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:00:00. > :00:00.The new route for HS2 is announced - the second part of the high speed

:00:07. > :00:11.The route links Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds,

:00:12. > :00:20.It'll be easier for us to do business on a national scale,

:00:21. > :00:24.it'll be easier for us to attract clients to our offices here,

:00:25. > :00:29.and for us to recruit talent from around the country.

:00:30. > :00:31.But it's not universally welcomed - the line will run right

:00:32. > :00:47.Why build a new housing estate and then potentially knock it down? We

:00:48. > :00:50.are short of houses already. Where will we move to? We are in limbo.

:00:51. > :00:53.HS2 has been a project dogged by delays and controversy -

:00:54. > :00:55.we'll be assessing the winners and losers of the new route.

:00:56. > :00:59.A terminally-ill man battles in the courts for the right

:01:00. > :01:02.With slightly different approaches to paperwork -

:01:03. > :01:07.the second round of formal Brexit talks gets underway.

:01:08. > :01:09.An extra ?1.3 billion for schools in England -

:01:10. > :01:13.but the money has to come from education savings.

:01:14. > :01:16.City of Culture Hull gets listed status for the famous Humber Bridge,

:01:17. > :01:24.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News.

:01:25. > :01:26.Olivia Breen makes it nine golds for Britain

:01:27. > :01:28.at the World Para-athletic championships in London,

:01:29. > :01:51.with more medal prospects later today too.

:01:52. > :01:53.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

:01:54. > :01:56.The routes for the second stage of the new HS2 high speed rail

:01:57. > :02:01.Trains will run from Birmingham on two lines -

:02:02. > :02:05.one serving the north west and major cities like Manchester

:02:06. > :02:08.and Liverpool - the other serving the East Midlands

:02:09. > :02:14.The first trains are not expected to run until 2026.

:02:15. > :02:16.For years there have been disagreements about exactly

:02:17. > :02:21.Now some properties on a new housing estate in Mexborough

:02:22. > :02:24.in South Yorkshire will have to be bulldozed to make way for it.

:02:25. > :02:33.Here's our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott.

:02:34. > :02:39.It's the Trainline that splits people write down the middle. For

:02:40. > :02:44.supporters, it will boost the economy and bridge the North-South

:02:45. > :02:48.divide. Critics say costs will spiral and benefits are overblown.

:02:49. > :02:53.And there's the ?56 billion price tag. We don't have the investment we

:02:54. > :03:00.need in the future to increase the capacity of our transport system to

:03:01. > :03:05.increase economic development. Contracts have just been awarded for

:03:06. > :03:10.the first phase of HS2 between London and Birmingham, worth nearly

:03:11. > :03:15.?7 billion and creating 16,000 jobs. That first section will not open for

:03:16. > :03:20.another nine years. There's been another big HS2 announcement today,

:03:21. > :03:24.several years late. They have finally put out the route that goes

:03:25. > :03:29.from Birmingham up to Manchester on one side and Sheffield and Leeds on

:03:30. > :03:35.the other. It goes right through this brand-new housing estate. In

:03:36. > :03:40.fact, right through Ben's house. We have been told that the route will

:03:41. > :03:43.cut through from the show houses, through my property and through my

:03:44. > :03:49.neighbour's property. We were not told this when we bought the house.

:03:50. > :03:53.Why build a housing estate and then knock it down? We are short of

:03:54. > :03:59.houses anyway. Where do we then moved to? Just over the road, the

:04:00. > :04:04.line could also cut through Karen's farm. We spoke to her last year, and

:04:05. > :04:10.she was livid. I am not moving anywhere. I will fight this until

:04:11. > :04:17.death. Today, I'm gutted, to think that we have put all this, over 40

:04:18. > :04:21.odd years into what we've got... You were fuming last time we were here.

:04:22. > :04:29.What has happened since then? Have they been to see you? No, nothing.

:04:30. > :04:35.Too much gone into this over years. You know, I could never imagine

:04:36. > :04:40.living anywhere else. HS2 creates losers, but it makes winners as

:04:41. > :04:44.well, like this small digital marketing company in Nottingham. It

:04:45. > :04:49.will be easier for us to do business on a national scale, easier for us

:04:50. > :04:54.to attract clients to our offices here, and to attract talent from

:04:55. > :05:00.around the country, who will be willing to relocate here or even

:05:01. > :05:05.commute from other cities. The first Leeds HS2 train will not depart for

:05:06. > :05:12.another 16 years. Plenty of time for opponents to fight the plans.

