01/02/2018 BBC News at One

Theresa May says Britain and China

are enjoying a golden era

in their relationship.

The Prime Minister meets

President Xi Jinping,

as she aims boost trade

between the two countries.

Wing while, she says she'll fight EU

proposals to give residency rights

to EU citizens who arrive in Britain

during the bread clip transition

period. -- the Brexit transition

period.

We'll have the latest

from Westminster and Brussels.

Also this lunchtime.

Stroke patients are getting younger

- the average age at which people

have a first stroke has fallen

in the last ten years.

Lifetime bans for doping given to 28

Russian athletes are overturned. The

IOC says the ruling has serious

implications for the fight against

drugs in sport. And the Duke and

Duchess meet the Crown prince and

princess. William and Kate continue

their Scandinavian tour with a visit

to Norway.

And coming up in the sport on BBC

News - a record January transfer

window sees Premier League clubs

outspend their counterparts

in Spain, Italy, France

and Germany put together.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The Prime Minister says Britain

and China are enjoying a golden era

in their relationship,

after meeting the country's

President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

On the second day of her trip

to try to boost trade

between the two countries,

Theresa May said she hoped her visit

would strengthen the "global

strategic partnership"

between the UK and China.

Robin Brant reports from China.

There is some flash photography in

this report, from Shanghai.

Day two of her trip,

it was time to see the sights.

With her husband, Philip,

at her side, the Prime Minister

toured the Forbidden City

but there was no stopping talk

of Brexit following her.

In Beijing, with one eye

on Brussels, the Prime Minister

signalled she will fight proposals

to give UK residency rights

to EU citizens who come

during the post-Brexit transitionary

period.

There's a pushback aimed

at critics on her own side.

A Tory MP has accused Mrs May

of governing like a tortoise

when what is needed is a lion.

A Cabinet minister with her on her

trip says the doubters need to see

things more like her hosts do.

They are looking at performance,

they are looking to see what the UK

is doing and they look

at the Prime Minister in a different

way than some of the internal

tearoom discussions in the UK do.

The problem for Dr Fox is that

sometimes the discussions

in the tearooms of Westminster

are similar to what is being

talked by the leaders

in the teahouses of China.

In both cases they see

a Prime Minister on the road beating

the drum for trade but they also see

a leader weakened by that general

election result with a cloud

of uncertainty from Brexit

hanging over her.

Sowing the seeds for the UK-China

relationship after Brexit is part

of the focus of this trip.

That includes science collaboration

as China tries to rely

less on importing food.

Then there is Britain's

cultural export.

We know that Dr Who and

Downton Abbey are great

successes here in China.

I've just been meeting the company

responsible for something that

I have to confess I haven't seen.

I have seen Downton

Abbey and Dr Who.

I have not watched Octonauts.

It is a UK children's cartoon

which is apparently being enjoyed

by millions of children

here in China.

Away from entertainment

and back to business,

this was the most important meeting

of the day with China's President.

The Prime Minister wants to deepen

what she called the global

strategic partnership.

It was almost certainly one

conversation over tea that didn't

touch on her leadership problems.

We drink Lapsang.

Robin Brant, BBC News, Shanghai.

Speaking while in China,

Theresa May has signalled

that she will fight a demand

by the European Union that EU

citizens who move to the UK

during the transition period,

after March 2019, will be given

full residency rights.

The Prime Minister said that

in the EU referendum people had not

voted for "nothing to change".

Our political correspondent

Iain Watson reports.

Oh, smite -- all smiles, in December

the EU gave the green light for

talks and trade and transition

period of about two years after

Brexit, but now there's a snag. The

government thought it was agreed

that full EU citizens' rights to

work here would end after Brexit in

March 20 19. Now the EU says those

rights should be extended until the

end of any transition. In their

view, December 20 20. To many

Brexiteers, that's unacceptable.

This is an issue that we can't come

from eyes on. We do need to make it

absolutely sure that any EU citizens

who come here during the

transitional period will not begin

in the permanent right to reside in

this country. We'll have left the

European Union and they can't expect

the same provisions to prevail after

we've gone.

And the pressure from

those pro-Brexit backbenchers,

Theresa May told reporters on her

trip to China that innocence Brexit

means Brexit. People coming to

Britain after March 20 19th in the

full knowledge that we've left the

EU should be treated differently. A

point repeated by her ministers in

the Commons.

