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Welcome to Look North. Tonight: The criminals who risk their lives for | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
as little as �16 - we're out on patrol with the police as they | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
track down cable thieves who now face jail. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Also tonight - it's back! Gritters at the ready - today saw | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
Yorkshire's first snow of winter. Tonight, ice could be the problem. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
And making waves - the campaigners who have battled to keep our | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
coastline clean for a quarter of a century. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
And join me in New York for a celebration of a little slice of | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
car -- Scarborough. A warning in place for ice, wintry | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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showers as well. All the latest coming up. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Welcome to the programme. First tonight: There are more of them in | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Yorkshire than anywhere else in Britain, and they make commuters' | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
journeys a misery. Cable thieves are now risking their lives for as | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
little as �16 worth of copper. Their crime costs Network Rail �6 | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
million a year. Our reporter, Sam Wichelow, has met the police who | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
try to stop them, and one of the thieves. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
This is the front line in the battle to stop the Cable thieves. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
In the dark, with hundreds of miles of track, this seems an impossible | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
job. Criminals who risk their lives stealing copper cable with | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
electricity surging through it. had a man who nicked 30 yards of | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
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cable, he got �16.50. It costs Network Rail millions of pounds. | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
This man is facing a jail after admitting it cable theft. I woke up | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
this morning, crying my eyes out, because thinking of going to jail | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
is not nice. Night and day, the patrols continue, as offenders can | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
swap stolen cable for cash. Last year, there were 365 incidents of | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
cable theft. It acquitted to �2.9 million of compensation and we paid | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
to passengers, but we have to replace the cable, our staff have | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
to do overtime to replace it, and you can double it. Police patrols | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
will continue, as long as the profit out ways the peril for those | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
stealing cable. -- it out ways. -- at ways. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Well, joining us now is Chris Hyomes, the chairman of Rail Future | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
in Yorkshire, which campaigns for better rail services. The companies | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
can't do any better if they are bringing in new trains and services | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
if they cannot get their trains moving. You are right. It is a | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
knock-on effect. It affect local and regional services and city | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
services. That money, it is costing to put the network right, could be | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
spent on new trains. It costs the networks �6 million. Where can we | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
spend that money? Is it a financial development? I can't understand, | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
seeing those shots of people running on a railway lines fog �16, | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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risking their lives. -- for �16. When the recession started, we saw | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
the price of scrap metal for, so it incidents for, but now thefts are | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
increasing. -- scrap metal fall. Somebody as young as 14 has been | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
arrested. It is shocking. I know the police are increasing patrols, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
and I know that the British Transport Police are doing the same, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
but it seems it is going on so often that they cannot be | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
everywhere at once. What would you say to those teenagers, or older, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
because you are sitting on that train thinking, this is madness? | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
You could die. Not really. The passengers are safe. People will | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
get injured who still the cable. The message is simple: Don't do it, | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
you are risking your life. There won't be new trains. You are | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
costing us millions. Exactly. And there will be more on that | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
tonight on Inside Out on BBC One at 7:30pm. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Gritting lorries are preparing for another night of icy conditions | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
after the first snowfall of the winter here in Yorkshire. We will | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
have a full forecast from Paul later in the programme, but first, | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
Amanda Harper is live high on the M62 at Ainley Top, near | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
Huddersfield. Out overnight, Shepherd's gritting | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
teams prepare for the worse. -- Sheffield's you never know when | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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snow will come. If more snow comes down, we need to get people to work. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
Chris is a driver, and as the bad weather approaches, today is the | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
first time he has been called in. His route starts and the city | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
centre, but before long, higher ground brings a familiar sight. | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
have come from nothing, and then you get this. And not just in South | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Yorkshire. This was the scene outside Bradford. In the Dales, it | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
was more picturesque than problematic. Villagers were | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
unaffected. Here, the centre got just a light covering. But, in | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
recent years, snowfall has made things difficult. These are the | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
scenes in 2010, but, so far, 2011 has spared Yorkshire the worst of | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
