:00:10. > :00:13.Crime figures for England and Wales are the lowest for more than 30
:00:14. > :00:18.years. Whether it's murder, anti- social behaviour or burglary, there
:00:18. > :00:22.is less of it. Youth crime is down too. Is that because youngsters are
:00:22. > :00:27.spending more time on social media than on the streets? There is
:00:27. > :00:32.evidence to show that when people are bored they are more likely to
:00:32. > :00:37.get into trouble and do something that is antisocial or minor crime.
:00:37. > :00:42.Also: David Cameron makes another big speech, this time its on tax
:00:42. > :00:46.dodgers. He can't get away from questions about that EU referendum.
:00:46. > :00:49.The Libyan city that led the uprising against Gaddafi, now
:00:49. > :00:56.Benghazi is too dangerous for British citizens. A Foreign Office
:00:56. > :00:59.warning to get out. Two cars carrying four members of the same
:00:59. > :01:04.family crash into a river. The father dies while the mother and
:01:04. > :01:09.children escape. A kick that left a ball boy in pain and a Chelsea
:01:09. > :01:13.player sent off has sparked a row that has divided football. And
:01:13. > :01:17.coming up later on the BBC News Channel. All the sport, including
:01:17. > :01:27.the man waiting in the final. World Number One, Novak Djokovic will
:01:27. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:44.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six o'clock. The overall
:01:44. > :01:48.level of crime in England and Wales has dropped to its lowest level for
:01:49. > :01:52.more than 30 years. There are two sets of figures out today, a survey
:01:52. > :01:58.of the public and the number of crimes reported to the police. Both
:01:58. > :02:02.sets of figures show a drop across most categories, whether it's
:02:02. > :02:07.murder or Antony social behaviour. As Mark Easton reports, experts are
:02:07. > :02:11.struggling to work out what is driving this decrease in crime.
:02:11. > :02:15.Crime has been a profound concern for generations with many people
:02:15. > :02:18.still believing that it's rising. Today's figures for England and
:02:18. > :02:23.Wales reveal something remarkable. The chance of being a victim of
:02:23. > :02:27.crime is now at its lowest level since we started measuring, more
:02:27. > :02:31.than 30 years ago. By asking people about their actual experience of
:02:31. > :02:37.crime, it has been calculated that overall crime has fallen 8% in a
:02:37. > :02:43.year, a significant drop. Violent crime down 12%, household crime
:02:43. > :02:48.down 7%, vandalism down 14%. The survey suggests crime has actually
:02:48. > :02:52.halved since 1995, 10 million fewer crimes a year. Crimes reported by
:02:52. > :02:56.police have also fallen, although the Office for National Statistics
:02:56. > :03:00.suggests police figures may sometimes overstate the reduction
:03:00. > :03:05.because of inconsistent recording systems. All the data though tells
:03:05. > :03:10.a story of crime at historically low levels. The great crime mystery
:03:10. > :03:14.of our times is why? One theory is that a number of anti-crime
:03:14. > :03:24.measures have cipbted. Improved locks and security means cars are
:03:24. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:32.harder to steal, homes more difficult to burel. --burgal.
:03:32. > :03:37.has been an improvement in science and DNA detection. There might be
:03:37. > :03:40.wider changes that are taking place in society about the way that
:03:40. > :03:45.people behave towards each other. Another theory is that the internet
:03:45. > :03:50.is playing a part. Bored youngsteres who might once have
:03:50. > :03:54.hung around on the street getting into trouble are more likely to be
:03:54. > :04:00.online or on their mobile. They spend as much time on the web as
:04:00. > :04:05.they do on TV. What we don't know is exactly what impact that has on
:04:05. > :04:12.youth crime. We do know that when young people are bored there is
:04:12. > :04:21.evidence to show when they are bored they are more likely to get
:04:21. > :04:26.into trouble. Another theory is a ban on lead in petrol and paint. A
:04:26. > :04:34.number of respected stud yisz have found strong correlations between
:04:34. > :04:38.exposure and violent crime rates. Why has crime been falling in every
:04:38. > :04:43.developed nation over the same period regardless of economic or
:04:43. > :04:46.crime policies. It may be that the answer is technological, not
:04:46. > :04:52.political. Mark is with me now. Most of the time we think that when
:04:52. > :04:58.times get tough, crime goes up. This seems to suggest the opposite?
