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:00:07. > :00:16.Hello. Look East can reveal tonight that Labour would scrap the

:00:16. > :00:19.so—called "bedroom tax" if the party wins the next election. In an

:00:19. > :00:25.exclusive interview, Ed Miliband told us he thought the measure was

:00:25. > :00:34.unfair and had led to tenants being evicted from their homes. It's the

:00:34. > :00:38.right decision to make a fair tax change and maybe will get rid of

:00:38. > :00:43.that policy and end the bedroom tax. Stay with us for pool details of

:00:43. > :00:45.that promise, plus reaction from those affected and senior members of

:00:45. > :00:52.the Government. Also tonight: The Suffolk security guard who went on

:00:52. > :00:58.the run with more than £1 million finds out today that crime really

:00:58. > :00:59.does not pay. The surgeon who pioneered heart and lung transplant

:00:59. > :01:03.is going back to his roots at Papworth Hospital. And warmer

:01:03. > :01:04.weather for the weekend, but it could be quite cloudy. Join me

:01:04. > :01:17.Hello. Look East Kent revealed today that Leibowitz crap the so—called

:01:17. > :01:24.bedroom tax if their party wins the next election —— that Labour would

:01:24. > :01:30.scrap the bedroom tax. Let's just remind ourselves about the rules on

:01:30. > :01:36.housing benefit. They were changed with effect from first April this

:01:36. > :01:41.year. Tenants on housing benefit can no longer claim their full amount if

:01:41. > :01:46.they have an unused spare bedroom. They were given a choice to either

:01:46. > :01:50.downsize or face a benefit cut. There was strong opposition to what

:01:50. > :01:51.became known as the "bedroom tax". In this region, Labour believe

:01:51. > :01:55.50,000 households have been affected. Tonight, Mr Miliband tells

:01:55. > :01:59.this programme that Labour will scrap it. We start with this report

:01:59. > :02:03.from our political correspondent, Andrew Sinclair: Of all of the

:02:03. > :02:06.recent welfare changes, this has probably been the most

:02:06. > :02:12.controversial. The Government's intention was to cut the amount it

:02:12. > :02:16.spends on welfare and free up homes for the thousands of families

:02:16. > :02:19.waiting for larger properties. But housing campaigners say it is

:02:19. > :02:26.causing misery for many. Our research shows that 50% of the

:02:26. > :02:33.people affected by the tax have gone into arrears in the first three

:02:33. > :02:38.months. These are people who have not gone into arrears before. This

:02:38. > :02:42.is not the usual suspects. This has pushed them over the edge. Others

:02:42. > :02:46.have questioned whether the policy is workable. A study by Cambridge

:02:46. > :02:50.University concluded that it would take 24 years to be housed all those

:02:50. > :02:53.affected. So tonight's moved by the Labour leader is eye—catching, and

:02:53. > :02:58.on the eve of a difficult conference a chance to show that his party can

:02:58. > :03:06.come up with real policies. What we're seeing that this tax is people

:03:06. > :03:08.potentially being evicted from their homes, and it will not even save

:03:08. > :03:14.what the Government said it was going to say, so I think it is

:03:14. > :03:18.right decision to make their tax change, to say we're going to rid of

:03:18. > :03:21.the bedroom tax. It will be funded by ending some of the tax rate is

:03:21. > :03:29.currently available to financial institutions. George Osborne cut

:03:29. > :03:34.taxes for hedge funds is at the same time as introducing the bedroom tax.

:03:34. > :03:39.I think most people will think that is not the right priority. What this

:03:39. > :03:43.give critics to your critics who say you are the party of welfare? No.

:03:43. > :03:48.This is about unfair welfare that is hitting the disabled. It is not even

:03:48. > :03:51.going to work. Labour says that 50,000 people in the East will be

:03:51. > :03:55.affected by this change. 31,000 of them are disabled. Mr Miliband

:03:55. > :04:01.except that there are other issues that affect far larger numbers and

:04:01. > :04:04.also need addressing, but this, he says, must be a priority.

