:00:00. > :00:00.The council leader of Kensington and Chelsea,
:00:00. > :00:13.where the Grenfell Tower fire happened, resigns.
:00:14. > :00:16.After a stormy council meeting last night when the public
:00:17. > :00:19.and press were banned, the leader says he should quit.
:00:20. > :00:22.As council leader, I have to accept my share of responsibility
:00:23. > :00:28.New documents obtained by the BBC reveal officials chose cheaper,
:00:29. > :00:35.And the head of the organisation which manages the tower block
:00:36. > :00:42.A coroner rules it's impossible to say whether lifeguards could have
:00:43. > :00:48.saved five friends who drowned at Camber Sands.
:00:49. > :00:51.Nurseries in England say they don't have the money to provide
:00:52. > :00:55.the free childcare promised by the government.
:00:56. > :00:57.Why British medical students are heading to Eastern Europe
:00:58. > :01:01.And Chris Froome prepares to defend his title,
:01:02. > :01:06.as cyclists head to the starting line for this year's Tour de France.
:01:07. > :01:08.And coming up on Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News.
:01:09. > :01:11.Three days before the defence of his title, Murray puts
:01:12. > :01:13.in the practice at Wimbledon as he tries to shake
:01:14. > :01:37.Good evening, and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:38. > :01:40.In the last half hour the leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council,
:01:41. > :01:43.the borough where the Grenfell Tower fire happened, has resigned.
:01:44. > :01:45.Nicholas Paget-Brown said he had to accept responsibility
:01:46. > :01:48.for his role in the response to the fire, and in particular
:01:49. > :01:51.for the decision to ban the public and press from a council
:01:52. > :01:56.The BBC has also obtained documents that show that cheaper,
:01:57. > :02:01.less fire-resistant cladding was chosen for the tower block.
:02:02. > :02:03.80 people are believed to have died in the fire,
:02:04. > :02:05.and there is no suggestion a deliberate decision
:02:06. > :02:09.Kensington and Chelsea Council says safety would not have been
:02:10. > :02:12.compromised in order to manage budgets.
:02:13. > :02:19.Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds has more.
:02:20. > :02:27.Where you pressured by Number 10 to resign? The pressure simply got too
:02:28. > :02:30.great. The leader of the Council, criticised for failing to cope with
:02:31. > :02:39.the crisis in his backyard, couldn't hold on. Last week, his council
:02:40. > :02:44.offices were invaded. Last night he couldn't even hold a council
:02:45. > :02:48.meeting. It was the last straw. In particular my decision to accept
:02:49. > :02:53.legal advice but I should not compromise the public enquiry by
:02:54. > :02:56.having an open discussion in public yesterday, has itself become a
:02:57. > :03:01.political story. It cannot be right that this should have become the
:03:02. > :03:06.focus of attention, when so many are dead or still unaccounted for. His
:03:07. > :03:11.housing chief has also gone. Investigations by the BBC and the
:03:12. > :03:13.Times newspaper into decisions made when the council refurbished
:03:14. > :03:17.Grenfell Tower added to the pressure. The big change, the
:03:18. > :03:21.addition of aluminium cladding to improve the look of the building.
