:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at 6 - political shock waves around America
:00:09. > :00:12.after President Trump fires the Director of the FBI.
:00:13. > :00:15.The President says James Comey had lost the confidence of key figures
:00:16. > :00:31.Very simply, he was not doing a good job.
:00:32. > :00:33.Absolutely explosive news out of Washington tonight.
:00:34. > :00:36.The FBI chief was investigating alleged links between
:00:37. > :00:39.the White House and Russia - some smell a rat.
:00:40. > :00:40.Are people going to suspect cover-up?
:00:41. > :00:48.We'll be asking what this says about the Trump presidency.
:00:49. > :00:52.The election battle moves to the classroom -
:00:53. > :00:57.both Labour and the Lib Dems spell out their polices on education.
:00:58. > :01:00.The family of 11-year-old Evha Jannath - who died
:01:01. > :01:05.at a theme park yesterday - describe their loss.
:01:06. > :01:10.Dylan has been taking medicines for his ADHD since he was six,
:01:11. > :01:17.It's the sport he's always been passionate about -
:01:18. > :01:20.we hear from Prince Phillip one week after announcing he's stepping
:01:21. > :01:25.And coming up in the sport on BBC News:
:01:26. > :01:27.He's the most expensive footballer in the world,
:01:28. > :01:30.but Paul Pogba's record transfer to Manchester United is now
:01:31. > :01:57.Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at 6pm.
:01:58. > :02:01.Washington is awash with rumour and speculation tonight,
:02:02. > :02:03.after President Donald Trump's shock dismissal of James Comey -
:02:04. > :02:11.In the President's words, Mr Comey "was not doing a good job".
:02:12. > :02:12.There's been widespread criticism of the move -
:02:13. > :02:15.political opponents have raised the suspicion that Mr Comey's
:02:16. > :02:18.dismissal was linked to his investigation
:02:19. > :02:20.into allegations that members of the Trump election team colluded
:02:21. > :02:24.with Moscow during last year's presidential election.
:02:25. > :02:30.Here's our North America Editor, Jon Sopel.
:02:31. > :02:37.This is a Fox News alert. FBI director James Comey has been fired
:02:38. > :02:41.by the President of the United States. The term breaking news is
:02:42. > :02:46.bandied about with abandon but last night it was justified. At FBI
:02:47. > :02:50.offices in the first they knew their director had been fired was when it
:02:51. > :02:53.flashed up on their TV screens. And James Comey, was in Los Angeles
:02:54. > :02:58.addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until then had handed him
:02:59. > :03:02.a note. The letter sent by President Trump was brutal. You are hereby
:03:03. > :03:07.terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.
:03:08. > :03:13.At least they left in the government jet to fly back to the East Coast. A
:03:14. > :03:17.private citizen, a turbulent career cut short. And today the president
:03:18. > :03:21.was unrepentant. Why did you fire director Comey? Because he wasn't
:03:22. > :03:28.doing a good job, simply wasn't doing a good job. James Comey the
:03:29. > :03:30.six foot eight foot tall director confirmed in March that the
:03:31. > :03:36.drug-macro campaign was under investigation for its links to
:03:37. > :03:40.Russia during the election. The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence
:03:41. > :03:44.mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to
:03:45. > :03:48.interfere in the 2016 presidential election. The president has railed
:03:49. > :03:52.consistently that it's fake news and there has been no improper contact.
:03:53. > :03:57.Last night he fired the man heading the inquiry. It's caused Furia
:03:58. > :04:05.dismay among some Republicans, and all Democrats. If there was ever a
:04:06. > :04:10.time when circumstances warranted a special prosecutor, it is right now.
