:00:00. > :00:07.The Chancellor makes a U-turn on his Budget plan to raise national
:00:08. > :00:19.Today the PM was picking up the pieces.
:00:20. > :00:22.We will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring
:00:23. > :00:28.forward increases to Nics later in this Parliament.
:00:29. > :00:33.The climbdown follows a backlash from Tory and opposition MPs alike.
:00:34. > :00:47.And we have a Budget that falls most heavily on those
:00:48. > :00:53.Isn't it welcome that the Prime Minister today has
:00:54. > :00:56.admitted she is returning with her screeching, embarrassing
:00:57. > :01:01.We'll be asking how the Chancellor will make up
:01:02. > :01:12.Relief after Royal Marine Alexander Blackman's murder conviction
:01:13. > :01:17.for killing a wounded Taleban fighter is reduced to manslaughter.
:01:18. > :01:20.Killed while on a beach holiday in India.
:01:21. > :01:29.Police are treating Danielle McLaughlin's death as murder.
:01:30. > :01:35.Millions in Somalia - and across the region -
:01:36. > :01:37.British charities launch an emergency appeal.
:01:38. > :01:40.The woman who argued she deserved more from her mother's will.
:01:41. > :01:48.Coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News:
:01:49. > :01:50.Another good day for the bookmakers at Cheltenham Festival
:01:51. > :01:53.as the outsider, Special Tiara, wins the Queen Mother
:01:54. > :02:15.Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at Six.
:02:16. > :02:18.The Chancellor Philip Hammond has been forced into a U-Turn over last
:02:19. > :02:21.week's budget plan to increase National Insurance contributions
:02:22. > :02:28.It follows a backlash both inside and outside parliament.
:02:29. > :02:31.Several Tory backbenchers had joined in the criticism,
:02:32. > :02:33.leaving Mr Hammond AND Theresa May under fire for breaking
:02:34. > :02:40.Today Labour called it a humiliating climbdown.
:02:41. > :02:47.Here's our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.
:02:48. > :02:54.If number 11 is your front door, changing your mind about what is in
:02:55. > :03:03.the box is a very big deal. Shifting only a week after your Kodak moment.
:03:04. > :03:07.Embarrassing indeed. New Treasury colleagues, seven days later,
:03:08. > :03:12.keeping quiet. Does this represent a U-turn by the Government? Was the
:03:13. > :03:15.Chancellor wrong? Worse still when it is your boss who makes the
:03:16. > :03:20.announcement at the biggest political event of the week.
:03:21. > :03:22.Questions to the Prime Minister. The trend towards greater
:03:23. > :03:26.self-employment does create a structural issue in the tax base. We
:03:27. > :03:31.will bring forward further proposals but we will not bring forward
:03:32. > :03:36.increases to Nics later in this Parliament. Tax hikes 40 million
:03:37. > :03:41.self-employed people suddenly completely off. We have just heard
:03:42. > :03:44.the Prime Minister is about to drop the national insurance hike
:03:45. > :03:51.announced only a week ago. It seems to me like a government in a bit of
:03:52. > :03:59.chaos here. The PM and her next-door neighbour hardly looked too
:04:00. > :04:03.concerned. A budget that unravels in seven days. The idea would have
:04:04. > :04:09.broken a Tory manifesto promise. They were then lambasted for a total
:04:10. > :04:14.change of heart. Though she agree that government should stick to its
:04:15. > :04:19.manifesto promises and, if so, she cannot object to the First Minister
:04:20. > :04:24.sticking to hers? Is that why they want to abolish bring budgets
:04:25. > :04:28.because they just keep whipping them up? Number 11 and Number 10 only
:04:29. > :04:34.made the decision at eight o'clock this morning, choosing humiliation
:04:35. > :04:39.today. How humiliating is the tax U-turn for the Chancellor? Ask the
:04:40. > :04:43.Chancellor. Over a row that could have lasted for months. The man
:04:44. > :04:47.himself charged with managing the nation's counts had to explain how
:04:48. > :04:52.his careful spread cheap calculations they'll be political
:04:53. > :05:01.test. This government sets great store in the faith and trust of the
:05:02. > :05:05.British people, especially while we negotiate our exit from the European
:05:06. > :05:10.Union. Making this change today we are listening to our colleagues and
:05:11. > :05:14.demonstrating our determination to fulfil both the letter and the
:05:15. > :05:20.spirit of our manifested tax commitment. Number 11 had defended
:05:21. > :05:25.the idea. Number 10 had as well. The atmosphere soured over the weekend.
