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:00:00. > :00:00.Thousands of junior doctors in England take part in their first

:00:00. > :00:13.The 24-hour strike began this morning.

:00:14. > :00:17.Doctors oppose the government's latest plans for weekend working.

:00:18. > :00:19.We are here to promote patient safety.

:00:20. > :00:26.We do not want to enter a contract that will make us tired.

:00:27. > :00:29.One in ten planned operations have been cancelled.

:00:30. > :00:33.Ministers say the strike is unnecessary.

:00:34. > :00:36.The right thing to do is not to strike, but actually sit

:00:37. > :00:38.round the table, talk to the government about how

:00:39. > :00:44.We'll be looking at the deal on offer and the doctors'

:00:45. > :00:51.A terror attack in the heart of Istanbul.

:00:52. > :01:00.The G4S security firm fires four workers after the BBC exposed them

:01:01. > :01:14.The archaeological find that's being hailed as Britain's own Pompeii.

:01:15. > :01:19.BP is to cut 20% of its North Sea workforce blaming the continuing

:01:20. > :01:24.And months of disruption for rail travellers as major building work

:01:25. > :01:42.is announced for one of the country's busiest stations.

:01:43. > :01:46.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

:01:47. > :01:49.Junior doctors across England are in the middle of a strike.

:01:50. > :01:53.The first time they have taken such action in 40 years.

:01:54. > :01:56.Emergency care should not be affected but about one in ten

:01:57. > :02:00.planned operations and procedures are believed to have been postponed.

:02:01. > :02:03.The 24-hour strike follows a break down in talks with the government

:02:04. > :02:05.about how best to provide consistent, seven-day care

:02:06. > :02:25.Support from drivers buoyed up this hospital picket line in Harrogate.

:02:26. > :02:31.It was the same in Exeter where doctors were protesting. And they

:02:32. > :02:34.gathered at a hospital within sight of Westminster as the strike action

:02:35. > :02:39.by junior doctors across England unfolded. What do you remember of

:02:40. > :02:44.yesterday? Routine but not emergency care was affected, consultants like

:02:45. > :02:48.this one ready to cover where needed for their striking colleagues. Every

:02:49. > :02:54.patient who comes into hospital needs drugs prescribed, the sort of

:02:55. > :02:57.job a junior doctor would do. But some members of the public made

:02:58. > :03:03.plain their anger at the doctor 's actions. You swore a Hippocratic

:03:04. > :03:10.oath to protect people's lives. Not to split your dummy out and come out

:03:11. > :03:13.here. Some planned operations did not happen. Michelle sympathises

:03:14. > :03:17.with the doctors but she is upset that, after preparing to go into

:03:18. > :03:25.hospital, last night she got a call saying it been postponed. Really

:03:26. > :03:30.upset over it. Waited quite a while for my hysterectomy to be approved,

:03:31. > :03:33.gone through quite a few months of hell with injections and hormones

:03:34. > :03:38.and all the rest of it. hell with injections and hormones

:03:39. > :03:43.Secretary and the doctors union meanwhile continued their verbal

:03:44. > :03:48.exchanges. In the end, this is a completely unnecessary dispute. We

:03:49. > :03:55.have some disagreements with the BMA overpay, but we all want to promise

:03:56. > :03:59.all patients who use the NHS the promise of the same high-quality

:04:00. > :04:02.care every day of the week. The government wants to introduce a

:04:03. > :04:05.contract that they say makes it easier to roster doctors around the

:04:06. > :04:09.clock. Well, I guess it would because they would remove a lot of

:04:10. > :04:12.the protections against overwork that are being put into contracts

:04:13. > :04:16.over the last 20 years or so and which, in that way, have helped

:04:17. > :04:20.protect patient safety. One hospital, Sandwell in the West

:04:21. > :04:23.Midlands, declared a major incident because of high patient numbers and

:04:24. > :04:27.said striking doctors should return to work. The union said that was in