:04:11. > :04:13.But the White House is seeking to persuade people that the decision to
:04:14. > :04:18.fire Comey had nothing to do with Russia or the FBI investigation. He
:04:19. > :04:23.is looking for a fresh start at the FBI. I think the president did as he
:04:24. > :04:28.has done in many other cases, took decisive action. He provided strong
:04:29. > :04:32.leadership and to act on the recommendation of the Attorney
:04:33. > :04:36.General. The White House is less with confidence stems from James
:04:37. > :04:39.Comey's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail
:04:40. > :04:45.server when she was Secretary of State. I made a mistake using a
:04:46. > :04:49.private e-mail. He decided last July there'd be no prosecution, just a
:04:50. > :04:53.rap on the knuckles. Republicans were furious. Then, stunningly, he
:04:54. > :05:00.reopened his inquiry 11 days before polling. It took Scots the director
:05:01. > :05:06.Comey to make the move that he made. -- it took guts. But if it's all
:05:07. > :05:10.about the way the FBI conducted the Hillary Clinton investigation, why
:05:11. > :05:15.sack him now? Why this intervention? Why not do it when Donald Trump
:05:16. > :05:20.first came to office? And how do you reconcile it with the praise heaped
:05:21. > :05:24.upon James Comey? Whatever, it's left the FBI feeling very sore about
:05:25. > :05:29.the way their director has been treated. And into the Washington
:05:30. > :05:34.maelstrom who should arrive today for his first visit to see the Trump
:05:35. > :05:39.administration than Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, in
:05:40. > :05:43.jokey mood. He then went to meet Donald Trump at the White House, but
:05:44. > :05:47.curiously, for the camera loving president, the press was kept away.
:05:48. > :05:49.This feels like house of cards on steroids.
:05:50. > :06:02.Can you remember any president in the past behaving anything like
:06:03. > :06:06.this? Well, the only other director of the FBI to be fired, that
:06:07. > :06:11.happened some 20 odd years ago when Bill Clinton fired his director of
:06:12. > :06:17.the FBI. I think the real parallel you want to go back to his 1973,
:06:18. > :06:21.embattled Richard Nixon, the president, facing the Watergate
:06:22. > :06:25.investigation, and he tried to fire the chief prosecutor. That
:06:26. > :06:28.eventually a year later ended up in Richard Nixon's resignation as
:06:29. > :06:34.president. But there is something very interesting in Donald Trump's
:06:35. > :06:39.resignation letter in which he fired James Comey. He said I greatly
:06:40. > :06:41.appreciate you informing on three separate occasions I'm not under
:06:42. > :06:45.investigation. James Comey has never said that publicly. You are left to
:06:46. > :06:50.wonder if that was part of the reason why Donald Trump made clear
:06:51. > :06:57.his displeasure and fired him. One other thing, this has come about at
:06:58. > :07:00.a time when there is a fever pitch atmosphere in Washington and Donald
:07:01. > :07:06.Trump has done nothing to dissipate that. Jon, thank you.
:07:07. > :07:08.Education has taken centre stage in the election
:07:09. > :07:10.campaign today with Labour and the Liberal Democrats
:07:11. > :07:13.Both parties are pledging billions more for the sector.
:07:14. > :07:15.Labour says schools and further education colleges in England
:07:16. > :07:17.would benefit under plans for what it calls
:07:18. > :07:22.The Liberal Democrats say under their plans spending
:07:23. > :07:32.Our Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys reports.
:07:33. > :07:38.We're going to take lots of measurements of how long it takes
:07:39. > :07:41.for the sound to get to us. Measuring the speed of sound in
:07:42. > :07:46.Cambridge. Today a lesson in politics as well as science, news
:07:47. > :07:50.travelling from money for education. At a college in Leeds it was about
:07:51. > :07:56.lifelong learning. Labour promising to invest in adult training, but
:07:57. > :08:01.most of all, in schools, paid for by a rise in corporation tax. We have a
:08:02. > :08:08.problem in Britain, we have not invested enough in manufacturing
:08:09. > :08:11.industry, in infrastructure, in the skilled workers, engineers,
:08:12. > :08:15.scientists and teachers of tomorrow. We are determined to turn that
:08:16. > :08:19.around. So what could be the impact of a rise in corporation tax? It
:08:20. > :08:24.will reduce investment by companies in the UK, and in the long run it
:08:25. > :08:29.won't raise as much as it might the short run, as champ companies change
:08:30. > :08:34.their behaviour, reduce investment or move abroad. Labour responds that
:08:35. > :08:40.extra money for schools each year reaching 4.8 by 2022, a 10% increase
:08:41. > :08:47.on current spending. 1.5 billion extra for adult skills training, and
:08:48. > :08:53.no school losing out. A promise matched by the Lib Dems. The party
:08:54. > :09:00.also says it would spend 5.8 billion extra on schools over the next four
:09:01. > :09:04.years, and more for poorer pupils. 660 million for further education.
