:00:08. > :00:14.Hello, welcome to the programme. An American-style policing - at the
:00:14. > :00:17.South gets the chance to vote in Police Commissioner. One person,
:00:17. > :00:22.representing an Show and the Isle of Wight cannot be more accountable
:00:22. > :00:26.than the 17 members that make up the police authority.
:00:26. > :00:32.Partially blinded in an acid attack - the revolutionary operation that
:00:32. > :00:40.has given Paty her side back. Surf may not be up, but has of the
:00:40. > :00:44.reef of brought prosperity to Boscombe a?
:00:44. > :00:54.And Portsmouth celebrate its most famous son, 200 years after his
:00:54. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:57.It's just an expensive retirement package. That's the criticism
:00:57. > :00:59.tonight by one of the South's council leaders after the
:00:59. > :01:02.Government launched its plan to introduce American style police
:01:03. > :01:07.commissioners. Police Minister Nick Herbert was in Portsmouth to show
:01:08. > :01:12.off the new idea. Each person will be elected directly by the public
:01:12. > :01:16.and voted in in November. There will be 41 across the country - one
:01:16. > :01:19.for each force outside London. They will be elected for a period of
:01:19. > :01:24.four years. Each will receive a salary of between �65,000-�100,000
:01:24. > :01:34.a year. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Alex Forsyth has been
:01:34. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.assessing how the new job will work. New York - where one all-powerful
:01:38. > :01:46.police commissioner keeps up as his -- officers on track. Now there is
:01:46. > :01:49.a symbol -- similar plan for England and Wales. The police
:01:49. > :01:55.commissioner will be one person dominated by the public, and will
:01:55. > :01:59.control each police force's multi- million pound budget. This will be
:01:59. > :02:03.significant new role, it will give the public a say for the first time,
:02:03. > :02:06.supporting the police, but also holding them to account for
:02:06. > :02:10.stoppages are really important reform and the public are actually
:02:10. > :02:16.going to have a say on 15th November. At the moment each force
:02:16. > :02:20.has a police authority, a board of about 17 councillors who decide
:02:20. > :02:25.what money is spent where and hold the Chief Constable to account.
:02:25. > :02:28.They will be replaced by one commissioner. Hampshire's current
:02:28. > :02:33.Police Authority chair says it is too much power of for one person.
:02:33. > :02:38.Do I believe one person can be more visible than 17? No why don't.
:02:38. > :02:42.Whichever way you look at it, it will politicise policing, because
:02:42. > :02:46.the weather gets elected, whichever party, it will mean that they have
:02:46. > :02:49.got elected on a political mandate. If you look at some of the American
:02:49. > :02:53.states, they are looking at the British model at the moment and
:02:54. > :03:02.reverting back to how we do things, but because corruption has been a
:03:02. > :03:09.writer. - macro rife. She is one of a handful who have declared their
:03:09. > :03:14.interest so far, mostly local councillors. Today, some were
:03:14. > :03:18.present as Nick Herbert explained why the new role will work. But not
:03:18. > :03:22.everyone is convinced. We will probably end up with somebody,
:03:22. > :03:27.rural Hampshire will have no idea about what happens in the cities,
:03:27. > :03:33.and all this seems to be is providing a retirement package for
:03:33. > :03:38.a counsellor, to give them �100,000 a year, it is a waste of money, a
:03:38. > :03:41.really bad idea. But the government insists having one elected person
:03:41. > :03:48.in charge is the way to make sure police are doing what the public
:03:48. > :03:51.want. So anyone could go for these jobs? In theory, yes. It is most
:03:51. > :03:55.likely it will be people like councillors or former police
:03:55. > :04:01.officers, but in theory, it could be anybody. It was reported that
:04:01. > :04:07.Katie Price might be standing in camp Show. -- Hampshire. I hasten
:04:07. > :04:11.to add she has denied that! It is worth remembering that these people
:04:11. > :04:16.control budget, not operational policing, but if you look at the
:04:16. > :04:21.different ways out of corpses have made budget cut, for example Sussex
:04:21. > :04:26.have increased their budget and cut staff, whereas in Hampshire,
:04:26. > :04:29.they're looking to get rid of some of their police stations. One
:04:29. > :04:32.person can clearly have a real impact on the way the police
:04:32. > :04:38.operate on the ground. I think people could see a real difference.
