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Caught on camera ` the disgraced peer at the centre of another | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
expenses storm. Lord Hanningfield from Essex says he's done nothing | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
wrong. Storm in a teacup. Hello and welcome to Look East. Also | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
tonight: Meet the new boss of the region's Ambulance Service. He's | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
also in charge of the West Midlands... We can transfer the | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
things we do well. After that Ashes humiliation down | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
under, Captain Cook from Essex admits England were "completely | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
out`played". And the Prince of Wales sees for | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
himself the stunning home of one of our oldest religions. | :00:49. | :01:05. | |
The disgraced peer Lord Hanningfield told Look East today he has nothing | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
to apologise for after finding himself at the centre of another | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
storm over expenses. He is accused of clocking in and then clocking out | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
of parliament in just a few minutes so that he can claim his daily | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
allowance of ?300. The claims are outlined in today's Daily Mirror. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
The paper tracked Lord Hanningfield's movements between his | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
home and the House of Lords last summer. It's claimed he made ?5,700 | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
in 19 days when he was actually in the House for only a matter of | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
minutes. Today, Lord Hanningfield told us he had not broken the rules. | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
He's the Essex politician in the spotlight again for the wrong | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
reasons. Lord Hanningfield was out walking his dog this morning and | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
insists he's done nothing wrong by signing in at the House of Lords, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
staying less than an hour and still claiming the ?300 daily allowance. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Do you want to take this opportunity to say sorry to taxpayer? No. I have | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
given the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds over the years. | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
I've saved them money. I've nothing to say sorry for. They should say | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
thank you to me. I wish you'd investigate my years of public | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
service. In July the Daily Mirror followed Lord Hanningfield as he got | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
the train from his home in Essex to Westminster. At the House of Lords, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
the newspaper says he clocked in to claim the allowance. It alleges that | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
on 11 of those days he was there for under 40 minutes and didn't take | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
part in any debates or votes. During that month, he claimed ?5,700 in | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
allowances ` all within the rules. Lord Hanningfield was the | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Conservative leader at Essex County Council for ten years. He was forced | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
to quit after being charged with fraud. Some of the people here have | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
strong views. It is not very good. Just to spend one over there. I wish | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
I could earn that money. He should be banned. Take the money off him. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
You should compare him to everybody else before prejudging. Anybody can | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
look suspicious. Lord Hanningfield was jailed in 2011 for fiddling his | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
expenses. He was suspended and had to repay ?28,000. He says he is now | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
working hard. His opponents disagree. In Monopoly, you go | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
straight to jail and you do not collect any money. He has been to | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
jail and every time he turns up at the House of Lords he is taking | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
?300. Any member of the public reading the story should be | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
disgusted. We are even more cross and angry that someone could behave | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
in that way. Although it is technically within the rules it is | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
totally against this bad. `` the spirit. | :04:06. | :04:22. | |
As you may have seen last night on this programme, the East of England | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Ambulance Service has a new boss. He will take up the job on January the | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
1st and will be in charge of this region and the West Midlands. His | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
name is Dr Anthony Marsh. He became an ambulance man in 1987 in Essex. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
He rose to become Chief Executive of the old Essex Ambulance Service. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
After that he moved to the West Midlands ` recently named Ambulance | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Service of the year. Last year, Anthony Marsh was awarded an | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
honorary doctorate from Wolverhampton University, which is | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
why he is called 'doctor'. Under his new contract he'll spend four days a | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
week in the East and one day a week working for the West Midlands. It's | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
for six months with the option to extend. Despite doing two jobs, | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
we're told he won't get paid any more. This is the first time any | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Chief Executive has been responsible for more than one Ambulance Service. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
In the West Midlands, Dr Marsh looks after a population of more than five | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
million people, covering 5,000 square miles and 100 ambulance | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
stations. In the East he'll be responsible for six million people, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
7,500 square miles and 83 ambulance stations. Earlier, I spoke to Dr | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Marsh and asked him about the job share. Doesn't the Ambulance Service | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
here need someone giving it their full attention? It's not about one | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
person, it's about everyone in the organisation taking responsibility | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
and working together to achieve those improvements. All of the staff | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
I've spoken to, most recently and indeed when I conducted my review | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
earlier this year, really do share a determination to improve the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
service. I see it as my role to enable that to happen by setting | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
very clear priorities, against which everybody is working as one team. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Won't those staff actually struggle to feel your commitment, given that | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
you didn't apply for the job when it was advertised and you're not | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
prepared to give up your other job to come and do this full`time? I | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
think what's really important for our staff, frankly, is that they get | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the support they need to deliver the service a daily basis. Our staff | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
work really, really hard ` often in very difficult circumstances. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
