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In the programme tonight: The threat to a pioneering scheme easing | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
the pressures on A by keeping elderly people out of hospital. | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
We will do our best to cope with what has happened but I really, | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
really don't think it is indeed best interest of in Hertfordshire. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
The man accused of killing Royston writer Helen Bailey says kidnappers | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Why a Bedford accountant was stopped from making a charitable donation. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
And I'm here inside shed one at Cardington, looking at the future of | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the airship industry. First tonight the row over health | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
funding in Hertfordshire. The county council is reporting | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
part of the local NHS to the Health Secretary after it | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
pulled millions of pounds out of a fund designed, in part, | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to stop bed-blocking. It comes as latest figures show that | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
in our part of the region in December patients spent nearly | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
15,000 days in hospital beds Our political reporter Tom Barton | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
has been looking at the figures. The picture of delayed | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
transfers of care, better known as bed-blocking, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
is very mixed across our So in the best-performing areas, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Luton and Central Bedfordshire, last year for every 100,000 people, | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
on average five beds But in Northamptonshire the figure | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
was five times bigger. 25 beds each day were being used by | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
someone who didn't need to be there. In Cambridgeshire and | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Hertfordshire it was a little I've been taking a look at one | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
scheme in Hertfordshire where they're taking action | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
to improve that figure. Myra Stephenson has been | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
in St Catherine's Nursing Home in Letchworth Garden City | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
for three weeks. She came here straight from hospital | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
and she much prefers it. It's just like a hotel and whatever | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
you would want, it's there. And the nurses are individuals | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
and you're an individual. Myra is benefiting from the scheme | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
which sees the local NHS and Hertfordshire County Council | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
working together and It's paying for exercise classes | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
like this, which have led to a massive drop in the number | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
of falls, stopping unnecessary It is also helping to get people out | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
of hospital more quickly. Hertfordshire have just started | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
using this red bag as a way of making the process of leaving | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
hospital run as It has got everything in it that | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
you need to go home, so it is a change of clothes, | :02:53. | :03:17. | |
it has got your medication and it The project also has | :03:18. | :03:17. | |
a trusted assessor, working in the Lister Hospital on behalf | :03:18. | :03:18. | |
of the Hertfordshire Care Home Association, | :03:19. | :03:18. | |
helping to get people out of hospital as soon | :03:19. | :03:18. | |
as they are ready. We have had a 45% reduction | :03:19. | :03:18. | |
in hospital admittances since we've In terms of the trusted assessor, | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
she has now saved, I think it is, 305 bed days in six months, | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
so that means that we have made The Herts Valley Clinical | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Commissioning Group has just taken ?8.5 million out of the shared fund | :03:31. | :03:43. | |
that pays for schemes like this. Very few parts of the NHS | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
are making such payments. Yesterday a council committee | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
decided to ask the Health Secretary I strongly believe that patients | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
will suffer because while we can absorb some of the impact | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
of that funding reduction within the service, and we will be | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
able to resolve some of it, the magnitude of ?8.5 million just | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
being taken out five weeks before we set our budgets is, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
it makes it almost For now though Myra and others | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
like her are benefiting from a system that is really helping | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
to stop unnecessary So that's the situation | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
in Hertfordshire. But, as we saw earlier, | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
the worst performing area In December 2010 patients spent | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
1,500 more days in hospital beds The latest figures published today, | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
for December last year, show that figure is now | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
more than 5,000. Part of the reason, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
according to the county's care home association, | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
is that many homes won't work with the council because it | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
doesn't pay them enough. The impact is that we cannot provide | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
the service that we need They don't pay a sufficient amount | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
of money per week per resident. We are reaching, in | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
effect, a tipping point. We have said to them that they need | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
to increase their funds, they need to increase them rapidly | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
to prevent further homes from shutting and prevent | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
bed-blocking to the local hospitals. Northamptonshire County Council says | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
it's giving care home operators more And is planning to invest an extra | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
?1.7 million in the next year. And more investment is likely | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
to be needed because this In 2008 there were 970,000 people | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
over 65 in the East of England. And it's only going to get bigger, | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
raising questions over how we look And later in the programme we'll be | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
in one of the region's hospitals to see how they try and deal | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
with the issues of Next the fiance of children's author | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Helen Bailey has claimed he was blackmailed for ?500,000 | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
by a pair of mystery kidnappers Ian Stewart denies killing | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Helen and told a jury that he spoke to her four days | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
after she disappeared. Let's join our reporter, | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Kate Bradbrook, outside Ian Stewart was on his | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
feet in the witness box Ian Stewart said the two men were | :06:30. | :06:49. | |
business associates of Helen 's late husband Johnson Field and said they | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
had visited the house many times and demanded paperwork from there and he | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
had been physically assaulted by them. They threatened that if they | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
did not get what they wanted they would demand ?500,000. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Ian Stewart was on his feet in the witness box | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