:04:28. > :04:31.breach of a national agreement and the trust later said things were

:04:32. > :04:36.under control and dropped its request. The 24-hour action began

:04:37. > :04:42.today covers routine and nonemergency care. It will be

:04:43. > :04:45.extended to 48 hours on January 26. The one NHS chiefs are concerned

:04:46. > :04:49.about, assuming there is no breakthrough in talks, if a planned

:04:50. > :04:56.all-out strike on February the tetanus, covering all care including

:04:57. > :05:00.emergencies. -- the 10th. It may not come to that. Talks of ACAS are set

:05:01. > :05:04.to continue. Right now, there are a few signs of movement towards a

:05:05. > :05:07.lasting settlement of the doctors contract row.

:05:08. > :05:10.So, as we've heard, the argument is over how best to make sure that

:05:11. > :05:13.a patient admitted to hospital at the weekend gets just as good

:05:14. > :05:15.care as one who falls ill during the week.

:05:16. > :05:18.The government says the way junior doctors are paid will have

:05:19. > :05:21.to change, but the doctors argue that the current proposal will mean

:05:22. > :05:23.they are overstretched, putting patients in jeopardy.

:05:24. > :05:31.Our Home Editor Mark Easton looks at both sides of the argument.

:05:32. > :05:37.Both sides in this dispute say that patients are at the heart of what

:05:38. > :05:41.they are doing, accusing the other lot of only caring about money. So

:05:42. > :05:46.who is right? Let's look at what's involved. Who are the junior doctors

:05:47. > :05:49.first of all? There are actually 55,000 of them and they are not

:05:50. > :05:54.necessarily that junior. The term covers any qualified doctor who was

:05:55. > :05:58.not yet consultant or GP full the or been working in the NHS for just a

:05:59. > :06:06.few days or ten years. What they get paid varies hugely two. A salary of

:06:07. > :06:10.?23,000 is what's on offer for some newly qualified medics but there are

:06:11. > :06:13.top ups for anti-social hours, and, at the other end of the scale,

:06:14. > :06:18.salaries of more than ?70,000 plus extras across the board for

:06:19. > :06:24.registrars working with consultant taking life-and-death decisions.

:06:25. > :06:30.What's on offer now? An 11% increase in basic pay. But a 25% cut in the

:06:31. > :06:37.extra payments for those anti-social hours. And the scrapping of

:06:38. > :06:40.automatic incremental pay rises. The government calculates that three

:06:41. > :06:44.quarters of junior doctors will actually be better off, many see no

:06:45. > :06:48.difference at all, and just 1% will be worse off, that's the government

:06:49. > :06:56.says. The doctors dispute those numbers. Since the birth of the NHS,

:06:57. > :06:58.the relationship between government and doctors

:06:59. > :07:03.the relationship between government cool side. Aneurin Bevan said he

:07:04. > :07:08.only won the backing of consultants for the new health service by

:07:09. > :07:12.stuffing their mouths with gold. The last doctors pay strike in 1975 was

:07:13. > :07:16.over a proposed contract which would have forced them to abandon

:07:17. > :07:19.lucrative private practice, medics tend to be fiercely independent and

:07:20. > :07:25.hate being told what to do by politicians. And once again, the

:07:26. > :07:28.government finds itself at odds with doctors over funding their ambition

:07:29. > :07:33.for a seven day a week NHS in England. The government wants to

:07:34. > :07:37.continue to improve and develop services but hasn't really got the

:07:38. > :07:42.money to invest in that, and pay is a big part of NHS costs, more than

:07:43. > :07:46.two thirds of hospital budgets go on pay and hospitals are in deficit and

:07:47. > :07:53.heading for a deficit of about ?2 billion this year. The BMA says the

:07:54. > :07:56.proposed contract will be weakened and actually threaten patient

:07:57. > :08:01.safety. The government believes Sunday working weeks prove the

:08:02. > :08:05.patient experience -- improve. Today the NHS has been frustrated at best.

