i am on the wentworth estate, the millionaires‘ row of surrey.eral augusto pinochet and it lies in the heart of chancellor philip hammond‘s runnymede and weybridge constituency which is one of the most affluent in britain. and yet the challenges faced across the country of an ageing population and spending cuts are leaving this area with some serious fiscal challenges. surrey county council is warning of the most difficult financial crisis in its history. as document showed it is running a £105 million deficit. that represent a funding gap of 12.4%, nearly double the english average. of course it‘s not but since 2010 when david cameron became prime minister surrey has lost over £500 million of funding and it has meant that most of the police stations in surrey have been closed, apart from four or and now they are starting to close fire stations. one minister complained to me that surrey faced two specific financial challenges. in the first place it spends a lot of money on public services which this minister supports but secondly it‘s relative we

and because of bats, 339 schools in kent were closed, 100 in sussex and also a0 in surrey. part of england, the forecasters last night got everything is spot on. if they get it right to night, there will be another five centimetres of snow. we will have to really wonder what will happen on that. it depends whether that snow goes on higher ground and that snow goes on higher ground and thatis that snow goes on higher ground and that is often where the problems have been. many thanks for the latest from the m20. let us go to newcastle and peter harris. it looks pretty nippy out there and i gather the worst is yet to come for you. without wishing to state the obvious, we are having from —— a visit from the beast from the east. people have walked to —— working to a good covering of snow. not to the extent peter has been describing. it was the usual rush—hour problems and after that, it tended to settle down and the police here in newcastle, northumbria police didn't deal with some serious problems. lots of schoolchildren have had an extra day off today because of the weather pr

surrey cou nty be making more efficiency. county council said in a statement this evening that they have agreed a three—year budget, despite severe pressures . three—year budget, despite severe pressures. we aren't councils across the country, they are keen to stress, a re the country, they are keen to stress, are under pressure due to rising demand for services and falling government funding. we have been managing the growing need for social care, partly by making savings of £540 million since 2010. the key, ayesha, is that this is one of the richest, a tory council, if they have trouble, everybody does? that is what i was shocked by. the average gap was 14.7 million, and you wonder why. it gets you to a broader point. local authorities and councils have been under severe pressure for a very, very long time, since the financial crash, since 2010. they have really had budgets cut and cut. actually, the first councils that bore the brunt of it we re lots of councils that bore the brunt of it were lots of northern councils, lot

up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey and east sussex.rs were on stand—by to keep minor routes open. many heeded advice to stay at home until conditions improved as some towns stage their own winter olympics. the greater hazards lie away from main roads where there is less traffic and the snow has had time to settle and to freeze. that brought a series of accidents which began before dawn and disrupted bus services and caused the closure of dozens services and caused the closure of d oze ns of services and caused the closure of dozens of schools. in norfolk, where 36 schools were closed, the freezing conditions also disrupted rail services. greater anglia trains said they were forced to cancel services. ourtrains they were forced to cancel services. our trains have to go slower, the points can freeze, the signals can freeze. that means that if the points freeze, the train can't go in the right direction. the amber warning also covers north—east england where the problems caused by snow and ice mirrored those further south. crawling traffi

not certain about overnight and tomorrow morning, this line of snow showers, suffolk, essex, kent, surreyushing into yorkshire and parts of the west midlands, parts of eastern scotland and north—east england. all capable of disrupting things going into the morning. a met office amber warning for this snow. it could be up to ten centimetres in parts of england. that warning is to be prepared for some disruption from this snow. also pushing through parts of wales. tuesday, some parts of avoiding the snow showers and staying dry. feeling colder. and you're watching beyond one and hundred days. russia blinks, just a little, in syria, allowing a brief daily truce to get humanitarian aid in east ghouta. from tomorrow, for 5 hours, there will be a humanitarian pause — but today the bombing continued and more civilians were killed. the united nations pressured moscow to allow some relief after 500 people, including children, were killed in the area last week. brexit will mean brexit — says the government — but the opposition is less resolute — today the labour party laid out its vision with close

