:00:14. > :00:18.UK unemployment hits a 17-year high. A million of them are young people.
:00:18. > :00:22.New figures show the jobless total reaches almost 2.7 million in
:00:22. > :00:26.November, hard times for those looking for work.
:00:26. > :00:32.It is very demoralising, sometimes you get down for a few days, but it
:00:32. > :00:35.is all about keeping your morale up. You have to.
:00:35. > :00:40.Tonight the Chancellor tells the BBC there could be more bad news on
:00:40. > :00:44.the way. Also in the programme: The search of the Costa Concordia
:00:44. > :00:50.suspended after it slips deeper into the sea. Relatives still hope
:00:50. > :00:57.for a miracle. I will stay here until I have to.
:00:57. > :01:00.Let's see what happens. Let's see how things are. I hope. I hope.
:01:00. > :01:05.The captain is under house arrest accused of escaping the scene
:01:05. > :01:09.before his passengers. He says he fell into a lifeboat.
:01:09. > :01:14.A new airport for London - Ministers say they will look at
:01:14. > :01:19.building a new aviation hub in the Thames Estuary.
:01:19. > :01:27.60 years on - a pageant fit for a Queen - 1,000 boats will take to
:01:27. > :01:32.the water to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
:01:32. > :01:42.In sport: An exclusive interview with the man in the hat who denies
:01:42. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:58.any wrongdoing during Amir Khan's Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:58. > :02:02.News at Six. The number of people unemployed hit nearly 2.7 million
:02:02. > :02:06.in the three months to November, the highest it's been for 17 years.
:02:06. > :02:10.Once again, young people are being hit hard, more than a million are
:02:10. > :02:15.jobless, that is a record. And there could be more bad news on the
:02:15. > :02:19.way. Today the Chancellor told the BBC that figures expected next week
:02:19. > :02:25.could show that Britain's economy actually shrank at the end of last
:02:25. > :02:29.year. That would prompt fears of a new recession.
:02:29. > :02:33.The latest news from the Jobcentres isn't good - unemployment is up
:02:33. > :02:39.again though in Wales and Northern Ireland it fell and for young
:02:39. > :02:43.people it is especially hard to pin down a job. John and Alex are on a
:02:43. > :02:47.scheme for the young unemployed run by the Wildlife Trust near Bolton.
:02:47. > :02:52.It teaches skills and team work and they found it worthwhile. But they
:02:52. > :02:55.are both frustrated they can't find full-time work. It is very
:02:55. > :02:59.demoralising, sometimes you get down for a few days, but it is all
:02:59. > :03:03.about keeping your morale up. You have to keep optimistic and keep
:03:03. > :03:09.trying. You can't say it is just this generation because every
:03:09. > :03:13.generation faces problems, really. This is our problem. We will get
:03:14. > :03:17.through it. The latest jobless figures dominated exchanges at
:03:17. > :03:21.Prime Minister's Questions. increase in unemployment is
:03:21. > :03:23.disappointing and it is obviously a tragedy for the person who becomes
:03:24. > :03:30.unemployed and can lead to real difficulty for that family and that
:03:30. > :03:36.is why we are taking so much action to try and help people to get back
:03:36. > :03:40.into work. The Labour Leader said Government spending cuts were to
:03:40. > :03:44.blame. Why is unemployment rising? He is cutting too far and too fast.
:03:44. > :03:50.It is his record however much he twists and turns, it is his record,
:03:50. > :03:56.that is why unemployment is going up. The flow of people around the
:03:56. > :03:59.world of work suggests that employment is less secure and is
:03:59. > :04:02.more unpredictable. If you look at the number of people in work, one
:04:02. > :04:07.group that has been expanding is the self-employed. Some will have
:04:07. > :04:10.left other jobs to work for themselves, but others will have
:04:11. > :04:15.been made redundant, struggle to find other work and ended up going
:04:15. > :04:20.it alone. Between September and November, the number of self-
:04:20. > :04:24.employed rose by 101,000, while the number of employees in jobs fell by
:04:24. > :04:31.109,000. The total wanting full- time work currently part-time rose
:04:31. > :04:35.to more than 1.3 million. This man lost his job in business in 2010.
