:00:12. > :00:16.From the Cabinet to the courtroom - Chris Huhne resigns.
:00:16. > :00:19.He's to be charged with perverting the course of justice along with
:00:19. > :00:25.his ex-wife for trying to avoid a driving ban.
:00:25. > :00:30.There is sufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against both
:00:30. > :00:34.Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for perverting the course of justice.
:00:34. > :00:38.Ms Pryce and Mr Huhne will appear in court in just under a fortnight.
:00:39. > :00:43.He insists he will clear his name. I am innocent of these charges and
:00:43. > :00:47.I intend to fight this in the court and I am confident a jury will
:00:47. > :00:50.agree. Also tonight: How the row over
:00:50. > :00:54.these words mean John Terry has been stripped of the England
:00:54. > :00:59.captaincy for a second time. Three Britons are known to have
:00:59. > :01:02.died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease at a hotel in
:01:02. > :01:08.Spain. Is the Arctic? No, it is the Peak
:01:08. > :01:13.District as the big freeze grips the UK.
:01:13. > :01:17.On Sportsday on BBC News: Blink and you missed them - the batsmen were
:01:17. > :01:27.falling like flies on a fast-paced opening day between England and
:01:27. > :01:38.
:01:38. > :01:41.Welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has
:01:41. > :01:45.resigned from the Cabinet after learning that he and his ex-wife
:01:45. > :01:50.will both face charges of perverting the course of justice.
:01:50. > :01:53.It is claimed the Liberal Democrat Minister got his then wife to
:01:53. > :01:57.accept penalty speeding points on his behalf ten years ago to escape
:01:58. > :02:01.a driving ban. The accusation only emerged last year, shortly after
:02:01. > :02:08.the couple separated. Chris Huhne insisted again that he was innocent
:02:08. > :02:11.and said he would fight the charges in court.
:02:11. > :02:18.It began with their marriage breaking up, it could end in prison.
:02:18. > :02:22.Today, Chris Huhne lost his job in the Cabinet. In a fortnight, he and
:02:22. > :02:26.the wife he left will see each other in court. The man who heads
:02:26. > :02:31.the Crown Prosecution Service today gave his verdict on the evidence of
:02:31. > :02:36.an eight-month police investigation. All the available evidence,
:02:36. > :02:42.including the new material, has now been carefully considered by the
:02:42. > :02:47.CPS. And we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to
:02:47. > :02:52.bring criminal charges against both Mr Huhne and Ms Pryce for
:02:52. > :02:55.perverting the course of justice. The Prime Minister and his Deputy
:02:55. > :03:00.made clear to Chris Huhne this his fight to clear his name would have
:03:00. > :03:04.to be pursued outside the Cabinet. I'm innocent of these charges and I
:03:04. > :03:09.intend to fight this in the courts and I am confident that a jury will
:03:09. > :03:16.agree. So as to avoid any distraction to either my official
:03:16. > :03:19.duties or my trial defence, I am standing down and resigning as
:03:19. > :03:24.Energy and Climate Change Secretary. It must feel a long time since
:03:24. > :03:28.Chris Huhne issued these election leaflets asking "where he would be
:03:28. > :03:33.without his family" and telling voters that he had been married for
:03:33. > :03:37.26 years. His wife was with him at the count on Election Night in 2010.
:03:37. > :03:41.There too was the woman he was having an affair with, his media
:03:41. > :03:47.adviser. Huhne would go on to win his seat but to lose his wife and
:03:47. > :03:52.soon face allegations about who had done what many years before.
:03:52. > :03:56.In 2003, when he was a Member of the European Parliament, Huhne flew
:03:56. > :04:01.into Stansted Airport from Brussels. His car was caught by speedcameras
:04:01. > :04:07.on the M11. His wife, Vicky Pryce, received three penalty points for
:04:07. > :04:10.the speeding offence. Eight years later, in the aftermath of their
:04:10. > :04:16.divorce, The Sunday Times asked Pryce about rumours that Huhne had
:04:16. > :04:20.persuaded somebody to accept speeding points for him. "Oh gosh,
:04:20. > :04:25.yes, he did" she was reported to have said, before pointing out
:04:25. > :04:33."there is such huge pressure on politicians to be everywhere at
:04:33. > :04:39.once and he does drive a bit like a maniac." Days later, the police
:04:39. > :04:43.opened an investigation. Today, Vicky Pryce issued a written
:04:43. > :04:47.statement saying she wanted to see a quick resolution of the case.
