Weatherday: "Zdravstvuyte, Colonel Collins"

Some sunny spells this morning will give way to cloud around lunchtime. Rain moving in from late afternoon will be persistent and sometimes heavy through the evening.

Initial light breezes will blow moderate to fresh later. Highest temperature 7deg.

On this day in 1995, US astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, when she brought the Discovery to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Mir space station.

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