:05:26. > :05:29.Sources suggested on Monday a group of senior MPs told Theresa May the
:05:30. > :05:36.idea would not wash. Today, in a move, one former minister branded as
:05:37. > :05:40.extraordinary, suddenly, the man was gone. We made it very clear it was
:05:41. > :05:44.not something we would support. The campaign against it and vote against
:05:45. > :05:48.it. They listened to us. It showed in some ways he was a strong
:05:49. > :05:53.Chancellor if he admitted he made a mistake and did a U-turn. I am
:05:54. > :05:58.delighted. The ground was not that well prepared and the mathematics
:05:59. > :06:11.did not add up. What we have is a delay and I suspect some hard
:06:12. > :06:15.thinking about what the best way back to his political home.
:06:16. > :06:18.Chancellors have to be trusted. Reputations round here are hard and
:06:19. > :06:24.easy to lose. Well, the scrapping of the rise
:06:25. > :06:26.in national insurance contributions leaves a big hole
:06:27. > :06:29.in the Chancellor's Budget plans Mr Hammond has already
:06:30. > :06:32.pledged to increase So, where does today's U-turn leave
:06:33. > :06:35.the public finances? Here's our Economics
:06:36. > :06:40.Editor Kamal Ahmed. It was a tax rise and a gift
:06:41. > :06:43.to the headline writers. The Chancellor knew he had
:06:44. > :06:49.a problem when he sat down to breakfast the day after
:06:50. > :06:52.the Budget, faced with an avalanche He was trying to tackle this
:06:53. > :06:57.issue, the new world of work and the growth in the number
:06:58. > :07:00.of self-employed who are taxed less Many supported the increase
:07:01. > :07:03.in national insurance contributions but expressed their
:07:04. > :07:07.disappointing that today politics This is a disappointing
:07:08. > :07:15.move that the increase in class 4 national
:07:16. > :07:17.insurance won't be going ahead because that increase closed some of
:07:18. > :07:22.the discrepancies between employees and the self-employed
:07:23. > :07:25.in our tax system. It largely hit the better orf
:07:26. > :07:28.self-employed with the lowest earning self-employed
:07:29. > :07:31.not losing at all. This was Philip Hammond's rather
:07:32. > :07:34.neat Budget plan a week ago. He made three big
:07:35. > :07:35.spending commitments. More money on social
:07:36. > :07:38.care, ?2.4 billion. And more money for business rate
:07:39. > :07:40.relief and education. It's claimed those costs would be
:07:41. > :07:53.balanced by two big tax rises. A ?2.6 billion tax rise
:07:54. > :07:59.on dividends from shares people own as an investment and
:08:00. > :08:03.the controversial one, a ?2 billion increase in National Insurance
:08:04. > :08:05.contributions from That has now been scrapped,
:08:06. > :08:09.leaving Mr Hammond with a The big promise
:08:10. > :08:18.at the last election. This Government would not
:08:19. > :08:19.raise direct taxes, so The problem summed
:08:20. > :08:25.up in a Tweet this afternoon by the Government's own
:08:26. > :08:35.employment adviser, Matthew Taylor. It was never sensible to put
:08:36. > :08:45.in a manifesto pledge that you would not increase rates of national
:08:46. > :08:47.insurance or income tax or VAT. Those are the three biggest
:08:48. > :08:52.taxes we have by far. To tie your hands for five years
:08:53. > :08:55.for those three big taxes never looked like a
:08:56. > :09:00.sensible thing to do. He is not the first and he would be
:09:01. > :09:04.the last Chancellor to see a budget unravel over
:09:05. > :09:07.failures to see political elephant Mr Hammond has said he will fill
:09:08. > :09:19.the ?2 billion black hole caused by today's U-turn at the next
:09:20. > :09:22.budget in the autumn. It is, for the moment,
:09:23. > :09:23.completely unclear how. Our Political Editor Laura
:09:24. > :09:31.Kuenssberg is in Downing Street. How damaging is this, not just the
:09:32. > :09:35.Chancellor but the Prime Minister? It does not exactly smack of
:09:36. > :09:40.confidence in government or peace and harmony in Downing Street, does
:09:41. > :09:44.it? One of the difficult thing for Theresa May and Philip Hammond is
:09:45. > :09:48.inside the Conservative Party there is no agreement over whether this
:09:49. > :09:52.was a good thing to do to drop the plan. One senior Tory told me it
:09:53. > :09:55.would have been madness in the first place to introduce this idea. On the
:09:56. > :10:00.other side one senior MPs said they were livid the Government had
:10:01. > :10:04.dropped this because it creates an impression they can be pushed around
:10:05. > :10:08.by relatively small groups of people who are objecting. I think in the
:10:09. > :10:12.hole, when it comes to policy the Government puts out there, and
:10:13. > :10:16.frankly it looks like it will not fly, they have two choices. Do they
:10:17. > :10:21.let it drag on for months and months, causing political damage day
:10:22. > :10:25.after day, or do they whip off the plaster, get the pain out of the way
:10:26. > :10:37.quickly? Here in Downing Street that is what they have decided to do. No
:10:38. > :10:40.question about it, particularly for a Chancellor, his job above all else
:10:41. > :10:44.is to be trusted to be a safe pair of hands. This has not been a good
:10:45. > :10:48.day at the office and it will not be forgotten very fast.
