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gas industry, as David Cameron gives fracking his full support. More | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
anti-fracking protests as councils are given incentives to allow | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
drilling for the gas in their areas. This is costing police thousands and | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
thousands of pounds a week just to manage the protests at this site. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Imagine if this starts going on at all the other dozens of proposed | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
fracking sites. Also this lunch time - looking back over more than 70 | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
years of public hearings about the allegation of child abuse | :00:44. | :02:33. | |
They closed the road. It did illustrate the strength of feeling | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
as the Prime Minister headed out into the countryside to give the | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
thumbs up to fracking. The Government wants to see more of | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
this, energy companies searching for shale gas. Today as Total planned to | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
invest millions in exploration, the Energy Minister was outlining plans | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
to encourage councils to give the green light to sites. We know there | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
is shale gas in the north and the South. It will be up to each local | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
authority as to whether or not they agree planning applications. There | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
is a local say as to whether or not it should go ahead. Local residents | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
and the local authority should be able to keep some of the benefit. | :03:22. | :03:34. | |
Some of the benefits. The council also once communities to receive | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
money for each well and 1% of the revenues if the world goes into full | :03:42. | :03:57. | |
production. -- well. At Barton masts, some local residents are less | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
concerned. We do not think it is a major problem. It will help local | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
communities and that is a good thing. I do not know what the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
long-term effects are. For what they make out of it communities, they | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
should put some backing. It is about getting local councils to accept | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
fracking. Local authorities do not want it in their areas and local | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
residents do not want it. There are huge risks attached. This is a bribe | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
to push local authorities into accepting it in their area. Fracking | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
involves injecting water, sand and chemicals into shale rocks far | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
underground. In America, it has resulted in soaring gas production | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
and plummeting energy prices. The industry could generate 70,000 jobs | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
and billions in investment. Will the cash incentives go far enough? Local | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
communities have to get real benefit from fracking in that area. That | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
will be money coming into something like a local community trust, which | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
will be invested and build a year upon year as the oil and gas | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
operations. That will be used for the benefit of the whole community. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
The Government insists it is going all out for shale. It expects | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
between 20 and 40 wells to be drilled in the next few years. | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
Number ten has also said that fracking could mean lower energy | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
bills. Throwing that argument in as well. They mention there are 30 or | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
40 potential fracking sites across England and other parts of the UK as | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
well. You have seen the strength of the feeling and the protests. That | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
could be replicated across the country are now will be more delays | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
in some areas where the protesters are and the big bill for the | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
taxpayer for policing these protests when they take place. Let's pick up | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
on that as our chief political correspondent is at Westminster. In | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the face of opposition, can the Government push ahead? All systems | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
are go on fracking from because Bective of the Government. Why? They | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
believe it could be a huge boost to the British economy, not quite on | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
the scale of North Sea oil. They are talking about tens of thousands of | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
jobs and revitalising the manufacturing industry. On top of | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
that, you get possible lower fuel bills. On top of that, it is worth | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
noting that the Labour Party is by and large supporting it. It may come | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
at a much heftier political and financial price than ministers are | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
currently saying. The political price because of the protests we are | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
seeing. We have already seen with other big infrastructure projects | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
that a degree of difficulty governments can get into with these | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
local constituency protests. The financial package they have to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
offer, which has already been described as a Tory MP as crumbs off | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the table, it seems to me that may have to be significantly increased. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Fracking, it seems to me, is set to go ahead but the price ministers | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
have to pay may be a lot higher than they currently realise. BBC News | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
online has more on the arguments for and against fracking. You can have a | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
look at on the website. A public hearing into allegations of child | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
abuse at church and state run children's homes in Northern Ireland | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
