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sunshine and showers continuing And that is all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
six. It Welcome to Look East. Coming up | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
tonight. The Conservative MP, his mother`in`law, and allegations of | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
fraud. But Peter Bone hits back claiming his innocence and | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
criticising the police. A boost to the local economy, or a blot on the | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
landscape? A multimillion pound luxury holiday village that is | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
causing controversy. We will be here later studying sums | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
in Shanghai, the minister who says taking maths lessons from the far | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
east does add up. And tonight, it is the millions of boots for troops | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
made in Northampton. First tonight, Conservative MP Peter | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
Bone has angrily denied allegations that he has committed fraud. The | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Northamptonshire MP says he and his wife Jennie are totally innocent of | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
the claims, which relate to the care of his elderly mother`in`law. Mr | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Bone, who has been the MP for Wellingborough since 2005 says he | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
has been living a surreal nightmare since a police raid on his home last | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
year. Our reporter has been following the | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
story and is outside Mr Bone's constituency office now. | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
Yes he said via the website, he issued this statement. It criticises | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
the police, and the County Council. Questions over allegations of fraud. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
An MP waiting to hear if he will face prosecution. Peter Bone says he | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
is innocent, the allegations against him are surreal might mare. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Northamptonshire County Council it is understood contacted the police | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
over fears they had been misled over the finances of Peter Bone's | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
finances. The allegations came that the family has sufficient funds | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
themselves, including money from the sale of the 81`year`old's home. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
In a statement Peter Bone said: Outside his constituency office | :02:16. | :02:33. | |
today some thought the store I have could be damaging. I don't think MPs | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
are known for being particularly honest people. I don't think anyone | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
would be surprised really. He says he is innocent though. He might be, | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
I don't know. Seeing your MP on the front of the Times. It is s no very | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
good. I don't know if he is guilty or innocent. There is not a lot of | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
trust for MPs or sympathy. According to the MP the dispute began in 009. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
After their failure to properly fund his mother`in`law's care. In March | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
2013, his home was raided by police, personal paper, medical documents | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
and constituents' letters were read he said. The next month the MP and | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
his wife were questioned by officers. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Peter Bone said his belief in the police has been shattered but today | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
they would only confirm a 61`year`old man had been formally | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
interviewed and a police file had been sent to the criminal | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
prosecution service. The County Council say lawyers | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
advising them not to comment today on allegations that made the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
front`pages. Peter Bone said if the story had been leaked to the police | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
by the police. So have we heard any more from the police or the County | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Council today? Well, the County Council say they have seen Peter | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Bone's comments and they contest many of them, but they say there is | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
a civil action going on and for legal reasons they can't comment any | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
further. I spoke to the police and they say they saw the comments too. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
The MP was highly critical. He said the force failed to handle this | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
matter in a speedy and appropriate manner, but the force choosing today | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
to issue that simple statement, saying that a 61`year`old man had | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
been formally interviewed. Thank you. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
The girlfriend of a man who drowned while searching for a missing | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
teenager has described how she tried to save him before he disappeared | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
under the water. Ryan Pettengell and 16`year`old Umar Balogun both | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
drowned at Bawsey Pits on the same day in what a coroner has described | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
as a tragic coincidence. This afternoon a jury returned a verdict | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
of accidental death on Mr Pettengell. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Ryan Pettengell's mother, sister and brother`in`law arriving at the | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
inquest. He drowned on the aim day at the same pits at the teenager he | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
was looking for. Not knowing when he jumped in the water, the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
16`year`old's body had already been found He was the sort of guy if he | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
knew someone was in trouble he would have gone out of his way to help | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
them out. PC Ryan Williams said he was there when Ryan Pettengell | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
drowned. He couldn't help because he wasn't a competent swimmer, before | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
he died he asked Mr Pettengell if he had seen a 16`year`old. His | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
girlfriend said she could see something on the island she had swum | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
to. Despite breaking his wrist weeks before, he said he would swim over. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
She told him don't bother, don't come because you won't be able to | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
make it. He got half way across when he shouted twice, get me a stick, | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
get me a log, she said she did, but it wouldn't float. He grabbed her | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
shoulder, she went under water for and she swallowed some water and was | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
sick. She said she went back to the island to try and get another stick, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
when she turned round all she could see was the bubbles on the surface | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
where he had been. Shortly after the double drownings | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
these photos were released to show the dangers under the surface, this | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
is a diver moments after finding the 16`year`old's body. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
As soon as you get to the weed you have novice built, you are | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
restricted in movement `` novice builty. The entanglement is | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
everywhere. Pet Pete's best friend was there when he drowned. He said | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
