The next couple of days. Forecasters are expecting as much as ten centimetres orfour inches of snow across parts of eastern and northern england, the midlands and wales. In scotland, the worst affected spots could see a0 centimetres well over a foot of snow by the middle of the week. The met office says some Rural Communities are likely to be cut off. Its expected some schools will be shut and trains are being cancelled on some routes this evening. Among those which will be disrupted are Greater Anglia trains, which will stop by ten oclock tonight, with a reduced service tomorrow until thursday. Stansted express trains to and from London Liverpool street will stop running at 25 past ten tonight. And operators say services on the gatwick express, thameslink and southern routes are all likely to be delayed or cancelled tonight. Lots of people have been out in the cold with their cameras capturing some of the wintry sights. Ian heard got this picture of the frozen sea front at Weston Super Mare in somerset. Very unusual to see salt water freeze like this. A burst water pipe in highworth, wiltshire created this icy display, taken byjohn gray. Ben birchall hiked to this frozen waterfall near pen y fan mountain in the brecon Beacon National park, wales. And a magical scene in central london, with snow falling heavily on st pauls cathedral, photographed by daniel sorabji. In a moment well talk to leanne brown who is at a gritting depot in the village of sturton by stow, north of lincoln. First to simonjones, who is at a depot in the village of aylesford, north of maidstone in kent. And up to date. What is the picture . How serious as the weather . Kent cou nty how serious as the weather . Kent county council have declared what they are calling a snow emergency. That might sounds drastic but it is because potentially there will be drastic weather conditions overnight. They have got 57 gritters. The big concern is what will happen at around three or four oclock tomorrow morning. We are told they could be 10 15 centimetres of snow with the snow hits as predicted. If that happens that will cause a lots of problems on the roads, knock on effects with the transport network. It is notjust the snow. It is the fact that it is so called. Standing here this evening it feels freezing. The fact is that temperatures overnight could go as low as 4, and in the wind chill factor, it will feel much colder. In the coming days if we do get the predicted amount of snow, and the wind, we could see blizzard conditions. In kent we have had snow showers through the day but that has not been particularly heavy, but all eyes now are on what could happen overnight. Here they say they are prepared, the gritters will be out as long as necessary, but if the snow comes down heavily that is only so snow comes down heavily that is only so much they can do. That warning is that roads could be difficult so check before you set out if you do have to make a journey. Thank you. Now let us cross over to near lincoln. It does not look as though the snow is falling, tell us the latest. You obviously cannot see because it has just started snowing as we speak, a feud icicles starting to land on the ground. It is all about preparation as those temperature sta rts preparation as those temperature starts to drop and the snow begins to fall. There is around 14,000 tonnes of grit here at the depot on the outskirts of lincoln and a further 7000 tonnes have been ordered and they are set to arrive this week. But then the last hour around a0 spreaders have left the step to go onto the roads. They have got around 100 miles to cover and dc, depending on how bad things get, they could go out again, they could go out twice this evening. We could see them on the roads where people are asleep at around three oclock this morning. Things here in lincoln have not been too bad today but further siphon lincolnshire we have seen more heavy snowfall. Lincolnshire police had 39 weather related incidents this morning. They have told me that they have got extra things in place such as hiring and axa. The council has been doing lots to prepare. I have been in the Council Control room and they are monitoring things closely, even to the extent that tomorrow morning they are going to set up an Emergency Planning room and that is where all the Emergency Services will come together, so that they can coordinate a response, should they need to. Because schools, social ca re need to. Because schools, social care could be disrupted in the coming days. Also, they are taking into consideration the fact that the homeless are amongst the most vulnerable here. And local charities are saying they are doing all they can to help and support these people with extra blankets and food ad offering shelter. But there is a worry here amongst the authorities that this might take people by surprise. There is a morning to night to people to be prepared. Thank you. We will be keeping a close watch on how this situation develops. If you wa nt how this situation develops. If you want more information on the weather where you are you can follow the latest forecasts and weather warnings on mine. And bbc local radio will keep you out will keep you updated. And throughout the week we will bring you the latest pictures and breaking weather news. And now let us catch up on the latest prospects of when and where about cold weather is going to fit. The bitterly cold here has arrived. Snow showers, snow flurries for some of us on eastern parts of the uk. More to come. Two areas we are not certain about overnight and tomorrow morning, this line of snow showers, suffolk, essex, kent, surrey. And another area of snow pushing into yorkshire and parts of the west midlands, parts of eastern scotland and north east england. All capable of disrupting things going into the morning. A met Office Amber Warning for this snow. It could be up to ten centimetres in parts of england. That warning is to be prepared for some disruption from this snow. Also pushing through parts of wales. Tuesday, some parts of avoiding the snow showers and staying dry. Feeling colder. And youre watching beyond one and hundred days. Russia blinks, just a little, in syria, allowing a brief daily truce to get humanitarian aid in east ghouta. From tomorrow, for 5 hours, there will be a humanitarian pause but today the bombing continued and more civilians were killed. The United Nations pressured moscow to allow some relief after 500 people, including children, were killed in the area last week. 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