17/04/2014 Newsnight

a Newsnight exclusive. We reveal the man who sent Obama to the White

House twice has been hired to work his magic on Ed Miliband. What

chance the American campaign guru David Axelrod

what chance the campaign Guru David Axelrod can make a winner? They are

trying to support their families and retire with dignity. Frank Luntz,

the top American pollster, and political commentator Rachel

Sylvester discuss the star hiring - and the size of the task.

After days of this in eastern Ukraine, will the deal in Geneva

help? She's the most successful far right

leader in Europe and she tells Newsnight she still wants to court

Nigel Farage for her team. And the Nobel prize-winning novelist

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. We reflect on his life.

Good evening. It is a star signing. We can exclusively reveal that Ed

Miliband has put his faith in the American campaign strategist David

Axelrod to get him into Downing Street. He must have worked in

number on him because last year, Axelrod, who started his career

campaigning for Robert F Kennedy when he was 13, apparently said his

role as Obama's chief campaign strategist would be his final role.

So Axelrod makes a royal flush. The Conservatives have Lynton Crosby be

and. To help with the significant task of

convincing the public hears a winner, enter the man who propelled

Obama to use presidential home. Who? The master strategist behind the box

office appearances. Don't be fooled that David Axelrod always appears on

the edge of the frame. In both of Balmer's presidential races, he was

central even though he ended up being the butt of the old joke. So

my advisers have switched over to the dark side. David Axelrod works

for MS NBC which is a nice change of pace because they used to work for

David Axelrod. But why would he want to go from this to having a shot at

this? He has been taking calls from Ed Miliband since the summer and

with arm-twisting from Douglas Alexander, he was persuaded to sign

up. As the man himself explained in a carefully prepared clip. I think a

candidate is a winner who speaks to the lives of the people they are

running to represent. Ed Miliband understands the struggle that people

are going through in Britain to make a living wage, to support their

families, to retire with some dignity. He understands that a

growing economy demands that you have brought prosperity and not just

prosperity which is awarded by a few. I think you can build a

movement. Even if he shares those big themes, it is a rather different

endeavour. From a billion-dollar campaign with a candidate almost

designed for Kodak moments. To the gentler charms of British

campaigning, a budget of probably less than ?10 million and a

candidate who the public has so far refused to fall in love with, even

with the family snaps. But as Ed Miliband's senior strategic advisor,

Axelrod is unlikely to be taking to the stump. And how useful can an

Atlantic transplant actually be? In a way, I do think some of these

advisers are taking candy from the hands of a baby by taking this

money, these big fat contracts to work for British elliptical parties

because the truth is they have not run a nationwide campaign. Their

experience is very different. I am not sure how much of their wisdom is

exportable to Britain but it will certainly make those advisers with

DVD collections of The West Wing thrilled when they wake up in the

morning and that is why they want him. But new Labour gained

enormously from careful study of the Clinton playbook. If ever I get the

reception that Bill gets anywhere, I am thankful I am not running against

him! Axelrod is not the first hire from the Obama camp to Ed

Miliband's Labour. But this man, Jim Mussina, has taken a different

ticket. I want to take a minute to talk to you about what we are

building on the ground. He has gone to work as a sometime adviser to

David Cameron's election campaign. Certainly one politician gained

massively from David Axelrod's dig commission. Sometimes conventional

politics turns out to be wrong. Laura is here now. Are they playing

this as a coup? They certainly are. They are delighted about this. David

Axelrod is a big political player. He is not going to give his

expensive time, let alone an expensive public endorsement is

somebody he thinks is a bit of a loser. I think in terms of the

Labour grassroots, it probably depends how far they are from the

Westminster bubble in terms of their enthusiasm because sometimes big

hires do go wrong. The thing that Labour HQ are frankly salivating

over is not that they have Axelrod on the books but he is willing to

say publicly he shares their analysis of what they think should

