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In Look East tonight: disgraced MP Margaret Moran will not face a | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
criminal trial over claims she fiddled her Parliamentary expenses. | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
Doctors say she is too ill. Hello from Susie and me. Also tonight: | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Here comes the sun: The Stevenage company sending a spacecraft on a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
solar voyage of discovery. They've been the Duke and Duchess | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
of Cambridge for a year, but they haven't been to Cambridge. So why | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
not? And it was 70 years ago tonight | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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when the German bombers unleashed Hello. Margaret Moran, the former | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
MP for Luton South, will not face trial over allegations she fiddled | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
her expenses. At a court hearing today, medical experts said she was | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
a broken woman, and not well enough to stand trial. The expenses | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
scandal blew up nearly three years ago. Since then, four MPs and two | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Peers have been given a prison sentence. Margaret Moran found | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
herself under the spotlight and accused of fiddling her expenses to | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
renovate a family home well away from her constituency in Luton. But | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
today, a judge decided she was too ill to stand trial. Our home | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
affairs correspondent Sally Chidzoy was in court. | :01:28. | :01:37. | |
Margaret Moran is deeply depressed, her mental illness severe. She | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
suffers anxiety and a sense of shame and abandonment by the Labour | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
Party. Her condition was graphically issued -- illustrated. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
The judge heard and read evidence from three psychiatrists for both | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the prosecution and defence. He concluded that the allegations and | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the stress made it impossible for her to take part in court | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
proceedings. The judge was told that Margaret Moran had become a | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
broken woman. A forensic psychiatrist said she may be | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
suicidal and did previously attempted to harm herself. Where | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
once she looked like an exuberant Empey, now she was punched and | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
crash. She was suffering from a depressive illness directly linked | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
to the case. Asked to if it was possible she exaggerated symptoms | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
to avoid trial, he said it was possible but unlikely. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
For a court was told there was a history of mental illness in her | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
family, and she had a genetic vulnerability, and her depression | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
had endured for two years. Mr Justice Saunders was told by the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
psychiatrist that Margaret Moran has said she wanted to plead guilty | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
and be punished, but in his view and that the psychiatrist, it was | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
simply an attempt to get the matter over with. And to assuage guilt she | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
was dealing with from other troubling matters in her past. She | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
was claimed to have you Dover �22,000 to clear dry rot from her | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
home in Southampton, and took have regularly flipped homes. She is the | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
last to a number of MPs charged over expenses. Elliot Morley, Jim | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
Devine, Lord Hanningfield and others were all jailed. Her case | :03:27. | :03:36. | |
A satellite company based in Stevenage has won a contract to | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
send a space probe into orbit around the sun. The Solar Orbiter | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
will get closer to the sun than any space craft before. It will have to | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
withstand temperatures of 500 degrees Celsius. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
It will boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before. The | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
sole auditor will give us the closest ever view of the sun, | :04:03. | :04:12. | |
helping scientists to observe its surface -- the Solar orbiter. The | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
it is a �245 million project for the European Space Agency. It will | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
safeguard the jobs of 1,200 staff. It is the largest signs contract | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
ever awarded to the United Kingdom. This is a fantastic success for us. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
We have a mission orbiting Mars and one orbiting Venus. We are | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
currently putting together a mission to land on Mars. This is | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the next big challenge. The orbiter will need to withstand temperatures | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
of around 500 Celsius as it travels to within 26 million miles of the | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
sun, closer than the planet Mercury. The sensing instruments will peek | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
through slots with shutters that can be closed to protect them from | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
the heat. There is lots of work going on at the moment on science | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
missions such as going to Mercury or searching out a gravitational | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
waves between the Earth and the sun. Lots of missions. The sole up | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
orbiter will be launched on a Nasa rocket from Cape Canaveral in 2013. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
-- 2017. Earlier I spoke to Dr Ralph Cordey, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
head of science at Astrium UK. I started by asking how difficult the | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
Orbiter will be to build, given the heat that it will have to withstand. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
You are right, the heat is the big problem. We will fit of the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
spacecraft with a special heat shield to protect it. When it is at | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
its closest, the fund will get to 500 degrees Celsius, but it will be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
allowed the rest of the satellite to be at room temperature. What | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
will it be able to find out when it does get into position. It is going | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
to be doing work to understand the connection between events on the | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
San's surface and the material that spurts out across the solar system. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
That is important, because some of those events, ejections from the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
sun, can disrupt power and communications on earth. It is | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
something that we call space weather, and this mission will | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
understand the causes of it. Lift- off is in 2017. Obviously it will | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
take a while to get there. How long will that be? It is about three- | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
and-a-half-year us from launch, passing the planet Venus and then | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
back around the Earth and back around Venus again. It is a | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
complicated path that will eventually allow it to get closer | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
to the sun than the planet Mercury. And it is no Subo -- noticeable | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
that the space industry is doing well despite the recession. I think | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
it is because most of what we do is very practical. It is about serving | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
everybody, whether it is to do with the telecommunications, predicting | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the weather, monitoring the climate. Even something like this is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
providing industry with additional skills and challenges. It is | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
helping us innovate in the commercial world that we working. | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Dr Corgi, thank you. There's a lot more to come, including the night | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
70 years ago when bombs rained down on Norwich. Hundreds of people were | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
killed. We look ahead to the weekend sport. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
And we ask when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are going to | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
come to Cambridge. I'm here with the weekend weather, | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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and the April soaking continues. People going from Essex to London | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
for a job interview are being offered a free train ticket by the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
operator c2c. The company, which runs the service from Shoeburyness | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
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and London, says it makes sense to The early morning commute from | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Southend, and Philip Dickinson faces his daily journey into the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
capital. But he is not complaining about being part of the rat-race. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
He used the Job Start scheme to win a place in it. It would have been a | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
real struggle to be where I am. It would have taken a lot of difficult | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
conversations with the bank or my employer. It wouldn't have been a | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
guarantee that I would be able to afford to come. The scheme has been | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
going for several years, but has been relaunched at a time when | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
people are finding the job hunt particularly hard. At �15,000 per | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
month, it is not cheap to run. Successful applicants get six free | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
return tickets for interviews. Of the get the job, a two-month season | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
ticket free as well. That is worth �600 from shivery. It does two | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
things Oras. It builds up a client base and helps us to get more | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
involved in our local community. If we want to do even more than we are | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
doing at the moment. On Monday, they do it all again. 90,000 | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
journeys are made every day. The company hopes more job-hunters will | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
join the commuters on the platforms and continue to do so for years to | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
come. The owners of the Pleasure Beach in | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Great Yarmouth have won the race to operate one of the region's biggest | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
casinos. The company, owned by Albert Jones, beat off competition | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
from a rival bid. The decision was taken today by Yarmouth's licensing | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
committee. It's one of just two large-scale venues in the East | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
allowed under new gaming laws. The other is being developed in Milton | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Keynes. There'll be more on this story in our late bulletin at 10.30. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
A former policeman from Lowestoft has been found not guilty of | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
misconduct in public office and supplying cannabis. Christopher | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Clark, in the black jacket, was cleared by a jury at Norwich Crown | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Court. The former constable admitted three charges of | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
possession of ammunition and was ordered to pay just over �2,000 in | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister admits the local elections next week will | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
be tough for his party. Last year the Liberal Democrats lost nearly | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
100 seats in this region, and are bracing themselves for more bad | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
news. But there is one council in the East where they could do well. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Our political reporter Ben Bland reports from Colchester where the | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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Colchester Castle, an enduring reminder of how this town was a | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
stronghold for the Romans and then the Normans for hundreds of years. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
And so too it proved to be for the Liberal Democrats in last year's | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
local council elections. This is one of the few places in England | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
where they held on to all their seats and even increased their | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
share of the mode. Colchester is home to 180,000 people, many of the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
military families and students at the University of Essex. Many | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
people here are commuters. The cost of living and the state of public | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
transport are big issues. For the last two years, we have had a zero | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
rising council tax, and everybody has found it difficult out there. I | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
hope we continue that. Another major issue is congestion, and we | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
are tackling that. I have worked really hard in the last four years | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
to work with Essex County Council to get a park and ride to reduce | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
congestion in of Colchester. Lib Dems have been the dominant | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
power here since 2008. They say they help residents through the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
tough times, but the Conservatives, the main challengers here, accused | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the administration of incompetence. The key issues of farce are | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
insuring our town centre is clean, but we cut the cost of politics, we | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
increase our recycling rates, in the moment we are one of the lowest | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
regions. We want to roll-out food waste trials to the whole of the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
borough. And there are plans to change the way traffic flows in the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
high street that will cause absolute chaos. With seven | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
councillors, Labour holds the balance of power here. They are | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
concentrating heavily on the impact of coalition cuts, but say there | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
are important local issues which need addressing, too. It is traffic | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
and transport, and congestion in Colchester is a nightmare. We have | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
an agenda that wants to have a major transport summit, get all the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
best brains together and sort out a problem once and for all. Tackling | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
anti-social behaviour. With a cut to the police, we are seeing an | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
increase in anti-social behaviour. Naturally, the Lib Dems are in | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
trouble in the polls, but in Colchester, they have always had a | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
habit of bucking the trend. Might they even gain some seat and | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
tighten their grip,, like the Romans, will they discover that | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
even this stronghold cannot last for ever? | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
There are a total of five parties fielding candidates in Colchester, | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
and two more independents. You can find a full list on the council | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
website. Plenty of sports action this | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
weekend. Here's Phil. Well, the Canaries celebrate their 200th | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Premier League game this weekend with the visit of Liverpool to | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Carrow Road. There's been some fantastic memories over the years, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
and some great moments from this campaign, too. A win over Liverpool | :13:25. | :13:34. | |
tomorrow would be the icing on the cake. It is easy to look at Norwich | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
City as one of the Premiership's new boys. Two seasons in the early | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Nineties and a season in 2004, and they return at the start of this | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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campaign. There have been some This season has brought a few | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
memories, too. Liverpool were left stunned when Norwich crept into the | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
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We have to be right up for it again. It is another game, and it is again | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
that we can go into with no pressure. We are safe in the lead | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
in have next season to look forward to now. It is not every day the you | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
can go into a Premier League game and just enjoy it for what it is. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
But as far as the manager is concerned, taking three points from | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
Tottenham was his season's highlight. It was a deserved win, I | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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thought. We played really well up there, and for a team that just two | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
years ago was in League One, to compete with that has been | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
incredible. Three points against Liverpool in front of home fans, | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
and the manager's highlight of the season might just change. | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Ipswich Town fans make their final journey of the season tomorrow when | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
they play already relegated Doncaster. They'll also find out if | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
midfielder Grant Leadbitter is staying with the club after long | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
and drawn-out contract negotiations. I will be honest with you, if using | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the team on Saturday, it means he has agreed to stay. If not, it | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
means he has decided to move on. I will know tomorrow. We would love | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
him to stay, but he doesn't, we wish him well. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
While Colchester have nothing much to play for against Tranmere in | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
League One, Southend have already clinched their play-off spot in | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
League Two. They could even sneak into the top three. But that's | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
pretty unlikely. It's Oxford away for the Shrimpers tomorrow, and | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
they'll be hoping a certain Tunisian brings his shooting boots. | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
The season hasn't gone completely to plan for Paul Sturrock. The team | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
looked good for automatic promotion, but it is not as simple as that. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Dropped points and off the field and tickets left and destined for | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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the play-offs, but on the plus A hat-trick playing as a midfielder, | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
he is back in love with Southend after a mid-season slump. I tried | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
to play for everything on the pitch. I forget about my yellow card, and | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
sometimes receive another one. After the red cards and a few four | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
wins out, there were some who thought he should go. But it is | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
looking like the best decision was made to keep him. A lot of things | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
happen in football clubs. There was a spell where that decisions had to | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
be made. We had to grab the ball by the horns and make a conscious | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
decision to bring him back in again. It was very close, but to be fair, | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
he has come back and responded the proper way. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
In snooker, Colchester's Ali Carter remains in the finals of the World | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Championships in Sheffield. The world number 17, who reached the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
final in 2008, comfortably saw off Mark Davis by 10 frames to two | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
yesterday to set up a difficult second-round match with last year's | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
runner-up Judd Trump. And after more than their fair share of | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
weather at Wensum Valley Golf Course in Norfolk, Dan Seymour was | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
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the eventual winner of the first Let's turn the clock back now to | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
April 27th 1942, when the country was at war. In Norwich, people read | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
all about the blitz in London, but nothing had happened locally on | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
that scale - until now. That night 70 years ago, everything changed. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
At 11.30 the Luftwaffe were over Norwich, and as the city slept, the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
bombs rained down. More than 200 people were killed, and 30,000 more | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
were made homeless. And what happened that night is still fresh | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
in the minds of those who were there, as Mike Liggins has been | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
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You have got what is now Debenhams on this side of the road. These | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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were known as independent shops back in 1942. The raids on Norwich | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
City Centre work in retaliation for a raid on the German city of Lubeck. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
The German High Command was so angry, it targeted historic English | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
cities found in the by Decca travel guide. It is hard for us to imagine, | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
but the only thing I can compare it with it is if you are living | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
through some of the scenes in Syria now, and you wake up and the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
morning and find it York Road is completely flattened, your school | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
has been destroyed, your factory has been damaged beyond repair | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
perhaps. Some of the numbers are startling. 225 people were killed. | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
Around 700 people were injured. And 1,500 homes were destroyed or | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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Able 27th 1942. You were playing with your cousins? Yes, they were | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
visiting us at our house. Ralph was just six at the time, but he | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
remembers the April raids. On the 27th, he had been playing with his | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
cousins. But by the next day, his aunt Hilda and her three children | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
had been killed. They were in a shelter at the back of their | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
housing Roseberry Road. Only his uncle, Alfred, survived. And your | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
uncle was an air raid warden? That's right. He was on duty at the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
end of the road, and he knew that there had been a bombing raid, and | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
he came back and discovered what had happened. Even after all these | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
years, 70 years, it is something you find difficult to talk about? | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
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do, yes. Painful, yes. Even today, the raids on Norwich remain a | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
source of fascination. Graphic designer Nick Stone has produced | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
scores of photomontages of the places where the bombs fell. My mum | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
was a midwife, it was in the Blitz in London. Like a lot of kids, I | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
was interested in this. My dad was in the RAF. But once you get over | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
the whole great escape war films thing, you get more interested in | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the social history. Today, there is a cemetery dedicated to those who | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
died in the rates. The Lockwood family are there, Hilda and the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Baby Margaret, Beryl who was nine his jacket was seven. Tomorrow, | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
there is service in the cemetery to remember those who died, and to | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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remember the little known story of This time last year we were all | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
getting ready for the Royal Wedding between William and Kate. And to | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
add to the excitement, we heard the Royal couple were to become the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. It's been a bit of a whirlwind year for | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
the Royal newlyweds, with a schedule that has taken them around | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
the world. But so far, they haven't visited Cambridge itself. So, when | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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can we expect to see them? Mike In Cambridge today, that couldn't | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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be her, could it? No. Hain? Maybe not. Her? Es? No. Ah, I have found | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
them. Of course they weren't here today, but a year after the Duke | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
and Duchess of Cambridge were married, shouldn't they have | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
officially paid a visit by now? They should have been here. We | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
would love to see them. I think you run the in Cambridge would love to | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
see them. Hopefully they will come very soon. Why do you think they | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
haven't? I am sure they have been rushed off their feet. We were so | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
excited about them being that you can dirges of Cambridge, so it | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
would be nice to see them here. think it is high time that they | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
came and saw what Cambridge has to offer. A year ago, the world | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
watched them wed. Since, as City has waited, wondering when. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Everyone is always anxious for announcement, so we hope they plan | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
something soon. So where have they been? For a | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
honeymoon in the Seychelles. July, Canada. California in the same | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
month, and in February Prince William was deployed to the | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
Falklands. In March, reunited, skiing in Switzerland. There are | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
plans to visit Malaysia, Singapore and the Solomon Islands. The | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Duchess has been to Ipswich, and also a private visit here, a | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
children's hospice just outside Cambridge. They are not ignoring | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
our part of the world, but when they go to Cambridge, I think it | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
will be an important day. I think they will realise the significance | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
of it. We would want to make the most of it. The planning, I would | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
suggest, is fairly far advanced. The Queen came to Cambridge just | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
before the wedding. Buckingham Palace said that their first | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
official visit here is being looked The weather was very different year | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
ago, wasn't it? They were much more lucky. Let's find out what the | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
Good evening. The unsettled weather continues, with some further April | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
showers today. There have been some brighter spots and the last hour, | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
but there are still some shower clouds out there. Looking back over | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
our radar image of the recent rainfall, you can see some pretty | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
heavy showers still around. The further east you are, it looks as | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
though it will be mostly dry, but in the West, do watch out for one | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
or two showers this evening. Overnight, they will tend to fade, | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
and much of the night should be dry. Temperatures will drop to about | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
five Celsius at the lowest. The wind will ease, more of a light | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
north-easterly by the end of the night. Tomorrow, it is all eyes to | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the south. We have an area of low pressure moving up from the south, | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
and that will bring us some wet and windy weather. We might just get | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
away with a dry start for some on Saturday, but very soon it will | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
turn wet and windy courtesy of this area of low pressure. The further | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
north and west you are, you might get away with a dry or bright start | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
to Saturday, but it will quickly cloud over and turn fairly wet. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
That heavy and persistent rain will continue overnight Saturday and | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
into Sunday. As I say, the further north you are, perhaps a little bit | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
of early brightness, but turning increasingly cloudy, and that rain | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
will move in. As it moves northwards, it will turn more | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
persistent. Under the cloudy skies, temperatures no higher than 11 of | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
12 Celsius. The wind speed will increase throughout tomorrow, | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
turning windier into the afternoon. And the rain will become more | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
persistent and heavy later on in the day and overnight. So Saturday | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
night looks fairly wet for everyone. That sets the scene for a fairly | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
wet start to Sunday. Sunday looks fairly cloudy, and through the day, | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
turning more Sharif. Potentially warmer from Monday, the risk of one | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
or two showers perhaps, and hopefully drive for Tuesday to | :26:09. | :26:14. |