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number of backers. heres our political correspondent helen catt. three potential prime ministers. two of them have officially said they want the job. the former chancellor rishi sunak has confirmed he is running, after getting more than the 100 backers he needs. in a tweet he said he was standing because he wanted to fix the economy, unite the party and deliver for the country. penny mordaunt had already said she was in the race and is the only contender so far to go in front of the ca...

wales have made it through to the play—offs and england team were back in action for the first time on home soil since their victory in the euros. they face luxembourg at stoke city. jo currie is there, letsjoin her. after a glorious summer of womens football, the celebrations continued this evening. wales women, who have never qualified for a major tournament, took a huge step towards next summers world cup by getting a play—off berth. as for the lionesses, over21i,000 play—off ...

out today. lots of flood warnings in force, 57 for england, 2a wales and a couple in scotland. poor conditions out and about this afternoon. this brought heavy rain but if i zoom out into the atlantic we are looking at the next weather system developing just to the east of the united states. thats bringing heavy rain back into our shores for friday night so we are not done with the flooding story just yet even though through the afternoon actually for england and wales brighter weather...

will hold up above freezing. we are looking at around three to 7 degrees. we start off tomorrow morning with a northerly wind driving showers into the north coast of scotland, this band of rain moving into north—west england, but on the whole tomorrow will be a better day. drierand on the whole tomorrow will be a better day. drier and brighter with more sunshine coming through. may be fresher but the sunshine will compensate seven to 11 degrees. but there is more wet weather to come ...

to help defend ukraine against russian cyber attacks. and, from the hand of god to the auction house — the ball used to score one of footballs most famous goals goes under the hammer. good afternoon. welcome to the programme. a new report into pressures at the manston migrant processing centre in kent has raised questions about whether conditions worsened there after suella braverman first became home secretary, in september. the chief inspector of prisons says that in july the facil...

how about that? desert island discs last and now found. louise is here with the weather. it looks likely we will see cloud around today but a beautiful sunset this evening in east yorkshire. sunshine certainly at a premium as we go into tomorrow because of the amount of cloud spilling in as we speak. sun down to the south—west but it is this cloud which will bring the heaviest of the overnight rain across north—west scotland and northern ireland. it weakens as it pushes its way sou...

and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck whos died at the age of 78. theres more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england, ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. were the worst on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. the highest priority calls — with an immediate threat to life — took almost 11 minutes on average, the target is seven. ...

equal fourth warmest on record, and quite alarmingly with only two months to go we are on track for one of the warmest years on record. some of the warmest years on record. some of us need rain, but only northern ireland were substantially above normal. there will be some over the next 2a hours, but it is the wind that will feature tomorrow night. widespread gales, and potentialfor disruptive and damaging gusts of wind. all linked into this area of cloud. thats a developing area of low...

sunshine will compensate, six to 11 degrees the high but as we go into friday night, here is that wet weather and in areas where we are already seeing those flood warnings out, so across parts of south—west england, wales, across the majority of england as that system drifts steadily east and behind it we will see a cost of shop showers continuing through the day. a wet start to saturday however you look at it and the rain eases away, plenty of showers, some wintry through the tops o...

and hence the chilly feel, both by day and by night that is ushering in some arctic air, our first significant chilly blast of the autumn. so cold by nay, colder by nay chilly by night as well but there is some sunshine around as well and its dry across many parts. this is the north—east coast, not too far to the north of that quite a lot of showers have gathered across parts of central and northern scotland, one or two for northern ireland and that east of england and the irish coas...