be a really big elliptical appeal. When it started out as the squeezed

middle, it got some fun pokes at it but he seems to have signed up for

it in a very big way. Have front of house will he be? Labour are being

quite cagey about how involved he will be. Depends how much money they

are paying him. It does. I understand it is six figures. They

did not say how much. He is a well-known man. They have signed up

his firm until the general election. It is also worth pointing

out the differences. These big hires do go wrong. Gordon Brown employed

somebody which went wrong when he gave Gordon Brown a speech which

John Kerry had more or less given previously. They do not always

understand the system and fundamentally, they are working with

completely different political animals. Obama was a change

candidate, Ed Miliband is in the Cabinet. With me is Frank Luntz a

strategist and Rachel saw Lester, the Times columnist. Frank, you have

been up against him in the States. What is he like? Pretty quiet. He

does not want to have his picture and name out there so I am surprised

he filmed that little clip. I will tell you, families struggling,

retire with dignity, this is Barack Obama's language and the danger is

if he tries to take American language and apply to British

politics, for example the spelling of Labour. Do you think this is the

last role of the dice for Ed Miliband? Fire won he wants a big

player and he wants to pitch for the squeezed middle. As Frank says the

middle-class in America has a completely different meaning. The

danger is you can have the best political message in the world but

if the messenger is not appealing, it will not make any difference.

Axelrod must have made a calculation that it was going to be a battle and

if he can deliver, that will be the final feather in his cap? It is this

analysis that you can either have a recovery which is a trickle-down

recovery where the very wealthy do well and that trickles down to the

rest, or it is people in the middle who feel left behind, you have got

to help those people. It is the fact that both Miliband and Axelrod have

agreed on that analysis which Obama also shares. I think it seems there

is something on the centre-left which crosses both sides of the

Atlantic. Whether Miliband is as good at articulating that is Obama

is not clear. The fact that the district did not change and they

kept the same boundaries which will be tough for the Tories, it is a

different ball game. The Conservatives should be doing much

better in polls. But also look at the communication. I think Douglas

Alexander is the best strategist in all of Britain and I do not think he

gets credit for that. If Miliband cannot score points off this

government's failure to communicate, when can he? It is interesting

because the Obama team is working for both sides. It is split. Would

you have taken this job if the money was good enough? It is not the money

but the chance to work with Douglas Alexander is an incredible

opportunity. In the end, you have to be responsive to the local cultures.

You have to be careful you do not put politics first, you put policy

and people's concerns. I am nervous that this will make it sound like

Americans are for hire. It should not be that way. Do you think you

could get Miliband elected? You spotted Cameron. I know I would do

things differently. I would focus on the team, not just the individual. I

would focus on promises made and where they kept. And RU better off

today than you were four years ago? Because even though the numbers are

good, people do not feel it. It is smart that they are focusing on the

cost of living but they should call it the cost of life. I should say it

is not just Americans coming over. We have Lynton Crosby working for

the Conservatives and Ryan Coetzee from South Africa working for the

Lib Dems. It is almost as if they have lost confidence in themselves

and want endorsement from outside. I remember David Cameron saying you

cannot drop democracy from 20,000 feet and there is a danger that you

cannot drop election victory from 4000 miles. Each culture is very

different. Each country has a different nuance and emotion and I'm

sure you can understand that if you are not the country. The true story

as it was the British political elite went to America in 1979 to

teach one of Reagan how to win in 1980. The British taught Americans

how to do politics. As far as Miliband is concerned, there is no

other place. He does have an American obsession. It is

fascinating. He went to live there with his father when his father got

a job at Harvard when he was 12. It was emotionally performative time.

