:00:10. > :00:14.Hello. Welcome to the programme. No budget will be for drivers to sing
:00:14. > :00:19.record prices at the Poms especially in rural areas. It is
:00:19. > :00:23.appalling, and that has been for a very long time. But if you can
:00:23. > :00:27.afford to drive, good news for users of one of our main routes.
:00:27. > :00:33.Underfunding cut puts into doubt the future of a charity caring for
:00:33. > :00:35.more than 500 children. And what the Archbishop of York thinks about
:00:35. > :00:43.being the bookmaker's favourite to become the next Archbishop of
:00:43. > :00:50.Canterbury. I am not a horse, so you can do whatever you like.
:00:50. > :00:59.counting the cost of the Derby dust up, big fines for Newcastle and
:00:59. > :01:08.Sunderland, but good news as Middlesbrough help to burst the
:01:08. > :01:12.exam's promotion double. -- Big Sam's. The Budget has been
:01:12. > :01:16.delivered. The winners and losers have been declared. The analysis
:01:16. > :01:20.will go on for days. But one bill which just seems to keep rising,
:01:20. > :01:23.for many people, is the cost of running a car. Petrol and diesel
:01:23. > :01:26.prices are at a record high. And the Government is going ahead with
:01:26. > :01:30.a 3% increase in fuel duty in August. In towns and cities,
:01:30. > :01:33.there's a price war at the pumps. But people living in rural areas
:01:33. > :01:35.can't shop around and pay, on average, 4p a litre more. The
:01:35. > :01:42.Countryside Alliance says the situation is becoming
:01:42. > :01:45."intolerable." This was the picture in Cumbria today. A typical garage
:01:45. > :01:47.forecourt in Carlisle was charging 138p a litre for unleaded, and 144p
:01:47. > :01:53.for diesel. Contrast that with Warwick Bridge - just five miles
:01:53. > :01:56.outside Carlisle, where the price was 142p and 149p a litre. And this
:01:56. > :02:05.is what drivers filling up there think about the price they have to
:02:05. > :02:12.pay. It is absolutely appalling, and it has been for his very long
:02:12. > :02:16.time. It has seriously affected my business and I have clients who
:02:16. > :02:24.phone up and what the book or an event and one of the first things
:02:24. > :02:31.they ask is, where are you based, and they say Cumbria, and they say,
:02:31. > :02:36.oh. I am in the car quite a lot so that is obviously going to cost was
:02:36. > :02:41.more. A everybody has to travel to work every day. You want to be
:02:41. > :02:48.competitive. We paeon of tax as it is, the Government take enough tax
:02:48. > :02:51.from us without paying for fuel duty. Well, that's the picture in
:02:51. > :02:53.Cumbria. Our Political Editor, Richard Moss is at another rural
:02:53. > :03:01.filling station for us tonight, this time in Northumberland.
:03:01. > :03:07.Richard. There has been some celebration year to do because this
:03:07. > :03:11.put a station has reopened after a closing in at 2,000 and dick. Some
:03:11. > :03:16.of the people living around here had to do a 70 mile round trip to
:03:16. > :03:22.fill up their tanks. When this station close it was charging one
:03:22. > :03:32.per and its expense for unleaded, now that is just short of �1.50.
:03:32. > :03:38.There has been on a call around here for a cut in fuel duty to help
:03:38. > :03:44.out in what is said to be a crisis in the countryside. Since 2008,
:03:44. > :03:47.villagers have had to take long trips to fill their petrol tanks.
