13/02/2018 BBC News at One

The Charity Commission begins

a statutory inquiry into Oxfam

following the scandal involving aid

workers in Haiti.

The Government says the situation

is serious, but it won't be making

any hasty decisions.

I'm going to take these things very

seriously. I know people will be

worried about the charity, about the

man -- money, but we need to be

guided by the Charity Commission,

and I have made it very clear to

Oxfam what we need to see from them.

We'll have the latest

from Oxfam's headquarters

on the increasing scandal.

Also this lunchtime:

Jacob Zuma still clinging to power.

The ANC says it has decided to sack

him as South Africa's President,

but there's no agreement

about when he should go.

British package holiday-makers take

off for Tunisia for the first time

since the terrorist attack three

years ago which left 38 people dead.

Team GB's Elise Christie crashes out

of the women's 500 metres speed

skating final at the winter

Olympics.

And Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are visiting Edinburgh this

lunchtime on their first

trip to Scotland.

Coming up in the sport: England lose

again in the T20 tri- Nations

series, and their chances of

reaching the final and now out of

their hands.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The Charity Commission has taken

the most serious action

it can against Oxfam,

and begun a statutory inquiry

into its procedures.

It will investigate the handling

of claims that Oxfam

staff used prostitutes

as they carried out disaster

relief in the aftermath

of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010.

Oxfam's deputy chief executive

Penny Lawrence resigned yesterday

in relation to the charity's

response to the allegations.

Our correspondent Matt Cole is at

Oxfam's headquarters in Oxford.

Good afternoon. There is a lot for

the leaders here at Oxfam to think

about as they face the possible loss

of Government funding. The EU

Commission could take away its £30

million a year funding if it isn't

happy that Oxfam's house is back in

order, and now there is this most

serious investigation by the

charities commission.

This crisis is already claimed one

senior figure, Oxfam's now former

chief executive Penny Lawrence, but

her resignation has far from drawn a

line under the matter, with the

organisation now facing the most

serious form of investigation the

Charity Commission can undertake, a

statutory inquiry which could lead

to the suspension of trustees or the

freezing of bank accounts. And there

is more pressure from the

Government.

I take these things very

seriously. I know people will be

worried about the charity, worried

about the money.

As Oxfam

fights for its future, there are

some claiming it had ample

opportunity to avoid this scandal.

Helen Evans spent three years at

Oxfam's head of safeguarding, but

says as she unearthed the scale of

the problem, the charity failed to

respond with sufficient resources.

We had one in ten saying they had

experienced unwanted sexual

touching, sexual assault. This was

staff on staff. We went to

beneficiaries who received aid from

us. I was extremely concerned by

those survey results.

Oxfam says it has new safeguarding

measures in place, better checks

now, but the biggest fight it might

face is to maintain public

confidence, that most precious

commodity that if lost severely

hampers its ability to raise money

and help those most in need. The

Labour MP Peter Kyle was formerly an

aid worker. He worries people with

an agenda to oppose international

aid spending might exploit the

situation.

I am deeply concerned.

Let's not beat around the bush. This

scandal could bring Oxfam to its

knees. The organisation could

implode, and the people who will

suffer the most through this will be

the people who depend, the thousands

of people, who are extraordinarily

vulnerable, who depend on the work

that organisations like Oxfam does.

As Oxfam waits to learn more details

of the statutory inquiry into its

failings, it at all other aid

agencies are being told by the

Government they must step up and

provide statements of assurance

about the policies and procedures.

What is being dubbed a significant

also being planned. All major

charities will discuss how the

sector as a whole will face these

problems.

Leaders here at Oxfam have until the

end of the week now to offer

assurances to the Government that

they can deal with future

allegations, but there are already

more allegations coming through with

concerns being raised, albeit

uncorroborated, that there has been

abuse here in UK shops of young

volunteers, too. Much more for

bosses here to think about. Back to.

Matt Coles, thank you.

The president of Haiti has condemned

the actions of some staff from Oxfam

as outrageous and dishonest,

accusing them of using the country's

earthquake in 2010 to sexually

exploit people in need.

Will Grant is in the capital

Port-Au-Prince, and has been talking

to former Oxfam employees

in the country.

A girl, a street

corner, a parked car.

In the poorest country

in the Americas, buying sex is easy.

It's a common scene on any

given night in Haiti.

