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Hello and welcome to Friday's Look North. | :00:01. | :00:03. | |
Tonight: 1,000 new jobs for the North in the | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
offshore windfarm industry. All systems go! Teesside's | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
mothballed blast furnace will be fired up this weekend. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Also tonight, the �5 million bill to treat obesity in the North East | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
and Cumbria. We join Beefy on his Great British | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Walk for charity as it passes through our region. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
And seeing red - why volunteers are being asked to count these little | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
creatures for a special census. In sport, Sunderland could go back | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
into the Premier League's top ten this weekend. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
And a night to remember for these England schoolboys as north-east | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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players take centre stage in It may well be Friday the 13th but | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the North has today received a major economic boost, creating or | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
safeguarding nearly 2,000 jobs on both Teesside and Tyneside. Firstly, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
the engineering firm Offshore Group Newcastle is to build the | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
foundations for large wind turbine generators at its yard in Wallsend. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
The company says it'll create up to 1,000 jobs. It's been helped by a | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
government grant of �640,000 and construction work will begin later | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
this year. Meanwhile, the blast furnace at the former Corus | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
steelworks on Teesside is to be relit over the weekend. It'll mean | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
a return to steelmaking there after a break of two years. 800 workers | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
have been taken on, many had lost their jobs when the site was | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
mothballed. More on that in a moment. But first, those new jobs | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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in the offshore wind farm industry. Good evening. This is a good day | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
for the north, I am here at the yard where the night shift is under | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
way and the whole workforce is celebrating the award of this | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
�640,000 grant which will help them to design and build a prototype for | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
a foundation that will accommodate these enormous offshore wind | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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turbines. This is an area which has been heavily caught by the | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Government. The director says this will enable them to compete for a | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
healthy share of the market. grant is the first step, it is a | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
great boost to us, we have our own ideas and to the design features | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
which we think will reduce the cost of the foundations. Hence the | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
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ground. Because of the scale thing, week have committed to 6,000, we | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
have to be installing around 600 a year. In terms of competition it is | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
about coming up with a solution that is easy and cheap to install. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
No one company will dominate this market but we want our fair share. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
This is an area of the North East which is crying out for new | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
employment opportunities. The mere prospect of this many jobs has been | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
welcomed with open arms by everyone who lives here. There is nothing | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
here, so many jobs have been lost. The high street is empty, the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
shopping centre is nearly empty so it is good news for the region. | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
Fantastic, we need it. It is dead, nobody has buried it yet. A lot of | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
shops are shutting because there is no work, nobody has any money. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Everybody is going to London or further afield to find work because | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
there is nothing here at all. on the prototype will begin later | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
this year and then hopefully that prototype and design will translate | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
into real jobs here on the ground by 2014. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Thanks, Damian. Well on Teesside it's been announced the Thai steel | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
company SSI will fire up the mothballed blast furnace over the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
weekend. 1,600 jobs went at the Redcar plant in February 2010 when | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
the former owner, Corus, had to close it after the loss of a ten- | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
year steel supply agreement. However, SSI paid �290 million for | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
the facility, taking it over in March last year. About 800 people | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
work there at the moment but SSI has said, eventually, it wants to | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
employ 1,800 workers at the site. Earlier I spoke to the Redcar MP | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
Ian Swales and I asked him for his reaction to today's announcement. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
It is every year since SSI took over the site, we knew there was a | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
lot of work to do. It felt like the town was dying when the steelworks | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
closed and I feels like it is coming back to life again. It is | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
fantastic. 800 people are working there were the moment, SSI are | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
hoping to pick it up to 1800. worry lot of jobs there at the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
moment and there will be more because some of the jobs relate to | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
the actual production. SSI are ambitious, they want to do more | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
there, but let us walk before we run. They want to be there long | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
term and have invested a lot of money on this side. We are | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
optimistic for the future, supporting them as well as we can. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
I suppose the worry is given that Corus Steelworks could not make a | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
go of it what will be different? This will be different because I | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
have been to SSI's site and they need this much steel, they will | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
take it to SSI's site in Thailand. I think this will be different. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Well, those employed by SSI are expected to accept new ways of | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
working. The Thai company has said it doesn't want entrenched steel | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
industry attitudes on its site. And it's been trying to recruit a lot | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
of newcomers to the industry. Our Business Correspondent, Ian Reeve, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
has been following one of the new boys from day one. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
This was the first day at work for some of the new workers at SSI. No | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
molten iron in sight, rather an autumn day at Middlesbrough | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Football Club last year and an introduction to the values of the | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
owner of the blast furnace. I felt the first day had to be an | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
important day where they get an understanding of perhaps the way | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
the world used to be and the way the world needs to be in the future. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
A SSI has employed former workers but it wants a new mindset on site, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
not entrenched with old steel industry values. It wants people | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
like Daniel, in his 20s and new to the business. Stability is going to | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
be there for the whole family, it is going to be massive. A massive | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
future really. I would like to be part of that. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Three months on and the job has captivated Daniel. He's training on | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
