:00:22. > :00:26.Failing targets despite extra funding. The A departments failing
:00:27. > :00:33.to cope. The Cambridge academic Lord White
:00:34. > :00:39.Highlands stag is in a stable condition. The stag ran out of the
:00:40. > :00:48.gate and gored someone as they came out. It is unbelievable.
:00:49. > :00:51.We will be here later, it including: The writer, Louis de Bernieres, pays
:00:52. > :00:53.tribute to his friend and neighbour, the acclaimed novelist, Elizabeth
:00:54. > :00:58.Jane Howard. And Alex will be here with the
:00:59. > :01:04.weather after a day of flooding in the region.
:01:05. > :01:09.Good evening. First tonight. Have our A
:01:10. > :01:12.departments reached breaking point? In the run up to Christmas, as
:01:13. > :01:15.predicted, hospitals experienced extra pressure on emergency
:01:16. > :01:18.services. Here hospitals treated a total of almost 17,500 people in
:01:19. > :01:24.just one week and many failed to meet the government target on
:01:25. > :01:29.waiting times. The aim is to get 95% of A patients seen within four
:01:30. > :01:32.hours. But out of 11 emergency departments here, only the Luton and
:01:33. > :01:40.Dunstable, Bedford and Peterborough achieved that. There are now calls
:01:41. > :01:44.for patients to be charged for using emergency services. Stuart Ratcliffe
:01:45. > :01:51.is at Milton Keynes hospital where they're pushing for a new and bigger
:01:52. > :01:58.department. The management would like to see a
:01:59. > :02:05.new, bigger A department. When the Department was first dealt it was
:02:06. > :02:08.designed to treat around 20,000 patients a year. It is now treating
:02:09. > :02:12.somewhere around the figure of 80,000. This is one of the
:02:13. > :02:16.fastest`growing towns in the country so the pressures on this department
:02:17. > :02:23.are only going to increase. Yesterday I spent the day here to
:02:24. > :02:29.find out how it coping. On New Year's Day, records were
:02:30. > :02:33.broken here. Nearly 90 ambulances or patience to this department, more
:02:34. > :02:39.than any other day in the hospital's history. So how to ease
:02:40. > :02:44.this pressure? In the summer, Milton Keynes was given ?2.7 million but
:02:45. > :02:51.the government. Some of that money was spent on new beds to prevent
:02:52. > :02:58.ambulances stacking up outside. We have new ambulance bays in the last
:02:59. > :03:01.few weeks. Yesterday we had 88 ambulances coming from South Central
:03:02. > :03:04.alone, let alone the other surrounding areas. We bring them
:03:05. > :03:12.into here and we can assess them, give them pain relief. When I
:03:13. > :03:20.visited on January the 2nd, things had returned to normal. Went out
:03:21. > :03:29.drinking over New Year, as everybody does. I fell home `` stumbled home
:03:30. > :03:36.and tripped up a curb and fractured meisters `` thumb. It has been quite
:03:37. > :03:42.good. They x`rayed me within 15 minutes. The extra funding has paid
:03:43. > :03:46.for more staff and over Christmas this allowed the department to hit
:03:47. > :03:51.it waiting time targets. There is a growing belief that in the longer
:03:52. > :03:56.term, the only option is to build a larger A We are putting together
:03:57. > :04:03.an outline case for funding for a new A, and people with minor
:04:04. > :04:07.injuries can still come to this site and be treated in a timely way. But
:04:08. > :04:13.we will make sure we will have the acute A capacity that will last
:04:14. > :04:19.the hospital for the next ten to 20 years. But to relieve current
:04:20. > :04:23.pressures, the hospital once people to think about whether this
:04:24. > :04:26.department is the right place to be treated. It is very frustrating for
:04:27. > :04:31.us as a team who are trying to see the patients who need emergency
:04:32. > :04:38.care. But it is frustrating for the patients as well. So they are having
:04:39. > :04:42.to wait. It can be frustrating if we are turning them away from here
:04:43. > :04:46.telling them to go to their GP. There is no doubt our A
:04:47. > :04:51.departments are under pressure. The question is, with public money so
:04:52. > :04:57.scarce, how those pressures relieved? So, in summary it was a
:04:58. > :05:02.successful Christmas and New Year for this A department. It hit all
:05:03. > :05:08.of its targets and it wasn't the only one to hit it waiting time
:05:09. > :05:13.targets. The Lister hospital, Luton and Dunstable, Bedford, Peter
:05:14. > :05:19.borough, Adam Brookes all hit their targets, but Northampton failed to
:05:20. > :05:24.meet their targets. But the hospital told us it did see a 20% increase in
:05:25. > :05:29.the number of people using its A department compared to last year.
