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Hundreds of jobs at risk and high | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
street branches to go as the Norwich and Peterborough | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Building Society announces plans to close. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the warning from Badminton bosses as they campaign against cuts | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
We are smashing so many things in the sport, doing so many things, and | :00:18. | :00:31. | |
this decision could absolutely pull the rug from under us. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
as major structural problems are found in a main | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
And I am here at Anglesey Abbey in the stunning but chilly winter | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
garden. First tonight - more than three | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
hundred jobs across this region are at risk tonight, | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
as the owners of the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
announced it will be scaling back its branches and losing posts | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
at its headquarters. In all, 28 branches will close | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
across East Anglia and up The Norwich Peterborough Building | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Society brand will also disappear from our high streets | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
later this year. This from our business | :01:17. | :01:17. | |
correspondent Richard Bond. It has been a trusted name on the | :01:18. | :01:31. | |
high street for decades, with 45 branches across the region. But soon | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the Norwich and Peterborough name will completely disappear, it all | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
the Yorkshire building society to close 28 N and P branches including | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
this one of the outskirts of Peterborough. It does have an effect | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
on people in the area which is particularly felt with the older | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
community year but also for the young people, so my younger brother | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
uses it because it is near to where he works. It is a bit of an upset | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
because people have to travel further, for those who love appeared | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
especially because it is the neither place. Be changes put at risk 340 | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
jobs, in branches and at the headquarters in Peterborough. After | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the closures, only 17 branches will remain under the Yorkshire brand. It | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
was formed in 1986 to the merger of the Norwich and Peterborough | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
building society is, for 20 years the organisation thrived but had | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
suffered a major setback about ten years ago when it started selling | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the investment products of a company called Key data which went bust. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Customers were compensated by the scandal cost them ?57 million, and | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
led to the Yorkshire takeover. The Yorkshire CV banking market is | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
changing, more customers are conducting business online and use | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
of high-street branches like this is declining by 7% per year. Further | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
investment in that network can't be justified. But the argument will | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
disappoint thousands of members who inspect -- expect a building society | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
to provide a good branch network in places where the big banks aren't | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
represented. These are some of the place is set to close, the changes | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
due to take effect from September this year. Members are being | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
encouraged to embrace online banking but some elderly customers may find | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
that difficult to do. I asked Chief Executive | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
of the Yorkshire Building Society, Mike Regnier, what the | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
changes would mean. The thing that makes building | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
society is different from banks is the overall objectives are | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
completely different, the building society objectives are to act in the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
interests of our members, we don't have shareholders, we look at the | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
members. And provide the best service and best value. Lots of your | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
members value having a local branch to visit and a person to talk to. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
You are not providing value for them. What is important to say is | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
that for most of those people the nearest branch will still be two or | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
three or four miles away from the one closing because in the main we | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
are proposing two ) is where we have another branch in the close | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
vicinity. We will still have 260 branches and agencies on the high | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
Street. It will be branded. And from our perspective that is still going | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
to be a significant investment in face-to-face service. This will | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
involve a certain amount of job losses, where all those come? Branch | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
level or at the headquarters? In East Anglia we are consulting with | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
our colleagues at the moment and these changes will take effect on to | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the next 18 months so our priority really is to see how many of those | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
colleagues that we have spoken to today we can find them out of | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
employment for because we do have a number of months for us to find them | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
alternative rules were that is possible and where their skills | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
match and very find something they are interested in doing. A lot of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
people might be sad and losing the name, Yorkshire does not mean a lot | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
to them. Any understand that and how can you reassure them? While the | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
