i managed to track down david vaughan. well, i think there‘s a lot of ambitions at stake here., i don‘t think it is quite yet but, the delays are continuing. things are going to change and that is going to mean a lot for some people. can i come to the meeting? i would rather you did not on this one, justin. i‘m not allowed in? no. so you‘re not expecting — a difficult meeting, but? no, no, i think — but we just to people — let people get that news and process it and think about what they‘re going they‘re actually going to when they actually get — finally get in the field. thank you very much. good luck. thank you. when the meeting‘s over, i learned the weather is hampering efforts to supply spare parts to the plane we need to get to thwaites glacier. there‘s parts coming down from new zealand to get those plans functional again. so we have to sit and wait. how many days behind schedule are we now? uh, i don't really even — i don't know, actually. why count? i think we can still imagine that we can still do 100% of the tasks but... you can still imagine? i can still imagine that

david sillito, bbc news, colchester. that is it from me. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @ lvaughanjones. i'm lewis vaughanof the british isles. perhaps you had the opportunity to get out and enjoy some of the beauty that's widely available there across the north of england and, indeed, up into parts of scotland. and we're not quite done with this wintry weather scenario just yet because as we start the weekend, a new set of weather fronts will drive their way in from the atlantic. and some of this atlantic moisture is going to fall into really quite cold air across the eastern side of the british isles, so we're going to see further accumulations — and notjust where we already have significant amounts of lying snow. as we creep away towards the higher ground of lincolnshire and down towards east anglia, this is where we may see new accumulations of snow, widely 2cm or so, but in some areas, we could see as much as 5—10cm, and that's why the met office have issued this amber weather warning for snow. as i say, up to 5—10cm distinctly possible in some areas, and that threat exists while these weather fronts