:05:30. > :05:33.Back to the report you mentioned earlier, one in three GPs said they
:05:34. > :05:39.would back the idea of people being charged to use A departments. It
:05:40. > :05:46.could work something like this, perhaps patients with a charge
:05:47. > :05:47.between five and ?10 to use the A department. If it was a genuine
:05:48. > :05:52.emergency you would get it back. emergency you would get it back
:05:53. > :05:58.This is only an idea and there are no further proposals to introduce
:05:59. > :06:00.charging just yet. As well as hospitals, ambulance services have
:06:01. > :06:02.also been busy over the Christmas period.
:06:03. > :06:06.The East of England Ambulance Service says it received more than
:06:07. > :06:09.2,000 emergency calls during the New Year celebrations, a slight fall
:06:10. > :06:13.compared to last year. Most of the calls involved falls or assaults.
:06:14. > :06:16.A woman from Cambridge who was critically injured when she was
:06:17. > :06:19.gored by a Highland stag, is tonight making progress despite being in an
:06:20. > :06:23.induced coma in hospital. Dr Kate Stone suffered a life threatening
:06:24. > :06:26.injury to her neck when the stag bolted and struck her. Alex Dunlop
:06:27. > :06:32.has just sent this report from the hospital in Glasgow.
:06:33. > :06:37.Doctors have carried out an operation on. The Kate Stone's
:06:38. > :06:43.throat. They say her condition is serious but stable. She is in this
:06:44. > :06:49.medical induced coma so her windpipe can heal. I spent the day at the
:06:50. > :06:55.remote village in western Scotland where I found a community bewildered
:06:56. > :07:03.and shocked. The gate work Dr Kate Stone was gored by the stag, firmly
:07:04. > :07:07.shut. Dr Stone had been enjoying a short break in the Highlands with
:07:08. > :07:13.friends and joint party at this hotel. A local musician invited them
:07:14. > :07:16.back to his home for a nightcap and that is when they discovered the
:07:17. > :07:20.animal. It seems the stag had wandered into the garden and became
:07:21. > :07:24.disorientated, unable to find its way out because of this fence. When
:07:25. > :07:30.Kate Stone and her friends returned late at night, they walked through
:07:31. > :07:36.the gate, the stag became spooked and charged at her. Its antlers
:07:37. > :07:40.pierced her neck and chest and Dr Stone was airlifted to hospital in
:07:41. > :07:44.Glasgow where doctors operated on her windpipe. In summer they are up
:07:45. > :07:49.on the hill. Local people are appalled by what happened. The stag
:07:50. > :07:55.ran out of the gate and gored someone as they came out, which is
:07:56. > :08:02.unbelievable. Someone described it as a one in a million event? It is.
:08:03. > :08:07.I think it was trapped and just tried to get out. I also heard
:08:08. > :08:13.everybody else in the group had head torches on and she didn't. The
:08:14. > :08:16.44`year`old research engineer from Cambridge who is an expert in
:08:17. > :08:23.microelectronics recently showed off her latest project to the BBC.
