In some places. Find out all the details in the forecast coming up soon. And of course paul coyte is here with your sport. Thanks and morning. Mostly decent results in europe for british sides and in the opening game of the cricket world cup, england were whats the word im looking for were trounced thrashed spank mullard any more that we can do hammered annihilated. Okay not a great annihilated. Okay not a great start, but its early days. Its early. Early. It is early days. Its early time as well. 6 01. Im anne diamond. Diamond. And im Martin Daubney. And this is breakfast on. Gb news. This is breakfast on. Gb news. Good morning. So labour have won the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election as a 20 swing. So Michael Shanks, take the seat from the Scottish National party i now, the scottish seat was youll probably remember it was vacated when Margaret Ferrier was suspended from the house of commons for breaching covid rules, and that to led a recall petition and commenting after the a
Coming up on sportsday on bbc news the full line up for the champions league, including a messy draw for chelsea, who face barcelona in the last 16. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Snow, ice and plunging temperatures have caused major disruption across swathes of the country today. More than 1,000 schools have been closed in wales, the midlands, the south west and other areas. Rail travel across england and wales has been disrupted and hundreds of flights cancelled. Tonight, conditions on many roads are treacherous. Forecasters are warning that temperatures could hit minus 13 degrees overnight. That would make it the coldest night of the winter so far. 0ur correspondent sima kotecha sent this report from the West Midlands. A blanket of snow, covering large parts of the uk. An ideal playground for children, many of whom have had the day off with hundreds of schools closed due to treacherous conditions. Here in birmingham the council run schools are closed today. The loc
One of the most familiar faces of Childrens Television in the 1980s, has died after a long illness. He was 60. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Snow, ice and plunging temperatures have caused major disruption across swathes of the country today. More than 1,000 schools have been closed in wales, the midlands, the south west and other areas. Rail travel across england and wales has been disrupted and hundreds of flights cancelled. Tonight, conditions on many roads are treacherous. Forecasters are warning that temperatures could hit minus 13 degrees overnight. That would make it the coldest night of the winter so far. 0ur correspondent steve knibbs has been in the forest of deane. A little earlier he told me how the community has reacted to the heavy weather. Well, over the weekend, well, overthe weekend, it well, over the weekend, it was a case of will it all wanted snow in many parts of gloucestershire but here in the forest of dean, it definitely did, along with the north cotswol
Died of a lung condition at the age of 60. He played a part in pioneering new programme formats, such as multi coloured swap shop and cheggers plays pop in a varied career that would span five decades, as our correspondent lizo mzimba reports. His energy, his sheer enthusiasm, made Keith Chegwin into a household name. Welcome to our very special christmas edition of cheggers plays pop. A career on tv seemed somewhat inevitable, even in his early teens. He was a natural in front of the camera, in productions like this road safety video. Gosh, thanks do you want to swap this . Just a few years later, cheggers, as the public now called him, was sharing the screen with some of entertainments most famous faces. How long did it take you to record the album . Figures who worked with Keith Chegwin have been paying tribute. I knew he was very unwell. I spoke to him about four weeks ago, and he said he was recovering, so i didnt expect this. Very, very sad news. His one time presenting partner a
In the Champions League draw. Arguably the draw wasnt the kindest to chelsea though theyll face five time winners barcelona. Well look at how others fared not a huge amount of snow. Temperatures falling away quickly. It isa temperatures falling away quickly. It is a we are worried about this evening and overnight and into tomorrow. I will have more later. Thank you, darren. Mount hope. It is now the tallest mountain in the country after being re measured. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Snow and freezing temperatures are continuing to cause widespread disruption in many parts of the uk and across the channel. Heathrow airport is trying to clear a backlog of hundreds of flights, the port of calais is closed, while roads and rail have been affected. Its all making travel difficult and even hazardous. Tens of thousands of pupils are having an unexpected day off after the cold weather prompted local authorities to shut their schools. A large swathe of Central England and most of wal