:05:13. > :05:17.We can talk to Richard in Mexborough now. So the new line is going to run

:05:18. > :05:22.right through the middle of that housing estate. But as you said in

:05:23. > :05:26.your piece, some winners as well. Always winners and losers. Everyone

:05:27. > :05:30.is coming home tonight to this letter. We can confirm your property

:05:31. > :05:37.will remain within the area, which has been safeguarded for the future

:05:38. > :05:43.of the railway. The words they didn't want to hear. You can see

:05:44. > :05:47.some trees there. The line will come straight through there. They have

:05:48. > :05:51.stopped building some houses here, because they knew it was the

:05:52. > :05:56.potential route. We think these two houses on the end will go, but the

:05:57. > :06:02.houses next to them, would they stay? They are potentially going to

:06:03. > :06:07.be near a 20 metre high railway viaduct, so they are coming home to

:06:08. > :06:13.that dreadful news. No one is really sure what to do. HS2 does have its

:06:14. > :06:17.supporters as well. It is very politically popular. All the main

:06:18. > :06:21.political parties support it, the unions and council leaders as well.

:06:22. > :06:25.They are convinced that this is one of the key answers to boost the

:06:26. > :06:30.economy and to bridge that North-South divide. There is going

:06:31. > :06:34.to be very close scrutiny of the costs concerned, but when you talk

:06:35. > :06:48.to people who are directly affected by the line, then number one

:06:49. > :06:50.complaint is the lack of information, the waiting four years

:06:51. > :06:52.in limbo not knowing what's happening to their house. And that

:06:53. > :06:54.is what is happening too many hundreds of people on this estate

:06:55. > :06:56.tonight. Richard, thank you. Schools in England are to get a ?1.3

:06:57. > :06:59.billion bailout over two years - but the money will have to come

:07:00. > :07:02.from savings elsewhere The announcement by

:07:03. > :07:04.the Education Secretary, Justine Greening, follows

:07:05. > :07:06.protests by headteachers and MPs that schools have been

:07:07. > :07:08.facing unsustainable cuts. Labour has criticised

:07:09. > :07:10.the move as nothing more Our education correspondent,

:07:11. > :07:22.Gillian Hargreaves, reports. Only yesterday, another protest from

:07:23. > :07:28.teachers and parents who say their schools need more money. For months,

:07:29. > :07:32.heads have written letters and parents protested, from the

:07:33. > :07:36.south-east of England to the north-west. Today, Justine Greening

:07:37. > :07:39.acted on an election pledge to double it more money from civil

:07:40. > :07:46.service in London to schools across England. The additional funding I am

:07:47. > :07:49.setting out today, together with the National funding formula, will

:07:50. > :07:54.provide schools with the funding they need to offer a world-class

:07:55. > :08:03.education to every single child. There will be an additional ?1.3

:08:04. > :08:11.billion for schools and high need across 2018-19. School spending will

:08:12. > :08:18.rise from ?41 billion in 2017 to ?43.5 billion by 2020. No secondary

:08:19. > :08:23.school pupil will have less than ?4800 spent on their schooling.

:08:24. > :08:27.Plans to reallocate spending, which would have seen losses for some

:08:28. > :08:35.schools, especially in inner cities, will now seek cash to games. The

:08:36. > :08:40.devil will be in the detail. It is not universal. We will have to see

:08:41. > :08:45.what the impact is elsewhere. Although the money will be welcomed,

:08:46. > :08:49.schools are facing rising bills for teachers pay and pensions, and

:08:50. > :08:55.running costs. This extra investment will come from money already set

:08:56. > :08:59.aside for education. I welcome the ?1.3 billion announced today, but

:09:00. > :09:06.can the Secretary of State confirm if it will affect per-pupil budgets

:09:07. > :09:11.in real terms, just the overall budget? This is all being funded

:09:12. > :09:15.without a penny of new money from the Treasury. The government has

:09:16. > :09:20.been galvanised to dig in its pockets because of frustration in

:09:21. > :09:25.classrooms across England, and anger at the school gate. Whether it will

:09:26. > :09:26.be enough to help relieve the pressure on class sizes and teachers

