:00:12. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight.
:00:20. > :00:25.It's been in special measures for months. Now the Government sends
:00:25. > :00:29.staff from a London hospital to get Basildon back on track. We have had
:00:29. > :00:32.entrenched problems at Basildon Hospital which we are now
:00:32. > :00:37.addressing, we have a management team totally committed to doing
:00:37. > :00:40.that. What is the single thing we can really do to help? Giving them
:00:41. > :00:41.the support of a successful NHS hospital.
:00:41. > :00:50.Selling grain to Libya via Great Yarmouth. The changing face of East
:00:50. > :00:55.Anglian exports. Behind the scenes at the best state
:00:55. > :00:59.sixth form college in the country. The chief Toril system is great
:00:59. > :01:01.because we get weekly reminders of what we have to do —— the Chu Toril
:01:01. > :01:06.system. —— tutorial system. And Hawking the movie — we've been
:01:06. > :01:10.speaking to the professor's sister about his early years.
:01:10. > :01:15.First tonight, senior staff from one of the top teaching hospitals in
:01:15. > :01:19.London are being brought to Basildon to help turn the troubled hospital
:01:19. > :01:22.around. Basildon is one of 11 failing hospitals to be partnered
:01:22. > :01:31.with a successful hospital to help bring it up to scratch. In
:01:31. > :01:35.Basildon's case it's the Royal Free in north London. The Health
:01:35. > :01:41.Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is keeping all the failing hospitals on a tight
:01:41. > :01:47.rein: Basildon has been stripped of its Foundation Trust status. In
:01:47. > :01:51.other words, it has lost some of its independence. Its chief executive,
:01:51. > :01:56.Clare Panniker, is effectively on probation, with Mr Hunt warning
:01:56. > :02:02.he'll remove leaders if they're not up to it. She has to write a monthly
:02:02. > :02:03.progress report and publish it on an NHS website. And like the other
:02:03. > :02:08.hospitals, Basildon gets a so—called improvement cirector — in this case,
:02:08. > :02:09.Adam Cayley is appointed by the health watchdog, Monitor. Here's our
:02:09. > :02:14.Essex reporter, Gareth George. David Bushell is now fit enough to
:02:14. > :02:20.work in his vegetable garden. It is only a few months and see had major
:02:20. > :02:24.bowel surgery at Basildon Hospital. He claims the standard of care on
:02:24. > :02:29.the ward was terrible. An ambulance is expected to get to the other side
:02:29. > :02:33.of Essex in ten, 15 minutes, yet we couldn't get a nurse come round ten
:02:33. > :02:39.feet, literally around a corner. Everything was, I will be back
:02:40. > :02:44.later. It seems hardly a week goes by without the hospital making the
:02:44. > :02:48.wrong sort of headlines. Today at County Hall in Chelmsford, the
:02:48. > :02:53.inquest is being heard into the death of an age old from Billericay.
:02:53. > :02:58.She died at Basildon Hospital in 2011 after contracting legionnaires
:02:58. > :03:02.disease caused by a bug carried in the water supply —— the death of an
:03:02. > :03:06.eight—year—old. The government thinks Basildon Hospital can be
:03:06. > :03:11.improved if it gets help from a so—called elite hospital. This one,
:03:11. > :03:18.the Royal Free, a major teaching hospital in London. The idea is that
:03:18. > :03:21.managers and doctors from the Royal Free will help sort out the
:03:21. > :03:25.problems. The linkup was announced by Jeremy Hunt, the Health
:03:25. > :03:27.Secretary. We have had some very entrenched problems at Basildon
:03:27. > :03:33.Hospital which we are addressing. We have a management team and staff
:03:33. > :03:38.committed to doing that. What is the single thing we can do to help them?
