:00:00. > :00:07.The sharp rise in people with mental health problems turning
:00:08. > :00:18.Taken an overdose of prescribed medication.
:00:19. > :00:20.Numbers in England have gone up by nearly fifty
:00:21. > :00:23.per cent in four years - experts say it's the
:00:24. > :00:33.They are very busy. Somebody with a mental health issue, it is not
:00:34. > :00:34.conducive. It's yet more pressure
:00:35. > :00:36.on A departments - as leaked documents reveal
:00:37. > :00:39.the number of patients left Jeremy Corybn sets out Labour's
:00:40. > :00:43.policy on EU migration - but is he for or against free
:00:44. > :00:58.movement? We are not wedded to free movement
:00:59. > :00:59.in the EU but I don't want to be misinterpreted, nor do we rule it
:01:00. > :01:00.out. A fifteen-year-old girl
:01:01. > :01:02.is arrested after the death More games, more money -
:01:03. > :01:06.FIFA decides to expand the number of countries competing in the World
:01:07. > :01:22.Cup. Coming up, cert Dave Brailsford
:01:23. > :01:23.criticises the head of anti-doping for undermining an investigation
:01:24. > :01:42.into anti-doping revelations. Good evening and welcome
:01:43. > :01:45.to the BBC News at Six. There's been a steep increase
:01:46. > :01:47.in the number of people arriving at accident and emergency
:01:48. > :01:49.departments in England The latest official figures analysed
:01:50. > :01:56.for the BBC show that last year there were over 165,000 psychiatric
:01:57. > :02:02.attendances at A That's a rise of 47 per cent over
:02:03. > :02:12.the last four years. That includes a rise of 89 per cent
:02:13. > :02:16.in the number of children and young Emergency doctors describe the
:02:17. > :02:20.figures as the tip of the iceberg. Our Social Affairs Correspondent
:02:21. > :02:28.Alison Holt reports from Birmingham. It's another day of unrelenting
:02:29. > :02:31.demand in the Emergency Department of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth
:02:32. > :02:34.Hospital. Is there any movement
:02:35. > :02:36.in terms of beds? Patients are lining up
:02:37. > :02:38.on trolleys in the corridor, She's taken an overdose of some
:02:39. > :02:44.prescribed medication... The psychiatric team,
:02:45. > :02:46.based in the department, is dealing with a number of people
:02:47. > :02:48.who've tried to take She had a follow-on plan, she'd
:02:49. > :02:55.taken an overdose the last time. Among them, a woman
:02:56. > :02:58.in her early 20s. Doctors have dealt with the physical
:02:59. > :03:00.affects of the overdose, but the root cause is her history
:03:01. > :03:03.of mental health problems. I took an overdose, I went
:03:04. > :03:11.up to the train track. She is one of a rapidly increasing
:03:12. > :03:14.number of patients arriving at A's like this with psychiatric
:03:15. > :03:18.difficulties, many are young. The voices are getting more intense,
:03:19. > :03:22.wanting to harm myself. It's not attempts, it's
:03:23. > :03:26.actually trying to do it. I'm not just doing it
:03:27. > :03:28.as a cry for help. Is this the worst that
:03:29. > :03:31.you've ever felt? I've never been this
:03:32. > :03:37.bad before, I'm scared. In a busy A, even finding a room
:03:38. > :03:40.for this conversation was a struggle, now this isn't
:03:41. > :03:42.the right place for her, You know, if we were to
:03:43. > :03:50.discharge her from here, she'd would likely go out
:03:51. > :03:53.there and try and do Was there any particular trigger why
:03:54. > :03:59.you took the tablets? At this hospital, they see more
:04:00. > :04:02.than 100 people a week facing a psychiatric crisis
:04:03. > :04:04.and the Mental Health Trust has set up a quiet unit nearby to assess
:04:05. > :04:10.people away from the pressure. Its staff then search
:04:11. > :04:12.for the psychiatric beds I'm trying to act upon this
:04:13. > :04:22.as a matter of urgency for this lad because he doesn't sound
:04:23. > :04:24.well at all. Nobody in a mental health crisis
:04:25. > :04:27.should be in Accident Emergency unless they've got
:04:28. > :04:28.a physical health need. Our A, what I see,
:04:29. > :04:31.are very, very busy, overstimulated places and somebody