:04:58. > :05:01.Go back to 2008, I remember clearly the Crime Minister stating it was
:05:01. > :05:05.blindingly obvious as the economy went down, crime would go up.
:05:05. > :05:09.Preparing us for the worst. That is not what happened. Crime continued
:05:09. > :05:13.to fall through those years. In the last year it has been falling even
:05:13. > :05:16.faster. It's not just a story in the UK. As I suggested in that
:05:17. > :05:21.report, it's happening all over the world. It doesn't seem to matter
:05:21. > :05:30.what the economic situation has been or indeed what crime policies
:05:30. > :05:34.countries have. We will have to rewrite those criminology textbooks.
:05:34. > :05:37.Thank you. David Cameron says it's high time governments around the
:05:37. > :05:42.world tackled the problem of tax dodging by multinational companies.
:05:42. > :05:46.The Prime Minister was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davox,
:05:46. > :05:50.Switzerland. He's met several European leaders there, including
:05:50. > :05:53.Germany's Angela Merkel. As our economic editor, Stephanie Flanders
:05:53. > :05:59.reports, questions about his pledge to give the British people a
:05:59. > :06:04.referendum on EU membership were high on the agenda. We will bring
:06:04. > :06:08.you that story in a moment. A quarter of schools and colleges in
:06:08. > :06:11.England failed to produce any pupils with the top A-level grades
:06:11. > :06:17.needed to get into the country's leading universities. Figures
:06:17. > :06:24.collated by the BBC showed that nearly 600 schools and colleges had
:06:24. > :06:34.no-one achieving the two A grades and the B in the subjects preferred
:06:34. > :06:37.
:06:37. > :06:40.by the so-called Russell Group of universities. There is a long way
:06:40. > :06:46.to go with pupils limiting their options by choosing the wrong
:06:46. > :06:51.subjects. The figures show that nearly a quarter of the 2,500
:06:51. > :06:54.schools and colleges teaching A- levels no pupils achieved the 2A
:06:55. > :06:58.and one B grades in the subjects sought by the top universities.
:06:58. > :07:01.think the Government in everything that they are doing are
:07:02. > :07:05.concentrating on the top 20%. The Government need to remember there
:07:05. > :07:10.is a range of students out there with a wide range of abilities and
:07:10. > :07:14.disabilities. We need to cater for all of them. A-level students in
:07:14. > :07:18.England study a wide variety of subjects, everything from religious
:07:18. > :07:22.studies to biology. The Russell Group of leading universities,
:07:22. > :07:29.including Bristol, York and Nottingham, say they most commonly
:07:30. > :07:33.look for high grades in subjects like maths, physics, modern or
:07:33. > :07:37.classical languages. Other subjects may be acceptable or even desirable
:07:37. > :07:41.according to the course, but sometimes only in combination with
:07:41. > :07:45.at least two of the others. These are the subjects that enable you to
:07:45. > :07:49.keep your options open. They prepare you well for a wide range
:07:49. > :07:53.of subjects. It's important that students take advice and it's
:07:53. > :07:58.important that many of them study at least some of those facilitating
:07:58. > :08:04.subjects. The new data also shows that over 200 schools failed to
:08:04. > :08:08.reach a new Government target which requires them to have 40% of pupils
:08:08. > :08:13.achieving five good GCSEs or show significant improvement. The
:08:14. > :08:23.Department for Education says whether students take an academic
:08:24. > :08:24.
