08:13. > :08:15.can't be denied entry. I want a fair campaign and I want
:08:16. > :08:18.people to hear from both sides. But what I think is wrong
:08:19. > :08:22.is spending ?9 million of taxpayers' money on one particular piece
:08:23. > :08:27.of one-sided propaganda. I think it is wrong that money that
:08:28. > :08:31.should be spent on priorities like the NHS is being spent
:08:32. > :08:33.on Euro propaganda. The official Leave and Remain
:08:34. > :08:35.campaigns will both get some A free mailshot worth millions
:08:36. > :08:40.of pounds, and a ?600,000 grant They can also spend no more
:08:41. > :08:49.than ?7 million of their own money. But pro-Leave campaigners claim that
:08:50. > :08:52.twice as much money will be spent arguing for the Remain side
:08:53. > :08:58.because it will benefit from the government's ?9 million
:08:59. > :09:00.leaflet mailshot and spending by pro-EU parties like
:09:01. > :09:02.Labour and the Lib Dems. The government says
:09:03. > :09:07.this is no surprise. There was a similar
:09:08. > :09:11.publicly-funded government booklet during the referendum
:09:12. > :09:12.on the European Community But some say the rules
:09:13. > :09:18.should be changed. The government has spent what feels
:09:19. > :09:22.like a lot of money to most people rushing out the leaflet before
:09:23. > :09:24.the formal campaign limits I think that probably raises a big
:09:25. > :09:28.issue for future In sending out this leaflet,
:09:29. > :09:33.the government has broken no laws. Any restrictions on what it can say
:09:34. > :09:37.and do begin only in the last But its opponents say that this
:09:38. > :09:43.breaks the spirit of the rules and the risk is that this ends up
:09:44. > :09:46.alienating some voters as much James Landale, BBC News
:09:47. > :09:59.in Downing Street. There is more about the referendum
:10:00. > :10:02.and the facts about the arguments on our reality check pages, that is on
:10:03. > :10:06.the BBC website. This week the leaked Panama Papers
:10:07. > :10:08.have revealed how some of the world's richest people
:10:09. > :10:14.try to hide their wealth. All of those named in the 11 million
:10:15. > :10:17.leaked documents used the Panama based law
:10:18. > :10:25.firm, Mossack Fonseca. Now UK's Financial Conduct Authority
:10:26. > :10:27.has told banks based here they have till next week to say whether or not
:10:28. > :10:31.they have links to the firm. Let's talk to our business editor
:10:32. > :10:39.Simon Jack who's in the City. What is the regulator looking for?
:10:40. > :10:44.What the City watchdog would like to know is evidence of financial crime,
:10:45. > :10:47.that could involve tax evasion, money-laundering, busting sanctions,
:10:48. > :10:51.and while they are not accusing the firms they have written to, they say
:10:52. > :10:54.you must know who you are doing business with and who you are doing
:10:55. > :10:59.business with is doing business with. What the Panama papers have
:11:00. > :11:03.clearly illustrated with the complexity and murky nature is that
:11:04. > :11:06.is not always straightforward. The banks will know it is being taken
:11:07. > :11:13.seriously because the penalties for dealing with people they should not
:11:14. > :11:19.be dealing with will be very severe it can run into billions. The FSA
:11:20. > :11:22.are looking to display urgency over this, and so potentially millions in
:11:23. > :11:25.fines and I think there will be late nights over the coming days. Thanks
:11:26. > :11:29.for joining us. President Putin says the leaked
:11:30. > :11:33.Panama Papers do not reveal "any element of corruption" and has
:11:34. > :11:44.dismissed them as nonsense He accused them of trying to display
:11:45. > :11:46.belies his country. -- trying to display belies his country.
:11:47. > :11:48.He was speaking for the first time since documents
:11:49. > :11:50.leaked from the Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca,
:11:51. > :11:52.revealed a number of offshore companies owned by some
:11:53. > :11:54.of the Russian president's close associates.