felt weather. Last year, 1st September -- December, we used to | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
thousands of tons of salt. We have used 500 tonnes yesterday afternoon. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
It is a plan that seems to be working. Traffic was moving freely | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
enough, and before long, Chris has run out a great. I have to go and | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
refilled now. -- of grit. A familiar scene at not just in | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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Sheffield. In a few hours, the greatest will start again. -- | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
We will have more on the weather situation in our bulletin at | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
10:25pm, when we will also report on a new campaign to crack down on | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
parents taking their children out of school to go on holiday. Keep | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
watching - we have lots more to come: | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Swimming against the tide - the campaigners who took on big | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
business and won. Other news now, and a 19-year-old | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
man has been arrested by police investigating the shooting of a | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
young father in Leeds in 2008. 20- year-old Adam Chadwick was shot | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
when three masked men and a woman burst into his sister's house in | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
Harehills. Police think it may have been a case of mistaken identity. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The government has confirmed that people in Yorkshire's four biggest | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
cities will take part in referendums next May on whether to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
have directly elected mayors. Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Wakefield | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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are amongst 11 cities in England where voting will take place. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
The father of the missing York woman, Claudia Lawrence, has | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
praised a new government initiative to help families of people who have | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
disappeared. Claudia went missing nearly three years ago. Detectives | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
are treating her disappearance as suspected murder. Now, families | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
will automatically be provided with support. Peter Lawrence has said | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
one of the issues he faced was where to get help. That is why the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
strategy today highlight the importance of family members being | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
given direction as to where to get help and assistance. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
A new pedestrian entrance has been given the go-ahead. The new | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
southern entrance will cost �14 million, and the work is due to be | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
completed in 2014 in the summer. The Leeds Symphony Orchestra says | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
it has suffered a "catastrophe" after instruments worth �20,000 | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
were stolen. The equipment was taken from a lorry at a secure | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
compound in Yeadon at the weekend, forcing the orchestra to cancel | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
their first concert in 40 years. West Yorkshire Police are | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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investigating. It's more than 25 years since the | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
environmental group, Sons of Neptune, started swimming regularly | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
in the North Sea off the coast of Scarborough to highlight the fact | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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that untreated sewage was being pumped straight into the sea. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
During this time, the group has taken on Yorkshire Water, the | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
British Government, and has recruited some of the world's | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
leading scientists to back its campaign. We'll be speaking to | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Charles White, the author of a new book about the group in a moment, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
but first, I've been back to Scarborough, where I started my | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
broadcasting career, to retrace their fight for clean coastal | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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waters. This was my first view of | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
Scarborough's South Bay, but in those days, it wasn't always so | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
peaceful. My first day at work was hit in Scarborough. I found myself | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
embroiled in a local controversy, and it was about the quality of | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
this sea water. At the centre of that controversy it was a group of | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
local businessmen, who, at the time, were being written off as | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
eccentrics. The sons of Neptune's swam every week in the sea, come | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
rain or shine. And then you have to come the headlines when they | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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protested over the sewage pipe. The Sons of Neptune one their bottle, | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
and a treatment plant had to be built. -- won their battle. And | :11:52. | :12:02. | |
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they are still firm friends. succeeded, and this town, along | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
with the rest of the UK, has treated sewage. They have also | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
fought other environmental campaigns, and want their story To | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
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inspire other people to take on the Goliaths of big business. | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
You didn't recruit some of the world's leading tidal experts. | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
found the seat made aware of better, and we believed what they were | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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doing was wrong. -- the see. We were inspired by it, and went to | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
scientists, across to America, and we reported back to London. They | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
told us, if you continue to do this, the bugs will come back as | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
superbugs. You towed some people by surprise. But I do recall you were | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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accused of damaging Scarborough's reputation. In those days, the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