:03:22. > :03:25.We've been investigating that refurbishment and whether it played
:03:26. > :03:31.a part in the tragedy. This development in North London includes
:03:32. > :03:35.cladding made, not from aluminium, but Zink. Documents passed to the
:03:36. > :03:41.BBC revealed that the think panels were originally proposed for
:03:42. > :03:46.Grenfell. The architects designs show this clearly, residents were
:03:47. > :03:51.told there would be zinc. But there was pressure to reduce costs. By
:03:52. > :03:54.2015 they would give an to the original tender and told to sit
:03:55. > :04:03.aluminium panel, which is cheaper. The saving more than ?293,000. Did
:04:04. > :04:07.the change make a difference to fire safety? This panel is similar to the
:04:08. > :04:12.ones eventually used. It's an aluminium sandwich with a plastic
:04:13. > :04:17.filling which isn't fire resistant. The original zinc panels were
:04:18. > :04:21.marketed as capable of being able to resist fire. Both panels have the
:04:22. > :04:26.same safety rating and a European testing. On current evidence, it's
:04:27. > :04:32.not clear the change would have made a difference. However, even the fact
:04:33. > :04:37.there was pressure to cut costs has infuriated those affected by the
:04:38. > :04:44.fire. Those affected and the wider community are utterly sick of this
:04:45. > :04:49.lack of value ascribed to human beings who pay their council tax,
:04:50. > :04:56.who paid these people's wages. Meanwhile, cladding from 149 tower
:04:57. > :05:00.blocks has now failed government tests. The process has been
:05:01. > :05:04.criticised as pointless because only the cladding is being tested and not
:05:05. > :05:11.installation. Pointless? No, says the testing body. It is critical to
:05:12. > :05:16.do the screening tests, just to see whether there is a risk or not, to
:05:17. > :05:19.see whether the buildings have this flammable cladding or not. Many of
:05:20. > :05:24.them do and the question now is what can we do about it, and are there
:05:25. > :05:29.other risks or materials we need to consider. There is an immediate
:05:30. > :05:34.crisis to deal with, and ongoing police investigation, a public
:05:35. > :05:35.enquiry, again today described as too narrow. Grenfell Tower casts a
:05:36. > :05:39.long shadow. Our correspondent Frankie
:05:40. > :05:48.McCamley is outside The council leader has resigned, the
:05:49. > :05:56.head of the management company has stepped aside as well. What
:05:57. > :06:00.residents saying? This isn't a very surprising announcement. Kensington
:06:01. > :06:04.and Chelsea Borough Council have been coming under increasing
:06:05. > :06:09.pressure to step aside and let a new team takeover. Not only has Nicholas
:06:10. > :06:12.Paget-Brown, the council leader, stepped aside, in the past few
:06:13. > :06:18.minutes we've also had the announcement is Deputy has also
:06:19. > :06:23.decided to step down. This follows on from the chief Executive who
:06:24. > :06:28.managed Grenfell Tower saying he wants to step aside to help with the
:06:29. > :06:33.investigation and ongoing enquiries. There is mixed reaction here. I've
:06:34. > :06:38.been here for the last few weeks, speaking to people who lived in the
:06:39. > :06:41.tower and the surrounding area. They say that some happy with this
:06:42. > :06:46.decision, they say they want a new team to come in and take control of
:06:47. > :06:51.the situation, finally, they say. Others say this is a PR stunt and
:06:52. > :06:57.they worry nothing is going to change from this.
:06:58. > :06:58.A coroner has concluded that it's not possible
:06:59. > :07:01.to establish whether seven men, who drowned off Camber Sands
:07:02. > :07:03.in East Sussex last summer, might have survived if lifeguards
:07:04. > :07:07.Five friends died in one incident just a month after two other men
:07:08. > :07:12.Duncan Kennedy is in Hastings, where the inquests have been taking place.
:07:13. > :07:14.Duncan, a terrible tragedy at one of the country's
:07:15. > :07:29.And probably unprecedented as well, Fiona. The fact seven men could die
:07:30. > :07:33.in two incidents on one beach in the space of one month is believed to
:07:34. > :07:38.have been unique in this country. There were verdicts of death by
:07:39. > :07:43.misadventure today. The coroner said he didn't think lifeguards on Camber
:07:44. > :07:46.Sands would have made a difference, but the men's families have reacted
:07:47. > :07:50.angrily to that. They all say they believe lifeguards would have made a
:07:51. > :07:58.difference, and they say nobody should have to go through what
:07:59. > :08:03.they've been through. It's the beach where generations of families have
:08:04. > :08:05.made their summer holidays. Three kilometres long, Camber Sands is
:08:06. > :08:12.normally a place where happy memories are created. But for Kobi
:08:13. > :08:16.Saththiyanathan, his brother Ken, Nitharsan Ravi, Inthushan
:08:17. > :08:22.Sriskantharasa and Gurushanth Srithavarajah, it became a place of
:08:23. > :08:26.danger and death. Tonight at the end of their inquest, the families spoke
:08:27. > :08:33.of their anger and frustration at their loss, and included Gurushanth
:08:34. > :08:37.Srithavarajah's Sister. It was five boys playing on the beach. They
:08:38. > :08:41.didn't make any effort to find the rest of the boys, they weren't found
:08:42. > :08:53.until 8:30pm. They were in the water for six hours! They didn't make any
:08:54. > :09:00.effort to find those boys. My brother was in the water for six
:09:01. > :09:04.hours. The families say that the council was wrong to suggest people
:09:05. > :09:13.from ethnic minorities couldn't swim at Camber Sands. I don't know if
:09:14. > :09:18.your family comes to the beach. That's why we are fighting. To
:09:19. > :09:30.change something, not for us, because my son isn't coming back.