The citizens' rights

agreement reached in December does

give certainty about the rights of

EU citizens already here going

forward but this agreement does not

cover those arriving after we leave

the EU.

So what would this mean in

practice? Well, the only change that

EU citizens would see if they come

here during a transition period is

they'd have to register. But if they

wanted to stay on beyond that

transition period, the government

says new rules could be applied

depending on the negotiations that

might mean the need for a work

permit or Visa. Government sources

say EU citizens wouldn't be thrown

out, but pro-EU campaigners are more

worried that they might not come in

the first place.

A message to EU

migrants is absolutely unequivocal.

If you want to come here you will

have less rights than the people you

are working alongside, less rights

than the people you are living

alongside, and that you will have no

security in this country.

Speculation about Theresa May's

future continues at Westminster and

she's been offered apparently

helpful advice by the man she sacked

as Chancellor and who campaigned

against leaving the EU.

The

Conservative Party, which I have

worked very hard over my lifetime to

put back in a position where it

could be the government, must offer

to the country a big plan for the

future, big ideas, big vision, a

plan to engage with the rest of the

world like China, or indeed a form

of Frexit which is not as economic

as damaging as some of the forms

being produced -- waveform of

Brexit. I would humbly suggest

that's what's required.

It's

increasingly apparent the Prime

Minister doesn't simply have to

negotiate with the EU, but with

members of her own party as well.

Iain Watson, BBC News, Westminster.

In a moment we'll get the picture

from Adam Fleming in Brussels,

but first our assistant political

editor Norman Smith

is in Westminster.

What reaction to what Theresa May

was saying?

By and large Mrs May's

critics have been pretty pleased

because it suggests that the next

round of transition talks are going

to be a bit of a rough house. I

think many people thought there were

going to be a walk in the park. Now

it looks like there will be some

serious rows, and for Mrs May it

enables her to turn to her critics

say, look, I'm not a pushover, I'm

not going to be rolled over, I'm

going to stand my ground, we're not

going to be a vassal state. So she

makes a stand over freedom of

movement. She's also reassured her

critics this transition period is

only going to be around two years.

This morning David Davis has said

there is also going to be a bust up

over our right to negotiate our own

trade agreements during this

transition period. All of which has

been welcomed by her critics,

evidence that Team made are flexing

their muscles. The difficulty of

this misleads may have to backpedal,

if she has to compromise and that's

been the story of the Brexit

negotiations so far. You will give a

bit and then we'll give a bit. But

at the end of the day if we end up

with some sort of bunch over the

issue of freedom of movement, with

maybe new EU rivals having to

register, but may still enjoying

residency rights, then the backlash

from Mrs May's critics is likely to

be all the more ferocious. It seems

to me she's won herself some

applause, some temporary breathing

space, but if she backs down on her

position could be even more

precarious.

Norman, thank you. Adam

Fleming in Brussels, what awaits her

there, given everything at Norman

was just saying?

Well, I Harrald

Verhofstadt, the member of the

European Parliament who coordinates

the parliament's Brexit work is off

work sick today but he tweeted from

his sick bed saying these rights are

absolutely non-negotiable -- Guy

Verhofstadt. He says the EU will not

accept a situation where European

citizens who moved to the UK before

Brexit day have one set of rights,

but EU citizens who moved to the UK

after Brexit date have a different

set of rights during the transition

period. That's what he feels about

it when he's under the weather, not

very happy. As for the European

Commission, which runs the Brexit

talks, their vice president said he

didn't want to comment on comments

made by the British Prime Minister

while she was on the other side of

the world. He said he would rather

wait to see the official British

position put forward in the

negotiations. By complete

coincidence the campaign groups that

represent the citizens affected, EU

nationals in the UK, British people

in the EU, they are in Brussels for

an event and they are dismayed about

all of this. We'll only know for

sure what happens when the talks get

under way about the transition

period and there are no dates for

them in the diary as yet.

Adam

Fleming in Brussels and Norman Smith

in Westminster, thank you.

The average age of people

who have a stroke for the first time

in England has fallen

in the past decade.

Figures from Public Health England

show that while the majority

of strokes occur in people over

the age of 70, more than a third

of first time strokes hit

adults between 40 and 69.

Here's our health correspondent,

Catherine Burns.

I had a stroke.

I had a stroke.

I had a stroke.

I had a stroke.

Adrian Jones was just 53

when he happened to him.

He says his stroke has changed his

life, that he used to walk 50 miles

a week, now he struggles

over short distances.

