:00:06. > :00:12.This is East Midlands Today. Our top story, the great housing market
:00:12. > :00:15.price drop. As property values hit the bottom, we meet the homeowners
:00:15. > :00:19.who can't sell. I bought the property five years ago and it has
:00:19. > :00:24.been on the market six months. I haven't been able to sell it yet.
:00:24. > :00:28.Plus, a second day of strike action by some teachers in Nottingham.
:00:28. > :00:33.Campaigning against plans for a five term school year. Also tonight,
:00:33. > :00:40.we are in Japan, with adventurer Sarah Outen. It is cold, it is wet,
:00:40. > :00:45.and she is in training to become the first woman to row the north
:00:45. > :00:55.Pacific oaks. And from a shoe factory to Holloway Prison. How
:00:55. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:05.Alice Hawkins helped change history. Hello. Good evening, welcome to
:01:05. > :01:08.Tuesday's programme. First tonight, the dramatic fall in house prices
:01:08. > :01:13.here in the East Midlands. Some homes in our region have lost more
:01:13. > :01:16.than a quarter of their value since the economic downturn and it is
:01:16. > :01:21.people in the cheapest homes who are facing the biggest losses if
:01:21. > :01:27.they want to move up the ladder. Dominic has the statistics that
:01:27. > :01:31.show how the housing bubble has burst. Well, Easter, traditionally
:01:31. > :01:35.signals a surge in house buying but the last five years have been far
:01:35. > :01:39.from traditional. Let us take a loot at what has happened in that
:01:39. > :01:45.time. -- look. Here in 2007, the market was riding high, of course
:01:45. > :01:50.the downturn hadn't yet started. Then, the average price of a house
:01:50. > :01:56.in the East Midlands was �143,000. Today, according to the Land
:01:56. > :02:01.Registry that has fall into �124,000. A drop of just over 13%.
:02:01. > :02:06.Now within that drop, some types of home have fared worse than others.
:02:06. > :02:10.For data on that we can turn to the Halifax, which issued its latest
:02:10. > :02:16.figures the East Midlands a few days ago. These are average price.
:02:16. > :02:22.Detached houses have seen the smallest drop in five years, at 9%.
:02:22. > :02:27.A semi has seen prices drop by 17%. Bungalow, they have gone down by
:02:27. > :02:32.about the same. Flats and maisonettes are down by more, round
:02:32. > :02:39.21%. But over the last five years the biggest drop by far, has been
:02:39. > :02:47.in the value of terraced houses. A staggering 26%. Serious number, but
:02:47. > :02:51.what does it mean for homeowners? Hello I am Hayley, and I am a
:02:51. > :02:55.schools arts administrator. This is my two bedroom property. I bought
:02:55. > :03:01.the property five years ago. It has been on the market six months and I
:03:02. > :03:08.haven't been able to sell it yet. I bought the property five years ago
:03:08. > :03:12.and paid �138,000. I have been forced to put it on offers round
:03:13. > :03:17.�130,000. This is my estate agent Mark. Mark, is my situation
:03:17. > :03:21.unusual? Unfortunately it is not. Like yourself, a lot of people
:03:21. > :03:24.bought five to six years ago at the peak. Now we are at the bottom so
:03:24. > :03:28.people are struggling to get back their initial investment. Do you
:03:28. > :03:32.see any improvement in the market? We are seeing early signs of
:03:32. > :03:35.improvement. There is more buyers round than last year, and the sales
:03:36. > :03:40.prices are beginning to increase but nothing substantial at the
:03:40. > :03:43.moment. I would like to sell the house as soon as possible, because
:03:43. > :03:47.me and my partner will looking to buy a house together. But I do
:03:47. > :03:54.worry if I have to drop the price any lower I will fall into negative
:03:54. > :03:57.equity. Well only today the Office for National Statistics said there
:03:57. > :04:02.had been zero increase in East Midlands house prices in the past