:03:47. > :03:54.To this have been left high and dry at have to rely on locals to bail
:03:54. > :03:58.them out. On a Saturday and Sunday you have to travel a long way. It
:03:58. > :04:04.is a good community spirit for finding spare fuel, but there is
:04:04. > :04:09.only so much you can do. Sometimes you are spending many hours,
:04:09. > :04:15.waiting for fuel. It has taken four years of hard work to get the
:04:15. > :04:21.station open again. It is fantastic. It is a shining example for
:04:21. > :04:26.communities around the country. Community cannot offer locals a
:04:26. > :04:31.cut-price fuel and the cost of petrol is profoundly affecting this
:04:31. > :04:36.there was. For our five houses have gone up for sale because people
:04:36. > :04:41.travelling to work in Newcastle are starting to look at how much it is
:04:41. > :04:51.costing them to travel to work are ready and they are looking for
:04:51. > :04:51.
:04:51. > :04:56.houses near to where they work. quite angry because we won't be
:04:56. > :05:03.some fuel in a bit, because we're going to do the Kielder Forest
:05:03. > :05:10.Drive. This couple think it is time for the Chancellor to offer drivers
:05:10. > :05:16.a helping hand. It is ridiculous. It does not just affect people
:05:16. > :05:20.driving, it affects the commercial vehicles who take goods round the
:05:20. > :05:26.country and tourism as well because people are not going to think about
:05:26. > :05:31.coming out here when it is so expensive. For visitors and locals
:05:31. > :05:38.it is good news that they can go up but what they really want is for
:05:38. > :05:43.prices to be cut at the pumps. petrol is going to go up 3p in
:05:43. > :05:49.August. Steve where who runs the village shop joins me now. The
:05:49. > :05:55.country needs the money. Does it work for you here in Kielder
:05:55. > :06:02.Forest? Yes, were Strafford on the roads, yes. However, we do not have
:06:02. > :06:08.an option for public transport. It is limited. We are forced to use
:06:08. > :06:13.Arona vehicles, and we have to drive further with more expensive
:06:13. > :06:18.fuel. I think that price-capping in certain areas, in places -- should
:06:18. > :06:25.be looked at strongly to make sure that places that are extremely
:06:25. > :06:30.rural get some help. That would be beneficial. It is not a trying out
:06:30. > :06:34.in England that the moment - which you want five there's less for
:06:35. > :06:39.rural areas? I think we're a good case, good example. You can see,
:06:39. > :06:48.looking around, that it would help they are rare, both in business,
:06:48. > :06:53.and for people living here. -- it would help the area. So this
:06:53. > :07:01.station opening the end will mean shorter trips, but they will not be
:07:01. > :07:02.playing in the West at the pump. Moving on to other budget matters,
:07:02. > :07:05.the Chancellor said the Government's pressing ahead with
:07:05. > :07:09.its plans for regional pay rates, which would mean public sector
:07:09. > :07:11.workers in the North being paid less than equivalent staff in the
:07:11. > :07:13.South. It could do eventually. The devil is in the detail. The
:07:13. > :07:17.Government has said that certain departments will be able to get the
:07:17. > :07:27.local peer rate. But at the moment most public sector workers have a
:07:27. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:32.frozen salary amounts anyway, but in places like the naughties and
:07:32. > :07:38.Cumbria public sector workers get higher pay than those in the
:07:38. > :07:46.private sector. This only applies to civil servants. The review of
:07:46. > :07:49.pay for nurses and teachers will go on. And there was good news for
:07:49. > :07:59.people struggling with slow internet broadband speeds - but
:07:59. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:09.only if you live in Newcastle. the don't knows what it will mean
:08:09. > :08:14.for places like San the Mowats -- Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Carlisle,
:08:14. > :08:24.York, whether they will get money to join this broadband fast lane in
:08:24. > :08:27.
:08:27. > :08:30.A North Yorkshire school, which was criticised for banning pupils from
:08:30. > :08:33.wearing Help for Heroes wristbands has now made "Help for Heroes" its
:08:33. > :08:36.official charity. This means pupils will now be able to wear the bands.
