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Good evening. Tonight, labour—saving will abolish the bedroom tax if | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Good evening. Tonight, labour—saving are returned to power. Ed Miliband | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
exquisitely on BBC look East. —— labour—saving. We will get rid of | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
the loopholes and end the bedroom tax. We will have reaction from | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
those affected and a senior member of the government, along with the | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
rest of the top stories. An apology to rail passengers as these calls | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
mainline tops the UK list of train delays, and disrupted services. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
mainline tops the UK list of train surgeon who pioneered heart and | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
mainline tops the UK list of train transports —— transplants returns to | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
his roots at Papworth Hospital. And Northamptonshire slug it out, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. We can reveal tonight that Labour will scrap the so—called | :00:56. | :01:15. | |
bedroom tax if the party wins the next election. In an exclusive | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
interview, Ed Miliband told us that he felt the measure was unfair. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
interview, Ed Miliband told us that felt it had led to some tenants | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
being evicted from their homes. felt it had led to some tenants | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
to remind you, the rules on housing benefit changed on April this year | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
and that tenants will no longer benefit changed on April this year | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
to claim their full housing benefit if they had a spare bedroom. Tenants | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
were given a choice, downsize to a smaller home, or face a cut in | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
benefits. It was quickly condemned as the bedroom tax. In our region, | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
labour estimates that 50,000 tenants have been affected. Tonight, Ed | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Miliband tells this programme that Of all the recent welfare changes, | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
this has probably been the most controversial. The government's | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
intention was to cut the amount controversial. The government's | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
spends on welfare and free up homes waiting for larger properties. But | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
housing campaigners say it has caused misery for many. Research | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
shows that 50% of people have gone into arrears with the first three | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
months. These are people who have not been in arrears before. We have | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
pushed them over the edge. Others questioned whether the policy is | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
workable. A study by Cambridge University concluded it would take | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
24 years to rehouse those affected. Tonight's moved by the Labour leader | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
is eye—catching. And on the EU for a difficult conference, a chance to | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
show that his party can come up difficult conference, a chance to | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
real policies. What we're seeing is people potentially being evicted | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
from their homes and it will not even save them what the government | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
said it would save. Think it is even save them what the government | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
right decision to make a fair tax change to say that we're going to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
get rid of the loopholes and get rid of the bedroom tax. It will be | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
currently available to financial institutions. George Osborne cuts | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
taxes for hedge funds is at the institutions. George Osborne cuts | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
time as he introduced the bedroom tax. Most people will think that is | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
not the right priority. Does this not give ammunition to critics who | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
think you are the party of welfare? This is about unfair change. It | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
think you are the party of welfare? not even work. Ministers question | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
how much the public care about this issue. They say that 70% of people | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
support welfare changes. Labour issue. They say that 70% of people | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
that 50,000 people will be affected by these changes. 31,000 of them are | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
disabled. Mr Miliband accepts that transport and council tax, which | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
affect larger numbers and which transport and council tax, which | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
need addressing. But this, he says, Look East has reported several times | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
on the recent changes to housing benefit, but how has the news gone | :04:06. | :04:17. | |
We have three bedrooms appear, and one has been divided. Peter lives in | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
Milton Keynes with his wife and daughters. The home was originally | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
built with two bedrooms but one daughters. The home was originally | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
since been divided. The recent changes to housing benefit mean | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
since been divided. The recent the rent has increased even though | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
the total amount of floor space the rent has increased even though | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
not. Peter says that the rules do not take any account of individual | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
circumstances. I do not think it has been handled properly. It is another | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
government to get more money out of suffering people. Across town, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Eileen agrees. She cares for brother says that it saves the government | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
thousands in care bills. She uses her spare rooms occasionally but | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
feels penalised by a system which charges her for having spare rooms. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
It is unfair and unjust. And it charges her for having spare rooms. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