:04:04. > :04:08.The changes to housing benefit prompted several reports on Look

:04:08. > :04:12.East, with many tenants struggling to cope with the changes. Those with

:04:12. > :04:14.disabilities felt especially aggrieved at being penalised for

:04:15. > :04:20.having a spare room. Come through and I will show you

:04:20. > :04:27.what my spirit is like at the moment. —— what my spear room is

:04:27. > :04:32.like at the moment. There is boxes in there, stuff I have not

:04:32. > :04:37.unpacked... This woman moved into this bungalow month ago. She says

:04:37. > :04:41.the cuts in housing benefits forced her to downsize, leaving the

:04:42. > :04:48.three—bedroom house she had lived in for 35 years. I cannot well. I have

:04:48. > :04:56.arthritis and severe pain in my neck. I am on for that. —— I am on

:04:56. > :05:03.medication for that. They introduced the bedroom tax and it was more

:05:03. > :05:09.money will stop —— more money out of the pot. With most of her belongings

:05:09. > :05:14.still in boxes, the spirit room costs her £13 per week. She is not

:05:15. > :05:20.the only person to downsize. Previously on Look East, we spoke to

:05:20. > :05:26.Susan, who fell into rent arrears. I feel angry as well and I feel so

:05:26. > :05:31.alone. They are just making my situation even worse. Annie says

:05:31. > :05:40.that she welcomes Labour's and then spent. Honestly, I would be well

:05:40. > :05:45.chuffed for the people who are —— people have gone through what I have

:05:45. > :05:51.gone through. But it will not help me. I would have to pay bedroom tax,

:05:51. > :05:56.but what about the money I have paid? As they say they will

:05:56. > :05:58.reimburse it. My dad had a saying. Nothing to be liberal West, nothing

:05:58. > :06:03.to conserve, everything to labour force. My dad was a Labour man

:06:03. > :06:08.through and through. I have nothing to conserve because I sold it. She

:06:08. > :06:16.is reorganising her life and hope that any future changes. Other

:06:16. > :06:22.people from being in her position. So, this announcement has been made

:06:22. > :06:26.to coincide with the start of the Labour conference? Yes it is going

:06:26. > :06:34.to be a difficult conference. They lead has crumbled. 52% of Labour

:06:34. > :06:39.members are not happy with his leadership. So, getting the story

:06:39. > :06:42.today is an attempt by him to seize the news agenda and get their

:06:42. > :06:47.conference of two a positive start. A lot of Labour people have been

:06:47. > :06:51.campaigning for the party to come out against this policy. But does

:06:51. > :06:56.the announcement really matter? Labour says it does, because a

:06:56. > :07:02.survey today said that 59% of people do not like the bedroom tax will

:07:02. > :07:06.stop but ministers keep saying it is a popular policy that will save

:07:06. > :07:11.billion pounds, and it will shorten waiting times. We spoke to Iain

:07:12. > :07:18.Duncan Smith who has been looking at this all year, and he says that 70%

:07:18. > :07:24.of people approve of this policy. So, good publicity for Labour, but

:07:24. > :07:30.voters don't really care. Let's talk to Andrew Sinclair. Later in the

:07:30. > :07:32.programme, what the Tories have to say with Andrew Lansley, the MP for

:07:32. > :07:39.South Cambridgeshire and Leader of the House.

:07:39. > :07:40.In other news tonight, a judge has said that police can confiscate the

:07:40. > :07:48.pension pot of Eddie Maher. He was the Securicor guard from Suffolk who

:07:48. > :07:49.went on the run twenty years ago with more than a million pounds.

:07:49. > :07:54.Maher, who was nicknamed Fast Eddie, is now in prison.

