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weather on the way. That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
from me, and on Hello, and welcome to Look East. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
In the programme tonight: The mother who says holiday prices are a | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
rip`off when the schools break up. She is so angry, she started a | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Downing Street petition. The only reason that I can surmise | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
that they do it is because of greed. They are simply make `` they are | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
simply trying to make profit and penalises people who want to do | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
right by their children. The poultry giant Bernard Matthews | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
posts a ?20 million loss, but says it will return to profit. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Holding back the river, the simple steps that could cut the risk of | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
flooding. And what links this robot, the | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
President of France and a hospital? First tonight, a mother's campaign | :00:46. | :00:58. | |
to end what she calls "rip`off" holiday prices during the school | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
holidays. Donna Thresher, who lives in Essex, is so angry, she set up a | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
petition on the Downing Street website. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
It started when Donna Thresher found out that a holiday at Center Parcs | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
would be nearly four times more than the cost during term time. Tonight, | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
her petition has 150,000 signatures. Just this afternoon, another 2,500 | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
people have signed up and now she wants to trigger a debate in | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
Parliament. Mike Liggins reports. Donna Thresher and her partner Carl | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
getting their children ready for the day. Donna runs a nursery near her | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
home near Southend, Cole is a postman. Finding time and money for | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
family holidays is difficult. They went to Center Parcs in Norfolk in | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
2011, had a great time and wanted to go again in the Easter holidays last | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
year. It was ?1000 more expensive than had I gone a week before. So in | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
the April end of term holidays, it was about ?1600. Donna could not | :02:03. | :02:14. | |
afford ?1600, so she started her petition. Why do the companies do | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
it? The only reason I can surmise that they do it is because of greed. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
There is not really any other reason, they are trying to make | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
profits. We have to price according to demand. If in the peak summer | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
holidays we have three times the demand for a holiday, prices can be | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
pitched at a different level to the school term times when demand is | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
much lower. Parents can request term time holidays but since last year, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
headteachers can only grant absence under exceptional circumstances. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Parents now face a fine of up to ?100. Last year, there were almost | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
1,000 fixed penalties issued in Essex, Suffolk and North of `` and | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
Norfolk. This woman runs a primary school and she believes parents are | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
in an impossible situation, and says she will never issue a fine. I think | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
it is extremely arrogant for anybody to suggest the only learning you can | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
do takes place in former nobles in a classroom. I have always to believe | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
it the world as a classroom without Walls `` always believed. I think | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the government needs to speak to people more. Nobody has ever asked | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
me what I think and I am a headteacher. They need to ask what | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
we think and what problems we are facing on a daily basis. Jenny | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Davies says we need a more flexible system. Donna Thresher needs an MP | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
before there is a debate in Parliament but she believes public | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
opinion is on her side. Sean Tipton is from ABTA, which | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
represents companies in the travel industry, and he joins me now. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Center Parcs said they had to price for demand, why? They choose to | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
because it makes more money. The travel industry is very much driven | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
by economic forces. They are right that if you see big increases in | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
demand and school holidays are one factor, prices will go up. If you | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
think of travel at the busiest time of year, July and August, going | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
abroad, the whole of Europe wants to go on holiday. So members are | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
dealing with Spanish, Greek, Portuguese hoteliers and they put | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
their prices, which is inevitable and it makes perfect sense. It makes | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
economic sense to them. Should the price not relate to what it costs | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
and not what they can get away with charging? As a tour operator, you | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
cannot say to a Spanish hotel, this is what we are prepared to pay. They | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
control what they charge. That is what parents don't understand maybe, | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
particularly in the summer, we are competing with the rest of Europe. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
We have made suggestions for over a decade to governments saying that | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the problem for school holidays is the times of year they are taken, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Christmas, Easter, July and August, when demand is always high. We | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
suggested staggering dates and maybe giving schools the option to have a | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
break in June or September, when demand is a lot lower. That is the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
