:00:08. > :00:16.This is East Midlands Today with Quentin Rayner and me, Anne Davies.
:00:16. > :00:23.Tonight, the price of a takeover. Hundreds are jobs are expected to
:00:23. > :00:29.go at Castle Donnington-based BMI. Also, the family of a cyclist
:00:29. > :00:33.killed on a highway call for tougher sentences.
:00:33. > :00:37.Plus, the patients claim they were discharged from hospital overnight.
:00:37. > :00:40.I just felt like I wasn't important enough. My daughter wasn't
:00:40. > :00:50.important enough. Find out what got these young
:00:50. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.footballers so excited. Good evening, and welcome to
:01:01. > :01:05.Thursday's programme. Our main story tonight - the loss of up to
:01:05. > :01:08.1,200 jobs at the airline British Midland. Half of them are likely to
:01:08. > :01:10.be in the East Midlands with hundreds of posts going at the
:01:10. > :01:13.airline's HQ at Castle Donington and at East Midlands Airport. It's
:01:13. > :01:16.the result of the takeover of British Midland by British Airways.
:01:16. > :01:19.In 2009 the iconic East Midlands brand became part of Lufthansa. But
:01:19. > :01:29.soon, British Airways' parent company became interested. The deal
:01:29. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:33.was approved in Europe a fortnight ago. And the merger will be
:01:33. > :01:38.completed next week, with heavy job losses. Let's cross over to Castle
:01:38. > :01:43.Donington now and our correspondent Anthony Bartram.
:01:43. > :01:47.Good evening. Of course, this is very sad news indeed for a company
:01:47. > :01:53.which can trace its history back in the East Midlands some 70 years,
:01:53. > :01:58.but perhaps no surprise for staff at BMI, a company which is losing
:01:58. > :02:01.the - its parent company BA tell us some �3 million a week. Here at
:02:01. > :02:06.company headquarters, those cuts will be felt the deepest. They had
:02:06. > :02:10.a meeting here this morning with management and, indeed, with the
:02:10. > :02:15.unions, and joining me is Colin Wyatt from the GMB. You were at
:02:15. > :02:20.that meeting. Obviously, this news must have gone down terribly with
:02:20. > :02:24.staff. Yes, Antony. The news today wasn't good, although it wasn't a
:02:24. > :02:28.complete surprise. It has totally devastated everybody here. OK. So
:02:28. > :02:32.that's the initial reaction. We'll pause there for a moment because
:02:32. > :02:36.James Robeson has been looking into the impact not just at BMI staff,
:02:36. > :02:40.but into the wider community. This afternoon, many staff were
:02:40. > :02:44.leaving the headquarters at Donnington Hall under a cloud.
:02:44. > :02:48.Those who who work for BMI know their jobs could well be on the
:02:48. > :02:52.line. As they passed waiting reporters, most staff members
:02:52. > :02:55.wouldn't talk, but one woman said the news came as no surprise.
:02:55. > :03:00.wasn't particularly a surprise, and I totally understand why you're
:03:00. > :03:04.doing it, to be honest. The company has been making a loss for awhile,
:03:04. > :03:11.so it makes sense to merge and reduce losses. It's thought about
:03:11. > :03:15.400 jobs will go at the hall itself and a in the maintenance hangars at
:03:15. > :03:21.East Midlands Airport. In the it haveage of Castle Donnington, there
:03:21. > :03:28.is concern about the losses. This restaurant, which works for
:03:28. > :03:33.many of the employees here, including BMI. If they lose their
:03:33. > :03:38.jobs, I am going to lose them as well. Without them, I am going to
:03:38. > :03:41.do a bit of struggling. A period of consultation will begin, but
:03:41. > :03:49.British Airways has said it can't sustain two headquarters, one in
:03:49. > :03:52.London and one in Castle Donnington, and regrettably, jobs had to go.