:11:55. > :11:56.Mr Putin said the papers had been scraped together
:11:57. > :11:59.Prosecutors in Belgium investigating the terror attack on Brussels
:12:00. > :12:01.airport have released new CCTV footage of the so called
:12:02. > :12:05.The suspect is thought to have left the terminal building moments before
:12:06. > :12:08.As James Reynolds reports from Brussels the man has
:12:09. > :12:13.These are the moments after the airport explosions.
:12:14. > :12:20.Amid the confusion, the only surviving attacker got away.
:12:21. > :12:23.The police have now put together this video of his escape.
:12:24. > :12:25.A security camera picks him up on the outskirts
:12:26. > :12:31.He is wearing a distinctive hat and pale jacket.
:12:32. > :12:36.At this point no one has any reason to notice him.
:12:37. > :12:44.The authorities are desperate to find more footage
:12:45. > :12:51.We especially appeal to people who might have filmed
:12:52. > :12:54.or taken a photograph of the suspect or think they can provide
:12:55. > :13:02.An hour after the explosions a security camera filmed
:13:03. > :13:11.Later, in town, he crosses a busy road.
:13:12. > :13:13.At 9:49am, almost two hours after the bombs went off,
:13:14. > :13:23.he is seen again, possibly talking on the phone.
:13:24. > :13:26.The cameras lost the third man at about this point just before 10am.
:13:27. > :13:29.This is a quiet neighbourhood near the centre of town.
:13:30. > :13:30.He could have gone anywhere from here.
:13:31. > :13:34.This is the best shot the police have of their suspect's face.
:13:35. > :13:42.They still do not know his name or where he may be hiding.
:13:43. > :13:48.The woman who was battered to death by two teenage girls:
:13:49. > :13:54.And still to come, food for thought: will adding exercise
:13:55. > :13:59.labels to packaging ease the obesity crisis?
:14:00. > :14:04.Jurgen Klopp returns to Germany, as Liverpool take on his former
:14:05. > :14:06.club, Borussia Dortmund, in the quarterfinals
:14:07. > :14:23.It's just over a year and half since UK troops
:14:24. > :14:31.pulled out of Afghanistan, after a bloody 13-year campaign.
:14:32. > :14:35.More than 450 British servicemen and women lost their lives,
:14:36. > :14:40.The fiercest fighting happened in Helmand where,
:14:41. > :14:42.since the British withdrawal, the Taliban have been
:14:43. > :14:48.But now the Afghan army has begun a major new offensive.
:14:49. > :14:53.Justin Rowlatt has been to the former British
:14:54. > :14:55.base Camp Bastion, now called Camp Shorabak,
:14:56. > :15:01.I'm flying to what is left of Camp Bastion.
:15:02. > :15:04.Bastion was the main British base in Afghanistan.
:15:05. > :15:09.Very few journalists have been here since the British withdrew.
:15:10. > :15:13.This what remains of the vast complex.
:15:14. > :15:16.It is now the headquarters of Afghan national forces.
:15:17. > :15:23.Helmand is still without question the key front line in the battle
:15:24. > :15:34.But the record of Afghan forces has not been good.
:15:35. > :15:40.The series of key towns overrun by the Taliban in recent months
:15:41. > :15:57.is a roll call of places British troops gave their lives to defend.
:15:58. > :16:00.So is strategic withdrawal just another way of saying surrender?
:16:01. > :16:03.All around us is what was formerly known as Bastion.
:16:04. > :16:04.Brigadier General Rawlings is with Resolute Support,
:16:05. > :16:07.the current Nato mission in Afghanistan.
:16:08. > :16:12.You are using terms like "surrender".
:16:13. > :16:15.I would say we have withdrawn from areas they formerly held.
:16:16. > :16:18.What I'm trying to say is, after this year, let's look
:16:19. > :16:21.at the capabilities of the Afghan army, let's look at their best
:16:22. > :16:23.posture, and let's help them help themselves to get to a place
:16:24. > :16:26.where they can fight reasonably for the long-term.