:08:24. > :08:28.or vocational route or mix of both, standards must be high. More
:08:28. > :08:35.details of the school league tables for England can be found on the BBC
:08:36. > :08:42.News website: We can go back to that story about David Cameron who
:08:42. > :08:49.says it's time governments around the world tackle the problem of tax
:08:49. > :08:53.dodging by multinational companies. There are statesmen at Davenport
:08:53. > :08:57.and there are salesmen. Today, the Prime Minister was trying to be
:08:57. > :09:01.both, a day after a speech that raised big questions about
:09:01. > :09:05.Britain's place in Europe. He is chairing the G8 this year, Mr
:09:05. > :09:15.Cameron said he wanted to use that to make sure big global companies
:09:15. > :09:22.were paying their fair share of tax. I'm low-tax Conservative, I'm not
:09:22. > :09:25.that companies should pay no tax Conservative. In the last 24-hours
:09:25. > :09:28.you have told any business thinking about investing in the UK that we
:09:28. > :09:31.might not be in the European Union in five years' time and this
:09:31. > :09:36.morning you have told them that if they do come to the UK, they will
:09:36. > :09:40.be put under enormous moral and public pressure to pay more tax?
:09:40. > :09:44.you look at the 55 very major business leaders who have written
:09:44. > :09:48.to the Times this morning say, they say this is a sensible approach.
:09:48. > :09:53.You are quite right to raise this issue about tax avoidance and some
:09:53. > :09:58.of the moral issues attached to it. Part of the reason for raising this
:09:58. > :10:02.at the G8-level is this is a problem for all countries, not just
:10:02. > :10:05.for Britain. You might expect the boss of Goldman Sachs to be
:10:05. > :10:09.interested in all this. The investment bank got into bother
:10:09. > :10:14.when it considered delaying some staff payments to help them avoid
:10:14. > :10:20.paying the top 50p rate. He said the public pressure had helped to
:10:20. > :10:24.change their mind. There is a limit. Are you going to hold people to
:10:24. > :10:27.public opinion because a house they could have sold in January, instead
:10:27. > :10:31.they sell in May because there was a profit to be made on that house
:10:31. > :10:39.because the selling price was higher than the purchase price? If
:10:39. > :10:49.you do that, you are going to criminalise every right thinking
:10:49. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:54.person who organisationers her affairs in a sensible way. Some of
:10:54. > :10:59.the business leaders who maybe read about the speech for the first time
:10:59. > :11:03.this morning were bewildered by it and many were concerned about the
:11:03. > :11:06.uncertainty it would bring and the effect it might have on the UK
:11:06. > :11:13.economy. At least one head of a major company with a lot invested
:11:13. > :11:19.in the UK told me David Cameron was right, the uncertainty was already
:11:19. > :11:25.there. I think UK in EU has been a good thing for everyone and will
:11:25. > :11:29.continue to be. I'm for it. I don't like uncertainty, but suppressing
:11:29. > :11:33.uncertainty is not the same thing as resolving it. The Prime Minister
:11:33. > :11:37.met privately with the German, Dutch, Italian and Irish leaders
:11:37. > :11:42.today for the first time since his speech. The general feeling here in
:11:42. > :11:48.Davenport is that the worst of the crisis is over, but Europe has a
:11:48. > :11:52.difficult few years ahead of it. David Cameron may feel the same way.
:11:52. > :11:56.The Foreign Office has told all UK nationals to leave the Libyan city
:11:56. > :11:58.of Benghazi immediately. Officials said they were now aware of a
:11:58. > :12:02."specific and imminent threat" against westerners. The city, which
:12:02. > :12:09.was the birthplace of the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi, has since
:12:09. > :12:15.become a dangerous place for foreign nationals. Today -- today's
:12:15. > :12:19.warning comes days after the end of the hostage crisis in neighbouring
:12:20. > :12:23.Algeria. Gordon Corera joins me now. What do we think lies behind this
:12:23. > :12:28.warning? The Foreign Office have been advising against all travel to
:12:28. > :12:32.Benghazi. In the last few days they received intelligence of a
:12:32. > :12:37.significant and immediate threat to westerners. They have told Britons
:12:37. > :12:42.to leave. Not just Britons are being targeted. It it is Europeans,
:12:42. > :12:48.Germans and the French and Dutch have asked their citizens to leave.