:03:38. > :03:43.It is give them support from a successful NHS hospital who has done
:03:43. > :03:48.many of the things they are seeking to do. That is why we are announcing
:03:48. > :03:52.a partnership with the Royal Free, a very successful hospital which can
:03:52. > :03:56.give them that intensive support. Clare Panniker, Basildon's chief
:03:56. > :03:59.executive, has already told Look East that improvements are being
:03:59. > :04:05.made. Her job is under ongoing review. The Chief Executive of the
:04:05. > :04:06.Royal Free, David Snowden, said I know there are excellent things
:04:06. > :04:12.happening: 200 extra nurses recruited by
:04:12. > :04:17.Basildon Hospital will start work soon and a new respiratory ward is
:04:17. > :04:22.due to open in December. The hospital will have to work hard to
:04:22. > :04:25.win back the trust of some former patients.
:04:25. > :04:30.Earlier I spoke to Stephen Metcalfe, the local MP who was at the
:04:30. > :04:33.hospital. I asked if he had confidence in the current
:04:33. > :04:38.management, given that the Health Secretary had stopped short of
:04:38. > :04:44.giving them his full backing. The team that is in place has been here
:04:44. > :04:47.just over a year. In that time they have made significant improvements
:04:47. > :04:52.but there was a culture of complacency that went before. They
:04:52. > :04:57.are turning that around. While the secretary of health may have stop
:04:57. > :05:03.short of saying he has confidence, I have complete confidence in the team
:05:03. > :05:08.as it stands and I think they will turn this hospital around for the
:05:08. > :05:09.benefit of the people I repress. One of the improvements that has been
:05:09. > :05:15.made is that 200 extra nurses have been appointed. It begs the
:05:15. > :05:19.question, if they were needed and they could be paid for, why were
:05:19. > :05:21.they not there before? I think that is an important and valuable
:05:21. > :05:24.question. The number of nurses employed at the hospital has
:05:24. > :05:28.increased since 2010. As part of improvement plan developed by the
:05:28. > :05:35.new team, they identified there was a shortage of nurses. They set out
:05:35. > :05:40.to recruit 200 new nurses and by next month they will be in place. I
:05:40. > :05:43.think it is an indication of the failures of the past rather than not
:05:43. > :05:46.making progress in the present. Basildon has had its status as a
:05:46. > :05:51.Foundation Trust suspended. Does it imply that the Foundation Trust was
:05:51. > :05:56.part of the problem, they were trying so hard to become part of the
:05:56. > :06:01.Foundation Trust at the expense of patient care? It does beg that
:06:01. > :06:03.question and I think that when a hospital is given foundation status,
:06:03. > :06:08.it must be proved to be stained obligatory. In the case of
:06:08. > :06:14.Basildon, we have discussed the failures of the past, that was not
:06:14. > :06:21.the case, it was not sustainable. Things will not get better
:06:21. > :06:27.overnight. They will not, we have to keep the pressure up. We have to
:06:27. > :06:30.make sure these changes take place in a timely fashion, we cannot let
:06:31. > :06:36.this go on indefinitely. I hope that within six months to a year we will
:06:36. > :06:39.have confidence it is a safe hospital delivering good quality
:06:39. > :06:45.care for everyone. Would you be happy for your family to be treated
:06:45. > :06:51.there? Of course, I have e—mails all the time from people who say they
:06:51. > :06:56.have had exemplary care. It is unfortunate there have been
:06:56. > :07:00.challenges in the past and there are many sad cases where things have
:07:00. > :07:05.gone wrong. The vast majority of people have exemplary care in this
:07:05. > :07:08.hospital. Just too often something goes wrong and that is what we have
:07:08. > :07:12.to stop. More council services in Norfolk are
:07:12. > :07:17.being cut. Councillors say they need to make savings of £189million over
:07:17. > :07:28.three years. Hundreds of jobs are under threat. Among the other
:07:28. > :07:31.proposals — cutting road maintenance and charging people to dump rubbish
:07:31. > :07:35.at council tips. The details now from Alex Dunlop.
:07:35. > :07:38."I won't hide the truth" said the council leader, George Nobbs. "Some
:07:38. > :07:44.painful cuts in services are unavoidable". This is the sum of it:
:07:44. > :07:49.£189 million in savings — that would pay for the county's fire service
:07:49. > :07:55.six times over. 700 jobs could go over the next two years. The council
:07:55. > :08:01.has identified 60 services where £134 million of savings cold be made
:08:01. > :08:02.initially: Reducing subsidised bus travel for some school children,
:08:02. > :08:07.charging people to use some recycling centres and cutting
:08:07. > :08:13.opening times. And cutting funding for road maintenance and changes in
:08:13. > :08:19.some home care support. I would cut down on school dinners. Would you
:08:19. > :08:24.cut down on the bus pass for older people? If they were means tested, I
:08:24. > :08:27.would. We want to save the bus passes for us elderly people. The
:08:28. > :08:33.children centres are quite important. We want people to get in
:08:33. > :08:39.a dialogue with us and look for alternative ways of bridging the
:08:39. > :08:45.gap, for making the budget balance so we can minimise as many of the
:08:45. > :08:56.cuts as we can do. Why such drastic cuts? The council faces a double
:08:56. > :09:02.whammy: money from central Government has been cut by £91
:09:02. > :09:06.million. At the same time, more people want to use vital local
:09:06. > :09:11.services, like adult and children's care. Norfolk isn't the only one
:09:11. > :09:23.facing a financial black hole: Suffolk has to save £156 million and
:09:23. > :09:28.Essex, £235 million. Councillors will decide next February where the
:09:28. > :09:32.cuts will fall. Sunday Politics will be looking at
:09:32. > :09:38.cutbacks this weekend. The latest research shows that councils in the
:09:38. > :09:39.East have cut thousands of jobs over the last three years. The programme
:09:39. > :09:45.is on Sunday at the usual time of 11:00am.
:09:45. > :09:53.Opposition to plans for a toll on a section of the A14 appears to be
:09:53. > :09:53.today, with companies which use the today, with companies which use the
:09:53. > :10:02.road every day saying it could threaten business. The section to be
:10:02. > :10:02.South of the existing road to South of the existing road to
:10:02. > :10:09.Ellington, west of the A1. A viaduct on the existing A14 would be removed
:10:09. > :10:11.at Huntingdon. The government says it is keen to hear what people think
:10:11. > :10:16.of this toll road plan and today in Suffolk, critics were not holding
:10:16. > :10:17.back, accusing ministers of muddled thinking. Rather than consultation,
:10:17. > :10:23.they want the idea consigned to the scrapheap. If government was going
:10:23. > :10:27.to think of one thing to shoot themselves in the foot, with the
:10:27. > :10:29.ricochet that bullet would shoot us in the head, couldn't it devise a
:10:29. > :10:34.better plan? The government said that a toll is the only option but
:10:34. > :10:38.at this business festival in Bury, the launch of a new sticker
:10:38. > :10:43.campaign. The worry, not just the impact on existing firms but those
:10:43. > :10:47.in the future. The building was crammed with young entrepreneurs,
:10:47. > :10:51.Chris Swallow from Newmarket is one of them, having launched his cage
:10:51. > :10:56.and street food venture in April. As someone who is going to be
:10:56. > :11:01.travelling to events up and down the country, the toll will cost me extra
:11:01. > :11:03.money on top of my petrol and other expenses so it will have an effect.
:11:03. > :11:07.It might deter me from travelling further afield. Nowhere else in the
:11:07. > :11:12.country is anybody having to pay to use and a road. We have paid our
:11:12. > :11:17.taxes for everybody else's upgrade but when it comes to upgrading a
:11:17. > :11:22.road that has not been fitful purpose for years, we are being
:11:22. > :11:27.asked to pay a toll. —— not been fit for purpose. It has been called the
:11:27. > :11:31.Golden Triangle for its contribution to the national economy. If it is so
:11:31. > :11:32.vital to the government say campaigners, ministers have a funny
:11:33. > :11:37.way of showing it. A woman in a wheelchair, who fell
:11:37. > :11:42.onto the tracks at the railway station in Southend, did so
:11:42. > :11:47.accidentally. The police have now ruled out foul play. A rail worker
:11:47. > :11:51.who rescued her — and was suspended for breaching safety regulations —
:11:51. > :11:57.has since been reinstated. The accident happened on August 28th.
:11:57. > :12:02.The biggest grain ship ever to dock in East Anglia has arrived in Great
:12:02. > :12:07.Yarmouth. The MV Fraga will take barley to Libya. And in the process
:12:07. > :12:11.it's saved hundreds of lorries from having to travel much further
:12:11. > :12:14.afield. Slowly but surely, the MV Fraga is
:12:15. > :12:19.filling up. It can hold 27,500 tonnes of barley, grown on farms
:12:19. > :12:24.across East Anglia but bound for North Africa, for animal feed. This
:12:24. > :12:31.is the first time a cargo this big has been loaded here. It is a
:12:31. > :12:36.massive deal, not just for the company but also for the port and
:12:36. > :12:38.farmers in general in the area. It is providing them with an
:12:38. > :12:41.opportunity to reach markets they were previously excluded from. This
:12:41. > :12:45.company normally uses ports outside East Anglia for big shipments and
:12:45. > :12:49.this is a huge logistical operation. 250 lorries arrived at great
:12:49. > :12:56.Yarmouth's outer harbour every day, each with 29 tonnes of grain. These
:12:56. > :13:02.trucks may otherwise have gone as far as Humberside all Tilbury. This
:13:02. > :13:07.is what it is all about. East Anglia and feed barley, most of it from
:13:07. > :13:11.local farms. This year there has been a surplus of barley because the
:13:11. > :13:17.weather conditions last winter meant it was one of the few things farmers
:13:17. > :13:21.could actually so. This is a huge vessel for Yarmouth's outer harbour,
:13:21. > :13:26.the water is ten metres deep. When it is full the MV Fraga has just 20
:13:26. > :13:33.centimetres of clearance. It was not easy but it was not too difficult.
:13:33. > :13:39.This vessel is good with an experienced pilot, experienced
:13:39. > :13:44.master on board. The loading will take all weekend. Then it is ten
:13:44. > :13:51.days and the bilingual reach its final destination —— the barley will
:13:51. > :13:54.reach. It's final destination of Libya.
:13:54. > :14:03.Still to come, we need your suggestions for the region's unsung
:14:03. > :14:08.sporting heroes. And the best college in the country for A—level
:14:08. > :14:13.results, so how do they do it? We speak to the principal and the
:14:13. > :14:18.students. The UK Independence Party is meeting
:14:18. > :14:24.in London tonight for it's annual conference. The party leader has
:14:25. > :14:29.told us he's proud of the role UKIP councillors are playing on local
:14:29. > :14:32.authorities in this region. Four months ago, the party gained 45
:14:32. > :14:38.seats on our county councils. Critics say those new councillors
:14:38. > :14:39.haven't been good enough. But leader Nigel Farage rejects that, saying
:14:39. > :14:42.they've been playing a constructive role. Our political correspondent
:14:42. > :14:48.Andrew Sinclair is in at Westminster.
:14:48. > :14:57.We seem to have a problem getting the sound. I think we can hear his
:14:57. > :15:04.report. It is the party that refuses to go
:15:04. > :15:10.away. For the last 14 years its opponents have claimed UKIP is just
:15:10. > :15:15.a flash in the pan. Yet it keeps on winning elections. In Cambridgeshire
:15:15. > :15:19.and here in Norfolk, so many UKIP councillors were elected that they
:15:19. > :15:23.were able to persuade the authorities to change the way in
:15:23. > :15:26.which decisions are made. We have really shaken things up. Cabinet
:15:26. > :15:28.government is to end in Norfolk County Council because of UKIP,
:15:29. > :15:34.array. Normally UKIP hold their conferences in hotels. This year
:15:34. > :15:38.they have picked the grand setting of Westminster Central Hall. The
:15:38. > :15:42.party believes it has turned a corner and is being taken more
:15:43. > :15:47.seriously. At those who have to deal with UKIP on a daily basis have
:15:47. > :15:51.concerns —— but those. They claim its members don't turn up for
:15:51. > :15:57.meetings and obsess about national issues. I am not convinced they are
:15:57. > :16:03.making the sort of impact that benefits the people of the county in
:16:03. > :16:08.the way that they would like. It is naivete that goes with that. A real
:16:08. > :16:09.lack of understanding of what Cambridgeshire is about, of what the
:16:09. > :16:15.places they represent are about. One of the criticisms I often hear is
:16:15. > :16:22.that your councillors know a lot about Europe and immigration and
:16:22. > :16:23.national issues but they are vague when it comes to local issues, are
:16:23. > :16:32.they out of their depth? No but they proved we have a bit to learn. But I
:16:32. > :16:32.think they will, and the reason I think that is because our
:16:32. > :16:39.councillors, like MEP candidates, are being drawn from a very wide
:16:39. > :16:40.background and different experiences of life. Nigel Farage knows that
:16:40. > :16:44.with councillors in local government, his body has an
:16:44. > :16:45.opportunity to show the public it can be serious if given
:16:46. > :16:51.responsibility. —— his party has opportunity. When he meets them he
:16:51. > :16:55.will say well done but he will also say, don't mess up.