:04:32. > :04:33.with a mental health issue, it's just not conducive at all to them,
:04:34. > :04:41.to being in that environment. That's why in Birmingham they've set
:04:42. > :04:44.up this street triage team to intervene before people reach
:04:45. > :04:46.the Emergency Department. The patient here is
:04:47. > :04:48.hearing voices stating - With a police officer, paramedic
:04:49. > :04:52.and psychiatric nurse on board, they respond to 999 calls
:04:53. > :05:04.where there are mental Already this evening the man
:05:05. > :05:09.they're visiting has called His physical health is checked,
:05:10. > :05:13.they listen to and assess him. Are you telling me that there
:05:14. > :05:15.was these negative voices I think like there's
:05:16. > :05:19.someone controlling me. It's kind of like, I'm
:05:20. > :05:23.some kind of machine. After half an hour it's agreed,
:05:24. > :05:26.rather than going to A, he'll keep a community appointment
:05:27. > :05:28.in the morning. I think the first step is me asking
:05:29. > :05:33.for help as well as being assured Over the last four, five weeks he's
:05:34. > :05:46.been going to A quite a lot. I think he's had six
:05:47. > :05:48.admissions through A So we've come out tonight to try
:05:49. > :06:04.and prevent that cycle. Night and day the street
:06:05. > :06:06.triage team is in demand, but here they believe it's making
:06:07. > :06:09.a difference in getting We managed to reduce
:06:10. > :06:11.the numbers of attendance to the A, but what you get,
:06:12. > :06:14.you get high quality. You get mental health,
:06:15. > :06:16.police forces and paramedics working in collaboration together to look
:06:17. > :06:18.after one single patient. For many, A will remain
:06:19. > :06:21.the first place they turn to, the challenge is to help people
:06:22. > :06:40.who are vulnerable before Why are so many people with mental
:06:41. > :06:48.health issues turning up at accident and emergency? It is complex, there
:06:49. > :06:53.is increased awareness, people are more willing to talk about mental
:06:54. > :06:58.health, but campaigners say if people are reaching a crisis and
:06:59. > :07:01.feel the only place they can go is accident and emergency then that is
:07:02. > :07:06.a sign that the community services are not working well enough because
:07:07. > :07:11.they are not picking people up before they get that crisis.
:07:12. > :07:17.Emergency doctors believe the figures are an underestimate, if
:07:18. > :07:25.someone comes in having self harmed, that will go in a different column
:07:26. > :07:29.in the statistics. The gold standard is to prevent people needing to go
:07:30. > :07:31.to accident and emergency in the first place. The Department of
:07:32. > :07:35.Health has said the Prime Minister has made it clear that they are
:07:36. > :07:37.committed to improving mental health services in the NHS and across the
:07:38. > :07:41.community. Thank you very much. Today, there was more evidence
:07:42. > :07:43.of the pressure on A departments with leaked documents,
:07:44. > :07:46.seen by the BBC, showing that tens of thousands of patients in England
:07:47. > :07:48.were left waiting on trolleys Nearly 500 of them waited over 12
:07:49. > :07:53.hours, that's three times as many Our Health Editor,
:07:54. > :08:09.Hugh Pym has the story. This was life at one hospital on the
:08:10. > :08:16.front line today, even more hectic than usual, with an astonishing 20%
:08:17. > :08:21.more patients than last year. We are urging people to stay away if the
:08:22. > :08:27.problem is not urgent and seek care elsewhere. The beginning of January
:08:28. > :08:31.is always a busy time, much busier than this time last year. I think we
:08:32. > :08:37.will make it through the winter but it is going to be really hard for
:08:38. > :08:41.us. Since Christmas the NHS has been under immense pressure with some of
:08:42. > :08:45.the busiest ever days in hospitals. The Red Cross said there was a
:08:46. > :08:49.humanitarian crisis but this was denied by the government. The BBC
:08:50. > :08:59.has obtained internal figures revealing the scale of the pressure.
