Scotland. For england and wales, a cold night and we are likely to see freezing fog developing as temperatures dripped to about 6 in the coldest spots. Some freezing fog slow to clear tomorrow morning and also icy stretches on the road as well. The weather front clears out of scotla nd well. The weather front clears out of scotland and northern ireland, pushing some snowfall into Northern England but further south across england but further south across england and wales, largely dry with a bit of sunshine breaking through but in places, the freezing fog will linger all day and where it does, temperatures are struggling to get much above freezing. Further north, a return to sunnier skies but with some wintry showers from the north. Into friday, still slow moving weather front with us. Not a particularly active feature but it brings more snowfall during friday, almost anywhere across england and wales, most likely through parts of the midlands and into wales as well. Still a few flurrie
Rain to come for some before our attention turns to heavy snow in eastern scotland, i will have the details. Could freelancers finally be brought in to Government Support schemes . The covid emergency measures faces heavy criticism and is given six weeks to turn things around. In sport, they couldnt again, could they . Leicester city top the premier league this morning, five years after they won it against the odds. Its wednesday 20th january. Our top story. After a controversial four years, Donald Trumps presidency comes to an end later today, with the inauguration of the 46th president , joe biden. On the eve of his inauguration, mr biden spoke of the need for the nation to heal, as he led a Memorial Ceremony paying tribute to the 400,000 americans whove died with covid 19. Heres our washington correspondent nomia iqbal. Church bells rang out from the National Cathedral to remember the victims of covid 19. The reflecting pool at the National Mall was lit up for the 400,000 people who
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