:16:55. > :17:00.We will try again. Those UKIP members meeting just down the road
:17:00. > :17:05.tonight and they are in buoyant mood. This really has been the year
:17:05. > :17:09.that UKIP entered the mainstream of British politics, winning 150
:17:09. > :17:14.council seats across the country. Mr Farage was saying he does not want
:17:14. > :17:18.them to be dogs in a manger commie wants them be very constructive. The
:17:18. > :17:21.problem is that UKIP is under enormous scrutiny. Already one
:17:21. > :17:25.councillor has resigned and two are under investigation in Norfolk. In
:17:25. > :17:30.Cambridgeshire, a councillor has been investigated and in
:17:30. > :17:36.Lincolnshire, the entire party has fallen out with each other. It has a
:17:37. > :17:41.long way to go before anyone will take it very seriously.
:17:41. > :17:46.If you are looking for a school or college that gets good results in
:17:46. > :17:47.A—levels and gets students into the right university, look no further.
:17:47. > :17:55.The best place in the country is Hills Road Sixth Form College in
:17:55. > :18:02.Cambridge. So how do they do it? A one—to—one tutorial system is, they
:18:02. > :18:03.say, at least part of the answer. But now a change in the way colleges
:18:03. > :18:08.are funded is making it increasingly unaffordable. Ben Bland has spent a
:18:08. > :18:12.day with staff and students. Achieving your goals isn't always
:18:13. > :18:17.easy. But each year most of the students at Hillsborough in sixth
:18:17. > :18:20.form college get places at top universities including Cambridge and
:18:20. > :18:26.Oxford. And this is what gives them the edge. Hazel wants to study law
:18:26. > :18:28.and in this personal tutorial session, she's getting advice on
:18:28. > :18:32.application. We were going through my personal statement, Miss Higgins
:18:32. > :18:38.was helping me identify what I could expand on. It is only in the
:18:38. > :18:42.one—to—one meetings that they can hone in on smaller things that are
:18:42. > :18:47.specific to you like extracurricular and things like that. It was the
:18:47. > :18:53.best performing state sixth form college in England. 80% of the
:18:53. > :18:57.greats that students got here were within the range of grades required
:18:57. > :19:00.by top universities. It is significantly higher than the
:19:00. > :19:05.national average. That is why this college gets many more applications
:19:05. > :19:09.from students than there are places available. Practical subjects like
:19:09. > :19:14.science are popular here, but expensive to provide. The way the
:19:14. > :19:19.government fund sixth form education is changing this month. Under the
:19:19. > :19:23.new formula, colleges like this could get less money, making it hard
:19:23. > :19:27.to keep providing those personal tutorials. We have to find a way to
:19:27. > :19:31.ensure we continue to offer that high—quality guidance. It is a
:19:31. > :19:38.challenge, it is not going to be easy but we have to find a way to
:19:38. > :19:43.keep it. It is really at the heart of what we do. That will mean making
:19:43. > :19:47.savings in other areas and was welcomed in the common room. The
:19:47. > :19:51.tutorial system is great, we get weekly reminders of what we have to
:19:51. > :19:57.do. My tutors help me a lot, I wasn't sure if I wanted to take a
:19:57. > :20:01.gap year and he has provided a lot of support. There have already been
:20:01. > :20:06.cuts to further education for 16 to 19—year—olds in recent years. The
:20:06. > :20:10.challenge is to find ways of saving even more money by keeping a prized
:20:10. > :20:16.possession at the top of the table —— position.