:09:00. > :09:05.A number of patients relying on trolleys for hours at a time because
:09:06. > :09:11.beds were not available. The figures come from 131 Hospital trusts in
:09:12. > :09:15.England, they sure there were 445 patients waiting more than 12 hours
:09:16. > :09:18.on trolleys in that week. That compares with 158 for the whole of
:09:19. > :09:25.January last year. One hospital missed the target of treating or
:09:26. > :09:37.assessing 95% of patients within four hours. For 80 just the outcome
:09:38. > :09:43.was below that. Jeremy Hunt hinted yesterday before our target might be
:09:44. > :09:50.changed to cover urgent cases only. Earlier he said some accident and
:09:51. > :09:54.emergency units had serious problems but had coped better than last year
:09:55. > :10:01.but there were experts that there were no -- warnings from expert but
:10:02. > :10:04.there were no easy solutions. We reduce the number of bed by half and
:10:05. > :10:16.we increase the number of admissions to double. It is about reaching a
:10:17. > :10:20.crisis situation. The data in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
:10:21. > :10:23.are not directly compatible and the data did not cover all hospitals but
:10:24. > :10:25.it acknowledged there was unprecedented demand.
:10:26. > :10:28.The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been under pressure to spell out
:10:29. > :10:31.exactly what Labour's position is on the free movement of people
:10:32. > :10:34.from the rest of the EU to Britain - one of the key issues
:10:35. > :10:45.In a speech he was expected to say they could ditch support for freedom
:10:46. > :10:50.of movement and a low EU citizens to move to the UK but later said he
:10:51. > :10:59.would not rule it out and said he did not think immigration was too
:11:00. > :11:03.high. Here's our political editor. Will you welcome what was billed as
:11:04. > :11:12.his position on Brexit? Everybody voted for a better future.
:11:13. > :11:21.On the biggest question, what was his verdict? I don't want to be
:11:22. > :11:26.misinterpreted, nor will we rule it out. We will demand that they give
:11:27. > :11:31.us the power to intervene decisively and prevent workers from here or
:11:32. > :11:38.abroad being used are exploited to undermine pay and conditions at
:11:39. > :11:40.work. The original version of his speech had suggested freedom of
:11:41. > :11:44.movement might be ditched but instead he wants to tighten up rules
:11:45. > :11:51.that allowed foreign workers to be exploited. Does that mean you want
:11:52. > :11:57.to see more or fewer people? It probably means there will be fewer
:11:58. > :12:01.but I think we should also recognise there is a massive contribution made
:12:02. > :12:05.to health service, education, manufacturing industry by people
:12:06. > :12:10.from all over Europe. You say there will probably be fewer people coming
:12:11. > :12:17.here, by how many? I cannot put a figure on it because we've not seen
:12:18. > :12:20.the work that has been done. Is it a question of principle? Employers
:12:21. > :12:25.should not be allowed to tear up existing arrangements in the
:12:26. > :12:30.construction industry or industries. We've asked you whether you think
:12:31. > :12:34.the levels are too high. Have you changed your mind? I've not. My mind
:12:35. > :12:39.is clear that we need to end the exploitation. We need to maintain
:12:40. > :12:46.market access within Europe and ensure there are good relations
:12:47. > :12:51.between communities. Do you want to... I want us to have market
:12:52. > :12:55.access and trade with Europe. That means continuing freedom of
:12:56. > :13:00.movement. Let's see what comes out of the negotiation. Mr Corbyn was in
:13:01. > :13:06.Peterborough, tone that has been changed by immigration. They worry
:13:07. > :13:11.that the approach does them no favours. The amount of immigration
:13:12. > :13:19.has not been good for Peterborough. A lot of foreigners are quite nice
:13:20. > :13:24.but the system cannot cope. I find Labour are confusing and I don't
:13:25. > :13:28.understand what the issues are. Jeremy Corbyn hopes he might have
:13:29. > :13:34.more appeal than pounds and pence. Income limits could be on the way. I
:13:35. > :13:38.think you need to look at each company and think, is it right that
:13:39. > :13:46.the chief Executive earns 100 times those that are doing the work that
:13:47. > :13:49.keeps the company going. After being expected to change direction, in the
:13:50. > :13:55.end he more or less stayed on the spot. It is sticking to principles
:13:56. > :13:58.that makes him the hero for his supporters but for his MPs it is a
:13:59. > :14:00.stubbornness that means they could be doomed to fail.
