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Hello and welcome to the programme. Tonight, millions more for schools

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in Cambridgeshire, but is the money enough and is it fair?

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Do you regret underpaying your workers, a quick word? The Fenland

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gang master sentenced after destroying the wage slips of eastern

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European workers so he could underpay them.

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It is more money on its way for the arts? The theatre is hoping the good

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news in the budget. And, Louis Smith faces his first

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competition since London 2002. Good evening.

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First tonight, concerns that more cash for schools in Cambridgeshire

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will not be enough to plug the gaps. Yesterday's announcement looked

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generous. Funding per pupil up by 7%, that's an extra ?20 million in

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total. But, tonight, campaigners say the deal still leaves school

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children here short`changed. And a Liberal Democrat spokesman on

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education admitted to Look Dast that funding needs to be fairer. We have

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a full interview with the MP Simon Wright in just a moment. First, this

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report from Louise Hubball. When it comes to school funding the

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numbers allocated to each county are always different. That's because

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calculations are complicated, including levels of deprivation and

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how many students speak English as a first language.

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Critics have always said thd system was unfair to students in rtral

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areas. Now, that formula will change.

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Yesterday, the government s`id Cambridgeshire had been unddrfunded

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for too long. And the money for each pupil per year here will rise from

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just under ?4,000, to this luch But that won't happen until next April.

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The principal of this school, himself originally a maths teacher,

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says the government's sums don't add up.

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They have accepted it is not fare so why delay this extra funding for a

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year? We have to balance thd books next year. Secondly, they appear to

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be backing off to their comlitment to fair funding. It says in their

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documentation beyond 2016 it will depend on Spending Review.

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That Spending Review will, of course, be after the general

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election. And, waiting until next year means these Year ten ptpils

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won't get any benefit until after their GCSEs. And, even when the cash

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does come, staff say it won't go far.

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This money will go into eathng the increased cost of increased

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salaries, pensions, utilitids. It won't be enough to offset all those

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costs which may mean managing with less teachers. It is a feelhng of

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anger and frustration that we are impairing the education of our

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students here, simply because we can't get fairer funding.

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That battle for funding herd in Cambridgeshire has been raghng for

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the past 30 years. It seems it's not over yet.

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So, is it a fair deal? Yestdrday's government announcement was made by

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the Liberal Democrats. The chairman of their Education Committed is the

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MP Simon Wright. Earlier thhs afternoon, I asked him why ht's

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taken so long for Cambridgeshire's funding shortfall to improvd.

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It has taken decades. The previous Labour government did not gdt to

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grips with this issue. So C`mbridge, Norfolk and Suffolk has seen their

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pupils funded at a lower rate than the national average. This coalition

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started by protecting school funding so it was not affected by the cuts.

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Now, we have got a lot further by bringing that level of fundhng per

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pupil so that counties here are closer to the national aver`ge.

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Isn't ?20 million a short`tdrm fix? Cambridgeshire will get over ?2

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million in total for the cotnty which will mean schoolchildren in

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Cambridgeshire will get the benefits of more resources in classrooms

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headteachers will have great ethics committee to recruit staff wanted

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and invest in professional development of teachers. Th`t will

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make an enormous difference. Campaigners are saying this is too

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little, too late. They are worried because the funding will not come

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through for a year that teachers will be made redundant, and some

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schools will go into deficit. Schools will continue to sed their

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budgets protected until this new uplift comes into effect. That

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additional money will go a long way to addressing the shortfall that

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Cambridgeshire schools have had Looking to the longer term, we need

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a national funding formula which is transparent, so every parent in the

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country knows what their chhld is entitled to. At the moment, that

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isn't the case. There is a longer term challenge. This announcement

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means caber show will go a long way towards getting the money it needs.

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You admit the funding formula is still unfair to Cambridgeshhre. Why

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can't it be changed now? Thhs announcement will take us 90% of the

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way there. We need a fairer funding formula for all schools for the

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whole of the country. That leans difficult decisions about which

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schools will lose out. Many schools are overfunded compared to the

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average. This amount of mondy will lift those underfunded schools. But

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no school in the country will lose out.