I didn't feel too great straightaway

and when I twisted and

tried to stand up I immediately fell

over and I couldn't feel, I had no

sensation on my left side at all.

So, I didn't know what had happened,

obviously panicking.

The older you are the

greater your chance of

having a stroke, but the average age

for men having a stroke has

fallen from 71 to 68.

For women, it's gone from 75 to 73.

Figures from Public Health

England show almost

60% of first-time stroke

patients were 70 or over.

But there's been an increase

in middle-aged people

being affected.

In 2007, about 15% of people

having a first stroke were

aged between 40 and 59.

By 2016, it had gone up to 20%.

I think the first thing is awareness

that stroke can happen.

Awareness how awful stroke can be,

and therefore it really is worth

making an effort right

from the beginning of your life,

or as soon as you become an adult,

to be

thinking about the longer term,

not to think that stroke is just a

disease for older people.

If someone is having

a stroke it's vital to get

help quickly.

So a campaign's been launched

to help people recognise

the symptoms.

If people can get

a hospital quickly, get the

life-saving treatment

that they need within

three hours, it means

that

not only is their life going to be

saved but also they're likely to

live a life with reduced disability

and burden associated with stroke,

so please do act fast.

Face - has it fallen on one side?

Arms, can they raise them?

Speech, is it slurred?

It's worth saying too,

40 to 74-year-olds in England are

eligible for health checks to help

spot the early signs of various

conditions including strokes.

Catherine Burns, BBC News.

Lifetime doping bans given to 28

Russian Olympic athletes have been

overturned by the Court

of Arbitration for Sport.

The court said the evidence provided

by the International Olympic

Committee wasn't sufficient

to punish the athletes -

and their results from the 2014

Sochi Games will now be reinstated.

Our sports correspondent

Alex Capstick is here.

How has this come about? What is the

court's ruling?

This stretches back

to the Winter games in Sochi, where

Russia was accused of enacting a

convex system which protected drug

cheat. An IOC investigation found

more than 40 Russian athletes had

benefited from the system and handed

them lifetime bans. All but one

appeal to the Court of Arbitration

for Sport and they were held in

Geneva last week. What will be a

shock to anti-doping campaigners,

the Court of Arbitration for Sport

said there wasn't enough evidence to

prove that 28 of these athletes had

in fact cheated at those Games so

they are now free to compete.

They've been cleared completely. A

others have been found to have

committed doping violations but

whilst their lifetime bans have been

reduced most won't be allowed to

compete in Pyeongchang -- 11 others

have been found. What happens to the

28? It is unclear. The IOC have said

they are very disappointed by the

decision but they say it doesn't

mean these athletes are innocent or

that they will be invited to South

Korea to compete as part of the

neutral team, 169 athletes have been

invited from Russia. As for Russia,

as you would expect, they've

welcomed the decision. One leading

official from the Kremlin has said

it's a victory for justice, but with

just

Our top story this lunchtime.

over a week to go before the start

of the Games it's fair to say it's

all a bit of a mess.

Alex Capstick,

thank you.

Alex Capstick, thank you.

Theresa May says Britain and China

are enjoying a golden era

in their relationship.

And still to come -

Why Facebook's profits are up

despite users spending less time

on the social network.

Coming up in sport -

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho

slams his side's "ridiculous" start,

conceding just 11 seconds

into their 2-0 defeat to Spurs

in the Premier League last night.

I do apologise - we will get there

eventually. I do hope the story is

worth waiting for!

The economic gap between the north

and south of England

will continue to grow,

unless the government prioritises

education and skills -

that's the warning from

the Northern Powerhouse Partnership,

a body set up to try

to re-balance the UK economy.

It says pupils in the north

are on average one GCSE grade

behind those in the south

and that the region

is being held back by a lack

of investment in education.

Nina Warhurst reports.

If your child is born in the

north-east their chances of going to

an underperforming school are three

times higher than if they were born

in London.

Today's report asks for £300 million

of new money for the

north for early years and asks every

northern business to play its part

by mentoring the young.

We've got to put education

at the heart of the

Northern Powerhouse

and this is a call to

arms to say it doesn't

have

to be the case that

schools in the north

underperform schools

in the

south, so we've got a big plan

working across the parties with

businesses to bring reform,

investment and business involvement

into our schools.

How are you finding the

communications time on a Wednesday?

George Osborne wants businesses

to follow Barclays' lead.

