:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me
:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to South East Today, I'm Rob Smith.
:00:08. > :00:12.A pedestrian dies after being hit by a car pursued
:00:13. > :00:18.by police through Brighton - tonight two men hand themselves in.
:00:19. > :00:26.Southern take fresh legal action to stop further rail strikes,
:00:27. > :00:29.but the Aslef Union say they won't back down.
:00:30. > :00:36.Calls to change the law to ban lorries from parking in lay-bys -
:00:37. > :00:38.and create a series of truck stops to end noise and litter
:00:39. > :00:44.30 years ago it started to snow, and didn't stop for four days -
:00:45. > :00:47.we remember the great winter storm of 1987.
:00:48. > :00:50.It's all right, I'll get another one in London.
:00:51. > :00:57.Remembering the real Pocahontas - 400 years after her
:00:58. > :01:14.Two men have handed themselves in after a pedestrian was hit
:01:15. > :01:20.and killed in Brighton city centre by a car being pursued by police.
:01:21. > :01:24.The 78-year-old man died last night, after he was hit
:01:25. > :01:28.The Independent Police Complaints Commission is now
:01:29. > :01:32.Friends of the victim say they're "shocked and numb"
:01:33. > :01:49.A police chase turned into a tragedy. The victim, a 78-year-old
:01:50. > :01:53.man named locally as John. Originally from Hungary, he used to
:01:54. > :01:56.regularly meet his friends in the area to go batting. Koloamatangi it
:01:57. > :02:02.is very sad that it has happened to him. I've only heard this morning
:02:03. > :02:07.that it happened and I still can't believe it. I was only chatting to
:02:08. > :02:13.him yesterday afternoon. He was a very nice man, very quiet. Very
:02:14. > :02:17.friendly sort of bloke. Never seems to trouble anybody. At around 10pm
:02:18. > :02:23.last night, a Vauxhall Astra failed to stop for police in the Bear Road
:02:24. > :02:27.area of Brighton. The pie was then chased by police officers into the
:02:28. > :02:30.city centre, where it hit the man on the pedestrian crossing on the
:02:31. > :02:35.junction with Saint James Street. But the car didn't stop there. It
:02:36. > :02:39.was found abandoned just a short distance away on Madeira Drive.
:02:40. > :02:44.Officers had seen a Vauxhall Astra shortly before this incident and it
:02:45. > :02:47.attempted to stop it but it failed to stop. The officers continued
:02:48. > :02:55.after the vehicle but lost sight of it. The IPC see is dealing with that
:02:56. > :03:01.aspect of the investigation and I cannot comment further. Blue lights
:03:02. > :03:04.were flashing. We look across and it was clear there was no arguments
:03:05. > :03:08.there. There was one police car, I think, and a body. People were
:03:09. > :03:13.crouched around looking at this person in the road. This morning,
:03:14. > :03:17.33-year-old man handed himself in to police. This afternoon, 35-year-old
:03:18. > :03:20.man did the same. Both from Brighton. They have both been
:03:21. > :03:25.arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving,
:03:26. > :03:26.drink-driving, failing to stop for police and failing to report an
:03:27. > :03:27.accident. Leanne Rinne reporting,
:03:28. > :03:29.and she's in Brighton for us. Leanne, what more do we know
:03:30. > :03:41.about the hit-and-run victim? Police tonight still haven't
:03:42. > :03:44.confirmed his name, but having spoken to people in the area, it
:03:45. > :03:48.doesn't seem like John had any family here. We believe he could
:03:49. > :03:52.have been homeless, regularly using one of the drop-in centres nearby.
:03:53. > :03:55.Within the last hour, the Independent Police Complaints
:03:56. > :03:58.Commission have told us and confirmed that they are launching
:03:59. > :04:01.their own investigation. They have already spoken to the police
:04:02. > :04:04.officers involved in that pursuit and they have given them their
:04:05. > :04:06.initial accounts, their initial version of events of what happened.
