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This is East Midlands Today with Geeta Pendse and me, Maurice Flynn. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Tonight: The routine eye check`up that saved a man's life. | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
How this simple scan spotted a potentially deadly form of cancer | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
developing. If I had not had the eye test, who knows what would have | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
happened. Also tonight, the reserve is enough can tee `` the reservists | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
navigating some of Afghanistan's most dangerous roads. We are pretty | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
much protected from everything. And I will be finding out why Derby has | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
become the real ale capital of the country. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Cheers! Behind the scenes at Nottingham Forest against Leicester | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
City. The fans may not like each other but the two kit men get on. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Find out more later. Good evening. Welcome to Wednesday's | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
programme. First tonight, a regular eye test that became a life saver. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
A Derby man was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
after his optometrist spotted a minuscule haemorrhage at the back of | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
his eye. Steve Trower believes that without | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
this early diagnosis, he may not have survived. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Today I joined Steve as he revisited the optician to say thank you. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Keep your eye on the green square. It is two years since Steve had his | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
last I scan at this distance. At the time, he thought it was a regular | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
checkup, but the optometrist picked up on a tiny town which led to an | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
important discovery `` a tiny tear. If you look closely, it you can see | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the tiny haemorrhage the optometrist spotted. It was because of the spot | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
that a GP recommended a blood test leading to a diagnosis. If I had not | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
come for the eye test, who knows what would have happened. I was | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
getting more lethargic, but I put it down to advancing years, working | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
hard and things like that. You would not instantly think cancer. He was | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer. The severity of the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
illness was a surprise for the optometrist too. Most commonly, when | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
you see something like that, you would be thinking more along the | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
lines of diabetes or high blood pressure. He came and told us that | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
happened and we were surprise. Back at work as a local plumber after | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
intense treatment, Steve says he is now on the road to recovery. It is a | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
great feeling that I am alive and happy and well and getting on with | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
my life. Thanks to the vino. In the past, he left more than a decade | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
before going to the optician `` thanks to the optometrist. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
So lucky it was spotted. Absolutely. It was all about regular | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
checkups. As the optometrist said, it was a very rare form of cancer, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
but a checkup can help pick up things like high blood pressure and | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
diabetes. Have a checkup, they are telling us. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Sound advice. Next tonight, the East Midlands | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
soldiers who run the gauntlet of deadly roadside bombs in | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
Afghanistan. They're drivers and it's their job | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
to carry supplies through Helmand province in convoys which are | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
regularly attacked. One of them is Corporal Andy Betts | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
from Wigston in Leicestershire. He's among a group of army reservists | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
from Loughborough and Grantham who've been deployed on what the | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
military calls combat logistics patrols. Our social affairs | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
correspondent Jeremy Ball reports. Imagine getting stuck behind this | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
lot when you are trying to get to work. More than 50 armoured trucks | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
travelling in convoy. On this patrol, they reservist `` a reserve | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
list from Leicestershire. A chance to get away from the traffic jams of | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
his normal job and face challenges. It is small arms fire and IEDs. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Because of the arm on the vehicles, we're pretty much protected from | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
everything. There has been a lot of change. They are closing down now. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
The bases have shrunk. It is fascinating to see. They are | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
collecting millions of pounds worth of sensitive equipment. It makes | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
these patrols a prime target. That is why the huge force protection | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
vehicles are pushing rollers in front of them. They will take the | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
force of the blast if they hit an improvised bomb. The latest threat | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
they are facing is known as a pillow IED, a sack full of explosives | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
thrown underneath the vehicle. An occupational hazard for this man | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
whose family is back in rodding ten. I was not expecting the bank. Some | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
people will wave at you, some people will wave `` throw stones at you. It | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
is crazy. The way they live. The way they drive. It is quite mad. As this | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
mission comes to an end, the Army is becoming increasingly reliant on its | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
reservist. For this man going back to delivering clothes might just | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
seem a bit tame after his stint out here. | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
A teenager has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of his | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
best friend who was found dead in his burnt`out car. Ryan Morrell had | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
fallen asleep in the car after attending the Fristock festival near | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Melton Mowbray last July. 18`year`old Jack Buckley | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
accidentally dropped his lighter while searching for his possessions | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
in the dark. He didn't know anyone was in the car, but failed to raise | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
the alarm after the fire started. The number of unemployed people in | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
the East Midlands has fallen by 4,000. The total number of people | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
out of work in the region now stands at 162,000. The rate of unemployment | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