:09:05. > :09:09.The Lib Dems suggested they would also raise taxes on businesses. Two
:09:10. > :09:12.thirds of schools it now turns out though, are trying to lay off at
:09:13. > :09:16.least one teacher, losing at least one teaching post in the next two
:09:17. > :09:20.months. Under that kind of pressure, there needs to be a fully costed
:09:21. > :09:24.responds to build a future for all of our children so we can have a
:09:25. > :09:27.decent education and be competent in that. Schools in Cambridge are among
:09:28. > :09:33.the lowest funded in England. All the secondary teachers here wrote a
:09:34. > :09:38.parent with a warning. We said there will be fewer teachers and fewer
:09:39. > :09:43.teaching assistants and fewer resources in classrooms, whether
:09:44. > :09:47.that is exercise books, laptops. Few opportunities for children to go on
:09:48. > :09:51.trips or sporting fixtures. We have said across the board there will be
:09:52. > :09:55.an impact and reductions. This school is one of thousands across
:09:56. > :09:59.England who have been writing to parents, spelling out the difficult
:10:00. > :10:04.financial decisions that lie ahead. That has galvanised parents to lobby
:10:05. > :10:09.MPs of all parties. It is that grassroots pressure which has really
:10:10. > :10:15.pushed school budgets under the election agenda. The cost in schools
:10:16. > :10:18.are rising faster than budget, but today the Conservatives defended
:10:19. > :10:22.their record. First of all school funding is at record levels. We've
:10:23. > :10:29.also within that, we're putting record number of funding into early
:10:30. > :10:33.education, protected the school pupil premium, worth ?2.5 billion.
:10:34. > :10:36.But what matters in education is actually, it's not just about the
:10:37. > :10:41.funding, it's about the results you see and the education you are
:10:42. > :10:47.providing for the children. OK, what have you got? Labour and Lib Dems
:10:48. > :10:53.are also promising extra funding across the UK, but no detail today
:10:54. > :10:58.another big issue - labour as yet to confirm it would scrap university
:10:59. > :11:02.tuition fees. And the Lib Dems on how they will handle the toxic issue
:11:03. > :11:04.for them. Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News.
:11:05. > :11:06.No Conservative politicians or officials will face charges
:11:07. > :11:08.for breaches of expenses rules during the 2015 general election.
:11:09. > :11:11.It follows allegations that the party had under-estimated
:11:12. > :11:14.the amount it spent in local constituencies.
:11:15. > :11:17.The Crown Prosecution Service said it had examined files from 14 police
:11:18. > :11:19.forces in England, but had not found enough evidence to
:11:20. > :11:27.Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports.
:11:28. > :11:40.The last general election, Conservative activists to
:11:41. > :11:42.the country by battle bus, staying in a string
:11:43. > :11:44.of hotels as they campaign for local candidates.
:11:45. > :11:48.Party officials declared the cost of this
:11:49. > :11:50.as national election expenses - not local.
:11:51. > :11:52.And political rivals said the law had been broken.
:11:53. > :11:54.But today, prosecutors decided there was no
:11:55. > :12:00.After full and lengthy investigation the legal
:12:01. > :12:04.authorities have confirmed what we believed all along,
:12:05. > :12:07.and what we said all along, which was that the
:12:08. > :12:09.expenses, that local spending was properly reported, was properly
:12:10. > :12:14.declared and that the candidates had done nothing wrong.
