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Hello. I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Warning of freezing conditions as temperatures plummet. But keeping | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
warm is costing a fortune for some tenants who had broken heating for | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
two years. We will take a drive in a Transit van but this one is | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
fuelled by hydrogen. And it's a face-off. The police and fire | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
service throw down the gauntlet all for a good cause. Be prepared for | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
freezing conditions, that's the message to people across the South | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
tonight as temperatures plunge. This week it's fallen as low as | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
minus 6.1. That figure was recorded in South Farborough. And at Hurn in | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Dorset it got as low as minus 5.7 C. And it will get worse, the Met | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Office has issued its first level three cold weather alert of the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
winter. That's the second most serious warning it can put out. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Allen Sinclair is at a gritting depot in Berkshire tonight. Sally, | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
nobody wants to get caught out the way we all were a couple of years | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
ago so all our councils are stocking up on rock salt. This | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
mountain is destined for the roads around Wokingham and gritting | :01:28. | :01:37. | |
lorries across the south are on standby. We do not yet know whether | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
they are going out from here because the roads are quite dry. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Our airports have all got their snow plans in place. In Wiltshire | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
they're running a gritter Twitter. With up-to-the minute advice for | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
drivers to their mobile phones. Hampshire's increased its salt | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
stock to 18,000 tonnes. And Surrey is trying something new this year | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
as well as extra gritting lorries, they're experimenting with using | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
gritting quad bike. Looks pretty cool and it should be able to | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
tackle smaller and steeper roads than the heavy trucks. They're | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
hoping to be able to keep more of the country moving if the worst | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
happens. And here in Wokingham they're confident they've done all | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
they can to prepare. Restarted planning at the end of the summer | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
for this winter's maintenance programme. We have got our | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
maintenance lorries all ready. G Ps systems up and running. We have an | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
extra 100 tons of salt coming at the end of this week. It is not | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
just the roads that are freezing, there is a real worry about ponds | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
and small lakes freezing over. A warning has gone out to children | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
and pet owners not to go out on frozen water. A few are walking | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
your pet near iced over what to do not let your dog off the lead. If | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
it is off the lead and it goes on to the pond and follows in the | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
water, do not try to help. If a dog can fall through the ice the dog | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
walker is likely to fall through the eyes as well. If the worst | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
happens we should not be venturing out on the roads but some people | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
have to. We have someone from the be with us, what are the sorts of | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
things you see? It is more difficult for the battery to put | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
power out so switched everything off before you try and start the | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
engine. Light, wipers, heater, everything off before you try to | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
start the engine and press the clutch as well. The other thing is | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
make sure you have cleared the windows because we are seeing too | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
many people putting the wipers on but they are frozen to the | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
windscreen so it blows the fuse and burns out the mortar. Good advice | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
there. Everyone is as ready as they can be so we now need to know what | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
is happening with the weather. There is a likelihood we could have | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
some snow on Saturday afternoon, Sunday night and Monday morning but | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
stay tuned for the forecast. Thank you very much for that. It may - So | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
it may be one of the coldest days of the year, but for people in one | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
street in Crawley it's cold all winter. Residents of housing | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
association homes in Castlerigg Close haven't had a properly | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
working heating system for two years. Some tenants say they've | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
faced heating bills of over �200 per month. Sean Killick reports. | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
This afternoon we were shown around this family home. We have this big | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
fleecy blanket we have had to put on. You can feel for yourself, the | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
bedding is called. The heating is supposed to be energy efficient but | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
she says it is totally inefficient. You can have the heating on for 18 | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
hours but still nothing, it is icy cold in the rooms. You do not want | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
to get changed for bed because you are shivering. I have got pains at | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
from osteoporosis and it is not helping. The system takes the air | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
from the outside, he set and pump it into the house, it is like a | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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fridge in reverse. This system is a new one that is sustainable but it | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
is causing problems for the tenants. They say they are having to run | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
their heating continuously costing a fortune in electricity. The bells | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
and about �100 for the proper -- smaller properties up to �300. This | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
is supposed to be low-cost affordable housing but we are not | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
able to heat our houses properly. An independent assessment showed no | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
fault but they are trying to solve the problem and in the meantime | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
have supplied heaters to try to help everyone stay warm in the | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
current cold spell. Chris you will hear tomorrow if he is to be | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
prosecuted over allegations that he passed off points from his driving | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
licence on to his ex-wife. She made the claims. He could be forced to | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
resign from the Government. He has always denied all along that he has | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
done nothing wrong but things seem to be coming to ahead. Yes. The | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Crown Prosecution Service will announce tomorrow what the results | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
of this long-standing investigation into, what seems like a minor | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
