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:00:08. > :00:11.In Look East tonight: More than 3,000 joined protest rallies and

:00:11. > :00:19.more than 800 schools were closed. We'll bring you the impact of the

:00:19. > :00:24.biggest co-ordinated public worker strike for years. They expect us to

:00:24. > :00:30.work longer, pay more and receive less. I think that is an absolute

:00:30. > :00:33.disgrace. Hello from David and me. Also tonight: As Andrea Hill's

:00:33. > :00:36.future hangs in the balance, we'll have the very latest on the council

:00:36. > :00:38.trying to decide her fate. Jailed - the former parish clerk

:00:38. > :00:48.who stole more than �60,000 from local councils.

:00:48. > :00:54.

:00:54. > :00:57.And how Diva's daring dash came to a dramatic end.

:00:57. > :01:02.Hello. First tonight, the impact of the biggest public workers' strike

:01:02. > :01:04.for years. Unions say there has been positive support across the

:01:04. > :01:10.region for today's strike. Courts, Jobcentres, passport offices and

:01:10. > :01:13.driving test centres were all affected. More than 3000 people

:01:13. > :01:19.joined rallies across the region, but schools bore the brunt of the

:01:19. > :01:24.closures with more than 850 affected. In a moment, Ian Barmer

:01:24. > :01:27.reports on the day through the eyes of a striker. Jozef Hall looks at

:01:27. > :01:36.how our schools coped. But first, Andrew Sinclair with a round-up of

:01:36. > :01:39.what happened today. The unions were hoping for a good

:01:39. > :01:42.turnout, and they got it. This was Cambridge, were more than 1000

:01:42. > :01:49.people marched through the city. Many had their children with them

:01:49. > :01:52.because so many schools were closed. I hope the government might well

:01:52. > :01:56.see what is going on here and in other places around the country as

:01:56. > :01:59.a clear expression of the resolve of teachers and other public sector

:01:59. > :02:02.workers to defend their pensions. There were rallies and marches

:02:02. > :02:04.across the region, each one attracting several hundred people,

:02:04. > :02:09.striking workers joined by members of other unions also worried about

:02:09. > :02:17.their pensions. The unions say public support for today's action

:02:17. > :02:22.has been much higher than they expected. They have to look after

:02:22. > :02:28.their future. Their future is in doubt, isn't it? They have worked

:02:29. > :02:34.all these years to get nothing out of it. I trained as a teacher

:02:34. > :02:42.originally. I have some sympathy. have some sympathy but I am not

:02:42. > :02:46.sure it is the right thing to do. Because as a lot of disruption. --

:02:46. > :02:49.it causes a lot of disruption. biggest casualties were the schools

:02:49. > :02:51.- hundreds of schools either partially or fully closed. But many

:02:51. > :02:54.staff working for Customs and Revenue walked out, so, too, some

:02:54. > :02:57.hospital staff. While at the Peterborough Passport Office, 90%

:02:57. > :03:00.of union members were on strike. It meant the telephone inquiry bureau

:03:00. > :03:03.was closed and very few postal applications were handled. At the

:03:03. > :03:09.Department of Work and Pensions call centre in Norwich, the union

:03:09. > :03:13.said just 20 out of 300 staff were on duty. But Jobcentres stayed open,

:03:13. > :03:15.so, too, the courts and the coastguard. And even though some

:03:15. > :03:18.immigration officers took action, there was little disruption for

:03:18. > :03:28.passengers at Luton and Stansted because extra staff had been

:03:28. > :03:29.

:03:29. > :03:32.brought in. There are 28 unions representing workers across the

:03:32. > :03:38.public sector. With just four on strike today, the region was never

:03:38. > :03:41.going to grind to a halt. They hope that it turn out like this will

:03:41. > :03:48.give an indication of how angry people are. Despite today's protest,

:03:48. > :03:51.the Government insists its proposals are fair and necessary.

:03:51. > :03:55.After this process is complete, public sector workers will still

:03:55. > :04:00.have the best be pensioned -- the best pensions available in the UK.

:04:00. > :04:04.We have to get to a point where they are sustainable. People are

:04:04. > :04:10.living much longer than they used to. The unions feel today went well.

:04:10. > :04:13.There's already talk of doing this again.

:04:13. > :04:16.It was in the schools that the industrial action had its biggest

:04:16. > :04:23.impact. As Jozef Hall now reports, hundreds were closed for the day,

:04:23. > :04:26.while many others were just partially open.