They have more than 500

apprentices across the north.

They say they want northern

talent to stay here.

I think it was an opportunity that

I was quite surprised to find that I

didn't have to move away for.

Because I think my kind

of preconception was, you would

probably have to move

to have a really good career.

But now, you know, my

view's completely changed

on that now that I've found

the degree programme because you can

do it from anywhere.

The authors of the report focused

on northern employers

who consistently pointed to poor

skills and inadequate training.

They also said they

worry about the brain

drain of northern talent

disappearing south, and all of that

feeds into a gap in productivity

that's getting wider.

The Government says

it is stepping up after being

accused of neglecting the north

from the day George Osborne

left Downing Street.

One of the real unsung bits

about our Northern Powerhouse is

the £70 million we've

put into our Northern

Powerhouse school strategy,

which

goes all the way from

early years provision

and making sure that's

as

good as it can be to

the maths and English hubs

that we have set up.

We're going to do

some more division.

It's a complicated equation,

more government money plus

more business investment

could equal 850,000 new jobs

in the north by 2050.

But can the maths add up?

Nina Warhurst, BBC

News in Darlington.

The father of a seriously ill

20-month-old boy is in court

to argue that his son should

continue to receive

life-support treatment.

Tom Evans from Liverpool,

wants to take his son Alfie

abroad for treatment -

but doctors say continuing

life-support treatment is not

in the child's best interests.

Judith Moritz is at

the court in Liverpool.

She can explain a bit more about

this.

It is a terribly sad

situation, the court have said

today, the judge and barristers and

everyone here, is agreed over how

difficult this is. The situation is

that Alfie Evans, whose father has

just left court for the lunch break,

has been suffering from a brain

condition since he was born in May

2016. Alder Hey Hospital say that

they believe that now the life

support, mechanical breathing,

should be withdrawn and have made an

application for him to be taken to a

hospice. But Alfie Potter my parents

Kate and Tom fundamentally disagree.

They want instead for Alfie to be

taken to Rome to a hospital there

they've been in touch with and they

believe the hospital can give a

different kind of care that's what

they want to happen. It's all ended

up in court, it's down to a judge to

decide. They have been moments of

high emotion today because Tom

Evans, who is just 21, Alfie's

father, has been representing

himself and he broke down in tears

as he heard the hospital's barrister

described his son as a normal lovely

looking boy. The court adjourned for

a short time because of the high

emotion and when everyone came back

the judge, Mr Justice Hayden, said

to Mr Evans that he knew how

difficult this must be and that he

had noticed, in fact, people in

court wearing T-shirts that say

Alfie's army on them, there to

support Alfie and the judge said we

are all in Alfie's army and all want

the best ultimately for Alfie but it

will be up to the judge to decide

what happens.

Thank you, Judith

Moritz.

Facebook has reported a big jump

in profits despite users spending

significantly less time on the site.

It comes after the social network

announced changes designed

to prioritise posts from friends,

at the expense of content

from businesses and media companies.

Our business correspondent

Theo Leggett is with me.

Fiola, you'd better explain what the

changes are and why there has been

all of this change on Facebook.

When

you log onto Facebook what you see

is chosen for you by Facebook's

computers based on what the company

thinks you will find most

interesting. The change is designed

to encourage more interactions with

your friends and family, so, for

example, a photo of their cats, or a

selfie, or whatever, and so you will

see more of that kind of stuff and

less material published by news

organisations and so on, so less

news and fewer videos. The idea,

Facebook says, is to encourage more

meaningful social interaction

because that's what it says makes

people happier, and encourage less

of the sort of sensational

polarising news stuff we all see on

our feeds every day.

So, people

spending less time on it as a result

and get profits are still up, how

does that work?

Facebook has 1.4

billion users and they spend on

average 40 minutes a day on the site

so if they spend a couple of minutes

lest it is not a huge problem. At

the same time what Facebook is doing

is trying to make sure people see

the adverts that are relevant to

them. If you have 1.4 billion users

and just broadcast an advert it's

not

not going to necessarily get to the

people who want to see it. So it is

targeting more. For example, if you

look for a hotel in a particular

city on a website and don't book you

might find an advert for hotels in

that area appearing on your feet,

targeting adverts, you're more

likely to respond to it, advertisers

pay a premium to have the most

receptive people see their adverts

and therefore it will make more

money.

Leggett, thank you.

