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:00:11. > :00:16.De horsemeat scandal, emergency talks are being held in Brussels

:00:17. > :00:20.amid warnings there could be more raids on firms in the UK. As

:00:20. > :00:27.Britain's food industry is told anyone who passes of horsemeat as

:00:27. > :00:31.beef will face the full force of the law, the Environment Secretary

:00:31. > :00:36.says action will be taken. There may be more procedures coming

:00:36. > :00:40.forward. The owner of one side raided by the Food Standards Agency

:00:40. > :00:46.says he has done nothing wrong. do not do mincemeat or beefburgers.

:00:47. > :00:52.This is not a processing plant, this is purely production. Or so

:00:52. > :00:56.tonight: A glimmer of hope for the UK economy as the Bank of England's

:00:56. > :01:00.governor says recovery is in sight, but it will be slow.

:01:00. > :01:05.A man is in intensive care in Birmingham after being infected

:01:05. > :01:10.with a rare, potentially fatal virus from his father.

:01:10. > :01:14.A moment of history, huge crowds gather in St Peter's Square for the

:01:14. > :01:18.Pope's last public Mass before he steps down.

:01:18. > :01:25.And photos of the pregnant Bacher's of Cambridge in a bikini on a

:01:25. > :01:30.public beach are published in Italy. Coming up later: I will have all

:01:30. > :01:40.the sport, including the latest from Madrid in the pick of the

:01:40. > :01:50.

:01:50. > :01:54.Champions League ties, Real Madrid Good evening. The Prime Minister

:01:54. > :01:58.has issued a stern warning to anyone in Britain involved in

:01:58. > :02:04.passing off horsemeat as beef, saying they will face the full

:02:04. > :02:07.force of the law. Last night, the Food Standards Agency raided a

:02:07. > :02:11.slaughterhouse in Yorkshire and a meat factory in west Wales. This

:02:11. > :02:16.afternoon before emergency talks began in Brussels, the Environment

:02:16. > :02:20.Secretary hinted there could be more raids to come.

:02:20. > :02:24.There was a new dimension to the horsemeat Sabir today, the

:02:24. > :02:30.Chancellor on a factory visit was asked to sample a ready meal

:02:30. > :02:38.spaghetti bolognese by a reporter. He declined the offer. In the

:02:38. > :02:43.Commons the Prime Minister said there would be the full

:02:43. > :02:48.intervention of the law. We have also asked for a meaningful tests

:02:48. > :02:53.from retailers and producers and they will be published in full.

:02:53. > :02:55.Operators at this plant in west Wales were suspended yesterday

:02:55. > :02:59.after Food Standards Agency officials entered the site with

:03:00. > :03:04.police. But the owner denied horsemeat handled here was put into

:03:04. > :03:09.products for UK consumers. I get paid for doing the cutting up,

:03:09. > :03:14.there is no further processing, I do not do kebabs, mincemeat or

:03:14. > :03:20.beefburgers. This is not a processing plant, this is purely

:03:20. > :03:25.production, meat cutting. This locker house in West Yorkshire said

:03:25. > :03:30.there was no comment. Shoppers at a local farmer's market had varying

:03:30. > :03:35.opinions about ready meals. I do not trust it now to be honest. You

:03:35. > :03:39.do not know what you are getting in the package. There is no health

:03:39. > :03:45.hazard with horsemeat. It should not be in there, the French eat it

:03:45. > :03:50.all the time. The FSA claims that the West Yorkshire house supplied

:03:50. > :03:54.carcasses that went to Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth. It then

:03:54. > :04:00.alleges some of the meat was made into kebabs and burgers. But the

:04:00. > :04:03.owner denies that and says the horse meat cuts are sent to Belgium.

