:00:00. > :00:00.The invasion of Iraq - a scathing verdict from
:00:07. > :00:12.the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry on Britain's decision to go to war.
:00:13. > :00:15.Military action was based on flawed intelligence,
:00:16. > :00:17.there was no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein,
:00:18. > :00:25.It is an account of an intervention which went badly wrong
:00:26. > :00:32.Many of the families of the British troops who died in the conflict
:00:33. > :00:37.responded with fury as the catalogue of mistakes was revealed.
:00:38. > :00:40.There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware
:00:41. > :00:45.of and his name is Tony Blair. The world's worst terrorist.
:00:46. > :00:49.Tony Blair says he accepts responsibility for the mistakes made
:00:50. > :00:52.- but still feels he took the right decision.
:00:53. > :00:55.I can look, not just the families of this country,
:00:56. > :00:58.but the nation in the eye and say I did not mislead this country.
:00:59. > :01:01.I made the decision in good faith on the information
:01:02. > :01:05.We'll be examining the findings of the Chilcot report,
:01:06. > :01:09.and looking at the continuing impact of the Iraq war - 13 years later.
:01:10. > :01:14.Our other main news tonight: Wales fans prepare for the biggest game
:01:15. > :01:16.in their sporting history, in the semi-finals
:01:17. > :01:54.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:55. > :01:57.The long-awaited Chilcot report has laid out a catalogue of failures
:01:58. > :02:03.The scathing verdict on the invasion in 2003,
:02:04. > :02:05.says the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, posed
:02:06. > :02:09.no "imminent threat", and the military action against him
:02:10. > :02:16.The report says Britain went to war based on "flawed intelligence".
:02:17. > :02:20.Eight months before the invasion, Tony Blair had said to the US
:02:21. > :02:23.President George Bush, "I will be with you, whatever."
:02:24. > :02:28.The inquiry also found that post-war planning was "wholly inadequate".
:02:29. > :02:31.And in the end, the report says, the intervention went badly wrong,
:02:32. > :02:35.This afternoon, Mr Blair said he accepted full responsibility
:02:36. > :02:39.for the mistakes made, but he still believed going to war
:02:40. > :02:52.Our first report tonight is from our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:53. > :03:12.Those who lead us in. War criminal! Those who loved and lost. And the
:03:13. > :03:26.man who took longer than the Iraq war itself to judge what really went
:03:27. > :03:30.wrong. Then, not a sound in the Westminster conference Centre, where
:03:31. > :03:33.the Chilcot evidence was heard, and where the families waited for a
:03:34. > :03:42.final few seconds for the verdict that has taken seven years. We have
:03:43. > :03:47.concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the
:03:48. > :03:54.peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at
:03:55. > :04:01.that time was not a last resort. Polite but clear and devastating.
:04:02. > :04:08.The judgments about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons
:04:09. > :04:13.of mass destruction, WMD, represented -- were presented with a
:04:14. > :04:19.certainty not justified. Despite explicit warnings, the consequences
:04:20. > :04:22.of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for
:04:23. > :04:28.Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate. The government
:04:29. > :04:35.failed to achieve its stated objectives. He found no evidence of
:04:36. > :04:39.deceit, but simply the case for war was wrong. The report says it is now
:04:40. > :04:43.clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence
:04:44. > :04:50.and assessments. They were not challenged and they should have
:04:51. > :04:57.been. And he found a woeful lack of forethought for British forces and
:04:58. > :05:00.Iraq's future. Despite promises that Cabinet would discuss the military
:05:01. > :05:04.contribution, it did not discuss the military options or their
:05:05. > :05:08.implications. Blair did not ensure there was a flexible, realistic and
:05:09. > :05:13.fully re-sourced plan. But word troops sent into an illegal war?
