:00:15. > :00:17.Hello, welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight. Bringing up
:00:17. > :00:20.baby. The grandparents forced to raise their children's children
:00:20. > :00:22.because they are unable to. An elderly man's in hospital with
:00:22. > :00:24.burns after an explosion wrecks his home.
:00:24. > :00:31.Free parking. Middlesbrough tries to stop the
:00:31. > :00:34.town centre shopping slump but will other councils follow its lead? War
:00:34. > :00:37.of words. A teacher's plea to parents to make sure their children
:00:37. > :00:39.talk properly. And in praise of our ghost signs. They're fading
:00:39. > :00:42.remnants from a bygone age, but are they worth saving?
:00:42. > :00:46.In sport, a European game for one of our non-league football clubs.
:00:46. > :00:56.And we have the amazing story of the Olympic athlete who fled his
:00:56. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:11.home country and is building a new She has suffered two heart attacks,
:01:11. > :01:14.an angina attack and says she receives little help. At the age of
:01:14. > :01:17.71, that's not the end of her problems. She's been left to bring
:01:17. > :01:20.up her great grand-daughter because the girl's mother is a drug addict.
:01:20. > :01:22.Hundreds of grandparents on Teesside find themselves in similar
:01:22. > :01:31.positions. Bringing up babies without, they say, any emotional or
:01:31. > :01:35.financial support. Stuart Whincup has this exclusive report.
:01:35. > :01:40.As a baby, Lucy was taken round drug houses by her mother. At six
:01:40. > :01:43.months, she too was addicted to drugs. Damaged by her chaotic
:01:43. > :01:46.lifestyle, she used to bite her great grandmother to get some
:01:46. > :01:49.attention. I used to have bruises on my neck, on my arms. Took chunks
:01:49. > :01:52.out of me really. It was terrible. Margaret loves her great-
:01:52. > :01:55.granddaughter, but the stress has taken its toll. In the last year,
:01:55. > :02:00.she has suffered two heart attacks and one angina attack. Now, as Lucy
:02:00. > :02:03.is getting older, she is asking about her mother. Whatever trouble
:02:03. > :02:11.her mother has been in, she has blamed herself for it. She thinks
:02:11. > :02:13.it is her fault, and it is wrong. It is very wrong. But Margaret is
:02:13. > :02:18.not alone. The Bridges Centre in Stockton supports more than 50
:02:18. > :02:21.grandparents and believes there are hundreds across Teesside. It does
:02:22. > :02:24.take a toll on their health. We have had grandparents dying with
:02:24. > :02:27.heart illnesses because of the added pressure and stress. It is
:02:28. > :02:30.very difficult at that age, when you have all your own illnesses, to
:02:31. > :02:40.start then taking kids to football, playschool, up and down to school
:02:41. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:45.every day. Foster parents, they say, can receive around �10,000 a year
:02:45. > :02:48.to care for a child. Grandparents get no financial help. That has
:02:48. > :02:54.left people like Karen needing pay- day loans to support her two
:02:54. > :02:58.grandchildren. There are thousands of children out there left with
:02:58. > :03:02.aunties, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents. These children
:03:02. > :03:06.are never checked up on. As long as these kids go to school, nobody
:03:06. > :03:14.cares. They do not know what goes on behind those four walls. My kids
:03:14. > :03:17.have never been checked on. In five years, no-one has come to ask if I
:03:17. > :03:27.am OK. The grandparents say they do not want handouts, they are just
:03:27. > :03:29.desperate for some help. A man in his 70s has been taken to
:03:29. > :03:33.hospital following an explosion which wrecked his house near
:03:33. > :03:35.Harrogate. It happened at about half past 11 last night at the
:03:35. > :03:40.property in Finden Gardens in Hampsthwaite. Michelle Lyons
:03:40. > :03:43.reports. Just before 11 o'clock last night,
:03:43. > :03:45.a loud explosion blew the front window of this house across the
:03:45. > :03:49.garden, leaving debris strewn across the path. Neighbours were
:03:49. > :03:55.woken by the loud bang and came running out of their houses to see
:03:55. > :03:59.what happened. The house was on fire and a man was trapped inside.
