05/02/2018 BBC News at One

There is no prospect of Britain

remaining in any type

of customs union after Brexit,

says Downing Street.

The EU's chief negotiator is about

to begin talks with the Government

in London, and says time is running

out.

We don't have a minute to lose.

There is so much work to do, so we

have decided for this reason to

accelerate all contact.

Michel

Barnier has just arrived in Downing

Street. We will have the latest from

Westminster.

Also this lunchtime:

A white supremacist,

Ethan Stables, has been convicted

of a terrorist offence,

after planning to carry out

a machete attack on a gay pride

event in Cumbria.

The only surviving suspect

in the 2015 Paris terrorist

attacks goes on trial, in connection

with a gun battle in Brussels.

Lauri Love, suspected of hacking

into FBI computers, has won his

appeal over extradition to the

United States.

Lloyds bank bans Bitcoin purchases

on its credit cards -

it says people need protecting

from debts they may

never be able to repay.

Snow and freezing fog disrupt travel

as temperatures continue

to plummet across the UK.

And coming up in the sport on BBC

News:

The Philadelphia Eagles

are celebrating a first Super Bowl

title after a thrilling win over

defending champions

the New England Patriots.

Hello, good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

Downing Street has ruled out

the prospect of the UK staying

in any kind of European customs

union after Brexit,

after days of disunity

within the Conservative party.

after days of disunity

within the Conservative Party.

In a customs union, the UK

would have tariff-free

trade within the EU,

but would lose the ability

to strike deals with other

countries around the world.

The EU's chief negotiatior

Michel Barnier has just

arrived in Downing Street

this afternoon for talks

with the Brexit

Secretary David Davis.

Our political correspondent

Leila Nathoo reports.

On his way to London, the EU's chief

Brexit negotiator, chief for -- keen

for talks to resume, and to speed

up.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

My feeling, not a minute to lose,

because we have to achieve this,

and, once again, not a minute to

lose. There's so much work to do, so

we have decided for this reason to

all the contact.

Theresa May has

been under pressure to Seymour about

the kind of Brexit she wants. As she

returned to Downing Street this

morning Number Ten insisted Britain

was clear that they would be leaving

the customs union.

So what does that mean? At the

moment Britain can trade freely with

the EU, as EU member states Taunton

impose tariffs on each other's

goods. All states also impose the

same taxes on goods coming in from

outside the block, the individual

states cannot do their own deals

with other countries and that is

what Theresa May wants to change, by

ruling out staying in any sort of

customs union with EU after Brexit.

What I would say about the customs

union is that if we were members of

it it would inhibit our ability to

strike deals with other countries,

and that is one of the benefits of

Brexit, that we can have more

flexible -- Flex ability and we can

extend those trade deals across the

world.

But the Prime Minister's

critics warn that a break with the

EU will be damaging for the economy,

disrupting trade with a crucial

partner, and raising questions about

trade across the Irish border.

There

are a lot of answers we need to know

to be able to react. It is like

anything else but it is major. As

business grows we have issues we

have to deal with but this is

outside of our control currently.

Once it is divine. But the impact

will be very severe on us.

Some

closing for closer ties in the

future set around the Cabinet table

-- once it is decided, but the

impact will be very severe.

For 19

months we have heard a lot of "We're

not going to do this and we're not

going to do that." What are we going

to do? That is what we are waiting

to hear, and it is what the 27

countries the UK is negotiating with

a waiting to hear, and in the

meantime the uncertainty is really

bad for business.

This is a crucial

week for Brexit negotiations, not

just between the UK and Brussels but

also within the Cabinet. Senior

ministers are trying to settle on

what they want. I categorically

waving goodbye to a customs union

after Brexit Theresa May has tried

to appease the rest of Tory

Brexiteers, but there will need to

be compromised and agreement on

detail for any of the discussions to

move on.

Leila Nathoo, BBC News, Westminster.

Let's speak to our assistant

political editor Norman Smith.

Key is out in the cold in Downing

Street. Is this essentially what all

this is Norman? And appeasement of

Brexiteers? Fascinating, isn't it?