:03:52. > :03:58.Well, let's talk to Colin Wyatt again about the figures involved
:03:58. > :04:04.here because, as I said, the deepest impact will be here. Almost
:04:04. > :04:12.half of those at risk. How many at headquarters and how many at the
:04:13. > :04:15.airport? We were looking at 400 at the headquarters and also in the
:04:15. > :04:20.maintenance departments. Obviously, you face the daunting task of
:04:20. > :04:22.sitting down with BA to try to minimise those cuts and try to find
:04:22. > :04:28.opportunities for the people working here. Certainly. That's
:04:28. > :04:31.within our role within the next few weeks is to try to find people here
:04:31. > :04:34.and at the airport alternative employment that could be with
:04:34. > :04:38.different companies locally and even if we can get employment down
:04:38. > :04:43.south. Did you get a chance to ask those making that announcement this
:04:43. > :04:48.morning any questions regarding as to opportunities that may come up
:04:48. > :04:52.within BA itself? Certainly. One of the questions I raised at the
:04:52. > :04:56.meeting was, are we going to throw the voluntary redun Dansies out to
:04:56. > :05:00.BA workers? Because there may be people looking at getting out of
:05:00. > :05:05.the company. That would open the way for people losing their jobs
:05:05. > :05:11.here. For people in the Midlands, the wider concern must be a skills
:05:11. > :05:14.loss. If some of the engineers go elsewhere, they'll be gone forever.
:05:14. > :05:18.Certainly. We were all aware of the situation a year ago, and at the
:05:18. > :05:22.moment, it's another skill set what's going to miss from here. We
:05:22. > :05:26.heard Rolls-Royce is doing well, but there is only so many skilled
:05:26. > :05:30.vacancies out there. That's the view of the GMB Union locally.
:05:30. > :05:34.Nationally, they sit down with BA I am told tomorrow to start talking
:05:34. > :05:38.through those proposals. Obviously, it is a daunting task to try and
:05:39. > :05:43.limit the number of redundancy, but BA seem fairly sure it's likely to
:05:43. > :05:46.be around the 1,200 mark. They say, though, if this deal hadn't gone
:05:46. > :05:51.through, BMI would have lost all of its staff. It certainly couldn't
:05:51. > :05:55.sustain as a company. And that would have amounted to some 2,700
:05:55. > :05:57.job losses, although most of those jobs earmarked for being saved at
:05:57. > :06:02.the moment, appear to be based at Heathrow.
:06:03. > :06:07.Thank you. Plenty more on its way here on East
:06:07. > :06:13.Midlands Today, including the day's sport and weather. And it's kickoff
:06:13. > :06:22.at the City ground for a pioneering football charity to help youngsters
:06:22. > :06:24.beat the dole. Before all that, there has been a
:06:24. > :06:28.demand for jail sentences to be imposed on drivers involved in
:06:28. > :06:31.fatal crashes. It came from the family of a racing cyclist who was
:06:31. > :06:34.killed by a lorry in Derbyshire. The driver of the HGV was given a
:06:34. > :06:37.suspended prison sentence after admitting careless driving. The
:06:37. > :06:41.family of cyclist Karl Austin said that doesn't send the right message
:06:41. > :06:51.to other road users and say they've been left with a life sentence.
:06:51. > :06:55.Carolyn Moses reports. Karl Austin had been cycling for 35
:06:55. > :07:00.years since he was 12 years old. He was known as a talented and safety-
:07:00. > :07:05.conscious rider, but in June last year, he was racing on the A50 near
:07:05. > :07:10.Hatton in Derbyshire when he was hit from behind by a 26-tonne lorry
:07:10. > :07:17.and killed. It was driven by Michael Bray from near Mansfield,
:07:17. > :07:24.seen here on the far left. At an earlier hearing he'd pleaded guilty
:07:24. > :07:28.to death by careless driving, then magistrates were told the lorery
:07:28. > :07:35.was travelling above its 50mph speed limit. His body tumbled like
:07:35. > :07:39.a rag doll and he died at the scene. The judge told Bray he had shown an
:07:39. > :07:43.appalling loss of concentration and made an appalling error, but it
:07:43. > :07:47.came after years of blameless driving. He said he too had been
:07:47. > :07:49.badly affected by the collision both mentally and by the fact that
:07:49. > :07:56.at 62, he'd probably never work again.
