:00:15. > :00:18.years. By last November, the jobless total was down to 2.3 million - the
:00:19. > :00:26.number of people on job-seeker's allowance is the lowest for five
:00:27. > :00:30.years. It was horrible being out of work, it was a great feeling to get
:00:31. > :00:32.the job. We'll be asking what the improving job numbers could mean for
:00:33. > :00:35.interest rates. Also tonight... Stan Collymore's anger over abusive
:00:36. > :00:41.tweets - the former England striker blames the site for "not doing
:00:42. > :00:44.enough". Computer coding for kids - lessons for every pupil in England
:00:45. > :00:51.from September, but are there enough trained teachers?
:00:52. > :00:52.Andy Murray is beaten by a new-look Roger Federer at the Australian Open
:00:53. > :01:07.- he loses in four sets. Tonight on BBC London... "In the
:01:08. > :01:10.clutches of a toxic digital world" - the mother of a teenager who
:01:11. > :01:13.committed suicide warns of the Web's dark side. And how an increase in
:01:14. > :01:28.construction jobs has helped reduce unemployment in the capital.
:01:29. > :01:34.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The number of people
:01:35. > :01:40.unemployed has seen its biggest fall since 1997. David Cameron said the
:01:41. > :01:43.latest set of figures meant more security, peace of mind and
:01:44. > :01:46.opportunity for Britain. But the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said
:01:47. > :01:51.life was still getting harder for millions of people.
:01:52. > :01:56.The number of jobless people fell by a 167,000 in the three months to
:01:57. > :02:01.November. That leaves a total of just over 2.3 million people out of
:02:02. > :02:06.work. The unemployment rate now stands at 7.1%. That's a whisker
:02:07. > :02:08.away from the point at which the Bank of England Governor said he
:02:09. > :02:09.would consider increasing interest rates. Our chief economics
:02:10. > :02:24.correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports. Father and son, both celebrating the
:02:25. > :02:29.rapid improvement in the jobs market. Kevin had been out of work
:02:30. > :02:33.for some time, but he started his new job this week, thanks to a
:02:34. > :02:37.recommendation from his son, who had joined the same company a few months
:02:38. > :02:45.earlier. It was horrible being out of work. It was a great feeling to
:02:46. > :02:48.actually get the job. They are at a fast growing business in Derby which
:02:49. > :02:53.makes carbon fibre components. Heartily thank to companies like
:02:54. > :02:58.this, the City last year saw the biggest fall in the number out of
:02:59. > :03:02.work of any area. Only started the business five years ago. And yet
:03:03. > :03:08.already, he is employing more than 40 staff. I started the business at
:03:09. > :03:12.the beginning of the recession, but I am really enthusiastic about the
:03:13. > :03:17.future, and we are working very hard to grow and to invest in new
:03:18. > :03:22.technology. News of the big drop in unemployment generated cheers on the
:03:23. > :03:26.Government's benches in the Commons, as the Prime Minister highlighted
:03:27. > :03:31.the figures. Youth unemployment coming down, long-term unemployment
:03:32. > :03:36.coming down, the claimant count coming down, unemployment overall
:03:37. > :03:39.coming down. But overall, would we have seen today is the biggest ever
:03:40. > :03:43.quarterly increase in the number of people in work in our country. But
:03:44. > :03:47.with news that average pay rises were still worse than half the rate
:03:48. > :03:53.of inflation, the Labour leader raised the cost of living issue. He
:03:54. > :03:55.is trying to tell millions of families around the country that
:03:56. > :03:59.they are better off, when they are worse off, and they know it. It does
:04:00. > :04:04.not help for the Prime Minister to tell them the opposite. Here in
:04:05. > :04:07.Derby and elsewhere in the UK, falling unemployment is seen as an
:04:08. > :04:11.important barometer for the state of the recovery. But they also know
:04:12. > :04:14.that the Bank of England has said the jobless rate as its key
:04:15. > :04:20.benchmark for its decisions on interest rates. The Bank says it
:04:21. > :04:25.will only consider interest rate rises when the jobless total is 7%
:04:26. > :04:28.of the workforce. The bank thought it would stay above that figure for
:04:29. > :04:36.at least three years. But by December, it had fallen to 7.4%.
:04:37. > :04:40.Today, it has fallen again, to 7.1%. When the Bank of England first set
:04:41. > :04:44.up its forward guidance system, they said they were not going to raise
:04:45. > :04:48.rates until the middle of next year. But now, the speed of improvement in
:04:49. > :04:52.activity and employment data suggests they may have to consider
:04:53. > :04:58.raising them this year. The Bank has made clear it is in no rush to raise
:04:59. > :05:02.the cost of borrowing, even after the jobless rate hits 7%. That will
:05:03. > :05:10.be a relief to consumers, but not savers. Our political editor, Nick
:05:11. > :05:13.Robinson, is in Downing Street. These figures, just the kind of
:05:14. > :05:18.thing the Government has been waiting for? Yes, Cameron and George
:05:19. > :05:23.Osborne probably desperately wanted to utter those words, I told you so,
:05:24. > :05:27.so, today, but they just about managed to hold themselves back. But
:05:28. > :05:31.they do want to crow about. They want to say, unemployment is not
:05:32. > :05:35.just falling, it is doing so on every single measure that counts.
:05:36. > :05:39.Inflation is also falling. It comes just before figures which will come
:05:40. > :05:42.out next week which will confirm what we heard from the International
:05:43. > :05:47.Monetary Fund yesterday, which is that growth is increasing. They head
:05:48. > :05:51.off to that the summit of the world's rich and famous in Davos in
:05:52. > :05:55.Switzerland, able to hold their heads high. One year ago, people
:05:56. > :06:01.were saying, poor you, you are probably heading for a double, even
:06:02. > :06:05.a triple dip recession. Labour are responding, as they have each time
:06:06. > :06:09.there has been good news, by saying that many people are simply not
:06:10. > :06:13.feeling better off. We had an intriguing development in that
:06:14. > :06:16.today. David Cameron in PMQs insisted that after tax, if that was
:06:17. > :06:23.taken into account, people's take-home pay was, at least if you
:06:24. > :06:27.were in the bottom 80% of the population, your actual take-home
:06:28. > :06:31.pay has gone up in the last year. I have spent the afternoon trying to
:06:32. > :06:35.find the statistical basis for that claim, something which Labour say
:06:36. > :06:41.they simply do not believe. I am now told that it is based on internal
:06:42. > :06:44.calculation is made in the Treasury, unpublished figures from the Office
:06:45. > :06:47.for National Statistics. But if people do not believe them, I am
:06:48. > :06:51.told ministers will produce what they insist is hard evidence that
:06:52. > :06:55.after a period of getting poorer, we are beginning to get, some of us at
:06:56. > :07:00.least, Richie Reagan. Labour will still say, that will still leave us
:07:01. > :07:06.poorer than we were when the coalition came to power. -- which
:07:07. > :07:09.are again. And you can find out more about levels of unemployment where
:07:10. > :07:15.you live by looking at the jobs tracker on the BBC News website.
:07:16. > :07:19.The former England footballer Stan Collymore says he's dismayed with
:07:20. > :07:22.the social networking site Twitter, accusing it of doing nothing about a
:07:23. > :07:25.stream of abusive messages he has received. He says he has been
:07:26. > :07:27.subjected to racist abuse and death threats after he suggested the
:07:28. > :07:33.Liverpool striker Luis Suarez dived during a match at the weekend.
:07:34. > :07:41.Here's our sports editor, David Bond.
