Millions of shoppers across the country have headed to the high street today for the traditional boxing day sales. In some places the queues began to form outside stores in the early hours of the morning, with Research Suggesting that one in three people went in search of a bargain today. But some retailers have reported large numbers of people deciding to look for bargains online today instead. And analysts say that footfall in high streets and Shopping Centres across the uk has been lower than expected. Duncan kennedy is in southampton. It is looking rather quiet tonight, duncan. Yes, its around about six oclock, things are starting to wind down but managers in centres like this one are saying they had the high footfall day, in other words there are plenty of people coming into Shopping Centres like this one across the country, but have they been spending . It is raining here in the south and other parts of the country but we are told that has not stopped millions of people coming ou
The avalanche risk is very high. This is how much snow we have seen over the last 48 hour, 160 centimetre, that is about there on me. It would be my head poking out from that snow fall here in the uk, after a sunny day yesterday in the northern half of the uk, the weather has changed. The sheet of cloud is pushed northward and for the vast imaginei pushed northward and for the vast imagine i the the skies look Something Like this. Grey. Misty and foggy. Something like this. Grey. Misty and foggy, we have drizzle round as will. There are a few hole, cumbria is sitting in a hole and western scotland. You will see a bit of sunshine here. Little overall change in the weather, little prospects for most of us seeing much sunshine at all. Cold in the north east, sill that wind blowing. But, we are going to see a change in the weather this evening. This atlantic weather front is coming our way. It will push in as we go through the first part of the evening with the rain heavy, before spreading
Indicating weather heavy snow is likely to be falling. That will cause some problems out and about as we look at the rush hour for tuesday. The snow coming down very heavily. With 5 10 centimetres of snow expected over higher parts of scotland, down further south if you centimetres could cause problems on the roads. Similarfor parts of Northern Ireland and the cumbrian fells. Further south, a bit more of a mixture. Youre more likely to see a mixture. Youre more likely to see a spell of link rain across southern counties of england. The rain grinds toa counties of england. The rain grinds to a halt late in the afternoon. Cold and dank in the east of england. Elsewhere some sunshine but feeling cold. As that front clears out of the way, clearing skies could allow a frost and risk of icy stretches. Further west on wednesday weve got the same kind of scenario. Strong winds followed by another weather front. The snow mainly targeting the high ground of Northern England and scotland. The rai
Across the south east, but a soggy note. 13 celsius in london with some heavy rain. Also stretching into east anglia and lincolnshire. Out west, very different weather. Spells of sunshine. Showers pushing into the coast. At chilly start in eastern scotland. Six celsius in aberdeen at 9am and some showers getting going. The show was perhaps wintry over the high ground of scotland. As we go on through the day, it will take awhile to clear the string away from the south east. Parts of east anglia stay in grey and down for a good part of the day. Elsewhere, we will see some sunshine. Showers blowing in in areas exposed to the westerly winds and temperatures just eight celsius in belfast. And as we through tomorrow evening, plenty of fireworks displays, of course. It will turn quite chilly. Dry weather ina will turn quite chilly. Dry weather in a major towns and cities but Western Areas could see some passing showers on saturday night. Sunday probably more politely dry, but also a little bi
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