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A good evening, welcome to Look North. Our top storey, the nurse | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
who killed four patients, was the wrongly convicted? Also tonight, | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
after a fortnight of treetop protests, a 400-year-old tree is | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
felled. We will be joined in the studio by this man, Tim Piggot | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
Smith, who is in West Yorkshire to play King Lear. The weather is cold | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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and blustery, join me for the Welcome to the programme, a former | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
nurse who is serving a 30 year sentence for killing patients that | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
two Yorkshire hospitals is circuit -- is seeking to overturn his | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
conviction. Colin Norris, from Glasgow, worked at the Leeds | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
General Infirmary and the St George's Hospital. New evidence has | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
seen these -- could see the case sent back to the Appeal Court. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
He was described as an angel of death, who murdered his patients in | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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cold blood, but Colin Norris has always protested his innocence. | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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you know those women by a injecting After a five-month trial in 2008, | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
he was convicted of murder, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
The strength of the case was that he was on shift when five different | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
women suffered extremely low blood sugar. New evidence has come to | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
light suggesting that at least four of the women could have died from | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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natural causes. I was surprised at how Allberry, and it is in this | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
particular group of elderly sick people. In a very detailed search | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
by -- survey, it was up to 10 %. It is not that rare at all. I think | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
his conviction is unsafe. The BBC has uncovered evidence of other | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
cases of hypoglycaemia. His lawyer believes that there were serious | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
flaws in the investigation. seems that they only looked at the | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
cases when he was on duty. A West Yorkshire Police a spokesman said | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
that he had been prosecuted and sentence based on the evidence | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
presented in court. The new evidence has given Colin Norris's | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
mother a glimmer of hope. I do believe that the system will | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
eventually prove that there has been a miscarriage of justice. I | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
hope he will be a free man, whether it takes two, five years, I have | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
got to believe that that all happened. An application for a | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
fresh appeal is to be submitted to to be Criminal Cases Review | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Commission. We contacted the families of | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
patients affected, they all declined to take part in the | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
programme. West Yorkshire police say that he had been prosecuted, | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
and convicted based on the evidence presented in court. Our reporter | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
joins us live from our Glasgow studio. | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
There is an application to hear a fresh appeal, does everything stop | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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now? No, not really. We are waiting for the Criminal Cases Review | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
Commission. He has already gone to the Appeal Court, it was rejected. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
That was before he was in possession of this new evidence. A | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
new application is going to that Commission, that application will | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
go this week. They will take the decision, their options are to | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
reject it, to uphold the conviction, or they can send it back to the | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
Appeal Court. If it was to go back there, they would be a -- they | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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would hear the case, uphold it, or quash it. Inevitably, there are | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
compassion -- comparisons with the Stepping Hill Hospital. That | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
suspect was released due to lack of evidence. There are similarities. | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
We do not know the full details of that case. Alarm was raised after a | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
higher rate of hypoglycaemia was detected. This case flags up the | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
difficulty in investigating suspected insolent poisoning cases. | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
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-- in saloon. Jumping to conclusions is what lawyers acting | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
for Colin Norris believe happen in this case. The victims did not take | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
part in this, what have they had to say? Or they have been involved. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
They were invited to take part, they declined. It is a sensitive | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
case. I can understand why they did Thank you very much. If you have | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
that FreeSat, or Sky Television, you can watch Sovereign Grant Bill | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
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tonight's at 10:35pm. The picture behind me gives you a | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
clue of what has happened. The five-year battle to say that tree | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
has ended with the trees being felled. The council said it was | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
causing damage to nearby drains, and needed to come down. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Campaigners had occupied the tree in an effort to save it, there were | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
emotional scenes as it began to fall. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
As you can see, there is a gaping hole where the 100-year-old tree | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
once stood. Many protesters could not watch as it fell. One protester, | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