:07:42. > :07:48.A straight dive for Luis Suarez, they have robbed their way back into
:07:49. > :07:51.the game, I'm afraid. Stan Collymore, a pundit with a
:07:52. > :07:57.reputation for telling it as he sees it. He cheated and he dived to get a
:07:58. > :08:03.penalty. Forget the contact issue, it was not enough to knock over a
:08:04. > :08:07.toddler. His remarks led to a torrent of abuse on Twitter. He says
:08:08. > :08:13.he has had enough. It has not just been racist abuse, of which there
:08:14. > :08:16.have been 10-15 quite foul messages, but also threats of murder. I am
:08:17. > :08:21.there to turn up on your doorstep and I am going to murder you. That
:08:22. > :08:26.is I would suggest a fairly serious crime. Online abuse is a relatively
:08:27. > :08:30.new problem. In 2012, over 4000 incidents of abuse on the main
:08:31. > :08:35.social media platforms were reported to police across Britain. 643 people
:08:36. > :08:40.were charged. There are no figures available for convictions, as
:08:41. > :08:46.official statistics include e-mails, text and telephone calls. These two
:08:47. > :08:50.were convicted. They will be sentenced later this week for
:08:51. > :08:55.sending threatening tweets to this woman, Caroline Criado-Perez, who
:08:56. > :08:58.successfully campaigned to have Jane Austen on the ?10 note. Police are
:08:59. > :09:03.now investigating Collymore's claims, but there is a limit on what
:09:04. > :09:06.they can do. From a legal perspective, Twitter is seen as an
:09:07. > :09:11.intermediary, not as a publisher. They do not have the same rules
:09:12. > :09:15.which publishers such as newspapers or online websites might have. With
:09:16. > :09:20.half a billion tweets per day, Twitter says monitoring content is
:09:21. > :09:23.near impossible. They add that they do take action when their specific
:09:24. > :09:30.threats of violence or if there is direct, targeted abuse. Sports stars
:09:31. > :09:33.like Tom Daley have been among the most enthusiastic users of Twitter.
:09:34. > :09:39.But sport attracts fierce debate, and many have paid the price. Tom
:09:40. > :09:43.Daley, for his part, thinks Twitter has always acted responsibly. For
:09:44. > :09:47.me, whenever I have had problems with Twitter, it has been sorted out
:09:48. > :09:52.pretty quickly. I do not know what they are doing behind-the-scenes, I
:09:53. > :09:55.cannot comment on that, I know that any experiences I have had have been
:09:56. > :09:58.sorted pretty quickly. Football is once again the arena for a debate
:09:59. > :10:03.about wider social issues. Stan Collymore hopes his intervention may
:10:04. > :10:06.prompt a rethink on how social networks are regulated.
:10:07. > :10:09.Two people have been shot dead in clashes between police and
:10:10. > :10:12.demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. They are the first
:10:13. > :10:15.fatalities since the start of protests two months ago. It follows
:10:16. > :10:20.the Ukrainian president's decision to shun a deal with the European
:10:21. > :10:22.Union. He favours closer ties to Russia. Our correspondent Daniel
:10:23. > :10:35.Sandford is in Kiev. Yes, there is a huge anti-government
:10:36. > :10:40.demonstration tonight. What you can see behind me is the peaceful
:10:41. > :10:48.protest, but just 300 metres to my left, things were very different
:10:49. > :10:53.today. As night fell, violent demonstrators were stoking the fires
:10:54. > :10:59.on the barricades in Kiev. This was the day when new anti-protest laws
:11:00. > :11:04.were introduced in Ukraine, but they were not designed to deal with this
:11:05. > :11:08.kind of chaos. This evening, this square in central Kiev is like a
:11:09. > :11:12.vision of hell, with black tyres burning and protesters hurling
:11:13. > :11:20.stones and firing fireworks straight into the lines of riot police. The
:11:21. > :11:24.violence started at breakfast time. Police had tried to clear the
:11:25. > :11:27.barricades, and this was the response of the protesters. The riot
:11:28. > :11:31.officers they were attacking had been deployed to defend the
:11:32. > :11:35.Ukrainian parliament, which passed the hated new laws. The Prime
:11:36. > :11:41.Minister made this statement, which only stoked their anger.