will begin this afternoon. More than 300 witnesses are due to give | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
evidence to the inquiry which will consider whether there were systemic | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
failings in the treatment of children in care between 1922 and | :07:52. | :08:03. | |
1995. This is said to be the widest ranging enquiry into institutional | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
abuse ever conducted in the UK. More than 200 victims of abuse, that is | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
psychological, physical and sexual abuse, have already spoken privately | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
to members of being quarried team. Many of them will speak out | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
publicly. There are stories of ill-treatment and childhoods | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
deprived are often harrowing. Happy children, welfare and cared for in a | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
wholesome environment. That was the public image. The reality was | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
sometimes very different. Many, like this home filmed in Scotland in the | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
1950s, were run by religious orders. Kate was taken to Nazareth House in | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
Londonderry when she was seven years old. One none would keep up to the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
back of the line at confession so a particular priest could abuse her. I | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
was an abused child. I was a child, crying for help. I was a hurt child. | :09:04. | :09:15. | |
I just needed someone to ask me, why was I not happy? Two homes in Derry | :09:16. | :09:28. | |
are the focus of public hearings. It is investigating allegations of | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
abuse over 70 years, right up until 1995. More than 430 people have come | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
forward to say they were abused. The inquiry will look at claims that | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
other claims. It was set up after lobbying by former victims. Bath | :09:45. | :09:56. | |
times were an awful ritual. You were scrapped in Jays fluid. Roasting and | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
scolding. You ducked down into a steel basin. We were screaming out | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
for help and shivering. I remember standing in a corridor. Many homes | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
are run by the church but not all. The Government must take the blame | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
for failing to inspect and investigate them. Michael spent 18 | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
years in a succession of institutions, where he was beaten, | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
starved, locked in cells and deprived of all affection. It is | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
about time that people knew what has been hidden for 50 years. It is time | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
it came out. What do the campaigners want from this enquiry? They want | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
formal recognition of what they suffered. They want to insure that | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
no child in future have to go through what they did. They want | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
those still living, who committed the abuse, to face charges. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
The funeral is taking place of Ariel Sharon. He died on Saturday after | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
being in a coma for eight years. At a memorial service, Tony Blair and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Joe Biden were among some 20 foreign delegates, who paid tribute to the | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
former leader. The day began with a memorial in Jerusalem where world | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
leaders and Israeli dignitaries commended Ariel Sharon on his | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
commitment, his unwavering commitment, to Israel. In the last | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
few moments, on the hillside behind me, is coughing was lowered into the | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
ground. His son said that Ariel Sharon had come home. The coughing | :11:49. | :12:00. | |
of Ariel Sharon arrived on the rolling hills of southern Israel. -- | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
coffin. This was a funeral with full military honours. He was one of the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
greatest battlefield heroes. At an earlier memorial service, he | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
was honoured as a fighter, farmer and statesman. He was part of the | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
country 's founding generation. TRANSLATION: | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
Your narrative is intertwined in the Nile is of our state. Your | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
footprints are inscribed in every nook and cranny and hill and | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
valley. You harvested its fruit with a sickle and defended its wheat | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
kernels with a sword. Controversy has never been far from Ariel | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Sharon. His mission always remained the same. His strategic objective | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
never wavered. The state which from the age of 14, he fought to bring | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
into being, had to be protected for future generations. Ariel Sharon was | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
as much a farmer as a fighter. His connection to the land was this a | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
row. On this farm, he spent much of his life. This is his final resting | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
place. He is buried beside his wife, not far from Gaza. The risk of | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
missile attacks meant warning sirens were placed around the burial site. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Palestinians had been celebrating and not mourning the passing. For | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
them, he remains a warmonger and not a war hero. His journey here to his | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
final resting place carried him past the scene of his earliest battles. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Controversial to the end, Israel and Ariel Sharon travelled through | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
history together. The funeral is just ending behind me. The | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
controversy over his life will continue for a very long time. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Undoubtedly, this is a man who left an della bore marks not only on | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Israel but the entire middle east. -- an della ball mark. The Treasury | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
has said it will take responsibility of all the UK Government 's debt in | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