:12:15. > :12:19.Prosecutors said today that under the relevant law it
:12:20. > :12:22.must be proved that a suspect, that's the local official
:12:23. > :12:23.putting in the declaration, knew the return
:12:24. > :12:29.was inaccurate and acted dishonestly in signing the declaration.
:12:30. > :12:32.But in this case, the local officials said they'd
:12:33. > :12:35.been told what to do by the national party which received a record
:12:36. > :12:38.penalty fine from the Electoral Commission.
:12:39. > :12:41.Gregg Kinsell and his partner Louise were also on the bus
:12:42. > :12:46.supporting a string of Conservative candidates.
:12:47. > :12:49.But they went to the police about how the campaign was run.
:12:50. > :12:54.I think this is absolutely disgusting, it's a cover-up on a
:12:55. > :12:57.huge level, and I think that the Electoral Commission
:12:58. > :13:01.are involved in this and I think the CPS and the government.
:13:02. > :13:04.I think it's all to deflect attention from what really
:13:05. > :13:08.Other parties have also been fined for the
:13:09. > :13:14.This time the justice system has concluded there's evidence of
:13:15. > :13:20.inaccuracies, but not of a deliberate attempt to deceive.
:13:21. > :13:26.But that's not it, because there is still a police investigation into
:13:27. > :13:31.one official going on in London and prosecutors are examining files of
:13:32. > :13:35.2000 lived in campaign spending in South Thanet in eastern Kent, the
:13:36. > :13:40.candidate then, as now, Craig Mackinlay. Tomorrow is the last day
:13:41. > :13:44.on which he could be replaced on the ballot, but you won't hear about any
:13:45. > :13:47.prosecution by then. So the Conservatives are going to have to
:13:48. > :13:49.push ahead with him as their candidate. No doubt holding their
:13:50. > :13:50.breath! Police have named an eleven-year-old
:13:51. > :13:54.girl who died yesterday while on a school trip
:13:55. > :13:56.to Drayton Manor Theme Evha Jannath, from Leicester,
:13:57. > :14:00.fell out of a boat In a statement, her family said
:14:01. > :14:07.their world had been torn apart. Evha Jannath had come
:14:08. > :14:12.to the park on a school trip. The emergency services
:14:13. > :14:15.arrived quickly, staff and paramedics tried to save her,
:14:16. > :14:18.but she was pronounced dead Today, investigators
:14:19. > :14:22.are examining the Splash Canyon ride and trying to work out how
:14:23. > :14:26.she fell into the water. There is a height restriction,
:14:27. > :14:29.which means that young children who are between three and three
:14:30. > :14:33.and a half feet tall have to be Although people aren't strapped in,
:14:34. > :14:38.they are told to remain seated. This was Patrick Treacy just
:14:39. > :14:41.after he fell in the water on the same ride four years
:14:42. > :14:44.ago when he was ten. Parents really should be aware
:14:45. > :14:47.of what, of how safe their children are going to be when they go
:14:48. > :14:52.on these rights. They look pretty calm, but they're
:14:53. > :14:55.actually quite dangerous. And when children aren't
:14:56. > :14:57.accompanied, I think seat Evha's school shut today; staff
:14:58. > :15:03.and pupils have been She was a lovely, sweet natured
:15:04. > :15:08.girl, and she was loved As a school and as a community,
:15:09. > :15:15.we are trying to make sense Our thoughts and our prayers
:15:16. > :15:21.are with Evha's family at this Evha's family has issued
:15:22. > :15:25.a statement saying their world They described her as "A beautiful
:15:26. > :15:33.little girl, who was full They say that words cannot
:15:34. > :15:37.describe their pain and loss. The park was empty today -
:15:38. > :15:40.Drayton Manor decided to close Phil Mackie, BBC
:15:41. > :15:48.News, Staffordshire. The time has just gone 6:15pm. The
:15:49. > :15:53.top story this evening. Political shock waves
:15:54. > :15:55.as the US President fires Donald Trump said James Comey