He follows the red Sox. He loves the optimism of America and it is also

about that time that he spent with his father. Is there a

misunderstanding? The point about what Axelrod did for a Obama, as

Laura said, he was a change candidate, he was hugely different,

he was presidential. It is a completely different electoral

offering that we have here. His analysis is you win from the

centre. Miliband has decided the centre of gravity in British

politics has shifted. That is a huge gamble for Miliband. I'm not sure

that the voters have become more left wing. Certainly in the past,

Axelrod's analysis has been that you do not win from the centre. That

will be an interesting dynamic to watch. If he supports the Red Sox,

there is no way he will be Prime Minister! In terms of the left and

the centre, because you have four parties, it will be like snooker. It

will be balls bouncing off each other. You are not going to be able

to tell who is going to win. What is it that Axelrod will do that will

set Miliband apart? The theme seems to be get out there, speak to the

people but actually Miliband has been trying to do that. There has to

be some kind of huge slick campaign. Fine macro I do not think

they can necessarily do that with Miliband. It will be about the

wealthiest have done the row well out of this recovery but the

ordinary people, the squeezed middle have not. It is reinforcing that

message which is there will be super rich versus the rest. Miliband has

started on that and he has got to hope Axelrod can sharpen that

message which appeals to people. There is an alternative message

which is hard-working taxpayers. You can argue over whether you are

middle-class or working class. Almost everyone defines themselves

as a hard-working taxpayer. If Cameron focuses on that, that is the

answer to this class -based politics. There will then be no

cigarette paper in the way they will campaign. That requires Cameron to

be laser focused on communicating the efficiency of government, the

effectiveness of government, accountability of government, so

they cannot run an anti-incumbent campaign. And secondly, if you shown

to be fighting for hard-working taxpayers, and they have not done

it. It is all about the West Wing and as Laura says, they are all

salivating. But you wonder what kind of heartland Labour supporters will

make of this? Last year the Labour team said let Bartlett be Bartlett

talking about the West Wing. Miliband isn't Barlet or Barack

Obama. The they are imposing their fantasy politics on a less glamorous

reality. The idea of fantasy politics! Thank you very much. All

this week, the maelstrom over an alleged takeover plot of Birmingham

schools by Muslim hardliners has been intensifying. The decision by

the Department of Education to appoint the former head of

counter-terrorism to investigate the accusation affecting 25 schools did

nothing to calm matters. It was described as "desperately

unfortunate" by the Chief Constable of West Midland Police. Accusations

over the segregation of girls and boys within classes, related visits

to 15 schools by Ofsted, the supposed banning of sex education

have all become part of the mix. We have been digging for clues in

Birmingham. In the past few weeks a storm has grown around Birmingham

schools and the so-called Trojan horse letter. The document, sent

anonymously to figures across the city, claims to detail a plot by

hard line Muslims to infiltrate Birmingham's state schools. Step

one, identify the schools that are based in Muslim areas, to influence

and take over. Step two, tell each parent that the school is corrupting

their children. The local rumour mill assumes that it is a forgery

and one that may have been cooked up to help one side in a local legal

dispute. For some liberal Muslims said it shed light on a real issue.

They worry that a small cliche has pressed auto conservative Muslim

line into secular state schools. The authorities are now worried too.

There are four separate investigations covering 25 of

Birmingham's schools. The council, which has had 200 approaches from

members of the parliament. The Department of Education asked Peter

Clarke a counter-terrorism official to take a look. All of that focus

and attention is going into a relatively small part of the city.

Birmingham's Muslim population is compacted very tightly. It is a

rather selling agree gaited city -- egg agree gait city -- segregation.

This concentration means that Birmingham has a number of schools

where Muslims make up almost the entire student body. Some worry that

allows so-called Islamisation of secular schools. A teacher, at one

of the schools at the centre of the investigation, spoke to Newsnight on

the condition of anonymity. His voice has been disguised. I don't

think will is a problem with teaching Arabic, or having haogical

food. When there is an idea behind the thought ho cress to Islamise the

schools, it's a problem. The local MP, Khalid Mahmood, is worried. It's

an issue of people fitting into the wider society. If you take that away

they will be less able to get on in wide society. Lots of the

allegations are focussed on Park View, a comprehensive school.

Academically, the school is a great success. Sources say that, for

example, romance between pupils is severely punished. A socially

conservative reading of Islam is said to underpin it. The Chair of

Governors, named in the Trojan horse documents, said the school is

mainstream and and it reflects the local area. We cater for the

communities we serve. I don't apologise for any of that. Nobody is

asking for any favours. We don't want any favours. This former Park

View parent said the school gave his daughter the education she had

wanted for her. This is majority Asian area and Somalis. Therefore,

we would like, not anything special, but because this area is a social

conservative area, you would expect some kind of values that would

reflect the overall majority. The issues in Birmingham are

crystallising a problem that has been discussed widely in government

for several years. That is, how much should we worry about extremism if

it's not violent? There are some people in government, like Michael

Gove, the Education Secretary, who think that religious conservatism,

if it's extreme enough, is dangerous because it can be the ideology for

terrorism. There is resistance to that view. I'm not going to accept

that the pressures from the Muslim community in Birmingham to respect

Islam within the school is going to lead to terrorism. I think that is

stretching this argument far too far. This dispute has now spilled

over into concern at the choice of this former terrorism official to

investigate what people in the ground think of as an argument about

religious conservatism. Peter Clarke is a former Head at Scotland Yard of

counter-terrorism. We are dealing with allegations here. We are not

dealing with Al-Qaeda, who had a number of issues in the city before,

and there has been some mistrust, this will add to it. I don't think

it's sensible. There are worries among moderate Muslims in Birmingham

about whether some conservatism may have shaded into extremism. We have

new evidence that their concerns have existed for a number of years.