:16:27. > :16:28.This training exercise is part of Resolute Support's mission
:16:29. > :16:34.to train, advise and assist the Afghan army.
:16:35. > :16:37.And the big test of whether it is working has just begun,
:16:38. > :16:49.TRANSLATION: The operation started at two o'clock this afternoon.
:16:50. > :16:52.We are clearing villages all the way towards Sangin district.
:16:53. > :16:54.A while ago, we were in a defensive position.
:16:55. > :17:00.We are now regrouping our forces to get on the offensive again.
:17:01. > :17:03.The Afghans can expect a tough battle.
:17:04. > :17:07.Sangin was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting British
:17:08. > :17:19.This footage from the Taliban shows an assault on army outpost.
:17:20. > :17:21.This footage from the Taliban shows an assault on an army outpost.
:17:22. > :17:23.Afghan forces must take the initiative.
:17:24. > :17:27.If the offensive in Sangin fails, one senior US officer told me
:17:28. > :17:30.privately, there will need to be a rethink of the entire strategic
:17:31. > :17:48.New official figures show that last year saw the biggest increase
:17:49. > :17:50.in deaths in England and Wales for more than 40 years.
:17:51. > :17:52.Many of those deaths occurred in the first
:17:53. > :17:55.three months of 2015, in other words, the flu season.
:17:56. > :17:58.Well, with me is our Health Editor, Hugh Pym.
:17:59. > :18:06.What do you think? What are the reasons behind the spike in deaths?
:18:07. > :18:10.George, the figures showed just under 530,000 deaths in England and
:18:11. > :18:15.Wales last year, the highest since 2003 and the biggest annual
:18:16. > :18:19.increase, just over 5.5%, since 1968. Statisticians at the ONS who
:18:20. > :18:22.produced the figures say you can't be very precise about the reasons
:18:23. > :18:31.but they say the majority of the spike was in the first three months
:18:32. > :18:34.of the year and a very large majority of the increase was among
:18:35. > :18:36.the over 75s. Flu was particularly circulating early last year. Elderly
:18:37. > :18:40.in care homes are particularly vulnerable, in hospitals and so on
:18:41. > :18:43.and we know the flu vaccine was not very effective compared to what it
:18:44. > :18:46.should have been because it did not pick up strains of flu that were out
:18:47. > :18:50.there. Yes, they are going along with the idea that the flu had
:18:51. > :18:54.something to do with it. We know the vaccine was not that effective. We
:18:55. > :18:56.also know the death rate has returned to more normal levels in
:18:57. > :18:58.the first few months of this year and the vaccine seems to have been
:18:59. > :19:03.better this time around. Craic A Craic brief look at some
:19:04. > :19:06.of the day's other news stories. The UK Independence Party has
:19:07. > :19:10.unveiled its campaign for the local The Ukip leader Nigel Farage says
:19:11. > :19:13.the party stands for more than just Polls will be held in 124 councils
:19:14. > :19:17.across England, with UKIP Polls will be held in 124 councils
:19:18. > :19:21.across England, with Ukip Workers at the Port Talbot
:19:22. > :19:23.steelworks have been assured by the Business Secretary that
:19:24. > :19:25.Tata Steel will be Sajid Javid has just returned
:19:26. > :19:32.from India, where he tried to persuade Tata to allow more time
:19:33. > :19:35.to secure a sale that will keep Academics have discovered
:19:36. > :19:40.a very rare first edition, in the library of a stately home
:19:41. > :19:43.on the Scottish Isle of Bute. It's a collected edition
:19:44. > :19:45.of Shakespeare's plays, Now, when you tuck into your
:19:46. > :19:56.favourite snack or meal, have you given a thought to how much
:19:57. > :19:59.exercise you'd have to take If you ate a chicken and bacon
:20:00. > :20:05.sandwich, you'd have to walk for nearly an hour and half -
:20:06. > :20:09.or jog for around 40 minutes. The Royal Society of Public Health
:20:10. > :20:15.says a simple activity icon on food packaging could be more useful