:08:06. > :08:07.That was Mark Easton. For her assessment on today's

:08:08. > :08:10.strike, we can speak to our Political Editor

:08:11. > :08:17.Laura Kuenssberg. Laura, the stoppages over in the

:08:18. > :08:21.morning but the argument will go on, isn't it? It certainly is, George,

:08:22. > :08:27.but when you talk to people inside government, they said they all know,

:08:28. > :08:30.the doctors, are going to lose. If you listen carefully to the words of

:08:31. > :08:35.politicians like the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, talking about

:08:36. > :08:38.how plans to change the NHS were in the Conservative manifesto and they

:08:39. > :08:41.are determined to stick to what they set out, saying this strike is

:08:42. > :08:45.unnecessary, there's a sense the end they believe they will get their

:08:46. > :08:50.way. It's worth noting also that the government does actually have the

:08:51. > :08:54.power to impose these changes, even if doctors continue resisting. They

:08:55. > :08:59.could just start changing contracts, maybe as early as next month, ring

:09:00. > :09:02.in new contracts rather than changing ones which exist, but they

:09:03. > :09:06.have the power to bring in these new terms and conditions even if there

:09:07. > :09:09.is not agreement. We are not yet at the stage where ministers are

:09:10. > :09:13.somehow throwing up their hands and just saying we want to put this

:09:14. > :09:18.through with brute force. There is a sense in government wants today's

:09:19. > :09:22.protests are finished, there's a couple of weeks before the next

:09:23. > :09:26.strike is planned, when they may be able to make some progress in the

:09:27. > :09:29.talks. There is no sense the government is about to abandon their

:09:30. > :09:33.efforts here. They are not in a mood to back down. They say the doors

:09:34. > :09:38.open to doctors leaders but are the turban to get, maybe not all, but

:09:39. > :09:39.certainly most of their way. Laura, thanks very much.

:09:40. > :09:43.In Turkey, there's been a terror attack in the heart of the tourist

:09:44. > :09:45.Nine German visitors were killed and several

:09:46. > :09:48.The Turkish Prime Minister says militants loyal to so-called

:09:49. > :09:51.Islamic State were behind the attack.

:09:52. > :10:00.Our Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen is in the city now.

:10:01. > :10:06.George, we heard it from Istanbul this morning. A huge blast which

:10:07. > :10:11.rocked the city and has profoundly shaken this nation. The Turkish

:10:12. > :10:16.Gutman has blamed it on Islamic State, the fourth such bombing in

:10:17. > :10:19.less than a year. Istanbul was expecting a very large attack but

:10:20. > :10:25.when it came, it still had devastating consequences.

:10:26. > :10:28.The old town rocked by a massive explosion beside the Blue Mosque.

:10:29. > :10:37.Security forces rushing to the scene as casualties mounted.

:10:38. > :10:39.and fearing a possible second strike.

:10:40. > :10:59.11 were killed, mostly German tourists.

:11:00. > :11:02.The government blamed a suicide bomber, a Syrian man who it said

:11:03. > :11:07.The quick identification suggests he was known.

:11:08. > :11:17.TRANSLATION: As with all terrorist organisations, we will not pull back

:11:18. > :11:20.against Daesh in our fight against terror.

:11:21. > :11:22.The connections of the assailant will be revealed and they will be

:11:23. > :11:31.It's the fourth attack in Turkey blamed on IS in the last year.

:11:32. > :11:34.A country accused of being too slow to clamp down on the group,

:11:35. > :11:37.allowing jihadists and weapons to cross its border into Syria.

:11:38. > :11:42.Turkey was long considered the pillar of stability

:11:43. > :11:51.But in the past year there have been attacks across the country.

:11:52. > :11:54.Soaring violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east and now a suicide

:11:55. > :11:57.Turkey's image has suffered immensely.

:11:58. > :12:02.This country feels more exposed than ever.