:03:59. > :04:05.It was just a case of we heard the bang, we tried to figure out if
:04:05. > :04:09.someone had fallen out of bed inside our house. Next thing,
:04:09. > :04:18.people were shouting. We looked out the window and it was horrible. The
:04:18. > :04:23.house was destroyed. A neighbour in the next road jumped over his back
:04:24. > :04:29.fence to get into the burning property. He saw an elderly man,
:04:29. > :04:33.disoriented, in the kitchen. With the amount of time the fire took
:04:33. > :04:35.hold of the property, if I had not have acted when I did, he could
:04:35. > :04:44.have been trapped inside the property and could very well have
:04:44. > :04:46.died. The victim suffered serious burns and was taken to a specialist
:04:46. > :04:49.unit at Peterfield Hospital. British Gas and North Yorkshire
:04:49. > :04:59.Fire Brigade are still at the scene trying to establish exactly what
:04:59. > :05:07.
:05:07. > :05:10.The Mayor of Middlesbrough has revealed plans to give motorists
:05:10. > :05:13.two hours free parking in council- run carparks. Ray Mallon says that
:05:13. > :05:16.he wants to encourage more shoppers to visit the town during the
:05:16. > :05:19.economic downturn. But the scheme could cost the council �300,000, on
:05:19. > :05:23.top of the �74 million in cutbacks it already faces. Adrian Pitches
:05:23. > :05:29.reports. Like any town, Middlesbrough wants
:05:29. > :05:31.to attract shoppers. But shoppers don't like paying for parking. So
:05:31. > :05:41.Middlesbrough's mayor is offering free parking, although it could
:05:41. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:48.cost his council �300,000. I've spoken to members of the public and
:05:48. > :05:52.retailers and they say the biggest problem is car parking. We want to
:05:52. > :05:58.offer the public three car parking for the first two hours. It is all
:05:59. > :06:08.about attracting shoppers. And the parking public seem to like the
:06:09. > :06:12.
:06:12. > :06:15.idea. I think it is the right thing to do. We need to stimulate the
:06:15. > :06:18.economy in the town itself. Free parking. A lot of people object to
:06:19. > :06:22.paying the parking fees now and I think if you ask most people, they
:06:22. > :06:26.will come into town if they don't have to pay parking. I think it
:06:26. > :06:36.would revitalise the town centre. I used out of town centres when I can.
:06:36. > :06:37.
:06:37. > :06:40.It is more convenient than having to find that change. I don't think
:06:40. > :06:43.that two hours' free parking would bring me to Middlesbrough. I think
:06:43. > :06:46.there is more to do in Middlesborough than just give you a
:06:46. > :06:51.couple of hours' free parking. Understandably, retailers are keen.
:06:51. > :07:01.It would be of great benefit to us. It would bring people in from
:07:01. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:07.outside the area. For us, it will hopefully increase football. It is
:07:07. > :07:14.hoped that the revenue that will the council will offer hope will be
:07:14. > :07:16.better spent. Perhaps on sprucing up the town to bring more people in.
:07:16. > :07:26.But will other cash-strapped councils follow suit and offer free
:07:26. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:30.parking too? Northumbria Police have named the
:07:30. > :07:33.woman found dead in her home in Holywell on Monday. She was 42-
:07:33. > :07:36.year-old Tina Casey. She had been stabbed to death. A 32-year-old man
:07:36. > :07:41.and a 57-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder.
:07:41. > :07:44.The man was bailed last night. A Carlisle woman who swindled the
:07:44. > :07:46.benefits system of more than �50,000 has been given a suspended
:07:46. > :07:49.prison sentence. For four years, Susan Lister, who's 60, claimed
:07:49. > :07:52.income support and council tax benefit she wasn't entitled to.
:07:52. > :08:01.Today a judge told her that, but for her poor health and a guilty
:08:01. > :08:03.plea, she would have gone straight to jail. Mark McAlindon reports.
:08:03. > :08:06.Susan Lister, seen here with the crutches, arrived at court this
:08:06. > :08:12.morning knowing that an earlier guilty plea and her ill-health
:08:12. > :08:18.would prevent her from going to jail. But the judge left her in no
:08:18. > :08:21.doubt about the seriousness of her crimes. Over a four year period
:08:21. > :08:23.between 2006 and 2010, Susan Lister fraudulently claimed more than
:08:24. > :08:29.�50,000 in benefits to which she was not entitled, including more
:08:29. > :08:32.than �43,000 in income support. She had failed to notify the
:08:32. > :08:42.authorities that she was living with her husband David Lister in
:08:42. > :08:44.