he was a good swimmer but at thought at the time he was joking round He | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
wasn't. As soon as he didn't come back we realised that he wasn't and | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
it was, there was something seriously wrong. Before the family | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
left, pet Pete's mother told the coroner that no swimming signs | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
should point out the dangers under the surface. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
She said it would give those who want to swim something else to think | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
about. `` Ryan Pettengell. An inquest in Northampton has heard | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
how a retired businessman killed his wife, before taking his own life. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
The bodies of Margaret and Donald Knight were found at their home in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
the village of Loddington in Northamptonshire last May. Mr Knight | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
was a well known businessman, who was once chairman of the local | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
haulage firm Knights of Old. An inquest today ruled that Mrs Knight | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
was unlawfully killed and Mr Knight's death was suicide. Plans | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
for a luxury forest holiday site in Northamptonshire have met strong | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
opposition. The proposals are for 76 wooden lodges in Fineshade Wood in | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
the east of the county. The site would cover about 28 hectares and | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the company behind it estimates it would bring ?2 million a year to the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
local economy and create 60 full time jobs. But opponents are | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
concerned trees will be felled and the wood itself will be spoilt. | :07:26. | :07:42. | |
Stretching from Stamford to Northampton in the Middle Ages this | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
forest was vast. Fineshade wood was a vital part. Popular with hunting | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
royalty. You can almost still hear the thundering of hooves but the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
future looks different with plans for a luxury holiday site. An and | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
those living in the cottages have concerns. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
The size of the development, 76 cabins, the traffic movements on | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
site, the safety of people that are already coming up on site, these are | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
going to change the character of the area. Signposted as a major issue, | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
how this one single track road will cope with all those holiday`makers. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
But the source of the plans may surprise you, a company partly owned | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
by the Forestry Commsission. This ash tree is round 400 years old It | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
won't be harmed in any development, but the challenge is how to | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
financially manage our forests while preserving them for centuries to | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
come. Sustainability is balancing economy, people and the environment. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
And so what we are trying to do is to provide a resource for people to | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
come and visit the wood, but at the same time gaining money from that, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
to pay for everything you are seeing over my shoulder at the moment. The | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
planning application has yet to be submitted, but this will give you an | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
idea of what the development could look like. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
And the man behind the project says they have a strong track record We | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
currently operate eight sites, four of those in National Park, we are | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
used to building these sites in ecologically sensitive location we | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
are integrated with the Forestry Commsission. And who knows how this | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
woodland will look by the time these ash saplings are 100 years old. | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
The government has announced that an extra ?14m will be made available to | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
improve superfast broadband in this area. The announcement comes amid | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
fears that small and medium sized businesses in Cambridgeshire may not | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
survive unless their broadband access improves. Entrepreneur and | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Cambridge academic Dr David Cleevely has launched the Destination Digital | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
scheme, which will hand out grants to local businesses helping them | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
take advantage of the digital age. This money is really important for | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Cambridgeshire, there is a load of small and medium size enterprises | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
who are not connected well enough, who don't understand how important | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
the web is these day, we need to support then and ensure their | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
survival and growth. Opposition groups are calling on the government | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
to intervene over plans for a controversial solar farm on the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
outskirts of Peterborough. It comes after the city council | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
announced it was going ahead with the development on America Farm | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
against the advice of the Scrutiny Commission for Rural Communities. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
The council currently has a deficit of ?19 million to make up. It claims | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
the solar farm could generate enough electricity to power 7,000 homes and | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
would create a profit for the council. | :10:45. | :10:45. | |
opened in September and was described as the most ambitious | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
exhibition ever staged in this region. It was a centrepiece of the | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
50th anniversary celebrations for the University of East Anglia. The | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
organisers say it was a critical and popular success. A book, published | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
to accompany the exhibition, turned out to be so popular it had to be | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
reprinted to keep up with demand. Still to come on the programme | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
tonight: Was Britain right to go to war in 1914? I'll be talking to the | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
historian Sir Max Hastings. And after the big freeze last year, | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
it looks like we've got away with it and Spring is on the way... | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
In tonight's special report, we look at the teaching of maths in the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
region's schools. A delegation of teachers and education experts are | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
currently in the Chinese city of Shanghai, hoping to learn lessons. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
The delegation is being led by Elizabeth Truss, the Education | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
Minister and MP for South West Norfolk. Last week on this | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
programme, we were told that teachers in this country need to | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
learn from the teaching methods in other parts of the world. In maths, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
children in Shanghai are said to be three years ahead of children here. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
