:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to South Today. been saved if the police
:00:00. > :00:00.In tonight's programme: The downgrade of maternity services
:00:07. > :00:10.at Banbury's Horton Hospital is extended as the NHS
:00:11. > :00:14.in Oxfordshire discusses ?200 million of savings.
:00:15. > :00:20.Can a new approach to recruitment engender gender equality
:00:21. > :00:40.Reading's methane-fuelled buses make their debut.
:00:41. > :00:43.It's been announced the downgrade of maternity services
:00:44. > :00:46.at the Horton Hospital in Banbury is being extended again
:00:47. > :00:52.The move, made on safety grounds, sparked anger
:00:53. > :00:57.Oxford University Hospitals Trust said it was down to a shortage
:00:58. > :01:01.of doctors, and only five out of nine doctors are likely to be
:01:02. > :01:08.The downgrade means that expectant mothers needing doctors at present
:01:09. > :01:10.have to travel to the John Radcliffe Hospital.
:01:11. > :01:13.Well, the extended travel time has led to the MP for Banbury,
:01:14. > :01:15.Victoria Prentis, urging patients to log their journey
:01:16. > :01:21.Chrissy Ansell from Banbury makes the 60-mile round trip
:01:22. > :01:27.to the John Radcliffe each week in order to visit her family.
:01:28. > :01:33.Talk me through the way that we are going to go
:01:34. > :01:40.I think it's best if we go on the A4260 because the motorway
:01:41. > :01:44.is 12 miles longer but also it gets chock-a-block with
:01:45. > :01:52.You were saying that the Horton was somewhere you had to use
:01:53. > :02:01.It was just before Christmas and I had the unfortunate accident
:02:02. > :02:05.where I fell out of the loft, and the loft ladder went in my leg,
:02:06. > :02:09.which opened pretty badly and was bleeding profusely.
:02:10. > :02:17.So we're just coming through Adderbury now.
:02:18. > :02:24.She's had quite a lot to say on this matter and she wants people
:02:25. > :02:40.I hope to be able to feed this into the consultation is real evidence
:02:41. > :02:44.about what time it takes people to get the better appointment rather
:02:45. > :02:50.than taking things of Google maps. The journey times are an important
:02:51. > :02:56.factor. Although the population in Banbury has grown, medical sciences
:02:57. > :03:03.is not fast, people are getting older, but that distance has not
:03:04. > :03:10.changed. We are just leaving Dennington now. We had been driving
:03:11. > :03:13.for just over 20 minutes. We are going to the John Radcliffe. How
:03:14. > :03:21.long do you expect the rest of this journey to take? I would say another
:03:22. > :03:28.25 minutes minimum. If I was sat here is one of the decision-makers,
:03:29. > :03:34.what would you say to me? I would say to think very carefully about
:03:35. > :03:39.what you are doing. This is people's lives here. There are other places
:03:40. > :03:45.you could cost cost of it as costs you're talking about. We are just
:03:46. > :03:48.coming into the John Radcliffe now. It is almost exactly 50 minutes
:03:49. > :03:52.since we lived your home in Banbury. It triggers the same time back and
:03:53. > :03:58.we could have gone to the Horton ten times. Now we have struggled to find
:03:59. > :04:00.a parking space. That is right and it can take as much as an hour, if
:04:01. > :04:04.not bit more. Well, tonight, details have been
:04:05. > :04:06.released suggesting more services are to be moved
:04:07. > :04:08.from the Horton Hospital to the JR. ?200 million of savings has to be
:04:09. > :04:11.found by the county's clinical The proposals will now
:04:12. > :04:15.be put to the public. Katharine DaCosta has been
:04:16. > :04:16.looking at the details. A short time ago, I asked
:04:17. > :04:19.her what more we know. Well, it seems that the idea's
:04:20. > :04:22.to centralise more services to the John Radcliffe Hospital in
:04:23. > :04:25.Oxford. Now, that's not going to be good
:04:26. > :04:29.news for people campaigning to keep Health bosses stress
:04:30. > :04:34.they are investing in the Horton. It'll become a centre
:04:35. > :04:37.for diagnostics and outpatient appointments so that patients can be
:04:38. > :04:41.seen and treated closer to home. Under the plans, though,
:04:42. > :04:44.the most seriously ill patients Maternity services may be
:04:45. > :04:50.permanently downgraded due Acute stroke services could also
:04:51. > :04:56.transfer to Oxford to make it a large specialist unit
:04:57. > :04:59.for the whole region. Meanwhile, the overall strategy
:05:00. > :05:02.is to keep people out of hospital Another 48 are
:05:03. > :05:09.earmarked for closure. We've only seen these proposals,
:05:10. > :05:12.we've only had them for a matter of hours, but what reaction
:05:13. > :05:15.has there been? Well, some of the concerns