And, have been known to officials. Newsnight has seen documents which

show the police were notified about two figures at Park View School in

2010 suspected of spreading radical ideas. No action was taken, but last

year the Department for Education declined to allow Park View to open

a new school, in part because of fears about extremism. The events in

Birmingham raise big questions about what role religion should play in

the education system. And about when it is that devotion become a worry.

View Educational Trust deny there have been instances of extremism at

the school. They say if they were aware of any allegations about such

behaviour they would have investigated it. The agreement over

Ukraine, that was thrashed out today in Geneva by diplomats from the US,

EU, Russia and Ukraine, to reduce the unrest on the ground, called for

all sides to refrain from violence and provocation, the disarming of

all illegally armed groups and for the control of buildings seized by

pro-Russian separatists to be handed back to the authorities. The

response from Donetsk in the east of of Ukraine was immediate.

Separatists occupying a local government building said they would

not leave until supporters of Ukraine's new government quit their

Maidan Square in Kiev. So has today's Geneva deal removed the

threat of more sanctions against Russia and increased the chance of

the planned elections taking place next month. I'm joined by Mark

Urban. Was it a breakthrough? It's important and progress. Up until

today, there was a real prospect that elections, due on the 25th May,

to give that country an elected government, an elected President,

were going to be disrupted by this trouble in the east. That the people

there would press their demands for federalism or a special deal for

Russian-speakers within Ukraine, by doing that, stop a national election

happening. Now, all of these things, which you mentioned in the inrow,

are now supposed to happen to de-escalate the crisis. Get people

out of the government buildings, all the rest of it. Sergei Lavrov, the

Russian Foreign Minister, hied that Russia exists that addressing those

grievances will only happen after that 25th May election. That is a

very important point. Earlier today I spoke by Skype to the US

Ambassador in Kiev to ask how it might go from here. The

constitutional commission, formed by RADA, will offer recommendations by

the 15th May. There will be further consultation with Ukraine's

Constitutional Court, changes to the constitution require separate

readingses in two separate sessions of the RADA. You are looking, as you

say, a process of several months to make these changes to Ukraine's

fundamental document. In the meantime, Ukraine has functioning

democratic institutions. Our belief is those institutions need to be

allowed to function. That means the Presidential elections on the 25th

should go-ahead. But, should we read this as a back down by Russia? Well,

there is definitely been more diplomatic language - From Lavrov

You can say some of the interpretations, the armed groups,

do those armed groups include the new National Guard, formed by Maidan

supporters to act as the strong arm of the interim government. Should

they be disbanded. Russia could press that point. Critically, many

countries have said to the Russians, if you want to de-escalate this, you

have 40,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine, rescind the permission

given to you by the Upper House of the Russian Parliament to go in and

use those troops in the Ukraine if you want to calm this situation.

This morning, in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, when asked about it,

specifically wouldn't give such a guarantee.

TRANSLATION: I would remind you that the Federation Council of Russia has

given the President the right to deploy armed forces in Ukraine. I

very much hope I will not have to examiner countries that right. I

hope the the acute problems affecting Ukraine can be resolved by

political and diplomatic methods. How much has Russia been (inaudible)

with the idea they are facing an appalling economic response from the

West Well, the fascinating thing in this crisis, different methods being

used by the two sides, just as President Putin signalled there that

he will keep his hand, if you like, on the hilt Or the handle of his

sword, his army on the borders of Ukraine to ensure an outcome that he

wants, so the US today explicitly signalled that its financial weapon

is not being (inaudible) either. John Kerry explicitly said this

afternoon in Geneva, if we don't get what we want over the weekend,

progress to de-escalate to come out of the occupy government buildings

we will use further sanctions. If you look at the Russian economy in

the past few weeks. It has been suffering. People pricing in some of

the things they think might happen. T stobgck market tumbling by 10%.