17-year-old, Nikki Welch, it was the end of a four year -- a four- | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
day ordeal. The council ride this morning to | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
erect a fence around the tree. Nikki Welch prepared herself for | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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After speaking to a council official, she decided to end her | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
four day protest. She was tired and emotional. I think we have to | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
accept that there is not anything more we can do for this particular | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
tree. They will be other things to do in the future to ensure that it | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
will be positive for more trees. She was one of five protesters to | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
occupy the tree. This man spent four nights there. He was then | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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replaced for three nights, Vicky spent four nights there. It was not | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the end back campaigners had hoped for. Within minutes, the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
contractors moved in and the branches frail -- branches fell, | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
protesters wept. It has been six years of campaigning. We have got a | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
lot of people's use. It is the heart of the village, it has been | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
removed, it is heartbreaking. What can you do? | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
The tree surgeons worked tirelessly. After removing the canopy brunch by | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
a branch, they started on the trunk. Justo Turk -- just over one hour | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
ago, the tree hit the ground. A five-year legal battle costing over | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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a quarter of bn-Pounds was finally over. -- to London �50,000. There | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
are plans to turn the trunk into a memorial. They have started a fund | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
to paper any legal fees for any future campaigners. -- pay for any | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
legal fees. I do not think we have heard the | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
last of that. Coming up, surging foreign unsung | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
hero, after race shaky start, this person went on to become a world | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
champion trapper lead. He will be telling us about his sporting hero. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
It appears it is not a good time to be a builder in Yorkshire. The | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
latest figures from the construction industry are not good | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
at all. Builders say their workloads have been falling for | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
four years. Many small builders are on a cliff-edge. They are hoping | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
for an upturn, he was our correspondent. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Hammering home the point. This house may go over is one of Chris | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
Smith's last jobs. After this he will join the ranks of building | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
firms struggling for survival. not know where the next job is | :11:08. | :11:16. | |
coming from. Who knows where I am going? I keep advertising, but the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
phone calls are not coming. If it does not turn round, what is going | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
to happen to you? I cannot say, it does not look good. He is far from | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
alone, workloads have been falling for four ears. There is no sign of | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
any let up. He used to have an apprentice, the that is now are to | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
be questioned. The workloads are getting smaller. Not only that, but | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
one-third of our members are saying they are going down even further. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
The they want government help. They are not impressed with the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Chancellor of Exchequer's plan to prop up small businesses. It is far | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
wider than that. We need to give people confidence to spend. We need | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
to see the Bat decreased. This graph shows what is going wrong. -- | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
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Bat. Many businesses are finding it difficult to bridge the gap. In | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
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Yorkshire, the index its banding at minus 30. Some cite some | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
mothballing waiting for better times. There are little signs of | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
A prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing an inmate at a prison near | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
York. Damien Fowkes strangled child killer Colin Hatch at Full Sutton | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
prison in February. At Hull Crown Court he admitted the manslaughter | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
charge. He also admitted the attempted murder of the Soham | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
killer Ian Huntley at Frankland prison in County Durham. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Only two people have applied for the job of Chief Constable of South | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Yorkshire Police. The current man in charge, Med Hughes, is due to | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
step down this week. His deputy Bob Dyson will temporarily step in but | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
the police authority is due to re- advertise the role. Plans to fill | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
in a disused quarry in Derbyshire are dividing a local community. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
15-year-old Ryan Walker drowned at Fall Gate Quarry at Ashover in the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
summer of 2009. His mother supports the idea but local people say, | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
while they sympathise with her, filling in the quarry is a knee | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
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jerk reaction. Tom Ingall has spent the day in the village. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
On a day like today, it is hard to believe this place has ever been | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
called the Blue Lagoon. Fall Gate Quarry does not look inviting. Two | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
years ago, friends of 15-year-old Ryan Walker were here paying | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
tribute. He drowned, dented by the water on a hot summer's day. The | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
plans to build a quarry with waste have been put forward by a local | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
