Of the uk. Good morning. Ice is the main issue of the parts of Northern England and scotla nd of the parts of Northern England and scotland this morning but then it turns mild head of some very windy weather storm dylan coming tonight. All of the details in the next 15 minutes. In sport, australia captain steve smith who else . Holds england at bay. He scores yet another century as englands hopes of winning the fourth test are dashed in melbourne. And it helped launch sir David Attenboroughs career and has given us plenty of magical tv moments. Well look back at 60 years of the bbcs Natural History unit, and what the future holds for it. Good morning. First, our main story. The former beatles drummer ringo starr, barry gibb of the bee gees, and the former deputy Prime Minister nick clegg have all been knighted in the new year honours list. More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the list. Stars from the world of sport include the wales and Lions Rugby Union captain, sam warburton, who is awarded an 0be, and the world cup winning england cricket captain Heather Knight is to receive an 0be. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has more details. Twist and shout. More than 50 years after beatlemania, the fab four s drummer has been honoured a knighthood. What would you do if i sang. Recognising ringo starrs half a century long contribution to music. I get by with a little help from my friends. Tragedy former bg barry gibb says he was humbled and very proud to be made sir barry. With no one to love you, you are going nowhere. Warhorse author and longtime childrens laureate Michael Virgo to have been made a knight, he hopes his award highlights the importance of literature for young people. Reading, is a great bastian against stupidity and bigotry and ignorance. It is the greatest weapon we have a really, and the greatest assistance we can give them is to make them readers. Strictlyjudge Darcey Bussell who is occasionally performed as the program to is made a dame. I am ticky roper. I am the night manager. Those being made cbe is, the next highest level of award, include actor hugh laurie for services to drama. And bestselling writers authorjilly cooper. Absolutely thrilled, i couldnt believe it, and i suddenly get a letter and what is it, a gas bill or something . This heavenly things saying you have a cbe. Its wonderful. Ive got to run away. Singh and campaigner mark 0rmond is made an 0be for services to art and culture. Musician and producer whiley known as the godfather of grime is made an mbe. Commentator pass to warburton. In the world of sports hamilton, who has captained wales and the british lions, is made an 0be. Most of those being honoured are ordinary people doing extraordinary work, like happy to act as a mentor for young people. Of course young people are everything to me, i am passionate about them and their life, their well being and their welfare so permit be recognised for my passion is one of the greatest honours ever, so i am in complete gratitude and appreciation. The majority of honours to go to people who are not in the public eye to have given exceptional service. And in 2018 the Honours Committee said they will be looking to particularly recognise individuals who were involved in the response to and the aftermath of the london and manchester terror attacks and the fire at grenfell tower. What and the fire at grenfell tower. What a list well be speaking to the youngest recipient of the British Empire medal at 8 20, and to the author Michael Morpurgo, who has been knighted thats just after 9 00. Wintry weather will continue to dominate the weekend for many parts of the uk with the met office issuing a yellow warning for ice in northern regions. The worst of the snow fell yesterday across Northern England and scotland, where roads were closed. Flights at Glasgow Airport were also temporarily suspended. The rac has warned that driving conditions will continue to prove difficult. Matt taylor is in the Weather Centre to tell us what we can expect. Tha nkfully thankfully for those on the move today we are not going to see some of the snowy scenes before across parts of the country yesterday at the rest a little bit of snow around over the hills today and the big issue for those on the move in Northern England and scotland is ice, the icy conditions following the snow and a drop in temperatures overnight and while the ice will be mainly morning issue, through the morning we gradually will see some rain, sleet and snow returned parts of scotla nd rain, sleet and snow returned parts of scotland at nowhere near on the scale of what we saw through last night. If you were on the move over the next 2a hour was the run up to new years eve you have to watch proceedings out of the atlantic through the rest of today and is tonight. This is a developing storm, storm dylan, which will be the worst of its brand across parts of the republic of ireland but for Northern Ireland, southern scotland, Northern England, potentially north wales is widespread powers to take us through the night and into the start of new years eve at a could even see gusts to 60 70 years eve at a could even see gusts to 60 70 kilometres an hour it could cause trouble problems. I will have a full update with your forecast very shortly. The former labour minister, lord adonis, has stepped down from his role as the governments infrastructure advisor, blaming theresa mays handling of brexit. He says he will relentlessly oppose the eu withdrawal bill in the house of lords. A government source said lord adonis walked before he was pushed. Why differences with the government has just become too great, not only on brexit which i think has been handled very badly taking britain out of the