nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. now it s time for the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so we need these satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which given the current c
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more so than overnight, they cloud thickens, and what that will do is it will alleviate to many frost issues across the north and west of scotland and northern ireland, but actually, for the majority, a cold night, and colder still across the south, with possibly a little bit of mist and fog for the morning rush, which should clear, and then england and wales, eastern scotland, eastern parts of northern ireland will have plenty of sunshine. but we will have that nuisance value rain further north and west, not really significant, just bring cloudy skies and a brisk wind, and some spots of rain and drizzle on the wind. that s this particular weather front, which, as it slips southwards into the high pressure by tuesday, it s weakening all the time. high pressure almost wringing out that weather front, so it sjust a band of cloud more than anything else, with a few spots of drizzle coming into cumbria and the rest of north west england. behind it, it brightens, temperatures around eight o
rain further north and west, not really significant, just bring cloudy skies and a brisk wind, and some spots of rain and drizzle on the wind. that s this particular weather front, which, as it slips southwards into the high pressure by tuesday, it s weakening all the time. high pressure almost wringing out that weather front, so it sjust a band of cloud more than anything else, with a few spots of drizzle coming into cumbria and the rest of north west england. behind it, it brightens, temperatures around eight or nine, so about average again. in the south, the fog could be a little slow to clear. frost once again. so a chillier six and seven here. under that high pressure throughout the week, we are going to struggle with issues of frost and fog, which make it a bit chillier by day. you can see that mulling around on wednesday morning. in contrast, by the time we get to wednesday, the isobars are tightening up towards the north and we have gale force, possibly severe gale force winds