Girls, some just teenagers,

risking their lives

for a few dollar bills.

Ordinarily, international aid

agencies help tackle the problem.

Oxfam, however, is

now embroiled in it.

We've spent the past few

days speaking to former

Oxfam employees in Haiti.

Most are too scared to show

their faces on camera,

fearful of retribution

for speaking out.

They all confirmed the stories

about Oxfam in 2011,

in particular its disgraced country

director Roland van Hauwermeiren.

TRANSLATION:

Some expats

come to Haiti to work.

Others come to party and look

for girls every night.

The drivers picking up

the girls had no choice.

It was their job and

they were told to do it.

Another former security guard

claimed young and underage girls

were among the victims.

I can tell you for sure

there were sex parties

at the house, he told me.

Young people would often come

to the office looking

for the director, and I'm sure these

people weren't there for work.

For its part, the Haitian government

confirmed to the BBC

that it is prepared to open a full

investigation into the allegations.

It may be what happened

at Oxfam was just the tip

of the iceberg, they said.

We will start with the Oxfam

allegations to open a broad

investigation into NGOs

operating in Haiti.

Other Haitians working

in the charity sector agree

that the problems go

beyond Oxfam alone.

After the earthquake, organisations,

international organisations,

received money, a lot of money.

What is the result?

I will not say zero, zero,

but you cannot see the result.

Oxfam is facing perhaps the biggest

challenge of its history,

it international reputation

in serious jeopardy.

If it's going to take

time to rebuild its name

in the United Kingdom,

in Haiti it may never fully recover.

Will Grant, BBC News,

Port-au-Prince.

In the past hour, the governing

African National Congress

in South Africa has decided

to recall Jacob Zuma

from the position of president.

The party's secretary general

said Mr Zuma had agreed

in principle to resign,

but that talks were continuing.

Jacob Zuma has come under

mounting pressure to go

following several corruption

scandals.

Pumza Fihlani is in Johannesburg.

To say that this situation is

protracted is to put it mildly. What

is going on?

That is certainly

right, and we wish we had a straight

answer. Coming out of that 15 minute

press conference, it seems that the

African National Congress has said

to the president that they want him

to go, except they have not put a

deadline to it. So here's

effectively been fired but told he

can still think about it and come

back when you have made a decision

about whether you want to go or not.

But it is a very serious matter, and

one not opposition on the sideline

of the ANC process have been

watching carefully, and they have

said that if the ANC is not willing

to push Jacob Zuma out, they would

do it themselves.

Pumza Fihlani,

thank you very much indeed.

More than 200 people have become

the first to fly on a British

package holiday to Tunisia

since the terrorist attack

in the country in 2015.

The Foreign Office advised

against all but essential travel

to Tunisia after 38 people,

30 of them British, were murdered

by an Islamist gunman on a beach.

But that advice has now been eased,

and this morning a flight took off

from Birmingham airport.

John Maguire reports from there.

With its idyllic white beaches and

pristine Mediterranean coastline,

Tunisia was a hugely popular draw

for British tourists, attracting

around 430,000 a year. But then came

the attack in June 2015, when a

gunman killed 30 Britons and another

eight holiday-makers on a beach.

So-called Islamic State said it was

behind the shootings by a Tunisian

student in Sousse which came just

three months after 22 people were

killed in the capital Tunis. Tunisia

says it has made huge steps in

counterterrorism since the attacks.

Almost three years on, tour operator

Thomas Cook has for the first time

resumed its package holidays,

travelling to the resort Hamamet,

one hour north of Sousse. This

morning 20 passengers were the first

to return on an early-morning from

Birmingham.

We were staying in the

hotel down the road when the last

attack happened, but we love the

country, so as soon as we knew there

was another flight going, we decided

to come back.

If we had been

bringing our children, we probably

wouldn't be going, but as it is just

the two of us, we didn't feel it was

a concern.

It's probably more

dangerous staying in London than it

is going out there.

This first

package holiday will take people to

a country that has worked extremely

hard over the last couple of years

with international help to make

itself as secure as possible for

tourists. It is a country that will

be very pleased to see visitors back

in large numbers once again. And

industry experts say that Tunisia

has been desperate to see travel

restrictions lifted.

The authorities

were getting frustrated. What do we

have to do to get holiday-makers

back? Eventually, of course, they

can the Government here that they

would be able to make things as safe

as possible for British

holiday-makers, and that is why you

have got hundreds of people heading

back in from today.

