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Gove and Labour's Brexit Secretary Kier Starmer as well. Join me now on

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BBC Two. Welcome to South Today.

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Coming up... The downgrade of maternity services

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at Banbury's Horton Hospital is extended as the NHS

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in Oxfordshire discusses Also name dropping -

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can a new approach to recruitment engender gender equality

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in the science industry? And there is the risk

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of a frost this week. By the end of the week,

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it turns cloudier. I'll have the weather

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for the week ahead shortly. It's been announced the downgrade

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of maternity services at the Horton Hospital in Banbury could be made

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permanent under new plans The temporary move -

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made on safety grounds - sparked anger from campaigners

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last summer. It will now continue

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until at least March. Expectant mothers, needing doctors

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at present, have to travel The extended travel time has led

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to the MP for Banbury, Victoria Prentis, urging patients

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to log their journey And it's not just maternity

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services that are affected. Chrissy Ansell from Banbury makes

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the 60 mile round trip to the John Radcliffe each week

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in order to visit her family at the oncology department.

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Matt Graveling's travelled with her. Talk me through the way that we're

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going to go to the hospital today. I think it's best if we go

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on the A4260, because the motorway is 12 miles longer, but also it gets

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chock-a-block with the A34 coming on it.

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Right. You were saying that the Horton

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was somewhere you had to use yourself not too long ago?

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That's right. It was just before Christmas

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and I had the unfortunate accident where I fell out of the loft,

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and the loft ladder went in my leg, which cut it open pretty badly

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and was bleeding profusely. I wouldn't have got to the JR.

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I wouldn't be alive today. So we're just coming

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through Adderbury now, Chrissy. Let's talk about your local

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MP, Victoria Prentis - she's had quite a lot to say

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on this matter. And she wants people

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to record their journey times. I hope to be able to feed this

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information into the consultation as real evidence of what time it

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really takes people to get to the Radcliffe and to get

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to their appointment, rather than just taking

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things off Google Maps. The journey times are

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an important factor. Although the population

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in Banbury's grown, medical sciences has advanced,

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people are getting older, but the distance hasn't changed.

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It's still the same distance. So wee're just leaving

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Dennington now. We've had been driving

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for just over 20 minutes. We probably could have got

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to the Horton and back again, if we were going there,

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but we're going to the John Radford. How long do you expect the rest

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of this journey to take I would say another

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25 minutes minimum. If I was sat here as one

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of the decision-makers, I would say, "Think very carefully

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about what you are doing. I'm sure there are other

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places you could cut cost, So we're just coming

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into the John Radcliffe now. It's 12.24, almost exactly 50

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minutes since we left If it took us the same time back,

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then we could've gone And of course we've still got

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to find a parking space. Yes, that's right and it can

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take as much as an hour, Well, the downgrade at the Horton

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comes as the first part of a major consultation into Oxfordshire's

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wider health services is launched. ?200 million of savings has to be

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found by 2021 by the county's Katharine DaCosta has been

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looking at the details. Well, it seems that the idea's

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to centralise more services to the John Radcliffe Hospital

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in Oxford. Now, that's not going to be good

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news for people campaigning to keep Health bosses stress

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they are investing in the Horton. It'll become a centre

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for diagnostics and outpatient appointments, so that patients can

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be seen and treated closer to home. Under the plans, though,

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most seriously ill patients would be transferred to Oxford and maternity

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services may be permanently downgraded, because

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of staff shortages. Acute stroke services could also

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transfer to Oxford to make it a large specialist unit

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for the whole region. Meanwhile, the overall strategy

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is to keep people out of hospital, As such, 146 beds

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have already closed. Another 48 are

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earmarked for closure. We've only seen these proposals,

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we've only had them for a matter of hours, but what reaction

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has there been? Well, some of the concerns

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are that this consultation's in two parts and that,

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actually, many of the changes are interlinked.