:04:26. > :04:29.Not quite business as usual at this Primary School in Northampton,

:04:29. > :04:39.striking NUT staff responsible for the closure of its 14 classes, and

:04:39. > :04:40.

:04:40. > :04:44.a day off for a lucky few. Some of them are pleased to be in school.

:04:44. > :04:47.We have tried to explain to them that these are professional people

:04:47. > :04:51.making a judgement and doing what be think is right. My friend was

:04:51. > :04:57.saying, you have to go on -- you have to go to school on Thursday.

:04:57. > :05:07.We will get to go to the park. you be cleverer than them? Yes,

:05:07. > :05:09.

:05:09. > :05:12.half a day cleverer. Back in Northampton, and plenty of support

:05:12. > :05:22.for the picket lines at the Duston Secondary, these teachers refuting

:05:22. > :05:25.the Prime Minister's claims that their actions are responsible.

:05:25. > :05:30.government might try to stop us having strikes today, but we need

:05:30. > :05:40.to make a point. It is the responsible thing to do. We need to

:05:40. > :05:44.

:05:44. > :05:48.do this. This teacher in Lowestoft was well prepared and ready for the

:05:48. > :05:54.strike. It is very important that we support people in trying to

:05:54. > :06:00.stand up to the cuts that are being made across the board. The NUT said

:06:01. > :06:03.today to expect more of the same. Teachers have told BBC Look East

:06:04. > :06:07.today that they feel betrayed by the Government's plans to cut their

:06:07. > :06:10.pensions and make them stay on in the classroom until they are 66. We

:06:10. > :06:18.asked one teacher from Peterborough to tell us what it will mean for

:06:18. > :06:23.her in pounds, shillings and pence. It is not done lightly but there

:06:23. > :06:26.has been no genuine consultation. There was a big turnout and some

:06:26. > :06:29.real anger in Peterborough at plans to reform public sector pensions.

:06:29. > :06:31.In the crowd, Gill Phillips, who teaches at Brampton in

:06:31. > :06:38.Cambridgeshire. She insists she is no union firebrand, just outraged

:06:38. > :06:42.at proposals to make her work longer for a poorer pension. I've

:06:42. > :06:47.been paying into a pension scheme. It appears to me that the contract

:06:47. > :06:51.-- a contract has been taken out between me and the Government. The

:06:51. > :06:55.Government has changed the goalposts over night and that is

:06:55. > :06:58.simply not fair. Gill Phillips started teaching in 1990 and

:06:58. > :07:00.expected to draw her pension at 60, in six years' time. She's been

:07:00. > :07:09.studying the National Union of Teachers pensions calculator very

:07:09. > :07:15.closely, and she's not happy with what it shows. I will pay �83.31

:07:15. > :07:22.extra per month. The earliest I can get the full pension has gone up

:07:22. > :07:31.from 60 to 66. Over a 25 year pension, should I live that long, I

:07:31. > :07:36.will lose �66,223. There might be a lot of people watching who are run

:07:36. > :07:39.far worse pension terms than teachers and think, actually, even

:07:39. > :07:48.with the changes, you would be on a pretty good deal. What would you

:07:48. > :07:54.say to them? I would say that I took on the job of being a teacher.

:07:54. > :07:57.Together with that job goes a pension. I appreciate that pensions

:07:57. > :08:01.in the private sector have been downgraded over the years. I

:08:01. > :08:07.understand that, but this is not an issue of private pension versus

:08:07. > :08:12.public pension. Gill Phillips believes she made a deal which the

:08:12. > :08:19.Government is backing out of. And it will leave her paying more and

:08:19. > :08:22.working longer for less. The future of council chief

:08:22. > :08:25.executive Andrea Hill is still being debated tonight. She has been

:08:25. > :08:29.on leave from Suffolk County Council for the past eight weeks so

:08:29. > :08:39.that allegations against her could be investigated. Let's go live to

:08:39. > :08:40.

:08:40. > :08:44.Ipswich now and Kevin Burch. These allegations come from of

:08:44. > :08:48.whistle blower in the council. They focus on how things were being run

:08:48. > :08:52.by Andrea Hill. Expenses claims are also being studied. A special panel

:08:52. > :08:58.sat down at around 2pm today to look at the evidence. We have no

:08:58. > :09:06.news as yet. This is the latest chapter in a controversial and

:09:06. > :09:10.turbulent time formed the up -- for the authority. From the start,

:09:10. > :09:14.Andrea Hill was a high earner and high profile. On a salary of

:09:14. > :09:17.�218,000 a year, more than the Prime Minister, hardly surprising.