:20:16. > :20:17.than calorie counts to encourage us Here's our health
:20:18. > :20:26.correspondent, Dominic Hughes. A classic breakfast, cereal,
:20:27. > :20:31.tea and a slice of toast. But all food comes with calories,
:20:32. > :20:35.the energy we need to keep us So how much physical effort
:20:36. > :20:39.is needed to burn This is pretty much my average
:20:40. > :20:44.breakfast. I've calculated it is
:20:45. > :20:48.about 590 calories. When I have finished up,
:20:49. > :20:51.I'm going to cycle to work and see how many of those calories
:20:52. > :20:54.I manage to burn off. My journey to work is roughly
:20:55. > :20:56.11 miles and normally That was my ride into
:20:57. > :21:01.work this morning. It was actually quite hard
:21:02. > :21:03.because there was According to this app on my phone,
:21:04. > :21:09.I burned through just 284 calories. That's not even half
:21:10. > :21:11.of what I consumed at breakfast. It shows just how hard
:21:12. > :21:14.you have to work. We all need a certain number
:21:15. > :21:17.of calories to maintain Women can consume roughly 2000
:21:18. > :21:20.calories each day, depending On average, men should consume
:21:21. > :21:26.around 2500 calories. The problems come when we eat
:21:27. > :21:30.or drink more than we need. Just 100 extra calories per day can
:21:31. > :21:34.lead to putting on 11lbs That is why health experts
:21:35. > :21:40.are saying packaging should show how much activity will be needed to burn
:21:41. > :21:43.off the calories in food and drink. We have a huge rise in the number
:21:44. > :21:47.of obese and overweight We are now at two thirds
:21:48. > :21:53.of the adult population. We need to use all sorts
:21:54. > :21:57.of different techniques and try different things to make people
:21:58. > :22:03.consider their choices on food. The food and drink industry says
:22:04. > :22:07.this is an idea worth exploring, but how did shoppers
:22:08. > :22:09.react to our mock-up of what the new packaging
:22:10. > :22:12.could look like? Once I start running for five
:22:13. > :22:15.minutes, it is suddenly hellish. The fact I would have to do that
:22:16. > :22:18.for a continual 15 minutes would definitely make me think twice
:22:19. > :22:20.before having the packet. I would think more about what I'm
:22:21. > :22:24.eating if they had that on there. A lunchtime running club is one way
:22:25. > :22:28.of burning off those extra calories, but health experts say any
:22:29. > :22:31.activity will help. Meanwhile, packaging
:22:32. > :22:35.is governed by EU-wide rules. This idea has a long way to go
:22:36. > :22:38.before it becomes reality. Now, how would you like to help
:22:39. > :22:45.conserve penguins in the Antarctic British scientists have set up
:22:46. > :22:50.a network of cameras so the penguins Viewers are asked to mark penguins
:22:51. > :22:56.and their eggs in any one scene. The work will help train a computer
:22:57. > :23:00.to recognise them automatically. In such an icy expanse,
:23:01. > :23:05.it is hard to believe that the Antarctic Peninsula is one
:23:06. > :23:09.of the fastest-warming And climate change is just one
:23:10. > :23:13.of the threats to its That is why this team of scientists
:23:14. > :23:23.has installed a network of cameras throughout the peninsula
:23:24. > :23:27.and the surrounding islands. It is the world's most remote CCTV
:23:28. > :23:31.and a vital tool to discover why two out of the three penguin species
:23:32. > :23:36.here are in decline. There are now 75 of these cameras
:23:37. > :23:39.in this penguin monitoring network Some of them are generating
:23:40. > :23:44.thousands of images. In order to analyse
:23:45. > :23:46.the data, the researchers And that help is coming from penguin
:23:47. > :23:53.enthusiasts like these children They are doing the analysis
:23:54. > :23:59.the researchers so desperately need help with, counting penguins,
:24:00. > :24:02.chicks and eggs, to monitor each Every picture on the Penguin Watch