offence, three speeding points, but if the suggestion of Chris Huhne's | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
ex-wife is supported then it would be something much more serious, | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
perverting the course of justice. For a cabinet minister that is | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
something that would not be tolerated. This would be the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
remarkable end to a remarkable story with the betrayed ex-wife and | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
the lover, all the things we have seen in the newspapers. A very | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
interesting time for politics. In the NHS today Labour's health team | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
were in Reading shadowing the work of a local GP campaigning against | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
far reaching changes that the Government is planning to make. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
I have your date of birth please? They are busy at this surgery in | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Reading just dealing with patients but they were keen to give | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
politicians alec and their day-to- day work. Labour's Shadow Health | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Deanne were visiting. -- team. main message I wanted to get across | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
is that the administration is taking doctors and nurses away from | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
the front line, we are having to get involved in management issues | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
that we felt were not part of our role. The changes were supposed to | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
give professionals more control but Labour says it is too disruptive. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
It is scandalous to be spending millions of pounds on this | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
reorganisation when millions of pounds are needed for patient care. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
The Government says introducing more competition with safeguards | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
would introduce savings that could be reinvested. We have big | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
challenges with an ageing population and the drugs bill | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
growing year on year. We are trying to make sustainable changes while | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
the Labour Party want to reduce spending on the NHS. There are big | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
political issues at the moment which could be very far reaching, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
all about trying to make it less bureaucratic and more efficient but | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
would it still be a national health service? Potentially more | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
controversy from another MP? David Willetts, there is the university's | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Minister but also an MP in Hampshire, has been connected with | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
what appears to be very doubtful tax arrangements for the head of | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
the students Loan Company. Some are suggesting tax avoidance. He was | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the minister who signed off this deal for Ed Leicester. A lot of | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
politicians today are refusing to see who was behind this. David | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Willetts on Newsnight tonight will be identified as the person who | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
arranged that contract. It is now very controversial. An interesting | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
24 hours. Still to come: How this artist has turned her dream into a | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
way of life. And I will have a full five-day forecast later in the | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
programme. Plans for one Fire and Rescue Service for Sussex have been | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
put on hold. They have decided against plans to merge to save | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
money seeing there is too much uncertainty over how much | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Government funding a new combined service would get. Now both | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
services need to get savings elsewhere. First of all we are not | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
expecting any reductions in the front line. I think that is | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
important for people to know. We do not think any job losses which will | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
be made would be through compulsory redundancy, we think it will be | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
natural wastage. That is what we are aiming for. An inquiry is under | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
way after a 20-year-old in mate died at a young offenders' | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
institute. He was found hanging at his cell here early on Saturday | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
morning. The Prison Service said staff at Portland had possessed him | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
as not being at risk of suicide or self-harm. -- had assessed him. A | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
man shot dead by an armed police officer had allegedly told a friend | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
the police were going to find and kill him. His friend told the | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
inquest jury that Fitzpatrick, who was 49, had also told him he would | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
rather die than go back to prison. The deal with devices that can make | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
a difference between life and death. A Dorsets company has revealed its | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
new base in the county and some of what it does. It is work that will | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
ultimately protect our armed services in dangerous places. Last | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
year in Afghanistan roadside bombs killed 252 coalition troops. A | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
device has been developed to jam the signals which trigger them. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
That device, of which we are not allowed to see more, must itself be | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
tested to destruction. In this test the vibrations shake each | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
individual component inside. The technicians need to know how long | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
they will last and crucially when they stop working. Today, the | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Defence Minister open the company's new premises. The Government has | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
announced a big investment. It says companies like this should benefit. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
�150 billion is pledged in the next 10 years for this kind of support. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
It is a real opportunity for British businesses like this to do | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
very well. We are very much dependent on research and | :13:21. | :13:30. | |
development. We are part of that chain. We will continue to match | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
the pace and expand to address that market. The test Chambers | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
ultimately destroyed what they are testing but they ensure that what | :13:41. | :13:50. | |
is inside does what it is supposed Four people arrested then bailed on | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
suspicion of murdering teenager Daniel Neville's will not face any | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
further action. He went missing in November 1996. Last year police | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
charged -- urged a property on Marsh Road but found nothing. Three | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
people remain on bail in connection with the investigation. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
The former Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp has strongly denied he | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
told a pack of lies to the court trying him for tax evasion. In an | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
emotional exchange, Mr Redknapp told prosecuted John Black QC that | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
