:00:14. > :00:19.Hello. In the programme - illegal travellers' sites - the MP speaking
:00:19. > :00:24.out against her own government. Grave concerns that new sites will
:00:24. > :00:28.crop up in parts of the green belt, in many villages and local
:00:28. > :00:34.authorities and local communities will feel powerless when it comes
:00:34. > :00:38.to removing them. Unemployment is up across the region. This hospital
:00:38. > :00:45.has announced 250 jobs to go. The real-life table tennis star behind
:00:45. > :00:55.a revolutionary new computer game. The cafe praised by Delia, but was
:00:55. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:08.pub grub in the 70's really better First, claims that a weak planning
:01:08. > :01:12.system has led to dozens of illegal travellers' sites springing up.
:01:12. > :01:16.More travellers live in this area than in any other part of the
:01:16. > :01:20.country and a recent survey showed only a quarter are parked on legal
:01:20. > :01:24.sites. Part of Dale Farm near Basildon is the biggest illegal
:01:24. > :01:28.site in Europe, but today Conservative MP Priti Patel warned
:01:28. > :01:31.her own government's policy is making matters worse. Under the
:01:31. > :01:34.previous Government councils were told how many legal sites to
:01:34. > :01:39.provide. Under the coalition councils can now decide for
:01:39. > :01:44.themselves. The result - the number of planned new pitches has fallen
:01:44. > :01:47.by more than half. In one moment Priti Patel will be live at
:01:47. > :01:54.Westminster, but first we have this report from one village in her
:01:54. > :01:58.constituency. A house in the country. Many people's dream. Annie
:01:58. > :02:05.has lived here for 17 years. It looks tranquil, but it doesn't
:02:05. > :02:09.sound it. If I keep busy I'm not so bad, but there are times when
:02:09. > :02:12.initially it started that it really did affect my health and I couldn't
:02:12. > :02:17.sleep and I was very, very concerned. When the family moved
:02:17. > :02:21.here there were two travellers' pitches. Now there are eleven. Mrs
:02:21. > :02:26.Hopkins showed me how close a twelfth and even a possible 13th
:02:26. > :02:32.could be. The proposed pitches are within just a few feet of our
:02:32. > :02:39.boundary at the front, but also within a few feet of our back
:02:39. > :02:42.boundary, so they will you just be one in the front garden and one in
:02:42. > :02:47.the back. The problem villages across the region face, according
:02:47. > :02:52.to planning experts, is a lack of clear strategies, about where
:02:52. > :02:57.councils should build new pitches. In the absence of a plan then ad
:02:57. > :03:01.hoc appeal decisions will be made, which dots them around in places
:03:01. > :03:05.that aren't particularly well thought out. Maria Bradford and her
:03:05. > :03:10.daughter live on a legal pitch nearby. She says it's the age-old
:03:10. > :03:15.problem, no-one wants to live next door to a site. There is a huge
:03:15. > :03:19.fear that once the doors open, as such, for travellers and gypsies,
:03:19. > :03:24.once planning permission, they have the huge fear that all the entire
:03:24. > :03:29.family will descend upon the village and plunder it. That isn't
:03:29. > :03:32.the case. Back at the farm, Mrs Hopkins reads messages from others
:03:32. > :03:42.facing similar planning battles not just in Essex, but across the whole
:03:42. > :03:47.country. Today, the exact issues were being debated in the House of
:03:47. > :03:52.Commons. Andrew Sinclair was there. Every MP with a rural constituency
:03:52. > :03:57.will tell you how big an issue this is becoming and there was a good
:03:57. > :04:00.turnout for this afternoon's debate. Our communities are left feeling
:04:00. > :04:05.disenfranchised and the councils are feeling powerless. Priti Patel
:04:05. > :04:09.said the present system was unfair and it was time consuming and
:04:09. > :04:14.expensive moving on illegal travellers. Braintree council had
:04:14. > :04:22.spent �44,000 on one case. Every MP had a story to tell. The MP for the
:04:22. > :04:25.village of Braybrooke said every child in his school is a traveller.
