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at the pollen levels, high or very high across england and wales and grass pollen is reaching its peak. heading into friday, largely dry again, some cloud lingering in the far north—east again and the chance of the odd shower approaching the far south—west later on. those temperatures are a bit higher so more widely in the mid 20s but still relatively cool around the north—east. looking ahead to the weekend, it will be warming up, the chance of some hit and miss heavy showers and thunderstorms but it looks drier and warmer again in the next week. man and beast alike are struggl...

good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. train passengers are facing a further day of disruption after thousands of rail workers started another 24—hour walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. across the country, only around 20% of services are running. the government say the strikes could be ended if the unions put the pay deals on offer to their members and voted on them. this report from our correspondent, helena wilkinson. a now familiar rail passengers and the rest of the country — half empty stations, weekend plans and services are severely disrupted. we had to leave ear...

in martin scorsese's 1990 mafia movie, goodfellas. ray liotta was working on a film in the dominican republic when he died. he'll also be remembered for field of dreams and copland. the head of p&0 ferries has told the bbc it was a difficult decision to sack hundreds of staff earlier this year. peter hebblethwaite said that the dismissal of 800 workers and replacing them with foreign agency workers paid less than the minimum wage was intended to secure our transport correspondent katy austin reports. 10 weeks on, most of p&0�*s ferries are running again, but questions remain, inclu...

plus, coming to a car park near you: cheap solar charging for your electric vehicle. but does northern europe have the weather for it? we start with the cost of living here in the uk because, as we were anticipating this time yesterday, the chancellor rishi sunak has announced a financial support package to help people with soaring bills. the 15 billion pound plan will be funded, in part, by what he called a temporary, targeted energy profits levy. in other words, a windfall tax on the energy companies, a policy the opposition labour party have been calling for, but the government ha...

care of, for a change. i the chancellor is rasing some of the cash from a one—off tax on oil and gas companies. we'll have their reaction, too. also tonight... the texas primary school mass shooting — questions about how long it took for police to challenge the gunman. up to an hour, some say. the actor kevin spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men. the allegations date back to when he was in the uk. abba as you've never seen them before. a0 years after they last toured, digital technology takes them on the road again. and coming up on the bbc...