:00:07. > :00:10.She contracted ebola and survived, now the Scottish nurse
:00:11. > :00:14.Pauline Cafferkey has been cleared of professional misconduct.
:00:15. > :00:17.She'd been accused of not reporting she had a raised temperature,
:00:18. > :00:21.on her return to the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014.
:00:22. > :00:24.Pauline has been motivated by a genuine desire to help other
:00:25. > :00:28.people, even if this meant putting her own life at risk.
:00:29. > :00:32.She would never have knowingly put anyone in danger.
:00:33. > :00:42.Now questions have been raised about screening procedures
:00:43. > :00:45.described as disorganised and chaotic, when Ms Cafferkey
:00:46. > :00:49.But the Nursing and Midwifery Council has been defending it's
:00:50. > :00:51.decision to bring the case, we'll have the latest.
:00:52. > :00:57.MPs strongly attack Britain's intervention in Libya five years
:00:58. > :00:59.ago, saying it was an "opportunist policy of regime change"
:01:00. > :01:04.that helped the rise of so called Islamic State.
:01:05. > :01:05.Lucky for some, it's thirteen Paralympic golds
:01:06. > :01:08.in all now Dame Sarah Storey, victorious once again in Rio.
:01:09. > :01:14.Great Britain's now won more medals than at London 2012.
:01:15. > :01:17.And, it'll be the most accurate guide of the night sky ever made.
:01:18. > :01:23.A complete map of the Milky Way, complete with one billion stars.
:01:24. > :01:26.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Leicester
:01:27. > :01:30.make their Champions League debut tonight, but their manager
:01:31. > :01:53.Claudio Ranieri says it's impossible for them to win the competiton.
:01:54. > :01:58.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:59. > :02:01.A nurse who almost died from ebola after volunteering in Sierra Leone,
:02:02. > :02:06.Pauline Cafferkey was accused of failing to declare
:02:07. > :02:08.she had a high temperature, on arrival at Heathrow Airport
:02:09. > :02:14.She denied the allegation before the Nursing and Midwifery Council
:02:15. > :02:16.in Edinburgh, and said in a statement she was "relieved"
:02:17. > :02:22.During the hearing it was suggested airport screening of those returning
:02:23. > :02:23.from ebola-hit countries was "disorganised and chaotic."
:02:24. > :02:31.Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports from Edinburgh.
:02:32. > :02:37.It's almost two years since Pauline Cafferkey Court ebola and almost
:02:38. > :02:41.died from it. For much of the time since she's been fighting to recover
:02:42. > :02:46.from ill health and fighting to clear her name. Today, finally,
:02:47. > :02:50.relief that the disciplinary process has come to an end. Pauline has been
:02:51. > :02:56.motivated by a genuine desire to help other people even if this meant
:02:57. > :03:01.putting her own life at risk. She would never have knowingly put
:03:02. > :03:05.anybody in danger. The Pennetta see disciplinary process has been
:03:06. > :03:10.upsetting for Pauline. However, she is delighted the panel has made the
:03:11. > :03:12.decision she has no case to answer. It had been claimed Pauline
:03:13. > :03:18.Cafferkey put the public at risk when she allowed an incorrect
:03:19. > :03:22.temperature to be recorded at Heathrow. The screening process
:03:23. > :03:28.demonstrated here which was described in the misconduct hearing
:03:29. > :03:32.as chaotic and disorganised. It was run by the very organisation, Public
:03:33. > :03:37.Health England, who complained about the behaviour of the Scottish nurse.
:03:38. > :03:42.A woman whose judgment was impaired, say experts, because she was in the
:03:43. > :03:48.early stages of ebola. The body governing nursing said they had no
:03:49. > :03:53.alternative after the complaint had been made. This was a highly unusual
:03:54. > :03:58.set of circumstances, and it was incumbent upon us to do a proper
:03:59. > :04:03.investigation and allow the panel to decide the best outcome, which is
:04:04. > :04:06.what they've done today. Pauline Cafferkey was treated in isolation
:04:07. > :04:11.three times for a disease sheep caught while trying to help others.