:08:24. > :08:26.Following the accident, her company based in the city told us they had
:08:27. > :08:33.received overwhelming support from friends around the world. Red stags
:08:34. > :08:35.are common in this part of the Highlands and very shy. Attacks on
:08:36. > :08:43.humans are unheard`of. This man is a local shepherd and knows the area
:08:44. > :08:48.very well. The stags if they are out on open ground, you are safe, they
:08:49. > :08:57.will not attack. It is when they are cornered in small Gardens or in
:08:58. > :09:00.forestry corners, they might attack. This part of Scotland is an
:09:01. > :09:05.important tourist area and locals are keen to assure visitors that
:09:06. > :09:10.what happened is a rare events, albeit one that has shocked the
:09:11. > :09:14.whole community. One worrying aspect is that its antlers may have pierced
:09:15. > :09:21.her throat and her sister fears she may be left paralysed why this. But
:09:22. > :09:25.it is early days. Doctors say she is making good progress. They hope to
:09:26. > :09:30.bring out of the medically induced coma in a few days and they make a
:09:31. > :09:33.proper assessment. More than 4,000 motorists have been
:09:34. > :09:36.caught speeding in Northamptonshire in the last year but it's not the
:09:37. > :09:39.work of the police. Instead volunteers have been out on the
:09:40. > :09:42.county roads clocking speeding drivers. They can't prosecute anyone
:09:43. > :09:49.but they say their actions are making a difference. 41 miles an
:09:50. > :09:57.hour. Doing more than 40 in a 3 . hour. Doing more than 40 in a 30.
:09:58. > :10:00.More than half a dozen cars this lady caught speeding in just a few
:10:01. > :10:07.minutes. Volunteers like her, she says, can help the police. We have a
:10:08. > :10:14.small school and the cars can range from anything from 35, 40. 56 is the
:10:15. > :10:20.most we have had. We can catch anything up to 40 to 50 cars in an
:10:21. > :10:23.hour in the morning and at night. If they catch drivers going too fast
:10:24. > :10:27.the details will be passed to the police who will write to the owners
:10:28. > :10:33.saying when and where the vehicle was speeding. But that is not enough
:10:34. > :10:37.to prosecute. We know the registration, the type of vehicle
:10:38. > :10:41.and what day they are coming through. So we can support the
:10:42. > :10:46.community with mobile reinforcement. You come and do speed checks
:10:47. > :10:49.yourself? Yes we can. The driver overtaking here was banned for a
:10:50. > :10:54.year after being filmed by a camera like this one mounted in another
:10:55. > :10:59.car. The public helping to prosecute, but not all are convinced
:11:00. > :11:03.about speed watch volunteers. I don't know. Sometimes they think
:11:04. > :11:09.they have more power than they think they have. Is a letter strong
:11:10. > :11:15.enough? No, it is just some silly group. Who are they, them and a
:11:16. > :11:21.thousand other groups telling you not to speed. There is never a
:11:22. > :11:26.policeman about when somebody is doing 70, but it is very good. More
:11:27. > :11:32.than 4000 drivers were caught last year. They do an important job. It
:11:33. > :11:37.adds a lot of valuable evidence to the parish councils and people in
:11:38. > :11:40.villages to start looking at ways of stopping speeding through their
:11:41. > :11:46.areas. They can then identify where the hotspots are and get things put
:11:47. > :11:51.in place. They don't have the powers of the police, but they can help
:11:52. > :12:00.stop, they say, drivers speeding through their communities.
:12:01. > :12:03.Work has started to widen the A14 in Northamptonshire to six lanes. Over
:12:04. > :12:04.the next few weeks there'll be some overnight closures
:12:05. > :12:04.poultry. If it works, it would be a major breakthrough in the fight
:12:05. > :12:22.against poisoning. Still to come: What the sporting
:12:23. > :12:25.calendar has in store for 2014. And the weekend weather forecast, on a
:12:26. > :12:28.day when we saw plenty of wintry weather.
:12:29. > :12:31.The acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard was being remembered
:12:32. > :12:34.today by her friends and neighbours in Suffolk. In recent years, the
:12:35. > :12:38.writer lived in Bungay. She died there yesterday at the age of 90.
:12:39. > :12:41.Today, the best`selling author Louis de Bernieres paid his own tribute,
:12:42. > :12:45.saying she inspired him to move to the area. Our chief reporter Kim
:12:46. > :12:53.Riley has spent the day in Bungay, gathering memories of one of our
:12:54. > :12:56.most talented writers. For more than 20 years since she
:12:57. > :13:02.moved out of London, this market town has been home to Jane Howard.