:09:31. > :09:37.He's never coming back. Thank you. The father of the two brothers said
:09:38. > :09:43.families had to hear their children blamed for their own deaths. This
:09:44. > :09:48.was the moment it became clear the men had drowned. The council said it
:09:49. > :09:52.had put in lifeguards before, as the RNLI had urged them to, in part
:09:53. > :09:58.because it didn't have the money. Tonight the council was asked why he
:09:59. > :10:03.had never apologised to the families. The council has made it
:10:04. > :10:07.clear they send condolences to the families. It is a tragic event, we
:10:08. > :10:12.don't wish to see that happen again on any of our beaches. The coroner
:10:13. > :10:20.has taken away a lot of information from this and will be raising it has
:10:21. > :10:23.a national level. A month earlier Mohit Dupar and Gustavo Silva Da
:10:24. > :10:26.Cruz also drowned. For the family off all the men who died in one
:10:27. > :10:33.appalling sequence of tragedies, there's anguish and bewilderment at
:10:34. > :10:37.how this can happen in such a relaxed and familiar setting.
:10:38. > :10:40.The main programme to treat sex offenders in England and Wales
:10:41. > :10:43.for the last quarter of a century until very recently didn't reduce
:10:44. > :10:45.re-offending and if anything made it worse, according
:10:46. > :10:49.Our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford is outside
:10:50. > :10:52.the Ministry of Justice for us now, so this has been a colossal waste
:10:53. > :11:07.Fiona, it looks like that, yes. To give you an idea of the scale, some
:11:08. > :11:14.2500 prisoners in England and Wales went through this Core Sex Offender
:11:15. > :11:18.Treatment Programme between 2002 and 2012. Researchers found that those
:11:19. > :11:21.who had been through the course were more likely to reoffend than those
:11:22. > :11:27.who hadn't done the cause. Those who hadn't done the course, 8% of them
:11:28. > :11:31.reoffended, those who had, 10% of them reoffended. Researchers think
:11:32. > :11:34.this might have been because they were discussing their offending in
:11:35. > :11:38.group sessions and somehow by discussing their crimes, it made
:11:39. > :11:43.them seem more normal and possibly more likely to reoffend. This study
:11:44. > :11:47.has been sitting on ministers desks for several months and quietly
:11:48. > :11:51.they've been changing the sex offender treatment courses in the
:11:52. > :11:54.background, so that they now no longer involve the discussing of
:11:55. > :11:58.offending in group sessions. It looks as if they've changed the
:11:59. > :12:03.training and the courses prisoners do before making public the fact
:12:04. > :12:04.that what they've been doing for 25 years hasn't worked and may have
:12:05. > :12:10.made things worse. Thank you. The parents of 10-month-old
:12:11. > :12:13.Charlie Gard have been told they will be able to spend more time
:12:14. > :12:16.with their terminally ill baby. Chris Gard and Connie Yates had been
:12:17. > :12:19.expecting their son's life support to be turned off today after losing
:12:20. > :12:22.a high profile legal battle. But Great Ormond Street Hospital has
:12:23. > :12:24.since disclosed they are looking at plans for the baby's care
:12:25. > :12:27.to enable the family We are saving a smaller percentage
:12:28. > :12:34.of our income than at any time since records began in 1963,
:12:35. > :12:36.according to the Office In the first three months
:12:37. > :12:40.of the year, people saved 1.7% of their disposable income -
:12:41. > :12:43.down from 3.3% in Economists say savings are down
:12:44. > :12:48.because prices are rising, and there's also been an increase
:12:49. > :12:54.in tax payments. Nurseries in England say local