Well, Jane, Theresa May has been

under huge pressure from Brexiteers

breathing down her neck who fears

she may be moving towards a softer

type of Brexit but now she has

thrown them a great big juicy Brexit

bone, by saying we will not be

staying in the customs union,

something she has said before, but

seeing that we will not be in any

kind of reworked or revamped customs

union by the back door. Is that the

end of matter? Maybe not, because

Tory Bremainers, when you look at

Government documents, statements by

Government ministers, they look at a

customs framework partnership and

they believe there is still scope

for some sort of fudge that could

keep us in an EU trading block. More

than that, they don't

than that, they don't believe Mrs

May as the numbers in the Comments

to force us through any kind of

customs union and later in the month

we may get a vote on this, and of

Jeremy Corbyn were to decide

withdrawing his lot with the

withdrawing his lot with the Tory

Remainers Mrs May to be in real

difficulty, so this battle could be

far from over.

Norman, thanks for

now, Norman Smith there.

As Michel Barnier and David Davis

hold talks in Downing Street,

Chris Morris from the BBC's

Reality Check team is here

to explain what stage we're

at in the Brexit negotiations.

Chris?

Yes, it feels like there are two

broad sets of negotiations

going on at the moment -

one between the EU and the UK,

and another within the British

Government, trying to reach

agreement on what it wants

the future relationship

with the EU to look like.

And the EU has emphasised

on numerous occasions that until it

has a clearer idea of the UK

position, negotiations

on the future can't really begin.

So what's happening at the moment?

Well, to start with there

is still a lot of work to be done

on the outstanding issues from phase

one of the talks.

We discussed them a lot last year.

The future status of the Irish

border, a financial settlement

or divorce bill, and the future

rights of EU citizens here and UK

citizens elsewhere in Europe.

And when it comes

to the Irish border,

the issues of customs arrangements -

which we've heard so much

about today - looms large.

How can you have an invisible

border there without some

kind of customs union?

The challenge is to resolve

all of these issues in the next few

months and turn them into a legal

text - a Withdrawal Agreement that

would have to be ratified and signed

before the UK leaves

the EU in March 2019.

At the same time negotiations

are about to begin on a transition

period after Brexit for up

to two years.

Those arrangements mean the UK

would have to follow all EU

rules and regulations,

without having any

say in making them.

But they would give businesses

and governments more time

to plan for the future.

But what will the future

actually look like?

Negotiations on that

haven't even begun yet,

and the other 27 EU countries

are still considering their joint

position while they wait for more

clarity from London.

Trade is the obvious issue -

will the UK remain closely aligned

with EU rules and regulations,

will it try to forge its own path,

or - as seems likely -

will it try to negotiate a mixture

of the two?

The EU is already warning against

'cherry-picking' the best bits.

There are also a host of other

issues on which we cooperate

closely with the EU -

security and policing,

for example, and foreign policy.

New relationships need to be

negotiated there too.

So 'plenty to do' is

putting it mildly -

no wonder that the EU negotiator

Michel Barnier said today

there isn't a minute to lose.

But unravelling a relationship that

has developed over more than 40

years was never going to be easy

Chris, thank you. Chris Morris.

A white supremacist has been

convicted of a terrorist offence,

after planning to carry out

a machete attack on a gay

pride event in Cumbria.

20-year-old Ethan Stables plotted

to target people attending an LGBT

event at a pub in Barrow.

Prosecutors said he had

expressed homophobic,

Nazi and racist views online.

You may find some of the evidence

upsetting.

Our home affairs correspondent

Dominic Casciani reports.

Ethan Stables, self-confessed neo

Nazi. He planned to carry out an

attack. He had been homeless in

Barrow, and eventually moved into a

small dilapidated flat in the town.

Behind his front door last June, he

spoke online about how he hated gay

people, and he began to amass

weapons. He recorded this shocking

video...

It's just like gay people,

much nicer when they are on fire.

He

told members of the Private neo Nazi

Facebook group there were Pride flag

is flying over a nearby pub and it

was time to turn hate into action.

In a series of increasingly

frightening posts, Stables revealed

his plan. "I Am going to war

tonight," he told them. I am going

to walk in with the machete and

slaughter every single one. Some

encouraged him, but one replied,

that's not right. He posted this

reconnaissance poster and signed

off, I'm fighting for what I believe

in, my country, my folk, my race.

The barmaid was setting up for the

night when armed officers, tipped

off by a Facebook user, Rushton. "

-- they rushed in.

It frightened me.