name might change them while the pink and purple blobs might change | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to green, the service customers get day-to-day will be just as good if | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
not better than I was. And for those branches it will remain, it will be | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the same people there that customers can turn to to help them with their | :05:39. | :05:39. | |
needs. Badminton England, | :05:40. | :05:40. | |
based in Milton Keynes, says success at the next Olympics | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
is in jeopardy - unless funding Public money for badminton was cut | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
after the Rio Games, despite two MK players winning | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
bronze in the men's Our sports editor Jonathan | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Park has this report. They want to turn bronze into gold, | :05:52. | :06:07. | |
in Tokyo. But right now and medallists Marcus Ellis and Chris | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
language can think too far ahead. They like the other players training | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
at the National Badminton Centre face an uncertain future after the | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
sport's funding was cut by UK sport. Healing the news was obviously a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
real kick in the teeth for us and everyone, I don't think anyone could | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
believe what had happened. It was not just the case of funding reduced | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
it was to nothing. 18th of August 2016 the day Marcus and Chris won | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Brent's first-ever men's doubles awarded medal but before the year | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
was out the UK sport decision not to -- made the decision not to spend a | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
penny of the budget on Badminton. This was leading up to the Tokyo | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
games in 2020. Badminton has launched an appeal but still must | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
prepare for the worst if the appeal fails. We have to prepare for what | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
life without UK funding could be like, it has been a challenging 56 | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
weeks, we have a number of staff at risk of redundancy and the courtesan | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
at risk of redundancy, we informed the players about what they -- the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
programme could look like should we not be successful here. UK sport's | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Badminton snub means that Marcus and Chris may have to fight between 60 | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
and ?70,000 each in the run-up to Tokyo just to be competitive. A | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
court is ?10 per hour and retrain sex hours a day and we need six | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
courts so that is a lot of money in itself. These are not luxuries, | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
these are the basics we need and then turn its wise if we are not | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
travelling a pointer internment our opponents in competitions are and | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
they go up in the ranks on the go down. Badminton players and coaches | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
and management are confident in the sport's ability to win Olympic and | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
paralytic medals in Tokyo and beyond. The head to London in two | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
weeks' time for the appeal to be heard by UK sport in what will prove | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
to be a pivotal moment for the sport. | :08:04. | :08:04. | |
As you probably know by now, it's the 50th | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
birthday of Milton Keynes, and, as we reported on Monday, | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
the event is being well celebrated across the town. | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Today the celebrations extended to Westminster with MPs | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
from the Prime Minister downwards lining up to offer | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
Let's join Andrew Sinclair who's down there tonight. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
It was the 23rd of January 1967 that the orders creating the new town of | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
Milton Keynes were drawn up in the building and me. Parliament doesn't | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
normally celebrate anniversaries of towns, but Milton Keynes's two MPs | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
were determined that this anniversary should not go unnoticed. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
This week Milton Keynes celebrates its 50th birthday. It started at | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
Prime Minister's Questions with the MP for NK cell is saying the praises | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
of his hometown and inviting the Prime Minister to join in. Think | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Milton Keynes is a great example of what you can achieve with a clear | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
plan and with strong local leadership. Then the unusual step of | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
the whole parliamentary debate devoted to the subject. At | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
politicians in Milton Keynes share a passion for the place. Mr Stewart | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
said there had been a sense of excitement and optimism among the | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
early settlers particularly those who moved out of the slums of | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
London. Milton Keynes had lived up to expectations he said but could | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
not rest on its laurels. Projects like the Northern powerhouse and | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Midlands engine meant that the town still needs investment to grow. | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Milton Keynes future is as exciting as it passed. The other MP Mark | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Lancaster is a government minister, he said Milton Keynes was becoming a | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
centre of high-tech innovation. More homes would be built but he made | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
this promise. I before E or infrastructure before expansion and | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
economic growth should be the drivers for local growth in Milton | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Keynes. An MP from Oxford said he would forward to the expressway | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
being built, the Bedfordshire MP praised the large number of trees in | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Milton Keynes. No one said anything nasty today. But then you don't own | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
birthdays do you? Which makes you wonder what the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