They're challenging roles. What's important to them, I think, is that | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
they feel adequately supported by a Chief Officer ` one who's been in | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
the service for 27 years. I've committed my career to the Ambulance | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
Service. I'm determined to bring about improvements in the East of | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
England. So why won't you come and do it full`time? Because I have a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
really important role to do in the West Midlands. I'm committed to the | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
West Midlands and the Ambulance Service in our country. I'm | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
determined to share that ambition and transfer the best practices that | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
we have put in place elsewhere in the country. That's what we need to | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
focus our attention on ` the improvements and the outputs ` | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
rather than how much time an individual spends in an | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
organisation. That's not important. What's important is what we achieve, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
and the improvements we bring about for patients across the East of | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
England. So let's look at those priorities. You're talking about | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
recruiting more paramedics. You said that was needed in your report. But | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
the current Chief Executive, Andrew Morgan, has been trying to do that | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
for a good part of this year. He hasn't had much success. There don't | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
seem to be the paramedics out there. It is difficult to recruit | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
sufficient numbers of graduate paramedics. These are individuals | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
who leave school, go to university ` predominantly ` and then come into | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
the Ambulance Service as state`registered paramedics. But | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
that's not the only route you can recruit. In the West Midlands this | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
year, we've recruited over 260 new staff. The majority of those are | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
student paramedics, simply because there aren't enough graduates. We | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
train our own staff, in conjunction with the universities. Over | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
two`and`a`half years they graduate as paramedics. That's why it's | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
really important we spend our time and energy being clear about those | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
priorities when I take command in January. We want to bring about all | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
of those improvements. And are you coming in as a troubleshooter, who | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
will do the job and leave, or are you committed to staying long`term? | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
I'm absolutely committed to transforming the East of England | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Ambulance Service, from the challenges they currently face, to a | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
high`performing Ambulance Service. However long it takes, that's what | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
I'm determined to do. Thank you. Thank you. | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
The region's biggest hospital was forced to cancel all non`urgent | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
operations today because of a shortage of beds. Addenbrooke's in | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Cambridge also said it was still waiting for financial support to | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
relieve pressure on its A E services. It's 11:30am and this | :08:50. | :09:01. | |
woman has just arrived by ambulance. The red lines on this screen show | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
four more emergencies are on their way. Four`year`old Scarlett is being | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
treated for Foot and Mouth. Patients are warned they'll have to wait up | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
to two`and`a`half hours before they're seen. But in comparison, | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
this normally busy department is unusually quiet ` just as well, as | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
the rest of the hospital is stretched to the absolute limit. We | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
have no beds left at all. We've had to cancel all elective surgery to | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
cope with our current in`patients. It doesn't provide the experience | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
we'd like our patients to feel when they come to the emergency | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
department. It's a pretty miserable place to work. You're so busy. You | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
can't give the time you would like to each individual patient. Ten | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
years ago, 56,000 people were treated here. Last year there were | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
just under 100,000. This year, they're expecting anything up to | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
110,000. That's why the hospital is keen for the ?1.8 million of | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
government money to be spent not just here but across the whole | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
system to avoid bed`blocking and relieve the winter pressures. In a | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
statement, the Clinical Commission Group says... But this A E | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
department recognises it will always be busy. It's one of the few places | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
open for medical help 24 hours a day. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
An independent report into the way Norfolk County Council handled the | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
contract to build a waste incinerator in King's Lynn has | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
cleared the authority of any wrong doing. The plans attracted huge | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
local opposition and there were claims that council officers and | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
senior councillors hadn't acted properly when drawing up the | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
contract. In his 100th Test, the England | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
cricket captain Alastair Cook admits his side's Ashes defeat is the low | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
point of his career. England were favourites to win their fourth | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
series in a row but the Essex batsman said Australia had been | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
"ruthless" in taking an unassailable 3`0 lead with two matches to play. | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
For followers of English cricket, these were painful scenes. For many, | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
possession of the pressures on was surrendered far too easily. `` | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
precious urn. It hurts like hell. None of us like being second best. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
As a sportsman, it is tough to admit. You always look about whether | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
you could have done more. Especially as a captain. The buck stops with | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
me. Thousands of miles from the heat of battle in Perth, a light work`out | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
for his team`mates. In a studio three years ago, records tumbled. | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
Alastair Cook scored a lot of runs. So far in this series, just 154 | :12:01. | :12:11. | |
runs. If it is one thing about him, he will not want to be losing 5`0. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
I'm sure you will see response from the players. The streams are played | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
very well. They have recovered brilliantly. `` The Australians. | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