the event of Scottish independence. Let's speak to our Scotland economy | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
editor, who is in Glasgow. Just explain the significance of the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
move. The United Kingdom has high and fast rising debts for completely | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
different reasons, which it has two finance by bonds. If there is a yes | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
in the independence referendum, it is agreed that Scotland should take | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
on a fair share of that debt. It could be between 100 and ?130 | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
billion. What we have learned today is that the Scottish Government will | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
pay the Treasury to service those debts. At least those bonds which | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
have been issued up until the referendum. The catch is that Alex | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
Salmond has said if there is no agreement on the share out of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
assets, that includes joint control over the Bank of England and the ? | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
he may not recognise any deal on a share of liabilities as well. The | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Treasury in London is reassuring investors. There is no reason for | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
that dispute to worry them. It will not cost up -- push up the cost of | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
borrowing. It is highly political. The First Minister is saying this is | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
a victory for common sense over the fear that has been put out by | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
opponents. There is a new uncertainty about the potential cost | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
of borrowing should Scotland become independent. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
The way films are being classic -- classified is being changed. | :16:07. | :16:23. | |
They call me the Pirate captain... Language used in a film from the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
makers of Wallis and Gromit has brought about a change in the waste | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
and ratings will be decided in the UK. Pirates and adventure with | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
scientists was given a new certificate on release but now there | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
will be tighter controls on films deemed suitable for all. Children | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
learn by copying so they copy some of the bad language, and that can be | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
embarrassing for parents, with children repeating language to the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Vic or something like that! Another area of concern was the portrayal of | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
self harm in films such as Black Swan about the psychological | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
struggles of a ballet dancer. Parents also worried about the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
sexualisation of girls in films and the normalisation of habits such as | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
drug-taking. These things will be taken into consideration when given | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
certification is. These films which are often violent, graphically so, | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
and they talk of superheroes, war, destruction, death. Maybe not | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
graphically but the intention is there. And it is not just the | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
classification of films which will be changing. The Government has been | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
working on a pilot scheme, meaning the same rating certificates will be | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
applied to online pop music videos for the first time. Miley Cyrus's | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Wrecking Ball, which has been viewed half a million times without | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
restriction, could be given a 15 certificate. | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
Our top story this lunchtime, the French company Total becomes the | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
first to invest heavily in fracking in the UK as David Cameron has the | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
industry has backing. And, coming up... The Golden Globe | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
goes to... 12 Years A Slave. Triumph for British director Steve McQueen | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
but American Hostel is hot on his heels. Later, I'll have all the | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
sport on BBC News, with England's women set out to the men by | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
retaining the Ashes in Australia. They won the Test match by 61 runs. | :18:42. | :18:56. | |
It has been announced in man is to open up its country and rules could | :18:57. | :19:10. | |
be relaxed. In a rare interview, Sheikh Mohammed has called on the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
international community to lift all its sanctions on around. He spoke to | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
John Sobel. These go and take goods allowed | :19:18. | :19:35. | |
under the regime. Iran used to be Dubai's biggest trading partner by a | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
long way. It is clear the Sheik would like to see that back again. | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
Before we got on to matters like that, he took me on a tour of his | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
emirate. Your highness, very nice to see you. Thank you for seeing us. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
This is as you don't imagine it, but it is how it started. This is where | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
Sheik Mohammed was born and grew up. Only this light and no water. We | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
went inside and he showed me the family album: And this is also my | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
grandfather. That's my grandfather. This is Dubai as you probably do | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
know it - brash, bright, big. He drove me himself out of the city to | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
his desert hide away, where he spoke about the state of the world. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
Progress has been made in these talks about giving access to Iran's | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
nuclear facilities do. You believe the time is now right to lift | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
sanctions against Iran? I think so. And give Iran a space. You know, | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
really Iran is our neighbour and we don't want any problem. They don't | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
