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:00:08. > :00:09.Another big step towards Brexit as the government publishes

:00:10. > :00:12.its plans to convert EU law into British law.

:00:13. > :00:15.Ministers call for all parties to work with them, but already

:00:16. > :00:17.the opposition is calling for changes to be made

:00:18. > :00:28.The Prime Minister faces a difficult path ahead without a Parliamentary

:00:29. > :00:32.majority, she says that she was devastated by the election result.

:00:33. > :00:39.Devastated another to shed a tear? Yes, a little tear. At that moment?

:00:40. > :00:40.Yes, at that moment. We'll be looking at the challenges ahead for

:00:41. > :00:44.the government. Also tonight. The parents of baby Charlie Gard

:00:45. > :00:47.return to court as an American doctor says a trial therapy

:00:48. > :00:49.could give a chance Major changes to the way ambulances

:00:50. > :00:53.in England are dispatched to help ensure the sickest patients get

:00:54. > :00:59.treated the fastest. The French president welcomes

:01:00. > :01:01.Donald Trump to Paris And the end of a dream

:01:02. > :01:09.for Britain's Johanna Konta, as she crashes out of the Wimbledon

:01:10. > :01:22.semi finals. Coming up: as well as the reaction

:01:23. > :01:25.to the exit of the Anaconda Vice we will be rounding up all of the day

:01:26. > :01:43.'s other stories. -- the exit of Johanna Konta.

:01:44. > :01:46.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at 6.

:01:47. > :01:49.It's another major step on Britain's path to leaving the European Union.

:01:50. > :01:51.The government has finally published its long awaited plans

:01:52. > :01:54.to pave the way for EU law to be transferred into British law.

:01:55. > :01:56.The European Union Withdrawal Bill is being described as one

:01:57. > :02:05.of the largest legal projects ever undertaken in the UK.

:02:06. > :02:07.The government's called for all parties to work together

:02:08. > :02:10.But already Labour is calling for significant changes,

:02:11. > :02:12.and the Liberal Democrats are warning they will make life

:02:13. > :02:21.The bill will take an estimated 12,000 EU laws

:02:22. > :02:24.and copy them into UK law on the day that the UK

:02:25. > :02:34.The government will then have powers to amend laws as it sees fit.

:02:35. > :02:36.Our political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this report,

:02:37. > :02:39.a warning that it contains some flashing images.

:02:40. > :02:46.VOICEOVER: Has nothing changed? Still doing the handshakes, rolling

:02:47. > :02:51.out the red carpet for royalty, Spanish, this time. Still embarking

:02:52. > :02:56.on the task of taking us out of the European Union. No, everything has

:02:57. > :03:03.changed, for the first time today, the Prime Minister explaining her

:03:04. > :03:06.shock at the election. I felt, I suppose, devastated, because, as I

:03:07. > :03:10.say, I knew the campaign was not going perfectly, but still, the

:03:11. > :03:14.messages I was getting from people I was speaking to, but also, the

:03:15. > :03:17.comments we were getting back from a lot of people, that were being

:03:18. > :03:22.passed on to me, were that we were going to get a better result than we

:03:23. > :03:30.did. Devastated another to shed a tear? Well... Yes, a little tear.

:03:31. > :03:36.Yes. At that moment? Yes, at that moment, yes. And then you have two

:03:37. > :03:40.brush yourself down. You have a responsibility, you are a human

:03:41. > :03:44.being, you have been through the experience. I was there as leader of

:03:45. > :03:48.the party and Prime Minister. I had a responsibility then as we went

:03:49. > :03:53.through the night to determine what we were going to do the next

:03:54. > :04:01.morning. Presentation of Bill. It will not get any easier... Today,

:04:02. > :04:05.the bill that will legally take us out of the European Union arrived in

:04:06. > :04:09.Parliament. Broadly, the withdrawal bill cuts and pastes thousands of EU

:04:10. > :04:16.laws that govern so much right now into British law. As we leave, they

:04:17. > :04:21.will not apply. With Theresa May's shaky grip, MPs will inevitably try