company and his mother supports the idea. Not a day goes by when I | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
don't think about him, and when the pain comes back it really hurts. If | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
another tragedy happens there, kids are still going up there. We know | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
that the safest thing to do is to fill it in. These are the gates at | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
Fall Gate Quarry, and they have not been opened to traffic for decades. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
According to this planning notice, this is where the thousands of | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
tonnes of waste will arrive, perhaps using 18 lorries a day in | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
an operation lasting up to 30 months. Local people are objecting | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
to the plans because, they say, there is going to be problems with | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
his safety on the narrow roads and dead and noise, or that they do | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
sympathise with the Walker family. Keith is among many people who have | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
objected to the plans, describing them as a knee-jerk reaction. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
not the responsibility of the lonely -- local planning authority | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
to sanitise the countryside. It is our responsibility to make sure | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
that we teach our young people about the hazards of quarries. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Educate them. It is the land owners responsibility to ensure that the | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
quarry is sufficiently fenced and sufficient side exists. We must | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
respect private property. planning application has been put | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
in by a local company who don't wish to comment, and there is not a | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
date for when the council will decide on the matter. Both sides in | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
this debate recognise the other's point of view, but the death two | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
years ago could as yet have a bearing on what happens to the | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
quarry. If you have got any stories going | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
on in your area, we always want to hear from you. Before 7pm: A young | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
head for numbers - we'll meet the schoolboy studying for his Maths A- | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
level who's just eight. And, one of Shakespeare's greatest | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
tragedies comes to Yorkshire. We'll meet the man who's playing King | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
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This year, the BBC Sports Personality of Year Awards are in | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
Salford and one of the prizes handed out will be the Unsung Hero | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
award and we need your help to find Yorkshire's hero. The winner here | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
will be put forward for the national award - details of how to | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
nominate in a moment. But, to give you an idea of the kind of person | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
we're looking for, we asked triathletes Alistair and Jonathan | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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Brownlee to tell us about their Unsung Hero. Here's Neil Smallburn. | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
A great start for both the Brownlee brothers. They are both in the top | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
10 as they sprint... Even the greatest have to start somewhere. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Alistair Brownlee, he can start to celebrate! Towards the finishing | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
line, to successfully defend his world title, is Jonathan Brownlee. | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
And, for the Brownlie brothers it was here near Haworth. I think I | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
first raised here was as a 12-year- old. It was cold, very cold. It is | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
a great place to race. It is somewhere special. It has got grass | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
and it is muddy. When I was young I used to love getting covered in mud. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
And the man who organise those races is Dave Woodhead. He has | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
still got his cheeky smile, he can get away with murder. It is just | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
the way he is. Jonathan is more serious. He has got a more serious | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
head on him. And they were like that as kids? A yes, very much so. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
For over 30 years, Dave has been organising these races across the | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
age groups. David is a great organiser, and he is an | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
enthusiastic person. He is one of the most enthusiastic people I have | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
ever met. I love to turn up to his races. Is he responsible for | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
getting you where you are? Yes, definitely. He just showed me that | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
fund of racing and the enjoyment you can get from sport. The fact | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
you can do it in different places and in different environments, have | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
fun and meet people. We have grown up with them. Watching them on TV | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
and seeing them grow into that has the people now is what makes you | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
carry on and think the next gig that runs could go on and be | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
another Alastair. -- next kit. So, that's the Brownlee's unsung hero, | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
but what about yours? You can download a nomination form online | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
from our website. You can also get a form by ringing 0845 308 8000. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Calls cost up to 5p a minute minimum from most landlines. Calls | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
from mobiles may cost considerably more. Nominations close on Sunday | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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King Lear is widely thought by many to be the best Shakespeare tragedy | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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of all time. I did it at A-level, so I might disagree! It has all the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
hallmarks of a blockbuster - madness, sibling rivalry and a | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
fraught relationship between a father and his daughters. It's | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
currently playing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, to | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