:05:16. > :05:17.are that this consultation's in two parts and that,
:05:18. > :05:19.actually, many of the Some feel the sheer size of it
:05:20. > :05:28.will put many people off engaging Healthwatch Oxfordshire feel
:05:29. > :05:33.many of the changes have already started to be put in place before
:05:34. > :05:38.the public's even been consulted. They've already closed down beds
:05:39. > :05:41.in the JR and they've closed They've done that before
:05:42. > :05:50.the consultation starts, I mean, if there is a big swell
:05:51. > :05:58.of public opinion against it, is it actually going
:05:59. > :06:02.to make any difference? The second phase is expected
:06:03. > :06:05.to start in May - looking at A, children's services and community
:06:06. > :06:09.hospitals - with the fear that, to make more savings,
:06:10. > :06:12.more community hospitals may We'll have more reaction and more
:06:13. > :06:17.detail on tomorrow's South Today. Katharine DaCosta,
:06:18. > :06:22.thank you very much. Investigations are continuing
:06:23. > :06:24.after a man in his 60s died when a light aircraft
:06:25. > :06:26.crashed in Oxfordshire. Emergency services were called
:06:27. > :06:28.to the Aston Rowant Nature Reserve The aeroplane had taken off
:06:29. > :06:33.from Turweston Aerodrome There was thick fog
:06:34. > :06:38.in the area at the time. Police in Milton Keynes are trying
:06:39. > :06:41.to trace a mother who's been missing since she dropped her daughter off
:06:42. > :06:44.at school on Friday morning. Sherena Begum, who's 29, was last
:06:45. > :06:49.seen in Helford Place in Fishermead. She'd walked to school
:06:50. > :06:52.with her daughter in heavy snow. She was wearing a blue dress
:06:53. > :06:57.and a brown robe-like jumper. 14 council-run day care centres
:06:58. > :07:01.for elderly and disabled people have been recommended
:07:02. > :07:04.for closure in Oxfordshire. The county council is proposing
:07:05. > :07:06.the closures in order Under the plans, funding
:07:07. > :07:11.for privately-run services would also be cut by hundreds
:07:12. > :07:15.of thousands of pounds but more If anyone were to say
:07:16. > :07:21.that it is most definitely a long-term solution,
:07:22. > :07:25.we are not perhaps being realistic, but what we are doing is,
:07:26. > :07:28.as of today, making sure that the service we have
:07:29. > :07:30.in Oxfordshire is giving the Oxfordshire people
:07:31. > :07:34.what they need. The UK Atomic Energy Authority
:07:35. > :07:36.based in Culham is hoping to increase gender equality
:07:37. > :07:40.with a new recruitment process. Those hiring people wouldn't see
:07:41. > :07:44.names at the shortlist stage to try and stop unconscious
:07:45. > :07:47.bias against women. It's part of measures being tried
:07:48. > :07:50.at Culham to increase the number At Culham's nuclear fusion
:07:51. > :07:58.experiment jet, they can heat plasma to 100 million degrees -
:07:59. > :08:02.hotter than the sun. But when it comes to getting
:08:03. > :08:04.women into science, Currently, 10% of engineers and 15%
:08:05. > :08:11.of scientists here are women. The UK Atomic Energy Authority says
:08:12. > :08:14.it's an imbalance they're What needs to change is the culture
:08:15. > :08:20.- and for it to become normal, for it to become a nonevent that
:08:21. > :08:23.you are a woman in You're just a scientist,
:08:24. > :08:26.you're an engineer, you're not a female scientist
:08:27. > :08:29.or a female engineer. Alex Davis is a process
:08:30. > :08:32.engineer at Culham. She thinks women are being put
:08:33. > :08:35.off jobs in science You give boys Lego and you give
:08:36. > :08:42.girls dolls and make-up and, suddenly, you've raised an entire
:08:43. > :08:44.generation of people who are conditioned to think,
:08:45. > :08:47.these are my hobbies, these are my interests,
:08:48. > :08:49.these are what I want The UK Atomic Energy Authority has
:08:50. > :08:55.now signed up to a gender equality accreditation scheme
:08:56. > :08:58.to try to attract more women into It wants to make its labs
:08:59. > :09:04.more female-friendly. Some of the tangible things that
:09:05. > :09:07.you can do are gender-blind recruitment practices
:09:08. > :09:11.at the short listing stage. This is something that's been
:09:12. > :09:14.in the news recently. Family-friendly working
:09:15. > :09:18.policies, flexible working. A lack of female scientists
:09:19. > :09:21.and engineers is not just a problem at Culham Science Centre -
:09:22. > :09:25.it's happening across the country. But it's hoped measures being tried
:09:26. > :09:28.out here could encourage more women to embark on careers
:09:29. > :09:31.in this industry. The new town of Milton Keynes
:09:32. > :09:37.is celebrating its 50th There'll be celebrations throughout