:07:56. > :08:00.But it has been a double tragedy for Karl Austin's father. Before
:08:00. > :08:04.Karl, his daughter died in a road accident too. He says all he can do
:08:04. > :08:08.is hope for tougher action. Hopefully, there will be stiffer
:08:08. > :08:11.sentences for motorists who kill in situations where they have been
:08:12. > :08:17.careless or driven dangerously. You know, if that was happening and it
:08:17. > :08:22.was sending out a stronger message, perhaps oui we'd have fewer road
:08:22. > :08:25.deaths. I feel like I am too young to lose Karl. I don't know how I am
:08:25. > :08:30.going to rebuild my life, so whatever sentence he has been given
:08:30. > :08:33.today, I feel I feel like we have a life sentence now.
:08:33. > :08:36.Earlier I spoke to John Stewart, who organised the time trial along
:08:36. > :08:46.the A50 last June. I asked him how cyclists justified using highways
:08:46. > :08:48.
:08:48. > :08:54.effectively as race tracks. It's a peculiar British tradition. It
:08:54. > :08:58.started in the 1890s. It started as the answer to the opposition of the
:08:59. > :09:02.authorities at that time, particularly the police - that's to
:09:02. > :09:05.start road racing. It's a sport where people go off at one-minute
:09:05. > :09:10.intervals. It's designed not to cause inconvenience to other users
:09:10. > :09:14.of the highway. It's always taken place on public high waist. It's a
:09:14. > :09:18.branch of the sport that is totally different to one people are
:09:18. > :09:21.familiar with these days, track racing. Highways have become much
:09:21. > :09:26.busier. There is much more traffic, and no other vehicles are allowed
:09:26. > :09:30.to use the highways in this way. That is perfectly true, but of
:09:30. > :09:36.course, a cycle is a human-powered vehicle, not a motor vehicle.
:09:36. > :09:41.don't pay demiroad tax. How do you justify using the highways.
:09:41. > :09:48.dispute the sort of thing as road tax. There is vehicle excise duty,
:09:48. > :09:51.but not road tax, and of course, the duty is not devoted and has
:09:51. > :09:57.never been devoted to road maintenance purposes. Cyclists pay
:09:57. > :10:02.a lot of tax. We pay income tax. We pay 20% VAT on all the equipment we
:10:02. > :10:08.buy. We pay an awful lot of tax. Sadly, this is not the first death
:10:08. > :10:12.on the A50. Seven years ago another cyclist died a few miles away from
:10:12. > :10:20.this spot. Now, this would suggest it's a bad idea to use that road
:10:20. > :10:24.for time trials. That is a dual carriageway of a
:10:24. > :10:29.very high standard. The times we use it are times of relatively low
:10:29. > :10:34.traffic. This road has a capacity of about 2,000 units an hour. We
:10:34. > :10:38.never use it if the flow is above 1,000 units an hour. That gives
:10:38. > :10:45.plenty of time for other vehicles to overtake riders. You plan to
:10:45. > :10:51.continue using the A50? We shall be using it. It is a very suitable
:10:51. > :10:55.course for the sort of time trialling that time triallists want
:10:55. > :10:58.to do. Jon Stewart, thank you. Health managers have described as
:10:58. > :11:00.misleading new figures which put their hospitals among the worst
:11:00. > :11:02.offenders for discharging patients during the night. This morning the
:11:02. > :11:05.Times newspaper reported that hospitals in Derby and Leicester
:11:05. > :11:15.are sending patients home between 11.00pm at night and 6.00am in the
:11:15. > :11:17.
:11:17. > :11:22.morning at a rate that's twice the national average. Tom Brown reports.