So what is their secret? This from our chief reporter Kim Riley. | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
Leading a high`powered delegation, Elizabeth Truss is in Shanghai to | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
learn how its children appear to be streets ahead of ours when it comes | :11:59. | :12:08. | |
to learning maths. This morning, a visit to a television studio was | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
followed by a lesson in the classroom. Shanghai's 15`year`olds | :12:12. | :12:24. | |
top the international tables for maths in 2012. The UK came in 26th | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
places. But is it a valid comparison? Some critics claim the | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
system is deeply flawed. They say China's strict residency rules mean | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
a huge number of the most disadvantaged students are left out | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
in the cold. According to a global average, a city of 23 million people | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
should have about 300,000 15`year`olds. Shanghai has not much | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
more than 100,000. They say the low birth rate doesn't explain why so | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
many 15`year`olds appear to have gone missing ` students like this | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
girl. Her parents are migrants. But despite having lived and worked in | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Shanghai for nine years, they don't have full residency papers. She | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
can't go to a Shanghai school. Despite such reservations, Elizabeth | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Truss believes there is still much to admire here, particularly for | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
under`performing schools in Norfolk and Suffolk. We're looking at the | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
Shanghai maths programme and how we can improve lessons, teaching and | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
basic arithmetic. That's something that can be learned in Norfolk and | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Suffolk. It's impressive to see large classes of 40 plus dealing | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
with very complex arithmetic. They take it in their stride. It makes | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
you wonder what our British children are capable of. The delegation, | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
which is to meet Chinese education officials in Beijing, has already | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
seen a lot. Some argue the Chinese system puts students under too much | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
pressure, others say we ignore the 'can do' approach in these | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
classrooms at our peril. From maths to sport in schools. It's | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
always a hot topic and in recent years the government has been keen | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
to ensure that every pupil has the chance of playing sport | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
competitively. There were nearly 1,000 children doing just that in | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Northamptonshire today at the Winter School Sports Games. Our Sports | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Editor Jonathan Park reports. A captive audience for one of | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
England's greats ` much has changed since Arsenal's Kelly Smith was | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
their age. Women's football has really taken off and the School | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Sports Games are now an essential part of the calendar. I never had | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
this opportunity. I would have been the only girl playing in a male | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
tournament. It's grown so much. The School Sports Games are a direct | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
result of that magical Olympic summer in 2012. The government and | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Lottery Fund invested ?130 million to ensure every child has a chance | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
of playing some kind of competitive sport. In Kettering, the county | :14:49. | :15:00. | |
finals. Many schools represented, and many girls and boys driven on by | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
the 'c' word ` competition. When you play friendly matches you know other | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
people so I don't think you perform your best. When you play | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
competitively you don't know them so you tend to want to be better. You | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
try harder. It's better. While the money for these events is due to run | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
out next year, the Conservatives have pledged to stump up the cash | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
for primary school sport until 2020 if they're re`elected. Four year | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
funding commitments are helpful but won't change things for the better | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
in the long run. We want the youngsters to grow up to be | :15:42. | :15:53. | |
physically active adults. That's going to take a ten or 15 year | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
commitment. Over 2,000 children hope to achieve their own personal | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
targets in Kettering this week. The taking part counts, but the winning | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
matters! All this week on Look East we're | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Last night, Stewart was in the trenches at a film set in Suffolk. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
Tonight, we're talking boots. We touched on this last night. At the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
start of the First World War it was so wet in the trenches that many | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
soldiers suffered from a condition called trench foot. So, top quality | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
boots were very important ` and millions of them were made by the | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
shoe factories in Northampton. In 100 years, the making of a boot | :16:32. | :16:48. | |
in Northampton has changed little. In the First World War, the British | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Army relied on footwear that would stand up to the rigours of warfare. | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
They're still made in the same way. Obviously there are new machines | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
that have modernised the process but basically they're the same. We no | :17:03. | :17:16. | |
longer put big nails into the soles. That's no longer needed. Just before | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
the War, Crockett Jones in Northampton were making use of new | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
manufacturing processes and was already expanding. This part of the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
building was opened up in 1912, so by the start of the First World War | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
it would still have felt very modern as the company embarked on its | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
busiest time in its 135 year history. Factory records show output | :17:36. | :17:53. | |
here doubled. Over 70% of all boots made for the troops came from | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Northamptonshire. Collectively, they made about 20 million pairs for the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
war effort. It was a big effort and the town was heavily involved in all | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
sorts of ways. The collective effort was big. The county probably made | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
around 30 million as well. In total, they contributed about 50 million | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
pairs. Today the company is still known for its high quality. Back | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
then, it only made boots for officers. Boots for the rank and | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
file also had to withstand the toughest of conditions. They have | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
studs ` metal studs. They would have been reinforced to last as long as | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
possible. We have photos of shoemakers and cobblers in the | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
fields, repairing the boots. One of the legacies of the First World War | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