:04:12. > :04:17.And she has talked of the additional anguish caused by the misconduct
:04:18. > :04:21.allegations. Speaking after her first hospitalisation, she described
:04:22. > :04:26.how slow her recovery has been. I do get joint pains, I have done for
:04:27. > :04:35.several months. And my hair fell out. You just don't know, long-term,
:04:36. > :04:37.either. One-man among her former patients in Sierra Leone says he's
:04:38. > :04:46.grateful for everything Pauline Cafferkey did to save her life. We
:04:47. > :04:52.listened to her and her colleagues and because of that we survived.
:04:53. > :04:57.Pauline Cafferkey has sacrificed much but with her reputation finally
:04:58. > :04:58.cleared, all she wants to do now is continue helping others through
:04:59. > :05:05.working as a nurse. Public Health England this evening
:05:06. > :05:09.responded to comments made about their role in this process in a
:05:10. > :05:12.statement. They said that the ebola outbreak in West Africa was
:05:13. > :05:15.unprecedented and that they were hugely grateful to all volunteers
:05:16. > :05:20.who contributed at great personal risk. They said they supported the
:05:21. > :05:24.judgment that the panel he made today and that they wish Pauline
:05:25. > :05:27.Cafferkey well with her ongoing recovery and her future.
:05:28. > :05:31.A committee of MPs has strongly criticised Britain's military
:05:32. > :05:33.intervention in Libya in 2011, accusing David Cameron of pursuing
:05:34. > :05:37.an "opportunist policy of regime change," in removing Colonel
:05:38. > :05:43.The Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the intervention,
:05:44. > :05:46.and the lack of a coherent strategy, left Libya in chaos
:05:47. > :05:49.and gave a foothold to so-called Islamic State.
:05:50. > :05:51.But ministers and officials involved in the decision have
:05:52. > :05:59.defended the intervention, as James Landale reports.
:06:00. > :06:07.Libya is an unstable country. A place where militias compete for
:06:08. > :06:12.power. Where the Islamic State group has a foothold. Where migrants pour
:06:13. > :06:17.across unprotected borders en route for the sea. It is a chaotic picture
:06:18. > :06:23.which, MPs say, is the result of David Cameron Rose decision five
:06:24. > :06:27.years ago to sending warplanes to support rebels fighting against
:06:28. > :06:31.Colonel Gaddafi. We were not prepared for the consequences of a
:06:32. > :06:36.regime change in Libya. And all the analysis being done here was based
:06:37. > :06:41.on a frankly limited understanding of what the situation in Libya was.
:06:42. > :06:44.The aim of the intervention was to protect people living here in
:06:45. > :06:51.Benghazi who were threatened by Gaddafi's forces. The foreigners can
:06:52. > :06:55.fit -- the Foreign Affairs Committee says the case was overstated. As
:06:56. > :06:58.fighting continued over the summer, the aim of the operation changed
:06:59. > :07:06.from protect King civilians to getting rid of Gaddafi. The conflict
:07:07. > :07:11.he said this was an opportunist policy of regime change. In
:07:12. > :07:15.particular MPs say more should have been done to use Tony Blair's
:07:16. > :07:21.contacts to see if a political deal was possible which could have left
:07:22. > :07:24.Gaddafi in power. Is it better to allow a dictator who may be
:07:25. > :07:28.appropriate to the country and to the times in which we are living to
:07:29. > :07:35.remain in power to ensure stability rather than risk the chaos of an
:07:36. > :07:40.unstable country such as Libya? In September 2011 after the Gaddafi
:07:41. > :07:43.regime had fallen, Mr Cameron and the then French president visited
:07:44. > :07:48.Libya and told the people they had shown the courage of Lions. Your
:07:49. > :07:51.friends in Britain and in France will stand with you as you build
:07:52. > :07:55.your democracy and build your country for the future. And yet the
:07:56. > :08:00.Foreign Affairs Committee says that this did not happen and David
:08:01. > :08:04.Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a
:08:05. > :08:07.coherent Libya strategy. Diplomats and ministers involved in the
:08:08. > :08:13.decision to intervene said it was backed by MPs and the United
:08:14. > :08:18.Nations. And was responding to a real fight. It wasn't clear that
:08:19. > :08:22.leaving Gaddafi in place would have ensured a better outcome. In Iraq we
:08:23. > :08:26.went in with major forces, it did not turn out well. In Syria we chose
:08:27. > :08:33.not to get involved, that also catastrophic. In Libya we went in in
:08:34. > :08:37.a targeted weight in support. The situation is bad but I wouldn't rule
:08:38. > :08:40.out that in five years the various parties will have got together and
:08:41. > :08:45.began to build something. The situation on the ground makes such
:08:46. > :08:47.optimism Roef. In Libya politics still comes second to violence.
