Reports from tees valley. An icon of a vibrant an icon of a vibrant industrial an icon of a vibrant industrial past, now out of action, symbolising area struggling to find its feet. Tees valley, and infinite hercules in its day, a white capital of imake income is now clearing a site of past glories and looking for new ventures. A painful process with economic decline, alongside pockets of affluence. That has placed this area on the national map, and now a mayoral contest with high stakes mayoral contest with high sta kes from mayoral contest with high stakes from the two main parties. A poster boy of the red bull, after his narrow win here in 2017. Re elected in a landslide in 2021, ben houchen is now hoping to buck the national trend. A local labour stalwart, hopes to win back what was once a heartland for his party, and a winnerfor heartland for his party, and a winner for chris heartland for his party, and a winnerfor Chris Mcewan Heartland for his party, and a winner for chris mcew
13 degrees on the eastern coast, but look at that, northern ireland, 18 degrees possible out towards the west. now through into monday after a chilly start, cloud will spread its way southwards across the country. rain to begin with in northern england, north wales, that rain will spread its way southwards and eastwards through the day. further north, we ll see a little bit of sunshine breakthrough just one or two showers. warmest conditions in around central scotland at 16 celsius, but a chilly 9 to 13 degrees across parts of england and wales, and staying cool through this next week.
south, this area of rain is turning to snow inland right across southern areas and even falling snow across parts of devon and cornwall where it could fall as snow inland a bit further east as well so if you centimetres building up, clearly temperatures are freezing. freezing fog could be around as well by the time we get to the morning. then we are feeling gusts of 60, 70 miles per hour already on the north and it will get stronger for the east coast as well so it is going to be a cold day, even if the sunshine breakthrough, just two or three degrees at best and that cloud slow to clear away from southern areas could be cold and cloudy for much of the day and this is how it will feel when you add on the strength of the wind, blizzards during the day on wednesday through northern scotland, blowing that snow around, it continues to fall through the
through wales and the midlands in the morning, edging slowly into parts of northern england, particularly around as he side, greater manchester and yorkshire for the afternoon. south of that we will see some sunshine breakthrough. could be ok, in fact, for the palace pageant. towards the west we will see some further showers and thunderstorms. the best of the weather in the north and the west. heavy and at times thundery rain pushing into england as we go through sunday evening and clears out of the way as we go into what is monday. the rest of next week looking fairly blustery. a little bit of to come for you at buckingham palace, but some dry weather for the moment. that s the important thing. matt, i have two questions for you. firstly, happy boxing birthday. did you have a good day? i firstly, happy boxing birthday. did you have a good day? you have a good day? i did. thank ou. and you have a good day? i did. thank you- and mike you have a good day? i did. thank you. and mike is