:04:35. > :04:44.He's started out as a self-employed music teacher, but only after a
:04:44. > :04:49.fruitless search for full-time work. It's a common experience for a lot
:04:49. > :04:53.of people. It's a leap of faith to go into self employment.
:04:53. > :04:58.Chancellor may have been meeting his counter-part in Japan today,
:04:58. > :05:03.but he had a warning about the UK. Figures out next week could show
:05:03. > :05:08.the economy contracting. I don't know what next week's GDP number
:05:09. > :05:13.will be. The OBR has warned us that it may well be a negative number.
:05:13. > :05:18.That was their forecast in November. They didn't forecast a recession.
:05:18. > :05:22.So while the unemployment figures weren't all bad, the number
:05:22. > :05:25.claiming jobseekers' allowance has barely changed, but the news next
:05:25. > :05:28.week may not brighten the economic picture.
:05:29. > :05:32.Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for us tonight. It is quite
:05:32. > :05:38.something when the Chancellor appears to be preparing us for more
:05:38. > :05:43.bad news? It is. Twice he used the words "negative" talking about next
:05:43. > :05:47.week's growth figure when he was talking to Stephanie Flanders out
:05:47. > :05:52.in Tokyo today. He doesn't know the number for how the economy is
:05:52. > :05:55.growing. That will be released by the Office of National Statistics
:05:55. > :05:59.next Wednesday. He is preparing us all for the fact it may not be a
:05:59. > :06:03.number going up, it could be a number going down, that the economy
:06:03. > :06:07.will be shrinking. In one sense, it doesn't matter, it is just a
:06:07. > :06:11.statistic except of course that today we saw the human side of that
:06:11. > :06:13.statistic because every number on that unemployment register is a
:06:13. > :06:17.human story. In addition, George, there is another bit of awkward
:06:17. > :06:23.news for him when he returns home here to number 11 from the Far East,
:06:23. > :06:27.it is this: The International Monetary Fund is now saying it
:06:27. > :06:32.needs a half trillion more dollars to stand behind all those
:06:32. > :06:38.struggling countries in the eurozone. That means that you and I
:06:38. > :06:42.may have to find �15 billion or more to contribute to that IMF fund.
:06:42. > :06:46.George Osborne will always stress it is money that we will probably
:06:46. > :06:49.one day get back, but it is something that people won't much
:06:50. > :06:53.like doing. The search of the Costa Concordia
:06:53. > :06:57.off the Italian coast has been suspended today after the ship
:06:57. > :07:01.slipped further into the sea. Five days on, hopes of finding anyone
:07:01. > :07:05.alive have faded. The captain accused of leaving his passengers
:07:05. > :07:11.is now under house arrest. He is reported to have told investigators
:07:11. > :07:17.that he fell into a lifeboat. Matthew Price is at the scene again
:07:17. > :07:21.for us tonight. Yes, the relatives of several of
:07:21. > :07:25.the missing arrived here on the island to that news, anxious news
:07:25. > :07:30.as far as they were concerned that the rescue effort had had to be
:07:30. > :07:33.suspended. My report does contain some flash photography. It also
:07:33. > :07:37.contains some extraordinary footage that we have obtained from
:07:37. > :07:45.specialist cave divers who have been going into the heart of the
:07:45. > :07:52.ship. It is slow going inside the ship,
:07:52. > :07:59.moving through the floating debris of a once luxury liner. Along
:07:59. > :08:04.corridors turned on their side. Specialist divers here are
:08:04. > :08:10.searching for survivors but they know they will more likely only
:08:10. > :08:14.find the dead. This is how they have been entering the ship,
:08:14. > :08:18.through the top deck, now on the waterline.
