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colder. It could be short lived That is all from the BBC's | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Rita Boro named as the fastest`growing city in the country, | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
population and jobs, and Milton Keynes just behind. `` Peter | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
borough. It's a great choice for people to `` Peterborough. It's a | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
great was for people to rebuild their lives. The headteacher from | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Northampton getting tough on bad parking. And the mild winter weather | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
means early snowdrops. Julie will have the forecast late `` later | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Good evening. Welcome to Look East. The two fastest growing areas in the | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
country are in this region. Peterborough and Milton Keynes have | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
seen their populations rise by .6% a year for the last ten years. That | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
means there are now an extra 27 000 people living in Peterborough and | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
37,000 more people in Milton Keynes. Alongside this, both are in the top | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
ten for new homes being built and both are doing well in terms of new | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
jobs. Also scoring highly is Cambridge, which has seen consistent | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
growth for a number of years. Let's go live now to Ben Bland in | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Cambridge city centre. Those three cities in our region | :01:21. | :01:32. | |
were singled out because of just how quickly they are growing. This | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
report was carried out by an independent think tank, and it | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
compared towns and cities across the UK. Here in Cambridge, Milton Keynes | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
and Peterborough, they have found that the population is growing but | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
also the number of jobs. Martin Gibson had been in manufacturing are | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
18 years, but two years ago he was unemployed and struggling to find | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
work. Then, Premier Kitchens moved its factory from Birmingham, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
bringing jobs to the city. It was good. You had to look further | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
afield, Birmingham, East Anglia Norfolk, Ipswich. Peterboro was my | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
best option. Quite local, 30 minutes, and it's fine. And it is a | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
city that seems appealing to other businesses as well. The report says | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
4000 new private`sector jobs were created in Peterborough in 2012 a | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
rate of growth only beaten by one other city in the UK. The managing | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
director and founder of this company said he found the local authority | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
hear more business friendly than others. When we began to ask | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
questions of the local council and the regeneration company, they were | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
helpful in guiding us towards this unit and helping us with any | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
knowledge of European funding or anything available to us. And the 15 | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
extra jobs we have created because of the manufacturing here was very | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
well received. According to this report, Peterborough is the | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
fastest`growing city in the UK. The growing population means building | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
new homes, like the ones being built here. It also puts pressure on | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
greater demand on services and infrastructure. Things like schools, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
hospitals and roads. But a growing population is music to the ears of | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
small businesses, like the buskers copy shop. It is in Milton Keynes, | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
the UK's second growing `` second fastest`growing city in the UK. The | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
customer base is widening all the time. Lots of new housing and people | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
moving in, which is good for business. What is it that draws | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
people and business here? It is centrally located between London and | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Birmingham. Great communication links. The infrastructure is | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
fantastic and it is a great choice for businesses to invest and for | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
people to invest in their lives Northampton did not fare so well. It | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
was picked out as having proportionally lost more jobs than | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
almost every other town in the UK, but the borough council says the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
figures are wrong, and big businesses are investing in creating | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
jobs and that more people there are now in work, which they say is not | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
reflected in today's report. Ben, Cambridge is still seen as a city | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
leading the country out of recession, but there are also | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
negatives in today's report. Yes, it doesn't tick the boxes we | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
expected it to take, low unemployment, high rate of jobs | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
being created in the private sector, but house prices here remain | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
amongst the highest anywhere in the country and increasing, which makes | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
an increasingly unaffordable for people, especially those on lower | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
wages. Some parts of the region feeling quite hunt `` hard done by | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
in this report. Yes, Northampton in particular. On one measure they did | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
well. They were in the top ten for the number of new businesses | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
starting up. But another figure suggested that the town was losing | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
jobs. The borough council says that the figures relate to 2012 and don't | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
reflect the current situation. They say the council has put a lot of | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
effort into trying to improve things and the jobs are being created but | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
it has been reflected and probably won't be until next year 's report, | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
or even the one after. A postmortem is taking place on a | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
19`year`old man who was killed in Bedford at the weekend. He was found | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