:08:48. > :08:50.The President of the European Commission says the EU
:08:51. > :08:52.is in crisis, but not at risk, as a result of Brexit.
:08:53. > :08:55.In his State of the Union speech, Jean Claude Juncker,
:08:56. > :08:57.warned of the dangers of what he called "galloping
:08:58. > :08:59.populism" in Europe, and condemned attacks on migrants
:09:00. > :09:02.in the UK, in the wake of the vote to leave the EU.
:09:03. > :09:09.Here's our Europe Editor, Katya Adler.
:09:10. > :09:16.Is this the man who can save the EU? His annual State of the union speech
:09:17. > :09:25.is designed to be visionary, full of goals and ideals. But this year the
:09:26. > :09:29.main EU a is survival. TRANSLATION: All too often we see splits and
:09:30. > :09:37.disagreement instead of European union, leaving the door open for
:09:38. > :09:42.galloping populism. He said the EU was, to a degree, in a stench of
:09:43. > :09:47.crisis. The EU is crawling with crises. Think migration, Eurozone
:09:48. > :09:53.wobbles and cross-border terror. The UK's vote to leave is probably the
:09:54. > :09:57.biggest body blow yet. But Brexit was given little mention today by Mr
:09:58. > :10:04.Jonker. His intended message, we'll be fine without you. The European
:10:05. > :10:10.Parliament's Brexit negotiator put this point even more forcefully.
:10:11. > :10:13.Stop the politics of division and choose this opportunity not to kill
:10:14. > :10:20.Europe as some of you want, but to reinvent Europe's. When the EU and
:10:21. > :10:23.UK do thrash out their new relationship, Mr Juncker insisted
:10:24. > :10:30.European principles were not up for negotiation. The UK would not get
:10:31. > :10:37.good access to the European single market, he said, if it imposed entry
:10:38. > :10:43.limits on EU workers. Q Nigel Farage. The two men are famous here
:10:44. > :10:51.for their testy relationship. If you stick to the dogma of saying that
:10:52. > :10:54.for tariff free access, reciprocal tariff free access to the single
:10:55. > :11:00.market, we must retain the free movement of people, then you will
:11:01. > :11:04.inevitably drive us towards no Deal. Jean-Claude Juncker's state of the
:11:05. > :11:09.union speech today was supposed to mark new, invigorated EU beginnings
:11:10. > :11:13.following Britain's vote to leave. Instead it highlighted the EU's
:11:14. > :11:17.biggest headaches. No start date and a lack of clarity surrounding Brexit
:11:18. > :11:21.on the one hand, and on the other a real fear inside the EU Parliament
:11:22. > :11:28.that voters out there across Europe no longer trust or believe in the
:11:29. > :11:32.EU. But perhaps that's also part of a bigger process. The problem is the
:11:33. > :11:36.trust of ordinary citizens. How do you change that? Ordinary citizens
:11:37. > :11:42.working hard and playing by the rules don't feel respected. Not only
:11:43. > :11:45.by the European Union. This is a worldwide phenomenon on. Look to the
:11:46. > :11:50.election campaign in the United States. Bustles bureaucrats,
:11:51. > :11:55.bankers, politicians from traditional parties, growing numbers
:11:56. > :11:59.distrust what they see as a self-serving elite. EU needs reform
:12:00. > :12:00.to appear relevant but there is little agreement in these corridors
:12:01. > :12:05.as to how. The latest unemployment figures,
:12:06. > :12:07.which include the first month after the Brexit vote,
:12:08. > :12:09.show a continuing improvement The number of people