:04:07. > :04:07.Thank you. Southern Rail are taking fresh
:04:08. > :04:09.legal action tonight, Virtually all Southern trains have
:04:10. > :04:16.been brought to a standstill for the second day running
:04:17. > :04:18.by a drivers' strike - over whether it's safe or not
:04:19. > :04:21.for drivers rather than guards Four further strikes
:04:22. > :04:24.are planned this month - but Southern managers believe
:04:25. > :04:26.the industrial action Let's cross live to our political
:04:27. > :04:34.editor Helen Catt in Westminster. Helen, they've already tried
:04:35. > :04:50.and failed to stop these Yes, absolutely. Late last year, at
:04:51. > :04:53.macro Southern took Aslef to the High Court to try to stop strikes of
:04:54. > :04:57.the European law. That failed, and appeal failed and now they're
:04:58. > :05:04.escalating it the Supreme Court. Despite all of this action, it
:05:05. > :05:09.implies that Southern doesn't expect a resolution any time soon. Earlier
:05:10. > :05:13.I spoke to the general secretary of Aslef and tried to find out his red
:05:14. > :05:16.lines. I asked if he would be happy for drivers to close the doors on a
:05:17. > :05:19.train if there was an else on the train to a standard he agreed with.
:05:20. > :05:25.No, because the bulk of the dispute, the issue is around having a second
:05:26. > :05:29.present evacuates the train that can actually go on the track, deal with
:05:30. > :05:34.a train fire, deal with incidents of violence or illness or actually
:05:35. > :05:38.assist the disabled. It is a second part of why we are. If they could do
:05:39. > :05:43.all of those things but not close the doors, would that be acceptable?
:05:44. > :05:48.No, because the platform train interface is the concern. A train
:05:49. > :05:51.runs in and somebody shouts out, there is another one in two minutes,
:05:52. > :05:57.and nobody steps back and somebody then makes a valid judgments,
:05:58. > :06:00.whether a train manager operated, platform dispatch, where trains
:06:01. > :06:04.leave the platform and those who are clamouring to get on don't step back
:06:05. > :06:07.a safe distance and that second pair of eyes allows us to do this. What
:06:08. > :06:10.indemnifies the driver to do the job they are meant to do, looking
:06:11. > :06:15.forwards, not looking backwards is the person on the platform that says
:06:16. > :06:19.it is safe to go. We hear a lot about this being a bit of a proxy
:06:20. > :06:23.war between the unions facing off against a Tory government and vice
:06:24. > :06:26.versa. Is it? Yet if it were a Labour government, we would be doing
:06:27. > :06:30.the same. We would hope they listen to our voice, but in the same
:06:31. > :06:34.situation it would apply. I was asked if Sadiq Khan took over the
:06:35. > :06:38.running of the trains, would we have the same problems? If he was putting
:06:39. > :06:42.the same process in place, we would have the same problem. As technical
:06:43. > :06:45.solution can be found, this isn't a political dispute. If you can find a
:06:46. > :06:50.technical solution between the two sides, this could be over. This is
:06:51. > :06:55.industrial trade dispute about having DOI forced upon us in
:06:56. > :07:05.circumstances we don't agree with and its inherently safe. -- or any
:07:06. > :07:09.other lines of communication open? Quite often online as well as
:07:10. > :07:16.online. We never close those doors, we keep them open. We you are
:07:17. > :07:21.talking? We haven't this week. They want to talk to us in a week of
:07:22. > :07:25.action. If they had come to us for talks, I would be willing -- or
:07:26. > :07:29.would be willing to talk, we would have. We have never refused a
:07:30. > :07:33.meeting and will not be doing so in the future. How far are your members
:07:34. > :07:37.willing to go? Are we looking at strikes the months, years? That
:07:38. > :07:43.depends. The members themselves have a real concern. They did not choose
:07:44. > :07:47.this battle or the battle ground. I make that clear. We have not been
:07:48. > :07:50.involved in the last nine months. We have only just come to this. Those
:07:51. > :07:55.members will tell us when they've had enough. It is those numbers who
:07:56. > :07:56.are telling us this is what we want, this is where we need to be. We will
:07:57. > :08:05.listen to our members. The Conservative MP Tim Lawton has
:08:06. > :08:09.told us the backs taking further action. There are three more strike
:08:10. > :08:13.dates after this Friday. No more scheduled after that, but we
:08:14. > :08:16.understand that the executive committee of Aslef meets next week.
