Edinburgh and also sunshine expected in plymouth but across central and eastern areas it will be cloud coming through, a breeze and some chances of wintry showers through the afternoon. This weather front is going to move into the cold air during the course of monday night and watch what happens, a spell of snow in scotland, Northern Ireland and the north west of england. We dont think much, maybe ten centimetres across the hills and a couple of centimetres in towns and cities and by the middle of tuesday, you see, in the afternoon, that is where the front will it have effectively snowed itself out and the temperatures will drop rapidly through the night. Wednesday or tuesday night lay on the way. Wednesday sees as between weather systems so a brighter window of weather with some sunshine around, but on thursday things will cloud over and turn that little bit less cold. Here is a summary for the week, pretty cold, widespread frost at night and some snow as well. This is bbc news. Our l
Grayling told mps the company is making significant losses, but said there could be no question of a bailout. He insisted there would be no impact on day to day operations. The National Audit office has already launched an investigation into the governments handling of the franchise which provides services between london and edinburgh as our Business Editor simonjack reports. The east coast mainline has been heading for trouble for years. Stagecoach owns 90 of the franchise, and virgin 10 . Both companies wanted to walk away from the losses they were making in 2020, three years early. Today it became clear they will be getting to the point of collapse even earlier. It has now been confirmed the situation is much more urgent. It is now clear this franchise will only be able to continue in its current form for a matter of a very small number of months and no more. That is because stagecoach has already lost £200 million running the line. This company cannot be allowed to run this franch
In from the east. There will be a touch of frost and also possibly some ice into tomorrow. Tomorrow will bring a strong cold north easterly wind across southern and eastern areas particularly. That will deliver one or two wintry showers. Lighter winds in the north. Where we have the strength of wind in the south, at that onto the temperatures and it will feel like freezing. Hello, good morning. This is bbc news our latest headlines. Senior democrats have warned President Donald Trump not to use a controversial memo as a pretext to fire the special counsel investigating alleged russian involvement in the us election. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and some of the other things whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. The government has announced a package of Financial Support for Small Companies affected by the collapse of the outsourcing firm, carillion. A father whose three daughters were among those
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To the 6 nations. And ben has the weather. Good morning. Its shaping up to be a brighter day for most today, quite a lot of sunshine around but some wintry showers too brought in on a cold north easterly wind. All the weather details you need to know on the way. Cheers, ben. Talk to you later. Good morning. First, our main story. Scotland yard is looking into two more allegations of Sexual Assault against the hollywood Film Producer harvey wine steen. It brings the total number of women who have reported him to British Police to nine. The actress uma thuman has also alleged he assaulted her at a hotel in london in the 1990s. Our correspondent simon jones has more. She starred in several films produced by the disgraced movie mogul. It was after the success of pulp fiction that uma thuman it was after the success of pulp fiction that uma thurman says she was targeted by Harvey Weinstein. Now shes the latest woman to speak out in an interview with the new york times. Uma thurman claims Ha