up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey and east sussex, where farmers helped to keep roads open. more than 300 schools were closed. across the eastern counties, traffic called and travellers waited for news on cancelled rail services. 0perators had run empty trains through the night to keep the tracks open, but for a while the snow defeated them. temperatures are falling again. travelling will remain unpredictable and hazardous in the coming days. in the part of england were the most difficult weather was forecast... several schools were closed. a van stopped here, i got to go around him... 20 miles further south on one of the steep roads, negotiating was like an uphill slalom. and as the snow came down again, things got worse. this illustrates how little snow is needed to cause a problem. there's hardly any on the service here but it's frozen up, it's got really slippery and its caused chaos on this road this morning. in the towns and cities on lower ground, snow wasn't such a problem but the freezing temperatures were to stop these homeless men in leeds from have a

the times reports on a hundred million pound financial shortfall at surrey county council. news that her son's killerjon venables has been jailed for a second time over the possession of child abuse images. the guardian's front page reveals secret government documents have estimated a no—deal brexit would hit the economy to the tune of £80 billion. no chance of getting through an addition of the papers without talking about brexit. no matter how ha rd we talking about brexit. no matter how hard we try! we are going to start with that story, the front page of... we tried really hard(!) we can't ignore it, a secret plot to thwart abraxas, apparently, a picture of mr george soros? —— thought brexit. apparently it is his plot, he is a billionaire, known quite famously for breaking the bank of england, that is in reference to the fact that he bet against the pound during the 1992 black wednesday currency crisis. he did not literally break it! he has been accused of coming up with plans over accused of coming up with plans over a dinner, a secret document has been lea ked a dinne

access to surrey is limited. in relation to the rohingya crisis in myanmar, journalist, humanitarian and human rights investigators including those which are mandated by the u.n. human rights council have not been granted access to be able to do any sort of proper on the ground investigation. instead what we've been seeing is the flimsy investigations which have been carried out by the perpetrators themselves, they myanmar military and surprise, surprise they are saying everything is fine. that is one of our greatest challenges. in terms of what is coming out and how do we decipher what is true and what is not, what do you do with these thousands of hours of live streams horror coming out of syria or libya? actually there are solutions. this is both our greatest challenge and in a way our greatest opportunity. at amnesty international we develop what we call the digital verification call. we've invested quite heavily into ensuring that we have network, a capacity, a small army of her own you might say, that actua

up to ten centimetres of snow fell in kent, surrey and east sussex. put on stand—by to keep minor routes open. many families heeded advice to stay at home until conditions improved. some towns and villages staged their own winter olympics. the greater hazards lie away from main roads where there is less traffic and the snow has had time to settle and freeze. that has brought a series of accidents that began before dawn. it has disrupted bus services and forced the closure of dozens of schools. in norfolk, where 36 schools were closed, the freezing conditions also affected rail services. greater anglia trains were one of the operators who were forced to cancel services. 0ur trains have to go slower. the points and signals can freeze and that means that if the points freeze, basically the train cannot go in the right direction. the amber warning also covers north—east england where the problems of snow and ice mirrored those further south. crawling traffic, pedestrians slithering through their daily routines. but on tynemouth beach, these swimmers defie

levin spent part of this springlike day hosing down his nearly new corvette in the drive way of his surrey road home. the vet packs a whole lot of power but not as much as levin's. you hold an awful lot of sway in this matter don't you. >> well, we could but we hope it can be settled on a friendly basis. nobody wants to have a big brouhaha from us and the acme shopping center. >> reporter: brouhaha, get it. the nearby acme supermarket on baltimore pike at beatty road wants to sell beer and wine to stay competitive with other markets and convenience store in our region. acme itself sells the stuff at 23 of its other locations but this store is different. and here's why. a 1959 deed restriction entered into by the land owner and 30 homeowners from the bowling green subdivision next door bans the sale of alcoholic beverages on the site. acme now has a liquor license but nether providence township manager gary cummings says the store needs the unanimous approval of neighbors to put it to use. >> if one holds out, they're up the creek so to speak. >> reporter: cummings says he believes neighbor

what do you think about the fact surrey council is putting up the council tax by 6%?ty. you don't agree? i don't agree at all. nobody welcomes a tax rise but if it goes towards increased payment to carers, people will be ok with that. last week, northamptonshire county council banned all new spending and said its financial future was grave. but the government says its financial settlement for local authorities is balanced between pressures on councils and strains on taxpayers. it's for individual councils to decide what's the right balance to strike between raising money for services people want to see, funding things like adult social care, but making the tax rises are not excessive for constituents. some have said councils are perilously close to financial collapse. resources, how to create them, how to spend them is as always at the heart of this debate. duncan kennedy, bbc news. joining us is the conservative mp bob blackman. he sits on the communities and local government select committee and is also the former deputy leader of brent council. thanks so much were