:04:47. > :04:52.sorry, I can't comment. Chris Huhne's absence will be noticed
:04:52. > :04:55.most around the Cabinet table. He was the coalition's most muscular
:04:55. > :04:59.Liberal Democrat. Twice staging angry confrontations with the Prime
:04:59. > :05:06.Minister about the treatment of his party as embarrassed colleagues
:05:06. > :05:10.looked on. Nick Clegg may be sorry, but perhaps a little nervous, too.
:05:10. > :05:15.He only just beat Chris Huhne to become his party's leader and knows
:05:15. > :05:19.that if he is cleared Mr Huhne could cause real political trouble.
:05:19. > :05:23.I totally understand and respect why Chris Huhne has stood down from
:05:23. > :05:27.his position in Government. If he clears his name, as he wishes to, I
:05:27. > :05:32.have made it clear that I would like to see him back in Government
:05:32. > :05:36.in a key position. But politics doesn't wait for the slow-turning
:05:36. > :05:41.wheels of justice. Another Liberal Democrat, Ed Davey, is the new
:05:41. > :05:46.Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Chris Huhne did
:05:46. > :05:51.eventually lose his driving licence. He lost his wife and today his
:05:51. > :05:54.Cabinet career. Now he's fighting to save not just his reputation,
:05:54. > :05:58.but his freedom. Nick Robinson is at Westminster
:05:58. > :06:03.this evening. This appears to be a political crisis for Mr Huhne that
:06:03. > :06:07.has grown out of a personal one? is extraordinary. It began so
:06:07. > :06:12.personally, Fiona, then it became political, then it became legal and
:06:12. > :06:16.if Mr Huhne cannot convince a court of his innocence, it will end up
:06:16. > :06:20.custodial. He is far from the only person who has a messy or an
:06:20. > :06:25.acrimonious divorce. He is far from the only person who then has
:06:25. > :06:29.arguments about who did what when in the past. But being a Cabinet
:06:29. > :06:32.Minister it meant that those accusations made their way into the
:06:32. > :06:38.newspapers, into the headlines and one of his political opponents took
:06:38. > :06:41.them up and took them to the police. That is what makes this personal
:06:41. > :06:44.crisis for him such an extraordinary one. What are the
:06:44. > :06:50.wider political implications of this? There is no doubt that if
:06:50. > :06:54.Chris Huhne were to win his case and prove his innocence, he would
:06:54. > :06:57.become a powerful Liberal Democrat figure. No wonder Nick Clegg said
:06:57. > :07:01.he wanted to see him back in Government. The last thing this
:07:01. > :07:05.coalition would want is a revived Mr Huhne on the backbenches picking
:07:05. > :07:10.a fight over this policy and that. If he loses his case, if he were in
:07:10. > :07:15.the end to end up in prison, there would be a by-election in his seat
:07:15. > :07:18.which has long been a Tory-Lib Dem marginal, not very helpful for the
:07:18. > :07:25.coalition. I think it is fair to say the man who has always loved
:07:25. > :07:29.Government will not be thinking about the political tonight, he
:07:29. > :07:32.will be thinking of the personal. John Terry has been sacked as
:07:32. > :07:36.captain of the England football team. He is due to stand trial in
:07:36. > :07:41.July on charges of racial abuse. The Football Association said it
:07:41. > :07:45.had taken the decision as it didn't want the case to dominate England's
:07:45. > :07:51.performance in the Euro 2012 Championships. Dan Roan is at FA
:07:51. > :07:54.headquarters at Wembley. This is a controversial decision? It is, yes.
:07:54. > :07:57.John Terry's passion, commitment and focus has never been called
:07:57. > :08:01.into question. With serious allegations hanging over his head
:08:01. > :08:05.for the next five months there have been growing concerns about his
:08:05. > :08:09.ability to lead this team and today the FA finally agreed. He was
:08:09. > :08:13.informed of the decision to suspend him by the FA chairman in a phone
:08:13. > :08:17.call this morning. It was this incident at Loftus Road
:08:17. > :08:22.last year that today led to John Terry being stripped of the
:08:23. > :08:27.captaincy for a second time. The defender denies racially abusing
:08:27. > :08:37.Anton Ferdinand during the match with QPR. With the court case
:08:37. > :08:37.