:12:10. > :12:14.unemployed in the three months to July was down by
:12:15. > :12:16.39,000 to 1.63 million. That's an unemployment rate of 4.9%,
:12:17. > :12:19.more than half a percentage point With me now is our Economics
:12:20. > :12:29.Editor, Kamal Ahmed. Kamal, more data which seems to show
:12:30. > :12:39.that post Brexit the I think a lot of people who
:12:40. > :12:44.predicted an economic calamity after the vote to leave the European Union
:12:45. > :12:47.have had to revise those forecasts. As you say, employment figures today
:12:48. > :12:53.show that there is still some pretty good momentum in the UK economy.
:12:54. > :12:57.Why? There's a pretty simple fact here. Nothing has actually changed
:12:58. > :13:02.yet. We are still members of the European Union. Brexit hasn't
:13:03. > :13:06.happened. We are members of the single market. With a weaker
:13:07. > :13:10.currency, which means our exports are more competitive, which has
:13:11. > :13:14.meant an economic boost. Secondly, the Bank of England has cut interest
:13:15. > :13:20.rates which many economists did not model for before the referendum. So
:13:21. > :13:24.that is good for the UK economy and confidence. I would urge some
:13:25. > :13:30.caution. The data post-referendum is still sparse, these employment
:13:31. > :13:33.figures only have five weeks post-June one, and there is evidence
:13:34. > :13:36.of inflationary pressure is growing in the economy which could mean
:13:37. > :13:42.higher prices for consumers, because we are paying more for food and fuel
:13:43. > :13:46.that we import. We are waiting to see the direction of travel from the
:13:47. > :13:52.government over tax and spending, will they back the Hinkley power
:13:53. > :13:56.station? A new runway? Once we see that, investors will decide whether
:13:57. > :13:57.to invest in the UK and keep those employment numbers as strong as we
:13:58. > :13:59.have seen today. Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse
:14:00. > :14:03.who almost died of Ebola, has been cleared of
:14:04. > :14:05.professional misconduct. the difficulties facing
:14:06. > :14:32.young people leaving care. Cyclist Dame Sarah Storey has
:14:33. > :14:36.won her 13th Paralympic gold as Great Britain passed
:14:37. > :14:39.the total haul of gold medals There's also been success elsewhere
:14:40. > :14:44.on the track and in the pool. So with four days left,
:14:45. > :14:47.Great Britain has 38 golds, beating the 34 in London 2012 -
:14:48. > :14:50.remembering though that Russia For all of the day's
:14:51. > :15:04.action, here's Andy Swiss. It was a day when Britain raced past
:15:05. > :15:09.yet another milestone. On the streets of Rio, Dame Sarah Storey
:15:10. > :15:14.winning the team's 35th gold medal here, more than they won at the
:15:15. > :15:18.whole of London 2012. Having reached that landmark, they roared on
:15:19. > :15:24.through. Kadeena Cox hurtled into history in the 400 metres. Cox, who
:15:25. > :15:30.has multiple sclerosis, had already won a gold in cycling. Now she is
:15:31. > :15:34.the first Briton to win two titles in two sports at the same games for
:15:35. > :15:41.more than 30 years. There was still more to come for a. Karen Darke took
:15:42. > :15:46.gold in the hands cycling, despite her chain falling off. Sophie Wells
:15:47. > :15:52.conjured a title winning performance in the dressage. But the entire
:15:53. > :15:57.team, having beaten the London tally, this was a day to celebrate.