We have also

customers from our German, Belgium

and French operations who have

remained, because their countries

did not impose any restrictions, so

it is interesting to go out and get

a feel for what was happening on the

beaches, were customers aware of the

situation, did they feel safe and

secure?

Two flight have arrived today.

Departures from Birmingham and

Manchester, with other UK airports

to follow. One survivor from the

Sousse attacks says British

holiday-makers are badly needed, and

will be hugely welcome.

They were

forming human shields in front of

people they didn't even know, and

they are such wonderful, open,

kind-hearted people, and we couldn't

have been better looked after.

These travellers who have chosen to

go back today are stoic, optimistic,

and also being warned by the Foreign

Office to be vigilant. Tunisia

remains in the state of emergency,

and its tourism industry a long way

from recovery.

John Maguire, BBC News, Birmingham

Airport.

American government investigators

have been appointed to examine

the Grand Canyon helicopter crash

which killed seven people,

including three British tourists.

27-year-old Becky Dobson, her

boyfriend Stuart Hill and his

brother Jason died in the crash.

Their parents have described the

siblings is wonderful songs and

inseparable. The four survivors,

including the pilot, are still in

hospital in Las Vegas. James Cook

reports.

Stuart Hill, a car salesman

in Brighton, died celebrating

his 30th birthday along

with his girlfriend,

Becky Dobson, who was 27.

Stuart's brother, Jason Hill,

a lawyer in the 20, also died.

He was 32 years old.

His girlfriend,

Jennifer Barham, survived.

So did newlyweds Jon Udall

and Ellie Milward, seen

here on the left at their wedding

with Becky and Stuart.

The helicopter, a Eurocopter

EC130 operated by tour

firm Papillon Airways,

crashed in the Grand Canyon just

before sunset on Saturday.

Bad weather meant it was nearly nine

hours before the three surviving

passengers and pilot could be flown

to hospital in Las Vegas.

Family and friends have now arrived

here, along with investigators.

The purpose during the on-scene

investigation is to gather

perishable information,

that's information

that will no longer

be available to us once

the wreckage has been disturbed.

So our plan at this time

is to continue to document

the wreckage in situ before it's

recovered to a secure

facility in Arizona.

The focus here is on treating

the survivors, not just

for their physical injuries,

but also trying to help them

with the trauma they've endured.

But there are also questions

for the helicopter company

and the tour operator about why

three passengers were

apparently unable to escape.

James Cook, BBC News, Las Vegas.

The time is quarter past one.

Our top story this lunchtime:

The Charity Commission begins

a statutory inquiry into Oxfam

following the scandal involving

aid workers in Haiti.

And coming up: secret

succession plans.

The Commonwealth begins

to consider who might succeed

the Queen as its head.

Coming up in sport: A head

injury forces footballer

Ryan Mason to retire

after deciding it's too risky

to carry on playing.

He won one England

cap, and is just 26.

History has repeated itself

at the Winter Olympics for Britain's

speedskater Elise Christie,

who crashed out of the 500 metres

short-track final in Pyeongchang,

four years after the same thing

happened at the Games in Sochi.

The 27-year-old fell

on the penultimate lap after making

contact with a competitor

as she jostled for a medal position.

The gold was taken by

Italy's Arianna Fontana.

Our Sports Correspondent,

Andy Swiss, is in PyeongChang.

Yes, Jane, Elise Christie came here

to Pyeongchang hoping to put behind

her what happened in so cheap. And

those hopes were high. She's now a

triple world champion, Britain's

biggest medal hope of these games.

But almost unbelievably, it was the

same old story.

Racing for redemption. Until now,

Elise Christie's Olympic story had

been one of heart break.

Disqualified from all her events in

Sochi, now here in Pyeongchang

hoping to write a very different

chapter.

Elise Christie has

successfully negotiated the first

hurdle of the day.

The early signs

were encouraged. In the

quarterfinals, she set a new Olympic

record. A picture of relaxation in

between rounds. And she duly made it

into the final.

Elise Christie!

A

five way battle for Olympic glory.

Away they go, the final is on, they

get away first time.

From the very

start, Christie was trying to play

catch up. Stuck in fourth place,

could you find a way through? With

time running out, she spied a gap

and went for it. But what followed

was all too familiar.