:08:37. > :08:42.adjourned until after this summer's European Championships, the FA's
:08:42. > :08:48.chairman explained why Terry had to go. This decision has been taken
:08:48. > :08:54.due to the high-profile nature of the England captaincy on and off
:08:54. > :08:57.the pitch. Terry became England captain in 2006. Four years later,
:08:57. > :09:04.after allegations surrounding his private life, he lost the armband
:09:04. > :09:09.to Rio Ferdinand. 13 months on, Terry was back. Then just before
:09:09. > :09:14.Christmas, he was charged with racial abuse. And with a trial
:09:14. > :09:18.scheduled a week after the end of the European Championships, the FA
:09:18. > :09:21.feared Terry's troubled would prove too great a distraction. Club and
:09:21. > :09:25.country once again disagree. It is the FA's decision. I have nothing
:09:25. > :09:29.to say about it. I don't agree with it. You have to ask the FA about it
:09:29. > :09:33.and the people responsible for the decision. Terry's international
:09:33. > :09:38.manager had also backed his former captain but ultimately the decision
:09:38. > :09:42.was taken out of Capello's hands. The Italian must decide whether
:09:42. > :09:50.Terry merits selection at all and who to replace him with as captain.
:09:50. > :09:55.The man England turned to last time isn't interested. Honestly, no.
:09:55. > :10:00.don't want to be England captain again? No. I have been England
:10:00. > :10:05.captain before for a brief period. It was taken away from me, so I
:10:05. > :10:07.want to concentrate on playing for Manchester United. Despite being
:10:07. > :10:11.suspended pending the outcome of the trial, Terry is considering
:10:11. > :10:15.whether to turn his back on the national team altogether. Once
:10:15. > :10:19.again, just months before a major tournament England have seen their
:10:19. > :10:23.plans derailed by events off the field.
:10:23. > :10:27.Some will argue the FA should have made a decision earlier. Others
:10:27. > :10:32.will say they shouldn't have made it at all and John Terry has been
:10:32. > :10:36.treated unfairly. In a season that's been beset by various racism
:10:36. > :10:39.controversies, a revamped FA board wanted to show decisive leadership.
:10:39. > :10:45.Unfortunately, in doing so, they may have undermined the manager's
:10:45. > :10:48.authority and given Fabio Capello a whole new set of problems.
:10:48. > :10:52.The Royal College of GPs has called on the Government to cancel its
:10:52. > :10:56.plans to overhaul the NHS in England because it threatens to
:10:57. > :11:01.cause "irreparable damage" to care. It represents 34,000 family doctors
:11:01. > :11:06.and it is the first of the medical Royal Colleges to oppose the
:11:07. > :11:11.reforms outright. The Government says it's baffled by the criticisms.
:11:11. > :11:15.A trip to your local surgery may not look different but behind-the-
:11:15. > :11:19.scenes, fundamental changes are afoot giving groups of GPs the
:11:19. > :11:24.power to decide how Health Services will be run and crucially what
:11:24. > :11:27.patient care the NHS can and can't afford. It's been controversial
:11:27. > :11:32.from the start. Today the Royal College of GPs said it will be
:11:32. > :11:36.harmful to patients and withdrew its support. GPs are very worried
:11:36. > :11:41.about what this is going to do for the care of their patients. They
:11:41. > :11:46.are very worried about how services are going to join up and they are
:11:47. > :11:56.very worried about then having to be the rationers of care. This
:11:57. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:02.isn't the first group to come out in opposition to the Bill. This is
:12:02. > :12:05.the first professional medical body to call for the Bill to be scrapped
:12:05. > :12:12.altogether. It's coming from GPs who are central to how these
:12:12. > :12:16.changes will work. At the Allum Medical Centre, they are already
:12:16. > :12:23.happening. Doctors have grouped together to commission care so that
:12:23. > :12:28.patients get more treatment closer to home. We have been able to
:12:28. > :12:32.reshape services around the needs of the patient achieving high
:12:32. > :12:37.quality of care, better patient satisfaction but also value for
:12:37. > :12:41.money and if we continue to focus on improving patient care, then I
:12:41. > :12:48.think we will deliver and we will have a successful health system.