:15:58. > :16:02.Nobody was more disappointed than the athletes with only winning 34
:16:03. > :16:06.medals in London. We thought it was an underperformance. Our athletes
:16:07. > :16:11.have performed fantastically in Rio. 50% of medals have been gold. It has
:16:12. > :16:15.been sensational. Another golden night had set the tone, not least
:16:16. > :16:20.for a Libby Clegg, the sprinter who is visually impaired, running her
:16:21. > :16:24.second title with guide runner Chris Clarke in the 200 metres. The pair
:16:25. > :16:32.only training together six months ago. On and off the track, theirs is
:16:33. > :16:42.a special chemistry. He is a bit of a joke as well. The first guiding
:16:43. > :16:50.session we did, we just ran pretty much in sync. You Pretty much
:16:51. > :16:56.happened ready. In the pool, that same spirit of success. Stephanie
:16:57. > :17:00.Millward with a kiss for her mum as, at 34, she finally ended her long
:17:01. > :17:07.wait for a Paralympic title. And in the splash and dash of the 50 metres
:17:08. > :17:09.freestyle, Matt Wylie had the touch. Another victory, and other gold,
:17:10. > :17:19.another moment for the family album. Yes, it has been another great day
:17:20. > :17:26.for the British team. Their target now is to beat their overall medal
:17:27. > :17:31.tally from London 2012. They won 120 medals in London. They have got 80
:17:32. > :17:36.year. With four days remaining, they will be full of confidence. Andy
:17:37. > :17:40.Swiss on the continuing success for Great Britain in Rio.
:17:41. > :17:43.The United Nations says it still hasn't been able
:17:44. > :17:45.to deliver vital humanitarian aid to besieged areas of Syria,
:17:46. > :17:48.Later today, America and Russia, will deliver their assessment
:17:49. > :17:51.of the first 48 hours of the truce, and announce
:17:52. > :17:55.The northern city of Aleppo has been at the centre of fierce fighting,
:17:56. > :17:57.between government troops who hold the west, and rebels controlling
:17:58. > :18:01.Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been affected
:18:02. > :18:06.Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen,
:18:07. > :18:09.is in Aleppo, and sent us this report from the suburb of Bedi Zaid.
:18:10. > :18:13.Now this place is Bedi Zaid, to the west of Aleppo.
:18:14. > :18:17.And it has been absolutely pulverised.
:18:18. > :18:19.I suspect a lot of this must have been
:18:20. > :18:27.Now rebels, the Army is telling me, held this place until July of this
:18:28. > :18:34.year. And then, in what was a huge display of firepower, they were
:18:35. > :18:39.From the government's point of view, this was an important moment,
:18:40. > :18:42.because from this area, rebels were able to fire down into
:18:43. > :18:48.You can only guess what happened to people
:18:49. > :18:51.who originally lived in these houses.
:18:52. > :18:53.The remains of the school over there.
:18:54. > :19:04.I suppose they've swelled the numbers who have lost their
:19:05. > :19:11.Half the pre-war population of Syria is either refugees
:19:12. > :19:16.outside the country, or displaced within it.
:19:17. > :19:19.Now the Middle East is in the process of
:19:20. > :19:26.It is the result of a century of misrule, disastrous foreign
:19:27. > :19:31.interventions, stagnation and repression, and this war is part of
:19:32. > :19:38.all of that. No wonder it is so hard to stop.
:19:39. > :19:46.And you can see Jeremy's full report from the city
:19:47. > :19:52.Thousands of young people in England are being set up to fail,
:19:53. > :19:56.because councils aren't preparing them for life after care.
:19:57. > :19:59.That's the stark warning from the Children's Society, which says
:20:00. > :20:02.many vulnerable teenagers end up suffering debt and homelessness
:20:03. > :20:05.once they leave care system at the age of 18.
:20:06. > :20:08.Between 2013 and 2015, more than 3,000 care leavers,
:20:09. > :20:13.had their benefits stopped or reduced.