:07:54. > :07:57.This was what was cold and Asset Recovery During. In short, having

:07:57. > :08:03.got their man, Suffolk police wanted to get the money. The security guard

:08:03. > :08:06.vanished from outside this bank in Felixstowe in 1993. He was

:08:06. > :08:11.eventually discovered in misery. He always maintained that his share of

:08:11. > :08:18.the hall had been £40,000 —— discovered in America. Today, a

:08:18. > :08:23.judge ordered that a pension from his time working as a firefighter,

:08:23. > :08:28.now worth around £129,000, could be seized to help to compensate the

:08:28. > :08:32.security firm and an insurance company. He only made two

:08:32. > :08:37.contributions during the hearing, one at the start when he confirmed

:08:37. > :08:44.he could hear everything, and secondly when the judge queried what

:08:44. > :08:48.his release date would be. He told him it would be January 2015. The

:08:49. > :08:53.judge gave him six months to sort it out given the complexities of

:08:53. > :08:59.releasing pension money, and told him that if he did not pay, he would

:08:59. > :09:03.serve another two years on top of his sentence. It is the only asset

:09:03. > :09:08.he had remaining. It still shows that after all these years, we can

:09:08. > :09:13.now be successful in the covering money. This man remembers the crime

:09:13. > :09:17.like it was yesterday. He was the guard left behind as he ran away. He

:09:17. > :09:25.stole the money. He committed a crime. I don't even think about it

:09:25. > :09:29.now. It is over and done with. I am still alive. I am happy about that.

:09:29. > :09:34.The police admit that at Sting stand, if Eddie comes to money or

:09:34. > :09:38.signs a film deal, he could potentially be allowed to keep the

:09:38. > :09:42.cash. They say it is something they are still looking into.

:09:42. > :09:46.The interim Chief Executive of the East of England Ambulance Trust is

:09:47. > :09:50.to continue in the job after the board failed to make a permanent

:09:50. > :09:55.appointment. Andrew Morgan was brought in to turn the Trust around

:09:55. > :10:01.and deal with poor response times. He's aiming to recruit between 300

:10:01. > :10:07.and 360 new front line staff. The Trust's board interviewed five

:10:07. > :10:08.candidates for the job, but decided not to appoint any of them.

:10:08. > :10:16.Trains run by C2C are more punctual than any other operator in the

:10:16. > :10:16.country, according to latest figures. Just over 98% of its

:10:16. > :10:20.trains, which run between London and Southend, were on time over the past

:10:20. > :10:28.month. It's emerged today that the police

:10:28. > :10:36.are using a law from more than 100 years ago to ban off—licences and

:10:36. > :10:37.pubs from selling drink to an alcoholic. It's the first time it's

:10:37. > :10:39.been used for years. It comes after 57—year—old Paul Stephenson, who

:10:39. > :10:43.lives in a hostel, pleaded guilty at the Magistrates' Court in Norwich

:10:43. > :10:48.this week to being drunk and disorderly.

:10:48. > :10:50.Paul Stephenson has been declared a habitual drunkard, but he says he

:10:50. > :10:54.has been a driver three weeks and does not make this archaic

:10:54. > :11:00.legislation will help him. If you look in the books, it also says in

:11:00. > :11:05.the law that that doesn't count, so what will he do next the? He needs a

:11:05. > :11:13.reality check. In the courts eyes, you were in the wrong at the time. I

:11:13. > :11:18.was in the wrong and I got a fine and I am paying for it. But that

:11:18. > :11:23.doesn't help. Paying a fine does not help magic problem. He was arrested

:11:24. > :11:27.here last month. Police HQ was drunk and disorderly, throwing stones at

:11:27. > :11:31.fishermen. He said he started thinking at 16 because he was shy

:11:31. > :11:35.and lived on the streets. He now lives in a hostel, but at his worst

:11:35. > :11:41.he was getting through three large bottles of cider day. I've lost my

:11:41. > :11:45.job, I've lost my marriage, it is ruining me. It is killing me. This

:11:46. > :11:52.is one of the many off—licences banned from selling alcohol to him.

:11:52. > :11:55.If they do, they face losing their licence. He is banned from buying it

:11:55. > :11:59.or obtaining it for three years. What we are hoping to achieve is to

:11:59. > :12:06.target those persistent offenders. They are a small minority, and by

:12:06. > :12:12.using this legislation we can prevent their anti—social behaviour.

:12:12. > :12:19.With help, I can cure it. I have got to do it. I want to do it for myself

:12:20. > :12:25.and I want to make my son proud of me. I couldn't see him when I was on

:12:25. > :12:31.the streets. How can I say I live in a doorway? It's embarrassing. I want

:12:31. > :12:36.him to be proud of me. He knows he will always be classed as an

:12:36. > :12:46.alcoholic, but says he is off the drink and will rebuild his life.

:12:46. > :12:55.Still to come tonight: A nail—biting finish to the cricket season. Plus,

:12:55. > :13:00.a return to Papworth Hospital by the surgeon who pioneered heart and lung

:13:00. > :13:08.transplant. —— transplants. Now here's one of those sobering

:13:08. > :13:12.thoughts. Since 1939, more than 83,000 American service men and

:13:12. > :13:18.women have failed to return home. Some were taken prisoner, some went

:13:18. > :13:23.missing in action, but none of them ever came home. This week the US Air

:13:23. > :13:24.Force in Suffolk has been remembering them.

:13:24. > :13:29.Today, at RAF Mildenhall, members of the 100th Air Refueling Wing have

:13:29. > :13:33.taken part in a special ceremony to mark the end of the week's

:13:33. > :13:37.remembrance. Our defence reporter Alex Dunlop has just sent this.

:13:37. > :13:45.Putting names to the numbers. Joseph... Officially missing in

:13:45. > :13:50.action, or prisoners of war, from every action since World War II.

:13:50. > :14:01.Over 24 hours, volunteers read all 80 3000, 345 names. It is living on

:14:01. > :14:08.hold. The hope that they can still be alive and come home. Until they

:14:09. > :14:13.have the final closure, I think it is part of our duty to go out and

:14:13. > :14:18.keep the promise, that is the motto, of keeping, bringing them home. But

:14:18. > :14:22.the vast majority of them will have died? Yes. It is more than likely

:14:22. > :14:26.that the majority of them have passed. Nearby, and missing man

:14:26. > :14:31.formation. The desert boots represent the two most recent

:14:31. > :14:36.conflicts, Iraq and Afghanistan. As America starts to pull out of this

:14:36. > :14:41.latest work, for five years one American soldier is still being held

:14:41. > :14:46.captive by the Taliban. It was the war in Vietnam which spurred a huge

:14:46. > :14:52.interest in the fate of American soldiers imprisoned while missing in

:14:52. > :14:57.action. Some were found alive years after the war ended. 40 years on, so

:14:57. > :15:00.determined by the US military to be repatriated those left on old

:15:00. > :15:07.battlefields that they have a dedicated task force of around 400

:15:07. > :15:09.personnel who make it their mission to find them. Last year they

:15:09. > :15:13.recovered two bodies from the Cambodian jungle. As the commander

:15:13. > :15:17.reads the last of the 83,000 names, today they also remember those

:15:17. > :15:22.killed by a Navy reservist in Washington three days ago. For us it

:15:22. > :15:28.is very important for us to remember who has gone before us. The flag is

:15:28. > :15:32.at half mast behind you as a reminder that there is still a

:15:33. > :15:38.current threat? Absolutely. There is a worldwide threat, and with recent

:15:38. > :15:40.actions that have happened this week in the United States, our flags are

:15:40. > :15:46.at half—mast. We must with the ready. Every Friday in the ceremony,

:15:46. > :15:50.they lowered the stars and stripes. This one was a little different.