:24:03. > :24:06.website was captured by one With more colonies being monitored
:24:07. > :24:14.than ever before, the team is today launching a new site to bring
:24:15. > :24:16.in the citizen scientists they need. We have been very good
:24:17. > :24:18.at engaging people. We've not been very good
:24:19. > :24:22.at feeding back. The new part is, we allow them
:24:23. > :24:25.to see what they are doing. So for a class like this,
:24:26. > :24:28.they can adopt a colony, follow it and learn
:24:29. > :24:31.about Antarctica in the process. It's exciting because it is
:24:32. > :24:35.like you are teleporting It is really useful
:24:36. > :24:39.for the scientists so they can discover how the penguins
:24:40. > :24:41.are getting on. It is kind of fun to be looking
:24:42. > :24:45.at penguins on the screen. With a backlog of hundreds
:24:46. > :24:52.of thousands of images, the scientists now hope that people
:24:53. > :24:55.all over the world will adopt and monitor a penguin colony
:24:56. > :24:58.of their own, helping to measure the impacts of pollution,
:24:59. > :25:03.climate change and fishing. They are Antarctica's most
:25:04. > :25:07.charismatic residents but penguins are also a living barometer of how
:25:08. > :25:10.human activity is shaping the environment in
:25:11. > :25:14.this vast wilderness. And you can see Victoria Gill's full
:25:15. > :25:21.report on that story on Our World on the BBC
:25:22. > :25:28.News Channel this weekend. Time for a look at the weather.
:25:29. > :25:36.Here's Helen Willets. hello. I love this time of year when
:25:37. > :25:39.you see the showers but some stunning skyline so I'm going to
:25:40. > :25:43.start with one of the pictures we had sent in this afternoon over
:25:44. > :25:46.Reading in Berkshire. There have been some stunning skyline is
:25:47. > :25:50.elsewhere as well. We have had some potent showers today once again,
:25:51. > :25:54.some with Hale, thunder and lightning as well. Some better dry
:25:55. > :25:57.spells further west. As we go through the evening and overnight,
:25:58. > :26:01.the showers dampened down and the winds become lighter so it will be a
:26:02. > :26:04.cold night with some frost in the Glens of Scotland and a bit of
:26:05. > :26:08.ground frost elsewhere and perhaps some patchy fog. Towns and cities
:26:09. > :26:12.hold above freezing. A much more promising start to the day on Friday
:26:13. > :26:15.with fewer showers and more sunshine although not for long across
:26:16. > :26:19.Northern Ireland. In March is the next weather system to hear and the
:26:20. > :26:24.western side of Scotland so rather soggy second half of the day.
:26:25. > :26:28.Further east, still mostly dry but fewer showers than today. Not
:26:29. > :26:32.altogether dry but lengthy dry spells with some sunshine and
:26:33. > :26:37.importantly, lighter wind. It has been so blustery recently. It should
:26:38. > :26:41.not feel so chilly out and about tomorrow afternoon. That weather
:26:42. > :26:44.system clears eventually from the East as we go through Friday night
:26:45. > :26:49.into Saturday morning but it does not clear the low pressure. That
:26:50. > :26:54.lingers to the south-west throughout the weekend, which means it will
:26:55. > :26:58.stay rather unsettled and showery. We pick-up Saturday's weather front,
:26:59. > :27:01.still to clear and perhaps some wintering is over the Pennines and
:27:02. > :27:04.Grampians and certainly in the showers following behind, even
:27:05. > :27:08.across the South West Moors, colder air, quite nippy at eight or nine
:27:09. > :27:12.for mid-April but some strong sunny spells in between. Sunday looks like
:27:13. > :27:16.the drier day for most at the moment but we pick-up a Lee easterly wind
:27:17. > :27:22.and still a weather front towards the north and ever so close to the
:27:23. > :27:25.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me.
:27:26. > :27:27.On BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.