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A brisk north-easterly wind means that eastern parts of England will feel a drop off in temperatures.

North Sea coasts from Northumberland to Suffolk could remain cloudy and misty on Saturday but should be much sunnier on Sunday.

Scotland and Northern Ireland will also see more cloud.

Showers in eastern Scotland will have died out by Sunday bringing more sunshine.

Temperatures will be 23 or 24C at best but eastern Scotland will be cooler.

On Sunday, as the wind strengthens, temperatures will be a few degrees lower still in England and Wales - but could still reach 30C in southern England.

Millions of people across the south-east of the England will be affected by hosepipe bans due to concerns over the lack of rainfall.

Anglian Water has introduced its first hosepipe ban in a decade which applies to customers in the east of England and begins at 01:00 BST on Saturday.

A ban for one million households supplied by Southern Water in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight has also come into force. South East Water has its own restrictions in place.

On Thursday, Cambridge Water also announced its first hosepipe ban in 30 years.

The past winter months of December 2025 through to February 2026 brought an overall 13% more rainfall compared to average in the UK. However, there were stark regional differences. England saw 42% more than average whilst Scotland received 14% below average.

However, the spring that followed was overall 14% below the long-term meteorological average in terms of rainfall for the UK, and again varied enormously depending on where you are.

Northern England had 90% of its average, whereas there was just 50% in southern England.

Some spots in the south-east and east of England saw around a third of their average seasonal rainfall, including Suffolk (33%), Kent (33%), Essex (34%), Cambridgeshire (35%) and the City of London (36%). %!s()

The defence for Robinson, who has not yet entered a plea, sought to sow doubt on all of it.

Kirk, a key Trump ally, founder of conservative youth organisation Turning Point USA and a 31-year-old father-of-two, was shot once in the neck as he addressed a crowd on the campus of Utah Valley University on 10 September last year.

For the past five days, lawyers for Robinson, a trainee electrician, raised repeated objections to evidence and testimony on arguments including hearsay and the tainting of potential jurors.

They questioned the credibility of experts, DNA and ballistics reports with prolonged cross-examination about testing, interpretation and protocol.

But Chief Deputy Utah County Attorney General Chad Grunander told the judge: "Your Honour's heard four days of testimony now.

"The evidence is overwhelming. It's devastating."

Now Robinson's fate lies in the hands of Utah County Judge Tony Graf, who will determine if the case proceeds to trial.

Few details were actually known about Robinson or his actions until this week's court hearing.

Proceedings drew intense interest from the public, and some lined up overnight to earn a wristband for one of just 14 seats allotted for spectators.

Families of both defendant and victim were emotional in court. At one point on Friday, while video was shown of the suspect running across a rooftop on the day of the shooting, Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, reportedly hugged her tearful mother-in-law, then both looked away from the footage.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, spent the week painting a picture of a college dropout gamer who used his grandfather's rifle to assassinate a national political figure, then sought to cover his tracks to get away with it.

Much of what was learned came from Robinson's former roommate and romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, through a video interview with a prosecutor, recorded in April.

Twiggs told how the pair first met through friends in 2023. They were roommates before starting to date.

According to the taped interview, the suspect would talk about Trump or current affairs, although they did not discuss LGBT issues and Twiggs had never heard Robinson mention Kirk.

On the morning of Kirk's killing, Twiggs said Robinson left earlier than usual, around 04:00.

Robinson showed up three-and-a-half hours north that day at Utah Valley University campus in Orem, prosecutors said.

They played surveillance footage they said showed Robinson sauntering through campus, buying and eating Chick-Fil-A and even interacting with representatives from Kirk's Turning Point USA organisation.

The court saw footage of a man prosecutors say is Robinson returning to campus in different clothes from the ones he was pictured in earlier - as well as changing his gait, holding one leg straight.

Surveillance showed the suspect heading to the rooftop of the Losee Center, the building from which investigators say Kirk was shot from about about 415ft (126m) away.

According to State Bureau of Investigation Agent David Hull, who testified over two days, surveillance video shows Robinson rolling over a railing on to the Losee rooftop, lying prone and later dropping down off it with an unknown object in his hand.

In texts between Robinson and his roommate from the night of the shooting, the suspect said he'd hidden his grandfather's rifle in bushes near campus - and returned while an intense manhunt was underway.