:04:02. > :04:08.12 months so what is being done to stimulate the market? Our reporter
:04:08. > :04:15.has been to the unveiling of a scheme which uses tax payers' money
:04:15. > :04:21.to get things moving. The town of ar nold. Buying a property here
:04:21. > :04:25.will probably cost a first time buyer round �100,000. Now the
:04:25. > :04:30.council's teamed up with a bank to offer first-time buyers a helping
:04:30. > :04:35.hand. Help with one of the biggest hurdles. The deposit. And offer
:04:35. > :04:39.this first time buyer has snapped up. When we found out we could get
:04:39. > :04:43.this whole scheme involved, we had to go for it because there is no
:04:43. > :04:47.way we could have done it. council has borrowed �1 million
:04:47. > :04:53.from the Government. It will lodged with Lloyds and eastern money from
:04:53. > :05:00.the council. First time buyer also have to get a deposit of 5%, up to
:05:00. > :05:04.a limit of �120,000. The council will then guarantee up to 20% of
:05:04. > :05:08.the cost. What it will give when you are saving and you think I just
:05:08. > :05:12.need that little bit extra, that bit extra to give me the do po it
:05:12. > :05:16.is. So where is it coming from? This this case you can turn to the
:05:16. > :05:21.council is there a chance. I wouldn't be able to afford one. It
:05:21. > :05:25.is nice for people to get a helping hand. It is council money. It
:05:25. > :05:28.should be spent on other things. The only way I managed to get on
:05:28. > :05:32.the ladder was with some inheritance, other than that I
:05:32. > :05:37.would have found it very difficult. We recognise the challenges people
:05:37. > :05:44.face, a lot of people will call on their parents, or just they might
:05:44. > :05:48.be renting and are trying to save, and it is difficult to raise the
:05:48. > :05:56.standard 10% deposit. There will be a big demand from first-time buyers
:05:56. > :06:01.and there is only enough top help round 45 of them. -- to help. A
:06:01. > :06:04.short time ago I spoke to Josh Miller. He is a senior economist,
:06:04. > :06:09.at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. I began by asking him
:06:09. > :06:12.whether the house prices were good or bad for the region. It depends
:06:13. > :06:17.on who you are talking about. For those who are wishing to get on the
:06:17. > :06:20.housing ladder it is probably a good thing, because it makes house
:06:20. > :06:24.morgue accessible. For those wishing to get off the housing
:06:24. > :06:27.ladder it is not such a good thing. When they sell they won't
:06:27. > :06:31.necessarily receive as much. So it is more about a distribution of
:06:31. > :06:35.wealth. Does this mean the market is static because nobody wants to
:06:35. > :06:42.sell? I don't think the market is that static. It is certainly more
:06:42. > :06:46.static than say at the peak of the boom, but sales levels have
:06:46. > :06:50.recovered somewhat. But is it a reflection of the whole country or
:06:50. > :06:55.are we worse. The trends have been similar over the last four years so
:06:55. > :06:59.house prices are down about 20% below their 2007 peak and that is
:06:59. > :07:02.the same for the UK as a whole. Over the last few years, in both
:07:02. > :07:06.the UK and the East Midlands house prices have been bumping along the
:07:06. > :07:13.bottom. That is how I would characterise it. What do you think
:07:13. > :07:19.for the next 12 months? I think over the next 12 months we will see
:07:19. > :07:23.more bumping along the bottom. The riskedst are skewed to the down
:07:23. > :07:26.side. Beyond the next 12 month, I think that the picture is a bit
:07:26. > :07:29.brighter. The economy should have gained a bit more traction, that
:07:29. > :07:33.should feed through to the labour market and in turn the housing
:07:33. > :07:40.market. Well, light at the end of the tunnel. That is a good place to
:07:40. > :07:44.leave it. Thank you. Still to come. The ups and downs of the weather..