:12:48. > :12:52.It is a broader threat. In September the US Consulate was
:12:52. > :12:56.attacked and the US ambassador to Libya was killed, Chris Stevens. In
:12:56. > :13:03.the last few weeks we have seen the hostage crisis and the deaths of
:13:03. > :13:08.many in Algeria. There is not thought to be a direct link to
:13:08. > :13:12.Algeria. It is not thought to be the same group behind the
:13:12. > :13:15.alAlgerian attack. There are a large number of terrorist groups
:13:15. > :13:18.operating across North Africa who are a threat. The Libyan
:13:18. > :13:22.authorities tonight have said that they are unhappy at this warning.
:13:22. > :13:28.They are surprised by it. It came out of the blue to them. They don't
:13:29. > :13:32.know what it is based on. Immigration inspectors say they
:13:32. > :13:35.have uncovered a backlog of 16,000 cases which haven't been dealt with
:13:35. > :13:39.by the UK Border Agency. Most were requests to settle through marriage
:13:39. > :13:45.and include people waiting a decade to hear if their partner had
:13:45. > :13:53.permission to live in the UK. The Chief Inspector of immigration,
:13:53. > :13:56.John Vine, described the situation as "unacceptable". An Irish nanny
:13:56. > :14:03.living in Boston charged with violently assaulting a one-year-old
:14:03. > :14:08.baby, who later died, could now be charged with her murder according
:14:08. > :14:11.to prosecution lawyers in America. Aisling McCarthy Brady has denied
:14:11. > :14:16.assaulting Rehma Sabir, whose father is British. Flowers outside
:14:16. > :14:20.the home of Rehma Sabir, a little girl who had turned one. She died
:14:20. > :14:24.after an alleged assault by her own nanny. This is 34-year-old Aisling
:14:24. > :14:28.McCarthy Brady, wh comes from Ireland and had been living in
:14:28. > :14:32.America illegally looking after children. The diagnosis for the
:14:32. > :14:37.injuries is abuse of head trauma, consistent with a violent shaking
:14:37. > :14:42.of a child. Prosecutors have described the severe injuries the
:14:42. > :14:45.child suffered. In her room officers found bed clothes and baby
:14:45. > :14:50.wipes stained with blood. A neighbour had heard what was
:14:51. > :14:55.described as "extreme crying." when the police arrived they found the
:14:55. > :14:59.girl breathing, but unconscious. She died in hospital two-days'
:14:59. > :15:06.later. She did nothing wrong. It's a horrible tragedy for everybody,
:15:06. > :15:16.the parents, the family. A sad day. Aisling McCarthy Brady came to
:15:16. > :15:20.
:15:20. > :15:26.America in 2002. She was permitted to stay for a period of time.
:15:26. > :15:29.was always attentive to the children in her care. The case
:15:29. > :15:33.awakens memories of the British nanny found guilty 16 years ago of
:15:33. > :15:39.killing a baby boy. She was freed after her murder conviction was
:15:39. > :15:43.reduced on appeal. The family of Rehma Sabir have asked for privacy.