:11:42. > :11:44.TRANSLATION: The cynicism of the terrorists has reached the stage
:11:45. > :11:49.where they are even throwing Molotov cocktails at people. It all began in
:11:50. > :11:55.December, as demonstrations in favour of joining the European Union
:11:56. > :11:58.took place. But it has ended with officers firing plastic bullets at
:11:59. > :12:02.the crowd. And today, the police confirmed for the first time that
:12:03. > :12:09.some protesters had died. In hospital, I found Valery Fisun, a
:12:10. > :12:16.retired military man from Crimea lost his eye in the fighting on
:12:17. > :12:20.Monday. It was his birthday. TRANSLATION: I was near the
:12:21. > :12:24.barricade when the riot police fired and hit my head. I took the bullet
:12:25. > :12:29.out myself with my hand, and then I was taken away by ambulance, which
:12:30. > :12:32.brought me here to the hospital. I had surgery straightaway, and might
:12:33. > :12:37.I was removed. Below Parliament, police made several attempts to
:12:38. > :12:45.clear the crowd, resulting in further injuries. The violence is
:12:46. > :12:48.still really confined to one street. There were holes in the fighting,
:12:49. > :12:53.when more peaceful protesters went up to the front line to sing the
:12:54. > :13:02.national anthem, before the chaos descended again. Opposition leaders
:13:03. > :13:06.held three hours of talks with President Yanukovych tonight, but
:13:07. > :13:10.one of them, the former world boxing champion Vitaly Critchlow, has just
:13:11. > :13:14.told the crowd that they made little progress. However, he called for
:13:15. > :13:18.restraint, saying he did not want to see any more bloodshed, he did not
:13:19. > :13:24.want to tell any more mothers that their sons had been killed.
:13:25. > :13:28.For the first time since the Syrian conflict began three years ago,
:13:29. > :13:33.representatives of the government and opposition forces have sat
:13:34. > :13:36.around the same table. But as the long-awaited peace conference got
:13:37. > :13:38.under way in Switzerland, there were angry words from both sides.
:13:39. > :13:41.Detailed negotiations begin on Friday. So is there any chance of a
:13:42. > :13:49.breakthrough? Our correspondent Paul Wood reports from Montreux.
:13:50. > :13:57.War criminal to some, a saviour to his supporters today. The fate of
:13:58. > :14:00.President Assad is the main issue in this conference. These are not yet
:14:01. > :14:06.direct talks between regime and opposition. But at least they are in
:14:07. > :14:14.the same room. Syria's Foreign Minister had this to say about the
:14:15. > :14:17.opponents of the regime. The media claims these terrorists are
:14:18. > :14:24.moderate, but they know full well they are extremists and terrorists.
:14:25. > :14:34.The UN Secretary-General accused him of using inflammatory language. I
:14:35. > :14:39.have the right to give the Syrian version, you live in New York, I
:14:40. > :14:45.live in Syria. Yes, of course, that is the object. That is my right. We
:14:46. > :14:53.have to have some constructive and harmonious dialogue. Please refrain
:14:54. > :14:58.from any inflammatory... Ban Ki-Moon is usually quite mild-mannered, but
:14:59. > :15:02.these are intractable issues. The opposition insist Mr Assad cannot be
:15:03. > :15:09.part of a transitional government. TRANSLATION: All the vicar terms in
:15:10. > :15:12.Syria are just to allow one man to retain his throne. No-throw and has
:15:13. > :15:18.the value of one single innocent life. There is no way, no way
:15:19. > :15:22.possible in the imagination, that the man who has led the brutal
:15:23. > :15:28.response to his own people could read gain legitimacy to govern. One
:15:29. > :15:32.man, and those who have supported him, can no longer hold an entire
:15:33. > :15:36.nation and region hostage. No one should have worried that the
:15:37. > :15:40.diplomatic niceties would obscure the real issues here. One side
:15:41. > :15:44.thinks these discussions should be all about regime change. The other
:15:45. > :15:48.side believes the talks should be about anything but a transition of
:15:49. > :15:53.powerful stop at the end of the first day of meetings, the two sides
:15:54. > :15:59.seem as impossibly far apart as ever.