:07:44. > :07:48.It has been one of those days where the brolly has been up one minute
:07:48. > :07:51.and down the next. We have more rain to come this week, with slow-
:07:51. > :08:01.moving showers for tomorrow. More for you towards the end of the
:08:01. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:07.programme. In other news, eight people have admitted taking part in
:08:07. > :08:10.an outbreak of violence that included the firebombing of a
:08:10. > :08:13.Nottingham police station. Today 21-year-old Reiss Wilson pleaded
:08:13. > :08:19.guilty to an arson attack, another man has admitted taking petrol
:08:20. > :08:23.bombs to the building at Canning Circus. The six Hoare others who
:08:23. > :08:27.admitted involvement include these men, Lucas Stapleton and Ashton
:08:27. > :08:31.Alexander. Nottingham City Hospital has been ordered to pay at least �6
:08:31. > :08:35.million in compensation to a boy left brain damaged. He was starved
:08:35. > :08:38.of oxygen at birst. He can't be named for legal reasons. He suffers
:08:38. > :08:44.from cerebral palsy, learning difficulties and problems with
:08:44. > :08:47.speech and feeding T high court heard the hospital made a full and
:08:47. > :08:52.unreserved apology. Plans to create a new football backed free school
:08:52. > :08:55.in Derby will be discussed tonight. Derby County has been given the go-
:08:55. > :09:00.ahead to run the academy along with Derby Moor Community School. It
:09:00. > :09:03.will take up to 50 pupils who have been excluded from other schools.
:09:03. > :09:11.Yuenjiens nearby referral units could suffer if peoples follow the
:09:11. > :09:16.lure of football. Striking teachers in Nottingham marched into a
:09:16. > :09:19.council's HQ demanding a meeting with councillors. Members of the
:09:19. > :09:23.National Union of Teachers are angry about plans to introduce a
:09:24. > :09:30.five term school year. The City Council insists that the move will
:09:30. > :09:34.improve education. A second day of strike action by teachers unhappy
:09:34. > :09:38.with plans for a shorter summer break in Nottingham, with a five
:09:38. > :09:44.term academic year. The City Council say the strike closed 15
:09:44. > :09:48.schools and affect my Lord than 30 others. -- affected more.
:09:48. > :09:53.believe it would be a terrible thing for the schools. I am
:09:53. > :09:56.concerned that the terms will be so long, they will be eight or nine
:09:56. > :10:01.weeks, and we had an eight week half-term before Christmas, and the
:10:01. > :10:05.children were so tired, it was a waste of time them being there.
:10:05. > :10:10.They were beyond it. Parents are divide on whether a five term year
:10:10. > :10:15.is a good thing. One problem for some families is the surrounding
:10:15. > :10:21.council has no plans to adopt the same system, which could cause
:10:21. > :10:25.problems for some. We think people, this is a better work life balance
:10:25. > :10:28.for both those working in schools and for those learning in them.
:10:28. > :10:31.you have any up-to-date evidence that is a good thing? We have
:10:31. > :10:35.evidence from a number of places that the summer holiday is too long,
:10:35. > :10:39.particularly for children in homes where there isn't a lot of money
:10:39. > :10:42.round to go on holidays and children often spend the whole of
:10:42. > :10:47.it in the street where they live, not being stimulate and go
:10:47. > :10:52.backwards in their learning. Earlier there had been pickets at -
:10:52. > :10:56.- pickets at school gates. Only two NUT members were on this picket
:10:56. > :11:00.line before they joined the larger protest. They decided to go into
:11:00. > :11:04.the council offices. In fact the councillor in charge of education
:11:04. > :11:09.wasn't there. I don't think piling into reception is necessarily going
:11:09. > :11:16.to make the case for them. Both sides in the dispute are due to
:11:16. > :11:21.meet tomorrow. Next tonight motorists in Leicestershire and
:11:21. > :11:26.Rutland are being warned to ex paegt -- expect delays ahead of a
:11:26. > :11:29.rer her sal for the Olympic torch relay. It will take place on Friday
:11:29. > :11:35.morning and simulate what will happen when the torch arrives here
:11:35. > :11:39.for real in July. Victoria join us from the National Space Centre in
:11:39. > :11:43.Leicester. Good evening Victoria. Good evening. It is all very quiet
:11:43. > :11:47.here tonight, but at 7.10 on Friday morning, things will be really
:11:47. > :11:52.different. Because this is where it will all begin. The rehearsal for
:11:52. > :11:57.the him -- Olympic torch relay. Let me give you an idea of what things
:11:57. > :12:01.will look like. There will be a rolling convoif 15 vehicles. Up to
:12:01. > :12:07.450 Olympic organisers will come here and there will be more than
:12:07. > :12:10.100 people who will walk or run with the flame over the 80 stretch.