:08:18. > :08:22.TRANSLATION: At one point the glass door of a shop was above me with
:08:22. > :08:25.the contents inside all pressing down. It could have shattered at
:08:25. > :08:30.any moment. The rescue though was put on hold
:08:30. > :08:37.today as the ship began to move slightly. Making it too dangerous
:08:37. > :08:42.to look for the missing. Among them, Russell Rebello, a waiter on board.
:08:42. > :08:46.Today, his brother Kevin came to the island and saw the wreck of the
:08:46. > :08:51.Costa Concordia for the first time. Does he think his brother can
:08:51. > :08:56.possibly be alive? It is the fifth day, it's a logical question that
:08:56. > :09:00.people have been making, it is an assumption that OK five days, but
:09:00. > :09:06.there have been miracles around, people have come home after many
:09:06. > :09:10.days. On the mainland, the captain's wife was mobbed by
:09:10. > :09:15.journalists. He's enanynumber one here, criticised for aban -- enemy
:09:15. > :09:19.number one here, criticised for abandoning ship. He is said to have
:09:19. > :09:24.slipped by mistake into a departing lifeboat. Few believe that. His
:09:24. > :09:30.lawyer says the captain is deeply shaken by what happened. But the
:09:30. > :09:35.sister of another missing crew member has no sympathy.
:09:35. > :09:39.TRANSLATION: It is outrageous they have him under house arrest. It is
:09:39. > :09:43.like he is a free man and the search is taking too long.
:09:43. > :09:46.salvage operation is ready to go as soon as they get permission. Large
:09:46. > :09:50.amounts of equipment and personnel have been brought in. Everybody
:09:50. > :09:56.knows that removing the ship from its current resting place is going
:09:56. > :10:01.to be a mammoth task. The long days are taking their toll on the
:10:01. > :10:07.rescuers. One collapsed exhausted today. A satellite picked up this
:10:07. > :10:14.image of the ship, lying peacefully against the island. While down on
:10:14. > :10:18.the shore, Kevin Rebello waits for his brother. You heard him there
:10:18. > :10:21.talking about the possibility of a miracle as far as his brother was
:10:21. > :10:25.concerned. In a sense, there was a slight miracle today when a German
:10:26. > :10:30.woman, who was on the missing list, it turned out had made it off the
:10:30. > :10:34.ship, back to the mainland and all the way back to Germany, so she is
:10:34. > :10:39.not dead after all, she is back home at the moment. But there are
:10:39. > :10:44.still more than 20 people missing. The High Court has ordered the
:10:44. > :10:47.eviction of protesters who have been camping outside St Paul's
:10:47. > :10:55.Cathedral since October. The judge said their campsite had a damaging
:10:55. > :10:59.impact on one of Britain's most important public buildings. The
:10:59. > :11:03.Occupy campaigners are appealing against the decision. Thousands of
:11:03. > :11:08.workers at Unilever have started a series of strikes over the
:11:08. > :11:14.company's plans to axe its final salary pension scheme. Unilever
:11:14. > :11:17.says the changes are needed as people are living longer.
:11:17. > :11:25.The clothing chain Peacocks has gone into administration. The
:11:25. > :11:31.retailer employs more than 9,500 people. Nick Servini is outside the
:11:31. > :11:34.headquarters. What will happen to all these jobs, Nick? George, 400
:11:34. > :11:37.people behind me were marched into a meeting this afternoon and they
:11:37. > :11:41.were told that the business is going to go into administration.
:11:41. > :11:45.The staff are now really left in an unenviable position because they
:11:45. > :11:49.are going home tonight and will come back tomorrow and many of them
:11:49. > :11:51.expect to find out whether they will have a job or not. One project
:11:51. > :11:55.manager told me the expectation is that many people will find out that
:11:56. > :12:00.they are out of work. That may or may not be the case. I have spoken
:12:00. > :12:04.with the administrators, KPMG, who plan to sell this as a going
:12:04. > :12:07.concern and say there has been a lot of interest so far. The problem
:12:08. > :12:12.with this group is not the profitability of the stores, it is
:12:12. > :12:16.an historic debt from a management buyout back in 2006. That should
:12:16. > :12:21.give some hope at least to the thousands of staff who work for
:12:21. > :12:25.Peacocks all over the UK. It's been called Boris Island and
:12:25. > :12:29.it is one of the options to be considered by the Government in a
:12:29. > :12:34.potential shake-up of UK aviation. The plan to build a new airport in
:12:34. > :12:41.the Thames Estuary is favoured by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
:12:41. > :12:46.Other ideas will be under the spotlight, too.