:11:22. > :11:26.He's is a's daughter suffers from severe asthma and needs two
:11:26. > :11:30.inhalers a day. Two years ago her condition worsened, and Lisa was
:11:30. > :11:34.forced to take her to hospital. She was treated at the Royal Leicester
:11:34. > :11:37.Infirmary and given a bed for the night, but at 2.00am, Lisa and her
:11:37. > :11:40.daughter were told to leave. I was worried I wasn't going to be able
:11:40. > :11:44.to get home or was going to have to disturb family or friends in the
:11:44. > :11:48.middle of the night. A two-and-a- half-year-old girl had been awake
:11:48. > :11:52.all day, didn't fall asleep until 1.30am in the morning. The bay was
:11:52. > :11:57.empty. It was completely clear, the bay that was on. Why wouldn't they
:11:57. > :12:01.let her stop until 6.00am, 7.00am? I just felt like I wasn't important
:12:01. > :12:05.enough. My daughter wasn't important enough. The hospital says
:12:05. > :12:09.Roxanne was given the necessary treat and was well enough to go
:12:09. > :12:14.home. When it comes to being discharged overnight, she and her
:12:14. > :12:18.daughter aren't alone. This morning the Times revealed under a Freedom
:12:18. > :12:22.of Information request that hospitals in Leicester send home
:12:22. > :12:26.1,300 patients overnight. But the Trust today said these figures are
:12:26. > :12:31.misleading because they don't take into account patients who have died
:12:31. > :12:35.or had babies. In Derby, they sent home one in 11 patients overnight.
:12:35. > :12:38.Today their Trust too said the figures aren't an accurate
:12:38. > :12:44.representation of the situation. have recently started to survey all
:12:44. > :12:47.patients who are discharged. We aim to get a sample of at least 10%
:12:47. > :12:52.every week, and that is not showing us any problems with patients
:12:52. > :12:55.feeling they're being discharged at an inappropriate time. The NHS's
:12:55. > :13:00.Medical Director says it's simply not fair to send people home late
:13:00. > :13:05.at night. Hospitals, though, say patient safety will always come
:13:05. > :13:08.first. Often they have no alternative.
:13:08. > :13:11.Police are trying to track down three youths who deliberately
:13:11. > :13:14.forced open the doors of a train and then walked down the tracks.
:13:14. > :13:16.These are the three people who are wanted in connection with the
:13:16. > :13:19.incident which happened near Trowell junction in Nottingham last
:13:19. > :13:27.month. The train was stationary at the time. British Transport Police
:13:27. > :13:29.have described the act as reckless. Hundreds of people in
:13:29. > :13:31.Nottinghamshire have applied to hold street parties to mark the
:13:31. > :13:34.Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Many celebrated last year during the
:13:34. > :13:37.Royal Wedding. So far the county council has received 108
:13:37. > :13:47.applications. A survey last month placed the county second only to
:13:47. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :13:59.Hertfordshire with the number of parties planned for June.
:13:59. > :14:02.Councillors are planning to spend almost �5 million over the next 4
:14:02. > :14:05.years on free school bus travel for children in Nottinghamshire. It
:14:05. > :14:07.will benefit families who choose not to send their children to the
:14:07. > :14:09.nearest catchement-area school. The County Council's scheme has been in
:14:09. > :14:12.place for year seven pupils since September.
:14:12. > :14:17.A man from Leicestershire who was seriously ill with leukaemia has
:14:17. > :14:20.inspired hundreds of people to sign the blood stem-cell register. After
:14:20. > :14:23.Rik Basra from Lutterworth was diagnosed with the disease, he and
:14:23. > :14:26.his family started a campaign for more asians to sign up and save
:14:26. > :14:29.lives. And hundreds of people have done just that as Helen Astle
:14:29. > :14:34.reports. He was desperately ill when he and his family launched the
:14:34. > :14:40.campaign in October. Six months on, and not only has there been good
:14:40. > :14:44.news for Rik but also others. has found a donor. Great. But these
:14:44. > :14:50.people that are signing up - they could be signing up to help people
:14:50. > :14:54.that haven't even been born yet. I mean, they - they're passionate
:14:54. > :15:00.about wanting to be a donor. They really are in a position to help
:15:00. > :15:04.save someone's life, and for us, that is what it was all about.