in the East Midlands is at 6.9%. That's below the national average of | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
7.2%. It's Wednesday and it's Geeta and | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Maurice with you tonight. Still plenty ahead between now and 7pm, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
including what shopkeepers make of the town threatening to remove any | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
A`boards or signs it feels are dangerously blocking its streets. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
A further round of big budget cuts and job losses have been approved by | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
one of the region's county councils. The Conservative leadership at | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Leicestershire's County Hall says it has to find savings of ?110 million | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
over the next few years. But voluntary groups and opposition | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
parties have been pressing for a rethink. For the details, let's join | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
our political editor John Hess. We are now into the fourth year of | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
council austerity budgets. And the political decisions being taken here | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
at County Hall, Glenfield, aren't getting any easier. A council | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
meeting today where the only item on the agenda was money. And the | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
continuing squeeze on budgets. Leicestershire County Council is | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
having to find budget cuts of ?18.2 million next year. That is part of | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
?110 million worth of cuts over the next four years. It will reduce its | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
overall spending by a third. It could mean 700 additional job losses | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
on top of the 750 that have already gone. Is there an alternative? That | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
is the challenge I put to the Labour Party opposition. It is proposing to | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
chop the support staff to the political parties. That is something | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
we can do immediately. An enormous number of redundancies are taking | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
place in the county council that front line services. We cannot | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
justify three political assistants. What is the alternative budget at | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the Lib Dems? They want to freeze council tax. We are still delivering | :08:50. | :09:03. | |
three additions. It costs 100 thousand pounds on the brochures and | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
publicity. The impact of the cuts will be felt at this museum and | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
visitor centre. It is facing a funding cut of a third of its | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
funding. Joining me now is the county council Leader, Nick Rushton. | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
These are big cuts. Was there any alternative? No, not in our view. We | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
have done the best we can and we have sought to protect the front | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
line servant `` services. Incredibly tough decisions. We have tried to | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
get some alternative budget proposals from the opposition. The | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Labour Party suggested scrapping the political assistants. Is that a | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
runner? They also suggested a 1.5% council tax rise, that is the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
principal difference between us and the Labour Party. We want to keep | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
the tax levels at 0%. At a national level, coalition partners, the Lib | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Dems, they suggested perhaps changing the street lighting policy, | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
introducing LED lights which are cheaper. Also chopping | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
communications budget saving ?100,000. Big numbers. We will look | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
at all those things. ?100,000 does not save 110 million. Next year, | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
even tougher decisions. It is 110 million over four years. I am | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
assured by the Chancellor that no matter who wins the next general | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
election, the recession may be over, but the structural deficit is not | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
and we need to deal with it. And you. Next week, it is County Hall | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
West Bridgford and the turn of Nottingham county council to fix its | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
budget next Thursday. For details to emerge, I am sure. | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
Now to a high`street row that's got shopkeepers standing firm against | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
threats to confiscate their advertising boards if they're put on | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
the street outside their businesses. The town council at Stamford in | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Lincolnshire says such signs obstruct pavements, are dangerous | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
and they say they're illegal. But traders say they're vital in | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
attracting shoppers in tough times. Paul Murphy has more. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
High streets are competitive places and for many businesses putting out | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
the board as part of the morning routine. Here their proliferation is | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
dividing the town. The council wants them to go and businesses are | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
furious. It is ridiculous. We put something on our Facebook page and | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
we had so much response saying how ridiculous it is. Seems very | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
aggressive from them. We would like to have a conversation about it | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
rather than a nasty letter. The town council's letter says it has had | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
complaints about the increasing number of boards and advertising | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
clutter. It says the boards or illegally placed items in hazardous | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
locations and says there could be legal action if they cause an | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
accident. The council says enforcement action could involve | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
removal of the obstruction. Kathleen is partially sighted and among those | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
who have complained. A trip to town she says is like going on an | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
obstacle course. You are frightened you are going to run into them. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Sometimes you might go down the high street and someone has put one out | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
that you do not know about. Retailers now have about two weeks | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
to get rid of their boards. We are going to look into our insurance and | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
make sure we are covered. We are going to stick together. If they | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
want to take them away, we are not going to let them. No one from the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
council was available for comment or to give a statement. Their letter to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
retailers makes it clear that in their view, the boards are a | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
potential breach of the highways that and they want them cleared from | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
