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Strike? What strike. The head teacher who says her school will | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
stay open on Wednesday teachers or no teachers. Our core values are | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
about keeping learning going, making sure students are learning, | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
and supporting parents. How two Hello and welcome to Look | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
East. Also tonight: Why the battle against obesity begins with | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
toddlers. Chasing the North Sea dolphins, | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
exclusive pictures from the Dogger Bank. | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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And the priceless archive footage First tonight, the school promising | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
to stay open next week however many of its teachers go on strike. The | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
head teacher at the Ormiston Academy, on the outskirts of | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Norwich, says she will bring in any one she can to make sure the school | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
stays open. The parents are said to be delighted. But there is a wider | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
picture. The unions are against the government plan to reform public | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
sector pensions. The coalition's see it as a battle for hearts and | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
minds. Today the year sevens were having a | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Spanish lesson. On strike day they will have a range of activities. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
Part of their teachers will walk out, replaced by everyone from the | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
former army personnel to the British Heart Foundation, | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
organisations brought in to keep the school open. This school was a | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
failing school and it has become a sponsored Academy. It is important | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
to keep that stability here. head of his academies says that | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
those are brought in on strike day will be safe to work with children. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
She denies that they are providing a child-minding service. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Examination students will be focusing on examination work. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Academy's teachers who an -- coup one of striking have been planning | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
activities. The principal said it is the teacher's choice whether | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
they strike. It gives our staff the right to make that choice and the | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
freedom to make with the knowledge that there student's learning will | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
not be interrupted. The Academy's beauty school will also continue. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
6th formers are expected to run its asylum. Local parents have mixed | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
views. I am not sure whether it is the right thing or not. Whether | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
they are volunteers or groups who are coming in, they will need to be | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
checked properly. It strikes me as a babysitting service. I think they | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
should stay open. I think they are there not to strike. The academy | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
says it wants to port its students first and keep their parents happy. | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
-- put its students first. Brandon Lewis, MP for Great | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Yarmouth is in Westminster and Hilary Bucky representative of the | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
National Union of Teachers. disagree with the idea that it is | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
not appropriate to strike. A lot of members of our union and other | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
unions have voted for strike action. A huge number of public sector | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
workers are striking across the country. When the coalition came to | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
power they inherited a difficult financial situation and everybody | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
knew that everybody would have to pay some price. The problem that | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
the government has in relation to public sector pensions is that they | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
have not made the case for saying that there is any need for our | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
members to work longer, pay more and get less at the end of it. The | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
teachers' pension scheme is financially viable and the | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
government has not evaluated it. They have been asked repeatedly to | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
evaluated. They have no evidence to show that the current scheme is not | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
affordable. Brandon Lewis, you have not made a case and what you have | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
the moment is perfectly viable. the moment the negotiation is | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
ongoing. That is why it is so staggering that we have any strike | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
action. The parents are right that it is very disruptive. The simple | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
fact is that the new scheme that has been proposed is on the table | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
for unions at the moment and ditties affair scheme. Low and | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
middle earners could be better off. It seems a much fairer scheme. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Rather than having a go at people like teachers, it wouldn't it be | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
better to have a go at bankers? This is a proposal going across the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
whole of the public sector. We need to get public sector pensions | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
structured properly. Lord Hutton's report is not asking people to work | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
longer, it is a much fairer scheme for people particularly at the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
lower end who will no longer be paying for the high earners at the | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
end of their career. Some of your people will be better off? Those | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
figures are extremely misleading because you're not comparing like | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
with like. What does not be mentioned is the fact that teachers | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
will have to continue to work until they are 68 in order to achieve | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
pensions at that level. That is eight years beyond the current | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
retirement age and, quite frankly, teaching is such a stressful job, I | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
would be very surprised if a most parents would want their children | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
to be taught by a 68 year old teacher. Let me put that to Mr | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Lewis. You are being economical with the figures? The current | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