:12:55. > :12:56.councils are failing to provide enough money to fund the additional
:12:57. > :12:58.free childcare for three and four-year-olds promised
:12:59. > :13:01.by the government. From September, children will be
:13:02. > :13:04.eligible for 30 hours of free nursery education if both parents
:13:05. > :13:07.are in work. But the National Day Nurseries
:13:08. > :13:09.Association say most nurseries can't Our education correspondent
:13:10. > :13:18.Gillian Hargreaves reports. From September, all three
:13:19. > :13:28.and four-year-olds in England You know the routine, dropping of
:13:29. > :13:35.the kids. The constant juggling of childcare for working parents. Which
:13:36. > :13:38.is why the government's four of 30 hours of free childcare for three
:13:39. > :13:42.and four-year-olds in England looked so good.
:13:43. > :13:48.But this nursery says it can't afford to provide more free hours,
:13:49. > :13:54.because the money they get from the government won't cover their bills.
:13:55. > :13:58.Every nursery is totally different, so the shortfall is huge. The
:13:59. > :14:02.government says it is spending ?1 billion on this. That is enough
:14:03. > :14:06.money to make it work. The government say it's free childcare,
:14:07. > :14:10.it's only free if we are prepared to foot the bill and pay for it.
:14:11. > :14:18.Unfortunately, that would mean lowering standards which are not
:14:19. > :14:20.prepared to do. When a national day nurseries Association asked 128
:14:21. > :14:26.local authorities in England how much they will pay nurseries for
:14:27. > :14:45.subsidised from September... Just over two months to go before
:14:46. > :14:49.free childcare is extended in England, it now looks like the
:14:50. > :14:53.government is in direct conflict with day nurseries. There's a risk
:14:54. > :14:59.that parents might find they've been promised something that they won't
:15:00. > :15:02.be able to take of. People come to this nursery because they want to
:15:03. > :15:08.come to this nursery. If they can't get the funding through the nursery
:15:09. > :15:13.is going to be very frustrating. My concern is that fabulous nurseries
:15:14. > :15:17.like this may struggle. It's a shame the government timetable to support
:15:18. > :15:24.those nurseries that need the extra money. The government has invested
:15:25. > :15:28.extra cash and says there's plenty to go around but nurseries say the
:15:29. > :15:33.investment is less than the price of a second stamp. If neither backs
:15:34. > :15:43.down its mums and dads caught in the stand-off.
:15:44. > :15:47.The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council,
:15:48. > :15:53.where the Grenfell Tower fire happened, has just resigned.
:15:54. > :16:00.Coming up... I'm live in Dusseldorf ahead of the start of the 2017 Tour
:16:01. > :16:01.de France. Can Chris Froome win a fourth yellow jersey?
:16:02. > :16:04.Coming up on Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News...
:16:05. > :16:06.It's must-win for the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand,
:16:07. > :16:09.as the All-Blacks look to clinch the series in tomorrow's
:16:10. > :16:20.Thousands of British students are heading to Eastern Europe
:16:21. > :16:23.to train to be doctors and dentists after failing to get places
:16:24. > :16:27.Research done by BBC News suggests there's been an increase
:16:28. > :16:29.in the numbers of students going to places like
:16:30. > :16:34.That's partly because of the limited places at medical schools here.
:16:35. > :16:38.There are 8,200 places available each year in the UK to study
:16:39. > :16:44.medicine, but there are about 20,000 applicants.
:16:45. > :16:49.And this at a time when we're facing a shortage of doctors.
:16:50. > :16:53.Our Health Editor, Hugh Pym, reports from Varna in Bulgaria.
