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This is Business Live from BBC News with Sally Bundock and Rachel Horne. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Trump's travel ban gets stuck in court. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Another hearing brings further delay and confusion. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Live from London, that's our top story on Wednesday, 8th February. | :00:13. | :00:32. | |
Whilst judges grapple with the arguments for and against | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
the Trump travel ban businesses move into damage limitation mode. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
We will talk you through what is at stake. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Also in the programme, Softbank,the Japanese | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
tech giant sees a big turnaround thanks to its investments | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
in the political hotspots of the United States and Britain. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Our team in the region will have the latest. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
And this is how markets are faring in Europe at the moment - | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
several key companies have reported earnings. | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
We'll talk you through the winners and losers. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
She has been described as the UK's most influential black person | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
and is chair of the country's biggest media agency. | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
But how tough was it for Karen Blackett to get to the top? | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
And as Barack Obama's been spotted Kite Surfing | :01:17. | :01:29. | |
in the Caribbean, we want to know - what would you do | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
to unwind after eight years in a tough job? | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Is hanging out with Richard Branson on your bucket list? | :01:35. | :01:50. | |
Thank you for your thoughts. Some of which we can't mention on the | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
programme! We start with President Trump's | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
travel ban which has Lawyers for the US Justice | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Department have been slogging it out with those for states of Washington | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
and Minnesota who want The appeals court judges court | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
in San Francisco are expected to give their decision later | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
in this week. Let's recap. President Trump has | :02:13. | :02:26. | |
been trying to temporarily ban people entering the US from seven | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
countries. He says this is about terror and keeping our country safe. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Whilst a stricter vetting system is put in place. But as you know, there | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
has been widespread protest against this ban. 127 companies have signed, | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
put forward their legal arguments and you can see some of the most | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
influence companies on the list. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Levis. They have filed court submissions. In the documents they | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
have argued multinational companies will have strong incentives to base | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
their operations outside the United States. At the moment, many of the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
companies use a visa programme called H 1 B. This grants entry to | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
85,000 skilled foreigners a year and the tech industry relies heavily on | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
this visa programme. There are approximately three applications for | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
every visa. That's granted. That's some of the background. Rack to | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Rachel. Moira Benigson is the Managing | :03:30. | :03:44. | |
Partner Founder of MBS Group which is an executive recruitment | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
agency based here in London. One of Trump's key campaign pillars | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
was about bringing jobs back to America. Are your clients concerned | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
about this? We're working for many of those companies because we have a | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
very big tech and digital division and fashion. They will become | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
concerned. Not right now because we're in a transition period. But if | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
you look at digital and tech companies in particular, their top | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
teams are very, very diverse and from all over the world. You can't | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
hold back progress and these days particularly at the MBS Group all of | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
our short lists are extremely balanced and come from all over the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
world. They're not particularly from one country, even though we are here | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
in the UK. Now in terms of global recruitment, as you say, you can't | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
hold back progress, it is a very different market, I imagine now than | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
perhaps when you first started out when companies are drawing up their | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
short lists, it is from more than one country, isn't it? Absolutely. | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
So you know, in the, I would think ten years ago, if you were looking | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
for a role in the UK, everybody would probably be from the UK. But | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
we're all connected digitally, everybody is, socially, and in the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
workplace and therefore, people don't look at that anymore. And we | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
find that in our fashion clients and in our tech and digital, CEOs are | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
getting younger and younger and their world is completely different. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
They're not interested in borders. They want the right people in the | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
right jobs, with the right teams. Moira, with this potential travel | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
ban in the US, also with the issue of Brexit, what sort of concerns are | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
CEOs are these executives that you recruit coming to you with or what | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
decisions that wouldn't have shaped decisions that wouldn't have shaped | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
their decisions a year ago? Well, I think until, I think Brexit kicked | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
it off where the world was just becoming one place and is one place | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
especially for very senior people and we recently were bringing over a | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
CEO from France to the UK and he had signed his contract the day before | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Brexit. Brexit happened. He phoned me the next day it say, "Will I | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
still be welcome in the UK?" It was a great shock for me and there I | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
found myself as an immigrant telling him everything would be OK. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
And from the US have you any similar situations? Not yet, but recently | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
for one of our fashion clients, in fact, just going back, it's | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
generally been easier to get Europeans to go to the US than the | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
other way round. Americans are quite loathe and many don't even have | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
passports as we know, but in this particular instance the CEO said his | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
wife did not want to raise her children for the next four years in | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
