:00:19. > :00:22.Her England's newest city! Welcome to the programme, we are live in
:00:22. > :00:27.England's newest city, Chelmsford and we will be finding out exactly
:00:27. > :00:29.what it means to this city. Also in tonight's programme:
:00:29. > :00:36.Service veterans involved in nuclear tests in the 1950s lose
:00:36. > :00:46.their bid for damages. And a �13 million care centre is
:00:46. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:05.When the announcement came just before 10 o'clock this morning, it
:01:05. > :01:08.is fair to say it was a bit of a surprise. No-one had Chelmsford
:01:08. > :01:10.among the favourites to gain city status - the hot money was on
:01:10. > :01:13.Reading. The title is purely honorific, but hotly pursued.
:01:13. > :01:18.Almost 30 cities bid for the award marking the Queen's Diamond Jubilee,
:01:18. > :01:21.including Luton, Milton Keynes, Southend Colchester and Corby. But
:01:21. > :01:27.in the end, Chelmsford won out, and as Richard Daniel reports, that was
:01:27. > :01:32.the start of a huge celebration. Three times they have applied for
:01:32. > :01:36.city status. Today, they could hardly believe they have won it.
:01:36. > :01:40.got a telephone call around five past nine and within five minutes,
:01:40. > :01:46.the whole world and Chelmsford knew that we had been awarded city
:01:46. > :01:54.status. For once as a politician, I was nearly speechless. Not for long,
:01:54. > :01:58.but for a short while. At 14-1, at the bookies had Chelmsford down as
:01:58. > :02:03.a big outsider. But this morning at Westminster, the Deputy Prime
:02:03. > :02:07.Minister confirmed the Queen's decision. I can confirm the
:02:07. > :02:17.announcement today of the results of the silly, as competition in one
:02:17. > :02:25.
:02:25. > :02:29.of the Her Majesty the Queen's A wonderful accolade for the
:02:29. > :02:35.Borough of Chelmsford, about to become a city. Over 800 years as it
:02:35. > :02:39.had have become too -- come to an end. Chelmsford was given a royal
:02:39. > :02:43.charter in 40 night denied. Now a new chapter begins. To get it this
:02:43. > :02:47.year of all year, brilliant. It has finally absolutely calm, and it
:02:47. > :02:52.does bring a lot of opportunities. Everybody has a buzz in their
:02:52. > :03:00.stride today. They Chelmsford is a cathedral city, not a cathedral
:03:00. > :03:05.town. -- now. When I came in 1997, I mentioned by opening sermon that
:03:05. > :03:08.it was shortly to become a city, which became a bit of a stir and P
:03:08. > :03:13.mayor asked if I knew something they didn't know. It is lovely to
:03:13. > :03:18.be there now if I wasn't quite accurate. -- even if. It is a day
:03:18. > :03:22.they will be savouring for quite some time.