:16:54. > :16:55.They're so keen to study medicine, they've come a long way
:16:56. > :16:59.These British students are at the University
:17:00. > :17:01.of Varna in Bulgaria, because it was difficult
:17:02. > :17:11.One of them is Zara, a mature student who is a mother of four.
:17:12. > :17:14.She's frustrated she was turned down by a British medical school
:17:15. > :17:19.They were thinking it's going to be like, I'm
:17:20. > :17:22.going to leave in the middle or something like that.
:17:23. > :17:31.So I thought, like, there's no need to waste my time here in the UK,
:17:32. > :17:33.and try to convince them or impress them with my grades
:17:34. > :17:45.They do need to learn Bulgarian to talk to patients.
:17:46. > :17:56.This man from West London explains that competition
:17:57. > :17:58.for places at British medical schools is intense.
:17:59. > :18:03.So to pursue his dream of becoming a neurosurgeon,
:18:04. > :18:08.We have Ph.D students and Master's students
:18:09. > :18:11.who are applying for the same places as you are applying to.
:18:12. > :18:17.And we have a lot of people get rejected, a lot of good
:18:18. > :18:21.There are 250 British medical and dental students in Varna,
:18:22. > :18:29.Living costs are cheaper, and tuition fees lower than in England.
:18:30. > :18:32.But I asked the university vice-rector how she could be sure
:18:33. > :18:35.British students were up to doing medicine if they haven't got
:18:36. > :18:40.Those who are brought to the University are highly
:18:41. > :18:42.motivated young British people who are very much willing
:18:43. > :18:51.And we pass them through our system for medicine.
:18:52. > :18:55.They need to sit for entry exams in biology and chemistry.
:18:56. > :18:57.There's nothing new about British students wanting
:18:58. > :19:02.What we've discovered is that there has been a noticeable
:19:03. > :19:04.increase in the numbers going to medical schools
:19:05. > :19:07.in Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia,
:19:08. > :19:14.They're being promoted around the UK at events like this.
:19:15. > :19:18.An agent charging a fee helps with the application process,
:19:19. > :19:22.and says those without A grades at A-level can still get in.
:19:23. > :19:27.Some universities might be actually a bit more, a little flexible,
:19:28. > :19:30.and might go for something lower like a C or something like that.
:19:31. > :19:35.But, these people they need to go through some exams.
:19:36. > :19:37.But you could get a place, could you, with Bs and Cs?
:19:38. > :19:42.Doctors qualifying at an EU medical school are automatically
:19:43. > :19:48.But the regulator the General Medical Council says things might
:19:49. > :19:52.change after Brexit, with extra tests imposed.
:19:53. > :19:56.At a time when doctors are badly needed, these students say they'll
:19:57. > :19:59.do whatever it takes to work in the NHS.
:20:00. > :20:07.Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of one of the victims
:20:08. > :20:10.Coronation Street stars joined mourners in Stockport
:20:11. > :20:15.at the funeral of Martyn Hett, who was a huge fan of the soap.
:20:16. > :20:22.Martyn Hett loved to make an entrance.
:20:23. > :20:25.At 29, he'd planned his own funeral, with two white horses
:20:26. > :20:34.His family took a moment for private grief, before
:20:35. > :20:39.a very public celebration for the extrovert blogger.
:20:40. > :20:43.We have received messages from all around the world
:20:44. > :20:46.from people who followed Martyn, just waiting for his
:20:47. > :20:54.Martyn loved being in the limelight, and the centre of attention.
:20:55. > :20:57.He will be loving every minute of this fantastic
:20:58. > :21:03.Hello, and welcome to the ten o'clock news, with me, Martyn Hett.
:21:04. > :21:05.I absolutely adore Coronation Street...
:21:06. > :21:08.Martyn's family played this film, including a tribute
:21:09. > :21:16.to his love of Corrie, and his favourite character.
:21:17. > :21:19.Some of the cast were there to celebrate their superfan,
:21:20. > :21:26.I love you, and I'm so happy that we got a chance to meet.