:09:17. > :09:21.We are �1 billion business. In order to command the best you have

:09:22. > :09:24.to pay the best. It was too much, said critics. Too bad, said the

:09:25. > :09:27.chief executive, insisting it had been an open contest and there were

:09:28. > :09:34.others in similar roles on similar money. But repeatedly she'd be the

:09:34. > :09:38.one under fire. Do you think people think you are hard and that nothing

:09:38. > :09:43.will hurt you? People do not know me. They only know what they say it

:09:43. > :09:46.-- what they see in the media. resisted calls to take a cut in pay,

:09:46. > :09:48.while trying to win backing for a radical package of cuts in services,

:09:48. > :09:57.what they called a new strategic direction, slimming down,

:09:57. > :10:05.outsourcing to save �125 million in four years. Outsourcing Suffolk

:10:05. > :10:09.jobs - is that there? No. Outside, campaigners started to rally.

:10:09. > :10:12.Inside, it seemed, things started to unravel. And with a

:10:12. > :10:15.whistleblower inquiry under way, a new man took over as council leader

:10:15. > :10:20.and swiftly took the new strategic direction of the agenda. Chief

:10:20. > :10:25.executives bring their own style. We feel it is important that the

:10:25. > :10:30.council and the members are the story and not any individual

:10:30. > :10:33.employee. But today, once again, Andrea Hill was the story as this

:10:33. > :10:36.special panel of councillors sat at St Edmund House in Ipswich to

:10:36. > :10:39.discuss the allegations. That debate took place in secret, after

:10:40. > :10:41.the panel rejected an appeal from the media to keep the meeting open.

:10:42. > :10:51.It said the need for confidentiality outweighed the

:10:52. > :10:52.

:10:52. > :10:55.public interest. Soap why is this all taking so

:10:55. > :10:58.long? Inshore, because it is very complex.

:10:58. > :11:04.I spoke to the council a few moments ago. They said they thought

:11:04. > :11:09.it was going to be a long night. These are serious allegations,

:11:09. > :11:12.there are procedures to go through. They want to make sure that

:11:12. > :11:16.everything is done in the correct way. Whatever comes out it that --

:11:16. > :11:20.comes out of the day, it is going to be pored over by the lawyers for

:11:20. > :11:23.both sides. One thing to bear in mind is that this committee has

:11:23. > :11:28.already sat once and broke up without a decision saying it needed

:11:28. > :11:31.more time. I think it will want to get a decision today. Remember that

:11:31. > :11:36.Andrea Hill has now been offered something like eight weeks. The

:11:36. > :11:40.council has paid out something like �40,000 to have the Chief Executive

:11:40. > :11:44.sitting at home doing nothing. They will not want that to continue. If

:11:44. > :11:48.there is any later of -- for the newsletter and the programme we

:11:48. > :11:52.will bring it to you. Coming up later and the programme:

:11:52. > :12:02.The town aiming to become the first in the country to ban smoking on

:12:02. > :12:06.

:12:06. > :12:09.its streets. And the moment Diva Hundreds of travellers from illegal

:12:09. > :12:12.pitches at Dale Farm in Essex could get their official notice to leave

:12:12. > :12:15.any day. Basildon councillors are expected to agree tonight to help

:12:15. > :12:18.pay the police costs for what could be a long eviction process. Gareth

:12:18. > :12:26.George is outside Basildon council where the meeting's taking place.

:12:26. > :12:30.Gareth. Well, the travellers are just

:12:31. > :12:35.beginning to arrive here. There have been protests about Dale Farm

:12:35. > :12:39.for ten years, but this really could be the last. It is desperate

:12:39. > :12:46.for the travellers now. They are literally one meeting away from

:12:46. > :12:50.eviction. Dale Farm sprawls across green belt near Basildon. Around

:12:50. > :12:54.half of the 100 or so pictures were built without planning permission.