:15:43. > :15:52.The girl's father was born in Britain. After pleading not guilty
:15:52. > :16:02.to assault, the accused nanny was remanded in custody with bail set
:16:02. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:13.The changing face of war - the change allowing American women to
:16:13. > :16:17.fight on the frontline. In the business news - a game of
:16:17. > :16:22.two halfs. Latest figures show that bank lending on mortgages has gone
:16:22. > :16:32.up, while personal loans are down. The IMF has warned Britain to ease
:16:32. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:38.Jordan has called for emergency international aid to help deal with
:16:38. > :16:44.an influx of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees T Foreign Minister
:16:44. > :16:47.said it is struggling to cope with an unprecedented exodus of people
:16:47. > :16:50.fleeing the Syrian conflict. Our correspondent has been to the
:16:50. > :16:57.border, where every day thousands more men, women and children arrive
:16:57. > :17:01.looking for help. This report does contain some upsetting images.
:17:01. > :17:07.Small figures in a vast crisis. Every night they come in their
:17:07. > :17:15.thousands. Most are women and children, terrorised by war. And
:17:15. > :17:21.for the children, how frightening is it - the war? They keep on
:17:21. > :17:25.screaming. They can't sleep. They cry all the time. In the distance,
:17:25. > :17:35.in the country behind them, smoke rises from an explosion. On this
:17:35. > :17:40.side of the border, they meet soldiers who try to help, not kill.
:17:40. > :17:46.At each border crossing our forces are there to receive them - I am
:17:46. > :17:53.told. We take them somewhere safe, to restore their sense of security.
:17:53. > :17:57.This is the place of safety - Zatari camp where refugees are
:17:57. > :18:01.being cared for by the Jordanian Government and the UN. All day
:18:01. > :18:05.people are continuing to arrive here. Some 3,000 in the past 24
:18:05. > :18:10.hours. We are told there are tens of thousands more waiting on the
:18:10. > :18:19.other side of the border. All of this is putting a huge strain on
:18:19. > :18:23.the resources of the camp. There are 50,000-60,000 ready to cross
:18:23. > :18:27.into Jordan. We know we've done as well as we can, given the resources
:18:27. > :18:32.we've got. Which is we've no resources any more. We need money
:18:32. > :18:37.to expand this camp as well as open two others. So far, the UN has
:18:37. > :18:43.raised just 3% of what it needs to care for the refugees in Jordan
:18:43. > :18:48.over the next 12 months. Help of all kinds is needed. This woman
:18:48. > :18:54.cares for her severely disabled nephew.
:18:54. > :18:59.Her own husband was killed in Syria. People do what they can to create
:18:59. > :19:03.some dignity in their surroundings. Among many of the refugees there's
:19:03. > :19:11.a sense the world beyond the camp has abandoned them. This is a
:19:11. > :19:15.disaster. A disaster. There's no value for a
:19:15. > :19:20.child, for a human being. No value at all.
:19:20. > :19:27.Where's the humanity? These are images of one day in the life of
:19:27. > :19:33.Zatari camp. The new comers struggle with flinty
:19:33. > :19:41.ground. The young learn quickly the burdens
:19:41. > :19:46.of an adult world in turmoil. The men mourn a three-month-old
:19:46. > :19:52.baby who died a few days after arriving here. It was a tragedy
:19:52. > :19:57.that might easily have happened in home in Syria, but to bury their
:19:57. > :20:04.child in exile deepens the grief. At twilight the people keep coming
:20:04. > :20:08.by any means they can. We watched as families boarded boats on the
:20:08. > :20:18.Syrian side. With their numbers growing and scant international aid
:20:18. > :20:22.promised, for how much longer can A father has died after two cars
:20:22. > :20:26.carrying four members of the same family crashed into a river at
:20:26. > :20:31.Buxton. Our correspondent is at the hospital in Stockport, where the
:20:31. > :20:38.family were taken. Judith, what more do we know about what
:20:38. > :20:42.happened? Well, George, this is a terribly sad story. An 11-year-old
:20:42. > :20:46.girl and her nine-year-old brother were being taken to school this
:20:46. > :20:51.morning in two separate cars. Incredibly both of the cars came
:20:51. > :20:54.off the road at Buxton and went into the river. The whole family
:20:54. > :20:57.were airlifted here to Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, where
:20:57. > :21:03.the mother and children were released. Very sadly, the
:21:03. > :21:08.children's father died. These two cars skidded into the
:21:08. > :21:14.river near Buxton just after 8.30am. They were being driven by parents
:21:14. > :21:18.who left the same house in convoy to take their two children to
:21:18. > :21:24.different schools. Father and daughter came off the road first.
