negotiations are opened with the government. a second day of ambulance strikes has been called off. royal mail estimates industrial action on friday and saturday will cost the company a £hundred million. here s our business correspondent, emma simpson. # we re striking in the rain! posties on the picket line again. six days of strike action this month, and christmas deliveries disrupted at what should be the busiest time of the year for royal mail. this is an increasingly bitter dispute. there won t be any regular deliveries now until december 28th. that s bad news for ben. tracked 2a hours and two weeks later still no sign of it. i can t even tell you how frustrated and angry i am. it was a present for my sister in law, it s a personalised bracelet. it is going to be a case of now everybody has a present other than her. , ., than her. but it s even more stressful than her. but it s even more stressful for than her. but it s even more stressful for small than her.
the gesture could mark a return to peace in the region after years of conflict. now on bbc news, it s time for review 2022 the cost of living. when big ben brought in the new year, few of us would have expected the year that was to follow. remember, in 2022 we started off very much in the grip of a global pandemic. who would have thought that another worldwide story would dominate the news agenda? tonight at ten, we are live in ukraine, a country at war, after a huge russian military offensive by land, sea and air. prices quickly rose to their fastest rate in over a0 years, and inflation touched everything, from our household bills to our wages and our hopes for the future. the global economy was already suffering from a long covid, with hold ups in supply chains causing headaches and higher bills for business. countries from france to finland faced a double blow of rising inflation, and at best, slowing growth, but a war in europe and the sanctions that followed changed ev
the reason is because we ve got these mild south westerly winds at the moment. this is the band of rain, the weather front, that swept right the way across the uk during friday, giving io ismm of rain, turning to snow over the scottish highlands and grampians, even at lower levels temporarily in the north. showers elsewhere, but largely frost free away from the chilliness in the north. so not particularly cold to start, but perhaps one or two mist and fog patches to watch out for first thing this morning. but then a lot of dry and bright weather for england and wales. the showers get going quite quickly across northern ireland, pushing into northern england and other western extremities. 0ur rain band with its hill snow slow to drag away, and it will stay in the cold air up in shetland all day. a lot of cloud behind, but temperatures will be higher, notably, for scotland than they were on friday. and it s mild across, not as windy. then, through the evening and overnight, those showers
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