:10:49. > :10:50.A former Royal Marine who shot dead an injured Taliban fighter
:10:51. > :10:54.in Afghanistan has won his appeal against a conviction for murder.
:10:55. > :10:57.Sergeant Alexander Blackman had it quashed by five judges in London,
:10:58. > :10:59.who replaced it with manslaughter on the grounds of
:11:00. > :11:02.His wife, Claire Blackman, who's led a campaign
:11:03. > :11:04.against the murder verdict, said she was delighted.
:11:05. > :11:10.Here's our Defence Correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
:11:11. > :11:13.Claire Blackman's led this long, but never lonely fight to have her
:11:14. > :11:21.Today, she arrived at court hoping for good news.
:11:22. > :11:25.In 2013, the military court found Alexander Blackman,
:11:26. > :11:29.better known as Marine A, guilty of murdering a Taliban
:11:30. > :11:31.insurgent in Afghanistan, but today, the Appeal Court concluded
:11:32. > :11:40.There was a tear in her eye when she heard that news.
:11:41. > :11:45.Outside court, she and her supporters savoured the moment.
:11:46. > :11:47.We are delighted with the judge's decision to substitute manslaughter
:11:48. > :11:54.This is a crucial decision and one that much better reflects
:11:55. > :11:58.the circumstances that my husband found himself in during that
:11:59. > :12:14.The incident in Helmand in 2011 was all filmed on a helmet camera.
:12:15. > :12:17.This, the moment the Royal Marine patrol called in a helicopter
:12:18. > :12:21.to target two Taliban insurgents, one of whom was wounded.
:12:22. > :12:25.We are not allowed to show what happens next as the patrol reaches
:12:26. > :12:31.him. Obviously, this doesn't
:12:32. > :12:34.go anywhere fellas. But three leading psychiatrists told
:12:35. > :12:40.the court that the tough tour had taken its toll
:12:41. > :12:46.on Blackman's mental health. What had happened
:12:47. > :12:48.to him during the time he was in Afghanistan, on that
:12:49. > :12:51.particular tour, is his ability to think rationally and to exercise
:12:52. > :12:53.rational judgment had slowly The Appeal Court concluded that
:12:54. > :12:59.Alexander Blackman had been suffering from an adjustment order
:13:00. > :13:03.when he killed that insurgent. But speaking for the first time,
:13:04. > :13:05.those who served alongside him in Afghanistan say there
:13:06. > :13:10.were other pressures too. It wasn't evidence heard
:13:11. > :13:12.in court but among those Marines with Blackman,
:13:13. > :13:15.on that patrol, there's plenty of sympathy and little regret
:13:16. > :13:24.about what happened. I think it's just another day
:13:25. > :13:30.in Afghanistan and that's the way it goes out there and none of us got
:13:31. > :13:33.hurt so it was a successful day, Clare Blackman will
:13:34. > :13:37.still have to wait to be No longer a murderer but he's
:13:38. > :13:47.still guilty of manslaughter. The court has to decide on that
:13:48. > :13:50.sentence, but the man known as Marine A could soon be
:13:51. > :13:52.freed from prison. You can see more on that tonight
:13:53. > :13:56.in a special Panorama, in which some of the men who served
:13:57. > :13:59.with Sergeant Blackman speak It's called Marine A -
:14:00. > :14:07.The Inside Story - and it's on at 10:50pm
:14:08. > :14:11.here on BBC One. Twelve police forces have sent files
:14:12. > :14:23.to the Crown Prosecution Service As part of their investigations into
:14:24. > :14:27.allegations of overspending during the last
:14:28. > :14:32.The CPS will now decide whether charges should be brought.
