of us not quite as well, for most of us not quite as cold. in terms of the snow which we had yesterday, it looks as though shropshire and staffordshire had the most amount of snow in one go, up to around 20 centimetres in a few areas but with southern counties, basically further south and east you 90, basically further south and east you go, it was closer to around five or so in west london. today, lots of bright weather out there, even clear blue skies currently over the capital. frosty later tonight. is this what it looks like this afternoon. temperatures briefly touching three or four, possibly 5 degrees, fine weather around but the possibility of some wintry showers across parts of scotland as we go through this afternoon and this evening. the skies will remain clear for most of the night across scotland, england and wales, and here we expect another sharp frost, down 2—6 in some rural areas but the temperatures rising through the night in northern ireland, all ahead of this with a front and the red blobs you can see, the semicircles,

indicating a warm front is a warmer air following indicating a warm front is a warmer airfollowing in behind from the atlantic and pushing, squeezing the cold air a little bit towards the east. it will start icy and frosty in the east of britain on tuesday but in the west, in the morning, it will already be cloudy, mild and raining. there is the possibility there will be some snow across the pennines and also parts of scotland, the hills, the mountains, but generally, i think for tomorrow, and overcast and unpleasant, rainy sort of day. that rate will reach more eastern parts of the country later in the afternoon and into the evening and then it will peter out. we have another one front heading our way so this is the next one, you see the semicircles, and these lines pointing out of the south—west, that is where the air is coming from so it means the weather is coming from the south—west, that is a one direction so it means warmer air is going to spread eventually across the uk but before that happens,

briefly, i think on wednesday we have some fine weather, newcastle and glasgow will have some sunshine, plymouth in the afternoon on wednesday is 10 degrees and raining. here is a summary for the week. cold, crisp, wintry, icy sort of day for some of us today and from tuesday, those weather fronts, for some of us today and from tuesday, those weatherfronts, warm fronts arriving and i think that sets the trend for the rest of the week and temperatures will be back into double figures. simon, back to you. thank you. a reminder of our top story... the prime minister has said some lockdown measures could be lifted once the highest priority groups have been inoculated in the middle of february. thejcvi groups one to four are going to be vaccinated by the 15th of february. before then, we'll be looking at the potential of relaxing some measures. that's all from the bbc news at one — so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s

hello, i'm sarah at the bbc sport centre. let's start with the big news out of chelsea this morning, as the club have sacked their manager frank lampard after 18 months in charge. the former blues midfielder leaves with the team ninth in the premier league table, following five defeats in the last eight league games. thomas tuchel, the former paris saint germain and borrusia dortmund manager, is expected to replace him. with more, here's ourfootball reporter, simon stone. i think the team have gone from top of the premier league to ninth. they are five points of the top four, they are 11 points off the top of they are 11 points off the top of the premier league and they think the premier league and they think the trajectories down. his first season he qualified for the champions league, when the club were under a transfer embargo, so you have to say he did very well then.

he reached the fa cup final, so that was all the boxes ticked for them, but then chelsea spent huge amounts of money, £200 million, on new players in the summer transfer window and they have just not played out, and as i say when the results turn against any manager in charge of the team at stamford bridge, they still find —— but they soon find that roma abramovich is absolutely ruthless when it comes to making big decisions he thinks are in the best short—term interests of his football club. it is really, really interesting in the season where we have seen leg and a mikel arteta and arsenal come under huge pressure and their clubs have stood by them, but not with frank lampard, he has made the decision and he has made it quick. the decision and he has made it auick. ,, ., the decision and he has made it iuick. ,, ., ,, ., england's cricketers have won the second and final test

against sri lanka by six wickets to complete a 2—0 series win. sri lanka collapsed dramatically in their second innings earlier this morning. spinners dom bess and jack leach did most of the damage. but it was captainjoe root who took the last two wickets. england were struggling on 89—4 at one stage. but dominic sibley and jos buttler held firm and sibley finished not out on 56, while buttler was unbeaten on 46. meanwhile, it's been announced that england are to play two home test matches against new zealand this summer. the first game against the world's number one ranked side will begin at lord's on 2nd june, the second will be at edgbaston the following week. former formula i world champion jenson button will compete next year's new extreme e racing series. he'll not only own thejbxe team, but also be one of the team's two drivers. button joins other high—profile names such as seven—time fi world