causing families like myself a lot unnecessary worry. Labour—saving the | :05:15. | :05:27. | |
plans to scrap the bedroom tax will help thousands of families. But | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
plans to scrap the bedroom tax will it help the party get elected? Will | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
you know vote for Ed Miliband? If he is going to scrap the bedroom tax, I | :05:39. | :05:49. | |
announcement make you vote for him? Definitely not. Every government | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
that I have voted for have always done U—turns. It is always the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
purest people getting the brunt done U—turns. It is always the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
it. It will be sometime before Ed Miliband can try to this policy | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
it. It will be sometime before Ed bed, with the election two years | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
away. Later on the programme, we will be getting the view of the | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Conservative Party on this and Andrew Lansley. —— the leader of the | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
house. Benefits changes have led to some people heading into debt and | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
even losing their home. But a lack of housing has been a problem for | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
some time. In Milton Keynes, for example, they have seen a dramatic | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
rise in the number of families being breakfast accommodation. Back in | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
May, the council had the worst record for this outside London. | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
May, the council had the worst three months on, the situation is | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
Bringing up a young family can be difficult, especially for those | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Bringing up a young family can be nowhere to call home. This man asked | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
us not to reveal his identity. He and his partner became homeless | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
three months ago and have been housed in bed and breakfast hotels | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
ever since. They have a baby and a young child. You were in one room | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
and your children want to go asleep. —— go to sleep. We go out of the | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
room, just so they can go to sleep, or we hide in the toilet with the | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
lights on, waiting them to sleep —— waiting for them to sleep. I want to | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
come home from work to see my family happy, playing in the garden, not | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
tied up in one room —— squeezed happy, playing in the garden, not | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
one room. If a family isn't every commendation for more than six | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
weeks, it is illegal. In Milton Keynes, 35 families were in that | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
position in the first three months of the year. That figure almost | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
doubled between April and June, making it one of the worst areas in | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
England outside of London. I am making it one of the worst areas in | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
complacent. We are doing things making it one of the worst areas in | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
characteristics of Milton Keynes that cause the issue. We are a young | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
city and we have only been in place since the 70s. We do not have a | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
The government says it made almost £2 million available to tackle this | :08:09. | :08:26. | |
problem. Not an Keynes applied for a families are still waiting for a | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
Two men have been charged with murdering a 19—year—old man in Luton | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
one week ago. Michael Urquhart was found dead with stab wins. Two men | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
from Luton will appear in court —— stab wounds. Network Rail has | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
customers on one of our biggest Peterborough to London, has the | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
worst punctuality record in the Peterborough to London, has the | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
between here and Scotland. And they have suffered delays. The worst | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
between here and Scotland. And they almost a day on the train. 11 hours | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
before we go back to Peterborough. You know, it was that or spending | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
the next couple of days on the platform. They are one of 4 million | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
using Peterborough station each year. That figure is set to double | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
over the next 25 years. Most of year. That figure is set to double | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
delays are not down to those running the trains on the tracks, at the | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
separate companies looking after the tracks themselves. When things go | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
wrong, trains go nowhere. Network Rail has apologised for being to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
blame for 70% of the delays on this line in August and September. One in | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
making it the least punctual for country. Today, some passengers | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
making it the least punctual for happy but others not so. Sometimes | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
have been kept off my journey for hours. I'm on the train so regularly | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
Sometimes there have been delays, a lot of people waiting outside, | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
causing havoc. Today, Network Rail say they were redoubling their | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
efforts to improve reliability. say they were redoubling their | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
million will be spent upgrading say they were redoubling their | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
line over the next five years. The weight for some passengers will | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
Football, and MK Dons and Peterboro meet again for the first time in two | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
years this week. Last time around, Posh one and ended up being promoted | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
by the defeat still hurt MK Dons. May 2011 and elation meets despair. | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
For Peterboro, the play—offs meant championship football, only to be | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