system is that the highest earners to get these large pensions are | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
being paid for by the taxpayer and the low earners in that profession. | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
This is a much fairer scheme for the lower income earners. But we | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
have to bear in mind, I think it is very unfair to say that older | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
teachers have nothing to contribute. By have worked with teachers who | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
are much older and have they have been a fantastic asset. Thank you. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Our political correspondent is with us in the studio now. This is | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
dividing opinion and feelings are running high. This could be the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
biggest dry for a generation. There is a lot at stake here. That is why | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
it the government has been talking about how much it will cost the | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
economy. The Prime Minister enthusiastically backed the MP for | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
Corby who said that parents should be able to take their children to | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
work on the strike day. There is a lot of pain to come in the public | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
sector when it comes to spending cuts. This is the first big crunch | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
point. Whoever public opinion is behind is very important. Will | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
other schools follow the lead of Ormiston Academy? The government | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
expects two-thirds of schools to be closed next Wednesday. There are a | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
lot of academies in our region run by head teachers who have a fair | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
degree of autonomy. If they want to bring in untrained staff for the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
day, they can. If most academies stay open next week, people in | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
favour of creating more academies will use this as a positive point. | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
Should we expect major disruption next week? It is looking that way. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
A lot more unions are on strike and trade union leaders are telling me | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
that opinion is hardening. People want to protest about cuts in | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
general, not just pensions. We are already being contacted by | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
parents caught up in next week's strike. Tracey Molton From Norfolk | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
says that she has two daughters, one must go to school on Wednesday | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
and the other must stay at home. If you are affected by the strike, D | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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Still to come, why the battle against adult obesity starts at | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
nursery school. And have a look at these pictures. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Some are great archive of Roger Moore filming a Octupussy near | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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Peterborough. We will have more A man has been found guilty of | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
causing a crash which left a taxi driver severely injured. The man | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
had abandoned his band on the A47 in Norfolk in the early hours of | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
January this year. -- he is a van. He arrived at court today to plead | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
not guilty for drink-driving and at van -- abandoning his vehicle. A | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
car ploughed into the back of that the Mercedes of France on this | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
unlit stretch of the A47. This is all that is left of the car. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
life has been totally turned upside down. The person responsible has | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
been able to carry on with his life. I have not been able to do anything. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
I have not been able to use the right hand side of my body. I have | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
not been able to lift the cup of tea. If it had not been for my | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
friends and family, I do not know how I would have survived. | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
defendant admitted that he had been drinking. A police officer said | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
that she saw the defendant staggering along the road and he | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
smelt of alcohol. He was arrested after the policemen have found the | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
vehicle's keys in his pocket. He was found guilty, banned from | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
driving for 12 months and given a community order. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
And man has been describing his narrow escape when an explosion | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
blew out a manhole cover in Peterborough. Daniel Madge was | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
walking on books Street when the explosion was captured on CCTV. He | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
said it was very frightening. An investigation is under way. I tried | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
to act brave. It was terrifying. It was literally a few seconds. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Luckily, my son was in school. He always walks a few paces ahead, if | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
he had been there, it does not bear thinking about. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Investigators say that catastrophic gearbox failure was to blame for a | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
North Sea helicopter crash. Nolan Goble from Norfolk was there among | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
16 men who died when the aircraft crashed. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
The son of a formal world speedway champion has been killed in an | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
accident near his home in Suffolk. 18 year old Rhys Loram was hit by a | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
van as he was walking in the village of Crowfield last night. He | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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died later in hospital. He was the A teenage boy has taken Essex | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
County Council to court in an attempt to get them to stop closing | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
his care home. This is a David and Goliath style legal battle. One | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
teenager taking on Essex County Council will stop he leads him one | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of the horns that is due to close all stop he told court how he had | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
come to think of his fellow residents and staff at his family. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
He said losing that would make him very insecure and unhappy. The | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
decision he is challenging was made by Essex County Council in June to | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
close the care homes and replace the children into privately run | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
homes instead. What does he say the council has | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