:14:33. > :14:33.On Saturday police questioned
:14:34. > :14:37.for South Thanet, Craig MacKinlay, over allegations that local campaign
:14:38. > :14:40.It's also emerged that Colchester MP Will Quince was interviewed
:14:41. > :14:43.by police back in January, but was told he would face
:14:44. > :14:47.A man's been arrested after an Irish woman was found dead near a beach
:14:48. > :14:49.in the popular Indian tourist area of Goa.
:14:50. > :14:55.Danielle McLaughlin, who was in her twenties,
:14:56. > :14:59.was from County Donegal. She had been a student in Liverpool and had
:15:00. > :15:03.a British passport. Police are treating her death
:15:04. > :15:05.as suspected murder. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye
:15:06. > :15:18.is in Canacona in Goa. What are the police saying about
:15:19. > :15:21.this awful killing? It is in this field behind me that her body was
:15:22. > :15:26.found yesterday morning, police say she had injuries on her face and
:15:27. > :15:31.head. They were initially able to identify her with the help of other
:15:32. > :15:35.foreign nationals living in the area as well as information from social
:15:36. > :15:38.media platforms. A couple of hundred meters to my right is the main
:15:39. > :15:42.highway which connects north and south Goa and there are lots of
:15:43. > :15:47.beaches and restaurants around that Goa is so well-known for. But this
:15:48. > :15:50.is quite an isolated spot. I have been speaking to an officer involved
:15:51. > :15:54.with the investigation and he has told me they believe they have got
:15:55. > :16:02.the main culprit, that they have compelling evidence including CCTV
:16:03. > :16:04.footage, a two wheeled vehicle with blood stains on it and some clothes
:16:05. > :16:06.with blood on them. Thank you. The Chancellor Philip Hammond has
:16:07. > :16:14.made a U-turn on his budget plan to raise national insurance
:16:15. > :16:15.contributions for many And still to come: We've
:16:16. > :16:21.all heard about Michelangelo. But what about the friend
:16:22. > :16:23.who helped him? A new exhibition at
:16:24. > :16:28.the National Gallery. Coming up in Sportsday in the next
:16:29. > :16:31.15 minutes on on BBC News: Can Manchester City reach
:16:32. > :16:33.the quarter finals of They're in Monaco defending
:16:34. > :16:36.a 5-3 first leg lead Some of the country's major
:16:37. > :16:51.charities have launched an emergency appeal to help an estimated
:16:52. > :16:53.16 million people facing Four countries - South Sudan,
:16:54. > :16:59.Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - face an acute shortage of food,
:17:00. > :17:02.water and medicines. Today, the Foreign Secretary Boris
:17:03. > :17:06.Johnson visited Somalia where a national disaster
:17:07. > :17:10.has been declared. You may find some of the images
:17:11. > :17:13.in this report from our Africa Correspondent Andrew Harding
:17:14. > :17:17.distressing. The vast, bone dry
:17:18. > :17:21.plains of Somalia. It's hardly rained
:17:22. > :17:24.here for three years. The results today are grim,
:17:25. > :17:29.predictable and getting worse. Many are already dying before
:17:30. > :17:38.they can reach help. With 3 million people on the verge
:17:39. > :17:41.of starvation here, the sense But this is a hard place to help,
:17:42. > :17:50.a famously dangerous country. The capital, Mogadishu,
:17:51. > :17:52.remains volatile with several attacks here this week blamed
:17:53. > :17:58.on Islamist militants. Today the British Foreign Secretary
:17:59. > :18:01.flew in, in part to talk The safer Somalia gets after all,
:18:02. > :18:08.the easier it becomes to help. But the immediate threat of famine
:18:09. > :18:14.now overshadows everything here. Talking hard cash at the command
:18:15. > :18:23.centre for the International aid effort, the British government has
:18:24. > :18:29.already given ?110 million. One of the things we are trying
:18:30. > :18:33.to do is because we've put 110 in, we're trying to get other countries
:18:34. > :18:36.to come in with us. And to those thinking
:18:37. > :18:40.about digging into their pockets for the appeal back in Britain,
:18:41. > :18:43.would their money be well spent? It would be very well
:18:44. > :18:45.spent in my view. You have probably 6.2 million people
:18:46. > :18:51.who are at risk of famine. These guys are trying to reach out
