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Welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight: Paying respects. Leeds | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
remembers the award-winning soldier killed in Afghanistan, and buried | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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in his home city. A positive career, a leader in the | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
regiment, it is a real loss, more so for his family. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight: Caught out. Councils blame the forecasters for not | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
warning them enough about the overnight snow. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
The iconic Bronte relic to be preserved for future generations. | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
Top Withins gets an overhaul. For the second night running, we | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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have a warning for wide spread ice The funeral has taken place of a | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
20-year-old soldier from Yorkshire who was killed in Afghanistan. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Rifleman Sheldon Steel from Bramley in Leeds was described by the major | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
of his battalion as a future leader in the making and a very sad loss. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
He was killed by an explosion in Helmand province while on foot | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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patrol last month. Ian White reports. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
10am in Bramley. Traffic was brought to a standstill outside St | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Peter's Church. His family have described him as a big lad with a | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
big heart. The 20 year old was a soldier with the Fifth Battalion | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
The Rifles. He was killed on 27th November in an explosion by a | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
roadside bomb. Today, one of his commanding officers spoke of his | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
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professionalism. Rifleman Sheldon Steel was above his peers in every | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
description. A huge man at six feet four, he won the top dog | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
competition. It is a sad loss for us, a real loss for the regimental | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
family, but more so for his family. From his mother, a simple message | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
on her wreath. I love you, miss you and will never forget you. Finn in | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
church, his friends held back the tears. I know it is difficult to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
believe, but he would not want us to be sad today. He said in his | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
letters that we should celebrate his life. He died doing what he | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
always wanted to do since he was young. A soldier in the army. Not | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
just a career, but a life that he loved. So the reason we are proud | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
of him. Hundreds of Sheldon's family and friends packed the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
church. But outside, it was strangers who wanted to pay their | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
respects. We have lived here 48 years. You feel for the family, it | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
is only right that we pay our respects today. You have to pay | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
your respects, because he was a brave lad. A terrible loss. | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
Rifleman Sheldon Steel's body was taken for burial. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
The wintry conditions caused further disruption around Yorkshire | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
today. Black ice and snow showers brought commuter traffic to a | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
standstill around Bradford and Halifax. There were long delays in | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
South Yorkshire too. Sheffield Council has admitted that it was | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
caught out, and so have the weather forecasters. We'll be live at a | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
gritting depot in Sheffield in a moment. First, Spencer Stokes | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
reports on this morning's travel chaos. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Snow and Sunrise combine to create a serene winter Wonderland scene | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
above Bradford. On the roads, a different story, ice and slush made | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
it a tricky commute. We live half an hour from work, it is a three | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
hour drive this morning. Yes. That is how long it has taken. No sign | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
of any gritter. We did see some the other week! Not this morning. | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Bradford -- Bradford council said they did take machines out last | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
night. It's not just the lorries which can keep exposed roots clear. | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
In rural areas, these have already been used, below half full. The | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
councils say they will be replenishing these. Their big | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
gritters are back on the roads tonight. In Sheffield, the council | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
has said it was caught out. This bus failed to get started after | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
calling out the stop. Others were prepared, like Postman with Sue | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
spikes to make sure Christmas cards arrive on time. They do make a | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
difference, I have worn them for a few years. You feel more sure | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
footed walking about that if you didn't wear them. Around two inches | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
fell last night, combined with a slippery conditions. One school in | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
Bradford took the decision to open late. There was a sheet ice | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
everywhere. We have to decide whether we would open, the best | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
decision was to delay opening. 10am start was welcomed by parents | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
and took some pressure away from the roads and gave children the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
chance to experience a sleigh ride to school. No rain gear here just | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
yet, but the horses seem to be enjoying their wintery surroundings. | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
-- no reindeeer. Why did the weather forecasters get it wrong? | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
Paul joins us now. What happened? There was local disruption. A | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
warning was put out at 7pm last night saying there would be | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
widespread ice but we did not forecast the snow showers. That's | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
the way it goes sometimes, we can get the weather wrong. I found | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
