It's almost the weekend!

Here's your penultimate update for the working week.

Weather

Today will be another gloomy day of cloudy skies before the rains come this evening at around 8pm. Highs of 17 C.

Tube and train

There are minor delays on the London Overground in the south of London and no service between Gospel Oak and Barking.

London Midland, Network Rail in southwest Herts and north London and East Midlands trains are working with a good service,but there are minor delays on all Thameslink lines.

Traffic

There are M25 anticlockwise delays in Potters Bar between junction 24 and junction 23, and further round at junction 18 for A404 Rickmansworth Road.

There are long queues and delays of around 15 minutes on the A1 southbound on the approach to Stirling Corner.

The M1 southbound has traffic in Brent Cross leading to the junction onto the North Circular westbound, which is also queuing through Finchley and further up at Southgate/Arnos Grove.

The North Orbital Road has heavy traffic in St Albans and London Colney, and in Watford the A4008 leading up to the junction with the M1 is heavy with traffic.