the coke ovens, an important part of the steel making process. | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
lads, the team leaders, everybody is there for you. If there are any | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
questions you need answered they stop did what they are doing to | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
help. And the boss also thinks he's coming along pretty well. He is | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
doing very well. Like all of the new boys they are taking to it like | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
a duck to water. And two weeks ago, Daniel finished his training. The | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
control room now his domain. He's still happy possibly because his | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
pay rise has kicked in. What we have heard of management and stuff | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
like that we have finished off brilliantly. It looks really good. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Daniel is just one of 800 workers taken on so far. But his youth and | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
enthusiasm mixed with the experience of some old hands is | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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what SSI is hoping will make this Ian, if Corus couldn't make the | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
blast furnace work, what's the difference this time with SSI? | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
we know, SSI is a Thai company and it intends to export or the steel | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
that it makes here on Teesside back to Thailand. It is going to be used | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
in the automotive industry making cars and the car industry in | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Thailand is booming, they made something like 1.6 million cars | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
last year. There is also a demand from the rest of south-east Asia | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
for the foreseeable short term, at least the next two or three years. | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
We may also seek SSI branching out and supplying steel to UK wind | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
farms to make those big wind turbines. We might see Teesside | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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It's emerged that nearly �5 million a year is now being spent in our | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
region on gastric surgery for obese people. And the bill is likely to | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
rise. Operations for people from across the North East and Cumbria | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
are carried out in Sunderland at the regional centre of excellence | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
for bariatrics, that's the treatment of obesity. Our Chief | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Reporter Chris Stewart's been to the city and met a man who used to | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
eat so much, it could have killed him. | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
This is one I am on holiday, 33 stone. He is less than half the man | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
he was and he sets a gastric bypass was his only option. If I had never | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
got it down, I would be dead. Darren is 44 and the steward of a | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
working man's club. He had to remortgage his home for his | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
operation, six years ago the NHS would not do it. He still has | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
excess weight, but ironically it is made up of the excess skin he has | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
been left with. The NHS has now set him that what he sees as an | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
impossible target to have that skin removed. You have got to be 12 | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
stone. I am not going to get down to 12 stone and I cannot afford to | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
get it done privately. It is around �10,000. I could not afford to get | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
it done privately. Perhaps he should not have to. So says the man | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
at the top at Sunderland Royal. Patients are brought here from | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
across the North and as the population gets heavier and heavier | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
there is now a potential caseload of 1000 patients a year. We think | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
it is something we have to face up to and address. Week are | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
considering offering that as a secondary treatment to patients who | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
are successful. That means more demands on your purse strings. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
does indeed. But we spend our money wisely and well. We are doing the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
population a good service. option to do nothing is not an | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
option at all, he says. Spent nothing on bariatrics and the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
resulting bill for diabetes and heart problems will be even higher. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
More of our region's soldiers were honoured today. They were each | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
awarded their first Afghan service medal at a ceremony in Newcastle. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Officers and soldiers from 132 Battery of 39 Regiment Royal | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Artillery paraded in front of friends and families at Albermarle | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Barracks. They've been on a six- month tour of duty in Helmand | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Province. The proud heroes return. After | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
months in one of the most volatile countries in the world. Medals were | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
awarded for more than half of the 72 service personnel who've just | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
served their first tour in Afghanistan. I have been really | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
proud of myself and for my family to see me get the medal. It means a | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
lot. It can be quite scary up there. A was a scary at times in | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
Afghanistan? Yes. Yes, it was. soldiers and officers have only | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
been back in their families for one week following a six-month tour in | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
Afghanistan. Their job there is very specific, to provide firepower | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
support using machines such as that one, a high-tech multiple rocket | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
launcher system. While Sri are not needed, we are not used in | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
Afghanistan every single day, week are ready every single day to | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
provide that specific targeting and we can destroy the threat. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
The battery returns to Afghanistan in two years' time. They'll be the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
last to serve there before troops are pulled out at the end of 2014. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
In the meantime nine weeks leave means all are now catching up on | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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moments missed. Missed Christmas again and miss the youngest's | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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birthday. We had a great party, didn't we? Great to see them safely | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
home. The cricketing legend Sir Ian | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Botham was on Tyneside today for the second leg of his latest | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
charity trek. Beefy's Great British Walk 2012 takes in ten cities from | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Glasgow to London. Sir Ian, who played for Durham in the early '90s, | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
is raising money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. Andy Smythe | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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caught up with him, or tried to, I am side by side with the | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
England's best cricketer. Better say something clubber. You got a | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
fair pace. Why take longer than you have to? A I am an idiot. What | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
keeps you inspired? Winning a battle. Forget year-old Ben | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
Charlton is winning the battle. He was diagnosed with leukaemia. | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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great that I have beaten the cancer. It is his way of saying thank you. | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
It is saving lives. Sir Ian Botham began his walks in the 80s. | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
Leukaemia are is more survivable -- survive rubble. That is now and 90 | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
tower at -- 92 % chance. It took two-and-a-half hours or Beefy to | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