dead on Costin Street just before 6.30 on Saturday night. He'd been | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
stabbed. Police are trying to trace a group of people seen running away | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
from the scene. A 20`year`old man has been arrested. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
A man accused of helping the Peterborough serial killer Joanna | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Dennehy dispose of bodies told police he feared for his own life | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
and thought he would be her next victim. Leslie Layton is standing | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
trial at Cambridge Crown Court and denies preventing the lawful and | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
decent burial of two of Dennehy s victims. He also denies perverting | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
the course of justice. He's standing trial alongside Gary Stretch ` he | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
also denies all charges. Joanna Dennehy has already admitted killing | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
three men in Peterborough last year. She's also pleaded guilty to the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
attempted murders of two other men in Hereford. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
A woman has told Look East how she's lucky to be alive after a sharp | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
object was thrown onto her car from a motorway bridge on the M11. It | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
happened on Tuesday night, at junction seven near Harlow. The | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
police are appealing for information. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
This morning, Jane was scraping the snow from her Volkswagen golf. The | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
motorway incident has affected her so much she does not want us to use | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
her surname, but she knows she is lucky to be alive. When I reported | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
it to the police the next morning, they said that had it gone through | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the windscreen, the chances of me keeping a straight line was not good | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
and I might have actually caused an accident and maybe even a pile`up | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
and I might not be talking to you. Jane was on the M11 in Russia on | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Tuesday evening after visiting her mother in Norfolk when a large, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
sharp object smashed the sunroof `` in the rush`hour. The bangle was so | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
loud I was initially very shocked, slightly scared, then I realised | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
what was happening `` the Bang. Then that passed. It just annoyed me | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
after that. And this is what it did to the sunroof. Thankfully the solid | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
cover inside was closed. This is the latest of an incident in Essex were | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
lumps of concrete have been dropped from motorway bridges. There is the | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
potential for serious injury if not of the talented to arrive `` arise | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
from this. It's also a risk to drivers losing control of vehicle `` | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
a fatality to arrive. It may well be children. Jane was fortunately not | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
injured and she does not understand why anybody would do something so | :07:49. | :07:49. | |
dangerous. Chris Wilder has been appointed the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
new manager of Northampton Town He's signed a three`and`a`half`year | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
deal after leaving League Two rivals Oxford United. The clubs agreed a | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
compensation package for Wilder s departure on Sunday. This morning he | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
took charge at Sixfields, where he faces a huge task saving the | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Cobblers from relegation. You won't meet many managers who | :08:08. | :08:19. | |
prefer a relegation dogfight to a promotion campaign, but this morning | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Chris Wilder left Oxford United swapping 18 league places and 2 | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
points for a three and a half year contract Northampton Town. How big a | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
decision was this for you to make? It was, and a lot of people will | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
question it, but I have ambition, I have my own reasons, personal and | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
professional. Maybe it is the right time. I have been there for five | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
years and maybe the car was driving itself in on its own and I needed | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
that new challenge. We left it a bit late and there has been some | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
frustration at the back of it, but when you are bottom of the league | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
you have to get right person and you have to be 100% comfortable with the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
person, and we have it. The Cobblers have been without a manager for five | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
weeks following the sacking of Lady Boothroyd in December and have won | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
only one of their last seven league games. Northampton had flirted with | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
relegation for many seasons, but this year it is serious. They are | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
six points adrift at the bottom of the league and have only scored 20 | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
goals, and they have 20 league games left. The route is simple, if they | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
want to survive, they have to score goals and they have got to score | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
them quickly. I don't think I will get much sleep this week. I will be | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
working tirelessly in terms of improving because it needs | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
improving. The team has not scored enough goals. They are not doing | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
enough at the top of the pitch. His work has already started. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Northampton host Rochdale tomorrow but the January transfer window is | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
arguably more important, as he has cash to splash to save their league | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
status. James, this looks a huge task for Chris Wilder. Where does he | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
start and does he have enough time? He has got enough time. The first | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
five games of the 20 will be key. This week is where it all starts. He | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
has to be a bit of a wheeler and dealer in the January transfer | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
window and raid his contacts book. He was hugely successful at Oxford. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
It was the consistency of performance that served him so well | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