America and they would be extremely happy to come to Europe. So I think | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
you might see the reverse in America where they might get a brain drain. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
OK. Moira, thank you very much for your time this morning. A pleasure. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
In other news, the world's second biggest producer of iron ore, | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
Rio Tinto, has returned to profit after a 12% | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
The mining giant was given a boost by the recovery in commodity prices. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Iron ore has nearly doubled in value over the last 12 months. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Rio Tinto raised its dividend by more than expected | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Walt Disney's chief executive, Bob Iger, has warned that a trade | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
war between the US and China would be bad for business. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
The entertainment company's boss told CNBC he was also critical | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
of an executive order signed by Mr Trump barring | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
migrants and refugees from several Muslim countries. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
The company reported a surprise drop in sales to just under $14.8 billion | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
despite a strong performance from its theme parks and movie | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
divisions which now includes the Star Wars franchise. | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
Let's talk about Japan's Softbank. It snapped up Arm Holdings and it | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
has been chummying up with the United States and President Trump in | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
particular. It is doing well in terms of profits. 71% year-on-year | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
rise. What's the reaction? Now, Softbank | :08:43. | :09:08. | |
said it made $2.63 billion for the quarter after Sprint added more | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
subscribers than expected. This was the first full quarter since | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Softbank coming pleated a $32 billion acquisition of Britain's | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
most valuable technology company, ARM. We know the founder and CEO of | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Softbank has got big, pliing plans to make the company a company with | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
technology investments, moving away from the telecoms business to | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
becoming more diversified. It has got stakes in Alibaba. | :09:40. | :09:54. | |
There is the $50 billion investment in the US that he pledged when he | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
met with Donald Trump in December which would create 50,000 new jobs | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
all of which will aim to transform Softbank into a technology firm with | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
a difference. So much to take in there. Thank you very much. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
We have heard from Softbank. We've heard from the likes of Disney, | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
General Motors, for the US yesterday alone, I think 80 companies reported | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
earnings that are listed on the S and P 500. It is keeping traders | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
extremely busy. This is how things went in general in Asia overnight | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
and the night before on Wall Street. Let's look at Europe right now. So | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
again, earnings are dominating. We've mentioned Rio Tinto and Rio's | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
shares up 3% in London. You can see the markets fairly flat, but we've | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
had Carlsberg out, brewing up a better profit as well. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
The Danish brewer Carlsberg has reported a rise in full-year profits | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
The company says its expects a modest increase | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
And Samira Hussain has the details about what's ahead | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Company earnings continue on Wednesday. We will be hearing from | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
Time Warner. The company is being bought by AT, but the sale has | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
been opposed by US President Donald Trump. During the election campaign. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
So investors will be looking for comments on that. Now US coal miner, | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
Arch Coal will be reporting earnings. This comes at a time when | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
the Donald Trump administration has been looking to undue regulations | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
and support more mining. Investors and analysts will be watching for | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
broader comments on deregulation. Finally, the grocery store chain | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Whole Foods Market will be reporting earnings. They are grappling with | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
competition and they want to shed their nickname of whole pea cheque. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
It has been lowering prices and experimenting with its new value | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
orientated grocery brand. Joining us is Richard Hunter, | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Head of Research at Wilson King We will talk about commodities, | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
aren't we? We have seen a bounce back in commodity prices. Do you | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
think it is sustainable? It could be. On the one hand you've got the | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
demand from the likes of China and indeed India as you were mentioning. | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
So demand is very possibly going to stay there, but the other thing that | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
the commodities companies have had to do over the last couple of years | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
is really start running themselves as a business. So they have been | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
cutting costs sharply. They have been divesting assets that they | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
don't consider core to what they're doing and in terms of the likes of | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Rio that's so diversified across so many metals, it could very much be | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
sustainable now they've cleaned their books up a bit. It is | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
interesting you say that. We've got Rio Tinto's results today which are | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
better than expected and also they've boosted their dividend by | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
quite a bit which is very welcome, isn't it, having had a rough couple | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
of years? It is. Of course, particularly in the interest rate | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
environment we find ourselves in at the moment. Any boost to dividend | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
income is yet another attraction for shares as against other investments. | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
That follows on from BP yesterday and some other mining companies and | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
commodity companies. Are they back in favour now, do you think, these | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
stocks for portfolio managers, the commodity companies? It is fair to | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
say that they are a good hedge against inflation if we get to that | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
point, inflation could be coming to us a bit later in the year because | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
if we get inflation that will be UK-focussed, commodity companies do | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
99. 9% of their business outside the UK. That's an interesting one. But | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
