coast and one or two in west wales in the far south west but for most beautiful sunny winters day but a cold one with ties between four and 8 degrees. as we head towards the end of the week, high pressure re establishes itself, and close to the centre of the high and southern parts of the uk it will stay quite chilly with frost and fog continuing to have problems. further north, more of a breeze coming from the atlantic and it will start to turn milder here and the highest temperatures likely to be across parts of scotland towards the end of the week and staying chillier further south. the main story tonight. the prime minister has denied categorically claims by his former chief adviser dominic cummings that he was warned that a garden party in downing street during lockdown was against the rules. tonight the bbc has been told that the team led by civil servants who grate have approached dominic cummings regarding her enquiry into street parties led by civil servant sue gr
the new variant of covid what measures do you think should be in place? get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the #bbcyourquestions. a 14 year old boy is to appear in court charged with murdering 12 year old ava white in liverpool. she was stabbed on thursday and died shortly afterwards. british socialite ghislane maxwell, is to go on trial in new york for sex trafficking and other charges. hello and welcome to bbc news. six cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been identified in scotland. they bring the total number of known omicron infections, in the uk, to nine. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon is due to give a further update on the situation at half past ten this morning. it comes as the uk sjoint committee on vaccination and immunisation is expected to announce an expansion of the booster programme across the uk to everyone aged between 18 and 39, in response to omicron. new measures have also been announced for england. from today, the d
hello this is bbc news. the headlines: a third case of the new omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected in the uk the government urges people to get their boosters and to follow new rules from tuesday on mask wearing in england. the government says pupils in year seven and above in england should wear masks in communal areas of schools from tomorrow morning. eve ryo ne everyone wants to protect the progress we have made and that is why we have acted very swiftly and in a proportionate way with news of this new variant. tens of thousands of homes and businesses are still without electricity in the wake of storm arwen. thank you for your company this afternoon. rebecca jones will be with us later with the news, but now it s time for sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday i m holly hamilton. coming up on tongiht s programme. one of formula one s most influentialfigures, sir frank williams dies at the age of 79. we look back at his remarkable life. the battle
diversity in our playing group, a group that works incredibly work well together and support each other and in all instances appreciates each other s differences. and just because we think we haven t had enough snow in this programme, let s get a preview of what we might be seeing at the winter olympics in febraury. this is world champion charlotte bankes finishing second at the snowboard cross world cup at secret garden in china the same course that will be used at the games. that s all from sportsday. i ll be back with you later in the evening. thanks for watching. time now for the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you been watching? a proper mixed bag. we have a shepherd, which is an eerie british chiller. we have house of gucci, which is the new film by ridley scott. and pirates, in which we party like it s 1999. shepherd tell me more. here s the thing. you don t li