The weather agency issued multiple yellow alerts for North East England, South West Scotland and Lothian Borders, Yorkshire and the Humber, Central, Tayside and Fife, Grampian, Highlands and Eilean Siar, Orkney and Shetland, and Strathclyde. On Thursday, WXCHARTS has forecast that the weather pattern will move to the east.

The UK Health Security Agency has issued a cold weather warning, effective from today (Monday, November 17), which will remain in place until Friday (November 21). It covers the East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, North West, and Yorkshire and the Humber.

A UK council has been forced to withdraw a multimillion-pound recruitment drive to staff illegal children’s homes. Cornwall advertised the £6m contract, the first of its kind published on a government website, to provide “staffing for unregistered places” across the county, including on the Isles of Scilly.

Snowy conditions are forecast to sweep in and freeze the country as far south as London and Cornwall over the next couple of days. So far, in November temperatures have remained unseasonably mild, staying firmly in the double digits; however, this will soon come to a crashing end.

Parts of the UK are set to see snowfall this week as temperatures plunge in the first cold snap of the winter. The Met Office has warned that the next seven days will be “markedly colder” than it was last week, with “harsh frost” expected on some days.

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The only part of our area that hasn’t seen a drop in unemployment is in North Cornwall, where unemployment increased by 1.7 per cent, which equates to about 30 more people claiming unemployment benefits than when Labour first took office.