02/03/2018 BBC News at One

Snow, ice, strong winds and now

the threat of floods -

widespread disruption continues

across the UK.

The Army helped hundreds of people

stranded in their cars overnight,

and some passengers were stuck

on trains which were

unable to move for hours.

We had no heating and things

like the buffet car has run out

of food and drink earlier

on in the evening,

so it was a pretty cold night.

I'll be reporting live from Alnwick

in Northumberland, where people say

they are suffering the worst winter

weather conditions for almost a

decade.

We'll bring you the very latest from

our correspondents across the UK.

Also this lunchtime...

The Prime Minister prepares

to deliver a major

speech about Brexit -

she'll say a deal must pass five

tests and will bring the country

and Cabinet together.

We are not clones, many of us fought

on different sides of the referendum

campaign. It has been a discussion

about what is right for Britain.

A 21-year-old man is convicted

of trying to murder a woman

by running her over -

Paul Moore targeted Zaynab Hussein

because she was wearing a hijab.

Daily exposure to pollution -

including from light,

noise and air - is having an impact

on people's health, warns

the Chief Medical Officer.

Thousands of members of the public

will be invited into the grounds

of Windsor Castle for Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle's wedding in May.

And coming up in the sport,

Phil Neville's managerial career

gets off to a cracking start

as England's Lionesses

thrash France in Ohio.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

Snow, ice and powerful winds

are continuing to cause major

disruption over large parts

of the UK.

The army has been called out

in a number of areas to help

hundreds of drivers who were trapped

in their vehicles overnight.

Elsewhere, passengers

were trapped on trains,

without heating or lighting

in some cases.

All but one of the UK's rail

operators are running

a reduced service.

In the last few minutes

south-eastern Railway have told

passengers not to travel until

further notice.

There has also been major disruption

at airports across the country.

The bad weather is expected

to continue, with more snow showers

and windy conditions.

There are also eight flood warnings

in place in the south-west

and north-east of England.

This is the latest picture -

This is the latest picture -

there are now no red

or amber alerts in place,

but yellow warnings remain

across much of the country

and the cold weather could last well

into next week.

Let's go to Ben Brown,

who is in Alnwick in Northumberland.

Alnwick is snowbound, as you can

see. So are many of the nearby

villages, completely cut off by the

snow. Northumberland county council

is very worried about vulnerable

people, especially the elderly. In

Alnwick they have set up a makeshift

rescue centre in a sports hall for

drivers who were stranded for hours

overnight on the A1, which is

blocked between here and Beric

further north. That is just one

example of travel disruption we have

seen right around the UK. Because of

the winter weather crisis.

We will get reports from our

correspondents around the UK, first

Robert Hall who was stranded

overnight for many hours with

drivers on the A303 in Wiltshire.

Intense and unrelenting, Storm Emma

colliding with the Siberian blast

and shutting down the transport

network on a road by road. On the

A31 in Dorset, Hampshire Police

called in the army to help evacuate

trapped drivers.

Further north, our journey down the

A303 came to an abrupt halt in the

Wiltshire village of Chicklade.

Hundreds of vehicles defeated by a

series of steep hills. Drivers are

awaiting rescue in blinding snow.

Travelling tonight from east to west

is absolutely horrendous. If I put

the window down, hopefully you can

see it is driving snow. We have

probably got six or seven inches

here.

With lorries blocking hard... Half

the road, snowploughs struggled to

clear a path. Nobody was going

anywhere.

I hope to get to Taunton,

but at the moment it is not looking

promising and we could be stuck.

Trying to get to an old peoples home

to get the heating on, I have been

stuck here since three o'clock this

afternoon.

The manager of the village garage

had walked a mile to open up.

I walked from across the.

What was

it like?

Really horrendous.

Do you

think you will get out?

Of course we

will. There is worse trouble at sea,

granny would say.

At the foot of the next hill, a

delivery driver, Mark Brown, became

a traffic marshal.

You seem to have taken charge?