:12:54. > :12:58.After a 10-year legal battle, the bulldozers could be just weeks a

:12:58. > :13:04.wall. I will not go without a fight. They might as well bring the army

:13:04. > :13:09.here to get us out. As far as Teddy is concerned, the eviction cannot

:13:09. > :13:15.happen soon enough. He lives just up the road from Dale Farm. He says

:13:15. > :13:23.that, because the form is so close, his house is worth a lot less. --

:13:23. > :13:28.because the farm. It is worth around �100,000 less than what I

:13:28. > :13:33.would get for it if they go. Before the eviction can begin, councillors

:13:33. > :13:37.need to take care of the details about who will pay for it. The

:13:37. > :13:44.council needs to confirm in writing that it will contribute �1.2

:13:44. > :13:50.million towards the police costs. Essex Chief Constable says that is

:13:50. > :14:00.the last piece of the jigsaw. The travellers'' spokesman made this

:14:00. > :14:01.

:14:01. > :14:06.plea on behalf of the families children are born in Basildon

:14:06. > :14:11.Hospital. They are residents and I think it is brittle and in human to

:14:11. > :14:14.even think about wanting to throw them out of the district.

:14:14. > :14:20.decade-long battle to stay could soon be over. After tonight's

:14:20. > :14:26.meeting the bailiffs could come calling.

:14:26. > :14:30.I am joined by Mary-Ann McCarthy, a long-standing Dale Farm resident.

:14:30. > :14:35.Why do you not just leave? It would save everyone a lot of money.

:14:35. > :14:40.very easy to say leave. Leave to wear? We have no place to go. We

:14:40. > :14:44.bought our land where we are. They say that we are breaking the law.

:14:44. > :14:49.If the meeting does not go your way this evening, the bailiffs could be

:14:49. > :14:53.round to more morning, couldn't they? Yes, they could. What can we

:14:53. > :14:57.do? Are you going to fight to save your homes that it comes to an

:14:57. > :15:03.eviction? Yes, there is definitely going to be a fight, and a big

:15:03. > :15:06.fight at that. I am going to get my 22 grandchildren in my home. Idea

:15:06. > :15:10.many of the bailiffs to put their hand on them. Thank you very much.

:15:10. > :15:19.The council says that the travellers have broken the law and

:15:19. > :15:22.they must be removed. A verdict of accidental death has

:15:22. > :15:25.been recorded on the cricket commentator Trevor Bailey. The

:15:25. > :15:28.former Test cricketer, who was 87, died in a fire at his home at

:15:28. > :15:30.Westcliff-on-Sea earlier this year. The inquest in Southend heard that

:15:30. > :15:32.the fire may have started in a toaster, but investigators couldn't

:15:32. > :15:35.be sure. The furniture retailer Wallace King

:15:36. > :15:39.is closing its Norwich store after more than 100 years in the city.

:15:39. > :15:42.The group said current trading was tough and there was no one to carry

:15:42. > :15:50.on the family-run store. The company also has shops in Diss and

:15:50. > :15:52.Cambridge. A clerk who stole nearly �69,000

:15:52. > :15:55.from four parish councils in Norfolk has been jailed for 18

:15:55. > :15:58.months. Beverly Boughen spent some of the money on her daughter's

:15:58. > :16:08.wedding. The judge said she committed "a dreadful breach of

:16:08. > :16:09.

:16:09. > :16:11.trust". There were then held as senior position of finance officer

:16:12. > :16:17.on four parish councils. She admitted stealing money from all

:16:17. > :16:22.four, including �20,000 from Burnham market, where she had

:16:23. > :16:28.control of the parish finances for four years. The chair of the Parish

:16:28. > :16:31.Council would not go on camera but issued a statement saying, she was

:16:31. > :16:35.very good at making excuses about why we could not see the books. We

:16:35. > :16:39.are angry that we put our trust in someone who chose to took us to the

:16:39. > :16:44.cleaners. We will put in place procedures to make sure something

:16:44. > :16:54.like this does not happen again. This breach of trust was described

:16:54. > :17:04.as dreadful in court. She was able to write cheques to other accounts

:17:04. > :17:04.

:17:04. > :17:08.by forging the signature of parish council members. She used �4,000 to

:17:08. > :17:11.pay for her daughter's wedding and a holiday to Spain. There are now

:17:11. > :17:16.calls for more training for local councillors, hopefully leading to

:17:17. > :17:20.better scrutiny and preventing similar frauds in the future.

