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:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to Friday's Look North. Tonight, a random, cruel and

:00:08. > :00:10.motiveless killing. Simon Holdsworth's family appeal for help

:00:11. > :00:21.in finding the person responsible for his murder in Sheffield.

:00:22. > :00:29.Has happened to Simon has devastated our lives. We are all such a close

:00:30. > :00:32.family. This has left a huge hole in all of us. We'll be hearing more

:00:33. > :00:34.from them in a minute. Also tonight.

:00:35. > :00:37.Addicted to painkillers. Why thousands of people in Yorkshire

:00:38. > :00:42.could be hooked on drugs prescribed by their GP.

:00:43. > :00:45.They're not just for laughs, but a serious business. How pantos help

:00:46. > :00:53.swell the coffers of the region's theatres.

:00:54. > :00:57.And, it was a cold and frosty start this morning, this was the scene

:00:58. > :01:01.near Sheffield. We have got some wet and windy weather on the cards this

:01:02. > :01:10.evening. I am back later in the details.

:01:11. > :01:13.Good evening. The mother and partner of

:01:14. > :01:17.36`year`old Simon Holdsworth, murdered as he returned home in

:01:18. > :01:20.Sheffield late on Monday night, have made emotional appeals today for

:01:21. > :01:23.help to solve what's been called a random, cruel and motiveless

:01:24. > :01:27.killing. Christine Holdsworth said Simon had been the loveliest son in

:01:28. > :01:30.the world. His fiancee Carline said all the plans they'd carefully laid

:01:31. > :01:35.for a wonderful wedding and honeymoon next year had been torn

:01:36. > :01:42.from her and her son. Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy's report

:01:43. > :01:48.contains some flash photography. He was over the moon to be getting

:01:49. > :01:54.married next year. He loved his fiancee and little son so very much.

:01:55. > :01:58.As much as we all loved him, too. A mother's anguish at the loss of a

:01:59. > :02:07.son. You cannot tell anybody how much this hurts. I never thought I

:02:08. > :02:11.would say this. But Lees, `` please, please try and help. His

:02:12. > :02:20.fiancee says her plans for a happy future can be no more. We were so

:02:21. > :02:24.happy as a family, with our son. It will be his fourth birthday on

:02:25. > :02:31.Christmas Eve. We had already done the Christmas shopping, and his

:02:32. > :02:40.presence are wrapped. But he is dead, he will not be there. A

:02:41. > :02:45.full`scale murder enquiry began on Tuesday, hours after the discovery

:02:46. > :02:50.of Simon's body. Flowers and tributes are still being laid. This

:02:51. > :02:55.has been described as one of the safest areas in Sheffield, yet late

:02:56. > :02:59.on Monday night, on these playing fields, Simon Holdsworth was

:03:00. > :03:05.battered to death for no apparent reason. No weapon has been found,

:03:06. > :03:11.and police are desperate for any help they can get from the

:03:12. > :03:14.community. They have released CCTV footage from Simon as he alighted

:03:15. > :03:18.from his bus home, minutes before his killing. Who were his fellow

:03:19. > :03:24.passengers? Police want to trace them. We are a cute days before

:03:25. > :03:32.Christmas. For the family, their Christmas has been destroyed in an

:03:33. > :03:36.act of horrific violent. I do not hate the person who has done this,

:03:37. > :03:42.because Simon was warmth and love. I just want to know why. I never

:03:43. > :03:48.thought I would know what a broken heart felt like, but I do now. I

:03:49. > :03:55.just want somebody to try and help us, just help in any way they can.

:03:56. > :03:59.His family called him a loving, caring, bubbly man with a smile for

:04:00. > :04:04.everyone. Taken from them at the age of 36.

:04:05. > :04:07.There are warnings that thousands of people in Yorkshire could be

:04:08. > :04:12.addicted to prescription drugs and painkillers. It comes as a committee

:04:13. > :04:15.of MPs has suggested that up to a million and a half people across

:04:16. > :04:19.Britain could be dependent on medication they were originally

:04:20. > :04:21.given by doctors. Latest figures show that Yorkshire and the Humber

:04:22. > :04:23.has the third`highest prescribing rates for opioid painkillers such as

:04:24. > :04:40.codeine or morphine. At my worst, I was on 26 of these a

:04:41. > :04:46.day, and now I am down to the one tablet. Amanda Steel was prescribed

:04:47. > :04:51.morphine for chronic pain in 2009 following breast cancer surgery.

:04:52. > :04:55.Over time, she became addicted. If she missed a dose, the withdrawal

:04:56. > :05:02.would be terrible. I will never forget how horrific it was my

:05:03. > :05:07.profuse sweating, feeling like I was going to pass out, a cloud over my

:05:08. > :05:13.ears, so I could not hear everything, it sounded like I was

:05:14. > :05:17.speaking from a bucket. She has been coming to a specialist clinic at the

:05:18. > :05:22.lead addiction unit, set up last year to deal with patients addicted

:05:23. > :05:25.to prescription medication. Of the patients seen by the clinic in its

:05:26. > :05:32.first year, 72% were addicted to opiate painkiller is a most commonly

:05:33. > :05:36.codeine or tramadol. The other 28% were addicted to sleeping tablets.

:05:37. > :05:42.Of those, nearly a quarter were getting their drugs from the GP. 15%

:05:43. > :05:46.were getting them from an illicit source as well as their doctor.

:05:47. > :05:49.Crucially, there are no detailed figures collected nationally or

:05:50. > :05:54.locally that show the wider scale of the problem. We have seen a key

:05:55. > :05:59.patients at these units, I think it is the tip of the iceberg. There

:06:00. > :06:05.could be thousands of patients who might not even know that they are

:06:06. > :06:10.dependent. You think because you have been prescribed it and you

:06:11. > :06:13.followed all of the instructions that you were supposed to, that

:06:14. > :06:20.addiction should not necessarily happen. But I was on such high doses

:06:21. > :06:25.because my pain call for it, I supposed it was inevitable. She will

:06:26. > :06:28.take her last morphine tablet on Christmas Eve, bringing an end to an

:06:29. > :06:33.addiction spanning five years. But it is feared there are thousands of

:06:34. > :06:39.others who are not getting help. Later on Look North.

:06:40. > :06:42.We take a look in the sewers. The damage done when you pour turkey fat

:06:43. > :06:53.down the plughole. Yorkshire Water fights back.

:06:54. > :06:58.Denis MacShane will have to wait until Monday to hear his sentence.

:06:59. > :07:04.He has already admitted criminal charges of false accounting at an

:07:05. > :07:07.earlier hearing last month. Today, a judge heard arguments from

:07:08. > :07:12.prosecution and defence about the level of sentencing he should

:07:13. > :07:16.receive. The judge said he needed to consider his decision over the

:07:17. > :07:22.weekend, but that the delay gave no indication of the sentence he would

:07:23. > :07:27.eventually hang down. We have been at the Old Bailey. What happened

:07:28. > :07:32.today? It is a year since he resigned from the House of Commons,

:07:33. > :07:36.a month since he admitted to the court charges of false accounting.

:07:37. > :07:41.When he arrived at the Old Bailey, it was effectively for a hearing to

:07:42. > :07:45.decide what sentence she should get, with arguments from prosecution

:07:46. > :07:50.and defence. The prosecution claimed there was a deliberate intent to

:07:51. > :07:57.deceive, because he had written 19 invoices to himself, and he had

:07:58. > :08:01.misspelt his own name and his own address on them so that when he sent

:08:02. > :08:04.them to officials to check at the House of Commons, it would look as

:08:05. > :08:08.though he had not actually written them himself. That is the

:08:09. > :08:15.prosecution, what did the defence have to say? They say he made no

:08:16. > :08:22.personal profit, what happened was that, when this offence took place,

:08:23. > :08:28.he had been travelling through Europe as an unpaid, an adviser to

:08:29. > :08:32.the then Labour government, and he spent the money but he did not have

:08:33. > :08:40.any invoices to be able to claim it back, so what he was doing, he

:08:41. > :08:44.admits it was wrong, but `` but he said it was getting back money that

:08:45. > :08:51.he had spent. We come back here on Monday at 10am, courtroom number

:08:52. > :08:56.nine, the judge said the arguments were so complex that he needed the

:08:57. > :08:59.Kintyre weekend to be able to decide what he was going to do, but he

:09:00. > :09:05.warned Denis MacShane, although he was releasing him on bail, it was

:09:06. > :09:11.absolutely no indication as to exactly what to expect, Monday.

:09:12. > :09:14.In other news, police say they're getting increasingly worried for the

:09:15. > :09:18.safety of a 15`year`old girl who's been missing from Dewsbury for ten

:09:19. > :09:22.days. Levi Margison was last seen in Huddersfield on Wednesday last week.

:09:23. > :09:26.She was wearing an orange hooded top, blue skinny jeans, a grey

:09:27. > :09:31.zip`up hooded top and lilac and white Nike trainers. She's been

:09:32. > :09:40.known to go missing before, but never for so long.

:09:41. > :09:44.I spoke to her mother today, she was concerned to try to get her home for

:09:45. > :09:48.Christmas, there are gifts waiting for her, she has an older sister,

:09:49. > :09:50.they are quite close, and she is missing her desperately.

:09:51. > :09:53.Emergency services were called to Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire today

:09:54. > :09:57.after an explosion in a back garden. Four people have been taken to

:09:58. > :09:59.hospital with minor injuries after a cylinder exploded at a property in

:10:00. > :10:03.Elizabeth Street this afternoon. Fire`fighters gave first aid to the

:10:04. > :10:07.casualties, who were then taken to hospital. North Yorkshire Police

:10:08. > :10:09.have released video footage of a woman who overturned her car near

:10:10. > :10:12.Skipton. They say it's to highlight the

:10:13. > :10:16.dangers of drink driving. Deborah Anderson was more than three times

:10:17. > :10:21.the legal limit when she crashed on the B6265 at Hedden in October.

:10:22. > :10:26.Today, she was sentenced to 250 hours unpaid work and banned from

:10:27. > :10:32.driving for three years. She also received a 12`month supervised

:10:33. > :10:36.community order. A West Yorkshire Police officer who

:10:37. > :10:39.was shot in Leeds earlier this month is said to be making good progress

:10:40. > :10:42.in hospital. PC Suzanne Hudson suffered several shotgun wounds in

:10:43. > :10:47.the incident in the Headingley area of the city. James Leslie, the

:10:48. > :10:50.37`year`old man accused of the attempted murders of PC Hudson and

:10:51. > :10:52.her colleague PC Richard Whiteley, has been told he faces trial in

:10:53. > :11:02.April. A man who handed his friend in to a

:11:03. > :11:05.police station while dressed as Batman has been sentenced today for

:11:06. > :11:09.burglary. Stan Worby made headlines around the world earlier this year

:11:10. > :11:12.when he took his friend to a police station in Bradford. Mr Worby was

:11:13. > :11:16.charged with burglary when police stopped a vehicle containing stolen

:11:17. > :11:19.property. Now, he's been given a 12`month suspended sentence of six

:11:20. > :11:25.months in prison, ordered to complete 200 hours of community

:11:26. > :11:28.service and pay ?80 to the victim. North Yorkshire Police's

:11:29. > :11:31.Commissioner has said she won't be taking legal action against former

:11:32. > :11:34.Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell and his once deputy Adam Briggs to claim

:11:35. > :11:41.back ?100,000 in allowances she says they shouldn't have received. Julia

:11:42. > :11:46.Mulligan said the Police Authority, which she replaced last year, made

:11:47. > :11:49.the payments in good faith. But a report has confirmed the payments

:11:50. > :11:58.were not within the authority's legal powers. The Commissioner said

:11:59. > :12:01.trying to recover the money through the courts would be too costly.

:12:02. > :12:04.Meanwhile, North Yorkshire Police has agreed to buy an 8.4 acre site

:12:05. > :12:08.in South Kilvington, near Thirsk, to build its new headquarters. The

:12:09. > :12:10.existing HQ is a listed building in Newby Wiske, near Northallerton.

:12:11. > :12:13.Police Commissioner Julia Mulligan says it's costly to run, difficult

:12:14. > :12:18.to access and not suited to modern policing. Work is under way on the

:12:19. > :12:21.design of the new building. Former Halifax and Leeds rugby

:12:22. > :12:24.league player Graham Holroyd is to stand trial in March on four rape

:12:25. > :12:29.charges dating back more than 20 years. The 38`year`old from Halifax

:12:30. > :12:33.pleaded not guilty to the charges, which are alleged to have involved a

:12:34. > :12:38.boy and a girl, when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court today. The

:12:39. > :12:41.allegations date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. He's been

:12:42. > :12:44.granted bail until the trial hearing in March.

:12:45. > :12:48.The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is preparing for one of its busiest

:12:49. > :12:51.nights of the year. The last Friday before Christmas, also known as Mad

:12:52. > :13:00.Friday, usually sees a sharp rise in the number of calls made to the

:13:01. > :13:02.emergency services. On the same night last year, the Yorkshire

:13:03. > :13:16.Ambulance Service received over 260 extra calls. That's 30% more than a

:13:17. > :13:20.typical night. They're urging people to drink

:13:21. > :13:21.responsibly and only call 999 in a serious or life`threatening

:13:22. > :13:24.emergency. Next tonight, Yorkshire Water is

:13:25. > :13:27.using a revolutionary new system to clear blocked sewers. The problem is

:13:28. > :13:30.particularly bad at this time of year, because so much cooking fat is

:13:31. > :13:35.discarded down sewers, where it solidifies. The new device can clear

:13:36. > :13:44.blockages in a fraction of the time taken by conventional methods.

:13:45. > :13:48.As revolutionary inventions go, it looks fairly unremarkable, but this

:13:49. > :13:53.kit can clean three kilometres of blocked sewer with no roadworks and

:13:54. > :14:01.no chemicals. It simply uses the power of air. What is happening is

:14:02. > :14:06.that the air is being spun inside the pipe, and it creates lots of air

:14:07. > :14:11.currents and a vortex, and that scours the inside of the sewer,

:14:12. > :14:16.cleaning it in a very short space of time. There is a sewage pipe running

:14:17. > :14:20.under the treatment works here, that has been blocked for 18 months.

:14:21. > :14:26.Conventional high pressure water jets would take three weeks to clear

:14:27. > :14:28.it. After just two hours, effectively sending a whirlwind down

:14:29. > :14:33.the pipe, this is the result. Mortgage cleared. We have

:14:34. > :14:38.international patents on the technology that we are using, it has

:14:39. > :14:44.never been used outside Yorkshire so far, so this is a first. It seems to

:14:45. > :14:47.be working very well at the moment, we are optimistic. This shows the

:14:48. > :14:52.gunk that can accumulate in Silvers, it is always worse in

:14:53. > :14:59.winter. Yorkshire Water hope blockages like these will be cleared

:15:00. > :15:05.much more easily in future. The water slowly eats away at the

:15:06. > :15:11.crease. It completely cleans the Silver, down to the base metal. The

:15:12. > :15:14.benefit of it, they are more effective, and it will drastically

:15:15. > :15:19.reduce the amount of flooding we have. There are 20,000 miles of

:15:20. > :15:24.Silvers Underground in Yorkshire, plenty to keep the clean a busy. But

:15:25. > :15:30.with no roadworks and it unobtrusive design, you may never know it has

:15:31. > :15:38.been. Underground, it will be as clean as a whistle.

:15:39. > :15:40.From Buckingham Palace to underground! The glamour!

:15:41. > :15:42.Before 7pm. Preparing for their first Yorkshire

:15:43. > :15:45.Christmas, the former Gurkha soldiers who've made their homes in

:15:46. > :15:52.Catterick learn about a traditional Yuletide in Britain.

:15:53. > :15:53.And, oh, no, they don't, oh, yes, they do. Christmas pantos come to

:15:54. > :16:05.the rescue of the region's theatres. Next tonight, the York Army Museum

:16:06. > :16:10.has been given ?1 million of Lottery money so it can undergo a complete

:16:11. > :16:14.redesign. Since it opened 30 years ago, the museum has told the stories

:16:15. > :16:18.of our region's soldiers and the wars they fought in. The lottery

:16:19. > :16:27.cash will help it mark the centenary of the First World War next year.

:16:28. > :16:35.From Victorian heroes to Victoria crosses. The battle of balaclava to

:16:36. > :16:40.the ball more. These York Army Museum documents over 300 years of

:16:41. > :16:42.our region's military history. Many of the artefacts are of

:16:43. > :16:51.international significance. But the museum admits experience feels a bit

:16:52. > :16:57.dated. It is old`fashioned, we have got poor lighting and storage, and

:16:58. > :17:02.none of the articles are particularly accessible. We have got

:17:03. > :17:05.an eclectic collection, but it does not really convey the stories behind

:17:06. > :17:10.them. That is the wonderful thing that the new design will be able to

:17:11. > :17:15.deliver. Funded by ?1 million from the National Lottery Hero, it will

:17:16. > :17:21.bring this historic collection to a modern audience. More open spaces, a

:17:22. > :17:27.focus on education, and a move from forced to the men who fought and

:17:28. > :17:31.died. Trying to uncover the ethos that makes soldiers do things that

:17:32. > :17:35.they do not want to do, the story of the infantry and the story of the

:17:36. > :17:40.cavalry, those events have been mutually supporting, and today, we

:17:41. > :17:44.can make them mutually supporting within the collection and tell that

:17:45. > :17:50.story. The timing of this is no accident, next year is the centenary

:17:51. > :17:56.of the Great War. Something not just to remember, but to learn from. It

:17:57. > :18:00.is important that our folk understand how we got to where we

:18:01. > :18:05.are, and the telling of the story allows us to educate another

:18:06. > :18:10.generation and future generations of people in that history. The museum

:18:11. > :18:14.says their focus will now be on bringing that history to a new

:18:15. > :18:22.audience. All in time for the centenary of the war they once said

:18:23. > :18:24.would end all wars. We will keep you posted as to how

:18:25. > :18:28.that develops. Let's have a look at some football

:18:29. > :18:32.now, and Danny Wilson takes charge of Barnsley for the first time since

:18:33. > :18:35.his return to the club, and it's a nice, juicy derby with Leeds United.

:18:36. > :18:40.Wilson rejoined as manager on Tuesday, nearly 20 years after

:18:41. > :18:44.taking on the job last time around. His job is to keep them in the

:18:45. > :18:51.Championship, and he can't wait for tomorrow.

:18:52. > :18:55.It could not be better, a derby game, anything can happen, as we

:18:56. > :19:01.know. To go there in front of 30,000 plus, taking a lot of our fans down,

:19:02. > :19:07.they will be well heard, it promises to be a cracking game. I know him

:19:08. > :19:11.really well, he is a friend, he went there before, he did a really good

:19:12. > :19:14.job, I am sure he will do well. Yorkshire's Joe Root says the

:19:15. > :19:17.England team still has plenty to play for despite losing the Ashes

:19:18. > :19:21.down under. Root and a couple of team`mates were enjoying a day off

:19:22. > :19:24.from cricket as they took to the racetrack. But they'll be ready for

:19:25. > :19:31.action when the fourth Test starts in Melbourne on Boxing Day.

:19:32. > :19:36.You have got to front up, we have been beaten like a side that has

:19:37. > :19:40.played better, and we have got to put that right in these last two

:19:41. > :19:44.test matches. We can do that on Boxing Day, we have got to come out

:19:45. > :19:48.fighting and make a statement. I would have thought that Jonny

:19:49. > :19:51.Bairstow deserves a go, Matt Prior has not been playing well.

:19:52. > :19:54.And, one other piece of cricket news. Yorkshire's second`team coach,

:19:55. > :19:57.Paul Farbrace, has left to become the head coach of Sri Lanka. The

:19:58. > :20:04.club paid tribute to the huge impact he's made in his two years with

:20:05. > :20:06.them. He is a great coach, Sri Lanka have

:20:07. > :20:10.a gem. They've gained a reputation as brave

:20:11. > :20:13.and fearless soldiers, but now the former Gurkhas who've made their

:20:14. > :20:16.homes in Catterick have been showing their softer side. The men and their

:20:17. > :20:19.families are part of a growing Nepalese community in North

:20:20. > :20:26.Yorkshire, and this year many are looking forward to their first

:20:27. > :20:32.traditional Christmas. A big one for the top, little ones

:20:33. > :20:35.to go around. New beginnings, and for many, a new experience of

:20:36. > :20:40.Christmas. The army town of Catterick is now home to one of

:20:41. > :20:43.Britain's biggest Nepalese communities, many of them former

:20:44. > :20:47.Gurkha soldiers who, through community projects this year, have

:20:48. > :20:52.had their first real taste of a traditional British Christmas.

:20:53. > :20:57.Christmas is not celebrated in Nepal in a big way, so it is different,

:20:58. > :21:01.but it is important because they are becoming part of the community and

:21:02. > :21:04.most of the people here have children and grandchildren, so they

:21:05. > :21:15.are learning all of this. Myself and my family, Christmas and New Year,

:21:16. > :21:19.we like it. Very happy. It was 2009 when Gurkhas got the right to live

:21:20. > :21:23.in Britain, following a high`profile campaign by the actress Joanna

:21:24. > :21:29.Lumley. Since then, thousands, like Sandip Wright, have chosen to stay.

:21:30. > :21:34.Attracted to Catterick and its connections to the Army. People feel

:21:35. > :21:39.like, this is our home, this is where we belong. It might be

:21:40. > :21:45.difficult for some of us to adapt to the culture, though. This is their

:21:46. > :21:51.home, they visit Nepal on holiday, and if England is their home, they

:21:52. > :21:55.ought to know about Christmas. They have served the British army for 200

:21:56. > :22:01.years, with a loyal and fearless reputation. Today, though, a gentler

:22:02. > :22:09.side was seen, learning their first Christmas song and opening their

:22:10. > :22:13.first Christmas stocking. Good old Yorkshire Christmas!

:22:14. > :22:16.If you're off to the theatre over the festive season, you might be

:22:17. > :22:18.surprised to hear just how much Yorkshire relies on the traditional

:22:19. > :22:21.Christmas pantomime. The region's panto industry actually generates

:22:22. > :22:23.between a quarter and half of all the money made by Yorkshire's

:22:24. > :22:41.theatres and touring companies. The giant! For many people, it would

:22:42. > :22:47.not be Christmas without a trip to the pantomime. Here in Wakefield,

:22:48. > :22:51.over a quarter of their annual audience will pack into the stalls

:22:52. > :22:55.over a five`week period. These productions are big business, and

:22:56. > :23:00.the right choice is imperative. Firstly, for many people, it is

:23:01. > :23:05.their first visit to the theatre, and secondly, it is a time of year

:23:06. > :23:11.when we can make as much money as we can to support the costs of the

:23:12. > :23:15.theatre. In years gone by, the cost was offset by funding from the

:23:16. > :23:19.public sector, but austerity has cast a cloud and Christmas has

:23:20. > :23:24.become more important than ever. A lot of theatres which are supported

:23:25. > :23:28.by ourselves and the local authorities are having that

:23:29. > :23:33.investment, it becomes even more critical, and places become even

:23:34. > :23:38.more sensitive to having a poor Christmas. Thankfully, actually,

:23:39. > :23:46.sales are doing really well this Christmas. It is not just the big

:23:47. > :23:50.show stoppers fighting for audiences. In Chesterfield, this

:23:51. > :23:56.company has an all teary emotive, focusing on preschoolers. It is

:23:57. > :24:01.important that coming to the theatre is part of the Christmas tradition,

:24:02. > :24:06.families bring their children. That is our next generation of audiences.

:24:07. > :24:13.It is lovely to see Father Christmas. Coming down the chute. I

:24:14. > :24:18.like the present. A new generation one over, box office revenue for the

:24:19. > :24:25.future. I love a good panto, I have seen one

:24:26. > :24:29.of them in York. I'd urge everybody to support their local pantomime,

:24:30. > :24:30.the best time of the year. Oh, no, you don't!

:24:31. > :24:44.Oh, yes, I do! Some photographs. It is quite a

:24:45. > :24:49.stormy forecast, right the way through Christmas week. This is a

:24:50. > :24:56.nice photo from yesterday. The blue skies over Knaresborough. The second

:24:57. > :25:02.one, the sun set over Bolton Abbey. The third one, a wintry scene near

:25:03. > :25:08.Sheffield. Is that a light snow covering? All is it a heavy

:25:09. > :25:18.hoarfrost? You can keep your pictures coming in. Or you can tweet

:25:19. > :25:22.me. We have got some unsettled weather like the way through next

:25:23. > :25:26.week, but starting with this evening, wet and windy weather on

:25:27. > :25:30.the cards. It will not be raining all day, but the showers tomorrow

:25:31. > :25:35.could be really happy. Hale and Thunder mixed in. This will push

:25:36. > :25:40.through tonight. Behind it, very breezy conditions. Across the

:25:41. > :25:45.weekend and into next week, very blustery indeed. A warning for

:25:46. > :25:52.Western Hills as we go through the next few hours, a lot of rain. You

:25:53. > :25:57.can see how the mass of cloud has pushed in from the north`west. After

:25:58. > :26:01.pretty decent day, the cloud has the conduct, and we have outbreaks of

:26:02. > :26:06.rain pushing south`east. If anything, it might wake up as it

:26:07. > :26:12.pushes further east, but it could be accompanied by a gusty wind. By the

:26:13. > :26:17.end of the night, the rain will have cleared away south eastwards, and it

:26:18. > :26:21.will not be as cold and frosty as it was last night. The sun will rise at

:26:22. > :26:35.8:22am. Tomorrow, it will be a breezy,

:26:36. > :26:39.blustery day again. It will not be raining all day long, but as well as

:26:40. > :26:42.having dry and bright weather, we have little bands of showers pushing

:26:43. > :26:48.through on and off. They will be very heavy in nature, squalling wind

:26:49. > :26:50.around, Hale, thunder, and in nature, squalling wind around, Hale,

:26:51. > :26:54.Thunder, and indeed very heavy downpours, it might mean a little

:26:55. > :27:04.bit of the white stuff. A bit unsettled. In the heavy showers, it

:27:05. > :27:09.will track the temperature down, it will feel quite chilly and breezy.

:27:10. > :27:14.Through Sunday and into the beginning of next week, on Sunday,

:27:15. > :27:19.fewer showers, we still have the theme of breezy conditions, and

:27:20. > :27:23.there will be a queue showers in the West, but overall, a dry picture.

:27:24. > :27:28.Christmas Eve looks like a filthy day. Wet and windy weather sweeping

:27:29. > :27:34.in from the West, hopefully it will brighten up for Christmas Day.

:27:35. > :27:43.That is as far as we go. We are back with our late news after the 10pm

:27:44. > :27:44.News, at 10:25pm. We are back on Monday. Have a lovely weekend,

:27:45. > :27:48.goodbye.