Somebody has to.

Finally after six

hours the traffic crawled forward.

But the next jam was only two miles

away.

As the skies lightened, still no

police presence.

In some vehicles, patients wore

thin. What do you think of the

emergency services response

overnight?

Has there been one? I

have not seen anything.

The misery on the A303 was mirrored

through the south-west and into

Wales.

On the outskirts of Cardiff, vehicle

after vehicle came to a halt.

Within the past hour, snow has begun

falling again. Our journey and those

of hundreds of others has no end in

sight.

Robert Hall, BBC News, Wiltshire.

There has been chaos overnight on

the railways. A train, a South

Western Railway train to Weymouth,

it set off last night and the

passengers were stranded on that

overnight because it broke down.

They were still on the train in

frozen carriages this morning. Let's

get this report from Duncan Kennedy.

How to sleep on a train when your

train is not a sleeper. This was one

passenger who spent last night

without heat or food.

This pair ended up camping on the

same train. Stationary for a total

of 15 hours.

It was so cold on board but some

people ended up in space blankets

and winter hats.

Philip Brown from Bournemouth was

among them. He left Waterloo just

after five o'clock yesterday

afternoon and did not get off until

seven o'clock this morning.

We lost power as well. They managed

to restore power so we had lights

but we had no heating, and things

like the birthday card had run out

of food and drink earlier in the

evening, so it was a pretty cold

night -- things like the birthday

card. I was on the train for 14, 15

hours, something that region.

The train spends most of the night

in the new Forest. Passengers said

the guard tried to help did not have

enough information. They all had to

wait until another train pulled up

alongside and had to walk across a

gangplank to get off.

South-west Trains issued a statement

apologising to all those involved,

saying it battled through the night

to try to keep trains moving in what

it called very challenging

conditions.

What should have been a three-hour

journey turned into more than half a

very uncomfortable day.

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, The New

Forest. The weather is deteriorating

in Northumberland. In Scotland it

has been improving slightly. The red

warning that we saw which means a

threat to life has now been lifted.

Conditions beginning to improve and

a clear up operation and recovery

operation under way in many parts of

Scotland. This from Catriona Renton.

This terrifying footage shot on a

dash camp shows the quick reactions

of Edinburgh bus driver Charmaine

Laurie, who avoided hitting a car on

the wrong side of the road. 20

people were on her bus.

To me, it looks worse on the video

than I felt at the time. I got a

fright but I managed to avoid it,

luckily. And I really got on with my

job at about and forgot all about it

until I got home and my husband

asked me if I saw the video. He did

not know it was me driving. When I

looked at the video I was like, that

is me. He went your joking. I went

no, that was me.

This morning soldiers continued to

help drive doctors and nurses to and

from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

to carry on their crucial work.

For the vital, key members of staff

it will be absolutely vital. They

are really needed in such a busy

hospital, to keep the place going.

Our soldiers are part of the

community, we live in this local

area. My eldest son was born in the

Edinburgh infirmary so it is

important for us to support the

local community.

Edinburgh and Glasgow airports have

reopened, but these pictures from

Glasgow airport show what staff were

up against on the runway.

Conditions are still treacherous in

many

parts of the country, like here in

Fife.

In this cut-off village near

Kinross, farmers cleared the road so

medics could get to Ashley, who had

gone into labour. Her baby boy was

born safe and well. This is one of

the busiest parts of Glasgow city

centre, and over the last couple of

days it has been virtually shuts

down. With the weather warnings

downgraded you can see that things

are starting to slowly get back to

normal.

And there is no doubt it has taken

the efforts of many to get through

this difficult week.

Catriona Renton, BBC News.

Around the UK several thousand homes

are without power and electricity

and thousands of schools have

remained closed. I have been looking

at how other parts of the country

have been affected.

It was carnage on the M62 near

Rochdale. Vehicles colliding with

each other in heavy snow and

blizzard conditions. Drivers trapped

in cars and lorries for as long as

11 hours overnight.