:12:48. > :12:53.The Health Bill puts much of the NHS budget in the hands of groups
:12:53. > :12:58.of GPs. It opens the way to more competition in the NHS, private or
:12:58. > :13:01.voluntary companies will be able to provide Health Services. So the
:13:01. > :13:06.long-term diabetes care this patient needs could be done
:13:06. > :13:09.privately. It is that that worries the Royal College of GPs most and
:13:09. > :13:14.this afternoon, physiotherapists joined their opposition. The
:13:15. > :13:20.Government says the changes are needed to help the NHS meet growing
:13:20. > :13:25.demand. The real challenge is to get in there and help to make sure
:13:25. > :13:31.they work so that patients get first-class, high quality care
:13:31. > :13:35.which is what is at the heart of this programme. The Health Bill is
:13:35. > :13:41.due back in the Lords next week. But already in surgeries across
:13:41. > :13:46.England changes to the NHS are under way.
:13:46. > :13:49.The time is 6.13. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, has
:13:49. > :13:52.resigned from the Cabinet after being charged with perverting the
:13:52. > :13:56.course of justice along with his former wife.
:13:56. > :14:01.Coming up: It may look pretty, but the weather is said to be pretty
:14:01. > :14:07.grim this weekend. We will have the latest.
:14:07. > :14:12.Coming up in Sportsday: It's been a long 12 months in rugby union. We
:14:12. > :14:19.are looking ahead to the start of the Six Nations Championship this
:14:20. > :14:23.The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland has admitted that bankers'
:14:23. > :14:26.salaries are too high and need to come down, but Sir Philip Hampton
:14:26. > :14:32.defended the decision to pay a near �1 million bonus to the bank's
:14:32. > :14:34.chief executive, Stephen Hester, a bonus he eventually turned down.
:14:34. > :14:38.Sir Philip did say RBS underestimated what the reaction
:14:38. > :14:41.would be to the proposed payout. He has been speaking to Robert Peston.
:14:41. > :14:47.Royal bank of Scotland, if it could go wrong, it did in the past nine
:14:47. > :14:52.days. First a tidal wave of complaints after Stephen Hester was
:14:52. > :14:57.awarded a bonus of under �1 million, complaints so forceful he chose not
:14:57. > :15:01.to take the reward. Then The Queen stripped Fred Goodwin of his
:15:01. > :15:08.knighthood because of the way that RBS's reckless growth damaged both
:15:08. > :15:14.the bank and the British economy. Chaired by Sir Philip Hampton, RBS
:15:14. > :15:20.which is 82% owned by taxpayers, has a bit of explaining to do.
:15:20. > :15:25.Sir Philip Hampton, given that there was such an extraordinary
:15:25. > :15:29.back lash to Stephen Hester's bonus, was it a mistake to award it to
:15:29. > :15:33.him? No, I don't think so. We evaluate his performance. We think
:15:33. > :15:37.he is doing a good job. It is part of the terms of his employment that
:15:37. > :15:43.he is entitled to a bonus. Did you simply not anticipate the public
:15:43. > :15:47.and political outcry? We knew it would receive quite a lot of public
:15:48. > :15:50.criticism. Frankly, we underestimated the scale of the
:15:50. > :15:53.criticism and that's something we have got to think about.
:15:53. > :15:59.But you are in an intriguing position because you have said to
:15:59. > :16:05.me in the past that you think in general bankers were payed more
:16:05. > :16:09.than justified in relation to rewards for shareholders? I agree.
:16:09. > :16:16.I think banker pay is too high. It has been too high for too long and
:16:16. > :16:19.that's an important business issue. The share of the cake between the
:16:19. > :16:24.shareholders and the banks has been wrong and it needs correcting.
:16:24. > :16:31.There will be a reduction in bonuses paid to RBS's investment
:16:31. > :16:34.bankers, sir Philip confirmed from �950 million last last year to �1.3
:16:34. > :16:40.billion in the previous year. But there will be many RBS bankers
:16:40. > :16:44.taking over �1 million each. Which is why Labour's leader argued at
:16:44. > :16:48.the cancellation of Mr Hester's bonus isn't enough.