:14:01. > :14:03.A 15-year-old girl has been arrested after the death
:14:04. > :14:07.She was found in the Woodthorpe area of the city with serious injuries
:14:08. > :14:11.The teenager remains in custody and is being questioned by officers.
:14:12. > :14:35.In the last few minutes they've named the girl as Katie Ruff. What
:14:36. > :14:39.happened here sounds horrendous. Her mum and dad were here and they
:14:40. > :14:52.realised the enormity of the situation and how gravely their
:14:53. > :14:56.little girl was injured. This is Katie Ruff. She was found with fatal
:14:57. > :15:02.injuries. Her grandparents described her as the darling princess. Friends
:15:03. > :15:05.left flowers close to where she was discovered. She was very close
:15:06. > :15:16.friend to my daughter. She was a beautiful little girl. Beautiful
:15:17. > :15:19.family. People living in this cul-de-sac tries to help her mother,
:15:20. > :15:27.who arrived just after she was found. A woman ran up the street,
:15:28. > :15:33.she was shouting, help, help, call for an ambulance. I got halfway up
:15:34. > :15:37.and I could see a body lying in the field but the police were already
:15:38. > :15:41.there. Seven-year-old Katie died a short time after in hospital. A
:15:42. > :15:46.15-year-old girl has been arrested and is being questioned. About half
:15:47. > :15:47.a mile away, police have also been at a semidetached house as part of
:15:48. > :15:52.the enquiry. There's been a steep increase
:15:53. > :15:59.in the number of people arriving at A in England
:16:00. > :16:02.with mental health issues. Claire Hollingworth,
:16:03. > :16:08.who was first to report on the start of World War II,
:16:09. > :16:13.dies at the age of 105. Coming up in Sportsday in the next
:16:14. > :16:18.15 minutes, on BBC News. Kempton Park racecourse,
:16:19. > :16:22.home of the King George VI Chase, is set to be closed to make way
:16:23. > :16:25.for 3,000 new homes. The Jockey Club says
:16:26. > :16:30.it's for the long-term The Jockey Club says it's
:16:31. > :16:33.for the long-term benefit of racing. The governing body of world
:16:34. > :16:37.football, Fifa, has approved plans to expand the tournament from 32
:16:38. > :16:42.to 48 countries by 2026. The new format will feature 16
:16:43. > :16:45.Groups of three teams, with the top two of each Group
:16:46. > :16:48.going through to There'll now be a total of 80
:16:49. > :16:53.matches, but the winners will still only play seven games
:16:54. > :16:58.to lift the trophy. The move is projected to generate
:16:59. > :17:02.?800 million in additional revenue for Fifa through broadcasting,
:17:03. > :17:05.commercial and match-day income. Critics have called it a "money
:17:06. > :17:07.grab and a power grab." From Zurich, our Sports News
:17:08. > :17:09.correspondent, Richard Conway, has been talking to Fifa's new boss,
:17:10. > :17:24.Gianni Infantino. Fifa has finally cleared a path to a
:17:25. > :17:30.World Cup of 48 teams from 2026, 16 more countries will join football's
:17:31. > :17:35.flagship tournament. Speaking to me today, the world gov earning body's
:17:36. > :17:39.president insisted, in the face of much criticism, it's time for the
:17:40. > :17:44.sport to look beyond its traditional borders. Football has become a truly
:17:45. > :17:47.global game because many more countries, many more teams, will
:17:48. > :17:51.have the chance to qualify, so they will invest in developing football.