:09:27. > :09:29.jobs still unclear. The second round of formal talks

:09:30. > :09:32.on Britain's departure from the EU The Brexit Secretary,

:09:33. > :09:35.David Davis, says it's time to get down to business,

:09:36. > :09:37.focussing on EU citizens' rights, the so-called divorce bill

:09:38. > :09:40.from the EU, and the Irish border. Meanwhile, Theresa May

:09:41. > :09:43.is to try to reimpose discipline on her senior ministers

:09:44. > :09:46.after a series of leaks over the weekend suggesting cabinet

:09:47. > :09:47.splits and infighting. Here's our political

:09:48. > :10:03.editor, Laura Kuenssberg. They don't really have much time to

:10:04. > :10:08.hang around. The two men who will haggle over how we leave. Especially

:10:09. > :10:12.with the UK's political situation rather fluid, at best. It's

:10:13. > :10:17.incredibly important we now make good progress and we negotiate

:10:18. > :10:24.through this and identify the differences, so we can deal with

:10:25. > :10:30.them, and identify the similarities, so we can reinforce them. It's time

:10:31. > :10:37.to get to work. Now we have to work. There is a lot to do. Working out

:10:38. > :10:40.the Irish border, the Brexit bill, writes for Brits abroad... That

:10:41. > :10:46.government ministers don't agree completely about what should be on

:10:47. > :10:50.the table. Perhaps that is why the Brexit secretary seemed to arrive

:10:51. > :10:55.without his notes. Perhaps chatter around the Cabinet at home suggests

:10:56. > :11:02.the big beasts are split. Is the cabinet split on the Brexit? We have

:11:03. > :11:07.seen in another part of town today, I'm very pleased that negotiations

:11:08. > :11:10.are beginning, and as you know, is very fair, serious offer has been

:11:11. > :11:16.put on the table by the UK Government. It's not just that

:11:17. > :11:19.government has to wrangle Brexit through Brussels and Parliament, but

:11:20. > :11:25.deal with disagreements on public sector pay and on spending. Above

:11:26. > :11:29.all, the disagreements have emerged into daylight because the discipline

:11:30. > :11:33.Theresa May had imposed on the Tories has all but disappeared since

:11:34. > :11:39.the general election. Tomorrow, she will warn the cabinet to behave, to

:11:40. > :11:45.keep their views to themselves, but those for desire for the top job

:11:46. > :11:50.believe the game is on. It's got to stop. Whoever is doing it, everybody

:11:51. > :11:55.needs to get into a rather cold shower, and then get together and

:11:56. > :12:01.have a warm pint afterwards. This is damaging. It's damaging to the

:12:02. > :12:06.party, to the Parliamentary MPs, and to the country. Remember him, urging

:12:07. > :12:11.the Tories today to inspire, not to look to the past? The risk to the

:12:12. > :12:12.Tories the current generation hurt each other fighting old battles

:12:13. > :12:22.anew. A teenage boy has appeared in court

:12:23. > :12:28.in Stratford charged in connection with a series of acid attacks in

:12:29. > :12:35.London. He faces charges of serious bodily harm with intent and

:12:36. > :12:38.possession of a dangerous weapon in the form of a liquid.

:12:39. > :12:41.A terminally ill man has begun a legal challenge

:12:42. > :12:43.to the ban on assisted dying in England and Wales.

:12:44. > :12:45.67-year-old Noel Conway has motor neurone disease.

:12:46. > :12:48.He says he fears becoming entombed in his body and wants to be able

:12:49. > :12:51.to choose when and where he dies, without those who help

:12:52. > :12:54.Currently it is illegal to help someone to die.

:12:55. > :12:55.Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, reports.

:12:56. > :13:00.It's an issue which polarises opinion, and keeps coming

:13:01. > :13:06.The latest challenge is from Noel Conway from Shropshire,

:13:07. > :13:09.who was too weak to attend today's hearing.

:13:10. > :13:19.Motor neurone disease means he increasingly

:13:20. > :13:23.Once fit and active, his muscles are progressively wasting.

:13:24. > :13:27.He fears how he will die, and wants a doctor to be allowed

:13:28. > :13:34.I want to be able to say goodbye to the people that I love

:13:35. > :13:40.at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition,

:13:41. > :13:44.suffering both physically and psychologically.

:13:45. > :13:53.It is only three years since the Supreme Court rejected

:13:54. > :13:57.a similar plea for a right to die from Tony Nicklinson,

:13:58. > :14:01.though he was not considered to be terminally ill.

:14:02. > :14:05.The blanket ban on assisted dying has been challenged many times,

:14:06. > :14:10.and in every case, the courts have rejected the central argument

:14:11. > :14:14.that the current law breaches human rights by preventing people

:14:15. > :14:20.Mr Conway's lawyers argue that his challenge is different,

:14:21. > :14:25.as it applies to a narrow group of people - those who are terminally

:14:26. > :14:29.ill, with less than six months to live, and to have a settled

:14:30. > :14:36.But those safeguards have already failed to persuade parliament.