relegated last season. MK Dons have been left stewing. Both left brewing | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
what might have been. We went to London and let ourselves down. I | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
stronger outfit. It is younger with more energy. There are similarities, | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
but as a club you would have to more energy. There are similarities, | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
we have been more successful. We championship and stayed in the | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
championship. They are not at that level yet. Obviously, if they got | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
promoted this season, that would be the aim. Both sides have started | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
with intent, particularly Posh, currently second in the table. MK | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
Dons are keen to make an impression —— and impression. Dillow macro | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Dons are keen to make an impression them to play like a professional | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
team and look the part, to play them to play like a professional | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
honour for the badge. I think the championship will put us in good | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
stead. Tactically, we have got better. We have taken tactics onto | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
the pitch and delivered. Posh have the bragging rights and the bigger | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
playing budget. MK Dons wants to bury the hatchet. At this stage | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
playing budget. MK Dons wants to the season, it is almost as viable | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
as the play—offs. Later, Alex will be here with the weather for the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
will always be classed as an alcoholic, but says he is off the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
drink and will rebuild his life. Still to come tonight: A nail—biting | :12:36. | :12:52. | |
finish to the cricket season. Plus, a return to Papworth Hospital by the | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
surgeon who pioneered heart and lung transplant. —— transplants. | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
Now here's one of those sobering thoughts. Since 1939, more than | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
83,000 American service men and women have failed to return home. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Some were taken prisoner, some went missing in action, but none of them | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
ever came home. This week the US Air Force in Suffolk has been | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
remembering them. Today, at RAF Mildenhall, members of | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
the 100th Air Refueling Wing have taken part in a special ceremony to | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
mark the end of the week's remembrance. Our defence reporter | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Alex Dunlop has just sent this. Putting names to the numbers. | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
Joseph... Officially missing in action, or prisoners of war, from | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
every action since World War II. Over 24 hours, volunteers read all | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
80 3000, 345 names. It is living on hold. The hope that they can still | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
be alive and come home. Until they have the final closure, I think it | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
is part of our duty to go out and keep the promise, that is the motto, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
of keeping, bringing them home. But the vast majority of them will have | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
died? Yes. It is more than likely that the majority of them have | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
passed. Nearby, and missing man formation. The desert boots | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
represent the two most recent conflicts, Iraq and Afghanistan. As | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
America starts to pull out of this latest work, for five years one | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
American soldier is still being held captive by the Taliban. It was the | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
war in Vietnam which spurred a huge interest in the fate of American | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
soldiers imprisoned while missing in action. Some were found alive years | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
after the war ended. 40 years on, so determined by the US military to be | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
repatriated those left on old battlefields that they have a | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
dedicated task force of around 400 personnel who make it their mission | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
to find them. Last year they recovered two bodies from the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Cambodian jungle. As the commander reads the last of the 83,000 names, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
today they also remember those killed by a Navy reservist in | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Washington three days ago. For us it is very important for us to remember | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
who has gone before us. The flag is at half mast behind you as a | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
reminder that there is still a current threat? Absolutely. There is | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
a worldwide threat, and with recent actions that have happened this week | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
in the United States, our flags are at half—mast. We must with the | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
ready. Every Friday in the ceremony, they lowered the stars and stripes. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
This one was a little different. Today's salute, dedicated to those | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
missing across seven decades of war. Sport now, and the end of the | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
cricket season is going to the wire for Northants and Essex. The two | :15:59. | :16:08. | |
teams have been locked in a battle for promotion to the top flight. | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
Today was the final day of their penultimate county Championship | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
games with Northants now looking like red hot favourites to go up. | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Let's cross to the county ground in Northampton now and our Sports | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
Editor, Jonathan Park. Yes, it's been a fairy tale season for | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Northants this season. They have done very well in all competitions, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
including the Twenty20. Essex have been there throughout, but | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Northants, as you say, are red—hot favourites to win promotion. They | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
