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Welcome to Look East. Education bosses are called to a meeting with | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
the government on the days schools in Norfolk receive more critical | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Ofsted reports. Also in the programme, the farmer ordered to pay | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
£5,000 after he allowed his arm to be turned into a rubbish dump. Can | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
smaller roads cope after their A14 is closed? | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
If people think they are getting a reasonable deal, they will use it. | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
And the project to restore East Anglia's lack gold. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
—— black gold. Hello. After months of poor results | :00:49. | :01:02. | |
and low Ofsted ratings, education leaders in Norfolk were summoned to | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Westminster today to tell the minister how they're planning to | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
improve schools in the county. This week, Ofsted announced its | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
findings from inspections at 18 schools in Norfolk. 14 require | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
improvement. Only three have improved since their last | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
inspection. North Walsham Junior, Ditchingham Church of England | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Primary and the Cliff Park High School. So how did we get to a point | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
where the Government is asking questions about the quality of | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
schools in Norfolk? This report from Debbie Tubby. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
These are year 11 English students at Hethersett High. It is one of six | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
schools put into special measures in March. Four months later, Ofsted | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
criticised Norfolk's LEA. The Local Education Authority. It said its | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
arrangements for supporting school improvements were ineffective. I | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
would like each and everyone of you to say, let him have it, Chris. In | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
June, John Catton, a headteacher with 20 years experience, was | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
brought in by the LEA to turn around Hethersett High. Since its GCSE | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
results, it's now classed among the most improved in the county. John | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
Catton credits the staff and pupils and can't fault the LEA's support. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
The local authority have really pitched in here and done a | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
substantial job of work and they are continuing to do so, data up to the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
point when it becomes an academy on the 1st of November. It was in | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
March. Ofsted blitzed 28 Norfolk schools in a week. Three out of five | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
were falling short. Some slipping backwards. In June, the director of | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Children's Services stood down following MP's calls for her | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
resignation. I don't think I'd have failed, and I do not thing the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
system has failed. The LEA itself was assessed by Ofsted the same | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
month. In July, it revealed the LEA needs to get tough with failing | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
schools. And fast. Today, the Schools Minister, David Laws, has | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
held a meeting with the LEA. And all nine Norfolk MPs are meeting with | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Ofsted. As a group of Norfolk MPs, we are determined to do all we can | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
to work with the council, government, Ofsted to do what we all | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
know needs to be done to improve the situation for all of Norfolk's | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
children. John Catton says Ofsted was right to place Hethersett High | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
in special measures. But it believes, in the next three years, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
it will be among the top performing schools in the county. | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
I spoke to Mick Cassell from Norfolk County Council and asked about | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
two—day's meeting. We wanted to tell him we had we were with the | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
improvement programme, what we as a council had done for additional | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
resources, and make it clear to him that we were as committed as he | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
was. Does he think that will do the trick? Part of discussions was | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
external validation for improvement plans. Disappointed that there is | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
another Ofsted reports with so many showing improvement required? I am | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
aware we have a problem that needs addressing, so in some respects, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
whether it is the report from Ofsted, or exam results, those were | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
not a surprise. You say within three years all schools will reach | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
required standards, or better, but Norfolk has tried so long. How will | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
you do that in three years? We were in the middle of the table in the | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
last few years, only recently that we have sunk to the lower part of | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
league tables, so I am convinced that we have been better in the past | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
and can be better still. Who got it wrong in the past? I was off the | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Council for a few years. It was not officials? It is always a mixture, | :05:02. | :05:11. | |
resources, choices, you know. Have you got rid of all the people who | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
got it wrong? I do not know.Bite you are confident of getting it | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
right. I know what we have done is right. Someone with a track record | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
of dealing with failing schools, so no qualms about that. Are you | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
surprised MPs from Norfolk have gone to meet Ofsted today? If the ad of | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
goodwill —— if the error of goodwill, we hope we will succeed. | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
They did not be to me beforehand. To me, we have to work together and I | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
think we will. Working together and interfering are two different | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
things. Yes, I have some reservations about the kind of a | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
nascent we have had recently, and it is about the hard work of getting | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
onto the day to day bread and butter issues and important to us that we | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
can take the boxes with some milestones in the road to | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
improvement. Thank you very much. A court's heard how a former BBC | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
Radio Norfolk presenter molested two teenage boys. Michael Souter, who's | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
60, is said to have plied the youngsters with alcohol before | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
indecently assaulting them. He denies a string of abuse charges. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Simon Newton was in court. Michael Souter sat in the dock | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
