now, quick, while you can — find some shade. joe wilson, bbc news. we stay with the weather theme. we ta ke we stay with the weather theme. we take a look at it with sarah keith—lucas. from seeking shade to needing shelter in these temperatures? some of us have blue sky and sunshine but temperatures are pretty chilly and more wintry weather on the cards. this is the scene in dunblane in stirling, a lot of lying snow around there. the met office hasissued snow around there. the met office has issued an amber warning, be prepared, for disruptive weather due to snow and ice, particularly across this region of the south—west of scotland, where we could see another 10—15 centimetres of snow falling on top of what is already there. let's take a look at snow depths, what's lying out there on the northern half of the country.

36 centimetres in parts of the highlands, 22 centimetres in northern ireland, three centimetres in bingley, in west yorkshire. there's a lot of wintry weather, snow and ice across many northern and north—western parts of the country. further south and east, sunny skies, blue skies out there. it's feeling almost springlike in the london region but towards the south—west of england and wales cricket board showers to come. further snow showers, particularly over higher ground, the western half of scotla nd over higher ground, the western half of scotland where we have an amber warning in force. also further rain, sleet and snow showers for northern ireland into northern england. for eastern scotland and the east of the pennines, quite a lot of dry, bright weather, and some sunshine to take us weather, and some sunshine to take us through the afternoon across east anglia and the south—east. drift towards the south—west of england and why is, it's a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. temperatures around 3—7, but when you add on the cool north—westerly wind it's feeling subzero for many others particularly across parts of scotla nd others particularly across parts of scotland and northern ireland. into this evening, slowly the wintry showers in the north tend to ease away, then we turn our attention to this batch of wet weather. rain

moving in from the south—west. as it bonds into the cold air we could see a bit of snow tomorrow morning across the higher ground southern wales and parts of southern england, the chilterns, cotswolds, brecon beacons, some snow, some rain to the south of that which will slowly ease away. turning milder in the south. still cold further north. we will have lost the wintry showers, so a return to something sunny for many others during saturday. a cold night saturday night. during sunday, this front saturday night. during sunday, this fro nt m oves saturday night. during sunday, this front moves in from the atlantic. as it moves in it bumps into the cold airand we could it moves in it bumps into the cold air and we could see significant snowfall on sunday at least for a time, before it turns back to rain. we have the milder air moving in from the south—west but for northern england and scotland temperatures still on the chilly side. if you have travel plans on sunday, particularly across parts of northern england and scotland, watch out for potential disruption due to more snow on the cards. turning milderfor next week. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. the justice secretary says the

decision to release serial six offenderjohn worboys from prison will not be challenged by the government. —— serial sex offender. that's all from the bbc news at one. it's goodbye from me. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. england's cricketer‘s have gone 2—0 up in their one day series against australia. they won by four wickets in brisbane chasing down their target of 271 with five overs to spare. adam wild reports. after a troubled winter for english cricket, suddenly the scene seems a little more surreal. even when faced with batting like this from australia's aaron finch, england's one—day side refused to panic. finch made 100 again, but when he fell,

australia stumbled, england taking advantage. chris woa kes, australia stumbled, england taking advantage. chris woakes, like his site, calm and creative. still, england would have to find a new hero. he made history in the first match of the series. here, he lasted just four balls. there were plenty waiting behind him in the queue. first, john bester and then alex hales. even the clatter of wickets did little to ring... england full of confidence, and with good reason. staying in australia, but moving on to the tennis. the british number two kyle edmund has equalled his best showing at a grand slam he's in to the fourth round at the australian open. the last british player in the men's or women's draw came from two sets to one down

against the georgian. he also reached the us open fourth round two years ago. temperatures have hit a0 degrees for the second day running. lots of players have been complaining and say that play should have been stopped, organizers didn't do that but say they will review their extreme heat policy at the end of the tournament. next up for edmund is the italian andreas seppi. it was much cooler by the time rafael nadal took to the court for one of the evening matches — and the top seed sailed through to the last 16, only dropping five games against damirzhumhur from bosnia herzegovina. it took him less than two hours. nadal faces the argentinian seed diego schwartzman next. brazil legend pele is in hospital after collapsing with symptoms of severe exhaustion. he's 77, and was due to travel to london this weekend for a dinner to be held in his honour by the football writers association. pele is the only player to win three world cups. he's suffered from kidney and

prostate problems in recent years. following cyrille regis‘ death last sunday there will be a minute's applause at every premier league match this weekend and black armbands will also be worn. the former west brom, coventry and england striker died of a suspected heart attack. he was 59. the premier league says it recognises his role as a trailblazer for black players in modern english football. rory mcilroy is really enjoying his return to competitive golf. he picked up six shots in the second round of the abu dhabi championship thanks to four birdies and an incredible eagle at the last. he's now nine—under—par, just three shots behind leader thomas pieters. and it was a happy birthday for tommy fleetwood — after a slow start to his round, he's back in contention — a 68 took him to 10—under. tyson fury is a step closer to returning to the ring. last month, the former world heavyweight champion accepted a backdated two year suspension

after testing positive for a banned steroid. he hasn't fought since taking the world title from vladimir klitschko in 2015. his license was suspended in 2016 over a range of issues. he admitted to using cocaine to help with his depression. but after an interview with the british boxing board of control this morning he has been reinstated subject to medical clearance. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport and i will have more for you in the next hour. including the very latest from the masters snooker. lawyers representing two of rapist john worboys‘ victims say they intend to launch judicial review proceedings against the parole board next week. it comes after the government announced that it will not seek a review of the parole board's

decision to release the black cab rapist. justice secretary david gauke said it would not be appropriate to seek a judicial review of the case after taking "considered and expert" legal advice. shadowjustice minister imran hussain said "many will be disappointed by today's news" and added that it makes "the need for changes in the parole board even more pressing." the justice secretary made the announcement in the commons earlier. having taken and considered legal advice, i have decided it would not be appropriate for me to proceed with such a case. honourable members will appreciate that i cannot go further and expose details of the legal advice i have been given. i know this will disappoint the victims in this case and members of this house. given the crimes of which he has been convicted, on a personal level, candidly, i share those concerns. i have taken a close personal interest in this case, and since assuming office as the secretary of state

forjustice, i believe it is important and that the victims have clarity, which is why i am before the house today. i can reassure the house and public thatjohn worboys will not be released until his licence conditions have been finalised. i understand that contact and meetings with victims who have chosen to receive the services of the victim contacts team have taken place this week, and further meetings about his release will take place next week. this will give those victims the opportunity to make representations to the parole board as to the conditions to whichjohn worboys should be subject on release. let me be absolutely clear, john worboys will not be released until their representations have been properly considered and his licence conditions are in place. indeed, last week i asked for

assurances that the views of victims were being taken into account and that robust licensing conditions would be put in place to manage his risk. i am aware that some third parties have indicated they are seeking to bring legal proceedings themselves, and that correspondence has been served on me as secretary of state as a potential is the leading party do any litigation. i fully support the rights of victims to their own legal advice and to challenge the decision. the approach i am taking does not mean that others who may have significant interest in the case are precluded from taking action. each case depends on the circumstances of each individual bringing a claim. that is one of the reasons i do not intend to say more on this matter. david gauke speaking in the commons earlier. an inquest into the death of the cranberries singer, dolores o'riordan has opened and been adjourned. she was found dead in her hotel room in park lane

in central london on friday. our correspondent david sillito was at westminster coroner's court. the lead singer of the very successful band, the cranberries. she was staying in and on and was found at a hotel on mayfair unresponsive. the anglers was called and she was declared dead at the scene. the police said that they are treating it as non—suspicious, but a number of tests have been carried out, the results of which will not be known for a number of weeks. that inquest was opened and adjourned again until another hearing will ta ke again until another hearing will take this on april three. the british author peter mayle, who wrote "a year in provence" has died aged 78. his publisher said he'd suffered a short illness. the book, published in 1989, told the story of his first year as a british expat in a village in the south of france. it sold six million copies around the world and was adapted for radio and television by the bbc. in 2002, the french government awarded him a knight of the legion of honour, for his contributions to culture.