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Also, it's 48 pages long. Some feel the sheer size of it

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will put many people off engaging Healthwatch Oxfordshire has said

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that many of the changes have already started to be put in place

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before the public's They've already closed down beds

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in the JR and they've closed down They've done that before

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the consultation starts, I mean, if there's a big swell

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of public opinion against it, is it actually going

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to make any difference? Well, the second phase

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is expected to start in May - looking at A, children's services

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and community hospitals - with the fear that,

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to make more savings, more community hospitals

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may have to close. We'll have more detail and more

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reaction on tomorrow's South Today. Katharine DaCosta,

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thank you very much. 14 council-run day care centres

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for elderly and disabled people have been recommended

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for closure in Oxfordshire. The county council is proposing

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the closures in order Under the plans, funding

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for privately-run services would also be cut by hundreds

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of thousands of pounds, but more If anyone were to say

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that it is most definitely a long-term solution would not

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perhaps be being realistic, but what we are doing is,

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as of today, making sure that the service we have

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in Oxfordshire is giving the Oxfordshire people

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what they need. The UK Atomic Energy Authority is

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hoping to increase gender equality Those hiring people wouldn't see

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names at the shortlist stage, to try and stop "unconscious

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bias" against women. It's part of measures

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being trialled at its Culham base to increase the number of women

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going into the industry. At Culham's nuclear fusion

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experiment jet, they can heat plasma to 100 million degrees -

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hotter than the sun. But when it comes to getting

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women into science, Currently, 10% of engineers and 15%

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of scientists here are women. The UK Atomic Energy Authority says

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it's an imbalance they're What needs to change is the culture

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and for it to become normal, for it to become a nonevent

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that you are a woman in You're just a scientist,

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you're an engineer, you're not a female scientist

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or a female engineer. Alex Davis is a process

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engineer at Culham. She thinks women are being put

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off jobs in science You give boys Lego and Meccano

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and you give girls suddenly, you've raised an entire

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generation of people who are conditioned to think,

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these are my hobbies, these are my interests,

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these are what I want The UK Atomic Energy Authority has

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now signed up to a gender equality accreditation scheme

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to try to attract more women into It wants to make its labs

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more female-friendly. Some of the tangible things that

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you can do are gender-blind recruitment practices

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at the shortlisting stage. This is something that's been

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in the news recently. Family-friendly working

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policies, flexible working. A lack of female scientists

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and engineers is not just a problem at Culham Science Centre -

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it's happening across the country. But it's hoped measures being tried

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out here could encourage more women to embark on careers

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in this industry. Finally, how about this

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for a lucky escape? An 80-year-old motorist

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was unhurt after this car crashed into a pontoon

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on the River Thames in Henley. Emergency services helped free

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the pensioner within 10 It took two hours

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to recover the car. The driver was described

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as "a bit shocked". Weather next, starting with

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the regional forecast with Alexis. But that's it from us.

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Good night. After a nearly damp start

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to the week, some brighter and sunnier spells with a chance

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of frost at times. Towards the latter part of the week,

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cloud will make a return, So a mainly dry week,

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mainly settled, with Overnight tonight,

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a good deal of cloud, Temperatures in the countryside

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may well drop to freezing, so, where we have clearing skies

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for eastern parts of the region, the chance there we could

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have a frost first thing tomorrow. In most places, temperatures

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will be above freezing. But the sun will start

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to make an appearance. More cloud the further

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north and west you are The best of the sunshine down

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towards the south and east. In the sunny spells,

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temperatures will struggle to a high of just four or five Celsius,

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so quite a cold feeling day, especially where

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we have all that cloud. But the winds will be light,

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so pleasant in the sunshine. Through the course of tomorrow

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night, the cloud will disperse and we'll see clearing skies

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and that means one thing - a widespread sharp frost,

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a hard frost, in fact, first thing on Wednesday morning.

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A very chilly start to the day. Temperatures could start in towns

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and cities at minus two Celsius. In the countryside,

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a low of minus three Light winds first

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thing on Wednesday. It's a decent day, lots of sunshine,

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more cloud further north. That cloud may start

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to spill southwards The best sunshine for southern

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parts of the county, with temperatures on Wednesday

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reaching a high of three Through Thursday, high pressure

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still dominates our weather. It stays with us

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through much of the week. A weather front moving southwards

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will bring us more cloud. Where it's thick, the cloud,

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we could have the odd isolated shower, but generally,

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it will be dry on Thursday. Dry also through Friday,

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with temperatures reaching a high Looking ahead to the weekend, mainly

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dry but quite cloudy at times. Some brighter spells are possible.

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Now your national forecast. perhaps a little milder. If you like

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the mild weather, you'll have to head elsewhere in the country. Find

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out more in the national weather forecast. Our weather is going

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against normal expectations this week. In Highland Scotland some snow

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to be seen on the hills. Temperatures as high as 12 Celsius

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today. Over the next few days the coldest air is in the far south-east

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of England where there is sunshine to be had. Four or five Celsius in

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Kent. Differences remain over the next few days and here is why. I

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pressure in control of the weather. Some clear a continental air, but

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coming into Scotland from the Atlantic plenty of clouds around.

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Outbreaks of rain

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