In Worcestershire, teams have been

trying to clear roads and shovelling

snow off pavements, laying down as

much salt and Grits as fast as they

can. Few people are daring to

venture out, streets are empty.

In Shropshire, there are huge

snowdrifts, as there are in many

parts of the country, with

snowploughs doing their worst to

clear a way. In the West Midlands

alone 1500 schools are closed and

thousands more across the UK. Here

in Alnwick in Northumberland they

have been pulling cars out of the

snow. Northumberland county council

says these are the worst conditions

for eight years but the community is

pulling together.

Farmers and local, rural community

members are able to get out with

snowploughs have played their vital

part in clearing some of the rural

roads, ensuring communities that

would otherwise be stranded I able

to get onto the main roads, which

the council are focusing on.

Authorities in Northumberland say

they are especially worried about

vulnerable people in these snowy

conditions, particularly the

elderly, as the brutal winter

weather continues to bite.

I have to say the temperatures here

are really very, very cold. I think

the fields like temperature at the

moment in the north-east of England

is about minus eight.

Let's go to Sian Lloyd, who is at St

Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. What

is the picture where you are?

It is a snowy picture at the moment.

Overnight, 51 centimetres of snow

was recorded as falling here,

believed to be the highest figure

anywhere in the UK. This road are

just about passable. We got here in

a four by four and saw huge drifts

along the way. Most people in this

village getting around on foot at

the moment. In the early hours of

this morning about three people were

rescued from a car. They have been

stranded in a snow drift not far

from here for more than 12 hours and

an SOS was effectively put out to

local people who could get to them.

They have since been taken to

hospital for a checkup. We are

currently on a yellow warning in

Wales after the red warning subsided

in the early hours. The danger is

ice, of course it is now snowing

again. Many, many roads in Wales are

treacherous, including many main

routes. 14 roads closed, not

including the country lanes.

Many of those are not possible.

Virtually all the schools in Wales

are closed under the threat of more

disruption to come.

Thank you very much, Sian Lloyd.

We have talked about the troubled

situation, the chaos around the UK

on the roads, the railways and the

airports.

Let's go to other transport

correspondent Victoria Fritz at

Heathrow.

What is the situation?

All UK

airports are now open that every

single one is operating severely

reduced schedules. This is expected

to be the worst day for flight

cancellations of the week. Take

Edinburgh airport, all Ryanair and

easyJet flights have been cancelled

today out of that output. Other

airports outside of the UK are

closed, making the situation worst.

Dublin, Geneva is another because of

poor weather. Around 50,000 Brits

are expected to be stranded, unable

to get back into the UK. Airports

like Heathrow have done all they can

to try to get as many planes in here

as possible in a safe fashion. They

have been de-icing the runways and

all airlines have been de-icing

their planes as well. Over 1000

lorry loads of snow was carted off

this runway yesterday alone. They

are combining flights to get as many

people to where they need to go, but

saying just check with your airline

before you make that journey, to

make sure it is not a wasted one.

Good advice, Victoria. Thank you.

Phil Mackie is in Worcester.

Just on the outskirts of wisdom. You

can see really how much snow was

drifting in the strong winds last

night. -- just on the outskirts of

Worcester. This is just outside the

city centre, there are six or ten

feet high snowdrifts. We expect snow

to fall from now until 6pm. But is

impacting travel, mostly on buses

and trains. You can get about but

once you leave the main roads, they

have not been gritted macro, they

are not clear. That is the

difficulty. With school staff on

businesses and shops closed, many

people have chosen to spend the day

at home, probably wisely, perhaps

fearing more is to come. Look at the

picture, I have not seen snowdrifts

this deep in my lifetime. Certainly

there is no sign of things improving

very quickly.

Thank you very much indeed. That is

it from us in Northumberland.

That is it from us

in Northumberland.

And you can keep up to date

with the weather and travel

situation wherever you are,

by visiting the BBC News Live page.

That's at bbc.co.uk/news.

