Celsius on tuesday. In fact, for the rest of the week, therell be little change in the temperatures. It is going to stay on the cold side with showers initially to start the week. But as we go through thursday and friday, we may well see an area of rain and snow begin to spread in from the north west. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines parents in england should send their children to Primary School tomorrow, the Prime Minister says but warns tougher measures may be needed in the weeks ahead, and refuses to rule out further school closures. It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I dont. | mean, im fully, fully reconciled to that and i bet the people of this country are reconciled to that. Indias medicines regulator gives the go ahead for two coronavirus vaccines as it starts one of the worlds biggest vaccination programmes. The oxford jab will be used alongside a locally developed vaccine. And israel leads the wor
The clearest skies will be where we have the lowest temperatures, west scotland and Northern Ireland potentially seeing lows down to about minus seven, minus eight degrees celsius. But a frost is going to be widespread. And, again, theres a risk of icy stretches to take us on into sunday. Sunday, well, weve changed the wind direction, its going to come in from the north east, but weve not really changed how the weather feels. Its going to be another cold day. Showers widespread, east scotland, eastern areas of england, pushing westwards across the midlands, into wales and South West England with time. The best of the dry weather and sunshine for northern and western scotland and Northern Ireland. But even in the sunshine, it is still going to be cold. Temperatures four to six degrees celsius. Now, on into next week, weve still got an area of High Pressure sat across scandinavia steering in these cold north easterly winds. Again, well see further showers, widespread showers at that, acr
Of thousands of jobs as the economy struggles against covid 19, leaving an estimated 1. 7 Million People out of work. Our Business Correspondent sarah corker caught up with some of them. Three people who all lost theirjobs because of the pandemic. 0lympia, rebecca and heather were facing the toughestjobs market for a generation. Weve got no money coming in, so well survive as long as we can. I first met 0lympia and herfamily back in may. She was touring as part of a circus troupe when the first lockdown restrictions came in and they were stranded on morecambe seafront for months. With no money coming in, it was a real struggle. Its fear. Fear that. That i might not ever be able to do what i love again, which is perform, in the circus, because we might not recover. Since then, things have got better. 0lympias moved in with her mum in rotherham to save money, and wait until they re allowed to perform again. Financially its been a big strain. Its been massive. Like i say, we normally work
Will close to most pupils from later today until the february half term due to the lockdown, and summer exams will mostly be cancelled. Our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. Some schools did not reopen today staff too worried about the new variant of covid. Tonight, the Prime Minister accepting the virus spreads in schools. And i want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for children. Children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant of covid. The problem is that schools may nonetheless act as vectors fortransmission, causing the virus to spread between households. For secondary schools and teenagers, another massive u turn. Gcses and a levels will be cancelled. Emily, due to sit seven gcses, and her mum nicola were stunned. I was just really shocked and really upset. I feel like ive done so much work. The gcses have been like my whole entire goal for two whole years. I dont know how the teachers are going to. I dont know wh
Quite harsh again in the north, perhaps a little lighter, the frost, further south, but nevertheless a frost, a cold start. Slightly changing the distribution of the showers for tomorrow because we are picking up more of a north easterly compared with the northerly today, and a bracing north easterly as well, which will accentuate the chill. More showers in central and eastern areas. But cold wherever you are. The warnings are on the website. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines pressure grows to shut more schools. Unions are demanding an immediate two week closure of all primaries and secondaries in england. A new warning over hospitals in parts of the uk. The president of the Royal College of physicians says some are now facing a worse situation than at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. The government is to open ten additional covid testing centres across england for hauliers heading to france, to speed up processing at ports. India begins a nationwide mock drill to test i