but it will be a massive mental test for the players and the fans have to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
be positive as well, the chairman who is watching and paying for this, | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
this is a bit of pounds. `` this is a bit of a nightmare, it would cost | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
him hundreds of thousands of pounds if they were relegated. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
Next tonight: The pensioner left battered and bruised after tripping | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
over a health and safety sign. Dr Peter Lawrence was walking down a | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
dark pavement in Cambridge when he tripped. His face hit the floor and | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
part of the sign went through his leg. He's now threatening to sue the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
council for what he considers "health and safety gone mad". Mike | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
Cartwright has the story. It was about 16 `` 6pm, it was dark | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
and wet, and the sign had fallen over completely. You have to imagine | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
it had fallen over. I tumbled right onto the road. I landed on my | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
glasses, they were destroyed. I had the top of my head and cheekbone | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
swelling up like mad, and bleeding. Getting nasty. It could have been | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
much worse though. The sign he fell over is not only dangerous, it is | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
pointless. It has been put here because of some rule, not because it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
makes sense. Nobody would put a sign here on the vestry and walkway that | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
was crowded, with traffic coming to the right, so to put this sign in | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
the way, they will see when they are standing up, but not when it falls | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
down. And in the dark there is nobody to put it up again. It warns | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
about work on the hotel opposite. Permission for the sign was granted | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
by the County Council but after that they say it is up to private | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
companies to follow guidelines where signs should go. This Cambridge | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
academic says it being hit in the first place is health and safety out | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
of control. `` here in the first place. The roadworks have no | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
significance to the driver. They don't need to know about it. It | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
doesn't change their behaviour one jot. But a pedestrian can fall over | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
it and I could have been killed Is he right? Would it be right to not | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
have a sign because there is roadworks? It shouldn't be somewhere | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
where you can fall over it. Doctor Peter Lawrence says he might sue and | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
says he once wrote sign clutter off our streets. `` he once wrote sign | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
clutter. Hundreds of workers at a food | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
processing plant in Corby have voted to go on strike. The dispute at | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
Solway Foods is about pay and working conditions. Staff are | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
expected to walk out for one day a fortnight. Just over 900 people work | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
at the site. Unions say almost 2% of those who voted supported strike | :12:52. | :12:52. | |
action. told not to worry because police say | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Mr Clarke was specifically targeted. Still to come, a headteacher on the | :13:01. | :13:18. | |
warpath over parking problems on the school run. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
And signs that spring may just be on its way, Alex Dolan has been to see | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
some very early snowdrops at Anglesey Abbey. | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
I am sure you know in a lot of places the clean`up after the pedal | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
search last month is still going on. Everything from repairing the sea | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
defences to helping people who were made homeless. And it wasn't just | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
people there were the animals as well in particular the seals. In all | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
108 pups were taken to the RSPCA centre at East Winch in Norfolk. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Because they were so young they needed hand feeding at regular | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
intervals ` an incredibly laborious process. So, nearly two months on | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
how they getting on. This report is from our Chief Reporter Kim Riley. | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
The tidal surge brought the largest influx of seal pups to this centre | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
in its 25 year history. When I last visited it was overwhelmed. Staff | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
working around the clock to keep over 100 orphaned pups, many of them | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
very sick, alive. The seals are improving, which is great, we have | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
lost three, sadly, but the less are living. Numbers in the isolation | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
unit, all of them named after breakfast foods, are now below 40. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Greek yoghurt was brought in just yesterday from Winterton, he is fed | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
fish soup through a tube of the three hours. He is on antibiotics | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
and pain relief for the deep wound on his father. The possible dog | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
bite. Leading the wind requires firm handling. He is quite strong and | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
seal handling is quite difficult, it is a physical job, they do not want | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
to be fed so we must set a physical job, they do not want to be fed so | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
we must sit astride them and feed them. You must be quite firm but | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
gentle. Is the other pair in intensive care, at the coming along | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
OK? Yes, muesli and stroppy, what are doing very well. They are | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
beginning to hand feed at almost always picking up the flesh by | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
themselves. It is progressing well and they are looking fitter and | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
better. `` picking up the fish by themselves. The good news is that | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
real progress is being made, more than two dozen pubs are now building | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
up strength in outdoor pools. Encouraged to compete for the | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
