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Welcome to the programme. A family's plea to Parliament in a | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
fight for safer level crossings Paralympic medallist Matt Skelhon is | :00:20. | :00:43. | |
on target for the European Championships. | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
First, a day in Parliament for families who've lost loved ones on | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the region's level crossings. After years of campaigning, MPs are now | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
holding a special inquiry into how to improve safety. In a moment we'll | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
be talking to a mother whose daughter was killed on a crossing | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
and has been fighting for changes ever since. First though this report | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
from Mike Cartwright. As near misses go, they don't come much closer than | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
this. Chilling footage from water Beach Crossing, near Cambridge. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Watch again. The cyclist avoids the barrier and breaks just in time She | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
is lucky not to have been killed. Others, though, haven't been so | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
fortunate. Katie Littlewood, aged 15, lost to life in January last | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
year. Hit by a train at this crossing in Bishops Stortford. A | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
pensioner, Jones Sage, also died here a decade before. On the same | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
line, teenage school friends Olivia Bazlinton and Charlie Thompson were | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
killed, while crossing the track here in 2005. Olivia's father gave | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
evidence at the transport committee at Westminster today. Ideally, I'd | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
like to see all level crossings go. No railway will ever be built again | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
which has a level crossing on it, that is quite clear. The important | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
thing for the committee is to make sure they are going to keep an eye | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
on it and keep network rail to their plans and hopefully improve their | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
plans and increased them for crossing closures and improvements. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
Today it is the victim's families and British Transport Police. Later, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
it will be network rail and the Department for Transport, giving | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
evidence to a select committee into the safety of our level crossings. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
These extraordinary near misses were captured by cameras across the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
country. Now Network Rail say they've spent ?130 million improving | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
crossings. The East has more than 900 of them, but 93 crossings closed | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
in our region in recent years. Network Rail told us, nothing we say | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
or do will lessen the pain felt by families of those killed or injured. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
But we have promised we are committed to making our railway as | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
safe as possible. Heart stopping moments like this are a reminder of | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
how dangerous crossings can be. The committee here asking if enough has | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
been done to make sure they are safe. Tina Hughes lost her daughter | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Olivia more than seven years ago, when she was killed at a level | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
crossing at Elsenham in Essex. Tina has since been advising Network Rail | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
about crossing safety, she gave evidence to the committee this | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
afternoon. She joins us live now from Westminster. There were some | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
very emotional stories of loss given today and behind all of them a claim | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
that historically, Network Rail has been driven by profit over safety. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Is that how you felt? Yes, absolutely. I think it was like | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
that. I'd like to think it has changed, it is certainly changing. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
There are still people in Network Rail who were there operating for | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
the last ten years. I think some of those people still have that kind of | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
culture. That feeling that, well, we only killed ten people a year or | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
whatever at level crossings, but one person is just too many. We heard | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
some really harrowing stories today about some of those deaths on level | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
crossings. One of the things that I will never forget this something you | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
told the committee, which is that just weeks after Olivia died, you | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
were told by network rail that you have to consider the cost of safety | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
versus the value of human life. Yes. I was sitting very close to the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
chief executive at the time when he said that. I was just horrified that | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
he could say something like that. I'm a project manager, I know about | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
cost benefit analysis, but that was such a callous, inhumane thing to | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
say to a grieving parent. I could not believe you could say something | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
like that. You said today that the service is very much improving, | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Network Rail says it's making all the changes it can afford. Do you | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
believe that? I do believe it to a point. Obviously, the national level | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
crossing team has been up at two years. They've done a phenomenal | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
amount of work in that period and have made considerable changes and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
reductions in the risk management and risks at level crossings. But | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
what I always try to get across when I talk to people at network rail is | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
it is not just about percentage points. This is about the impact on | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
people 's lives. And also, Network Rail don't yet appreciate the value | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
of their assets. Not just track and signal, but people. They don't give | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
them the support they need from senior level. They are in great | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
danger of losing some very key people. That is a real tragedy. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
You've campaigned long and hard to get this hearing the government | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
What do you hope to achieve from it? I'd like to think that the select | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
committee will keep pressure on the regulator to keep the funding up. I | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
heard at the weekend that they are going to have additional funding. | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
I'd like also the Network Rail to commit to making changes to level | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
crossings, even after the chief executive leaves and joins the HS2 | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
project early next year. Several MPs missed that safety hearing because | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
they were stuck on the East Coast Main Line. Even now, passengers are | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
being urged not to travel on the route unless absolutely necessary. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Overhead cables have been ripped down near Peterborough, meaning | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
