:00:08. > :00:11.Bryony MacKenzie. And I'm Rob Smith. Tonight's top stories. Six different
:00:11. > :00:16.plans for a Thames Estuary airport, but no massive expansion at Lydd or
:00:16. > :00:19.Manston - we talk to the Chairman of the Airports Commission.
:00:19. > :00:29.Thousands of cancer patients and expectant mums have to wait for
:00:29. > :00:32.vital scans because of a new computer system. Somebody has to
:00:32. > :00:35.take responsibility for what is going on with all of these patients.
:00:35. > :00:38.Also in tonight's programme... Sussex and England cricketer Monty
:00:38. > :00:41.Panesar is fined by police for urinating over a nightclub bouncer.
:00:41. > :00:44.We're live at the club where it happened.
:00:44. > :00:47.Gone and possibly forgotten - the funeral directors left with hundreds
:00:47. > :00:51.of unclaimed ashes appeal for them to be collected.
:00:51. > :01:01.Rebuilding a dream - how steam railway fans are putting an historic
:01:01. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:11.railway line back on route maps. Good evening.
:01:11. > :01:14.Six different plans to build a massive hub airport in the Thames
:01:14. > :01:17.Estuary have been submitted to the man charged with looking at airport
:01:17. > :01:21.capacity in the UK. Speaking to this programme tonight, Sir Howard Davies
:01:21. > :01:24.revealed that he thought it highly unlikely Lydd or Manston will play a
:01:24. > :01:31.significant part in any expansion plan, however he did think they
:01:31. > :01:34.would have a role to play. Sir Howard says some of the proposals
:01:34. > :01:40.he'll be looking at are "imaginative and thoughtful," while others are "a
:01:40. > :01:44.bit far fetched". Ellie Price has more.
:01:44. > :01:48.His final decision could shape UK aviation, as well as the landscape
:01:48. > :01:51.of the south-east. If Sir Howard Davies decides the UK has an airport
:01:51. > :01:57.capacity problem, the solution will not be from small airports like
:01:57. > :02:03.Manston or Lydd. It is highly unlikely either of those would be a
:02:03. > :02:06.candidate for the major hub airport of the sort we have been discussing.
:02:07. > :02:11.One does need to look at the role these smaller airports can play in
:02:11. > :02:14.the total picture. But frankly, I do not think we are going to seek four
:02:14. > :02:18.runways at Lydd. Arriving for the commission's consideration are a
:02:18. > :02:21.number of proposals in the south-east. Gatwick's plans for a
:02:21. > :02:26.second runway that they say could more than double the number of
:02:26. > :02:29.passengers they can handle. Boris Johnson's two proposals for a North
:02:29. > :02:34.Kent hub airport near the Thames Estuary. And Manston's suggestion
:02:34. > :02:37.that it could act as a reliever airport from London. They are among
:02:37. > :02:43.25 proposals and come up against those for an expansion of Heathrow
:02:43. > :02:46.and Stansted. Although we don't have any principal objections to a new
:02:46. > :02:49.airport, private investors do stand ready to invest in all of the
:02:49. > :02:53.south-east's existing airports and what they need is certainty about
:02:53. > :02:58.the future and the government's position. But others say there is no
:02:58. > :03:02.need for any more capacity in this airport area, hub or otherwise.
:03:02. > :03:06.There is no evidence of the growth of the economy in the south-east
:03:06. > :03:09.suffering for the last few decades. One of the things is an overheated
:03:09. > :03:16.south-east, and a sluggish north, and I would like to see far more
:03:16. > :03:19.attention paid to evening out the economy. The Commission will release
:03:19. > :03:21.a short list of preferred options later this year. The final
:03:21. > :03:28.recommendations will not come until 2015, after the next general
:03:28. > :03:32.election. Well earlier I spoke to Sir Howard
:03:32. > :03:40.Davies and asked him whether the answer to airport capacity was a hub
:03:40. > :03:45.airport off the North Kent coast. I think that the argument about a
:03:45. > :03:50.hub may be a little overstated. I do not think anybody is denying that
:03:50. > :03:57.you need an airport which can provide connections and transfer
:03:57. > :04:01.traffic, and which pulls together then routes and puts the passengers
:04:01. > :04:06.together onto a thick route. Nobody is going to deny that you need that
:04:06. > :04:13.capacity. The issue is, how much do you need and will the future growth
:04:13. > :04:18.of aviation be in those old networks that the national airlines have
:04:18. > :04:23.traditionally provided, or will it be in the low-cost carriers, who
:04:23. > :04:28.focus on point-to-point? Your decision-making will continue to be
:04:28. > :04:37.highly scrutinised. Boris Johnson has said that an airport on the Isle
:04:37. > :04:47.of Grain would serve a trivial population in comparison to
:04:47. > :04:48.