:08:36. > :08:39.Outwood Academy in Ripon says the school continues to support the
:08:39. > :08:48.local garrison, and is organising an event in Ripon Cathedral at the
:08:48. > :08:50.end of the year to raise funds for the charity. Police have had more
:08:50. > :08:54.than 30 calls following last night's BBC Crimewatch appeal to
:08:54. > :08:57.catch the man who raped a woman in Whitley Bay. She was attacked, and
:08:57. > :09:01.her male friend knocked out, early on Sunday 16th October. The suspect
:09:01. > :09:06.is white, in his mid 20s, between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 9 inches tall,
:09:06. > :09:09.and chubby - with dark brown hair. He spoke with a local accent. For
:09:09. > :09:12.three years it's been the biggest construction project in the North
:09:12. > :09:18.of England. The 50 miles an hour speed limit has frustrated
:09:18. > :09:21.drivers.The miles of cones have driven them mad. But, by the end of
:09:21. > :09:26.the month, the A1 upgrade in North Yorkshire will finally have been
:09:26. > :09:29.completed. In fact, the latest section - between Baldersby and
:09:29. > :09:31.Gatenby - opened just this week. So what benefits will this �300
:09:31. > :09:40.million investment bring to the region? Peter Lugg's been finding
:09:40. > :09:42.out. The cones are in full retreat. Day by day they're being collected
:09:42. > :09:48.in their thousands.The matrix signs are being tested.The landscaping
:09:48. > :09:54.sculpted. It's all on the list of things to do for the man preparing
:09:55. > :10:01.to open a motorway. We have all the final finishes to do, which
:10:01. > :10:04.involves the final brush up with road sweepers and traffic
:10:04. > :10:09.management and spraying these planted areas to our right with
:10:09. > :10:11.seed. Beside the motorway a wild life corridor.Verges planted with
:10:11. > :10:14.oak and alder,blackthorn and holly.There are balancing ponds
:10:14. > :10:24.which take away the carriageway surface water but in doing so
:10:24. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:29.create a superb wildlife habitat. This work has been going on with
:10:29. > :10:36.56,000 because each day passing by. And the new stretch of motorway us
:10:36. > :10:46.to of miles long. There are 11 new bridges. At its peak, the project
:10:46. > :10:48.
:10:48. > :10:55.employs 700 people. And there were 10,000 road cones. This upgrade got
:10:55. > :10:58.in just before the recession. Phase two between Leeming and Scotch
:10:59. > :11:01.Corner is on the back burner and any prospect of improving the A1 in
:11:01. > :11:04.Northumberland looks miles away. But even this fairly modest 12
:11:04. > :11:06.miles of new blacktop is expected to make a difference to the
:11:06. > :11:08.regional economy. Being in the north-east as we are, anything that
:11:08. > :11:14.improves links to the centre, particularly to the south-east and
:11:14. > :11:24.the North-East can only be good for the economy and this project
:11:24. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:40.certainly Tixall of the relevant boxes. -- ticks all. If it does
:11:40. > :11:43.open at the end of the month as promised then the A1 upgrade will
:11:43. > :11:46.have been compelted three months ahead of schedule, �10 million
:11:46. > :11:48.under budget, but perhaps most important of all, without a single
:11:48. > :11:51.workplace accident. They offer help and support to more than 500
:11:51. > :11:53.children with disabilities. For 13 years Stockton Parent Support has
:11:53. > :11:57.helped provide activities and short breaks to children with special
:11:57. > :12:00.needs. But the charity is now at risk after receiving the news - via
:12:00. > :12:03.an e-mail - that its �80,000 a year funding is to be cut. Stuart
:12:03. > :12:10.Whincup reports. Joanne Bolton has five children - three have special
:12:10. > :12:12.needs. Often she says she's made to feel like a leaper, like her
:12:12. > :12:19.children are from hell. But Stockton Parent Support group
:12:19. > :12:24.allows her to feel normal. You do, with your kids, no matter how hard
:12:24. > :12:29.you try, people look at you and they judge you, and I would like to
:12:29. > :12:34.have in normal family because I do not want to feel like an outcast
:12:34. > :12:37.and have people accuse me of being a bad mother, when I am not.
