but for now from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there.snowy spell of weather on the way. we've got very cold air locked in place and an area of low pressure developing over the atlantic. the met office have issued a number of the met office have issued a number 0f warnings to this. stay tuned to bbc local radio. a cold start to the morning. well below freezing in many areas. extremely cold across some of the scottish clans. watch out for ice and freezing fog. 0n the plus side, plenty of chris sutton. conditions go downhill. rain, sleet, and so becomes more widespread and this they will become heavy late in the day. it will be a cold day pretty much where ever you are. as we head through thursday evening and overnight, the sleet and snow across the south—west of wales starts to spread northwards and eastwards. there will be accumulations of snow, 103 centimetres at lower levels, more of that the hills, across the south the midlands, and across eastern wales, which could potentially be very disruptive. welcome to bbc news, a warm welcome to

for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there.e look at the temperatures we had yesterday afternoon, they were languishing into low single figures. two, three, four, something like that. this afternoon, up as high as 12 degrees so for some, a jump of 12 degrees celsius or so. the thing bringing the warmer air is a warm front that continues to edge its way eastwards so we front that continues to edge its way eastwards so we are front that continues to edge its way eastwards so we are in too much milder weather with the atlantic flexing its muscles for friday. as well as the milder air working in, a lot of cloud around. drizzle. fog patches. temperatures continued to rise all of the power. it will be quite mild to start the day across western areas. that is how we start of friday. extensive cloud around and thick enough to bring light rain and thick enough to bring light rain and drizzle. it will ease from midday onwards but we will see more coming and going across the north—west of the country from time to time. the far north of sc

alicia mccarthy will be here for the rest of the week, but for now, from me, goodbye.intry showers following on behind seven, nation making many services quite damp and therefore the potential to be quite icy. this is the weather front i talked about, is the weather front i talked about, is given seven centimetres of snow and could even see sleet and snow clearing. gusty winds accompanied on behind the showers are packing in thick and fast. these are the morning figures for the towns and cities which clear the road surface temperatures, the pavements and out in the countryside, the temperatures around freezing hence the ice risk. what's happening, we've had that banned the weather, a cold front behind it, colder air packing banned the weather, a cold front behind it, colderair packing in, the north—westerly wind drawing a lot of wintry showers are wasted through the morning rush the good bits and snow in the showers across the central lowlands, even at even eve n a cross even across the highly populated areas of northern ireland that the problem is the ice is adding to

alicia mccarthy will be your guide on bbc parliament on monday evening as mps continue their debate onures on saturday reached 12 degrees in strathallan. 6 celsius higher than the january average in this part of scotland. it was a very mild day. we have some rain for western scotland and that rain continues to edge its way southwards. if you are heading outside over the next few hours, it is worth taking wet weather gear with you across scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. it will be quite blustery and very mild as well. temperatures between 8 and 10 degrees celsius to start day on sunday. on sunday itself, we have two weather fronts to look at. the first front will move southwards across england and wales and a more significant occluded front here across northern scotland will bring heavy rain to the north of scotland with colder air following that. so for sunday, a cloudy day for england and wales with a few patches of rain working southwards. brighter weather in the afternoon with showers working into northern western areas with more persistent rain hedging into

alicia mccarthy will be your guide on bbc parliament on monday evening as mps continue their debate on pictures like these sent in from our weather watchers across the north and west of scotland, a beautiful rainbow just recently, a and west of scotland, a beautiful rainbowjust recently, a lot of showers packing in on the gusty north—westerly wind. that win staying strong into the evening for northern england and northern ireland too, and other weather feature set to run into the north of the uk after dark tonight, and behind that some significantly chilly air. generally this afternoon, though, a fresherfeel for the far north already, to the south still pretty mild with temperatures in double figures. but the cold air will start to trickle all the way down across the uk as we go into the early part of the week. for monday morning, though, still mild across most of the uk, it will just be scotland that wakes up to quite widespread frost. if we fly back out again and take a look at how that shapes up in terms of where we see a weather front, you will see what i mean, a temperature roller

alicia mccarthy will be your guide on bbc parliament on monday evening as mps continue their debate on winter so far and what we have not seen much of the snow but over the last few hours we have had a glancing blow of cold air behind the cold front and we have seen snow behind the cold front and we have seen snow showers behind the cold front and we have seen snow showers pushing into shetland is over the next few hours you have a chance of seeing someone to weather here but the frosty start for parts of scotland but otherwise the england, wales, northern ireland, not too much on the cloud and wind, showers around but it will be particularly cold, temperature 6— eight celsius so for most of us actually it isn't too cold to start of the day, some passing showers, the early morning sunshine in scotla nd the early morning sunshine in scotland will tend to cloud over with the rain getting into the north and west. the mildest weather across western and southern parts of the uk but it will feel colder than the weather we had over the weekend across these eastern areas with five in aberdeen,

alicia mccarthy will be your guide on bbc parliament on monday evening as mps continue their debate ond is upon us and there will be some spells of sunshine around, like there was to end the day on friday in portsmouth. it will also briefly be feeling a little bit milder, but also increasingly windy and there will be a few showers around as well. in fact, for western parts of scotland, some persistent spells of rain. and that comes courtesy of this cold front which we can see here, already delivering some persistent rain across the western isles through the early hours of saturday morning and slowly sinking its way south and eastward, so for much of the uk, it will be a fairly cloudy day on saturday. increasingly windy, a few showers sinking their way southwards but tending to dissipate as they do but the showers will give way to a more persistent spell of rain initially across the east of northern ireland and later in the day across northern and western scotland and some of that rain just arriving into the far north of england as well. quite a windy day, particularly across scotland.

this evening — alicia mccarthy from bbc parliament — joins us from westminster. good evening.heme every single day and tonight it was international trade. mps did not get round to this debate until quite late this evening because of the statement from theresa may. she was trying to persuade mps to back her deal but when they did finally get round to it it was all about international trade and so we heard first from liam fox and he was painting a rosy picture about what the uk could achieve when we have left the eu. at the same time as the proportion of our exports to the eu has fallen, we are trading more with other partners around the world. we export a huge variety of commodities, we sold £22 billion worth of food and drink abroad in 2017, and in the year to november 2018 we sold £38 billion worth of cars, 25 billions worth of medicinal and pharmaceutical products, and 25 billion pounds worth of mechanical power generated products from aircraft engines to gas turbines and steam generators to nuclear reactors, and so much for britain not producing anything any more. we are ac