key economic institutions of the european union, the Customs Union and the single market, but increasingly brexit is a fact in the whole conduct of government across whitehall. The white house has said the world is watching how iranian authorities respond to Anti Government protests in several cities. In a statement, it said iranians were fed up with the regimes corruption and its squandering of the nations wealth to Fund Terrorism abroad. The Us State Department condemned the arrests of protesters yesterday. Thousands of people are said to have joined demonstrations in the cities of kermanshah, rasht, isfahan and qom. Younger people will enjoy the biggest inheritance boom of any post war generation thats according to the think tank the resolution foundation, which analyses Living Standards. However, the study estimates that the average age at which millennials will inherit something will be 61. Heres our Business Correspondent joe lynam. People aged between 17 and 35 hoping to get the housing ladder could be set to inherit a lot of money from their parents. At it may come too late for some. According to the resolution foundation, the value of inheritances is set to double over the next 20 years. Thanks to baby boomers aged between 50 and 70 leaving behind expensive property. But the think tank says the average age of someone inherits is now the one, meaning too late for many of todays househunters. Across the piece the financial situation, the Living Standards picture of a millenials is quite concerning. They are earning less than those 15, 10 01 are earning less than those 15, 10 or 15 years before them were at the same age, they are less likely to own a home and while they may be saving into a pension, it is less likely to be one of those goldplated final salary pensions in the round quite concerning pictures for far too many millenials today. 17 35 the roz inheriting more money than any previous generation will only be able to use it in their old age. All by passing it onto their own grandchildren. Commercial broadcasters, including channel 4 and itv, are to receive an extra 60 Million Pounds from the government to increase the range of Childrens Television programmes in the uk. The money, left over from the last bbc licence fee settlement, will pay for half the costs of original shows. Ministers say they want to see greater variety in a market dominated by the bbc. If the cold weather has got you thinking about summer sunshine, theres a warning today from the Consumer Group which . That holiday firms may be misleading consumers. Many tour operators promote money off deals, providing travellers book by a certain date. But a study found that half the holidays advertised were the same price, or even cheaper, after the offer expired. The firms involved have all denied misleading their customers. Volunteers have released thousands of baby turtles into the sea off west mexico. Its part of a project to protect the endangered olive ridley hatchlings, whose numbers have fallen sharply in recent years, largely due to poachers. Its hoped the creatures will return to the beach in around 30 years to lay their own eggs. Lovely. We will bring you that update in 2047. It is 6 10 am and lets look at the front pages. The guardian has a picture of dame Darcey Bussell, australia come dancing judge and an established t mobile arena. The main story is the 20,000 british men who are potential child abusers. The police chief in charge of investigating paedophile as tens of thousands of british men have shown interest in sexually abusing children and the story here on the other side of the newspaper is that lord adonis has quit, calling theresa may the voice of ukip so we will be talking to him, the former labor minister who has resigned as the chair to the infrastructure commissioned later on in the program. On the honours front, the daily mirror have a great headline here to accompany the fact that barry gibb will be so barry the bg. What else, Saturday Knight fever, on a saturday morning, what could be better. The daily mirror has a could be better. The daily mirror hasa similarline, could be better. The daily mirror has a similar line, it is Saturday Knight fever and dame strictly but looking at Bank Branches and this is something we have spoken about a fair bit, at least 800 Bank Branches have been shut this year, a rate of two hour day. It is taking a look at start. The Daily Telegraph is talking about confusion as far as the law is concerned using phones in ca rs. The law is concerned using phones in cars. It says in some cases, drivers have been told they cant even touch their phone. In other cases, drivers have been told it is ok to program in your phone to use it as a satellite navigation device using maps that it is calling for clarification about what the war workerfor clarification about what the war worker for law actually is, and consistency across the country. The ft. Consistency across the country. The ft, talking about this yesterday, the ftse 100 ft, talking about this yesterday, the ftse100 it has of course the 100 biggest publicly listed companies, taking a look at global stocks, saying they had enjoyed their best annual performance since crisis recovery and it was accelerating Economic Growth across the world. In the story we are looking at here, holly neill is, these people born in the 80s millenials. There will inherits double of what their parents did but isa double of what their parents did but is a caveat, they have to wait on average until they are around to enjoy the windfall. It means that the housing crisis has got big problems because it will may have inherited some money, it can put a deposit in the house and that a younger and will get more money but they will have to wait later to get onto the housing ladder. Darcey bussell e on the times, have we done this . A picture of her, we mentioned the report from which . Today, talking about dodgy deals as far as holidays are concerns. Some deals which look good if you book by a certain date, they may not be as good as they appear because you can get a better deal by waiting longer sometimes, and tilda suppose the deal is over will talk a bit more about that as the morning goes on. Did we speak about ben saunders yesterday . This is the man on a polar expedition and he was trying to cross the south pole, doing it in memory of his friend, Lieutenant Colonel henry worsley, and he had to give up because of food rations, he didnt have enough to get him through. We are going to talk to him later on breakfast. 