:17:52. > :17:55.They will invest in developing elite football as well as grass-roots
:17:56. > :17:59.football. They will invest in their technical developments and this will
:18:00. > :18:07.make sure that the quality raises. The growth of the World Cup will
:18:08. > :18:13.bring in revenue. Fifa stand to make ?500 million profit in 2026
:18:14. > :18:18.according tos it own research. . Was elected on a pledge to deliver a
:18:19. > :18:23.bigger competition insist it is not about cash and politics. It's not at
:18:24. > :18:27.all money and power grab, it's the opposite. It's a football decision.
:18:28. > :18:33.So the way we presented it was - OK - we present four for mats, every
:18:34. > :18:36.one of the four for mats has advantages in erms it of the
:18:37. > :18:41.financial situation which means we are in a comfortable situation to be
:18:42. > :18:49.able to take a decision simply based on the sporting merit. -- for mats.
:18:50. > :18:53.Asia and Africa stand to benefit the most when the extra 16 places are
:18:54. > :18:56.divided up. There will be more slots too for European nations. The
:18:57. > :18:59.Scottish FA welcomed today's decision, believing it will give
:19:00. > :19:05.them and others a better chance of qualifying. After a number of years,
:19:06. > :19:10.when Fifa was a by-word for corruption, it's new leadership is
:19:11. > :19:13.determined to assert itself. Gianni Infantino's task is now to convince
:19:14. > :19:17.his critics a reformed World Cup is a force for good. Richard Conway,
:19:18. > :19:24.BBC News Zurich. Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland's
:19:25. > :19:26.former First Minister, says Northern Ireland
:19:27. > :19:28.is "undoubtedly" heading for a period of direct
:19:29. > :19:30.rule from Westminster. Under the rules of the power-sharing
:19:31. > :19:32.Government, she was forced to step down as the First Minister yesterday
:19:33. > :19:35.after her partner in Government, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness,
:19:36. > :19:37.resigned his post as the Deputy The problems stem from a bitter row
:19:38. > :19:44.about a mismanaged energy scheme. THE SPEAKER: The Secretary of State
:19:45. > :19:47.for Northern Ireland. It all has echoes
:19:48. > :19:50.of unhappier times. In the House of Commons,
:19:51. > :19:53.a British minister was making Right honourable and honourable
:19:54. > :19:56.members should be in no doubt, the situation we face
:19:57. > :19:59.in Northern Ireland today is grave and the Government treats it
:20:00. > :20:03.with the utmost seriousness. The situation to which he was
:20:04. > :20:05.referring was the collapse of the power-sharing
:20:06. > :20:09.Government at Stormont. A decade of broad consensus
:20:10. > :20:12.between Republicans On the surface, it's
:20:13. > :20:18.about a green energy scheme, the cost of which was found
:20:19. > :20:22.to have been exorbitant. The scheme was originally overseen
:20:23. > :20:26.by the Democratic Unionist leader and the out going First Minister,
:20:27. > :20:31.Arlene Foster. The major sticking point between us
:20:32. > :20:34.over this last few weeks has been the fact that Sinn Fein would not
:20:35. > :20:37.agree to the establishment of an inquiry until I stepped
:20:38. > :20:40.aside as First Minister. For me, I felt to have done
:20:41. > :20:43.so would have led to the conclusion that I was guilty of something
:20:44. > :20:52.improper, which is not the case. Across in West Belfast the leader
:20:53. > :20:54.of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, was issuing two warnings -
:20:55. > :20:57.a return to direct rule from London would not be acceptable and neither
:20:58. > :21:00.would a return to the same power-sharing arrangements
:21:01. > :21:02.with the Democratic Unionists If the DUP think that they're
:21:03. > :21:14.going to waltz out of Government or are have an election and then
