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Welcome to Friday's Look North. Tributes from two cities - how tens | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
of thousands of fans in Leeds and Sheffield will be remembering Gary | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
Speed this weekend. Injured in the line of duty - why | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
hundreds of West Yorkshire Police officers who have retired could be | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
getting compensation payments. We will be live in Huddersfield as | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
the town clears up for its spectacular festival of light. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Skies had clouded over by the time this was taken, but some patchy | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
rain to come tonight. Your weekend forecast coming up shortly. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. It is almost a weeks since the tragic death of Gary | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Speed and tomorrow he will be remembered at sporting events | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
around the country. Tributes from fans continue to | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
arrive from his former Yorkshire clubs, Leeds and Sheffield and | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
United. Ian White is light outside Elland Road for us tonight. -- life. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
This aside behind me is spectacular. Very sad, hundreds of tributes laid | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
by football fans who thought that Gary Speed was just the best | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
footballer ever. They adored him and of course the fact that there | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
are so many tributes shows how shocking the last week has been for | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
them. Last Saturday Gary Speed appears on | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
BBC One's Football Focus. Nobody could have predicted he would have | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
committed suicide a few hours later. Former Leeds team-mate Gary | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
McAllister was on the same programme. Being so close to him | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
then, could any of us have spotted some anxiety, depression? But there | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
were has nothing there. He was his normal self-. Tomorrow Gary | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
McAllister will join Gordon Strachan and David Batty at -- on | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
the pitch at Elland Road to lead a minute's applause. Leeds legend | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Eddie Gray brought Gary Speed to the club. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
What you have to remember is that he played in a great Leeds United | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
team with great players and the fans will never forget that. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
At Sheffield United, where Gary was manager before moving to Wales, | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
tributes have been piling up all weeks. Tomorrow the team will be | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
marking his passing. We want to show our respects as | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
best we can and then we will have to try to put the emotions behind | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
us and try to get on with the game. Off the pitch, tributes from the | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
world of music. Kelly Jones, a Leeds United fan, has recorded an | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
acoustic version of an Andy Williams classic in tribute to Gary | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Speed. And it is not just the big names who have tributes to him. | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
Here in Leeds some stars of the future were reviving an old anthem. | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
We are going to give the boys are hand. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
My grandad was Ronnie Hilton, he sang lot serve Leeds United anthems | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
and he is a great fan of Leeds and he would be really proud. -- he | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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sang in lots of. We are going to see you when. -- | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
win. Musical tributes to Gary Speed of | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
course but the physical attributes keep arriving at Elland Road. You | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
have come along this evening. Tell us what has been -- it has been | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
like. I do get quite emotional and upset about it. My daughter plays | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
for you -- for Leeds United and we left a floral tribute earlier in | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the week and we popped down every now and again. I have watched it | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
grow and grow. It is absolutely amazing. Five it is the shock, | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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isn't it? Yes. Gary Speed is such a hero, isn't he? Yes. I think she is | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
overwhelmed. Tomorrow will be amazing on the page with all the | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
old legends back again. -- the pitch. Yes, it will be an | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
outstanding attribute for him. Sorry, I am really emotional. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
fan feels the same here and at Sheffield United. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Thank you. West Yorkshire Police could have to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
pay thousands in compensation to retired officers who were injured | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
on duty after settling four cases out of court. It has emerged today | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
but Yorkshire's largest police force unlawfully cut their pensions. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
The cases could open the door for hundreds more officers injured in | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
the line of duty whose pensions were also cut. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
He served in West Yorkshire Police for nearly 30 years but Roy Gibson | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
was forced to retire after being injured and -- in a police van. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
When his police pension was cut by half last year, it added injured -- | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
insult to injury. I felt completely led down. You | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
give them all those years and this is what they do. They are not | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
concerned any more about my welfare or that of my former colleagues. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
All they are doing is trying to cut costs. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Now West Yorkshire Police have compensated four other officers | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
injured on duty after they cut their pensions following | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
controversial new Home Office guidelines. These legal settlements | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
mean that others could be entitled to thousands of pounds. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
I think there are hundreds in this region, Yorkshire and Northumbria, | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
and I think there will be thousands nationally. | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