have any problem. But if the peace, you know, and they agree with | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Americans and the Americans agree and lift their sanction, everybody | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
will benefit. With Ariel Sharon being buried today, he looked | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
forward to the benefits of a peace deal between Israelis and | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Palestinians would bring. After the peace process, we'll do everything | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
with Israel, you know? We'll trade with them again and we will welcome | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
them and everything. But sign the peace process. ??FORCEWHITE He is | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
proud of his Bedouin roots and loves his hunting birds. He has eyes like | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
a hawk on keeping Dubai as a powerhouse, after its flirtation | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
with danger after the economic downturn. | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Well, Sheik Mohammed normally doesn't do sit-down interviews. They | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
have won Expo 2020. After the crisis that came after the World Banking | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
crisis in 2008, he wants to proclaim that Dubai is back and thriving and | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
that is pretty much the message he wants. That is what this place feels | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
like at the moment. France's First Lady, Valerie | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
Trierweiler remains in hospital after being admitted last week after | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
a magazine printed claims that her partner, the French President, | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Francois Hollande, has been having an affair with an actress. Her staff | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
say she was suffering from a severe case of the blues. Here is our Paris | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
correspondent, Christian Fraser. The night of the Presidential election. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Centre-stage Mr Hollande's girlfriend, his partner of seven | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
years, Valerie Trierweiler. A journalist with a keen eye for | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
politics and one who had played such a significant role in his campaign. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
And yet, she has always been kept in the background. Even a kiss on the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
night was awkward. Of late, it has been all too apparent - the distance | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
between them has been growing. On Friday, the First Lady was admitted | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
to hospital with a severe case of the blues, said her staff. She's in | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
need of rest and maybe discharged later today, they added, before | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
deciding what to do next. It is a mark of the cultural difference | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
between Britain and France that even today the French media is teetering | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
around the issue of Mr Hollande's private life, even Le Figaro talks | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
about his speech tomorrow and the problems in the French economy. Make | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
no mistake, it is the silence of the Elysee Palace on this issue that | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
overshadows the main agenda. Even the intellectual media think there | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
are legitimate questions to answer. She's employed by Paris Match. She | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
continues to write taz a journalist. She is described by the Elysee as | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the First Lady. I think the French have felt there's an ambiguous role | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
she has which makes its relevant to the press. This President has had | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
problems of asserting his authority. Credibility is the key and Mr | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Hollande's personal life is bound up with that. | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
The super Lidl is removing sweets and chocolates from check-out areas | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
in its 600 stores this morvent and replacing them with -- this month | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
and replacing them with healthy snacks. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Mother of three, Katie, has struggled with her weight since she | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
was a child. At 27 years old she weighs 27 stone and she feels deeply | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
ashamed. I hate walking outside. I always look down, hoping no-one will | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
look at me, really. I feel guilty that I am this size because I should | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
have of done something about it. I should va tried harder. -- have | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
tried harder. The scale of The Observer problem in the UK may have | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
been -- the obesity problem in the UK may have been untsds estimated T | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
prediction that half the population will be obese by 2020 could be | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
outstripped. Obesity peeks four years ago with a quarter of adults | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
in that category. 32% of women are classified as being overweight and | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
42% of men. One of the bigger problems is the food that we buy and | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
the beverages we consume. At the moment, they are stuffed full of | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
sugar, fat and salt, which are the really bad ingredients. We need to | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
have reforlation, that is to say the industry needs to readjust what they | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
put into their food. Katie says she is desperate to lose weight, but | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
needs help. I cannot do it on my mine. We need something in the area | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
here, like obesity clinics. I need something to help me to get that | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
momentum, to keep going, until I have lost the weight. She says she | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
wants the type of support available to drug users and smokers to help | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
people like her to lose weight. England's women cricketers have been | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
making up of the lack-lustre performance of their male | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
counterparts. They beat Australia in an Ashes series played in a variety | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