:04:03. > :04:06.Officials at the FSA's say they are continuing with their

:04:06. > :04:13.investigations and examining a paper trail, including documents

:04:13. > :04:16.seized during yesterday's raids on the two plants. An FSA chief says

:04:16. > :04:21.he was shocked to uncover what appeared to be a blatant misleading

:04:21. > :04:26.of consumers. The Environment Secretary was in Brussels and he

:04:26. > :04:30.hinted they may yet be raids on other sites. We saw vigorous action

:04:30. > :04:35.taken yesterday and there may be more procedures coming forward, but

:04:35. > :04:38.I do not want to prejudice those investigations in public.

:04:38. > :04:44.Romania's minister is at the meeting. Abattoirs in the country

:04:44. > :04:47.have been linked to mislabelling in the UK. Officials there deny any

:04:47. > :04:53.wrongdoing. Christian Fraser is in Brussels.

:04:53. > :04:58.What are ministers hoping to achieve tonight? Quite simply they

:04:58. > :05:03.want the answers. Where did the system go wrong? This is not one

:05:03. > :05:07.isolated incident or one country or one country's problem. It is

:05:07. > :05:11.endemic across the entire European Union. But when they sit down

:05:11. > :05:16.tonight it might be tense because there has been a lot of the blame

:05:16. > :05:21.shifting. Britain blaming France, France blaming the Romanians,

:05:21. > :05:25.Britain are blaming a convoluted supply chain. They are all in the

:05:25. > :05:32.dock until they restore public confidence. Tonight Owen Paterson

:05:33. > :05:37.has come up with a wish-list. He wants DNA testing and he was a

:05:37. > :05:41.better exchange of information between national food safety

:05:41. > :05:45.authorities. He said we have been too slow, but not that slow to

:05:45. > :05:49.point the finger elsewhere. Apologies for the quality of the

:05:50. > :05:53.sound. Recovery is in sight for the UK

:05:53. > :05:57.economy according to the Governor of the Bank of England, but Sir

:05:57. > :06:01.Mervyn King has warned it will be weak and inflation will remain

:06:01. > :06:06.stubbornly high for the next two years.

:06:06. > :06:10.If the Bank of England was celebrating a birthday today, the

:06:10. > :06:16.20th anniversary of its inflation Report. Sir Mervyn King has

:06:16. > :06:21.presented all 81 of the quarterly economic reports since 1993 and

:06:21. > :06:25.today he tried to offer some good news. The UK economy is set for a

:06:25. > :06:31.recovery. That is not to say that the road ahead will be smooth. This

:06:31. > :06:35.has not been a normal recession and it will not be a normal recovery.

:06:35. > :06:40.The new forecast show the economy growing this year, though not quite

:06:40. > :06:45.as fast as they were hoping in November. Once again, the forecast

:06:46. > :06:51.for inflation is quite a lot higher. Inflation is at 2.7% now, well

:06:51. > :06:54.above target for the best part of seven years. In November, the best

:06:55. > :07:01.guess was that it would fall back to two present by the beginning of

:07:01. > :07:05.next year. It now thinks it will rise again and be around 3% in one

:07:05. > :07:11.year's time. There are different things putting up inflation, but

:07:11. > :07:16.the Governor said quite a few, like the rise in tuition fees, were a

:07:16. > :07:20.result of Government policies. Finance and education and green

:07:20. > :07:24.policies have pushed up prices and that makes our job in the short run

:07:24. > :07:30.more difficult. Do you think that is something they should have borne

:07:30. > :07:33.in mind? I hope they did, but it is up to them to decide it. We will

:07:33. > :07:38.have to deal with the consequences and we will have to look at the

:07:38. > :07:44.price increases. Looking through higher inflation means ignoring it.

:07:44. > :07:47.Anyone hoping for an early rise in interest rates will be disappointed.

:07:47. > :07:52.Long-term Sir Mervyn King said the Government should be doing all it

:07:52. > :07:56.could to booze Britain's potential, but it did not see much scope for a

:07:56. > :08:00.short-term boost. There is some frustration at the Bank of England.