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Deputy Chief Constable David But Roy Gibson meets daily help to | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
wash, dress and move about. If I try to do more than what I can | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
do, physically, after two or three days it is just... It is just | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
terrible. He has lived like this for 20 years, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
years when he would have been working but for his injuries. Now | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
he wants to see the full value of his pension reinstated. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Stay with us. Later on Look North... We climb to the toppled York | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Minster. This view is one of the things I love most about living in | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
Yorkshire. Tell us what you love most. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Business leaders in Ryedale in North Yorkshire have bid to become | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
one of the first six rural enterprise zones. They will be like | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
the ones in big city areas. But they will be designed to put | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
money into country areas. Alan Whitehouse has been to find out | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
more. They work in the countryside but | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
they are competing with the rest of the world. The Ryedale group is a | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
group of specialist printers who have perfected the art of printing | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
on plastic rather than paper and now they are making printed | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
computer chips. Why do they think they need help from rural business | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
harbour? Our customers are at the cutting | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
edge of the retail and they expect us to come up with innovative new | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
ideas so it is vital to stay ahead of the game. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
The thinking is that it will create a cluster of hi-tech businesses all | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
supporting each other, like this training centre in Malta and, which | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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is training out the electronics expose of the future. -- Malta and. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
We are not all sausage makers in rural areas and it is important to | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
understand this is typical of the kind of high Trek -- hi-tech | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
training we need for the new businesses that a common on. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
For Ryedale is in the running to become one of six pilot projects. | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
The idea is being backed with �15 million of development money. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
There are many innovative companies in rural areas who want the | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
opportunity to growth. All of the enterprise areas are in urban areas | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
so we need to do something for Wirral businesses. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
It is easy to think of places like this as just another tourist | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
destination but jobs are needed as desperately as in the city. This | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
thing that could be a way to provide a high-quality skilled jobs. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
-- this rural enterprise zone. Doncaster police have released more | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
information about that woman killed on the A635 Barnsley Road yesterday | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
when a broken-down car was hit by a truck. -- her broken-down car. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Marjorie Webster was 72 and from Goldthorpe near Barnsley. The | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Protesters tried to stop the closure of nearly half the library | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
is in Wakefield have handed in a petition to the council. There has | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
been a consultation on the plans. These could close unless taken over | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
by community groups. The council says visitor numbers have fallen by | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
more than Philip -- 40 %. A 60-year-old religious teacher, | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Manweb, has failed to overturn his sentence for physically assaulting | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
four boys at a mosque in Keighley. -- Sabir Hussain. He has served 10 | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
days of his sentence so far. Yorkshire Water is assuring its | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
customers and there are no plans to change water supplies -- to put | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
restrictions on water supplies in the county. Reservoirs are 73 % | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
full, which Yorkshire Water says is quite healthy for this time of year. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
This comes despite drought conditions in other parts of the | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
country. Bus drivers in parts of Yorkshire | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
are staging the third and 4th strikes over pay. Members of the | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Unite union in Barnsley, Rotherham and the Dearne Valley are calling | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
for the same wages as drivers in other companies. The company says | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
it has made several pay offers. What happens when you put a dyed- | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
in-the-wool Conservative together with anti-capitalist activists in a | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
city-centre protest? This weekend's Politics Show is marking three | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
weeks off the Occupy Leeds camp in City Square by sending in Mike | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Smith of Mike's Carpets fame to see whether it be protesters can | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
convince him that theirs is the way forward. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
In relation to the size of the protest, trying to take on the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
government and the banks, and the cuts they are doing, for the size | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
of the protest it is a very small gathering and it does not seem to | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
me to be the right way to do it. I would make more use of the internet. | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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You can see more on that on BBC One A couple of weeks ago Christa and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Nik told you about the Yorkshire Tales. It's a BBC project to find | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
out what you feel passionate about in the county. It could be the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
people, the places or your memories. With the best of your contributions | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
will be looked at by award winning playwright John Godber, who will | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