0ne through. We are going to talk to him later on breakfast. One of the quotes he has put out is that a live donkey than a dead lion. Better that he isa donkey than a dead lion. Better that he is a bit of australia failure to live, ready to try again, and a dead hero. He is aged 40, he abandoned his mission to cross antarctica that we will talk to him later and i do believe that this is the last we will seeing of him. We shall find out later in the program. He has been a friend of the program, he has been a friend of the program, he has been speaking to us for a while. Mattjoins us from the Weather Centre. Time to look into the new year. How was it looking . A bit lively, i have to say. Lets deal with the here and now. After the wintry weather in the past few days you will be pleased to hear things are turning milder today. Blustery at times. Those winds will pick up as we go into tonight. If you are about to hit the roads and pavements there are icy conditions across parts of scotland and north east england. Misty in places as well, especially over the hills. Showers for the northern isles. Much of scotla nd showers for the northern isles. Much of scotland begins the day dry, some wet weather pushing through Northern Ireland. Icy across north east england. Flurries of snow across the moors of yorkshire in the past hour, clearing away now. Particularly grey in the midlands and east anglia. Elsewhere, clearer skies and note the temperatures, double figures to begin the day across wales, the midlands and much of southern england. That is because the wind is coming in from the south west, gradually pushing into most parts through the day. Scotland will see a speu through the day. Scotland will see a spell of rain, sleet and hill snow spreading from south west to north east across the day, followed by sunshine. Showers in south west scotland, Northern Ireland and maybe Northern England in the afternoon. But most places will be dry, sunny, and warmer than greatly. Morinville way of cloud across the south to finish the day, and that is all linked to this. This is storm dylan, named by the irish weather service, with the republic airing the brunt. 0vernight Northern Ireland will see widespread showers and gusts of wind up widespread showers and gusts of wind up to 60 and 70 miles an hour. We could see minor flooding across the south, but it is the strengthening winds across the night for Northern Ireland, then eventually into southern scotland and Northern England which will have big impact. Snow over the Higher Ground of central and northern scotland as that would assist works north. But most will be going into new years eve on a dry note. The strongest of the winds tomorrow, 6070 miles an hour cannot be ruled out in the morning, easing off into the afternoon. The rain, sleet and snow clears away and there are projects showers in the west, but plenty of people will see sunny spells into the second half of the day. Temperatures not 1 million the second half of the day. Temperatures not1 million miles off what we will see throughout today. If you are off to new years eve to celebrate the arrival of 2018, be prepared. There will be showers around. Glasgow, manchester, down to the likes of plymouth as well, those showers will be coming through. In many places, the further east you are, should stay primarily dry as we finished it is 17 and ring the bells of the new year. And if it is a nice, clearing had walk you need for new years day, there will be heavy showers around, and feeling a bit fresher. Heavy showers, turning wintry later in the north and west of scotland. For most people, new years day will be largely dry, fairly sunny, but breezy as well. I will have a date through the morning. Have updates. You said on twitter that you have six three oclock starts coming up . New line yes, this is the first of them. Iam new line yes, this is the first of them. I am just pleased that i did into my suit. It isa into my suit. It is a good way of making sure that you are better behaved. New years day, you will be very smug while the rest of us are slightly groggy. Possibly. We will see. Its 06 18 and youre watching breakfast from bbc news. For millions of us, sunday nights have been an opportunity to settle down and be taken on extraordinary journeys around the worlds oceans. I am of course talking about blue planet two, the latest landmark series from the bbcs Natural History unit. The team are celebrating 60 years of bringing wildlife from some of the most remote locations on earth into our living rooms. Breakfastsjohn maguire has been looking through the archive. I spend several days wandering around the station, looking for animals. 0ne around the station, looking for animals. One day i was lucky. Around the station, looking for animals. One day i was luckym around the station, looking for animals. One day i was lucky. It is 1957, and a useful David Attenborough is in the rainforest of what is now pop in new guin