:08:00. > :08:05.In many ways they have thrown a kitchen sink at this economy in

:08:05. > :08:09.terms of the Monetary response, yet the economy has been flat for four

:08:09. > :08:14.years. Something other than interest rate cuts or printing more

:08:14. > :08:18.money needs to be done to spur on a recovery. The bank will reach

:08:18. > :08:22.another milestone in July when Mark Carney becomes governor. He may

:08:22. > :08:27.want to strike a different tone, but if these new forecasts are

:08:27. > :08:30.right, his first order of business will be a rather familiar,

:08:31. > :08:35.explaining to the Chancellor why inflation has gone over 3% yet

:08:35. > :08:41.again. The clothing retailer Republic has

:08:41. > :08:45.gone into administration but in 2500 jobs at risk. His 121 stores

:08:45. > :08:51.will remain open for the time being while the administrators try to

:08:51. > :08:54.find a buyer. 150 people have already lost their jobs at the head

:08:54. > :08:59.office in Leeds. The four ministers of a man accused

:08:59. > :09:04.of killing six of his children in a house fire has told a court how she

:09:04. > :09:08.and his wife spent Alternate nights with him. The prosecution alleged

:09:08. > :09:12.Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead set fire to the house to set up the

:09:12. > :09:17.mistress. She had recently moved out of the house with her five

:09:17. > :09:21.children. The six children died in the most

:09:21. > :09:27.appalling of circumstances. Acrid smoke engulfed their bedrooms as

:09:27. > :09:31.they slept. The prosecution claimed their parents were responsible and

:09:31. > :09:35.say the catalyst for the tragedy was the ending of a complicated

:09:35. > :09:40.domestic arrangement at their home. At the centre of that arrangement

:09:40. > :09:44.was Mick Philpott himself. He and Mairead lived in the Derby council

:09:45. > :09:51.house with their six children. But he also moved his mistress, Lisa

:09:51. > :09:56.Willis, in an FA that another four children with her. Miss Willis told

:09:56. > :10:01.the court that two women shared Mick Philpott. She said they would

:10:01. > :10:04.take it in turns. But when she tired of his domineering nature and

:10:04. > :10:09.left, he would not accept it and the battle for custody of her

:10:09. > :10:14.children followed. The court has been told the fire was a botched

:10:14. > :10:18.plan intended to frame her. But under cross-examination at Lisa was

:10:18. > :10:23.admitted she had lied on a sworn affidavit before the custody

:10:23. > :10:28.hearing falsely accusing Mr Philpott of violence. It was put to

:10:28. > :10:33.wear before the fire she was heard saying, I will burn him before he

:10:33. > :10:37.sees the caves. She replied, no, I never made that comment.

:10:37. > :10:42.Mick Philpott and Mairead Philpott and Paul Mosley all the light

:10:42. > :10:45.manslaughter. The trial will resume tomorrow. -- all denied

:10:45. > :10:48.manslaughter. Six journalists who worked at the

:10:48. > :10:52.News of the World have been arrested following a new

:10:52. > :10:56.investigation into phone hacking. Three men and three women are being

:10:56. > :11:02.questioned by Scotland Yard detectives about an alleged

:11:02. > :11:06.conspiracy to intercept phone-calls between 2005 and 2006.

:11:06. > :11:11.A lawyer representing 31 people who say they were abused by Jimmy

:11:11. > :11:16.Savile has issued a writ against the BBC and against Jimmy Savile's

:11:16. > :11:20.estate. There are more than 90 people pursuing legal action, but

:11:20. > :11:23.the cases have been put on hold until the outcome of a series of

:11:23. > :11:26.inquiries. A man is in intensive care in

:11:26. > :11:31.Birmingham after he was infected with a new type of respiratory

:11:31. > :11:36.virus from his father. It is thought to be the first confirmed

:11:36. > :11:40.example of the new coronavirus being passed from person to person.

:11:40. > :11:44.It can cause pneumonia and organ failure.