:15:56. > :16:01.was not doing a good job. And still to come -
:16:02. > :16:08.Pogba's record-breaking transfer to Man U is now the subject
:16:09. > :16:11.of a Fifa investigation. But how much did his agent
:16:12. > :16:14.earn from the deal? Have England drawn another group of
:16:15. > :16:22.death for the 2019 Rugby World Cup? Well Eddie Jones says facing both
:16:23. > :16:25.France and Argentina at the tournament in Japan
:16:26. > :16:32.will be exciting. There's growing concern
:16:33. > :16:34.about the number of children in the UK being prescribed
:16:35. > :16:36.medication to combat attention ADHD, as it's known,
:16:37. > :16:39.includes symptoms of anxiety, intolerance and an inability
:16:40. > :16:50.to regulate emotions. A new study has found an increase
:16:51. > :16:53.in prescriptions in the UK of almost The research also found large rises
:16:54. > :17:00.in prescribing across Europe But some parents and doctors worry
:17:01. > :17:08.that drugs are being offered as a quick fix and that long-term
:17:09. > :17:10.issues behind ADHD aren't Our correspondent,
:17:11. > :17:13.Sian Lloyd reports. Well, my friends, they know
:17:14. > :17:16.I have ADHD and they know But I don't think they really know
:17:17. > :17:26.fully how it is to be like this. 13-year-old Dylan Piper
:17:27. > :17:29.was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
:17:30. > :17:31.which is a mental health He struggles to concentrate and that
:17:32. > :17:39.can lead to him being disruptive. His mood swings are controlled
:17:40. > :17:41.by medication, so he can But his family are concerned
:17:42. > :17:48.about whether taking drugs is the best solution
:17:49. > :17:50.to changing his behaviour If I was able to do
:17:51. > :17:57.or give him anything else, I would in a heartbeat,
:17:58. > :17:59.and not have him on medication. However, right now, we don't
:18:00. > :18:01.have any other option. The use of medication for children
:18:02. > :18:04.like Dylan is the focus The United States has the highest
:18:05. > :18:07.prescription levels, but the report shows that the UK
:18:08. > :18:13.is catching up. The rate here has increased by
:18:14. > :18:17.almost 57% over a seven-year period. This report tells us that more
:18:18. > :18:20.children and young people are being prescribed
:18:21. > :18:24.medication for ADHD. And suggests that some
:18:25. > :18:27.may be taking the drugs But it doesn't tell us
:18:28. > :18:31.exactly why more drugs are being prescribed
:18:32. > :18:38.in the first place. Doctors like this professor have
:18:39. > :18:40.to follow strict guidelines surrounding the diagnosis
:18:41. > :18:43.and treatment of ADHD. Medication is effective,
:18:44. > :18:47.but it isn't advised as the first option,
:18:48. > :18:49.except in the most serious of cases. She says professionals
:18:50. > :18:51.can feel under pressure As a society I think our tolerance
:18:52. > :18:56.is going down, you know, So there is a lot of pressure
:18:57. > :19:07.to often medicalise behaviour. Play therapy is one
:19:08. > :19:11.alternative to medication. It can help children gain
:19:12. > :19:14.the coping skills they need. Occupational therapist Nerys Hughes
:19:15. > :19:20.was so frustrated by the lack of choice offered to her son
:19:21. > :19:22.and children like him, she set up her own therapy centre
:19:23. > :19:25.to help children with ADHD. It is much harder to get funding
:19:26. > :19:30.for a child to like themselves than it is to get funding
:19:31. > :19:36.for a medication that stops a child But the long-term impacts
:19:37. > :19:42.of the medication are still not fully uncovered, whereas we do know
:19:43. > :19:47.that children who have gone through successful treatment
:19:48. > :19:49.packages do come out feeling much better about themselves
:19:50. > :19:51.and having a much better way Dylan's family are investigating