point was today. It keeps Milton Keynes on everyone's radar and as | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Ian Stewart said any publicity is good publicity. | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
Drivers are complaining of traffic chaos, | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
and villagers are complaining of drivers using their small roads | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
It's all over the continued closure of the A6 in Northamptonshire. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
The Highways Agency says structural problems with the road are far worse | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Stuart Ratcliffe has been to find out more. | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
It is this small section of road which is causing big problems. A | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
routine inspection last week raised serious safety concerns and the road | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
was immediately closed. The foundations are dropping away from | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the road surface and we found a void, essentially we found a gap and | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
what we have been doing is serving the entire area and over the weekend | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
we were doing GPS surveying and realising that is more significant | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
than we first thought. And that we need to carry on doing what | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
investigations and work. That means the ASICS is now closed between | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
junction three on a 14 and there's brass. The diversion is to take | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
people through Corby and Kettering and vice versa but some are ignoring | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
that advice and this is the result. It causes bedlam on the old ASICS | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
between Rothwell and Desborough, the amount of vehicles that come into | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Rothwell is awful. The lorries, they have put a sign up this banal HGVs | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
but big articular cant see them and the other evening there was an | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
articulated lorry at the end of a road trying to turn. Causing even | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
more chaos. Cars along each end of the road could not move. It is not | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
just the road through Desborough and Rothwell which is taking a hit. At | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
rush hour these tiny country lanes also become rat runs. It has | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
increased 24 to what normally does. It would be a real challenge to get | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
anywhere on these little roads at the moment. The full extent of the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
work needed here is not yet known, nor is the exact reopening date. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Engineers say they are hopeful that it will be before the end of | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
February. The former Prime Minister David | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
Cameron has become the new president of the charity Alzheimer's Research | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
UK based in Cambridge. Mr Cameron, who resigned | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
from parliament in September visited the Cambridge Drug Discovery | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Institute at Addenbrooke's He made dementia a priority | :12:44. | :12:44. | |
during his time as PM. He kick-started a drive | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
to deliver major improvements The charity said he will act | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
as its highest level ambassador. That's all for now. It's join Stuart | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
and Susie. Saying goodbye to the gardener | :13:00. | :13:12. | |
at Anglesey Abbey after 40 years. And after all that bad | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
news about the tidal surge earlier this month, | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
the silver lining on The latest phase of work is now | :13:20. | :13:32. | |
underway to protect the iconic lighthouse Orfordness from the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
scene. Avril once the ways that been taken away, had been giving | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
something back. The East of England Ambulance | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Service has seen a huge increase in the numbers of calls over recent | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
years, and it reached record levels The service says it's | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
been its busiest winter ever. Today, the board of directors | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
met in Cambridgeshire. Among the items up for discussion, | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
growing demand, a shortage of paramedics and handover | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
delays at hospitals. But the trust says it is making | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
progress on response times. In a moment, the chief | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
executive Robert Morton, after this from our chief reporter, | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Kim Riley. Pressure on the Ambulance Service | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
has been steadily building over the winter, with demand leaping | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
by almost a third last month. Between Christmas Eve | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
and Boxing Day, control room staff handled just under 7000 calls, | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
800 more than last year. The Department of Health national | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
standard requires paramedics treat 75% of the most serious | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
life-threatening calls In December, the East | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
of England Ambulance Service While not hitting the national | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
targets, the trust claims, week-by-week, it's consistenyl now | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
one of the best-performing Our hospitals are under | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
intense pressure too. The report, at today's meeting, | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
highlighted that delays handing In December, delays of over 15 | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
minutes reached over 7800 hours. The equivalent of some 682 | :14:52. | :15:00. | |
12-hour ambulance shifts. Southend, Colchester, | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
the Norfolk and Norwich and Peterborough among | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
the top contributing hospitals. A national shortage of paramedics | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
has led the trust to back up its recruitment drive at home | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
by looking overseas. Nine candidates have | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