:04:22. > :04:25.to make big changes. I think there is a big understanding out among

:04:26. > :04:28.ministers, across-the-board, that there will need to be a bit of

:04:29. > :04:38.compromise, there will need to be inevitable changes. Many ministers

:04:39. > :04:44.the withdrawal bill is such a huge undertaking, it gives ministers the

:04:45. > :04:47.power to change or strike out swathes of regulation without

:04:48. > :04:53.guaranteeing MPs a say. This bill as it stands would give ministers like

:04:54. > :04:57.you sweeping powers to change, get rid of bits and pieces of regulation

:04:58. > :05:04.that you do not like, without MPs having a guaranteed vote and full

:05:05. > :05:08.debate. These are hardly massive changes, they are technical changes

:05:09. > :05:11.to make the law work. It is up to the House of Commons, if a statutory

:05:12. > :05:15.instrument is placed in the House of Commons, then they have to decide.

:05:16. > :05:20.But they are not guaranteed vote unless today you want to give them a

:05:21. > :05:25.guarantee...? That is in the Hall of the House of Commons, what it

:05:26. > :05:28.chooses to vote on. It is not just a ministerial signature, it is a

:05:29. > :05:38.statutory instrument, which can be debated and voted upon. Labour is

:05:39. > :05:42.making its own way. Asking for its own meetings in Brussels, trying to

:05:43. > :05:50.get the EU's negotiator onside. A football shirt! Playing for Arsenal!

:05:51. > :05:54.Although it may take more than an Arsenal shirt to do that, but there

:05:55. > :05:58.is no way, as it stands, that Labour will back the bill. We will make

:05:59. > :06:03.sure there is full Parliamentary scrutiny, that has to be key to it,

:06:04. > :06:07.we have a Parliament where the government does not have a majority

:06:08. > :06:11.and the country has voted in two ways, on leave and remain, the

:06:12. > :06:15.majority voted to leave, we respect that but they did not vote to lose

:06:16. > :06:19.jobs, they did not vote to have Parliament ridden roughshod over.

:06:20. > :06:24.Nor will the Scottish Government, Nicola Sturgeon with their own Kodak

:06:25. > :06:29.moment in Brussels today, the Scottish Parliament cannot

:06:30. > :06:33.technically veto the plan, but it can refuse consent. As the bill

:06:34. > :06:37.stands now, in good conscience I could not recommend to the Scottish

:06:38. > :06:41.Parliament that against legislative consent... It takes hours away and

:06:42. > :06:44.undermines the very foundations of the devolution settlement that the

:06:45. > :06:48.parliament is built on. As Whitehall begins this enormous process,

:06:49. > :06:52.ministers are all too well aware that there will be conflict ahead.

:06:53. > :06:57.The question, how they balance compromise and hang onto their

:06:58. > :07:01.credibility. And what ends up on the statute books does not just sit on

:07:02. > :07:03.the shelf, but shapes how ministers govern, how we live our lives.

:07:04. > :07:11.STUDIO: Laura is in Westminster. Challenging path ahead. Yes,

:07:12. > :07:16.Minister is all too well aware that the chances of getting this through

:07:17. > :07:19.without making concessions are slim to none. The political decision is

:07:20. > :07:24.when they start compromising. And what areas are they prepared to

:07:25. > :07:28.budge. -- ministers. On some parts of this huge undertaking, there is

:07:29. > :07:37.an air of flexibility around, David Davis suggested that the government

:07:38. > :07:41.might pursue a social membership of Euratom, which is the membership

:07:42. > :07:45.safety union is part of being part of the European Union, bundling is

:07:46. > :07:51.about eight rebellion in the air and we may look at an association way of

:07:52. > :07:55.staying in. -- about a rebellion in the air. He also talked about

:07:56. > :08:00.arbitration mechanism, jargon about panels of judges from around Europe

:08:01. > :08:03.and Britain, a way of getting around a difficult problem where Britain

:08:04. > :08:07.wants its judges to be in charge of everything and Brussels wants

:08:08. > :08:11.European judges to be in charge of everything. There are some areas

:08:12. > :08:16.where we start to see the government bend a little bit, why is that?

