if you thought we d left winter behind, technically we have, next week you may well be doubting that because it is set to turn colder, cold enough for some of us to see some snow. more on that in a moment. back to the here and now, we ve got a lot of cloud around, its quite quiet, not moving quickly as far as the weather goes this afternoon. a lot of cloud, some showers through scotland, northern ireland and northern england, the best of the sunshine in south wales and southern england and temperatures where they have been during the week, 7 10, not particularly windy. tonight we will see more cloud rolling westwards across england into east wales, northern ireland and southern scotland. staying pretty cloudy. there could be the odd light shower. but when we see leo breaks in west wales, the south west of england, the north west of scotland, we could see a touch of frost but it s also when we have the chance for sunshine tomorrow, the best of that across northern and central
afternoon will be voting on raising council tax by 9.9%. acutely aware that people are really struggling out there and we will do everything in our power to keep it as low as possible. unfortunately, in conwy, we traditionally have had a very low rate of council tax in comparison with our neighbours. as a result, our reserves have dropped and we are no longer in a position where we can use reserves to try and prop up our budget, so that is the figure that we ve arrived at and it is a balance. we know people will struggle to pay council tax. at the lower end of the scale, torfaen, blaenau gwent and denbigh council range between 1.9 and 3% increase. it differs wherever you live. from the coast to the valleys of conwy, the rise proposed will affect many, and though support is available, it was a lukewarm reception in llanrwst to the plans. yeah, it s going to be had for everyone, isn t it? there s. .. yeah. everybody s got to tighten up. it s a bit too steep. i think they should look at i