His voice broke several times as he gave his version of events | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
He told the court that two men named Nick and Joe abducted Helen | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
on the 11th April, the day she went missing. | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
It said on Friday 15th, Nick turned up at the house with a phone. | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Ian spoke to Helen, who said "Sorry about everything, I love you." | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
He replied, "It's not your fault, I love you too." | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Ian Stewart told the jury that the following day he met Nick | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
in Kent to hand over Helen's phone as they had requested. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
He said on 26th April Nick and Joe demanded access | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
They said Helen told us where something was in the garage. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Ian Stewart later told the court they must have | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Ian Stewart claimed throughout that Nick and Joe had threatened | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
that he would never see Helen Bailey again if he told | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
He said they told him if they didn't get what they needed | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
they would demand half a million pounds. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
Ian Stewart is accused of drugging Helen Bailey with sleeping pills | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
He told the court Helen had taken them when she realised he couldn't | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
When asked why that wasn't mentioned in his defence | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
The drug zopiclone was found in Helen Bailey's system when her body | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
was found three months after she disappeared. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Under cross-examination prosecutor Stuart Trimmer QC put | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Now, Ian Stewart also admitted today that he had lied for months about a | :08:33. | :08:55. | |
note which he said that Allen had note which he | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
left saying she had gone to left saying she had gone to | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
Broadstairs and he said he had to do that in order to keep a safe and | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
also because he was told his sons could end up in hospital if he said | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
anything, but he told the court today that month later he received a | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
phone call saying that one of the men, Joe, had now been dealt with | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
and that he was safe to contact police. Ian Stewart denies all of | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
the charges against him and his defence case will continue here on | :09:24. | :09:24. | |
Monday. Thank you. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
A Muslim accountant from Bedford had ?400 in charity donations frozen | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
online after his name appeared on a restriction list | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Mamunul Islam had used the online ticketing website EventBrite to sell | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
tickets to a community film screening in late January | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
when he was told the money would not be released | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
When Mamunul Islam organised a charity film night in Bedford | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
he gave guests the option to make a donation for the screening. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
But when Mr Islam went to withdraw the money from ticketing | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
website Eventbrite he received an e-mail saying the money | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
was being temporarily withheld because the name M Islam matched one | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
that had been restricted by the United States Office | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
If it was my own government, it was our own Parliament, | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
it was our treasury officer putting such restrictions, than | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
I would've said, OK, this is my government doing it. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
This is the US government telling a British citizen he cannot have | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
that payment because your name is Islam, you are a Muslim. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Mr Islam had used the site many times before without a problem | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
but Eventbrite told us it as an automated system that does | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the matching and is then reviewed by a team member. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
In a statement the company said Whether our colleagues reach out | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
to the organiser to get additional information | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
In this event they only had a last name and no geographical information | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
so our colleagues contacted Mr Islam for additional information to help | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
verify that he was not the person on the Ofac list. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
We took these steps as a routine compliance measure and not | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
in reaction to any recent news events or changes in US law. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Mr Islam's MP Richard Fuller says he is investigating the incident, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
but doesn't believe Mr Islam was discriminated against. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
It is not an issue of discrimination, it's | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
about whether the computer programmes that are being used | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
are being applied fairly in all cases. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
It wasn't a close match, I don't think Mr Islam's name | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
should have been flagged up and I am going to check with the company to | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Eventbrite says unfortunately someone with a very common name | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
like Islam is more likely to match the list. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
Eventbrite, the site that we are using, | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
Mr Islam believes media pressure encouraged Eventbrite | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
The company says it is truly sorry for the distress caused. | :11:55. | :12:04. | |
The government has lifted part of a ban on keeping poultry outside, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
but birds on farms in high risk zones will have to stay indoors. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
The restrictions were introduced in December to help prevent | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
It means egg producers in high risk areas including | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
parts of Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
will lose their free range status from 1st March. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Peterborough travel giant Thomas Cook has cheered a solid | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
start to the new year, but says it still remains | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
The company says that holiday bookings for the Greek Islands have | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
risen by nearly 40%, as travellers move away from Turkey | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
and Egypt because of concerns about security in both countries. | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Chief executive Peter Fankhouser said there was no sign that Britons | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
had been put off by the weak pound, but there was still plenty of | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Shares in the company fell almost 10% on the news, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
More at 10.30pm, but now here's Stewart and Amelia. | :12:55. | :13:07. | |
Still to come tonight: More wintry weather on the way. | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
And fighting the fines for taking children out | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
We meet the couple who refused to pay and ended up in court. | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
As new figures reveal that so-called bed blocking | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
is the highest on record, we've been given exclusive access | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