the street. Alfreton Town Football Club want the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
team's fans to buy tickets early for upcoming games to avert a cash`flow | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
crisis caused by seven weeks without a home match. The Reds are doing | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
well this season and are currently in third place in the Conference | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
Premier League. But poor weather has stopped them playing at home for | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
weeks and the club says it's now struggling to pay its bills. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
A railway tunnel in Derbyshire has been named as the oldest in the | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
world by the Guinness World Book of Records. The tunnel at Fritchley | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
near Crich was built on a short mineral railway dating from 1793. | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
The line carried limestone from quarries at Crich to the Cromford | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Canal at Bull Bridge until 1933. The tunnel was blocked up in the 1980s, | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
but was reopened last year to allow an archaeological investigation to | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
take place. How wonderful. A subject close to | :13:58. | :14:07. | |
many of our hearts, beer and lots of it! It seems Derby has become the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
real ale capital of the country. For the first time ever, the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Campaign for Real Ale or CAMRA is holding its national winter beer | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
festival in the city's Roundhouse. 12,000 people are expected over the | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
next three days. Today, Jo Healey was one of them. | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
These beers are excellent. We are having a great time. I like a bear. | :14:33. | :14:49. | |
It sparkles on your tongue `` bear. The judges have come to find the | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
supreme Champion beer. I hate this stuff! But these guys love it. The | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
judges but winter ales. This is a blind tasting of the best. A nice | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
coffee smell coming out of that. It has obviously got plenty of nice | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
roasted malts in there. Quite a dark beer. You need a torch. We can make | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
sure it is nice and clear and has not got yeast particles floating in | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
it. The carbonation is a little low. Not a great deal of sparkle on my | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
tongue. The taste is quite pleasant. I would drink a lot more of this. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
What is it like to be a former supreme champion? It had a huge | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
impact on our business. People nationally acclaimed aware of the | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
beers we brew in the East Midlands. Now Derby is on the map. Sadly the | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
supreme winner was not local this year but the festival most | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
definitely is. It is like Nirvana, beer Nirvana. | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
I want to see if I can make my glass do that thing with the lights! | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
I am sure there will be plenty of beer at the football match tonight. | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Let us check out the weather. My advice is to take your waterproof. | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
You might need it as you head home. On the plus side, it will be mild. | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
More details later. Time for sport and there's a big | :16:36. | :16:47. | |
game tonight for two of our teams, so the sports team are out and | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
about. Here's Natalie. Yes, a big night for two our cities | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
football teams as Nottingham Forest take on Leicester City here at the | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
City Ground. The shirts are out inside the dressing rooms, the teams | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
are ready. Why is it so important? Well, both teams want promotion. | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
They want to go to the Premier League. This is Lester's dressing | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
room, the away dressing room, at the city ground. A win for Leicester | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
will put them ten points clear at the top of the table. If Nottingham | :17:30. | :17:46. | |
Forest when, they will go within one win of the top two. We got the | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
bragging rights in the first game. This is another challenge for both | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
clubs. Leicester City are going very well. It should be a very exciting | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
game. We have got an awful lot to play for the season and Nottingham | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Forest are in good form themselves and they have got themselves into a | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
really good position. Of course, it being a local derby, it gives an | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
added spice. We are all looking forward to it. We want to try and | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
get our performance right and continue with our good form. Outside | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
the picture is looking good. Leicester City and Nottingham Forest | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
are both in top form at the moment. So too are Derby County. We are the | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
best in the East Midlands at the moment. All teams in the top six and | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
what a victory last night at Sheffield Wednesday. They are now | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
third. The players that Derby are having a | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
well earned day off today. Another huge win for them last night. All | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
courtesy of a moment of magic. It was a goal worthy of winning any | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
game. Patrick Bamford has been in fine form but this was his finest | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
goal yet. Derby had arrived at Sheffield Wednesday in confident | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
mood and why not? They were unbeaten in their last five and flying high | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
in the league. At times, they were having to dig deep. Twice they had | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
to clear chances off the line. With the game seemingly headed for a | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
draw, up stepped Patrick Bamford. I knew I would shoot as soon as I got | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
it. It was my only chance. People were talking about pushing for | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
automatic promotion, I would not know out of experience, but picking | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
up the three points, that is what you have got to do. Derby are up to | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
third in the table, just two points off an automatic promotion place. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
There is a very real possibility we could be seeing Premier League | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
football here next season. Now it is time for the latest in our | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
series in life after sport. Tonight, Helen is with Loughborough athlete | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Steve Backley. Steve Backley is one of our finest | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
sportsmen. It is a new Olympic record! Here is the only British | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
athlete to have one medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. `` to | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