what do you think about the fact surrey council is putting up the council tax by 6%? don't agree at all. nobody welcomes a tax rise but if it goes towards increased payment to carers, people will be ok with that. last week, northamptonshire county council banned all new spending and said its financial future was grave. but the government says its financial settlement for local authorities is balanced between pressures on councils and strains on taxpayers. it's for individual councils to decide what's the right balance to strike between raising money for services people want to see, funding things like adult social care, but making the tax rises are not excessive for constituents. some have said councils are perilously close to financial collapse. resources, how to create them, how to spend them is as always at the heart of this debate. duncan kennedy, bbc news. january was one of the worst months on record for hospital waiting times in a&e departments in england, according to the latest figures. more than a thousand patients had to wait over 12 hours to be seen. nhs e

for his secretary of housing and urban development we need you to choose carrot top surrey.packed to be carried out. and then at night they're all just get going to themselves in a boardroom in new york but i didn't get it. so right. so right about now some of you are probably going to believe when the stock market goes down and hurts productivity it hurts g.d.p. well first of all average americans are not benefiting from the productivity gains in one hundred sixty eight the minimum wage was a dollar sixty according to the center for economic and policy research if the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after nine hundred sixty eight it would have reached twenty one dollars and seventy two cents per hour in two thousand and twelve in two thousand severus at seven average annual incomes of the top one percent of households were forty two times greater than the incomes of the bottom ninety percent up from fourteen times greater in one hundred seventy nine wall street stills more and more money and gives less and less to the bottom ninety percent who t

for secretary of housing and urban development we need you to choose carrot top surrey.tax to be carrots. and then that night they're all just get going to themselves in a boardroom in new york city get it. so right. so right about now some of you are probably going to believe when the stock market goes down and hurts productivity it hurts g.d.p. well first of all average americans are not benefiting from the productivity gains in one hundred sixty eight the minimum wage was a dollar sixty according to the center for economic and policy research if the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after nine hundred sixty eight it would have reached twenty one dollars and seventy two cents per hour in two thousand and twelve in two thousand severus at seven average annual incomes of the top one percent of households were forty two times greater than the incomes of the bottom ninety percent up from fourteen times greater in one hundred seventy nine wall street stills more and more money and gives less and less to the bottom ninety percent who then fight ove

surrey racing driver billy monger is preparing to return to competition less tha n preparing to return which has been specially adapted for him by the carlin racing team and hopes he can secure a place in the formula 3 series which begins in april. there's no feeling like it. to be honest it's been the most calm place since my accident, being back behind the wheel of a racing car. that's where i wanted to be since my accident and to get back behind the wheel, yeah, i just accident and to get back behind the wheel, yeah, ijust feel completely in control and relaxed when i'm out there. which, yeah, it's a nice feeling to have. let's have a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service so far on the tube this morning. on the roads there's northbound traffic on the blackwall tunnel southern approach meaning it's slow from blackwall lane. in bruce grove, the a10 the roundway is partly blocked at all hallows road following fallen power cables last night near risley avenue primary school. let's have a check on the weather now with lucy martin. hello, good morning. a milder day to c

schools across sussex and surrey have also been affected.ow is chris fawkes from the bbc weather centre. how much worse is it going to get? we can look at two areas that are seen we can look at two areas that are seen significant snowfall over the last three hours. let us look at the graphics. the first area overnight, we had any array of snow, a paula lowe that came in over the north—west of england, that came across northern england, moves across northern england, moves across the midlands and now it is on two wheels as well. that has brought several centimetres and caused localised transportation option but down towards kent, look at this line of showers, they have been formed by the winds and because they have not changed direction, though showers have been locked and loaded on exactly the same kind of areas, so shower after shower after share, wales just down the road after london. in kent, we have seen carnage caused by that heavy snowfall. that is what has been happening but every look at the forecast over the next 24 hours, for the c