turn them into a radio drama. You've only got a few days left to | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
take part. But to help get you started - something that makes me | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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As you know, we are encouraging you to talk about Yorkshire and why it | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
is so special. I have chosen this city to try and tell you about what | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
it means to me. There is nice to in these -- NICE -- nothing like an | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
easy return to work after a major operation! I am exhausted. 130 | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
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stairs to go. That is my destination. Oh, dear! 275 steps. | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
When I was at university, I studied Roman history. That explains why I | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
am fascinated about the City of York, and I am so exhausted as well. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
That is one of the most extraordinary views you can get | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
anywhere. You can see the whole thing about it. You can smell and | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
see the history. You can see the Roman legions. I would have been a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Centurion in a different life. Please yourself! Then there were | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
the Vikings, and the medieval walls and the sense of history. Nothing | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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sends up -- sums up Yorkshire as I am really worried about you! | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
Should you be doing that? So if you want to take part this is what you | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
need to do. E-mail [email protected] and | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
tell us in no more than 200 words what your passion for Yorkshire is. | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
All submissions must be in by Before seven o'clock... Snooker's | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
coming back to York. One of the world's biggest tournaments returns | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
to the city after a five-year absence. And Diane at the Festival | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
of Lights in Huddersfield. Cut to join me for a taste of things to | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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come. -- and I am at the Festival Yorkshire has a rich history in | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Squash and it can now boast the number one and two in the world in | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
the men's game. Sheffield's Nick Matthew has completed an unbroken | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
year at the top of the rankings, confirmed when he recently defended | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
his World Open title. Pontefract's James Willstrop has moved up to | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
second after winning in Hong Kong and Kuwait in the past fortnight | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
and both are with us. Nick, let's start with you. How tough has it | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
been to stay at the top? It has been pretty tough. The first time | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
around, I lasted a couple of months. I have managed a year, and it has | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
been tough. James is breathing down my neck. It has been fantastic for | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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the region. They are whole I'd -- whole host of guys. Yes. The | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
rankings... There was an Egyptian in the top three. They are the | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
force in the game. Hopefully this is not short lived, and the King | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
gives them a run for their money. You have been waiting two years for | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
a victory, another, long like buses! Yes, it just happens like | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
that. They came together in that period of time, and one is great, | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
but to the two in two or three weeks has been fantastic. He will | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
form has been spectacular. In the first one, you did not drop again. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
I carried it on until I lost again in the final, so it just really | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
came together, and people ask if it is something different. Not really. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Sometimes it just clicked. You seem very close together there. Are you | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
really deadly rivals? It is strange but wonderful. You must bump into | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
each other more often than if you do of round the world. We have had | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
up our ups and downs! Were a bump into each other on course -- on- | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
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court! The rivalry has been spoken about. It could not be any | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
different. Two players from one county is a fantastic achievement. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
We are proud of it, and the sport is so gladiatorial and so closed- | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
end. It is not always going to be easy. Presumably, you want his | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
spot! Absolutely! The biggest problem in the past is that it has | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
been difficult to follow the ball as far as TV is concerned. They | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
have got over that to a large extent. In the Commonwealth Games | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
last year, we had a live audience with the programmes, but the live | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
audience is the key. Unfortunately, we are going to miss out on London | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
2012, but the sport is there, ready to step into any major event now. | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
You're not bat well known, but presumably you are super bar -- | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
superstars where squashes a big sport. You can be. It is quite | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
incredible when you see a nation that takes hold of squash. For | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
example, Malaysia. The number one Squash Players on billboards, and | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
she is on all over the place. You have Live TV. You looking Bowbrick | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
your shoulder at him? Looking up as well! Windy you do battle again? | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
are due to go to India next week, but the way the draw has worked out, | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
we could make the final, so they are a lot of hurdles to overcome. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
It could be a great last match of 2011. Congratulations to the Perret | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
you. One of the world's biggest snooker tournaments is about to | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
return to York after a five year absence. This weekend sees the UK | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Championship back at The Barbican. And with record ticket sales, and | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
