than that and really only the odd spot pushing south with the weather front overnight but what this will do is start to break up and push away the big sheet of cloud that has been keeping things so grey and cold over the last few days. having said that, where we see breaks in the cloud overnight, that could allow a touch of frost to form, so a chilly starting tomorrow but for england and wales i can promise more in the way of sunshine, not necessarily clear blue skies but we will call it patchy cloud and sunny spells and something a little lighter. northern ireland and scotland turning cloudy and wet and windy too with gusts in excess of 50 mph for exposed spots but with more of a breeze across the uk and more sunshine and the air turning over wee lewd lose the stagnant cold and see highs between eight and 11 degrees and it will be mild but has the low pressure passes through the uk we will see severe gales for the northern isles as we ease through thursday and cloud and s
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are aubrey allegretti political correspondent at the guardian and giles kenningham political commentator and former conservative party press chief. tomorrow s front pages.starting with. the daily mail leads on our main story tonight the new data about the strength of the omicron variant. health experts have said two vaccine doses are not enough to stop people from catching the new strain but a third boosterjab will give at least 70% protection against it. the is front page says the immunity given by the astra zeneca vaccine against the variant wanes to near zero after six months . the sun reports on predictions that omicron cases could reach up to a million next year. whilst the guardian leads on a warning from health officials that stringent national measures are needed to combat the variant or else the nhs faces being overwhelmed with up to 5,000 hospital admissions a day
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inquestjury has found. two separate sources have told the bbc that the prime minister s director of communications jack doyle offered his resignation to borisjohnson because of his attendance at the christmas party was revealed. but borisjohnson would not christmas party was revealed. but boris johnson would not accept christmas party was revealed. but borisjohnson would not accept it. coming up and have now s time, we will discuss exactly that story and the prospect of borisjohnson surviving as prime minister with the foreign correspondence based in london, giving an outsider s view of that and this week in ukraine. that is coming up at 7:30pm. stay with us on bbc news. hello, if you ve justjoined hello, if you vejustjoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. it is a busy hour coming up. let me begin with the government warning tonight of a deeply concerning situation, as new data confirms omicron in the uk is growing rapidly in all parts of the country, and ministers have been
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