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In Look East tonight — the biggest wind turbines in the world, unveiled | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
off the Essex coast. But how much does this region really benefit? | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Hello, and welcome to Look East. Also in the programme tonight: The | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
education crisis in Norfolk. How do you turn a school around? One head | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
teacher's view of Ofsted. Always a process very supportive, very strict | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
and very firm, and there is no room for wiggling, but there should not | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
be. The Price of Football — why Ipswich | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Town supporters pay more to follow their club than the fans of Man | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
City. And from the placid Deben to the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
mighty Mississippi. An epic journey for the lads from Woodbridge. | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
First tonight, the biggest wind turbines in the world, officially | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
unveiled off the coast of Essex. The two new turbines form part of the | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Gunfleet Sands wind farm. They're each capable of generating up to six | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
megawatts. That's almost double the electricity of current models. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
According to the Government, a big turbine is a more efficient turbine. | :01:20. | :01:31. | |
Richard Daniel is at Harwich now. Harwich is becoming increasingly | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
important in the industry. Maintenance and support vessels | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
operate out of here to maintain the turbines. It is also used to move | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
components for the construction of the wind farm of the Suffolk coast. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
For several years, the industry has faced criticism at the high levels | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
of subsidies it receives. But these larger turbines hope critics will be | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
silenced. The sea off the East Anglian coast | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
is changing fast. Billions of pounds have already been invested in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
offshore wind power, but these turbines, the workhorses of the | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
industry, are about to be dwarfed by a new arrival — the six megawatt | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
turbine, the worlds largest, now under trial on the Essex coast off | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Clacton. At a stroke, it will almost double a turbine's generating | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
capacity. Obviously, they are prototypes. They are the first two | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
in the world to go offshore of this type of turbine. And we have learned | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
a lot through the construction and installation phase, and we are | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
learning a lot now. So far, we are happy with the way they have | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
performed. Big Ben is nearly 100 metres tall. The majority of | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
offshore turbines are taller still. But with its giant blades, the six | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
megawatt machine is nearly twice as high. The industry says they will be | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
quicker to install and require less maintenance, and cut the cost of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
generating electricity. But will that mean a cut to the generous | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
subsidies which often end up in the pockets of foreign companies? | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Absolutely. We are committed as a coalition government to bring down | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
subsidies as we drive down costs. We made that very clear to the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
industry. What we have also done is to set up a framework so that they | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
have the transparency and long—term certainty that this is a government | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
that is willing to act as a partner for the long—term. The quid pro quo | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
is that costs must come down. Opponents of wind power argue that, | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
whatever the size, turbines will only ever generate a fraction of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
their maximum capacity. The industry describes this new turbine as a game | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
changer. They will be installed in a new wind farm next year. That wind | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
farm will have 35 of these huge turbines and is being built over the | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
course of East Yorkshire. It won't be long before we see these monsters | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
here, however. Thank you very much. Well, our business correspondent | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Richard Bond is here. Richard, presumably bigger turbines are the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
future, are they? Yes, this is all really about politics and money. The | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
government has decided to ramp up offshore wind, and the cost of doing | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
that is highly. It is up to three times more expensive than onshore | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
wind, and wind farms have to be subsidised by levies on our energy | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
bills. There is political pressure to try and bring down that cost and | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
building bigger turbines is a way of trying to do that will stop you can | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
build fewer of them, they cost less to construct anti—maintain, and you | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
get more power per turbine. —— construct and maintain. We have | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
several of these off our coasts which use the smaller turbines. In | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
the future, we have many more wind farms planned which will be better | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
and in deeper water, it is clear that the new bigger turbines will be | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
deployed. A police officer who tripped on a | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
kerb at a garage and then started legal action against the owner of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the garage has withdrawn her claim. Kelly Jones was investigating a | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
break—in in Thetford when it happened, just over a year ago. When | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
the owner of this garage called the police last year to investigate a | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
break—in, he could not imagine the media firestorm which was centred | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
around this kerb. It was on this step that WPC Kelly Jones kept as he | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
showed her round the building. She was hurt and had to take six weeks | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
sick leave. The last thing I thought I ought to be doing is a risk | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
assessment before the police arrived. Mr Jones told us he did not | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
want to be on camera, but he was happy that common sense had at last | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
prevailed. I am told Kelly Jones with due herculean for personal | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
reasons. The police had backed her case and funded her legal costs. | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
Today, the police Department backed her. Officers have a right to put | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
forward claims for loss of earnings just like everyone else. We put it | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
forward to be decided if there was any merits to the case. They say | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
officers have been ridiculed for this. Officers put their lives at | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
risk for the public on many occasions, and this belittles what | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