You can also get live updates

on the BBC News Channel

and your local radio station

and Phil Avery will be

here at the end of the programme

with a full forecast.

Ben Brown, many thanks.

Ben Brown, many thanks.

The Prime Minister is about to

deliver a major speech

on the government's plans

for the UK's relationship

with the EU after Brexit.

Theresa May will say that any deal

with the EU must pass five tests,

including respecting the result

of the referendum,

and protecting jobs and security.

And she will pledge to bring

the country together.

Our Political Correspondent

Eleanor Garnier reports.

The chill between Britain and

Brussels reached new lows this week,

with both sides hardening up their

positions. As she lays the ground

for the next phase of negotiations,

the challenge for Theresa May is to

smooth out the disagreements abroad

and at home as well as ministers

have not always agreed.

We are not

clones. We were on different sides

of the referendum campaign. Of

course this has been a discussion

about the different views on the

country, that is what the government

has been working to do and when

people see the speech today they

will think this is a very sensible

approach.

We are being promised more

detail, not just on what the Prime

Minister wants from the deal, but

also the compromises she is willing

to take. And she will spell out how

after Brexit the UK will seek to

merit EU rules in some areas but

diverged in others. With months of

disagreement inside Cabinet

ministers are now signed up to the

principles behind the speech, but

will the fragile truce endure?

I

imagine the speech will have aspects

of it that I find I'm comfortable as

a lever supporter and vice versa.

But I think trying to bring the two

sides together will be something we

take from this speech.

Labour

detailed more of its demands for

Brexit earlier this week. Now it has

questioned for the government.

How

are you going to protect services in

this country and what is your actual

answer to the question of avoiding a

hard border in Northern Ireland?

These are the questions that we have

had for 21 months now and the Prime

Minister needs to answer them today.

Don't expect the solutions to all be

spelt out today. The critical test

of this speech is whether it can win

over negotiators in Brussels and

convince them to move onto the next

stage, talks about trade.

stage, talks about trade.

In a moment we'll speak

to Damian Grammaticas

who is in Brussels,

but first to Norman Smith

who is in Downing Street.

You will be listening to all of

this. What does the Prime Minister

have to achieve? What sort of

reception will she get?

This is not

going to be a speech which answers

all the many questions about Brexit,

it will not fill in all the details,

it will not end the Tories' civil

war over Europe, Boris Johnson and

Philip Hammond will not be best

buddies after it. The task is to get

the EU to sit down and to begin

talking trade seriously. To do that

Theresa May will in effect say to EU

leaders, look, I know the era of

cake eating is over, at least in

terms of negotiations. I know we

cannot have our cake and eat it, so

she will put to one side that big

slab of Brexit Battenberg and say to

the EU leaders, I'd take on board

your concerns, I know your red

lines, I get why you are worried

about the integrity of the single

market being undermined, and she

will couple that with a template for

trade with a whole package of

proposals, including those areas

where bits of the British economy

might continue to have to meet EU

standards. Other areas where we

might carry on and be supervised by

EU regulators. The hope is that EU

leaders listening to that one thing,

now they are taking this seriously,

now we can really begin to talk

about trade. The danger is EU

leaders take a look at this and

think this looks a bit like Theresa

May is trying to pick and choose

which bits of the single market she

takes advantage of and which bits

she ignores. In other words, you

have not quite given up the cake.

Norman, thank you.

Damian, in Brussels, a lot of people

near you would love to stop that

phrase have your cake and eat it.

Just a few minutes ago walking past

me here was one of the EU

commissioners who sits in

Jean-Claude Juncker's Cabinet. I

asked him and what he said was they

are all waiting and they will be

listening to see what Theresa May

says, to see what detail there is.

