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Welcome to Wednesday's Look North: Tonight - the danger of working at | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
heights. The man who may never work again after falling through an | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
unsafe roof. As his employer's fined ten thousand pounds we look | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
at how many accidents happen at work. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Rehearsing in a pub car park - the brass band told that its practice | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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rooms will now cost 500% more to We are live other Bakewell Show. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Someone else celebrating a birthday, the Peak District National Park. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Some torrential rain today, some surface water, is the worst behind | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Tonight - a 22-year-old man from Rotherham who cheated death after | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
falling through a roof he was working on says his life will never | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
be the same again. Michael Hawkins was working for the Mansfield based | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
company Mechanical Solutions when the accident happened two years ago. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Today the company, pleaded guilty to breaches of Health and Safety | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
rules and received a substantial fine. Amanda Harper has more. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
have a big scar across my back, I had a skin graft. The scars on my | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
hands and arms and legs and my ankle. I was in hospital for two | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
weeks. Michael was on the first day of the job carrying out repairs to | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
a reece macro when he fell through landing 20 ft below. I jumped up, | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
things were falling down through the roof. I got up and ran out. I | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
could not move, I could not move. I could see blurred down my arms. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Michael's accident resulted in a two weeks in hospital visit and six | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
operations. He was employed as a sub-contract their by mechanical | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
solutions he were carrying out repairs in Derby in 2009. At Derby | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Magistrates' Court mechanical solutions pleaded guilty to health | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
and safety rules and there were safety boards but they did not have | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
roof lights. The company was fined �10,000 and told to pay more than | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
�5,000 to the Health and Safety Executive in costs. 35 fatalities | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
every year from this and Ruth workers are a good proportion. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Several thousand people have life- changing injuries from falling | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
through all off industrial groups every year. Two years on, Michael | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
is unemployed and the injuries have left him unable to carry out the | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
only word he knows. I am scared of heights and are never used to be. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
If there is any heavy lifting of goods or standing in the same | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
position, I can't do it because my Back's is up. Michael will receive | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
some compensation for his injuries but he feels uncertain about his | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
future prospects. Today's prosecution comes just a | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
week after an engineering firm from Barnsley was fined thousands of | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
pounds following an accident which left another man with serious | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
injuries. Matt Lowe was pulled by a machine through a gap just five | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
inches wide and suffered horrendous injuries. His employers Compass | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
Engineering were ordered to pay nearly �70,000 in fines and costs. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
You can see how small the gap was. So that's two work place accidents | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
we've reported on in just a week and figures from the Health and | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Safety Executive are even more concerning as they show the number | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
of deaths are on the increase. Nationally the number of people | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
killed at work rose last year from 147 to 171. Here in Yorkshire there | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
were 23 deaths that's the highest figure in the country, matched only | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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by the north east. So what can be done to improve safety? We have to | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
get across the message it can happen to anyone and usually it is | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
a simple mistake and if there is nothing to stop the mistake coming | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
to a tragic conclusion, that is what will happen. You will end up | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
with a dead body. A stark warning to employers and employees that | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
safety is everyone's responsibility. Also tonight - South Yorkshire's | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
chief constable says he doesn't believe there was any deliberate | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
police cover-up over the Hillsborough football disaster. In | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
an exclusive interview with our Crime Correspondent John Cundy, Med | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Hughes also explained why some documents may still not be revealed | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
to the families of the ninety-six victims for many years to come. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
legacy of Hillsborough lives on. It always will. It is not something | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
you would necessarily ever want to sweep under the carpet. He is the | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
three times removed as chief constable since Hillsborough but he | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
lives with the repercussions every day. The families of the 96 | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Liverpool victims killed at Hillsborough 22 years ago are | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
pinning their hopes for justice on the scrutiny panel of now examining | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
thousands of documents from the time. They have been boosted by the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
news the government intends to reveal the records. But when | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Margaret Thatcher visited the disaster scene the day after, did | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
police have a cover-up to blame the Liverpool supporters and misinform | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
the Prime Minister? The chief constable did not speak to Margaret | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Thatcher apparently at the ground. I know personally he was very keen | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
not to give that impression to the Prime Minister of the time and not | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
to be seen to be affecting her thinking. A will the scrutiny panel | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
be able to release all the documents or will the Liverpool | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
families be kept waiting until 2019? The 30 year rule applies to | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
coroners documents and they are not under the jurisdiction of South | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Yorkshire police. The Hillsborough inquiry panel, the independent | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
panel, is engaged in the decisions with the Lord Chancellor's | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Department about how the material can be made public. Tonight, Home | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Office said they believed they would be no delay in the panel | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
publishing and coroners papers but everything waits now until next | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
spring and by then he will have handed the Hillsborough legacy to | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
another chief constable. Stay with us until 7 o'clock and be | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
on to. -- beyond. As Scarborough becomes the first place in | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Yorkshire to switch over to digital TV we find out how it's going. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
More news from around Yorkshire and a twenty two year old man has been | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
arrested after a cyclist who was found unconscious in the Leeds to | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
Liverpool canal has died. 51-year- old Michael Houghton from Horsforth | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
was discovered in the water at Kirkstall on Saturday. He passed | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
away last night. A post mortem examination is due to take place | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
today. A man has been remanded in custody. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Police have thanked the public for their support in tracing Lesley | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Cunningham after a man and daughter was stabbed. The 55-year-old | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
suffered serious injuries. Police want to question 40-year-old Leslie | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Cunningham in connection with the incident. But officers say he's | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
dangerous and should not be approached. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Traders in Sheffield who suffered flood damage when the wicker broke | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
it's banks in 2007 claim new defences promised by the council | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
have been downgraded. The council says all its work complies with | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
national guidance. But traders claim they've built flood defences | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
on the wrong side of the river. The latest suggesting to use | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
concrete bollards be used in the centre of motorways and they were | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
atrocious. The original plan was a park along the street which was to | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
it and there would have stopped a flood water and looked really nice. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
A diabetic woman whose dog was her lifeline has won a reprieve after | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
being told she was no longer allowed to keep it by housing | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
officials. Nikki Clarke has trained her labrador to warn her when her | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
blood sugar levels are dropping. She can keep her dog Harley but | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
cannot have any other pets. A row's broken out in a South | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Yorkshire village after a brass band was told it would have its | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
rehearsal room charges increased by 500%. The parish council says it's | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
being forced to increase charges because of funding cuts. Whiston | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Brass Band has rehearsed in Whiston Manorial Barn for twenty years. Now | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
though they say they're being forced to rehearse in a local pub | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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car park. Emma Glasbey is live in Well, welcome to the new rehearsal | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
space for Whiston brass band. They are dependent on the Great | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Yorkshire weather but drinks are close at hand and customers get | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
live music. Seriously though, the band never wanted to move to a pub | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
car-park. They used to rehearse at the barn behind me but the parish | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
council has put the rent up by 500%. Let's speak to Jacqueline from the | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
band. She -- how is it working out for you? Better than nothing, | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
hopefully it will stay fine. It keeps everyone together. How are | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
people feeling about the current situation? Very angry, it is unjust. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
The parish council will not agree this is a community band. After all | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
it has done and said the village, they are applying commercial rates | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
and will not accept it is a community group. Is there no way | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
you can afford the new rent? Not at a commercial rent. We are quite | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
happy to bear an increase, happy to be at community charges but the | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
parish council will not accept it and instead of negotiating they | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
gave us 14 days' notice to come out. The parish council has to balance | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
its books. Yes, it does and we appreciate that and told them at | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
the appeal. Thank you. Earlier, I spoke to the chairman of the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
council and this is what he said. We have been very supportive of the | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
banned for many years. Cheap practice rates, free storage and | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
hiring a garage to store equipment. Because we have been losing money, | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
we have had to review the charges. For every user and the users of the | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
hall. We have increased charges but also hired the facility for | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