done wrong? He says they acted unlawfully by not taking into | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
account the residence. He says they were never asked their views on the | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
key question whether the homes should close. The solicitors said | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
the consultation was plot and that made the decision unlawful. The | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
lawyer rejected that and said the whole plan was being driven by the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
considerations of the children's needs. Legal arguments will | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
continue tomorrow, but we may not get a judgment until sometime next | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
week. In football, a busy 24 hours at Ipswich. Three players have left. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Shane O'Connor and Tamas Priskin have left on loan and Colin Healy | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
was released. Richard Wright is back at the club for a third spell. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
He is now 34 and has played 300 games for them. He has a contract | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
until the end of the season. He has been on the doorstep here for a | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
while. He has close ties with Ipswich. He was delighted to sign. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Staff in the X-ray department at a hospital in Norfolk Cup called off | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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the planned work to rule. radiologist's have called off a ban. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
The government has postponed up- and- to increase the tolls on the | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
Dartford crossing. -- postponed a ban. It was due to go up to two | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
pounds 50 next year. There has been a lot of lobbying against the | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
increase. A fortnight ago a research team set off from Suffolk. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
They were trying to find out more about the tortoise is that live in | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
the North Sea. They have come back with footage. -- the dolphins and | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
porpoises. This survey shone a light on the sea mammals of our | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
coast. We were very fortunate with the weather which allowed us to see | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
all the areas we were surveying. We saw lots of dolphins. Every half- | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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an-hour at Dyffryn group would come in. -- a different group. It was a | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
really exciting day. When it came to porpoises, the British sector of | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
the North Sea appears to be a hot spot. We had 250 detections of | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
porpoises through our acoustic equipment we have on the board. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Only 13 sightings but this equipment allows us to see what | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
happens underneath. Several European countries are creating | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
special conservation areas. We are trying to understand which areas | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
would be the best places for these. There is also a lot of construction. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
It is good to have extra information to understand how the | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
animals used the area different times of the year. They hope to do | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
another survey in the spring when the dolphins and porpoises are | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
camera. -- calmer. The North Sea is a life. We had days when hundreds | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
of words would swarm the board. We have a better idea about the hidden | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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world that is the North Sea. Here is a frightening fact. At | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, 20 % of children will be clinically | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
obese by the time they leave primary school. What can we do? One | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
idea is to catch them young. Very young. In Wellingborough, that | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
means toddlers. Corner is only three years old. When he is five, | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
10 % of his classmates will be obese. When he leaves secondary- | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
school that number will have doubled. -- Connor. Now his parents | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
and him are getting top power to eat healthily. Is it difficult to | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
get him to eat fruit and vegetables? Not with bananas. With | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
mushrooms, he does not try them. For him to book mushrooms on his | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
lap, that is quite amazing. This is the first time Wellingborough | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Borough Council has targeted pre- school children. Teaching their | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
parents about portion sizes, sugar content, and the power to say no. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
refuse to go into bad shops now. For a couple of days it was | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
difficult cause they had tantrums. With 9.7 % of children clinically | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
obese, Wellingborough Borough Council's figures are by no means | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
the worst in the east. 11 % of five year-olds in King's Lynn are obese. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
In Luton it is 14 %. That is a problem because all these children | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
are likely to turn into obese adults. Type 2 diabetes is a big | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
concern. Hypertension is a big concern. Those two are perhaps the | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
biggest health risks. intervening had such an early age, | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
the council believe they are giving children and their parents a choice. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
It is not a question of being dictatorial. We are not | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
brainwashing these children and they will turn round in years' time | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
and have checks and not carrots, but at least we can show them the | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
options. It will be years before we can see whether courses like this | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
are making a dent on rising obesity levels. Four years ago, Louise | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Jukes gave up her job and house in her wish to follow her dream. It | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
was a dream to take part in the London Olympic Games. Now her | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
gamble is about to pay our because Louise Jukes is part of the GB | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
women's handball team. This week she has been getting a taste of | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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Today has been a long time coming for Louise Jukes. She did not sleep | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