Will there be concrete proposals

that can move things forward? That

is what we want he said. The EU side

is waiting for that. Michel Barnier

has made clear that he needs to

know. The UK has said it does not

want a border between Northern

Ireland and the Republic and Theresa

May has said she does not want that

to be moved to between the UK and

Ireland of Ireland. If Mrs May

starts to say today that she was to

have special access for some parts

of the UK economy to the EU, I think

that will not go down very well. The

EU is saying there are difficult

choices the Great Britain has to

face up to, it could bring barriers

to trade with the EU. How much

control does it want over rules and

regulations, the same thing. The EU

wants the detail and they will

respond.

Not long to wait. Damian

Grammaticas and Norman Smith.

Damian Grammaticas and Norman Smith.

And you can watch that speech live

on the BBC News Channel -

it's due to begin at half past one.

As soon as that gets under way we

will carry it on the BBC News

Channel.

Channel.

Our top story this lunchtime:

Snow, ice and strong winds and now

the threat of floods. Widespread

disruption continues across the UK.

And still to come...

The orchestra stranded

in the snow who made sure

it was a special white wedding.

Coming up in Sport: Great Britain's

Katarina Johnson Thompson has

started her bid for gold

at the World Indoor Athletics

Championships in Birmingham.

People are being exposed on a daily

basis to a cocktail of pollution,

including light and noise pollution,

which is having a significant

impact on their health.

That's the warning from England's

chief medical officer.

Dame Sally Davies says a lot

is known about the impact

on the environment, but isn't

properly understood when it

comes to human sickness.

Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports.

The impact of serious air

pollution on a condition such

as asthma is well understood,

but what is less clear is the wider

effect on our health

of all the other pollutants

we experience every day.

For example, the way light

from phones and tablets might

disrupt our sleep patterns and how

that might play out over

a long period of time.

Now England's Chief Medical Officer

says more research is needed,

not just into today's threats,

but also those in the future.

I am most concerned about air

at this moment but we must not

forget to measure the impact

on health of other types

of pollution or we could find in 10,

20, 30 years there is a real problem

that we didn't see

coming early enough.

Today's report says

the NHS could lead the way

on reducing pollution levels.

with more than a million staff,

the health service is one

of the biggest employers

in the country and is responsible

for around one in every 20 road

journeys, so the NHS

could for example cut down

on consumption of single use

plastics and emissions

from vehicles and buildings.

And health campaigners say this

report adds weight to calls

for new legislation on air quality.

Air pollution is having a very real

impact on all of our health.

It can cause lung disease and heart

disease and it has been linked to up

to 40,000 early deaths every year.

If nothing is done,

there are warnings that consistent,

long-term exposure to a range

of pollutants, air, light,

noise and chemical, could undermine

efforts to improve public health.

A better understanding

of the threat will help

identify possible solutions.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

A 21-year-old man has been found

guilty at Nottingham Crown Court

of attempting to murder a Muslim

woman by running her over.

Paul Moore, from Leicester,

targeted Zaynab Hussein

because she was wearing a hijab.

He was also convicted

of seriously injuring

a 12-year-old Muslim schoolgirl.

Dominic Casciani reports.

Paul Moore, convicted

today of a racially

motivated attempted murder.

His victim, a Somali mother

from Leicester, Zaynab Hussein.

He didn't know her,

he picked her out at random.

Last September after a night

of heavy drinking he told friends

he wanted to run someone over

and in the early morning as parents

took their children to school,

he drove around Leicester looking

for a target.

And it was here that

Paul Moore found his victim.

Zaynab Hussein was walking home

after dropping her two

youngest children at school

and as she reached this spot,

Moore came round this corner,

at speed and slammed into her.

She smashed into this

wall and when she hit

the ground her head was bleeding

and her limbs were broken.

As she struggled to cry for help,

Moore drove off, did a U-turn

and came back and this time he went

over her with all four wheels.

Paul Moore drove off and minutes

later tried to hit a 12-year-old

Muslim schoolgirl identifiable

by her headscarf.

He clipped her side and sent

her school bag flying.

Today he has been found guilty

of that second attack as well.

The jury at Nottingham Crown Court

heard that Mrs Hussein,

a mother of nine, has been left

with life-changing injuries.

