:03:43. > :03:45.of the Leicester author Sue Townsend ` the woman who gave us Adrian Mole.
:03:46. > :03:49.Her family chose to hold a public funeral service at De Montfort Hall
:03:50. > :03:53.` in the heart of the city she loved. Sue was described as generous
:03:54. > :03:55.and kind with a wicked sense of humour, as Geeta Pendse reports.
:03:56. > :03:59.An iconic cultural venue befitting a woman who put Leicester on the
:04:00. > :04:05.literary map. Sue Townsend's family, friends and the public attended the
:04:06. > :04:08.funeral service. It was a nonreligious service. While cameras
:04:09. > :04:11.were not present, audio was relayed to mourners outside. Extracts of her
:04:12. > :04:16.work and tributes were read out. ?? YELLOW She was not scared of death,
:04:17. > :04:19.but she was not ready to die. She loved life too much. She loved
:04:20. > :04:23.Leicester and the overflowing home that she had made in a corner of it.
:04:24. > :04:32.She loved trees, garden centres, flowers. She loved red lipstick,
:04:33. > :04:35.handbags and shoes. The actor Stephen Mangan read an excerpt from
:04:36. > :04:48.her book and talked about playing Adrian Mole. To find myself playing
:04:49. > :04:52.him on telly. It was terrifying, and would have been a lot more
:04:53. > :04:55.terrifying had it not been for Sue. She could see what a terrifying
:04:56. > :04:59.prospect it was for me to play one of the most famous literary
:05:00. > :05:03.characters. She looked after me. She was on set every day. She guided me
:05:04. > :05:07.through the whole thing. What could have been frightening turned out to
:05:08. > :05:13.be one of the best experiences of my life. Two of her former classmates
:05:14. > :05:20.came to pay tribute. They spoke about the friendship of over 56 and
:05:21. > :05:25.three`quarter years. A woman who was not a follower, who had a wicked
:05:26. > :05:28.sense of humour. I will remember her because of her laughing. She felt
:05:29. > :05:31.passionately about things like injustice and politics, but you
:05:32. > :05:41.could not hold a conversation with her without that guffaw of laughter
:05:42. > :05:45.coming out of her. Her coffin was played out to the music of Etta
:05:46. > :05:52.James and taken to a private funeral. `` a private family
:05:53. > :06:03.cremation. It captured her passion for life and her love for Leicester.
:06:04. > :06:05.And for the written word. Goodbye. With your weekend on bank
:06:06. > :06:19.holiday weather, here is an. Not looking too bad. Mostly dry,
:06:20. > :06:24.some sunshine but a little frost. As we go through the night tonight, we
:06:25. > :06:35.continue to see the cloud clearing giving us clear skies. Temperatures
:06:36. > :06:42.drop away quite quickly. In rural sheltered spots, you are likely to
:06:43. > :06:48.get frost. A chilly start tomorrow but bright and sunny. Sunshine
:06:49. > :06:57.throughout the day. More cloud coming in the afternoon. On Sunday,
:06:58. > :07:01.we are in for a cloudy start with patchy outbreaks of rain. But
:07:02. > :07:04.high`pressure clings on so we sit `` we should see some sunshine in the
:07:05. > :07:11.afternoon. Here is the outlook. the rest of the weekend. Now look at
:07:12. > :07:16.the Outlook with Nick Miller. Neuer-macro don't worry, this is not
:07:17. > :07:20.the repeat. It is live. This is the forecast you are more likely to see
:07:21. > :07:24.in January than May, but this is a cold night for the time of year. We
:07:25. > :07:28.have got some cloud coming into the West, stopping the temperature going
:07:29. > :07:32.down too far. It may produce light rain later in the night, maybe a
:07:33. > :07:37.rogue shower from patchy cloud in East Anglia. For most, dry, clear,
:07:38. > :07:43.temperatures are on the way down and will end up lower than this in the
:07:44. > :07:46.coldest rural spots by morning. -4 in rural Scotland in the coldest
:07:47. > :07:53.moral spots in southern England, so gardeners take note, frost for some
:07:54. > :07:57.of us are begins. What about the rest of the weekend? High pressure
:07:58. > :08:01.is here as it begins. You may think, great, settled weather, it does
:08:02. > :08:05.protect the south and east of the UK but Atlantique weather fronts coming
:08:06. > :08:11.to the north and west, giving some rain at times. First, for tomorrow,
:08:12. > :08:16.it is a fine start. Chilly, a lot of dry weather around from the word go.
:08:17. > :08:18.Quite a bit of sunshine. The first Atlantique weather system is
:08:19. > :08:19.bringing cloud and rain