Stretches and fog developing as well. Saturday rain showers for parts of northern and eastern england, South East Scotland seeing a bit of rain, but this snow will fall to lower levels and there will be some snow over the Higher Ground of Northern England later in the day. The driest of the weather to be found further south and west during saturday afternoon. Saturday night and into sunday those temperatures are going to be dropping like a stone. Code mac Easterly Winds pushing a close and heavy persistent snowfall across east anglia, the South East Of England and snow flurries further north. An Amber Warning in force for that potentially disruptive snow. There could be more than ten centimetres in places. Thats all from the Bbc News At Six so its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday with me, katherine downes. Coming with me, katherine downes. Up this friday evening a century on his century joe root passes 100 on h
An extra hour in school for some pupils in wales as heads try out changes to the Academic Year. The Winter Olympics torch relay kicks off in beijing as chinas capital gears up for the games. Good morning. Quite a lot of Cloud Producing Light Rain in the north and east. Not as windy as it has been but it is still going to be mild. Details later in the programme. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 2nd of february. The government will today set out its long delayed Manifesto Plan to level up the lives of millions of people across the uk. The proposals include a series of pledges to improve education, Public Transport and housing in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Labour have dismissed the project as more slogans and strategies. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports. We are a government committed to levelling up. It is absolutely what levelling up is all about. What were doing is levelling up. Level up across the whole of the uk. Ministers have talked about
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are miatta fahnbulleh, who is the Chief Executive of the new economics foundation, and kate maltby who is a columnist for the i paper and arts critic. Welcome back to you both. Lets look at what belt is coming in. What else. The shocking findings of an investigation into the met by the Police Watchdog is the lead for the metro. The report uncovered discrimination, bullying and misogyny in the ranks of the force. As the government prepares to announce its long awaited Levelling Up Strategy tomorrow, the guardian quotes critics who say the 12 point plan lacks funding and clarity. The paper also carries an image of Borisjohnson Meeting his ukrainian counterpart in kyiv earlier, amid threats of a russian invasion. Despite the Prime Minister flying to eastern europe, he hasnt been able to leave his problems behind. The i says Senior Tories have put the pm on notice over partygate, with former foreig