:03:22. > :03:28.I dance that how much you know about Chelmsford, it was actually
:03:28. > :03:32.in the Domesday Book -- I don't know how much. It has been an idea
:03:32. > :03:36.of city status for a long time. The local football club is called
:03:36. > :03:39.Chelmsford City. The Queen makes the decision on the advice of
:03:39. > :03:43.ministers and they keep the reasons for their choice very close to
:03:44. > :03:47.their chest. Alex Dunlop has been looked -- looking at what makes
:03:47. > :03:52.Chelmsford stand out. One assumes this man's job title
:03:52. > :03:56.will have to change, along with local road signs and council headed
:03:57. > :04:04.notepaper. But this is the lady they may thank for it. Chelmsford
:04:04. > :04:09.was chosen for the distribution of Royal Monday... 11 years in two her
:04:09. > :04:14.reign, the Queen visits Chelmsford. 49 years on, city status is her
:04:14. > :04:17.Diamond Jubilee present. For those people who may be thinking of
:04:17. > :04:20.expanding their businesses or moving to Chelmsford because of its
:04:20. > :04:27.proximity to London and the rail network, it is the icing on the
:04:27. > :04:31.cake. Home to a cathedral, Essex's cricket ground at the county town
:04:31. > :04:36.since 1215, Chelmsford has suffered a decline in its defence industry
:04:36. > :04:41.in the 1980s, most notably the Marconi Company. Today's on it
:04:41. > :04:47.gives no official powers or funding, so what will city status bring back
:04:47. > :04:53.on our? The it will Bayor have on what is already there, the county
:04:54. > :04:57.town, the cathedral -- it will build. The university and now the
:04:57. > :05:01.city status. From the point of view of the chambers, we think it will
:05:01. > :05:05.help retain business and attract new ones. As regards people moving
:05:05. > :05:09.into the area, it will be more attractive to them as a city, but
:05:09. > :05:13.from the house prices, I am not sure if it will immediately affect
:05:13. > :05:18.the actual price. Clearly, at Chelmsford City Football Club was
:05:18. > :05:23.well ahead of the game when it was formed in 1938. We won't have to
:05:23. > :05:28.keep defending our name wherever we go, from the council's point of
:05:28. > :05:32.view, where we Crenshaw -- ground- share and use facilities, I think
:05:32. > :05:36.funding will be much more available as a city status. Local communities
:05:36. > :05:40.and groups have already got their heads together on a simple concept.
:05:40. > :05:48.How do you make Chelmsford a more successful plays? Being a city of
:05:48. > :05:52.the last night hours is a good place to start -- successful place.
:05:52. > :05:56.Chelmsford was very much involved in the peasant rebellion in 1381
:05:56. > :06:01.and after it was quelled, King Richard came here and this was the
:06:01. > :06:05.seat of government for nearly a week. Let's talk to the local seat
:06:05. > :06:10.of government, Reuter Whitehead, leader of the Borough Council, or
:06:10. > :06:16.you were until this morning, it is now a city council. As I understand
:06:16. > :06:20.it, yes. Did you get a nod and a wink? Not a word. I had a call this
:06:20. > :06:23.morning from the local press to say we were the winners and I was as a
:06:23. > :06:30.standard as anybody, so it was a very secretive process. --
:06:30. > :06:36.astounded. He thought it would go in to be Reading! They were the
:06:36. > :06:39.bookmakers favourite. You have any idea why you one? Clearly the
:06:39. > :06:43.merits of Chelmsford should be speaking for themselves. We had a
:06:43. > :06:46.splendid document which I have here which was put together by the
:06:46. > :06:53.borough council staff and it was done from a very bright young
:06:53. > :06:58.people who came up with weird ideas and there is a prescriptive form --
:06:58. > :07:01.brilliant ideas. It cannot be a video with glossy pictures and all
:07:01. > :07:07.the sort of things that you White wanted to be. So you haven't spent
:07:07. > :07:14.a lot of money? About �10,000, maybe not as much. And you will get
:07:14. > :07:18.that back, you hope? We hope so. What does it mean to you? Apart
:07:18. > :07:22.from the whole glossiness of the thing and everybody smiling in
:07:22. > :07:26.Chelmsford, I have said before on TV and the radio, it is about
:07:26. > :07:29.business and investment. You want to be in the Premier League, so
:07:29. > :07:34.when businesses are looking for places to invest, and foreign
:07:34. > :07:38.businesses, if you are at the top list of cities, you are more likely
:07:38. > :07:42.to get people saying let's go there. And you have failed that it a
:07:42. > :07:46.couple of times, that must have come as a surprise. I wasn't there
:07:46. > :07:51.at the time, as they say. We have learned from previous efforts and
:07:51. > :07:56.the presentation and style has improved. It is not at the
:07:56. > :08:00.cathedral and so on, it is about business and expansion. -- about.
:08:00. > :08:04.They give are coming on, congratulations, leader of the city
:08:04. > :08:14.council -- thank you. We will be back here talking about jobs, but
:08:14. > :08:19.
:08:19. > :08:22.no more news from where you live. - - now.
:08:22. > :08:25.Hello. In other news, hundreds of ex-servicemen exposed to radiation
:08:25. > :08:27.in British nuclear weapons tests have lost their latest legal battle
:08:27. > :08:30.against the Ministry of Defence. One Norfolk veteran, Colin King,
:08:30. > :08:35.who was on Christmas Island in the South Pacific in 1958 described
:08:35. > :08:40.today's judgement in the Supreme Court as "immoral".
:08:40. > :08:43.Colin King watching live coverage via the internet of today's Supreme
:08:43. > :08:47.Court proceedings. He wasn't hopeful, but when Lord Wilson
:08:48. > :08:52.started to speak, Colin quickly knew the veterans had lost. Since
:08:52. > :09:00.the veterans cannot even today prove that their illnesses have
:09:00. > :09:05.probably been caused by whatever happened or did not happen to them.
:09:05. > :09:12.It stinks. They rest on false hopes and should be brought to an end
:09:12. > :09:16.their at the rather than later. believe it is morally wrong. There
:09:16. > :09:25.is enough evidence and the world to prove that radiation has caused the
:09:25. > :09:31.disease. It was 1958 and of Christmas Island, Britain was
:09:31. > :09:35.carrying out nuclear tests. -- on. Colin King was doing his National
:09:35. > :09:42.Service in the RAF. He was then the balloon unit based in Bedford which
:09:42. > :09:46.was responsible for dropping two nuclear devices -- he was in.
:09:46. > :09:53.balloons are stacked at their trial highest with a Dublin vote takes
:09:53. > :09:59.place. -- dummy. The men were told to turn their backs and put their
:09:59. > :10:04.hands over their faces. At that instance, the light first of all
:10:04. > :10:09.just came right through your hands. I was sitting with fire back to the
:10:09. > :10:13.bomb with my hands over my eyes -- buy-back. My thumbs were in my ears
:10:13. > :10:16.and the light was so intense, it was like daylight. The many of the
:10:16. > :10:22.veterans suffered health problems in later years. Colin King has a
:10:22. > :10:30.lung disease and skin problems and cannot fathom out why the MoD would
:10:30. > :10:37.take responsibility. Yes, I feel angry, frustrated and above all, I
:10:37. > :10:41.feel that our government has let our people them. In a statement,
:10:41. > :10:45.the MoD said it recognises the debt of gratitude to the servicemen but
:10:45. > :10:49.reiterated the Supreme Court's judgement that any case brought by
:10:49. > :10:53.the veterans would be doomed to failure. But lawyers acting for the
:10:54. > :10:56.veterans say they will look at ways to fight on.
:10:57. > :11:00.Flowers have been laid today outside a school in Essex where a
:11:00. > :11:03.girl died during a PE lesson. 12- year-old Leonie Nice collapsed
:11:03. > :11:09.after being hit yesterday by a rugby ball at the Woodlands School
:11:09. > :11:14.in Basildon. Throughout the morning, Flowers
:11:14. > :11:19.were taken into Woodlands School for a 12-year-old called Leonie
:11:19. > :11:24.Nice. She was in a PE lesson and she tried to catch a rugby ball.
:11:24. > :11:29.The ball hit her chest. She appeared to have a fit. She was
:11:29. > :11:32.given CPR here at the school. was then taken to Basildon Hospital,
:11:32. > :11:37.less than one mile away. Staff were waiting and ready but they could
:11:37. > :11:43.not save her. On arrival, the young girl was being cared for by members
:11:43. > :11:48.of staff administering first aid went -- and when the paramedics
:11:48. > :11:51.assessed fair, she was in cardiac arrest. They attempted to
:11:51. > :11:56.resuscitate at the scene and to cut a Basildon Hospital, where sadly
:11:56. > :12:01.she died. At the school, at more flowers arrive. Elsewhere, the
:12:01. > :12:05.internet was flooded with Tributes, and example of how deeply the
:12:05. > :12:09.tragedy has been felt. The head teacher at Woodlands School
:12:09. > :12:15.described Leonie Nice as kind, promising and delightful. Pupils
:12:15. > :12:17.were offered counselling. Meanwhile, this picture of all of the flowers
:12:17. > :12:22.left for Leonie Nice was added to the internet Tributes. There is
:12:23. > :12:27.disbelief that a 12-year-old girl can lose her life doing something
:12:27. > :12:31.as routine as p e. One of three men being tried for
:12:31. > :12:33.the murder of a man in Norwich has pleaded guilty to the charge.
:12:33. > :12:37.Honorato Alberto Christovao died of head injuries after an assault in
:12:37. > :12:40.Rose Lane car park in February last year. Spencer Yiadom, who's 22 and
:12:40. > :12:46.from Newham in East London, changed his plea at Norwich Crown Court
:12:46. > :12:49.after previously denying murder. He's been remanded in custody. Two
:12:49. > :12:53.other men deny the charge and their trial continues.
:12:53. > :12:56.An elderly man has been killed in a house fire at Leigh On Sea in Essex.
:12:56. > :13:05.A neighbour in Ormonde Gardens raised the alarm just after eight
:13:06. > :13:08.o'clock this morning. The fire is not being treated as suspicious.
:13:09. > :13:11.A �13 million centre to help people living with dementia has been
:13:12. > :13:15.opened in Norfolk. The number of people with the illness in this
:13:15. > :13:17.region is expected to rise by 30,000 in the next ten years. It's
:13:17. > :13:22.one of the major challenges facing the Health Service.
:13:22. > :13:26.This centre in Norwich is described by the NHS as the most advanced in
:13:26. > :13:31.the country, with 36 bedrooms caring for people with all types of
:13:31. > :13:34.severe dementia, and it is state of the art. All of the rooms are
:13:34. > :13:38.fitted out with sensors, so in the distance, you can see if anything
:13:38. > :13:42.is going on. If the patient is leaving the bed at night, an alarm
:13:42. > :13:47.will go off so that the nursing staff knows somebody is coming out
:13:47. > :13:52.of the bed. Tapsell Sauternes of automatically if a patient wonders
:13:52. > :13:55.await -- perhaps turn off. Grass on the roof provides insulation. Stars
:13:56. > :14:00.like Terry Pratchett and felt like the Iron Lady have helped increase
:14:00. > :14:05.awareness, and Mary Brittain runs a day centre where she looks after
:14:05. > :14:08.her mother. She has Alzheimer's and neither are convinced a specialist
:14:08. > :14:13.centre is the way forward. personally don't like it very much.
:14:13. > :14:17.I think it is very clinical. I think we have taken a backward step
:14:17. > :14:20.and I think that we need to try and keep people with dementia in their
:14:20. > :14:28.homes for as long as possible and people need to have familiar things
:14:29. > :14:32.around them, not a clinical set up. You can't treat a street full of
:14:32. > :14:36.people as though they are all the same. They are all individuals and
:14:36. > :14:41.need to be looked at in that light, otherwise you might as well go into
:14:41. > :14:46.an asylum. This centre cost �30 million to build, some might argue
:14:46. > :14:50.that money might have been better spent on care in their home -- 13.
:14:50. > :14:53.We do both. The centre will be for people who are at this stage of
:14:53. > :14:59.their illness where they can only be cared for in a specialised
:14:59. > :15:03.environment, but there is an awful lot we do before that. There may be
:15:03. > :15:07.differing opinions on the care for dementia but one thing everybody in
:15:07. > :15:10.Shorabak is that dignity and respect must be central.
:15:10. > :15:13.-- sure about. Killer shrimp, which top a list of
:15:13. > :15:16.the worst foreign invaders of our waterways, have been found in a
:15:16. > :15:18.broad in Norfolk. The shrimp, which kill native species including young
:15:18. > :15:21.fish and insect larvae, have been discovered in Barton Broad. They've
:15:21. > :15:28.previously been found at Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire and two
:15:28. > :15:30.locations in South Wales. In football, a tough ask for
:15:30. > :15:40.Colchester United last night as promotion-chasing Sheffield United
:15:40. > :15:42.were in town. The Blades are the highest scorers in League One.
:15:42. > :15:45.highest scorers in League One. The last month also has seen a
:15:45. > :15:49.rejuvenated Colchester United their five games without defeat and bring
:15:49. > :15:52.with it an outside chance of a play-off push. But with second-
:15:52. > :15:57.placed Sheffield United the visitors, that record would
:15:57. > :16:00.certainly be tested. Just after half-an-hour, the Blades spliced
:16:00. > :16:04.through they Colchester defence and Will Hoskins finished past Ben
:16:04. > :16:08.Williams. But Steven Gillespie has found his shooting boots of late
:16:08. > :16:14.and he equalised after the break with pinpoint precision, taking his
:16:14. > :16:18.tally to the season 2 11. Confident is not an issue with the use and
:16:18. > :16:23.they streamed forward looking for another, but lightning would not
:16:23. > :16:29.strike twice. But keepers finishing the game with sore hands, each of
:16:29. > :16:36.them happy to concede only one goal each. Colchester stay night in
:16:37. > :16:39.League One, seven. Outside the top six. -- 9th.
:16:39. > :16:49.six. -- 9th. That's all from me. Now it's time
:16:49. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:53.to go back to Stewart in Chelmsford. Welcome back to Chelmsford. It is
:16:53. > :16:57.the second smallest cathedral in England. What else makes it
:16:57. > :17:01.interesting is if you look behind me, you can see this is the centre
:17:01. > :17:05.of Chelmsford. While lot of cathedrals are surrounded by a very
:17:05. > :17:11.big ground, this is almost in the High Street, which makes it an
:17:11. > :17:14.interesting place to come. It is a lovely cathedral, very busy as well.
:17:14. > :17:17.Chelmsford was one of six towns in our region who were competing for
:17:18. > :17:21.city status. Southend, Colchester, Luton, Corby and Milton keynes have
:17:21. > :17:23.also spent the last 18 months trying to fight their case and, not
:17:23. > :17:29.surprisingly, they're very disappointed by today's news. Our
:17:29. > :17:33.political correspondent Andrew Sinclair reports.
:17:33. > :17:39.It is only a title but a lot of places wanted to be called a city,
:17:39. > :17:44.not least Milton Keynes. For many years, people here have called it a
:17:44. > :17:47.city even though it wasn't and it still isn't. We are called the new
:17:47. > :17:50.city of Milton Keynes and will continue to be. We act like a city
:17:50. > :17:56.and there is an old saying, if you look like a duck and you quack like
:17:56. > :17:59.a duck, you are a duck. decision was made at the Cabinet
:18:00. > :18:03.Office in Whitehall. Officials assessed the individual bed and
:18:03. > :18:08.left it to the Deputy Prime Minister to make the decision. That
:18:08. > :18:12.bid. The Cabinet Office will not say why Chelmsford one, it is a
:18:12. > :18:16.secret process, but when it launched the search, we were told
:18:16. > :18:22.the towns would be judged on their history, their sense of community
:18:22. > :18:26.and their vitality. Luton had put a lot of effort into its bid, it
:18:26. > :18:31.toured the party conference with these noisy and colourful displays.
:18:31. > :18:37.It may also have Bude that city status would be a way of kick-
:18:37. > :18:41.starting people's views of Luton. We are all aware of the Colchester
:18:41. > :18:47.Chelmsford rivalry. The MP for Colchester, which also mounted a
:18:47. > :18:51.strong bid, was incensed. Off camera, he waved his arms furiously.
:18:51. > :18:56.God moves in mysterious ways and so does this place. I find it quite
:18:56. > :19:00.astonishing, frankly, when I look at the lists of places that were
:19:00. > :19:04.not granted city status. I would love to know what the criteria is.
:19:04. > :19:09.Chelmsford was always considered the outsider. There is a lot of
:19:09. > :19:13.wounded pride but those who lost say they will try next time.
:19:13. > :19:17.Let's move on to jobs now. As you may have heard, latest figures show
:19:17. > :19:20.unemployment in Britain is up again. But here in the east, it is down.
:19:20. > :19:24.The latest total now is 208,000. That's down 10,000 on the previous
:19:24. > :19:30.quarter. And we're still below the national figure in percentage terms.
