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More than a dozen killed in Serie A's ongoing anti- Government | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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protests. -- Serie A's. Also ahead, terror alert in Nigeria. Unprepared | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
and taken unawares. The Nigerian Government tells the BBC the latest | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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attacks by the militant group Boko Haram took it by surprise. And with | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Rok's biggest earners approaching their twilight years, are | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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tomorrow's musicians being denied Hello and welcome. The new teams | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
hoping to lead Greece and Italy out of their situation are hoping to | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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take shape today. Greece has sworn in Lucas Papademos. Here is our | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
correspondent with a look at the latest developments. In Greece, the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
economy that put the Eurozone under threat, a new prime minister is | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
sworn in. Lucas Papademos is an Economist. Formerly with the | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
European Central Bank. Three is opting for a safe pair of hands. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Italy seems to be choosing the same as. Ushering a pause to the era of | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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flamboyant leadership. Their choice, a former low-key European | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
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Commissioner, and seen as low He was given a hero's welcome | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
inside the chamber. Then came speeches underlining the pressure | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
on Italy to change direction. We do hope that this act can pave the way | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to a government that will enable Italy to come out of this critical | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
situation. The argument won the day. 156 votes its four, 12 against and | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
one abstention. Opposition senators did not take part, nor did they | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
block. The austerity package hopes to save almost 60 billion euros. It | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
it aims to balance the Budget by 2014. Measures include an increase | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
in VAT, and increasing the retirement age for women to match | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
that of men. To 60 in 2014 and 65 and 2026. There will be measures to | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
fight tax evasion. The cuts will be tough, but the markets, and many | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
Italians welcome the change he symbolises. I think he will be good. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
I think he is capable. I think he has the right capabilities. I hope | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
he does better than the last lot. I hope things improve. Greece and | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Italy, to ancient cultures. By the time the markets are open on Monday, | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
they may have very different styles of leadership. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
In the midst of the debt crisis in Italy, the outgoing prime minister | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Silvio Berlusconi famously said the Italian economy was doing all right | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
because the restaurants were full. He has survived sex scandals, | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
corruption scandal and votes of no confidence. In the end, the | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
Eurozone crisis meant he could no longer cling to power. | :04:52. | :05:00. | |
Three-times prime minister, multi- billionaire. Silvio Berlusconi has | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
been the consummate survivor of Italian politics. He never seemed | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
to suffer embarrassment on account of his sometimes I'd read as public | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
behaviour. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was clearly irritated | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
when asked to wait for him to finish a phone call. On a visit to | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
Moscow, he famously referred to the American President as tanned. On | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
another occasion, he publicly proclaimed it was better to like | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
girls and be gay. His time in office has been tainted by scandal. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
He has been called before the courts on fraud and corruption | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
charges although never actually convicted. He is currently facing | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
trial on charges of paying for sex with an under-age prostitute. A | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
charismatic speaker and notorious womaniser, he has been nicknamed | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
the Sultan on account of the babies of young women at his parties. On | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
December 2009, he was assaulted in the street in Milan. A man through | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
a many statue into the Prime Minister's face, leaving him | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
bleeding and shaken. It has been the economy, rather than scandal | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
which has underlined his premiership. He thought his allies | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
would stand by him, but his popularity slowly ebbed away as. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
To take stock of Silvio Berlusconi's life and career, we | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
are joined by a columnist who also teaches at Princeton University. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
He's a vied the rows over there parties, in the end it was that the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
economy that got to him. Critics say he never got to grips | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
with it? That is exactly what a few of us have been saying for years. | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
Berlusconi's coalition did not give a damn about his personal behaviour. | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
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Eventually the economy got to him. Now, we hope that the two Super | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Mario has can do the job. But it is going to be very difficult. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi, on what could be the final day of his | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
premiership, he has still got about three television stations, | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
newspapers and so on. Will he still have influenced in Italy? It is | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
funny because Silvio Berlusconi has a conflict of interest, at which he | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
has used to promote his own political party in the last 20 | :07:39. | :07:48. | |
years. Will he unleashed his media empire against his opponent? If he | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
does, eventually his media empire will pay a price. In the last hour | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