:04:25. > :04:29.The dem photographics are being changed -- the demographics are
:04:29. > :04:33.being changed in a quite unacceptable way. The MP for
:04:33. > :04:35.Peterborough said he had similar problems and another from Surrey
:04:35. > :04:39.called travellers the artful dodgers of the planning system.
:04:39. > :04:43.While a third said they should learn to live like everyone else.
:04:43. > :04:46.Just one MP spoke in support of travellers. I've been concerned
:04:46. > :04:49.there has been a general presumption that all gypsies are
:04:49. > :04:54.bad and that's definitely not the case where I come from, where we
:04:54. > :04:58.have a long and happy history with them. The local government minister
:04:58. > :05:02.admitted the present system was a problem. There's a consultation
:05:02. > :05:08.under way with the aim to make things fairer, he said, for both
:05:08. > :05:11.communities. That debate was called by the MP Priti Patel who is at
:05:11. > :05:15.Westminster now. Gordon Brown got it right and David Cameron is
:05:15. > :05:18.getting it wrong? I think on the contrary. I think what the
:05:18. > :05:22.Government is currently doing right now with the consultation is
:05:22. > :05:24.absolutely esen hall and what we are seeing with the problems that -
:05:24. > :05:28.- essential and what we are seeing with the problems in my
:05:28. > :05:32.constituency and the region is the legacy of the topdown targets and
:05:33. > :05:35.the failure of RSSs to work properly. You are saying we need
:05:35. > :05:38.more sites and if we leave it to the people who live in certain
:05:38. > :05:43.areas and councillors they won't have a site on their doorstep, so
:05:43. > :05:46.you are in the going to have enough legal sites? No, I think this is
:05:46. > :05:50.about local government plans going forward and I think there is a
:05:50. > :05:52.recognition. I speak as a constituency MP and with the three
:05:52. > :05:56.authorities that cover my constituency, who I've been working
:05:56. > :05:59.with as well on this very issue, there's a recognition that we need
:05:59. > :06:03.legal sites. There is no doubt about that. The debate today and
:06:03. > :06:08.the focus of my remarks has been very much about the unauthorised
:06:08. > :06:11.developments and the sites right now. The planning with The Planning
:06:11. > :06:14.Inspectorate and the dilemmas faced by local authorities, who go to
:06:15. > :06:18.appeal on many, many counts and don't win those appeals and
:06:18. > :06:23.effectively are spending hard- pressed taxpayers' money inviting
:06:23. > :06:27.the appeals too and our local residents are not getting a proper
:06:27. > :06:31.say in terms of where we head on this issue when unauthorised sites
:06:31. > :06:34.turn up on their doorsteps. You are not bothered about what happens to
:06:34. > :06:38.the travellers, but what happens to your constituents? I think it's
:06:38. > :06:42.both actually. The issue is there are not enough authorised sites and
:06:42. > :06:45.so that issue has to be addressed. I absolutely think that we have to
:06:45. > :06:50.take on board the views of local residents. We absolutely must, when
:06:50. > :06:53.it comes to the unauthorised sites. My constituents are writing to me
:06:54. > :06:56.and contacting me and raising the concerns about this, because
:06:57. > :06:59.unauthorised sites are taking place on their doorstep. That tells us
:06:59. > :07:08.that actually we have to actually address the issue with authorised
:07:09. > :07:12.sites with the local authorities. Thank you. Amelia is in the
:07:12. > :07:17.newsroom now. It's your stories and experiences that we are interesting
:07:17. > :07:20.in -- interested in. Has an illegal site sprung up near you? Maybe you
:07:20. > :07:23.live nearby to a legal travellers site. What is that like? Perhaps
:07:23. > :07:33.you are a member of the travelling community yourself. What has been
:07:33. > :07:44.