:12:10. > :12:15.Delays on the road are inevitable so let me give you an idea the
:12:15. > :12:20.route it will take. From here, it will travel along the golden mile,
:12:20. > :12:23.and head up to the great central railway where it will travel to
:12:23. > :12:28.Quorn. From Quorn, it will head to Loughborough and on to the
:12:28. > :12:34.university. Then, it is on to Melton, Oakham and across Rutland
:12:35. > :12:38.Water by boat. The torch relay will head to Uppingham. Arriving at
:12:38. > :12:42.Burghley House before finishing in Peterborough by Friday evening. Now
:12:42. > :12:46.this is the only rehearsal of the torch relay taking place across the
:12:46. > :12:49.country. The reason it is here is because of the complexities of the
:12:49. > :12:54.route. It is a chance for the organising committee to put two
:12:54. > :12:58.years of planning to the test.. have a range of transport modes
:12:58. > :13:02.that are taking place and we pass through 12 communities along the
:13:02. > :13:07.route before we arrive into Peterborough. So we have a train
:13:07. > :13:10.moment taking place on the great central railway. We have a flame
:13:10. > :13:14.exchange happening on Rutland Water and we are on the people in valley
:13:14. > :13:19.rail way. It is challenging and there is a lot for us to be exposed
:13:19. > :13:24.to. So look out for the yellow signs along the route warning about
:13:24. > :13:27.delays and avoid them if you can. There won't be a flame on the day
:13:27. > :13:31.and organisers are not encouraging people to line the route. It is a
:13:31. > :13:38.rehearsal. We will cover the event and we will cover the event for
:13:38. > :13:43.real when it happens on July 3rd. Traders in Market Harborough have
:13:43. > :13:46.been given fresh hope they may not be forced to move. There have been
:13:46. > :13:51.widespread protests about the council's plans to release the
:13:51. > :13:55.market hall to a large retailer and to move traders out doors. Now a
:13:55. > :13:59.report commissioned by the council says there maybe scope to keep the
:13:59. > :14:04.market where it is, if it is made more commercially viable. Work is
:14:04. > :14:07.getting under way to rebuild two schools in Leicester at a costing
:14:07. > :14:10.of �48 million. They are Crown Hills Community College and the
:14:10. > :14:15.city of Leicester school. The City Council is one of a handful to
:14:15. > :14:19.secure the cash from the former Building Schools for the Future
:14:19. > :14:24.programme. The UK's biggest industrial auction has been taking
:14:24. > :14:29.place in less shire today. In total almost 700 lots have been going
:14:29. > :14:34.under the hammer. Equipment on sale included trucks, forklift and other
:14:34. > :14:38.plant equipment. Buyers have been coming to the sale from all over
:14:38. > :14:43.the world. Extraordinary sight really. You are watching East
:14:43. > :14:47.Midlands Today. An Sarah Outen is one year into her epic expedition
:14:47. > :14:51.travelling round the world by bike, kayak and rowing boat. The Rutland
:14:51. > :14:57.rower is in final preparation for the most dangerous part of the
:14:57. > :15:01.voyage. She is about to row solo across the north Pacific
:15:01. > :15:06.association oaks. She has been training in Japan and will set off
:15:06. > :15:15.later this week. Sarah teal travelled to Tokyo to meet her. One
:15:15. > :15:21.woman, and heroing boat. This is sar Sarah Outen at her happiest.;
:15:21. > :15:25.just out for a paddle in rougher stuff which is good fuf fun. The
:15:25. > :15:31.26-year-old is in final preparations for her record
:15:31. > :15:39.breaking attempt to solo row the north Pacific Ocean from Japan to
:15:39. > :15:45.Canada. 4 300 nautical miles of dangerous seas. Rowing night and
:15:45. > :15:49.day it will take her up to six months. Bye! This is one of Sarah's
:15:49. > :15:54.training days and as you can see it is windy it is werbgts it is cold.