solution, you cannot artificially capped holiday prices. You cannot | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
say to a Spanish hotel, this is what we are prepared to pay you, when | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
they have plenty of other companies who will pay what they ask. How | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
concerned would the industry be if this was raised in Parliament? I can | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
understand why it will be raised and it is probably inevitable it will | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
be, but the enemy realities are clear. We have talked to the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
government over the years, the present government are aware of the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
economic realities. But the solution to this, it is a supply and demand | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
issue, so spread that demand out, to give families the option to travel | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
at times of year when demand is lower and not have all schools | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
taking holidays at the same time, which has created this problem. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Thank you very much. Jenny Kirk is in the newsroom. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Yes, your comments have already started coming in, like this from | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
former teacher Stuart Graveston, from Cambridge, who says: If the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
cost of a holiday is too much, then don't buy the product. I'd like to | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
buy a Rolls Royce, but they cost too much. Guess what? I haven't bought | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
one. If that inflames you, or if you | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
agree, or have a different take, get in touch via Facebook or Twitter, by | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
phone on 08457 630630, or by emailing [email protected]. I'll | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
be back in about 15 minutes to go through some of your comments. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
The Turkey producer Bernard Matthews says it is confident the company | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
will return to profit this year, after losing more than ?20million in | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
2013. The company employs 2,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk, and | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
has been hit by the cost of feed and price cutting in supermarkets. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Bernard Matthews famous catchphrase was first shown on TV in 1980. He | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
brought specially bought this land and hatched chickens, he became a | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
household name. 30 years later, it is a tougher industry. Paul Kelly is | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
the chairman of the British Turkey Federation. The pressure in the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
recession has been enormous so retailers have not wanted to pay | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
more so there has been a squeeze on margins. They have had a tough time | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
but so is every body else, they are not one. In 2005, Turkey tweezers | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
were taken off school menus by Jamie Oliver, before that, Bernard | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
Matthews posted profits of ?40 million. In 2006, they fell to 26 | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
million, the year after Bird Flu affected the company, I'd weather | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
hit in 2011 and hide rain costs and an expensive is `` expensive | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
restructure in Hungary led to a loss last year. The company received `` | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
reduced overheads and received money from investors. It has rebranded to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
make its products more attractive to mothers, putting this flag here to | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
focus on its British origins and a bolder label to stress its heritage. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Inside is believed the turnaround will happen. We're Bernard Matthews | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
turned things around? I am sure they will. They are a very professional | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
company and they going through a structure and process like other | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
company does. `` a restructuring. After shedding jobs in Hungary, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Bernard Matthews is now a more modest operation and if it can | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
persuade mothers to start buying again, it is confident it will be a | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
more profitable operation. An Indian restaurant in Norfolk has | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
been shut down, after a cockroach was found in a chicken vindaloo. A | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
large`scale infestation was discovered at the Dalia Spice | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
restaurant in Cromer last July. The owner, Shelina Akhter, has admitted | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
eight food hygiene offences. Three men have been charged in | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
connection with a series of burglaries at schools in Suffolk and | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Essex. Police say laptops and computer equipment were taken from | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
primary and secondary schools over a nine`month period. The men are due | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
to appear before magistrates next month. They are all charged with | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal. Scientists in | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Norwich are testing a new weapon in the fight against a deadly fungus | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
which is affecting hundreds of thousands of trees. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
This region has been hardest hit by, which first appeared in the UK two | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
years ago. Scientists should know within 18 months if the new | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
fungicide will be available. Could find for now, in winter | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
hibernation, but by the summer, `` by the summer, Ashton Rybak will | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
return and spread `` confined. More than 90% of the `` trees in the East | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
are at risk. Now in this laboratory, a fungicide designed to suppress the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
deadly airborne disease. Working with Sussex University, scientists | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
are cautious but excited. This discovery is really important and we | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
could see it being used Inc `` in combination with traditional | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
