caroline abrahams, sor for exist today. caroline abrahams, sorry for the _ exist today.e brief _ exist today. caroline abrahams, sorry for the brief interview, - sorry for the brief interview, but really good to hear your thoughts. and do stay with us on bbc news. more to come on verified alive. hello. good afternoon. fairly stagnant weather at the moment with high pressure around, which means only subtle changes in our weather from day to day, where we keep the clear skies and the sunshine. by day we'll get patchy fog at night and a touch of frost, but it is mainly dry for many of us right the way through the weekend under this area of high pressure, that's keeping these weather fronts at bay. however, interestingly, over the coming few days, we lose our southwesterly wind and we start to draw in this colder air currently across the low countries, france and germany. and so temperatures actually will start to dip away and it will be quite chilly, probably the coldest day being sunday. and the fog of course is a real issue for travellers. this was nuneaton earlier on. it

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. >> no, no, i was just to say very, very quickly that obviously is uk director caroline abrahams.he point today that this winter is really where we're going to see the effects of those cuts to the winter fuel payment, as this winter is only sure to get colder. >> absolutely. well, thank you very much. tony maguire and will hollis in northampton. that's glasgow and northampton covered there because this is actually a serious issue. okay. you've got the nhs with the sort of nanny statist warnings about how we all need to hunker down and collect our medicines and our food supplies and everything because of this arctic blast. but with the winter fuel payments being taken away, there are probably a lot of pensioners out there who are wary about turning the heating on, are wary about leaving it on when they should be really in these kind of temperatures. you need to have it on all day, really, don't you? >> absolutely. and we've just seen this week as well the price cap go up yet again, expecting that it's going to go up next time as well. energy is not getting cheaper, but how is the c