of Silvio Berlusconi running the country, they lost 12% on the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Italian Wall Street. He would have to be wary of running too much | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
trouble. I get the idea of where you were coming from when you talk | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
about Silvio Berlusconi. But how do you think the Italian people might | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
be reflecting on his career, positive or negative? The country | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
is neatly divided into three factions. One-third of the country | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
still think that Silvio Berlusconi was a godsend and will keep the | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
voting for him so. This does not mean they will vote for his party, | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
but they voted for him. One third of the country think that he is the | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Devil and anything he says or does is terrible. One-third of the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
country desperately wanted an alternative for Mr Berlusconi, but | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
never got it from the centre left until they split, some voted for | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Silvio Berlusconi and some voted against him. I hope now that we | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
will have some sort of national unity. We were looking at pictures | :09:15. | :09:25. | |
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of Silvio Berlusconi on the world stage. Do you think... What do you | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
think Italy's image has been like under Silvio Berlusconi and do you | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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think it can change? I do not think that Mr Berlusconi was's clownish | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
performance which damage the country. It was the economy and | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
that is where the future generations will pay. He could have | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
done a lot better running of the economy. The country will bleed for | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
this. Activists in serious say at least 14 people have been killed in | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
the latest protest against the Government in the capital Damascus. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
The organisation Human Rights Watch has accused Syrian forces of | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
committing crimes against humanity and says Syria should have its | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
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membership of the Arab League The cities and towns of Syria | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
remain killing zones. More than one week after the government promised | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
the Arab League it would pull out all of the security forces. This | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
battle near Damascus, one of many in recent days which have left at | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
least 100 people dead. For many opposition activists, the | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
city of Homs is the centre of the revolution against the regime of | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The crackdown on protesters here, | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
particularly brutal. Up to 1000 civilians reported killed. This, | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
and allegations of widespread torture amount to crimes against | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
humanity -- humanity. We hope that the evidence we put on the table | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
today will galvanise those parts of the international system who have | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
been making excuses for months as to why it is not appropriate to act. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
The time is now to act. We cannot tolerate the scale of human rights | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
abuses we have seen in recent months. As the international | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
community dithers, the protests on the ground in Syria were gaining | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
ever widening support. According to opposition activists, increasing | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
numbers of soldiers are defecting from the Armed Forces. Like this | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
man, now commander of a rebel force called the free Syrian army. He | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
told the BBC they were defending the people and said the President | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Ali Abdullah Saleh regime would only be removed by force. That | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
could lead to even greater casualties. In a full-scale civil | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
war in which a brutal regime is confronted by an armed resistance. | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
Let's take a look at some of the day's other developments. There has | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
been an upsurge of violence in Yemen with a report saying at least | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
11 people have been killed. In fighting between government forces | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
and militia men in Taiz. This coincides with the return of the UN | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
envoy trying to end months of conflict between supporters of | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
President Ali Abdullah Saleh and supporter groups. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
People across the United Kingdom have absurd two Minute silence to | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
mark Remembrance Day. Readers were laid at the Cenotaph. President | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Sarkozy of France laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown soldier | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
under a bit Arc de Triomph in Paris. Barack Obama has marked Veterans | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
Day at Arlington cemetery. London has won its bid to host the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
World a lot -- Athletic Championships in 2017. The decision | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
was announced by the International Athletic authorities in the Monaco. | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
In September, as you may remember, at the UN assembly Mahmoud Abbas | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
made a speech requesting full state membership of the United Nations. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Today the UN Security Council has taken a decision that affects that | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
particular hope. Be Security Council report shows that only | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
eight of the 15 it backed the move, leaving the Palestinians just one | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
vote short of the majority they needed. But the US had indicated it | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
would have used its veto power to block the move even if a majority | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
had been reached. Let's get more on this. Where does this leave the | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
Palestinians, could be a press for a vote? Yes. We have seen it | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
committee which has been looking at their application over the past | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