much acclaim. The film, television and stage actor, Tim Piggot Smith, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
is playing the title role. We caught up with him earlier, ahead | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
of tonight's performance and asked him whether the three hour | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
performance is a tough sell. We have made it quite easy for | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
people because we have cut about 700 lines, so it is shorter than it | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
could be. It is never going to be an easy play, but I think it is | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
probably Shakespeare's greatest play, even greater than Hamlet. It | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
is the sort of Hammett for older people. I loved it. I loved the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
madness, the arguments, the sibling rivalry. But I was reading reviews, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
and you told me that you don't read them. No, I have never read a | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
review that makes the performance any better. If you go on thinking, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
I am terribly good in this bit, you are in trouble. If you go on | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
thinking, I am really bad in this, then you can't do it at all. I | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
really don't read them. I may look at them afterwards when the show | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
has closed. I won't tell you, but they are all really rather good. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Well I know that. People tell you that. Would they tell you that if | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
they were bad? Then they treat you as if you have lost a relative! | :20:59. | :21:08. | |
you have a strong track record of Shakespeare. But also you have kept | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
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your oar in in hours macro on television. Yes, but I would always | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
choose theatre. That is really where you learn how to act. I have | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
never learnt about acting in front of a camera. You learn in front of | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
an audience. When I started watching The Hour at about | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
journalism, it took a long time to get going. Then it failed like a | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
friend. Afilaka have lost something. -- it felt like a friend. I feel | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
like I have lost something. He has, the plot was very dense. It took a | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
couple of weeks for people to get into it, and if they got that far, | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
they were really in it by the end. King Lear runs until when? Until | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
the 22nd. And you already mentioned, you are keeping your clothes on. | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Because King Lear traditionally takes his clothes off. Yes, but you | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
don't have to go down to absolutely nothing. When I was talking to the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
director before I started, I said I did not want any nudity. It is | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
always distracting. I also did not want any rain. It is not real, we | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
are in the theatre. The irony is that he is more sane at the end and | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
he was at the beginning. Thank you. Now, while most eight- | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
year-olds are still getting to grips with simple arithmetic, | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Thomas Frith has already got an A* in GCSE maths. Now Thomas from | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
Horsforth in Leeds is studying for an A-level in the subject, along | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
with students who are more than twice his age. Thomas and his | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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mother, Deborah Fletcher, have joined us now in the studio. | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
Let me ask you first of all, when he did you first start to realise | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
that Thomas was a little bit ahead of his years? When he was 18 months, | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
his party trick was going around reading the registration plate of | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
the cars. Let's give you a real indication of how good he is. We | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
did this footage of him in school today. He is young Thomas Frith. | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
to the power of three gives you ate? I have managed to fact Ariza. | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
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Thomas? You need to multiply everything by a five minus X. | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
one thing wrong. But it all worked out right. Yes. Oh, Thomas. You | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
have lost me. These are the kind of sums behind us that most eight- | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
year-olds are doing. This is the kind of sum that you do. We are not | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
making this up. Let's have a look at that. But there kept it in | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
detail. Could you honestly tell me what all that is about? I got one | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
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thing wrong in a question. Can you do all that Wigley stuff with all | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
the exs and why its? Yes, I can. looked at the sums for an eight- | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
year-old, but there are all the sums as well. What is it like | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
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working with the older boys and girls? I have been with most people | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
most of the time because in reception I went to year five, and | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
in year two I went to year six, and in year three and started a GCSE | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
course. Now I am here. Very quickly, 12 multiplied by 23. Would you know | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
that? Not by the top of my head, but I could work it out. The one | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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then. -- go on then. Oh! Too much pressure. In my head, the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
calculations went a bit wrong. Don't worry about it. I don't even | :25:53. | :26:03. | |
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understand what you have been Not much time on the weather | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
tonight. It is mild and windy tomorrow. There will be a bit of | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
patchy rain, especially over the Pennines. Leeds Bradford has only | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
had 13 degrees this afternoon, so if you thought it was cold, you | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
would be right. Topsy Turvey weather. 20 degrees along the coast | :26:22. | :26:26. |