I felt like a deer in the

headlights, they said there had been

a terrorist threats made against the

pub and this person was going to

comment while the event was on and

basically harm people. -- come in

while the event was on. I was so

angry afterwards to think someone

would actually do something like

that to a peaceful place.

With the

armed police over there, the manhunt

in Barrow continue and shortly after

10pm he was arrested on this road,

between his flat and the target. The

prosecutor said this was his last

act of reconnaissance before he

would have gone home to get his

weapons. This is what police

recorded finding after they broke

into his flat, a swastika flag on

the wall, weapons including an act

is laid out and prepared, evidence

that Stables was trying to make his

own explosives.

It would have been a

bloodbath, no getting away from

that. I just wish it was taken more

seriously...

Lee Wicks runs the LGBT

support group who was the target and

said the far right once more

becoming emboldened as the

unchallenged on social media.

Personally I think Facebook should

have closed his account. I was quite

horrified to see his main picture

was him looking very Aryan in front

of a swastika banner flag, and the

literature was very extreme Nazi

propaganda.

Facebook has not

commented on by he remained online,

despite at least four complaint

against him. During his defence he

claimed he never meant his words and

that he was in fact bisexual. His

conviction today for preparing an

act of terrorism means he could face

a life sentence. Dominic Casciani,

BBC News, Barrow.

A man accused of hacking

into computers at the FBI and Nasa

has won a High Court

challenge against extradition

to the United States.

Lauri Love, who's 32,

could have faced 90 years

in prison if found guilty

in a trial in America.

Angus Crawford reports.

Lauri Love is a wanted man.

US authorities say he is a hacker

who stole vast amounts of data.

For his supporters,

he is vulnerable, with

Asperger's syndrome.

If sent to America,

he could face a lifetime in jail.

Today, the High Court had to decide

if he could be extradited.

The judges ruled the risk

of severe depression

and suicide was too great.

We're very happy and relieved.

We're very thankful

for the High Court for the judges,

for their wisdom and discernment.

Thankful for all the support we've

had, without which I'm not sure

I would have made it this far.

For Lauri's father,

a hugely symbolic day.

There is a consensus of agreement

about the things that really

matter, about decency,

about justice, about fairness.

I've always believed to be born

in these islands is to win

the lottery of life,

and that what makes Britain great,

makes it Great Britain,

is not our power or our might

but the fact it's

a great place to live.

But what is his son

actually accused of?

US authorities say he was part

of the hacking group Anonymous,

breaking into the systems of the US

Army, Nasa and the FBI

and stealing what he found,

boasting of his exploits.

He was traced via a Romanian e-mail

address and a PayPal account.

He's been interviewed

here by National Crime

Agency, but not charged.

Lauri Love's future,

though, is still uncertain.

Though he can't be sent

to the US for trial,

he may still be prosecuted here.

Angus Crawford, BBC News.

Senior figures in the African

National Congress will hold

an emergency meeting this afternoon,

to decide the future of the South

African President Jacob Zuma.

It's understood he's

refused to stand down,

even after six top ANC officials

visited him at home in Pretoria

yesterday to ask him to resign.

Jacob Zuma is facing

corruption allegations,

and many in the ANC want

Cyril Ramaphosa to take over.

The only surviving suspect

in the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks,

Salah Abdelsam, has gone on trial

in Brussels relating to a gun battle

with Belgian police.

He told the court, "I am not

afraid of you, I am not

afraid of your allies.

I put my trust in Allah."

Gavin Lee sent this report.

Under armed guard and tight

security, Salah Abdeslam,

once one of Europe's most wanted

men, being driven to court this

morning in Brussels.

He was alleged to be the sole

survivor of the Paris attacks

in 2015, when multiple locations

were targeted and 130

people were killed.

Police traced Abdeslam's movement

in the hours after the attacks

to a service station

near the Belgian border,

but he went into hiding.

Finally arrested in

Brussels four month later.

Salah Abdeslam has been in prison

for almost two years and allegations

about his involvement in the Paris

attacks are still to come to court.

But here in Brussels,

where he's been driven from a French

prison to face a separate case

about allegations of attempted

murder, when police officers came

to a safe house attempting

to arrest him, here in Brussels.