authorities said dumping this terrible material was actually a | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
treatment. Of course, it was not a treatment. Especially the children, | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
you didn't want them to be swimming in that. I must emphasise, we have | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
got the blue flag. We have changed the EU laws, and are hoping the | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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water authorities continued to the You have to -- they have to build | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
the treatment works. We were in danger of destroying the | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
environment. We believe future generations they want clean seas | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
and we want rights for everyone to experience clean air and seas. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
regrets? No, there is a lot of fun in the book. Saving the planet and | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
having fun. You are also a biographer of Little Richard. | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
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quite a contrast. People think it is an Irish tale. All credit to | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
Neptune. Thank you. Thank you for giving me some laughs over the | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
years. It will be on kindle for Christmas. Never misses a plug. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Stay with us as in a moment Tanya will be here with news of all the | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
sport and the weekend's tributes to Gary Speed. Also we'll be live in | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
New York where Scarborough's greatest playwright takes his | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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Sport now and Tanya's here with all the weekend's action. Very moved. | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
It was incredible, the scenes. Yes, and emotional weekend. Up and | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
down the country. The weekend saw football come together to pay its | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
respects to the late Gary Speed. It was especially poignant at | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
Sheffield United where he played and managed and at Elland Road | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
where he started his career. His family was there as Leeds United | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
paid their own tribute. Football so often divides but up | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
and down the country big-game United to pay its respects to one | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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of the good guys. Gary McAllister and David Batty came to remember | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
the fourth member. Members of Gary's family were there and his | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
sons. At Bramall Lane where he finished his playing career and | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
started managing, they paid their own tribute led by Chris Morgan and | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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Robert Page. At grounds everywhere Not surprisingly, it was a subdued | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
first half but when they broke the deadlock it was a fitting way to do | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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it. Gary Speed would have been proud of Gary's -- Robert Snodgrass. | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
I was with his parents today, his wife and the kids. It has been a | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
tough week with everybody but it is a fitting tribute to a fantastic | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
footballer, and fantastic person. He will not be forgotten. It was a | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
good day in the championship. Doncaster or confounded all by | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
beating Southampton. Barnsley edged a humdinger against Peterborough. | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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It looked to be plain sailing. They eased 23-0. Then, the scenes to | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
doze off. It was all square. Craig Davies had a fine a spectacular | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
strike left. Barnsley claimed the three points. | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
Sheffield United had to come from behind to beat Torquay. They were | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
fortuitous with an equaliser. Ched Evans with the strike. He was | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
gifted a second. Wednesday gave through against Aldershot Town. | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
Bradford three for the first time in seven years. The Dons got one | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
back. Rotherham went up a train's brake but went out 2-1. The pick of | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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York City scored seven against Fans of Garforth Town called it | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
another sad weekend for football, following the death of their former | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
player and Brazilian football star, Socrates, who died yesterday aged | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
57. Socrates, who was widely regarded as one of the greatest | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
ever midfielders to have played the game, and came out of retirement to | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
feature for non-league Garforth Town in 2004. He was 50 years old | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
at the time, and made his only appearance as a substitute in a | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
draw against Tadcaster. Worksop's Lee Westwood comfortably | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
held off all opponents to retain the Nedbank Challenge in South | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
Africa. He'd built up a seven shot lead going into the final round and | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
despite finishing with a one-over- par 73 he still won by 2 shots. | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
Despite the win he remains third in the world rankings. He won �800,000. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
With that money, you would buy a more decent time. Even Paul Hudson | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
would not wake up. I should be buying a purple jacket, | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
I feel left out! He's often described as Britain's most | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
successful living playwright and with seventy five plays to his name, | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
it's easy to see why. Sir Alan Ayckbourn has put Scarborough on | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
the theatrical map after making the town his home in 1957. Welcome to | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
New York. But is not a screen, that is real. The Empire State Building | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
and Madison Square Garden as for your pleasure. Different from | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