:16:00. > :16:10.The latest fighting. Perhaps 130,000 people have died in Syria. President
:16:11. > :16:15.Assad has clung on power but he cannot win an outright victory.
:16:16. > :16:20.Neither can the rebels. The hope comes from both sides recognising
:16:21. > :16:24.that fact and beginning a dialogue. Well, the issue of Syria sparked
:16:25. > :16:28.controversy at Westminster. MPs have been arguing over how many Syrian
:16:29. > :16:36.refugees Britain should be taking. Our deputy political editor, James
:16:37. > :16:40.Landale, is at Westminster. Do you think we are seeing Syria becoming a
:16:41. > :16:45.political issue for the first time? I think there are shared aims but a
:16:46. > :16:51.very different approach. At the moment, the government and Britain
:16:52. > :16:59.are doing a lot for Syrian refugees. 600 million pounds has been donated
:17:00. > :17:03.for food, water and shelter. Today, for the first time, the Prime
:17:04. > :17:08.Minister indicated that he would consider taking in some of the most
:17:09. > :17:12.vulnerable refugees, the orphans, the torture victims, the most
:17:13. > :17:16.severely injured people, but he was not willing to sign up to a separate
:17:17. > :17:20.United Nations scheme which could potentially mean hundreds coming to
:17:21. > :17:23.live here. Labour say that is not good enough, they will force a vote
:17:24. > :17:28.in the House of Commons next week and they think they will get some
:17:29. > :17:31.good cross-party support. The government thinks most refugees want
:17:32. > :17:36.to be helped in the region so when the conflict is over they can go
:17:37. > :17:41.home more easily. I also detect some Whitehall worry about the impact on
:17:42. > :17:45.the Met migration figures. But now, David Cameron has opened the door a
:17:46. > :17:52.little to some Syrian refugees and Labour think that door should be
:17:53. > :17:56.opened a lot wider. Thank you. Our top story this evening: Latest
:17:57. > :17:59.figures show the biggest fall in the number of unemployed people for more
:18:00. > :18:02.than 15 years. Still to come: And now for the
:18:03. > :18:05.women's coalition - Samantha and Miriam lend their support to a
:18:06. > :18:11.campaign to encourage teenage girls to aim high.
:18:12. > :18:15.Later on BBC London: This film is hotly tipped for Oscar success - but
:18:16. > :18:18.why is the number of ethnic minority film makers falling?