:14:37. > :14:40.It's only two years since MPs overwhelmingly rejected proposals

:14:41. > :14:46.Baroness Jane Campbell, a disability rights campaigner,

:14:47. > :14:50.says changing the law would send all the wrong signals,

:14:51. > :15:01.This case must not become law because it will burden disabled

:15:02. > :15:03.people across the country, who will not feel safe

:15:04. > :15:07.without the protection of a law that says it is wrong

:15:08. > :15:14.Noel Conway's health is faltering, and he knows he may die

:15:15. > :15:22.The High Court will reserve its judgment until October,

:15:23. > :15:24.and it may then go all the way to the Supreme Court.

:15:25. > :15:38.The routes for the second stage of the new HS2 high speed rail

:15:39. > :15:43.A family affair - the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge take

:15:44. > :15:45.the children on an official visit to Poland.

:15:46. > :15:48.Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News...

:15:49. > :15:50.The morning after the historic day before.

:15:51. > :15:53.Why eight Wimbledon titles are not enough for Roger Federer,

:15:54. > :16:08.as he eyes the top of the world rankings again

:16:09. > :16:11.All this year Hull is celebrating being the UK City of Culture,

:16:12. > :16:14.and to mark the event, nine places in the city are getting

:16:15. > :16:19.Among them, the Humber Bridge, built in 1981 and one of the largest

:16:20. > :16:24.and most spectacular bridges in the UK.

:16:25. > :16:28.Other locations include the flat where the poet Philip Larkin wrote

:16:29. > :16:30.many of his best-known works, and some art nouveau public loos.

:16:31. > :16:32.Our Arts Correspondent Colin Paterson has more.

:16:33. > :16:37.The Humber Bridge - for years the longest single span

:16:38. > :16:41.bridge in the world - now joining Westminster Abbey,

:16:42. > :16:45.Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing St as a grade one listed building.

:16:46. > :16:49.A place of exceptional architectural and historic interest.

:16:50. > :16:52.It gives me great pleasure to unveil this plaque and declare

:16:53. > :16:59.The new honour comes exactly 36 years to the day

:17:00. > :17:04.The bridge cost more than ?100 million.

:17:05. > :17:07.At the other end of the scale, something from the very

:17:08. > :17:13.This art nouveau public convenience from 1926.

:17:14. > :17:16.These toilets on the Hull waterfront have been chosen

:17:17. > :17:18.because they were designed to cater for both men and women.

:17:19. > :17:22.And most of the original fittings survived.

:17:23. > :17:29.When I flushed the chain it felt like they were grade

:17:30. > :17:33.Impressive? Yeah!

:17:34. > :17:36.I mean...They could do with a bit of a clean, I reckon!

:17:37. > :17:41.Hull has always been known by most people as the place,

:17:42. > :17:44.as Philip Larkin put it, where only salesmen and relations

:17:45. > :17:49.go, and perhaps they are the kind of people you meet in toilets.

:17:50. > :17:53.And speaking of Philip Larkin, also protected from change,

:17:54. > :17:56.the house where he lived for more than 18 years and wrote some

:17:57. > :18:03.Walking around in the park. Should feel better than work.

:18:04. > :18:07.The lake, the sunshine. The grass to lie on.

:18:08. > :18:11.And the hope here is that Hull's history will have an important role

:18:12. > :18:17.Hull did lose, sadly, a lot of good buildings

:18:18. > :18:19.in the Second World War during the heavy

:18:20. > :18:23.And so, things are now on the up and up and people

:18:24. > :18:28.And so this status we are getting from the listed buildings

:18:29. > :18:35.The Humber Bridge was only designed to have a life span of 120

:18:36. > :18:38.years, but now its place in history is secured.

:18:39. > :18:48.A former soldier has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping

:18:49. > :18:50.and killing a schoolgirl more than 40 years after allowing another

:18:51. > :18:56.Stephen Hough was found guilty of the manslaughter of 15 year

:18:57. > :18:59.old Janet Commins in Flint in North Wales in 1976.

:19:00. > :19:03.Hough's DNA, which was taken for an unrelated matter last year,

:19:04. > :19:05.matched that retained from the crime scene.