:20:16. > :20:17.The search is onto find this year's BBC East Sporting Unsung Hero. We're
:20:18. > :20:26.looking for people who give up hours of their own time to help others
:20:26. > :20:34.play sport. If you know someone who fits the bill it's time to let us
:20:34. > :20:35.know. Shaun Peel is the organiser in the East region. What kind of people
:20:36. > :20:36.are we looking for? The centre forward in football scores a
:20:36. > :20:45.hat—trick he gets the credit. Nobody thinks of the groundsman. The
:20:45. > :20:45.swimmers get the medals and a credit, nobody thinks about the
:20:45. > :20:55.coach, the people working behind the scenes. People who enable others to
:20:55. > :20:56.play sport. They wash the kit, they do the runs in the minibuses and the
:20:56. > :21:07.cars, they go to the meetings, the unsung sporting heroes and it is
:21:07. > :21:08.time to sing up for them. And we've had a good record in the East,
:21:08. > :21:09.haven't we? We have had a couple of people in recent years who have gone
:21:09. > :21:17.on to win the national title. Lance Haggis from Bedford, the basketball
:21:17. > :21:18.coach, went to the NEC in 2010 and one a national title. Doreen Adcock
:21:18. > :21:24.from Milton Keynes, the swimming coach, also won the national title.
:21:24. > :21:26.We are looking for your nominations. Give us the details of how to apply.
:21:26. > :21:28.Go to the website, bbc.co.uk/unsunghero. Nominate your
:21:28. > :21:34.Sporting Unsung Hero today! Thank you very much. Don't you wish
:21:34. > :21:38.you could be more enthusiastic! On Tuesday we showed an interview
:21:38. > :21:45.with the Cambridge scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking, because
:21:45. > :21:49.this week a new film about him is released. The film is simply called
:21:49. > :21:50.Hawking. The subtitle: A Remarkable Man, A Remarkable Story. The
:21:51. > :21:56.premiere is tonight in Cambridge. Mike Cartwright is there.
:21:56. > :22:01.Yes, we are at the pre—drinks do for the premiere. These are family
:22:01. > :22:06.friends, colleagues of Professor Stephen Hawking. He is over there in
:22:06. > :22:11.that corner. Take a look at these pictures, this was his arrival a
:22:11. > :22:17.short time ago. A lot of media interest into night's events. But
:22:17. > :22:22.what is truly extraordinary about a night is that age 21, Stephen
:22:22. > :22:26.Hawking was given just three years to live. Nearly 50 years on, this
:22:26. > :22:32.special premiere is celebrating his remarkable life.
:22:32. > :22:40.I have lived over two thirds of my life with the threat of death
:22:40. > :22:45.hanging over me. His story. A film about the life of the most famous
:22:45. > :22:49.scientist on the planet. Because every new day could mean my last.