:19:52. > :19:55.other ways to help him, Increasingly parents
:19:56. > :20:02.and health professionals say they are concerned
:20:03. > :20:04.about the condition A lorry driver who stole a 32-tonne
:20:05. > :20:13.tipper-truck has been sentenced to six months in prison,
:20:14. > :20:15.after almost driving into his boss and colleagues
:20:16. > :20:19.following a row at work. Police helicopter footage
:20:20. > :20:21.shows Patrick Denman - from Northumberland -
:20:22. > :20:24.driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway and narrowly missing
:20:25. > :20:26.two police patrol cars. The court heard he was on his way
:20:27. > :20:29.to his ex-partner's home A man who was arrested close
:20:30. > :20:38.to Downing Street last month has appeared in court charged with
:20:39. > :20:40.preparation for a terrorist act. 27-year-old Khalid Mohammed
:20:41. > :20:42.Omar Ali, from London, is also charged with two counts
:20:43. > :20:50.of making or having explosives. It was the record-breaking
:20:51. > :20:56.transfer of last summer. Paul Pogba's ?89.3 million
:20:57. > :21:01.move from Juventus to Manchester United is now
:21:02. > :21:04.the subject of a Fifa investigation. Football's world governing body
:21:05. > :21:06.wants to know who was involved in the deal -
:21:07. > :21:10.amid claims that Pogba's agent earned more than $40 million
:21:11. > :21:13.from the transaction. He came to England with the biggest
:21:14. > :21:20.price tag football's ever seen - Paul Pogba moved from Juventus
:21:21. > :21:22.to Manchester United last year The transfer was also highly
:21:23. > :21:28.lucrative for this man, the French midfielder's
:21:29. > :21:29.representative, Mino Raiola, one Earlier, Pogba arrived for training
:21:30. > :21:37.ahead of the Europa League semifinal tomorrow, but his club are facing
:21:38. > :21:39.questions over how Paul Pogba's occasionally put
:21:40. > :21:45.in the kind of performance for Manchester United that goes some
:21:46. > :21:48.way to justifying his remarkable transfer fee, but it now appears
:21:49. > :21:51.that it could be the amount of money that his agent received
:21:52. > :21:54.that is the most eye-catching According to a new book
:21:55. > :21:57.published in Germany, That included ?23 million
:21:58. > :22:04.of the ?89 million transfer fee, and a further ?16 million
:22:05. > :22:16.from United in five future instalments, plus ?2 million extra
:22:17. > :22:18.through Pogba himself. Fifa are investigating,
:22:19. > :22:20.confirming here at their annual congress in Bahrain that they've
:22:21. > :22:22.written to United Pogba hasn't commented,
:22:23. > :22:26.while Raiola says the matter United, meanwhile, feel
:22:27. > :22:32.the deal was legitimate. Jose, do the headlines and the story
:22:33. > :22:37.about Paul's transfer, does that affect you or does that
:22:38. > :22:39.affect the player at all? We're not here to discuss
:22:40. > :22:42.that, we're just here No.
:22:43. > :22:44.The question is simple. He asked if it affects,
:22:45. > :22:48.no, it doesn't affect. But some in the game
:22:49. > :22:50.feel it's gone too far. The chairman of League 2
:22:51. > :22:53.Accrington Stanley today telling me what he made of the money
:22:54. > :22:56.allegedly paid to Raiola. Probably 20 times the cost
:22:57. > :23:02.of running Accrington Stanley a year in one agent's fee,
:23:03. > :23:06.from one club. If you can afford 41 million to pay
:23:07. > :23:09.an agent, for a player, The Premier League makes the point
:23:10. > :23:20.that its superstars like Pogba that drive its global appeal, and enable
:23:21. > :23:27.it to redistribute ?200 million a season to Football League clubs,
:23:28. > :23:30.but for others it's the vast amounts going to the money men behind
:23:31. > :23:39.the deals that's hard to understand. As we discovered last week the Duke
:23:40. > :23:46.of Edinburgh will be stepping back from public life in the autumn.
