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| | UK braced for more snow and ice disruption |
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| | | | If you thought it felt cold - even for winter - yesterday, the Met Office has confirmed why. Provisional figures suggest it was the coldest day in the UK since December 2010, with -9.3 Celsius (15F) recorded at Braemar, Aberdeenshire. And the wintry weather that ruined many a commute is set to continue, with yellow warnings for snow and ice in place for northern Scotland, Orkney, Shetland and north-east England. Up to 15-20cm (6-8in) could fall on higher ground, says the Met Office, which also issued a yellow warning for ice in south-east England.
Drivers are being warned to leave more time for journeys and travel with added caution, with widespread freezing conditions expected. Motoring organisation the RAC says it received more than 9,000 calls for roadside assistance yesterday - about eight breakdowns every minute - "50% more than we'd expect on a typical Monday in December". It says people should only drive if conditions allow and they feel confident, warning drivers to prepare for extremely slippery conditions and to carry a blanket and fully-charged phone. Our report has footage of some of the most treacherous driving conditions.
Find out the weather forecast wherever you are in the UK, with an hourly breakdown and a 14-day lookahead, by downloading the BBC Weather app: Apple - Android - Amazon
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| | Warning for rail travellers as strikes begin |
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| | Commuters braving the weather will find trains few and far between, as about 40,000 rail workers begin a series of 48-hour strikes. Most routes across Britain are affected, with passengers advised to "only travel if absolutely necessary". Just one in five services are expected to run between 07:30 and 18:30 GMT, with none in late evening. The walkouts are the latest by RMT union members in disputes over jobs, pay and conditions - both for infrastructure maintenance workers and train staff. On Monday, infrastructure operator Network Rail said the union was causing "misery" after members rejected a deal offering a 5% pay rise this year and a 4% rise in 2023. The union called the offer "substandard", saying it involved huge changes to working practices and 1,900 job cuts.
- Live page Get the latest on the strikes
- Explainer When are the strikes and what is the dispute about?
- Mick Lynch The union firebrand accused of stealing Christmas
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| | Strike daily: Explaining how walkouts will affect you |
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| | The rail strikes are part of a wave of action across several sectors, as workers bid to secure pay rises that keep up with rising prices. In some areas today, driving examiners are also taking industrial action. And at various points in the week, Royal Mail employees, highway workers, bus drivers, baggage handlers and nurses will also walk out - although the level of disruption will depend on where you live. To help you prepare, our employment correspondent Zoe Conway is providing a daily update. Read today's to see how you're affected. | | |
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| | Crypto exchange founder arrested |
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| | The collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, where customers traded money for assets such as Bitcoin, left many users unable to withdraw their funds. Its filing for bankruptcy in the US - at a point when it owed its 50 largest creditors almost $3.1bn (£2.5bn) - led analysts to warn that FTX's users may end up getting back just a fraction of their deposits. And now its high-profile founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been arrested by police in The Bahamas for "financial offences" against laws both there and the US. He's due before magistrates in the Caribbean country's capital, Nassau, later. Here's the full story. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Anne Tropeano is ironing her clothes in preparation for a busy day ahead. She gets out her white alb and her ornately embroidered chasuble, garments worn by Catholic priests around the world. On a calendar on her wall, bold red pen marks that tomorrow is "Ordination day". But she is also on the phone hiring a security guard for the service in a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she lives - as she anticipates there could be hostility.
"It's a tense issue, not everybody is open to even considering the possibility of women being called to priesthood," she says. It's not only harassment in person that Tropeano is concerned about. Since sharing her hopes of becoming a Catholic priest, she says she's experienced "breath-taking" online harassment.Tropeano is one of over 250 women across the world who are part of the Roman Catholic woman priest movement, a group who are taking part in unauthorised ordination services to become priests, in an act of defiance against the Roman Catholic Church. | | |
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| | | | | | Taxis could be used as makeshift ambulances during strikes by paramedics later this month, report both the i and the Daily Telegraph. The papers say ministers are considering "block-booking" cabs. Meanwhile, thousands of patients will today be told that operations and appointments are being cancelled after last-ditch talks aimed at averting a nursing strike collapsed, says the Times. Other papers focus on the deaths of three children in a freezing lake, near Solihull, with the Sun reporting a 10-year-old boy lost his life trying to save others. Read the paper review in full. | | |
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| | | | | Australia Police among six dead in shooting at remote property |
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| | If you need some Christmas cheer, how about the story of a 101-year-old who had her festive wish granted when volunteers helped light up the 42ft (12.8m) pine tree outside her retirement complex? And here's another happy ending for a pensioner, albeit after a traumatic ordeal. When Keith Turner slipped and broke his hip on his driveway, he managed to drag himself to his car and use the horn to tap an SOS signal in Morse code. Read how he thinks the distress call saved his life.
And another man overcoming dramatic events is Jamie Douglas-Hamilton. When he braves the Scotia Sea as one of a team of six rowing one of the world's most dangerous routes in the Antarctic, he'll already have had quite an adventure to get there. His expedition had to be postponed, after he discovered he had a potentially fatal heart condition. Now he's due to set off just five months after undergoing open heart surgery. And he's doing it all in the name of a "forgotten hero" of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance voyage. Here's the story. | | |
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| | | | | 1981 Poland's military rulers declare a state of emergency after placing leaders of the Solidarity trade union under arrest, insisting the action is necessary to prevent the country from descending into civil war. |
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