Capital flight from Russia since the crisis started. Some people say $70

billion. The key thing, it appears, that the Russians fear is US Tressy

Department blacklisting of some of their financial institutions, the

Red Letter approach, which has been used against Iran, that could

absolutely freeze up the movement of capital and cause them serious

damage. That is the balance now between the US and Russia. As they

wait for this to play out in Ukraine. Mark, thank you very much.

The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage's, role as chief scourge of the EU in

Europe is being challenged by the French Front Nationale leader,

Marine Le Pen. Such are her party's opinion poll ratings ahead of the

European Parliamentary elections, she might just be about to become a

lot more powerful. Pollwatch 2014, based on opinion polls across

Europe, suggest she is on target to form part of a far-right bloc in the

parliament and so, for the first time, be entitled to a share of

public funds. At the same time, her bloc would be a challenge to UKIP's

right-wing Europe f free Europe of Freedom and Democracy bloc. Laura

Kuenssberg travelled to Strasbourg to interview Marine Le Pen. She

asked her, how her party could reach beyond the protest vote.

That united front of refusal in the UK, Nigel Farage is part of what you

describe as that, isn't he? You see him as part of your

movement? Perhaps politicians in the UK are

simply put off by your views? You say you would ban pork free meals

for Muslim children in the towns you control. One of your allies in

Holland said he would take care of the number of Moroccans in one town.

Maybe British politicians do not want to have anything to do with you

because of the views you hold. You said yourself it makes sense for

you and Nigel Farage to work together in a strategic way because

you have a lot of things in common but he does not want anything to do

with you because of your views? But isn't it the case that some of

the views you have put forward understandably do not appeal to

British politicians because they can be at worst offensive and at best

prejudiced? You said Muslims in France were almost like having the

Nazi occupation. That is what you said. You said it

was like an occupation. And there is nothing offensive

towards European Muslims in your view about saying those kind of

things, that it is against the identity of France or somehow

unacceptable for Muslims to be praying in public places?

Is your invitation to Nigel Farage to be part of your campaign still

open? Would you hope to work with him in

future? WorldCom in a statement to

Newsnight, UKIP said they were not interested in any deal with Marine

Le Pen and her party because of anti-Semitism in her party. Tonight

we learned of the death of one of the greatest 20th-century authors,

Gabriel Garcia Marquis, whose novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude was a

literary masterpiece. He was 87 and had been ill for some

time with pneumonia. His writing transformed Colombian literature and

his use of magical realism inspired other writers to explore those

worlds. Here is a look back at his life. Until tonight, he was perhaps

the greatest living novelist, the most notable literary voice and

spokesman of his continent, Latin America and the godfather of a

style, magic realism. Gabriel Garcia Marquis was born 87

years ago and raised in a dirt poor banana growing town in a lonely

corner of Columbia, that beautiful but often benighted country. The

family built its definitive shelter, a linear house with eight successive

rooms along the hallway with an alcove filled with begonias where

the women and family would sit to embroider on frames and talk in the

cool of the evening. The rooms were simple and did not differ from one

another, but a single glance was enough for me to know that in each

of their countless details, they had a crucial moment of my life. The

landscape and people of his childhood furnished his fiction,

including perhaps his most widely read book, One Hundred Years Of

Solitude. It sold 20 million copies and was translated into 30

languages. I invent nothing, he protested. People always praise my

imagination but I believe I am a terrible realist. Everything I

invent was already there. This was his answer to the charge,

if it was a charge, that he wrote magical realism. In fact, he trained

as a reporter and alongside his novels was a shelf of great

nonfiction, documenting his country's problem with kidnapping,

for example. He was that rare writer, one who fully deserved his

Nobel prize, awarded more than 30 years ago now. Nor did it become a

premature headstone on his career. He continued to publish, to travel

and interest himself in the politics of his hemisphere. He was confident

of Fidel Castro of Cuba. Some thought a strong man in a novel was

based on the leader in Havana. The writer was variously compared to

Cervantes, Mark Twain and Dickens. He was known to his adoring fellow

Colombians as Gabo. Joining me now in the studio are the writer a R

Kennedy and from Scotland's Ian McEwan.