making notes as these two men separately gave evidence from behind | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
a screen. This morning, we heard from man who had a casual job at BBC | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
Radio Norfolk in the 1980s when he was 16. Mike Souter invited him to | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
go round and do odd jobs. One one summer's day, he says Souter offered | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
him alcohol. He drank four or five cans and felt unwell, at which point | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Souter led him upstairs and have a lay down. Awoke he found his clothes | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
had been removed and Souter molesting him. I said, what are you | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
doing? He said, calm down, don't worry. And what did the other | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
witness have to say? The jury heard how Michael Souter helped set up a | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
scout group in the 1980s. A second man described how when he was 16 he | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
went on a cycling trip to Roughton Mill near Cromer with the presenter. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
He said Mr Souter brought cans of lager and the pair then slept | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
overnight in the Mill. He said he woke up to see movement in the | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
presenter's sleeping bag. He said, quite quickly, he unzipped my | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
sleeping bag and started to touch me. He said Souter suggested he did | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
the same to him, but he refused. He stayed in the scouts and never | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
mentioned what happened. Largely because of Michael Souter's | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
celebrity status and connections. He didn't think anyone would believe | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
him. Both men refuted claims by the defence that they'd invented the | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
allegations. And denied they'd consented to any sexual activity. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Souter denies 19 charges relating to seven boys. The trial is due to last | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
six weeks. Simon, thank you. A former farmer from Essex has been | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
fined for allowing rubbish, which included some medical waste, to be | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
dumped on his land. It cost half a million pounds to clean up the mess | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
on Neil Spooner's farm. Today he was ordered to pay £5,000. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
It looks like a rubbish dump, but this is actually a farm near | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Chelmsford. Strewn with tonnes of plastic, glass and wood from skips. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
The are even hospital dressings, syringes and plastic langue kits. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
The former Spooner, was sentenced after allowing waste to be —— the | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
farmer, Neil Spooner, was sentenced after allowing waste to be dumped | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
there. But he said he was duped by people who wanted to turn it into a | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
rubbish table. He got into financial difficulty after buying the farm. | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
The court was told that not long afterwards three men in a Mercedes | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
drove up and offered to fill a slurry pit with mud and soil. Mr | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Spooner gave permission, because he wanted to use the pit for grazing | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
for horses. His job as an economic consultant took him away from the | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
farm, but when he returned, he realised much more than mud and soil | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
had been dumped. The farm effectively used as a tip. It took | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
£1.5 million of the value of the farm, costing so much to clean up. | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
He was fined £2000 and ordered to pay £3000 costs. A very important | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
prosecution, sending a clear message to landowners that you cannot allow | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
anyone onto your land to deposit waste. He was hoping for a clean | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
soils, but ending up with lots of materials that will cost money to be | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
removed. The farmer is now up for sale. Mr Spooner says he still does | :10:22. | :10:33. | |
not know who the three men were. There is growing hope the Lowestoft | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Airshow could return next year. It's thought to be worth £13 million to | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the local economy, but was cancelled this summer because not enough | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
funding could be found. Its displays have thrilled the | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
crowds for 17 years, but the organisers failed to raise enough | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
money this year. Funding really should not have been a problem. It | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
costs about £300,000 to stage. But 400,000 people come to watch it, | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
less than £1 per head. Now businesses are trying to raise the | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
£60,000 reserve needed in case the short makes a loss. —— in case the | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
show. ?? YELLOW We think we have found 40,000, and need another 20. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
So people and businesses of Lowestoft need to come up with | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
pledges for the other 20,000. Do you think you will make it? Yes.Among | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
those pledging support, this hotel. It believes business will be brisk. | :11:29. | :11:38. | |
It brings lots of people, bringing everyone in. But time is tight. | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
There is just over a fortnight to decide whether the deadline can be | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
met to book the Red Arrows. We have this exciting option. All credit to | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
the seafront businesses for coming up with these proposals. If it was | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
not for them, I would not be talking to you. That is growing confidence | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
that, come next June, the skies will be buzzing once more. | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
Still to come, the project to restore thousands of acres of | :12:14. | :12:25. | |
peatland. And a former commander of forces in Afghanistan says the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
government is creating a part—time Army as it cuts the number of | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
regular soldiers. All this week, we've been looking at | :12:31. | :12:42. | |
the plan to build a new toll road on the A14 in Cambridgeshire. It would | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
mean part of the existing A14 would be demolished to stop drivers using | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
the old road. So if you don't want to pay the toll, the Highways Agency | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
is suggesting drivers could avoid it by travelling via St Neots using the | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
A1 and the A428. But will those roads be able to cope with the extra | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
traffic? Stuart Ratcliffe did the commute this morning. | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
Thrapston, Northamptonshire. Destination Cambridge. And so far so | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
good. We are just approaching the junction | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
for Ellington on the A14 and, in 2019, this is where you would take | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
the toll road cutting through those fields, working through the | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