:15:04. > :15:09.Antony Noeland Trust says there has been a 300% rise in the number of
:15:09. > :15:13.Asians who have signed up to the register thanks to the families'
:15:13. > :15:16.campaign. From the patients' point of view, from the point of view of
:15:17. > :15:20.someone who is waiting for a transplant, how important it is to
:15:20. > :15:25.have someone on that register when they need it. He is now home. He's
:15:25. > :15:28.not allowed any visitors, but is recovering well. Christmas, he was
:15:28. > :15:33.going through the chemo. He was dad, but he wasn't the same. Now it's
:15:33. > :15:37.back to the same dad I had before. Now he has the listen to all his
:15:37. > :15:41.girls moaning, coming home going, "Dad, guess what's happened?" It is
:15:41. > :15:44.the same old dad. It is a little bit different for us. We go out for
:15:44. > :15:49.walks around here, which is fantastic. We have been doing that
:15:49. > :15:53.for the last 11 days. It's lovely to see him out and about and
:15:53. > :15:57.smiling, and we're starting to pick up the threads of our life again. I
:15:57. > :16:01.feel like a bit of a guard dog because I don't let anyone speak to
:16:01. > :16:04.him because I don't think he's ready for the kinds of questions.
:16:04. > :16:09.We want to get this bit out of the way, then I promise everybody can
:16:09. > :16:12.talk to him. He'll find out in the next couple of weeks if the
:16:12. > :16:16.transplant has been successful. We wish him all the best.
:16:16. > :16:21.We do. This is East Midlands Today where
:16:21. > :16:25.we offer a huge amount of vait, much like the weather.
:16:25. > :16:28.Very much like the weather. Haven't we had it all today - sunshine,
:16:29. > :16:33.showers, hot and cold? Is there anything else we should possibly
:16:33. > :16:43.know about? I am afraid so. How about I throw some sleet into the
:16:43. > :16:45.
:16:45. > :16:47.mix? But just how wintry will it get? I'lls than shortly.
:16:47. > :16:50.Did she say sleet? Oh, no.
:16:50. > :17:00.One of our best known football clubs today unveiled a new charity
:17:00. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:06.to help young people to prepare for the world of work. It's called
:17:06. > :17:09.Nottingham Forest in the Community, and it hopes to help almost 100,000
:17:09. > :17:11.youngsters over the next three years. Today it received the
:17:11. > :17:15.backing of the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.
:17:15. > :17:22.Meet the new signings at the City ground. There is no football in
:17:22. > :17:28.sight but plenty of pitch-side coaching from the Labour leader. In
:17:28. > :17:32.the team, a 25-year-old dance instructor looking for a break.
:17:32. > :17:36.meet new people and get opportunities in job, especially in
:17:36. > :17:42.business because I have done dancing, self-employed, so I am
:17:42. > :17:46.hoping to get opportunities. This centre offers job training tips and
:17:46. > :17:53.advice on a healthy lifestyle. It's linked with other organisations for
:17:53. > :17:58.youngsters who might otherwise slip through the system.
:17:58. > :18:02.I think it's good to have a back-up plan. If you don't make it, you can
:18:02. > :18:07.fall back on education and learn lots of things in life, life skills,
:18:07. > :18:11.doing education. The Labour leader officially opened the charity's
:18:11. > :18:16.offices, but keep it under wraps. He supports Leeds United and still
:18:16. > :18:21.feels rather bruised after Forest's victory. Nobody is going to mention
:18:21. > :18:23.7-3 to me today. The centre itself took a clobbering at least
:18:23. > :18:29.financially because of coalition funding cuts. That's why the
:18:29. > :18:32.charity has been set up. A couple of years ago the funding was
:18:32. > :18:36.removed during the change of Government, but we decided to
:18:36. > :18:40.create the charge at Nottingham to help sustain the benefits for the
:18:40. > :18:43.people across the county. Well done to the people for what they're
:18:43. > :18:48.doing. We're stepping in where Government has got out of the way
:18:48. > :18:51.because of cuts. Government funding has stopped for the youth problems.