whether it's cutting down hours, working from home orjob sharing, since 2014 uk employees have had the right to ask for flexible working. but less than half of parents feel it is an option for them according to the charity working families, which is calling on the government to do more to help parents achieve a work—life balance. our consumer affairs correspondent nina warhurst reports. should ourjobs work around our families or should ourfamilies be built around our jobs? for kaytie, the crunch came when she had pippa. in her global marketing role there wasn't an option to go part—time and stay in glasgow and after 12 years with the same company she took redundancy. it is hard because you have given an awful lot of who you are to that one job and then suddenly you are out of that, almost cast out, not intentionally. it's difficult to know who you are, where you are going next, what do i do now? kaytie has now set up a craft

shop and she loves it, but can't help wondering what might have been. since 2014, if you've worked somewhere for more than six months you've been entitled to ask for flexible working. so that might be fewer hours, maybe working from home or perhaps a job share. but your employer has been allowed to say no if they've found it's detrimental to their business and that, combined with a slow cultural shift in some places, means not everybody feels it's working for them. more than half of parents surveyed felt flexible working isn't a genuine option for them. nearly two in five said their current hours mean they don't get to say good night to their kids. and more than 13% said they are working the equivalent hours of an extra day a weekjust to get theirjob done. do you know what time that meeting's going to finish at? but things are changing, for some at least. with five kids, john needs a job that works for him and he's found it. he starts at 9:30am every day

and doesn't work school holidays. does that mean things are nice and calm at home? i wouldn't say that, with five kids. things would never be calm, however, it is a lot less stressful. less stressful for staff and the boss says better for business. since expanding flexible working, productivity has gone up by 30%. we've found is there's lots of mothers and fathers at home who have got great skills and capabilities, but little or no access to childcare or it's too expensive and they've never thought of asking for term—time working. and this way they can do both. they can do both, basically. kaytie says getting to pick noah and pippa up every day is the best

job she's ever had, but she hopes that if they become parents it won't come at the cost of compromising their careers. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first, the headlines on bbc news: the government announces it will not challenge the court about a decision to release john challenge the court about a decision to releasejohn worboys challenge the court about a decision to release john worboys from challenge the court about a decision to releasejohn worboys from prison. lawyers say they will launch a judicial review. scientists in the united states have developed a blood test that strict screens for common forms of cancer. experts here say the research is enormously exciting, but more work is still needed. in the business news: it turns out that december was a pretty disappointing month for the retailers. we spent less and bought fewer items through the month compared with november —

these are official government figures — and the office of national statistics which collects them says it's because christmas shoppers are buying a lot of stuff earlier, often on the infamous black friday. carpetright shares have plunged 45% after warnings that full—year profits will be much lower than expected. it's down to what it calls a ‘sharp deterioration‘ in uk trade, especially in the key period just around christmas. in the 11 weeks to 13 january, sales in shops open more than a year fell 3.6%. profits now won't be £14 for this year, it says — more like between two and £6 million asda and aldi are to ban the sale of energy drinks to children under 16 from early march. it follows calls by campaigners for a complete ban on energy drinks because of their high levels of caffeine and sugar and their impact on pupil behaviour. but first, the big business story of the week — construction firm carillion collapsed on monday, leaving a question mark. notjust for carillion

not just for carillion employees, but also contractors and subcontractors. not only that, but what happens to payments for work that has ordered been carried out by this contract is? we know that carillion was paying later and later. what happens to those payments. let's find out what happens to those. let's just look at a situation where carillion has collapsed, and a subcontractor is looking for payment... something donein looking for payment... something done in the last 20 days, all 200 days, were they get that money back. no. unfortunately, it will be on secured credit in liquidation. they willjoin me queue with the many other creditors, and there will be a