They have put their plans into place. For Alastair Cook, this is an | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
chartered territory. After three successive Ashes victories he will | :12:40. | :12:51. | |
now embark on a voyage of discovery. Coming up next on Look East: What | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
today's big airports review has to say about the future of Stansted. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
And talking turkey on the busiest day of the year for poultry | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
suppliers in this region. A long`awaited report into airport | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
expansion in the south east of England has ruled out a new runway | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
at Stansted in Essex ` for now. Experts agree we need more capacity, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
but they will focus on Heathrow and Gatwick instead. We'll get reaction | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
from the owners of Stansted any moment. The decision to overlook | :13:30. | :13:44. | |
Stansted has delighted local protestors, who were worried about | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the impact of extra flights on their community. This report is from our | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
business correspondent Richard Bond. A fine prospect over Stansted today, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
but for the airport's owner the view ahead was a little less promising. | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Having proposed everything from a second runway to a four`runway hub, | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the Essex airport was left off the short list. Instead, the Airports | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Commission opted to recommend new runway at Heathrow and Gatwick. It | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
looks like the market has been telling us Gatwick is a better bet. | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
Stansted is only operating at about half capacity, and Gatwick is about | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
85%. Gatwick seems to be a better option in the short run. Stansted | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
may well come back into the picture for another runway after 2030. Plans | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
to add to Stansted's single runway have always been protested by | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
protesters. They fought an eight`year battle against a second | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
runway, proposed by former owner BAA. They were dropped three years | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
ago. Today, Stop Stansted Expansion said... | :14:38. | :14:52. | |
We've been saying for a number of years the south east of England | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
needs another runway. In the medium to long term we need another hub. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
For the government to say it will be at Heathrow or Gatwick... We're | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
relatively happy. The Commission will support improvements to the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
rail link between Stansted and London. It thinks Stansted could be | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
considered for a second runway, but only beyond 2030. In the last ten | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
years, a second runway for Stansted has been on the agenda then off... | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Then back on. Today's report lays it to rest for the forseeable future. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
Probably for decades. Andrew Harrison is the Chief Executive of | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Stansted. I spoke to him late this afternoon. I asked him if, after | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
years of saying that expansion was needed, he was now trying to put a | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
positive spin on the reccommendations in the report. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
We've only had the keys to Stansted Airport for the last nine months. We | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
can only speak for that. Our plan has always been to fill the capacity | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
we have. We have 130,000 flights of spare capacity. We have got to try | :16:05. | :16:22. | |
to put right the imbalance. We want Stansted to represent the people who | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
live nearby. That will take time but over time it will become fuller and | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
we'll be in a better place to decide other things about the future. Have | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
you tied yourself too close to those cheaper airlines? If you look at | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
aviation growth over the last 15 to 20 years... EasyJet didn't exist | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
then. Look at how much low`cost aviation has changed things. If you | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
look forward 15 or 20 years, who knows how much it will change. It's | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
often said you're London's third airport, but after today is it fair | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
to say you're London's second`class airport? I think BAA would have been | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
the people who would call it the third airport. We want it to be the | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
best in London. We've got plans to spend ?750,000 to improve what is | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
already London's newest airport ` just 23 years old. We've got an ?80 | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
million investment in the terminal building itself. The first part is | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
in security. That will open on Friday. But if you want to be the | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
best in London surely you want more landing strips and more people to | :17:51. | :18:02. | |
use it. That's not happening. Being the best in London, and meeting the | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
needs of the catchment area, doesn't mean building runways here, there | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and everywhere. It means having a focused plan to articulate the sound | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
fundamentals. We have a great catchment area, strong business | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
connectivity and from a London point of view the balance of power is | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
moving from the west to the east. Thank you. | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
It's that time of year when lots of us start thinking about turkeys. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
They reckon we produce about ten million turkeys every year for | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Christmas in this country. A third of them come from this region. The | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
industry says that the popularity of turkey is on the up, but so too is | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the price ` especially if you opt for free`range. In a moment, a | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
consumer's guide to buying and cooking turkey. But let's start down | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
on the farm in Essex, with Kevin Burch... There's no time to rest for | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
the team here. Today and tomorrow are the industry's busiest days for | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Christmas deliveries. This is hard for a turkey farmer. It's a | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
nightmare. It's about getting organised before the Christmas | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
campaign starts, having all the staff in place and knowing what | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
their roles are. At the moment, it's going worryingly well. Innovation is | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
always key. We filmed with a family firm ten years ago when they | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
introduced a special 'tiny turkey' to the market. This Christmas, | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
they're producing 32,000 free`range birds for shops, independent | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
butchers, home deliveries and even some to sell from the farm gate. The | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
