lots of things happening, but the big thing that happened on thursday was the government not launching, but updating its strategy for getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2015, which they marked by releasing and we have got so much news to chew over, lots of things happening in westminster at the moment, but the big thing that happened on thursday as the government launching, well, updating its strategy for getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. which they marked by releasing pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and more pages of documents with all sorts of charts and dates and pledges and consultations. we will talk about that. and the way that rishi sunak marked it was by saying this on a visit to oxfordshire. we have decarbonised faster than any other major economy. our carbon emissions have been reduced by over 40%, much more than all the other countries we compete with. at the same time we have grown our economy. so we have a good track recor
you can see why we had the weather fronts across the uk, most of the showers affecting the north and west of scotland where the strongest of the winds are, gusting up to 50 miles an hour orso the winds are, gusting up to 50 miles an hour or so in the next few hours in the north, lighter winds further south. we lose the band of cloud we ve had this morning so the skies should brighten up over the next few hours, a fine afternoon to come for most. top temperatures 9 10, a degree or so where we should be for the time of year. this evening and overnight it stays unsettled across the north of the uk, windy, cloudy, thick cloud pushing on towards irish sea coasts as well but under clear skies the midlands southwards it s going to be another cold one with frosts out of town, may be some mist and fog but the winds will be a bit stronger and as we had through friday high pressure to the south, again, weather fronts and lots of isobars across the north of the uk means it s cloudy and w
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lots of tributes today and rightly so to the great motown songwriter barrett strong, who has died aged 81. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. today we had some decent sunshine and a lot of dry weather. probably one of the best days of the week, with sunshine and relatively mild area as well. but we have got a change on the way. the weather is about to get a lot windier. zooming into the north atlantic, we can see this beautiful area of low pressure with the weather fronts spiralling down into the centre of the low pressure like water down the plug hole. actually, although this is over 1000 miles away, the fronts are connected and dangling right across the uk at the moment and pushing the rain south and east. they will bring outbreaks of rain overnight, the one here is quite weak and the cold front bringing some heavier rain for a time southwards across scotland, northern ireland and into parts of northern england and north wales by the end of the night. alth