:21:27. > :21:31.And I know that you're shining down on us from heaven.
:21:32. > :21:34.Me and my group of friends and everyone at Radio One
:21:35. > :21:38.were always commenting on how funny, how sharp and how hilarious Martyn
:21:39. > :21:45.The service was beamed to the crowd outside.
:21:46. > :21:50.The impact of the Manchester attack still felt here.
:21:51. > :21:55.Martyn was really the complete opposite of the person
:21:56. > :22:02.He just swallowed it all up, all that hate and anger,
:22:03. > :22:09.and his star is shining bright for us all to see.
:22:10. > :22:13.Martyn's mum said she wanted him to make a diva exit, and so he did.
:22:14. > :22:18.Applauded by his family, his friends, his audience.
:22:19. > :22:25.Mourners lined the streets of Merseyside to pay their final
:22:26. > :22:28.respects to 15-year-old Megan Hurley, who also died
:22:29. > :22:30.in the Manchester Arena attack. Her family asked for privacy
:22:31. > :22:33.at today's service, where the bells of St Nicholas Church in Halewood
:22:34. > :22:38.rang 22 times for the victims of the bombing.
:22:39. > :22:40.People were encouraged to wear Megan's favourite colour,
:22:41. > :22:48.Tennis, and Andy Murray will begin the defence of his Wimbledon title
:22:49. > :22:50.against an unseeded player when the Championships
:22:51. > :22:55.He pulled out of his last warm-up game today because of a hip problem,
:22:56. > :22:57.but was practising on the grass at the All-England Club.
:22:58. > :23:00.Murray is drawn in the same half as French Open champion
:23:01. > :23:07.The British cyclist Chris Froome will attempt to defend his
:23:08. > :23:09.title when the Tour de France begins tomorrow.
:23:10. > :23:12.He's hoping to complete his third straight win and a fourth
:23:13. > :23:17.But he faces stiff competition from some the world's leading cyclists.
:23:18. > :23:19.The race begins in the German city of Dusseldorf,
:23:20. > :23:26.and our Sports Correspondent Richard Conway is there.
:23:27. > :23:33.Richard, an unusual place to start the Tour de France? Well, it is,
:23:34. > :23:38.yes, the tour tries to take in as many countries as possible, Fira. We
:23:39. > :23:42.are here in Dusseldorf for the start tomorrow. There is an individual
:23:43. > :23:46.time trial. Yes, Chris Froome and Team Sky will be hoping to add to
:23:47. > :23:50.what has been a golden era for British cycling. They want a fourth
:23:51. > :23:53.yellow jersey for Chris Froome. However, I can tell you, the
:23:54. > :23:57.forecast here tomorrow is for torrential rain. Conditions will be
:23:58. > :24:02.difficult. That is perhaps increasing might include being given
:24:03. > :24:07.the dark clouds which have followed Team Sky in recent months -- that is
:24:08. > :24:09.perhaps in keeping with the. Clouds. Chris Froome becomes
:24:10. > :24:11.the first Briton to retain Chris Froome knows what it takes
:24:12. > :24:15.to win the Tour de France. Tomorrow, he starts his quest
:24:16. > :24:17.for a fourth victory Media interest is always sky-high,
:24:18. > :24:20.but this year, Froome's team roll off the start line the subject
:24:21. > :24:23.of an ongoing doping investigation, and with questions looming
:24:24. > :24:25.over their leader's credibility. I've been involved in this sport
:24:26. > :24:29.a long time, and I've tried to do it absolutely the way that I've always
:24:30. > :24:31.thought it should be done. And I'm proud of what we've
:24:32. > :24:34.achieved in this sport, Evidence from Sir Dave Brailsford
:24:35. > :24:38.and other Team Sky officials to MPs earlier this year revealed
:24:39. > :24:40.an alarming lack of It all relates to a package alleged
:24:41. > :24:44.to have contained a banned substance administered to Sir Bradley Wiggins
:24:45. > :24:47.shortly before he went on to win Team Sky and Sir Bradley
:24:48. > :24:50.deny any wrongdoing, but the issue has presented