:21:24. > :21:27.Then the car being driven by mother and son drove into the water. The
:21:27. > :21:32.mother and children managed to escape. For 40 minutes the father
:21:32. > :21:36.was stuck in the freezing water. People from further up the road,
:21:36. > :21:40.who live nearby the family gave assistance. Entered the water to
:21:40. > :21:46.try and get the gentleman out of the vehicle. When the police and
:21:46. > :21:51.Fire Service came, they went into the water and managed to release
:21:51. > :21:55.the gentleman that was still in the vehicle. The 42-year-old man was
:21:55. > :21:58.airlifted to hospital in Stockport, but was pronounced dead there.
:21:58. > :22:02.Conditions in the area today were treacherous. An investigation has
:22:02. > :22:06.been launched to find out how the accident happened. With the weather
:22:06. > :22:11.conditions, quite a lot of standing snow and ice on the roadway. At
:22:11. > :22:18.times it does get very close, the road to the river edge. It looks as
:22:18. > :22:22.though at this stage there's been a very low speed disappearance of the
:22:22. > :22:28.vehicle from the road as it has gone around one of the bends.
:22:28. > :22:34.cars were pulled out of the water and will be examined into why a
:22:34. > :22:38.daily school run turned into such tragedy.
:22:38. > :22:44.Women in the United States military are to be allowed to serve in
:22:44. > :22:49.combat roles after the Pentagon said it would overturn a rule
:22:49. > :22:55.preventing their deployment. It could open hundreds of front-line
:22:55. > :23:00.positions for women. Could it happen here? Thousands of women in
:23:00. > :23:04.the US military have been facing daily dangers in the frontline in
:23:04. > :23:11.Iraq and Afghanistan. When it comes to the fighting, it has mostly been
:23:11. > :23:19.done by men. Women have been trained to kill, but prevented from
:23:19. > :23:23.joining infantry units,. Women are fighting, they are dying. They have
:23:23. > :23:28.shown they have great skills. As the services look at this, the one
:23:28. > :23:32.thing they will probably look at is not changing training standards to
:23:32. > :23:37.accommodate women. Now President Obama wants to
:23:37. > :23:43.overturn the ban. He's got the backing of US military chiefs to
:23:43. > :23:48.break down all barriers, already being contested in the courts. And
:23:48. > :23:52.for this woman who's done two tours of Afghanistan, says it is not
:23:52. > :23:58.about gender. I want to make the point we're not looking to reserve
:23:58. > :24:02.spots for women. We are giving people a chance to compete. Some
:24:02. > :24:05.women definitely can't do it like some men can't. Now it means they
:24:05. > :24:08.will have a chance to prove themselves. Here in London the
:24:08. > :24:13.Ministry of Defence says the vast majority of Britain's armed forces
:24:13. > :24:19.have been opened up to women, but there is still one significant
:24:19. > :24:23.exception - women continue to be barred from what's called close-
:24:23. > :24:28.combat roles. In the British armed forces women are flying fighter
:24:28. > :24:35.jets, they are also serving on warships and soon be allowed on
:24:35. > :24:37.submarines. On the ground they are working as bomb disposal experts.