told to sign the south africa and brazil before world cups don't go if you block don't go to the surrey dugouts diary this rice is a lot of got to be honest alviso you know that your she's been very friendly does it concern you it's all not one thought because. i think football as the international language and of course we still see racism in football but if i would think about racism before i think about playing the game and enjoying the world cup then. something will you know make us feel what you feel enough if you can treat hasn't when he acts and always gets into that stage tonight with being a global guy everybody playing in each of these late where it's going to happen sooner rather than later i hope but i think the main problem is that if i see germany fights for an example they build a new structure and it starts with the youth african football as the as in total you see that there are a lot of problems besides football the focus is not just on building up the future and therefore becoming successful as a nation but it's more like temporary things and you have maybe political

a few weeks later in the surrey several states away about to shoot her first gun and looking down onher foot the same blue and black butterfly in ohio and it stayed on her foot after she shot the gun and flew to the finger she has a picture of this peter butterfly and all of these different locations and that he found a way to stay with her and shooting my first gun at her father's side in a different state on a police retreat but i have never seen a blue and black butterfly but they have seen it often. [laughter] >> so do you dedicate the book to her? >> yes. the first victim of the columbine shooting you said that she believed in god and lost her life and also one who is pregnant with cancer at a very young age and battled cancer for several years and her mom said today she passed she was in the bathroom set up prayer and said jesus let me know my daughter will be okay and after that prayer floated down from the ceiling so that the other we don't know where it came from the hospital but just to tell you quickly kelly was the girl saw the butterfly said to me you know what's crazy w

jeremy surrey is a longtime friend of the miller center. we are always happy to welcome him back as we did recently for an american for him on his latest book, "the impossible presidency," which in light of the incumbent it could be called "the impossible president," but it is "the impossible presidency." he is based in both the department of history and the lyndon johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas. i will turn to vlad first, who will speak to us about his essay on brezhnev and the lessons of detente. vlad: shall i go there? barbara: you may go wherever you comfortable. vlad: everyone always says "i will try to be brief," so i will try to be brief. [laughter] people talk about brezhnev, such an individual. education. up with the idea of detente and it succeeded for a while, at least in that enterprise. it is useful to understand brezhnev through khrushchev. represents heroic bolshevik tradition, that is the existing capitalist system and the revolution. him/wrote a biography of believer.rue if you ask yourself why

bill levin spent part of this picture perfect day washing his 2017 corvette in the drive way of his surrey road home. the vet packs a lot of power but not as much as levin's. you hold an awful lot of sway in this matter don't you. >> we could but we hope it can be settled on a friendly basis. >> reporter: at issue is a plan by the nearby acme supermarket on baltimore pike at beatty road to sell beer and wine. it's a growing trend in markets and convenience stores all over our region. acme itself sells the stuff at 23 of its other locations. but this store is different. and here's why. a 1959 deed restriction entered into by the land owner and 30 homeowners from the bowling green subdivision next door bans the sale of alcoholic beverages on the site. acme now has a liquor license but needs the unanimous approval of neighbors to put it to use. gary cummings is nether providence township manager. >> because of that document the neighbors are holding all the card here aren't they. >> they are, they are. acme -- acme representative actually indicated that the neighbors trump everything else. >>

this is the scene in surrey. mist clearing away pretty quickly.us it will be dry for much of the day. we are looking down from space at the cloud that's been moving in from the atlantic across the uk. still holding onto those clearer skies in the east, an area of high pressure keeping the weather is dry and clear. we'll see some rain heading in across northern ireland. later this afternoon, pushing into pembrokeshire down towards cornwall. much of the country seeing a lot of dry weather today. the best of the sunshine from northern and eastern scotland, and down the east coast of england too. we're up in double figures. high single figures further north. pretty mild out there. then we see the cloud and rain moving east overnight. with the cloud and rain acting as a blanket, it won't be particularly cold. should be a frost free start to monday morning. it's grey and drizzle to start the working week. monday dominated by this weather front sitting across eastern parts of the country. still producing some rain and it's bringing the mild air with it.