:08:17. > :08:20.Because they know they have two, they are up against the clock,

:08:21. > :08:25.ticking louder and louder, and of course, since the election, their

:08:26. > :08:32.authority has taken a knock. -- because they know they have to.

:08:33. > :08:35.An American doctor has told the High Court that a trial therapy

:08:36. > :08:37.in the States could give a chance of meaningful improvement

:08:38. > :08:40.to the condition of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard.

:08:41. > :08:43.His parents returned to court today for the latest stage of their legal

:08:44. > :08:46.Now the judge is considering whether to ask the American

:08:47. > :08:49.specialist to come to the UK to assess the baby's condition.

:08:50. > :08:55.Our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh reports.

:08:56. > :09:00.VOICEOVER: They call themselves Charlie 's Army, some of the half a

:09:01. > :09:04.million people who have signed a petition calling for him to be

:09:05. > :09:10.allowed abroad for spamming treatment. Chris Carter and Connie

:09:11. > :09:21.Yates reject evidence from Charlie's doctors that their son has

:09:22. > :09:26.irreversible brain damage. -- Chris Gard. We love him more than life

:09:27. > :09:31.itself, if he is still fighting, we are still fighting. Charlie is

:09:32. > :09:34.terminally, cannot move or breathe unaided, four courts have already

:09:35. > :09:38.ruled that he should be allowed to die. The evidence came from video

:09:39. > :09:43.link from the American doctor offering to treat Charlie, he says

:09:44. > :09:48.he now has a better understanding of the benefits of the therapy, of nine

:09:49. > :09:54.patients treated so far, none of whom have the same genetic mutation

:09:55. > :09:57.as Charlie, five now spend less time each day on a ventilator and one of

:09:58. > :10:02.them could breathe completely unaided. This led him to conclude

:10:03. > :10:13.that there was at least a 10% chance of meaningful improvement for

:10:14. > :10:18.Charlie. Six-year-old as a muscle wasting condition and is one of

:10:19. > :10:25.those treated in the US with this therapy, a powder which is added to

:10:26. > :10:27.food. We are able to give in the medication. Little by little he

:10:28. > :10:36.started to get stronger. They gave us hope. I did not care if he was

:10:37. > :10:39.the first human to try these medications, because they told us he

:10:40. > :10:43.was going to die. At one point, Charlie's parents walked out of

:10:44. > :10:49.court after the judge said they agreed their son has no quality of

:10:50. > :10:53.life. Connie Yates said, he is not suffering or in pain. In a

:10:54. > :10:57.statement, great Ormond Street said, Charlie is a beautiful tiny baby,

:10:58. > :11:02.afflicted by one of the crew list of diseases. Is depleted genetic

:11:03. > :11:06.disorder leaves in with no muscle function at all and deprived of his

:11:07. > :11:12.senses, unable to breathe, and so far as can be discerned, without any

:11:13. > :11:15.awareness. A final decision of the court is aimed to be in the best

:11:16. > :11:20.interests of Charlie, that would be a balance of the many risks and

:11:21. > :11:24.benefits. It is not black and white but it will be a summation of all

:11:25. > :11:27.the possible benefits and all the possible risks and what that could

:11:28. > :11:31.do for Charlie, not what it does for anybody else. Charlie remains in

:11:32. > :11:37.intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital, his future

:11:38. > :11:42.unresolved, as the legal arguments drag on.

:11:43. > :11:44.STUDIO: It's being hailed as the biggest shake up

:11:45. > :11:47.of ambulance response times in England in 40 years.

:11:48. > :11:50.At the moment, when an urgent 999 call is received,

:11:51. > :11:53.the call handlers have to decide within 60 seconds whether or not

:11:54. > :11:57.The upshot is that a quarter of ambulances end up being stood

:11:58. > :11:59.down when it turns out they're not needed.