fungicides in places like nurseries or plantations. But only on saplings | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
and not in woodlands as it could affect the wider environment and | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
that is a worry, Ashton Rybak has not affected many wild sites but the | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
region is covered with the outbreak. Commercial rowers have been left | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
counting the cost and some are not convinced by the trial. We cannot | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
afford to treat all the trees and you could only treat the key iconic | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
trees in our landscape. Or in our historic parks. We will not be able | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
to treat more. The trial is only part of the armoury in the fight | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
against Ashton Rybak. In a parallel trial, the Forestry Commission has | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
planted more than 100,000 saplings. `12 macro. They want to see which | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
will suffice the spread of the disease. Steve Scott has followed | :11:28. | :11:39. | |
the out rate slowly coming he says we can contain it, but we cannot | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
kill it. We had a hope `` a hot and slow summer, so it has spread from | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
the core area and is now in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Essex. In June, Ashton Rybak will be up again. `` Ash Dieback. The woods | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
are undergoing a huge and unwelcome change. | :12:04. | :12:13. | |
Still to come, the girl who can now eat five peanuts a day after | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
researchers in Cambridge cure to allergy. And a gymnast swapping the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
union Jack for the colours of South Africa. | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
After months and months of rain, most of our rivers are full and, of | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
course, that means the risk of flooding is always there. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
Which is why experts are trying to find a way of cutting the risk .In | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Norfolk, they are slowing down the flow of a river upstream, to stop | :12:40. | :12:40. | |
flooding further this river as it nears the sea. Like | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
so many rivers, it is boxed in by man`made flood banks. But miles | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
upstream, a clock is being turned back. Trees are being felled, this | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
may look like a mess but it has a purpose. We are building low`lying | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
structures along the edge of the river, designed to narrow the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
stream, to make it more bending, it has been straightened over the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
years. We are putting the curves back in the riffraff, and every | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
structure where we felled trees will be trapping silt. The red line on | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
this photograph shows the current straightened course, the plan is to | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
reverted to the way veep blue course of over nearly 200 years ago. Over | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
time, these areas of timber will patch the silt, and you will not be | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
able to see it at all, there will be a bank here great for wildlife. And | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
at times of intense flow, the river will flow outside its channel, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
meaning less flooding downstream. Aquatic life could benefit, the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
project is being backed by landowners, the Environment Agency | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
and the Norfolk Rivers trust. You can see the way the river is | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
bouncing from site to site, that will become a self`perpetuating | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
system. The river wants to do that. Could this reduce the risk of the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
devastation being witnessed in Somerset? Perhaps. The idea is now | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
being tried elsewhere. We have a really good example in Norfolk where | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
over the last couple of years, we have introduced a strategy of trying | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
to reinstate the river act to its natural habitat. In doing that, by | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
increasing flows in the raw `` in the water course and making it more | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
self`sustaining, it stops the silt build`up. Getting the river back to | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
its original course will take years, but those behind the project say | :14:47. | :15:00. | |
everyone will benefit. As we have heard today, researchers | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge have made a breakthrough | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
in the treatment of one of our commonest allergies, to peanuts. | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
One of the patients who was taking part in the trial is 11`year`old | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Lena Barden, who lives in Histon. From the age of two, she has had a | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
severe reaction to eating peanuts and was picked to take part in the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
research at Addenbrook's. She was fed a tiny dose of nuts over a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
four`month period. At the end, she could safely eat five whole peanuts | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
a day. Lena and her mum Diana are at home | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
in Histon now. The first time you notice this reaction, what happened? | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
She was just over two and we had been out for the day and my mother | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
and I were having a drink and she broke a bit of the biscuit and she | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
spat out the peanuts, which probably saved her life because that meant | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
the reaction came on much slower than it would have done. So over the | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
next couple of hours, she became more and more upset and coughing. | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
Eventually, she was struggling for breath. Lena, down the years, what | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
have you most missed eating? Probably doughnuts. You can need | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
those now? Yes, I had my first about a year ago. What has it been like | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
for you, presumably you go to parties and to friend and you could | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
