It will be a shorter working week with no loss of pay. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport holly hamilton wales have opened their World Cup Campaign witha wales have opened their World Cup Campaign with a convincing victory over georgie. We will relive all the tries at 2 30. With rain on the way, some have been looking for a dry place to stay and that rain is brought to us by a weather system that is influenced by what happened in the caribbean two weeks ago. I will tell you more later on. Also coming up by royal appointment harry and meghan visit a south african township as they arrive in south africa with four month old archie for their first overseas tour as a family. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Its called 0peration materhorn and its the biggest peace time operation to repatriate britons stranded abroad after the collapse of thomas cook. The Civil Aviation authority has chartered a fleet ofjets to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. Thomas cook brita
Wings ready to sweep into bringing these unsettled conditions was much wetter across south west and then through the day, in towards wales, that rain pushing into northern ireland, too. Strong winds with rain getting into parts of the midlands. Much of the north and east should stay dry and bright with some sunshine and a few heavy showers for the north and western scotland the top temperature is 21 in the east, maybe 22, much cooler than yesterday when we saw 28 in norfolk. That rain continues to move north and it turns wet and windy across much of the country through the night but the far north of scotland should stay dry with some of the rain heavy and thundery across the southwest. Because of the cloud and wind and rain it shouldnt be too cold, 1215d, rain it shouldnt be too cold, 12 15d, quite a mild night. Low pressure 12 15d, quite a mild night. Low pressure family with us into tomorrow with a wet start. We have this centre of low pressure pushing on towards the south of britain
Midlands. Elsewhere, dry, more sunshine around the Northern Areas later, temperature is not quite as low as they were yesterday. Again, 20 degrees in the south east of england. Not quite as cold at old trafford but it is a reducing risk of showers, if there are any tomorrow, we will find the more likely at the start of play. Most places dry this evening, we have rain, coming in from the second whether front, and this is more widespread, perhaps heavy rain coming down into scotland, Northern Ireland, northern parts of england and wales and with it, the wind will be kicking up, south westerly wind picking up overnight. Milder than it was last night, double figure temperatures. Tomorrow, we start with the rain across Northern England and north wales, a little bit of rain heading through the midlands, everything sinking south, and eventually, we will see more cloud and patchy rain for southern parts of england. Further north, some sunshine, showers, most in scotland, and temperature 16 to
To push australia past 250. His third tonne of the season. Only don bradman has more. And we are all thrilled and we are all thrilled and nick miller has the weather. We have rain and High Pressure building infor we have rain and High Pressure building in for the weekend, to settle things down. Briefly. I have your full forecast coming up. See your full forecast coming up. See you in half an hour. See you in half an hour. Thanks nick, also coming up on afternoon live. Away from the drama of westminster, well be finding out what young people make of it all. Hello everyone this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Good afternoon, youre watching afternoon live from westminster. The tensions at the heart of government have been laid bare after borisjohnsons brother, jo, quit the government and announced hes stepping down as a conservative mp. He says hes been torn between family loyalty and the National Interest. He spoke to the bbc, just a few moments ago, outside his london home. I havent
Threatening storm surges up the us east coast after causing destruction in the bahamas. And the teenager who died after spinal surgery a coroner strongly criticises great ormond street hospital over her care. In a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. In the next 30 minutes, well get some perspective from brussels on the latest brexit news. Ill be speaking to klara dobrev, the Vice President of the european parliament. And later we will get the latest on hurricane dorian. That storm caused destruction and at least 20 deaths in the hammers. And later this evening at 22 40 and 23 30, ill be taking a first look at tomorrows front pages with sam lister, deputy Political Editor of the daily express, and torcuil crichton, the daily records westminster editor. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Hello and welcome to sportsday, im gavin ramjaun. What a way to return to the ashes. Steve smith scores a sensational double century as au