:12:00. > :12:02.Now call handlers are going to be given more time to assess

:12:03. > :12:05.to try to make the system more efficient.

:12:06. > :12:17.Just breathe normally for me. Paramedics in the West Midlands with

:12:18. > :12:22.a 92-year-old patient, after a checkup, they decided it was safe to

:12:23. > :12:25.leave him at home. The Ambulance Service is under great pressure, the

:12:26. > :12:29.current system allows too many vehicles to go to urgent cases,

:12:30. > :12:36.leaving other patients waiting far too long, major changes are now

:12:37. > :12:40.planned. The new way of working will mean that we can identify and get to

:12:41. > :12:43.the sickest patients faster, that all patients will get the best

:12:44. > :12:49.response, rather than just the nearest. Under the current system of

:12:50. > :12:53.control room like this, call handlers have just 60 seconds to

:12:54. > :12:56.decide whether to dispatch an ambulance and whether it should be

:12:57. > :13:00.on a blue light for the most critically ill patients. The problem

:13:01. > :13:04.is, that sometimes is not long enough to decide the most

:13:05. > :13:09.appropriate response, and ambulances can be dispatched unnecessarily.

:13:10. > :13:13.That decision time will be axed ended for serious but not

:13:14. > :13:17.life-threatening cases, under the current system, the target is for an

:13:18. > :13:21.ambulance to arrive at 75% of the most urgent cases in eight minutes,

:13:22. > :13:25.no target for those calls last as lower priority. Under the new

:13:26. > :13:30.system, more people will be classed as the most urgent and the target

:13:31. > :13:35.will be 90% seen within 15 minutes. New targets for lower priority

:13:36. > :13:38.calls. Service leaders say some people needing urgent care will have

:13:39. > :13:41.to wait longer. But they can be more certain of getting the right

:13:42. > :13:47.response, an ambulance team, for example, rather than a paramedic on

:13:48. > :13:53.a motorcycle. The system as it is failed the family of Willie Wynn,

:13:54. > :13:56.his daughter had a heart condition, she had arbitration, he called 990

:13:57. > :14:04.96 times and nothing came, it was too late to save her. Had people had

:14:05. > :14:12.a broken arm or a broken leg, then it would have been different. -- he

:14:13. > :14:17.called 999 six times. This was an emergency. The local ambulance

:14:18. > :14:22.trust, South Central, said it extended condolences to the family,

:14:23. > :14:26.at the time, many of its resources were tied up elsewhere. And what

:14:27. > :14:30.time did this start today? Reforms have already been introduced in

:14:31. > :14:34.Wales, a pilot scheme underway in Scotland. Trials in England suggest

:14:35. > :14:41.more ambulances can be freed up to get to a wider range of patients.

:14:42. > :14:47.The real test will come this winter when it is introduced nationally.

:14:48. > :14:53.STUDIO: The parent company of Southern Rail has been fined more

:14:54. > :14:56.after widespread delays and cancellations to services.

:14:57. > :14:58.The Department for Transport says the amount would have been much

:14:59. > :15:01.higher, but most of the problems were caused by strike action

:15:02. > :15:05.A former soldier who raped and killed a fifteen year

:15:06. > :15:07.old schoolgirl has been found guilty of her manslaughter more

:15:08. > :15:14.Stephen Hough killed Janet Commins in Flint in North Wales, in 1976.

:15:15. > :15:17.Another man has already served six years for her killing.

:15:18. > :15:25.Hough will be sentenced at a later date.

:15:26. > :15:29.The next step in the Brexit journey - the government publishes its plans

:15:30. > :15:35.We tell you how you can have a whale of a time

:15:36. > :15:38.And coming up on Wimbledon Sportsday on BBC News:

:15:39. > :15:41.As well as the reaction to Johanna Konta's exit, there's

:15:42. > :15:57.losing the yellow jersey on stage 12 of the Tour de France.

:15:58. > :16:00.Johanna Konta's dream of becoming the first British woman to reach

:16:01. > :16:03.the Wimbledon finals in almost 40 years is over.

