Developing and some nuisance cloud in the south which will continue to drift in off the coast, where temperatures will stay above freezing. To the Northern Ireland is to the Northern Isles we had some nuisance showers at. Temperatures will be falling like a stone, the exception being where the cloud is down in the south. In the sheltered glens of scotla nd south. In the sheltered glens of scotland temperatures could get down to 10 scotland temperatures could get down to 10 once again. A hard frost likely up in the north, but some decent spells of sunshine coming through. The easterly breeze will continue to bring in cloud and a bit of drizzle, a drabjanuary day and for all of us its going to feel cold. This is bbc news. Our latest headlines. Theresa may defends the governments record on the nhs, insisting it was better prepared for the pressures of winter than it had been before, despite hospitals having to postpone tens of thousands of non urgent operations. Weve put some extra money in for coping with the winter pressures and weve also announced that over the next couple of years, there will be further money going into the National Health service. Havent got a plan to get those people off the trolleys in corridors, those elderly people, this freezing january, being treated in ambulances. The Prime Minister is to carry out a Cabinet Reshuffle tomorrow, amid reports that several ministers could be sacked or moved. Some of britains largest retailers, including b q, wickes, morrisons and the co op, agree to stop selling acids and corrosive substances to customers under 18 years old. Now on bbc news, we continue our life stories season, with celebrating life at 117. Welcome to my great grandmothers 117th birthday. Right now, she is taking pictures of people who have come to see her and celebrate this big day with her. Theres more than 90 years difference between me and her. Shes 117 and i am just 23. Im priscilla ngethe. And im returning to my ancestral home in kenya to celebrate a remarkable birthday of one of the oldest people in the world my great grandmother, elizabeth koinange. I am here to discover the secrets of her long life as she throws a party and reunites five generations of my family. Applause. This is kiambu, where i was born. Its about ten miles from nairobi, the capital of kenya. This fertile land has been home to the kikuyu tribe and to my family, the koinanges, for at least six generations. Today, there are hundreds of koinanges like me, spread around the world. I am returning from my home in london to visit a woman very close to my heart who has never left kenya but has cultivated a globalfamily. We arejust heading up to my great grandmas house. The road is quite bumpy because it is like a makeshift road. This is a shrine where most of my family are buried my great granddad, my granddad, his children and his five wives. My great grandma is the fifth wife out of six. We are heading up to my great grandmas home. She lives right by the side of where my great granddad used to live, and i am really excited to see her. Here she is hi hello how are you . Im fine. It is good to see you. Good to see you. She is fine. Long time. Long time many years. This is my great grandmother, Elizabeth Gathoni koinange. She is going to be 117. This is my great aunt irene, and she is here to help me with the translations, because i can understand everything my great grandmother tells me, but to speak kikuyu is really difficult. Great grandma elizabeth has lived on this land for 90 years. She grew up tending cattle on her fathers farm, then moved here as a young bride and raised seven children. She built this house with profits from the farm. My great grandmother is proud of her government identity card. It doesnt show the exact month or day that she was born, but does have her year of birth as 1900. The kikuyu tribal tradition of age groups gives the same name to all children born in the same year. My great grandmother belongs to the kihiu mwiri age group, which means we know that she was born some time between 1899 and 1900. Do you remember when you got married . And how do you remember your wedding day . Is it force . Force. So. She was brought by force, she was married by force because she was too young. Yeah. And at that time, she didnt want to get married to an old person because she was the fifth wife. Great grandmother elizabeth was the fifth of six wives of senior chief koinange. He worked with the british during colonial rule and is well known in kenya for playing a part in the countrys independence. So, was it difficult for you to be the fifth wife . Leonard koinange is elizabeths sixth child and he is my great uncle. He lives next door to my great grandmother and was a child during the 1950s, when his father, senior chief koinange, was detained during the mau mau uprising. The mau mau uprising was a revolt against european ownership of land. File mau mau suspects were being checked prior to interrogation. All were members of the kikuyu, the tribe which has suffered most from the mau mau. A state of emergency was declared in kenya, and although it eventually led to the end of british rule, it was a tough time for my great grandparents and for my uncle leonard. In 1952, my father was taken into detention. Kenya had been declared emergency and he was detained for the next seven years, he was in detention. We used to be children of a chief. We became beggars. We were being helped by those people we would have called poor. During now the mau mau, it was not only affecting our family, it affected other families. One of my aunties, who had i think there were nine children, my mother took them and already, she had taken two other children who belonged to her sister who had died my mothers sister. So, we were my mother was raising about 20 children. Yeah so we had a lot of. It was not you know . It was chaotic, you know . Like, we were fighting for food. This shrine is the resting place of my great grandfather. He lies alongside his five wives, and there is a space reserved for my great grandmother elizabeth. As theirs was a polygamous marriage, visiting this shrine puts into perspective how large the chiefs family really was. My great grandfather is resting here but his legacy is living on in hundreds of descendants. What do you think about polygamy today . Would you advise me to go down that route . You wouldnt like me to, no . You were the last one to practise polygamy. Does that mean that our family will now be smaller and smaller, and how do you feel about that . So you wouldnt want me to just have one or two kids, you want me to have five, six. . Regardless of how many children i may have in the future, there is no doubt that the family is growing. My great grandmother gave birth to seven children and there are tens of grandchildren. My father was one of them and i am his second child of three, making me one of many, many great grandchildren to elizabeth. Who is in those pictures, that one there . And is that you . Who is in those pictures, that one there . And is that you . So pretty that picture there, the one i think its you and those kids around you. I can see that photographs play a big part in my great grandmothers life. To celebrate