:24:51. > :24:52.the sport and the head of its world governing body
:24:53. > :24:57.with a familiar problem. Certainly the reputational problems
:24:58. > :24:59.that have been around that team in the last few months have
:25:00. > :25:01.not been helpful. We were previously considered
:25:02. > :25:08.pariahs of the anti-doping world, and now we've got one of the best
:25:09. > :25:13.reputations in sport, I believe. The Tour, like its
:25:14. > :25:15.cyclists, endures. Millions will watch on TV, and,
:25:16. > :25:23.just as in Yorkshire in 2014, thousands will line the route
:25:24. > :25:26.for the start, which this year takes For Chris Froome, he must now focus
:25:27. > :25:30.on more than 2000 miles of racing that stand between him and road
:25:31. > :25:32.cycling's greatest prize. This is the biggest challenge
:25:33. > :25:35.I've faced in my career. I think the level of my rivals
:25:36. > :25:41.on the course that we're racing on this year leads it to be a much
:25:42. > :25:44.more open race. A possible fifth British Tour title
:25:45. > :25:48.in six years await when the race The fight to fully
:25:49. > :25:52.restore Team Sky's image? Richard Conway, BBC
:25:53. > :26:10.News, Dusseldorf. How is it looking for the weekend?
:26:11. > :26:15.Pretty good. We will start with a quick look back of June. We are into
:26:16. > :26:19.the last few hours of June already. Not all of the stats in, but the Met
:26:20. > :26:26.Office figures suggest it was a warm month across the board. It was the
:26:27. > :26:31.hottest June day on the first since 1976. Not only was it a warm month,
:26:32. > :26:36.it was a wet one, particularly in the north and north-east. The South
:26:37. > :26:40.East of Scotland, Edinburgh and Leuchars in Fife, recorded their
:26:41. > :26:45.wettest June on record. A wet and warm month. It has been cloudy and
:26:46. > :26:48.wet in recent days. But the weekend is looking good, a lot of bright and
:26:49. > :26:52.bright weather, particularly for England and Wales. But there is some
:26:53. > :26:57.rain this evening and overnight, drifting south across in with Wales,
:26:58. > :27:02.not too heavy or widespread, but some rain nonetheless. Most of it
:27:03. > :27:04.has gone by dawn. Behind it is dry weather, cloudy conditions,
:27:05. > :27:10.temperatures not dropping too far. Dipping into single figures in the
:27:11. > :27:15.northern and western aisles. Rain in the South east doesn't last long,
:27:16. > :27:17.then it brightens up. Patchy cloud and sunny spells, light winds, a
:27:18. > :27:22.decent day for getting out and about. A different story for
:27:23. > :27:25.Scotland and Northern Ireland, a breeze, cloud and rain. The rain
:27:26. > :27:31.does not get to Aberdeenshire, where it will be warm. It will pick in the
:27:32. > :27:35.south-eastern corner at 23-24d. Through Saturday evening, if you are
:27:36. > :27:41.heading out there in mind that this weather front is slipping South,
:27:42. > :27:45.bringing bring to the north-west. That continues to drift its way
:27:46. > :27:48.southwards. By dawn on Sunday, wet weather in the south-east, but it
:27:49. > :27:52.shouldn't last too long. It will clear out into the near continent,
:27:53. > :27:56.then it's going to be another decent day for England and Wales. Decent
:27:57. > :28:00.spells of sunshine with light winds. A bit more of a breeze, the western
:28:01. > :28:03.side of Scotland, Vicar, with a bit of rain. Temperatures about 18 in
:28:04. > :28:17.Belfast, 22 in the London area. The leader of Kensington and Chelsea
:28:18. > :28:20.Council, where the Grenfell Tower I happened, has just resigned. He said
:28:21. > :28:25.he had to take responsibility for the response to the fire. As council
:28:26. > :28:26.leader, I to accept my share all the responsibility for these perceived
:28:27. > :28:28.failings.