:04:38. > :04:41.Thank you. A Hampshire woman partially blinded in an acid attack
:04:41. > :04:43.has had her sight restored by revolutionary surgery. Katie Piper
:04:43. > :04:47.suffered third degree burns when sulphuric acid was thrown in her
:04:47. > :04:53.face by her former boyfriend in 2008. The incident left her scarred
:04:53. > :04:57.for life. But her sight has now been restored, as Paul Siegert
:04:57. > :05:02.reports. Katie Piper didn't think she would
:05:02. > :05:07.ever see again after the acid attack in 2008. It left her badly
:05:07. > :05:11.scarred and without sight in one eye. My eye was severely burnt and
:05:11. > :05:15.it destroyed my cornea, which left me with no sight at all. I could
:05:15. > :05:21.see dark and light, but I couldn't see some a wet, it was quite hard
:05:21. > :05:26.to judge movement. Doctors held out little hope of her site ever being
:05:26. > :05:33.restored, but thanks to pioneering surgery, the unthinkable happened.
:05:33. > :05:38.We had T-cells manufactured by the eye bank in East Grinstead, and we
:05:39. > :05:42.transplanted them onto her eye. The fascinating thing about this is
:05:42. > :05:47.while we were taking tissue from somebody who has died, in the long
:05:47. > :05:52.term, what we've found is there is no DNA from that individual, so we
:05:52. > :05:56.expect in Katie's case for all the cells to disappear, and for them to
:05:56. > :05:59.be replaced with her own cells. is one of the first people anywhere
:05:59. > :06:04.in the will to have this operation, and the results were nothing short
:06:04. > :06:08.of miraculous. It was quite strange, because I had resigned myself to
:06:08. > :06:13.the fact that it is a permanent injury, and when a doctor or
:06:13. > :06:17.surgeon tells you you are blind, very quickly, you think of
:06:17. > :06:24.blindness as a permanent thing. So I never expected to be in this
:06:24. > :06:28.position. To be seeing things with that I again. A very happy time.
:06:28. > :06:32.total, she has had nearly 100 operations and the start it up her
:06:33. > :06:36.own art foundation, making it easier to live with burns and scars.
:06:36. > :06:39.Value for money or a damp squib? Researchers are trying to find out
:06:39. > :06:41.how much benefit the artificial surf reef at Boscombe in Dorset has
:06:42. > :06:46.been to the surrounding area. The reef has never functioned as
:06:46. > :06:49.originally intended since it was constructed in 2009. But shops,
:06:49. > :06:58.flats and cafes have been built and the seafront has improved. Chris
:06:58. > :07:02.Coneybeer reports. On the main road into Bournemouth,
:07:02. > :07:06.a sign directing visitors to the reef. Other signs along the way
:07:06. > :07:11.look promising. But sadly, when you finally get there, the reef itself
:07:11. > :07:14.is still off-limits. It has been damaged and isn't safe. The focus
:07:14. > :07:19.today was not the reef but the seafront, which has been much
:07:19. > :07:24.improved since the reef was built. We have seen a massive increase in
:07:24. > :07:27.activity in this part of the seafront, it has gone from -- it
:07:27. > :07:34.from being one of the shabbiest parts of Bournemouth to been one of
:07:34. > :07:39.the best parts of the seafront. There are new shops and flats and a
:07:39. > :07:46.beach party. I think the area has improved enormously, it is a great
:07:46. > :07:50.shame about the reefer. I think it has improved a lot. Now an academic
:07:50. > :07:54.survey aims to quantify the value the reef has brought to Boscombe.
:07:54. > :08:00.The results could be of interest to other countries that are also
:08:00. > :08:03.planning to build them. Brazil, Portugal, Spain, France, it is
:08:04. > :08:08.interesting for us internationally as much as the UK, the importance
:08:08. > :08:12.of these structures to our economy. One lone surfer was out looking
:08:12. > :08:16.away this today, but well clear of the reef. The underwater structure
:08:16. > :08:22.should be repaired later this year. Meanwhile, Plymouth University is
:08:22. > :08:24.keen to get people to take part in its survey, which can be done
:08:24. > :08:27.online. We are in the final stages of the
:08:27. > :08:30.2012 digital switchover, and if you watch from our Hannington
:08:30. > :08:34.transmitter, things are about to change. So what do you need to do?