:21:15. > :21:18.waltz back into Government on the same terms as caused
:21:19. > :21:21.the collapse, then they'll have The politics of Northern Ireland can
:21:22. > :21:26.seem pretty impenetrable from outside, but here's
:21:27. > :21:28.the essential point - it took years to put together
:21:29. > :21:30.a successful power-sharing That Government oversaw
:21:31. > :21:34.peace and stability. There is uncertainty about how
:21:35. > :21:41.to put it all back together. Nicholas Witchell,
:21:42. > :21:48.BBC News, Belfast. There was more travel misery
:21:49. > :21:51.for hundreds of thousands of Southern Rail passengers today,
:21:52. > :21:53.as the network's drivers It's just the latest industrial
:21:54. > :22:01.action in a row between the unions and the company over plans
:22:02. > :22:06.for driver-only operated trains. As our transport correspondent,
:22:07. > :22:08.Richard Westcott, reports, it could More than 2,200 Southern services
:22:09. > :22:16.weren't running today. Platform 2 for the delayed
:22:17. > :22:21.0747 Thameslink service. Their passengers were forced
:22:22. > :22:24.to find other routes in. The whole situation seems
:22:25. > :22:26.like a complete joke. I'd like to know that
:22:27. > :22:29.when I get on the train, that I'm going to end up
:22:30. > :22:32.at my destination at a certain time. Well, this is the queue just to get
:22:33. > :22:35.into East Croydon station, all of these people are trying
:22:36. > :22:37.to get to London, it's It snakes around a lot,
:22:38. > :22:44.then actually goes down the side of the station,
:22:45. > :22:48.probably about 100 meters For nearly a year, they've been
:22:49. > :22:56.rowing about changes to the role Southern wants drivers to take over
:22:57. > :23:02.closing the train doors. The unions say that
:23:03. > :23:05.threatens safety and jobs. Southern says no-one's
:23:06. > :23:07.losing their post and the safety This is The Body Shop's
:23:08. > :23:19.new ?1 million lab in Croydon. They moved hundreds of staff
:23:20. > :23:23.here last year because of the great train service, but Southern's
:23:24. > :23:25.drivers aren't working overtime at the moment,
:23:26. > :23:27.causing delays and cancellations It's having a devastating effect
:23:28. > :23:33.on The Body Shop's staff. They're missing childrens birthdays,
:23:34. > :23:35.they can't arrange meetings, They're feeling stressed,
:23:36. > :23:43.tired and irritable and there's a number of people saying every day,
:23:44. > :23:46.from about 4.00pm, they're sitting getting more and more stressed
:23:47. > :23:48.about whether they're going to get home, at all, or on time
:23:49. > :23:50.for the commitment Back on board, several
:23:51. > :23:53.commuters said this. I mean the Government need
:23:54. > :23:56.to do something about it. So the BBC put the question
:23:57. > :23:59.to the Minister. REPORTER: What are you,
:24:00. > :24:01.as Transport Secretary, Don't you have a duty
:24:02. > :24:04.to step in on behalf... The Government's engaged day
:24:05. > :24:07.in and day out in trying to find a way to get this issued resolved,
:24:08. > :24:13.and we'll carry on doing that. In Merseyside, unions are fighting
:24:14. > :24:15.similar plans to bring It's Southern today,
:24:16. > :24:18.but this issue threatens It was the scoop of the century,
:24:19. > :24:31.the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland that triggered
:24:32. > :24:32.World War II. Today, Clare Hollingworth,
:24:33. > :24:34.the British war correspondent As a rookie reporter in Poland,
:24:35. > :24:40.she'd spotted German forces James Robbins looks back at her
:24:41. > :24:49.extraordinary life and career. This is a national
:24:50. > :24:59.programme from London. Germany has invaded Poland
:25:00. > :25:01.and has bombed many towns. But three days earlier,
:25:02. > :25:03.Clare Hollingworth's greatest scoop had already appeared in the Daily