will find out next week, but after today's play, they are in the | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
driving seat. It had been —— has been a season where Northants shake | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
off the pass. The silverware was already on show today. It has been a | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
magnificent season with a real team effort. Silverware does not come | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
around here very often. The performances have been so great. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
There was a sense about inevitability in their match today. | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
The main game was always going to end in a drawer, but all that | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Northants needed was the five bonus points on offer for reaching the 400 | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
mark, which was accomplished with ease. We have done well today and | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
got all of our bonus points, which is what we set out to do. It looks | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
like things have settled down at Chelmsford and hopefully gone our | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
way. At Chelmsford, the only team who could pip Northants to | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
promotion, Essex, desperately needed a win to strengthen their hand. But | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
there ain't with Glamorgan was also heading for stalemate. We needed a | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
few more performances and did not get the season but all in all, we | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
have had a decent season. I think it is quite decent for this season. I | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
know it is not Division 1, but it is still a tough cricket world. We have | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
done well in four—day cricket. Probably going to finish third | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
behind Northamptonshire and Lancashire. Final stake in the 2020, | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
and we finished fourth there, so we have been the bridesmaid this year, | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
but we have made progress. At half past four, the captain shook hands | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
in both games, with Northants a giant step towards cricket's top | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
flight. The knee just five points from next week 's game at | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Worcestershire to guarantee it. —— they need. It's in the bag? No... | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
I'm an eternal pessimist, I am afraid. They are not exactly | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
hostile, and not exactly serious, and enjoyed by everyone. Just like | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
Northants's season. That certainly was a humorous moment today. The | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
next round of Championship matches is next week, but before then here | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
at the ground, the pop band Madness are plain. It could certainly be a | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
House Of Fun for those Northants fans this season. Thank you very | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
much. Two years ago, Professor John | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Wallwork retired from Papworth Hospital. In 30 years he carried out | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
6,000 operations to help put Papworth on the world stage. But now | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
he's coming back. Next February, the Professor will become the hospital's | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
new chairman and says he has big plans for its future. Hello, guys! | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Back among the staff he calls his second family, the hospital he calls | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
his second home. Two years ago he retired as a surgeon here. He has | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
returned now as chairman. This is a very special time for the hospital. | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
We have spent a long, long time trying to get this hospital to the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
right place and we are nearly there and I want to see that through. I | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
wanted to be a jewel in the crown of the health service, not just here | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
but abroad. I want to bring any effort I can to the place. This was | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
his last operation. Over 30 years, he carried out 30 of them, a pioneer | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
in transplant surgery. In 1981 he founded the Papworth Heart And Lung | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Transplant Programme years later performing the first heart and Lung | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
transpired in Europe, and then the world's first triple transplant. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
What are you planning for the future? I want to keep Papworth | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Hospital on top. Surprisingly enough putting an organisation up is easier | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
than keeping it at the top. And in order to do that for the patients | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
and the education and research, we have to provide the best that we | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
can, and we can only do that with our biomedical campus. This is where | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
the biomedical campus will go. Work on the new app worth should start in | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
2015. Heart and lung disease together provide the biggest cause | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
of death in our society. It would be absurd to have this big biomedical | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
campus not that hard and lung disease in it. Papworth Hospital has | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
prolonged the lives of thousands. His job now, better treatment for | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the patient of tomorrow. A reminder now of tonight's main | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
news: The Labour leader Ed Miliband has told Look East that he will | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
scrap the so—called "bedroom tax" if he becomes the next Prime Minister. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Let's hear what the Conservatives have to say about that. Andrew | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
Lansley is the MP for South Cambridgeshire and the Leader of the | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
House of Commons. He's in Cambridge now. | :22:01. | :22:01. | |
have to say about that. Andrew Lansley is the MP for The National | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Housing Federation, Their Chief Executive Says That The Bedroom Tax | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Is Disastrous. How do you feel about that? Are in was to reduce the cost | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