:12:46. > :12:52.It's an ambitious idea, to turn a sleepy corner of Kent into an
:12:52. > :12:57.airport twice the size of Heathrow. Four new runways, new roads, a
:12:57. > :13:01.high-speed line, and a high-profile backer, the London Mayor. I think
:13:01. > :13:05.this is something that would deliver a huge number of jobs for
:13:05. > :13:10.London and for the South East of England and would help us to
:13:10. > :13:15.compete in the long-term with our European rivals. London's airports
:13:15. > :13:22.are running out of space. Heathrow's already full and unable
:13:22. > :13:27.to expand while demand keeps rising. In 2010, 1 40 million passengers
:13:27. > :13:34.flew in or out of the city, that could rise to 400 million by 2050.
:13:34. > :13:39.The new airport would take 150 million passengers. More capacity
:13:39. > :13:44.means more routes to growing markets like Brazil, China, India.
:13:44. > :13:48.Some worry Britain is losing out. When it comes to our infrastructure,
:13:48. > :13:52.when Britain dithers others do. We have seen new runways in France,
:13:52. > :13:57.Germany, in Holland. Those countries could become the
:13:57. > :14:01.beneficiaries of inward investment if the UK doesn't act. It is hard
:14:01. > :14:05.to imagine but this spot here would be the end of one of the runways,
:14:05. > :14:11.planes taking off and landing over my head here. I would be surrounded
:14:11. > :14:15.by houses, by roads. They would build a new Thames flood barrier
:14:15. > :14:20.which would double as a road crossing. The scale is incredible.
:14:20. > :14:25.There is a price tag to match. Total cost then - �50 billion
:14:25. > :14:30.although there is no clue yet as to who might fund it. And it could
:14:30. > :14:35.take decades to build. There is also strong opposition - this crash
:14:35. > :14:39.in New York's Hudson River happened after birds got sucked into the
:14:39. > :14:43.engines. The incident of bird strike from trying to fly aircraft
:14:43. > :14:50.through birds that have been migrating down here would be
:14:50. > :14:55.perhaps up to 12 times the norm. British Airways says it will kill
:14:55. > :15:02.off Heathrow and Ryanair boss has called it "absolutely nuts". There
:15:03. > :15:07.is an election coming up in London. No-one standing against Boris likes
:15:07. > :15:17.the idea. It will be discussed in the spring when the Government
:15:17. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:26.starts consulting on its wider plan 27-year-old Karl Whant denies
:15:26. > :15:35.killing 19-year-old Nikitta Grender, who was found stabbed to death in
:15:35. > :15:37.her home. Our reporter was in court. You may find parts of this report
:15:37. > :15:43.distressing. Nikitta Grender was just two weeks away from giving
:15:43. > :15:47.birth to her first child, when she died. A baby girl, she had named
:15:47. > :15:51.Kelsey May. She told friends all she had ever wanted to be was a
:15:51. > :15:55.mother. The 19-year-old's badly burned body was found in the
:15:55. > :15:58.bedroom of her flat in Newport in February last year. She had been
:15:58. > :16:06.raped and stabbed to death, before the home she shared with her
:16:06. > :16:10.boyfriend was set on fire. Arriving at Crown Court, 27-year-old Karl
:16:10. > :16:16.Whant, accused of the raper and murder of Nikitta Grender, the
:16:16. > :16:21.destruction of her unborn child and arson. The night before her death,
:16:21. > :16:27.he spent the evening in Newport watching a rugby match with his
:16:27. > :16:30.cousin. Ryan was her boyfriend and the father of their unborn baby.