:12:03. > :12:05.Tourism, vital to Turkey's economy, will take a hit.

:12:06. > :12:12.But those we met at the scene said they were determined to stay.

:12:13. > :12:18.I'm proud that a lot of people are actually showing up

:12:19. > :12:22.solidarity because of people start to panic, not visit Turkey,

:12:23. > :12:37.One of the world's great cities now feels vulnerable.

:12:38. > :12:43.Robert Black has died in prison in County Antrim. He was jailed for

:12:44. > :12:48.murdering four girl from across the UK during the 1980s. The Northern

:12:49. > :12:49.Ireland prison service confirmed a 68-year-old prisoner had died at the

:12:50. > :12:53.high security prison. The energy company BP plans to cut

:12:54. > :12:56.600 jobs in the North Sea because of the falling

:12:57. > :12:58.international price of oil. They are among 4,000 posts the firm

:12:59. > :13:01.wants to shed worldwide. Scotland's First Minister Nicola

:13:02. > :13:04.Sturgeon described the job losses as a crisis for those affected

:13:05. > :13:08.but said the oil sector had New official figures show

:13:09. > :13:15.that the number of women leaving the UK to travel to Syria

:13:16. > :13:17.continues to rise. Counter-terrorism officers say many

:13:18. > :13:20.are unaware they will probably never To try to discourage more

:13:21. > :13:26.women from travelling, police have now released a short

:13:27. > :13:29.film featuring three Syrian refugees who talk about the harsh realities

:13:30. > :13:33.of life in the war zone. Our correspondent

:13:34. > :13:45.Sian Lloyd reports. Three mothers who fled Syria

:13:46. > :13:55.for the safety of Britain sharing their stories of brutality

:13:56. > :13:58.and reaching out to mothers Don't risk your own safety or that

:13:59. > :14:02.of your children by travelling This film has been shown to groups

:14:03. > :14:07.of women across the country Counterterrorism officers hope

:14:08. > :14:11.they will take the message back A lot of the women who have decided

:14:12. > :14:21.to go to Syria have done so because of the situations

:14:22. > :14:25.and circumstances and their own vulnerabilities which have not been

:14:26. > :14:29.addressed within this country. This message will actually counter

:14:30. > :14:32.that narrative and provide them with a greater understanding

:14:33. > :14:34.of why it's not safe. Why are people getting to the point

:14:35. > :14:37.of being radicalised? It's not something that

:14:38. > :14:42.happens overnight. There are a lot of issues around it

:14:43. > :14:45.and it's about tackling the root causes before someone

:14:46. > :14:47.gets to that point. This has got to be impacted properly

:14:48. > :14:50.through the right channels. If it's through the education

:14:51. > :14:53.system, if it's through schools, through teachers but

:14:54. > :14:56.also with the parents. Mothers have a massive role

:14:57. > :14:59.with their children's upbringing and the teachings of their children,

:15:00. > :15:03.so we do have to target our mothers, definitely, to get

:15:04. > :15:05.that message across. There is growing concern

:15:06. > :15:08.about the number of women and girls These London schoolgirls

:15:09. > :15:13.were thought to be on their way to join up with Islamic militants

:15:14. > :15:18.and the numbers are rising. There is a wide range

:15:19. > :15:21.of women who have travelled. 56 women and girls were reported

:15:22. > :15:25.missing in 2015 by their families Counterterrorism officers hope

:15:26. > :15:31.the accounts of these women will make others think twice

:15:32. > :15:35.and help encourage mothers here to play their part

:15:36. > :15:43.in determining their children here to play their part

:15:44. > :15:45.in deterting their children Thousands of junior doctors

:15:46. > :15:53.in England are on strike - they disagree with ministers over

:15:54. > :16:08.how best to improve weekend care. Hell Mexican police stormed the

:16:09. > :16:13.building to capture their most wanted drug lord. -- and how Mexican