:12:37. > :12:40.charity helps more than 500 famalies. Unlike other charities
:12:40. > :12:42.parents don't have to wait for an official diagnosis for their
:12:42. > :12:49.children's condition. They get help, support and respite care straight
:12:49. > :12:55.away. My son has learning difficulties. This service is
:12:55. > :13:01.brilliant. I need that extra support because it can be quite
:13:01. > :13:08.expensive. People with children with multiple disabilities will
:13:08. > :13:12.have no were to go. The council said that it wanted to reassure
:13:12. > :13:19.parents and carers that providing services for young people with
:13:19. > :13:23.disabilities was a priority. That money wannabe given to of charities,
:13:23. > :13:28.it says, to provide the same services. Parents say this charity
:13:28. > :13:37.feels like a family - their children are happy. Now, they say
:13:37. > :13:42.the one service that offered them help is being taken away. It's
:13:42. > :13:45.going to be a record year for the Port of Tyne. At least 37 cruise
:13:45. > :13:47.ships will berth there this year, almost doubling last year's number.
:13:47. > :13:53.Nearly 600,000 passengers used the terminal last season. That figure
:13:53. > :13:56.is set to be nearer one million in 2012. A 14-year-old girl who went
:13:56. > :13:58.missing from the Workington area 12 days ago has been found safe and
:13:58. > :14:08.well. Catalina is Romanian and speaks little English. She was
:14:08. > :14:09.
:14:09. > :14:11.found in the Carlisle area. With much of southern England already
:14:11. > :14:14.experiencing drought conditions, the prospect of wildfires breaking
:14:14. > :14:17.out in the countryside is an increasing danger. This week,
:14:17. > :14:24.firefighters from all over the world have been in Northumberland
:14:24. > :14:27.to learn how to deal with them, as Jon Williams reports. Fighting fire
:14:27. > :14:32.with fire in some of the most exposed and combustible moorland
:14:32. > :14:40.conditions. We have a significant wild far risk in Northumberland, we
:14:40. > :14:50.have got Kildare Forest, about 650 square kilometres of forest, so we
:14:50. > :14:51.
:14:51. > :14:54.have a significant risk. This heather grouse moor has been
:14:54. > :14:56.divided up into a huge practice grid for the firefighters, who then
:14:56. > :15:00.start small controlled fires to divert and suppress much bigger
:15:00. > :15:02.ones - by burning off the heather in front of it. It's part of a
:15:02. > :15:05.week-long European funded programme to share expertise with their
:15:05. > :15:09.continental colleagues. In France, we used the same techniques, but we
:15:09. > :15:16.want to share the best and the good practices, so we are very
:15:16. > :15:19.interested to sure the experience. Today was about fighting wildfires
:15:19. > :15:24.without water. Tomorrow, they'll see how it's done using one of the
:15:24. > :15:30.biggest water pumps in the country. Coming up soon,. Dawn's here with
:15:30. > :15:36.the sport news. And we're going with the Flow, as we find out what
:15:36. > :15:46.makes the �500,000 musical artwork tick. And changes in the weather
:15:46. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:49.coming up in the next few days. Join me later for the full forecast.
:15:50. > :15:52.In the region's long tradition of prominent churchmen, not many have
:15:52. > :15:55.had a higher profile than the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.
:15:55. > :15:59.He's hotly tipped to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury - though
:15:59. > :16:02.he was playing down the speculation again today. On this Budget Day, he
:16:02. > :16:04.visited a community project in a deprived area of Newcastle - and
:16:04. > :16:14.reminded our politicians of what he believes really matters. Gerry
:16:14. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:18.Jackson reports. On the day politicians in London were shaping
:16:18. > :16:22.the lives of a nation, the symbolism of an Archbishop breaking
:16:22. > :16:25.bread with the less fortunate is hard to miss. This is the
:16:25. > :16:27.Cornerstone project, for 25 years a part of Benwell in Newcastle.
:16:27. > :16:31.Largely funded by the Church, it supplies meals, recreation and
:16:31. > :16:38.skills to people of all faiths and none. So what's the message from
:16:38. > :16:43.here on Budget Day? You have to judge a nation by how it deals with
:16:43. > :16:47.is vulnerable people and if you do not do that and terms of justice,
:16:47. > :16:52.equality and fairness, then something is wrong. As a nation, we
:16:52. > :16:58.need to have the moral real wakening and we need to bring those
:16:58. > :17:05.at the top much older and, so that inequality can be abolished. --
:17:05. > :17:11.much lower down. On Budget day, we all think, how will it affect me,
:17:11. > :17:20.but we need to think, how will it affect those who are really
:17:20. > :17:23.struggling. There's only one job higher than Dr Sentamu's in the
:17:23. > :17:26.Church of England and soon the Archbishop of Canterbury post will
:17:26. > :17:30.be vacant.. But this man refuses to be drawn. People can talk as much
:17:30. > :17:35.as you like. So speculate as much as you like, and I can hear about
:17:35. > :17:42.people making -- putting money on May. I am not the horse, so you can
:17:42. > :17:52.do whatever you like. I was asked, did I fancy the job? You cannot be
:17:52. > :17:54.
:17:54. > :17:57.serious, can you? And that was that but then there are many who still
:17:57. > :18:00.wouldn't bet against him. Let's say that if he could be persuaded, he
:18:00. > :18:03.has a charisma that would serve him well. I thought that I would have
:18:04. > :18:09.to kiss his ring, but it was all just natural, when he said he was
:18:09. > :18:19.coming, and I am 90 this year, so that has put the icing on the cake,
:18:19. > :18:21.
:18:21. > :18:23.hasn't it? A special launch event has been held today ahead of the
:18:23. > :18:26.opening of a �500,000 floating, musical, artwork on the River Tyne.
:18:26. > :18:29."Flow" - as it's called - is located next to the Millennium
:18:29. > :18:38.Bridge in Newcastle. The musical creation is powered by a tide mill.
:18:38. > :18:41.Adele Robinson's been for a sneak preview. A floating will house and
:18:41. > :18:51.water wheel, a little more complicated than that, say the
:18:51. > :18:55.
:18:55. > :19:00.experts. -- millhouse. It is more complicated than that. It has some
:19:00. > :19:08.electrical and physical machines that respond to the river. --
:19:08. > :19:15.musical. Water passes through this gibe water wheel that powers the
:19:15. > :19:20.musical is the men's inside. You, we have a police samples of
:19:20. > :19:25.Tidewater, the more so than the water, the higher the pitch. Here,
:19:25. > :19:34.we have the bubble some decide -- synthesiser. People can pump air
:19:34. > :19:38.through these big jars. There is a laser going through this that turns
:19:38. > :19:48.the particles into noise, so the more de to the water, the more
:19:48. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:52.noisy it is. -- dirty. And we have ear warned that pleased its sound
:19:52. > :20:02.through the entire building so you can hear the mixture of the sound
:20:02. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:08.that people are creating outside. This is one of 12 public art works
:20:08. > :20:15.built to celebrate that 2012 volunteer. It has cost a lot of
:20:15. > :20:19.money, �1 million. Will it work? Yes, we hope so, and it is
:20:19. > :20:24.something that everyone can visit for free, so we hope to get a good
:20:24. > :20:34.verdict. The exhibit will stay open until after the London Olympic
:20:34. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:43.Games. Very nice, too! Sport news now and it has been an expensive
:20:43. > :20:46.day for our Premier League football teams. Both Newcastle and
:20:46. > :20:49.Sunderland have been left counting the cost of that derby dust-up,
:20:49. > :20:52.which flared after a challenge by the Black Cats' James McLean on
:20:52. > :20:54.United defender Danny Simpson. The clubs accepted a charge from the
:20:54. > :21:03.Football Association that they failed to control their players,
:21:03. > :21:06.with most of them taking part in the argy-bargy that followed.