herring and mackerel as they must do in the wild. It costs ?22 per week | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
to feed a seal pup, the RSPCA overwhelmed by the public response | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
to crisis appeal to help the seals. It has been lovely, we have had all | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
sorts of and cards telling us that they think we are doing the right | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
thing. It has been fantastic. It may be months before all of the orphans | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
are returned to the wild. But this group, enjoying feeding time in a | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
pool normally reserved for Swans, could be heading for open sea in | :16:06. | :16:18. | |
just two or three weeks. Muesli and compost, they will soon run out of | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
names! Dropping the kids off on the school | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
run is something many of us take for granted. But are you parking safely | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
when you do so? One head teacher from Northampton is so fed up with | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
bad parking outside her school that she invited cameras from Inside Out | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
to spend the day with her. As these pictures show Jackie Lapsa has got | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
quite a problem on her hands. When I spoke to her earlier today Jackie | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Lapsa told me about the reaction she gets when she approaches the | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
drivers. It does tend to be very mixed. I have got to emphasise it is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
only a small percentage of parents who drive illegally or drive | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
dangerously. I have got to say that at times the responses have been | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
very rude, and verbally aggressive. Why don't you get the police to do | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
this rather than you taking it on? The police say they haven't got the | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
presence to have someone here all the time. My answer is that I am a | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
very expensive traffic warden, and really my focus should be on | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
educating the children and providing the best education we can. The | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
answer I feel would be for the police to come here every three to | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
six months and actually enforce the law. Then I think we would see a | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
real turnabout. Give me an example of the worst case you have seen. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Last week, for instance, we had a car reversing, not really looking | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
where it was going and going up on the path, narrowly missing two | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
children and their parents. And that is the point, isn't it? It is not | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
about keeping the road clear but the danger to children. Absolutely, the | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
danger to children and to the adults, the parents, as well. There | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
is an accident waiting to happen and that really does concern me. | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
Jackie Lapsa speaking to me earlier today. I am sure many of you have an | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
opinion about that. We always love to hear from you. We spoke to | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Northamptonshire Police this afternoon. They told us they do | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
patrol the area around the school but "it is not possible to dedicate | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
an officer solely to the parking issues at the school, considering | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
other incidents and issues we are dealing with on a daily basis". You | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
can see what happened when Mrs Lapsa confronted some of the drivers in | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
Inside Out tonight at 7.30 on BBC One. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Football now and it was not a good weekend for our last surviving teams | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
in this year's FA cup. Both Stevenage and Southend were dumped | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
out in the fourth round. To be fair both teams faced Premier League | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
opposition. And on both occasions Goliath knocked out David. Our | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Sports Editor Jonathan Park has this report. It was the dream tie for | :18:59. | :19:16. | |
Southend manager Phil Brown, and new Lady dream start against his old | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
club. The team played with gusto, and they very nearly had the goal in | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
round two. It hits the bottom of the bar and out again. The difference | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
between the haves and have`nots is finishing chances of, and all | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
back`up striker Matthew prior to prove just that with two goals that | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
ended the cup run. The manager was proud of his players but maintain | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
winning promotion is more important than any cup win, even against his | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
old club. The theme continued at Stevenage when a call would have | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
given the Ordovician team extra belief. The reason that spurs and | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
Newcastle have failed to beat Newcastle on home soil, at Everton | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
found only on the do not fear reputations. The finishing of | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Premier league level was on display again. Naismith with the goal! FA | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Cup wins in the past have helped pay for a new training ground, but | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
irrecoverable beaten 4`nil by Everton. Try estimate, a fat blue | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
line kept them off the scoresheet. Then I'd buy another FA Cup | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
giant`killing. `` they were denied another FA Cup giant`killing. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
And on tomorrow night's Look East. We'll be looking at moves to | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
eradicate racism from football. There've been plenty of incidents | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
over the years. Tomorrow we'll be talking to those in the game about | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
their experience. Actually, it's not just the seals | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
that have been affected by the weather. Lots of rain strong winds | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
but very mild, which is why the aconites have been out for weeks and | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
now it's the turn of the snowdrops Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire has | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
more than 20 varieties in its grounds. And the lack of snow and | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