:08:44. > :08:47.their home just outside Carlisle. Documents, said the judge, proved
:08:47. > :08:50.that they were maintaining a common home together. He sentenced Susan
:08:50. > :08:52.Lister to six months in prison, but suspended that for a year. Susan
:08:52. > :08:55.Lister, it emerged in court today, had previous convictions for
:08:55. > :09:05.assault and dishonesty. She was told today that any further
:09:05. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:09.offences could see her sent straight to prison.
:09:09. > :09:12.Now, are YOUS sitting comfortably. Sorry if I made you wince, but it's
:09:12. > :09:19.that sort of mangling of grammar and pronunciation which is the
:09:19. > :09:21.subject of our next story. A head teacher in Middlesbrough is so
:09:21. > :09:24.concerned that speaking incorrectly puts young people at a disadvantage
:09:24. > :09:34.that she has written to parents, pointing out some basic do's and
:09:34. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:43.don'ts to teach their children. Jill Archbold reports. He has got
:09:43. > :09:47.an apostrophe... Students getting on with their werk. Sorry, I should
:09:47. > :09:49.say work. At Sacred Heart Primary School in Middlesbrough, the
:09:49. > :09:56.headteacher is leading the battle of received pronunciation versus
:09:56. > :10:00.regional. I am not against local dialect or colloquialisms or
:10:00. > :10:03.accents, but I do want our children to know that if they are applying
:10:03. > :10:06.for a job, for example, they should write in standard English. If they
:10:06. > :10:16.are speaking to somebody, for example in a job interview, they
:10:16. > :10:22.
:10:22. > :10:26.should speak in standard English. In our writing, we need to know...
:10:26. > :10:29.A letter sent home to parents asked them to correct their children on a
:10:29. > :10:32.number of common mistakes including phrases it's nowt and give it here.
:10:32. > :10:36.My little sister, she might say, I seen a big white fluffy dog. And I
:10:36. > :10:45.say to her, you saw a big white fluffy dog. She would look at me
:10:45. > :10:51.like who are you talking to? My mum and dad say naw and I correct them
:10:51. > :10:54.and say no, it's no. I think there is a distinction to
:10:54. > :11:00.be made between having an accent and speaking correctly in terms of
:11:00. > :11:03.the grammar and language that you are using. You. They can understand
:11:03. > :11:07.what I am saying and that is about getting the language and the
:11:07. > :11:12.grammar right. I done that. No, I have done or I did that. I would
:11:12. > :11:17.never lose my Teesside accent, I think it is important. Not dunno.
:11:17. > :11:27.say you don't know. To have the colourful nature of different
:11:27. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:34.accents, I would not give that up for anything. Jill's with me now.
:11:34. > :11:39.Jill, this seems a perfectly reasonable thing for a teacher to
:11:39. > :11:46.expect from her pupils? How many times have we heard the
:11:46. > :11:50.phrase speak properly, or speak proper. In this case, the head
:11:50. > :11:57.teacher is not saying that children should not go up without a Teesside
:11:57. > :12:03.accent, she is asking them to think about pronunciation. But there has
:12:03. > :12:13.been some criticism. Not everybody thinks it is black and white.
:12:13. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:18.Earlier, we spoke to a senior lecturer in applied linguistics.
:12:18. > :12:21.think the headmistress is well- intentioned, but I think she is
:12:21. > :12:24.misinformed about the nature of language. All language is, to a
:12:24. > :12:27.certain extent, correct, even slang is correct. Our regional accents,
:12:27. > :12:31.for example, I've seen the letter, there's two columns where there is
:12:31. > :12:34.an incorrect and a supposedly correct form. But I would say that
:12:34. > :12:39.both columns are correct. Because language can be used differently in
:12:39. > :12:42.different circumstances. Interesting. But very strong
:12:42. > :12:49.support for the school's stance from someone who knows a lot about
:12:49. > :12:52.how to talk properly? Yes, it is very interesting that
:12:52. > :12:58.slang was mentioned there. The head teacher has come out and said this
:12:58. > :13:02.is not about getting rid of slang. You will never get rid of that. She
:13:02. > :13:07.is saying that it is standard English. In a formal situations
:13:07. > :13:14.like an interview, that is when it is really important. And somebody
:13:14. > :13:17.who completely agrees with that is an etiquette expert. I feel that
:13:17. > :13:21.everybody should speak properly. Enunciation, pronunciation are all
:13:21. > :13:25.very important. The reason for it, that I am pushing it, especially
:13:25. > :13:27.for the North East, we want to get top jobs up here. We want to send
:13:28. > :13:37.our people out, really well equipped to compete with people
:13:38. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:51.from all over the world. I know this whole debate is
:13:51. > :13:55.generating a lot of interest, which side's winning?