:15:50. > :15:55.Today's salute, dedicated to those missing across seven decades of war.

:15:55. > :16:02.Sport now, and the end of the cricket season is going to the wire

:16:02. > :16:08.for Northants and Essex. The two teams have been locked in a battle

:16:08. > :16:15.for promotion to the top flight. Today was the final day of their

:16:15. > :16:17.penultimate county Championship games with Northants now looking

:16:17. > :16:21.like red hot favourites to go up. Let's cross to the county ground in

:16:21. > :16:23.Northampton now and our Sports Editor, Jonathan Park. Yes, it's

:16:23. > :16:27.been a fairy tale season for Northants this season. They have

:16:27. > :16:30.done very well in all competitions, including the Twenty20. Essex have

:16:30. > :16:36.been there throughout, but Northants, as you say, are red—hot

:16:36. > :16:42.favourites to win promotion. They will find out next week, but after

:16:42. > :16:49.today's play, they are in the driving seat. It had been —— has

:16:49. > :16:58.been a season where Northants shake off the pass. The silverware was

:16:58. > :17:01.already on show today. It has been a magnificent season with a real team

:17:02. > :17:05.effort. Silverware does not come around here very often. The

:17:05. > :17:09.performances have been so great. There was a sense about

:17:09. > :17:18.inevitability in their match today. The main game was always going to

:17:18. > :17:23.end in a drawer, but all that Northants needed was the five bonus

:17:23. > :17:29.points on offer for reaching the 400 mark, which was accomplished with

:17:29. > :17:35.ease. We have done well today and got all of our bonus points, which

:17:35. > :17:36.is what we set out to do. It looks like things have settled down at

:17:36. > :17:40.Chelmsford and hopefully gone our way. At Chelmsford, the only team

:17:40. > :17:45.who could pip Northants to promotion, Essex, desperately needed

:17:45. > :17:48.a win to strengthen their hand. But there ain't with Glamorgan was also

:17:48. > :17:55.heading for stalemate. We needed a few more performances and did not

:17:55. > :18:00.get the season but all in all, we have had a decent season. I think it

:18:00. > :18:05.is quite decent for this season. I know it is not Division 1, but it is

:18:05. > :18:08.still a tough cricket world. We have done well in four—day cricket.

:18:08. > :18:12.Probably going to finish third behind Northamptonshire and

:18:12. > :18:18.Lancashire. Final stake in the 2020, and we finished fourth there, so we

:18:18. > :18:22.have been the bridesmaid this year, but we have made progress. At half

:18:22. > :18:27.past four, the captain shook hands in both games, with Northants a

:18:27. > :18:32.giant step towards cricket's top flight. The knee just five points

:18:32. > :18:38.from next week 's game at Worcestershire to guarantee it. ——

:18:38. > :18:44.they need. It's in the bag? No... I'm an eternal pessimist, I am

:18:44. > :18:49.afraid. They are not exactly hostile, and not exactly serious,

:18:49. > :18:56.and enjoyed by everyone. Just like Northants's season. That certainly

:18:56. > :19:01.was a humorous moment today. The next round of Championship matches

:19:01. > :19:08.is next week, but before then here at the ground, the pop band Madness

:19:08. > :19:14.are plain. It could certainly be a House Of Fun for those Northants

:19:15. > :19:20.fans this season. Thank you very much.