:08:17. > :08:18.We will hear them if any further action is plan. Thank you.
:08:19. > :08:21.Later in the programme we'll hear from Sussex business leaders who say
:08:22. > :08:24.the ongoing rail dispute is having a devastating impact on trade.
:08:25. > :08:26.In a moment: Fighting for funding - hundreds of Sussex headteachers
:08:27. > :08:38.write to MPs, claiming their schools need more cash.
:08:39. > :08:41.A change in the law is needed to make it illegal for lorries
:08:42. > :08:44.to park on residential roads and in lay-bys - that's the call
:08:45. > :08:47.from Kent County Councillors as they try to tackle the littering
:08:48. > :08:51.and noise making people's lives a misery.
:08:52. > :08:53.More than two million lorries came into Kent through Dover
:08:54. > :08:58.While plans being drawn up for a series of lorry parks
:08:59. > :09:01.are being put out for consultation, it's not clear who would
:09:02. > :09:03.actually pay for them, or where they would go.
:09:04. > :09:10.Sandra Mallory and Janet Watton, who live near the port of Dover,
:09:11. > :09:12.say up to 30 lorries park up their street each night, keeping
:09:13. > :09:20.Urine in bottles - when it's in a bottle -
:09:21. > :09:34.You can't walk up there with your children or your animals
:09:35. > :09:37.This police patrol off the A2 found lorry after lorry
:09:38. > :09:41.A bit further on, one has even decided to stop
:09:42. > :09:44.Lorry drivers parked up legally here today say it can be difficult
:09:45. > :09:52.Seven o'clock at night, you will not get in here.
:09:53. > :10:00.That's when you see them parked on slip roads.
:10:01. > :10:02.They need a lorry park and they need lots of them.
:10:03. > :10:05.It will upset locals, but they've got to go somewhere.
:10:06. > :10:07.In England, it is difficult, parking.
:10:08. > :10:10.I am driving very long time here, I know where you are parking,
:10:11. > :10:17.where is the possible bays, where is the toilet, shower.
:10:18. > :10:20.In 2015, two million HGVs entered through the Port of Dover
:10:21. > :10:22.and Eurotunnel from Europe, with over 10,000 lorries
:10:23. > :10:27.The number of freight vehicles using the Dartford Crossing
:10:28. > :10:34.A big lorry park is already planned at Stanford to counter Operation
:10:35. > :10:37.Stack, but Kent County Council is proposing up to five new lorry
:10:38. > :10:39.parks, potentially near Sheerness, Dartford, Maidstone and Tonbridge,
:10:40. > :10:40.though it wouldn't identify precise locations.
:10:41. > :10:49.It believes a change in the law would necessary.
:10:50. > :10:52.I've asked the minister and his offices to look
:10:53. > :10:55.at the concept of a law which says that you cannot park a lorry
:10:56. > :10:57.for longer than perhaps three quarters of an hour -
:10:58. > :11:01.which is the time that you have to rest up every so often -
:11:02. > :11:03.unless you are parked in an authorised place.
:11:04. > :11:12.But the big question - you would pay to build the parks?
:11:13. > :11:14.Simon Jones joins us live from Dover.
:11:15. > :11:23.Simon, how likely are these proposed lorry parks to become a reality?