organisations to make an application for a grant. The parish | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
council says the band can apply for a grant, will you? No, the | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
councillor did not say that having an award is dependent on Western | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
parish council agreeing the group is a community group which they | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
refused to do. They will not negotiate at all. Thank you. We | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
have heard both sides of the argument, why did we hear more from | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
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Nothing wrong with being in their pub car-park in this weather but | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
wait until winter! The biggest change to television in a | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
generation began today, as the analogue BBC 2 signal was turned | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
off in Scarborough and digital TV boosted to reach all areas. The | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
other channels will follow later this month. What does it mean? This | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
is our TV. She likes to keep the remote control. The digital box may | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
need retuning. After Scarborough, Chesterfield and Sheffield will be | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
next, going digital with BBC 2 next week. The rest of the channels will | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
then follow on August 24th. And Emley Moor, which serves most of | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Yorkshire, will start to go digital on the 7th September. Joe Inwood's | :12:57. | :13:07. | |
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been to see how they've been coping It may look at the same but from | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
today this master has undergone a pretty major change. -- this mast. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
4,000, this was the consequence. Channels not working and | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
televisions and needing a factory reset. Simple, unless you have to | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
do it 200 times! We have a total of 160 televisions | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
which over Portals and staff are working on a due to the loss of BBC | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
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Two today. -- which hour hotels. We have had a few people coming to | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
the road show to help people that might have a few worries. The | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
message - this is a simple process. But some have clearly found it | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
simpler than others. As of 8am this morning, nothing was | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
working. My wife is said it would be working by 9am. Technology and | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
me do not combine. I tried it last night but it did | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
not work. I tried at the set-up but it did | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
not work. That is what I have just asked about. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
Back at the Hotel, at the long process of retuning 200 televisions | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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it begins. Few - just in time. -- Phew. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
If you want to find out any more information about the switch-over | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
you can call the number on screen to reach the helpline. There is | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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Before 7pm - a forecast ahead of the first day of the Bakewell Show. | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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And we look back at 60 years of the Just three days until the start of | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
the new football season. Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United will | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
be meeting again. More on that tomorrow. But Chesterfield and | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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Huddersfield are many people's Sometimes in football you do get a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
deserved reward for your hard work. League Two champions Chesterfield | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
did not hide their feelings upon learning that they had made it to | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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League One that this season. Neither did Huddersfield Town. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
Despite all their hard work ahead of the play-off final defeat they | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
are back and feeling good. I was a broken man straight after | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
the result. Of the washed feeling of my football career. But I dusted | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
myself down. I do not live in the past. I love for the future. | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
He has made eight signings including Danny award from premier- | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
league Bolton Wanderers. But others have moved up and a way for new | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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carriers. -- Danny Ward. I have still got good players here. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
I am confident we will have a strong enough team to kick off the | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
season. We are a winning team. Sometimes | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the teams who go up do well the next here because they are used to | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
winning. So, Huddersfield and Chesterfield | :17:38. | :17:47. | |
are both in the promotion race? Why In cricket, another good day for | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
Yorkshire. They will eventually all out for 500 and their pay to with | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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Anthony may grab the top score on 115. -- Anthony McGrath the top | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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What has the weather been like at the Bakewell Show then? Well, | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
things have just are drawn to a conclusion. A sweltering day. | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
Everywhere I have looked people have been running for shade. Mad | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
Dogs and Englishmen in the map a son. And I reckon the busiest show | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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I have ever seen. -- in the midday sun. Part of this excess is the | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
beautiful scenery here, slap bang in the middle of the national park | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
which is celebrating its 60th birthday. Is it in rude health? | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
Let's find out. It has been enjoyed for years. More than 500 square | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
miles of stunning scenery. The Peak District National Park is now 60 | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