to one of the region's hospitals to see how | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
The head of the NHS said today that delays in getting people out | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
of hospital and into social care or back home have gone up by 90% | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Simon Dedman has been to Basildon Hospital to see how | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
a team there is dealing with the problem. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
We have had a very challenging night. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
We are still on black alert currently. | :13:58. | :13:58. | |
It is the first meeting at Basildon Hospital to work out | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
I've got three potential discharges for today. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
We are in a position where we have no more beds in the hospital, | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
so we have 28 patients placed in A, so at the moment, if we have | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
any more ambulances arrive, we only have one trolley | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
If you have more than one patient, what are you going to do? | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Then we will have ambulances queueing. | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
We admitted more people than we were able to discharge yesterday. | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
Basildon's managing director takes me through the latest situation. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
What we're hoping to do is move patients into our elective | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
orthopaedic ward, which means we are not able to do joint surgery, | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Just coming round to see if there are any patients for hospital home? | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
After the morning meeting, nurse Natalie Cook goes ward to ward | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
to find patients who could be discharged from hospital | :14:57. | :14:57. | |
and get their treatment from Basildon hospital nurses | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
The consultant saw you yesterday and is happy for us to take you home. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
She has found one who will hopefully be discharged today. | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
She heads now to find four other patients who can get | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
But the real problem is being dealt with here. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Sick elderly people who get stuck in hospital. | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
This ward aims to treat the frail quickly and get | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
That is what this team works on every day at nine. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
Some patients have been here for ten days though. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
But after two days on this ward, Eileen is looking | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
I am on some tablets, I don't know exactly what they are for, | :15:40. | :15:53. | |
other than having those in the mornings and apart from that, | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
it's just being here and getting looked after. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Some patients here are waiting for social care to kick in. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
The majority of the patients who come over here we treat | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
The longer they stay, more complex problems arise, | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
so having access to community services and talking | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
to leads in community, we are able to get them out quicker. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Every bed in Basildon Hospital is taken and it has pretty much been | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
that way since the beginning of the year. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
So much so that if you needed something like a hip replacement, | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
they would pay to send you private, none have taken place | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
Basildon Hospital is trying but getting slack in the health | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
This time of year, lots of families will be spending hours trying | :16:47. | :16:59. | |
to find a decent summer holiday at a decent price. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
So do you take the children out of school during term time | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
when everything is much cheaper, or do you wait for the school | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
The government says children need to be in school and unauthorised | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
absences attract a fine of ?60 per child. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
But when Matt and Kerry Thomas from Norwich were fined ?120 | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
following a trip to Majorca, they decided to fight | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Wearing her uniform today but last summer, faith and her brother took a | :17:26. | :17:39. | |
week out of school with their parents. They headed for the Spanish | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
holidays it would have cost 3000. I holidays it would have cost 3000. I | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
and the exchange rate and I learned and the exchange rate and I learned | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
how big the world was. Their schools took a DM view. The local council | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
took action. Matt and Ceri Thomas refused to pay the ?120 fine so it | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
was doubled. They still refuse to pay and so today both sides faced | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
each other in court. I know what is best for my children not someone | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
sitting in a courthouse or behind a desk. I know what is best and the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
best thing for them was to have the experience of a foreign holiday. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Matt is pinning his hopes on the case of another father who won his | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
case at the High Court. He took his daughter to Florida and faced a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
and now Supreme Court judges will and now Supreme Court judges will | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
decide if he has to pay. I don't think there is an issue, as long as | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
they catch up with their work and make sure that is not affected. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Maybe when they were younger, maybe not so much when they are older | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
because of exams. I don't agree with it. They are therefore education. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
The county council told us it is Headteachers themselves who decide | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
whether or not to take action... Aside from the lower cost of | :19:08. | :19:17. | |
holidays during term time, there are those like this family who thought | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
their rights as parents are being undermined, but the government is | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
clear, even a few days away from school can affect exam results and | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
have a detrimental effect on a child's's education. That is the | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
only holiday we have ever been on as a holiday. But we took it on term | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
time which is against the law. The family will be back here for a full | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
trial next month. I'm sure most of us remember | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
the case of the wheelchair user who took his local bus company | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
to the supreme court, after a dispute with a woman | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
with a child in a buggy over He won the case, but now something | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
similar has happened in Essex. Nicki Price has cerebral | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
palsy and was waiting She says there were two pushchairs | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
taking up the space for a wheelchair and the mothers refused | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
to move them. Nicky Price on her way to the bus | :20:16. | :20:27. | |
stop. She says using a bus must be a basic right. Unfortunately they are | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
not very reliable. They are always missing buses out which makes the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