:15:54. > :15:58.And these are just some of the conditions she is going to have to
:15:58. > :16:02.face out at sea on her voyage. is choppy here, we got a sense of
:16:02. > :16:07.seeing you out there. You are up and down, what is going to be like
:16:08. > :16:13.all the way out at sea? Different to that. This is like small chop.
:16:13. > :16:18.You will get rolling waves as big as the trees, and then on top of
:16:18. > :16:22.that you will get wind waves which can be much smaller. But still as
:16:22. > :16:31.tall as a three storey building, and it is when they start crashing
:16:31. > :16:36.they get tricky. That today, no problem. The one question everyone
:16:36. > :16:39.asks is why she wants to do it? I do it because I love the challenge,
:16:39. > :16:45.the excitement, the adventure, the new opportunities. That feeling of
:16:45. > :16:49.not quite knowing if you are going to make it. Sar Rees attempting to
:16:49. > :16:54.loop the globe from London to London using only human power.
:16:54. > :17:00.Cycling, kayaking and rowing, all the way round the world. The first
:17:00. > :17:05.leg saw her cycle 11,000 miles to reach Japan. The second leg, the
:17:05. > :17:10.Pacific Ocean is treacherous. Only two men have ever bn before rowed
:17:10. > :17:15.this ocean, no woman has ever attempted it. This is incredibly
:17:15. > :17:20.dangerous. Others have failed, others have died. How much do you
:17:20. > :17:26.think about that before you set off? You are out in an ocean, which
:17:26. > :17:31.is changed and dynamic and volatile and dangerous at times. So, I try
:17:31. > :17:35.not to think about the scary stuff, or you know the chance of things
:17:35. > :17:40.going wrong. I have looked at it. Dealt with it for now. There will
:17:40. > :17:46.be times when I have to face it out there, when I am face to face with
:17:46. > :17:51.a dangerous situation, but... You know, just hope for the best.
:17:51. > :17:55.Without a doubt Sarah knows she is facing her most daunting challenge
:17:55. > :17:59.to date. Out there it will be tough. Not just because of the wind but at
:17:59. > :18:03.times it will be cold, I am going to be by myself and that has
:18:03. > :18:07.challenges and so on. I am expecting the Pacific to be the
:18:07. > :18:12.toughest thing I have done. Tomorrow night more from Sarah as
:18:12. > :18:20.we find out how she has helped victims of Japan's tsunami and why
:18:20. > :18:25.she is being mobbed by Tokyo school-children. Wow. She is
:18:25. > :18:30.extraordinary. I would be tempted to catch a plane! Still to come.
:18:30. > :18:39.Why you should use your vote. How Alice Hawkins suffered in her
:18:40. > :18:45.campaign to get equal rights for women. Time for the sport. Here is
:18:45. > :18:49.Colin. It is short and sweet from me tonight. We look ahead to the
:18:49. > :18:54.football tonight. We will start with Forest who can confirm they
:18:54. > :18:56.will be in the Championship next season. Victory at Reading or a
:18:56. > :19:01.defeat forCoventry would be enough for safety, but no-one is about to
:19:01. > :19:06.throw a party. I don't think anybody would be celebrating, it is
:19:06. > :19:12.a case of making sure it is not a disastrous season, and as soon as
:19:12. > :19:15.it is done, put it to bed and look towards the next season, because it
:19:15. > :19:21.has been a terrible season, a club like to shouldn't be in the
:19:21. > :19:24.position we are in. The sooner we get it done the better. Leicester
:19:24. > :19:28.season is likely to come to its final destination tonight. Only a
:19:28. > :19:35.miracle would see them into the play-offs now but all they can do
:19:35. > :19:40.is keep winning. There for us at the match is Paul Bradshaw. They
:19:40. > :19:44.are plea places and six points off the play offs with three games left.