:13:03. > :13:06.Here, the author of 14 novels and three works of nonfiction continued
:13:07. > :13:10.writing to the very end. Married three times, most famously to fellow
:13:11. > :13:21.author Kingsley Amis, she never won a major literary prize. But her most
:13:22. > :13:24.famous works, how about a middle`class English family around
:13:25. > :13:29.the time of World War II, were hugely popular, and made it to TV
:13:30. > :13:34.and radio. A young Hugh Bonneville, one of the rising stars. Just two
:13:35. > :13:40.months ago at this restaurant near her home, a launch party was held
:13:41. > :13:43.for her fifth novel in the series. I was utterly charmed by her. I
:13:44. > :13:48.thought she was the most remarkable lady. She was great fun. She did
:13:49. > :13:53.not, for me, come across as particularly frail. She had a great
:13:54. > :13:58.commerce sparkly sense of humour. It is thanks to Jane Howard that this
:13:59. > :14:01.old Rectory is home to novelist Louis de Bernieres. When she heard I
:14:02. > :14:06.was looking for a house in Sussex near to my family, she said, there
:14:07. > :14:11.is a wonderful house near here. Why do you not go and look at it? So I
:14:12. > :14:16.did. That is why I am here. She always said she was my honorary
:14:17. > :14:22.aunt. My own aunts died, and she appointed herself my aunt. And you
:14:23. > :14:26.have that in one of the books here. I have, an inscription in one of her
:14:27. > :14:35.books. To my nephew Louis, from aunt Jane. You will miss your Jane. Very
:14:36. > :14:38.much. Jane Howard's daughter Nicola told
:14:39. > :14:42.me her mother had been devastated by the death of her brother Colin last
:14:43. > :14:46.month. She had become physically very frail, but was mentally strong.
:14:47. > :14:54.She spent three hours per day every day writing, and was halfway through
:14:55. > :14:58.her next novel. A prolific writer more and by her many friends.
:14:59. > :15:00.You can find a full obituary of Elizabeth Jane Howard on the BBC
:15:01. > :15:09.website. Let's move on to sport, and it's a
:15:10. > :15:12.busy weekend ahead, starting with the rugby tonight. It's football
:15:13. > :15:16.tomorrow dominated by the FA Cup. Here's Tom.
:15:17. > :15:19.It's that time again ` round three of the FA Cup. Some say the
:15:20. > :15:23.competition's unique. Others admit they could do without it. However,
:15:24. > :15:28.it remains one of the highlights of the footballing calendar. We have
:15:29. > :15:31.six sides still in it. Here are the ties. Stevenage, who're bottom of
:15:32. > :15:34.League One, travel to Doncaster. In`form Ipswich are at home.
:15:35. > :15:38.Peterborough with a potential banana skin away to non`league
:15:39. > :15:43.Kidderminster. It's Norwich`Fulham. Southend are at home, with MK Dons
:15:44. > :15:52.away at last year's winners Wigan. The 1`1 Premier League affair there
:15:53. > :15:56.sees Fulham back at Carrow Road. I think it is a good distraction. It
:15:57. > :16:01.is a club competition that everyone looks forward to, we are playing
:16:02. > :16:08.against top`class opposition, which makes the Tasker even tougher, but
:16:09. > :16:14.we are at home, so I think it is a good distraction. There isn't
:16:15. > :16:18.anybody that doesn't enjoy the feel of the FA Cup.
:16:19. > :16:21.Certainly not every manager agrees, including Norwich's former boss Paul
:16:22. > :16:23.Lambert. He believes the majority of top`flight clubs would rather not
:16:24. > :16:30.have the distraction, and that "survival" is the priority. The
:16:31. > :16:42.debate's certainly raging. It's something you want to try and
:16:43. > :16:50.progress into. The cup has a special meaning to everybody, and in our
:16:51. > :16:54.game, everybody wants to win. The FA Cup is a big competition. I think it
:16:55. > :17:01.is a unique competition. Everyone in world football, you always get the
:17:02. > :17:03.cup, and nothing is like what we've got in our country.