champion lewis hamilton. a male and a female driver will compete for each of the ten teams in off—road electric e—suvs. the series is set to begin in april 2022 and will be streamed on bbc iplayer, the red button and sport website. we are racing in five different locations around the world. areas that have been really affected by climate change, so the aim for us all is to bring a as much awareness to all of these regions to try to make a change. i will be racing alongside my team—mate and in extreme eu have a boy and a girl in each car. i will announce her very soon —— back in extreme e. i will announce assume, and they're excited. we will have some of the greatest champion from dakar and all round the world, all champions in the field, so it is going to be very tight and their impact.— tight and their impact. exciting news. tight and their impact. exciting news- and _ tight and their impact. exciting

news. and ireland _ tight and their impact. exciting news. and ireland have - tight and their impact. exciting - news. and ireland have announced their six nations squad this morning. 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. i will see you soon. sarah, thank you very much. let's get more on the prime minister's comments earlier today. borisjohnson spoke as he toured a medical centre where people were receiving vaccinations. he was asked when parents could expect their children to be back at school. the first thing i want to say is just a massive thank you to all the parents who have been looking after their kids at home in the last few weeks. i know how stressful it has been, i know the pressure people are under since the new year and it has been going on and i must tell you it will go on a little bit more. we are going to be looking at where we've got to on the 15th of february, where, as you know, we hope to vaccinated as you know, we hope to have vaccinated about 15 million people across the whole of the uk. thejcvi groups 1—4, the real priority groups. we will be deciding before then whether we can

be getting schools back and i can tell you that daily we are looking at the data and trying to work out when we are going to be able to lift restrictions. schools obviously will be a priority, but i don't think anybody would want to see the restrictions lifted so quickly whilst the rate of infection is still very high, so as to lead to another great spread of infection. we have now got the r down below one across the whole of the country. that is a great achievement. we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we have got the vaccination programme going so well and people have worked so hard. can we rule out schools, then, reopening for children before easter? will they be open before easter? i understand why people want to get a timetable from me today.

what i can tell you is we will tell you, parents and teachers as soon as we can and as much as we can. we will be looking at the time tables, we will be looking at all the predictions about the numbers of people we would have vaccinated, the effect that has on the risk to the whole population, just how fast we can go, but how fast we can go in a responsible and cautious way because i do think now this massive achievement has been made, of rolling out this vaccination programme, i think people will want to see us making sure that we don't, you know, throw that away by having a premature relaxation and then another big surge of infection. some of your own mps are accusing you and the government are forgetting about schools. when i asked you about schools and whether they will be open before easter, you can't answer it. i assume that means they won't be open before easter. no, you mustn't assume that. if i may say so... but mps, parents and teachers want to have a rough plan

here, prime minister, and they have absolutely no idea when schools are going to be open. is that the situation you are in? you just have no idea when they are going to reopen? we are looking at the data as it comes in. rates of infection, as you know, the jcvi groups 1—4 will be vaccinated by the 15th of february. before then we'll be looking at the potential of relaxing some measures, but don't forget that this country has made huge progress in reducing the infection rates and i don't think people want to see another big surge in infections. i totally understand the frustrations of parents and i really thank teachers for what they are doing and the immense efforts that they are going to to teach kids online — and the government has provided a lot of laptops, about 1.3 million laptops. i know that is no substitute for direct face—to—face learning. believe me, dan, there's nothing i want to do more than reopen schools. i fought to keep schools open for as long as i possibly could.