:05:14. > :05:18.Nowhere in the 2.5 million words of this report was a legal judgment
:05:19. > :05:25.made. It was not set up to do so. -- illegal. But the report except the
:05:26. > :05:29.conflict may have broken the law. Circumstances in which it was
:05:30. > :05:36.decided there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from
:05:37. > :05:46.satisfactory. Blair lied! But there was rage outside. War criminal! Some
:05:47. > :05:49.anger will never be abated. The report catalogued the growing
:05:50. > :05:55.determination of Tony Blair and George Bush to take on Saddam
:05:56. > :06:01.Hussein. At the Bush ranch in 2002, a strategy for a UN ultimatum where
:06:02. > :06:05.such -- or Saddam would face the consequences. A couple of months
:06:06. > :06:11.later, in a previously unseen note, Blair wrote, I will be with you,
:06:12. > :06:15.whatever, still urging him to employ the UN. By September, flawed
:06:16. > :06:23.intelligence led to this claim. Which could be activated within 45
:06:24. > :06:27.minutes. But his determination was stronger than diplomacy. By
:06:28. > :06:34.mid-March, the talking was over. The war had begun. Tonight British
:06:35. > :06:38.servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea, their
:06:39. > :06:43.mission, to remove Saddam Hussein from power and disarm Iraq. A
:06:44. > :06:48.toppling of the regime that quickly turned to failure. Hopes of a
:06:49. > :06:52.transition were turned to dust. British forces without the basics
:06:53. > :07:03.they needed, humiliated, according to the enquiry. But Tony Blair, who
:07:04. > :07:08.made the decisions, was full of sorrow and regret, but still thinks
:07:09. > :07:15.he was right. The decision to go to war in Iraq and to remove Saddam
:07:16. > :07:20.Hussein from power, in a coalition of more than 40 countries led by the
:07:21. > :07:24.united states of America, was the hardest, most momentous, most
:07:25. > :07:34.agonising decision I took in my ten years as British Prime Minister. For
:07:35. > :07:43.that decision today, I accept full responsibility. Without exception
:07:44. > :07:46.and without excuse. The intelligence assessments made at the time of
:07:47. > :07:54.going into war turned out to be wrong. The aftermath turned out to
:07:55. > :07:59.be more hostile, protracted and bloody than ever we imagined. The
:08:00. > :08:05.coalition planned for one set of ground facts. And encountered
:08:06. > :08:15.another. And a nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure
:08:16. > :08:26.from the evil of Saddam, became instead a victim to sectarian
:08:27. > :08:34.terrorism. For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret and
:08:35. > :08:39.apology then you may have no or can believe. There were no lies, there
:08:40. > :08:42.was no deceit, there was no deception. But there was a decision
:08:43. > :08:47.and it was a controversial decision, a decision to remove Saddam and a
:08:48. > :08:51.decision to be with America. The point about being Prime Minister is
:08:52. > :08:54.that you are a decision make. You sit in the seat and take the
:08:55. > :08:59.decision. Your obligation to the country is to take it as you believe
:09:00. > :09:02.it to be. This report is a devastating catalogue of the
:09:03. > :09:05.failures of your government and paints a very clear picture of a
:09:06. > :09:11.Prime Minister who was determined to act with the United States almost
:09:12. > :09:16.come what may. Do you understand the sentiments of some of the families
:09:17. > :09:19.who believe you ought not to have said just sorry along time ago, but
:09:20. > :09:25.now you should say some kind of punishment? It is true, I took the
:09:26. > :09:31.decision after 9/11 we should be America's closest ally. Again, you
:09:32. > :09:35.can disagree with that. In the end, what more can I do then say to
:09:36. > :09:40.people, this is why I took the decision I did. If you disagree with
:09:41. > :09:44.me, fine. But please stop saying I was lying around some kind of
:09:45. > :09:52.dishonest underhanded motive. I had the motives I explained.
:09:53. > :09:56.Blair lied! Millions died. Some moments of decision, moments of
:09:57. > :10:00.protest barely last. Some stir anger and anguish and will never be
:10:01. > :10:05.forgotten. The Iraq enquiry may suggest once and for all this was
:10:06. > :10:07.never mission accomplished. Laura Kuenssberg, ABC News, Westminster.
:10:08. > :10:09.Sir John Chilcot says that plans for any future intervention
:10:10. > :10:11.should be calculated, debated and challenged in a way
:10:12. > :10:17.His inquiry report runs to 2.6 million words and
:10:18. > :10:26.Nicholas Witchell has been looking at it in more detail.
:10:27. > :10:29.For month after month, some of the most senior
:10:30. > :10:32.figures in the land, ministers, civil servants, military
:10:33. > :10:35.leaders and intelligence chiefs, came to give evidence.
:10:36. > :10:36.From their testimony and many thousands of documents,
:10:37. > :10:41.Sir John Chilcot has distilled his conclusions.
