Winds. In between, some pretty decent weather across the eastern borders of scotland, coming down to the eastern side of england. Too far towards the west, you start to run into showers, pretty heavy across wales and the south west, urged along by a noticeable breeze, and it is cold and miserable underneath that band of Rain And Snow and strong winds and that eases further north, followed by showers, turning wintry across higher ground, and then a new set of Weather Fronts across the South West Quarter. This is the feature that evens out the weekend because having had the bulk of the sunshine through saturday, england and wales are not doing quite so well. It does bug up along the south coast. Further north, scotland, after a disappointing saturday, gets better sunday, for the most part, save for the far north east. See you later. Hello. This is bbc news with maxine mawhinney. The headlines. Sinn fein make big gains in Northern Irelands Assembly elections. The dup is still the Biggest
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