countryside before rejoining the A14 at the Cambridge services. But we | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
are carrying on on the old A14 to take the recommended diverging | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
route, going down the A14 and across the A428. We are leaving the | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
existing A14, this is the A1 above us and the alternative route if you | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
did not want to take the toll. So down towards St Neots and Cambridge | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
and we have the problems start. And this is what people are worried | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
about. Only a single carriageway at the moment heading towards Caxton. | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
The car has officially ground to a halt. And if it's like this now, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
people in St Neots are really worried about the future. When the | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
A428 is clogged up with traffic, I have experienced the problems that | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
causes around St Neots, and I do not want to see that regularly. The | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
traffic at St Neots will be horrendous. We will be looking at | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
chaos in time two, they will come down this road, try to get through | :14:40. | :14:49. | |
over little britches. — —— we will be looking at chaos. It is bad | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
enough now. So back to the roads. Even without the toll, how did the | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
government's alternative fare? I guess that was an extra eight miles, | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
taking an extra half an hour, the government's alternative route if | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
you do not want to use the toll road. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
Philip Gomm is from the RAC Foundation. I asked him what impact | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
he thought an A14 toll would have on other routes. It is a real | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
consideration and potentially a real problem. A lot will depend on | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
pricing. If people think the prices are kept very low, people might be | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
prepared to pay the £1 for what had better be a much better journey. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
That is not the situation we found on the M6 toll road when unregulated | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
charges mean drivers pay more than £5 per journey and we have seen a | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
lot of existing traffic staying on the old M6 and deciding to take | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
their chances with congestion. The highways agency would say that | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
because of the jams on the A14 there are already diverse as people try to | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
find ways around a serious bottleneck. I remember when the toll | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
was first mooted and this was called a tax on Suffolk. And a lot of | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
viewers again are saying they have already paid for this through their | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
road tax, why pay again? Good point. Drivers contribute billions in fuel | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
duty, before adding VAT, so drivers pay through the nose to use the | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
roads. The irony is this A14 scheme has been around for years. Back in | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
2010, this government cancelled that, now we are going through it | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
all again. They could have taken that taxation money and build the | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
road when it was first mooted. This will be the first ball of its type | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
in the country, but is this the future of road—building? Do you | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
think old roads will have tolls in the future? The government say they | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
are prepared to consider tolls for so—called new capacity. The RAC | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
foundation sees a long—term case for some kind of national road charging, | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
instead of fuel duty, but what we do not see any argument for is this | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
piecemeal approach, essentially creating a postcode lottery. If you | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
use the A14 in East Anglia, with existing taxation, you pay road | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
tolls, something people will clearly be upset about. Thank you. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan has told Look | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
East the government is creating a part—time army as it cuts the number | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
of regular soldiers. The MOD wants to recruit 11,000 more reservists | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
and has pledged to invest almost £2 billion training and equipping them. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Our defence reporter Alex Dunlop has just returned from Croatia, where | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
reservists from the Royal Anglians were on exercise. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
As the dawn mist rises, a platoon commander urges his men to focus. | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
Pass it down, guys. Part—time soldiers from across the Eastern | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
region on exercise near the Serbian border. The enemy, marked with | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
orange tape, won't give up without a fight. 50 metres! Pass, pass, pass! | :18:30. | :18:43. | |
Doug Farthing, a paratrooper for 23 years before he became a reservist, | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
has done it all before. This his day job now, a professional artist. We | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
do see ourselves being used, as much as already used both in Afghanistan | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
and Iraq. We will be integrating with regular battalions more. And | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
deploying not only on operations, but on overseas exercises as well in | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the future. The student hopes this will give him an edge, before | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
joining the Army Air Corps. I need something that puts me about the | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
rest. Just the life experience I get from this will hopefully put me | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
above everyone else applying. A soldier to be and are now | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
professional welcomed into the ranks. The vast bulk of the 11,000 | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
reservists the army needs by 2020 will be civilians. And so far, not | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
enough people are signing up. The government is investing £1.8 billion | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
into reserves like these. That includes centres for lawyers. But | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
critics say that is a cynical move by making full—time soldiers | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
redundant and effectively hollowing out the army. —— centres for | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
employers. This ex—colonel turned analyst says replacing with | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
reservists is short—sighted. We have seen a crisis in reservists before | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the government decided to do that. What will that do to the Army? What | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
is behind this is a false edifice. We are increasingly moved towards a | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
part—time army, and civilian army. And an army made up in that way | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
cannot function in the way the British Army has functioned since | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