:16:14. > :16:16.police. Scottish serial killer

:16:17. > :16:18.Robert Blackdies in jail. He was serving life

:16:19. > :16:20.for murdering four children. And a strike by teachers closes

:16:21. > :16:22.all secondary schools It's being described as the "best

:16:23. > :16:32.preserved Bronze age dwellings ever Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire

:16:33. > :16:34.have discovered the remains of a settlement of circular wooden

:16:35. > :16:39.houses, built on stilts. The site holds clues

:16:40. > :16:41.into what people ate Here's Jo Black for a glimpse

:16:42. > :17:02.into life some three Under a giant white tent, perched on

:17:03. > :17:08.the Cambridgeshire Ferns, lies a settlement thought to be about 3000

:17:09. > :17:14.years old. Idiomatic fireproofing to the site. -- a dramatic fire ruined

:17:15. > :17:19.the site. Archaeologists are so excited

:17:20. > :17:21.by this find, they are saying these are the best Bronze Age dwellings

:17:22. > :17:30.ever found in Britain. We will be looking at the Pops, so

:17:31. > :17:37.we will be able to tell you what they ate. We will be looking at the

:17:38. > :17:43.garments, so we can tell you what clothes they were all. It feels just

:17:44. > :17:52.like yesterday, somehow. -- pots. The Bronze Age came after

:17:53. > :17:57.metalworkers discovered how to make bronze. This was a farm dated

:17:58. > :18:05.towards the end of the era might have looked. -- this is how a farm

:18:06. > :18:08.dated towards. Not all of them were built over a river. It was the water

:18:09. > :18:12.here that is partly built over a river. It was the water

:18:13. > :18:14.the site's good condition, offering a frozen moment in time. Normally

:18:15. > :18:21.when we dig we see the decay a frozen moment in time. Normally

:18:22. > :18:21.settlement. We see it going a frozen moment in time. Normally

:18:22. > :18:29.use. We see the back fellow the see snapshots. This is almost like

:18:30. > :18:38.you get see snapshots. This is almost like

:18:39. > :18:41.archaeologists, we are really nosy, and

:18:42. > :18:42.archaeologists, we are really nosy, see what people are doing.

:18:43. > :18:50.archaeologists, we are really nosy, of the artefacts

:18:51. > :18:56.archaeologists, we are really nosy, those years ago. We have a dagger at

:18:57. > :19:01.just here. Then this sort. And if you take a look here,

:19:02. > :19:01.just here. Then this sort. And if from some sort of decoration. If you

:19:02. > :19:10.look at these clay from some sort of decoration. If you

:19:11. > :19:14.such good condition that somebody has left their dinner inside.

:19:15. > :19:19.Whether the fire was an accident or a potential end of the dwellings

:19:20. > :19:24.remained a mystery. But after 3000 years the life of our prehistoric

:19:25. > :19:29.ancestors is now becoming clearer. -- remains a mystery.

:19:30. > :19:33.The security firm G4S has sacked four of its staff following last

:19:34. > :19:35.night's BBC Panorama programme, which exposed the alleged abuse

:19:36. > :19:37.of inmates at a young offenders institution in Kent.

:19:38. > :19:40.The Justice Secretary Michael Gove has been meeting with managers

:19:41. > :19:42.Our Special Correspondent Lucy Manning is outside

:19:43. > :19:53.What is the latest? There have been some serious

:19:54. > :19:57.repercussions today after the broadcast of that programme. The

:19:58. > :20:00.allegations made in that programme were that some of the young

:20:01. > :20:04.offenders at the Young offenders centre were restrained in a way that

:20:05. > :20:08.they claimed it would stop them breathing properly, and there are

:20:09. > :20:12.allegations that staff were saying they have mistreated some of the

:20:13. > :20:16.people they were supposed to be supervising. And also that the staff

:20:17. > :20:19.were not reporting all of the incidents at the centre because they

:20:20. > :20:26.did not want G4S, the company they were working for, to be fined. The