Robinson texted Twiggs complaining that "there is a squad car parked right by it.

He added: "Again, I am sorry for roping you into all of this. You should not have to worry about this."

When Twiggs asked Robinson whether he was the shooter, the suspect admitted it and apologised, according to texts presented by prosecutors.

"I had enough of his hatred," Robinson texted. "Some hate can't be negotiated out."

The suspect wasn't even sure what model of gun he'd used, according to messages with his roommate.

"I don't fully know what the gun was, because it was old... and Gramps did some modifying," he wrote.

Twiggs testified that Robinson had asked weeks earlier about using an engraving tool in advance of an upcoming hunting and camping trip with his family.

After the shooting, however, he texted Twiggs: "Remember how I was engraving bullets?"

He said the messages were "mostly a big meme".

The court saw pictures this week of inscribed bullets and cartridges found both at the crime scene and Robinson's residence - with messages such as "Hey Fascist! Catch!"

Robinson eventually gave up trying to retrieve the rifle, he texted Twiggs, and made his way back to their home in St George.

Authorities did discover the firearm, law enforcement testified this week, and found DNA matching Robinson on both the rifle and a towel it was wrapped in.

Robinson, meanwhile, was nervous and regretful in the apartment he shared with his roommate the day after the shooting, Twiggs said in the recorded interview.

"He started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn't done it and then kept going around and just doing stuff, I think to keep himself busy or distracted or something," Twiggs said.

The hearing featured lengthy debates over the admissibility of evidence - with media lawyers and Kirk representatives arguing passionately for everything to be displayed publicly or at least in the courtroom.

Robinson told his roommate the day after the killing that he intended to turn himself in, Twiggs said.

The court heard how the suspect arrived at Washington County Sheriff's Office the day after the shooting, accompanied by his parents and a family friend.

Prosecutors played soundless footage of him that night, wearing a maroon shirt, dark hat, jeans and Converse shoes, and he was transported back to Utah County and formally booked on 12 September.

This week, Robinson appeared in court clean-shaven and wearing light-coloured suits. His parents and two brothers were also there.

The US president's son, Donald Trump Jr, and his wife were in court, too.

Both sides must now submit lengthy written briefs, and Judge Graf set the next hearing date for 1 September.

The Kirk family released a statement shortly after court adjourned.

The family wrote: "Nothing will ever undo the loss of our beloved Charlie.

"As this case moves into its next phase, we pray that truth will continue to be heard through a process that is fair, transparent, and grounded in the facts." %!s()

Three bottles in, Lightbody stumbled on a chord sequence and a lyric: "If I lay here / If I just lay here / Would you lie with me and just breathe in the world?"

The atmosphere shifted. Suddenly, the session wasn't for anyone else. They'd found something that would change Snow Patrol's career forever.

"It's the song that took us to the whole world," Lightbody says. "We just followed it along like little ducklings."

That song was Chasing Cars. You know it. You might even be sick of it. It's been streamed more than two billion times. In 2019, it was named the UK's most-played radio song of the 21st Century.

But it wasn't finished that first evening. Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted that the lyrics quoted above received a subtle rewrite. In total, it took months of work to perfect the song's deceptively simple arrangement.

"We even played it live a few times without finished lyrics," says Lightbody. "I hope those recordings have been destroyed. Those early lyrics were bad."

They haven't.

You can hear an embryonic version on YouTube, external, recorded in Seattle in 2005. At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.

"You come to me / With these three words / 'Not right now'."

That storyline was eventually replaced with a more romantic one. But hearing it gives more context to the song's inscrutable title – borrowed from a phrase Lightbody's father had used about his son's hapless love life.

"You're like a dog chasing a car," he'd said. "You'll never catch it and you wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."

In its finished version, Chasing Cars was released as the second single from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open, in June 2006.

A slow-burning hit, it peaked at number six in the singles chart, but really took off after being featured on the US medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

It's now the UK's eighth best-selling song of the 2000s, external, with a staggering 1.2 million copies sold.

"The numbers are ridiculous," says Lightbody.

"It doesn't make any sense in any kind of real way where you can go, 'These are the things that we did to become successful'.

"All of it happened by accident."