:19:30. > :19:33.6.8% here compared with 8.4% across the country. But strangely,
:19:33. > :19:39.although unemployment has increased in recent years, so too has the
:19:39. > :19:41.number of people actually in work. One reason for that is what is
:19:41. > :19:49.happening in places like Chelmsford. This report from our business
:19:49. > :19:54.correspondent Richard Bond. It is all to do with our growing
:19:54. > :20:01.population. More and more people want to live in the east. Our
:20:01. > :20:05.population has risen from 5.3 million in 2001 up to 5.8 million
:20:05. > :20:10.today. Some of the new residents are migrant workers from overseas,
:20:10. > :20:16.others are Britain's working from other parts of the country -- the
:20:16. > :20:20.British. It all boosts employment numbers but the effect may not last.
:20:20. > :20:24.We have had population growth in the eastern region reflecting the
:20:24. > :20:28.growth of the economy over the last 15 years, but the economy as have -
:20:28. > :20:31.- has been slowing down over the last few years and employment
:20:31. > :20:35.growth has stalled and we are seeing weaknesses in the labour
:20:35. > :20:39.market. We are seeing fewer people in full-time employment. We are
:20:39. > :20:44.seeing fewer hours worked by those in full-time employment. And we are
:20:44. > :20:47.seeing more people losing their jobs. A big influence on our
:20:47. > :20:52.growing employment numbers is London. More people are commuting
:20:52. > :20:57.into the capital from places like Chelmsford. They may work in London
:20:57. > :21:01.but because they sleep here, they count in ice employment figures.
:21:01. > :21:06.Peter Jones is Adam Parr -- a partner at an estate agents near
:21:06. > :21:10.Chelmsford. In the last 10 years, I would say we have seen a great
:21:10. > :21:14.change in the number of people coming into the area. Before, for
:21:14. > :21:20.2% of the buyers were coming from outside the area and with the
:21:20. > :21:23.number of commuters now, it is probably 60% -- 40%. So with a
:21:23. > :21:31.growing population, it is possible to have employment and unemployment
:21:31. > :21:35.going up at the same time. Strange but true.
:21:35. > :21:39.While we are run jobs... A quick word about the Look East
:21:39. > :21:42.debate, which will be broadcast on Monday evening. Senior business
:21:42. > :21:45.figures and politicians will be discussing the state of the economy
:21:45. > :21:50.in this region. It's being held at Arm Holdings in Cambridge and you
:21:50. > :21:55.can see it on Monday at 11:05 on BBC One.
:21:55. > :21:58.I want to talk to Malcolm Johnston from Anglia Ruskin University and
:21:58. > :22:05.see what city status will mean. Will it mean changes economic
:22:05. > :22:09.Leigh? Over time, it well. Research published last year proved that the
:22:09. > :22:13.eight cities that were made in 2002, out of all of those cities, only
:22:13. > :22:17.one did not outperform their equivalent JOHN PARROT: In the
:22:17. > :22:24.region in terms of inward investment and employment --
:22:24. > :22:28.equivalents. Why is that? There is something
:22:28. > :22:32.about perception. Cities can attract people. It can keep
:22:32. > :22:36.graduates here as they graduate from university and other
:22:36. > :22:40.universities in the area. And for foreign investment, being a city
:22:40. > :22:48.does make a difference. This is a city that is doing reasonably well
:22:48. > :22:51.as it stands, so cannot get better? Indeed it can. -- panic. What
:22:51. > :22:55.Southend airport opening up, and with good links to the rest of
:22:55. > :23:00.Europe and the world, it can do better and with American inward
:23:00. > :23:04.investment. It makes a huge different, it is a city rather than
:23:04. > :23:09.at town -- difference. When we look at how the council has managed to
:23:09. > :23:13.do it, they are surprised. Are you surprised? I don't think we are
:23:13. > :23:18.that surprised. If you look at the initiative, the borough council
:23:18. > :23:21.have taken on a dynamic approach in the way they want to build
:23:21. > :23:26.Chelmsford in the future to attract inward investment and this is just
:23:26. > :23:31.the icing on the cake for them. Within the next five years, just
:23:31. > :23:35.put a figure on it roughly what sort of growth can you think the
:23:35. > :23:39.city status will bring? I couldn't say of the top of my head, but we
:23:39. > :23:43.are talking about a few percentage points difference, which doesn't
:23:44. > :23:47.sound a lot, but when you look at the inward investment already
:23:47. > :23:50.coming in it is a significant amount of money and jobs. Good news
:23:50. > :23:56.for everybody in Chelmsford and bad news for those who didn't get it.