:16:48. > :16:51.Anyone will find it hard to believe that actually market discipline is
:16:51. > :16:57.preventing runaway bonuses. The answer is to change the rules and
:16:57. > :17:00.change the culture. I hope that can be learned by the
:17:00. > :17:04.the banking sector. It is what the House of Commons will debate on
:17:04. > :17:10.Tuesday. The Government too has expressed
:17:10. > :17:14.its concerns about bonuses and and that's why Sir Philip says he fear
:17:14. > :17:23.as worrying gulf maybe opening between big businesses and
:17:24. > :17:28.Three pensioners died in an outbreak of legionnaires' disease
:17:28. > :17:32.in Spain. They were all men in their 70s. Nine other Britons have
:17:32. > :17:40.been treated in hospital. Several victims returned home to the UK.
:17:40. > :17:45.Jon Kay has been talking to one of The the beach in the resort of
:17:45. > :17:52.Spain. Popular with British tourists seeking sunshine here, but
:17:52. > :17:58.now this four-star hotel is the focus of a major health scare.
:17:58. > :18:03.British pensioner Isabella Clarke said there in January. Here she is
:18:03. > :18:07.in the ballroom and here she is now. I am not able to do anything.
:18:07. > :18:11.in Bristol tonight, recovering from legionnaires' disease and being
:18:11. > :18:14.cared for by her family. So when you have been lying here,
:18:14. > :18:21.hearing now about the deaths at the hotel, what's that been like to
:18:21. > :18:29.hear? Well, it just bear thinking about. It really doesn't. I mean I
:18:29. > :18:33.am the lucky one. The other people that died, I don't know what their
:18:33. > :18:39.family is going through. It is bad enough and I'm here what they are
:18:39. > :18:43.going through. Isn't it? Absolutely. Isabella was hospitalised with
:18:43. > :18:48.double pneumonia when she returned to Britain. Doctors say her illness
:18:48. > :18:51.was caused by the legionella bacteria. She happened to take this
:18:51. > :18:55.photo notice her hotel bathroom, and it is the water system here
:18:55. > :18:59.that is suspected to have carried the bug. The UK Health Protection
:18:59. > :19:03.Agency says in all, 11 British tourists developed illnesses
:19:03. > :19:06.associated with this outbreak. Some have been treated in the resort
:19:06. > :19:10.itself, others have only become ill after getting home.
:19:10. > :19:17.A little better. I still feel a bit wiped out.
:19:17. > :19:20.The the travel company Isabella booked with, Sag ga, told the BBC
:19:20. > :19:24.they are upset by what happened. They have moved their guests out of
:19:24. > :19:32.the hotel while changes are made. There have been no new cases
:19:32. > :19:35.Computer hackers have released a recording of a conference call
:19:35. > :19:39.between the FBI and the Metropolitan Police in which they
:19:39. > :19:45.discuss their efforts against cyber hacking. The conversation revealed
:19:45. > :19:47.dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police.
:19:47. > :19:50.The hackers, known as Anonymous, also published an e-mail apparently
:19:50. > :19:55.from the FBI, showing the e-mail addresses of those taking part in
:19:55. > :20:01.the call. At the beginning of the recording officers are heard joking
:20:01. > :20:11.about attending a policing conference. I have never been to
:20:11. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:18.We can get more detail from Frank Gardner.
:20:18. > :20:22.That extract doesn't sound serious. The people of Sheffield won be
:20:22. > :20:28.chuffed about it -- won't be chuffed about it. There are serious
:20:28. > :20:33.parts of this conversation? It is a 17 minute recording. A lot of it
:20:33. > :20:37.goes into detail about people the FBI and the police are trying to
:20:37. > :20:44.prosecute who are alleged hackers, they are accused of hack nothing
:20:44. > :20:47.major corporations. There are two questions here. One is how did aye
:20:47. > :20:53.did Anonymous get hold of this. The very people who these detectives
:20:53. > :20:57.are trying to track, were able to intercept this and the most likely
:20:57. > :21:01.explanation is that it was from a hacked e-mail which contained
:21:01. > :21:05.either the number of the conference call or perhaps a recording of it
:21:05. > :21:08.posted as a link. The bigger issue is the Government is pouring huge
:21:08. > :21:14.amounts of money into cyber security. They are concerned about
:21:14. > :21:18.it. �650 million was put in at the end of last year and if this sort
:21:18. > :21:21.of thing can be compromised it is a worry because the Government is
:21:21. > :21:31.trying to secure businesses, institutions and individuals. This
:21:31. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:36.is a bad day for them. Businesses in Wales are calling for
:21:36. > :21:43.urgent in Wales after a report found a fifth of children starting
:21:43. > :21:50.secondary education education can't read properly.