:22:49. > :22:57.How he defied a disease, Cambridge and a glittering career. His
:22:57. > :23:04.friends, his family. Mary, his sister, appears in the film. She
:23:04. > :23:08.told us about a Big Brother who always loved the limelight. Apart
:23:08. > :23:12.from the motor neurone, he has written had everything that a man
:23:12. > :23:19.could want. Family life, children, professional career. Fame. Stephen
:23:19. > :23:24.Moyes wanted to be a celebrity. I am glad he achieved that —— Stephen
:23:24. > :23:29.always wanted to be. His life changing moment in his words, his
:23:29. > :23:35.diagnosis of motor neurone disease, his book, a brief history of Time,
:23:35. > :23:42.and the everyday and the people who look after him. When I went to my
:23:42. > :23:46.job interview, I thought he was going to ask me about my past
:23:46. > :23:51.medical history and what I have done in care but he didn't, he asked if I
:23:51. > :24:00.could cook poached eggs. I was 19 at the time and I lied because I didn't
:24:00. > :24:03.know how to cook poached eggs. But I got the job straightaway. At
:24:03. > :24:08.Cambridge I met a new generation of cosmologists. Part documentary, part
:24:08. > :24:15.dramatisation so why did Professor Hawking make this film now? He had
:24:15. > :24:22.just turned 70 and that is probably nearly 50 years longer than he was
:24:22. > :24:28.given to live. I think perhaps he felt now was the time to make a film
:24:28. > :24:33.that did show more about his life and who he was. He is notoriously
:24:33. > :24:38.guarded about his past, his life and his family. He is very protective of
:24:38. > :24:42.his family. He is described as having one of the greatest minds of
:24:42. > :24:47.a generation. Tonight he will be watching his own life story.
:24:47. > :24:52.Very soon they will leave here, they had across the road to a cinema for
:24:52. > :24:56.the premiere. It will be broadcast to numerous and is across the
:24:57. > :25:01.country and there will be a special Q and a session after that. We
:25:01. > :25:04.understand there will be special interviews from Buzz Aldrin and also
:25:04. > :25:09.Richard Branson. It is fitting that Stephen Hawking came to this
:25:09. > :25:13.premiere in the city where he lives and works.
:25:13. > :25:14.Thank you very much, from both of us! .
:25:14. > :25:25.The weather is improving and over the next few days it will stay dry
:25:25. > :25:29.and gradually warmer. By the weekend the temperature is could be up to 22
:25:29. > :25:34.degrees. Today we have had some rain, a slow—moving weather front.
:25:34. > :25:39.For many it has stayed very cloudy right into the afternoon with
:25:39. > :25:44.continued spots of light rain or drizzle. It has started to clear
:25:44. > :25:50.away and the satellite image shows how significant that clearance is.
:25:50. > :25:56.In the last few hours clear skies across much of the region, some of
:25:56. > :26:01.you may have seen sunshine and blue sky. Overnight we will have clear
:26:02. > :26:07.skies for some of the time. It is possible in those spots that tend to
:26:07. > :26:12.get cold, it could get down to eight or nine Celsius. For many of us, it
:26:12. > :26:17.will stay at ten or 11 degrees. The winds are largely light westerly. We
:26:17. > :26:21.start tomorrow with quite a lot of clout, it will be a bit of a mixed
:26:21. > :26:24.bag —— quite a lot of cloud. Temperatures are still expected to
:26:24. > :26:30.climb to 17 degrees. Perhaps up to 18 Celsius. With a light west to
:26:30. > :26:35.north—westerly wind it should feel quite comfortable for tomorrow. It
:26:35. > :26:39.will stay dry for the next few days, our pressure pattern is
:26:39. > :26:44.bringing high pressure in from the south—west. It means dry weather but
:26:44. > :26:51.it is going to bring quite a lot of moisture. Some warmer weather. It
:26:51. > :26:56.may well stay quite cloudy at times and it will be difficult to forecast
:26:56. > :27:00.where the cloud will thin and break. All these weather fronts being
:27:00. > :27:04.pushed to the North. The next few days will get gradually warmer. For
:27:04. > :27:09.Saturday it could end up staying cloudy, that will be hit and miss.
:27:09. > :27:13.Some places may see something brighter, perhaps something sunny.
:27:13. > :27:18.It looks better by Sunday for all of us, sunny spells developing. We
:27:18. > :27:21.continue that theme into the start of next week with that high—pressure
:27:21. > :27:27.staying firmly in place. With the light winds it should be pleasant.
:27:27. > :27:31.Overnight lows staying just about in double figures. If you have a
:27:31. > :27:34.barometer and you need a reading, give it a tap and you will get a
:27:34. > :27:42.reading of 1005 millibars. Every time I see the forecast that
:27:42. > :27:45.the budget gets higher for Monday. We're complaining! —— that
:27:45. > :27:46.temperature gets higher. We