:20:27. > :20:31.repercussions is that G4S have sacked four members of staff. Four

:20:32. > :20:38.other members of staff either suspended or on restricted duties. A

:20:39. > :20:45.caretaker has also been suspended. G4S executives were brought in to

:20:46. > :20:49.meet Michael Gove. We caught up with one of those executives. He said it

:20:50. > :20:53.had been constructive. He said he had been shocked and appalled by

:20:54. > :21:00.what he had seen in the panorama report last night. I said, is G4S

:21:01. > :21:04.still a fit company to be running prisons, to be running these

:21:05. > :21:08.detention centres? This is what he had to say. Everything is under

:21:09. > :21:12.review. We are looking at making sure we first of all cooperate with

:21:13. > :21:15.the police, make sure the children are safe, and once we have done that

:21:16. > :21:19.we will have a complete review of how this occurred and how we can

:21:20. > :21:24.make sure it doesn't happen again. Labour says all of the centres, all

:21:25. > :21:29.of the prisons, G4S run should be put into special measures. Somebody

:21:30. > :21:32.from a charity connected to prison reform has written to the Serious

:21:33. > :21:35.Fraud Office asking whether they should investigate whether public

:21:36. > :21:40.money has been wasted if the allegations are true, that the staff

:21:41. > :21:44.haven't been reporting what has happened there for fear of the

:21:45. > :21:52.company getting fine. I think there is certainly developments on this.

:21:53. > :21:56.-- getting fined. The boss of G4S says that they are, operating with

:21:57. > :21:58.the police and that they will then carry out their review.

:21:59. > :22:02.Thanks very much. The Mexican authorities have

:22:03. > :22:04.released footage of the moments marines raided a hide-out used

:22:05. > :22:06.by the country's most Joaqin Guzman - also

:22:07. > :22:09.known as El Chapo - was on the run after escaping

:22:10. > :22:12.from a maximum security The pictures were taken

:22:13. > :22:15.on the marines' helmet cameras. This was the moment Mexican Marines

:22:16. > :22:21.closed in on one of the world's Bursting into the property of drug

:22:22. > :22:28.boss Joaqin El Chpo Guzman. They met fierce resistance

:22:29. > :22:29.and responded with heavy In the firefight five

:22:30. > :22:54.of El Chapo's men were killed. Four days later and the media

:22:55. > :22:56.was allowed in to see The first thing you see

:22:57. > :23:00.when you come into El Chapo's house is this kitchen that has been

:23:01. > :23:03.totally turned upside down There are cans in there that have

:23:04. > :23:06.just exploded from the force, And if you look over there,

:23:07. > :23:15.it is still an active crime scene. There is blood on the floor

:23:16. > :23:19.when someone died. Unbelievably, El Chapo almost got

:23:20. > :23:25.away. It was through this he escaped down

:23:26. > :23:42.the tunnel which led out to a storm I walked about a kilometre

:23:43. > :23:45.from where El Chapo was hiding into what looks like

:23:46. > :23:47.a pretty ordinary junction. But when the marines came

:23:48. > :23:50.and El Chapo escaped, he escaped through the city's storm

:23:51. > :23:53.drains and he came up in there. Speak to neighbours here

:23:54. > :23:55.and they cannot quite believe TRANSLATION: It is a very quiet

:23:56. > :23:59.part of town. About six months ago

:24:00. > :24:03.you could see mounds of earth, about a metre and a half high,

:24:04. > :24:05.not much else going on. It has taken everybody by surprise

:24:06. > :24:09.that without even knowing there is this hugely

:24:10. > :24:11.important person there. El Chapo is now in a high security

:24:12. > :24:14.jail following his arrest. It is the same one he escaped

:24:15. > :24:16.from six months ago, but the authorities insist security

:24:17. > :24:19.has been toughened up since. It'll need to be, it is thought

:24:20. > :24:21.the process to extradite him The media mogul Rupert Murdoch has

:24:22. > :24:26.announced his engagement The couple were first seen in public

:24:27. > :24:32.together last October. Our Entertainment Correspondent

:24:33. > :24:39.David Sillito has more. Jerry Hall, model, actress,

:24:40. > :24:43.former partner of Mick Jagger. Rupert Murdoch, three times married,