:18:19. > :18:20.And the capital's bravest bobby - an award for the policeman who arrested
:18:21. > :18:32.a man wielding a samurai sword. From September, every child in
:18:33. > :18:37.England will have to learn computer coding. But, are there enough
:18:38. > :18:41.trained teachers to do the job? Today the Education Secretary called
:18:42. > :18:45.it "the language of the future". To most of us this little programme
:18:46. > :18:48.makes no sense at all, in fact it's an illustration of the kind of
:18:49. > :18:52.instruction that could run this next report. Here's our technology
:18:53. > :19:01.correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. His report contains some flashing
:19:02. > :19:07.images. Meet Ruby and Siena, primary school
:19:08. > :19:12.pupils who have programmed this car using a computer language called
:19:13. > :19:16.Python. It sounds difficult to me. It is hard to learn it but
:19:17. > :19:21.eventually you get the hang of it. I have picked it up quite quickly but
:19:22. > :19:25.I know some people have been struggling a bit. From next
:19:26. > :19:32.September, every child at a state school in England will have to learn
:19:33. > :19:35.computer coding. I can lock you out. Michael Gove thinks the next
:19:36. > :19:55.generation could be out in the cold if they do not learn the skills. At
:19:56. > :19:57.an educational technology fair he came to trumpet a revolution in the
:19:58. > :20:00.way children learn about computers. I do not think anyone can deny that
:20:01. > :20:03.schools will be a better place and children will be better prepared for
:20:04. > :20:05.the future if they understand the language of the future, and that is
:20:06. > :20:11.computer programming. From September, ICT will be replaced by
:20:12. > :20:16.coding, perhaps making mobile phone apps. The problem is, there are
:20:17. > :20:22.16,000 secondary school ICT teachers and most of them will not be up to
:20:23. > :20:26.speed on computer coding. There are 160,000 primary school teachers who
:20:27. > :20:31.will also have to understand the subject. So, a big job ahead
:20:32. > :20:35.training teachers to bring computing alive. This teacher is a coding
:20:36. > :20:45.enthusiasts but says training his staff is an enormous challenge. The
:20:46. > :20:49.staff development took take the time to teach coding and understand what
:20:50. > :20:53.is expected from the curriculum, never mind the practicalities of
:20:54. > :20:57.teaching coding to children. That will happen in every school across
:20:58. > :21:01.England? I think it will be difficult to do in a short space of
:21:02. > :21:06.time so we are very much up against it. The promises the new curriculum
:21:07. > :21:11.will provide an exciting way of introducing computing concepts that
:21:12. > :21:14.teachers will worry that they do not have time to learn a new language
:21:15. > :21:19.before they have to start teaching it.
:21:20. > :21:23.The Lib Dems MP Mike Hancock has been suspended by his party after
:21:24. > :21:27.officials were shown a leaked copy of a report into allegations of
:21:28. > :21:31.sexual misconduct. Mr Hancock temporarily resigned from the party
:21:32. > :21:37.last year in order to contest a High Court civil action brought by a
:21:38. > :21:41.female constituents but remained a councillor in Portsmouth. A police
:21:42. > :21:48.investigation into the claims found no further action should be taken.
:21:49. > :21:52.Nick Clegg's wife, Miriam, has denied a newspaper report that she
:21:53. > :21:54.put pressure on her husband to take a tough line on the sexual
:21:55. > :21:57.harassment row involving the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard. She,
:21:58. > :22:01.along with Samantha Cameron, appeared at an event to encourage
:22:02. > :22:09.teenage girls to aim high in their careers. Our education correspondent
:22:10. > :22:14.Reeta Chakrabarti has more. They are wonderful women and have a
:22:15. > :22:19.can-do attitude in life. Miriam Gonzalez Durantez at a secondary
:22:20. > :22:23.school in Essex hoping to inspire 100 girls to aim high in their
:22:24. > :22:30.careers. She was not the only famous face here, at an event risking being
:22:31. > :22:35.ambushed by newspaper headlines saying she had urged her husband to
:22:36. > :22:43.take a tough stance on Lord Rennard. So had she? It is a complete
:22:44. > :22:47.fabrication. If I wanted to say something I would say it openly and
:22:48. > :22:51.publicly and what we are doing here today is supporting the girls and my
:22:52. > :22:57.opinions about the political issues of the day, I keep them to myself.
:22:58. > :23:01.She was here to talk about an issue close to her heart, persuading girls
:23:02. > :23:06.to be ambitious in their lives and look beyond jobs women have
:23:07. > :23:10.traditionally done. In her first broadcast interview since the
:23:11. > :23:14.coalition was formed, she said she herself did not come from a
:23:15. > :23:18.privileged background and had succeeded through sheer hard work.