:21:06. > :21:09.Sunderland were fined �20,000 but Newcastle's bill was doubled to
:21:09. > :21:11.�40,000 because it was their second similar offence this season. By
:21:11. > :21:14.contrast, it was a pretty tame performance by Martin O'Neill's
:21:14. > :21:17.side at Blackburn last night. They had the chance to climb back into
:21:17. > :21:24.eighth place in the Premier League but, instead, gave Rovers the
:21:24. > :21:26.chance to pull away from the relegation zone. Maybe they were
:21:26. > :21:29.too busy thinking about next week's FA Cup quarter-final replay with
:21:29. > :21:31.Everton? Maybe Saturday's original tie at Goodison took too much out
:21:31. > :21:34.of them? Whatever the reason, Sunderland limped through a
:21:34. > :21:36.disappointing 90 minutes at Ewood Park, and never really put
:21:36. > :21:39.struggling Blackburn under any pressure. The manager was less than
:21:39. > :21:42.impressed. We should have played better and we could have, and we
:21:42. > :21:50.didn't, and for long periods, we did not play well enough and if we
:21:50. > :21:53.do not do that, we will suffer the consequences. The Black Cats held
:21:53. > :21:56.out until just short of the hour. A clearance from Sotirios Kyrgiakos -
:21:56. > :21:59.on his Snuderland debut - was knocked straight back in by Junior
:21:59. > :22:03.Hoilett. Nicklas Bendtner was denied an equaliser when it looked
:22:03. > :22:06.odds-on he'd turn in James McLean's cross. And when a clear-cut chance
:22:06. > :22:11.finally fell the Black Cats' way, substitute Ji Dong Won somehow
:22:12. > :22:14.managed to put the ball over the bar from just three yards out.
:22:14. > :22:17.Former Middlesbrough striker, Yakubu, wrapped up the points with
:22:17. > :22:23.a late header, on a night when not too many Sunderland players lived
:22:23. > :22:26.up to their billing. Just about the only exception was captain for the
:22:26. > :22:29.night Phil Bardsley, playing through the pain of a rib injury.
:22:29. > :22:31.They'll need more of that fighting spirit, to keep alive their Premier
:22:31. > :22:34.League season and that dream of Wembley. Middlesbrough are fifth in
:22:34. > :22:37.the Championship and ended their run of two straight defeats with a
:22:37. > :22:45.hard-earned point at fellow promotion hopefuls West Ham. Mark
:22:45. > :22:52.Tulip takes a crash course in lip- reading! Actually this is an easy
:22:52. > :22:55.one. Who'd be a football manager though as Boro boss Tony Mowbray
:22:55. > :22:59.sees some brilliant late defending deny his battling side all three
:22:59. > :23:02.points at Upton Park? Early on West Ham - who like Boro draw too many
:23:02. > :23:05.home games - looked the likelier winners although both team had
:23:05. > :23:08.penalty appeals turned down. You've seen them given. There were claims
:23:08. > :23:10.of offside as Abdoulaye Faye's second half header looped over the
:23:10. > :23:14.helpless Jason Steele via Joe Bennett's head to give the
:23:14. > :23:19.Londoners a handy lead. And but for Steele's heroics, Boro would have
:23:19. > :23:23.been heading North empty-handed. But Mowbray's substitutions added
:23:23. > :23:26.some spark to the visitors late on and one of them, Bart Ogbeche,
:23:26. > :23:36.rescued a point with a sublime finish. Look what it meant to the
:23:36. > :23:41.