not eat what they were eating? `` friends. It was quite annoying | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
because whenever my friend had a party, my mother had to read every | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
label in the House. Seeing if anything had anything to do with | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
peanuts, it was quite frustrating. Whenever I go out with my friends, | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
it used to be annoying because I had to read every label. She has been | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
very good about it but it has been difficult for you as well? | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Yes, I have to say, Lena has had to grow up much faster than her friends | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
and she has had to read labels when I was not around. It has been very | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
hard, we never had allergies in our family. I was weaned on peanuts, my | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
family are American. It has been quite a lesson. So she has to eat | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
five peanuts every day now, it keeps everything going. But you do not | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
like peanuts, do you, Lena? I absolutely hate them and they taste | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
disgusting. It is quite a struggle. Thank you, | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
both of you. Well, from ground`breaking research | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
at one of our hospitals to high`tech innovation at another. | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
Today, surgeons in Ipswich used a robotic camera to beam live pictures | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
from an operation to a team 800 miles away in France. It is a first | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
for the UK, and the French President, Francois Hollande, was | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
one of the people watching. We are inside the simulation room at | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Ipswich Hospital, watching gave very real gall bladder operation underway | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
in a theatre. That is where they are putting the cannula. Into the doctor | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
that comes from the gall bladder. Access comes from a robotic camera | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
and we are not the only ones. The images are fed live to the European | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
Institute of tele` surgery in Strasbourg. Today playing host to a | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
very important visit from Francois Hollande, taking a presidential look | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
at the pioneering pictures. The Strasbourg team world leaders and | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
can used the link `` can use the link to give training and guidance | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
to enhance a surgeon 's knowledge. From Victorian times, how things | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
have changed? ``! It did not become a good idea because of infection. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
This allows us to teach the large numbers of people without having | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
them in the operating theatre. The camera costs around ?70,000, the | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
link especially encrypted to keep data safe. What do you see is the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
potential for this technology in the NHS? We will bring in experts in | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
their field, new techniques, and improve the surgery and the result. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
The project is part of a wider drive to develop excellence here. This new | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
training area with pretend patient mannequins which cost around 50,000 | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
pounds each opens soon. Doing things like this will attract the best of | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
the best optimistic Ipswich. And I considered the people that work in | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
this hospital to be the best of the best. `` into Ipswich. I think we | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
can achieve greater things. They have high hopes for the future and | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
this high`tech French connection is just the start. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
For almost any sportsman or woman, the best thing you can ever do is to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
represent your country. Which is why one young gymnast from | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
Cambridgeshire has made a very important decision. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Cameron Mackenzie has competed for Britain and helped the team to win | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
the European Junior Championships. But he was born in South Africa and | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
now he has decided to go back, to try to become the African champion. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
That would open the door to the Olympics in Rio. | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
It is time for Cameron McKenzie to leave a place he has called home for | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
11 years. Mum and dad help pack to begin a new journey under a new | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
flag. He has been very proud to represent Great Britain and when he | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
has stood on the podium with the anthem, he has been proud. But it | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
would add to his experience as a person to have the additional | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
privilege of standing there for his country of birth. He has trained | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
here in Huntingdon since the age of nine but he has moved back to the | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
country of his birth, South Africa, to achieve an Olympic dream. I have | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
done a lot of national and international competitions for Great | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Britain, but to be an individual champion of a continent, that is a | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
step up to another level. His first job is to get in shape for the | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
African Championships at the end of March. If he wins that and becomes | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
King of that continent, it is all systems go on the road to Rio. Being | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the best gymnast in Africa, with a population of a billion, would open | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
up big sponsorship opportunities, not possible in Britain. He has | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
competed many times under the union flag, winning junior team Gold at | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the European Championships four years ago. Do you feel English or | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
South African? I would say I feel more South African. I did a | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