:24:44. > :24:46.global media tycoon. And on page 53 of today's Times,

:24:47. > :24:51.a happy announcement. Just over a year ago Jerry Hall

:24:52. > :25:00.was perfecting her wicked laugh 12 months on, the future Mrs M

:25:01. > :25:11.was said by Dame Joan Collins Of course the couple have already

:25:12. > :25:17.been seen out and about over And for those championing

:25:18. > :25:22.the joys of life after 50, the 84-year-old Mr Murdoch

:25:23. > :25:25.is seen as a role model Divorce figures are higher

:25:26. > :25:32.for the baby boomer group than for people

:25:33. > :25:36.in their 30s and 40s. But equally, so is now

:25:37. > :25:40.the remarriage rate. Of course it is not first time

:25:41. > :25:44.around for the happy couple. Rupert Murdoch's previous wife,

:25:45. > :25:48.the formidably protective Wendi Deng, leapt to his defence

:25:49. > :25:51.when a custard pie headed his way Jerry Hall was, before Mick Jagger,

:25:52. > :25:56.the partner of another rock star, They have between them more

:25:57. > :26:02.than enough experience, Now, after leaves on the line

:26:03. > :26:15.and the wrong type of snow, how's this for the latest weather

:26:16. > :26:18.related excuse for a late train? south-east London were today

:26:19. > :26:21.disrupted because of the angle of the sun, train operator

:26:22. > :26:26.Southeastern said. Passengers were told: "The low

:26:27. > :26:28.winter sun has been hitting the dispatch monitor which prevents

:26:29. > :26:31.the driver from being able to see." Their customers were not

:26:32. > :26:35.overly impressed - one asking how companies

:26:36. > :26:56.in sunny climes managed There has been sunshine today. There

:26:57. > :27:00.has also been some showers. You can see the hint of a rainbow as one of

:27:01. > :27:06.our Weather watchers sent in this photograph today. It has been a day

:27:07. > :27:10.of showers. Some heavy ones today, but they will fade out tonight. It

:27:11. > :27:15.will be very cold tonight. This is coming through, showers can find to

:27:16. > :27:22.the eastern parts of England and Scotland. It could turn icy as the

:27:23. > :27:30.temperatures really drop. Many towns and cities hovering around zero. Raw

:27:31. > :27:35.areas, below. -- rule. It will be a sparkling start of the day. Cold but

:27:36. > :27:39.plenty of sunshine. We will see changes in the West, cloud

:27:40. > :27:43.thickening, and showers coming in, particularly across Northern Ireland

:27:44. > :27:47.which will be wet for a time with sleet and snow likely. Temperatures

:27:48. > :27:50.again in single figures. But we should hang onto some sunshine.

:27:51. > :27:56.Eight to nine Celsius across the West. Scotland needs to keep an eye

:27:57. > :28:02.on this system. As it comes in it could provide snow. There is the

:28:03. > :28:05.chance, through the central belt of Scotland, and other areas of

:28:06. > :28:10.southern Scotland, even to lower levels, there could be snow. Then

:28:11. > :28:14.this area is not done, it meanders across the UK on Wednesday and

:28:15. > :28:19.Thursday, still providing some snow. Chiefly over the hills on Thursday

:28:20. > :28:23.morning, but increasingly across parts of East of England as it

:28:24. > :28:28.clears away. Still some uncertainty about that, so stay tuned to the

:28:29. > :28:31.forecast. Definitely the potential of something interesting over the

:28:32. > :28:37.next couple of days. The weather is calming down over Friday and the

:28:38. > :28:38.weekend. Someone to be showers. But largely dry and staying