:16:30. > :16:35.Nikitta Grender's parents and a large group of friends heard that
:16:35. > :16:41.he was a self-confessed cocaine user and she thought he was a bad
:16:41. > :16:50.influence on her boyfriend. The jury was told he came here to the
:16:50. > :16:54.flat. It was a flais she should have felt safe -- place she should
:16:54. > :17:04.have felt safe. He denies all charges. The trial is expected to
:17:04. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:16.Our top story tonight - UK unemployment reaches almost 2.7
:17:16. > :17:20.million. That's a 17-year high. Coming up, I'll be reporting from
:17:20. > :17:23.the Somerset town where they planning to switch off every single
:17:23. > :17:32.light bulb, not to save electricity, but because they are hoping to look
:17:32. > :17:35.at the stars. In business on the news channel, 10,000 jobs at risk,
:17:35. > :17:45.as Peacocks goes into administration and the IMF says it
:17:45. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:50.will boost lending to help weak A thousand boats, in a flotilla
:17:50. > :17:54.stretching seven miles, will sail down the Thames as part of the
:17:54. > :17:57.celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June. The plan,
:17:57. > :17:59.announced today, involves historic vessels, steam boats, tugs, barges
:17:59. > :18:09.and passenger ships. Our Royal correspondent, Luisa Baldini, has
:18:09. > :18:13.been finding out. The Queen has given 60 years of unwaivering
:18:13. > :18:19.service to the country. What better tribute than for her to see and be
:18:19. > :18:26.seen by as many people as possible in a pageant on the Thames. This is
:18:26. > :18:31.what the organisers imagine it will be like. 20,000 people on thousands
:18:31. > :18:33.of boats forming one enormous float till that, arrange a Royal barge
:18:33. > :18:38.carrying the Queen and Prince Phillip. There are no recent
:18:38. > :18:42.precedents, so it's from this 18bling century painting, which
:18:42. > :18:46.will appear in the Royal river exhibition at the National Maritime
:18:46. > :18:49.Museum, that the organisers have got their inspiration. I'm looking
:18:49. > :18:53.forward to the river being transformed for that day.
:18:53. > :18:59.Transformed with colour, with noise, with shouting and cheering people.
:18:59. > :19:04.It being full. It being, if you like, reclaimed as a Royal route.
:19:04. > :19:10.The Royal barge is expected to look something like this. It will be
:19:11. > :19:17.clad and decorated in a secret location the month before. Moored
:19:17. > :19:22.in London this is how she looks now. The Queen will be here with the
:19:22. > :19:27.Duke of Edinburgh, is that right the owner has donated the boat
:19:27. > :19:31.especially for the occasion. Queen wanted to be seen, so this is
:19:31. > :19:38.a fantastic elevated platform and we have 64 metres of platform here,
:19:38. > :19:44.so accommodate a lot of people. It can be seen from all sides. Sailing
:19:44. > :19:47.in the float till that will be boats of all shapes -- flotilla
:19:47. > :19:52.will be boats of all shapes and sizes. They will come from all over
:19:52. > :19:57.the UK and from further afield like Australia and Canada. It is going
:19:57. > :20:03.to be a huge logistical challenge. Not least because the river rises
:20:03. > :20:08.and falls seven metres twice a day. At least one million people are
:20:08. > :20:18.expected to watch the pageant from the banks of the river. An occasion
:20:18. > :20:18.
