sarah corker, bbc news. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. hello, there.rmest new year's eve on record, with temperatures up around 16 celsius and it maybe that we break records again during a new year's day. another exceptionally mild day. quite windy with some rain. mostly courtesy of this frontal system pushing east. low pressure to the north—west. the white lines, the isobars squeezing together, so some brisk winds to start the day, up to 40, 50 mph or more for some exposed western coast. the exposed weather front i showed you will move east, bringing cloud and rain. the rain, not especially widespread but could be heavy at times. more showers into northern ireland and western scotland later. in between, some good spells of sunshine and some very high temperatures once again. 10—15 or 16 degrees, well above the norm for the first day of january. saturday night, mainly dry initially but we'll see some areas of showers, potentially quite heavy, drifting in from the west by the end of the night. still relatively mild, maybe a little bit cooler across the

sarah corker, bbc news.ial media. the player described his attackers as cowards but said he was thankful his family were unhurt. wildfires in the the us state of colorado have destroyed at least 300 homes, and are being described as the worst in the modern history of the state. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the suburbs outside the city of denver as well as patients and staff at one hospital. weather experts spoke of their disbelief that such a large fire could have taken hold in december. train passengers are being advised to alter their new year's eve plans because of planned strike action. the operator cross country has cancelled services across england, scotland and wales and will be operating a "very limited timetable" on other routes. and southern has also announced none of its trains will run to or from london victoria until the 10th of january because of staff shortages caused by covid. new rules come in tomorrow meaning that people who stick with their home or car insurance pro

sarah corker, bbc news. you are watching bbc news. there is more coming up.ead through this evening into the start of the new year, it will stay very, very mild. quite windy. dry for many but not quite for all of us. this afternoon�*s temperatures, though, across northern scotland, eight or nine degrees, that�*s a bit above average. 15, 16 or 17 further south, that�*s a lot above average. some spells of sunshine in places. quite windy out there — increasingly windy across western parts, and some patchy rain for northern ireland and parts of scotland. as we go through this evening, while many places will be dry, we will see this band of potentially quite heavy rain pushing across northern ireland into south—west scotland and north—west england by midnight, by which point temperatures will be between nine and 13 degrees. but it will turn increasingly windy. these are the wind gusts to take us through the small hours of saturday, gusts of 40 to 50 mph around western coasts and maybe stronger than that in the most exposed locations. because low pressure will be p