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these are three—week—old guide dog puppies. they are currently at caroline's home. she's been volunteering for the charity for four years. she has two dogs and this is her fourth litter of guide dog puppies. of puppies and then seeing them go off is huge. lovely dog who is living with you all the time. so they're notjust here to have the puppies, afterwards as well. of guide dog puppies. here at the guide dogs national centre in leamington spa, we are on puppy block. their guide dog journey.

but they need more people to help, and this is radius of the centre. there is plenty of help on hand and vets bills and food are paid for too. you have a nominated person from guide dogs that supports your volunteers all the way through the dog's career, especially when they have litters or when they are pregnant, and that's when volunteers that brings the cutest award today. that brings the cutest report award today. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. the weather in the next

few days is going to be fairly quiet. some patchy light rain. for many of us, it will be dry with sunny spells, but by night, we are looking at the chance of frost and also some mist and fog. we have got a few showers left across south—east england and a brisk wind as we go into the afternoon, a few but for the bulk of the uk today, it is going to be dry with some sunshine. we will have clear skies and see some mist and fog into east anglia. with temperatures like this, we are looking it may go down as low as —3 in parts of the highlands.

the fog, with not much breeze elsewhere, will be slow to lift. it could last until lunchtime. bit of sunshine and some fairweather cloud bubbling as this weather front approaches, the breeze will pick up across the north—west, with one or two showers. and a fair bit of cloud. but we start on sunday once again with some mist and fog and also some frost.

then we are looking at a lot of dry weather around. temperatures, 8 to about 10 degrees.

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