:20:18. > :20:20.that is being billed as a one-in-a- lifetime event. David Cameron has
:20:20. > :20:23.accused the Argentinians of colonialism, for continuing to
:20:23. > :20:25.claim sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. He said he wanted to
:20:25. > :20:28.ensure the islands were well defended after Argentina's recent
:20:28. > :20:35.attempts to restrict ships from the Falklands. His comments came in
:20:35. > :20:41.Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons. The key point is we
:20:41. > :20:48.support the islanders' right to self-determination and what the
:20:48. > :20:51.Argentineans have been saying is March nor -- far more like
:20:51. > :20:59.colonialism. Our deputy political editor is at Westminster. Some
:20:59. > :21:03.people will say that talking about this is rather provocative? It has
:21:03. > :21:11.provoked a strong response from Argentina. In the last few minutes
:21:11. > :21:16.their interior minister said that the remarks were a totally
:21:16. > :21:19.offensive -- were totally offensive. There was the announcement that
:21:19. > :21:23.Prince William will fly helicopters out there and Argentina has
:21:23. > :21:26.persuaded neighbours to close their ports to ships flying the
:21:26. > :21:30.Falklands' flags and there have been the rows over fish and I think
:21:30. > :21:35.today David Cameron was trying to push back against all that. Saying,
:21:35. > :21:40.in his words, a clear message that the future of the islands should be
:21:40. > :21:42.determined by the islanders themselves. He chaired a meeting of
:21:42. > :21:46.the National Security Council yesterday and discussed plans for
:21:46. > :21:56.the 30th anniversary of the conflict, but they also made sure
:21:56. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:08.that Britain was prepared to defend. After days of hearing After days of
:22:09. > :22:11.hearing evidence from the editors of national newspapers, today it
:22:12. > :22:14.was the turn of some of the celebrity magazines. The editors of
:22:15. > :22:17.OK, Hello and Heat told the Leveson Inquiry they worked very closely
:22:18. > :22:26.with the stars they featured and were not in the business of
:22:26. > :22:34.printing salacious gossip. Nicholas Witchell reports. I'm Lucie Cave
:22:34. > :22:38.and I'met editor of Heat. I'm Rosie Nixon and the editor of Hello.
:22:38. > :22:43.Lisa Byrne. First, a definition of what they do. The editor of Hello
:22:43. > :22:48.recalled a favourite phrase of their Spanish founder. He had a
:22:48. > :22:52.lovely phrase, which means the frong of life. The -- froth of life.
:22:52. > :22:56.It is served up straight from the people. We work directly with the
:22:56. > :23:04.stars every step of the way. It is a serving which is deliberately
:23:04. > :23:07.sweet rather than sour. We are not in the business of printing
:23:07. > :23:15.salacious gossip. Lord Justice Leveson had Heat spread out in
:23:16. > :23:19.front of him. It's a different sort of journal to my normal, but fair
:23:20. > :23:23.enough. Why, the inquiry wanted to know, did it matter so much to
:23:23. > :23:27.celebrities to be in their magazines? It's because they want
:23:27. > :23:37.to share that they know that there is an interest in their lives.
:23:37. > :23:40.There was more. It his been an excursion into celebrity journalism.
:23:40. > :23:50.Where, according to the editors, privacy is respected and harassment
:23:50. > :23:54.
:23:54. > :23:57.Millions of BBC viewers have been glued to the Stargazing Live
:23:57. > :24:00.programmes this week. One town has decided to get involved in a new
:24:00. > :24:04.way. Tonight, Dulverton in Somerset is switching off all its lights so
:24:04. > :24:13.people there can get a better view of the night sky and our
:24:13. > :24:17.correspondent, Jon Kay, is there for us now. The church bells will
:24:17. > :24:21.ring out and that will be the cue for the 2,000 people to switch off
:24:21. > :24:27.every single light in their homes, businesses and street light, that
:24:27. > :24:30.they will all go off. Let me show you the shot from the top of the
:24:30. > :24:36.church tower. Later tonight, hopefully all you will see from up
:24:36. > :24:42.there is complete darkness. Dulverton, at sunset. But tonight
:24:42. > :24:46.things in this part of Britain will look rather different. At a time
:24:46. > :24:52.when light would normally be coming on, this evening they'll be
:24:52. > :24:58.switched off. The aim is zero light pollution, so the skies are as
:24:58. > :25:02.clear as possible. It's going to be really cool, so we can look up into
:25:02. > :25:10.the sky and see planets that we have never seen before. What will
:25:10. > :25:14.it be like when all the light go out? Scary. A bit nervous? It will
:25:14. > :25:19.certainly be a change. These pictures from NASA show just how
:25:19. > :25:23.much light there is around the world at night. Preventing us from
:25:23. > :25:27.getting a clear view of the stars. Here in the south-west of England,
:25:27. > :25:31.Dulverton is part of Exmoor, Europe's first dark sky reserve.
