{"id":344898,"date":"2025-12-31T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:01:08","slug":"uk-prepares-for-new-year-celebrations-as-cold-weather-warnings-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344898\/","title":{"rendered":"UK prepares for New Year celebrations as cold weather warnings issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cold health alerts from the UKHSA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/ukhsa-issues-cold-health-alert-as-low-temperatures-forecast\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have been upgraded to amber, external<\/a> for the whole of England and will be in place until 12:00 on 6 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The alerts warn of a rise in deaths particularly among elderly and vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office has warned of injuries due to slips and falls on icy surfaces, which will develop quickly as sleet and snow clears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New snow and ice warning is in place for a large swathe of England and Wales, including Chester and Greater Manchester down to London and Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, final preparations are being made ahead of huge firework displays in Edinburgh and in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cold health alerts from the UKHSA have been upgraded to amber, external for the whole of England and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-344898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}