:17:04. > :17:07.Rob Butler is BBC Radio Norfolk's football pundit. He joins us now.
:17:08. > :17:15.Rob, does the FA Cup still matter? Of course. As a Norwich fan growing
:17:16. > :17:19.up, I had great memories of two semifinals in 1989 and 1992. We lost
:17:20. > :17:22.both, sadly, but those quarterfinal replay nights when we got through
:17:23. > :17:26.with some of the most magical night there I have ever experienced, and
:17:27. > :17:31.have still not been tops. Going back a long way, in the 1959 cup run for
:17:32. > :17:35.Norwich, when the whole history of the club is built on the FA Cup. It
:17:36. > :17:39.is a real shame that Paul Lambert, of all people, has decided to
:17:40. > :17:43.degrade it, almost, with his comments, but as a fan, the FA Cup
:17:44. > :17:47.means everything. And FA Cup win at Norwich would be great. And for
:17:48. > :17:52.smaller clubs, the chance to earn an upset, and make some money. Yes, we
:17:53. > :17:59.know too much about that. Last year, at Norwich, Luton town gamely
:18:00. > :18:02.and one. The first time in non`league team has beaten a Premier
:18:03. > :18:04.league team. That was very embarrassing. Yesterday, Chris
:18:05. > :18:07.Hughton said it was the low point of his Norwich career. Also, fans will
:18:08. > :18:11.remember when we thrashed Sutton United. The certain players were
:18:12. > :18:17.clapped off by the Norwich fans that day, and it is great to see MK dons
:18:18. > :18:23.having a crack, and Wigan Athletic, the FA Cup holders, and
:18:24. > :18:27.Kidderminster go to Peter Rook, which is a potential banana skin as
:18:28. > :18:33.well. Thank you very much for that. You can hear more on the BBC Radio
:18:34. > :18:39.one but their word Norfolk broadcast tomorrow. Andy King has been in
:18:40. > :18:41.temporary charge at Northampton since the sacking of Aydi Boothroyd,
:18:42. > :18:44.before Christmas. And you can hear more from Rob and
:18:45. > :18:50.Still no word from Northampton on their next manager.
:18:51. > :18:52.In rugby, Northampton play tonight against one of their Premiership
:18:53. > :18:55.rivals, Harlequins. It's second versus fourth at Franklin's Gardens.
:18:56. > :18:59.Saints could go top with victory. So they're going for the title. We
:19:00. > :19:02.have football clubs in promotion and relegation battles. Much to look
:19:03. > :19:05.forward to in 2014. Golf's Ryder Cup. Football's World Cup and of
:19:06. > :19:08.course the Commonwealth Games. 17 sports on show in Glasgow, including
:19:09. > :19:14.gymnastics and shooting. Both have athletes from our region looking to
:19:15. > :19:19.impress this summer. They are on a roll at this gym club.
:19:20. > :19:25.British men's champions for years in a row, led by man of the moment Max
:19:26. > :19:30.Whitlock. 2014 is a big year for Macs and gymnastics. Medals at the
:19:31. > :19:34.Europeans, the worlds, and the Commonwealth games are there for the
:19:35. > :19:38.taking. The Commonwealth games are a great competition for us. In the
:19:39. > :19:41.public eye, it is massive. We just want to go out there and enjoy the
:19:42. > :19:44.petition. That is what I want to do. And hopefully I can qualify for
:19:45. > :19:50.the Commonwealth games, because it would be an amazing experience.
:19:51. > :19:54.Believe it or not, Max and his training planners are out of shape.
