Off tonight with arsenal looking for seasonal jeweller by off tonight with arsenal looking for seasonaljeweller by replacing liveable in the Top Four Champions League places. Seasonaljoy. Liverpool. Six breakfast presenters, what could possibly go wrong . And carol has the weather. The forecast for the next few days is mild. Rain at times. Also windy across the north west. The brightest conditions in the east and north east. Good morning. First, our main story. Hundreds of miles of roadworks have been suspended by highways england as the great christmas getaway begins. Today is predicted to be the busiest travel day of the festive period, with millions of extra vehicles taking to the roads. Theres good news for rail travellers as planned strike action on the west coast mainline has been called off. Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn is at the racs headquarters in walsall. How is it looking . It looks like it might be the calm before the storm. Still looking pretty quiet out there. And in
Current and former presenters look back at hardtalk over the last 20 years. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Weather warnings are in place for parts of Northern England and scotland today after heavy snow and blizzard conditions affected large parts of the uk. Glasgow airport was closed for a few hours with flights suspended, but has now reopened. The temperature plunged to 12c at Loch Glascarnoch in the Scottish Highlands overnight and forecasters say driving conditions will remain difficult for the rest of the day. Judith moritz reports. Grounded at glasgow, flights at the citys airport were suspended after snow settled overnight. The airport reopened by mid morning, but managers have apologised for the knock on disruption that was caused. Temperatures plummeted in scotland. Heavy snow fell in glasgow city centre, and in the highlands the mercury fell to 12 celsius on what the met office described as the coldest night of the year. Gritters have been covering the major routes,
Stop drinking before it becomes a problem. Nhs england will make a decision early next year, which could ease the pressure on police, ambulances and hospital services. Adina campbell, bbc news. Cricket, and englands attempt to win the fourth ashes test in melbourne have been frustrated by the rain. At stumps on day four, australia were 103 2 in their second innings, trailing englands first innings total by 61 runs. With more from melbourne, heres patrick gearey. At last for england, some hope, a chance to cheer without lurking fear, to read and not weep. Why isnt Alastair Cook on the front cover . That score remained correct. Cooks third day of batting lasted one ball. He watched it, Jimmy Anderson hit it, Cameron Bancroft caught it. Cook carried his bat unbeaten a lesson in focus and patience. England needed to bowl in a similarfashion. Waiting worked initially. They removed Cameron Bancroft, then produced enough movement to tempt usman khawaja. England were still nearly 100 ahead and
Busy accident and emergency units. The nhs considers making mobile drunk tanks a permanent feature across england. And in half an hour, and in halfan hour, i and in half an hour, i will be looking back on a momentous year in politics that saw the brexit negotiations getting under way, and, oh, yeah, that general snap election. That is the year in politics with me, ellie price. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Weather warnings are in place for parts of Northern England and scotland today after heavy snow and blizzard conditions affected large parts of the uk. Glasgow airport was closed for a few hours, with flights suspended, but has now reopened. The temperature plunged to 12c in the Scottish Highlands overnight and forecasters say driving conditions will remain difficult for the rest of the day. Judith moritz reports. Grounded at glasgow, flights at the citys airport were suspended after snow settled quickly overnight. The airport reopened by mid morning, but managers have apol
Thats in half an hour. Snow and ice have led to another day of travel disruption in parts of the uk. Passengers at Glasgow Airport faced delays, after heavy snow caused flights to be suspended for a while. There was snow too across Northern England and the southern pennines. The rac has warned that driving conditions will be very difficult, if not impossible, in the worst affected areas. Our correspondent Judith Moritz reports. Grounded at glasgow flights at the citys airport were suspended after snow settled quickly overnight. The airport reopened by mid morning, but managers have apologised for the knock on disruption which was caused. Temperatures plummeted to as low as minus 12 celsius in scotland. The ploughs were out, shovelling industrial quantities of snow on the m90 motorway near dunfermline, though it wasnt enough to keep all drivers on the road. In towns and villages nearby, the spades were out to clear the way. Shes just come in for a packet of cigarettes, and shes decided