Hope the day's panning out well and anyone who got drenched heading in to work this morning has dried out by now.
This evening's programme has a fair old range to it - stretching from rats to a hundred year old have-a-go hero to a movie star who wowed hundreds when he took his kit off.
Let's start with the rats. This has had us all cringing in the newsroom today - with the new programme editor, Faye, making clear exactly what we should slip into her drawers come April Fools Day (thank you Sid James). Sorry, back to the story. Rats - lots of them. Lots and lots of them in fact, who've made life a misery for residents in a street in Hackney. Not surprising that the problem has got out of hand when ('Rat Fact' alert) a rat is born in London every second. Marcus Powell has been along with a very brave cameraman to film the little blighters. Oh, and he took a man with a ferret too.
Now. The Olympics - how much ARE they going to cost? Earlier today, our Prime Minister said it's important to keep a lid on costs, but he didn't shed any light on how much the 2012 bill WILL be. The International Olympic Committee is in town today checking up on the preparations, presumably asking "er, and what's the price for all this then?" Let's hope so. Meanwhile, Simon Harris has been doing some sums of his own.
Phil Bayles has been along for a chat with Buster Martin. You may remember him - the oldest guy to be working. He's 100 and he washes the vans at a big plumbing firm. That we knew. But what we've found out today is that he was attacked last week by a group of young thugs. Guess what. He fought the little monsters off. He says they hadn't counted on his temper...
By Buster's standards, the Barbican is a mere stripling. However, '25 years up' is something to celebrate and celebrate it is. Kate Recordon will be there live to tell us what a party at Europe's biggest multi-arts and conference venue actually entails.
And to round off - Harry Potter without the wizard's hat. Or, indeed, the wizard's cloak. Or the trousers. In fact, Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe's latest role has him taking to the West End stage completely naked. (Stop tittering at the back there.) Last night was first night and all the post-performance talk was of what a cracking performance he turned in. Steve Hargrave has been talking to the 'artist formerly known as Harry Potter' to find out what HE made of his West End debut.
Quick 'Rat Fact' before we go - the Latin name for the Black Rat is, get this, 'Rattus Rattus'.
See you at SIX.
Ben and Emma.
