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spending in china will increase by more than 7% this year that the opening of congress. the premier called for more soldiers to be trained under combat conditions. in recent days, we have learned the heartbreaking news that the former wales footballer jason bowen is the latest sports star to have been dianosed with motor neurone disease. the 50 year old, who played for swansea, cardiff and newport county during his career, says he s determined not to look too far ahead, and to enjoy the present. saved by the keeper. 3 1, that s it now. jason bowen doing what he often did for teams like cardiff, swansea and newport county. a committed professional, he played until he was a0 before hanging up his boots. during his long career bowen faced many challenges, the biggest awaits him now. i wasjust in the house with my wife and i had a lot of twitching in my muscles, going down my left side and my hand was getting a little bit weaker so she said, go to the doctor. the doctor seeing m
just how long the cold air is set to last so do keep tuned to the forecast. now, lyons is happening? the area of high pressure is moving towards the west allowing for a northerly wind and some cold fronts to sink southwards. introducing that really cold, acted feeling air mostly on sunday night and into the start of next week. let s backtrack to now and there is a bit of sunshine out towards the south coast. this is gosport. it is the exception rather than the rule this afternoon because for most of us it is rather cloudy and really very dull. there will be some brighter spells developing, mostly for north eastern areas of scotland, aberdeenshire, angus and east anglia, some brighter spells here. for most of us, cloud and drizzle. some showers across the northern ireland. elsewhere, dry. temperatures around the seasonal average. it is the wind that keeps going overnight tonight. it is feeding in all of the cloud from the north sea so always cloudier towards eastern areas. tem
as veteran broadcaster ken bruce prepares for his last show on radio 2. it s entirely within the bbc s right to ask me to step away a little early and gardening leave is a known concept in broadcasting and in many other areas. good morning. the bbc understands that some energy firms are expecting the government to keep support at, or near, current levels and they are amending their bills with that expectation in mind. the typical energy bill for a household in the uk is set to rise to £3,000 a year from april, but there are calls for the government to keep its current level of support. that support currently means the government is limiting the typical bill to £2,500 a year, plus a £400 winter discount. that support is due to end in april and fuel poverty campaigners say that means the number of households struggling to afford bills could rise from 6.7 million to 8.4 million. a treasury source said it wouldn t comment on speculation, but the chancellorjeremy hunt told the
most part, a lot of cloud around and some showers, particularly in the north east of scotland and down the east of england. temperatures where they have been, 6 9. a little colder in shetland. as i nothing is to come. into sunday, more showers at this stage. again, quite a lot of cloud. if you look closely, i can see some of the showers over high ground in the north of the uk could contain sleet and snow is temperatures very subtly start to drop. then let s turn our eyes to the north of scotland through sunday night into monday because he comes a more dramatic change. this band of wet weather but wintry weather on the package with a cold front sinking southwards. through monday and into tuesday, plenty of snow showers pushing on, particularly to parts of northern scotland and down the eastern side of england. that is where we already have yellow warnings for snow and ice. if you live somewhere else, you may not be out of the woods because it will be cold enough for snow to fu