:11:24. > :11:29.It's going to be tricky. To show you why residents say action is needed
:11:30. > :11:35.now, take a look at the hedgerow that. It is strewn with litter that
:11:36. > :11:38.people say, from lorry drivers. Some brands there are clearly from abroad
:11:39. > :11:43.and down the road we've seen a number of lorry drivers parking up
:11:44. > :11:46.for the night. The big challenge is, even if land is found for new lorry
:11:47. > :11:50.parks, it has to go through the planning process. That is likely to
:11:51. > :11:55.be controversial and there is the cash needed. Kent County Council
:11:56. > :11:58.says it won't pay, it would need the private sector. That will only
:11:59. > :12:00.happen if they get the change in the law. Thank you.
:12:01. > :12:02.A Kent pub has been destroyed by fire.
:12:03. > :12:05.Fire crews rescued a man from a flat above the Victoria Cross
:12:06. > :12:07.pub in Chatham in the early hours of this morning.
:12:08. > :12:09.Local people were asked to keep their doors and windows
:12:10. > :12:19.closed because of the risk of breathing in toxic smoke.
:12:20. > :12:21.Hundreds of headteachers in West Sussex have written to MPs
:12:22. > :12:24.warning that the government's latest funding settlement has failed
:12:25. > :12:29.to tackle "extremely bleak" budget shortfalls.
:12:30. > :12:32.Their letter asks politicians to decide how they should cut
:12:33. > :12:34.spending - whether to lay off teaching staff, reduce
:12:35. > :12:36.school opening hours, or axe services for pupils.
:12:37. > :12:37.The Government launched a new schools funding
:12:38. > :12:40.formula last month - but campaigners in West Sussex say
:12:41. > :12:42.they're still getting a raw deal, as our Education Correspondent
:12:43. > :12:56.If you think about that one, you have just told me that from your own
:12:57. > :13:01.knowledge. Rated outstanding by Ofsted this week, Downs community
:13:02. > :13:04.School is one of many in West Sussex to be high performing. Last month,
:13:05. > :13:10.it was announced West Sussex schools would get more money, but they say
:13:11. > :13:14.they are still the bottom of the pile. Generally in West Sussex,
:13:15. > :13:19.heads and those involved in schools really think we are approaching a
:13:20. > :13:22.tipping point and that is, will we be able to continue to provide the
:13:23. > :13:26.quality education that we've been able to provide up to now? And so
:13:27. > :13:31.the tipping point means that we are really looking at class sizes, what
:13:32. > :13:37.can we do to survive in this funding situation? The head teacher here was
:13:38. > :13:41.one of 300 in the county to write to MPs will stop in the letter, they
:13:42. > :13:49.say proposals under the new funding formula do not provide meaningful
:13:50. > :13:52.remedy. No matter how clearly we state our position, Newell
:13:53. > :14:00.improvements are made. They accuse... All of West Sussex MPs
:14:01. > :14:04.have joined together to make the case for interim school funding and
:14:05. > :14:09.supported the teachers campaign which has already seen them handed a
:14:10. > :14:13.petition to Downing Street. So far, there has been no resolution.
:14:14. > :14:20.Parents here are concerned. If the funding isn't improved, obviously we
:14:21. > :14:24.cannot be sure that the same amount of classes will be available. If
:14:25. > :14:28.class sizes go up, children get less attention in classes. There is such
:14:29. > :14:35.a range of things on offer here, if that was reduced, that would really
:14:36. > :14:37.concern me. The Department for Education says overall funding for
:14:38. > :14:44.West Sussex schools will go up by 3.5% under the new proposals and
:14:45. > :14:46.that it will work according to peoples' needs rather than their
:14:47. > :14:53.postcode. This is our top story tonight:
:14:54. > :14:55.Two men have handed themselves in after a pedestrian was killed
:14:56. > :14:58.in Brighton city centre - hit The 78-year-old man died last
:14:59. > :15:02.night, after he was hit The Independent Police Complaints
:15:03. > :15:18.Commission is investigating. There is so much we can teach you.
:15:19. > :15:24.We've improved the lives of savages all over the world. Savages? Not
:15:25. > :15:26.that you are savages. Just my people!
:15:27. > :15:33.Remembering the real Pocahontas - who died 400 years ago in Kent.
