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good morning. first, our main story. the prime minister has said gps in england should keep their surgeries open for longer to ease pressure on accident and emergency departments. downing street says too many family doctors are closing early and failing to open at weekends, forcing patients to seek treatment in hospitals. our political correspondent, chris mason, reports. for days, the government has faced criticism about its management of the nhs in england. targets have been missed and major alerts declared. seniorfigures in the health service are sounding doom alerts about the future. now the prime minister is turning her attention to family doctors and what they can do to help. a downing street source said this. the doctors‘ union, the british medical association, said the remarks amounted to scapegoating, in what it called a serious crisis. the association added that a third of gp surgeries in england had unfilled vacancies because the existing workload put docto ....
Snow. furthersouth, in, turning showers increasingly to snow. further south, some rain in the south west of england, overnight frost for scotland. elsewhere we should see temperatures holding up any mid range of single figures. there we are again, monday daytime with that arctic air gradually running its way south. you can see some milder air clings on to the south and that is tied in with this area of rain moving across from wales and the south west into the south east for the afternoon. that northerly wind really adding to the cold feel as the arctic air pressure then. we will still see temperatures in double figures to the south of the uk but we are looking at a highs ofjust 6 degrees in aberdeen but we have to factor in that strong wind, especially monday afternoon and for monday it is going to feel closer to freezing and for aberdeen. the wind perhaps a little lighter as we look towards tuesday and wednesday and that comes into play for monday night, as the winds become lighter ....
Fight, at least for a time. tomorrow, very different, even in the south, nine or 10 degrees, parts of ireland and scotland might not get above freezing to. as the cold air comes in, we have a band of rain but also sleet and snow mixing in, but also sleet and snow mixing in, but it ll over high ground but perhaps at low levels later and certainly the shower is pushing from the north west will fall as snow mainly. ice is likely to be a concern because look at the temperatures, as low as 11 in highland scotland and there will be a frost for many away from the far south where the slightly milder air clings on but it will not last long. we clear the rain from the south perhaps with snow ever higher ground and behind that we see some sunshine. plenty of shells and it s likely they will gang together across parts of northern ireland, southern and western scotland under a mixture of rain, sleet, hailand snow put it could be the odd flash of lightning and rumble of thunder. and the wintry show ....
North as we head into next week, however with that there will be outbreaks of rain, brisk wind and still some uncertainty because of the cold air clings on in the north there could possibly be some further snow. plenty of changes ahead. ....
Finding ourselves back in the cold air to start the weekend but then it looks like there will be another change on this well, an area of low pressure bringing milder air as we head into next week but there will be outbreaks of rain and brisk winds and still a bit of uncertainty about this as well because of the cold air clings on in the north there could possibly be some further snow. plenty of changes ahead. ....