couple of weeks, it has come up with a report saying it could not | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
recommend for or against because the security council is divided. It | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
summed up everyone's positions and now at the Palestinians must decide | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
what to do yet -- now. They had been thinking of calling for a vote | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
because they knew the Americans would veto. And they were hoping | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
for a moral victory, if they could muster the nine votes needed to | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
pass a rare but -- resolution, it would be clear that the Americans | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
were the obstacle to then getting membership. In fact, it looks as if | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
they only had eight votes, not the nine needed. They have to decide | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
whether to drop the Security Council approach, or whether to | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
push ahead for a boat as a symbolic step because they say this is a | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
legal right that they have. They could press to become eight non- | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
member Observer state of the UN. Is that likely? I think it is probably | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
one of the more likely options. The Palestinians have said today they | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
will consider what to do. They are going to discuss amongst the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Palestinian leadership. They will consult with the Arab League next | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
week about what to do. There are leaders who would prefer this | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
option because it means you would not have a confrontation with the | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Americans at the Security Council and you could possibly come up with | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
something, even if it is not full membership. It would upgrade | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Palestine's status. They could ask to be upgraded to a non-member of | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
server state. That would probably strengthen their hand at legally | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
and politically to challenge the Israeli occupation within an | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
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The Nigerian defence minister has told the BBC that last week's | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
attacks by Boko Haram caught his troops by surprise. Bello Haliru | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Mohammed said despite the large military presence in North eastern | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
Nigeria, Boko Haram had given it the slip. It lost an attack on the | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
town of Damaturu. -- launched. The damage in the town of Damaturu rule | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
was clear to see. Police stations and banks were bombed, churches | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
burnt to the ground as young men went on the rampage. More than 100 | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
people died. The bodies have been buried and thoughts are now turning | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
to what more the Government could have done to stop the deadly rise | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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of Boko Haram. When they became a problem, the Government issued | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
legal strategies. In the long run it only gives the group a measure | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
of support from the populace. who have dealt directly with Boko | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Haram say their key demands are that their leaders are released | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
from prison, that there be justice for their members killed by the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
police, and the security forces pulled back from their heartland in | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
north Nigeria. They do not sound impossible, but the military say | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
for them to withdraw there must be stability first. The important | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
thing is to reduce or stop the killings. I believe we are working | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
to do that. Once the killings are stopped, the issue of the | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
grievances will also be addressed. Government critics say there has | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
been too much emphasis on the military option, which has damaged | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
the chances of talks taking place. Brute force can never solve a | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
political problem. Brute force can never kill an idea. What can kill | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
an idea is negotiation, dialogue and understanding. Do you think the | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
current Government is capable of doing that? No! They have no idea. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Boko Haram has hit Abuja twice this year and has promised to strike | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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again. Nigeria's militants are now the entire country's problems. -- | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
problems. The rise in the popularity of music on YouTube may | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
be good for listeners, but it is causing a problem for young | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
recording artists. The Performing Rights Society says there is an | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
imbalance with older bands dominating the music sector, and | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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younger artists lacking support. It must be strange going to school | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
and coming home poking about album deals? Yes, it is! Today has been | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
really weird, going from science division -- revision to recording. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Birdy, still at school and this week in the top 10 with her first | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
album. Her Rendition? Travelling around the world and playing at | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
huge concerts. I love performing. She is just 15 and it is looking | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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good. What about 18, 21, 25? The music industry has real fears. The | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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real money is being made... There is a problem, age. There is quite | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
an imbalance of heritage bands dominating the live music sector. | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
The figures are startling. The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
McCartney, 40% of those top hats are over 60. 19% and like you to | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
and Madonna, now in their fifties. 96% were over 40. Britney Spears is | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
the only twentysomething. The X Factor may create fame, but long- | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
term success? If you do not have a hit with your first single, it is | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