:17:20. > :17:25.would personally like to see it be mandatory for all councillors to be

:17:25. > :17:30.trained Postle -- properly. That is not the case at the moment and our

:17:30. > :17:33.association does its best to encourage all councillors to be

:17:33. > :17:41.trained in the basics of council work and what their

:17:41. > :17:47.responsibilities are. The convicted women will spend 18

:17:47. > :17:50.months in jail. Sales at Greene King have passed

:17:50. > :17:53.the �1 billion mark for the first time. But the Suffolk-based pubs

:17:53. > :18:03.and brewery group warned trading for the current year would be tough,

:18:03. > :18:07.

:18:07. > :18:09.with consumers under pressure. Companies are having a second go at

:18:09. > :18:13.getting money out of the Government's Regional Growth Fund.

:18:13. > :18:16.In the first round, 9 out of 10 bids from this region were turned

:18:16. > :18:19.down. Thousands of jobs are at stake. Lotus's on the tail of a

:18:19. > :18:22.Government grant - �10 million to build five new cars at Hethel in

:18:22. > :18:28.Norfolk, creating 1,100 new jobs. Without the money from the Regional

:18:28. > :18:32.Growth Fund, three of the cars would be built abroad. In order

:18:32. > :18:36.support the UK economy, we thought it might be a good idea to invest

:18:36. > :18:41.more money into a man of -- into another factory. We asked for the

:18:41. > :18:48.money to build a new factory to allow us to manufacture all of her

:18:48. > :18:51.five cars on the site. This is Lotus's second go at getting money.

:18:51. > :18:54.In the first round of bidding earlier this year, 24 bits from the

:18:54. > :18:56.East went in. Only two were accepted. Bids also go in today for

:18:56. > :18:59.the Government's new enterprise zones, giving companies tax breaks

:18:59. > :19:01.and help with getting faster broadband. Applications are being

:19:01. > :19:07.made for Yarmouth and Lowestoft, Harlow and Alconbury in

:19:07. > :19:16.Cambridgeshire. Development of the former airbase, close to the A1,

:19:16. > :19:19.would create 8000 jobs, say its backers. We would like to attract

:19:19. > :19:25.hi-tech manufacturing companies. There might be local companies that

:19:25. > :19:29.need to grow. There might be companies in Cambridge. Cambridge

:19:29. > :19:33.companies find it very difficult to move on into larger premises. They

:19:33. > :19:36.would be more than welcome here. The worry is that project in the

:19:36. > :19:46.east will once more be less favoured by the Government than

:19:46. > :19:48.

:19:48. > :19:56.those in other regions. You're watching BBC Look East. Coming up:

:19:56. > :19:59.How Diva's daring dash came to a dramatic end.

:19:59. > :20:09.Next, the town which could soon be asking people to stay about the

:20:09. > :20:11.

:20:11. > :20:14.facts completely. -- stub out their cigarettes. A councillor in Stony

:20:14. > :20:17.Stratford wants a total outdoor smoking ban, like the one that been

:20:17. > :20:20.brought in New York. It could be achieved by bringing in a bylaw,

:20:20. > :20:22.but will this man and his lone crusade gathered the support he

:20:22. > :20:28.needs? Smokers in Stony Stratford could be breathing their last

:20:28. > :20:33.because of a suggestion that has come from this man. There are

:20:33. > :20:41.cigarette butts of the place. One would not want to see people

:20:41. > :20:43.spitting in front of them. They are covered in saliva. There is second-

:20:43. > :20:48.hand smoke and your clothes smelling of smoke as you walk by.

:20:48. > :20:52.There is a danger also two young children in pushchairs. It is

:20:52. > :20:57.already up -- so idiotic and stupid. I have never heard anything so

:20:57. > :21:00.ridiculous in my life. If they line up all the smokers and shoot them -

:21:00. > :21:04.- if they want to line up all the smokers and shoot them, now might

:21:04. > :21:09.be a good time. There is support in some quarters.

:21:09. > :21:13.In some ways it is worse now because every time you come out it

:21:13. > :21:18.is right on the doorstep. It would be better if they had designated

:21:18. > :21:22.areas. If you want to smoke you can do it in your own home, can't you?