ice this winter means some are blooming two weeks ahead of | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
schedule. Alex Dolan has this report. | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, in the depths of winter. But already | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
there are signs of spring. It might have started to get called this | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
week, but we have had some really mild weather this winter and so far | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
no extended cold snap. That has confused some plans into following | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
LA. And that means this year 's snowdrop Festival is starting ahead | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
of schedule. Ten days or two weeks only from anything we would expect. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
What strikes me is how many there are. Over 270 varieties in our | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
collection. This is Richard Ayres, our last head gardener. A beautiful, | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
strong early double with a cluster of petals of the inside. Absolutely | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
beautiful. If you are to be brave enough to bring a tent doors you | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
would find it has a lovely Connie sent. 44,000 people came to see the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
snowdrops last year and the early blooms are attracting the close `` | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
attracting the crowds. Last year became infected the added was deep | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
in snow and we could not see any plans but this year we have come and | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
it is so much more forward, earlier in the year. What have you thought | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
of the snowdrops? Dutiful, they make you feel good. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
There are many varieties and lots of them. Each year there are more and | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
more. If it gets really cold, what'll happen? The thing they will | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
worry about is if there is a really sharp frost it will burn some of the | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
flowers in our winter garden, especially, they are not used to | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
frost and it is not good for them. How will the snowdrop cork? The IV | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
medical flower, they fall down in frost and stand up the next day. `` | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
they are the miracle flower. It is going to get cold and for these | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
snowdrops winter is not quite over yet. | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
Like little soldiers who stand up after the frost. That one with the | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
green on the outside is lovely. My daughter said she thinks spring | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
is just around the middle. Not just around the corner. I am sorry. Just | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
to say the snowdrop Festival at Anglesey Abbey runs until Sunday the | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
9th of March. You have probably guess it is time for the weather. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
It has not been the most exciting day, on Monday that has been fairly | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
miserable, it has to be said. We have had some breaks in the cloud | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
allowing for some sunshine but generally a lot of cloud feeding | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
down from the north`west and the thickest of that has produced | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
showers and rein in places for the time. Overnight we will have further | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
showers pushing them from the West, some of these will be heavy and | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
possibly somebody, too. Some will band together to give a longer spell | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
of rain. The cloud and rain means it will not be as cold as last night, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
temperatures no more than four degrees or five degrees. We could | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
see some rural spot dropping to two degrees. We will have a moderate | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
south`westerly wind for many of us, inventing a frost in most areas. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Tomorrow the low pressure is still with us and the weather front will | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
slip over the top, bringing a fairly unsettled state. A lot of cloud and, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
perhaps some sunshine if we're lucky but generally cloudy skies with | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
showers moving through and against some of those will join together to | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
give a longer spell of rain and some could be heavy possibly somebody. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Temperatures are around average, six degrees or seven degrees. `` | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
possibly thundery. There will be modest to freshen south to | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
southeasterly wind. We finished the day with further showers or a longer | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
spells of lean. Perhaps some sunshine before it gets dark in some | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
places. Over the next four days we could see brightness or sunshine on | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
all of these days but generally we are expecting a lot of clothes | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
alone. Wednesday will be unsettled with longer spells of rain with dry | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
interludes in between. The thing about Wednesday is the wind starts | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
to go easterly and that means it will feel quite cold on Wednesday | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
with highs of only around five degrees. On Thursday the wind eases | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
down a touch, temperatures are struggling to around three degrees, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
if we're lucky, so bitterly cold. On Thursday the greater chance of some | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
of that train of thought showers turning when the with sweet or wet | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
snow, the small chance that this will happen to the rain showers on | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Wednesday but a greater chance on Thursday. No Friday, the showers and | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
rain should be out of the way for most of the day, it looks as though | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
the bulk of the day will be dry with some brightness and sunshine if | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
we're lucky but generally cloudy skies and eventually a weather front | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
pushing them from the West. At the moment it looks as though that rain | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
should not rise until after dark. `` should not arise. There will be | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
frost timing more widespread, and Thursday is looking very cold | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
indeed. That said for tonight. Goodbye. `` | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
that is it for tonight. | :26:49. | :26:50. |