it in so i know it is going to be a busy day. from minor roads to some of the main routes, the disruption has been widespread. police have warned people to take care if they have to head out. in shetland, around 1600 properties remain without power for a fifth day after heavy snow brought downl ines. engineers say it might take the weekend to restore electricity to all. a team of volunteers spent the pitch ahead of tomorrow s game for peterhead fc. in the worst affected areas, schools have been shut. some for the entire week. and what are you going to do for the rest of the day? probably go sledging. it is the best thing to do, in my opinion, maybe do some home schooling, revision for the tests, because i need to do that. luckily we are working from home today and the kids have got a home from school, but my daughter is going to france tonight, but i don t know whether it is going to be cancelled, which is a shame.
1600 properties remain without power for a fifth day after heavy snow brought downl ines. engineers say it might take the weekend to restore electricity to all. a team of volunteers spent the pitch ahead of tomorrow s game for peterhead fc. in the worst affected areas, schools have been shut. some for the entire week. and what are you going to do for the rest of the day? probably go sledging. it is the best thing to do, in my opinion, maybe do some homeschooling, revision for the tests, because i need to do that. luckily we are working from home today and the kids have got a home from school, but my daughter is going to france tonight, but i don t know whether it is going to be cancelled, which is a shame. school is off but it sj very cold, so, rugby has been cancelled for the last few games, and training is off. - what are you making of the roads today? i didn t quite realise what sort of carnage it was going to be. picture postcard pretty and fun for some but after days of freezing t
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borisjohnson came to the podium? you could see all the staffers and you could see his few remaining supportive mps. they were all sort of hugging each other, looking. what was it like? yeah. and his wife and their daughter in a little sling thing, you just get a sense in those moments of the kind of human and then the political, and then the constitutional, because they re all, they re all wrapped up in the same thing. and, you know, borisjohnson coming out to the podium, and, you know, a man who s crushed, a man gone from winning a colossal majority less than three years ago to being out on his ear. ifelt a little bit defensive about it. as we ll hear now. in the last few days, i ve tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we re delivering so much, and when we have such a vast mandate, and when we re actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in midterm, after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging.