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:00:05. > :00:09.In Look East tonight: "We've lost all hope in the justice

:00:09. > :00:15.system". The family of two people killed by this man say plans for

:00:15. > :00:17.his release have devastated them. Hello from Stewart and me.

:00:17. > :00:20.Also tonight: Outdated and antiquated. A week

:00:20. > :00:30.after the A-level results, students and head teachers criticise the

:00:30. > :00:30.

:00:30. > :00:34.UCAS clearing system. I think the system for sorting out who goes

:00:34. > :00:38.where is in need of serious review at the moment. I think the system

:00:38. > :00:40.is creaking to cope with the sheer numbers of students.

:00:40. > :00:43.Families facing eviction from the Europe's biggest travellers' site

:00:43. > :00:53.take their fight to Number Ten. And getting back in the saddle

:00:53. > :01:01.

:01:01. > :01:04.First tonight, the family of a mother and son who were killed in a

:01:04. > :01:08.brutal attack say they have lost all faith in the justice system

:01:08. > :01:10.after being told the killer could be released.

:01:10. > :01:20.Seven years ago, Gregory Davis pleaded guilty to the manslaughter

:01:20. > :01:23.of Dorothy Rogers and her son Michael. At the time, the judge

:01:23. > :01:26.said he posed "an extremely grave" danger to the public. But medical

:01:26. > :01:31.experts decided he is now well enough to be discharged, and today

:01:31. > :01:36.BBC Look East has learnt he could be released in a matter of weeks.

:01:36. > :01:39.A man once described as a grave and imminent danger to the public could

:01:39. > :01:43.be weeks away from being conditionally released into the

:01:43. > :01:47.community. For most of the last eight years, Gregory Davis has been

:01:47. > :01:52.detained at Broadmoor hospital. Today, agencies including mental

:01:52. > :01:55.health experts, police and probation, met to co-ordinate the

:01:55. > :01:59.conditions for release. I understand that appropriate

:01:59. > :02:02.accommodation has yet to be arranged, and that could take a few

:02:02. > :02:07.weeks. Dorothy Rogers and her teenage son Michael had been

:02:07. > :02:12.befriended by Gregory Davis, but did not know he had a psychotic

:02:13. > :02:16.condition brought on by a cocktail of medication and alcohol. In 2003,

:02:17. > :02:22.Davies went to her home armed with a 12 inch knife and claw hammer. In

:02:22. > :02:25.an attack, she said that there to one knife injuries and 12 with a

:02:25. > :02:30.hammer. He then chased her son into a playground where he stabbed him

:02:31. > :02:40.twice. News of his release has appalled her family. We last two

:02:41. > :02:40.

:02:41. > :02:45.members of our family, and we also lost hope in the justice system.

:02:45. > :02:49.And in the right of British people to have themselves heard, and in

:02:49. > :02:55.the right of victims for justice, and victims' families, who continue

:02:55. > :02:58.to suffer. Tonight, Dorothy's sister was told Davies would be

:02:58. > :03:03.released under a number of conditions. The data the release is

:03:03. > :03:09.not yet known. One condition is that he is not to enter Milton

:03:09. > :03:14.Keynes new town designated area. He could be sent back to a secure unit

:03:14. > :03:17.if he poses a danger to the public. He has been conditionally

:03:17. > :03:21.discharged from hospital stay. That is a continuing order which means

:03:22. > :03:26.that, if at any stage, anything happens to suggest there is a

:03:26. > :03:31.problem developing, he can be taken back into the hospital. While

:03:31. > :03:34.mental health teams are confident day this is no longer a risk -- no

:03:34. > :03:37.longer a risk to the public, campaigners against his release

:03:37. > :03:41.will continue to fight to keep him detained.

:03:41. > :03:43.A week after the A-level results came out, a lot of students are

:03:43. > :03:46.still struggling to get a place at college or university. The

:03:46. > :03:48.admissions service UCAS has come under strong criticism, with some

:03:48. > :03:51.head-teachers demanding a total overhaul. The latest figures show

:03:51. > :03:55.that more than 45,000 applicants are still waiting to hear if they

:03:55. > :04:00.have been accepted. In this region, only Essex and University Campus

:04:00. > :04:03.Suffolk have places still available. The rest, including Cambridge,

:04:03. > :04:13.which does not use the UCAS Clearing system, say all of their

:04:13. > :04:13.

:04:13. > :04:17.A Clearing open evening at University Campus Suffolk, with a

:04:17. > :04:21.range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses available,

:04:21. > :04:24.including business management in Ipswich, computing and networking

:04:25. > :04:29.in Bury St Edmunds and fashion and textiles in Great Yarmouth. Every

:04:29. > :04:33.year, there are students at end up not going to university with their

:04:33. > :04:36.first choices for lots of reasons, sometimes down to grades but for

:04:36. > :04:39.many they changed their minds about what they want to differ stop

:04:39. > :04:44.claiming has been stressful, a lot of places have gone, it has been

:04:44. > :04:49.hard. I had to get in this year because next year I would not be

:04:49. > :04:53.able to afford it at all. It will go up to �9,000, which is very

:04:53. > :04:57.expensive and I need a place this year. Charlotte Kershaw is the

:04:57. > :05:01.first member of her family to apply to go to university, but the whole

:05:01. > :05:05.process has been confusing and stressful, and she still does not

:05:05. > :05:09.know if she has a place. It is annoying for me because all of my

:05:09. > :05:13.friends have got their places and keep asking me, and I still don't

:05:13. > :05:18.know what I am doing. It is worrying, because I don't want to

:05:18. > :05:22.end up just with a normal nine-to- five office job. It is not what I

:05:22. > :05:26.want to do, I want a practical job was stopped the headmaster of

:05:26. > :05:31.Northampton School for Boys, Mike Griffiths, says UCAS has not

:05:31. > :05:35.changed since the 70s, when just 25,000 students went to university.

:05:35. > :05:40.With almost 700,000 applications, he believes it is not fit for

:05:40. > :05:45.purpose. There are nearly 20 times more students going to university,

:05:45. > :05:49.but is excellent, but I think the system for sorting out who goes

:05:49. > :05:54.where is in need of serious review at the moment. I think the system

:05:54. > :05:59.itself is creaking to cope with the sheer numbers of students and the

:05:59. > :06:02.time frame it is given to try and squeeze all of the student on to

:06:02. > :06:07.the right courses at the right universities. Critics say the very

:06:07. > :06:10.stressful system of conditional -- conditional offers should be swept

:06:10. > :06:13.away, with students applying to university after receiving their

:06:13. > :06:16.results. This afternoon I spoke to the head

:06:16. > :06:22.of UCAS, Mary Curnock Cook. I started by putting those views to

:06:22. > :06:25.her that the service was not fit for purpose.

:06:25. > :06:31.I think the first thing to say is that the system is working at the

:06:32. > :06:36.moment. We have placed over 450,000 people already, nearly 66% of

:06:36. > :06:40.applicants who have been accepted. Over 33,000 have been accepted

:06:40. > :06:45.through Clearing, and those numbers are up on this time last year. What

:06:45. > :06:50.I do accept is that there are significant improvements that we

:06:50. > :06:53.could make to the system, and in fact UCAS has been engaged in a

:06:53. > :06:57.fundamental review of the admissions process for several

:06:57. > :07:02.months, and we are due to publish our bindings and consult on reform

:07:02. > :07:07.of the system this October. seems amazing, though, that

:07:07. > :07:11.everybody knew how many more applicants there were this year,

:07:11. > :07:16.with 700,000 pupils fighting for 350,000 places, and yet UCAS could

:07:16. > :07:22.not cope, the system crashed, and students say there have been

:07:22. > :07:25.endless problems since. The reality is that we did not have lots of

:07:26. > :07:31.additional people applying this year. The total applications were

:07:31. > :07:37.only up by about just over 1%. Unfortunately, on Thursday morning,

:07:37. > :07:42.there was an enormous bike in demand on the website, we hit 644

:07:42. > :07:47.hits per second at one stage, and at that point we felt it was safer

:07:47. > :07:51.to take the service down for two our eyes. That 1% rise in

:07:51. > :07:56.applications does not tally with the figures we have for this region,

:07:56. > :08:00.where applications were considerably higher. If it was only

:08:00. > :08:03.1%, why were there so many problems compared to previous years? It is

:08:03. > :08:08.difficult to tell at this stage and we will engage in a full review of

:08:08. > :08:12.what happened last Thursday, but anecdotal evidence suggests that as

:08:13. > :08:16.soon as there were some problems getting on to the website, a lot of

:08:16. > :08:22.people engaged with every single device they had in the household.

:08:22. > :08:27.We know that some people had iPads, iPhones, laptops, PCs, trying to

:08:27. > :08:33.get on at once, and despite was just too much. Some head teachers

:08:33. > :08:37.say it would be better to allow students to get their A grades

:08:37. > :08:40.before they apply to university. Is that a system that you could see

:08:40. > :08:45.working in the system at present -- in the future? That is an option we

:08:45. > :08:50.are looking at as part of our fundamental review. The research we

:08:50. > :08:54.have done points to several areas that could be improved. Applying

:08:54. > :09:02.post-results is one of a number of options that we are considering.!

:09:02. > :09:04.Very much. Thank you. -- thank you very much.

:09:05. > :09:06.From A-levels to GCSEs, because today was the day thousands of

:09:06. > :09:09.students across the region got their results.

:09:09. > :09:12.And it has been another record year for passes. Mike Cartwright was

:09:12. > :09:18.with students at Swavesey Village College in Cambridgeshire when the

:09:18. > :09:28.results were handed out. In these, the results. Good or bad.

:09:28. > :09:32.

:09:32. > :09:42.Time for them to find out. Year 11? OK, wow. I am happy with that, yes.

:09:42. > :09:52.I got one, two, three... 7 As. have been crying because I am so

:09:52. > :09:54.

:09:54. > :09:58.happy. I got nine A*s and three As. 1A*, 3 As. It is what I wanted.

:09:58. > :10:03.Nearly all he had the equivalent of five GCSEs at grade C, some of the

:10:03. > :10:07.best result ever. All of them are going into some form of education

:10:07. > :10:12.or training. The vast majority will go into Cambridge to do A-levels or

:10:12. > :10:18.vocational courses. A number are doing apprenticeships and some of

:10:18. > :10:21.going into jobs. A City and Guilds survey found 75% of youngsters they

:10:21. > :10:26.spoke to were considering university. 35% thought degrees

:10:26. > :10:29.were more valuable than vocational qualifications, but when it came to

:10:29. > :10:32.employers 89% thought apprenticeships were as important

:10:33. > :10:38.to their business. With tuition fees going up, what were they

:10:38. > :10:44.thinking? It will be a lot of money, nine grand a year. Everyone else is

:10:44. > :10:49.going to college, I was planning on it but have just taken a job.

:10:49. > :10:53.going to study hairdressing for two years and then make up. I am doing

:10:53. > :11:03.a hairdressing apprenticeship to be qualified. It is all good now.

:11:03. > :11:06.were here for five years. At the Coming up later in the programme:

:11:06. > :11:13.Phil will have the bank holiday weather forecast, and Jonathan Park

:11:13. > :11:17.has this week's Olympic report. As athletes a pair -- prepared to

:11:17. > :11:26.take on the world's best, we are hearing where three of them are

:11:26. > :11:31.from. More after the news where you CCTV cameras could be put up at a

:11:31. > :11:34.graveyard in the Fens because of repeated acts of vandalism. One

:11:34. > :11:43.mother has set up her own campaign after her baby's grave in Wisbech

:11:43. > :11:49.was desecrated for a third time. Every week, and their visits her

:11:49. > :11:53.son's grey. He died 10 years ago at just three hours old. -- her son's

:11:53. > :11:59.grave. She tries to keep his memory alive for the sake of her children

:11:59. > :12:05.but in the last few months is great has been vandalised three times.

:12:05. > :12:08.have had everything around the grave smashed up, I had some

:12:08. > :12:13.windows on his heart which were smashed. They have no respect and

:12:13. > :12:17.had obviously never lost a baby, a child, or even an adult or anybody,

:12:17. > :12:22.because if they had they would not be here, doing what they are done

:12:22. > :12:27.in. Other families have had Graves attacked and there has been

:12:27. > :12:32.vandalism in the past. At that time, the local council cut back trees to

:12:32. > :12:36.improve visibility. The gates are locked at night. Now it is

:12:36. > :12:39.considering installing mobile CCTV cameras. We are always concerned

:12:39. > :12:43.about vandalism, it is not something you want anywhere,

:12:44. > :12:49.especially in a cemetery where people have been laid to rest. What

:12:49. > :12:55.I am proposing to do is to see if we can put a camera in the area and

:12:55. > :12:59.see if that will deter any further vandalism. Some grieving families

:12:59. > :13:07.might consider CCTV and intrusion. No final decision has yet been

:13:07. > :13:12.Police are investigating how four people came to be stabbed in

:13:12. > :13:15.Lowestoft. Two men were found in a house in Grosvenor Road with

:13:16. > :13:20.knifepoint last night. If 14-year- old boy who had been stabbed in the

:13:20. > :13:23.arm was found nearby and a middle- aged man was found with a wind to

:13:23. > :13:26.the head. One of the men arrested at a double

:13:26. > :13:29.shooting at a site in Suffolk has been released without charge. No

:13:29. > :13:35.one has yet been charged with killing David Castell and Shane

:13:35. > :13:40.Hill from Southend. They were shot dead at the site at Beck Row near

:13:40. > :13:44.Mildenhall. Police are investigating whether a

:13:44. > :13:49.fire at a disused hotel was started deliberately. A man was seen

:13:49. > :13:52.running away from the Queen's Hotel in the high street. The building

:13:52. > :13:56.was wrecked and neighbouring streets were closed.