:23:56. > :24:00.Yes. Thank you for joining us, you must be very cold in just a suit!
:24:00. > :24:03.Which leads us to the weather with Alex.
:24:03. > :24:06.Good evening. It has been another Good evening. It has been another
:24:06. > :24:10.day with high pressure right across us. It is just starting to slowly
:24:10. > :24:14.migrate eastwards, but this was the image on a satellite picture
:24:14. > :24:20.earlier this morning. A lot of cloud right across us once more.
:24:20. > :24:23.But through the day, finally, that huge area of cloud started to thin
:24:24. > :24:28.and break and we will see some places even got some brightness and
:24:28. > :24:32.some sunshine in the West and the south of the region. Tonight, we
:24:32. > :24:36.start with some clear skies further west and that is where we could get
:24:36. > :24:43.some mist patches forming. It could get quite chilly with temperatures
:24:43. > :24:48.expected to get them to three Celsius. -- Get down. Further east,
:24:48. > :24:54.five or six Celsius with the wind alight South-a south-easterly. It
:24:54. > :24:59.will be a cloudy and misty start, but we should see sunny spells
:24:59. > :25:04.developing. It looks as though we will get dry out with us tomorrow,
:25:04. > :25:08.particularly for the east, a lot of cloud to clear first thing. It
:25:08. > :25:12.looks as though it will be in and break and through that as we get
:25:12. > :25:18.sunshine, it could have quite an impact on the temperatures and they
:25:18. > :25:24.are potentially could get up to 15 Celsius, so it should feel quite
:25:24. > :25:28.comfortable in that sunshine with a light wind. Through the afternoon,
:25:28. > :25:32.further spells of sunshine. Really make the most of it. Looking ahead,
:25:32. > :25:37.Friday looks cloudy once more, but it is the weekend we are interested
:25:37. > :25:41.in, because that actually looks as though it might bring us some rain.
:25:41. > :25:45.This is the pressure chart for Saturday. We have this huge tailing
:25:45. > :25:51.front which drags across us and it kind of move further backwards and
:25:51. > :25:55.forms this area of low pressure, so the potential for rain, some of it
:25:55. > :26:00.even on the heavy side later on Saturday. The next five days, it
:26:00. > :26:05.certainly looks dry for the next two and Friday, as I say, a bit
:26:05. > :26:10.more cloud around and that could bring temperatures down. Some
:26:10. > :26:14.locations could be lower than 13. We will start the weekend dry but
:26:14. > :26:17.cloudy and then the potential for some of that rain to move in from
:26:17. > :26:22.the West. Some of it could turn heavy into the afternoon and
:26:22. > :26:27.overnight period. By Sunday, it clears the way to showers, but you
:26:27. > :26:32.will see their high for Sunday is just nine Celsius, so a bit cooler.
:26:32. > :26:35.A dry start for the beginning of the week into Monday, a high of 11
:26:35. > :26:42.degrees. Looking at the overnight lows, they are starting to get
:26:42. > :26:46.lower. Minus one Celsius by Sunday, which could bring us back a frost.
:26:46. > :26:50.which could bring us back a frost. Back to you in Chelmsford.
:26:50. > :26:54.It does feel very cold here this evening, actually. As you drive
:26:54. > :26:59.into Chelmsford on a night like this, you look at things like road
:26:59. > :27:03.signs, they say town centre. I passed maybe eight or 10, they will
:27:03. > :27:06.have to be replaced. They will have to replace the letter heading for