there are no trains running north of the city. Louise Hubball is at | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Peterborough station now. Louise, this has been going on for a few | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
hours now, what's the latest? I ve been here throughout much of the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
evening commute. We've seen plenty of replacement buses coming and | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
going. A lot of those buses looking very full indeed. We've seen people | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
getting off to realise that they then got to get back on the train. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
People are tired passengers getting off the train, only to find out that | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
they then got to carry their journey by bus. A lot of them are not very | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
happy at all. East coasters saying if you don't have to travel tonight | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
on the line then simply don't, and that your ticket for today will | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
still be valid for tomorrow. But a lot of passengers feeling very | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
tired. I've been speaking to them. The line is down between | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Peterborough and Grantham totally. I have to get the bus. It's going to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
extend my journey by probably up to an hour. It's been appalling and | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
east coast should be ashamed of themselves. That face should say at | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
all. An absolute nightmare. It's been absolutely awful. This does | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
nothing to improve the punctuality record for east coast trains, which | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
have recently been told to be the worst in the country. Absolutely. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Network Rail apologised for that to customers last month. They admitted | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
they were responsible for 70% of delays, due to the maintenance of | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
the track. That means around August and September, one in six trains on | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
this line were delayed. That will give you some idea of the scale of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the problem. I've spoken to Network Rail tonight, they are trying to | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
rectify this issue. They say engineers will work through the | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
night if necessary. They don't know what has caused it, but they are | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
hoping that a limited service may resume later this evening. If you've | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
been travelling for hours are stuck here, that is little consolation. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
And you can keep up to date with the latest on the East Coast Line by | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
tuning into BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's travel bulletins at | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
half past the hour every hour. There have also been major delays on the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
M11 and A14 today after a lorry overturned on the westbound | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
carriageway near Bar Hill. Roads in dozens of villages around Cambridge | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
became gridlocked and there were tailbacks of up to 20 miles on the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
A14. Of course, a new and improved A14 is being planned to avoid so | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
much congestion. Part of that includes upgrading the M11, A14 | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
junction. But the biggest and most controversial plan is a new toll | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
road bypassing Huntingdon. As David Whiteley reports, the lengths people | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
will go to, to avoid paying the toll, is becoming a real concern. | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
This is Haughton Village in Cambridgeshire. It's an idyllic | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
room location, but it's also near an alternative route to the 814, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
designated by the Highways Agency. Some residents fear if the toll road | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
is built, then Haughton and many of the neighbouring villages will | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
suffer. If the hauliers move onto this road to avoid the toll, we will | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
have 100 lorries an hour going through at night, and 200 plus in | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
the day. That is going to mean this road will be completely congested. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
We had a major road incident on the A14 and all the roads around here | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
were completely clammed up. That was not just the A roads, it was the B | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
roads, trying to avoid the traffic. That will happen every day if the | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
toll road goes ahead. Billy Angus is a haulier who regularly travels on | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
the A14. We asked him to try out the alternative route, avoiding the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
proposed toll road. I've crossed three roundabouts, one goes to | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Tesco. Imagine Tesco's, they are going to be crowded out. It's going | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
to be absolute chaos. It's 44 tonnes of tank. You really don't want these | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
going through town centres. These should be kept out of town centres | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
at all costs. Too dangerous? That's it, yes. Unfortunately, us and | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
cyclists don't mix. Public consultation has just closed, and | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
the Department of Transport says it will carefully consider all | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
responses. We requested an interview but were told that because they are | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
considering next their steps, it would be inappropriate for them to | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
comment at this time. More than 3,000 jobs could be created in | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
Northamptonshire if plans for a new business park are approved. The | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Developer Roxhill is behind the latest proposals worth tens of | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
millions of pounds. Waseem Mirza is here with more. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
This development would be on land at junction ten of the A14, just south | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
of Kettering. It would be nearly 120 acre site, not far from the Weetabix | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
factory. It would include a mix of flagship office headquarters, small | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
industrial units and a hotel. It will be across the whole spectrum. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Undoubtedly, there will be a lot of office jobs, it is, after all, a | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
business park. There will be a lot of high`quality flagship offices | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
here. That will be the main focus. As well as that, we are expecting | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
light industrial and manufacturing jobs. This is the latest in a series | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
of good news announcements for Northamptonshire. Cosworth | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Engineering is planning to build a new factory in Northampton, creating | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
70 jobs. Church's Shoes look set to build another factory. It's expected | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to generate 150 jobs. And the biggest boost will come at | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Daventry's International Rail Freight Terminal. New warehouses | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
mean 900 jobs will come there. Northamptonshire County Council said | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