:10:42. > :10:44.It is on the use of intelligence that he offers some of his most
:10:45. > :10:50.It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed
:10:51. > :10:57.They were not challenged, and they should have been.
:10:58. > :11:01.In the House of Commons on the 24th of September 2002, Mr Blair
:11:02. > :11:03.talked up the credibility of the intelligence
:11:04. > :11:10.It is extensive, detailed, and authoritative.
:11:11. > :11:13.According to Mr Blair, Saddam Hussein could activate his
:11:14. > :11:17.chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.
:11:18. > :11:24.The judgments about Iraq's capabilities in a statement
:11:25. > :11:27.and in the dossier published the same day were presented
:11:28. > :11:34.with a certainty that was not justifiable.
:11:35. > :11:38.Not only was intelligence flawed, so too with the discussions
:11:39. > :11:43.The Attorney General at the time was Lord Peter Goldsmith,
:11:44. > :11:46.but it is clear from the report that time and again, the Cabinet
:11:47. > :11:49.was denied a chance to hear his detailed arguments.
:11:50. > :11:56.One such an occasion was a matter of weeks before the invasion began.
:11:57. > :11:59.And so to the chaos of post-invasion planning and another
:12:00. > :12:06.According to the report Mr Blair 's government was warned explicitly
:12:07. > :12:08.of the risk that an invasion would destabilise Iraq and leave
:12:09. > :12:11.And as British forces faced the growing Iraqi insurrection,
:12:12. > :12:17.the government failed to equip them properly.
:12:18. > :12:21.We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding
:12:22. > :12:26.to the threat from improvised explosive devices and that delays
:12:27. > :12:30.in providing adequate medium weight protective patrol vehicles should
:12:31. > :12:38.Britain's invasion of Iraq has been minutely scrutinised.
:12:39. > :12:41.Sir John Chilcot has found that it was an unwarranted invasion,
:12:42. > :12:44.based on flawed intelligence, with insufficient discussion
:12:45. > :12:49.It was an intervention which he said had caused anguish and suffering
:12:50. > :12:58.The evidence is there for all to see, it is an account
:12:59. > :13:02.of an intervention which went badly wrong.
:13:03. > :13:10.Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, at the Iraq enquiry.
:13:11. > :13:14.More than 150,000 people died in Iraq during the war,
:13:15. > :13:17.and in the years that followed - among them more than
:13:18. > :13:21.For years many of their families had campaigned for an inquiry
:13:22. > :13:24.so they could finally find out the truth about why Britain
:13:25. > :13:27.Fergal Keane reports now on the families' reaction
:13:28. > :13:43.The bereaved have injured seven years of painful waiting and hoping
:13:44. > :13:48.for truth. Debbie Albright and her son were on their way to hear Sir
:13:49. > :13:54.John Chilcot speak. Steven all but, husband and father, was killed in
:13:55. > :14:01.Iraq in 2003. In the last few days, the trauma has returned. It has
:14:02. > :14:07.brought a lot of memories back. I dreamt I saw Stevie May shop. What
:14:08. > :14:13.do you want from this report? I am just hoping we find out why we went
:14:14. > :14:18.in and why we went in so quickly as well. In the quiet of nearby
:14:19. > :14:23.Westminster Abbey, former SAS man John Brown was remembering his son,
:14:24. > :14:28.Nick, also an SAS trooper. He wanted answers about the justification for
:14:29. > :14:33.going to war. We want to know what the enquiry says about the entry,
:14:34. > :14:37.the reasons to go to war. That is where the key questions are. I know
:14:38. > :14:49.they did not have an exit strategy. A the families came here looking for
:14:50. > :14:53.the truth that named names and apportioned blame. Well, they've now
:14:54. > :14:56.had a chance to consider the report's main findings. The families
:14:57. > :15:00.gathered here trust that we speak with honour and honesty. The
:15:01. > :15:03.families say they will study the conclusions and decide whether to
:15:04. > :15:09.launch legal action against Tony Blair. There were raw emotions. I'm
:15:10. > :15:14.going back to that time when I learned that my brother had been
:15:15. > :15:18.killed and there is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to
:15:19. > :15:23.be aware of and his name is Tony Blair. The world's worst terrorist.
:15:24. > :15:29.But there was a welcome for the reports findings from the families.