:15:34. > :15:36.With no end in sight to the bitter industrial dispute that's brought
:15:37. > :15:38.the Southern Rail network to a halt again today, local
:15:39. > :15:43.businesses say it's having a devastating impact on trade.
:15:44. > :15:46.It's estimated that the strikes will have cost the UK economy almost
:15:47. > :15:48.?400 million pounds by the end of this month.
:15:49. > :15:53.And house prices across the Southern network area
:15:54. > :15:58.have grown by just 1.4% over the past six months -
:15:59. > :16:01.compared to a 3% average elsewhere in the UK.
:16:02. > :16:03.And some small businesses in Sussex say their takings have
:16:04. > :16:07.Our reporter Ellie Crisell is in Eastbourne -
:16:08. > :16:08.how are people coping there after another
:16:09. > :16:26.It's very difficult here. It's been extremely quiet. It is the 32nd day
:16:27. > :16:29.of strike action since last April and businesses in places like here
:16:30. > :16:33.in Eastbourne are starting to feel the bite. Some small business owners
:16:34. > :16:37.told me today that things are reaching crisis point.
:16:38. > :16:44.Empty trains, an empty station and an empty shop. A lack of football at
:16:45. > :16:47.Eastbourne station means a sharp downturn in business for this copy
:16:48. > :16:53.shop owner. It is heartbreaking because we feel we are held ransom
:16:54. > :16:57.because we really do not know what we can do about things getting
:16:58. > :17:01.better. We are relying on commuters, we are losing that business because
:17:02. > :17:05.people are losing confidence. Half of the staff have been laid off here
:17:06. > :17:08.within the last year and owner Bella is worried that instead of
:17:09. > :17:13.celebrating the cafe's third anniversary in May, she will be
:17:14. > :17:16.closing the doors forever. Other independent retailers are also
:17:17. > :17:24.suffering. I used to coming early to get the commuters going to work and
:17:25. > :17:30.stay open late. This morning, I was in at 7:30am. I had my first cousin
:17:31. > :17:34.at 9am. It is not just a lack of commuters impacting on trade. I was
:17:35. > :17:38.told by a local business consultant about the unreliable transport is
:17:39. > :17:43.preventing company growth. I'm cancelling opponents, --
:17:44. > :17:48.appointments, postponing them. It is an awful image for a professional
:17:49. > :17:53.company. The CEO Eastbourne's chamber of commerce met with the
:17:54. > :17:58.rail minister yesterday. We were concerned that it was all about
:17:59. > :18:02.commuters. It is important, don't get me wrong, but they also need to
:18:03. > :18:07.be aware of the impact it is having on the economy. We were disappointed
:18:08. > :18:12.that they actually said they are not prepared to meet with the RMT or
:18:13. > :18:15.Aslef until they suspend the strike. The stark warning here is that if
:18:16. > :18:19.the rail dispute isn't resolved soon, it will be the end of the line
:18:20. > :18:22.for many small businesses in Eastbourne.
:18:23. > :18:27.One business owner Tommy today that the impact of these rail strikes is
:18:28. > :18:31.becoming as negative on her business as the recession was and what most
:18:32. > :18:35.people seem to be saying is, they want the government to step in and
:18:36. > :18:36.sort this out before, for some businesses, it's too late. Thank
:18:37. > :18:41.you. She's probably best known
:18:42. > :18:44.to lots of people today But the reality of life
:18:45. > :18:48.for the legendary 17th century Native American Pocahontas was far
:18:49. > :18:55.removed from a children's movie. After marrying a tobacco
:18:56. > :18:57.planter in the early 1600s, she travelled to the Kent
:18:58. > :19:04.town of Gravesend. And, as Ian Palmer reports,
:19:05. > :19:06.special commemorations have been taking place there today to mark
:19:07. > :19:20.the 400th anniversary of her death. Let go! No, I'm not letting you
:19:21. > :19:25.leave. The story of Pocahontas told by Disney is a love narrative. But
:19:26. > :19:30.the tale of this remarkable woman is much more than that. She is with you
:19:31. > :19:34.to some extent because she is buried here. Here at Saint John's catholic
:19:35. > :19:39.school in Gravesend, pupils learn about the life of a woman that tried
:19:40. > :19:43.to bring Britain and the US together. She was a peace
:19:44. > :19:47.ambassador. She was able to create peace among her people and the
:19:48. > :19:53.English. Partly by that marriage. You could look at her as a diplomat,
:19:54. > :19:57.an ambassador or perhaps an intriguer, someone working between
:19:58. > :20:02.the cultures. Pocahontas was a member of a tribe. In 1616, she
:20:03. > :20:07.travelled to England with her husband John. On her way home, she
:20:08. > :20:12.became ill and died in Gravesend. We commissioned a piece of art from
:20:13. > :20:19.Ethan Brown, young artist in her tribe, and this is his art. He has
:20:20. > :20:21.depicted Pocahontas in the afterlife, according to traditional
:20:22. > :20:41.beliefs. To mark the 400th anniversary of her
:20:42. > :20:47.death, the US ambassador to the UK attended a special ceremony. Here,
:20:48. > :20:54.he's seen talking with the direct descendant of Pocahontas. Travel is
:20:55. > :20:59.fatal to prejudice. So good! I try to get writers to try to sit inside
:21:00. > :21:04.another so that they can do the bridge building you talk about. I
:21:05. > :21:07.loved your talk. The legacy of Pocahontas 's unity and bridge
:21:08. > :21:08.building. Some would say those two virtues are needed now more than
:21:09. > :21:14.ever. The Met Office is predicting
:21:15. > :21:17.that we could see significant snowfall this week -
:21:18. > :21:19.but fortunately it's not predicted to be quite as bad as 30 years ago,
:21:20. > :21:23.when it started snowing on the 11th of January, and didn't
:21:24. > :21:27.stop for four days. As Peter Whittlesea reports,
:21:28. > :21:29.entire communities were cut off, hundreds of schools closed,
:21:30. > :21:31.and supermarkets started running out of food,
:21:32. > :21:33.as the transport network was brought to a halt in the great
:21:34. > :21:44.winter storm of 1987. Several tonnes of food were moving
:21:45. > :21:47.out of Maidstone as more supplies When an arctic blast hit Kent 30
:21:48. > :21:52.years ago, it was so cold, the army had to be drafted in,
:21:53. > :21:55.taking urgent supplies through the snow drifts
:21:56. > :22:01.to cut-off communities. For the intractable
:22:02. > :22:03.corners, the last resort 33 Engineer Bomb Disposal Commando
:22:04. > :22:12.Unit, which is used to this sort of stuff in Norway,
:22:13. > :22:15.loaded up with baby food. Babies' milk, coal, mainly
:22:16. > :22:19.bread and cheese, pies. And the temperature still hadn't
:22:20. > :22:26.climbed above freezing. The fact the BBC called upon war
:22:27. > :22:29.correspondent Kate Adie to do a weather story highlighted
:22:30. > :22:31.the extreme conditions In the Medway towns,
:22:32. > :22:40.Kent, it was -13, and the thermometer in the Weald
:22:41. > :22:44.only rose to -9 - 15.8 during the day,
:22:45. > :22:49.which made it actually the coldest The North Downs didn't escape
:22:50. > :22:53.the cold snap, either. Back then, it was more
:22:54. > :22:59.like the tundra. Emergency vehicles were unable