lot 30,000 subcontractor firms affected here. they will wait for the liquidator, to try and value... there is an order of priority in terms of distribution, and overall, it is to go to the security creditors and lenders first, and then any left, it will go to the insecure is. but i think it is very doubtful. you are talking about up to 200 days worth of payment for some companies. they are thinking not going to get it, or they will have to wait ages. that will be the death of some companies?m have to wait ages. that will be the death of some companies? it is. 30,000 businesses are affected. there have been some overtures by the banks to say that they will help those small businesses. i would urge any of those sub contractors saying that they need to look at their plans going forward on the basis that they will not receive any of that they will not receive any of that money, but to seek advice as quickly as possible. let's look at a situation where carillion drops out of the picture, and another contractor comes to dig asbos, and do thejob that contractor comes to dig asbos, and

do the job that it was doing. how easyis do the job that it was doing. how easy is that you actually —— comes to do the work. how easy is that? yellow might bear in mind the nature of many of the public sector contracts, it is essential that those services are continued seamlessly. because of that, the government did give the undertaking that any work done on site by subcontractors and deploys would be paid for the day that undertaking was given. many of these contracts... i think, was given. many of these contracts... ithink, this was given. many of these contracts... i think, this week, discussions have been well underway to see if there's contractors can step in and help the carillion element of the work. but, u nfortu nately. contractors, element of the work. but, unfortunately. contractors, if they are retained on this contract, they will only be paid for any work done from now on. surely, they will be looking at the actual contracts, themselves, and say, if carillion couldn't make money on this, how can we do that? will they be up to new they are in a strong negotiating position. it is essential that those

contracts go forward, and those services are provided seamlessly. anybody looking at it might then, why would i take it on. why would i be those problems into my own house? those contacted to be negotiated, and give them in decent profit margin to step in and perform that work instead. fascinating if disturbing, thank you so much indeed. the run up to christmas is a hugely important period for our shops, butnew data out today from the office for national statistics, shows that uk retail sales fell by 1.5% in december compared with november — that's a sharper fall than expected. and that retail sales are expected to contribute almost nothing to economic growth in the last three months of 2017. earlier we spoke to patrick o'brien uk retail research director at global data black friday has been a bit of a spectacular own goalfor black friday has been a bit of a spectacular own goal for global retail. they are putting out items

on promotion that they could be selling at full price in the run—up to christmas, and we have seen from this data, the polling ford of that spending in november, and it doesn't recover in december. let's look at the markets. dignity, the funeral provider... co—op cut its prices by 25%, and dignity insists it will have to cut its prices to. carpetright had a very bad year. they are seen as a bellwether, of the economy generally, because of its link with the housing market. itjust be down two and a half percent because it has been find a large amount of money to settle a us criminal

investigation. a new taboo—smashing comedy featuring bollywood superstar, akshay kumar, is released next week. "pad man" is inspired by the life of a school—drop out from a poor family in southern india, who changed the lives of millions of women across the world by inventing a machine to make cheap sanitary pads. the film's producer, twinkle khanna, told my colleague, chloe tilley, how the idea for the production came about. icame i came across a story when i was doing some research for a column i was doing on menstruation, for the times of india. when i read about him,i times of india. when i read about him, iwas times of india. when i read about him, i was completely fascinated. here was a man from a very simple, conservative village, and he encountered a problem when he realised that his wife was using unhygienic rags. now, in normal man would probably... really unhygienic, he said he would not clean his microwave with it. yes. a normal man would say let me answer monies that

i could buy them for my wife, but he isa i could buy them for my wife, but he is a very eccentric idiosyncratic character, and he decided to make it cheaper pad. he decided to go ahead with that. his wife got fed up of testing his pads for him, and he got fed up of waiting months after month. because there is a gap. no other woman was willing to test this out, so, he devised a contraption, almost like an artificial womb with almost like an artificial womb with a pigs bladder that he filled up with pigs‘ blood. a pigs bladder that he filled up with pigs' blood. he replicated a period. his pad still didn't work, so period. his pad still didn't work, so it leaked. the people in his village thought that he was a pervert or had a sexual disease, because he had blood all over his pa nts. because he had blood all over his pants. some people thought that he was a pants. some people thought that he wasa vampire, pants. some people thought that he was a vampire, secretly, sucking birds from women at night. but, you