the world's top 32 players shooting it out for the title and winners | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
cheque, it should make for an interesting eight days of | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
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competition. Shamir Masri's been in I think a lot of the players loved | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
coming here. To have them back, it is great. It is their home going | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
forward. I the focus for the eight days going forward will be on the | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
green tables. Household names like John Higgins and Ronnie O'Sullivan | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
will be playing on this very table in the next week also inhabit to | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
win one of the biggest titles in no -- world snooker. The players are | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
glad to be back in York. A all of the players are quite happy we are | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
back here. The crowds are here. It suits the tournament we are playing | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
in. It is the biggest ranking tournament that we have. It is a | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
great venue to play in. The crowds like it. A nice place, York. It is | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
good for everybody. One thing they are not so happy about is a switch | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
to shorter format. Any snooker player would love of -- rather have | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
a longer match. In a shorter match, a little bit of bad luck and you | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
are out. Spectators and viewers on the BBC, the red button and online, | :21:35. | :21:44. | |
they will hope for a worthy winner for the title and the �100,000 | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
winner's cheque. Great to see that back in York. You bump into snooker | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
players when you do your Christmas shopping! Hinnies a lie-down Now, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
it attracts thousands of people every year and this weekend the | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Huddersfield Festival of Light is expected to draw in its biggest | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
crowds yet. With theatre, light displays, food and drink there is | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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certainly something for everyone. Hello and good evening from the | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Festival of Light in Huddersfield. 50,000 people I expected over the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
next few days, and lots of people have already turned out this | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
evening. Chief-executive Adrian can tell us more. What can they expect? | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
They can expect a fantastic weekend. 49 separate events, acrobatics in | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
the borough arcade. Food and drink here, a light that will behind the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
church. There is a massive of show, and a fireworks display to finish | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
it off. Fantastic news for the Huddersfield economy. Brilliant for | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
the town and for local businesses. Tens of thousands of people | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
spending money in our local spending money in our local | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
businesses in Huddersfield. I must businesses in Huddersfield. I must | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
introduce you took these characters. I'm from the Temperance Society! I | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
welcome absence. Abstinence from all sings foul. People can have | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
fun? That is why we are here! are Victorine after all. This so- | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
called Festival of life, they are otter stands of dubious morals. -- | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
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There's lots to do. And they're not as miserable as these two! There is | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
a great fire display to enjoy at the end. There are lots of things | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
to enjoy it. Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Not yet, | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
but port a will begin tomorrow, it is the festive charity spectacular | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
at the spot. It is a Stella Christmas for me. We need a good | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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forecast. A on to taking your kids forecast. A on to taking your kids | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
on the Santa Special? On the Quay Street railway. Compared with last | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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You're making an appearance. Let me show you a picture. The know where | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
the weather event this morning was the white frost we had. That was we | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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It has been the second warmest autumn on record. You can write | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
what you think about that and tweet me. It is a mixed weekend. Labour | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
have scattered showers. Some sunshine tomorrow. A West-East | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
split. It will stay mostly dry with sunny spells. Generally more | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
showery on Sunday, and by Sunday night, the showers would tell -- | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
turn a little bit wintry. Monday and Tuesday of next week, we could | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
see a white covering on top of the hills. We are looking to the West. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
There's a weather system coming in. It is bringing in some drizzle to | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
the Dales. Further east with the rain shadow, it is looking like it | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
is predominantly dry up. Temperatures are around four | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
degrees. Temperatures levelling off. We are not going to see a frost | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
tonight. The sun will rise in the morning at around 80 3am. In | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
Scarborough, at 10:34pm, a mix of Sonny and pulled -- intervals and | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
scattered showers. You can see that the shell was running to some | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
Pennine areas. Further east, a lot of protection means that the Vale | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
of York east Woods will be dry. If you are there, it looks like there | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
will be a lot of sunshine. Windy tonight and breezy tomorrow. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Temperatures close to average. If you are off to Scarborough and | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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Whitby, it will be colder over the It will be quite windy. The air | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
will be cold enough for the showers to turn wintry. Early next week, | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Monday and Tuesday, scattered wintry showers. Maybe the first | :27:27. | :27:32. |