The band will celebrate the song's 20th anniversary later this year with two shows at the Royal Albert Hall. They'll play Eyes Open in full, as well as some deep cuts and greatest hits… and maybe some special guests.

It comes after a major turning point for the Northern Irish band. In 2023, drummer Jonny Quinn and bassist Paul Wilson both quit.

The remaining trio - Lightbody, guitarist Nathan Connolly and multi-instrumentalist Jonny McDaid (who's also Ed Sheeran's chief collaborator) - tried to write a new album, but the sessions fell apart. The songs weren't flowing. The band's confidence was shot.

"It's the first time we ever had to do it," Lightbody says. "If you have to scrap an album after 30 years of being in a band, you might think, 'We might as well pack up and go home'.

"So that was a kind of a sliding doors moment, where in another strand of the multiverse, we're not together anymore. But this version of us went, 'No, let's try again'."

A major catalyst was hiring Adele and Stormzy's producer Fraser T Smith, whose "calming" influence helped the band refocus. The resulting album, 2024's The Forest is the Path, gained Snow Patrol their best reviews in 20 years.

"It grips my heart and squeezes," wrote the Telegraph's Neil McCormick, external. On AllMusic, Neil Yeung called it "a late-era treasure trove, external" full of "emotional catharsis and introspection".

A record of space and breadth, it found Lightbody - a recovering alcoholic who'd moved from Los Angeles back to his native Bangor - mourning the loss of his father and reassessing his life.

"I spent so many years not understanding myself and not understanding what was going on in my own head," he says.

"I was always waiting for that tap on the shoulder to say, 'You're not supposed to be here. All this [success] was meant to be for somebody else'."

That feeling never entirely disappears. But Lightbody is more comfortable in his skin since getting clean in 2016.

He's replaced alcohol with cold water plunges and hot yoga... And he's just achieved a lifetime ambition: recording a song with Kylie Minogue.

"I've been a huge fan ever since I went to the Féile [festival] in Cork in '95 and saw Kylie on that bill with the Prodigy and Blur," he says.

"I'd heard on the grapevine that she was looking for a song or two, so I set about writing some."

The one that caught Kylie's attention was These Alarms. Released last week, it finds Snow Patrol at their best, with a singalong chorus that bounds over like a puppy and charms you into submission.

Rather than trading lines back and forth, Lightbody and Minogue sing the entire song in unison. He says it shouldn't really be considered a Snow Patrol song at all.

"The song was always called KYLIE – in all capital letters - all the way through the recording.

"I don't even know if you could call it a duet. It's more like we formed a band for this one."

Singing together makes sense. The song is all about connection. Given the state of the world, it's tempting to withdraw, the lyrics admit, but what we really need is each other.

"The title, These Alarms, can mean a lot of things," explains Lightbody.

"For me, they're the ones that were ringing in my head when I wasn't sober. I spent my whole life playing concerts, but not really being 'in concert' [with other people] in a meaningful way.

"I was always searching for something, but I didn't really know what it was... And then it turned out I had it all along."

The answer was simply friendship. And the people Lightbody needed most were there on the stage with him.

"The natural state for bands is entropy. Everything falls to chaos. But it's kind of amazing, because it's happened the other way around for us," he says.

"We're not Emerson, Lake and Palmer travelling in separate buses. We're closer than ever."

You can hear it in the music and see it at their concerts.

After more than 30 years, people still want to feel the feelings that Snow Patrol make them feel. When they played an outdoor show at Liverpool's Pier Head last month, thousands of fans who'd been unable to get tickets turned up anyway.

"There was an enclosure for the 12,000 people that bought tickets – but at one point, I said, 'put your lights up', and I looked down the street, and it was just lights all the way down," says Lightbody.

"I think that's the key to our music, in a general sense. It's an invitation. There's no jackets for this club, there's no secret codes. It's like, 'just come and be with us'." %!s()

“Drain the water, clean up the fireworks stuff,” Burgum told Miller, who is the wife of deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller. “Repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.”

Early into his second term, Trump set his gaze on the 104-year-old pool on the National Mall, describing it as “filthy dirty” and suggesting his predecessor Joe Biden’s administration failed to maintain the site.

He has sought to make the pool a symbol of American patriotism by having the liner coating the bottom of the structure reflect the hue of the US flag.