:11:44. > :11:50.This are rare and new coronavirus has killed half the people it has

:11:50. > :11:53.infected. Now for the first time it has been transmitted in Britain. A

:11:53. > :11:58.man is in intensive care in Birmingham having been infected by

:11:58. > :12:03.his father who is also seriously ill, having brought back the virus

:12:03. > :12:08.from the Middle East last month. It emerged in Saudi Arabia last year

:12:08. > :12:13.and there have been cases in Jordan and guitar. Of the 11 people

:12:13. > :12:19.infected worldwide, five have died. Three men are in intensive care in

:12:19. > :12:22.the UK in Manchester, Birmingham and London. The virus attacks the

:12:22. > :12:27.lungs causing pneumonia and scarring and can also damage other

:12:27. > :12:33.organs like the kidneys. But fortunately it does not pass easily

:12:33. > :12:38.between humans. We consider the risk to the UK population, whether

:12:38. > :12:43.in the UK or abroad, it remains very low indeed. Of course it is a

:12:43. > :12:48.concern there is an infection which has caused severe illness and we

:12:48. > :12:53.still know very little about it and where it has come from, but

:12:53. > :12:57.nevertheless the number of cases worldwide remains very low. This is

:12:57. > :13:02.as close as I can get to the coronavirus which is being analysed

:13:02. > :13:07.in a high containment laboratories. But what about people who may have

:13:07. > :13:13.unwittingly come into contact with the virus in the 17 days since the

:13:14. > :13:18.man flew back in from Saudi Arabia? Health officials have traced up to

:13:18. > :13:24.100 contacts, including people he was sitting near him on the plane

:13:24. > :13:28.and no-one, apart from his son, has fallen seriously ill. It is also

:13:28. > :13:35.worth noting his son has a weakened immune system, so that may have

:13:35. > :13:42.made him more vulnerable. This is one of the most worrying of viruses

:13:42. > :13:47.to emerge since size a decade ago. But this virus poses nothing like

:13:47. > :13:52.the same threat. Our top story tonight: Emergency

:13:52. > :13:57.talks in Brussels as Britain's food industry is warned that anyone who

:13:57. > :14:03.has passed off horsemeat as beef will face the full force of the law.

:14:03. > :14:08.Coming up: A dramatic end to one of the biggest US police manhunts in

:14:08. > :14:14.living memory. Later on the news channel, fashion

:14:14. > :14:24.chain Republic collapses into administration and French carmaker

:14:24. > :14:26.

:14:26. > :14:30.Peugeot reported a net loss of 5 It was a moment of history and

:14:30. > :14:35.thousands gather it at the Vatican to make sure they were part of it.

:14:35. > :14:40.After announcing his resignation, the Pope performed his last

:14:40. > :14:44.scheduled public Mass. It was supposed to take place in a church

:14:44. > :14:54.in Rome, but was moved to St Peter's at the last minute. He

:14:54. > :15:03.

:15:03. > :15:09.asked Catholics to pray for him, Pope Benedict is testimony to that.

:15:09. > :15:17.This is the last scheduled Mass he will celebrate as Pope. They had to

:15:17. > :15:23.move the service from a much smaller church in Rome to St Peter

:15:23. > :15:28.'s. A measure of how deeply his resignation has moved the faithful.

:15:28. > :15:36.These are the emotionally charged last days of Pope Benedict XVI.

:15:36. > :15:40.Whatever he says over the two -- next two week also carry symbolic

:15:40. > :15:43.significance. It will be a legacy statement. Already the question is

:15:43. > :15:51.being raised here, will Pope Benedict's influence retire with

:15:51. > :15:56.him or will it go on? He will live in this former monastery inside the

:15:56. > :16:06.Vatican walls. Is there a danger they're his presence will undermine

:16:06. > :16:06.

:16:06. > :16:13.the credibility Orla git Massie of his successor? Or legitmacy of his

:16:13. > :16:22.successor? It's quite an honour, it's one of his last gatherings.