:15:30. > :15:37.What is your reaction to what you heard? Amazed, I didn't expect it to
:15:38. > :15:41.be as good an outcome, really. I thought we would have a bit of cover
:15:42. > :15:46.up or something. Sir John Chilcot has done us a good job. I'm really,
:15:47. > :15:51.really pleased with the outcome. It's good news but at the same time
:15:52. > :15:54.it's bad news as well because I think if Tony Blair was on the Prime
:15:55. > :15:59.Minister at the time, I think my dad could still have been here today.
:16:00. > :16:08.The former SAS man John Brown watched Tony Blair's response this
:16:09. > :16:15.afternoon. For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret and
:16:16. > :16:25.apology. Tony Blair has just apologised. What does that mean to
:16:26. > :16:31.you? It's a joke. He is putting on an act. The Chilcot report has not
:16:32. > :16:34.given the families all the answers they sought, but it has restored
:16:35. > :16:37.some measure of their faith in British public life.
:16:38. > :16:42.The violence which erupted in Iraq in 2003 has continued to this day.
:16:43. > :16:44.And Sir John Chilcot underlined the suffering of the Iraqi people,
:16:45. > :16:46.including a million forced from their homes,
:16:47. > :16:50.As our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Baghdad,
:16:51. > :16:59.the war sent shockwaves across the entire region.
:17:00. > :17:02.The people of Baghdad and the rest of Iraq are still living and dying
:17:03. > :17:09.with the consequences of the 2003 invasion.
:17:10. > :17:12.Security is being beefed up yet again after the bomb that killed
:17:13. > :17:22.But the fear of a sudden random death is never far away.
:17:23. > :17:27.When the US forces reached Baghdad in April 2003, pictures of them
:17:28. > :17:29.helping Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein went
:17:30. > :17:43.Hadi Al Jabari started knocking lumps out of the plinth to celebrate
:17:44. > :17:47.Now like many Iraqis, he's nostalgic for the brutal
:17:48. > :17:52.TRANSLATION: Saddam has gone and we now have 1000 Saddams.
:17:53. > :17:55.If Tony Blair was here this morning, what would you say to him?
:17:56. > :17:57.TRANSLATION: I would say to him, you are a criminal.
:17:58. > :18:06.Less than an hour's drive from Baghdad, these are Iraqi Shia
:18:07. > :18:09.militiamen, trained and equipped by Iran,
:18:10. > :18:18.Chilcot says the British Government ignored a warning that removing
:18:19. > :18:27.Saddam would offer Iran an opening in Iraq.
:18:28. > :18:30.Captured IS positions seemed to have been prepared by trained soldiers,
:18:31. > :18:38.IS commanders include former Iraqi officers who joined
:18:39. > :18:41.the jihadists when the US and Britain dissolved the Iraqi army.
:18:42. > :18:44.Not all of the chaos, violence and war in the Middle East
:18:45. > :18:47.at the moment can be traced back to the invasion of Iraq in 2003,
:18:48. > :18:55.It was like throwing a great big rock into a pond,
:18:56. > :18:58.it sent out shock waves, geopolitical, religious,
:18:59. > :19:08.And 13 years later, they're still crashing around the region.
:19:09. > :19:11.Warnings about internal strife, regional instability and the rise
:19:12. > :19:16.of jihadists were also ignored by Number Ten, says Chilcot.
:19:17. > :19:25.Iraq's sectarian violence spread to Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere.
:19:26. > :19:30.As leaders used and abused Shia Sunni fears to fight for power.
:19:31. > :19:34.Jihadists were on the attack before the invasion.
:19:35. > :19:40.But Iraq after 2003 offered Al-Qaeda haven and launch pad that Islamic
:19:41. > :19:46.Small numbers of British troops who we filmed on condition
:19:47. > :19:54.At this base, Australians and New Zealanders
:19:55. > :20:01.It is a long way from what Chilcot caused the humiliating
:20:02. > :20:04.end of an intervention that went badly wrong,
:20:05. > :20:19.But first, our Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera,
:20:20. > :20:24.is at MI6 headquarters in central London.