everything was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
The football manager and co- defendant Milan Mandaric deny two | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
cans of cheating the public revenue. -- counts. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
He could say white van man goes green. Southampton City Council | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
have started a trial of two hydrogen powered Transit vans, | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
potentially the greenest fuel for transport. But this is leading-edge | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
technology, years from being commercially available, so why is | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
the council doing it? Paul Clifton went on a trial run. | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
From the outside, the Transit van's fuel source is made obvious. This | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
is what sets it apart. It needs a special place to refuel. Alongside | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
is a hydrogen storm, enough to run three vans, and this machine makes | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
it. All it needs is electricity and a water supply. The water is | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
separated by their electrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
usually transport fuel vast distances by tanker or pipeline. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
With this, you will eliminate the need for the fuel supply chain, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
because you make your own fuel. is claimed the running costs are | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
about the same as a conventional vehicle, but that excludes the cost | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
of setting up the equipment to make hydrogen. As a mass-market system, | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
this is not yet commercially viable. The council is looking at this | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
concept today and across the board to see a wide range of options for | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
looking at electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles for our own | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
purposes, but also to build a new emerging economy in the green | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
sector. This is potentially the greenest form of motoring. The only | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
waste product is water. Many people see hydrogen as a very long term | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
solution, but for now electric power or a combination of a battery | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
and a conventional engine is seen as the most practical Greenhaugh | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
Way Forward. To drive, it is like any other Transit van, but | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
underneath there are three hydrogen tanks giving a range of about 100 | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
miles. But because this is also a normal petrol engine, there is a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
full tank of petrol as well. This is 82 week trial of leading-edge | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
technology. It will be years before you can buy anything like this. -- | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
A two-week trial. Is that the future? Roisin is here | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
with the sport, stepping into the brain. I know there are a lot of | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
bugs around. You have stepped in to the brink even though you have got | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
a cold yourself all. Reading's new manager, owner, is | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
set to visit the club within the next 24 hours. The 28-year-old | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Russian has agreed a �25 million deal to take over 51% of the club | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
in March. He has already funded several new signings, including | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
defender Matthew Connolly on loan from QPR. As the club prepares for | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
an away match at Doncaster this weekend, the manager admits the | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
cash injection has made a huge difference. You can see, with Anton, | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
what has happened with the January window. Nobody has gone out of the | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
door, and we have signed four players. So that is a real plus for | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
the club. What I have saved many times in the last month also, you | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
know, I do not want to be looking over my shoulder for predators | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
tried to sign my best players. A promise has been made to me about | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
never having to lose players and only do deals that are on our terms. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
For me, that is a great position to be in. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
The Great Britain women's hockey team take on Korea in the quarter- | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
finals of the Champions Trophy tonight. The team was captained by | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Kate Walsh, who plays for Reading. Great Britain are unbeaten in the | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
tournament so far, qualifying for the quarter-finals with his 3-1 | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
winner over China. The squad also includes Alex Danson, Beth Storry | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
and Emily Maguire. If you want to catch that, it is on | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the red London Eye from 8:30pm. Finally, Bournemouth has been doing | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
all it can to make sure that its match against Exeter City takes | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
place. Several fans turned up to help spread Straw over the pitch. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
It is hoped the insulation will keep the match on schedule. | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
They are taking it off, are they? It will be a bit of a mess! Think | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
composting! You will like this, a fight with a good cause. Two | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
emergency services that work close together on a daily basis, but | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
behind the scenes there has always been a bit of rivalry between the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
police and the fire service. Now the two forces have a chance to | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
answer the question, who is the toughest? They are going head to | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
head in the boxing ring. Ben Moore was the ref. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
It is being dubbed the Blue Light fight. In the red corner, the fire | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
service. In the blue corner, the police. But will the long arm of | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
the law have the advantage, or will the firefighters extinguished all | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
comers? I think police, you know, or fire do is leave all night long, | :19:36. | :19:44. | |
while we are out working hard. We have got the natural fitness. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
are you going to respond? It is going to be quite evenly matched, | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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but historically the fire service As well as raising money for Help | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
for Heroes, the 32 pugilists are in the corner of colleagues Stephen | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Bowman and his family. Their son Joseph was diagnosed with leukaemia | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
last year. He has responded really, really well, and hopefully, if all | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
goes well, his treatment will be finishing in the middle of next | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
year. The support is amazing, and it is overwhelming. I think the | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
banter is what makes the build-up to the fight like this. There are | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
only a few tickets left for the fight night at the O'Shea and a | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
nightclub in March. Each pair will fight for three rounds of one | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