have won medals. Nowadays, you are more likely to find him here at the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
golf club. I love it. Golf grabs you and it fills a void of not being an | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
athlete anymore in a lot of ways. He retired from sport in 2004. It was a | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
couple of days before he knew what he wanted to do next `` it was a | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
couple of years. I started out in retirement going, what now? You go | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
damage of centre and say, retired javelin thrower. What are your | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
skills? I can throw the javelin a long way. That is not an option. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
Where do you begin? I came away from the Olympics... He announced rules | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
`` he now draws from his Olympic experience. I hope my work helps | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
people. You are very selfish as an athlete. You have to be | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
single`minded. I genuinely love the fact that the workshops we do, the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
presentations we do, they help people fulfil their dreams and | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
overcome challenges and we help people enjoy the journey as well. | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Which is better, life now or life as an athlete? That is a tough | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
question. Let me put it into context. Waking up in the middle of | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
winter in the southern hemisphere summer and training, that is tough | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
to beat. Really tough. I love what I do now, but you can't beat living as | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
an athlete. My advice would be, don't try and beat it and don't try | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
and compare it. That is just about it from the city ground. The work of | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
the kit men is just about over as kick`off is fast approaching. Just | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
time to say congratulations to the Nottingham Panthers. They beat the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
Sheffield Steelers last night. It means they are in the final for the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
first time in a row and they will play the Belfast Giants. Good night | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
from the city ground. You can see all of the goals, Nottingham Forest | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
against Leicester City, in the late bulletin at 10:25pm. We hope there | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
will be calls. We are sure there will be. `` we hope there will be | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
goals. One of the region's principal | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
tourist sites has enlisted a local schoolgirl to help develop | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
child`friendly attractions. Maddie Ball from Bingham is already the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
youngest volunteer at Southwell Workhouse and now she's been | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
recruited as a junior consultant. The workhouse reopened for its new | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
season today and Paul Bradshaw went along to find out more. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Welcome to the workhouse. Meet Maddie Ball greeting youngsters at | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
the workhouse. She has helped come up with a new visitor guide to | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
encourage more young people to visit. We made a character who leads | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
the children around the workhouse. We made her a mouse because she can | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
go everywhere and she understands the segregation which makes the | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
children understand segregation from families as well. She is the third | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
generation to work here. Her mum and grandmother also volunteer. A | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
fascination with the past, it seems, is in the blood. We have an interest | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
as a family in history. I am not surprised she came up with the idea | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
and it worked. She worked with the design team on the Trail. It is good | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
to work with children. They are so inspiring. Their ideas about what | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
workhouse life was like. I took the opportunity to invite Heron and to | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
get a child's point of view `` I took the opportunity to invite her | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
in. It is not just children learning more. Lily Brown was born here when | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
it was known as a public assistance institution. Today was her first | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
visit back. I think it is an eye`opener to think how people lived | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
in my generation. I did not realise just how they did live. How these | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
workhouses were. That was the biggest eye`opener. As helps guide | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
more visitors around, this could be the start of a memorable career in | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
history for one young girl `` as Maddie Ball helps guide more | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
visitors around. I think I spotted a bit of blue sky | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
in that piece. Have we got any more in store? | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
It is looking more unsettled. If you were lucky to get out in the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
sunshine today, there was a little hint of spring. Thank you very much | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
to Julie for sending this in. The perfect rainbow yesterday. If you | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
have any pictures to send in, e`mail them to us. A few of your photos | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
will be put onto our Facebook page in the coming days. Overnight, it is | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
turning unsettled. Rain heading our way. Winds strengthening and quite | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
mild. This is the weather front pushing in overnight. Bringing us an | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
early spell of rain, quite patchy in nature. Heavier in the early hours. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
The isobars are squeezing together. Gusts up to 40 miles an hour. Not as | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
extreme as anything over the last few weeks. This evening, fairly | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
decent so far. The cloud has been increasing. One or two light patchy | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
showers around. Then the rain starts to push in. Quite patchy but it will | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
be quite heavy at times. It is remaining mild overnight. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Temperatures will drop to seven degrees only. More like a daytime | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
temperature at this time of year. Remaining very windy with strong | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
winds through Thursday morning. The rain will slowly clear away to the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
East. But I did, decent dry spells in the afternoon `` behind it. Also | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
sharp showers around. Remaining breezy. Still quite windy on Friday. | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
The good news is it will be largely dry with a few showers. A lot of dry | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
weather to be had. But watch out, it will be fairly windy at times. | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
We will be back at 10:25pm. Have a good evening. | :27:14. | :27:16. |