:07:44. > :07:48.your experience? You can send us an e-mail: New figures obtained by the
:07:48. > :07:52.BBC show that councils in this region are paying millions of
:07:52. > :07:57.pounds in fines for bed blocking. The fines kick in when councils
:07:57. > :08:03.can't provide the right support for patients who are ready to leave
:08:03. > :08:08.hospital. The patients get stuck and the councils are taking a huge
:08:08. > :08:11.financial hit. Two-and-a-half weeks ago Elaine was admit today The
:08:11. > :08:16.Lister hospital, suffering from arthritis and she was in severe
:08:16. > :08:20.pain. She expected an overnight stay, but her mobility problems
:08:20. > :08:24.mean tonight she is still there. There is nothing they can do in
:08:24. > :08:27.hospital, but she is at risk if she's at home. With no care package
:08:27. > :08:34.what chance do you have? You go around in circles. When a similar
:08:34. > :08:38.thing happened a year ago, she discharged herself in desperation.
:08:38. > :08:43.Elaine is distressed and tearful at the moment, because she has no
:08:43. > :08:48.quality of life because nobody is willing to say it's their fault or
:08:48. > :08:52.they can take care of this and put their hands up to help. Everybody
:08:52. > :08:56.is passing the buck. Figures obtained by the BBC, reveal over
:08:56. > :08:59.the past three years Hertfordshire County Council has paid the most
:08:59. > :09:02.money in delayed discharges. Closely followed by Essex and
:09:02. > :09:12.Cambridgeshire. In a statement the authority told us that the figures
:09:12. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:18.do not provide a balanced comparison: In Cambridgeshire,
:09:18. > :09:24.health and social care organisations have formed an urgent
:09:24. > :09:27.care network, which has identified this area as a specific priority.
:09:27. > :09:31.Despite that, Addenbrooke's received the single largest amount
:09:31. > :09:35.of money in any -- than any hospital in the country. In Essex,
:09:35. > :09:40.Colchester general received more than �500,000 in payments. A pilot
:09:40. > :09:44.programme is trying to tackle the problem from the other end.
:09:44. > :09:48.staff assess quickly and provide services quickly and thereby
:09:48. > :09:51.keeping them out of the acute hospital setting. Bed blocking is
:09:51. > :10:00.not new. The figures show the system is still not working as it
:10:00. > :10:04.should do. Still to come - Alex on the long-term impact of the spring
:10:04. > :10:09.drought and Waseem Mirza with bat in hand. What is easier playing
:10:09. > :10:19.against the virtual Avatar of a champion, or playing for real? Find
:10:19. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:25.out more as more news where you are. As we have heard, the Defence
:10:25. > :10:30.Secretary has apologised to the father of a pilot, who was wrongly
:10:30. > :10:33.blamed for the crash of a helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre
:10:33. > :10:38.in Scotland. Jonathan Tapper from Norfolk was flying in thick fog
:10:38. > :10:41.when the crashed happened in 1994. All 29 people on board were killed.
:10:41. > :10:48.Mike Tapper said the fact his son had been cleared brought total
:10:48. > :10:52.closure. It's taken 17 years, but finally today the result Mike
:10:52. > :10:56.Tapper has fought so long for. He's full of praise for the independent
:10:56. > :11:02.report that finally clears his son's name. It's absolutely first
:11:02. > :11:07.class. I've only read one third, but it's very good. It was June
:11:07. > :11:14.1994 when the helicopter carrying top police, army and intelligence
:11:14. > :11:19.officers crashed in thick fog on the hill side of the Mull of
:11:19. > :11:25.Kintyre. A report ruled that he and his co-pilot had been guilty of
:11:25. > :11:29.gross knell jepbs, but today Liam Fox told the Commons -- negligence,
:11:29. > :11:33.but today Liam Fox told the Commons they had both been cleared. I hope
:11:33. > :11:37.this report and the action I have taken in response to it will bring
:11:37. > :11:42.to an end this very sad chapter by removing this stain on the
:11:42. > :11:46.reputation of the two pilots. it also emerged Jonathan Tapper had
:11:46. > :11:52.raised concerns that he was unprepared to fly the aircraft.