minute each, which might not be enough! All your heart, all | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
yoghurts, give it for the charity! Who would your money be on? I am | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
torn. It is all a good cause, I am told. Time now for Living The Dream, | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
and this week we are meeting someone who was taking a creative | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
talent and turned it into a way of life. Not only that, but she also | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
works from home, which many of us would say is a dream in itself. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Levantine makes wonderful carvings on wood and stone. That plan in | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
time. -- Clement time. I went to meet her and she was starting a new | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
project and reflecting on one of the greatest, you could even say | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
Royal, achievement. -- achievements. It is great to be able to come out | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
of my house and cross over the park to work. I love that is his Mike | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
Read. I spend all day every day in here, usually seven days per week. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
-- I love that is my work. If I'm not living the dream, I think I am | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
pursuing it. It starts as a block, and then you just have stripes and | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
gouges through it, and you start modelling the shapes out of it. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
Look that is behind you here, how many tools have you got that you | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
use? I have used to be a couple of hundred, but I am still collecting, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
and ultimately I like to have at least 1,000. Do you know what it | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
reminds me of? It is like the dentists! Funnily enough, sometimes | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
I have actually used dentists tools, because they are so fine. She does | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
not only carve wood. This may appear to be a cold, grey block of | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
Portland stone, but it is something What are you working on here, then? | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
This is a figure of a medieval saint that I have modelled in clay. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
But now I am just working out how to transfer it into this beautiful | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
place of limestone. -- piece. For me, it seems quite malleable in a | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
way. I tend to be thinking of it more as something that I am going | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
to be able to push around, almost as you would with clave. -- clave. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
Is there a moment of excitement when you start a new project? | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Especially in the first week, when you are making big shapes and it is | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
really exciting. I know exactly where I am going with something | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
from the moment I start. Each state has its pleasures and frustrations, | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
really, but the first stages are particularly fun. What was the last | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
significant piece that you did? last important piece that I did was | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
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a new grotesque for St George's It is really, really exciting to | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
save. It does make it all seem real, in a way that it does not when you | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
are carving it in your workshop at home. You do not imagine it is | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
every going to go somewhere so special! You really do feel as | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
though you are part of a journey, the abolition of something much | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
bigger than yourself, and that is Up and coming, and I'm sure we'll | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
see a lot more of her and her work. Such a talent! Imagine if you hit | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
it to heart, apparently it does happen. Did we wake you up in the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
middle of that these? Let's get on to the weather, because that is | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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what you want to know about. We can Now, we know from the National | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
weather forecasts just how cold it has been internationally, right | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
across Europe, minus 30. It was minus 31 in Austria a couple of | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
weeks ago, but it felt just as cold in some areas. Alexis is out and | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
about in Berkshire, what is the temperature where you are? | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Bach, Sally, I just checked my thermometer, it is minus three | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
already, and temperatures are set to plunge overnight tonight. Let's | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
take a look at the satellite picture from earlier, barely a | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
cloud in the sky but a weather front out in the Atlantic is | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
gradually pushing its way in and will arrive over the weekend. More | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
about that in a second. Temperatures will take a plunge | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
tonight into minus figures, expect minus two, minus four sells his | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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inner towns and cities. In the countryside, lower than that. -- | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
minus four Celsius in towns and cities. It could get down to minus | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
eight in some places. The temperatures will struggle to rise | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
as the day wears on. Minus three to start with, pushing up to two | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Celsius in the sunshine. Plenty of sunshine on offer, very like today. | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
We do it all again tomorrow night, temperatures sliding back down into | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
minus figures. A widespread frost is expected both tonight and | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
tomorrow night. Tomorrow afternoon, lots of sunshine, but then again, | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
with clear skies, minus figures. We are looking ahead, though, to | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Saturday, and that could cause a few problems with a weather front | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
pushing him from the Atlantic, meeting cold air across the country, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
causing some snow on the leading edge as those two air masses | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
collide. Temperatures over the next few days will struggle to rise. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Tomorrow, lots of sunshine. More cloud on Saturday with that weather | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
front, and we will keep a close eye on that. As we head towards the | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
rest of the weekend, Sunday has a potential for snow in the morning, | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
so Saturday Night And Sunday morning, stay tuned to the forecast, | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
that is the message. It really does look cold, do take | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
care. BBC local radio would give you the update on what is happening | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
with the weather. An exciting week next week, let's have a quick look | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
ahead. We are marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Dickens. One of our most famous writers was born in Portsmouth, his | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
father worked in a naval pay offers. We will find out how people | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
celebrating the bicentenary, and we will see how his passion for social | :27:21. | :27:28. |