:13:55. > :13:58.You would think something like this, her head teacher has given a letter
:13:58. > :14:04.to parents and said this is how you should be parenting your children,
:14:04. > :14:10.you think it would have a negative reaction. In fact, their support
:14:10. > :14:19.for the teacher has been overwhelming. It has been debated
:14:19. > :14:22.on radio. And on our face -- Facebook page. So is correct
:14:22. > :14:25.grammar and pronunciation still important? You can find out what
:14:25. > :14:28.other people are saying about this story on our Facebook page. The
:14:28. > :14:35.address is on your screen now. Coming up next tonight, the
:14:35. > :14:39.campaign to save the region's ghost signs.
:14:39. > :14:48.It is set it to stay cold or the next few days, but not a huge
:14:48. > :14:51.Now, they're all over our region - so-called ghost signs. Old, painted
:14:51. > :14:54.advertisements that hark back to a bygone era, a window onto our
:14:54. > :14:59.cultural and commercial history. But they're under threat from eager
:14:59. > :15:02.developers or modern-day billboards. And many of them are fading. But
:15:02. > :15:04.now there's a call amongst enthusiasts of the signs to see
:15:04. > :15:14.them given official protection. Our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve
:15:14. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:19.has tonight's Look North report. They are reminders of another age.
:15:19. > :15:22.And if you start to look, they seem to be everywhere, the so-called
:15:22. > :15:32.ghost signs. Painted advertisements for products and services long gone.
:15:32. > :15:44.
:15:44. > :15:46.The past showing its ghostly face And cataloguing and photographing
:15:46. > :15:48.ghost signs before they fade completely is Teessider John
:15:48. > :15:57.Rymer's overwhelming interest. His Facebook page shows how far the
:15:57. > :16:00.interest has spread. This page shows the demographic breakdown of
:16:00. > :16:04.the people that are liking my page and also the countries and cities
:16:04. > :16:07.where they come from. You can see the biggest viewers at the moment
:16:07. > :16:10.is United Kingdom followed by the United States of America but we go
:16:10. > :16:17.all the way down to China and the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands
:16:17. > :16:20.and Turkey. There are people who are interested in history, but have
:16:20. > :16:26.never thought about these things. I do get people saying, "Thanks for
:16:26. > :16:29.that great work, it's now got me looking." I think it will continue
:16:29. > :16:34.to grow just by people learning about them. People like learning
:16:34. > :16:37.about them. This sign in Redcar is John's first love, the first sign
:16:37. > :16:41.he noticed, the one that got him hooked. I liked the fact that
:16:41. > :16:46.somebody 70 years ago would be looking at that and there it is,
:16:46. > :16:50.still here after the person that painted it is long gone. The region
:16:50. > :16:53.has perhaps one of the best known ghost signs in the country. It is
:16:53. > :16:56.less than ghostly though. It has been repainted. The money raised by
:16:56. > :17:05.the people of York in double quick time because they like it so.
:17:05. > :17:08.Hundreds of people expressed an interest in it. The main reason, I
:17:08. > :17:11.think, is because it brings a smile to people's faces. Everybody
:17:11. > :17:14.driving along this busy road tends to look at it and grin, knowing it
:17:14. > :17:17.is old, a little bit iconic and knowing that, actually, it's a
:17:17. > :17:21.laxative that doesn't really work and certainly doesn't make you
:17:21. > :17:28.bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. not all signs are as loved as
:17:29. > :17:31.York's Bile Beans, and lots of the ghosts are fading. Some argue they
:17:31. > :17:34.should be listed, like buildings of architectural merit.
:17:34. > :17:37.possibility would be to list them so that they would endure for ever.