up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey and east sussex where farmers helped to keep minornd compacted snow was stranded cars and lorries. across the eastern counties, traffic crawled and travellers waited for news on cancelled rail services. operators have run empty trains through the night to keep the tracks open but for a while, this snow defeated them. temperatures falling again. travelling will remain unpredictable and hazardous in the coming days. this week the european commission presidentjean—claude junker has been visiting the new prospective members of the eu. he‘s been on a whirlwind tour of the western balkan countries the republic of macedonia, albania, serbia, montenegro, bosnia—herzegovina and kosovo. it‘s an area of europe that has seen more than its fair share of war — and not so long ago. the trip said mrjunker‘s staff is intended to serve as an encouraging gesture to these counties. and one country that certainly thinks it can benefit from eu membership is macedonia. one of the things that stands in their places their name. greeks have argued that the nam

lukash herba told the court that 20—year—old chloe ayling from surrey worked with him to fake her ownt mr herba insists it was all staged. he told the court that chloe ayling plotted with him and even helped write her own ransom note. she says that none of this is true. last summer, chloe ayling re—enacted her experiences for the police. she says that lucas herbert called her to this —— lucas tamme one called her to milan with promise of work as a model. she was then taken to a remote farmhouse where she says she was held. my hands were, the ha ndcuffs was held. my hands were, the handcuffs were like around here. and the same, handcuffs around here and my feet were there. so that's where i spent the first day and night and... this court is not expected to bring chloe ayling back to italy to testify, and that means there will be no confrontation between her and the man who accuses her of staging her own abduction. being kidnapped and not being believed in your own country, and even mocked... i rememberseeing country, and even mocked... i remember seeing photographs of other models posi

up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey and east sussex where farmers help to keep minore than 300 schools were closed. across the eastern counties, traffic crawled and travellers waited for news on cancelled rail services. 0perators had run empty trains to keep the tracks open but for a while the snow defeated them. temperatures are falling again, travelling will remain unpredictable and hazardous in the coming days. in the parts of northern england were heavy snow was forecast, some of the most difficult conditions were in teesside. traffic came toa conditions were in teesside. traffic came to a standstill on many roads through the morning rush hour and several schools were closed. there isa several schools were closed. there is a band stuck here, i have to go around them. 20 miles further south on one of the steep roads over the molars, negotiating sutton bank was like an uphill slalom. as the snow came down again, things got worse. what this illustrates is how little snow is needed to cause a problem, there is hardly any on the surface here but it is frozen and it is

my aunt and uncle actually surprised me, they flew all the way from surrey to come here and surpriset of tea m feel so honoured to be a part of team gb. what was the reaction when you walked back into team gb house? loads of congratulations. i didn't spend a lot of time in the village yesterday with the medal ceremony and all the media stuff and it has been a surreal couple of hours, 24 hours, i suppose. your first 0lympics hours, i suppose. your first olympics and you come away with a bronze medal. where do you go from here? i will just bronze medal. where do you go from here? i willjust keep skiing and having fun, the season isn't open yet, we still have a couple of competitions, i will keep it a bit chill, rest up because my body is definitely a bit sore after yesterday, it was a lot of skiing, andi yesterday, it was a lot of skiing, and i will keep having fun. you said you were going to celebrate with a trip to a karaoke bar and sing some katy perry. have you done that yet? not yet but probably tonight after all of the guys are done, hopefully tonight. congratulations, izzy. you

up to ten centimetres of snow fell across kent, surrey.ere put on stand—by to keep minor routes open. some towns and villages staged their own winter olympics. as is always the case, the greater hazards lie away from main roads where there is less traffic and the snow has had time to settle antifreeze. that has brought a series of accidents which began before dawn and it has disrupted bus services and caused the closure of dozens of schools. in norfolk, where 36 schools were closed, freezing conditions also disrupted rail services. greater anglia trains, one of the operators say they were forced to cancel services. trains have to go slower. the points can freeze, the signals can freeze and that means that if the points freeze them basically the train cannot go in the right direction. amber warning also covers north east england. the problems caused by snow and ice mirrored those further south. but on tynemouth beach, the swimmers defied subzero temperatures for a dip that was rather more than just bracing. ina was rather more than just bra

a former detective with surrey police, colin now runs his own pet detective agency and the bulk of hisn dogs. one of the reasons that dog theft can be so profitable for the thieves is firstly, there are so many outlets. there are 30 or 40 websites where you can sell dogs and numerous facebook pages, which means there is a big market. so if a thief targets a breeder and steals say, six or seven puppies, they're not micro—chipped. if it's a specialist breed or if it's a breed that's in demand, there a few thousand pounds profit. when a dog has gone missing and someone comes to you, where do you start? at the end of the day it comes to experience and good old—fashioned police work, and more importantly, getting right into the heart of the community and getting them to help us. colin usually turns down cases where a dog has been missing for more than a few weeks, but today he has travelled to woking to offer some advice to maxine. the bottom had beenjimmied open. right. and great big panel gone and he put two and two together and realised that we'd had a burglary and that scooby had been t