:18:52. > :18:54.to about 3 million people of the most urgent cases and you've
:18:55. > :18:58.got cholera now on the rise, kids dying of cholera in this country,
:18:59. > :19:04.the incidences rising. There are very simple ways
:19:05. > :19:08.of addressing these problems. It's six years since
:19:09. > :19:11.Somalia's last famine. In those days the country was even
:19:12. > :19:20.more dangerous and aid agencies As alarming as things are right now
:19:21. > :19:29.in Somalia it is clear that lessons have been learned from the last
:19:30. > :19:32.famine, when so much aid was either stolen or blocked from
:19:33. > :19:34.reaching those in need. Plenty can and no doubt will go
:19:35. > :19:37.wrong here but right now, from those in charge,
:19:38. > :19:41.there is more confidence than panic. And so millions here in Somalia
:19:42. > :19:44.and across the wider Now to a Supreme Court decision
:19:45. > :20:01.that clarifies our right to leave our money to whoever
:20:02. > :20:04.we want - even if it means Melita Jackson left the bulk
:20:05. > :20:07.of her ?480,000 legacy Her estranged daughter, Heather
:20:08. > :20:10.Ilott, argued that was unfair. But as our legal correspondent
:20:11. > :20:13.Clive Coleman reports - the highest court in the land
:20:14. > :20:18.as taken a different view. For generations, families have been
:20:19. > :20:23.falling out over wills. When Heather Ilott's
:20:24. > :20:26.mother died in 2004, she made it crystal clear
:20:27. > :20:29.that she did not want her She disapproved of her choice
:20:30. > :20:34.of husband and even insisted any claim Heather might make
:20:35. > :20:36.after her death be Animals can't tell anyone
:20:37. > :20:45.about the cruelty they suffer... Melita Jackson left almost
:20:46. > :20:48.all of her half a million pound fortune to three animal charities
:20:49. > :20:55.which she had no connection to. In 2007 Heather Ilott challenged
:20:56. > :20:59.the will and was awarded ?50,000, on the basis that her mother had not
:21:00. > :21:02.made reasonable provision But in 2015 the Court of Appeal
:21:03. > :21:10.raised that to ?160,000. This Court unanimously
:21:11. > :21:13.allows the appeal. Today the Supreme Court restored
:21:14. > :21:20.the original ?50,000 sum. In a really powerful judgment,
:21:21. > :21:24.seven justices here at the highest court in the land have reaffirmed
:21:25. > :21:28.a fundamental principle of English law, that anyone, you or I,
:21:29. > :21:31.can leave our money to whoever we want, even if that
:21:32. > :21:34.means our children getting Money from wills makes up around 50%
:21:35. > :21:47.of the animal charities income. The Supreme Court acknowledged that
:21:48. > :21:50.charities do an enormous amount of good work and a lot
:21:51. > :21:53.of that is funded by the generosity of people like Melita Jackson
:21:54. > :21:55.choosing to leave them money So that key point, her right
:21:56. > :22:00.to choose, I want to leave my money to that charity and I don't have
:22:01. > :22:03.to explain why that was, Today's ruling was
:22:04. > :22:10.welcomed by Don Day. His wife Pat suffered
:22:11. > :22:14.from dementia before her death. Following a family rift he has
:22:15. > :22:16.decided to leave his estate to the Alzheimer's Society
:22:17. > :22:21.and not his daughter. We've had experience
:22:22. > :22:23.of Alzheimer's and it's dreadful And we decided that we thought that
:22:24. > :22:33.what little we had would make a little bit of difference
:22:34. > :22:36.to the research that In this battle of wills,
:22:37. > :22:41.a daughter has lost out Charity may have been
:22:42. > :22:46.the winner, but it certainly Other parents at odds
:22:47. > :22:50.with their children will take note. He was one of the greatest
:22:51. > :22:59.figures of the Renaissance. A sculptor, painter,
:23:00. > :23:01.architect and poet - amongst other masterpieces
:23:02. > :23:03.Michelangelo painted the ceiling An exhibition which opened today
:23:04. > :23:10.at London's National Gallery sheds new light on his creative
:23:11. > :23:12.partnership with the less Our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz
:23:13. > :23:20.tells their intriguing story. As sculptors go,
:23:21. > :23:25.Michelangelo was pretty good. Michelangelo is the peak
:23:26. > :23:30.of skill and virtuosity. As you can see from
:23:31. > :23:33.this marble carving. It shows the virgin and child