:08:34. > :08:40.Earlier I spoke to Bill Taylor from Digital UK and asked him what will
:08:40. > :08:45.happen. Tomorrow sees the stars -- start of a busy to months of
:08:45. > :08:50.digital switch-over. Tomorrow, if your house get a TV signal from the
:08:51. > :08:55.Hannington transmitter, you need to be ready for its which over. If you
:08:55. > :09:00.still have an analogue telly, but a digital box. If you are watching
:09:00. > :09:03.for review, retune your equipment. And if you are watching satellite
:09:03. > :09:08.or cable, you don't need to do anything at all, that is already
:09:08. > :09:11.digital. You say it is the beginning of a couple of months of
:09:11. > :09:15.things being switched off, what happens after that? We are coming
:09:15. > :09:21.up to a busy switch-over time, so tomorrow, the Hannington
:09:21. > :09:31.transmitter begins, and then, starting on debris 29th, if you are
:09:31. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:47.picking up a signal from Midhurst, For people watching this programme,
:09:47. > :09:52.we will be freed by the end of March, but it is going to be busy.
:09:52. > :10:02.A lot of media coverage, but people may still be concerned, who do they
:10:02. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:06.contact? If you have any worries, Stay with us.
:10:06. > :10:14.Still to come in this evening's South Today - Portsmouth celebrates
:10:14. > :10:18.a special birthday David Allard is there. The stage is set for a gala
:10:18. > :10:22.performance. Capping a day when hundreds helped celebrate 200 years
:10:22. > :10:25.of chance Dickens. -- Charles Dickens.
:10:25. > :10:28.Residents in Surrey are facing a council tax rise of almost three
:10:28. > :10:31.per cent. The increase comes despite the offer of cash from the
:10:31. > :10:34.Government which would have seen bills unchanged. But councillors
:10:34. > :10:38.were told the extra money would only last for one year and would
:10:38. > :10:42.mean the tax being increased by as much as six per cent next year.
:10:42. > :10:45.School pupils in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight could soon get advice
:10:45. > :10:48.from police on how to stay safe when going online. Hampshire
:10:48. > :10:53.Constabulary is launching its own presentation on Internet and Cyber
:10:53. > :10:56.Safety. It's already been trialled at schools in the north of the
:10:56. > :11:06.county and could be more widely rolled out later this year. Alexis
:11:06. > :11:11.Green has been finding out more. Today is a safe bet internet day,
:11:11. > :11:16.an annual event which helps promote internet safety for young people.
:11:16. > :11:23.Hampshire police are launching their own personal internet safety
:11:23. > :11:26.presentation for schools across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
:11:26. > :11:29.The message from the police his parents need to be a bit more
:11:29. > :11:35.understanding about technology in order to be able to protect their
:11:35. > :11:39.children. How many have you know more about the internet that your
:11:39. > :11:45.parents? The support of us have been instrumental in delivering the
:11:45. > :11:50.message. Just be sensible. The internet can be a very fine
:11:50. > :11:55.environment, just be aware, and did take everybody at face value.
:11:55. > :12:00.one of the teachers here, today has been an eye-opener. I have learnt I
:12:00. > :12:03.was quite naive, I didn't realise how many dangers there were online,
:12:03. > :12:09.there are some nasty people out there and back who are not who they
:12:09. > :12:14.say they are. It makes me aware of what voters I put on line. You can
:12:14. > :12:18.only respond to someone you know what Trust. Never download a file
:12:18. > :12:24.an issue Trust where it comes from. People online may not be who they
:12:24. > :12:26.seemed. Your personal details should be kept secret. This has
:12:26. > :12:35.been trialled in a number of schools in Hampshire, and it is
:12:35. > :12:38.hoped it will be rolled out as an initiative in 2012.
:12:38. > :12:41.Shopkeepers are calling for reductions in rents and business
:12:41. > :12:46.rates to help revitalise town centres. It follows the publication
:12:46. > :12:49.of a new report showing one in seven shops is empty. And in
:12:49. > :12:56.Gosport one in ten retail properties is vacant. The
:12:57. > :13:00.government's now making one million pounds available for pilot projects.
:13:00. > :13:03.They say it's going to destroy local wildlife. Residents living in
:13:03. > :13:06.a village near Worthing are fighting plans to stop treated
:13:06. > :13:11.waste from entering into a nearby stream. The proposal is part of a
:13:11. > :13:14.planned supermarket development by Asda. The company says its
:13:14. > :13:16.treatment plant would exceed all Environment Agency and European
:13:17. > :13:23.standards, and water will NOT be hazardous or odorous. Sean Killick
:13:23. > :13:28.has been following the story. It is a small stream in a quiet
:13:28. > :13:33.village, but trouble is bubbling up here. ASDA wants to build a
:13:33. > :13:39.superstore on a site on the main road, that would discharge sewage
:13:39. > :13:43.into the stream, and that has upset some locals. Why an enormous store
:13:43. > :13:48.report to be environmentally friendly propose to put Cilic into
:13:48. > :13:53.a tiny stream like this? They should be finding some other method
:13:53. > :14:00.in this day and age. It is a recreation area. There are good
:14:00. > :14:05.parts. People walk their dogs, bring their children up here. It is
:14:05. > :14:10.a precious part of our environment, and the site of Local Nature
:14:10. > :14:15.Conservation. It is a classified site, and needs protection does up
:14:15. > :14:20.there is also concerned because the stream runs onto the beach. But as
:14:20. > :14:23.to say they would install a highly efficient treatment plan on the
:14:23. > :14:33.supermarket site, making it sustainable and avoiding
:14:33. > :14:53.