myself defending you. It is December. We didn't see the snow | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
showers coming. Some people got stuck in bad traffic. We did have a | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
warning out for ice. What is tomorrow are going to be like? | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
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Tonight his eyes with wintry showers. -- Tonight is ice. The | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
roads may freeze quite quickly. have 15 minutes to double check! | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Sheffield City Council has admitted it wasn't prepared for the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
overnight falls of snow. Heidi Tomlinson is at Sheffield's | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
gritting depot now. This no took Sheffield by surprise. | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
We are at the depot. They are not low on stock, 800 tonnes -- 8,000 | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
tons of rock salt. What happened this morning to caused the chaos on | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
the roads? The forecast across the region was for frost. There was | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
salt for that but we needed much more for snow. That was the problem. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
The snow started falling at 4am, is that too late to get the gritters | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
on the roads? We sent the vehicles out but we needed a more. We were | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
quickly out on the network but as you can see the damage was already | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
done. We had some instances like this. What condition when the roads | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
have been in this morning? centimetres of snow. At all levels | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
in the city. In the south of the city in particular as well as on | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
higher ground. In the centre of the city it was clear? Very clear. We | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
saw snow fall early on. It goes to show how reliant you are made | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
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weather forecast. We -- Stay with us as we meet the | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
new Yorkshire cricket coach. The former Australian test bowler Dizzy | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
Gillespie back at Headingley, and king of all he surveys. There's | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
been more bad news for struggling shops today, as figures showed a | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
fall in retail sales last month. How have Yorkshire's high streets | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
been coping this year? Look North has asked all Yorkshire | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
councils for the percentage of empty shops in the major towns and | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
cities. The figures are for the autumn and they show: Bradford has | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the highest rate with 19% of shops not being used. Rotherham's figure | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
is also 19%. Although only 15% of shops are empty in the main | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
shopping area. At the other end of the scale, York and Harrogate are | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
faring best. Just 7% of their shops are empty. Emma Glasbey has been to | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
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Bradford and Rotherham to find out how they are tackling the problem. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
It is a problem in almost every town and city, but when it comes to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the major high streets in Yorkshire, Bradford is struggling more than | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
any other to keep stores open. Almost one in five shops is empty. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
It is just a bit dead really. People just go to Leeds. There are | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
a lot of empty shops. They could do a lot but they choose not to. | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
are empty shops on almost every street in the city centre. It does | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
make it extremely difficult for those businesses who are trying to | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
draw in the shoppers. Rachel cannot afford her business rates. She | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
applied for a hardship grant from the council that was rejected. She | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
says her stall will close in June. The town centre is dying. There | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
will not be a town centre soon. There is no incentive to come in. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Bradford Council say they are working with shop owners to tackle | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
the problem. Some of the figures that had been produced do not | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
reflect Bradford city centre. your own figures show almost 19% | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
empty shops. The figures show an improvement on the number of empty | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
shops over the last couple of months. But that does not solve the | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
problem. I accept that we have got to do a great deal more work. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
South Yorkshire, another high street facing a battle. In | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
Rotherham, 19 the cent of shops are empty. But that is an improvement | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
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on recent years. This storm moved out seven years ago but has decided | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
to come back. Some new businesses are helped with their rent. | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
vacant shops are going down, more people are visiting the town. Since | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
2010 we have had 50 new businesses in the town centre. We are seeing | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
signs of improvement. There is still a way to go. We're on the way | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
up. But this town and Bradford have tough competition from neighbouring | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
cities and out of town shopping centres. They will be looking for a | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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busy Christmas to help them face the New Year. Rotherham is trying | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
hard but it is grim in certain cities and towns? It is so sad. I | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
travelled all over, and coming back to Yorkshire which is where I take | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
my family out at the weekend. The atmosphere is very flat. We need to | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
do something to take measures to bring vibrancy back. We can only do | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
that when the understand how town centres can operate, against the | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
internet. You mentioned the internet, we did a straw poll, more | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
than half, about 70%, say they have done half their shopping this | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