:11:52. > :12:00.Mike Tapper is scathing in his verdict about how the MoD behaved.
:12:00. > :12:04.Appallingly. Why do you think that? As I say, an awful lot of wooden-
:12:04. > :12:09.headed people are in the institution. The RAF insisted the
:12:09. > :12:13.Chinook was air worthy, but documents provided to the BBC
:12:13. > :12:16.describe the power and speed as positively dangerous. We kept
:12:16. > :12:24.trying, because we thought right was on our side and today has
:12:24. > :12:27.proven we were correct. Should heads roll at the MoD? We are just
:12:27. > :12:33.satisfied that bereaved families can be given closure. The cause of
:12:33. > :12:37.the crash may never be known, but for Mike Tapper, an un --
:12:37. > :12:43.unwarranted slur on his son's character and professionalism has
:12:43. > :12:47.finally been lifted. The turkey producer Bernard meth use has a new
:12:47. > :12:52.Managing Director. Rob Mears is taking charge of the UK business
:12:52. > :12:57.that employs 2,000 people in the east. The unemployment Faye have
:12:57. > :13:03.fallen nationally, but it's gone up in this region. The total is now
:13:03. > :13:05.199,000. An increase of 18,000. That means 6-5% of the workforce is
:13:05. > :13:11.unemployed, still well below the national average and today we heard
:13:11. > :13:14.that around 250 jobs are being lost and 60 beds being closed at the
:13:14. > :13:20.princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow. But the hospital says no
:13:21. > :13:24.doctors or nurses' jobs will go. The public sector is facing tough
:13:24. > :13:29.times and hospitals are no exception. In Harlow the Princess
:13:29. > :13:34.Alexandra Hospital has been told to save �17 million. Savings will come
:13:34. > :13:37.by cutting 250 posts and closing 60 beds. I think it's a dreadful idea.
:13:37. > :13:42.They are cutting back so much on everything that I can't see how
:13:42. > :13:47.it's going to help anybody really. In our current economic situation I
:13:47. > :13:51.think that it's probably necessary to have cuts right across the board,
:13:51. > :13:55.but no-one industry or one public service should suffer more than any
:13:55. > :14:01.other. The hospital says savings will be made through increased
:14:01. > :14:03.efficiency, not cutting the quality of patient care. Job cuts will come
:14:03. > :14:07.from voluntary redundancies and employing fewer agencies.
:14:07. > :14:10.Consultants will have targets to cut the time patients stay on the
:14:10. > :14:14.wards. This will be difficult for people. I wouldn't suggest any
:14:14. > :14:17.different. What we are looking at is different ways of working, so
:14:17. > :14:21.it's not just saying we'll reduce the number of posts and everybody
:14:21. > :14:26.else will carry on as normal and do more. We have to look at different
:14:27. > :14:31.ways of doing things. It's very naive to say that losing that many
:14:31. > :14:36.jobs in back offices will not have an impact on the front-line staff.
:14:36. > :14:39.It will do. Front-line staff and clinical staff rely heavily on the
:14:39. > :14:44.support staff to enable them to do their jobs properly. It definitely
:14:44. > :14:52.will have an impact on clinical staff and on patients. The unions
:14:52. > :14:55.are planning to raise their concerns with hospital managers.
:14:55. > :14:58.Conditions at Blundeston Prison have been criticised in a new
:14:58. > :15:02.report. The Chief Inspector of Prisons said violence and bullying
:15:02. > :15:11.need to be tackled more effectively. He says the situation is worse now
:15:11. > :15:15.than at the last inspection. A driver who crashed a coach near
:15:15. > :15:21.Norwich Airport on Christmas Eve has escaped with a fine. The
:15:21. > :15:26.magistrates heard that Gerald cull ver would have lost his -- Calver
:15:26. > :15:29.would have lost his livelihood. This is Mr Calver leaving court.
