frances hardinge, author of a skinful of shadows, thank you very much. thank you. good evening.the slate for you to start the new year, well, the weather will blow away any cobwebs in the week ahead. 0ften blow away any cobwebs in the week ahead. often very windy and some spells of heavy rain to content with too. here is a picture of the improving weather we saw this afternoon across essex once the area of low pressure to the south—east of the british isles pulled away, and new year's day brought some gorgeous sunshine into scotland too. skies for many will be clear now for the remainder of this evening and overnight. the winds will also fall light and those two things combined will allow it to turn rather chilly, a frost in many areas through the small hours, however, temperatures will start to lift towards the west by the end of the night as a weather front is going to start to approach. 0n front is going to start to approach. on tuesday, for many it starts on a dry footing, chilly across eastern scotland, already in the west the cloud piling in and wind picking up, this is sa