:25:31. > :25:36.This might be a small town, but there are still tens of thousands
:25:36. > :25:40.of bulbs. We take lighting for granted so we turn them on and off
:25:40. > :25:46.without thinking. What we want to show, even a small place like this
:25:46. > :25:51.can make a big difference. It seems everyone in this rural community is
:25:51. > :25:57.getting involved. Later tonight, traffic will be banned and the
:25:57. > :26:01.council will switch off every street light. Despite appearances,
:26:01. > :26:06.the pub is staying open, although it won't be business as usual.
:26:06. > :26:11.Serving in the dark will present some new challenges. There might be
:26:11. > :26:16.a bit of spilt beer on the floor, but hopefully not too much! It will
:26:16. > :26:20.be worse in the kitchen, I think! Hopefully nobody will get burnt
:26:20. > :26:24.food. After weeks of planning, tonight Dulverton finally gets its
:26:24. > :26:31.moment in the spotlight. Until, of course, that spotlight is also
:26:31. > :26:38.switched off. One thing you can't plan for is the weather. It's not
:26:38. > :26:42.looking great. When this goes live on BBC Two, between 8 and 9pm, I'm
:26:42. > :26:45.not sure you will see a huge amount in the skies, but for BBC Two, they
:26:45. > :26:50.have the special night-vision cameras which should at least be
:26:50. > :26:53.able to bring the skies to life, so they've installed them here and
:26:53. > :26:58.they should help people see something at least. It will be
:26:58. > :27:04.light off at 8.15, telescopes out, but sadly it looks like umbrellas
:27:04. > :27:11.but sadly it looks like umbrellas up as well. Now, a look at the
:27:11. > :27:21.weather. Will we see the stars? Some will, but in Dulverton is a
:27:21. > :27:21.
:27:21. > :27:25.case of don't shoot the messengerer, -- messenger, but it will be cloudy.
:27:25. > :27:30.It will be so across much of Wales, but in the north there will be
:27:30. > :27:33.clearer skies and one or two showers to go with it. Under the
:27:33. > :27:37.showers and the rain, temperatures will hold up. The further north we
:27:37. > :27:43.go, the colder the air will be and with temperatures very close to
:27:43. > :27:47.freezing there is a risk of ice around, particularly with the
:27:47. > :27:50.overnight showers. In the morning, dry, crisp and clear. Showers will
:27:50. > :27:55.arrive later. Northern Ireland, you will see one or two breaks here,
:27:55. > :27:58.but there will be plenty of cloud. As will be the case in northern
:27:58. > :28:03.England. Best of the breaks will be to the east of the high ground in
:28:03. > :28:07.England, but it will be a case of as you were. Similar start to this
:28:07. > :28:11.morning. Grey and misty in the south, but with the added bonus of
:28:11. > :28:14.even heavier rain. That will clear, unlike today. Things will brighten
:28:14. > :28:16.up. Some sunshine through the afternoon and continue to see sunny
:28:16. > :28:19.spells further north, but showers will get going through the second
:28:19. > :28:23.half of the day, particularly in the north of England and Scotland.
:28:23. > :28:28.Gusty winds with them. Showers turning to snow not just to higher
:28:28. > :28:31.ground and it will feel cold in that wind. Showers for a time
:28:31. > :28:34.during tomorrow night, but temperatures will rise again from
:28:34. > :28:38.the south-west later to see more cloud and rain spill in to Northern
:28:38. > :28:41.Ireland. Eventually parts of southern and western Scotland and
:28:41. > :28:44.northern England and Wales. For Friday, may be the brightest
:28:44. > :28:52.conditions in the south and to the north-east, but generally it's