:21:50. > :21:55.The future of Wales, a journey that starts in the classroom and ends
:21:55. > :21:59.with entry into an increasingly competitive job market. But an
:21:59. > :22:05.official report this week suggests too many children in this corner of
:22:05. > :22:09.the UK are struggling. Headteacher Martin Matthews has
:22:09. > :22:12.just started a new job in Cardiff after years working in England. He
:22:12. > :22:15.says lack of money is part of the problem.
:22:16. > :22:19.Now in England, there would be strategies that I could put in
:22:19. > :22:23.place that will lift those results for the the individual students and
:22:23. > :22:28.therefore for the school itself. That does involve interventions
:22:28. > :22:31.with with individual staff. It does involve mentoring and extra time
:22:31. > :22:36.for teachers, all of which has a price tag attached to it.
:22:36. > :22:42.The annual budget per pupil per year in Wales is over �600 less
:22:42. > :22:47.than in England. 20% of pupils in Wales arrive at secondary school
:22:47. > :22:51.functionally illiterate. 40% have a reading age below their actual age.
:22:51. > :22:54.In England, it is 16%. Ministers in Wales emphasise that
:22:55. > :22:59.learn through play programmes for three to seven-year-olds have been
:22:59. > :23:02.highly effective and will bring wider improvements. This, they say,
:23:02. > :23:05.is not about funding. Countries that spend more than
:23:05. > :23:08.Wales are doing worse than Wales. Countries that spend less than
:23:08. > :23:12.Wales are doing better. It is not about funding, it is about the
:23:12. > :23:18.application of funding. The reasons for all of the problems
:23:18. > :23:21.here are, of course, complex. As well as the funding gap, Wales set
:23:21. > :23:26.itself apart from England by scrapping SATs and school league
:23:26. > :23:33.tables, but whatever the reasons, the need for action here is obvious
:23:34. > :23:38.and it is pressing. The Crib in Wales says the -- --
:23:38. > :23:39.CBI says the Government here must take action. For potential
:23:39. > :23:44.employers there is room for improvement.
:23:44. > :23:48.You see so many CVs that it is clear that they are struggling to
:23:48. > :23:52.put a sentence together. Unfortunately, nearly always, they
:23:52. > :23:56.will be moved to the listened pile and you don't get to -- left-hand
:23:56. > :24:02.pile and you don't get to the interview stage.
:24:02. > :24:08.The Welsh Government says it has methods in place to improve
:24:08. > :24:13.There was an extraordinary day's play in England's final Test
:24:13. > :24:17.against Pakistan which say no less than 16 wickets tumble during play.
:24:17. > :24:24.England bowled out Pakistan for 99 all out, only to fall apart when
:24:24. > :24:28.they took to the crease. England finished on 140 for six. A lead of
:24:28. > :24:32.just five runs which leaves the match finally balanced. Now, it
:24:32. > :24:36.probably hasn't escaped your notice, it is cold. It is very cold.
:24:36. > :24:39.Britain is caught between an icy blast between Russia and warmer air
:24:39. > :24:43.to the West and that's likely to mean snow across lots of the UK.
:24:43. > :24:45.Daniel Boettcher is at a gritting station in Norwich. Daniel, are
:24:45. > :24:50.they getting ready for action there?
:24:50. > :24:54.Yes, they are just loading aupt moment here -- up at the moment
:24:54. > :24:57.here. They have been gritting here for the last week or so and we have
:24:57. > :25:01.seen fresh supplies of salt brought in during the day. The problem has
:25:01. > :25:04.been the low temperatures, but now they are expecting snow as well.
:25:04. > :25:08.The Peak District in the grip of bitter conditions that show little
:25:08. > :25:13.sign of easing, while the snow settled here, it is expected to
:25:13. > :25:17.move further south and east in the coming days and there are concerns
:25:17. > :25:20.about what that might mean for those vun vulnerable to the cold.
:25:20. > :25:23.We are getting a frost tonight and you are already sorted for tomorrow.
:25:23. > :25:30.In the West Midlands, Richard is checking on his mother, gritting
:25:30. > :25:36.the steps of her home. He is one of 2,500 volunteers volunteers given
:25:36. > :25:39.salt and a shovel by the council. In In London, in family have no
:25:39. > :25:43.central heating. The boiler is broken and they can't afford to
:25:43. > :25:48.replace it. All ten are in one room around the only heater they have.