:15:29. > :15:34.The 52-year-old said he can't remember what happened or explain
:15:34. > :15:39.why the coach tipped over. This was the scene after the incident in
:15:39. > :15:43.which 19 elderly passengers needed hospital treatment. Inspectionent
:15:43. > :15:48.tack graph showed he had been speeding earlier in the journey,
:15:48. > :15:51.but it wasn't the cause of the crash. In fact he was driving at
:15:51. > :15:56.just 12mph when it happened. The court heard when he was taken to
:15:56. > :16:00.hospital, ehad a high temperature and signs of a strong flu virus.
:16:00. > :16:03.Magistrates told Calver that she shouldn't have been driving whilst
:16:03. > :16:08.feeling unwell. They were going to ban him for six months, but when
:16:08. > :16:12.they heard how that would lead to him losing his job and the support
:16:12. > :16:16.his gives his elderly father they agreed to a �475 fine and six
:16:16. > :16:22.points on his licence. After the hearing, the Managing Director of
:16:22. > :16:29.the coach company spoke about the incident. Our paramount concern in
:16:29. > :16:34.all our work is always the safe carriage of our passengers.
:16:34. > :16:39.Whatever the type or duration of the journey, that is. The accident
:16:39. > :16:45.on Christmas Eve represents a very unusual and untypical event for the
:16:45. > :16:51.company. It has an outstanding safety report. Gerald Calver has
:16:51. > :17:01.spent 25 years working for Galloway Travel. He'll now continue his job
:17:01. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:09.as a traffic manager and driver. The British table tennis champion
:17:09. > :17:14.has lent his body to science, in the form of a hi-tech computer game.
:17:14. > :17:18.The Cambridge company, Rare persuaded Andrew Baggaley to climb
:17:18. > :17:21.into a special body suit to help them design the game. As a result
:17:21. > :17:27.they say your body becomes a computer mouse in 30 different die
:17:27. > :17:31.mentions. Three times England champion. Five medals at the
:17:31. > :17:36.Commonwealth Games, so who better to take the star role in a new game
:17:36. > :17:39.of virtual table ten snis? A game where your own body -- tennis? A
:17:39. > :17:44.game where your own body is the controller. I didn't know what to
:17:44. > :17:48.expect, but I loved it. It was great being in a motion suit and
:17:48. > :17:53.playing all the shots. I think a lot of people now have understood
:17:53. > :17:57.what it's all about and it gave a few people an insight. Andrew
:17:57. > :18:01.Baggaley spent hours filming in this motion capture suit. It
:18:01. > :18:05.converts every movement into a computer file. Designers then use
:18:05. > :18:09.this digital information to create the video game. We know how to make
:18:09. > :18:15.games, but quay didn't know how to make a motion control game when
:18:15. > :18:18.there is no motion control, so we had to think about how people
:18:18. > :18:22.really interface with a game without realising that. Just bring
:18:22. > :18:27.their life experience. That was the big challenge for us. With the body
:18:27. > :18:30.you can move all the parts. Connect can pick up all the measurements
:18:30. > :18:36.from all the joints, so you can think of it as a mouse in 30
:18:36. > :18:40.dementions rather than two. It's very powerful. The system's already
:18:40. > :18:44.the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history. The
:18:44. > :18:46.Cambridge team behind it just won a national award, but they are not
:18:47. > :18:51.standing still. There are researchers in our building looking
:18:51. > :18:54.at Connect in the operating theatre. It's a new way to interact with
:18:54. > :18:59.computers. I think we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg in
:18:59. > :19:05.applications. What is easier - playing against the champion Andrew
:19:05. > :19:09.Baggaley in his home town, or the video game? Well, the 3D laser
:19:09. > :19:12.technology inside this means players are tracked with pin-point
:19:12. > :19:22.accuracy. In other words, Andrew would probably need to be half
:19:22. > :19:25.computer to beat his virtual self. Waseem Mirza looks a better player
:19:25. > :19:30.when he's playing against the camera. I think he's very brave to
:19:30. > :19:34.take on the champion. Britain's favourite TV cook, Delia Smith, has
:19:34. > :19:41.taken a swipe at modern restaurants, saying she preferred going out in
:19:41. > :19:49.the 70's, when you could go to a pub and get real food, she says.