:19:06. > :19:13.It's taken more than 40 years for Janet's family to learn

:19:14. > :19:17.The 15-year-old had choked during an horrific

:19:18. > :19:21.Today former soldier Stephen Hough was brought

:19:22. > :19:28.He'd lied to police when originally questioned back in 1976,

:19:29. > :19:31.and continued to deny his guilt when he was arrested last year.

:19:32. > :19:35.Stephen, are you responsible for those injuries?

:19:36. > :19:40.Do you understand what I'm saying today with respect

:19:41. > :19:42.to those injuries? I do.

:19:43. > :19:44.Are you responsible for those injuries?

:19:45. > :19:50.Stephen Hough had watched while another man,

:19:51. > :19:52.18-year-old Noel Jones - an illiterate scrap metal dealer -

:19:53. > :20:01.He told the jury in this trial he had been innocent,

:20:02. > :20:04.and had confessed to Janet's manslaughter following police

:20:05. > :20:09.If he's to clear his name, he'll have to appeal that conviction.

:20:10. > :20:13.Janet's family say they believe justice has been done.

:20:14. > :20:16.It has brought it all back after 41 years.

:20:17. > :20:21.And of course, you never get over it, but you learn to live it.

:20:22. > :20:25.To me, he can't have a conscious, this Hough, he can't

:20:26. > :20:33.Janet's disappearance on her way home from the swimming pool had led

:20:34. > :20:35.to a huge investigation by North Wales Police.

:20:36. > :20:38.How it handled the case back then is now being examined

:20:39. > :20:42.by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

:20:43. > :20:44.Janet's family still live just a few streets away

:20:45. > :20:50.The area hasn't changed much over the last 40 years.

:20:51. > :20:53.But forensic science has developed at a rapid pace,

:20:54. > :20:58.and that's what led police to her real killer.

:20:59. > :21:01.During a cold case review of the evidence in 2006, police

:21:02. > :21:07.When a sample of Hough's DNA was entered on the database ten

:21:08. > :21:13.The court heard the odds of it being anyone other than Hough's

:21:14. > :21:17.Members of Janet's family were in court today.

:21:18. > :21:22.They've described Hough as an animal.

:21:23. > :21:26.Tonight he begins a 12 year sentence for a brutal attack he thought he'd

:21:27. > :21:37.Sian Lloyd, BBC News, Mold Crown Court.

:21:38. > :21:47.The Dutch royal family has attended a memorial ceremony in memory of

:21:48. > :21:54.Dutch passengers who died on MH 17 after it was shot down over Ukraine

:21:55. > :21:55.three years ago. A missile hit the fight as it travelled from Amsterdam

:21:56. > :21:59.to Kuala Lumpur. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

:22:00. > :22:02.have arrived in Warsaw for the first part of an official visit to both

:22:03. > :22:04.Poland and Germany. They brought their children,

:22:05. > :22:06.three-year-old George and From Warsaw, our royal

:22:07. > :22:10.correspondent Peter Hunt reports. At three, he's far too young to know

:22:11. > :22:13.if he's a reluctant royal, but Prince George definitely wasn't

:22:14. > :22:16.keen to embrace Warsaw One future king did persuade another

:22:17. > :22:34.one to follow in his footsteps. On the tarmac, George struck a

:22:35. > :22:41.nonchalant pose and practised the art ballet move. A fidgeting toddler

:22:42. > :22:46.with a lifetime under an intense spotlight ahead of him. Princess

:22:47. > :22:51.Charlotte's freedom of movement was constrained by being in her mother

:22:52. > :22:56.'s's arms. Does anyone speak English? The language divide isn't

:22:57. > :23:01.the only challenge and stop here, a country that relatively recently

:23:02. > :23:07.embraced the EU is welcoming royals from one on its way out of the

:23:08. > :23:11.institution. The union Jack. The nitty-gritty of Brexit will not

:23:12. > :23:17.feature here. Rather, William and Kate are in Warsaw to remind people

:23:18. > :23:26.of the depth of parcelling sand the potential for future ones between

:23:27. > :23:31.the UK and Poland. During the Second World War, the polls tried and

:23:32. > :23:38.failed to an German occupation. He wore this all the time during the

:23:39. > :23:42.uprising? Yes. This woman, aged 20, joined the Warsaw uprising. Now aged

:23:43. > :23:51.92, she says they had to fight for independence. You couldn't stand it

:23:52. > :24:00.any longer those from Germany. Five years, it was impossible. Be spoken

:24:01. > :24:05.for royal with an admirer in the crowd. A crowd like this elsewhere,