last night thinking about it. Today, she played her Great Britain in the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Olympic handball arena. It is a test event for London 2012 against | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
the African champions Angola. Absolutely amazing. Getting the | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
opportunity to show people what we have been working on. Give them a | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
taste of handball. A lot of people had never seen it before so it was | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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great to show them. I drink Coca- Cola. Louise joined the squat in | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
2008. The team was based in Denmark in a handball boot camp. She played | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
for a local club side and even had a Danish lessons. Into though none | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
seven, there was an advert on television looking for players. -- | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
in 2007. I signed up. We all turned up and played handball for the | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
first time ever. They tested her speed and strength. We went too | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
world-class programme and moved everything to Denmark. It did not | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
last long, the funding getting cut and the squad broken up. Louise | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
continued her education with the Norwegian team. She was counting | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
down to her dream. We have come together so well, we are moving in | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
the same way, we are fitter and stronger and playing as a team. | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Great Britain beat Angola in the international and on Friday they | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
face Austria up. They are getting a feel for their new home. | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
That looks great. More than 150 Arrows have really seen the film | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
footage is being made available online for the first time. It is | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
costing �1 million, and involves the East Anglian Film Archive | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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recording film from as far back as 1895, with film including George | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Bernard Shaw and Eric Morecambe. It will all be available at the click | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
of a mouse. This is the East Anglian Film Archive in Norwich. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Thousands of films and tapes are all carefully stored in huge | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
refrigerated vaults. This is with a BBC East and Anglia Television | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Archive is stored, along with many private collections. Most of it | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
really sees the light of day. Obviously with the digital age we | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
want to unlock that and give the film to the people who care about | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
it. It is their stories, their villages, their towns. Paid for by | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Heritage Lottery Fund and the University of East Anglia, 1,200 | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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titles have now been digitised and There is the opening in 1938 of | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
pollutant municipally aerodrome. That is the days before EasyJet. | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
Footage of a playwright George Bernard Shaw at home. This has | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
become another Metcalf. The distinguished visitor is with a | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
distinguished film screen star. There is lots of social history. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Every conceivable subject from the 20th century is here in these | :23:43. | :23:52. | |
shelves. You can dip into Look East archive to see how much the news | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
agenda has changed. In 1970 we reported on this man and his lot of | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
amateur radio. It is very interesting hearing all these | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
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people from all over the world. 1977, we were in colour for them is | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
it a Eric Morecambe to Norfolk. -- the visit of Eric Morecambe. | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
have improved the tone of the neighbourhood with your Rolls-Royce. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Just because you lean on it does not mean it is years. Also on the | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
website is a report from the set of Octopussy when the film that the | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
Nene Valley railway near Peterborough. The website is easy | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
to use but if computers are not your thing there is also a film | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
show which will tour the regions soon. I am sure lots of you would | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
soon. I am sure lots of you would recognise who was interviewing Eric | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
Morecambe. After a bright and breezy day today, a bit of a change | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
coming along tonight as we take a look at the pressure charts. There | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
is a deep area of low-pressure getting away from the north. It is | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
heading into night. There will be a little bit of rain tonight. Some | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
uptight isobars. Turning quite breezy. Not a bad start tonight, it | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
starts off drive. When we get to midnight we will seek bigger Clyde | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
edging in from the West. The rain will feed further eastwards towards | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
the morning. Some places may well stay dry all the way through. | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
Temperatures will be about nine degrees. There will be a strong | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
south-westerly wind. Moving into tomorrow we start off with cloud | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
and rain in the east and that will clear a way to leave a lovely | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
morning. Sunny spells will break through and it will be a pleasant | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
morning for getting out and about. Temperatures are not too different. | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Still with the blustery south- westerly wind. The breeze will | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
bring some patchy cloud in. If we are very unlucky there may be the | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
odd isolated showers. The weekend is not looking bad at all. Saturday | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
starts off under a ridge of high pressure. These fronts push their | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
way through overnight. They will clear to the east to leave mainly | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
dry conditions for Sunday. It will be a breezy weekend, temperatures | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
around 11. Plenty of sunshine on Saturday. The early rain will give | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
way and plenty of sunshine on Sunday. Monday will be pleasant. | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
The temperature will pick up a little bit on Tuesday. As for the | :27:11. | :27:20. |