:24:37. > :24:42.In Afghanistan, three British service women have already lost
:24:42. > :24:45.their lives. This is one retired general who does not believe they
:24:45. > :24:51.will ever be equal in battle. cannot afford to have anything but
:24:51. > :24:57.the strongest, the fittest, the most determined people engaging the
:24:57. > :25:02.enemy. I would reject -- regret the day when we find ourselves lowering
:25:02. > :25:07.standard to be and I realise it's not the right expression, to be
:25:07. > :25:10.nice and correct and not sexist to people. America is opening the way
:25:10. > :25:14.for woman to serve in combat. In Britain, the MoD says it has no
:25:14. > :25:22.plans to follow, it will be hard to ignore the changes of its closest
:25:22. > :25:31.ally. Chelsea's Eden Hazard may face
:25:31. > :25:33.further punishment after being sent off for kicking a Swansea City ball
:25:33. > :25:38.ball. Eden Hazard since apologised but the FA are reviewing the
:25:38. > :25:43.incident. Officially in football, the ball
:25:43. > :25:49.boy is neutral, but his role can be tactical. When the home team is on
:25:49. > :25:55.top, time is running out. 17-year- old Charlie Morgan had it.
:25:55. > :26:01.Chelsea's Eden Hazard wanted it - situation resolved by a boot to the
:26:01. > :26:06.ribs. Hazardous indeed! The boy just put his whole body on
:26:06. > :26:11.to the ball. I tried to kick the ball. I have apologised.
:26:11. > :26:17.There was no appearance from the ball boy in Wales today. No comment
:26:17. > :26:22.for the hopeful media near his home. Outside Swansea City, measured
:26:22. > :26:30.sympathy. I can see why Chelsea are angry over it. These things happen,
:26:30. > :26:36.don't they? I thought that the ball boy was out of order. Hazard should
:26:36. > :26:40.never have done that. Chelsea, the European champions, desperately
:26:40. > :26:43.needing positive headlines. Their players have been involved in
:26:43. > :26:49.controversies recently. There are some who feel that Eden Hazard was
:26:49. > :26:56.the injured party at swn sea. The -- Swansea. The billion boy's
:26:56. > :27:02.job is to give the ball back. I think his behaviour is disgraceful.
:27:02. > :27:09.The FA are reviewing the incident. Hazard faces a three-match ban. As
:27:09. > :27:19.for Charlie Morgan, he admitted on Twitter that time wasting is part
:27:19. > :27:24.
:27:24. > :27:29.Wintry and wet. Certainly wintry for the next 24 hours. We have got
:27:29. > :27:33.an amber warning in force for heavy snow. It is for the second half of
:27:33. > :27:38.tomorrow. It is worth bearing in mind it will be tricky to travel
:27:38. > :27:42.before this cold snap ends. Ahead of that, fairly cold tonight. A
:27:42. > :27:45.wide-spread frost. There'll be ice around once again. Snow into the
:27:45. > :27:51.far north-west of Scotland. This is all rain out west. Temperatures
:27:51. > :27:56.will start to rise by the start of the day tomorrow. Six Celsius in
:27:56. > :28:01.Plymouth w rain approaching. Head further north and east, you are
:28:02. > :28:04.back into the cold weather again. Minus five and minus six Celsius in
:28:04. > :28:08.parts. Four or five Celsius and rain in Northern Ireland at this
:28:09. > :28:15.time of the day. That snow will melt very, very quickly. The rain
:28:15. > :28:21.will edge in across Scotland - it is hitting cold air so turning into
:28:21. > :28:26.snow. It is across Scotland we will see the effects oh that snow.
:28:26. > :28:31.-- of that snow. Western areas - temperatures rising
:28:31. > :28:35.all the while. Head further east and it is chilly.
:28:35. > :28:38.It will feel raw through the afternoon. With that cold air in
:28:38. > :28:43.place though, this weather front continues to move eastwards, we get
:28:43. > :28:47.that snow piling in for a time during Friday evening. If you have
:28:47. > :28:51.got travel plans, the earlier you can travel the better to avoid that
:28:51. > :28:56.snow. It clears through, but there is likely to be travel disruption
:28:56. > :29:00.for a time during Friday and Friday night. The travel pages of the BBC