enough is bus overcrowded. And when Nicky try to get on a first bus | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
recently, there were two pushchairs in the space for the wheelchair. The | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
drivers ask the mother to fall they pushed us up, they both said no and | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Nicky could not get on. I was devastated. I was upset, angry. I | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
was worried about my child which was my main thought at the time, which | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
was I must get to my child, to pick her up. But I felt like a second | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
class citizen. And it came despite Doug Pauley's recent victory in the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
Supreme Court. He could not get onto a bus when a mother with a pushchair | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
refused to move. The judges ruled they should do more to accommodate | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
wheelchair users. Nicky Price says the ruling has not made any | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
difference. She dreads being left stranded at a bus stop. I am | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
vulnerable, left out in the cold, alone. Where does it... What if | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
something happens? I feel scared to use the buses. In a statement, first | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
said: Nicky Price see the fore says she | :21:53. | :22:09. | |
has received overwhelming support over what she feels is a continuing | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
injustice against wheelchair users. You may well know that hidden away | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
in a giant hangar in Bedfordshire is the longest aircraft | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
in the world. It's called the Airlander and it's | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
a cross between an airship and a conventional plane. | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Last summer, everybody got very excited when it | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
made its maiden flight. Then, a few days later, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
there was a crash landing. Now after months of repair work, it | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
could be back in the air very soon. Airlander in the skies above | :22:32. | :22:49. | |
Cardington. One of many maiden flights. Its second test flight | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
ended in this, and undignified nosedive on landing. The state of | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
the cockpit shown it could have been worse. I have been given special | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
access inside shed one. To find out how the air lender is recovering. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
The cockpit now being rebuilt, those at the controls that they are | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
unharmed. There was a loud noise when we hit the ground. Pretty soon | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
we realise that most of the damage was superficial. We were fine and a | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
chilly got top and walked off the flight deck. Are you looking forward | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
to going back up? We are all excited. There was frustration we | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
had to stop flying to repair the aircraft, but we know we have made | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
loads of changes to our training and we will come back much stronger. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
This shed is 100 years old, built for the original airships with its | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
own climate, far colder than own climate, far colder than | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
outside. A century ago, nearby shorts town was built to house the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
workers and now the apprentices once again being recruited from the same | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
area. It is amazing to follow in their footsteps and a revolutionary | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
aircraft like this is amazing. It's a great feeling, a great atmosphere, | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
everyone grew up around here so knows the history. If it hadn't been | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
for a heavy landing, the Airlander would have had extra flying time but | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
backers remain optimistic. Details confidential but they include a high | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
profile investor from the middle east and it is hoped Airlander will | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
return to the skies very soon. Come March time, we should leave the hang | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
out again for our 2017 flight test programme. Then we will work with | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
customers, working up to some longer trips into Asia, North America. This | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
is the latest chapter in airship history as the industry celebrates | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
its 100th year here. Handsome. Very impressive. Now the | :24:54. | :25:07. | |
weather. Colder firmly establish across the British Isles. Bitterly | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
cold for at least 48 hours and there have been some snow flurries. These | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
photographs define some. Evidence of snow on the windscreen. You can see | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
a little bit of snow there on what looks like a table. Most of us saw | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
leaden skies today and with the temperature and the bitterly cold | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
wind, it has not felt pleasant. There will be the risk of further | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
snow showers over the next 24 hours. High-pressure, huge area of high | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
pressure across Scandinavia and that is blocking these Atlantic weather | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
systems coming in. Colder air across us over the last 24 hours. These | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
showers will continue this evening. Mainly for coastal parts, but as | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
that north-easterly wind freshens, they could move further inland, so | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
the chance you may wake up to a dusting of snow tomorrow morning, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
particularly if you live in eastern counties. A few degrees below | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
freezing. Tomorrow's weather, not a lot changing but we have this | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
feature coming in from the north sea and there will be more depth to the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
cloud tomorrow, so any showers will be heavier. The risk of those | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
showers through the day, a lot of dry weather but no evidence of | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
sunshine. Temperatures once more similar to today, two or three | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
degrees. Factor in that degrees. Factor in that | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
north-easterly wind, it will be bitterly cold. Snow showers could | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
move further west so as we go into Friday evening, a greater risk of | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
getting a dusting of snow and further across western counties as | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
well. Certainly looking very wintry over the next few days. There are | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
changes into next week. Low pressure moving up from the south and that | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
will change things. Slightly less cold air for the weekend, but we | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
still have the north-easterly wind so it will feel the same temperature | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
wise. But by mid week, more of a springlike feel as temperatures | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
cover perhaps into the mid teens. Fantastic! That is all from us. | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
Goodbye. OK, everyone, have you got | :27:39. | :27:52. | |
your bamboo sticks? If you just paint | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
what you want to paint, I've turned around, | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
my painting washes away. ..and take on | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
The Big Painting Challenge. Remember, you're not painting | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
a pond. Before I met you, | :28:13. | :28:42. | |
I was a civilised woman. | :28:43. | :28:45. |