all over. It is extremely fickle. A quick turnaround. The number of | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
songwriters is at a record high. Long-term, who will be the Heritage | :21:12. | :21:22. | |
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at softer moral? -- the Heritage acts of tomorrow? | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
She has got a nice voice. I have got company now. I have got David | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
McAlmont, a singer-songwriter, and Jon Webster, Chief Executive of the | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Music Managers Forum. Record labels are understandably worried about | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
taking risks, aren't they? Haitink they are at the moment. The | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
economics of the recording industry has changed drastically. I think it | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
is easier perhaps for young artists to make records. There are a lot | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
more of them out there but getting traction in the worldwide market is | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
very tough. David, despite that, you are seeing good at coming | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
through -- axis. Adele is one of the fortunate ones who has been | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
given some clue as to what the industry and tails. One of the | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
problems the industry does have is that it does not really coach its | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
act correctly. A lot of people who come into the industry are | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
attracted because of their talent and made to understand that talent | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
is all they need. An awful lot more is involved. The graduates of the | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
Brit School are doing better. you saying managers are not doing | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
right by artists? I can only speak from my own experience. Certainly I | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
was not coached. I have had to learn a lot for myself. I am now | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
releasing independently and funding my music through touring. I had to | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
learn that the hard way. I am without a label and without | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
management. I have to survive as an artist. Is this a typical story? | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
Yes. We get phone calls every day from artists he do not necessarily | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
know about the internet or the business. They do not want to learn. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
We encourage artists to learn the basics. Find a manager who cannot | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
do all of the work to relieve them so they can be creative. Are you | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
basically saying to them, this is the business and we have to make | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
money? I have always said it is the music business. That is what we are | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
in. That is what people need to appreciate. They have to go a long | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
way today as an artist before they get a manager. If they are not | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
making income, a manager is not making a living. The industry is in | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
a bit of a crisis because the distribution has been ruptured by | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the internet. People can attract attention without having to go | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
through those channels. I think the industry is closing ranks around | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
the business. And not appreciating the creative? People just want to | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
hear great music. Slowly the corporate ties Asian has taken over. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
There is that tension between the corporate and that the business | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
side. You have to make money. --? That is true. There are many | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
different models coming through these days. You can dine with the | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
band, you can get signed CDs etc. There are many innovative ways. And | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
they are working. I did have a meeting with the raffle and manager | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
a couple of days ago and he said the CD was basically dying because | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
of downloading. You have to find other ways of making money? | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
advice I was given was to work in social networking so that people | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
engage with you without having to listen to the radio or watched | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
television, because that was not a given any more. Problems like X | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
Factor, Good or bad? On balance I would say that. They are to short | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
term, they do not really developed acts. And once people get into one | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Act, the next series comes along and they get into the next act. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Very few serious artists come out of those talent shows. I think the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
X Factor has been excellent television for a while. It is about | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
getting people to watch television. That is it. What about the idea | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
that you see people like David getting a fan base on the | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
internet... That is the way of the world. That is how music industry | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
executives are finding out. They look for the YouTube hits and all | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
that stuff. Thank you both. A reminder of the | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
main news. The Italian Senate has approved at reform package to end | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
the Country's debt crisis. Parliamentary approval should lead | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
to the promised resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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Hello. Behind the band of rain moving east across the UK overnight, | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
there is plenty of dry weather to come. Much of the UK will gradually | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
brighten up. This weather front is moving through overnight. Behind | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
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that, rain. A lot of cloud in the south-east. Elsewhere, the | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
brightening up process continues through the morning. A fine | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
afternoon in northern England. Variable cloud and sunny spells. In | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
East Anglia and south-east England there will be more clout than sun. | :27:41. | :27:50. | |
-- more clout than a son. A few early sharp showers in to south- | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
west England and Wales. They will be done by the afternoon. For her | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
Northern Ireland, plenty of sunshine. -- Northern Ireland. It | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
is fine across Scotland. In the north-west there will be some | :28:07. | :28:13. |