:16:04. > :16:05.She's crashed out of the championships after being beaten

:16:06. > :16:07.in straight sets by the five time champion Venus Williams.

:16:08. > :16:16.Joe Wilson was watching the match on centre court.

:16:17. > :16:22.Everyone knows your name, everyone wants your name. That's the

:16:23. > :16:26.Wimbledon effect. Johanna Konta ushered towards the biggest match of

:16:27. > :16:31.her career, for her the attention is all new. For Venus Williams it's

:16:32. > :16:35.been her life. 20 years at Wimbledon, two decades competing for

:16:36. > :16:43.the biggest titles. Venus has seen it all, returned it all, but

:16:44. > :16:46.Konta... Not appear to be intimidated. Konta created an

:16:47. > :16:55.opportunity in the first set, break point in the ninth game. Venus held.

:16:56. > :17:00.And then the pressure. Konta's rock-solid serve was suddenly shaky.

:17:01. > :17:06.These were the points she had to make. Out, break, set gone. Venus

:17:07. > :17:11.taking care of business. For Konta the methodical, the reliable, the

:17:12. > :17:16.match was disappearing. Double fault and broken in the second set. Now

:17:17. > :17:22.said to court yearned for the Konta we had seen in previous rounds, this

:17:23. > :17:28.kind of thing. Now come on, it's a lovely afternoon, we would like to

:17:29. > :17:32.stay here for a bit longer please. This match lasted one hour 14

:17:33. > :17:38.minutes, second set 6-2, Williams too good, to composed when it

:17:39. > :17:44.mattered. Overwhelmed by Williams at Wimbledon, it has happened before

:17:45. > :17:50.but we didn't expect it from Konta. Quite honestly I think I was in just

:17:51. > :17:55.as much of a shot of winning the tournament. It came down to the day

:17:56. > :18:00.and Venus played better than me. That's all I can say, I think I've

:18:01. > :18:04.definitely got more to improve on and there's more exciting things I

:18:05. > :18:07.can get better at. She's going to be disappointed but at the same time

:18:08. > :18:12.when she can wake up in a few days and get perspective of what she has

:18:13. > :18:16.accomplished, she's shown tremendous improvement and that is so positive

:18:17. > :18:23.for her. Venus was in tears last week speaking about events at home,

:18:24. > :18:34.the car accident. Now at 37, she has another final at a place she loves.

:18:35. > :18:37.I thought the crowd was very nice to me. They could have been even more

:18:38. > :18:42.boisterous, I thought the crowd was so fair and I know they love Jo.

:18:43. > :18:46.It's a lot of pressure on she handled it well, I think my

:18:47. > :18:49.experience helped a lot. So now Johanna Konta has a new experience

:18:50. > :18:55.to deal with, to recover from defeat in the match of her life.

:18:56. > :19:00.Johanna Konta is ranked as one of the world's best players but the

:19:01. > :19:07.future offers no guarantees of another place like this one. To see

:19:08. > :19:11.the power of self belief, just look at Venus Williams.

:19:12. > :19:13.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has welcomed

:19:14. > :19:17.Donald Trump to Paris at the start of a two-day visit.

:19:18. > :19:30.Tomorrow President Trump will attend Bastille Day celebrations.

:19:31. > :19:35.Today Mr Trump said his son was a wonderful young man who met the

:19:36. > :19:37.Russian lawyer, not a Russian government lawyer.

:19:38. > :19:39.From Paris, Lucy Williamson reports.

:19:40. > :19:41.If diplomacy is about power disguised as flattery,

:19:42. > :19:47.there are few more potent greetings than a ten second handshake.

:19:48. > :19:50.Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump today with a visit to the tomb

:19:51. > :19:51.of France's grand military leader, Napoleon.

:19:52. > :19:57.The impressive location designed to flatter both visitor and host.