tonight this latest development would contribute to a buoyant | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
economy. And, although the county has a long way to go, it's heading | :12:35. | :12:47. | |
in the right direction. We can now join Stewart and Susie for the rest | :12:48. | :12:48. | |
of tonight's be unsettling for the plans `` for | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
the fans and the players. McCarty says he will only clarify | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
his position if the club makes an official approach. | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
Still to come, we talk to the Paralympic shooter Matt Skelhon. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Which game is now outselling monopoly. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
And it is now looking like an unsettled week ahead. | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
Managers at Basildon Hospital say they are confident things are being | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
turned around after months of damning reports from health experts. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
The first of 250 extra staff have started work, including 200 | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
permanent nurses, who will replace a string of agency staff. | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
The NHS spends more than ?2 billion a year on agency staff. Over a two | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
year period, for example, Addenbrooke's in Cambridge spent 1.2 | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
million on temporary nurses. Southend Hospital 1.3 million. And | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
one of the biggest spenders was Basildon, which spent more than | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
three million. Last week, Claire Marie Battersby | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
was the among the 200 new full`time nurses to arrive on its wards. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Despite its reputation, she had no hesitation about joining Basildon | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Hospital. My personal opinion was because of | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
the heat that is on the hospital, standards are an `` are at a high. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
It will be a great start with the hospital. | :14:21. | :14:21. | |
Basildon's Director of Nursing, Diane Sakar, says they've also | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
reorganised A, and paediatrics, and introduced new technology. But | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
permanent staff nurses was a key factor. It will ensure that the | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
nursing staff have enough staff to do the job that they are employed to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
do. It makes them feel valued and will improve the morale, and for us | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
to have a very strong nursing workforce. | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
This afternoon, I spoke to the Health Minister and Suffolk MP Dr | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Dan Poulter, and started by asking what he thought of the millions of | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
pounds being spent by hospitals in this region on agency nurses. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Spending money on temporary staff is not a good use of NHS resources, and | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
that is why, earlier this summer, I published a review that set out a | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
number of ways how the NHS could save money in reducing the cost of | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
temporary staffing. It is about prioritising and employing more | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
full`time staff. It also provides better continuity of care for | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
patients. That all sounds like common sense. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Why has the situation got to this stage were so much money is | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
effectively being wasted? For far too long, too many hospitals | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
at an individual hospital level, the executives and nonexecutive | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
directors, didn't focus enough on how they could reduce their costs | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
and wasting money on temporary staffing is something that the NHS | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
can no longer afford to do. It is also about providing better care for | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
patients. That is why I am pleased that the hospital are investing in | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
more full`time staff. That will save the NHS money, so more money can be | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
put into treatments. Is accepted the government that | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
understaffing is one of the main issues behind the scandals at | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
hospital? That is right. The review was | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
launched by the government is in response to the inquiry over the | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
terrible events. That highlighted a number of hospitals, including | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Basildon, where there were unacceptable in the low levels of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
staffing and is too much reliance on temporary staff, and the damage that | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
it on quality care. Obviously, it takes more time to | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
recruit more nurses and a permanent basis. We are heading into the | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
winter season, when normally hospitals, under more pressure. How | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
confident are you that they will cope this winter? | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
The number of nurses now working in the NHS in acute hospitals like | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Basildon is increasing. I am very confident that hospitals are taking | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
it seriously, putting in the necessary investments, and reducing | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
unnecessary wastage and paying agencies money for temporary staff | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
that should be going into patient care. | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
And Inside Out tonight goes behind the scenes as the hospital tries to | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
shake off its bad reputation. That's tonight at 7:30pm on BBC One. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Scientists believe they may have found the cause of an illness which | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
has been killing dogs in parts of the region. More than 100 have be | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
taken ill after going for a walk in woods in Suffolk and Norfolk, | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
including the Sandringham Estate. Now estate managers and the Animal | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Health Trust in Newmarket are investigating. | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
The size of a pinhead, the harvest mite could be the cause of a | :17:52. | :18:03. | |
seasonal canine illness. Mites can get onto the skin, and give the dog | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
is a high fever. In extreme cases, it can kill. There have been eight | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
cases recently, all from the Sandringham estate. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
They often have orange dust on them, which we found to be caused by | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
harvest mites. They tended to be small dogs, Terry is `` terriers. So | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
they were presumably not used to this environment. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
The Animal Health Trust is examining the problems in two Woodland | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
regions. It wants dog owners in the area to help them to find if the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
mite is responsible. We are encouraging people to speak | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
to the vets about preventive treatment for Harford `` harvest | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
mites, in case the cases decrease, showing that there is a link between | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
the two. This is a pilot study about Seasonal | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