:19:44. > :19:48.First it is Burnley. Is there anything left to play for? They
:19:48. > :19:54.have left it a bit too late, and hopefully, if we can win the last
:19:54. > :20:00.three games and other teams mess up stranger things have happen. Keep
:20:00. > :20:03.the faith. Fingers crossed. Keeping the faith there. Is it a case of
:20:04. > :20:07.inconsistencies costing you dear? Very much so. If you look at
:20:07. > :20:14.performances against the bigger side, we are have played well and
:20:14. > :20:18.fallen flat on the sides we should beat. It is looking to next season,
:20:18. > :20:24.getting it right and it will work out for the best. So fingers
:20:24. > :20:32.crossed but this season is done for me. We will, yes, the Foxes needing
:20:32. > :20:37.a win and relying on teams above them to slip up. Speaking of slip
:20:37. > :20:41.ups Derby could do Leicester a big favour. They are at Cardiff. Scar
:20:41. > :20:47.dif are in one of the play off spots. The Rams are delighted that
:20:47. > :20:52.a top half finish is well in reach. Just the achievement getting into
:20:52. > :20:58.the top half after last year, struggling. Near the bottom and
:20:58. > :21:04.fighting for your lives. It is nice to go into games, like relaxed kind
:21:04. > :21:07.of thing but wanting tho do the best you can wanting to do the best
:21:07. > :21:11.you can. As well as football this is a big Olympic week. We have
:21:11. > :21:16.heard about the torch relay but tomorrow we have a special
:21:16. > :21:23.broadcast to mark 100 days to go to the games. Here is a taster. Sam
:21:23. > :21:33.Oldham is back after an injury. His battle to join Team GB starts again
:21:33. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:46.this weekend. Here is his Olympic dream. I am Sam Oldham. A gymnast.
:21:46. > :21:51.My Olympic dream is to win a medal as a team at the Olympic Games and
:21:51. > :21:55.hopefully make the all round final. I can remember the first day after
:21:56. > :22:03.we won the bid for the Olympic Games. I can remember hitting the
:22:03. > :22:08.running track at 6.45 thinking this is it. Six years now. For most of
:22:08. > :22:13.us we have been working sort of ten, some of the older guys 20 years
:22:13. > :22:21.just for in sort of moment, competing in a home games is going
:22:21. > :22:26.to be like nothing I have experienced before. Make sure you
:22:26. > :22:30.are tuned in tomorrow. Plenty more Olympic stuff and we think and
:22:30. > :22:33.Kirsty due to be out and about as we celebrate 100 days to go.
:22:33. > :22:41.Speaking of Anne the football results and action on the late
:22:41. > :22:47.bulletin. I am becoming affiliate fod the sports department! An
:22:47. > :22:53.honorary member! Now then, what terms and average law-abiding
:22:54. > :22:59.citizen into a law breaker? In the first of John hom's new series of
:22:59. > :23:04.historic homs he's visits Leicester to learn about a woman who
:23:04. > :23:07.spearheaded one of the biggest reforms the country has seen. The
:23:07. > :23:13.suffragette movement was formed as an action group campaigning for
:23:13. > :23:17.votes for women. By 1907 it was having an impact on our lives. 44-
:23:17. > :23:22.year-old Alice Hawkins journeyed to London and became involved in a
:23:22. > :23:26.pitch battle with police. She was arrested for disorderly conduct
:23:26. > :23:30.outside the gates of the House of Commons and spent 14 days in
:23:30. > :23:34.Holloway Prison alongside 28 other women, including Emily Pankhurst.