:16:22. > :16:30.It's quite special to be here. was once said that Pope Benedict

:16:30. > :16:34.lacked charisma, no-one say it is now. The shock that greeted his

:16:34. > :16:44.resignation has given way to affection for a visibly old man. He

:16:44. > :16:44.

:16:44. > :16:48.said again that his going was for the good of the Church. Trance I'm

:16:48. > :16:55.well aware of the gravity of such an act, at the same time, I'm aware

:16:55. > :17:00.of not being able to carry out my papal ministry with the physical

:17:00. > :17:05.and spiritual strength it requires. In saying he is too old to carry on,

:17:05. > :17:14.is he saying to the Church's leaders, in place of me, choose

:17:14. > :17:20.someone young? That is for tomorrow. Today, they came to pay homage to

:17:20. > :17:26.an old man seeking to rejuvenate by doing something to them seems bold,

:17:26. > :17:29.selfless and brave. One of America's biggest ever manhunts has

:17:29. > :17:33.come to a dramatic end in a mountain cabin near Los Angeles.

:17:33. > :17:36.For more than a week, Christopher Dorner, a former LA policeman, was

:17:36. > :17:41.pursued by the authorities after he was suspected of killing three

:17:41. > :17:45.people as part of a feud with the police force. Yesterday, he was

:17:45. > :17:50.finally found in a remote cabin which burnt down after a long stand

:17:50. > :17:55.off. Police are still trying to confirm if he died in the blaze.

:17:55. > :18:00.Alastair Leithead has been following the story. This was the

:18:00. > :18:04.moment when America's most wanted man was cornered, in a high

:18:04. > :18:09.mountain lodge, after a week on the run. Christopher Dorner had been

:18:09. > :18:15.hiding as the search went on around him, holding two women hostage.

:18:15. > :18:20.When he bolted, police had him surrounded. He was hefly armed and

:18:20. > :18:26.opened fire. -- heavily armed and opened fired. Two sherrif's deputy

:18:26. > :18:30.were shot, one was killed and one was injured. After a standoff the

:18:30. > :18:34.SWAT teams moved. In the building caught fire and was soon engulfed

:18:34. > :18:37.in flames. Police surrounded the lodge on the ground and from the

:18:37. > :18:42.air. Nobody emerged from the burning building. Hours later,

:18:42. > :18:48.charred human remains were found. He has not been formally identified,

:18:48. > :18:54.by the manhunt is over. The LAPD has now moved back into a normal

:18:54. > :18:58.state of police operation. That began late last night and will

:18:58. > :19:04.continue now. For a week, people in Big Bear have been on high alert.

:19:05. > :19:10.They welcomed the news. We are certainly very relieved that our

:19:11. > :19:14.residents are safe, our tourists are safe. We are heartbroken at the

:19:15. > :19:18.deputies who were injured, particularly the one who was killed.

:19:18. > :19:22.It was California's biggest ever manhunt. Christopher Dorner killed

:19:22. > :19:27.four people on his shooting rampage because he was fired from his job

:19:27. > :19:30.nearly five years ago. Fear and paranoia had spread across Southern

:19:30. > :19:39.California the longer this well armed, well trained former

:19:39. > :19:43.servicemen was on the lose. It all ended here in the mountains. The

:19:43. > :19:47.issue of guns was also central to President Obama's State of the

:19:47. > :19:50.Union speech to Congress last night. His first since being re-elected.

:19:51. > :19:55.Our correspondent is in Washington for us now. He made a passionate

:19:55. > :20:00.plea for a vote on gun control? was certainly a very powerful

:20:00. > :20:04.moment, not least because, in the Chamber, listening to the President,

:20:04. > :20:11.were some two dozen victims of gun violence, including a former

:20:11. > :20:17.Congresswoman who survived being shot, a teach frer Sandy Hook

:20:17. > :20:27.Elementary school, a girl who was at the President's inauguration

:20:27. > :20:29.

