News category: Exhibitions For best viewing experience of this website Please enter a place name in the search bar After provisionally the warmest May Day on record in the UK higher than average temperatures will subside over the weekend Environment Agency Updated: 22:50 (UTC+1) on Mon 5 May 2025 High pressure brings further fine and settled weather this week Any patchy cloud will clear this evening leaving some late sunshine to end the day with a rural frost and some patchy fog forming under light winds in places Tuesday will be another dry and settled day Feeling warm in the sunshine with light winds though turning cloudier from the west later in the afternoon The remainder of the week will see high pressure dominating It will stay dry with plenty of sunny spells Breezy at times but temperatures will be on the rise Dry across the vast majority of the UK with clear or sunny spells but also some patchy cloud Cloud will likely thicken across the far north and northwest during the weekend with some outbreaks of rain for a time There is also a small risk of some heavy showers in the far south or southwest high pressure will be dominant across the UK This will bring predominantly fine and dry weather for the majority of places Temperatures are likely to be slightly above normal for the time of year although there is a chance of some cold nights Fairly typical weather for the time of year is most likely through this period fine and dry weather is more likely to dominate although this will be interspersed with occasional spells of rain and showers with a risk of heavy rain and thunderstorms in places temperatures will most likely be near to or slightly above average 'It’s been a pretty tough few days for me' - Hartley on Ecclestone refusing interview England head coach Lewis says he is the right man for the job despite Ashes woes Hartley suggests 'Australia’s 2nd XI might beat England’s 1st XI' AdvertisementHow was your experience today Get quick access to your favorite articles Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers Make your voice heard with article commenting Porsche Carrera Cup GB runner-up Charles Rainford has secured a plum seat at the West Surrey Racing BMW team for the 2025 British Touring Car Championship campaign The 26-year-old from Sussex has taken the final seat in WSR’s four-car squad of 330i M Sport machinery, shortly after the team had to part company with its quadruple champion Colin Turkington due to commercial reasons Rainford will line up in WSR’s two-car LKQ Euro Car Parts subset alongside the experienced Aiden Moffat, with reigning BTCC champion Jake Hill and series sophomore Daryl DeLeon occupying the remaining seats This means that Hill is the only one of WSR’s 2024 driver line-up continuing into the new season with the team cut his car-racing teeth in small-capacity historic sportscar machinery before moving into modern motorsport in 2021 in the Carrera Cup GB with the family CCK Motorsport team before increasing his total victory tally to four across the 2023 and 2024 seasons He narrowly lost out in last year’s title chase to BTCC race winner George Gamble but with the most successful team on the grid,” said Rainford who bolsters an increasingly intriguing field in the Jack Sears Trophy sub-division for drivers with a maximum of one podium finish in the BTCC “Some of my earliest memories of racing are of watching the BTCC with my dad Walking into WSR HQ for the first time and seeing the trophies and the names on the wall like [Ayrton] Senna [Andy] Priaulx and Turkington was incredible “I’d love to see my name up there one day and if we can win the Jack Sears Trophy this year WSR team boss Dick Bennetts added: “He’s had an unusual route to the BTCC but from what we’ve seen of him in Carrera Cup GB and we’re confident he has the speed and skill necessary to turn his potential into on-track success.” Rainford is also a race winner in Group 1 Ford Capri machinery – he has notched up five wins at the Brands Hatch Super Touring Power festival over the past two years aboard a Faberge-liveried Capri paying tribute to the car in which Stuart Graham was a BTCC race winner in the late 1970s From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport In order to keep delivering our expert journalism we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker Hear from TNT Sports cricket expert Ebony Rainford-Brent as she discusses the drama that has blown up with Alex Hartley and Sophie Ecclestone with the spin bowler refusing an interview with the former England international Watch the Ashes live on TNT Sports and discovery+