Scarborough although that can boast fine views. Alan Ayckbourn are | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
usually shuns the limelight. This week he has made an exception. He | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
is the star attraction at a festival of British theatre called | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Brits of Broadway. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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Let's see how he has been getting He is more at home in Scarborough | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
but Sir Alan relishes a trip to the Big Apple. His latest play is on | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
stage at 59 off Broadway. It would be good for anyone's ego and his is | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
no exception. It is a terrific morale boost. The company as a | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
whole, when the play in Scarborough being in Yorkshire, they are | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
lovely... They like to downgrade us, if you're back good, what you doing | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
here? In New York, you get the acclamation we have had and really | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
you know you're playing in the big league with the big hitters. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
can feel confident your children are free to go outside and play. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
The play follows an attempt to set up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme. | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
The cast fresh from Scarborough are still pinching themselves. Amazed | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
and delighted to be treading the boards in New York. It's a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
different language! They have been playing to packed houses so is | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
there a difference between the UK and US audiences? They are very | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
generous. At the end of the second show, they were standing up and | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
shaking their heads and shouting awesome. They are lovely in the bar | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
afterwards, very generous. They tell you what they think and it's | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
all been positive so far. I have been on a permanent adrenalin buzz. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
There's something about the city which is very go, go, go. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Scarborough has a beautiful calmness. When the tourists go, it | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
is rather peaceful and I enjoyed myself in a different way. New York | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
is Go, Go, go in a brilliant way. I am still over-excited. We never | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
intended to run at Neighbourhood Watch on fear. Despite its English | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
themes and references, the US audience clearly got it. I thought | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
it was a wonderful play not just for Brits but Americans. It crosses | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
the pond. It was funny and dark. The characters are great and the | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
actors. An interesting story. loved it. Really good. I have only | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
seen a few of his plays but I love them. It is eye-opening to see how | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
the Americans regard Sir Alan. A conversation afterwards was sold | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
out and reverential. It goes to show you sometimes have to travel | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
to appreciate the value of what you have got back home. | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
What I find amazing is despite five decades really of incredible | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
success, Sir Alan are still get nervous before shows. He was | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
sitting behind me during the performance on Saturday, a little | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
bit tense and there was a very rude line which I could not repeat but | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
it got the most incredible laugh and you could feel him relaxing | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
thinking, thank goodness, they get it. Let me tell you, they most | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
certainly did. From New York, back to you. | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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We have less glamorous locations. Well, in a moment we'll have a full | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
weather forecast from Paul, but first let's find out how the icy | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
conditions are making life difficult for motorists. Our | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
reporter Amanda Harper is live high on the M62 at Ainley Top, near | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Huddersfield. It is wintry and cold. The traffic behind me is flowing | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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freely this evening. There are no major problems. No other problems | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
so far, the trains are running to time, one delayed flight, Leeds- | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Bradford airport, Amsterdam flight. Best advice is to check before you | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
travel. I can hardly see but hopefully you can see me. The | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
gritters are out in force across Yorkshire, Leeds, Bradford, | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Tetley's and York. There are patrols in South Yorkshire and the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
gritters will be out as well. The best place to check information is | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
your local BBC radio stations from tomorrow morning. Back to the | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
warmth of the studio. You decided to stay inside. | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
We start with the warning, ice and sleet and snow showers. As you have | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
seen, some will get further east. Tomorrow, fewer showers but there | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
will be some, especially across the Pennines. The showers have been | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
lining up, it's no on the tops of the Peak District. Showers across | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
the Pennines and the Dales. They will continue to push ever | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
eastwards but as a general rule, becoming confined to western areas, | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
further accumulations on the hills and everywhere will have I East as | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
a hazard. Temperatures down to freezing. -- ice is a hazard. The | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
high water times: tomorrow, another cold day. Eastern areas mostly dry | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
and bright. Further west, wintry showers but fewer and further | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
between and tomorrow evening they will get going with a band of sleet | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
and snow a pushing across all areas. Top temperatures coming in at about | :27:28. | :27:35. |