we want to see schools back. we want to see them back as fast as possible. we want to do that in a way that is consistent with fighting the epidemic and keeping the infection rate down. one of the issues obviously this week for you will be the borders, controlling the borders, seeing who comes in and leaves. one of the arguments is for quarantine hotels. can you confirm quarantine hotels you are definitely looking at? yes, definitely looking at, but i gotta tell you at the moment the uk already has one of the tightest regimes in the world, so don't forget everybody when you're coming into the uk, or coming back from the uk you have to have a test 72 hours before you fly, you have to have a passenger locator form, the the airline will pick you off if you don't produce either of those, i view your test or your passenger location form, then of course you've

got to quarantine for ten days or five days if you get another negative test. but with this vaccination programme, i think we have done 6.3 million people now in the uk as a whole. we are on target, just, just, we are on target to hit our ambition of testing, sorry, vaccinating everybody in those vulnerable groups by the middle of february. it is an immense effort by the nhs. if we are going to make that effort, which we are, we want to make sure that we protect our population, protect this country against reinfection from abroad, so that idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on. would that include all people coming into the uk or from certain countries or would it include brits as well? we need a solution that gives us the maximum possible protection against reinfection from abroad because it doesn't take... you can see the risk, which is that we can do an amazing job of vaccinating our population, but we have to realise

there is at least a theoretical risk of a new variant that is a vaccine busting variant coming in and we have got to be able to keep that under control. one final question. the first minister of scotland yesterday said she will hold an advisory referendum, whether westminster consents or not. would you challenge the scottish government in the court if they tried to hold a referendum? i can make a couple of points on that. this country is going through a pandemic, the whole of the uk is going through a pandemic and i think what the people of the united kingdom want to see is everybody focusing on beating a on beating pandemic, which we are, rolling out vaccine, and getting ready to bounce back from the pandemic and have the strongest possible economic recovery. that is the priority for the whole of the united kingdom and i think people can also see everywhere in the uk the visible benefits of our wonderful union. a vaccine programme that has been

rolled out by an nhs, a national health service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in oxford and is being administered by the british army, so i think the strengths and speakfor speak for themselves. borisjohnson there, boris johnson there, and borisjohnson there, and we have just had some news from the moderna team, who say that their vaccine appears to work against the two highly transmissible strains found here in the uk and in south africa, although it looks to them as though it may be less effective against the south african variant, but they stress that whilst it generates a weaker immune response against the south african strain, antibodies remain above levels that are expected to be protective against the virus. the company says it is exhilarating work on a covid—19 booster shot to guard against that recently discovered variant in south africa. the moderna vaccine is one of three that has been approved here in the uk and has been approved in

the united states as well, it will be going online later this month, so that his news from moderna, with some positive news, particularly after the united states' doctor anthony fauci they're suggesting that maybe these variants were immune to these vaccines. well, moderna says their vaccine works against both variants, but is more effective against the uk strain of that. scotland has recorded four deaths of coronavirus patients and 752 new cases in the past 2a hours. the first minister, nicola sturgeon, said there were some indications that the rate of hospital admissions might be beginning to fall. i can tell you that 2,016 people are currently in hospital. that is six more than yesterday. and 151 people are in intensive care, which is six fewer than yesterday. i don't want to overstate this because the pressure on our nhs continues to be acute and is likely to be so for some time yet, but we think we may have some cautious grounds for optimism that admissions to hospital

are starting to tail off slightly. i am also sorry to report that four additional deaths have been registered in the past 2a hours of a patient who first tested positive over the previous 28 days, but let me remind you again that the figures we report on monday are often low because registration offices are largely closed over the weekend. since the last briefing on friday, we have recorded 81 new deaths, which takes the total number under the daily measurement to 5,709, and again today i want to send my sincere condolences to everyone who is grieving a loved one because of this virus. by 8:30 this morning, a15,402 people had received their first dose of the vaccine. from today, we are going to be publishing more detailed vaccination figures on a daily basis. these will include breakdowns of the number of people who have been vaccinated in particular categories. so for example, the figures

will show today that in addition to 95% of residents in older adult care homes, 95% front line health and care workers, we have also now vaccinated 46% of all over—80—year—olds in scotland and that is up from 34% that i indicated when i stood here on friday. we are well on track to meet the target date that we had set to complete all the over—80s in the population. in addition, from today letters will start to be sent out to the people aged 70—79, inviting them to receive their first vaccination jag. the letters being sent out this week, contrary to what we indicated over the weekend, will be in white envelopes and will have the nhs logo clearly shown on the right—hand side of the envelope, so look out for those in the mail.