Greste tries

to make it on the inside... And

Christie crashes out! Christie as

out of it once again. It's a photo

finish on the line.

Once again,

Christie's hopes were sent sliding

into the crash barriers. It was

Sochi Autodrom again. And as Italy's

Arianna Fontana went on to clinch

victory, Christie once again was

left in tears. Can you believe it,

another Olympics and another tumble

for Elise Christie. She still has

two events to come, but her Gaines

have started in disappointment.

Yes,

I know I'm supposed to be prepared

for this, but... It still hurts, you

know? Obviously it's still almost a

week until... So, that's a positive.

And, I don't know... No, I just

can't see living with this feeling,

you know? I got knocked over, and

that's that.

The question now,

though, is whether Britain's biggest

medal hope can pick herself up on a

day of deja vu.

Yes, you have to feel for Elise

Christie. You can see just how

devastated she was in that

interview. She feels she was knocked

over by one of her rivals. But what

this means is that Team GB are still

waiting for their first medal of

these games. For Elise Christie, it

is another very personal

disappointment.

Andy, thank you very

much. Andy Swiss in Pyeongchang.

The BBC has learnt that

the Commonwealth has secretly begun

considering who might succeed

the Queen as its head.

The role isn't hereditary,

and so won't automatically pass

to the Prince of Wales

on the Queen's death.

However, there is no formal process

for deciding a successor.

Our Diplomatic Correspondent,

James Landale, is here.

And this is only recently emerged,

James. How does this work and what

do we know is going on?

This is the

debate that nobody really wants to

have, certainly not in public.

You'll never find this issue on any

agenda of any formal Commonwealth

body, even this high level group of

senior figures within the

Commonwealth that was set up and is

meeting today to look at the whole

governments of the Commonwealth,

this was not part of their formal

mandate. However, whenever you get

senior members of the Commonwealth

together, one of the issues that

comes up is the succession. That is

because the Queen is 91 years old,

and we have the big meeting of

Commonwealth heads of government in

a couple

of months' time here in the UK, and

it is one of those issues that

people talk about on the margins.

The reason they have to talk about

it is because it is not hereditary.

It's not something that goes from

the monitor the ad to the throne.

Now, if you talk to be but they say,

look in theory, the Commonwealth can

choose anybody. But in practice

there is no realistic alternative to

the Prince of Wales, as far as they

know, at the time of speaking. But

one of the issues they are having to

look at is, well, if that's the

case, if the Commonwealth were to

make that decision that it should be

the Prince of Wales, should it be a

one-off decision, or should they

establish a new procedure which

establish a new procedure which says

it is always in the future going to

be, whoever is head of state in the

United Kingdom? Because it

essentially goes to the heart of the

Commonwealth's debate about what it

is, what it means, its identity,

what is this network? Is it too

Anglo centric? Should it be focused

elsewhere in the world these days?

Should it move on? Should accuse the

opportunity of when the Queen has

gone to say, let's go in a new

direction? Ostensibly it's also

about techniques and procedures, but

there is also a broader debate about

what the Commonwealth is. I James

Landale, thank you.

The rate of inflation

held steady last month,

with the Consumer Prices Index

unchanged from December, at 3%.

The rate, reported by the Office

for National Statistics,

is close to the six-year high

of 3.1% set in November.

Most economists were expecting

to see a small fall.

A further rise in interest

rates could now happen

in the coming months,

as our Economics Correspondent,

Andy Verity, reports.

If you go down to the shops today,

beware of the odd surprise -

like fruit, up 7.2%.

Or coffee, up 7.5%

compared to a year ago.

More recently, those food prices

have started to fall,

but not by enough to slow down

the overall rise in the cost

of living for ordinary households.

I think people are digging deeper

into their pockets now

and thinking carefully

about what they are

spending their money on.

Everything's gone up, hasn't it?

Just everything's so expensive.

You're working all these

hours in the workplace

and everything, and for what?

By the time you've paid your

wages and everything,

and you pay your rent,

your gas, your bills, your electric,

you're left with nothing.

The difficulty is, prices have gone

up, but my wages haven't.

I haven't had a pay increase in line

with inflation for about six years.

The buying power of the average

income has barely risen

in the last decade -

the worst for living

standards in 200 years.

So, when will that

squeeze come to an end?

So the squeeze on living standards

is going to start to recede this

year as inflation comes down.