:23:34. > :23:43.But Alice was unlike most, who were very middle class, she was lower
:23:43. > :23:48.class, living here in Leicester at 18 Mantle Road where she worked at
:23:48. > :23:51.a nearby shoe factory. My great- grandmother Alice was aggrieved at
:23:51. > :23:57.her lot in life. Alice and other women were paid one third the going
:23:57. > :24:01.rate the men were earning for doing to same job. So for Alice, becoming
:24:01. > :24:06.a revolutionary was about putting bred on the table for children.
:24:06. > :24:13.About getting better pay and conditions. -- bread. The vote was
:24:13. > :24:18.a route to that. But the shoe factory was different. It was a
:24:18. > :24:23.workers' co-operative, encouraging women like Alice to join political
:24:23. > :24:28.organisations. She founded a Leicester branch of the women's
:24:28. > :24:33.union. In November the battles took place in London. The police beat up
:24:33. > :24:36.the suffragettes. A Alice was given 14 days. A year later she met the
:24:36. > :24:43.Prime Minister Lloyd George at the houses of Parliament to plead her
:24:43. > :24:47.cause. She died aged 83, and was laid the rest at Welford Road
:24:47. > :24:54.cemetery. She was buried in a pauper's grave. She was the last
:24:54. > :24:59.one in. There is five others here. She was buried in 1946. Why hasn't
:24:59. > :25:03.it got a grave stone on it? I think the family lacked income at the
:25:03. > :25:07.time she died, so it has never had a headstone. Myself and other
:25:07. > :25:12.members of the family are joining forces and we will put a headstone
:25:12. > :25:17.up to commemorate her. Alice fought all her life for equal rights. She
:25:17. > :25:23.was a determined lady, standing up for what she believed in. A
:25:23. > :25:28.lifelong motto, always use your vote, we suffered for it. There you
:25:28. > :25:31.are. The Dowty Alice haur kins.. What a womanment. What a hat! And
:25:31. > :25:35.What a womanment. What a hat! And what weather. Yes. Interesting
:25:35. > :25:39.weather. Yes a wet week. It will be on and off. We will see showers and
:25:39. > :25:46.another band of rain coming through tonight. One new arrival who isn't
:25:46. > :25:52.too fussed about this was captured by Steve today. So thank you for
:25:53. > :25:56.that Steve. Enjoying a bit of a drink there. We have seen a wind.
:25:56. > :26:00.It has been helping the showers move through quickly and we have
:26:00. > :26:06.seen a bit of sunshine in between those shower, and we still have a
:26:06. > :26:10.few to go now. Before they will start to die away overnight. They
:26:10. > :26:13.could contain hail and there is a chance of hearing thunder. The
:26:13. > :26:16.cloud starts to increase again through the early hours of the
:26:16. > :26:21.morning so the coldest temperatures will be in the far north, down to
:26:21. > :26:25.about 3C before the cloud starts to increase again. This is the first
:26:25. > :26:29.signs of a band of rain pushing up from the south, that will be
:26:29. > :26:33.joining us tomorrow morning and it is going to be quite slow-moving as
:26:33. > :26:38.well. It pivots round across the East Midlands as it is working
:26:38. > :26:42.northwards, giving rain for a period of time. As that starts to
:26:42. > :26:47.clear away, we have got heavy slow- moving showers coming in behind it.
:26:47. > :26:52.They are going to contain hail and they could be thundery. It will
:26:52. > :26:57.feel cooler tomorrow, very lacking in sunshine with all the rain round
:26:58. > :27:00.but the daytime temperature no higher than nine C. It lab breezy
:27:00. > :27:04.south-easterly wind and thu, although the wind is starting to
:27:04. > :27:11.die down we have showers round. On Friday as well, our area of low
:27:11. > :27:16.pressure becomes more flaby, so not producing the wind, but it will
:27:16. > :27:20.give us again very slow-moving showers and they will be heavy and
:27:20. > :27:25.they could contain hail and be thundery. It will be quite a wet