of different formats. At first, it was an all too familiar | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
site. England's bowlers taking an Australia thrashing. They began | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
needing just five wickets for victory. As the ball hurtled to the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
boundary, it with us the hosts threatening an unlikely win. Not | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
again, surely! But just when England needed a break-through, up stepped | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
22-year-old Anya Shrubsole. Straight to square leg... The relief | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
was plain to see. One wicket instantly became two, as Anya | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
Shrubsole struck again. England holding their catches and their | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
nerve, now within sight of victory. The third wicket of the day took | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
them to the brink, before Katherine Brunt finished things off in | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
emphatic style. That is the end of the Test match and England win. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Words we have not heard too much recently. They still have to win two | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
out of six more games to keep the Ashes. At long last, English cricket | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
has something to celebrate. The British director Steve McQueen | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
is in shock after his film 12 Years A Slave won at the gold Golden Globe | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
awards. It is the first major award show of | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
the year. And the biggest names in the business were out in force. | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
It was overlooked in several categories, but 12 Years A Slave won | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
the top award. It took the film's British director, Steve McQueen, by | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
surprise. A little bit in shock. What can I say? Firstly, I would | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
like to thank the press. I would like to thank my wife - for finding | :28:07. | :28:14. | |
the book 12 Years A Slave. Gravity, which was make in the UK, had four | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
nominations. It won in only one category, for Best Director. | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
American Hustle won three awards for Best Cod di and two of its -- comedy | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
and two of its actors. It was a night when no movie swept | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
the board and the acceptance speeches went on and on. | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
I wonder, can people at home hear this music, or do they think you are | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
getting fast before you are having a panic attack, which I am probably | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
having. Most critics agree the standard of films this year is | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
higher than ever. It is all the still to play for at the Oscar | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
nominations - they are out on Thursday. | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
Weather now. Quite a lot of sunshine across the | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
British Isles for the first part of this week. We are seeing some hefty | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
showers marching into the west at the moment as well. The showers in | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
some areas accompanied by hail, thunder. We will also have squally | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
winds lining up with this band as it works from east to west. So far into | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
Wales, the south-west. This afternoon, the showers will go into | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
the Midlands. They will be in the south-east for the rush hour. | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
Further showers across Wales. As the showers cross Scotland and northern | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
England, they will turn wintry above 400 feet. | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
Temperatures will fall away, in rural areas as low as minus three. | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
Any moisture on the ground is likely to turn to ice. That is one of our | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
prime concerns first thing tomorrow. That and the potential for fog for | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland. Ice could be a problem just about | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
anywhere where roads have not been treated. | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
A little bit of fog possible here too. It should clear by mid-morning. | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Further east, a hang-back of cloud behind the showers. Rain for Norfolk | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
and Suffolk. A milder start. We should not have the visibility | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
problems. A greyer morning here. It will take until the afternoon for | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
the rain to clear. A lot of sunshine for the first part of the day. Into | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
the west for Northern Ireland, our next system arriving around lunch | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
time. We are looking at a wet end to the day here. Increasingly strong | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
winds as well. In the sunshine, highs of perhaps nine Celsius. | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
Tomorrow evening and overnight into Wednesday, that front will make its | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
journey eastwards. Across Scotland and northern England it could bring | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
more significant snow. Perhaps some to Snowdonia as well I will turn | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
back to rain by the end of -- as well well. It will turn back to rain | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
by the end of the night. A lot of rain first thing on Thursday. | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
Sunshine in quite short supply. Northern Ireland is likely, if | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
anything, to be the brightest and driest spot. Thursday looking | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
clearer. Some rain in there in the east. Still some showers in the | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
south. We are keeping a close eye on the flood warning situation because | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
there is a lot of ground water out there and our flooding problems | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
could return again. First half of the week improved. Second half of | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
the week, look out for thicker cloud and linger lingering rains. That is | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
it from | :31:29. | :31:29. |