SHE SPEAKS FRENCH

This footage shows a similar scenes

in court today, though filming of

Abdeslam and the second suspect,

also said to have been in hiding,

was promoted. Abdeslam spoke only to

say that he would remain silent

throughout the trial and that as a

Muslim he was being judged

mercilessly. He refused to stand

atop the second suspect who fled the

Brussels hideout also gave evidence.

He told the court that the weapons

used to fire and police have been

kept in a bedroom of the property

but he claimed he didn't know where

they were from. Investigators are

still hoping they will be able to

glean some significant information

from this case, which adds to the

picture of what happened in Paris,

and discover as much information as

they can about the wider network

involved even if today, on the

surface, it looks unlikely.

The time is 1:17pm.

Our top story this lunchtime...

The EU's chief negotiator

arrives for talks in London

as Downing Street says there is no

prospect of Britain remaining in any

type of customs union after Brexit.

Coming up...

As the UK begins to freeze,

there's chaos in Moscow with record

snowfall across the Russian capital.

Coming up in sport...

Olympic champions Jack Laugher

and Chris Mears are in

Team England's 13-strong diving

squad for the Commonwealth Games.

The pressures facing the NHS have

been hitting the headlines

throughout the winter.

With increasing demands

and an ageing population,

many people are discussing

the future funding

of the health service.

Now, a group of independent health

experts, commissioned

by the Liberal Democrats,

has recommended creating a new tax,

to replace national insurance.

The money would be ringfenced for

the NHS and social care in England.

Our health editor Hugh

Pym has the details.

CHANTING:

Save our NHS!

Thousands of demonstrators marched

through London at the weekend

calling for increased funding

for the NHS.

Health unions joined other

campaigners, arguing

there was a winter crisis

which needed urgent

action and investment.

Today a report from health experts,

including the former

head of NHS England,

has called for new proposals

to NHS funding problems.

The report, commissioned by the

Liberal Democrats, calls for an

extra £4 billion on top of inflation

for the NHS in England in the next

financial year, more than double the

increase announced in the budget.

A single, ring-fenced tax

for health and social care

replacing National Insurance.

And reinstating a commitment

to cap the costs paid

by individuals for social care.

It is important that we understand

the NHS is not a wasteful service.

It is a service that is creating a

very healthy population and

continues to do so. But if we want

that, we have to fund it. If we

don't want it, that's a decision we

should be making as a population and

this new form of taxation, ring

fenced, would make that a lot

easier.

At a ring fenced attacks

dedicated to health and social care

may not be as straightforward as it

seems. Some health economists say

could raise more questions than

answers.

What happens when the

doesn't rise and produce enough

money that you want a span of the

NHS? That begs the question, what is

enough and who decides on a? It

seems to me you can't escape some of

the difficult political decisions

about how much we would like to

spend on health and social care.

Getting the over 65 to want to carry

on working to pay national insurance

is one proposal in the report to

cover higher NHS spending. The

Liberal Democrat leader, visiting a

hospital today, says whatever form

it takes higher taxation will be

needed.

Taxes are never popular but

I think we do have to be honest with

the public. If you want a

first-class NHS, and I think we do

as a country, we've got to pay for

it and we've got to pay for it in a

way that is related to people's

ability to pay.

In response, the

department for health and social

care said the NHS had been

prioritised in the budget and an

extra £2 billion had already been

provided for health and social care

in England. There are, though,

growing calls for long-term thinking

on funding as the NHS celebrates its

70th birthday this year.

Another 452 jobs are being lost

as a result of the collapse

of the construction

and services firm Carillion.

It comes on top of the 377 job

losses announced last week.

At the time it went

into liquidation last month,

Carillion employed 20,000

people in the UK.

Lloyds Banking Group has

banned its customers

from using its credit cards to buy

virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin.

The group says it's protecting

people from running up debts

they may never be able to repay.

Our personal finance correspondent

Simon Gompertz is here.

Probably worth explaining a little

bit more again about Bitcoin. We

keep hearing about it. What is it,

how does it work?

