No. I would be somewhere warmer, i think. The weather is getting cold. We have been forecasting this for about a week now, possibly even longer. There is no change to our thinking of what is going to happen over the next few days. The cold air has reached central and is western parts. It is below freezing during the day and some major cities. But cold weather is edging our way. We are an island which means we are kept a little bit more sheltered for the time being. That little bit milder than the rest of europe. Temperatures will start tumbling in the uk. They will remain freezing during the night just like the uk. They will remain freezing during the nightjust like this coming night into sunday but as we go to the two or three days we will see temperatures around freezing or below, even during the daytime. Sunday, bit like today. A glorious day out there with some clouds in the sky particularly across these eastern areas. Temperatures touching two or three degrees but it will feel colder than that in the first snow showers arrived on monday. A lot of cold wintry weather on the way. This is bbc news our latest headlines. Great britain achieves its highest ever medal tally in the Winter Olympics with the record fifth medal secured by billy morgan, taking bronze in the mens snowboard big air event. Several well known American Companies cut ties with the countrys National Rifle association, following last weeks mass shooting at a school in florida. The aid charity, plan international, reveals six recent cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children involving its staff, volunteers or partner organisations. And britain is set for the coldest february week in five years with temperatures expected to drop to minus eight in some areas. The met office has issued an amber cold weather alert, which warns of increased health risks to vulnerable and elderly people. Lets get more now on the cold snap that will affect the whole of the uk from sunday night. Temperatures are expected to drop to minus eight in some areas. Joining me now is martin tett, spokesman transport for the local government association. What sort of reparations can you make . When you get a warning like this, if you days notice of a very cold snap. What can you do to get ready for that . The cancer has been monitoring weather forecasts, and we have already had a wet winter so far, which is doing damage to roads, but seeing the court coming back significant. Were gritting the roads and making sure that social Services Teams are on hand. People focus on the roads, but one of the difficult things is, role, Vulnerable People who rely on social care and we need to look after them. On this question of vulnerability of people, i suppose people most vulnerable are those who sleep outdoors, those who sleep rough. Lots of experienced rough sleepers will tell you about things like trying to find a krill near a building with air conditioning systems. The sap a concern . Absolutely. Many councils have a Severe Weather emergency protocol, so Severe Weather emergency protocol, so they wouldnt working closely with charities and organisations to match up rough sleepers with accommodation. What you dont want is the threat of people sleeping out in these conditions. I would urge anyone who is rough sleeping to contact local councils and look at what we can do to place them somewhere suitable. At a time like this, they will get a sympathetic eating . Absolutely. Councils are aware that this is not a good thing for anybody to be doing, but in Severe Weather, it is quite dangerous. Lets talk about gritting the roads. Are you confident about supplies of grit and salt at the moment . Yes, one of the things councils have been doing is stocking up councils have been doing is stocking up on salt and crypt. There are Something Like 1. 5 Million Tonnes in stock across england at the moment. We know bad weather is on the way, we know bad weather is on the way, we have plenty of stock at the moment. But one of the things people dont always understand is we do to every road. I get lots of e mails asking why we havent been down their roads. We start with the main roads, then each council will have a list of secondary roads they move onto once the main roads are done. If you have an area where there are two roads, you might choose one and eve ryo ne two roads, you might choose one and everyone will have to adapt their journeys to make sure there always at least access point. That is the normal way councils will operate. You can go into the Council Website and that information is in the public domain. Quite a few councils have maps of the area and youll be able to see the columns of grit is moving around the roads, so you can track them. They give nicknames to the gritting lorries. He mentioned the gritting lorries. He mentioned the condition of the roads. Its already been an issue. The council says we have less money and therefore spend less on the roads. How much damage does severe cold weather due to the roads . Its intense. I get those of complaints about the state of the roads. They are right, quite frankly. It is the rain more than anything that does the damage. What gets into the cracks of the surface and then it freezers. What expands when it is frozen, lift up the top layer, then what gets down further and thats when you get Severe Damage to the roads. What and overnight freezing is doing a lot of damage. The cumulative effect. Yes, what we need is more money from government. Councils are desperate to repair roads, but we dont have the resources , roads, but we dont have the resources, so roads, but we dont have the resources, so the standard is not what residents should expect. We are told this cold snap might last for a month. Were reduced to a short snaps, a week at most, but were not used to situations where it goes on for several weeks. Not the most of england. Now, obviously there are parts of the uk which suffer more cold weather, but at this time of year, you start to see the bulbs coming up, so is unusual to see this cold snap quite so late in the year. Martin, good luck. Thanks were coming in. Lets go back to the womens curling bronze medal match. Japan are on their final stone, it could be the final end, as they call. This england versus sorry, tea m call. This england versus sorry, team gb versus japan, with eve muirhead steam. Team gb versus japan, with eve muirhead s team. Just chatting to eve. Japan have to be very careful here, because she doesnt want to ta ke here, because she doesnt want to take it in the back half. A final stone unless we have an extra end, trying to draw in. She has been superb with the draw all the way through this match. What has she delivered for them here . Is it the chance for a bronze medal . They have never won a medal. Eve muirhead still has a stone to go. This might just catch the yellow. It may well have blocked the way in. As it sits, Great Britain have a shot. If nothing else happened, if they walked off the ice now, if eve muirhead didnt try to do anything, then we have one and we are tied. Is there anyway eve muirhead can get in for a hear . Is the back thread third shot . No, its not. It looks nice. What eve is thinking is come down with a fair bit of weight here, i imagine not too much, but that yellow one to the red. The red jams that cross the other yellow. 0k. Right, eve muirhead, you have seen the shots, we have seen it, you make this, its a bronze medal. Get it wrong, you could give it away. Who would want to be playing this stone . Great opportunity to finish the game of. This is it, right there. Eve muirhead, final stone, the bronze medal awaits if she can play a shot here to get herself in for two. She has got to hit this yellow onto the other red. It has two just sit right, and its not. Oh, my goodness. And that means the bronze medal goes to japan. Their first ever medal in curling. Eve muirhead had the chance to win it. She went for the win. Didnt come off. And there are there is all around down there. No medal for Great Britain. Japan can hardly believe it. They almost made it to the final. Victory forjapan. They almost made it to the final. Victory for japan. They have almost made it to the final. Victory forjapan. They have had a rough ride during the course of the last couple of days, disappointments for tea m couple of days, disappointments for team gb. The still have the hope of the bronze, but sadly, right at the end, in that last end of the ends, that would otherwise have been a play off between the two, japan just edged it. No bronze medalfor england in the womens curling. Last opportunity for team gb in the Winter Olympics, but we shouldnt be too down. It is a record medal is whole, we have never had five medals in the winter Olympic Games before. We have had two games with four medals, but before that, you have to go back more than 80 years, to 192k, and the winter Olympic Games in france, which was the last time britain won four medals. After all the extra investment, five medals in these winter Olympic Games. Those five medals at least put us into a very respectable place for the next winter games. Delight forjapan, disappointment for team gb, but after a good Winter Olympics, a successful Winter Olympics for the british team. The man who exposed the russian olympic doping scandal says his countrys athletes should not be allowed to parade under their National Flag at the closing ceremony of the winter games this weekend. Dr grigory rodchenkovs revelations of state sponsored doping saw the country banned from the olympics, its athletes forced to compete as neutrals. In fear of his life, dr rodchenko went into hiding. 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