thank you for now, katie austen at paddington _ networks.gton station - networks. thank you for now, katie austen at paddington station in - austen at paddington station in london. of course we expect bad weather in the winter, but this feels extreme for many people, let's discuss what's happening with our weather presenter louise lear:|t s been a very wet winter so far, what s been causing this? what has caused this? we know a warmer world can mean a wetter world. that means when we get to see significant areas low pressure that is the potential for significant rainfall to come from that low. if you look at the satellite sequence across the uk for the last 12 days, you can see the bombardment of cloud. we see one area of low pressure being replaced by another. it looks likely the december 2023 is going to be one of the wettest on record for some and actually, january, and we are only into the 5th of january, we see three significant areas of low pressure across the uk already. aha, significant areas of low pressure across the uk already.— a

either unavailable or hidden among several options on the machines. 0ur transport correspondent, katy austene tickets are being purchased online, but some people still get them at the station, including using vending machines. at the four in ten stations with no ticket office, they're the only option, which sent mystery shoppers to 15 stations around the country, all run by different train companies. they use the machines to buy the cheapest one way tickets for travel that day for the next morning, and to use in three weeks' time. then they looked for tickets for travel at a similar time of day on the uk's biggest third party ticket selling website, trainline. they usually found cheaper options available online. in the case of tickets for travel the same day, the cheapest ones they found on the machines cost on average 52% more than on trainline. and some mystery shoppers couldn't find off—peak tickets for sale on machines at peak times. this is not a problem that is specific to an individual operator — it's an industry wide problem. and simply what needs to happen is if operators are intent