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Welcome to Wednesday's Look North. On the programme tonight: failing | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
our pupils? Yorkshire's first regional Ofsted report reveals | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
attainment levels in our primary schools are the lowest in England. | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
It is a poverty of expectation. It is a poverty of aspiration for | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
children and young people who attend schools in our most deprived But | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
we'll be talking to a former education chief who says Ofsted is | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
wrong. Ministers. Also tonight: A man's arrested after | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
his pregnant girlfriend dies following an attack by their dogs, | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
believed to be illegal pit bulls. And after the storm surge, it is not | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
just pulled `` building and people that have been affected, animals | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
have become victims too. The best of the sunshine has been over the | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
hills. The forecast follows later. For the first time the schools | :00:57. | :01:14. | |
watchdog Ofsted has published a report into educational standards | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
across our region. And it's not easy reading. Last year, children leaving | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
primary schools in Yorkshire had the lowest attainment levels in England. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
At secondary level, there are big variations. In Barnsley, Doncaster | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
and Bradford, more than half of schools require improvement or are | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
inadequate. In fact in Barnsley 78% of pupils attend schools which are | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
not yet good. But York is singled out as performing well with 9% of | :01:44. | :01:55. | |
schools good or outstanding. This season football fans in Barnsley | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
know what it is like to be marooned at the bottom of the league table. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
That worry about what it means the future. Should parents feel the same | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
sense of frustration about the quality of education available in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
town? The report says 78% of pupils in Barnsley go to high school that | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
are inadequate or require improvement. Horizon community | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
college is a new school that hasn't been inspected yet. The principal | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
says the league tables only tell half the story. Barnsley has for | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
many years been the bottom of league tables. That is now changing. If I | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
was a parent, I would be confident in sending my children to Barnsley | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
schools. What we are doing is working together to make sure | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
wherever that young people live in Barnsley, they go to their local | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
school and it is a good or outstanding school. Barnsley isn't | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
the only authority where there is a lack of good or outstanding high | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
schools. Towns with economic problems are sitting at the foot of | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the England league table. Yorkshire authorities are at the bottom of the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
league tables for secondary schools. Bradford, Doncaster and Barnsley. | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
Bradford in 138th placed, Doncaster 143rd and Barnsley, 149 out of 150. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
The reasons for the high number of schools that are not yet good live | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
mainly in the expectations from local authorities, from school | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
leaders, Academy chains, as to what they expect pupils can achieve. Her | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Majesty's inspectors will be in schools that are not yet good. I | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
will authorise sending in inspectors to take a look at Doncaster, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
Barnsley and Bradford. Is there too much inspection? One Yorkshire beat | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
thinks that is the problem. Often raising questions that `` but not | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
providing answers. They tell you about the problems but don't stay | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
around saying this is the way to put it right. That is a real weakness of | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
our education system at the moment. On the ground, the expertise to say | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
it is tough, you must feel demoralised having this Ofsted | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
report. Let us see what positive things you can do to put your house | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
in order and give these children the education they deserve. In Barnsley, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the future is looking brighter because primary schools are showing | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
improvements. Next year, the Ofsted spotlight may have switched to | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
another time and town. Chris Edwards is a former Ofsted inspector and | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
former Chief Executive of Education Leeds. He's now an education | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
consultant based in York. Some say inspection doesn't work. Will it | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
scare teaching staff? We have created a monster. There is fear of | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Ofsted. They have a commanding control and bullying approach that | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
is actually meaning that we are getting mediocre instead of | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
outstanding. What we have got to do, like Finland and Singapore and | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Canada, stop this nonsense about constantly measuring and weighing | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the pig and recognise it doesn't give you a better pic. Ofsed says | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
poverty of expectation, poverty of aspiration. I have spoken to | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
colleagues and they are appalled. It is insulting to argue. I spoke to | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
one head and he said of the 100 or so staff, he would say 90% of those | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
people had expectations that were incredibly high of the children and | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
aspirations for those children. They are working hard to get them on | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
apprenticeships and get them into the world of work and give them the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
skills they need. I think it is deeply worrying that we have got | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
this culture in education where we are creating something which is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
unhelpful. Those teachers have to turn up tomorrow in their schools | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
and you have just said, 78% of them are not good enough. There has to be | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
solutions on how to put that right. Ofsted is a British tuition because | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
many other countries may not have that kind of inspection. Barnsley | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
say they are doing good work. They shouldn't be too discouraged, is | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
that what you are saying? We have some models that we carry. We have | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
had the London challenge, education Leeds, the city of York schools | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
learn together. They talked about a co`operative approach where schools | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
share. We ought to flip the thing and start saying, where is the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
brilliant practice in Barnsley? Where is the brilliant practice in | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Bradford? How do we make that commonplace? How do we do that? It | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
takes time. In Leeds, we took results from below 40% to 80% in | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
five years. I think you have got to take time. When you read the | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
research, it talks about sustained leadership, focus on teaching and | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
focus on a culture which isn't the destructive and hopeful thing that | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
cost 250 million. How quickly could you do that? There is success that | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
we could celebrate and share and move forward. It took us five years | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in Leeds to do that. That could be done in each of those authorities. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Get rid of Oxford `` Ofsted? Yes. Thank you. A mother of four who's | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
also understood to have been pregnant has died after being | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
attacked by her two dogs in Leeds. 27`year`old Emma Bennett suffered | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
serious injuries on Monday afternoon as we reported on Look North that | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
night. Police believe the dogs are American pit bull terriers which are | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
illegal in this country. A man's now been arrested on suspicion of | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
offences relating to the Dangerous Dogs Act. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
She was a mother of four with another child on the right way. Here | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
we see the moments just after Emma Bennett had been subject to the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
horrific dog attack. It will cost her her life. Police guarding the | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
alley and one of her dogs standing still. Soon the police moved in. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Seven officers first dropping the dog then restraining it with | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
specialist equipment. It was here at the back of the house that those | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
photographs were taken. Please came to the property after panicked phone | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
calls from neighbours. They had heard a woman screaming coming from | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
inside the house. Cries of, no, no, no. What they were hearing was Emma | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Bennett being attacked by dogs and receiving horrific injuries that | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
would ultimately cost her her life. This morning, neighbours were trying | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
to comprehend the news. Not a nice way to go. I do feel sorry for the | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
girl. It is not nice at all. I don't think people should be allowed to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
keep dogs like that. They need licenses. That may prove to be the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
case. Police Brive they are prohibited American put bills `` | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
police believe they are prohibited American pit bulls. They lived with | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the dogs for some time but why would they suddenly turn? One expert has a | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
theory. A dog could buy it because it is stressed out by fireworks | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
going off or something that is totally unnatural to that dog. In | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
this case, I had heard that the lady suffered with epileptic fits. It | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
could have been where she was having a fit. The dogs would have been | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
spooked out by what it had seen and I think that is what has happened. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
In a statement, the family said: That support was evident outside the | :09:58. | :10:15. | |
house today as police began their investigations into how and why Emma | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
lost her life. Later on Look North: The true cost | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
of the clear`up. ?1 million worth of repair works begins in Scarborough | :10:29. | :10:29. | |
following last week's tidal surge. A 14`year`old boy who was knocked | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
down outside a Sheffield school has died from his injuries. Lawrence | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Moorhouse was hit by a car close to Sheffield Park Academy. The school | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
paid tribute saying they were deeply saddened by his loss. His family | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
have said Lawrence was well liked and had lots of friends. | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
Marks and Spencer have announced that 300 jobs will be created at a | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
new distribution centre in South Yorkshire but it will mean job | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
losses in Bradford. The Bradford depot opened in 2010 but just over a | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
third of the workforce there will be affected by the plans for the new | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
centre in Sheffield. M say they're in consultation with around 100 | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
employees and efforts will be made to find them alternative jobs. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
It's been confirmed today that the damage caused by last week's tidal | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
surge in Scarborough will cost around ?1 million to put right. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
That's just the bill expected for council properties. It's not yet | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
known how much repairs to private properties will be. We also found | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
out today that it wasn't just buildings and people displaced by | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
the storm. A number of seals have also had to be re`housed. Phil | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
Bodmer reports. The waters may have receded but | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
almost a week on from the North Sea storm surge, workers were still | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
clear in terms of silt from the road today. They estimate the cost of | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
damage caused by the storm surge will run into at least ?1 million | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
and that is just for council property alone. It is now going to | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
ask the government for financial support to help pay for that | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
clean`up. We can't afford to pay for all of it and we need that | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
government assistance. A scheme was set up by the government to help | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
local authorities to cover the cost of catastrophic civil emergencies | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
such as the flooding that we experienced last week. The Newcastle | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
packet on Scarborough Sand side was one of a number of properties | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
engulfed last week. The water was up to the eighth step there and it | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
covered me. It was unbelievable. Cat has run the pub for many years and | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
has never witnessed anything like it. The damage here runs into | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
thousands of pounds but Kath says she needs to reopen as soon as | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
possible. We have never been affected by sea water. Rainwater, | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
yes, but never sea water. We have got to be opened the Christmas. Up | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
here, it isn't too bad. If we don't have a carpet down, so be it. As | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
long as we can get the seller 100%, I can get my beer back on and my | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
customers back. At the Sea life Centre, they have taken in seals and | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
otters from Norfolk after storm surge damage shutdown their | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Hunstanton enclosure. There has been very little beach around here where | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
they can come out on. The ones we are seeing are generally right at | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
the tide line and a very tired. Work has begun on repairing parts of the | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
sea wall. The physical clear up should be complete in the next few | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
weeks. Recovery financially, however, may take longer. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Before seven o'clock: What would we do without the internet? | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Meet the city`centre residents who complain they'd get a faster | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
broadband speed in the middle of the Dales. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
And the Yuletide pub singers keeping Christmas traditions alive in | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Sheffield. I have been trying to remember when | :14:15. | :14:26. | |
I first used the internet, but it has been around for over 40 years, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
so it was probably about 1980s when broadband was a reference to my | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
trousers! And speeds were just snail like. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Well it's much faster now for most of us, but hundreds of people on a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
new estate just four miles from the centre of Leeds are getting | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
painfully slow speeds, with damaging effects on their lives. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
This week they've won a partial success in their campaign for better | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
broadband. Here's our Business Correspondent Danni Hewson. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Karl Thomas works from home on the new Forest Village estate in | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
Middleton. He is in IT so a decent broadband connection is essential. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Far too often he just has too sit and wait. I was at the stage when I | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
was looking into renting office space so I could work from home | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
because it was no longer viable. Paul is deaf and relies on Internet | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
to communicate by sign language with his family and friends. Slow | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
broadband can make that impossible, cutting him off from the outside | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
world. They receive speeds of 1.3 megabits per second, that is lower | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
than the 2 megabits per second class as a basic broadband connection. The | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
national average is 14.7. What are the main reasons? Poor | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
infrastructure, particularly the Long distance between here and the | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
local telephone exchange. Last year residents started the campaign for | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
superfast fibre`optic broadband. The tea said it would cost too much and | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
demand would be too low. `` BT. I think they have got their assessment | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
wrong. The evidence for that is clear because they looked at the | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
area and thought there wouldn't be a lot of demand. There was a huge | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
amount of demand. Earlier this week after two years of campaigning, | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
there was success as BT upgraded this cabinet to superfast broadband. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
It means Paul and Carl's problems should soon disappear but others | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
nearby are not so lucky. BT is connecting two thirds of British | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
homes to superfast broadband. Two other cabinets on this estate are | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
not included. We have many invested billions. We are working with | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
government to get superfast broadband out to West Yorkshire. | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
People will have to rely on the subsidised government scheme that is | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
only just getting started. Cole says the campaign will go on until | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
everyone on the state gets an Internet connection fit for the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
21st`century. People cower `` people power can | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
work sometimes. Football now and we could soon be making plans to follow | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Chesterfield all the way to Wembley again! | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
We'll need The Spireites to beat Fleetwood home and away over two | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
legs in February, in the Northern Area JP Trophy Final. Chesterfield | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
are still in with a great shout, after last night's penalty shoot`out | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
win against Oldham, in a match that finished 1`1 in normal time. But | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Fleetwood are still in it at the expense of Rotherham United, whose | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
poor keeper Adam Collin let in this howler over in Lancashire last | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
night. Nuah Dicko scored for the Millers in a 2`1 defeat. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
The BBC's annual celebration of sport comes to Leeds this weekend. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
It's the first time the city has hosted the Sports Personality of the | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Year Awards, but the ceremony itself is marking its 60th anniversary. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
A special programme on BBC One tonight looks back at the history of | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
the show. But we thought we'd get in first to remind you of how the best | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
in Yorkshire sport have been honoured in the past. Ian Bucknell | :18:07. | :18:07. | |
reports. There is nothing that captures the | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
imagination in the way that sport does in the UK. We love sport, that | :18:17. | :18:28. | |
is why we do. `` who better to say what it means so much. He has been | :18:29. | :18:40. | |
on a three times. `` he has been honoured three times. The first | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Yorkshire winner was also the first woman to become top sports | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
personality. Anita Lanesborough was Olympic, Commonwealth medallist. | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
Dorothy Hyman was second in 1962 but a year later, in recognition of a | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
host of international medals, she went one better. It is the icing on | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
the cake. You want to do well in your own event but it is... I think | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
it is the pinnacle of all awards. Mainly because it is a public vote. | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
1969, leaves United won the fit `` football league title with a record | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
number of points. Their boss became sports manager of the year. The only | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
time that award was given. 2002, it was back to the theme of strong | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
Yorkshire woman as Jane Tomlinson was recognised for her tireless work | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
for charity as she fought cancer. This year, it is time for Hannah | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
Cockroft. Is a Paralympian, it is something that I don't think has | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
ever happened before. Yorkshire will play a part this year as host but | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
will we also have another white rose winner? We will find out on Sunday. | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
I can remember that Jane Tomlinson moment. I was bawling my hours `` | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
bawling my eyes out! And for a full look back through the archives | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Sports Personality of the Year at 60 will be on tonight at nine o'clock. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
Let's stay on a celebration of Yorkshire sporting talent. And let | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
me suggest that this club is the most successful in the country. It's | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
in Wakefield and its stunning track record is this. Gold medals in six | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
consecutive world championships dating back to 2003. And in the last | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
few weeks Wakefield Gym Club added two more impressive titles to its | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
books. Ashleigh Long and Eleanor Simpson | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
became world tumbling champions, so we sent Paul Ogden who loves a | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
tumble out to meet them. Thanks very much. I will put my back | :20:50. | :21:05. | |
out if you don't watch it. I will not be trying this. We are looking | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
at a sporting centre of excellence here in Wakefield. We will meet them | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
surely, our new world champions but first, I want to illustrate exactly | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
what tumbling is. We are talking about gymnastics without the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
apparatus. None better than Dan Lanagan who will illustrate the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
point for us. Ready, Dan? Take it away. | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
Brilliant landing. No other people here to applaud him. He has some | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
team`mates of equal if not better calibre. Congratulations Alan being | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
world champion. How do you feel about it? It is a great experience | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
to experience it. At 13, it is amazing. Were you emotional when he | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
found out? Very emotional. All the team on `` team`mates and the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
support, it is amazing. Ashley Cole you had a real reason to be | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
emotional. I broke my foot last year in the same arena so to go back and | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
be in the same place, it was hard but to come out as a world champion, | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
it was unbelievable. Congratulations to you both and the coach. So we | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
come out as a world champion, it was unbelievable. Congratulations to you | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
both and the coach. Surrey, what staggers me a was in the first ever | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Olympics but they took it out because there is not enough | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
competitors in the women's section to get it back into the Olympics. | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
They looking magnificent condition and drive a cart and horses through | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
the theory that young people don't look after themselves. In Wakefield, | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
they do. They are fine ambassadors for the sport. Harry, next time you | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
go to the gym, this is what I am going to be expecting from you. | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
I would do it every night, actually. Now tis the season to be merry but | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
when was the last time you sang Christmas carols at the pub? I | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
thought not! Well in the north of Sheffield and north Derbyshire | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
there's a tradition of doing just that. These aren't your well`known | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
carols though, they're Christmas songs that have been sung in these | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
pubs since Victorian Times and passed down the generations. Here's | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
Mark Ansell. Just another Sunday singalong at | :23:26. | :23:38. | |
this pub in Sheffield or so it looks. There is something much more | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
festive and much more traditional going on here. He comes back from | :23:44. | :23:57. | |
Scotland every December to exercise his vocal call `` chords. It goes | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
back to a time when people created music of their own. These people | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
were blacksmiths, shoemakers, tailors, they were ordinary people. | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
There was an absence of music in church and they created this music. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
They filled the gap. There are around 20 pubs where they sing these | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
carols, including here. I have heard they belt them out in this place so | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
I am going to check this out. These are songs that my grandparents | :24:28. | :24:47. | |
sang and going back, we kept them alive here. In a lot of the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
country, there were local carols that have gone. I play to make sure | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
I have got a chair. It is the only time I can get sat down. It is a | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
really good atmosphere. The people come from miles around. I have come | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
from Edinburgh for this today and I haven't been disappointed. The | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
amnesty has been amazing and more than I expected. I will be back. | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
There is no more room at the inn so they are spilling outside. Let us | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
hope the neighbours are feeling festive. | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
I want to go where they are. In the bleak midwinter, long, long | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
ago. We are on day 11. Let me show you | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
three pictures week `` that you have sent in. | :25:42. | :26:07. | |
A big change coming through as we discussed last night. Tomorrow, | :26:08. | :26:21. | |
mostly cloudy with patchy rain and then we are going to get a | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
succession of weather fronts pushing in from the Atlantic. At times, it | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
could become very wet and very windy indeed. No sign of any cold spell | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
whatsoever. A messy day with rain at first. The weekend looks set to be | :26:38. | :26:49. | |
the best time for good weather. We are expecting the breeze to pick up | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
and the cloud to push on from the south`west. Eventually, that fog | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
will lift into low cloud. We have a ground frost right now with | :27:01. | :27:01. | |
temperatures around one Celsius. Tomorrow looks set to be a cloudy | :27:02. | :27:20. | |
day. A dry start with some cloud pushing in from the west. Eastern | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
areas have seen very little of that rain. Top temperatures coming in at | :27:26. | :27:37. | |
nine Celsius. Friday is looking wet at times. That is the forecast. | :27:38. | :27:40. |