:19:49. > :19:56.She says many posh restaurants have portions as small as a symbol, but
:19:56. > :19:59.she likes this cafe. This is Wiveton Hall cafe, it's not far
:19:59. > :20:06.from Blakeney. It's on a farm and they use plenty of fresh, seasonal
:20:06. > :20:12.produce. Delia eats here and likes it and is a fan of the chef Ali
:20:12. > :20:18.Yetman and her team. What she means by the 70's is the sort of food
:20:18. > :20:24.people do in small restaurants in those days, husband and wives teams
:20:24. > :20:29.and simple. Cooking has got very sophisticated. Delia started her TV
:20:29. > :20:34.career on Look East and she's never been backward in coming forward
:20:34. > :20:43.about her opinions and her latest remarks came at the launch of a
:20:43. > :20:52.well-known supermarket's Christmas range. Is she right? The Michelin-
:20:52. > :20:57.starred chef Galton Blackiston thinks not. Everything was well
:20:57. > :21:02.cooked and all that sort of thing, but if I did well-cooked meat here
:21:02. > :21:09.I would be slaughtered. At the Morston Hall restaurant they charge
:21:09. > :21:13.�60 a head for seven courses. This lob ter is on the menu. Delia eats
:21:13. > :21:16.here too. -- the lobster is on the menu. Delia eats here too.
:21:16. > :21:20.knowledge of the public is greater now than it's ever been and they
:21:20. > :21:25.want to be entertained. They want to have something they can't
:21:25. > :21:30.necessarily cook at home and that's massively important. You have to -
:21:30. > :21:34.what you are putting on the plate has to be entertaining. So is it
:21:34. > :21:40.entertainment or is it about simplicity? Back at the cafe
:21:40. > :21:48.coronation chicken salad is on the lunch menu. That's a bit retroand
:21:48. > :21:54.70's. Presumably Delia would approve. One of us has been licking
:21:54. > :21:57.her lips. That will give you a clue. That lobster looked delicious.
:21:57. > :22:02.We'll return to the stop story about claims that a weak planning
:22:02. > :22:05.system has led to dons of illegal travellers' sites springing up
:22:05. > :22:11.across our -- dozens of illegal travellers' sites springing up
:22:11. > :22:15.across our area. A lot of you have been in touch. Chris says, "Where
:22:15. > :22:23.are they called travellers when they want to stay in one place?" a
:22:23. > :22:31.similar point made by elLen., "They are settlers." Nigel is living near
:22:31. > :22:39.Dale Farm and he says, "Why don't we have legal sites like on the
:22:39. > :22:47.Continent where they can stay for no more than six months?" Gary said,
:22:47. > :22:52."He was involved in building a site, but it was thrashed." Jane says,
:22:52. > :22:56."Travellers face serious discrimination." Mrs Watson says,
:22:56. > :22:58."Travellers should be given proper sites. There are bad people in
:22:58. > :23:04.every community and everyone deserves a chance." Thank you to
:23:04. > :23:07.all of you who got in touch. all of you who got in touch.