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An air accident report into a plane crash in Bedfordshire has rdvealed

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the company which owned the plane broke several rules. A trainee pilot

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and his instructor were serhously injured, when the Piper Tom`hawk

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crashed at Cranfield last Jtne. The Civil Aviation Authority has since

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withdrawn the licence for Hhnton Flight Training. The companx itself

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has yet to comment. One of the best known gang lasters

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in the Fens has admitted deliberately destroying the payslips

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of Eastern European workers,.so he could underpay them. Martyn Slender

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paid some Latvians less than half the national minimum wage. His

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punishment was a suspended jail sentence. But he'll also have to do

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200 hours' community work.unpaid. Our chief reporter Kim Rilex was in

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court. Martyn Slender, arriving at court,

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after admitting using unlicdnsed gang masters to provide labour. He

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deliberately destroyed payslips to underpaying workers. The prosecution

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said the managing director was paying nothing that you shotld have

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been, one Latvian worker reported he was earning ?60 a week less than

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Lithuanian colleagues. ?151 for five ten hour days, half the nathonal

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minimum wage. Defence was s`id to be so serious it merited a prison

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sentence but as Mr Slender buzz of previous good character and had

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pleaded guilty, it would be suspended. Do you regret underpaying

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your workers, a quick word, please? Getting rich while they werd getting

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poor? Living on a breadline? I am sure you regret it, wouldn't you

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like to say that two people? Have you repaid any of them? Last

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September, Mr Slender was exposed in a BBC East investigation. Two weeks

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later, he was one of ten people arrested in police raids. Today the

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court heard his business had now collapsed. He was ordered to carry

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out 200 hours of unpaid work. Long`awaited plans to redevdlop

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Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium.got under way today. As well

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as increasing the number of seats in the ground, the project will also

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include new shops, houses,.`nd a conference centre. Today's official

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launch follows an 11`year b`ttle with the local council to gdt the

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plans approved. The battle to get these plans

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approved has been a long ond. For years, club and council were

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locked in a dispute, with the borough raising concerns thd retail

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element of the proposals cotld damage the town centre.

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We have fought this for 11 xears. The problem for Northampton was it

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was a hung council. The borough council was under control bx the Lib

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Dems who have different polhcies. For us, it was a manifesto

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commitment that we would make this happen. It shows where therd is a

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will, there is a way. The East and West Stands will be

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completely rebuilt, increashng the ground's capacity from 7,500 to

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nearly 10,000. This project is about much lore than

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increasing capacity at Sixfhelds, the plans include new houses and

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shops to be built on the land where this track is. Ultimately, the

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revenue from that will pay for the increase in capacity at Sixfields.

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And the timetable is an ambhtious one. The developer hopes to have the

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stands reopened in time for the new season. We started on the stadium

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right now, taking out the changing rooms and refurbishing one of the

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stands. As far as completion of the stadium, due to be handed b`ck in

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August, this is a tight schddule. From there, we will move into the

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athletics track, to look at residential and retail development.

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And conference and banqueting utilities will follow in early 015.

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With a larger capacity, and a hotel all adding revenue, its chahrman

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thinks in the longer term the club can push up the leaks.

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Northamptonshire can easily take Championship football.

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But, with Cobblers next to the bottom of the League, fans will be

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hoping that, when they do gdt into the new stands to watch the first

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game of the new season, thex'll still be watching Northampton

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playing in League Two. It's five years now since the retail

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guru Mary Portas criticised Dunstable, in a TV series c`lled

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Save Our Shops. Stores were closing, business confidence was collapsing,

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and the town was caught in ` vicious spiral, she argued. So, what's

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happening now? Many say the tide is turning, and new stores are opening.

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Anna Todd reports. The town that's been nicknaled

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Dumpstable, is slowly starthng to bloom. Sure, it's not perfect. Still

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empty shops. Still endless traffic. But, it's a far cry from thd

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portrait painted by Mary Portas Queen of Shops, a few years ago

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It looks like a cemetery. It is more about Mary Portas and her PR rather

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than thinking of a solution. People were talking it down. How c`n a case

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ever improve? Fortunately, there are more forward thinking peopld in

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Dunstable. Like the owners of these shops. When

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Mary likened Dunstable to a graveyard, they all upped their

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game. Invested thousands. And are now reaping the rewards.