Christmas online. I am afraid so, the internet can offer value, | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
because they don't have the same overheads. What we have to think | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
about his what do we have which is unique? That is the interaction, | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
service. At Christmas, there is a big thing about nostalgia marketing, | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
where brands are brought back from our past. It works very | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
successfully. If you could have that silver brass band, a hot | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
chocolate in your hand, that would make you go back and interact. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
Shops are closing down, it is easy to go out of town, we are not going | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
into them. If to get into town is expensive. It can be ridiculous. | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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am afraid so. In Bradford, I got Had done which has just been voted | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
the best High Street in the country. They pride themselves with having a | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
unique shops, not one multiple. Is that the way forward? Absolutely. | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
Derby share as well. It is independence, but it is customer | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
service. That is what we're trying to do. If we can't interact with | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
people and be knowledgeable about things and how people, we can't | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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make a difference as a store any more. Thank you for talking to us. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
The boom in online sales has had an impact on the UK's mail-order | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
companies as well. Bradford has been the home of some of the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
biggest names in home shopping including Empire stores put over a | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
century. Over the last decade, thousands of jobs have been lost in | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
the industry. But they are fighting back. The former catalogue | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
companies are developing their own online businesses. As these | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
pictures from the 1960s show, Grattan was once the dominant | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
player in the UK's growing mail- order business. Very cosy indeed. | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
It is called mail order. company spent �40 million building | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
this automated warehouse in Bradford in the 1990s. At the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
height of the mail order boom here in Bradford, plants like this would | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
employ up to 1000 because. The big attraction of mail order was the | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
ability to spread payments over months or even years. At the time, | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
the statement regularly used it was delivery within 28 days. Imagine, a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
month to deliver in the current online age. But who better to | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
transform part of the businesses into online trading than the men | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
will do the companies themselves? The company was acquired by the | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
German mail-order giant hand in recent years, over 1000 jobs had | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
been lost in Bradford due to its restructuring. Three years ago, the | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
otter group appointed this man as the head of their Asia operations | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
to come to the UK and tried to turn the business around. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
opportunity is unlimited. We know the growth of internet sales is | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
phenomenal. But as far outstripping the pop-up -- possible decline that | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
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we currently have all catalogue sales -- or catalogue says. However, | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
the competition is also much bigger. Every retailer wants to be online | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
or already is online, and even some of the big retailers who resist get | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
have gone online as well, particularly in the last 12 months. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Grattan was founded in 1912 and next year it plans centenary | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
celebrations. Whether it will be around and another 100 years | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
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depends on its move into the online trading market. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Tributes are still arriving at the house in which a family of four | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
died in Pudsey. Friends and classmates have built a small | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
shrine at their now boarded up home. It's believed Richard Smith killed | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
his wife Claire, children Aaron and Ben and then himself. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
The former Labour MP for Barnsley Central, Eric Illsley, has been | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
ordered to repay more than �23,000 following his conviction for | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
fiddling his expenses. The bill is for legal aid and prosecution costs. | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Illsley was sent to prison in February for fraudulently claiming | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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more than �14,000 for his second home. | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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Still to come. A literary I'm excited about this. I know you | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
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well. When I saw that the Yorkshire club was up, I thought I would put | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
my name in the hat for that. It would be my dream job. I'm | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
fortunate enough to have been accepted. You come into a club that | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
has just been relegated. The think you have to make major changes or | :19:21. | :19:31. | |
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not? -- the think? Certainly not major changes. It has got to be in | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
said, while there are some disappointments, there are some | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
positive as well. I think some good cricket was played last year but | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
there were some poor sessions that probably cost the club the spot in | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
the first division. Preparation helps you mentally prepare for that | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
you can walk out on the ground knowing you have done everything | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
you can to be successful. I'm really going to hop that. To all | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
our players. I certainly don't reinvent the wheel of by coaching | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
