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particularly across northern england will stick with sunny skies that are breezy across the north west of scotland but for the south and east where winds are lighter after the lingering fog, around 5 celsius by the time when the afternoon. as we go into the evening, the fog are temporarily returning but it is the north where we see the rain started to become more of a feature particularly the second front and its behind that we will see some strong winds but also much colder air, that colder air will push southwards across almost all parts as we go through wednesday. it is this zone here, cloud and outbreaks of rain from scotland, northern england and parts of wales initially. as it moves south, one a two shows, mostly dry, lots of sunshine through the rest of wednesday, but breezy and feeling cold with showers in the north and west, just to celsius in lerwick, io west, just to celsius in lerwick, 10 in cardiff. a frosty starter thursday but are dry and bright day for many. s
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are benjamin butterworth, late editor & senior reporter at the i paper, and harriet line, chief political correspondent for the daily mail. now, let me bring you up to date on the front pages as we have pretty much all of them now. nobody likes everybody likes to get home for christmas, don t they? the financial times leads on new data from the health security agency, which estimates that people with the new omicron variant of coronavirus are between 50 to 70% less likely to be admitted to hospital than people with other strains. the new findings mean that new year s eve restrictions are increasingly unlikely, government sources have told the telegraph. the guardian says doctors are still warning people to keep their christmasses small, as a large wave of infections may still overwhelm the nhs. the queen will pay tribute to her late husband, prince philip, in her christmas spee
household energy prices could rise by up to 50% by next spring the warning from the energy sector, amid calls for the government to step in. the west end star having to self isolate with covid for a second christmas in a row we talk to people who re having to adapt their plans at the last minute. and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. more boxing day matches are off due to covid, but should games go ahead at all with managers worried about player s welfare? good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. it s the first official government data on the impact of the omicron variant. almost a month after the first omicron cases were confirmed in the uk, preliminary research suggests that someone infected with omicron variant, rather than delta, is up to 45% less likely to attend a&e, and up to 70% less likely to be admitted to hospital. but there is concern about how long the boosterjab provides extra protection against omicron. these early f
olympic qualification. this is definitely the hardest we have done it out of the few olympic games have already been asked. also coming up in the programme: a one million pound lifeline has given the bury the chance to return home to gigg lane. and we ll bring you the story behind the unlikely hall of fame at corinthian casuals. good evening, two more premier league matches have been called off, the lunchtime kick offs on boxing day between liverpool and leeds and wolves watford have both gone. leeds have shut their training ground as they deal with five new positive covid cases as well as a number of injuries. the premier league say watford also have an insufficient number of players to field a team. with 20 fixtures postponed across the football league as well, over half the boxing day fixtures in england are off. adam wild reports. as regularly as christmas comes around, so do the arguments of beta testing schedule. too many games, too little time. it s the football manage