:20:14. > :20:16.They're also three times more likely to lose benefits or have them
:20:17. > :20:24.on the difficulties facing so many young people.
:20:25. > :20:27.Leaving home and stepping out into the world today can be tough
:20:28. > :20:32.But for teenagers who have been in care, it can trigger a
:20:33. > :20:37.I've been homeless basically since I left care.
:20:38. > :20:45.You have to fend for yourself, basically, and it's really hard.
:20:46. > :20:49.For people like Michael, a child of the care system, a young
:20:50. > :20:56.man already with a history of homelessness, addiction and prison.
:20:57. > :20:59.I just felt like that was me, brush him out of the way -
:21:00. > :21:03.it's OK, it's only Michael. Do you know what I'm saying, like?
:21:04. > :21:10.I don't really have friends. I'm always on my own.
:21:11. > :21:16.The Lifeshare charity are doing all they can
:21:17. > :21:23.Young people who leave care are supposed to get council support.
:21:24. > :21:28.But here they know that that system is struggling.
:21:29. > :21:31.Young people can get very frustrated because they're
:21:32. > :21:34.ringing up to speak to the care workers, but unfortunately a care
:21:35. > :21:37.worker might have 35 other young people on their books, so hasn't got
:21:38. > :21:40.that time to give perhaps that emotional support the young person
:21:41. > :21:48.# Being in care is like the dumping ground...
:21:49. > :21:51.Callum has been out of care for two years.
:21:52. > :21:54.# I started off as zero, but look at me now...
:21:55. > :21:58.Now he's got his music, his girlfriend and his daughter.
:21:59. > :22:01.The Children's Society says care leavers are three times
:22:02. > :22:05.more likely to have their benefits stopped or sanctioned than other
:22:06. > :22:09.people of the same age. Callum was one of them.
:22:10. > :22:12.When my girlfriend were pregnant, we got sanctioned.
:22:13. > :22:14.Some nights I would literally sit there and make sure
:22:15. > :22:17.that she had a meal, even if I didn't eat,
:22:18. > :22:21.because I know she needed it more than me because she was not
:22:22. > :22:23.only feeding herself, she was feeding my daughter.
:22:24. > :22:25.Parents these days know that kids need support well after
:22:26. > :22:30.But for those coming out of care, there is no more mum
:22:31. > :22:34.or dad to help with those basic life skills.
:22:35. > :22:36.Like using the washing machine, preparing a meal or
:22:37. > :22:42.The local authorities need to be doing more to
:22:43. > :22:45.support them when they do leave care, when they do turn 18.
:22:46. > :22:49.Councils acknowledge there is a problem.
:22:50. > :22:55.Councils have a difficult job in this area.
:22:56. > :22:58.It's made a lot harder by the enormous scale of
:22:59. > :23:00.government funding cuts to councils, which are really stretching many
:23:01. > :23:11.What I hope for the future is that I can better myself and just move
:23:12. > :23:16.The government says it wants to help, and that
:23:17. > :23:18.new reforms means that those who have left care will now
:23:19. > :23:28.Now, it will be one of the most extraordinary maps ever made.
:23:29. > :23:31.The most accurate guide of the night sky, charting the whereabouts
:23:32. > :23:41.and brightness of more than a billion stars in our galaxy.
:23:42. > :23:46.The Gaia space telescope has been scanning the heavens for three years
:23:47. > :23:47.and all the data has been put together by the European space
:23:48. > :23:51.agency. I you were flying through it in a
:23:52. > :23:56.spacecraft, this is This is a three-dimensional map
:23:57. > :24:01.of stars created from real data, just released by the
:24:02. > :24:05.European Space Agency. The release is the first step
:24:06. > :24:08.towards a complete revolution in our knowledge of the structure, the
:24:09. > :24:11.origin, the evolution and what the I'm in the library of the Royal
:24:12. > :24:17.astronomical Society. It's full of books about where
:24:18. > :24:22.the stars in the galaxy are. But new results from the Gaia space
:24:23. > :24:25.telescope will mean that many of them will have to be rewritten.