time immemorial as one of the most respected and professional Armed | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
Forces in the world. A more flexible or more constrained Army? Either | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
way, reservists will have a key role on and behind the front line. | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
This afternoon, I spoke to the Defence Minister and Essex MP Mark | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Francois, who was a reservist with the Royal Anglians himself. I put it | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
to him that Colonel Kemp believes we could end up with a part—time army. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
I do not accept that, because reserves will get high—quality | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
training, equipment on a par with the regulars and we will peer | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
reserve units with regular units. You have been looking at Royal | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
Anglian reserve in creation who have been exercising with the 2nd | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
Battalion of the regulars. There is a good example of what we will be | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
doing across the Army of hearing reserve units with regular units, | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
working more closely together, and more capable combine. But we will | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
not be able to carry out the role the British Army has traditionally | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
carried out so many reservists? I do not accept that. Territorial Army | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
units in the Second World War have a proud history. Supporters one thing, | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
but more than one in three soldiers will be reservists, a high number | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
and people high up in the Army concerned about it. There is a high | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
your ratio than that in other armies. Isn't this just about saving | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
money? No, we are be balancing the Army, and the Ministry of Defence | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
has had financial challenges, this is to expand the reserve part of the | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
Army and integrate them more closely with regulars. But not going into | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
the hottest of hot spots, doing back—up work? I do not accept that, | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
we have had some reservists in Afghanistan, in some hotspots, and | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
unfortunately some killed serving their country, just like regulars. | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
Reservists at the sure pound —— sharp end for a number of years. So | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
we do not need a regular army? No, a combination of both. We have always | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
had regulars and reservists. In both the second and First World War, | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Iraq, Afghanistan, both regulars and reservists have formed well, that | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
has been our tradition for a century and we continue it with this | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
reform, and strengthen it. Thank you. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
Thousands of acres of peatland are to be restored as part of an | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
ambitious project which could last into the next century. The Great Fen | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Project in Cambridgeshire is part of a national campaign to bring back | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
our wetlands. There is a huge amount of carbon dioxide in peat. So it's | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
important for all of us to save it. Ghostly and silent. Beautiful in its | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
flatness. And underfoot black gold, the precious peat soil. But this | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
rich organic darkness, the living breathing soul of the Fens, is | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
dying. Intensive drainage projects followed by years of arable | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
cultivation has literally sucked the life out of the landscape. Back in | :24:00. | :24:11. | |
1850, this was completely drained and the people behind that | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
controversial drainage project put in this metal pole to show the | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
impact of drainage on peat soil. And ground level was at the very top. | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
Research shows two centimetres of parched peat is lost every year. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
Known as a Fen Blow, the black dust clouds fill the skies. But the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
environmental impact potentially devastating. Peatland is a very | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
valuable means of locking carbon dioxide into the soil. When peatland | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
dries out, when peat dries out, it releases carbon dioxide, which is a | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
greenhouse gas. But by re—wetting peatland, we can lock some of that | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
carbon dioxide. From Trundlemere Hide, you can see this vast | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
landscape changing. Islands rise up from the earth. Newly dug waterways | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
rehydrate the soil. Pools and ponds are filling up. It will be one of | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
the most important reedbeds. About 30 hectares. Within five to ten | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
years, this whole landscape will be entirely transformed as far as the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
eye can see, all the way to the horizon there. And we will get | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
wetland species moving in. It will take a long time to lick the wounds | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
inflicted on this damaged land. Up to a 100 years before it is truly | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
healed. It looked autumnal. Now for the | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
weather. Low pressure and whether fronts is the theme this week. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
This front has been responsible for a lot of cloud. | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
It has made things quite gloomy. Expect light and patchy rain, some | :25:54. | :26:06. | |
drizzle here and there, but petering out. By the end of the night, we | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
should be largely drive. A lot of cloud of around. —— we should be | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
largely dry. Quite a bit of cloud around first | :26:18. | :26:31. | |
thing, then something brighter, some sunshine perhaps breaking through | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
the cloud. Much warmer air tomorrow, so temperatures climbing. Like | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
south—westerly wind. 18, 19, perhaps 20 degrees in places, then | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
increasing cloud later tomorrow, and the next month, more potent, with | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
more rain. The rain chatting eastwards overnight into early | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Friday morning, and more persistent and heavy. Some uncertainty for | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
Saturday. Low pressure from the South. Will that mean rain? Maybe it | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
does. But stay tuned, because that is some uncertainty. Overnight rain | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
for Thursday, clearing first thing Friday morning, then not a bad day, | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
quite a lot of cloud, but largely dry for the bulk of the day, the | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
chance of rain on Saturday. Not bad on Sunday, chilly overnight. That is | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
it. From all of us here, thank you for | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
your company this evening. We will see you tomorrow night. | :27:46. | :27:46. |