:24:06. > :24:07.curious to see the future of the British monarchy. Peter Hunt, BBC

:24:08. > :24:09.News, Warsaw. Cricket, and England have been

:24:10. > :24:11.thrashed by South Africa Set a massive 474 to win,

:24:12. > :24:16.England collapsed to lose by 340 At the start of a day's

:24:17. > :24:25.Test cricket, you must England's task was to stay

:24:26. > :24:31.out there, hang around. Keaton Jennings didn't last ten

:24:32. > :24:33.minutes this morning. With South Africa so far

:24:34. > :24:37.in front, wickets take Joe Root, England's

:24:38. > :24:44.captain, out for eight. Alastair Cook is a throwback

:24:45. > :24:48.to a more patient age. He waits till it's

:24:49. > :24:50.safe and then scores. While he's out there,

:24:51. > :24:53.that's half full. Just before lunch, that

:24:54. > :24:57.concentration cracked. Cook tricked, flicked,

:24:58. > :24:59.momentum tipped. Many of his team-mates

:25:00. > :25:04.thrive at shorter forms of cricket, which offer big

:25:05. > :25:07.rewards for risk-taking. It can be difficult

:25:08. > :25:09.to rediscover restraint. Ben Stokes earned ?1.7 million in

:25:10. > :25:15.the Indian Premier League this year. For England's new

:25:16. > :25:20.captain, an awakening. We need to make sure we learn

:25:21. > :25:27.from experiences like this. If that means playing in a slightly

:25:28. > :25:30.different manner then so be it. But I think it's important

:25:31. > :25:33.the individuals out in the middle This test has squared the series

:25:34. > :25:39.and also posed a question. Can England's cricketers no

:25:40. > :25:41.longer handle the wait? Time for a look at the weather

:25:42. > :26:01.with Chris Fawkes... Top marks, yes. It was pretty

:26:02. > :26:05.widespread, the sunshine today. Temperatures peaking at 27, into the

:26:06. > :26:09.80s in terms of Fahrenheit. The satellite picture tells the story of

:26:10. > :26:12.the day's weather with sunshine pretty much up and down the whole

:26:13. > :26:16.country, except for the far north of Scotland where we had a weather

:26:17. > :26:19.front sliding in across the Northern isles that has brought cloudy

:26:20. > :26:24.weather across Shetland and even some showers passing in from time to

:26:25. > :26:27.time. Overnight we will keep the clear skies but after a warm day the

:26:28. > :26:31.temperatures will be slow to come down. They warm night for southern

:26:32. > :26:36.England and Wales with temperatures around 16 as a low in London, 17 in

:26:37. > :26:43.Cardiff, and fresher conditions across the northern UK. Tomorrow,

:26:44. > :26:47.the sustained high pressure is with us again. It has moved position

:26:48. > :26:51.slightly, changing the wind direction. Across eastern Scotland

:26:52. > :26:55.and in two parts of north-east England, the wind will come from the

:26:56. > :27:00.North Sea and that means it will be cooler and fresher. Temperatures

:27:01. > :27:04.around 5 degrees lower for some. There are winners and losers, for

:27:05. > :27:09.West Wales, north-west England and western Scotland, a warm day, 6

:27:10. > :27:14.degrees warmer for some. These are the temperatures you might expect in

:27:15. > :27:19.the afternoon. 26 in London, but just to the west, the South Midlands

:27:20. > :27:22.and Hampshire, we could see temperatures up to 2728. Going

:27:23. > :27:26.through Tuesday evening, thunderstorms will start to break

:27:27. > :27:29.out. Initially they will swing up across the English Channel into

:27:30. > :27:33.southern England, then driving north across Wales, the Midlands and East

:27:34. > :27:37.Anglia. The amount of rain we get from these downpours will be

:27:38. > :27:40.variable from place to place however, the some areas could see

:27:41. > :27:46.half a month of rainfall in a couple of hours. We could see localised

:27:47. > :27:49.surface water flooding. It will feel humid with temperatures potentially

:27:50. > :27:54.reaching 30 across the east of England. Getting to the end of the

:27:55. > :27:57.week, the humidity will ease off, as will temperatures, and we will see

:27:58. > :28:02.some more on settled conditions pushing in across the Northwest.

:28:03. > :28:10.A reminder of the main story this evening. The route for the second

:28:11. > :28:14.stage of the HS2 high-speed rail network have been confirmed, linking

:28:15. > :28:15.Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and East Midlands.

:28:16. > :28:19.That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me -

:28:20. > :28:21.and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.