:17:37. > :17:41.Unfortunately, you have to have an agency that is responsible for
:17:41. > :17:44.doing that and for the painting them from time to time. At the
:17:44. > :17:50.moment, no one owns them so it is down to public goodwill that keeps
:17:50. > :17:55.them going. And yet not only can they enhance the landscape, they
:17:55. > :18:02.can be good for business. This cafe is on the other side of the Bile
:18:02. > :18:05.Beans wall. It is a real bonus. When giving directions, it is an
:18:05. > :18:13.iconic local sign that the residents of York will know well
:18:13. > :18:16.and a lot of people that travel through the city have seen it.
:18:16. > :18:24.one in Middlesbrough is from the 1930s and it is still trying to
:18:24. > :18:28.persuade us of the merits of Esso petrol. If it cannot be listed, no
:18:28. > :18:38.one is really responsible for that, the question has to be for how much
:18:38. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:43.longer? Another top band has been lined up
:18:43. > :18:47.for this summer's Whitehaven Maritime Festival. McFly, who've
:18:47. > :18:50.sold more than 10 million records with seven number 1s in the UK
:18:50. > :18:52.charts, will headline the show and say they'll be performing all their
:18:52. > :18:56.biggest hits. The Whitehaven Festival is now one of the biggest
:18:56. > :19:02.outdoor events in the UK attracting over a quarter of a million people
:19:02. > :19:12.over three days. Fantastic news.
:19:12. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:18.Name of those hits. Get away! I have no idea.
:19:18. > :19:20.We'll kick-off with news of a real coup for Whitley Bay Football Club.
:19:20. > :19:23.The Northern League club has arranged a friendly, this Sunday
:19:23. > :19:26.night, with the Ukranian side, Metalist Kharkiv. And if that name
:19:26. > :19:29.rings a bell, it's because they're Newcastle United's opponents in the
:19:29. > :19:32.Europa League next week. They've arranged the match at Hillheads as
:19:32. > :19:35.a warm-up for their game at St James's Park in eight days' time.
:19:35. > :19:38.The Ukranians are currently on a mid-season break. So, go along, by
:19:38. > :19:41.all means but don't wear black and white strips or scarves please or
:19:41. > :19:46.you won't get in. That's at the special request of the Metalist
:19:46. > :19:49.management. Delicate types, those Ukranians. And while they're
:19:49. > :19:56.heading over here, many of our players disappeared to all corners
:19:56. > :19:59.of the globe today. Have a look at this. Newcastle's French quartet of
:19:59. > :20:01.Cabaye, Debuchy, Sissoko and Yanga- Mbiwa are in Paris for the game
:20:01. > :20:03.with Germany. Magpies' skipper Fabricio Coloccini comes up against
:20:03. > :20:10.Sunderland's Seb Larsson in Stockholm. United team-mates Tim
:20:10. > :20:12.Krul and Davide Santon face each other in Amsterdam. The Black Cats'
:20:12. > :20:15.keeper Simon Mignolet plays for Belgium in Bruges. Closer to home,
:20:15. > :20:18.Sunderland's Irish contingent of McClean, O'Shea and Westwood are in
:20:18. > :20:26.Dublin. Welshman David Vaughan is in Swansea, while Phil Bardsley and
:20:26. > :20:30.Stephen Fletcher are up in Aberdeen. Stephane Sessegnon has the furthest
:20:30. > :20:33.to travel. He's back home in Benin. And chasing the sunshine are
:20:33. > :20:35.Newcastle's Shane Ferguson who's in Malta, and Middlesbrough defender
:20:35. > :20:45.Rhys Williams playing for Australia against Romania in Malaga. Work
:20:45. > :20:48.that one out! I am glad that is finished.
:20:48. > :20:51.Staying with the international theme, an amazing story now about a
:20:51. > :20:54.young man who was handed the honour any young athlete would dream of.
:20:54. > :20:58.But just days after carrying the flag for his country at the Olympic
:20:58. > :21:00.Games, he was on the run, seeking a new life in Britain. Weynay
:21:00. > :21:05.Ghebresilasie raced for Eritrea at London 2012 but fears he'll face
:21:05. > :21:07.execution if he goes back home. Now he wants asylum in the UK and he's
:21:08. > :21:17.rebuilding his life with the help of Sunderland Harriers. Peter
:21:18. > :21:18.
:21:18. > :21:20.Harris went to meet him. It was a bitter sweet moment.
:21:21. > :21:25.Leading his nation's athletes at the Olympic stadium, soon Weyney
:21:25. > :21:29.would turn his back on his homeland. Before the Games were over, he was
:21:29. > :21:39.to leave the Eritrean camp to seek asylum here. And now he's in
:21:39. > :21:45.Sunderland, hoping this will be place he calls home. He says he
:21:45. > :21:53.cannot go back. If I return, there will be a great danger to my life.