Canine Illness. The idea is that this spray is sprayed on their dogs | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
before they go for a walk in the area. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Dog owners are being told not to panic, but it is a nasty illness. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
With the public's help, the authorities should soon be able to | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
tell if this tiny mite has caused so much misery. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
This week, the European Disability Shooting Championships are taking | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
place in Spain. And Matt Skelhon from Peterborough goes into the | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
contest as one of the favourites. Matt is 28, lives in Peterborough | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
and won gold at the Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Last year, he | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
won silver and a bronze at London 2012. Brennan Nicholls has been to | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
see his final preparations. It's a sport where you do battle as | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
much with yourself as others. Shooting requires supreme | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
concentration as well as an obvious steady hand. Matt Skelhon improved | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
his when he won gold back in 2008. When he is in his own, he hears hard | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
to beat. `` he is hard to beat. I only care about how well I shoot. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
My biggest enemy is myself. I have to keep my head in the game. If I do | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
that, I will do well. It took a world record in 2012, but | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
he still scored a silver and a gold. Since London, the score `` the | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
sport has changed its system. Decimal places now are important, | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
and the final is a shoot off. The ten is broken down into points. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
All be decimal scores at the end now added, so the maximum score is | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
higher. His gold in Beijing helped attract | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
funding which has led to this practice range. It provides the | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
shooting squad with crucial time to fine tune their technique. This is a | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
place which rivals even their able`bodied counterparts area. Away | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
from the game, there are other things that help improve his | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
concentration. Fishing is his hobby of choice. | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
I have done it since I was little. It is nice and relaxing to do. In a | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
lot of places, you can get by the waters edge. It is nice and | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
relaxing, a bit of an adrenaline `` adrenaline rush. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
There will be no time for that at the European Disability Shooting | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Championships. It is the first time since 2007 that the competition has | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
been held, and Matt is determined to get one of the biggest prizes in the | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
run`up to 2016 Olympics. If you're a parent or a grandparent | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
then the chances are you have the Shopping List game in a cupboard | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
somewhere. Made in Norfolk, the game has now climbed to third in the | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
Amazon bestselling list for toys. Aimed at children up to the age of | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
seven, Shopping List is outselling classics like Monopoly and Scrabble. | :22:42. | :22:54. | |
Turn one over and let's see if we get it. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Children at this nursery are playing the Shopping List game. Each child | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
has a shopping list and a trolley to fill. It is great fun. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Why do like this game? Because there are loads of things that you can | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
get. Peppers. What is that one? Suites. I like | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
sweets. The Shopping List game is made just | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
down the road. It now outsells Monopoly and Scrabble, and is only | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
beaten by the Rubiks cube and a `` another game. | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
It was first launched in 1995. We have sold many millions of them. We | :23:45. | :23:56. | |
will sell this year 125,000 units. This is Keith, the man who founded | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the company. He started Orchard Toys at his home. His late wife ran a | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
nursery and knew what children wanted. But it was Keighley came up | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
for the `` with the Shopping List game as he went round the | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
supermarket. `` Keith. I watched mothers picking things up | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
and putting them in the trolleys, and I thought that children would | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
relate to the game. When I got back, I wrote it on the back of an | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
envelope. I tried it. Orchard Toys has doubled its | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
turnover in the last few years. It has 115 games and jigsaws in its | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
range. But even after 18 years, the Shopping List is still everyone's | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
favourites. I am sitting next to somebody who | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
claims to be very good at the Shopping List. | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
Yes, I am very competitive. Today we have had outbreaks of rain, | :25:04. | :25:21. | |
but the air has been warm. In some areas, it has been 16 Celsius. It | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
could get even warmer tomorrow. In the next few hours, there is | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
potential for outbreaks of rain, but it should be quite dry for most | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
people. It will be a very mild night. Temperatures for many of us | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
not falling lower than 14 or 15 degrees Celsius. These are the | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
values that we should be seeing in the day. The winds will be quite | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
blustery in the south`east. Tomorrow, there will be this weather | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
system moving to waters, bringing with it more rain. But for many us, | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
it will be a dry day. There will be thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
in the north`east. Some of this could be quite heavy. But despite | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
the cloud and the rain, temperatures around 16 Celsius. I would not be | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
surprised if we will see 17 or 18 Celsius in some areas. A blustery | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
day with moderate wind. We will finish the day with more cloud. | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
There will be more rain, some of it is on the happy side. | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
In the next few days, Wednesday to Friday will be different weather. On | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Wednesday, we will have some sunshine and some showers, and some | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
of those could be heavy and underrate. On Thursday, probably a | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
dry start, but it could be some sunshine. `` thundery. In the | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
south`west, some of the rain could be heavy. And then on Friday, the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
rain will be in showers. We will have warmer temperatures in the day | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
and mild nights. The only exception is Wednesday night, when it could be | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
nine Celsius. We will see you tomorrow night. Goodbye. | :27:21. | :27:26. |