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hello. welcome to the programme. we start this hour here in the uk with the general election campaign. labour says it s committed to reducing the number of people legally migrating to britain if it forms the next government. but speaking earlier, the shadow home secretary yvette cooper refused to set a target or any date by which a reduction would be achieved. net migration, the difference between the number of people arriving in the uk and leaving, stood at 685,000 last year. labour s plans include more apprenticeships in jobs that are currently reliant on a significant level of migrant workers. here s our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this election campaign, and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how much they would reduce it ....
Drizzle around, clear whether working into scotland with just a few showers running into the far north of scotland, and through the day we will start to see a bit of this cloud breaking across parts of the east midlands, particularly to the east midlands, particularly to the east of high ground. when the sunshine comes out, it is still going to be warm with temperatures climbing into the low 20s. but as we get into the middle part of the week, much colder air is set to move on from the north, and with that there will be heavy showers or longer spells of rain in scotland, hailstorms mixed in, and some of that rain pushes southwards to reach parts of northern ireland, northern england, north wales, a few showers ahead of that and a big drop in temperatures on the way to scotland in particular, 14 in glasgow, so it will feel chilly particularly in the brisk winds. similarweatherfor wednesday, heavy showers and thunderstorms, some with hail mixed in. they will be most frequent across scotl ....