:23:19. > :23:27.At the end of the day, it is what is within you. You may get there sooner
:23:28. > :23:33.or later, but I remember the day when I had a scholarship and I
:23:34. > :23:40.thought, this glamorous school, kids from glamorous schools around me and
:23:41. > :23:45.I thought, you know, I can actually compete. It might require more
:23:46. > :23:48.effort but I can do it. She wanted the girls to feel the same way but
:23:49. > :23:53.were they put off careers in politics after this week's
:23:54. > :23:57.headlines? At every profession you will have problems when men and
:23:58. > :24:00.women work together. The problem is when things are made public when
:24:01. > :24:04.other things that happen are not always so public. I would still
:24:05. > :24:11.consider going into politics with everything that is going on. Not
:24:12. > :24:14.quite the day she had hoped for but Miriam Gonzalez Durantez will have
:24:15. > :24:18.achieved to macro things today, inspiring young girls and squashing
:24:19. > :24:21.some unwelcome rumours. Andy Murray has lost to a resurgent
:24:22. > :24:27.Roger Federer at the quarter finals of the Australian Open. Murray was
:24:28. > :24:29.playing his first grand slam tournament since recovering from
:24:30. > :24:32.back surgery and was outplayed for much of the encounter, although he
:24:33. > :24:36.did stage a third set fight back. Here's our sports correspondent Andy
:24:37. > :24:41.Swiss. He had yet to be tested in Melbourne
:24:42. > :24:45.but Andy Murray knew that was about to change. His opponent, only the
:24:46. > :24:51.most successful man in tennis history, but one still it seems with
:24:52. > :24:55.a point to prove. Last year, Roger Federer looked like yesterday's man
:24:56. > :25:00.but here he was back to his fluent, near flawless best. The touch, the
:25:01. > :25:06.timing and soon a two set lead. Murray, only recently recovered from
:25:07. > :25:18.back surgery was flailing. From the brink of defeat, he suddenly stirred
:25:19. > :25:20.in barnstorming style. From two match point down, Murray clinched a
:25:21. > :25:22.third set tie-break with another nerve shredding comeback on the
:25:23. > :25:26.cards. For a while, it seemed like it might. But Federer rolled back
:25:27. > :25:33.the years. In a flash, it was over. On this form, and 80th grand slam
:25:34. > :25:37.title could beckon for Federer. For Murray, doggie displayed at an
:25:38. > :25:39.ultimately disappointing defeat. Time for a look at the weather,
:25:40. > :25:51.here's John Hammond. It is actually relatively quiet out
:25:52. > :25:55.there. Later on we will see a band of heavy, squally showers sweeping
:25:56. > :26:00.across Northern Ireland, into western parts of Scotland. Ahead of
:26:01. > :26:03.that we could see if you missed patches forming. Temperatures close
:26:04. > :26:09.to freezing. That presents a problem. There will be some rain,
:26:10. > :26:14.hail, sleet and snow down to low levels. A wild start the day with
:26:15. > :26:19.some thunder and lightning possible. We could see a late dip in
:26:20. > :26:23.temperatures so the risk of ice. Watch out for that first thing in
:26:24. > :26:27.the morning. A band of squally showers will rattle through the rest
:26:28. > :26:32.of the country promptly in the morning. We will see some sunshine.
:26:33. > :26:37.Most of us will see some sunshine tomorrow afternoon. There will be
:26:38. > :26:42.scattered showers. It will be windy and cold than today. Temperatures
:26:43. > :26:46.will be a couple of degrees down on today's values. The showers in
:26:47. > :26:50.northern areas will be wintry down to low levels. A frosty night
:26:51. > :26:54.tomorrow night and then it is all change again. Rain sweeping in from
:26:55. > :27:00.the West. Some uncertainty about the timing. Warnings have been issued
:27:01. > :27:04.from the Met Office. A cold feeling as well. We will see a late rise in
:27:05. > :27:09.temperature from the west later in the day. Beyond that, for the
:27:10. > :27:14.weekend, we are into a run-off strong westerly winds on Saturday.
:27:15. > :27:18.You can see what is on the menu for Sunday. Make the most of Saturday
:27:19. > :27:19.because Sunday looks pretty filthy. Thank