:09:38. > :09:42.2017 and they've started at Middleton Hall in Centre MK,
:09:43. > :09:46.where an exhibition illustrating Milton Keynes' history
:09:47. > :09:48.has gone on display. A beautiful name for
:09:49. > :09:53.a lovely village, almost Once not much bigger than a hamlet,
:09:54. > :09:59.its name given to one of the largest new town projects,
:10:00. > :10:02.not just in this Designed in the 60s,
:10:03. > :10:08.building began in the 70s. Originally six miles
:10:09. > :10:11.by ten, a new town built on the American grid system,
:10:12. > :10:15.famed for its roundabouts and redways, more than 100
:10:16. > :10:19.miles of pathway for People encouraged to move to a place
:10:20. > :10:27.where they could find everything they need -
:10:28. > :10:32.space, parks, an easy commute. Originally, buildings promised to be
:10:33. > :10:38.no higher than the tallest tree. A town planner in the
:10:39. > :10:41.States helped plan MK. For the people that chose
:10:42. > :10:44.to make their lives here, for the companies that chose to move
:10:45. > :10:50.here, for the investors who chose to make their investments here,
:10:51. > :10:56.the city has been successful. 50 years on, it's now one
:10:57. > :10:59.of the fastest-growing towns in the country,
:11:00. > :11:03.home to more than 10,000 businesses, a place where you'll find sport,
:11:04. > :11:06.innovation, leisure. But, with its population expected
:11:07. > :11:10.to rise to more than 300,000 in the next ten years,
:11:11. > :11:13.this town, with ambitions to become a city, faces challenges -
:11:14. > :11:17.housing, health care, What will the next
:11:18. > :11:24.half-century bring? Finally, how about this
:11:25. > :11:26.for a lucky escape? An 80-year-old motorist
:11:27. > :11:30.was unhurt after this car crashed into a pontoon
:11:31. > :11:33.on the River Thames in Henley. Emergency services helped free
:11:34. > :11:35.the pensioner within ten It took two hours
:11:36. > :11:38.to recover the car. The driver was described as a bit
:11:39. > :11:44.shocked by a passerby. Now more of today's
:11:45. > :12:06.stories with Sally Taylor. After a soggy start of the week, the
:12:07. > :12:09.forecast is mainly settled. Sunny spells at time, a cold spell and
:12:10. > :12:12.mainly dry. A high-tech airborne radar system
:12:13. > :12:14.that'll be the eyes and ears of the Navy's new Portsmouth based
:12:15. > :12:17.aircraft carriers has finally got The way decisions about
:12:18. > :12:25.the Crowsnest radar have been made has come in for criticism
:12:26. > :12:28.from the National Audit Office. But today in Portsmouth
:12:29. > :12:30.the government announced the ?269 million project
:12:31. > :12:47.is going ahead, helping to secure The Royal Navy's big new aircraft
:12:48. > :12:53.carriers will need plenty of protection. With radar equipment on
:12:54. > :12:56.board and in the sky providing early warning of incoming threats. Now the
:12:57. > :13:02.Ministry of Defence is going ahead with the project to fit the latest
:13:03. > :13:06.Crowsnest radar system to Merlin helicopters like these. Looks over
:13:07. > :13:12.the horizon, looks out long-distance, looks high and back
:13:13. > :13:15.covers the gaps. It's a big contract, ?269 million. The
:13:16. > :13:20.Government had faced strong criticism over delays to the
:13:21. > :13:24.project, but today on board HMS dragon in Portsmouth, the message
:13:25. > :13:28.from the minister was positive. Obviously really important to get
:13:29. > :13:31.these things right and it's a really good news announcement today. It's
:13:32. > :13:36.going to sustain almost 200 jobs here in the South. But you would
:13:37. > :13:41.accept that if ministers had got to move on in terms of the positive
:13:42. > :13:45.decision-making, we could have been here a lot earlier? Innovation is
:13:46. > :13:49.really important and we do sometimes have to make adjustments during the
:13:50. > :13:51.procurement process to make sure we have the right cutting edge
:13:52. > :13:55.capability. The Navy is confident the new system will be up and
:13:56. > :14:03.running, and with crews trained by the time the first the aircraft
:14:04. > :14:06.carrier becomes operational in 2020. We accelerated the programme to meet
:14:07. > :14:10.those dates. At the moment we are looking slightly ahead of the
:14:11. > :14:16.carrier requirements so it's looking good. The contract is a boost for
:14:17. > :14:21.industry. It will secure 80 posts in Crawley and another 60 here in have
:14:22. > :14:26.and where they are using the latest technology to make the new system is
:14:27. > :14:35.easy to use as possible. -- in Havant. Altogether 30 of the Navy's
:14:36. > :14:40.Merlin helicopters will be modified to carry the new Crowsnest radar.