It is one of

several what they call crypto

currencies and they are basically

invented currencies that operate on

the internet. You can't hold them

because they're not real, they are

virtual, as you say. You can't keep

them in a bank account. They are not

regulated and controlled by the Bank

of England, so what's the

attraction? Well, they're quite

secret so people don't really know

who has the money, how it is

behaved, so criminals have been

using them, and also, for many, it

has been a gamble. They have seen

the values go up and up and then

down and they have been attracted to

get into them. This is the wild West

of finance at the moment, online

money. Let's look at what has

happened to the values. A year ago,

one Bitcoin was worth £700, in

theory. You can pay for some things

with them on the internet. That went

up in December to nearly £14,000, so

a huge increase, hundreds of

thousands of people trying to get in

on it on this country, now it has

gone down below £6,000. In fact it

is dropping today. So you can see,

what Lloyds is worried about. They

say they are protecting customers

from making losses but it is worried

about itself, that it will lend out

credit to people and it won't be

able to get the money back from

people if they have lost it on

Bitcoin.

This is what Lloyds are

saying but how does it actually stop

someone from using their credit card

to do this?

Some people in banking

so they are a bit perplexed about

this because you just buy something

from a merchant who has one of those

consoles, you put your card in. But

in fact each merchant has a code and

Lloyds can block those codes, so it

can do it. Questions being asked on

the internet today about whether it

is right to stop people spending

their own money and the answer to

that is, if it is on a credit card

it is not their own money, it is

credit, and Lloyds is not stopping

people from using their debit cards

to take money straight out of their

bank accounts to buy Bitcoin.

Thank

you very much, Simon Gompertz.

A who admitted using the dark web

to export and sell the high-strength

painkiller Fentanyl has been

sentenced to eight years in prison.

Kyle Enos, who's 25,

was selling the drug,

which is significantly stronger

than heroin, around the world.

Our correspondent Tomos Morgan

is at Cardiff Crown Court.

Fentanyl is a drug that is at least

25 times stronger than heroin and

has been linked to over 60 deaths in

the UK just last year. The National

Crime Agency investigated and

identified Kyle Enos as a

significant fentanyl dealer and

found that he had been trading the

drug, buying and selling, over the

dark web under a pseudonym, 2/150

customers, in the UK and in North

America. Police raided his residence

last year and found he had several

bags of varying strengths of the

evidence that he had been changing

the strength of the drug and

tailoring it for the different

customers that were ordering it from

him. He said he would use the money

he had made from his illegal

business to pay for a university

degree but he had also paid for a

luxury apartment here in the centre

of Cardiff. The judge sentenced Kyle

Enos to eight years.

Thank you very much, Thomas Morgan

in Cardiff.

Hugh Grant has settled his claim

at the High Court for damages

for phone hacking by Mirror Group

Newpapers.

It's understood the actor has

accepted a six-figure sum,

which he has donated to Hacked Off,

the group that campaigns

for press accountability.

Being a professional

sportsperson can bring wealth,

adulation and glory.

But when your career is over,

it can be difficult

to adjust to everyday life.

Our sports correspondent

Azi Farni reports.

COMMENTATOR:

Kelly Holmes

for Great Britain.

What a performance!

You are the double Olympic

champion, Kelly Holmes.

To be Olympic champion,

aged 34, I had achieved it.

Suddenly, I had no idea who I was,

what I wanted to be.

The biggest thing that

I felt was a loss

of identity and kind of purpose.

As an athlete, Dame Kelly Holmes

had it all - success,

structure, support.

For many like her, their sporting

lives are mapped out.

But come retirement,

all that disappears.

I had always been announced

as an Olympian, or an Olympic

athlete, or an international

athlete, and suddenly,

I'm having to reel off

lots of places that I'd go,

or roles that I'd have to play,

and it made me feel

like a little bit sort of lost.

Among her many post-athletics

ventures, Dame Kelly

has opened this cafe

in her hometown of Hildenborough.

Its name comes after her running

number when she won double Olympic

gold, but what about the transition

to life after sport,

when you don't have gold

medals to look back on?

Former England rugby union captain

Catherine Spencer played

in two World Cup finals.

She lost both, retired and then

watched as her team-mates

lifted the trophy in 2014.

You know, I probably, every day,

at some point during the day,

I'll think about it.

I'll think about not

winning the World Cup.

I was absolutely devastated.

I was completely gutted that this

hadn't happened four years earlier.

It was so hard to watch,

and it's taken me six or seven years

to start to feel comfortable

about my retirement.

I've been retired now 12 years,

and I can honestly say,

it's only in the past year

and a half that I've

kind of got in my head,

you know what, I know who I am

and what I want to be.