they do. The sentiment echoed by motorists today. I think it makes | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
the police look bad. I just think it is ridiculous, to be honest. Norfolk | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
police say people should be able to call on them without fear of | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
litigation, and that this case is an isolated one. | :07:16. | :07:28. | |
The state of our schools has been under the microscope this week. On | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Tuesday, Ofsted launched an inspection blitz in Suffolk, saying | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
too many children were getting a substandard eduction. Then | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
yesterday, Norfolk's education bosses were summoned to Westminster | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
because of poor standards in their county. So, how do you turn a school | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
around? We asked one head teacher to tell us in her own words. My name is | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Emily. I have been teaching for ten years. And I am now the headteacher | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
at St Andrews in Pickenham in Norfolk. I have been in the post for | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
a week now. And so far, so good. We have a lot of challenge and a lot of | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
things to do. However, the entire staff are completely on board, very | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
excited, and there's an atmosphere of fantastic positivity and | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
everybody is really receptive to everything we're putting into place. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
So, all good so far. These are all the things that in Year Five or Year | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Six you need to be good at in reading. In terms of Ofsted | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
visiting, I have never been frightened of it in any way. It's a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
means to keep everybody on their toes, really, but I've always found | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
the process very supportive. Very strict and very firm — there's no | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
room for wiggle — but there should be no room for wiggle. It's always | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
been teams that have been looking to support you to be the best you can, | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
and that's why we are all in teaching, really, is to constantly | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
improve your game and make things better for the children. It is one | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
warning. You know, you really need to think about your choices there. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
And if it still continues, which I don't foresee, I'm only giving every | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
member of staff one red card to be used in emergencies only. So, a red | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
card and that would mean that I would get involved. One, two, three, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
four, five. I envisage that in a year or 18 months' time our school | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
will be securely good with elements of outstanding. If we can carry on | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
working at the pace we have been so far, there is no reason why we could | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
not achieve that. Certainly, while we are aiming to be securely good, | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
actually, that is not what we are aiming for. Our ultimate goal is to | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
be absolutely great and aim for outstanding and the best we can be. | :09:46. | :10:02. | |
605 days from now, we will be voting in a general election. I know it | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
seems like a long way off, but for the political parties, it's just | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
around the corner. And in this region, there are some very | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
important battle grounds. Our political correspondent Andrew | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Sinclair is at Westminster now. MPs are leaving here tonight as | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Parliament takes a three—week break before the party conference season, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
which this year, there will be a lot of talk end about fighting the 2015 | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
general election. It still may be 86 weeks away, but with no one having a | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
clear lead in opinion polls, parties are preparing for a long campaign. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
They have been hiring extra staff and candidates are now in place in | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
key seats. Big name visitors are also been lined up. Ed balls was in | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Peterborough this afternoon, no accident. We're going to be thinking | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
about the next election as well. We have drawn up a list of seats that | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
we think will be the most interesting ones to watch, the ones | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
which the parties will put the most attention into. One of —— some of | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
them are marginal, and some of them are at big issues because of issues | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
of immigration. Some are big issues because of high—profile MPs. Great | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Yarmouth ticks all those boxes. For those who live here all the time, | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
things have been tough. The town has some of the most deprived areas of | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Britain. Unemployment is falling but is still the highest in Norfolk. The | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
economy will be a big issue at the next election. I'm knocking on doors | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
where every second or third door, I have people in dire financial | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
trouble. Things are starting to look up, and the employment figures are | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
healthier, particularly in light of what we have come from. The port is | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
doing well thanks to wind farms, and enterprise zone is bringing business | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
to the town. However wages have fallen but then the last five | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
years, and many people have not had a pay rise for ten years. Because of | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
this, Labour has made great Yarmouth a key seats to win. The candidate is | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
making herself known. The standard of living, the fact that people | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
cannot afford the things they can afford —— could afford ten years | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
ago, people are really struggling. Can Labour offer anything different? | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
At the moment, our policies have not come out, but our ideology offers | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
things that are different naturally. Brandon Lewis excepts austerity has | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
been hard, but he said it was necessary and the time now has a | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
bright future. I think people are saying that there is an opportunity | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
to do well, and great Yarmouth is agreed it example of that. The | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
energy industry is the prime example. I think the future is | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
optimistic. The economy is not the only interesting thing. Labour run | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
the local council, and Mr Lewis, as a government minister, has several | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
run—ins with him. UKIP is strong here, which is why in great | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Yarmouth, the election campaign has also begun. The battle is likely to | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
be between those two, and there are important European elections next | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
year, but all politics needs to be seen now through the prism of the | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
2015 general election. We will return to Look East ones to watch, | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
and if you want to see the full list, the address is on your screen | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
now. A man's been arrested in connection | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
with the police manhunt for an Essex gunman. Francis O'Donoghue has been | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
on the run since August the 27th, when two brothers were shot on a | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
travellers' site near Brentwood. A 28—year—old man is being questioned | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
on suspicion of assisting an offender. The case will feature on | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
the BBC Crimewatch programme this evening. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Essex commuters will soon be able to use the M25 Thames crossing for just | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
£20 a year. At present, it costs £2 per trip for a car, but people | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
living near the crossing will be eligible for the new discount | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
scheme. Still to come tonight: how much does it cost to support your | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
football team? And looking ahead to the paralympics | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
at Rio, the triathlon will be a new sport for 2016, and two athletes | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
from this region will be looking for medals. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Plans to build a new toll road to replace a section of the A14 in | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Cambridgeshire has been the big talking point this week. At the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
centre of the £1.5 billion project is removing a key viaduct near | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Huntingdon. A reminder — the government is planning to build a | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
new section of road between the junction at Swavesey.. And the | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
village of Ellington, west of the A1. The big talking point is that | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
through traffic won't be able to use the old road, because a viaduct on | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
the existing A14 will be removed. But, why? Ben Bland has been finding | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
out. This bridge is crumbling. It is literally being propped up by steel | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
supports. In 2020, it is due to be pulled down. The new stretch of the | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
A14 is due to be opened by then, but removing this section will force | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
drivers onto the new tour rolled, and for that, the District Council | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
makes no apology. The vast majority of traffic is going north to the | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Midlands, so it's only right that those are the people that are just | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
passing through that paid a new toll, and we have a huge amount of | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
foreign bodies. Some fear that Huntingdon will suffer as drivers | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
look for ways to avoid paying the toll, and are questioning the | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
demolition. If they pull that down, while as the traffic going? —— Weir | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
is the traffic going? It will go to the smaller roads, causing Kim | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
congestion. The ring road is fairly busy as it is. I would imagine all | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
the cars are going to use Huntingdon as a short cut. If you describe | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Lynn, why not replace it? The council says that is too expensive. | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
They say it will cost more than £7 million. You can see just how | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
worried they are about the state of this bridge. That box on the far | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
pillar is connected to sensors underneath it which I don't think it | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
detect any slight changes in the structure which emergency appears | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
may be required. The highways agency says the bridge safe but me | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
deteriorate. It is part of the rider scheme to develop Huntington. —— | :17:08. | :17:17. | |
wider scheme. The hope is that most more people will visit. And thanks | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
again for all your emails and Facebook comments on the A14 plans. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Do keep them coming. The cost of going to a football | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
match is going down at many clubs, according to a new survey by the | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
BBC. The report looks at everything from the cost of tickets to | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
programmes and pies. It also reveals some surprises. The cheapest season | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
ticket at Ipswich Town, for example, is more expensive than at seven | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Premier League teams, including Manchester City. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Ipswich Town are the longest serving championship team. Over a decade | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
going nowhere. Attendances have been in decline, with prices creeping | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
up, season tickets are the third most expensive in the league. Coming | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
to watch football at Ipswich is pricey. The cheapest ticket is | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
£390. The most expensive is over £1000. If you're coming to the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
stadium for the day, the cheapest you can buy everything is £31 70. | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
For a family, that is going to add up. There is a feel—good factor in | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the town, and food bowl has improved, but attendances have not. | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
—— football they are not being put off because of the football, but | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
because of the price. They provided a statement which said: | :18:42. | :19:00. | |
Norwich offer a match day ticket for just £20, the second cheapest in the | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
Premier league. There is a balance. The balance is what they see on the | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
football pitch, and in relation to what they have paid. We want our | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
Norwich City supporters to come away from a game, whether home or away, | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
to fuel be have had value for money. In the East, North Hampton has the | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
most affordable season ticket. Colchester and Stevenage also boast | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
the cheapest days out. Getting the youngsters in for a cheap price and | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
keeping them here, entertaining them and making the match the experience | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
and then they will not forget, encourages them to come back as | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
well. Ultimately, it is about the product. For the fans, it is about | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
the football, not the price. The Paralympic Games in Rio three | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
years from now will be getting a new sport. And the good news, athletes | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
from this region could be in the running for medals. We're talking | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
about the para triathlon. The world championships take place this | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
weekend in Hyde Park. Among the athletes. Peterborough's Lauren | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
Steadman and Iain Dawson from Norwich. Here's Jonathan Park. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
She is only 20, but Lauren Steadman has already swum at two Paralympic | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
Games. Now she is triathlon's new kid on the block, aiming for a third | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
in Rio. London had always been the objective once I realised what I | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
wanted to do, so to go to Beijing was kind of, wow! I was 15 then, a | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
bit inexperienced, and I just kind of took it in my stride. I didn't do | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
as well as I wanted to, but when I look back now, I learnt a lot of | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
things. Lauren is clearly a quick learner, taking the European para | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
triathlon title in July, in front of Cambridge's Claire Cunningham just | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
months into her career. This weekend, she is in the running to be | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
crowned world champion, so too Norwich's Ian Dawson, who won the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
title in New Zealand 12 months ago. I am the defending champion in my | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
category of visually impaired athletes. I would like to try to | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
retain the title, of course, and just have a good race. Ian competes | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
with guide Matt Ellis, also with Norwich's triangular team. There are | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
double act in more ways than one. I look for the quickest athlete in our | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
club, and that was Matt. It was quite an easy process, I just | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
chatted him up at a few swim sessions and try to persuade him. He | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
bought me dinner a few times and bought me roses! And cake! For | :21:32. | :21:43. | |
Lauren, who was born with the missing lower right arm, competing | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
on the world stage gives her the chance to prove anything is | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
possible. I'd like to think anything can inspire other people to not | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
necessarily just do triathlon, but for any disability, to push the | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
boundaries of their disability and reach out for something they didn't | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
think was possible. In three years time, Lauren hopes to be a triple | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
Paralympian, with the sport making its debut in Rio. Tirst things | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
first, it's Hyde Park tomorrow, where she can add a world title to | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
her European crown. Gold medals, we hope! | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
As you know, we always like to hear from you if you have got a good | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
story. It's even better if it's got some good pictures. So we were | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
delighted when Sam and Matt from Woodbridge got in touch. They took | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
their kayaks to America and paddled the entire length of the Mississippi | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
River from the source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, raising | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
£16,000 for Help For Heroes in the process. Back in Woodbridge today, | :22:50. | :22:59. | |
after an amazing 80 days on one of the world greatest rivers. For Sam | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
and Matt Grazer, the third member of the team, is of ready back at work. | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
All three are former pupils at Woodbridge skills in just 22 years | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
old. The idea came about after our last summer as University. We were | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
working on a farm and warehouses, and we wanted to do something a | :23:22. | :23:31. | |
little bit different. We have made it this far! Here we are at Lake | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
Itaska! From Lake Itaska, south. Matt took | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
his camera, a laptop, and his computer. He posted movies on | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
YouTube. The best bet? Definitely the people we met. The hospitality | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
was incredible. The worst bit was probably the weather. Being English, | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
we were not used today humidity and thunderstorms were pretty terrifying | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
some nice. The camp is most nights, sometimes the food was not great, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
and sometimes it was. There were about bridges, —— big bridges, big | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
ships, and big adventure. There were celebrations when they got to | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
deceive. There is always another adventure round the corner, and | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
after you've done one of these, you certainly want to do more. There's | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
nothing like travelling a country slowly. You get to experience the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
people and the environment around you. As lovely as Woodbridge is, | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
they now have a taste for going walkabout. The next big adventure | :24:44. | :24:57. | |
could be cycling in Greenland. Let's take a look at the weather. | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
Yes, over on BBC Two tonight.. Harvest 2013 is visiting a farm in | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
Essex. The cameras have been following the growing and gathering | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
in of the cereal crops on Tom Bradshaw's farm near Colchester | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
during a year that brought a dreadful spring but a glorious | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
summer. You can follow the highs and lows of life on the farm at 8pm on | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
BBC Two. We haven't done too badly today, but we have got an | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
approaching weather front that is already starting to turn our skies | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
cloudy. For the western half, quite a lot of hot cloud moving in, and | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
the eastern half will fear quite well, but eventually we will have | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
some brain. It will lose it as it —— its intensity, but the wind will be | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
the Mac brain will be fairly patchy. Perhaps in mist and fog patches as | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
well, but it will stay muggy. For many of us, the temperatures will | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
stay in the mid—teens, with a low of around 13 Celsius. Tomorrow, it may | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
well be a bit damp, with some spots of light rain and drizzle, but the | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
middle of the day looks quite promising. It should start to | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
brighten up and we may see some sunshine. Temperatures will climb to | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
the high teens, and will be a light wind. The next part of the weather | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
front heads towards us after that, and will bring some brain. This | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
could be heavier, but it will hopefully not reach us till after | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
tea—time, and certainly there will be some fairly heavy rain overnight | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
on Friday and into the early hours of Saturday. Looking ahead, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Dundee's pressure chart looks interesting. A deepening low over | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
the northern half of Scotland is going to bring lively weather out | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
there. For us in the east, we will see some brain and also some | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
increasingly strong winds. —— see some rain. Let's just be capped. | :26:59. | :27:12. | |
Sunday will be dry after we get rid of the early rain, but quite a wet | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
night on Friday. It may well take its time to clear for Saturday. If | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
you live in the east, is going to be quite cloudy and damp too much of | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Saturday, gradually creeping away and quite a cool day as well. That | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
cool weather will continue for Sunday, with outbreaks of rain | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
living in and strengthening wind, certainly quite blustery on Monday. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
Quite a chilly night on Saturday to look out for. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Thank you very much indeed. That's all for us. | :27:42. | :27:45. |