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sunshine tomorrow across scotland and parts of northern ireland. but then tomorrow night, the clouds will clear, the winds will ease and then into wednesday we've got one more widespread frost on the way this week and then that is pretty much it at least for some time. so no more widespread frost on the way after wednesday morning. here is wednesday morning itself, but suddenly developed here, that warn of mild air in the form of a weather front and rain. ahead of it though, after that cold night, some lingering fog, it could feel quite raw for time on wednesday but after that, a rap...

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has announced its plans to reduce legal migration, promising the biggest reduction in the number of people invited to the uk — either on work or student visas, as their dependants, or for humanitarian reasons. the plans include raising the minimum salary for skilled workers, except for health or social care workers, which make up the bulk of visas. and the number of family members that can be brought here will be further limited. last year, overall net migration reached a record high of around three quarters of a milli...

or more if the going rate for theirjob is higher than that. now, from next spring, as we've been hearing, that minimum salary threshold will rise to £38,700. but there are exceptions in what are called shortage occupations, jobs where there are lots of vacancies which can't be filled by local people. well, not easily, anyway. and since last year, the sector which has seen the most workers come in by that route is, of course, health and social care. the numbers are remarkable. in the year to september, 66,000 people got a conventional skilled worker visa, but in the same period, 144,...