And then from 2019 onwards,

the OBR is forecasting

that the increase in wages

will actually exceed the general

increase in the price levels,

so you should start to see real

wages beginning to increase

from 2019 onwards.

Prices are still rising faster

than the Bank of England would like.

The price of goods went up by 3.2%.

The price of services rose by 2.8%.

But there are signs that that

inflationary pressure is easing.

The cost of raw materials which make

the goods that we buy

in the shops rose by 3.5%.

That's the lowest it's

been in 18 months.

Oil is bought and sold in dollars,

and the pound's been

strengthening against the dollar,

which has helped to slow down

price rises at the pumps.

But against other currencies,

the pound hasn't grown as strongly,

so import prices won't stop

rising just yet.

The sterling has strengthened

against the dollar, but that's

largely because the dollar's been

weak.

And if we look at sterling

against the euro -

which is much more important

in terms of where we get our

imports from in the UK -

it hasn't strengthened

nearly so much.

So, no, we think that exchange rate

impact is going to continue

for a few months more.

In the City, they're now betting

the Bank of England will raise

interest rates again

in the next few months.

It is expected by most

to happen in May.

Andy Verity, BBC News.

The England cricketer Ben Stokes has

indicated a not guilty plea

after being charged with affray

following a fight outside a

nightclub in Bristol last September.

Jon Kay is at Bristol

Magistrates' Court.

Explain what's been happening, Jon?

Yes, Jane, five months after that

alleged incident outside a nightclub

in Bristol, Ben Stokes returned to

this city to appear here at the

Magistrates' Court. It was a very

short hearing, only lasted about 12

minutes. And during the hearing, the

England all-rounder was asked to ban

up behind a sheet of glass, and he

was asked how he would be pleading

to a single charge of affray. He

answered, not guilty. Two men who

were charged alongside him, Ryan

Hale and Ryan Ali, who are both in

their 20s and from Bristol and are

also charged with affray, they too

said they would be pleading not

guilty to the same count. The men

were told by the judge hear that all

three would go to trial at Bristol

Crown Court with an initial hearing

in the middle of next month, on the

12th of March. However, just moments

after Ben Stokes left ear, the

England and Wales Cricket Board

issued a statement saying they had

been told that he wouldn't have to

attend that next hearing in person,

he doesn't have to be in court in

the middle of March. And so tomorrow

he will fly to New Zealand to join

his England team-mates. We are told

initially that will be for training.

There are no plans at the moment for

him to play in the T20 Tri-Series.

Alternately the decision will be up

to the England management. Ben

Stokes left this court and made no

comment to the journalists who were

waiting outside.

Jon Kay, thank you.

The Government has revealed

new software that it claims can

detect and immediately block

online jihadist videos.

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd,

has travelled to Silicon Valley

in California to discuss the tool

with technology companies,

as well as other efforts

to tackle extremism.

Dave Lee reports

from San Francisco.

Created by an artificial

intelligence company based

in London, and funded with more

than £500,000 of Government money,

the tool draws upon a vast database

of material posted online

by the so-called Islamic State.

We have two videos -

one of which is legitimate

news content, the other

is terrorist propaganda.

Now, to my naked eye,

I actually can't tell

the difference between the two.

But fortunately, down at the bottom,

this is very low probability

of being terrorist content.

But this one is much higher.

Now, what that means is,

if you were to be in charge of some

kind of video upload platform,

you could use this when anyone

clicks to upload a video,

and flag this video for review,

and let this one through

without any problems.

Using this technique,

the software creators believe

they can spot up to 94%

of IS content posted online,

with an accuracy of 99.995%.

Anything the software is unsure

about is flagged for human review.

I've had a demonstration of it,

and I know a lot of other

people have as well.

And it's a very convincing example

of the fact that you can

have the information that you need

to make sure that this

material doesn't go online

in the first place.

The Home Secretary says this

is a tool to help small

companies, ones which may not

have the resources to tackle

extremism properly.

But if they don't want

the Goverment's help,

they may soon be forced to take it.

We're not going to rule out

taking legislative action

if we need to do it.

But I remain convinced that the best

way to take real action,

to have the best outcomes,

is to have an industry-led form

like the one we've got.

This has to be in conjunction,

though, of larger companies working

with smaller companies.

Advocates of an open internet often

push back against this kind

of software because it can lead

to false positives -

that's content being blocked

when it shouldn't be.

