the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say
spells of heavy rain. some sunny intervals in between times, perhaps a little cooler, highs of 16 or 17. but a big purse to come in the next 48 hours, but then friday into saturday, high pressure tries to bother across the uk and it looks like we will see something drier, perhaps only briefly. potentially later next weekend we could be more showery but some such on here for you for friday and saturday at least. compensation for all the thunderstorms! and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. it isa it is a repeat of last years champions league semifinal but they don t want the same result. managers city fans are confident they would be triumphant, against religion. i m olly foster live in madrid we re around
millimetres in the space ofjust one hour. forwales, millimetres in the space ofjust one hour. for wales, there are in no but across the whole of southern england into the midlands and east anglia they will rumble on this evening. if you re heading out onto the roads, bearin you re heading out onto the roads, bear in mind they can drop a lot of rain ina bear in mind they can drop a lot of rain in a short space of time. that warning ends at around 10pm and we will be left with a showers. another band of rain approaching the north west later on. showers to go into early wednesday, western scotland, northern ireland. as the day plays out very much like today, out comes the sun had up go the temperatures. opcode the thunder clouds and down welcome the rain in many areas. it should peel fairly warm, quite humid, highs of 18. the storms if anything more focused on eastern areas. thursday, the low pressure that is driving the whole thing sinks further south across the uk, turning quite flabby,
there are in no but hour. for wales, there are in no but across the whole of southern england into the midlands and east anglia they will rumble on this evening. if you re heading out onto the roads, bearin you re heading out onto the roads, bear in mind they can drop a lot of rain ina bear in mind they can drop a lot of rain in a short space of time. that warning ends at around 10pm and we will be left with a showers. another band of rain approaching the north west later on. showers to go into early wednesday, western scotland, northern ireland. as the day plays out very much like today, out comes the sun had up go the temperatures. opcode the thunder clouds and down welcome the rain in many areas. it should peel fairly warm, quite humid, highs of 18. the storms if anything more focused on eastern areas. thursday, the low pressure that is driving the whole thing sinks further south across the uk, turning quite flabby, that means not very much wind to drive the showers around so somewh