:21:22. > :21:29.Run for smokers is being squeezed out. The original Ban Ki-Moon in

:21:29. > :21:39.2007. It will soon be illegal to display cigarettes in shops. Stony

:21:39. > :21:42.Stratford is the first place to consider a complete ban. We do all

:21:42. > :21:47.sorts of things to attract people to the town. The last thing you

:21:47. > :21:54.want to be doing is driving people away. We do not want to put signs

:21:54. > :21:59.up saying do not come here, we do not want to. Madness or maverick,

:21:59. > :22:04.the suggestion will go before the town council next month. We do it

:22:04. > :22:08.with dog mess, we can do it with cigarette butts. Smokers, watch

:22:08. > :22:11.out! If you have a comment about that

:22:11. > :22:21.story or you think you know something else we should be

:22:21. > :22:28.

:22:28. > :22:33.investigating, please get in touch. Please leave your daytime telephone

:22:33. > :22:36.number so we can get in touch. Imagine being woken up and being

:22:36. > :22:41.told by the police to keep your children and pets indoors because a

:22:41. > :22:45.seven-and-a-half foot-long bowler constrictor is on the loose. That

:22:45. > :22:52.is what happened in Ipswich this morning. Luckily, this story does

:22:52. > :22:58.have a happy ending. This is Diva. When she went missing

:22:58. > :23:02.last night she caused a lot of concern. It was a bit scary, really.

:23:02. > :23:09.It has not eaten for three weeks. I have three young children. I was

:23:10. > :23:16.pretty scared because I didn't know if it would have killed me a lot.

:23:16. > :23:20.Diva is in season. That is probably why she escaped. Not only our her

:23:20. > :23:29.hormones raging, she is also mean and lean. Her last meal was three

:23:29. > :23:35.weeks ago. They have backward curving teeth. They eat small

:23:35. > :23:41.mammals and birds. They're quite opportunistic. When Beat a's owner

:23:41. > :23:51.got home from work she was in for a surprise. Hello, sweetheart. Come

:23:51. > :23:52.

:23:52. > :23:59.on! She is strong, isn't she? would pull you along the floor.

:23:59. > :24:03.There you go, sweetheart. Who's a good girl? We have been speaking to

:24:03. > :24:11.neighbours who were worried. How do you feel now that you have got a?

:24:11. > :24:14.Relieved. She is not the friendliest of snakes. She is not

:24:14. > :24:24.life-threatening but if she bites you she will cause a nasty injury.

:24:24. > :24:27.

:24:27. > :24:37.I will put her back in the tank. why not just have a cat or dog?

:24:37. > :24:43.

:24:43. > :24:52.be the dead and the snake ate them! -- maybe they did.

:24:52. > :25:00.At least she is back safe and sound. Are you a fan of States? -- of

:25:00. > :25:04.I quite like them but I would not keep on! It has been a fine day

:25:04. > :25:07.with high pressure slowly building to the south-west. There were clear

:25:07. > :25:13.skies across much of southern England to start the day. As the

:25:13. > :25:19.day progressed, the shower clouds started to gather. You can see how

:25:19. > :25:27.much thicker they got through the afternoon. You can see where one or

:25:27. > :25:30.two showers fell. There was the order rumble of thunder in Norfolk.

:25:30. > :25:36.One or two showers will linger but most of them will fade in the

:25:36. > :25:39.evening. One or two showers lingering in parts of Norfolk and

:25:39. > :25:45.Suffolk, but during the course of the night the cloud will break up

:25:45. > :25:52.to give us largely clear skies. Temperatures could drop down to

:25:52. > :26:00.single figures in some places. The further east you are, temperatures

:26:00. > :26:08.hold up at ten Celsius. Tomorrow, you can see that the high pressure

:26:08. > :26:13.moves closer. That promises that the start of July will be fine with

:26:14. > :26:17.clear skies. As the temperatures increase we will see the cloud

:26:17. > :26:21.bubbling up through the morning and into the afternoon. It could bring

:26:21. > :26:31.an isolated shower, but for most places it looks like a dry day with

:26:31. > :26:36.

:26:36. > :26:45.spawn let -- dry day with pleasant sunny spells. The winds are light

:26:45. > :26:55.and north-westerly. Through the afternoon, we still keep the risk

:26:55. > :26:57.

:26:57. > :27:01.of one or two isolated showers. On the whole, at drier day. The next

:27:01. > :27:11.five days are very settled indeed. It looks like a fine weekend with

:27:11. > :27:14.

:27:14. > :27:19.plenty of sunshine. The beginning of next week stays fine unsettled.

:27:19. > :27:29.Very pleasant weather indeed. Temperatures dip down to single

:27:29. > :27:33.