:23:41. > :23:44.manager. Boro would have taken that at 8 o'clock but nearing 10 they
:23:44. > :23:47.nearly won it - this was their other late effort - Jutkeviez the
:23:47. > :23:50.unlucky player. Three points at home to Bristol City this weekend
:23:50. > :23:52.would really get the play-off bid back on track. In League One
:23:52. > :23:55.Carlisle moved back into the playoff zone last night despite
:23:55. > :23:57.being held to a goalless draw by Preston. Almost 7,000 fans
:23:57. > :24:00.witnessed a lively affair at Brunton Park. Goalkeeper Adam
:24:00. > :24:02.Collin keeping out Graham Cummings, who really should have scored.
:24:02. > :24:09.Carlisle's best chance came when Top-scorer Lee Miller hit the post
:24:09. > :24:13.before Thorstenn Stuckmann tipped the rebound over the bar. Both
:24:13. > :24:16.sides had the chance to grab a winner late on, but in the end, the
:24:16. > :24:23.Blues had to settle for a frustrating point. The result moves
:24:23. > :24:25.them back into sixth though. At Victoria Park former Sunderland
:24:25. > :24:29.defender Jean-Yves M'voto saw to it that Hartlepool's six-match
:24:29. > :24:32.unbeaten run at home come to an end last night. And even the inclusion
:24:32. > :24:34.of Black Cats on-loan youngster Ryan Noble didn't do the trick,
:24:35. > :24:38.although he did come close. And Pools revealed today a knee
:24:38. > :24:39.operation means striker Colin Nish will be out for the rest of the
:24:39. > :24:47.will be out for the rest of the season. Time now for the weather
:24:47. > :24:57.forecast. Another very acceptable spring day for most of us. The
:24:57. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:08.pictures, of feather and fur. These cormorants have almost a
:25:08. > :25:14.prehistoric feel to them. And this is Murphy, enjoying low tide at the
:25:14. > :25:18.beach at Saltburn. There will be big variations in temperature
:25:18. > :25:23.tomorrow. Today, cloud broke up nicely and most places saw some
:25:23. > :25:29.sunshine. Heading into the evening, that cloud continuing to break, so
:25:30. > :25:35.long, clear spells, all adding up to a chilly night. Towns and cities
:25:35. > :25:39.will see temperatures dropping to four or five Celsius. In the 10th -
:25:39. > :25:46.- the countryside we will see temperatures closer to freezing,
:25:46. > :25:49.with a touch of ground frost possible. Some mist forming towards
:25:49. > :25:55.that north-east coast. And that could be a feature tomorrow morning.
:25:55. > :26:02.Most places will have another fine, dry, sunny day but in the afternoon,
:26:02. > :26:11.Mr and low cloud returning to some eastern areas. -- mist and low
:26:11. > :26:15.cloud. Where the Sun stays longest, Carlisle, 17, possibly 18 Celsius.
:26:15. > :26:22.By contrast, on the North East Coast, keeping some mist and low
:26:22. > :26:26.cloud on the East Coast, and struggling to make double figures.
:26:26. > :26:31.It is all to do with this high pressure, where it is centred, and
:26:31. > :26:35.what the wind direction is. As we head into the weekend, high
:26:35. > :26:42.pressure builds again. There is always an easterly component to the
:26:42. > :26:50.wind. Areas that there will shelter to the West likely to see the best
:26:50. > :26:54.of the sunshine. -- are well shuttered. On Saturday, mostly dry
:26:54. > :26:58.again, Western area seen the best of the brightness and the best
:26:58. > :27:08.daytime temperatures. Keep the weather pictures coming, there is
:27:08. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:21.Time for a quick look at tonight's budget headlines. A 3% increase in
:27:21. > :27:25.fuel duty will go ahead in August. Planned rises in alcohol duty are
:27:25. > :27:28.also going ahead - putting prices up by 5% from next week. Duty on
:27:28. > :27:31.all tobacco products rose by 5% above inflation from 6pm today -
:27:31. > :27:34.the equivalent of 37p on a packet of cigarettes. And there are
:27:34. > :27:37.changes to the cuts planned for child benefit - only those earning