:25:04. > :25:05.Telegraph. Alone, inside Germany,
:25:06. > :25:06.she'd seen the Nazis Aged 27 and a journalist
:25:07. > :25:12.for less than a week, a woman in a man's world had beaten
:25:13. > :25:18.the lot of them. 1939, I went out to Poland
:25:19. > :25:26.to become number two to Hugh Carleton Greene of BBC fame,
:25:27. > :25:33.and I got to Warsaw and he said, "one of us has got
:25:34. > :25:36.to go to the frontier." And I was on the German-Polish
:25:37. > :25:39.frontier when the German And Clare Hollingworth's
:25:40. > :25:43.scoops kept coming. In 1963, she uncovered Kim Philby's
:25:44. > :25:46.escape to Russia as an MI6 traitor. For weeks, the Guardian refused
:25:47. > :25:52.to publish, fearing a libel action. But above all, she was
:25:53. > :25:57.a war correspondent, across the Middle East
:25:58. > :25:59.and notably in Vietnam, I'm really passionately
:26:00. > :26:04.interested in war and if one is passionately interested
:26:05. > :26:07.in war, one can't help Last year in Hong Kong,
:26:08. > :26:15.fellow journalists celebrated Clare's 105th birthday as even more
:26:16. > :26:19.extraordinary stories emerged of her role before World War II,
:26:20. > :26:23.helping refugees escape the Nazis. In danger herself so many times,
:26:24. > :26:26.Clare Hollingworth was witness the great events across more
:26:27. > :26:30.than a century. Clare Hollingworth who has died at
:26:31. > :26:43.the age of 105. It is getting lively over the next
:26:44. > :26:45.few days. We have a weak weather front moving southwards and
:26:46. > :26:50.eastwards. Weak in terms of rainfall. As it moves through, a
:26:51. > :26:53.strong and cold wind coming from a long way north and west. Rain
:26:54. > :26:56.initially in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Head south across England
:26:57. > :27:01.and Wales it will become light and patchy. The winds will pick up to
:27:02. > :27:05.gale force and behind it a lot of showers, turning wintry over the
:27:06. > :27:08.higher ground in Scotland. A chilly night, major towns and cities in
:27:09. > :27:12.single figures and cold in the wind. The wind will be a key feature of
:27:13. > :27:16.things tomorrow. There could be travel disruption to the northern
:27:17. > :27:21.half of the UK with winds at 60mph-70mph. Maybe more. A Ross
:27:22. > :27:24.cross wind for the central lowlands of Scotland and quite a few showers.
:27:25. > :27:28.Showers and windy in Northern Ireland and northern England, too.
:27:29. > :27:31.The strongest winds over and to the east of the Pennines. Further south
:27:32. > :27:35.a blustery start to the day, not much in the way of rainfall. In the
:27:36. > :27:39.western side of Wales there will be a few showers early on. It's windy
:27:40. > :27:43.the further west you go. Gusts of wind 45mph through the morning. It
:27:44. > :27:46.will be windy to all parts through the day. The showers will be in
:27:47. > :27:49.Northern Ireland, northern England and in Scotland the snow showers
:27:50. > :27:53.will come down the mountains as we get on into the afternoon and
:27:54. > :27:58.evening. It will be cold across the board, seven to eight in the south,
:27:59. > :28:02.three or so in Glasgow. Factor in the wind and it will be colder than
:28:03. > :28:06.that. Snow showers continue across Scotland. Northern Ireland will see
:28:07. > :28:09.some into the early hours of Thursday. Some of it will get down
:28:10. > :28:18.to low levels. It will be cold, a touch of frost and icy patches
:28:19. > :28:22.northern England up to Scotland and Northern Ireland, too. Thursday,
:28:23. > :28:27.cold and windy day, snow showers around. Further south, wetter
:28:28. > :28:29.weather for Wales and England. We could see snow as well. Thank you
:28:30. > :28:32.very much. That's all from the BBC News at Six,
:28:33. > :28:35.so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:28:36. > :28:38.news teams where you are.