years old. Readily accessible at the heart of the UK but today that | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
is beginning to cause problems. Friends of the Peak District and | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
won the national park authority to ban all motor vehicles are using a | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
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writ so like this one. -- a route like this one. | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
It cannot continue to Gaunt in all locations. It is about the people | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
who enjoy the walk. -- it cannot continue to go on. | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
But one company based in Bakewell claim that the company -- the park | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
must move with the times. At 25 million pound regeneration of the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Riverside Business Park in Bakewell has been planned and rejected twice | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
by the authorities despite encouragement from planning | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
officers. It sends out poor messages to other | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
businesses who might invest in the Peak Park. This must not become a | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
dormitory for well-off people in a nice little twee cottages. The only | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
way we can attract the young people as with their jobs. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
The company is now considering another appeal against the latest | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
of rejection. 60 years on the Peak Park is still enjoyed by people of | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
all ages. But the question is how well it can adapt to the future. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Jim Dixon as the chief executive of the Peak District National Park | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
Authority. Access is really a question of balance, isn't it? | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
As a you say, the Peak District is hugely important for lots of people. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
-- as you say. We have to get the balance right by listening to | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
people and working with people and finding the right solutions. That | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
might be a case of listening to people with a passion for all for | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
road use. But you cannot just a straight | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
forward a ban off-road users. No, because these are public roads. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
We have used a voluntary measures and been successful at resolving | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
many of the cases of people are concerned about. But we know there | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
is a more to do and we must be thorough. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
What about planning issues? One person we spoke to said they want | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
to bring jobs in order to attract the youth and make sure that | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Bakewell is not a dormitory town for older people. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
There are so many businesses are here that the show today. Farming | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
is doing well. But we do need to find it good work places for people. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
The villages near by are potentially very important but what | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
is most important is that local people have their voice heard. In | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
this case, local members claimed that the developed -- the | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
development was not good enough. That is part of democratic planning. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Some breaking news - a move over Bakewell pudding. Today we were | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
munching Bakewell Brownies which were being sold to raise money for | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
charity and very nice they wear to. Pullup a chair, enjoy an ice-cream | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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I have tried the bar codes, -- borders. But for something | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
different we are going to try the village green. This is where you | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
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will find a master craftsmen. Michael is a traditional net maker | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
from Sheffield. I would have thought this was a seaside | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
activities. Originally I could not find work so | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
I went looking for work with the trawlers. That's how it started. | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
Can you give me a lesson? Hold it tight and hook those two. | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
Go through that one again. I am confused. I think I might | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
stick to something simpler like advanced brain surgery. What used | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
to people make for these? Catching rabbits. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Well if I have to catch at the rabbit I don't think we will have | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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I never did catch the rabbit. People are still here in the | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
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hospitality tents. Coming back tomorrow is not a bad idea at all, | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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I think I might just do that. See Let's look at the photos today. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Here is one showing the heavy showers which went through Leeds at | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
2pm. And we know there was flash flooding at Donington today - he is | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
a picture of the hailstones which fell. -- here is a picture. No | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
surprise that the day ends with a Met Office weather warning. Still | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
the risk of torrential downpours and eastern parts. The Pennines and | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
the Dales have been spared a today which was great news for the | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
Bakewell Show. Tomorrow, a change. It will begin to feel fresher with | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
a cold front pushing east wards. Showers will die away as we head | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
through the evening. A warm night with temperatures dropping in no | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
more than 16 Celsius. The sun will rise at 5:26am and set just before | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
9pm. Showers will push their way East during the morning and merge | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
into a longer spell of a rain. But during the second part of the | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
afternoon we'll see brighter, drier weather. It will feel noticeably | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
fresher. Tomorrow, around about 20 Celsius. Friday looks like a fine | :27:28. | :27:33. |