her birthday, she is throwing a party. And we are going to attempt something very special a family photograph, a living family tree, with five generations of my family and my great grandmother at the centre. But with so many people involved, it could take a while. The first of january is a big day for my great grandmother, elizabeth koinange. She has invited family and friends to celebrate her 117th birthday. Weve travelled far and wide and it is a chance for me to reunite with my kenyan family. So your family, your children, childrens children, they are all spread out across the world like me in london. Do you like that we are all over the world now . So, have you always celebrated on 1st january, since you can remember . Right now, everyone is preparing the food. There is going to be loads of meat, loads of vegetables. So, now, i think its time to get changed, as all the guests are slowly arriving, so im going to wear something that is a bit more comfortable. By throwing this party, my great grandmother is continuing the tradition started by her late husband, of gathering friends and family together on the first day of the year. So right now, the party is in full swing. Most people have eaten. There are still some people getting served over here. We still have some late arrivals coming in, as youd expect. We have my great uncle right now giving a speech and saying once everyone has eaten, the whole family, everyone get together and take a Group Picture of our family tree. Next, its time for the guest of honour to take the microphone. Time for cake, and one of elizabeths granddaughters does the honours. Happy birthday. Happy birthday great grandmother puts her longevity down to a diet of boiled yam and milky tea. But for today, she is happy to indulge. Shes been given some cake and the first people to be given some cake was everyone named after my great grandad. So what was said was, all the koinanges, come and give your grandmother, you great grandmother, your great great grandmother some cake and i think shes happy, she shes a lot of cake. Hopefully when im old and 100 years old, i will be fed cake by all the people who come after me. Its a beautiful thing and im quite jealous, to be honest so, were just going to wait. Im going to choke. This cake is good were just going to wait for my great grandmother to go to where theyre all taking a family picture. 0nce shes sat down, well all start moving into that area. 0rganising so many people is a tough task. Everybody is keen to catch up. And while great grandmother patiently waits, its a chance to meet relatives i didnt know i had. Do you know how were related . This is my cousin. Cousin. . So, his son is your dad . Hello. Hi, hi, hi. Thank you very much. Lam youraunt. Yeah . Im youraunt. People are so excited to see each other that theyre socialising and theyre slowly, slowly, slowly moving towards this way. So hopefully we get the picture by the end of the day. First to join our living family tree, great grandmother elizabeth. Surrounded by her six surviving children, who have a combined age of more than 400. Next to join, my aunts and uncles. So now that their generation has been called, so that means the people who call grandmother their great grandmother, so i nowjoin. My mother has been holding this party for about 20 years. She enjoys it. She would like to do it every quarter of the year. She is happy to see her family coming together. She has become like a pillar for the family unit. Camera clicks applause many of us enjoy tracing our family tree but for most families, gathering so many generations together like this is impossible. Its no surprise that people have travelled from far and wide because great grandmother elizabeths enthusiasm for life is infectious. I finally got my selfie. Hers is a life well lived, a life focused on providing her descendants advantages that she didnt get to enjoy. Faith, love and food are the fundamentals of my great grandmothers life. And although she rarely leaves her small house, the world comes to her, to her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, like me. One of the things which i like about her, and i think this is god given, is her memory, because she doesnt get old. If you come here, you say hello to her and talk to her, next time you come, she will remember you very well. She cant forget. Bye improvements in medicine mean we can all expect a longer life. But its how you live it that really matters. And for this, my great grandmother elizabeth is my inspiration. Hello. For most of us this is how sunday has shaped up, quite a cold and frosty start, as we can see from the lovely weather watcher pictures. 0nce the lovely weather watcher pictures. Once the frost lifted, many of us had a cool day with some sunny skies. Were still under the influence of the cold air for a time, but out in the atlantic there are indications of something just 110w are indications of something just now show milder starting to come in for the middle of the week. This evening we will have a little bit more of a breeze developing. Some cloud down to the south which will pitchers here will stay above freezing. Further north those clear skies will allow temperatures to drop likea skies will allow temperatures to drop like a stone. In the sheltered glens of scotland we will widely see those of 10. So, a cold, frosty start in scotland, Northern Ireland and northern england. With lighter winds starting to develop, still the odd spot of drizzle but i suspect fog could be more of a problem early on tuesday morning, some of its dense and slow to move away. It will prevent temperatures from falling too low on tuesday first thing. But it could be quite a tricky start. And a changing weather story as this system comes in from the atlantic. Ahead of it it will be dragging in some southerly winds, slightly less cold air. So that will be rain rather than snow. And we will still have the winds coming in off the north sea as well. So that will feel cold on the east coast. Eventually we will see some rain, which will be heavy along west facing coasts. It will be moving fairly quickly north and east. Some of it will be heavy for a time before it grinds to a halt across the north east of scotland. So, its a messy story on wednesday with me for all of us at some point. A ridge of High Pressure building after that, giving some sunshine. So, the week ahead looks likely to start off cold, with some rain midweek and something a little less cold following on behind. This is bbc news. The headlines at five theresa may defends the governments record on the nhs, insisting it is properly funded for coping with the winter pressures. We have put extra money into coping with the winter pressures. We also announced in the budget in november there will be further money going into the National Health service. You havent got a plan to get those people off the trolleys in corridors. Those elderly people this freezing january being treated in ambulances. The Prime Minister will carry out a Cabinet Reshuffle tomorrow there are reports that several ministers could either lose theirjobs or be moved. 32 people are missing after a collision between an oil tanker and a cargo ship in the east china sea