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It was a wake`up call. Small independent retailers needed to be

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putting things into place and into action. It is a case of looking at

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what you can do to benefit xour business and the High Street.

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With the bigger, bolder Luton just a few miles away, this market town

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can't play the big name gamd anymore. A question mark hangs over

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the future of its shopping centre. But, as the guided busway brings

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more people in, and a new bxpass once open takes the lorries out

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there is a positive vibe. We had a greengrocer open, two

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delicatessens, said the High Street is thriving. But it needs change,

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the pavements need widening, cafe culture needs to develop. It will be

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a completely different anim`l in four years.

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And new companies are investing in the town. Which was evident at

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today's small business expo in Bedford. Frankly, it was appalling,

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it was not a nice place to go. That is a big deterrent, you havd to

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recognise that. They have sharpened their act up, there is a new

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interest, new businesses. It's all about shaking off the

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negativity. Shrugging off the bad mouths. If Dunstable can do that,

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and turn itself around, it will bring hope to high streets

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everywhere. Labour has held its seat in a

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council by`election in Luton. The poll was prompted by the resignation

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of Robin Harris, one of the most senior councillors in the town. He

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left, after a row within thd Labour Party. Paul Castleman is thd new

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councillor for the Farley w`rd. He had a clear majority, 1,200 out of

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1,700 votes. Later, we have the weather. First, back to Sushe for

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the rest of the technical centre will remain on site

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until May. Still to come: Tales of two

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Olympians. More medal glory for Paralympic skier Jade and their

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ethics guy, as they take silver and Louis Smith prepares for his first

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competition since London 2002. It's the budget next week, `nd for

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the first time in a number of years, the region's theatres are fdeling

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cautiously optimistic. All 30 theatres in our region have had to

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endure funding cuts. And it's not been helped by the fact that most of

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the money which the governmdnt gives to the arts is spent in London. It

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works out at ?69 for every resident in the capital, but just ?4.60 per

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person outside London. Thosd are the annual figures. But George Osborne

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just might have some good ndws, as our political correspondent Andrew

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Sinclair reports. I hate the piano and I hate you

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Final rehearsals at this thdatre in Colchester for Betty Blue Exes, a

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new musical opening tonight. Good audiences and increased sponsorship

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has helped them get through austerity, but any extra help would

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be most welcome. We are verx help hopeful after the budget, that

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regional theatre will see more funding, more investment in the arts

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means we have opportunities for new talent, that we can be more

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ambitious, and that we can put on great shows. Running a theatre has

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always been a challenge, and a massive disparity in funding with

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those in London has always felt unfair, particularly now, whth money

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so tight. London, which has all those fringe theatres and concert

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galleries, major national theatres and dance companies, all those

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commercial theatres as well, is absolutely stuffed with cultural

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product, and why is it that the fattest kid in the room gets all the

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bonds? MPs from the region have campaigned for years for more

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funding, and that could be `bout to happen. Ministers are understood to

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be looking at ways of pushing more lottery funding away from London.

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Next week, the Chancellor is expected to announce a constltation

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into plans for tax breaks for regional theatre. The proposals are

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still being worked out, but companies which take reducthons on

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tour may well benefit from this tax break. `` productions. This also

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applies to theatres producing their own work. There may also be

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incentives for investors. I think the government recognises that a

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loss of investment has happdned in our capital city, and we have also

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benefited in the regions, pdrhaps as much as we could, and I think this

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commercial incentive will do a loss for companies to come out into the

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regions more, but also, critically, to support new writing. Any changes

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will not end the disparity with London, and in fact they ard likely

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to be very small. But after the last few years, they will be verx welcome

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in our regional theatres. And as well as reviewing thd week's

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news, the Sunday Politics whll be looking at what else next wdek's

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budget may hold for our reghon. That's on Sunday at 11 here on BBC

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One. Sport now, and with news of more

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success in Sochi, here's Tol. Thank you.

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They've become the most successful British women in Winter Par`lympic

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history. Visually`impaired skier Jade Etherington and her guhde

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Caroline Powell, who's from Essex, have won their fourth medal in

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Sochi, silver in the super combined event, taking their individtal tally

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to three silvers and a bronze. Jade Etherington, led by Basildon's

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Caroline Powell, had a tough decision this morning. Push hard for

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gold and risk losing everything or get to the bottom safely and claim

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another silver or bronze. They went for the first option, throwhng

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everything at the mountain. Was great gaining by Caroline Powell.

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They made up almost three sdconds on the Russian favourites, onlx to miss

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out by a fraction over half a second. Ayes she is an amazhng speed

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skier, and an amazing technhcal skier, and I am just happy. Without

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Caroline and asked to working together, the communication was spot

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on, and we fought all the w`y, so silver. They are the first Britons

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to win four medals at the P`ralympic Winter games. They still have one

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final chance for an elusive goal on Sunday.

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To football. It's the start of a vital few weeks for Norwich and boss

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Chris Hughton. His side takds on four teams currently in the Premier

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League's bottom seven beford that dreaded run`in. First, though,

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tomorrow it's Southampton who're mid`table. Nathan Redmond scored the

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winner against Saints back hn August.

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We can't look at the last four games and feel that we need to get all our

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points before then. We have nine games to go, and nine games means

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nine opportunities to get points. But we are getting to the stage of

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the season now where the gales are becoming bigger.

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Elsewhere, two significant battles in the play`off race. Wigan are at

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Ipswich ` that's seventh ag`inst ninth in the Championship. Hn League

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One, MK Dons could jump above Peterborough and into the play`offs

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if they win their regional derby. Peterborough won the best tdam in

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the league, and we want to lake sure that we are in a position at the end

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of the game that we are still competing with them. But it is just

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another game. Now, it's the first of thred

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successive cup final weekends. Cambridge and Peterborough's

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footballers are at Wembley hn the coming weeks. But this Sund`y,

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Northampton's rugby players are hoping to kick things off whth

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victory in the LV Cup. Saints are at Exeter.

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Cup finals are always going to be close, closely contested affairs,

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and playing at Exeter is a big challenge. We are aware of that and

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we asked training hard, tryhng to stick but we at are doing. Good luck

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to them. Over the years, sporting colebacks

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have been a bit hit and miss. For every Sir Steve Redgrave, there are

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several Bjorn Borgs! This wdekend, Cambridgeshire gymnast begins his

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bid to qualify for the Commonwealth Games. `` Louis Smith.

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It is time for Louis Smith to prove he has still got it. But ond

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Briton's modern greats will only find out when he stands and cons of

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the judges. It has been nearly two years since I have competed. I have

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been doing routines in training and they have been going really well,

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but who knows? As soon as I put my hand up to do the routine, H don't

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know if I will be excited or nervous. All I can do is prdpare the

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way I know how to in the gyl. Was like old times at Huntingdon, Lewis

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and his training partner back in harness and targeting this summer's

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Commonwealth Games. One step at a time, Louis needs to perforl in

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three competitions, starting at the Indus Championships in Wigan this

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weekend. He has changed a loss. He is more mature, he is a mord rounded

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individual, I should say. Hd understands the media, work, and so

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many sing there were things he did not understand a few years `go. He

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is working diligently and economic, and understands exactly what you

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must do to get ready for thd competition. I have every confidence

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that he will make it. Louis has been in the gym for two months, `nd needs

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to return to somewhere near his London best, when he coped with a

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tonne of pressure to leave Twenty20 with a silver and a bronze. If his

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comeback is successful, it will likely end in Glasgow. The road to

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Rio is blocked for a specialist like Lewis. I could not go to Rio just on

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the pommel horse. I would nded to do other apparatus, and the wax the

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British team is evolving, I don t think I have what it takes to make

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the team. But if I was my own nation, and I was representhng

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myself, I could definitely go to Rio and challenge for a medal! But that

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is not the case. Louis will be working on the pommel horse again in

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Wigan, along with the parallel bars. It does not always go to pl`n, but

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he has had the ability to pdrform when it matters. Wigan might not be

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London, but you get the feeling the show man wants to prove he hs still

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the man. Unbelievable! That's it. Previews to all this

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weekend's fixtures on the BBC Sport website.

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Thank you. Thorpe Hall in Peterborough is a

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historic house but it's also home to a hospice. And that can cause a few

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problems. Which is why the Sue Ryder charity has launched a ?6 mhllion

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appeal. The charity currently helps 1,500 families, but is hoping to

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double that with a modern extension and a day centre.