:19:58. > :19:59.Both these two men see themselves as modern-day

:20:00. > :20:08.political revolutionaries, sweeping away the old rules

:20:09. > :20:12.but Mr Macron also sees nothing wrong with using France's

:20:13. > :20:14.imperial history and military might to put its current diplomatic

:20:15. > :20:24.The two men have been battling for the role of alpha male ever

:20:25. > :20:26.since their first handshake on the sidelines of a G7 summit.

:20:27. > :20:30.Donald Trump later pulled out of a key climate change

:20:31. > :20:34.deal brokered in Paris, prompting Mr Macron to issue

:20:35. > :20:36.a video parodying the US President's campaign slogan.

:20:37. > :20:46.But since then Emmanuel Macron has been trying to charm the US leader

:20:47. > :20:50.to keep ties close and boost France's influence aboard.

:20:51. > :20:52.So what do French voters think of Mr Trump's visit?

:20:53. > :20:55.I don't like him much, but what do I have to say?

:20:56. > :21:08.Thank God! Having some time with him and trying to understand what he

:21:09. > :21:12.wants and where he's going is not a bad idea, even if he does not

:21:13. > :21:17.appreciate him as a person or what he stands for so I think French

:21:18. > :21:21.diplomacy at its best. Their meeting this afternoon will focus on shared

:21:22. > :21:25.challenges like the conflict in Syria and counterterrorism but the

:21:26. > :21:31.symbolism of this visit is properly what matters most. Two leaders

:21:32. > :21:34.looking to showcase their transatlantic ties. Both men have

:21:35. > :21:39.been compared to Napoleon themselves. Flattering to some,

:21:40. > :21:44.perhaps, but a reminder too about the limits of democratic power. Lucy

:21:45. > :21:49.Williamson, BBC News, Paris. An artistocrat has been sentenced

:21:50. > :21:51.to 12 weeks in prison after being found guilty of making

:21:52. > :21:53.menacing communications towards the businesswoman

:21:54. > :21:54.and anti-Brexit campaigner Rhodri Philipps, the fourth

:21:55. > :21:57.Viscount St Davids, wrote a post on Facebook offering

:21:58. > :22:00.?5,000 to anyone who ran her over. The 4th Viscount St Davids,

:22:01. > :22:09.Rhodri Philipps, forced to answer for his threatening

:22:10. > :22:15.abuse on Facebook. Well, justice will be

:22:16. > :22:17.served without pressure. I have belief in the British courts

:22:18. > :22:22.and anything that I've done wrong... He targeted Gina Miller,

:22:23. > :22:36.who took the Government to court over Brexit,

:22:37. > :22:38.writing to accidentally run over this

:22:39. > :22:43.troublesome first-generation If this is what we should

:22:44. > :22:46.expect from immigrants," he wrote, "send them back

:22:47. > :22:48.to their stinking jungles." At first I sort of read it

:22:49. > :22:51.and re-read it because it seemed so barbaric, but that was the first

:22:52. > :22:55.time I felt truly threatened. Lord St Davids was given the chance

:22:56. > :22:58.to speak to the court in person and in a passionate speech

:22:59. > :23:01.he said he'd realised that his comments were very unkind,

:23:02. > :23:03.unnecessary, self-indulgent expletives of anger

:23:04. > :23:08.which he could not contain. He'd claimed he was motivated by his

:23:09. > :23:16.family motto - love of country. The district judge, Emma Arbuthnot,

:23:17. > :23:19.said it was actually hatred of anyone who disagreed

:23:20. > :23:22.with his views and of those who had Privileged, entitled,

:23:23. > :23:29.and now heading to jail. An establishment man brought down

:23:30. > :23:31.by the menacing racial abuse The number of people applying for UK

:23:32. > :23:45.university places has fallen by more than 4% on last year -

:23:46. > :23:47.it's the first decline since fees were increased

:23:48. > :23:50.in England five years ago. The figures from the admissions

:23:51. > :23:52.service UCAS show a sharp decline in those applying to study nursing