The Chief Inspector of Schools

in England has warned that religious

extremists are using schools

to narrow children's horizons

and pervert their education.

Speaking at a school in east London,

Amanda Spielman called on head

teachers to tackle people

who undermine fundamental British

values - critics say the educational

authorities need to engage more

with Muslim communities.

Frankie McCamley reports.

How finally got through it?

Since

being appointed a year ago the head

of Ofsted Amanda Spielman has made

tackling extremism in school is one

of her main objectives and today she

used her speech at the Church of

England conference to directly

address that issue.

One of those

British values is tolerance and

respect for all faiths and none and

we are looking... One of the things

we have to look for is signs that

that value is breaking down and by

being tolerant you can end up

importing intolerance and we have to

make sure that we help schools find

that balance and that we report

where we find that balance is at

risk.

The Ofsted chief also through

her weight behind the headteacher of

this east London School, which is

one of the top performing schools in

the country. She tried to ban girls

under the age of eight from wearing

the hijab to school and stop

youngsters from fasting during

Ramadan. However, following a big

campaign from parents and community

leaders, her roles were reversed.

But some don't believe schools

should be setting rules like this.

There is pressure for young girls

and it is for women alone to decide

what that is and to save this is

what is acceptable and what is not

acceptable.

The government believes

it up to individual schools to set

their own clothing policy and

states, if there are any allegations

of schools promoting ideologies in

the classroom, we will not hesitate

to act. This is clearly an issue

which many schools across the

country will be considering in order

to strike the right balance.

Frankie McCamley, BBC News.

West Ham have suspended

their director of player

recruitment Tony Henry,

following claims that he said

the club wouldn't sign any

more African players.

In a statement, the club said

they won't tolerate any

type of discrimination.

Let's find out more from our sports

news correspondent, Richard Conway.

What is the alleged or appeared to

have said?

The Daily Mail obtained an e-mail

sent from Tony Henry to a senior

West Ham official and an agent and

in the e-mail it is alleged Tony

Henry said they didn't want to sign

any more African players. When

confronted about this Tony Henry

admitted that that was indeed the

case, they wanted to limit the

number of African players because

"They have a bad attitude and cause

mayhem when they are not in the

team." Tony Henry, it is claimed,

also suggested it was club policy

supported by senior management, but

West Ham have said they do not

tolerate any kind of discrimination,

they have suspended him today, and

save they have acted swiftly due to

the serious nature of the claims.

The FA themselves are investigating,

we understand the PFA, the players

union, say they are shocked by the

views and sake there is no place for

them in football and there has also

been a reaction from some of the

West Ham players, Cheikh Kouyate,

one of their players taking the

social media this morning, posting a

picture of himself saying "African

and private, proud. "

and private, proud. " -- African and

proud.

Thank you, Richard Conway.

The end of January is a milestone

for all those people who pledged

to go the whole month

without drinking alcohol.

Organisers of the Dry January

campaign say thousands of people

signed up to take part.

Another campaign - Veganuary -

has also reported thousands pledging

to avoid eating animal-derived

products for the month,

with more people questioning

where their food comes

from and the ethics

behind its production.

Danny Savage has been to meet people

taking part in Leeds.

A vegan cafe in Leeds.

There's no meat or dairy

products in any of the

food here, and for the last month

non-vegans have been encouraged to

give it a go.

And those behind Veganuary say

it's a lot easier today

than it was a few years ago.

When I went vegan seven

years ago there was

none of the chain restaurants doing

vegan options - now nearly all of

them either have vegan options

on the menu or they've got

a vegan menu itself.

A lot of the supermarkets now,

the range of products that are

available to people going vegan

is a lot better than it was six

or seven years ago, so it's moving

in the right direction.

And what's the one thing you miss?

Cheese.

That's your...

Yeah.

Cheese.

Tabatha went vegan for

January, despite some

cravings she's stuck

to it and will continue.

The thing that got me in the first

place was actually the

environmental impact of veganism

and vegetarianism, but yeah,

health, ethics, there's

just so many reasons,

I think, to go vegan.

And it's going OK?

Yeah.

You haven't struggled?

No, I haven't actually struggled.

You've completed it?

You haven't fallen off

the wagon as such?

No, I haven't.

At a nearby bakery,

Ellie has built up a

business making vegan cakes.

Production has grown

rapidly because veganism

is no longer a niche,

it's becoming mainstream.

It's been crazy busy.

