Into the cold air there is a risk of icy stretches and even some smoke as the wet weather moves in across the northern half of the uk where it is still very cold. We may even find snow falling in scotland, that will lift onto the hills by the evening. By lift onto the hills by the evening. By this stage the wet weather has cleared away from northern ireland. Snow over the pennines into the cumbrian fells as well. Further south, more rain. Whilst we are seeing increasing cloud, it is still called this evening and frosty with a good covering of snow around as well. So icy conditions likely through this evening as the wet weather pushes eastwards. It will sweep across the whole again. Sufficiently close to zero to bring the risk of more ice, and the greatest risk of disruption due to icy weather may well be across scotla nd icy weather may well be across scotland and Northern England. Through the morning tomorrow, we will see cloud and showery outbreaks of rain pushing eastwards across al
Whether by role, road, rail or nl. A scheme offering shopping vouchers to new mothers could help them breast feed their babies. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The latest inflation figures out this morning show the rate has risen to its highest level in nearly six years, suggesting that the squeeze on what households can afford, continues. The office for National Statistics said that airfares and Computer Games contributed to the increase. Our business correspondent, ben bland, is here. The governor has to write a letter to the chancellor. Debbie remind people what we are talking about. These are the average increases in prices in november compared with the vendor last year. On average how much they have changed. The figure is 3. 1 . That is the average increase in prices. For everything from food to fuel, hotels the hairdressers, the lot. There is variation within that. But as you say, the governor of the bank of england, one of his mainjob is to get inflation to hit 2 . I
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