:19:55. > :19:57.Motivated for the year ahead, but carrying a few extra pounds. We
:19:58. > :20:05.trained a little bit in between Christmas and New Year, and I could
:20:06. > :20:08.see they were struggling. Gymnastics is one of 17 sports at the
:20:09. > :20:10.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Another sport on the programme
:20:11. > :20:16.requires a little movement as possible, apart from the trigger
:20:17. > :20:21.finger. From Basildon to Cambridge, where to Britain's best shooters set
:20:22. > :20:27.their sights on Glasgow. They are team`mates at this club, but in
:20:28. > :20:31.Glasgow, they could be rivals. The rest will play for England, Jenny
:20:32. > :20:35.for Wales. I'm pretty sure it will not be much of a rivalry, but at the
:20:36. > :20:38.end of the day, both of us will come off the podium with smiles on our
:20:39. > :20:43.faces. Whatever happens, there will be a hug at the end. Jenny has
:20:44. > :20:46.already been selected, while the rest, 17, is on target to reach her
:20:47. > :20:52.first major competition and shoot against a training partner. I am
:20:53. > :20:56.going there for one reason. It will be my first time on the podium. Last
:20:57. > :21:02.games, I was forth. This time I want to be on the podium. Ultimately,
:21:03. > :21:05.having someone who can shoot and at every training session, someone who
:21:06. > :21:08.has that push that just makes you shoot that little bit better, and
:21:09. > :21:12.one that little bit more, going into a competition with the mindset that
:21:13. > :21:17.you have trained with, you can't ask for anything better. For our leading
:21:18. > :21:21.athletes, they have to put a disappointing 12 months behind them.
:21:22. > :21:25.Robbie Grabarz's initial aim is the indoor Championships in March. In
:21:26. > :21:29.the same month, Formula one returns, with Red Bull once again favourites
:21:30. > :21:33.to dominate. There are few who think England's football team will do that
:21:34. > :21:36.in Brazil this summer. As for England's believe good cricket
:21:37. > :21:41.captain Alastair Cook, will he still be in charge in June when Sri Lanka
:21:42. > :21:44.arrive? One thing is sure, Milton Keynes golfer Ian Poulter wants to
:21:45. > :21:47.spend his summer at Gleneagles, hoping to be Europe's Ryder Cup
:21:48. > :21:51.talismans again. And as a footnote to that, worth a
:21:52. > :21:53.quick glance at the top of the Football Conference. Luton and
:21:54. > :21:57.Cambridge seem to be going head`to`head in the race to be
:21:58. > :22:00.promoted back to the Football League. The Hatters are unbeaten in
:22:01. > :22:04.18 matches. The U's start the new year protecting a 100% home record.
:22:05. > :22:07.Now, severe weather is threatening the weekend's sporting calendar.
:22:08. > :22:10.Keep an eye on the BBC Sport website for news of cancellation, plus, of
:22:11. > :22:20.course, your local BBC Radio station.
:22:21. > :22:24.Now, dare I ask from. Lots of things to look forward to in 2014. What
:22:25. > :22:28.you're looking forward to? It would be lovely to see Luton or Cambridge
:22:29. > :22:33.get back into the league. But I am a big golf not, and the Ryder Cup is
:22:34. > :22:37.very special. Ian Poulter, who has been unbeaten in his last couple of
:22:38. > :22:41.Ryder Cup matches, to win at Gleneagles will be magic. And your
:22:42. > :22:45.New Year 's resolution is to tweet more. Seriously! Follow me.
:22:46. > :22:49.Now, of course, you've seen parts of the country are being battered by
:22:50. > :22:52.storms and high tides. But it looks as though our region has got away
:22:53. > :22:55.with it, this time. In our region, the Environment Agency has issued a
:22:56. > :22:58.number of flood warnings, which means flooding is expected, and
:22:59. > :23:01.flood alerts, which means flooding is possible. Be prepared. Our
:23:02. > :23:09.reporter Neil Bradford is at North Bank near Peterborough now.
:23:10. > :23:14.Good evening. Tonight, the water levels near this sluice have dropped
:23:15. > :23:20.quite significantly, but the road remains closed only for access and
:23:21. > :23:25.is likely to do so for some time. Earlier today, the road, which runs
:23:26. > :23:29.to beat Brad, was submerged. This was one of two areas where flood
:23:30. > :23:36.warnings remain in place. The other is across the county border in
:23:37. > :23:39.Northamptonshire. That's at a caravan park which is prone to
:23:40. > :23:44.flooding. As you can see, the levels of the river there are quite high,
:23:45. > :23:48.but no damage to property yet. Elsewhere across the region, there
:23:49. > :23:54.are nine flood alerts in place, which means flooding is possible.