:13:56. > :14:00.Around 50,000 spectators gathered on the beaches of Clacton today to

:14:00. > :14:05.watch the annual air show. The Red Arrows were due to appear but

:14:05. > :14:11.pulled out after Saturday's fatal crash at Bournemouth. The district

:14:11. > :14:13.council says budget cuts mean this could be the last year for the show.

:14:13. > :14:19.Neither the rain nor the cancellation of the Red Arrows

:14:19. > :14:23.could dampen spirits here today. Tens of thousands of spectators at

:14:23. > :14:29.so -- swarm to the beaches of Clacton-on-Sea to catch a glimpse

:14:29. > :14:34.of the aircraft on display. It felt like an old friend was missing.

:14:34. > :14:38.Red Arrows are very popular, of course. We have done shows

:14:38. > :14:45.throughout the year without the Red Arrows and we will have a show here

:14:45. > :14:51.in spite of the tragedy, but we will remember them. First to reach

:14:51. > :14:55.for the skies was an old favourite - this spitfire. The plane has

:14:55. > :15:00.graced the country's skies for 75 years. The organisers say this

:15:00. > :15:04.could be the last ever Clapton air show. The council that funds the

:15:04. > :15:12.event says, like everyone else, it is being forced to cut budgets and

:15:12. > :15:16.the air show is expensive. We are demonstrating how much money goes

:15:16. > :15:20.into the area. It is important to us that this event continues, but

:15:20. > :15:26.the council cannot continue to fund it, the taxpayer cannot continue to

:15:27. > :15:30.fund it. If people want it, they will have to help fund it.

:15:30. > :15:34.Thousands of people are expected to attend the two day showed - a

:15:34. > :15:42.fitting tribute to its 20th anniversary, with many hoping it

:15:42. > :15:46.won't be its last. The aircraft used by the Red Arrows,

:15:46. > :15:50.the Hawk T1, has been cleared to play a game, five days after a

:15:50. > :15:54.pilot from the team was killed during a display. It is not known

:15:54. > :16:02.when the Red Arrows themselves will take part in a display again. They

:16:02. > :16:05.had been due to appear at the Eye Show in Suffolk this weekend.

:16:05. > :16:11.Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging died last weekend.

:16:11. > :16:18.At Ipswich Town, manager man -- Paul Jewell is bringing three

:16:18. > :16:22.players to the club. Ibrahima Sonko will give the team options in

:16:22. > :16:27.defence. Together again after a short

:16:27. > :16:31.separation. Jimmy Bullard said it is like he has never been away. Now

:16:31. > :16:36.he is back amongst friends at Ipswich, where he is happy.

:16:36. > :16:44.enjoyed myself so much last year. When I knew Ipswich were interested,

:16:44. > :16:47.the staff and I get on really well and they put their faith in me.

:16:47. > :16:51.enjoyed four months on loan last year, scoring five goals including

:16:51. > :16:59.some memorable ones. He has only been a free agent for a matter of

:16:59. > :17:03.days. They said there were a couple of clubs interested - or one

:17:03. > :17:07.Premier League and one or two championships, but they said his

:17:07. > :17:11.preference would be to come here. It has stretched finances to an

:17:11. > :17:16.extent but the most important thing is that we knew he wanted to come

:17:16. > :17:20.and we wanted him. Also in his defender Ibrahima Sonko, who has

:17:20. > :17:25.been playing with Reading, and striker Daryl Murphy, on loan from

:17:25. > :17:30.Celtic for a year. The new-look squad are training together for the

:17:30. > :17:36.first time. Three new arrivals, so Paul Jewell has now brought in 11

:17:36. > :17:41.new players, but can he get them to gel? They will need to and fast,

:17:41. > :17:44.especially after last week's thrashing. They will try to make up

:17:44. > :17:54.for their dismal day out at Peterborough in Blackpool next

:17:54. > :18:01.