:04:48. > :04:51.Heathrow. Are the concerns all equally weighted? We have set out
:04:51. > :04:55.what we call sifting criteria. consulted on them and showed how we
:04:55. > :05:02.were planning to take a balanced approach to looking at things that
:05:02. > :05:07.were buildable, the practicalities of it, issues like safety, the
:05:07. > :05:12.health of the local population, the climate change dimension. We
:05:12. > :05:16.consulted on the criteria that we are going to use. I won't hide from
:05:16. > :05:21.the fact that at the end, you're going to have to reach a balance.
:05:21. > :05:24.Moving on to Gatwick, another airport that features highly in our
:05:24. > :05:34.part of the south-east, they want to expand, could that be a viable
:05:34. > :05:40.solution? I think it would be unlikely to be instead of a hub, in
:05:40. > :05:43.that I think you would certainly still need one airport which made
:05:43. > :05:49.connections between flights in the way that Heathrow now does. The
:05:49. > :05:54.issue is, where is the growth in the future going to come? Is it going to
:05:54. > :05:59.be in that kind of network airline operation? Or is it going to be in
:05:59. > :06:05.point-to-point traffic of the kind that Gatwick and Stansted specialise
:06:05. > :06:09.in at the moment? That was Sir Howard Davies, the
:06:09. > :06:15.Commissioner for the new Airports Commission.
:06:15. > :06:19.Our business correspondent Mark Norman is in Chatham in Medway.
:06:19. > :06:22.Mark, that part of the world could be significantly impacted by airport
:06:22. > :06:28.expansion in the South East. Some frank assessments there from Sir
:06:28. > :06:30.Howard Davies? The Department for Transport tell us that there are
:06:30. > :06:40.currently 118 million passenger movements every year, and they said
:06:40. > :06:42.
:06:42. > :06:47.that number will go up 2032 204 million and by 2050, 200 94 million.
:06:47. > :06:51.-- 294 million. Do we need a brand-new hub airport? Would it be
:06:51. > :06:55.on the River Thames? There are six different proposals on his plate as
:06:55. > :07:05.King whether or not we should build this Thames Estuary airport. Should
:07:05. > :07:06.
:07:06. > :07:09.it be a second runway at Gatwick? That would create 30 million
:07:09. > :07:13.passenger movements. What he said today he was ruling out Manston as a
:07:13. > :07:17.hub airport. They never asked for that. They talked about being a
:07:17. > :07:22.believer airport, taking on low-cost carriers and more freight. While we
:07:23. > :07:28.may never see super jumbos at Manston, we might have an idea of
:07:28. > :07:31.what Sir Howard Davies is thinking about.
:07:31. > :07:34.East Kent Hospitals Trust has tonight apologised after it emerged
:07:34. > :07:38.cancer patients and expectant mothers are having to wait up to six
:07:38. > :07:41.weeks for vital scans and x-rays because of problems with a new
:07:41. > :07:45.computer system. A dedicated call centre set up to deal with the
:07:45. > :07:48.problem has already received 2000 calls of complaint this week alone.
:07:48. > :07:51.The chief executive of the trust says he's trying to find a solution
:07:51. > :07:59.with the company which provides the technology. Peter Whittlesea
:07:59. > :08:04.reports. Leslie says her GP referred her for
:08:04. > :08:07.an urgent lung scan. Three weeks and numerous calls to the hospital
:08:07. > :08:12.later, she had not even be given an appointment. She was so worried
:08:12. > :08:16.about her health, she went private. It showed a significant problem.
:08:16. > :08:23.GP got the results of that scan at eight o'clock the following morning.
:08:23. > :08:26.She phoned me and she has now given me a referral to a chest specialist.
:08:26. > :08:31.The delays started after hospitals introduced a new system for x-ray
:08:31. > :08:36.and scan results at the beginning of July. Two weeks later we reported
:08:36. > :08:41.the story of a man who was among patients waiting up to a month for
:08:41. > :08:47.x-ray results. A hotline was set up to do with the backlog and receives
:08:47. > :08:53.2000 calls in the first week. The hospital trust said the outsourced
:08:53. > :08:58.system is not working properly. have contractual arrangements which
:08:58. > :09:01.I cannot discuss, but to the extent that they have let us down, we will
:09:01. > :09:07.look for a wee dress and make sure the taxpayer is not paying the cost
:09:07. > :09:10.of the contingency measures. -- redress. The company which installed
:09:10. > :09:14.the computer system says it is working closely with the hospitals
:09:14. > :09:19.to resolve the situation. One MP says that accompany has got to get
:09:19. > :09:22.its act together. The staff are doing their utmost, but they are
:09:22. > :09:28.becoming overwhelmed. There is no doubt about that. The staff can only
:09:28. > :09:33.do what they can do in 24 hours in a day. This is down to the company,
:09:33. > :09:37.the Company responsible has to get this right. As far as I can see,
:09:37. > :09:40.they appear to be in breach of contract. Leslie fears other urgent
:09:40. > :09:43.referrals like hers might have slipped through the net. These
:09:43. > :09:46.computer delays can be affecting patient health.
:09:46. > :09:52.Peter Whittlesea is at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital now. What more
:09:52. > :09:55.have patients there had to say this evening? Patients are saying the
:09:55. > :10:02.situation here is chaotic and the delays are impacting on pregnant
:10:02. > :10:06.women who are due there are 12 week scan. -- there are 12 week scan. The
:10:06. > :10:10.hospital says it is dealing with cases in two to three days and it
:10:10. > :10:14.has drafted in extra staff and put on additional clinics to deal with
:10:14. > :10:18.the backlog. Staff here are livid that this computer system is not
:10:18. > :10:21.working. I have heard of cases where radiographers and admin staff have
:10:21. > :10:25.cancelled their holidays and are coming in at weekends to deal with
:10:25. > :10:31.this backlog. There is a sense of anger that they are having to do
:10:31. > :10:35.this to bail out a private company that has not delivered.
:10:35. > :10:42.Coming up... The row over rubbish in wielding, with 9000 homes saying
:10:42. > :10:45.they have been missed of the collection for weeks. -- missed off.
:10:45. > :10:49.The Sussex and England cricketer Monty Panesar has been fined by
:10:49. > :10:53.police for urinating on bouncers outside a nightclub in Brighton.
:10:53. > :10:55.It's believed the 31-year-old spin bowler had been asked to leave the
:10:55. > :11:05.Shooshh club this weekend after complaints from some female
:11:05. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:14.clubbers. Our reporter John Young is in Brighton for us now.
:11:14. > :11:19.This has developed as quite a story. By lunchtime, Monty Panesar
:11:19. > :11:28.had made an apology and no denial. This is a really popular cricketer
:11:28. > :11:33.with the public, playing for Sussex and also England in the Ashes
:11:33. > :11:38.squad, but not selected to play at the weekend, which is why he was in
:11:38. > :11:41.the nightclub in the small hours of Monday morning. He had a few drinks
:11:41. > :11:47.and was causing problems with some and who were unhappy, so he was
:11:47. > :11:52.asked to leave. He was not happy and then things kicked off. He went up
:11:52. > :11:58.the stairs, along the street, and then urinated on to the bouncer in
:11:58. > :12:02.Neath. He was furious and chased after Monty Panesar. They ran along
:12:02. > :12:11.the road to a takeaway. The police were called and he was fined �94
:12:11. > :12:17.drunk and disorderly behaviour. �90 four drunk and disorderly behaviour.
:12:17. > :12:24.That is pocket money to him. That is not enough. It is not discouraging
:12:24. > :12:28.others. We spend a lot of time trying to give these guys good role
:12:28. > :12:32.models and teach them the rights and wrongs and it makes life harder when
:12:32. > :12:40.they say that he did this or that, and it is almost childish behaviour
:12:40. > :12:42.to see this in the news. How have Sussex County Cricket club
:12:42. > :12:49.responded? They have issued a statement saying
:12:49. > :12:53.they are taking it very soon see. They say he is a talented cricketer
:12:53. > :12:57.and with that there are challenges. They say it will be decision time
:12:57. > :13:00.next week, and we will know then if Monty Panesar is in that squad.
:13:00. > :13:04.Around 3,000 homes in Kent have had their water supply cut off after
:13:04. > :13:09.three water mains burst. Residents in Ticehurst, Hurst Green,
:13:09. > :13:12.Roberstbridge and Mountfield have been affected. Some say they've been
:13:12. > :13:16.without water for over 24 hours. South East Water says that two of
:13:16. > :13:19.the water mains have already been repaired and that people in the area
:13:19. > :13:23.may have low water pressure for a time.
:13:23. > :13:26.Dozens of retired Gurkhas from Kent have been involved in a protest
:13:26. > :13:28.about pay and conditions outside the Ministry of Defence today. The
:13:28. > :13:31.former members of the Gurkha Regiment, who now train new
:13:31. > :13:36.recruits, are angry about proposed changes to the terms and conditions
:13:36. > :13:41.of their jobs with the defence contractor, SERCO. They are also
:13:41. > :13:44.balloting on industrial action. Sussex Police say they are preparing
:13:44. > :13:47.for an increase in the number of protesters against oil exploration
:13:47. > :13:51.in Balcombe next week. They say several hundred campaigners from the
:13:51. > :13:55.group Reclaim the Power are planning to join the demonstration. 100
:13:55. > :14:02.officers a day are at the site and the force says it's constantly
:14:02. > :14:07.reviewing its resources. It says it has cost �73,000.
:14:07. > :14:10.A man on trial in connection with the murder of his friend had said he
:14:10. > :14:12.would shoot anyone who threatened his home, a court heard. Kevin
:14:13. > :14:15.McKinley was shot outside a house in Dartford in February. Lewis
:14:16. > :14:21.Wickenden is charged with possessing a firearm and assisting an offender,
:14:21. > :14:25.his girlfriend, with murder. Sara Smith reports.
:14:25. > :14:29.Kevin McKinley had come to this street last February to sort out an
:14:29. > :14:35.argument with a friend, jurors heard today. It ended up with him shot
:14:35. > :14:38.dead, his friend facing charges, his friend's partner accused of murder.
:14:38. > :14:43.Today, the man who had driven him to the house and witnessed the
:14:43. > :14:46.aftermath was giving evidence. Marley Booth said that friend, Lewis
:14:46. > :14:56.Wickenden, told him on an earlier occasion he had been threatened by
:14:56. > :15:14.
:15:14. > :15:18.an armed gang at his home and police Kevin McKinley had been involved in
:15:18. > :15:21.threatening Lewis and that he had gone round to sort things out
:15:21. > :15:24.between them. But later it was said that he probably knew there would be
:15:24. > :15:27.a fight. The court heard that Lewis Wickenden's partner, Michaela
:15:27. > :15:31.Sargent, met Kevin McKinley outside the house. She was armed with a
:15:31. > :15:34.shotgun which she pointed at his head. When he turned away she
:15:34. > :15:44.lowered the gun and says it went off by accident, causing the lethal
:15:44. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:52.wound. The jury will have to decide if it was an accident or murder.
:15:52. > :15:55.Residents in East Sussex said they are angry and frustrated their bins
:15:55. > :15:59.and recycling have not been collected for over a month. Around
:15:59. > :16:04.9000 homes have missed a connection and some people have complained
:16:04. > :16:07.about maggot infestations. The contract for bin collections and
:16:07. > :16:14.recycling in the district had recently been given over to a new
:16:14. > :16:18.company. Every day I come out to spread the
:16:18. > :16:24.maggots. It is quite disgusting. These are in double bags and the
:16:24. > :16:29.maggots keep on appearing. maggots, the smell, the rubbish
:16:29. > :16:34.piled high. In this picturesque corner of East Sussex, the residents
:16:34. > :16:40.have not had their bins collected for over a month and they are angry.
:16:41. > :16:46.We are fed up with it. I do not know what the solution is. I am just
:16:46. > :16:50.doing it with a spray and still cannot stop them. It is revolting.
:16:50. > :16:55.We try and keep asked tight shot and it got to the stage for their work
:16:55. > :17:00.maggots crawling up and down the outside of the bin. Two weeks ago,
:17:00. > :17:05.waste collection was fully taken over by a new company. They have
:17:05. > :17:13.fewer trucks and fewer refuge to collectors, but they say they are
:17:13. > :17:16.having teething problems. They have apologised to customers. Because
:17:16. > :17:23.they are not using the old stuff they do not know where to pick up
:17:23. > :17:30.from. The district council say the contract is saving them three
:17:30. > :17:33.quarters of �1 million a year, but currently those efficiency savings
:17:33. > :17:39.are not particularly efficient. There are 65,000 households in the
:17:39. > :17:45.district. So far, 9600 have not had their rubbish collected in the last
:17:45. > :17:48.two weeks. It is saving and it will be a better service, but they are
:17:48. > :17:52.not supplying that and we have responsibility for that and we are
:17:52. > :17:55.working towards that. It will be a better service and saving the
:17:55. > :18:04.taxpayer 's money. Residents say right now, they just want to see
:18:04. > :18:08.their household waste go. The top story tonight...
:18:08. > :18:10.The man charged with looking at airport capacity in the UK, Sir
:18:10. > :18:13.Howard Davies, has told this programme it's "highly unlikely"
:18:13. > :18:17.Lydd or Manston will play a significant part of any expansion
:18:17. > :18:20.plan, although they could still have a role to play. No fewer than six
:18:20. > :18:25.different plans have been submitted for a Thames Estuary airport.
:18:25. > :18:33.Also in tonight's programme... Not the end of the line - the
:18:33. > :18:36.historical steam railway track making a modern day comeback.
:18:36. > :18:42.It has been eight ales sunshine and showers. Tomorrow, much more
:18:42. > :18:45.sunshine. -- a day of sunshine and showers.
:18:45. > :18:48.Two East Sussex funeral directors have joined forces to launch an
:18:48. > :18:54.unusual appeal, calling on local people to come forward and collect
:18:54. > :18:56.the remains of their loved ones. Bexhill's Douglas Mercer & Son, and
:18:56. > :19:02.Hastings-based Banfield & Pomphrey, both long established funeral
:19:02. > :19:09.directors in the area, say many relatives never collect the remains.
:19:09. > :19:12.In total, 124 sets of ashes have been left unclaimed. Many of the
:19:12. > :19:16.remains have been at the funeral directors' for 20 years or more. And
:19:16. > :19:23.the oldest set has been there for over 40 years, since 1971. Claudia
:19:23. > :19:27.Sermbezis has tonight's special report.
:19:27. > :19:33.We come from dust, we returned to dust. A frequent phrase at a
:19:33. > :19:36.funeral, but for more than four decades, these ashes of all ages,
:19:36. > :19:43.young and old, have remained in a sort of limbo, unclaimed and
:19:44. > :19:52.uncollected. People move, it can be too painful, people can pass away.
:19:52. > :19:56.There are a number of cremation urns we hold for families until such time
:19:56. > :20:02.as they want them want to do something with them. Douglas Mercer
:20:02. > :20:07.& Son and Banfield and Palfrey in Hastings have 124 earns between
:20:07. > :20:12.them. The oldest remains are from 1971. They are trying to contact any
:20:12. > :20:18.relatives so they can be scattered, interred, or kept at all. We are
:20:18. > :20:23.always humbled that people let us look after their loved one when they
:20:23. > :20:27.pass away. It is a continuation of that. We are just the custodians. We
:20:27. > :20:32.are humbled we are able to do that. We would rather families have them,
:20:32. > :20:41.if they do so wish. Martin has been driving a hearse for three years. He
:20:41. > :20:45.believes part of the problem is death was not get discussed much.
:20:45. > :20:49.People often do not know what their mum or dad wanted. That can lead to
:20:49. > :20:54.heartache for people while they try and sort it out. We hope it gets
:20:54. > :20:58.people talking about their future wishes. The funeral directors will
:20:58. > :21:08.keep hold of the Ashes if no one comes forward, but it is hoped the
:21:08. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:14.appeal will mean that everyone will finally be laid to rest with family.
:21:14. > :21:17.The dream of rebuilding the old railway line running all the way
:21:17. > :21:22.from Tenterden in Kent to Robertsbridge in Sussex has taken a
:21:22. > :21:25.major step to being realised. Enthusiasts who took over the line
:21:25. > :21:31.years after it closed in the 1950s have restored the track and run
:21:31. > :21:34.steam trains from Tenterden as far as Bodiam. Now, the first half mile
:21:34. > :21:38.of track coming the other way, back from Robertsbridge, is nearing
:21:38. > :21:41.completion. And as Robin Gibson reports, its sent hopes soaring that
:21:41. > :21:51.the missing three miles could be finally be completed, and complete a
:21:51. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:13.track that was last used more than It is a waiting game... This is
:22:13. > :22:23.where they are making a stand to win the West. The unconquered western
:22:23. > :22:25.
:22:25. > :22:29.end of the line. It began coming back from Tenterden in the 1960s.
:22:29. > :22:33.There has been a volunteer presence since the 1990s. It has been the
:22:33. > :22:40.ambition, the dream, to get back to Robertsbridge and remake the
:22:40. > :22:43.connection with the national railway. Passenger services were cut
:22:43. > :22:50.in 1954, and the last freight trains departed in 1961. Thanks to
:22:50. > :22:56.enthusiasts, today the much loved steam trains are back. Well, to a
:22:56. > :23:02.point. There is always a way. You always want to go a bit further and
:23:02. > :23:06.do a bit more. The grass is always greener, isn't it? It has taken the
:23:06. > :23:11.Kent and East Sussex Railway the best part of 50 years to get to
:23:11. > :23:19.hear, the middle of nowhere, the end of the line for an hour. But for how
:23:19. > :23:24.much longer? The precious new half mile of track coming all the way --
:23:24. > :23:29.the other way has got them thinking. It is a glimpse of the future. Can
:23:29. > :23:33.you put a time frame on it? That is a difficult question to answer. I
:23:33. > :23:39.think we are looking at around five years. There are a number of bridges
:23:39. > :23:44.to cross and roads as well, literally, to cross before the Kent
:23:44. > :23:47.and the Sussex real weight reaches Robertsbridge. Next month, the
:23:47. > :23:54.rather Valley Railway will have a steam train on the line to get
:23:54. > :24:01.steamed up a bag what might just be the beginning of the end of the
:24:01. > :24:05.line. -- steamed up about. Football now, and only one of the
:24:05. > :24:12.south east's teams made it through to the second round of the Capital
:24:12. > :24:18.One Cup last night. There were plenty of thrills and spills and one
:24:18. > :24:21.particularly embarrassing home defeat. Neil Bell reports.
:24:21. > :24:25.Most Albion supporters thought this would be a formality against the
:24:25. > :24:28.team who were in Conference South two years ago. Ashley Barnes put
:24:28. > :24:31.Brighton in front. The game changed in the second half, when a challenge
:24:31. > :24:36.left the Newport captain with a broken leg and saw the Albion
:24:36. > :24:40.defender sent off. With less than ten minutes to go, a header from
:24:40. > :24:43.Danny Crow took the game into extra time. And a solo effort from another
:24:43. > :24:53.sub, Washington, to serve a famous upset, although Brighton will appeal
:24:53. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :25:02.against the red card. He went to the ball. It was a 50-50 challenge. It
:25:02. > :25:07.was unlucky for the Newport player. A 4-0 win over Oxford saw Charlton
:25:07. > :25:10.Athletic qualify from round two, with Simon Church scoring twice. Two
:25:10. > :25:13.goals from Micky Adams couldn't prevent Crawley going down 4-3 after
:25:13. > :25:23.extra time in a cup tie at League two Cheltenham, Harrison scoring the
:25:23. > :25:25.
:25:25. > :25:35.winner six minutes from time. And Gillingham failed to repeat last
:25:35. > :25:39.
:25:39. > :25:45.season's victory over Bristol city, Lots of disappointment. It is early
:25:45. > :25:52.days! We have got some decent weather
:25:52. > :25:55.news. It will be warm. Today, there was cloud and rain. Over the next
:25:56. > :26:01.couple of days, it is not bound right. We will see more rain,
:26:01. > :26:07.particularly on Friday. There is sunshine, and temperatures feeling
:26:07. > :26:12.warm for the time of year. The area of low pressure gave us cloud
:26:12. > :26:20.pressure and outbreaks of rain. Temperatures not too bad for the
:26:20. > :26:26.time of year. There were highs of around 21 or 22 degrees. The breezes
:26:26. > :26:30.will ease of tonight and the showers ease as well. It will be dry and
:26:30. > :26:36.cool. Temperatures in low double figures and in rural spots dropping
:26:36. > :26:46.down to single figures. Clearer skies with mist and hill fog
:26:46. > :26:50.forming. We have got the ridge of high pressure to thank for that.
:26:50. > :26:56.Tomorrow, a settled picture, perhaps one or two showers by the afternoon.
:26:56. > :27:00.For the most part, staying dry with decent spells of sunshine.
:27:00. > :27:06.Temperatures around 21 or 22. Lighter winds as well. So tomorrow
:27:06. > :27:11.night, clearer skies initially and more cloud cover with outbreaks of
:27:11. > :27:15.patchy rain and drizzle first thing on Friday. The weather front players
:27:15. > :27:23.out of the way first thing on Friday. By the afternoon it
:27:23. > :27:28.brightens up. For the weekend, Saturday it looks to be pretty good