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jet ski champion turned real life green goblin franky zapata has been zipping around our airways for a while now but four years on, i m back to meet the hoverboard inventor who many have branded a daredevil. it s wrong, you know? i m just a dreamer that is doing everything he can to achieve his dream. and franky certainly has been dreaming, big. this is huge. what s up here, then? thanks to a deep pocketed german investor, he s taken his business to new heights. he s got workers behind desks and lab counters, workshops, and even a factory floor grand halls for grand ideas. we plan to build 1,000 machines a year. i m here to see his latest inovation, thejetracer. check this out! sadly, i m not legally permitted to fly this thing due to french regulation. and let s definitely not mention the fact that i m dangerously close to the maximum weight limit of 110kg. so, it s over to franky to show us how it s done. enjoy the flight. rock music plays. with ten rocket fuel powered je
last week the hard line rulers announced women were banned from attending university. now on bbc news our world: harvesting turkey s tea. hello there. for most of us, christmas day is going to turn out to be quite a mild day with temperatures pushing into double figures. on saturday, we did manage a bit of sunshine across the midlands and north east england but otherwise it was a lot of clout around it we will continue to feed in rather cloudy skies for christmas day as well with the south westerly winds dragging in mild air around this area of low pressure to the north. it s really late in the day that we ll start to see some colder air returning, particularly to parts of scotland and in the northwest of scotland late on you could see a few snow showers. so one or two of you could see a white christmas. but for most, it s going to be a mild day for christmas. south westerly winds then will continue to push bursts of rain across the country. the wettes
showers following to the south where it stays quite breezy and mild. now, as this rain band starts to move into the colder air in scotland, we might actually start to see it turn to snow. there is quite a bit of uncertainty about this one, but we could see some heavy snow not just affecting some of the hillier areas, but maybe also getting down to some lower levels. as i say, there is a degree of uncertainty in that kind of forecast, but stay in touch with the weather if you live in scotland and you re worried about those snowy conditions heading into new year s day. new year s day itself, it stays quite cold in scotland. any snow will slowly begin to fizzle in intensity. further southwards, we ve got the mild air with us again. still a few showers around, but those temperatures, 12, 13 degrees celsius that s still around 5 celsius above the december average. now, beyond that, generally those south westerly winds will continue to blow across much of the uk well into the start of the
heading into new year s day. new year s day itself, it stays quite cold in scotland. any snow will slowly begin to fizzle in intensity. further southwards, we ve got the mild air with us again. still a few showers around but those temperatures, 12, 13 degrees celsius that s still around 5 celsius above the december average. now, beyond that, generally, those south westerly winds will continue to blow across much of the uk well into the start of the new year, so it s going to be quite cloudy at times with outbreaks of rain. quite breezy but, on the whole, staying on the mild side. bye bye.