was that many more women came into Northamptonshire's shoe factories. A | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
legacy that continues today. On BBC Two tonight, the military | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
historian and journalist Sir Max Hastings argues that Britain was | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
right to enter the war in 1914. The case against Britain's involvement | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
is made on Friday. When I spoke to Sir Max Hastings earlier, he told me | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
that we had to go to war after Germany invaded Belgium. The | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
Kaiser's Germany was bent on dominating Europe. Their behaviour | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
in Belgium ` the systematic murders of all these entirely innocent | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
people... It hardly suggests that a German victory would have been a | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
triumph for European civilisation. I argue in my film, of course the | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
First World War was an unspeakable catastrophe for Europe and Britain. | :19:44. | :19:53. | |
But was it futile? For nothing? I don't believe we could have stayed | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
out. I believe we had to fight. It was as honourable a cause as | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
fighting Hitler in 1939. They said at the time it would be over by | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Christmas. If they'd known the scale, the losses involved, Britain | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
would still have gone to war? We can certainly say none of the European | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
powers, including Germany, would have been so keen for war if they'd | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
known where it was going to end. The Germans were willing for war in 1914 | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
because they thought they could win at acceptable cost. They all | :20:26. | :20:37. | |
discovered, by terrible experience, was that nothing that Germany ` or | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
any other nation ` sought could justify the cost. Paint a picture of | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
Britain today if we hadn't gone to war in 1914. Grown up historians | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
don't do that... So many things might have happened. You can't. All | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
I can say is that if we had not fought, it would have been a | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
terrible day for the freedom of Europe and the cause of democracy. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
All wars are catastrophes for society. There's no such thing as an | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
easy, cheap war. A war that isn't too painful. There's a wonderful | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
phrase of a Norwegian resistance hero ` he wrote in his memoirs after | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
the Second World War a phrase I think is important for all of us to | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
remember. He said: 'War brings adventures that stir the heart but | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
the true nature of war is composed to be numerable personal tragedies | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
and sacrifices ` wholly evil and not redeemed by glory'. We should | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
remember that about all wars ` not just the Second World War or the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
First World War. How important do you think it is to have this debate | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
today, 100 years on? Are we learning lessons from the past? We need to | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
use this centenary year to look beyond the cliches. We know how | :21:59. | :22:13. | |
ghastly it was. We should help our children to understand how and why | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
it came about. Unless we can understand why terrible things | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
happen in the past, we won't avoid equally terrible things in the | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
future. Thank you. Sir Max Hastings there. His | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
programme tonight is called The Necessary War. It's on BBC Two at | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
9pm. Tomorrow, how German destroyers | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
opened fire on Lowestoft. It happened in the spring of 1916. Four | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
people were killed and more than 200 buildings were damaged. 60 shells | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
hit the town in just over ten minutes. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
At the risk of tempting fate, it's looking like winter is almost beyond | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
us. Weather and gardening experts said today that apart from a few | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
snow flurries at the weekend, we can all start looking forward to spring. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Last winter, the big freeze went on for weeks. Jo Taylor has been | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
looking at what a difference a year makes. Sunshine struggles through | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
rain`filled clouds. Hinting at better times. A contrast with last | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
year, when we had snow as late as March. Last year was dominated by | :23:34. | :23:54. | |
easterly winds. Last year, flowers appeared late but this year they are | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
rarely. `` early. At this garden, seated domes near Norwich City | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
centre, they are expecting the best display they have had for years. | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
When you get it so`called, other people will have had the same | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
experience. `` so cold. It looks as though winter is on its way out. We | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
have warmer days coming through. In Norfolk, last season 42 thousandths | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
of Saltford used but this year that has only been 14,000. The gutters | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
have only been out 14 times this year. They are preparing another run | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
tonight. `` the gritters. This afternoon, the sun was shining and | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
the flowers were starting to bloom. Time now for the weather. And area | :24:58. | :25:21. | |
of showers have just moved up over the eastern part of a six. But we | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
should clear away over the next part of the evening. It could mean that | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
we record temperatures low enough for a touch of ground frost. Three | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
or four Celsius. We start tomorrow quick chilly but it is not a bad day | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
at all. It will be a mainly dry day with sunny spells. Long spells of | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
sunshine, particularly across the eastern half. That could produce an | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
isolated shower but most of us should stay dry with a highs of 10 | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Celsius. You may be drawn to the wind speeds. They may pick up over | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
the afternoon and into the evening. The weather will change on Thursday. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
There it does. It moves through on Wednesday overnight. `` Here it is. | :26:16. | :26:28. | |
It clears away and we will see some brighter skies but heavier showers | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
as well. Overnight, another area of rain starts to move through and the | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
forecast is looking unsettled. Some cooler temperatures. Highs for | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Friday and Saturday are just six and seven. We may get a touch of ground | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
frost tonight but the numbers are going down by the end of the week | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
and that could produce a sharp frost, publicly for Friday. `` | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
particularly. That is all from us. Good night. | :27:06. | :27:11. |