been offered employment It's now considering furtehr | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
recruitment in Australia The trust says it's treating more | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
of its sickest patients within the eight-minutes target | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
than ever before, and is moving towards meeting national | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
performance standards. But the recruitment problem, | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
an ongoing dispute with the main union, | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
Unison, and a significant financial deficit are among problems that | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
still have to be faced. After that board meeting, I asked | :15:43. | :15:57. | |
the Chief Executive Robert Morton about the financial measures at the | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
trust. He said the need to to spend more than they had in order to keep | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
patients safe. If we did not spend this money now, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
effectively, we would not have sufficient capacity to respond to | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
the huge rise in demand we're experiencing across the east of an. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Secondly, there would be tremendous pressure on our workforce. Us, as a | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
trust board, the pressure wave had to maintain this deficit to ensure | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
we have sufficient capacity to respond to patients, maintain the | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
safety of service and the well being of our workforce. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
You talk about your workforce, the trade dispute relating to late | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
finishes are still ongoing. I spoke to you about that when you first | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
joined, 18 months ago? We have worked in partnership with | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Unison and developed a number of measures to address the issue of | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
late finishes and disturbed meal breaks. The feedback we've had from | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
our workforce generally is that those changes have been positively | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
received. But Unison has reiterated the threat | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
to ballot for strike action if its demands aren't met? | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
One would expect a trade union to continue to maintain that option. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
The reality is, we do continue to work together in partnership, we do | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
continue to talk between our organisation and Unison. So whilst | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
the statement is there, the reality is the risk of industrial action is | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
low at this stage. You're still, as a service, failing | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
to hit your targets. How much of that is down to the problems you | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
have with handovers at hospitals? Is good percentage is due to hand | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
over delays at hospitals, particularly across the festive | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
season, we've seen continued correlation between weight for | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
ambulance in areas where there are a long hand over delays. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
So you haven't got enough money, you have difficult relations with the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
union and you're dealing with a creaking NHS. What would your | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
message to beat the Health Secretary this evening about those pressures | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
you're facing? Clearly, we would want or money and | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
want it now. I think the Secretary of State with gift us that money if | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
he had available to him. But thing, accordingly, what we also need is | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
continuing recognition of the pressure we're all under and that's | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
where a micro doing our best underdog but circumstances. I've | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
heard is a recognition that is it case from the Secretary of State. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
Thank you. Two weeks ago, our coastline was | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
bracing itself for the devastating effects of strong winds | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
and spring tides. Thousands of homes were | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
evacuated, and the sea But while many places | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
were left counting the cost, at Orfordness in Suffolk, | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
they were counting their blessings. There, the waves dumped thousands | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
of tonnes of shingle on the shoreline, and that | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
could prove vital in a battle Once again, the volunteers are | :18:56. | :19:12. | |
stepping into the breach on the beach. This, the latest phase of | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
work costing more than ?6,000 to try to delay the now redundant | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
structure's collapse, using these shingle-filled sausages. While it | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
has weathered the recent swell, for once, the waves proved friend, not | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
phone. We felt that the old girl was | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
putting up a good fight, so we decided we would help her. Given | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
some fair winds and a kind tail end to the winter, we should be able to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
get visitors over here again this year. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Built in 1792 using three quarters of millennium breaks, it's over 750 | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
feet tall, with another 20 feet underground. It was decommissioned | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
in 2013, now owned by a trust driven by passion and pride. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
It's landmark that everybody loves. Went you drive in, the first thing | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
you see out to sea as the lighthouse. It would matter be -- | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
Orfordness without a lighthouse would be disastrous. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
We will take it year by year and at the end of each winter we will be | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
able to assess how she's got through the winter. Will have time from when | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