whether investors, they still tend to be towards the higher end of the | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
risk scale so your common investor may not go towards the mining | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
stocks, but they're more popular than they were 18 months ago. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Richard Hunter you will be back to discuss the papers. And what he | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
would do after eight years in a tough job! | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
We've got Mr Obama. Mark said you'd burn your suit! I'm with you there. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
I'd sell it. You'd put it on eBay. It depends how long you wore it for! | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Still to come, the inside track on diversity in the media | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
from the chair of the UKs biggest media agency. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
You're with Business Live from BBC News. | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
A day after the Government launched the Housing white paper, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
one UK house builder seems to be going from strength to strength. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Redrow has just published it's half-year results showing revenue | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
rising 23% to ?739 million and they completed | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
nearly 2,500 homes in the last six months. | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
Their CEO John Tutte joins us from the london Stock Exchange. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
John, thank you very much for your time this morning. As Sally said, | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
yesterday we heard Government ministers calling the UK housing | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
market broken. What's your reaction to that? Well, good morning | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
everyone. I think perhaps it was an unfortunate title for the paper. I | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
don't think it's broken. The industry has increased its output by | :15:26. | :15:26. | |
50% in the last three years. What was your response to the white | :15:27. | :16:02. | |
paper? There was mixed reaction. Most say they were quite | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
disappointed. The one thing to put in context is it is a consultation | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
document, and that consultation is open until the beginning of May. The | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
important thing is how it moves on from here. There is a whole raft of | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
measures proposed in there and that needs detail. It is good news that | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
local authorities, there will be more pressure on them to allocate | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
their housing and put their plans in place because 60% of local | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
authorities have not got plans in place yet. To put them under | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
pressure to do that will be good and to test the delivery of those plans | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
will be good. The measures they are | :16:44. | :16:57. | |
proposing on speeding up the planning system by putting more | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
resources into planning departments, having fewer conditions on planning | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
permission, is all good news and should help us bring outlets forward | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
and assist our growth. L'Oreal is selling the body shop potentially. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Their results are out on Thursday and they could be reviewing their | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
ownership. Our top story: President Trump's | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
travel ban has had its latest They are grappling with both sides | :17:21. | :17:35. | |
of the argument. The conclusion will be batted to the Supreme Court | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Lawyers for the Justice Department told a hearing in San Francisco why | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
it should be upheld whilst those for Washington state made | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
A decision is expected later this week. | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
It is a really busy time for earnings. Depending on whether you | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
are Rio Tinto Allred row will depend on how you are doing today. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
In the advertising and media world, diversity remains a challenge. | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
Karen Blackett's father told her as a black woman, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
she'd have to work twice as hard to get anywhere. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
She now heads up the UK's largest media agency. | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
It manages more than ?1.2bn of advertising spend for firms | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
Let's get the Inside Track with a media executive who's been | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
voted the UK's most influential black person, overcoming | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
hurdles to rise to the top of the advertising tree. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Karen Blackett started her career in 1993 at CIA Media Network. | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
She then joined The Media Business Group and was promoted to the Board | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
of Directors in 1999 when the group merged with MediaCom. | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
After climbing the ranks, Karen was promoted to Chairwoman | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
The firm now employs more than 1,000 people in the UK. | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
Karen is just a little bit older than me, so I feel a little bit | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
inadequate listening to that. When we realised you were coming in, I | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
said we would be talking to you about advertising, diversity and | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
apprenticeships. You have knowledge on a huge agreement of subjects. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
What is the most important? I love my industry and I love what I do, so | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
advertising is top of the tree, but part of being good at advertising is | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
about having an inclusive workforces, and inclusive content | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
that you create, so diversity and inclusion goes hand in hand with | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
that. It is the buzzword in management school at the moment, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
diversity, how to feel diversity in an organisation. Why is it so | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
important? There are so many studies that show when you have more | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
inclusive workforces and cos it benefits both economic play and | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
socially. Those companies which are more diverse tend to be those which | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
are more financially stable and successful. It is a buzzword because | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
it is common business sense. It is not for altruistic reasons, it is | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
business sense. If you have to sell a brand to consumers in any country | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
you need to reflect your consumers in the advertising content you | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
create and in the workplace. Being called an influential black person, | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
does it annoy you that that is still a label? It is not something that | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
annoys me, it is something I find embarrassing but brilliant. But it | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
is something that is important because I know when I was growing up | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
in Reading I did not have many role models. My role models were | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