:23:47. > :23:52.Today he was out carriage driving in Windsor and he was on lively form as
:23:53. > :23:56.an American journalist found out. Nicholas Witchell reports.
:23:57. > :23:58.He took to carriage driving when he gave up polo.
:23:59. > :24:08.So too is winding up unwary interviewers, as an American
:24:09. > :24:10.carriage driver interviewing the Duke for US television
:24:11. > :24:15.What does it mean to you to have the sport that
:24:16. > :24:16.you helped develop displayed here at Windsor?
:24:17. > :24:20.OK, well, how about some reminiscences?
:24:21. > :24:23.I heard a wonderful story once how you came
:24:24. > :24:26.back with only three wheels and needed a garden stake to sort of
:24:27. > :24:34.Maybe a more technical question about the
:24:35. > :24:38.What was your personal favourite phase of the three days?
:24:39. > :24:47.Oh, please, there must be something
:24:48. > :24:50.Do you have some favourite experiences that
:24:51. > :25:06.Well, no, but I don't know what you mean
:25:07. > :25:10.of your years competing in the sport.
:25:11. > :25:13.Is there something that stands out for you that you look
:25:14. > :25:15.back fondly and say, yeah, that was a good time.
:25:16. > :25:21.And there we have it, he's nearly 96,
:25:22. > :25:36.Looked nice in Windsor, what about the rest of the country? Hearers
:25:37. > :25:39.Tomasz Schafernaker will stop sunny skies and 19 degrees is what we
:25:40. > :25:46.managed but a bit of a change on the way, some damp dewy picture behind
:25:47. > :25:50.me, so the humidity will rise over the next day or so and with that
:25:51. > :25:53.comes the risk of downpours and possibly thunderstorms.
:25:54. > :25:56.The warmth and humidity will come in from the southern climes and it will
:25:57. > :26:01.be here to stay until around about Saturday. Here is the satellite
:26:02. > :26:05.picture from earlier, beautiful weather across much of the UK, not
:26:06. > :26:09.Western and northern Scotland, here it has admittedly been a little more
:26:10. > :26:12.cloudy. Tonight lots of clear whether around and through the early
:26:13. > :26:16.hours of Thursday morning we will start to see the humidity increase
:26:17. > :26:20.across southern areas, already some showers getting into the South. Most
:26:21. > :26:24.of us for sure will have a dry night. Tomorrow morning the clouds
:26:25. > :26:28.and into the afternoon will increase in the south, that skies will turn
:26:29. > :26:32.hazy and some thunderstorms might break out in the afternoon but they
:26:33. > :26:36.will be hit and miss and it's impossible to predict which town or
:26:37. > :26:40.city will get the storm. Most of us will have a dry day with hazy
:26:41. > :26:42.sunshine and temperatures around 20 degrees. Later on on Thursday
:26:43. > :26:47.evening we will seek more substantial rain getting into the
:26:48. > :26:49.South, substantial watering for the gardens but I can't guarantee
:26:50. > :26:53.everyone will get the rain in the gardens because it is so difficult
:26:54. > :26:57.for casting these thunderstorms. The much to on coming in from the
:26:58. > :27:01.south-west as you saw, perhaps some rain and storms across the central
:27:02. > :27:04.parts of the British Isles on Friday. Still very humid,
:27:05. > :27:09.temperatures even though it is cloudy and rainy could be 18 or 19
:27:10. > :27:12.degrees, better dry weather and fresher in north-west Scotland at
:27:13. > :27:18.15. It could be raining in Scotland by the time we get to Saturday. The
:27:19. > :27:20.South will dry out and this weather front brings fresh weather heading
:27:21. > :27:23.into Sunday. Thank you, Thomas.
:27:24. > :27:33.Political shock waves as the US President fires the director of the
:27:34. > :27:35.FBI. Donald Trump said James Comey was not doing a good job.
:27:36. > :27:38.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me -
:27:39. > :27:40.and on BBC one we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.