business was founded in 1971 by my mum and dad. I came in during 1984. | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
There were seven of us in 1984. Now, full`time at Christmas, we're | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
employing 68 people. The free`range market is still relatively small but | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Paul Kelly senses a change ` and that future growth could extend over | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
the Atlantic. People think I'm nuts. Absolutely nuts ` because turkeys | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
are a dollar a pound in America. Ours are ten times that price. But | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
my argument is that in America, at Thanksgiving there are so many rich, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
wealthy people who have the best champagne and the best wine... If | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
they have the chance to buy the best turkey, they will! All we want is a | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
tiny bit of the market over there and then I'll be happy! That's the | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
future but today the focus is on managing what is an intensive five | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
weeks. Everything hinges on December the 25th. In Paul Kelly's words, you | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
get just one chance ` no`one wants a turkey come Boxing Day. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
At City College Norwich, they're keeping things traditional ` serving | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
turkey. Ten million birds will be sold and one in three of them will | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
have been supplied by a farm in this region. But they're not cheap. A | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
fresh, four kilo bird, feeding a family of six, averages about ?35. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Those preferring a free range turkey will have to pay more. Around ?50. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
What are you having for Christmas lunch this year? Turkey! Will it be | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
free`range? Hopefully! A cockerel, I hope. I don't like turkey. I used | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
to, but it's too dry for me. Will your turkey be free`range? No. It's | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
cheaper if it's not! At Archer's Butchers in Norwich they've got | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
orders for 400 free`range turkeys. Iain Plunkett explains what to look | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
for when choosing a bird. You'll see from that... It's got a nice, full, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
meaty breast. It's also quite important that it's got this layer | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
of natural fat underneath the skin. Back at City College, they've | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
already cooked and served 1,200 turkey meals. Turkey crowns ` that's | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
a bird with the legs removed ` are increasingly popular. Demand has | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
doubled in the last four years. This chef`lecturer says to avoid a dry or | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
underdone bird it's best to have it crowned. I believe the legs should | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
be cooked longer than the breast. You can have the whole theatre of | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
the whole bird on the table if you like... But if you want a nice | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
cooked leg and a nice cooked breast at the same time it's best to take | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
them off and cook them nice and slow ad roast the crown and turkey at a | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
different time. Some chefs like Nigella advocate soaking them | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
overnight. What do you make of all of that? No. If you've got a nice | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
free`range bird, simply prep it. Bit of butter under the skin, and some | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
salt and pepper. Straight in the oven. That's it. Whatever you cook, | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
the key ` it seems ` is to be organised but simple. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Prince Charles paid tribute to the "remarkable" tolerance of Coptic | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
christians during a visit to Stevenage today. His comments came | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
after a special service at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre this | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
morning. There are more than 20,000 Coptic Christians in the UK ` their | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
church formed more than 2,000 years ago in Egypt. A congregation. They | :23:12. | :23:25. | |
were proud that Prince Charles sat amongst them. People travel from | :23:26. | :23:38. | |
across the country to pray here. It has been a privilege to witness | :23:39. | :23:53. | |
this. Today, memories and mementos. I asked if I could take a photograph | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
of him. I was waiting for the bodyguards to push me out of the | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
way! It is very important to happen here. It is a recognition of our | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
church. The Coptic Orthodox Church can trace its roots back to thousand | :24:15. | :24:27. | |
years. `` 2000 years. It reached the UK in 1954 and now boasts more than | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
20,000 members in the country. There is a parish. It serves from Milton | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Keynes Dons to other communities. People will drive for a good hour | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
and a half to get there. It also serves as a national centre for | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
public relations. It is a hub of many aspects of church life. Prince | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
Charles today spoke of oppression suffered by Coptic Christians. It is | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
a church of more than 12 million members across the Middle East. | :25:05. | :25:19. | |
Now for the weather. Here are some of your photographs. We saw some | :25:20. | :25:36. | |
fine weather today. The weather front that brought us the rain | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
yesterday cleared away this morning. It is now going to start pushing | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
green up from the south. `` rain. It will head northwards through the | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
evening. It will be very patchy and eventually cleared away. Some clear | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
skies will develop. There is the potential for temperatures to drop | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
quite low. It could bring a touch of frost. Temperatures should start to | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
rise as we get more cloud at the end of the night. It may produce a few | :26:10. | :26:19. | |
spots of rain. There are lows banning them from across the | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Atlantic. Much of the day looks dry, but the winds will freshen into | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
the evening. The remote on heavy. We start tomorrow with a few starts off | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
heavy rain. Elsewhere, it doesn't dry and any should clear up away. We | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
should see some dry spell is developing. Temperatures slightly | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
higher on really got to today. Already, into the afternoon, these | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
are average wind speeds. Just ahead of it, gusts of 40 to 50 mph. It | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
will produce some very heavy pulses of rain. The winds will strengthen | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
as you can see. It will pull away however and we will have a few days | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
grace before the next weather system comes along. There will be a couple | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
of quite chilly days with some sunny spells and the odd isolated shower. | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
By Friday night, the weather will push in from the Atlantic and that | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
will lift our temperatures a little bit. Thank you very much. Goodbye. | :27:38. | :27:42. |