:20:29. > :20:33.last week who had been shot dead. - - teacher from. Measures he knows

:20:33. > :20:37.will be difficult to get through Congress. The gun lobby is strong

:20:37. > :20:40.here. This is an issue of conscience now for Barack Obama. He

:20:40. > :20:44.is throwing the weight of the presidency behind it and also the

:20:44. > :20:47.weight of his vast campaign machine. After the speech last night,

:20:47. > :20:51.millions of Americans who voted for the President back in November

:20:51. > :20:57.received a tweet from him asking for their support again, this time

:20:57. > :21:00.on guns. Thank you very much. It's been claimed that a �1 billion

:21:00. > :21:04.Government scheme to encourage house building will benefit rich

:21:04. > :21:08.areas in the south of England at the expense of poorer councils in

:21:08. > :21:11.the North. Councillors in a number of northern authorities say the new

:21:11. > :21:15.homes bonus effectively moves millions from deprived

:21:15. > :21:20.neighbourhoods to affluent parts of the country. The Government says

:21:20. > :21:25.the scheme fairly rewards councils which allow much-needed homes to be

:21:25. > :21:28.built. Is the Government's housing policy building a new North-South

:21:28. > :21:33.divide across England? Councillors in places like Durham argue a

:21:33. > :21:37.scheme to encourage more new homes is actually diverting hundreds of

:21:37. > :21:42.millions of pounds from deprived areas, often in northern England,

:21:42. > :21:46.to rich areas mostly in the South. The new homes bonus is funded from

:21:46. > :21:49.the existing pot of money given to English local authorities by the

:21:49. > :21:53.Government. Every council contributes the same proportion

:21:53. > :21:57.from their grant. The cash is then redistributed to councils according

:21:57. > :22:01.to the number of houses built in their area. The new homes bonus

:22:01. > :22:05.means poorer, northern councils, pay more money in, because their

:22:05. > :22:09.budgets are bigger, get less money out because rewards are based on

:22:09. > :22:14.the value of the new homes. Property prices here are much lower

:22:14. > :22:18.than they are in the South. We are all losing from all the councils

:22:18. > :22:23.across the North. Councils in the north-east have been crunching the

:22:24. > :22:28.numbers to illustrates the policy's impact across England. Those areas

:22:28. > :22:31.where residents gain are marked in green, those who lose are in red.

:22:32. > :22:37.The money back is less than we are losing. It's increasing the amount

:22:37. > :22:42.of cuts we are having to make here in the north-east while elsewhere

:22:42. > :22:49.it produces extra resource for councils in the affluent south.

:22:49. > :22:55.latest map reveals how in Durham the net effect is the council loses

:22:55. > :22:59.�14.25 per person, in Windsor and Maidenhead the council gains �12.32.

:22:59. > :23:03.The more expensive the home, generally the more money money you

:23:03. > :23:07.get, benefiting places like leafy Berkshire. Councillors here point

:23:07. > :23:12.out the new homes bonus is only part of the overall grant from

:23:12. > :23:17.Whitehall. Overall, if you look at the funding position, Windsor and

:23:17. > :23:22.Maidenhead get less per head or per dwelling than authorities in the

:23:22. > :23:28.North. Any incent centive for housing must be becomed --

:23:28. > :23:31.incentive for housing must be welcomed. If you look at the

:23:31. > :23:35.situation for the north-east, seven of the authorities there are

:23:35. > :23:39.getting above average in their overall local government finance

:23:39. > :23:44.settlements. They are not losing out. Overall they are not losing

:23:44. > :23:49.out. The councils who are building, I can see several large green areas

:23:49. > :23:52.in the North are benefiting. Conservatives complain during

:23:52. > :24:02.Labour years Government money moved North. Labour authorities say the

:24:02. > :24:24.