you will be receiving, if you are over 70 you will receive one of these letters over the next couple of weeks, starting from today. it is in your interests and obviously everybody else's interests for you to accept the appointment to get vaccinated as soon as possible. nicola sturgeon. the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister says he can't give a date on when all children will go back to school in england, despite calls from mps for the government to clarify whether schools will fully re—open before easter. debenhams is to disappear from the high street with the loss of 12,000 jobs. the fast fashion retailer, boohoo, has bought the brand and website, but not the stores or stock. taxi drivers, security guards and care workers record some of the highest rates of death from coronavirus, according to new data. among those getting sick with covid—19 are, of course, healthcare workers themselves, who sometimes end up being treated by their colleagues. louise cullen has been speaking to one frontline worker, supported by his work family as he said goodbye to one of his own.

i'm a 45—year—old who is fit and healthy with no underlying health problems. i have been reduced to a child again. this wasjonathan newell as his recovery began last november, on the respiratory covid ward he had volunteered on since march. he was rushed to craigavon in october. i don't remember being in the ed. i don't remember being admitted to the ward. after that i can remember going down a corridor and all these bright lights... and hearing a voice saying, "we're just going to put you "to sleep for a wee while." and that was it. within 2a hours, three more of jonathan's family were in hospital, including his mother, martina, with him in intensive care. eventually they both moved back to the respiratory ward. then, one saturday morning, martina began to deteriorate. at this stage mum was still awake. you know, she was still able to speak to us. i spent about an hour with her.

i got very tired, and my back, i wanted to go back and have a wee rest and i went back, literally was in bed for ten minutes, and i could hear the staff outside the curtain saying, "i think we need to get him back down again." and they took me down and my mum was unconscious. and again took her hand and told her we loved her. and then within about ten minutes she just passed away peacefully. it was his only goodbye. he was still in hospital for the funeral. i couldn't grieve in the hospital. i couldn't take part with my family at home in the grieving process. i couldn't be there to support them over the time of the wake, the funeral, the burial and to me it wasn't real. jonathan is back home now. he probably won't be back at work until next year. the virus has changed his life, but give him one thing. time with his mother as she slipped away. i was really lucky because i was actually there with her. a lot of our patients have no one to... other than the staff sitting

with them, none of our patients have ever died on their own. and he has one message. this ravished my family. go in to our hospitals. every second of every day they are trying to save a life. so i appeal to everybody in the community, please wear your mask. please wash your hands. please social distance. but please, please don't take this lightly. the european union's foreign ministers are meeting in brussels with lots on their agenda — vaccine distribution, relations with the uk, relations with the new us president, joe biden, and the detention of russian opposition leader, alexei navalny. the eu's foreign policy chief, josep borrell, has voiced "great concern" about the more than 3,000 demonstrators arrested on saturday across russia, and said that ministers will be discussing how to respond. 0ur brussels correspondent, nick beake, has been following the story. in terms of the options they can take, it's tricky because a lot of people here in brussels, meps, are saying strong words

are one thing and saying that you stand behind the likes of alexei navalny, the opposition leader who is now being detained, and saying that you stand in solidarity with the more than 3,000 people who were arrested during protests, largely peaceful protests, in russia over the past 72 hours. and so some people are saying it needs to go further, whether that is sanctions, targeting individual members of president putin's regime, people with big money interests who have got lots of cash within the eu, whether there is some sort of travel ban or restriction on their assets there. but i think this is where it gets difficult because some people are saying they want to see far—reaching economic sanctions, the likes of which we saw back in 2014 after russia annexed crimea, and i think that's where it gets a bit difficult politically because they will have to act as one, the eu, on that, and there are signs, as ever, with lots of things, that not everyone is in complete agreement.

for children with complex disabilities, the transition into adulthood can be a challenging experience. the former model katie price is one parent trying to secure the right support for her son — and she's made a documentary about her experience for bbc one. she spoke to our disability correspondent, nikki fox. cheering for nearly 20 years, katie price has been in the spotlight. next book coming out in may and my autobiography comes out injanuary. she is a model, author, singer and reality tv star. whoa, what do you think? i kind of hoped i was, like, one of the most glamorous blondes on a mobility scooter! and then i saw you. laughter are you joking? katie has been recovering from a recent accident where she broke both her ankles. hurry up. i'm coming. which has made her already complicated life more complicated. is that your little lunchbox? i love it. but her biggest challenge is yet still to come. cool letting go of her son harvey. happy 18th birthday, harvey. things change when you're 18, for anyone. you become an adult.