:23:55. > :23:57.And it is not only flooding. We have had a number of hailstorms across
:23:58. > :24:04.the region today? Yes, that is right. They viewer sent us this
:24:05. > :24:09.footage of what he described as a massive hailstorm, which in just a
:24:10. > :24:17.few minutes, left his Road in South Cambridgeshire in a carpet of
:24:18. > :24:21.white, and another viewer from Westley is not only got his camera
:24:22. > :24:24.out, but also his tape measure. He says the hailstones varied in size,
:24:25. > :24:32.but some were as big as two centimetres in diameter. Of course,
:24:33. > :24:36.here in the open and land, it is the wind that is causing the problems
:24:37. > :24:39.tonight. If you are concerned about flooding, however, you can get the
:24:40. > :24:44.latest information on the Environment Agency website for their
:24:45. > :24:50.flood line. The screen. Thank you very much. All kinds of weather to
:24:51. > :24:56.content with today. What can we expect this weekend?
:24:57. > :24:59.Still unsettled, and the Atlantic continue to throw all it can at the
:25:00. > :25:03.British Isles. We have got off more likely than other parts of the
:25:04. > :25:08.country, but today we have had rain, hail, strong wind, blowing in from
:25:09. > :25:13.the south`west, and costs between 40 and 50 miles an hour. Let's look at
:25:14. > :25:17.the showers and where they have affected the region. Where there are
:25:18. > :25:20.bright colours, you can see how heavy they were, but there are less
:25:21. > :25:23.of them around. So although there is still a risk of show this evening
:25:24. > :25:27.and overnight, they will be less frequent will stop also, the wind
:25:28. > :25:33.will become much lighter through the night. Still breezy by the end of
:25:34. > :25:37.the night, but more of a light to moderate south`westerly by dawn. In
:25:38. > :25:40.terms of temperature, the Atlantic brings in slightly milder air. For
:25:41. > :25:46.some of us, we might get down to around three Celsius, but at most,
:25:47. > :25:50.four or five degrees, keeping us free of the frost. The next area of
:25:51. > :25:53.rain you can see on the chart is moving in to start Saturday. This is
:25:54. > :25:59.the pressure pattern for the weekend. You can see low`pressure on
:26:00. > :26:02.Saturday. The next low winds itself up in the Atlantic to bring some wet
:26:03. > :26:06.and windy weather later on on Sunday. So although it will not rain
:26:07. > :26:09.all the time, expect some wet and windy weather right through the
:26:10. > :26:13.weekend. Having said that, it will not be as windy through tomorrow,
:26:14. > :26:16.but there will be quite a lot of rain to content with through the
:26:17. > :26:19.morning. Some of it is on the heavy side. The good news is, it looked as
:26:20. > :26:23.if it were clear into the afternoon, so for some of us, we cease to be
:26:24. > :26:27.drier and brighter, particularly across the west by the end of the
:26:28. > :26:30.day. But in coastal part of Essex and Suffolk, you may well hang on to
:26:31. > :26:34.some wet and cloudy conditions until much later, before it gradually
:26:35. > :26:40.clears away, and then we get clearing skies for tomorrow night.
:26:41. > :26:43.That means it will be a widespread frost, and there is a chance of icy
:26:44. > :26:47.patches where there has been alien rain. This is our pressure pattern
:26:48. > :26:50.for Sunday. Huge area of low`pressure filling almost the
:26:51. > :26:55.whole north Atlantic. It will not as much impact as was previously
:26:56. > :26:58.thought, but it will bring rain and strong winds on Sunday. Having said
:26:59. > :27:03.that, much of the daily 's like this. Try and bright weather. We
:27:04. > :27:07.start next week still unsettled, so just be aware of the frost tomorrow
:27:08. > :27:10.night. Everything thrown in for good measure.
:27:11. > :27:14.Have a good weekend. Goodbye.