:24:26. > :24:31.We show you why. It is one of eight planets that make
:24:32. > :24:37.up the solar system. With our stars,
:24:38. > :24:40.the sun and its centre. But the sun is just one of billions
:24:41. > :24:44.of stars in our galaxy called the Milky Way,
:24:45. > :24:47.which the textbooks Astronomers think that we are here,
:24:48. > :24:54.on one of the spiral arms. But all of this is
:24:55. > :24:56.based on guesswork and the observation of just
:24:57. > :24:59.a few hundred stars. But over the past three years,
:25:00. > :25:02.Gaia has been scanning the skies and mapped
:25:03. > :25:04.the position of more So very soon we will
:25:05. > :25:09.have a more accurate picture of what the Milky Way
:25:10. > :25:12.is really like and where we are. This may well be completely
:25:13. > :25:14.different to The telescope has collected so much
:25:15. > :25:23.data that the European Space Agency has invited schools all
:25:24. > :25:27.across the world to help them, by sifting through the information
:25:28. > :25:30.and letting them know if they discover
:25:31. > :25:35.anything interesting. They have discovered a star that has
:25:36. > :25:45.exploded at the end of its life. We discovered that
:25:46. > :25:48.the supernova, which is in the data that we have been
:25:49. > :25:52.looking at from stars, and what we You don't discover
:25:53. > :25:59.a supernova everyday? It's different because you don't see
:26:00. > :26:03.these kind of things every day. It feels really proudto think that
:26:04. > :26:06.I discovered a supernova Astronomers also hope
:26:07. > :26:11.to discover a completely new object in our galaxy that are
:26:12. > :26:14.currently beyond our imagination. Time for a look at the weather.
:26:15. > :26:30.Here's John Hammond Normal service will resume, the
:26:31. > :26:37.weekend but it has been another bizarre mid-September day, a day
:26:38. > :26:41.full of contrast. East Anglia had the highest temperatures. 31
:26:42. > :26:45.degrees. Mind you, running up the east coast it was a different story.
:26:46. > :26:51.Temperatures knocked on the head under the cloud cover. 13 degrees in
:26:52. > :26:55.eastern Scotland with leaden skies for much of the day. This was a
:26:56. > :27:00.typical scene on the east coast of Scotland. Showery rain in the far
:27:01. > :27:05.north-west of Scotland. The odd sharp shower across the heart of the
:27:06. > :27:08.Midlands. We could see a thunderstorm in Wales. Most of us
:27:09. > :27:14.will be dry overnight. Cloud creeping inland. You could wake up
:27:15. > :27:18.to low cloud and missed first thing in the morning. A steamy night in
:27:19. > :27:23.the large towns and cities across southern Britain. One more day of
:27:24. > :27:28.heat. Particularly when you make up -- wake up to sunshine. A murky
:27:29. > :27:33.start further north. Inland, the sun will come through and the
:27:34. > :27:39.temperatures will rocket into the 20s. Possibly the low 30s across the
:27:40. > :27:42.south-east. Thunderstorms erupting. The potential for some nasty storms
:27:43. > :27:45.initially across southern England, through parts of the Midlands,
:27:46. > :27:52.Wales, northern England and eastern Scotland. It could be a very wet
:27:53. > :27:55.start to the day in eastern part of the UK on Friday. Fresher conditions
:27:56. > :27:59.coming off the Atlantic. Temperatures in some places down by
:28:00. > :28:05.10 degrees on Friday. Some sunshine at West. That gradually eases away.
:28:06. > :28:09.A ridge of high pressure building in on Saturday. The start of the
:28:10. > :28:10.weekend looks pretty good with some sunshine. Temperatures are a lot
:28:11. > :28:15.lower than they have been. And on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:28:16. > :28:18.news teams where you are.