:21:53. > :21:59.If you return after seeking asylum, you are in an even worse situation
:21:59. > :22:06.than everyone else and that is very bad indeed. Yes, it is a very
:22:06. > :22:16.dangerous situation. He was constricted -- conscripted into the
:22:16. > :22:17.
:22:17. > :22:21.Eritrean army when he was 15. His brother was killed in a conflict He
:22:21. > :22:27.lives on �5 a day as he awaits news of his bid for political asylum. In
:22:28. > :22:32.the meantime, Sunderland Harriers have an Olympian. We did not
:22:32. > :22:38.believe it. When they came down our cells to see what was happening, he
:22:38. > :22:41.was speeding around the track. been different here for Weyney. A
:22:41. > :22:49.fortnight ago he raced in snow for the first time, next up National
:22:49. > :22:53.Cross event at Sunderland's Herrington Park. A my dream is to
:22:53. > :22:57.be a top athlete. I want to compare myself with the best in the world
:22:57. > :23:04.and then I want to beat them. People here are friendly, but it is
:23:04. > :23:10.too cold. He will get used it to the cold. If things work out, it's
:23:10. > :23:16.possible he'll one day be back at the Olympics representing Britain.
:23:16. > :23:18.Incredible story. Badminton finally, and
:23:18. > :23:20.congratulations to Carlisle's Lauren Smith who won the English
:23:20. > :23:22.national doubles' title in the National Cycling Centre in
:23:22. > :23:25.Manchester. The 21-year-old, together with partner Gabby White,
:23:25. > :23:29.beat off the challenge of Heather Olver and Mariana Agathangelou,
:23:29. > :23:31.winning in straight sets 21-9, 21-9. She's the first Cumbrian to lift a
:23:31. > :23:39.national badminton title since Whitehaven's Margaret Beck won the
:23:39. > :23:42.singles in 1975. Now Lauren's hoping the partnership can blossom.
:23:42. > :23:46.We've got a couple of tournaments coming up. We've got European team
:23:46. > :23:50.championships and all England. They'll be a lot tougher, but it
:23:50. > :23:54.will be good. If we can keep our form, keep solid and playing as we
:23:54. > :24:01.are, it's a good sign for the future.
:24:01. > :24:04.Well done. We could not talk about the
:24:04. > :24:14.Eritrean runner without talking about the cold.
:24:14. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:33.There was some wild weather on the The showers did put down some more
:24:33. > :24:37.snow over the North York Moors. But the showers will become more
:24:37. > :24:42.isolated through the night. Most places will be dry with lengthy
:24:42. > :24:50.clear spells and cold temperatures. Temperatures can drop to below zero
:24:50. > :24:54.in some places. Icy patches are worth watching out for as we head
:24:54. > :24:58.into tomorrow morning. Most places will be dry through the day. The
:24:59. > :25:03.cloud should be fairly well broken. Blue skies and sunshine. The cloud
:25:03. > :25:09.will begin to thicken from the West later and by the end of the
:25:09. > :25:13.afternoon, that thicker cloud will produce a mix of rain, sleet and
:25:13. > :25:20.perhaps some Arsenal. Temperatures will peak at similar figures into
:25:20. > :25:27.today. But the wind will be lighter. It will not feel quite as cold if
:25:27. > :25:35.you are out and about. This weather front we just across from the West
:25:35. > :25:39.and lingers around on Friday. The high pressure squeezes that weather
:25:39. > :25:44.a fund, dry so things up by the time we get to Saturday. Dry for
:25:44. > :25:52.many of the next few days. Some patchy sleet and snow, but not huge
:25:52. > :25:55.amounts, but staying on the chilly side. Thanks Paul. A reminder of
:25:55. > :25:57.tonight's main headlines. A public inquiry into the failings
:25:57. > :26:00.at Stafford Hospital which contributed to the deaths of at
:26:00. > :26:03.least 400 patients has called for a fundamental change in the culture
:26:03. > :26:05.of the NHS in England. Here, a call for help for the
:26:05. > :26:08.hundreds of grandparents left caring for their grandchildren
:26:08. > :26:11.whose parents are on drugs, but getting none of the usual foster