persevered, and he did manage to make the sanitary pad. he lost everything, his wife, ostracised from the village... his mother left him. he was abandoned completely. i guess, his sense of determination put him through that entire time period, and his exceeded. and his wife came back. so how hard was it to go out there and say, right, i need to make this into a film, i need to make this into a film, i need funding. it is really surprising, but the biggest obstacle of making this movie for me was to convince women that i should be able to make it. he was not very into did, because that‘s back to convince him. he was not very interested. he lives a very simple life, and when i went to visit his house, we were sitting on the floor, eating a ba na na leaves. sitting on the floor, eating a banana leaves. he was very excited, because he was getting a bed for his

daughter, and that was the first bad in that household. his philosophy is simple. if you are satisfied, and your future is a simple. if you are satisfied, and yourfuture is a bit broken, and you can put about under it, then why not do that, that is what his philosophy is. so it wasn't difficult to go to a film company and make this into a huge and feature film. it is talking about periods! i had already written the story before, and when i did go forfunding, surprisingly, the story before, and when i did go for funding, surprisingly, we the story before, and when i did go forfunding, surprisingly, we had absolutely no problem with that. the only problem we did have while filming, was too many artists on the set, and we... we had to reshoot some scenes because some people were mortified at holding a mental product. how important was it to get

your husband on board? when i first began, thought it would be a small arthouse film, but the mission for this movie is for as many people to watch it as possible. if indians see one of their idols holding a sanitary pad in their hand, then half of the taboos are completely dispelled in that moment. lovely story. now let‘s take a look at it isa it is a wintry theme that will continue for the rest of the day. things gradually turning warmer into the weekend, but here is a scene in the weekend, but here is a scene in the highlands, showing an extent of the highlands, showing an extent of the night‘s snow. we also have some blue sky. but, the met office have issued an amber weather warning, to be prepared for some significant disruption, particularly south west of scotland. the extent of the snowfall, we could see another ten to 15 said of snow falling on top

40s already lying. here, the recent snow depths, we have got 37 centimetres of snow already lying in the highlands. ten centimetres in cumbria, and three said we did in bingley. a lot of snow across northern part of the country. further south east, a different story, with blue sky and sunshine. still got showers south—west of england and wales, and a mix of rain, sleet and snow on the highest ground. eastern scotland going better in terms of sunshine, but here is why we have got all of those snow showers packing in over the higher ground. towards the east of the pennines, and writes down towards east anglia, one or two rogue showers, but most places looking guy and bright, 7 degrees, feeling pleasant enough towards the london region. while showers in the south winds of england and wales, just over the high strung, turning to snow., but when you add on the

wind chill with that westerly wind, it is going to feel a lot call. on into this evening, those showers will slowly ease, away from scotland overnight. more wet weather moving in from the south—west, and as that bumps into the cold air, we could season snow across wales, the chilton and cotswolds. we will continue to see that mix of rain, and a bit of hill snow possibly. coming back to rain later on. i‘d sta b coming back to rain later on. i‘d stab and still quite cold in the south. a return to sunnier skies in the north. a different feeling day for scotland, northern ireland and opening bid. —— northern england. as that meets the cold air, a significant spell of snow, possible, particularly across part of northern england and scotland. still pretty chilly, and we have that rain, sleet and snow. if you have got travel plans during sunday, do watch out

because of heavy snow and ice across parts of scotland and also northern ireland. hello, you‘re watching afternoon live — i‘m ben brown today at two. the government announces it will not challenge the controversial decision to release serial sex offender john worboys from prison — but lawyers for two of the victims say they will pursue a judicial review. having taken considered and expert legal advice, i have decided that it would not be appropriate for me as secretary of state to proceed with such a case. honourable members will appreciate i not go further and go into detail, i know this will disappoint the victims in this case, and members of this house. everything about worboys's conduct and his denial of the offence, and the recent decision not to move him to open conditions suggests that the