:25:48. > :25:55.When you leave the room, it is really cold and you have to wear
:25:55. > :26:00.your coat. Some of us complain to leave the room.
:26:00. > :26:04.Sub-zero temperatures lasting marathon seven days -- more than
:26:04. > :26:07.seven days trigger cold weather weather payments for the vulnerable.
:26:08. > :26:12.Freezing temperatures have put an extra strain on tight budgets as
:26:12. > :26:16.some families struggle to keep warm. There are simple precautions, but
:26:16. > :26:23.they could have life-saving. If you can, stay in a warm place when the
:26:23. > :26:26.weather is very severe. Wrap up warm even inside the house, but now,
:26:26. > :26:31.we advice people to keep their temperatures at between 18 Celsius
:26:31. > :26:34.and 21 Celsius -- 18 and 21 centigrade.
:26:34. > :26:38.The snow will be a challenge for local authorities, but they say
:26:38. > :26:41.they are ready and have enough salt to cope as they try to keep roads
:26:41. > :26:47.clear. Motoring organisations warn drivers should be prepared.
:26:47. > :26:53.Some of the things, you know, might sound extreme at times, but shovels,
:26:53. > :26:58.blankets, flask of tea, an extra layer of o clothing, a -- of
:26:59. > :27:02.clothing. A mobile phone fully charged. Some areas expect up to
:27:02. > :27:06.ten centimetres of snow up until Sunday. The hope is the worst will
:27:06. > :27:09.One of the problems has been anticipating when and where the
:27:09. > :27:12.snow will fall. The weather forecast has been changing
:27:12. > :27:17.throughout the day so they have had to adapt their plans here, but they
:27:17. > :27:22.are leaving one by one to start Daniel in Norwich, thank you very
:27:22. > :27:27.much. Alex Deakin is here. Come on, you
:27:27. > :27:30.heard Daniel saying the weather heard Daniel saying the weather
:27:30. > :27:34.forecast has been changing. We are confident that we are going
:27:34. > :27:38.to get significant snow fall. Central and eastern areas are
:27:38. > :27:42.likely to be affected. Yes, we are expecting problems. It won't snow
:27:42. > :27:46.everywhere. In many western areas, it will be rain that we see. We
:27:46. > :27:51.will start to get the rain across Northern Ireland later tonight. One
:27:51. > :27:57.or two snow showers across East Anglia and Kent. It is cold again.
:27:57. > :28:00.Temperatures in towns and cities minus 5 Celsius.
:28:00. > :28:04.A bitterly cold start to what will be a very wintry day. The wet
:28:04. > :28:07.weather will start to work across Scotland. Some snow here, mostly up
:28:07. > :28:11.over the hills, but it will start to come to lower levels as it
:28:11. > :28:15.pushes across Northern England and parts of the Midlands. It will be a
:28:15. > :28:18.cold day, but it does turn milder in the West. Many eastern counties
:28:18. > :28:22.will have a fine day on Saturday. However, here, things will change
:28:22. > :28:26.and change significantly. It is from tomorrow afternoon and through
:28:26. > :28:29.the evening and overnight into sun, we are expecting heavy snow fall
:28:29. > :28:33.across the central and eastern counties of England. How much?
:28:33. > :28:38.Certainly a few centimetres, possibly ten centimetres in some
:28:38. > :28:42.places. Yes, that is expected to cause problems. So we have weather
:28:42. > :28:44.warnings in force. We have an amber warning for that heavy snow fall,
:28:44. > :28:48.but there are other warnings covering ice across large parts of
:28:48. > :28:53.the country. So stay tuned to the forecast. A good place to do that
:28:53. > :28:56.if you are having travel issues this weekend is your local BBC
:28:56. > :29:05.Radio station. By the time we get to Sunday, the problems start to
:29:05. > :29:09.lessen. Still some snow across East Anglia and the the South East. Rain
:29:09. > :29:14.coming into western areas. Still cold across the eastern areas and
:29:14. > :29:17.it will stay cold into the early part of next week. Stay tuned to
:29:17. > :29:25.the forecast, we are live every half-hour on the news channel. You
:29:25. > :29:28.can read more about the warnings on The news main: