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Welcome to Look North. Tonight, a huge pay-out. A doctor gets nearly | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
�4.5 million in compensation after a hospital trust is found guilty of | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
sex discrimination. We find out what it means for the trust, which | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
is already heavily in debt. Also, going nowhere fast. The hard- | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
up Sheffield snowboarder forced to train on artificial snow, rather | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
than with his team-mates in the Alps. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
And after a 20-year break, the most famous vet on television returns to | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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our screens. We speak to James Herriot's son. It will be a cold | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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weekend. Join me for your weekend forecast. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Good evening. The NHS trust that runs services in | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Castleford, Pontefract, Dewsbury and Wakefield has been ordered to | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
pay millions of pounds in compensation to a doctor who was | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
bullied so badly, she may never work again. The order comes on the | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
same day that the towns' MPs demanded outside help to run the | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
trust. They say they have lost confidence in the trust's | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
management and it has betrayed its patients. Cathy Killick reports. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
They have called for action once, but after being ignored, they have | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
been forced to try again. Three Yorkshire MPs visited the trust | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
today to demand the reopening of overnight A&E services at | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Pontefract Hospital. It closed the service six weeks ago, forcing | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
patients to travel to Pinderfields Hospital instead. The MPs say this | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
is unacceptable. We want outside help to be brought in. We do not | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
think the trust can sorted out. We need outside help to get it reopen | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
so Pontefract can have services it needs. The trust says it cannot | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
recruit doctors needed. It is also millions of pounds in debt and also | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
learn today it must pay �4.5 million compensation to a doctor | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
made mentally ill by a deliberate bullying campaign against her. Dr | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Eva Michalak was hounded from her job when she had a baby in 2003. In | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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Having lost the confidence of their MPs, the trust board look | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
beleaguered. Attention will focus now on waiting times at | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
Pinderfields Hospital A&E, which might be busy at Christmas when GP | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
surgeries are closed. Ten fire stations in West Yorkshire | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
are to close in a move to save millions of pounds. 100 firefighter | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
jobs will also be lost. The ten stations that are closing are at | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Gipton, Stanks, Rawdon, Otley, Brighouse, Elland, Hemsworth, South | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
Elmsall, Batley and Dewsbury. They will be replaced with five new | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
super-stations at Killingbeck, Menston, Rastrick, South Kirby and | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
The cuts were approved at a meeting of West Yorkshire Fire Authority | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
today. Ian White reports. This is a blue light response for | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
fire crews in West Yorkshire. The way the county gets its emergency | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
cover will change dramatically over the next four years after the Fire | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Authority agreed jobs should be cut and 10 stations closed as it tries | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
to save millions. There has been a fire station in Gipton since 1987 | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
and it is one of the busiest in Yorkshire. The fire authority does | :04:09. | :04:18. | |
-- decided it should close. People are not happy. I do not agree. It | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
should stay where it is. It is disgusting. The traffic is | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
struggling here. If we have a fire and they have to come from further | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
away, it will be a problem. union reacted angrily and said it | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
would have an impact on firefighters. They know what to a | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
reduction of 135 firefighters means. We will be busier. Lives, of | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
members of the public, and their own lives, they will be put at risk | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
because of extended travel times to fires. They will be angry. The fire | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
authority said it was a tough decision. Guarantee these are | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
difficult to give. We have put the business case for it to demonstrate | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
that safety of the public is paramount in this authority. We are | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
trying to make sure that the right equipment is in the right place at | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
the right time. The changes will be phased in over the next four years. | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
There will be five new large stations replacing the 10 old ones. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Later on Look North, we find out how the Halifax rugby fan who was | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
paralysed by a brutal attack, is coping 15 months on. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
In other news, motorists have been facing severe congestion for much | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
of the day after the A1 near Wetherby was closed following a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
lorry crash. The stretch between junctions 44 and 45 was shut after | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
a multi-vehicle collision. An HGV overturned, sliding through the | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
central reservation and shedding its load of cardboard, which | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
scattered over both carriageways. One man is being treated for | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
serious injuries. One northbound lane has reopened, but the rest of | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
the road is unlikely to open until 8pm. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Food safety officers have warned Christmas shoppers in York to | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
beware of counterfeit vodka that could be a danger to health. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Several cases of the Drop Vodka brand have been seized from city | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
off-licences. Analysis has shown it contains industrial alcohol, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
chloroform and water and could be carcinogenic if consumed in large | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
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quantities. You do not want to drink it. It will not cause you any | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
harm if you happen to have one drink of it, but if you were | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
drinking it over a long time it could be carcinogenic. A bit like | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
smoking, if you expose yourself to smoking over a number of years. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Halifax rugby fan left paralysed after being attacked after a game | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
says he hopes to walk again. David Singer was on his way home from the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Championship grand final in Warrington last year. He was | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
punched to the ground. Nobody has been charged with the attack. | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
He used to cradle him as a baby. Now, his father never thought he | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
would have to do the same when he was an adult. It is 15 months since | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
his 33-year-old son was attacked. He uses a wheelchair and has looked | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
after at a care home. There were a group of lads. They punched me. I | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
fell to the ground and I managed to get up and they came back and did | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
it again. He had watched Halifax beat Featherstone at Warrington. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
There had been tension between fans. After the game, he was set upon as | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
coach loads of people looked on. Despite four rests, nobody has ever | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
been charged. -- arrests. I was left-handed. I cannot use my left | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
side now. I cannot use my fork out the table with my left hand. I | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
cannot cut my foot up. Before the attack, he was a technician with | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
the Yorkshire ambulance service with an active social life and a | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
love of travel. The injuries were so severe he spent two weeks in a | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
coma. Part of his goal hat to be removed, leaving him paralysed. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
was actually supporting us, as his old parents, he was doing insurance | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
policies, and the car insurance. Now the roles have been reversed. | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
We are looking after David like he was a child, because he has to | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
press a button to sit up. We have to get him into the wheelchair. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
hopes to be able to return home soon and eventually learn to walk | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
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again. With so much determination, who dares to bet against him? | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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We wish him well. Before 7pm. Everybody's favourite TV vet James | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Herriot returns to the television in a new series. We speak to his | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
son. And the train driver who dedicated 60 years of his life to | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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the railways. Now, the sport. While you were | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
recovering, Jonny Bairstow did well. He is talented. | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
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You were tweeting each other. And Brooks. They are the future. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
They have been named in a Lions tour to go to Bangladesh. We were | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
talking about Jason Gillespie. He said these young guys, they have | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
had a few England players. Even though Yorkshire got relegated. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Jonny Bairstow. You are smiling, watching him. They do well for | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Yorkshire. Gillespie, he has positive play. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
You cannot get more positive. Absolutely. He came from nowhere. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
We previewed the season. The reporter stayed with him. He could | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
not believe how young he was. He is a talent. The youngsters coming | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
through, they are a young squad. There is another young lad, Mills, | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
plays for Essex but born in Dewsbury. They are taking him. If | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
you look at the squad. I think Johnny should have gone to | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Pakistan. If there are any the -- any | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
injuries, he will be good to go. Football, and you do not have to go | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
far to pick the big game. The way trip is 25 miles for Huddersfield | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Town as they visit Sheffield Wednesday for the clash of the | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
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League One promotion rivals. The same colours, blue and white, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
and the same Yorkshire pride in both clubs. The distance between | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield in the promotion race | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
has been too close for neighbourly comfort. After 20 matches, it is | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
second against 4th in the table. The Derby could well resurface next | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
season in the Championship. I would love Sheffield to be playing | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Championship football. If anybody else is there, it is down to them. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Both clubs are well supported. They have the infrastructure. They have | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
ambition to be playing. In it is a big game in its own context, a | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
local derby. We are close to each other in the league. They are doing | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
fantastically well. They are coming off the back of a disappointing | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
performance they will want to rectify. It has all the ingredients. | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
At Hillsborough, Wednesday are not -- unbeaten so far. They have an | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
impressive defensive record. Huddersfield Town have some | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
spectacular performances. They have come on their travels. There is a | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
long way to go. It is psychological, whoever wins might have the edge. | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
In it is pivotal. We have a good record at home. The biggest | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
attendance at Hillsborough this season was just over 24,500. That | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
will be challenged. That is the only thing you can predict in this | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
match. That will be a great game. | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
What is your best golf round? Nothing like Lee Westwood's. He is | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
playing the best golf of his life. Yesterday, he said if it carries | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
on... And today again. A poor round, 64! Imagine hitting | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
Worksop's Lee Westwood has a massive 13 shot lead after two | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
rounds of the Thailand Golf Championship. He followed up his | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
career best 60 with a round of 64. It gives him a halfway score of 124, | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
tied with the lowest-ever 36 hole total on the Asian Tour. Afterwards, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Westwood said on Twitter that it is "for sure, the best I've ever | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
played." Yorkshire is to have a new top | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
level netball team. The Yorkshire Jets have been awarded a | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Superleague franchise. They will play matches across the region, | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
including in Leeds and Sheffield from the New Year. The captain | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
hopes it will raise the profile of the sport in the region. Everyone | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
gets a stereotype of a netball, but it does not like that any more. It | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
is more physical, and demanding. You should definitely come and | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
watch to find out. A Sheffield snowboarder, who has | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
just made it onto Team GB, has had to miss his first national training | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
session because he couldn't afford it. Tom Farrow, who's 23, should be | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
on the French slopes right now with the rest of the British team, but | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
instead, he's still here in Yorkshire training on artificial | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
snow and working in Pizza Hut. Emma Blackburn went to meet him. | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
It is fast, fun and not for the faint-hearted. Tom Farrow has | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
mastered the skill of snowboarding, and has been picked for the British | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
team, but it comes with a price tag. I am going to spend �10,000. I have | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
missed at the training camp, and cannot afford to eat or buy new | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
equipment. I am owning a two-year- old to snowboard, that is not even | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
mind. It is not just the snow in his life, he is funding his | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
ambition by delivering pizzas. His takeaway tips or make all the | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
difference. Bed is a different world, as well. -- it is a | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
different world. I am managing to work five days, which is good. Then | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
a rush from what work to a Snow Dome, and getting it in another two | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
days of training. Meeting the cost is an uphill struggle. It is a | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
frustrating and difficult and not ideal, but with that, I am | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
snowboarding much more than my word before, and I'm grateful for that | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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opportunity. -- much more than before. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
And before I go, let me transport you to somewhere more exotic. Where | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
could this be? Somewhere warm, with the surf up. Hawaii, perhaps? No, | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
it's Castleford! This is a FlowRider, which simulates waves | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
and let's you experience what it might be like to be out on the seas. | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Alongside those who knew what they were doing at Xscape today were | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
some of the Castleford Tigers players, who gave it a go. Good | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
experience. First at De Meyer their -- first time I have never done | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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anything like that. I will hope you get better as it goes a long. | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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Artificial snow, artificial waves. He once stirred razzle dazzle | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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America. -- he wants to. Fingers crossed for him. | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
One thing about him, he is confident. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
Absolutely. We could do with another world | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
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champion in Yorkshire. I am so excited, I cannot wait! I will put | :18:00. | :18:09. | |
my pyjamas on, and turn my telly on. A bit over-the-top for Look North, | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
isn't it?! Now, All Creatures Great And Small | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
was one of the most popular series to appear on TV. It was based on | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the books of James Herriot, and followed his exploits as a vet in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
the Yorkshire Dales. Well, this weekend, the character of James | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Herriot will be back on our TV screens in a new drama which looks | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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at his early life as a trainee vet. You are late. I am very sorry, sir. | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
Professor. It won't happen again, Professor. I am glad you can be | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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assured Mr... James Herriot. That should whet your appetite. | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
I you excited about this? Yes. This was the brainchild of the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
scriptwriter of the television series, and Johnny had this thing | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
about doing a prequel of my father's days in Glasgow. We have | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
been singing the theme tune, we have just realised! It is 20 years | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
ago. 30 years ago. When I was researching my book, I discovered | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
diaries my dad had written in his rhetoric college days, in his | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
schooldays. There he is. I can see the resemblance! That is then our | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
old surgery. -- that is. When he was at Glasgow, his idea was to be | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
a small animal vet, but coming to Yorkshire, dogs and cats were a | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
sideline. It was the cows, pigs, sheep and horses that was his big | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
thing. Added people call them veteran? Yes, and they still do. I | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
have seen little snippets of the series. The stories are fictional, | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
but the background is authentic. They have recruited that they to | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
acknowledge that my father was educated in, and I was as well. It | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
was not pumping station for Glasgow Corporation. It was a fascinating | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
place. It was a dump, but inside there, there was by Brazil, warmth, | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
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and we had a wonderful time. -- there was warmth. Other going to | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
redo the old series? I don't know why the BBC don't do that. James | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
Herriot is incredibly important for the tourism and hour region. -- in | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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our region. This is the Herriott museum. It has been a difficult | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
year, hasn't it? Yes. At numbers have gone down with the economic | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
downturn, and we have got a business manager in there now, and | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
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hope Lee, things will turn out better. -- hopefully. Thirsk is a | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
lovely place, but why do tourists go there? James Herriot, that is | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
the reason. If it closed down, it would be a disaster. We try and | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
encourage people to go. If you can the visitor book, the comments are | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
always very good. People love the place. Do you know what I will buy | :22:22. | :22:32. | |
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the Christmas presents? The books! I am so glad you said books as well. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
That in the series was good, but I envy anyone who has not read the | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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James Herriot books. They are so Now, not many of us can imagine | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
doing the same thing for 60 years. But that's Gerry Skelton's story. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
These days, he's an engine driver on the North Yorkshire Moors | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Railway. But he began his career with steam 60 years ago, when he | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
signed on as an engine cleaner at York Shed. He's been sharing a few | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
memories with Alan Whitehouse. Jerry could do this job in his | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
sleep. He may have notched up 60 years, but still have living | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
memories of his early days. started off as an engine cleaner, | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
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and the first locomotive was this. We saw these steam engines. He had | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
at years working all hours, in full the conditions, but for promotion | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
came his way. -- in awful conditions. I got made a farmer, | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
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and worked my way up. -- firemen. He was finally made a driver. | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
1968, I got passed on to the driver. When retirement came around, there | :24:20. | :24:29. | |
was only one thing he could do. came up here. It all came back to | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
me, very quickly. He knows her Yorkshire more limelight the back | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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of his hand, so what is the Let me show you two pictures. That | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
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is beautiful. That is from Howarth. Lovely pictures. Send us your | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
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pictures. You can also tweet them. Let us start with the usual. A -- a | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
warning for ice. Of concern, we have got showers pushing back in | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
from the north-east. Tomorrow, sunny spells, and wintry showers. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
This weekend, it will be cold, but next week, Mark their tries to get | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
back in, and we could get temperatures up to ten degrees. But | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
in the short term, it is cold out there. A band of showers comes | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
through. As they push south-east would, they will fizzle out. There | :26:16. | :26:26. | |
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is a risk that showers could be wintry. The sun will rise in the | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
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morning at 819 M. -- A M. Then we will have this band of rain pushing | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
pretty quickly eastwards, followed bike brighter conditions with sunny | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
spells, but er the wintry showers may not be far away. It is a bit of | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
a showery and cold picture. At Scarborough, a bracing day. | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
Temperatures over the hills nearer three degrees. Doncaster might get | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
up to five degrees. Icy again on Saturday night, and on Sunday, more | :27:17. | :27:23. |