Yet it is estimated that more

than 400 different web servers

were used to spread propaganda

in 2017 - and so the task is less

about blocking jihadis online today,

but instead predicting

where they might be

on the internet tomorrow.

Dave Lee, BBC News, Silicon Valley.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

are visiting Edinburgh today as part

of their public engagements

in the run-up to

their wedding in May.

They've been at the city's

castle, and heard the 1pm

gunfire at the garrison.

Our Royal Correspondent,

Nicholas Witchell,

is in Edinburgh this lunchtime.

How is the visit going down, Nick?

Hi, Jane. Well, yes, we've seen them

in south London and Nottingham in

England, in Cardiff, and now in

Edinburgh. All part of Meghan

Markle's introduction to the UK,

three months ahead of the wedding.

They have left here to go to a

social cafe which helps homeless

people, then they will be going to a

reception for young people at the

Palace of Holyrood house. But the

visit began here at Edinburgh's most

famous landmark.

Edinburgh Castle, and they welcome

to Scotland on a date when the

temperatures were not far from zero,

and felt rather less. A day, then,

for a good, warm coat. And there was

Meghan Markle, wrapped up in

something with a touch of tartan

about it. As for Harry, well, he's

used to the bracing temperatures.

Just think of all the time the rules

spent at Balmoral. It is chilly,

said Meghan, as she greeted the

crowds.

I got to meet Meghan today,

and she is absolutely beautiful, I'm

so excited.

They the future of the

rural family, Meghan and Harry,

William and Kate, they are the

future.

Waiting for the couple just

outside because all gates, the band

of Her Majesty's Royal Marines

Scotland, there to welcome Harry,

recently appointed captain general

of the Royal Marines in succession

to his grandfather. A relatively

brief visit, but important. It's all

part of Meghan Markle's

familiarisation with the different

parts of the UK, and a chance to

underline Scotland's importance to

the Royal Family. Nicholas Witchel,

BBC News, Edinburgh.

Time for a look at the weather.

Here's Chris Fawkes.

Here's Chris Fawkes.

Hi, Jane. We've had some or -- more

wintry weather. You get a sense of

curtains of snow sprinkling over the

landscape. The hills in Lewis in the

Outer Hebrides. We have seen quite a

bit of snow already today across

northern parts of the country.

Further south, it has generally been

more rain that's been falling, and a

winteriness for one or two across

parts of Wales. The rest of the

afternoon, I will weather front

becomes slow moving across the

eastern counties of England, a dull,

damp and chilly end of the day.

Further West, sunshine working in.

Overnight, that front really does

drag its heels for a time across

East Anglia and south-east England,

but the skies are clear behind that,

and with clearing skies, down by the

temperatures. We are looking at a

widespread frost developing, leading

to icy stretches on untreated roads

first thing Wednesday morning.

Wednesday it self, another Atlantic

front is going to be moving into the

British Isles, bumping into that

cold air once again, and we will

start to see some of that turn into

snow. The snowy

snow. The snowy weather is mainly

going to be across the hills in the

north of the UK. Parts of Scotland,

may be the north-east of England, we

could see some accumulation. 2-5

centimetres across the Highlands and

Southern uplands, localised

disruption possible. The winds are

going to be very gusty. Gusty winds

further south as well, 50-60 mph.

Although the day starts off on a

bright note across the East, the

cloud works in throughout the day.

The thickest cloud is further rest,

-- further west. The rain turning

heavier later on. Eventually, mild

are pushing into western areas, the

cold are northern and eastern parts.

The charts for Thursday, weather

front is moving out of the way, and

a build of pressure, a ridge of high

pressure building in across England

and Wales. The weather should be

largely dry with sunshine for most

on Wednesday. Further north, in

Northern Ireland and Scotland,

further sunshine and wintry showers.

Further snow in the hills. Mild in

the south, 10-11d. Further north,

the cold weather still with us in

Scotland, temperatures 5 degrees or

so. Through Friday and into the

weekend, generally the weather's go

into becoming recently settled, and

is forecast to turn milder through

the weekend and into next week, with

temperatures in two double figures.

Mild into next week, however, there

could be a change to colder

conditions later month. It's one of

those. We'll keep you up-to-date

with the details over the coming

days and weeks.

with the details over the coming

days and weeks. Thanks, Chris.

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