meet the finish. How many squirrels have you seen | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
lately? A new conservation group which is dedicated to saving the | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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red squirrel has launched its first region worried squirrels senses. -- | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
region worried. Red squirrels are now restricted to | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
Northumberland and Cumbria. People like Emma and Richard are to turn | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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the tide. Squirrels love sunflower seeds. Red squirrels are not easy | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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to see but there are ways to detect them. We have remote cameras that | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
we attach to trees. Everything that comes to the feeder box will | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
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trigger the camera. We can see everything that visits the box. | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
These pick up the hearers from visiting squirrels. We can pit the | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
hairs under a microscope. A degree squirrel is blamed -- the grey | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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squirrel is blamed for their it decline of the it red squirrel. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
numbers trapped are 50 % of what I have had in previous years. There | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
was a bonus this week when for the first time in two-and-a-half years, | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
there was a red squirrel on my patch. The results will be known by | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
July. It is hoped the account will be happily in the red. | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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If you have spotted a red squirrel, let us know one or Facebook page. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
It is well known many children spend more time in front of a | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
computer than playing out side. The National Trust wants to change that. | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
They have given a list of what children can do before reaching 10. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
I am Jonathan and I am 10. adjoining children building again. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
It is one of the 50 tasks the National Trust is encouraging | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
children to do. I have done the majority and I have 11 yes -- left | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
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to do. I enjoy making dens. You can run wild. Get some branches. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
find that people are struggling to engage with the countryside. I do | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
not know what that is not welcoming enough. It is valuable. It gives | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
them a sense of independence. don't get out and about. They need | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
fresh air. A scheme is in response to a new response -- research. | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
Fewer than one in 10 children play and wild spaces. If you know | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
someone who has some items left on their list, the doors are opening | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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again next weekend. There is nothing like it. It could | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
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BDDP for Darlington. Craig Liddle says he will not be | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
manager next season whatever happens. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
With Newcastle not playing this weekend, Sunderland Barrault only | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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hope. We're taking on wolves. It was the reverse fixture at | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Molineux when Martin O'Neill realised what a bad job he had | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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taken on. Plenty of demand gloom. It has been a wonderful pick up | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
from the supporters. They have galvanised the club again. There | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
are stronger now. Sunderland going to tomorrow's came after a | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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difficult Easter. The around a lot of difficulty. They have to win a | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
number of these games to perform a mini miracle. We want that to start | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
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at the Stadium of Light. They need to put in a performance. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Middlesbrough desperately needed victory to get in the championships. | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
It is a real six-pointer this weekend. I hugely disappointing | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
week. Tony Mowbray says his side must win three of their last four | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
games. We shot ourselves in the foot. The positives are that some | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
results have gone for us. We had a great result on Easter Monday. We | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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cannot worry too much and we must look ahead. Carlyle could move back | :21:54. | :22:04. | |
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into... Hartlepool have a great chance to pick up points. | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
It was a night to remember for a local lads as England schoolboys | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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bet -- beat Scotland 2-0. Michael Sweet from Darlington and another | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
scoring the goals. Newcastle Falcons survival | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
continues to hang in the balance. If the Wasps when, they will finish | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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bottom of the league. The Falcons are eight points adrift. | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
Gary Gold has the utmost respect for his side. I have seen teams | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
before or from a distance that have capitulated in this position. They | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
have hung in there. They have a never-say-die attitude. They are | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
doing everything in their power. Even if they finish bottom of the | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
league, they will still have an agonising wait to find out if they | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
are relegated. They would stay up ith financially troubled Wasps go | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
into administration. If that is because other team's misfortune, if | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
something comes along and helps us, if not, we take the responsibility. | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
It is a big challenge Cup weekend. There has been mixed news for | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
Olympic hopefuls. Savannah Marshall has been picked in China. She has | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
reached the semi-finals to compete in London. There is no place for | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
Amanda Coulson. On the second day of their County | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
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Championship, not Durham have had a It will be a tough day tomorrow. | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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Too many of us -- not too many of us will be disappointed. It is a | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
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good chance to enjoy the daffodils. If you are joining the first of the | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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crisis -- cruises are out of the time, you can see the blue sky and | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
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the seat. This evening, we have seen some showers. After midnight, | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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keep an eye on the North East corner. That rain will turn wintry. | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
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There could be see off for a centimeters of snow. -- three or | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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four. Temperatures will go down to zero. On Saturday, these showers | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
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will continue. They will fade-out to the south. In the afternoon, | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
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looking more settled. Along the coastline, it will be chilly. The | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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northerly wind will bring in this cold air. Sunday looks like the | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
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