:18:02. > :18:04.month. News of today's signings With possible eviction just two

:18:04. > :18:08.days away, travellers camped illegally in Essex are still

:18:08. > :18:13.fighting to be allowed to stay where they are. Today, some of them

:18:13. > :18:17.went to Downing Street to lobby the Prime Minister. Dale Farm in Essex

:18:17. > :18:22.is the biggest travel as' site in the country. 1000 people live there

:18:22. > :18:26.and many have been there for 10 years. But travellers own the land

:18:26. > :18:30.but many pitches are illegal and don't have planning permission. Up

:18:30. > :18:34.to 400 travellers have until next Wednesday night to leave. Today, a

:18:34. > :18:38.delegation handed in a petition it to Number Ten.

:18:38. > :18:43.It was the day Dale Farm went to Downing Street to hand in a

:18:43. > :18:50.petition and make this final plea to the Prime Minister. Please - I

:18:50. > :18:54.am begging you so hard, let us stay where we are and stop the eviction

:18:54. > :19:00.until we find an alternative place to live. What is the atmosphere

:19:00. > :19:04.like at Dale Farm at the moment? Very bad. Most of the women are run

:19:04. > :19:09.anti-depressants. Back at Dale Farm, they say the stress of the looming

:19:09. > :19:14.eviction is making them ill. The council has ordered them to cook up

:19:14. > :19:22.their caravans and take them off the illegal pitches here by

:19:22. > :19:27.midnight on 31st August - less than a week. We won't go! To day's

:19:27. > :19:31.delegation included a member of the House of Lords, Lord Avebury. He

:19:31. > :19:35.wants the government to stop the eviction. The eviction at Dale Farm

:19:35. > :19:39.is so stupid I can't believe it is going to happen. We have 50

:19:39. > :19:44.families living peacefully on the side, who are going to be thrown on

:19:44. > :19:47.the roadside with the disruption that that involved of family life.

:19:47. > :19:51.Protests have gone on for 10 years and the legal battle went all the

:19:51. > :19:56.way to the High Court, but the travellers lost. The council says

:19:56. > :20:02.they have broken planning law and have to go. The question is, say

:20:02. > :20:06.the travellers, where? There are reports of sides being prepared in

:20:06. > :20:10.Cambridge have for some of the travellers. That is the minority of

:20:10. > :20:14.travellers. The majority of travellers who are to be evicted

:20:14. > :20:20.are pretty poor. They are not wealthy people and don't have a

:20:20. > :20:23.huge number of sites or other places to move to. But travellers

:20:23. > :20:29.may have left it too late to come to Number Ten as it is unlikely

:20:29. > :20:36.that this appeal is going to be successful. The eviction could cost

:20:36. > :20:40.�80 million and the government has already agreed to contribute.

:20:40. > :20:48.Time for our weekly a limpid report, rounding up the stories affecting

:20:48. > :20:51.this region for London 2012 -- Olympic report. Athlete's are in

:20:51. > :20:54.their last major competition before the Olympics. Three of the AIDS

:20:54. > :21:01.taking part in the world championships in South Korea are

:21:01. > :21:06.from Milton Keynes. To get somewhere, you have got to

:21:06. > :21:11.start somewhere. For every grade Rutherford, there are thousands

:21:11. > :21:18.jumping in feet-first. When I first bumped into grade at his school

:21:18. > :21:23.when he was 10, when I first saw Chris Clark as a ten-year-old, I

:21:23. > :21:27.now look at them and what they are doing is fantastic. Three of the

:21:27. > :21:33.region's eight athletes competing in South Korea learned to run, jump

:21:33. > :21:39.off through here. Now thousands of miles from Milton Keynes, athletes

:21:39. > :21:43.are preparing to take on the world's best. I am a perfectionist.

:21:43. > :21:53.I am 24 years old. I started off quite young, so I have a lot of

:21:53. > :21:57.experience. The top three in the world are out on their own but I

:21:57. > :22:04.think putting on the best display I can and controlling everything I

:22:04. > :22:10.can, I am sure I will give most of the world a run for their money.

:22:10. > :22:15.am always so proud when I wear my Essex best all my eight England

:22:15. > :22:24.best, you put it on and no need you have earned the right to earn it.