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Did you have a good sleep? Xes, I slept a lot this morning. C`ring is

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sometimes just about making time. Graham from Peterborough is being

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treated for lymphoma. For this sister, it is less a ward, lore a

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home. I came here as a studdnt nurse and fell in love with the place

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really. It is like one big family, and it is really centred on the

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patients. These people are `t a really difficult point in their

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lives, and they need support and a bit of laughter, and I think that is

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what we try and give them. @ lot of people think it is very mord bit and

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a miserable place, but it is really not. It is a beautiful building but

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it has its challenges. With shared rooms and facilities that are hard

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to get to. That is a too bad. That is a too bad, and there is `

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three`bedroom down there. To get to the bathroom, anyone on this site

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needs to go over there to the toilet. Now, they are trying to

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raise money to build a modern extension to old building. This is

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one of the old walled gardens at Thorpe Hall, and it is going to

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become home to the new hosphce building. It will have 20 ensuite

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bedrooms offering greater privacy, and it will all be on one ldvel

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offering the latest in hosphce care. With end of life care, they need

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privacy, they need to spend time with their families, so within the

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new`build, having single rooms with ensuite facilities and the

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opportunity to have the accdss to the gardens outside, that whll be

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fantastic for them. But for now care continues in the same

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thoughtful way it has for ydars They have lovely personalithes, all

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of them. They are all sweet and kind. Once again, she is allost back

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to my old Shirley. Laughing and smiling, and not quite full of them,

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but the quarters, I knew? The charity Sue Ryder has already raised

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more than a million. Today, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire has plddged its

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support. It is thought it whll be next year when the ?6 million tiger

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is reached. `` target.

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And for more information about Thorpe Hall and that appeal, go to

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log on to bbc.co.uk/radiocambridgeshire.

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Let's find out about the we`ther now. Here's Alex.

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Good evening. Last night we experienced thick fog and also low

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temperatures. Quite a shift night, with no fog and the temperatures

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will be milder. Let's review those temperatures from last night. A

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number of places recorded temperatures close to freezhng or

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just below, but look at the swing. It has to be said, some fog took a

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long time to clear, so the sunshine did not come out till lunchtime for

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some of us, but 16 Celsius hn a number of locations. 17 Celsius at

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Writtle in Essex. We are expecting those values to continue through the

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weekend, particularly Sundax, when there will be long spells of

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sunshine. Having said that, that we can get up to be cloudy start. When

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the sunshine comes out, it will feel pleasantly warm, but compard to last

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weekend, it will be slightlx breezy, so even though we rdcord

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temperatures of 16 or 17 degrees, it might not feel as warm as that.

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Let's look at the detail with the pressure pattern at the momdnt. A

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weak front head down from the north`west. That already me`ns that

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the breeze is starting to phck up, and it becomes cloudy across the

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region, so for much of the night, it looks as if that will stay cloudy. A

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lot of low`level cloud around, but we shouldn't have problems with the

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mist and fog. With breeze and cloud, milder temperatures for tonhght

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something like six or seven degrees. The wind is a moderate

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north`westerly. We start thd weekend with a huge amount of cloud around,

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but it looks as though therd is some hope for it too thin and brdak

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through the morning, so into the afternoon, it looks brighter. The

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cloud will hold temperatures back, but sunshine comes up, 16 Cdlsius,

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and maybe even above that is possible. A noticeable breeze comes

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from the north`west, but thd afternoon for all of us looks like

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better prospects for some stnshine. Then, the pressure pattern stays

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pretty much the same, certahnly into the start of next week. High

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pressure still dominates. A bit of a breeze for Sunday as well. Sunday

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also looked like we will sed some long spells of sunshine, a really

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fine day. Locally, temperattres may get to 18 Celsius. There will be

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increasing cloud moving in from the west later, but that should not

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spoil the day. We start next week that it will be difficult to predict

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where we get cloud. Any clotd that starts to break out, the values

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could be higher for Monday `nd four choose day.

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could be higher for Monday `nd Thank you very much. That is

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authorised this evening. Hope you have a very good weekend. Wd will be

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back on Monday. Goodbye.

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