:24:24. > :24:28.Tories are rewarding their friends in the South. Stars of London's

:24:28. > :24:32.Olympics and paralympics are among those who have received honours at

:24:32. > :24:36.Buckingham palace today. The gymnast Louis Smith, who won silver

:24:36. > :24:43.and bronze in the London Games, described being awarded the MBE the

:24:43. > :24:45.proudest moment of his life. An Italian magazine has printed photos

:24:45. > :24:50.of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge wearing a bikini on

:24:50. > :24:55.holiday. The photos show Kate and William walking along the beach on

:24:56. > :25:00.the island of Mustique. St James Palace called the pictures a clear

:25:00. > :25:04.breach of the couple's right to privacy. The magazine's editor

:25:04. > :25:13.denied that saying the couple had been photographed walking along a

:25:13. > :25:19.public beach. There is dismay from St James Palace that photos of her

:25:19. > :25:24.and Prince William in their swim wear are being published in Chi

:25:24. > :25:34.under the headline, "honeymoon for three." Referred to her slight baby

:25:34. > :25:44.

:25:44. > :25:49.bump. They say it is an invasion of The magazines are sold at news

:25:49. > :25:52.stands like this across the country. Last year it published 26-page

:25:52. > :25:57.spread of the Duchess of Cambridge when she was photographed topless

:25:57. > :26:02.in France. Back in 1997, it published a picture of Princess

:26:02. > :26:10.Diana in the wreckage of the car crash in Paris. If you want to be

:26:10. > :26:14.free and go on yacht, I don't know, on your villa you are risking your

:26:14. > :26:19.so-called privacy. In the UK, the ITV programme This Morning

:26:19. > :26:24.apologised to the Palace after showing the magazine pictures which

:26:24. > :26:27.we have now obscured. They are now also being seen across the world in

:26:27. > :26:32.Australia, where another magazine is planning to publish them

:26:32. > :26:38.claiming that the Duchess was on a public beach and that the photos

:26:38. > :26:44.were taken not by paparazzi but, but by another holidaymaker. Let's

:26:44. > :26:48.but by another holidaymaker. Let's have a look at the weather now: We

:26:48. > :26:52.have had appalling weather today. We have good news. Fairly

:26:52. > :26:56.significant disruption today because of the snow. It has been

:26:56. > :27:01.blowing around, the winds have been whipping up. It is turning back to

:27:01. > :27:06.rain. Rain making things icy. Your BBC local radio station will give

:27:06. > :27:10.you more. In the north will have the strongest winds. There could be

:27:10. > :27:14.snow for southern and eastern Scotland and North East of England.

:27:14. > :27:18.It will turn back to rain, falling on frozen surfaces. Very icy this

:27:18. > :27:23.evening and over night. Very wet as well across many central and

:27:23. > :27:25.eastern areas. We could have a few surface water problems as well,

:27:25. > :27:29.localised flooding. The temperatures fall close to freezing,

:27:29. > :27:33.yes, tomorrow morning could be icy, particularly in the north and east.

:27:33. > :27:39.It will be nasty in you are driving in that rain, lots of surface water

:27:39. > :27:43.and spray on the roads. That rain is clearing for many parts. The

:27:43. > :27:46.east coast by lunchtime, for many it will be brighter and dryer into

:27:46. > :27:49.the afternoon. We won't be without the odd shower, particularly in

:27:49. > :27:54.western parts of England and Wales. Look at the temperatures. They

:27:54. > :27:58.struggled to reach much more than two or three degrees Celsius in

:27:58. > :28:02.eastern areas. It felt bitter. It will be milder tomorrow. Good

:28:02. > :28:05.spells of sunshine coming through. For western Scotland it will be wet

:28:05. > :28:10.and breezy afternoon. The winds will ease down on what we are

:28:10. > :28:13.seeing this morning and what we will see this evening as well. We

:28:13. > :28:18.have high pressure building in off the Atlantic keeping our weather

:28:18. > :28:25.fronts at bay. Friday should be a decent day, albeit a little chilly