:19:20. > :19:26.Two years ago, Professor John Wallwork retired from Papworth

:19:26. > :19:32.Hospital. In 30 years he carried out 6,000 operations to help put

:19:32. > :19:37.Papworth on the world stage. But now he's coming back. Next February, the

:19:37. > :19:42.Professor will become the hospital's new chairman and says he has big

:19:42. > :19:48.plans for its future. Hello, guys! Back among the staff he calls his

:19:48. > :19:53.second family, the hospital he calls his second home. Two years ago he

:19:53. > :19:59.retired as a surgeon here. He has returned now as chairman. This is a

:19:59. > :20:04.very special time for the hospital. We have spent a long, long time

:20:04. > :20:09.trying to get this hospital to the right place and we are nearly there

:20:09. > :20:14.and I want to see that through. I wanted to be a jewel in the crown of

:20:14. > :20:20.the health service, not just here but abroad. I want to bring any

:20:20. > :20:24.effort I can to the place. This was his last operation. Over 30 years,

:20:24. > :20:28.he carried out 30 of them, a pioneer in transplant surgery. In 1981 he

:20:28. > :20:34.founded the Papworth Heart And Lung Transplant Programme years later

:20:35. > :20:39.performing the first heart and Lung transpired in Europe, and then the

:20:39. > :20:43.world's first triple transplant. What are you planning for the

:20:43. > :20:50.future? I want to keep Papworth Hospital on top. Surprisingly enough

:20:50. > :20:56.putting an organisation up is easier than keeping it at the top. And in

:20:56. > :21:01.order to do that for the patients and the education and research, we

:21:01. > :21:07.have to provide the best that we can, and we can only do that with

:21:07. > :21:12.our biomedical campus. This is where the biomedical campus will go. Work

:21:12. > :21:16.on the new app worth should start in 2015. Heart and lung disease

:21:16. > :21:21.together provide the biggest cause of death in our society. It would be

:21:21. > :21:26.absurd to have this big biomedical campus not that hard and lung

:21:26. > :21:31.disease in it. Papworth Hospital has prolonged the lives of thousands.

:21:31. > :21:35.His job now, better treatment for the patient of tomorrow.

:21:35. > :21:44.A reminder now of tonight's main news: The Labour leader Ed Miliband

:21:44. > :21:49.has told Look East that he will scrap the so—called "bedroom tax" if

:21:49. > :21:54.he becomes the next Prime Minister. Let's hear what the Conservatives

:21:54. > :21:55.have to say about that. Andrew Lansley is the MP for South

:21:55. > :22:01.Cambridgeshire and the Leader of the House of Commons. He's in Cambridge

:22:01. > :22:01.now. have to say about that. Andrew

:22:01. > :22:03.Lansley is the MP for The National Housing Federation, Their Chief

:22:03. > :22:08.Executive Says That The Bedroom Tax Is Disastrous. How do you feel about

:22:08. > :22:13.that? Are in was to reduce the cost of housing benefit, which Labour had

:22:13. > :22:18.taken to £20 billion. And I'm afraid but we have heard today shows that

:22:18. > :22:24.Labour have learned nothing. We had to take measures to deal with their

:22:24. > :22:27.debt crisis. It wasn't fair what happened —— wasn't there to be

:22:27. > :22:33.subsidising under occupied properties while people are waiting

:22:33. > :22:37.for accommodation or are in overcrowded accommodation. We have

:22:37. > :22:42.done it in a fairway. We have put £180 million into a discretionary

:22:42. > :22:49.fund that helps to the costs of those who have proper reasons to

:22:49. > :22:53.have support, but we are taking away housing benefit, we are saving in

:22:53. > :22:56.this case really have £1 billion, by virtue of not subsidising under

:22:56. > :23:02.occupied properties. That is what we have to do and the Labour Party does

:23:02. > :23:08.not seem to have learned anything and they are saying that now they

:23:08. > :23:13.want to go back. They have opposed every well cut we have put forward.

:23:13. > :23:19.I am sorry to interrupt you, but all of these people that are affected

:23:19. > :23:24.that we have heard about, one third of them and are having trouble with

:23:24. > :23:25.their rent. These are people who have not been in that situation

:23:25. > :23:32.before, so it is obviously having a very bad effect. We are very clear

:23:32. > :23:38.about the fact that we need to save money by not subsidising under

:23:38. > :23:39.occupied properties. It is not about imposing a charge or imposing tax.