competition for South Africa in 2010 and I was competing for Great | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Britain, and I won it. I remember standing on the podium with the | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
British uncomplaining and I thought, it does not quite feel right. The | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
gymnastics world is quite a close`knit family and it does not | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
matter whether you represent Japan, Great Britain, South Africa, | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
America, when that gymnast performs an excellent routine, everybody | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
smiles and applauds and appreciates what that gymnast has done. How | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
proud will you be when the South African flag gets raised, hopefully, | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
in a many, `` in one of these competitions? Very proud, if | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
somebody else is standing up and the South African anthem is playing, I | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
get proud, so it will be a special moment. He has seen the contribution | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Louis Smith has made and he wants to provide the same spark for South | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
Africa, they have not sent a gymnast to the Olympics since 1954. I could | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
be looking at the next! `` they could be. | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Earlier, we asked for your views on a subject that is controversial, the | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
cost of going on holiday in the school holidays. A mother from Essex | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
has launched a Downing Street petition over the issue. Jenny Kirk | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
is in the newsroom and she has been looking at what you have had to say. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
It looks like we cannot get the sound. We will go back to her if we | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
can. Whether first. `` the weather. More rain this month. Today, we have | :23:27. | :23:40. | |
had nuisance rain, a lot of cloud across the region. Showery rain and | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
expect more of those this evening and overnight. By the end of the | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
night, it is largely dry with clear spells developing, turning misty and | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
a risk of ground frost as temperatures drop to around two | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
Celsius. Into tomorrow, it does not look like a bad day in the East. | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Mainly dry, but later, wet and windy weather. This is what is coming. A | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
low present `` a low pressure weather system from the Atlantic, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
bringing a lot of rain. Expect a dry morning, perhaps bright spells | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
across the East. Maybe an isolated shower, but largely dry. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Increasingly cloudy. The signal this weather front is on its way will be | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
the wind speed. It is possible through the evening that those costs | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
will be around 40 mph. `` gusts. Six or seven degrees as the high, the | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
rain will turn persistent and heavy through the night. Much of it should | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
be out of the way by Saturday. This is the pressure pattern for Saturday | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
and into Sunday. Low pressure close by, so strong winds for Saturday. It | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
will stay dry. Sunday is the better day as winds start to ease. This | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
rain will come. Not a bad day for Saturday. Although it will be quite | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
windy. We should state dry, isolated showers possible, but sunny spells, | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
highs of around seven Celsius. `` stay dry. Into Sunday, more present | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
`` pleasant. Largely dry by Monday, winds picking up. | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
Back to Jenny. Can you hear me? Superb! | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
We have been busy. A lot of you getting in touch. Some about the | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
importance of a family holiday, this woman says, we cannot go on holiday, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
we cannot afford school holiday prices and we cannot afford a fine. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
Mike kids all living `` losing out on cultural education. Susie says, | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
this is not just about families, as a person without kids, I cannot | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
afford a holiday during school holidays. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
The elsewhere `` the outrageous prices affect everyone. Mary says, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
common sense tells you increased demands mean prices go up like oil | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
prices in cold weather. Tony says, it is simple supply and | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
demand. Sally says, so what if you cannot have a holiday? Why does | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
everybody think they are entitled? Is I will government going to tell | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Spain to drop prices? I do not excel. Melanie says, holidays have | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
been robbing us blind for years, I have parents over a barrel and they | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
know it. Jamie says that most holiday places | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
in the UK only make their revenues seasonally and they have to raise | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
prices is a five through the winter. Peter says, it will be recoverable | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
for people to understand the charges at the height of season of fair and | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
reasonable. Prices at term time a reduced bargain prices. Some of you | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
have set any other form of discrimination would not be | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
allowed, the UK holiday industry practices discrimination policies | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
over holidays. Another viewer says, thank goodness ice cream sellers do | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
not put up their prices during school holidays or we would all be | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
in trouble. I could not agree more! Thank you for getting in touch. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
We have been busy! People make interesting point and it will remain | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
controversial. That is all for this evening. | :27:39. | :27:38. | |
Good night. | :27:39. | :27:44. |