we can't get visitors here any more, but the lighthouse still saved, if | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
that makes sense. That's when we will start dismantling and moving to | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
the next phase of the plan. These are voice pipes, Wessels would go | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
all the way down to the kitchen. The keeper good summer his mate come up | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
here and give him a hand. They will hope to salvage an exhibit | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
in the museum this and other artefacts from the inside. The very | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
top of the building will be taken away preserve too. They know that | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
they will sue calm, but for now it is all about digging in and battling | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
on. Surrender, never. I always loved those moments when | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
you say, I never knew that. Powered by whale oil, well I never. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
If you say Anglesey Abbey to most people, especially | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
at this time of year, most people will say snowdrops. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Over the years, the Abbey - which is run by the National Trust - | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
has built a reputation for its winter garden. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
For the last 40 years, the man in charge has been Richard Todd, | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
but now he's stepping down as head gardener. | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
The nationally acclaimed winter garden, here at Anglesey Abbey - | :21:47. | :21:58. | |
From red dogwood to whitewash bramble. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
That's the beauty of a winter garden. | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
You can't be unhappy about what you're seeing, | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
because they're fantastically bright. | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Richard Todd has worked here since he was 22. | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
He planted much of this garden and designed a lot of it. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Now he's retiring, his successor will need to constantly maintain it | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
It's not a job for the faint-hearted. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Not only are you running the garden, making sure | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
maintaining all of those things - big team to look after, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Obviously, there's lots of emotions around that, because it's | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
But think it's the right time for me to hang up my boots, as it were. | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
The real jewel in the crown here are the snowdrops, | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
What are the challenges facing the new head gardener? | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
We've got one right here, this is the first of our named | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
We've got 350 in the collection, you've got to get your head | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
round that, to tell the stories, tell the differences | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
Richard is now going on to become the garden consultant | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
for the National Trust in our region. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
If you'd like to fill his shoes here, applications close | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
Does look lovely. Beautiful, very cold, but don't get | :23:21. | :23:33. | |
colder? Yes, it today wasn't called enough. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Promoter us across the region, it was misty and foggy, temperatures | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
just above freezing. Beautiful photographs, a misty scene and | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Norfolk this morning. Another one here in Northamptonshire. That's how | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
we start the evening, a lot of messed around and low cloud. Spots | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
of drizzle possible, even the odd snow through the night. That throws | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
up a problem of ice on untreated surfaces through the night. | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Temperatures will drop below freezing quite rightly, down to | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
around minus two Celsius. In those frost-prime spots, it could go a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
degree or two lower than that. As we get drier, colder, continental air | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
bossing the region overnight. That is going to be a feature of the | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
weather tomorrow. High-pressure starting to head eastwards, we get | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
this south easterly wind. A lump of cold air across the continent, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
across us tomorrow. We start tomorrow on a cold note anyway, a | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
widespread frost. Potential for icy conditions as well. Cloud around, | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
and once more at the of drizzle, a snow flurry as well. Essentially, a | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
dry day. Is this dry air comes in, we'll studies ease and brightness, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
perhaps even sunshine in parts of the region, across that southeastern | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
corner. Temperatures were some of us, not above freezing all day. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Factor in the wind-chill, as easterly breeze, it will bitterly | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
cold. It will feel subzero for Match Of The Day. The good news is it | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
won't last, but it's going to be a widespread frost. A shift in | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
pressure pattern, Friday a transitional day. High-pressure | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
starting to rake down, Atlantic weather systems pushing and from the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
west. We'll study get more of a southerly wind. Celeste Coles, not | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
warmer, but less cold. The potential for more cloud, and patchy rain on | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
Friday. Not raining on Friday, but cloud around, dry interludes and | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
spells of patchy rain. Temperatures recovering, up to 7 degrees on | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
Friday. The weekend a similar pattern, dry, cloudy at times, | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
chilly at night, but not as cold as it will be tomorrow. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
Thank you. 80 degrees on Saturday? Hardly | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
swimsuits! -- 8 degrees on Saturday. See you tomorrow, bye-bye. | :26:15. | :26:17. |