The renovation has come under fire for its mounting price tag – as of June, the estimated cost was over $16m – as the project was hindered by algae blooms that turned the pool green-ish and peeling blue liner.

The Trump administration has blamed the pool’s woes on “vandals”. Several people have been arrested related to the unsubstantiated claims, including a former Olympic cyclist David Hearn, who pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of property destruction. Hearn has said he reached inside the pool to examine the peeled sealant and let go of a chunk when he was told to by a park worker.

“This indictment reflects the administration’s effort to shift blame for their own failures,” Hearn’s lawyers said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. “The justice system exists to determine facts, not to provide political cover.”

The overhaul also has been scrutinized after reports emerged that some contractors selected had long ties to Trump, with critics decrying nepotism.

The work on the reflecting pool is just one of a number of projects Trump has spearheaded across the nation’s capital. Most prominently, he demolished the White House’s East Wing to build a $400m ballroom and plans to build a towering arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington national cemetery.

When Trump initially announced his intentions to beautify the reflecting pool this spring, he said he wanted it completed before the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations.

Water was drained and Trump directed that the bottom be painted what he called “American flag blue”. In May, the president posted on his social media site of the pool: “The goal is to have it done, at this higher level, prior to July 4th – We are ahead of schedule!”

But problems began quickly after the initial work was finished. Trump blamed vandals, and court documents later showed that the National Park Service reported to tpolice a 9 June incident in which a sharp knife or razor cut the pool’s new liner.

The pool was closed for the Independence Day celebration, which featured what Trump said was the largest fireworks display in the world. The president had said that the pool would have to be drained anew as part of the new round of repairs.

Burgum has also said that the Trump administration won’t seek bids for the new rounds of repairs. He told CNN’s State of the Union last weekend: “We’ll use the same company because they did a fantastic job.”

Ohio-based Green Water Solutions, also known as Greenwater Services, was given a $1.7m contract to install a water-purification system in the reflecting pool, while Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded $14.7m to repaint and waterproof the pool’s concrete floor.

Democratic senators and House members are investigating the pool project, including seeking answers about how much taxpayer funding is involved.

Associated Press contributed reporting %!s()

The film is written and directed by Bess (who also wrote the 2024 Blacklist script “Total Landscaping.” Producing the film is Holland, Lucas Ford and Tom Watts. Little Shadows serves as the production company in association with Hello Moon, Ford Films, This is Swington, Dalmatian Cow, and Baked Studios. Executive Producers include David, Dionne Lea Williams, Matthew Dean Russell and George A Loucas.

Michael McDonald, Casey Deidrick, Trevor Newlin, Ryan Follesé, Kevin Fonteyne, and Monet Weir round out the cast.

“We’re excited to bring ‘Portal to Hell’ to Cineverse and work with the passionate group of genre folks over there to release the film. Their reach and partnership felt like a good home to bring our film to a larger audience” the filmmakers said in a statement.

The deal was negotiated by Raven Banner’s Cecilia Brush and Michael Paszt and Dan Fisher, vice president of acquisitions at Cineverse. Raven Banner reps worldwide rights and will continue to sell available territories at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Other deals for the title include Lighthouse (Germany) and 9th Planet (Poland).

“Portal to Hell is exactly the kind of sharp, wildly entertaining genre film that Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting audiences respond to — inventive, funny, and genuinely horror-forward, with a terrific cast led by Keith David and Richard Kind,” said Fisher.

Here’s a look at the theaters that will be showing “Portal to Hell.”

Paradise – Toronto, ON – July 9th, 2026
Laurelhurst Theater – Portland, OR – July 24th + July 25th, 2026
Screenland Amour – Kansas City – July 31st, 2026
The Palace Eastwood – Syracuse, NY – July TBD
Rio Theater – Vancouver, BC – August TBD
Cinema Art Theater – Rehoboth Beach, DE – August 8th, 2026
The Independent – Huntsville, AL – August 21st, 2026
Chase Park Plaza Cinema – St. Louis, MO – August TBD
Bama Theatre – Tuscaloosa, AL – August TBD
Shoals Theatre – Florence, AL – September 5th, 2026
Darkside Cinema, Corvallis, OR – September TBD
Rodeo Cinema – Oklahoma City, OK – October TBD
Lumiere Cinema – Beverly Hills, CA – September TBD %!s()