:23:34. > :23:37.with St John the Baptist on the left and if you look at the foot
:23:38. > :23:40.of Christ down here, that's about to emerge
:23:41. > :23:42.from the stone and Michelangelo wrote so poetically
:23:43. > :23:44.about the figure having to be The only snag was,
:23:45. > :23:53.while Michelangelo was busy decorating the Sistine Chapel's
:23:54. > :23:56.ceiling, an ambitious young artist called Raphael had arrived in Rome
:23:57. > :23:58.and started to compete with him for commissions from
:23:59. > :24:02.the powerful Pope Julius II. Rafael prospered while
:24:03. > :24:11.Michelangelo toiled. Until he met an artist ten
:24:12. > :24:15.years his junior called Sebastiano. He comes to Rome at that
:24:16. > :24:17.moment when Michelangelo Sebastiano becomes friends
:24:18. > :24:21.with Michelangelo and they begin this very fruitful collaboration
:24:22. > :24:26.of which this is the first example. Michelangelo would make preparatory
:24:27. > :24:28.drawings such as this male torso which Sebastiano then
:24:29. > :24:31.rendered in paint. Without, it would appear,
:24:32. > :24:36.doing much to turn man into Madonna. The colour, the interest
:24:37. > :24:38.in the landscape, which Michelangelo was never interested in landscape,
:24:39. > :24:41.whereas of course, Sebastiano has a real poetic feeling for this
:24:42. > :24:44.nocturnal landscape with some ruins The stakes are raised
:24:45. > :24:50.by Cardinal Julio Der Medici He'd commissioned two enormous
:24:51. > :24:55.biblical altar pieces, the Transfiguration from Raphael
:24:56. > :24:57.and from Sebastiano, This picture was at the centre
:24:58. > :25:04.of the extraordinary rivalry between Raphael and Michelangelo
:25:05. > :25:10.with Sebastiano actually painting on behalf one
:25:11. > :25:15.could say of Michelangelo. So in a way it's a sort
:25:16. > :25:18.of proxy battle between Could Sebastiano have done this
:25:19. > :25:22.without Michelangelo? Michelangelo is fundamental
:25:23. > :25:29.for Sebastiano's development. This sort of heroic, titanic
:25:30. > :25:33.character of the representations, these over life-sized figures
:25:34. > :25:37.who are full of dynamic energy. These come absolutely out
:25:38. > :25:42.of the mind of Michelangelo. Their remarkable creative
:25:43. > :25:43.collaboration continued even But eventually ended in acrimony,
:25:44. > :26:08.with Michelangelo accusing the now You need sunglasses for some of
:26:09. > :26:14.these pictures today, lots of blue sky in Wales and England and 19
:26:15. > :26:21.Celsius at Kew Gardens in London, the highest the UK has seen this
:26:22. > :26:27.year. And 17 the highest in Wales. Not like that everywhere, the South
:26:28. > :26:30.coast of Wales misty and murky, Northern Scotland seeing some
:26:31. > :26:37.outbreaks of rain and will again overnight. Some of that reaching two
:26:38. > :26:39.parts of Northern Ireland. Some of this low cloud, Mr and Mark
:26:40. > :26:45.advancing into other parts of England and Wales as the night goes
:26:46. > :26:51.on. Clear spells central and eastern England. High-pressure, some places
:26:52. > :26:55.warm, getting squeezed southward, this weather front coming through
:26:56. > :26:59.tomorrow which means Scotland and Northern Ireland with the spell of
:27:00. > :27:03.brain turning heavier before it clears into the afternoon and sunny
:27:04. > :27:08.spells return. When to be on the hills in Scotland as the rain feeds
:27:09. > :27:11.into parts of Northern England, Wales, Western England. The far
:27:12. > :27:15.south-east mainly dry until after dark, more clout than today. Sunny
:27:16. > :27:21.spells in Eastern England but not as warm as today. The cold front clears
:27:22. > :27:26.south on Thursday night, then the change and appeal of the weather by
:27:27. > :27:29.Friday morning, rural temperatures with a touch of frost across
:27:30. > :27:35.Northern Britain, icy patches in Scotland, it could well be that
:27:36. > :27:39.Northern Scotland has the best bet on Friday as we see rain spreading
:27:40. > :27:45.from north-west to south-east across the UK and is cooler. That cooler,
:27:46. > :27:48.Wendy, wetter weather will stay with us through the weekend.
:27:49. > :27:51.That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me -
:27:52. > :27:54.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.