In fact, more than half of the 800

former professional sports people

who replied to a survey

by the Professional Players'

Federation said they'd had concerns

about their mental or emotional

well-being since retiring.

Just over half reported financial

difficulties in the five years

after stopping playing,

with money being the biggest single

worry after retirement.

But whose responsibility is it

to help them transition?

Should governing bodies

help at this time?

Yes, because we have seen so much

of what we're talking about now,

the detrimental effects of sport.

You don't want a negative in sport,

because sport actually should be

the best thing that anyone has

in their life.

And with three global sporting

championships coming up

in the next three months,

the challenge across sport may not

just be winning more medals.

Azi Farni, BBC News.

People in Moscow have been battling

record levels of snow,

which has blocked roads

and grounded flights.

Russia's meteorological service says

the capital has seen more

than half its average monthly

snowfall in just 24 hours.

Steve Rosenberg ventured out -

and sent us this report.

Well, it's no secret that in Russia,

in the winter, it snows.

But it doesn't normally

snow quite like this.

For the last two days,

we've seen more than one month's

worth of snowfall in Moscow.

It's the biggest snowfall

here since records began,

and that's causing problems

for the authorities who are normally

pretty good at dealing with all this

white, fluffy stuff.

Thousands of snowploughs have

come onto the streets

to try to clear the roads.

It's not just affecting

Moscow but cities across

central Russia, too.

And the Moscow authorities have

been sending out text

messages to people -

I got one this morning -

telling us to leave our cars at home

and to use public transport.

What happens to all of this

snow once it's fallen?

Well, once the snowploughs have

cleared it and piled it up,

it's taken to the edge of the city

to be disposed of in special

snow disposal centres.

Well, it's not quite

as bad as that here,

but if you've been out

and about today you won't be

surprised to learn that forecasters

saying this week could be one

of the coldest snaps of the winter

and the freezing conditions

are set to last.

This footage was taken by police

as they attended incidents

on the icy M20 in Kent.

Fortunately, no-one was seriously

injured, and the motorway

has now been cleared.

The Met Office has issued yellow

warnings of snow and ice

for large swathes of the UK.

Louise Lear knows plenty about all

of that.

I'm sure those in Moscow are

laughing at us back home because we

had a centimetre or two across

Sussex and Kent through this morning

but, nevertheless, it did cause some

problems. Not for all, though. A

glorious morning across the Lake

District although I suspect for you,

you could wake up to some snow

tomorrow. There is more on its way

because it is bitterly cold right

across the country and we've got

this weather front moving in as we

speak. That will arise through the

night and I. Will start off as rain

along the coast and quickly turn to

smoke across north west England and

Northern Ireland. We're not too

concerned but it is worth bearing in

mind it elsewhere, a bitterly cold

start to the morning. A widespread

frost. Some snow to travel south and

east. During the early rush hour

tomorrow, it is likely to be sitting

across the north-east of England,

down into the Lake District and for

West Wales. Behind a scattering

office -- scattering of showers,

snow and hail. The showers will add

to the accumulations we have here, a

cold morning as well. The frontal

system, sitting through northern

England and into Wales. Rain across

the south-west coast and for central

and south eastern areas, it will

start off cold and frosty but you

might see a bit of sunshine if

you're lucky. As we go through the

day, the weather front will weaken

as it pushes further south into the

Midlands so by the afternoon, a band

of cloud through Lincolnshire, the

Midlands, a few snow showers and

sandwiched either side, sunny spells

with a scattering of showers to the

north-west. But the one thing that

unites the country, called for all

of us and it will feel better out

there. As we move through the

evening and the temperatures start

to fall away, darkness Falls and we

could see the front pepping up a

little bit across parts of

Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East

Anglia, maybe to the east of London.

First thing on Wednesday morning, we

can't rule out the risk of some

lying snow, nothing too significant.

That clears away and Wednesday is

much more straightforward. Sunny

spells and windy weather pushing

into the north-west it up a bit less

cold so we are not so concerned

about snow, famous last words, but

quite a lot of cloud lingers on

Thursday. Friday, we should see some

sunny spells so if you haven't

already got the message, this week

we might have changed the month but

winter is still with us. It is going

to be cold, a widespread frost and

some of us at times could see some

snow but nothing like Moscow!

Thank you very much, Louise Lear.

A reminder of our main

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