She is confined to bed

and needs yet more surgery.

After the attack Moore

told a relative he had

deliberately run the woman over

because of terrorism in London.

He had done it for his

country and he was proud.

Dominic Casciani, BBC News

at Nottingham Crown Court.

More than 2,000 members

of the public will be

invited into the grounds

of Windsor Castle for Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle's wedding in May.

Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas

Witchell is with me.

Explain a little bit more about who

might be invited.

The first thing to

say is you cannot be applying for a

place. They will be invited into the

grounds of Windsor Castle, not the

chapel. They will be members of the

public from across the United

Kingdom and they will be nominated

by the Queen's representatives

across the country. The couple hope

they will be a broad range of

backgrounds and ages and they have

asked they should be young people

who have shown leadership and those

who have served their communities.

There will be 200 people from the

charities and organisations that

Harry and Meghan support, 600 people

from the Windsor Castle community,

other people live within the castle,

and slightly more than 500 people

from the Royal household. The

purpose is it should share in a

moment of fun and joy on a day that

will reflect the character and the

values of the bride and groom.

Nick,

thank you very much.

Now, the weather has caused huge

problems for many people,

but for some, has proved

an unexpected bonus.

The BBC Concert Orchestra

was due to be taking part

in a school project,

which was cancelled

because of the weather,

but the hotel they were stuck

in was hosting a wedding

so the musicians decided

to put their talents to good use.

Charlotte Gallagher has the story.

One couple's special day

made even more magical,

all because of the famous BBC

Concert Orchestra.

The bride and groom

were going to play a recording

of Pachelbel's Canon,

but ended up with the real thing.

I think it was just

the impact that it had,

like, when they started,

like, it sort of took

your breath away.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Very unexpected.

It was a nice surprise.

Some of the guests couldn't get

there because of the snow.

Because a lot of people had

to cancel, it was a bit

of an upset on the day.

But then it just sort of made it...

Made it special again.

The orchestra usually plays

for huge audiences in venues

like the Royal Albert Hall.

But their show in snowy Skegness

is one they'll never forget.

Charlotte Gallagher, BBC News.

Time for a look at the weather,

here's Phil Avery.

Time for a look at the weather,

here's Phil Avery.

Just what you need, someone selling

you more aware there. I am going to

show you the totals with regards to

lying snow depths. 52 centimetres of

snow just outside Cardiff. Not 1

million miles behind is Bishop time.

No great surprise, still this brutal

easterly dominating the scene. This

low pressure in the South West is

beginning to become a real player

because it is throwing up quite a

significant band of snow into the

southern half of the British Isles.

Further north you have more snow

showers in northern and eastern

areas. These

areas. These thermometer

temperatures are academic. We are

still well down below zero. There

has been an incursion of relatively

mild air in the far south and that

causes a problem with freezing rain.

10-15 centimetres over the high

ground of Wales as that of snow

eases further north. By roundabout

late evening and overnight it will

be pushing into the North Midlands

and the North East of England.

Further north there are more snow

showers on another cold night. How

are we shaping up for the weekend?

It is still cold in the north,

milder in the south, and there is

still a further risk of snow. We

have been looking for Scandinavia

for that high pressure, but it is

into the South West and with this

low pressure that will be the major

player this weekend. Pretty leaden

skies. Watch out for eyes across

southern pies as we start the new

day. That rainfall will be falling

onto cold surfaces and there will be

fog as well. Further north you are

still stuck in a pretty cold regime.

There will be showers here. This is

Sunday, so watch out for eyes first

thing. A bit of snow perhaps moving

into the eastern side of England up

into Scotland. Further south there

is rainfall by day, but watch out

for this process of freezing and

thawing. We are getting the

temperatures into the heart of next

week that closely to where they

should be at this time of the year.

But in the short term you still have

to be thinking about winter and what

we have had rather than what is to

come.

we have had rather

than what is to come.

That's all from the BBC News at One,

so it's goodbye from me