Lots of cafes have started

doing it, they want to

accommodate everybody so they're

wanting to offer a really good range

and just the general public as well,

you'll notice, if you go to a market

or even just going to the big vegan

fairs there's much, much

bigger crowds.

And the growth in trade is reflected

by a growing change in

people's attitudes.

Veganism as a lifestyle choice has

definitely boomed in the last

few years.

But for a lot of other people

they're choosing a more flexible

approach, even part-time.

Perhaps reducing their

meat intake to once

or twice a week, taking a more

vegetable-centric approach the other

days, and for these people Veganuary

is a brilliant introduction and a

way to test the waters.

The organisers say

about 78,000 people

in the UK tried going

vegan in January.

They think even more

will have a go next year.

Danny Savage, BBC News, Leeds.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

are in Norway as part of a four-day

tour of Scandanavia.

William and Kate are visiting the

Norwegian royal family and meeting

local entrepreneurs.

Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas

Witchell is in Oslo.

What's on the agenda?

Welcome to a

very snowbound Oslo and you'd think

they would be used to the sort of

thing here and indeed they are but

rather more snow in recent days than

is customary which caused a few

complications this morning but the

Cambridges Scandinavian odyssey

continues travelling this morning

from Stockholm in Sweden to Oslo,

greeted Oslo airport by the Crown

Prince and Crown Princess. They have

come on now to the royal palace in

the centre of Oslo where they have

met King Harald and having lunch

with him, quite a family occasion,

they are distantly related, close

ties between the Norwegian and

British royal family is. What will

they be talking about? As royals

they don't do politics but there is

a strong political context to do

with anything concerning Britain and

Europe. We shouldn't forget that all

of these visits are commissioned by

the British Foreign Office, lots of

visits by the British royal family

to European countries in recent

years. The purpose is to emphasise

the depth and breadth of the

relationship with Britain, William

talking about that in Stockholm last

night. Norway, of course,

interesting, not part of the EU but

part of the Single Market, a very

rich country, one of the richest per

capita in Europe, indeed in the

world, so a country with which the

United Kingdom will want to have

even stronger links in the future.

Interesting, thanks very much,

Nicholas Witchell, in a very chilly

looking Oslo. Let's look at our own

weather prospects.

I thought we'd

weather prospects.

I thought we'd start with a quick

look at yesterday's super blue moon,

this picture taken from the Richmond

area looking over

area looking over the London city

skyline. Today we are going to keep

largely clear skies, for a number of

people some sunshine but showers

will continue to affect northern and

western areas and we have a clump of

showers working down from the North

York Moors where they could be sleet

and a bit of snow over the tops, the

club of showers working at East

Anglia through the afternoon. It

feels colder this afternoon on

account of the brisk and gusty north

and north westerly winds, continuing

to blow around coastal counties over

night to night. We could see one or

two icy patches developing overnight

as the road temperatures dipped

below freezing. But in the towns and

cities we are looking at lows of

2-4d. Tomorrow the winds will be a

bit lighter but there will be plenty

of sunshine around so it went the US

chilly. They will be showers in the

morning through the afternoon across

eastern Scotland and eastern areas

of England but they will thin out as

the day goes by and one or two

showers for parts of western Wales

and Cornwall. Otherwise it is

largely dry, temperatures between

five and 8 degrees. Looking ahead to

the weekend weather prospects, we

have a band of rain, perhaps some

snow to contend with on Saturday,

often cloudy this weekend, and there

will be some cold winds developing,

particularly across south-east

England. Here is the weather charts

for Saturday, this band of rain will

become slow-moving on Saturday and

will turn to snow across the high

ground in Scotland, across Wales and

the Pennines too. It's possible some

of the rain will turn to sleet, or a

bit of snow developing through the

afternoon, perhaps lower down across

parts of the Midlands and southern

England, although I think amounts of

snow will be very small if that

happened. By Sunday we have quite a

bit of dry weather, but a lot of

cloud for England and Wales, the

best of the Sunshine for the north

and west for Scotland and Northern

Ireland. The wind is picking up in

the south-east will make it feel

pretty chilly.

pretty chilly. Now I'm going to skip

ahead to development is through

Monday night into Tuesday because a

band of snow could be on its way

moving across the country, the main

uncertainty is how far eastwards it

will push across but it could bring

a significant spell of snow, Monday

night into Tuesday, and it's

something we are watching very

carefully. Jane.

something we are watching very

carefully. Jane. Thank you very

much, Chris.

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