:22:24. > :22:28.Milton Keynes long jumper -- these athletes are all joining their

:22:28. > :22:33.colleagues in South Korea. They are aiming for something special, like

:22:33. > :22:38.these youngsters in Milton Keynes. They encourage you and if you were

:22:38. > :22:42.doing something wrong, they give you advice. I like athletics more

:22:42. > :22:47.than football and I like running, javelin, long jump. I like

:22:47. > :22:53.everything about running. It gives me energy. Would you like to be an

:22:53. > :22:58.athlete one day? Yes, I would. I would like to go to high jump but I

:22:58. > :23:08.have an older brother, Dominic, who is an amazing run it past best in

:23:08. > :23:14.

:23:14. > :23:19.the family. -- amazing run that - Can you remember that bike The

:23:19. > :23:23.Goodies used to ride? 35 years ago, it inspired a group of men from

:23:23. > :23:28.Essex to embark on a life-changing journey. They literally got on

:23:28. > :23:34.their bike - a bicycle made for six - and set off to Germany to raise

:23:34. > :23:37.money for charity. The bike was then for gotten, until now, because

:23:37. > :23:45.one of the original team has tracked it down.

:23:45. > :23:49.1976 - a year of about, punk, Starsky and Hutch, but for six men

:23:49. > :23:54.from Essex, it was to be the year of a lifetime. They designed and

:23:54. > :23:59.built a six-seater bike and cycled into Hamburg for charity. 35 years

:23:59. > :24:04.later, they have tracked down the bike that carried them those 650

:24:04. > :24:07.miles and are back in the saddle. It all began because I was working

:24:07. > :24:12.as a product designer and a bill approach me and asked whether I

:24:12. > :24:18.used to work as a concept by designer and he asked me to design

:24:19. > :24:23.a multi- man bike. I got on the drawing board at 3am and I had it

:24:23. > :24:28.designed by 9am. They had a bike and six sets of legs but that did

:24:28. > :24:33.not mean the trip would be easy. was a really tough ride. We got

:24:33. > :24:37.lost in Brussels, but we trained and got fit to do the journey. We

:24:37. > :24:42.would not have done it if we had not done that. As for cycling

:24:42. > :24:45.through very narrow spaces, there was only one way. Everybody had to

:24:46. > :24:51.close their eyes apart from the one in front and we just relied on him

:24:51. > :24:54.to slow us down. It was the only way that we could avoid having a

:24:54. > :24:59.reaction and falling off. When people in cars looked and looked

:24:59. > :25:03.again, a couple of cars hit each other while we were cycling. After

:25:03. > :25:07.the Hamburg adventure, the bike was hired out to other fund-raising

:25:07. > :25:14.groups but eventually fell into disrepair. We were left with a bike

:25:14. > :25:20.and a lot of bits which were stored in an old container and that has

:25:20. > :25:23.laid bare for the last 35 years until now. And after a �2,000

:25:23. > :25:27.makeover by Tina member Dave Mortimer, it is as good as new, and

:25:27. > :25:32.the team is hoping that a new generation of enthusiasts will take

:25:32. > :25:39.the challenge. I think all the men that were here today would do the

:25:39. > :25:44.same. It was a highlight of our life to do it. His distance buyers

:25:44. > :25:54.people to get out and do something different. I was reticent about

:25:54. > :25:57.

:25:57. > :26:01.starting this, but I am glad I did If you like rain, it is good news!

:26:01. > :26:05.With a bank holiday approaching, we would like high pressure but we

:26:05. > :26:10.have quite the opposite with an area of low pressure dominating. It

:26:10. > :26:15.is going to bring some heavy rain tonight and it will stay quite

:26:15. > :26:25.cloudy and unsettled. The Met Office is concerned enough to issue

:26:25. > :26:30.a yellow warning fought between 25- 50 mm of rain that grade. Some

:26:30. > :26:35.fairly heavy rain across the east of the region tonight. The bright

:26:35. > :26:41.colours show were the heaviest of the rain will be. Temperatures not

:26:41. > :26:47.falling too far tonight. What the cloud should keep things -- the

:26:47. > :26:53.cloud should keep things warm. A lot of rain around tomorrow and

:26:53. > :26:56.they called feel to the day. Rain around in the morning. We will

:26:56. > :27:00.start to see something in the way of drier, brighter conditions in

:27:00. > :27:06.the south as we go through the afternoon but most of the area

:27:06. > :27:11.stays damp. Temperatures at their best around 18 Celsius. A

:27:11. > :27:14.freshening south-westerly wind into the evening, with the last of the

:27:14. > :27:20.rain or hanging on. All the bank holiday weekend, things will pick

:27:20. > :27:24.up. Showers around on Saturday, but high pressure building in for