but I do a couple of different things that I believe help | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
cricketers prepare. What type of cricket will they play quarterback | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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we are looking to win at all times. I know Andrew Gale is very big on | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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that. Her think that will bring out the best of the Yorkshire players. | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
No doubt the target is promotion in this first season? Absolutely. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
While we can't guarantee that, what we can guarantee is that these guys | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
will be as well prepared as they can hand they will go out there to | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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have some success for Yorkshire. That was a great shot, it looked | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
like a nomination for the Turner Art Prize. Lee Westwood shot the | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
best round of his career. He leads the Thailand Open golf by five | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
shots after his first round. It has been a mixed their fortunes for | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Bronte fans, will hear about a positive way to restore an old | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
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building in a moment or two. It's been a mixed day of fortunes for | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Bronte fans here in Yorkshire. Restoration work on the building | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
linked with Wuthering Heights has been completed. We'll have more on | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
that in a moment. But first, the Bronte Society has been outbid in | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
its attempts to return an important Charlotte Bronte manuscript to the | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Bronte Parsonage Museum. The manuscript went under the hammer at | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
Sotheby's in London today. It was expected to fetch between �200,000 | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
and �300,000, though in the end it sold for �580,000 which was more | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
than the society could afford. But there's some good news among the | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
disappointment. There is a sentimental disappointment that it | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
belongs here. This is Charlotte's Hearn. It was written here. There | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
is a disappointment for the lack of enhancement of our scholarly place. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
But there is at least some good A ruined farmhouse thought to have | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
been the inspiration for Wuthering Heights has had some restoration | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
work done that should preserve it for the next ten years. Thousands | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
of tourists make the Moorland Pilgrimage to see the house but the | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
savage weather up there was threatening its survival. Cathy | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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Killick reports on the project to It is about as bleak as it gets. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
They wonder so many associate this farmhouse with it Wuthering Heights. | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
It is a stiff walk across the more from where the Brontes lived. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwelling. It is | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which it station is | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
exposed to a stormy weather. Pure bracing ventilation their -- they | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
must have at all times. It is a very evocative ruin. You wouldn't | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
want a change that. We didn't want to put cave roof back on it. We | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
wanted to keep it in its current state as this ruin in a beautiful | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
landscape. For some people it is a bit bleak but I think it sums up | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
what the Brontes Road about come with the very evocative landscape. | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
One a day like today we can really get a feel for it. The restoration | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
project also has an artistic side. This woman has been photographing - | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
- this man has been photographing this spot for decades. He had to | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
bring people here to take voters for an exhibition. I have been | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
coming here since the big 1970s. It looked quite different to how it | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
looks now. It is very an interesting to see the gradual | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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decay and the repeated attempts to stem the decay in the run itself. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
It is only 2.5 miles to the teashops, but we could be in | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
another world for the job it is this world aspect to the Bronte | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
story that the project wants people to see. It is not for the faint- | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
hearted but because they are well worth it. Maybe that for the summer. | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
-- but if it is well worth it. is the kind of weather to enjoy it, | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
the snow on the ground. This it is a nice picture, the sheep around | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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during that one. And this one was Newmill, with a light sprinkling of | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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snow. Keep the pictures are coming in. There arose a warning of ice | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
that could be widespread on untreated surfaces. It looks like | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Friday into the weekend will be culled. Frost at night and they | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
will be further scattered wintry showers. There is the area of low | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
pressure. An area of showers which will be watching some of the salt | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
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off the roads. North, skies were clear and tensions will drop. -- | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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skies will clear and temperatures It looks quite cold and blustery | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
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tomorrow. Any patchy sleeked will move away. They could be local | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
accumulations over the tops as that band of showers pressures and from | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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the North. Top temperatures still struggling. Four for five degrees. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
The cold weekend. Frosty at night with a scattering of sleet and snow | :27:31. | :27:37. |