scotland have shut their doors, with hundreds more closing in england — including in kent, sussex, surreyorkshire and public transport is widely affected. 0ur correspondent, phil bodmer is in thornton—le—dale in north yorkshire. what is the picture there? the picture here is one of the further snowfall overnight, they had about four or five centimetres yesterday at another five centimetres or so overnight and driving conditions like elsewhere in the country are especially hazardous. what i can assure you is the wind—chill, that is what is significantly different from yesterday. the air temperature now is about minus two. early on it was about minus six. couple that with a wind speed of about a0 knots and it gives us a wind—chill factor earlier on today of about minus 12. it is not quite that cold now but nonetheless it is really bitingly cold, the yorkshire discretion is 110w cold, the yorkshire discretion is now the ring and that sums it up. hundreds of schools across yorkshire are closed and a local primary school, 200 children here, the school, 200 children here, the school was closed

a statement has literallyjust coming from the uk head office in working in surrey.remainder of the week. which means some will be closed and others will operate with a reduced menu or shortened hours. oxfam's chief executive apologises to mps about the scandal in haiti and several thousand people have cancelled regular donations. david davis promises to uphold worker rights and environmental standards during a speech in vienna. a fine of over £6 million for the bookmaker william hill forfailing over £6 million for the bookmaker william hill for failing to take adequate steps to prevent money—laundering. time to bring you up to date with the sports news with 0llie foster. it is all overfor great the sports news with 0llie foster. it is all over for great britain's elise christie at the winter olympics, failing in all three of her events. her last chance was in the 1000 metres but in the heat today she was disqualified. and swiss is in jung today she was disqualified. and swiss is injung chang. hello, andy. —— pyeonchang. there was an inevitability about this, wasn't

. —6 in parts of east anglia, surrey and can't, so once again the risk of ice on untreated surfaces andrds, and asa currently pushing south eastwards, and as a result of all of this, today will feel less cold, a little bit milder, that it did yesterday. this morning, if we look at our lovely satellite picture, zooming up towards the uk is this line of cloud, a weather front pushing across our shores, and the twinkling lights are street lights from some of our towns and cities. the weather front will continue to move southwards today, taking its cloud and rain with it as well, some drizzle, and later it will rejuvenate. kind that we start to see some cold air coming our way, a cold front sinking south. bright skies in the south—east this morning, that is why we have the low temperatures. through the course of the day, as the weather from produces rain and drizzle sinks southwards, we will see the cloud ahead of it. the far south—east hanging on to the sunshine. for scotla nd hanging on to the sunshine. for scotland and northern ireland, brighter skies but a lot of showers coming in acros

for his secretary of housing and urban development we need you to choose carrot top surrey.ax to be carried out. and then that night they're all just get going to themselves in a boardroom in new york city get it. so right. so right about now some of you are probably going to believe when the stock market goes down and hurts productivity it hurts g.d.p. well first of all average americans are not benefiting from the productivity gains in one hundred sixty eight the minimum wage was a dollar sixty according to the center for economic and policy research if the minimum wage had continued to move with average productivity after nine hundred sixty eight it would have reached twenty one dollars and seventy two cents per hour in two thousand and twelve in two thousand severus at seven average annual incomes of the top one percent of households were forty two times greater than the incomes of the bottom ninety percent up from fourteen times greater in one hundred seventy nine wall street stills more and more money and gives less and less to the bottom ninety percent who then fight

i am here at rhs wisley in surrey. pretty chilly start of the day. here at rhs wisley in surrey. have been around where it should be. where it should be. it's been quite cold, northern scotland, you might be right. scotland, you might be right. what a standard window should really be like. be like. let's take alert at the forecast for today. forecast for today. it is a widely frosty start. frosty start. most places, dry with sunny spells. sunny spells. west were it does start icy this morning. morning. snow here and there as they continue to push in on the westerly breeze. to push in on the westerly breeze. because it's not strong, not as many showers reaching the east. showers reaching the east. western areas, a few showers. areas, a few showers. particularly in western parts of scotland. a dry start to the week. temperatures up a degree. it would feel quite as chile. feel quite as chile. the frost forms very quickly this evening. changes tonight. strengthening. the weather front pushing its way in as well. front pushing its way in as well. parts of northern ireland, some heavy snow