:18:51. > :18:55.We have stepped in. The charity needs to raise almost
:18:55. > :19:02.half a million pounds a year to keep the centre going, but today it
:19:02. > :19:09.has had the type of promotion the Forest team can only dream of.
:19:09. > :19:11.There we go. Maybe he'll pick up management tips from Cloughy. I
:19:11. > :19:17.think we're staying at the City ground.
:19:17. > :19:20.We are. Forest will be getting lots of political backing, though, but
:19:20. > :19:25.not so much I am afraid from the football authorities.
:19:25. > :19:30.They are reacting to the news that the red card on Monday won't be
:19:30. > :19:33.rescinded. They say they're really
:19:33. > :19:35.disappointed their appeal was turned down. It means the
:19:35. > :19:40.influential winger will miss the next three games. If you look at
:19:40. > :19:44.the reaction after the tackle, I didn't think I was going to get a
:19:44. > :19:48.yellow card let alone a red. It was massively disappointing.
:19:48. > :19:52.referee led me to believe he was going to look at it strongly, and
:19:52. > :19:55.in the end really he didn't, so probably the least said, the better,
:19:55. > :20:00.really, on that. On to cricket - not a day for the
:20:00. > :20:05.bowlers in the County Championship - batsmen - because it has been a
:20:05. > :20:10.tough first day at Durham. They were all out for 161. The bowlers
:20:10. > :20:14.taking 3 wickets in reply there, and not many runs on the board for
:20:14. > :20:18.Derbyshire either, who are all out for 130 at Glamorgan. They also
:20:18. > :20:28.managed to take three wickets in reply. Both of those games heading
:20:28. > :20:31.for a finish, the weather notwithstanding.
:20:31. > :20:33.It's Olympic Thursday across the BBC - follow it all with the
:20:33. > :20:37.Olympic Thursday hashtag on Twitter, and here on East Midlands Today
:20:37. > :20:40.that means it's time for our latest Olympic A to Z. Today, the sport
:20:40. > :20:44.that both unifies AND divides the nation more than any other. On a
:20:44. > :20:54.wet day in Leicester I went to see why people from every community in
:20:54. > :20:57.
:20:57. > :21:00.Nought to a hundred players in a year. Hamilton Youth Football Club
:21:00. > :21:03.has found its place and the children have responded. Many of
:21:03. > :21:07.them are British Asian - as the first generation of the community
:21:07. > :21:11.to embrace football look to give the next lot that extra support.
:21:11. > :21:14.We're trying to give back to the community we never had as kids to.
:21:14. > :21:17.Give something back and to offer something that would probably mean
:21:17. > :21:21.the opportunities we never had - to be able to do that is fantastic.
:21:21. > :21:24.For a lot of the kids as well I think it's the first time they're
:21:24. > :21:29.playing competitively. They obviously love it. I like matches.
:21:29. > :21:33.Yeah, the matchs are really good. It makes you concentrate, get more
:21:33. > :21:39.active and stuff. They're here learning good habits I hope.
:21:39. > :21:43.They're loving it - even in the rotten weather. So what... Parents
:21:43. > :21:46.are the crucial factor. If you get the support and you get their
:21:47. > :21:50.backing like we do on match and training days, they can go very far.
:21:50. > :21:55.I believe they can go far, absolutely. Oh, yes, parents
:21:55. > :22:00.willing to stand in the rain? Check. It's all about the kids, standing
:22:00. > :22:03.here watching them, their excitement. They see all the stars
:22:03. > :22:08.playing. That's who they want to be. I don't mind the money.