:23:53. > :23:55.and a continued fall in the number of mature students,

:23:56. > :23:57.notably in England An elephant in Sri Lanka has

:23:58. > :24:05.had a miraculous escape It was spotted by the Sri Lankan

:24:06. > :24:10.Navy as it struggled to stay afloat. It seemed to be using its trunk

:24:11. > :24:14.as a snorkel to breathe. Divers and wildlife officials

:24:15. > :24:16.launched a 12-hour rescue operation and managed to gently tow

:24:17. > :24:18.the elephant back to For almost 40 years,

:24:19. > :24:28.Dippy the Diplodocus stood in the entrance hall at London's

:24:29. > :24:30.world famous Natural History Museum, And today the newcomer

:24:31. > :24:36.was finally unveiled - it's the skeleton of a giant blue

:24:37. > :24:39.whale, 25 metres long, The blue whale, the biggest creature

:24:40. > :24:53.that's ever existed on Earth. Now one of them is the main display

:24:54. > :24:56.at the Natural History Museum. The 25-metre skeleton of this young

:24:57. > :25:04.female fills the entire length Its skull alone weighs more

:25:05. > :25:12.than a tonne and its lower jawbone is the single longest bone of any

:25:13. > :25:17.animal on the planet. As visitors arrive, they're greeted

:25:18. > :25:20.by it swooping down towards them as if they're the tiny krill that

:25:21. > :25:25.whales feed upon. Just getting it through the narrow

:25:26. > :25:28.doors of the building And lifting it into position

:25:29. > :25:34.was an engineering feat, There was one heart-stopping moment

:25:35. > :25:43.when a bolt sheared. The team succeeded in the end but it

:25:44. > :25:47.wasn't easy for them. Going up when other people were kind

:25:48. > :25:53.of in control of that process Sometimes we just couldn't watch

:25:54. > :25:59.and had to walk away. The whale replaces the much-loved

:26:00. > :26:01.Dippy the dinosaur, which after more than 100

:26:02. > :26:03.years at the museum, The museum staff believe that Hope

:26:04. > :26:30.will take the same place I will start with a weather watcher

:26:31. > :26:37.picture from Wales. I can hear you groaning after that terrible pun!

:26:38. > :26:41.Northern Ireland have had some soaking downpours this afternoon and

:26:42. > :26:43.they are reaching into western Scotland now, spreading into the

:26:44. > :26:52.rest of Scotland over the next couple of hours, and a few into East

:26:53. > :26:55.Anglia. South of that it will remain dry with temperatures are little

:26:56. > :27:00.higher than last night but still shave a few degrees of this if you

:27:01. > :27:06.are in the countryside. Tomorrow a few showers to begin with, but a lot

:27:07. > :27:10.of them will fade out. We will keep a good deal of plant during the day,

:27:11. > :27:15.the afternoon looks dry and there will be sunny breaks at times. The

:27:16. > :27:20.temperature is very close to average, that's high teens, low 20s.

:27:21. > :27:24.As we look at the forecast for Wimbledon, yes a lot of cloud, a

:27:25. > :27:30.little bit more breezy but comfortable conditions for players

:27:31. > :27:33.and spectators alike. If you are going out and about tomorrow

:27:34. > :27:37.morning, the rain will be pushing across Scotland so bear that in

:27:38. > :27:42.mind. Here is the picture for the start of the weekend. Quite moist

:27:43. > :27:46.air coming in from the Atlantic which means for Saturday a lot of

:27:47. > :27:50.cloud around, and from that cloud some outbreaks of rain gradually

:27:51. > :27:55.pushing eastwards. Not much rain in the far south of England and quite a

:27:56. > :28:03.few midfield to things. For two of the weekend on Sunday, fresher and

:28:04. > :28:09.brighter. A weak band of cloud on some -- and some spots of rain.

:28:10. > :28:13.That's how the weekend is shaping up and of course you can get a forecast

:28:14. > :28:20.for where you are and where you are going online and through the art. A

:28:21. > :28:24.reminder of our main story this evening, the Government publishes

:28:25. > :28:28.its plans to convert EU law into British law.