:23:39. > :23:44.It is about how much housing benefit people should be paid, and they

:23:44. > :23:50.should be paid how much is appropriate to the need for housing.

:23:50. > :23:51.Under the last Government, people who were in private rented

:23:51. > :23:57.accommodation and had under occupied properties, spare ribs, did not get

:23:57. > :23:58.housing benefit. What we have done in that sense is remove what was an

:23:58. > :24:02.anomaly between people who were getting private housing benefit and

:24:02. > :24:07.people who were getting housing benefit in social housing. As I

:24:07. > :24:11.said, £190 million per year, it is not far short of a third of the

:24:11. > :24:16.total saving, is available to local authorities in a discretionary

:24:16. > :24:20.payment scheme in order to meet the cases that are genuinely in most

:24:20. > :24:26.need. I am so sorry to interrupt you, but 34% of people who intend to

:24:26. > :24:27.back the Tories at the next election think it is a bad idea. People

:24:27. > :24:33.across the country now that we were think it is a bad idea. People

:24:33. > :25:21.left circumstances.

:25:21. > :25:31.Time for the weather, and it is going to get a little bit warmer?

:25:31. > :25:31.Yes! High pressure across the British Isles. That might sound like

:25:31. > :25:37.the perfect ingredients for a fine autumn weekend, but as this are

:25:37. > :25:38.crosses, we see it picking up a lot of moisture. But while temperatures

:25:38. > :25:45.rise, it will be cloudy at times. Today, we have had quite a lot of

:25:45. > :25:50.fine autumn sunshine. It has turned a little bit cloudy and places, but

:25:50. > :25:52.predominantly, we will seek leave spells overnight. It is expected to

:25:52. > :25:58.turn a little bit cloudy later on with some fog. For most of us, we

:25:58. > :26:03.should stay in double figures. We are expecting loads of around 11 or

:26:03. > :26:09.12. Temperatures could just drop down there. If you are up early, it

:26:09. > :26:10.might be a bright start in the east. We have this week weather front

:26:10. > :26:15.heading in from the south—west, and that is going to meet increasing

:26:15. > :26:21.amount of cold to the morning. So, this cloud may, in places, be thick

:26:21. > :26:29.enough to produce some rain or drizzle, but for most of us, it is

:26:29. > :26:30.predominantly dry. If you live in the western half, you have got a

:26:30. > :26:37.better chance of seeing something a little bit more break into the

:26:37. > :26:38.afternoon. Temperatures rarely get those brighter spells, they will be

:26:38. > :26:42.quite comfortable, with a bit of a noticeable breeze and a light to

:26:43. > :26:48.moderate south—westerly. The eastern half looks as though it will stay a

:26:48. > :26:53.little bit more cloudy. Now, looking ahead, the high pressure starts to

:26:53. > :26:54.move to the east, towards Holland, by the start of next week. That will

:26:54. > :27:00.mean a subtle change in wind direction, more of an easterly flow.

:27:01. > :27:08.This will bring in more dry air, so that brings us the better prospect

:27:08. > :27:08.of sunshine at the start of next week. So, we start Sunday a bit

:27:08. > :27:17.cloudy, perhaps with some mist around first thing. But it looks

:27:17. > :27:18.more hopeful through the day on Sunday. We should hopefully start to

:27:18. > :27:26.see the sunshine out and as such, we will see the temperatures climb, so

:27:26. > :27:27.21 or 22 degrees quite possible. As we start next week with that dry air

:27:27. > :27:32.coming in from the east, we are expecting increasing amount of

:27:32. > :27:34.sunshine for Monday and Tuesday, so 22 might be a little, well, not

:27:34. > :27:40.quite so optimistic as it could be, but into the middle of the week this

:27:40. > :27:41.high—pressure stays firmly in place, bringing more spells of fine

:27:41. > :27:46.conditions and mild nights.