:23:07. > :23:10.it's time to get the weather. Good evening. Before we get on to the
:23:11. > :23:16.weather, yesterday I wept out and about investigating the impact of
:23:16. > :23:20.recent rainfall on the spring drought. It's been a year of
:23:20. > :23:25.extremes. One of the coldest winters on record. Followed by an
:23:25. > :23:30.exceptionally dry spring. In March, on average across the area, just
:23:30. > :23:35.ten millimetres of rain fell. But, we have had a much wetter June. We
:23:35. > :23:41.have had 60 millimetres of rainfall and that's six times as much. What
:23:41. > :23:46.impact has all that rain had? Harvesting the winter barley on the
:23:46. > :23:49.Elveden Estate in Suffolk has just begun. The yield's down a
:23:50. > :23:53.staggering 60% of the spring drought, but the recent rainfall
:23:53. > :23:56.hasn't helped. You can see from the areas, we have a crop that is nice
:23:57. > :24:00.and ripe and ready for har verse. We would normally have been
:24:00. > :24:05.harvesting today. On this side, on this part of the field, we have got
:24:05. > :24:09.a crop that is full of secondary growth, which is a result of the
:24:09. > :24:15.drought and the further rain in June. The second crop means
:24:15. > :24:18.whenever they choose to harvest there will be huge waste. The
:24:18. > :24:22.recent downpours have provided extra water for irrigation and
:24:22. > :24:26.fruit crops are doing well. For livestock farmers, a with the start
:24:26. > :24:31.to the summer has had mixed benefits. We were running out of
:24:31. > :24:34.grass by the time it rained. Seriously running out. We were
:24:34. > :24:36.almost at point of considering almost at point of considering
:24:36. > :24:40.almost at point of considering almost at point of considering
:24:40. > :24:44.having to sell stock. Then the rain came and the grass came away again.
:24:44. > :24:49.Sadly, what -- the result was we had to graze away a lot of grass
:24:49. > :24:54.that was being saved for hay, so we have no hay for the winter.
:24:54. > :24:58.Although it might seem like it, we haven't actually had that much rain.
:24:58. > :25:02.This blue lines shows the rain we should get through the rain. If you
:25:02. > :25:05.add it all up this is what we should find. We saw this year the
:25:05. > :25:09.rainfall let us down in March, April and May. Now it's starting to
:25:09. > :25:13.climb up with the June rainfall and some rain in July, but it hasn't
:25:13. > :25:17.made up the short fall. The June rain was near or a bit above
:25:17. > :25:24.average, but we have a long way to go before we replace the water we
:25:24. > :25:28.lst in the spring. At elf -- lost in the spring. At Elveden they feel
:25:28. > :25:34.we'll see the impact of the driest spring in living memory for some
:25:34. > :25:44.time and it won't make a big time and it won't make a big
:25:44. > :25:47.
:25:48. > :25:51.difference however much it rains There is a new programme on tonight.
:25:51. > :25:54.It's been a rather cloudy and chilly day. We low pressure right
:25:54. > :26:00.over Germany at the moment and you'll see this weather system here
:26:00. > :26:05.is just going to push back slightly, so in the east we'll see some rain
:26:05. > :26:09.around dawn. This is how it looked at about 5pm. A good covering of
:26:09. > :26:12.cloud and there will be one or two showers this evening. Most places
:26:12. > :26:17.staying dry, but cloudy and then you'll see this rain arriving
:26:17. > :26:24.around dawn. It's mostly going to effect parts of Norfolk and eastern
:26:24. > :26:29.Suffolk. The west staying largely dry. Overnight lows around 11 or 12.
:26:29. > :26:34.North-westerly winds inland and lighter. For tomorrow, it looks
:26:34. > :26:38.like a rather cloudy day for everyone and rain in the east.
:26:38. > :26:42.You'll see that rain tends to linger through the morning and into
:26:42. > :26:45.the afternoon. Now, the west is staying largely dry and perhaps
:26:45. > :26:49.some brighter spells to the afternoon. Temperatures struggling
:26:49. > :26:56.a little. In the east, 17, so cooler on the coast. Further west,
:26:57. > :27:00.perhaps 20. It will be quite breezy. We have a north to north-westerly
:27:00. > :27:04.breeze through the day. Moderate inland and perhaps fresh around the
:27:04. > :27:12.coast. Really quite a breeze blowing. P that rain will tend to
:27:13. > :27:17.clear away -- that rain will tend to clear away leaving a dry evening.
:27:17. > :27:20.For the rest of the week, we have got this area of low pressure
:27:20. > :27:23.whizzing in. It will bring wet weather at the end of the day on
:27:24. > :27:27.Friday. Having said that, the bulk of the day fine and dry, but it