:23:00. > :23:03.to reach the village. A middle-aged man had
:23:04. > :23:05.had a heart attack. Neighbours administered first
:23:06. > :23:07.aid for several hours Give an injection to kill the pain
:23:08. > :23:17.and hope he'll see his way How long will it be before
:23:18. > :23:21.the ambulance gets here? No idea, they've got a long
:23:22. > :23:23.way to come and it's In 1987, it was the weather that
:23:24. > :23:28.ground the rail network to a halt. British rail have been
:23:29. > :23:32.working to clear the lines, but traditional methods have failed,
:23:33. > :23:34.so they've imported the snow No Scottish snowblowers
:23:35. > :23:43.are on stand-by at the moment, so perhaps those record low
:23:44. > :23:45.temperatures of 30 years ago It makes you cold just looking at
:23:46. > :23:56.it! Rachel - we know that there could be
:23:57. > :23:59.some snow on the way - but is there any danger it could be
:24:00. > :24:05.as heavy as that? Nothing that bad. We're expecting
:24:06. > :24:09.perhaps three or four centimetres. 30 years ago, the reason that we saw
:24:10. > :24:13.that bitterly cold weather and all that snow was actually an area of
:24:14. > :24:17.high pressure over its Siberia. It gave us bitterly cold easterly winds
:24:18. > :24:25.and this very cold air from Russia meant we saw so which snow. 30 years
:24:26. > :24:30.ago, we sold nearly 40 centimetres of snow. Further snow fell into the
:24:31. > :24:35.13th, giving us half a metre of snow. With strong winds, we saw
:24:36. > :24:40.drifts over six metres. Nothing like that in the forecast, but we have
:24:41. > :24:44.got warnings out about snow. They will be valid for tomorrow and
:24:45. > :24:47.particularly during the tail end of Thursday, into Friday. That is when
:24:48. > :24:51.we expect to see the snowball. There is also going to be lots of rain
:24:52. > :24:55.around. Some sleet mixed in with that and as we see temperatures
:24:56. > :25:00.freeze tomorrow night, potentially some problems on the roads and
:25:01. > :25:04.indeed on the railways. Through tonight, we are going to be staying
:25:05. > :25:09.dry and quite mild. Temperatures drop to around two or three degrees.
:25:10. > :25:14.If you are up early, it will be dry first thing, but very quickly we
:25:15. > :25:18.will see this band of rain. That moves up from the South West into
:25:19. > :25:22.this bitterly cold air. As it meets it, it's going to be turning into
:25:23. > :25:25.sleaze, potentially some snow mixed in with that, and particularly
:25:26. > :25:29.during the tail end of the afternoon, we expect to see some
:25:30. > :25:32.snow. During the morning, it is falling mostly as rain first thing,
:25:33. > :25:36.but as we head through the afternoon, those heavy bursts within
:25:37. > :25:40.that. Temperatures will reach highs of seven or 8 degrees. It will feel
:25:41. > :25:45.more like two or three. As we go from Thursday over into Friday, lots
:25:46. > :25:50.of white on the map. Expecting perhaps three or four centimetres of
:25:51. > :25:54.snow fall widely and lower ground. The bitterly cold start to the day
:25:55. > :25:57.on Friday with a hard frost. Take care on the roads. Essentially
:25:58. > :25:59.problem is with black eyes on the roads. Friday, potentially more
:26:00. > :26:05.snow. Lots to look forward to that. Thank
:26:06. > :26:11.you. I will be back at 8pm and 10:30pm.
:26:12. > :26:13.Hope you can join me then. I will see you tomorrow.
:26:14. > :26:36.Have a good evening. Goodbye. Stay warm.
:26:37. > :26:40.I think my political beliefs are really quite straightforward.
:26:41. > :26:43.I believe that our country needs to work for everyone.
:26:44. > :26:45.Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged,
:26:46. > :26:48.not just for those who know the right people or who've got
:26:49. > :26:52.the loudest voices, but a country that really works for everyone,
:26:53. > :26:56.has the opportunity to be who they want to be.
:26:57. > :26:59.In order to make sure that the country works for everyone,
:27:00. > :27:04.Standing up for the vulnerable, for the voiceless,
:27:05. > :27:08.against those who feel that they're strong and powerful.
:27:09. > :27:12.If you're doing the right thing, then you must do that however
:27:13. > :27:16.difficult it is, even if there seems to be an easier path to take.