of housing benefit, which Labour had taken to £20 billion. And I'm afraid | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
but we have heard today shows that Labour have learned nothing. We had | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
to take measures to deal with their debt crisis. It wasn't fair what | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
happened —— wasn't there to be subsidising under occupied | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
properties while people are waiting for accommodation or are in | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
overcrowded accommodation. We have done it in a fairway. We have put | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
£180 million into a discretionary fund that helps to the costs of | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
those who have proper reasons to have support, but we are taking away | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
housing benefit, we are saving in this case really have £1 billion, by | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
virtue of not subsidising under occupied properties. That is what we | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
have to do and the Labour Party does not seem to have learned anything | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
and they are saying that now they want to go back. They have opposed | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
every well cut we have put forward. I am sorry to interrupt you, but all | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
of these people that are affected that we have heard about, one third | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
of them and are having trouble with their rent. These are people who | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
have not been in that situation before, so it is obviously having a | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
very bad effect. We are very clear about the fact that we need to save | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
money by not subsidising under occupied properties. It is not about | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
imposing a charge or imposing tax. It is about how much housing benefit | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
people should be paid, and they should be paid how much is | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
appropriate to the need for housing. Under the last Government, people | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
who were in private rented accommodation and had under occupied | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
properties, spare ribs, did not get housing benefit. What we have done | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
in that sense is remove what was an anomaly between people who were | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
getting private housing benefit and people who were getting housing | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
benefit in social housing. As I said, £190 million per year, it is | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
not far short of a third of the total saving, is available to local | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
authorities in a discretionary payment scheme in order to meet the | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
cases that are genuinely in most need. I am so sorry to interrupt | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
you, but 34% of people who intend to back the Tories at the next election | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
think it is a bad idea. People across the country now that we were | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
think it is a bad idea. People left | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
circumstances. Time for the weather, and it is | :24:34. | :25:30. | |
going to get a little bit warmer? Yes! High pressure across the | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
British Isles. That might sound like the perfect ingredients for a fine | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
autumn weekend, but as this are crosses, we see it picking up a lot | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
of moisture. But while temperatures rise, it will be cloudy at times. | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
Today, we have had quite a lot of fine autumn sunshine. It has turned | :25:45. | :25:45. | |
a little bit cloudy and places, but predominantly, we will seek leave | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
spells overnight. It is expected to turn a little bit cloudy later on | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
with some fog. For most of us, we should stay in double figures. We | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
are expecting loads of around 11 or 12. Temperatures could just drop | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
down there. If you are up early, it might be a bright start in the east. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
We have this week weather front heading in from the south—west, and | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
that is going to meet increasing amount of cold to the morning. So, | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
this cloud may, in places, be thick enough to produce some rain or | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
drizzle, but for most of us, it is predominantly dry. If you live in | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
the western half, you have got a better chance of seeing something a | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
little bit more break into the afternoon. Temperatures rarely get | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
those brighter spells, they will be quite comfortable, with a bit of a | :26:38. | :26:39. | |
noticeable breeze and a light to moderate south—westerly. The eastern | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
half looks as though it will stay a little bit more cloudy. Now, looking | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
ahead, the high pressure starts to move to the east, towards Holland, | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
by the start of next week. That will mean a subtle change in wind | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
direction, more of an easterly flow. This will bring in more dry air, so | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
that brings us the better prospect of sunshine at the start of next | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
week. So, we start Sunday a bit cloudy, perhaps with some mist | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
around first thing. But it looks more hopeful through the day on | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
Sunday. We should hopefully start to see the sunshine out and as such, we | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
will see the temperatures climb, so 21 or 22 degrees quite possible. As | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
we start next week with that dry air coming in from the east, we are | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
expecting increasing amount of sunshine for Monday and Tuesday, so | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
22 might be a little, well, not quite so optimistic as it could be, | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
but into the middle of the week this high—pressure stays firmly in place, | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
bringing more spells of fine conditions and mild nights. | :27:41. | :27:46. |