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impressive for earlyjuly, 17—19. we finished the day with persistent rain across in northern ireland. that's going to be affecting northern ireland through the evening, then spread into parts of central southern scotland, northern england and western parts of wales as we go through the night and into tomorrow morning. not a desperately cold night, temperature is around 9-13 to cold night, temperature is around 9—13 to start the weekend. here's the chart for the weekend. saturday, we've got this hawk of weather system pushing slowly eastwards across the country, a bit more breeze ...

that tune will be in your head all afternoon! time for a look at the weather. we need it to be fine over birmingham. yes, it's not going to be bathed in sunshine for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games but it is looking dry and timbers easing down from 20 degrees during the course of the ceremony. where we are seeing sunshine today is to the north and north—west of scotland. very limited elsewhere. whilst there is a lot of dry weather around, we have also seen some heavy rain so far today, impacting parts of northern england, into southern scotland, thundery rain through...

rain. this is what happened through the small hours, these thunderstorms developed to the south, pushed northwards. we've seen around 5000 lightning strikes so far today and a lot of rain as you can see from the radar picture. in some places but not in all places. however, where it has been wet, take this figure, bury saint edmonds, above 70 millimetres of rain so far, that is more than that place would normally expect in the whole month of august, so it has been an exceptionally wet day so far but this rain is now starting to clear eastwards, taking a while to do so i have to say bu...

look in on people who might be vulnerable, an elderly neighbour or someone with very young children. this is the heatwave we have had, the second one this summer, if you like. we only had the last 13 weeks ago. climate change experts have been telling us yet again that we should be expecting more of these events as the climate changes, as the planet warms up. certainly, so far, the people we have been speaking to on the beach, as far as they are concerned, they are very much enjoying it. i did ask them how high do you like it, how what do you want it to go and they said maybe 31, 32 ...

and distinctive creatures. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. new allegations have emerged against chris pincher, who resigned from the government on thursday, after he was accused of groping two men in a private members' club the night before. mr pincher, who admits that he'd had too much to drink, says he's now seeking professional help. he denies the latest claims which are made in a number of sunday newspapers. borisjohnson is facing questions about how much he knew when he appointed mr pincher as the deputy chief whip in february. here's our political correspondent helen ca...