:22:08. > :22:15.LAUGHTER Some of the older Hamilton lads are
:22:15. > :22:23.already putting on the Premier League vibe. I am loving the look.
:22:23. > :22:30.I love football. The top players inspire me - my favourite would be
:22:30. > :22:35.Robin Van Persie. There is some similarity! To test that, there has
:22:35. > :22:40.to be a cross-bar challenge. Just when you think they're not so hot,
:22:40. > :22:44.here is the very last kick of the day.
:22:44. > :22:50.Fantastic. We have a story to tell that Colin has just told us.
:22:50. > :22:54.We have. He did it offcamera that chap - so Colin - "I missed it."
:22:54. > :22:58.Can you do it again? He put the camera on the tripod, and he did it
:22:58. > :23:03.again - what are the chances of that?
:23:03. > :23:12.Anyway, it's weather time. We have said we have had about everything
:23:12. > :23:15.It's all been down to the typical April weather, the unstable air and
:23:15. > :23:19.developing shower clouds. More on that, though, in a moment. We've
:23:19. > :23:24.still got some April showers around this evening probably losing the
:23:24. > :23:28.intensity over the next couple of hours, and then generally, it will
:23:28. > :23:33.be dry overnight, but really quite chilly. We have colder air starting
:23:33. > :23:38.to move its way in. On to the next weather picture of the evening -
:23:38. > :23:42.this is from Mollie - the dafgo dills spotted in her garden
:23:42. > :23:47.recently. She's only 14. Thanks for that. If you would like to send
:23:47. > :23:53.your pictures in, send them in to us at this address at the top.
:23:53. > :23:56.At the end of the forecast, we have a lovely montage of oil pictures
:23:56. > :24:00.you have been sending in over the last couple of days. Low pressure
:24:00. > :24:03.is driving in all the showers we have been having in today. They
:24:04. > :24:08.really have been quite heavy. We have had hail, thunder, some really
:24:08. > :24:12.quite loud thunder in places. As we go through the evening, we've got
:24:12. > :24:17.the scattering of showers still with us, but gradually they'll lose
:24:17. > :24:20.the intensity and become quite few and far between overnight, some
:24:20. > :24:23.lingering on overnight. For most, it will be dry Friday, the cloud
:24:23. > :24:30.breaking with clear spells. Temperatures close to freezing
:24:30. > :24:34.tonight, lower in rural spots where you may get a touch of frost in
:24:34. > :24:37.places. Into Friday, we'll start to see the showers starting to develop
:24:37. > :24:40.into the morning and afternoon. They'll be lighter than what we
:24:40. > :24:43.have had today. There will be less of them, but still just that chance
:24:43. > :24:47.you might hear the odd rumble of thunder. A high temperature for
:24:47. > :24:51.Friday of 10 Celsius. We have a northerly air flow, so it will
:24:51. > :24:55.start to feel quite chilly tomorrow and colder on Saturday. These
:24:55. > :24:59.isobars are pretty much vertical across the UK. That's because the
:24:59. > :25:02.wind is coming in from the north bringing in cold air. Any showers
:25:02. > :25:05.we get will be wintry Saturday, possibly even a little bit of sleet
:25:05. > :25:09.or light snow on higher ground. That's how it stays into Sunday,
:25:09. > :25:13.though it looks like a drier day on Sunday. Earlier on in the forecast,
:25:13. > :25:17.I promised you lots more of these weather pictures you have been
:25:17. > :25:21.sending in over the last couple of days. We have had some spectacular
:25:21. > :25:31.storms over the last couple of days in the East Midlands, which has had
:25:31. > :26:11.
:26:11. > :26:15.some stunning cloud formation. How lovely. You kept saying wow.
:26:15. > :26:19.did all the way through. There is something so stunning about clouds.
:26:19. > :26:24.We have some good photographers in the East Midlands. I took some