:14:41. > :14:43.The money's good and the hours reasonable.
:14:44. > :14:46.Southern Railway, which is enduring months of strikes, has launched
:14:47. > :14:55.It comes amid a new row about whether the drivers' union has
:14:56. > :14:57.changed its attitude to what's called Driver Only Operation.
:14:58. > :15:00.Our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton is here.
:15:01. > :15:12.Well, Sally, let's see what's on offer.
:15:13. > :15:14.Govia Thameslink Railway, Southern's parent company,
:15:15. > :15:17.wants maintain a constant pool of 200 drivers in training.
:15:18. > :15:20.That's for a four-day week, doing 35 hours.
:15:21. > :15:23.And most drivers work a fifth day as voluntary overtime,
:15:24. > :15:27.Most train operators rely on that overtime.
:15:28. > :15:31.Drivers earn more, and companies can employ fewer people,
:15:32. > :15:39.But an overtime ban by the drivers' union is biting hard on Southern.
:15:40. > :15:42.Even on days with no strike, like today, it means around one
:15:43. > :15:50.Now, let me remind you of something the drivers'
:15:51. > :16:06.Our view is that in the increasingly longer trains in particular, we've
:16:07. > :16:08.got 1100 people, and nobody on the train to serve the critical role to
:16:09. > :16:10.say it is unsafe. Rail magazine has uncovered
:16:11. > :16:12.a letter, signed by Mick Whelan, in which he agrees to run precisely
:16:13. > :16:15.that sort of train. Aslef agrees to drive and operate 12
:16:16. > :16:19.car DOO trains, it says. The newest, longest trains,
:16:20. > :16:21.carrying the most people, of the type used on Southern
:16:22. > :16:25.and Gatwick Express. Aslef says it has opposed
:16:26. > :16:30.driver-only operation for 15 years. Yet six years ago, here
:16:31. > :16:34.it is signing up to more of it, The union says it was
:16:35. > :16:41.honouring an extension But clearly here it was accepting
:16:42. > :16:47.drivers should do what it now calls a fundamentally unsafe
:16:48. > :16:56.way of working. Plans to build the Reading section
:16:57. > :16:58.of a new cross-Berkshire cycle route The route will eventually stretch
:16:59. > :17:02.from Newbury to Ascot. The first section along Bath Road
:17:03. > :17:04.will cost 450 thousand pounds and should join up
:17:05. > :17:06.existing cycle lanes. But some campaigners say it's been
:17:07. > :17:27.a long time coming and parts Having one big route will hopefully
:17:28. > :17:29.join all those cycle lanes into a cycle network and that's what
:17:30. > :17:33.cyclists really need because you're not just travelling down one road
:17:34. > :17:37.from most journeys, you're going to be travelling halfway across town
:17:38. > :17:39.and you need a route that will take you some distance.
:17:40. > :17:42.A brand new fleet of environmentally friendly buses are due to start
:17:43. > :17:44.running on the streets of Reading this week.
:17:45. > :17:47.Reading Buses have bought five of them at a cost of a quarter
:17:48. > :17:51.As well as having free 4G wifi, they've also got mobile
:17:52. > :17:56.But the new EURO 4 buses aren't fuelled by petrol or diesel
:17:57. > :18:04.Edward Sault has been to take a look.
:18:05. > :18:11.The regal welcome for Redding's new royal bosses but this one is
:18:12. > :18:20.slightly different, and Daisy the cow might be a bit of a giveaway as
:18:21. > :18:24.to why. This is the world's first gas double-decker bus, powered by a
:18:25. > :18:28.sustainable form of the gas fuel, and the source comes from cow waste,
:18:29. > :18:34.their bedding, food stock and other waste products as well. And that was
:18:35. > :18:40.a pivotal reason why the bus company decided to buy five of these at a
:18:41. > :18:44.quarter of ?1 million each. We have some of the poorest air quality in
:18:45. > :18:49.the South in parts of the borough. More people come into Redding every
:18:50. > :18:56.day by bus and therefore it is important that Redding buses was in
:18:57. > :19:00.the forefront of using the greenest and cleanest ones available. It also
:19:01. > :19:09.has some devices you may have not seen in the past such as free 4G
:19:10. > :19:12.Wi-Fi and coat hooks. It's also got a mobile phone charger, you simply
:19:13. > :19:22.take it out of its case, plug it into your phone and leave it to
:19:23. > :19:25.charge whilst you are on the go. It's got some great things on there
:19:26. > :19:30.and it's exciting that it is environmentally friendly and will be
:19:31. > :19:39.extended to other routes. We have got to do something useful with cow
:19:40. > :19:41.waste. These buses will be serving route 33, turning the spotlight onto
:19:42. > :19:51.a Greenaway of travelling. Straight on to sport and Tony
:19:52. > :19:53.husband is here. I got a lot of tweets over the weekend saying to
:19:54. > :20:02.look out for Sam Sunderland. Sam Sunderland broke his ankles,
:20:03. > :20:05.knees and pelvis in a motorbike 11 years later his determination
:20:06. > :20:09.to reach the top has been rewarded. He's become the first Briton to win
:20:10. > :20:12.the Dakar rally in any category Formerly known as the Paris Dakar
:20:13. > :20:14.rally, this staging was held in South America
:20:15. > :20:17.and ran through Paraguay. Sunderland, from Poole,
:20:18. > :20:22.but now mainly based in Dubai had led for his team KTM since stage
:20:23. > :20:24.five of 12. It was an emotional moment
:20:25. > :20:42.as he crossed the line. It feels incredible. I'm lost for
:20:43. > :20:46.words. In the last couple of moments, the emotion started to kick
:20:47. > :20:51.in, and it was just a bit overwhelming. It's amazing. I've had
:20:52. > :20:53.an incredible week, and really thank you to the team and organisers. It's
:20:54. > :21:10.been a really hard rally, even with been a really hard rally, even with
:21:11. > :21:10.and I'm really drained, physically weather, it was still one
:21:11. > :21:11.and emotionally but I'm so happy and and emotionally but I'm so happy and
:21:12. > :21:14.it is a dream come true for me. Loads of people across Hampshire and
:21:15. > :21:16.Dorset very proud of him, congratulations.
:21:17. > :21:19.Alex Thomson has set yet another record in the Vendee Globe single
:21:20. > :21:23.The Gosport sailor covered more than 600 miles in 24 hours faster
:21:24. > :21:26.than has ever been done before, as he continues to try and catch
:21:27. > :21:32.Thomson's damaged bat Hugo Boss has closed the gap tonight
:21:33. > :21:35.on Banque Populaire to 85 miles, and they're about to turn due east
:21:36. > :21:42.Thomson is attempting to become the first Briton ever to win
:21:43. > :21:45.the race known as the Everest of the seas, a two and half
:21:46. > :21:49.month challenge against the prevailing winds and tides.
:21:50. > :21:52.Earlier today we had this update as he attempts to catch pre-race
:21:53. > :22:02.It's about trying to get as close to our man as possible and I'm
:22:03. > :22:06.struggling a little bit at the moment, not catching him as much as
:22:07. > :22:10.I would like. I'm struggling a little bit with the steering. I have
:22:11. > :22:16.some play in the steering system which basically means when I get to
:22:17. > :22:21.high speeds, the boat becomes a little bit uncontrollable. So I've
:22:22. > :22:26.had a few very near accidental jibes. It is still all to play for.
:22:27. > :22:30.We will have to see what happens but one thing you can count on, I'm
:22:31. > :22:33.going to fight until the end. We are with you, Alex, all the way until
:22:34. > :22:35.the end. Southampton football manager
:22:36. > :22:37.Claude Puel described his side's loss at Burnley this
:22:38. > :22:38.weekend as incredible. Southampton failed to take a string
:22:39. > :22:41.of chances and paid the price when Joey Barton's free kick beat
:22:42. > :22:44.Fraser Forster 12 minutes from time. It was Southampton's fourth
:22:45. > :22:46.consecutive Premier League defeat and they're down to 13th
:22:47. > :22:49.in the table. Here's the key headlines from
:22:50. > :23:08.the rest of the weekend's football. Town Trail from this second-half
:23:09. > :23:16.volley. But new signings were to play their part. After joining for a
:23:17. > :23:24.third loan spell, bed grabbed when put his shot on level terms. Both
:23:25. > :23:33.sides pressed hard for the winner. James Henry denied the post. Charlie
:23:34. > :23:41.Cockett's cross picked out Kasim, and the Iraq International found the
:23:42. > :23:46.net. A first league win in seven. Oxford United arrived at Wimbledon
:23:47. > :23:52.unbeaten in 2017. They looked on course for that record to continue.
:23:53. > :23:56.The dons responded in style. Dean Parrott smashed in an equaliser of
:23:57. > :24:02.the bar and turned provider for the winner. His cross was met by the
:24:03. > :24:09.head of Sean Kelly and United's unblemished start to the year.
:24:10. > :24:11.who's celebrating his 100th birthday today.
:24:12. > :24:13.This is Bill Lucas, from Cowfold in West Sussex.
:24:14. > :24:14.He's in the striped top, running in the 5,000 metres
:24:15. > :24:20.He didn't make the final though, which he blames
:24:21. > :24:27.That's because he'd been due to run in 1940 and '44,
:24:28. > :24:32.but the Games were cancelled and he was called up to the RAF.
:24:33. > :24:40.He said the key to a long life is a whiskey every evening. We have the
:24:41. > :24:44.weather for the week ahead. Yes, a little bit cold at times through the
:24:45. > :24:47.course of the week with perhaps a little bit of frost.
:24:48. > :24:50.Sue Cheney captured the grey conditions whilst walking her dog
:24:51. > :24:52.Ralph on Gurnard Beach on the Isle of Wight.
:24:53. > :24:54.Lynne Harvey took this picture of a squirrel
:24:55. > :24:57.And Chris Proudfoot took this picture of the low tide
:24:58. > :25:06.Quite a grey day with outbreaks of rain at times but the weather ahead
:25:07. > :25:10.is on improving picture. It should be mainly dry through most of this
:25:11. > :25:15.week with temperatures struggling on Sundays. High pressure remains in
:25:16. > :25:19.charge of the weather, it should be mainly dry. The possibility of some
:25:20. > :25:26.frost overnight tonight and also on Wednesday morning. We may have a
:25:27. > :25:31.frost first thing tomorrow, milder temperatures for western parts and
:25:32. > :25:35.we are looking at loads of freezing. A cloudy start to western areas
:25:36. > :25:39.tomorrow but the cloud will start to be nibbled away by the sunshine.
:25:40. > :25:45.Sunny spells making an appearance, more cloud through the latter part
:25:46. > :25:49.of the afternoon. Otherwise it is going to be a lovely, sunny day with
:25:50. > :25:55.temperatures reaching as high as seven Celsius so in some parts it
:25:56. > :26:00.will feel chilly. More so overnight and under the clear skies the
:26:01. > :26:04.temperatures will plunge to minus forced Celsius in the countryside.
:26:05. > :26:15.Light winds to start Wednesday, and there will be a frost. In some
:26:16. > :26:17.places only reaching a high temperature of four Celsius. More
:26:18. > :26:21.cloud in general on Thursday, we will have this weather front across
:26:22. > :26:25.the country. High pressure still dominating the weather through much
:26:26. > :26:33.of the week. Thursday, temperatures will reach around seven Celsius, and
:26:34. > :26:37.a similar scenario also on Friday. We are expecting a good deal of
:26:38. > :26:41.cloud but Thursday and Friday should be mainly dry. Where the cloud is
:26:42. > :26:47.thickest we should have the odd spot of drizzle. Temperatures on Friday
:26:48. > :26:52.reaching age Celsius, so more mild than tomorrow and Wednesday. High
:26:53. > :26:58.pressure remains in charge of our weather, it should stay mainly dry
:26:59. > :27:04.at the weekend, staying generally cloudy.
:27:05. > :27:10.Looking at the weather, Alex Thompson the Gosport sailor is doing
:27:11. > :27:14.something like 30 knots, we should look at the weather forecast for him
:27:15. > :27:20.to see what will happen. And we heard him talking there, dramatic
:27:21. > :27:23.stuff and the whole interview is on our Facebook page. That's it from
:27:24. > :27:27.us, more tomorrow. Good night.