:20:25. > :20:31.How damaging is this reporter for the intelligence services? Well,
:20:32. > :20:36.there was a colossal intelligence failure when it came to Iraq. We
:20:37. > :20:39.knew that already but what we got from the Chilcot enquiry was really
:20:40. > :20:45.stunning new details about the nature of that failure. Let me give
:20:46. > :20:50.you one example. In September 2002, just as the dossier was being drawn
:20:51. > :20:55.up, MI6 here thought they had a new agent who was providing intelligence
:20:56. > :20:59.on Iraq chemical and biological weapons who promised them more
:21:00. > :21:05.details in the near future. And yet, soon suspicion emerged about that
:21:06. > :21:09.agent and, in fact, one person even in government suggested that it
:21:10. > :21:11.looked odd that this agent Michael Bost ascription is of chemical
:21:12. > :21:16.weapons were nothing like real chemical weapons but instead looked
:21:17. > :21:20.identical to the descriptions in Hollywood films, in other words that
:21:21. > :21:24.agent was a fabricator and he wasn't the only one making up the
:21:25. > :21:30.intelligence on Iraq 's WMD. Not the only failure but a challenge to the
:21:31. > :21:34.assumptions of intelligence even when the inspectors found nothing
:21:35. > :21:37.and to challenge the government, Tony Blair, when he said the
:21:38. > :21:40.intelligence was beyond doubtful well, it wasn't. All of that
:21:41. > :21:45.together has left a damning legacy of trust in government as well as
:21:46. > :21:49.spies. Gordon, thank you. John Simpson, this investigation has
:21:50. > :21:55.taken years to complete. How long lasting with impact be? Far more
:21:56. > :22:01.than seven years it took. I think we looking at the decades. Let's look
:22:02. > :22:08.at the individual elements of it. I think you've got to go back to 1956,
:22:09. > :22:12.the Suez crisis, which brought Britain's history as a colonial
:22:13. > :22:18.power effectively to an end. To see anything comparing all. Iraq, I go
:22:19. > :22:26.there a lot. As often as I possibly can. It is a damaged, deeply, deeply
:22:27. > :22:30.damaged society, as we saw in Jeremy's piece. The damage goes
:22:31. > :22:35.right through, it's not going to recover quickly. The United States,
:22:36. > :22:40.well, it got involved because after 911 it wanted to show it was still
:22:41. > :22:44.the dominant military power so it took on a country which looked
:22:45. > :22:50.strong but actually wasn't. Iraq. And yet, within a few years, the
:22:51. > :22:56.Americans were having to say, we can't fight two medium-sized wars at
:22:57. > :23:00.the same time. Britain will never be quite as close to the USA again.
:23:01. > :23:03.Certainly we won't just automatically follow what they do.
:23:04. > :23:11.And I think you can say there is a line to be drawn from 2003 and the
:23:12. > :23:14.invasion right through to a couple of weeks ago, that cynicism about
:23:15. > :23:19.politics in this country, I think fed into the whole business of the
:23:20. > :23:24.EU referendum. John Simpson, thank you. Some other news for you now.
:23:25. > :23:26.The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is back in prison
:23:27. > :23:30.tonight after he was sentenced to six years in jail for the murder
:23:31. > :23:33.A court overturned his original conviction for manslaughter last
:23:34. > :23:35.year, instead finding him guilty of murder.
:23:36. > :23:37.Pistorius shot Ms Steenkamp four times through a locked
:23:38. > :23:44.He said he had mistaken her for an intruder.
:23:45. > :23:46.The pound fell to a new 31-year low against the dollar today
:23:47. > :23:49.amid continuing concerns about Britain's economy
:23:50. > :23:52.following the vote to leave the European Union.
:23:53. > :23:57.Sterling slumped below $1.28 for the first time since 1985 before
:23:58. > :24:01.There were also falls across many of Europe's
:24:02. > :24:10.It's the biggest game in their history.
:24:11. > :24:12.Wales take on Portugal in the semifinals of
:24:13. > :24:15.More than half the population of Wales are expected
:24:16. > :24:21.to watch the match in Lyon as Hywel Griffith reports.
:24:22. > :24:28.With a roar that fills the streets of Leon, Wales is on an all-time
:24:29. > :24:36.high. So new to success, so hungry for more. Very confident. He is very
:24:37. > :24:39.confident today. I'm cautiously optimistic. Having never reached the
:24:40. > :24:46.semifinal before, history has already been made. Now thoughts on
:24:47. > :24:50.the future. It's not just about now, we want to qualify for the next
:24:51. > :24:54.World Cup and the next major tournament after that, but also
:24:55. > :24:57.inspire younger kids. We want to get more people playing football in
:24:58. > :25:01.Wales which ultimately will be better players, more players to
:25:02. > :25:06.choose from. For this team, it's been a journey to test emotions.