What was so enriching about his stories? A translucent quality about

the prose itself, an extraordinary experiment with time, driving Miss

and fiction with one other unknown and unusual element. He really was a

one-off and one would have to go back to Dickens to find a writer of

the very highest literary quality who commanded such extraordinary

persuasive powers over whole populations. It really is an

extraordinary phenomenon, his literary career. You heard him say

that he is a realist and he has been putting this idea that he was not

about magic realism but wasn't it about the stories that his

grandparents told him that he remembered and if used his whole

idea of what fiction would be about? -- ends used his whole idea.

People rightly remember One Hundred Years Of Solitude but Love In The

Time Of Cholera was one of the best. This unknown Colombian town, the

heat, the corruption, the Swamp Younis of it all is named in the way

that is important. This runs against the current of the magical but still

it is there that magical element and that is what makes him so

extraordinary. I thought it was amazing that it was only recently he

decided he would write his memoirs and he was going to take his time.

First one volume and then a long time before the second volume came.

This idea that he was denying that he was ever going to start writing.

There was a sad quality to this because he had a neurodegenerative

disease. He was making pronouncements about how he would

never stop writing but in fact he had. There was an element of tragedy

that we will all come to, I guess, at some point or other for

ourselves. Ian, thank you for now. Ian talks about Love In The Time Of

Cholera being his favourite. But One Hundred Years Of Solitude was

translated into 30 languages and a bestseller, or what was it about

that book? It comes from a whole set of beliefs, if you write something

true enough and full enough, it has the capacity to change the world. If

you set out on that premise, it will. You have these incredible

swathes of time that you will accomplish and take on all kinds of

technical challenges because you believe you can do it and because it

is worthwhile and you have a definite aim insight. There is a

huge beautiful confidence. When I read him as a student I was not

thinking of writing and he literally blew my mind because you can do

anything, your mind can do anything. Within reality, there is a

reality which is magic. If you dream you kiss your boss and you see him

in the morning, you look at him differently. That is real. It is a

different book in Spanish than it would be in other languages. The

child with the kick's tale in One Hundred Years Of Solitude, in

Colombia you can take that as a given. Not necessarily because that

has happened but because the folkloric is part of your

experience. In the world we live in today, the folkloric is not

celebrated in the way it was. In South America and other countries

the folkloric was incredibly important. If you look at his

influence it is difficult to trace. If you imagine his influence more

tangible tea, you might think Sam and Rushdie -- Salman Rushdie,

Midnight's Children. The permission to tell a story in that way. It is

the permission to make something out of absolutely nothing. We have this

special voice where we say folkloric. These are stories which

have stood the test of time for centuries. There are extraordinary

good. It is not just that I will make up some fan fiction and then

turn someone into a parrot. You have to explain so much more and those

guys go for it. Ian McEwan, you talked earlier about Dickens but

where would you put him in the pantheon of writers? Right at the

top. Talking of his influence, I think he had a massive effect, not

only of Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie in say the British literary

scene, but I think he loosened asked up in our little corner of

north-western Europe. All kinds of writers who you would not associate

with magical realism, suddenly were able to break free of a kind of

literary inhibitions into thinking for themselves and how they might

experiment with time and space and fiction. I would place him right up

there in the best Parnassus, almost of a Shakespearean quality. And the

other side of his life, the opposition to Pinochet, the row but

went on for years and years and years. He was capable of very

obstinate principled behaviour, wasn't he?

He was. I was there three or four years ago having dinner and talking

about that great rupture. In fact, behind it I think there was great

fondness and great mutual admiration. This was really the

battle of giants. He was often cast, I think, unfairly in the context of

Latin and American literature as an extreme right-winger. This simply

wasn't the case. He had strict (inaudible) against Castro. Many

which were true. There were writers and journalists in prison in Cuba.

He dared say so. I think there was a kind of... A rather (inaudible)

quality to this discord. Now I think the death will settle this. Thank

you very much. There are a few more beautiful sounds in the song of the

Nightingale. The nightingale is in decline. There is a petition to

bring the nightingale back, to the BBC airwaves. On midnight on 818th

May 1924 a million people tuned into BBC Radio to hear the first ever

loud outside broadcast, a nightingale in full song accompanied

by a chelist. We thought you might like to hear it right now tonight.

-- cellist Beatrice Harrison. The second-half of the weekend sees

more unsettled weather, rain around as well. We start in Good Friday on

a chilly note. A beautiful sparkling blue sky sort