it's pretty predictable to know what will happen with the other kids. whereas, with harvey, it's not predictable, because he's got complex needs. i love it! harvey was born with a rare genetic disorder, autism and sight loss. i am his carer, like, people think i have carers, i don't. you see, i am a very hands—on mum. are you happy now? yeah! despite some reports, katie is not putting her son into full—time care. instead, she's made the decision to find the best specialist education for harvey but as many families in her position know, it's not an easy task. and not finding the right provision could risk her son's future. katie, what have been the main challenges for you as a mum, for you and harvey? until you go through it you can't explain it, but now i'm going through it, if anyone asks me i can advise them. like, where do you start? it's not like straightforward where you can just choose

a college for them. they have to be right, they have to have the right nursing team, know how to deal with challenging behaviour. ah, ah! harvey, be careful. the documentary shows just how tricky it can be, finding the right setting for someone with such complex needs. hannah, he doesn't like it, we're going have to go, please. when he was kicking off at the college, in a way i'm glad he did because i need them to see what he's like when he kicks off. in the programme, i didn't show him having a full meltdown. ijust wanted to protect harvey, people didn't need to see that, i think they get the gist that it's challenging. he needs this journey, he needs to have these independent skills, learn them all, life skills and i think he will enjoy it, make friends. the amount of people whot love harvey and sometimes, harveyjust randomly goes "hi, hello." we were in traffic and there was a bus stop, there must have been kids just coming out of school. and harvey is like, "hey!"

and everyone looked and like, "oh, my god," and then they noticed me in the car. and they were all running. "harvey, it's harvey price." whay! and he's like whey!. if i can, out of my career, using my situation for something good, then i'm proud that something good has come out of my life. a programme on bbc one tonight. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz. the cold weather is going to come to an end, basically we have got today left and a bit of tomorrow and then it is going to turn quite a bit milder, but the frost is going to return this evening and overnight, so once again in the morning tomorrow it will be quite icy in places. now, the weather is a lot sunnier today, compared to what we had yesterday. clear skies there across part of the country. these are the temperatures around late afternoon, so pretty nippy in places, barely above freezing in some areas, where there is still a lot of snow lying around. about 20 centimetres or so yesterday across parts of the midlands. through this evening,

some wintry showers, yes, across parts of scotland, but clear across the bulk of scotland, england and wales. eventually it's going to turn milder through the night in northern ireland and that is because a change is taking place. a weather front is approaching and with that also southerly winds are developing in these southerly winds up going to push milder air in our direction, but notice parts of scotland and also northern england stilljust about in cold air, so that does mean that when this weather front moves across the country on tuesday, with the rain falling across southern and western areas, it is more likely to be snow across the pennines, yorkshire, maybe even in some towns and cities at lower ground, but also snow across the scottish mountains. to the south of that, a lot milder, we are talking about 10 degrees in plymouth, so you can see that weather front moving through and then eventually even across the pennines it will turn to rain, but i think the snow will continue across the highlands tomorrow evening.

here is mid—week. 0ne weather front fizzles out, we have a repeat performance. this is the next one, so one on tuesday, the next weather front coming in late on wednesday. ahead of it, the weather is actually not too bad, some sunshine around, absolutely fine in scotland, with glasgow and edinburgh looking pretty sunny, but notice later in the afternoon on wednesday it is starting to turn wet again in south—western england and parts of wales. that is going to spread north across the country as well, you can see by the time we get to thursday we are into double figures, that 12 degrees expected in the south of the country, so a cold and crisp day today and tomorrow it will change.

this is bbc news. the headlines: no firm date for the return of schools in england — despite calls from mps for the government to clarify whether schools will fully re—open before easter. covid rules won't be eased in england before mid—february. the prime minister says he will be looking to relax the rules as soon as the numbers allow, but doesn't want to risk a surge in infections with the vaccination programme in full swing. groups will be vaccinated by the 15th of february. before then we will be looking at the potential of relaxing summer measures. —— some measures. the family of teenager keon lincoln describe their shock — after the 15—year—old was shot and stabbed. the type of person keon was, it doesn't make any sense anyone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way.