Related. With more heavy Snow Forecast across Northern Scotland this weekend well talk to one family who decided to make the most of it. Dont, dont shes kicked him out and coming up this hour. Certainly not on mute how one Parish Council has gone viral after a zoom meeting got a little out of hand. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Energy prices will rise for millions of people across the uk in april, after the regulator ofgem said the cap for default Domestic Energy deals would be raised to cover suppliers extra costs. Ofgem defended the decision, saying that its in the interest of customers to start allowing Energy Companies to recover some of the costs to avoid larger price hikes in the future. The price cap was introduced in 2019 and designed to protect customers from being overcharged. But this is the first rise in the cap so how will the decision affect customers . The price cap affects 11 million households who have never switched suppliers, or whose discounted deals have expir
Today scotland has snowfall, in the days ahead colder air that spreads across the whole of the uk, the risk of snow move southwards. Here is thursday with the cold air to a north, by saturday and sunday it works right the way southwards into the north of france. Here are scotland this afternoon, still a pretty tricky travelling conditions, particularly for higher routes for the next few hours, Snow Piling Up. Rain at lower levels, central belt with a mixture of rain and sleet and snow. That persist this afternoon, snow. That persist this afternoon, Snow Piling Up in places, an easterly breeze. Feeling chilly in the wind. Towns and cities, 3 4 c, lower elsewhere. In the south, comparatively mild but thats set to change. This area of low pressure will move southwards in the coming days are bringing rain overnight insert northern ireland, Northern England or perhaps note for the pennines, persisting across scotland. Ice a consistent issue for the north of the uk to begin with on thursday.
Zealand against ireland and there may be a few showers around in tokyo. I suspect we can cope with a few showers. It is a low pressure here as well. It is not a wash out, some beautiful blue sky across parts of eastern england, but rainbows in wales and heavy showers in south west england. You can see this swirl of cloud and it is an area of low pressure that is moving around us. Low pressure that is moving around us. They are feeding into towards wales and south west england. But notice this spell of rain on the east coast of scotland. It looks very wet here this afternoon and into tonight. In aberdeen 10 20 millimetres. In southern england there are very gusty winds, it may be up to 55 miles an hour in exposed spots, but not many showers across the eastern side of england, and temperatures in the mid to low teens. Tonight it swirls around this area of low pressure, the showers area of low pressure, the showers are mainly in the south west and in scotland. Temperatures go down to sing
Would be leaving the eu. The other news this afternoon there are reports of fighting in syria despite turkeys agreement to suspend its military offensive against the kurds. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane dougall. Plenty of rugby to keep us occupied this weekend. Yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half yes, and despite injury concerns for fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him ina fly half Dan Biggar Wales have named him in a full strength side for the quarter match against france in the robbie world cup, well be hearing from head coach. Thanks jane and chris has all the weather hows the weekend looking . The weekend is looking a bit better, lots of showers around on sunday, less on sunday. We will be looking at hailstorms that have hit cornwall recently. Good afternoon and welcome from westminster, where the Prime Minister is in a race to try to persuade mps to back his new Brexit Agreement before tomorrows vote in parliament. Borisjohnson says hes very con
Lead brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the uk has now reached a moment of truth. He rejects borisjohnsons demand for the irish backstop to be scrapped. Hurricane dorian is the strongest ever to hit the bahamas us forecasters describe the conditions there as catastrophic. Pro democracy activists in hong kong target the citys airport after a night of violence in which dozens of people were injured. Political leaders from across the world gather in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war ii, as the german president asks for polands forgiveness at the event. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labour says itll present a bill in parliament this week designed to stop the uk leaving the eu without a deal. Sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, has told the bbc that if the legislation is passed, its likely to delay the date of departure. The cabinet minister, michael gove, refused to commit the government to implementing such a change even if its approve