:25:07. > :25:10.Many made their debuts in former manager Gary speed. His death formed
:25:11. > :25:13.a bond which has proved a unbreakable. Gary 's father will be
:25:14. > :25:23.at tonight 's game. Very emotional, it is. He is watching, I'm sure he
:25:24. > :25:30.is, up there watching. It's fantastic, brilliant. You are the
:25:31. > :25:34.proud dad, watching? Are very proud dad, yeah. Stronger together has
:25:35. > :25:39.been Wales' motto, happily mixing with the fans of every opposing
:25:40. > :25:43.team. Somewhere along this journey things have changed for Welsh
:25:44. > :25:47.supporters after decades of dealing with defeat. Now everyone seems to
:25:48. > :25:50.believe maybe this is not the end of the line, maybe they could go all
:25:51. > :25:50.the way to the final in Paris on Sunday.
:25:51. > :25:56.CHEERING Our correspondent Sian Lloyd
:25:57. > :26:08.is with fans in Cardiff. What a night ahead. Absolutely,
:26:09. > :26:12.Sophie, because the fans at home has been following and savouring Wales'
:26:13. > :26:16.journey every step of the way and the atmosphere here in Cardiff
:26:17. > :26:21.really building this evening. The principality Stadium, home of Welsh
:26:22. > :26:25.rugby, has been transformed into a football fan zone and the gates will
:26:26. > :26:30.be opening very, very soon. There are fans zones set up up and down
:26:31. > :26:36.the country. Yesterday, 20,000 tickets were released for here and
:26:37. > :26:41.they were snapped up within 90 minutes. 7500 were released today
:26:42. > :26:45.and they went in half an hour. From inside the stadium denied, and of
:26:46. > :26:50.course in France, from the Welsh fans, we can expect some fantastic
:26:51. > :26:54.singing, cheering and perhaps some nail-biting come to, because this
:26:55. > :26:58.really is a pinch me territory for Wales. It is a story would have
:26:59. > :26:59.captured the imagination of the nation and one that these fans hope
:27:00. > :27:03.won't end tonight. Thank you. Time for a look at the weather
:27:04. > :27:14.with Matt Taylor. Thanks, soapy. I think the fans have
:27:15. > :27:18.got the best deal in France. 27 degrees, not doing too badly across
:27:19. > :27:23.southern parts of the UK. It's been a different story north and west.
:27:24. > :27:27.The cloud has been thickening up and rather grey and gloomy skies. At
:27:28. > :27:30.least the rain has held for many in northern England so far but further
:27:31. > :27:34.north, across Scotland, the rain has been coming down through much of
:27:35. > :27:39.this afternoon. A lot of it has eased off for the time being.
:27:40. > :27:43.Northern Ireland, damp evening. Wet elsewhere through Scotland and
:27:44. > :27:47.Northern Ireland. Rain spreading to the Shetland Islands after a lovely
:27:48. > :27:50.day in the sunshine. Northern England, rain across northern and
:27:51. > :27:55.western parts of Wales, but because the wind is coming from the
:27:56. > :27:58.south-west, unlike last night, a good deal milder, temperatures
:27:59. > :28:02.holding in the mid teens. Expect plenty of cloud in northern England,
:28:03. > :28:07.the North Midlands and Wales through the day. Patchy drizzle on and off.
:28:08. > :28:11.Turning heavier through the south-west later. A wet start in
:28:12. > :28:14.Scotland, turning to blustery showers. Sunshine across Northern
:28:15. > :28:20.Ireland, and temperatures in eastern areas up to around the low 20s.
:28:21. > :28:25.22-23 in the south-east of England. Sunshine breaking through the cloud
:28:26. > :28:30.now and again. As they go through Thursday night into Friday, a great
:28:31. > :28:34.start. Occasional rain and drizzle through the day. For those heading
:28:35. > :28:37.to Wimbledon, bear that in mind. Showers starting to these and the
:28:38. > :28:42.afternoon should be dry and brighter. Once the sun is out,
:28:43. > :28:45.feeling quite pleasant. The next batch of rain will then take it into
:28:46. > :28:51.the next part of the weekend. For some of you, this low-pressure over
:28:52. > :28:54.my shoulder coming in, will bring a windy start of the weekend as well.
:28:55. > :28:58.Thank you.