immediate family and friends and in a business context I was not aware | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
of roles I could go into because there were not people like me who | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
worked in those companies, or so I thought. The powerless, the list | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
that I topped, they are really important because it provides role | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
model opportunities for people in the UK. Your dad did say you would | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
have a tough time ahead getting on because you were black and a woman. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
Was that the case? It is true. My mum and dad came over from Barbados | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
in the 60s and he was concerned because they came over to a country | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
that they did not know and they had to try and navigate it and they had | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
to make sure that we would have a happy and successful life, me and my | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
sister. It was tough because people do discriminate and people hire in | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
their own images. At that time the advertising world was quite close, | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
nepotism did exist, and there were not many people like me who worked | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
in the advertising industry. However, when you look at the black | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
population in the UK and you look at the economic contribution of that | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
population, we are worth around ?300 billion in terms of financial | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
ability to spend. It is an incredibly important sector that we | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
have to tap into, because people in the UK by brands and products. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Unfortunately we have to leave it there. Thank you very much for | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
joining us. You can hear more from Karen online, she is on Twitter. We | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
are all having a Twitter chat. The rise of the robot is featuring again | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
and the impact of automation is fast becoming one of the biggest | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
challenges Bob governments around the world. The online retailer Ocado | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
is increasingly turning to automation. Let's have a look at | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
what is happening in their warehouses. This warehouse is | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
stuffed full of algorithms and machines learning, controlling 8000 | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
of these boxes. Welcome back. This is from | :22:48. | :23:39. | |
Bloomberg. Explain this to us. It is what is happening in Australia and | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
it might ring bells here. How individuals are piling on debt, | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
mainly in mortgages and they are getting mortgages up to the hilt, to | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
quite high levels, which is OK at the moment, but interest rates might | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
go up. Where are they in Australia? They are about 1.5% at the moment, | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
but they could be on the way up. If you are highly indebted, each time | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
interest rates go up, they could cause problems. They have got some | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
bad debts and it is not crisis point yet, but keep an eye on it. Let's | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
take a look at Barack Obama kite surfing. That is what he has been up | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
to on a nice little two weeks away at Sir Richard Branson's Private | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Caribbean retreat. There he is in action. What would you do if you | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
needed to take a break after a very demanding job? I am not sure I would | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
get on the speed style to Richard Branson. We will put it out there. | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
You never know. It could be water-based. I fancy the idea if you | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
had nothing to do for a month, a long cruise going to different | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
cities. That is not really kite surfing. What would you do, Sally? I | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
have a long bucket list, I have got three little boys. The world would | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
be my oyster. A little sleep. Sleep would be good. We have got a lot of | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
tweets. Some of you said you would head to the Caribbean. If Richard | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Branson was offering, you would not say no. We have not got time to do | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
the next story. Thank you to Richard. | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
There will be more business news throughout the day on the BBC Live | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
webpage and on World Business Report. | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
It will not be asked tomorrow, we will be having our cat naps! | :25:54. | :26:08. | |
Good morning. It has been a cold start this morning and temperatures | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
will not rise a great deal today and it will get colder over the next few | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
days. A lot of cloud on the way and temperatures will be lowering and it | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
will feel cold as the easterly wind picks up. We saw at the beginning of | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
the week a band of rain moving across from the West, but it has now | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
got stuck on the east side of the UK. It is a very weak feature, but | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
behind it there is cold air that will be coming in on an easterly | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
wind. Some sunshine in western fringes of the UK, but for many | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
central and eastern areas it is cloudy, grey and misty and there | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
will be some showers around as well. The wind is not too strong just yet. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Sunshine in Devon, Cornwall and West Wales as well with highs of eight or | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
nine. But across the rest of Wales, the Midlands and southern England, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
cloudy skies and there could be some wintry showers in northern England. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
In Northern Ireland brightening up with some sunshine, sunshine in the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
North West and the western isles of Scotland. Snow in the showers over | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
the Grampians. A few more wintry showers coming in on the breeze | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
overnight. Frost almost anywhere. Even under the cloud it could be | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
cold enough for temperatures close to freezing. There will be a fresh | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
breeze as we head into Thursday and it will freshen many parts of the | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
country, blowing in cloud. A hint of sunshine in sheltered western areas. | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
A bit more sleet and snow, no great amounts of snow, most of it on the | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
hills of eastern Scotland and the North East of England. But | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
temperatures will be lower than today. Nothing is coming in from the | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Atlantic where it is milder. We have got a big block of cold air coming | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
in from the east. The wind picks up on Friday and it will feel colder. | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
Cloudy skies across the board and temperatures at three or four at the | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
very best. | :28:28. | :28:29. |