:14:53. > :14:59.increasingly followed on public The company is holding public
:14:59. > :15:04.meetings in the village hall on Friday and Saturday.
:15:04. > :15:07.Sport now, Tony Husband is in the studio. We start with Portsmouth
:15:07. > :15:11.and what is happening once again off the field.
:15:11. > :15:18.It is the ongoing issue, it is probably the single biggest thing
:15:18. > :15:22.that Pompey fans ask me about, what is going on? Why are Portsmouth
:15:22. > :15:26.having these problems again? Administration, liquidation or last
:15:26. > :15:30.ditch buy-out, those are the most likely scenarios facing Portsmouth
:15:30. > :15:35.tonight. With a winding-up petition due to be heard in just under four,
:15:35. > :15:38.the club is running out of time to secure its future. But why is
:15:38. > :15:43.finding a buyer so difficult for a club that has played in Europe and
:15:43. > :15:46.won the FA Cup in the last five years?
:15:46. > :15:51.England's elite football clubs have feasted on cash in the games boom
:15:51. > :15:57.period. For seven years, Portsmouth died at the top table. But as they
:15:57. > :16:02.seek another new owner, they must deal with past. -- Portsmouth dined.
:16:02. > :16:06.Fratton Park, it is well past its sell-by date as a professional
:16:06. > :16:13.football stadium of the 21st century. But it is that stadium and
:16:13. > :16:17.this land all around that holds the key to this latest sale of the club.
:16:17. > :16:20.Hong Kong-based businessman Balram Chainrai led Portsmouth -- lent
:16:20. > :16:25.boards the �70 million. Chainrai himself became an honoured twice,
:16:25. > :16:31.but he has never got his money back. To protect it, he took the stadium
:16:31. > :16:35.and other assets as security. The money owed to his company is
:16:35. > :16:39.highlighted in the administrator's report into Portsmouth's last
:16:39. > :16:43.owners, who went into administration in November. He is
:16:43. > :16:53.holding the club to ransom, saying to any prospective buyer, you will
:16:53. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :16:59.have to pay me my �70 million. -- �17 million. The land belongs to
:16:59. > :17:05.another former owner. The clock is ticking for Pompey, with a winding-
:17:05. > :17:09.up petition being heard on February the 20. He nothing else happen, the
:17:09. > :17:13.company will be put into liquidation. And all of the
:17:13. > :17:18.contracts will come to an end. Mr Chainrai's assets will be worth
:17:18. > :17:22.even less. Something has to happen, either a buyer has to come in or it
:17:22. > :17:25.has to go into administration so that an administrator can sell it.
:17:25. > :17:31.Enough is enough, we need to make sure that this time, Portsmouth is
:17:31. > :17:35.sorted out once and for all and the club can go for it and actually
:17:35. > :17:39.create the club with integrity that all the fans want. Administration
:17:39. > :17:42.would mean an instant 10 points deduction for Portsmouth. The
:17:42. > :17:46.Football League say they are monitoring the varmints closely.
:17:46. > :17:48.Balram Chainrai is due in the UK they speak and says he wants to
:17:48. > :17:53.help the club and get his money back.
:17:53. > :17:57.But we have asked him when he arrived he will talk to us, he said
:17:57. > :18:02.he was to help the club out of their difficulties. Portsmouth go
:18:02. > :18:07.to Birmingham tonight for this -- de latest championship game.
:18:07. > :18:09.Southampton had to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup, playing all in
:18:09. > :18:13.a fourth-round replay in kinder conditions than those at Birmingham
:18:13. > :18:17.on Saturday. In League 1, Bournemouth restage the game at
:18:17. > :18:22.Exeter at Dean Court which was postponed on Saturday. In League 2,
:18:22. > :18:26.Crawley have an intriguing clash with fellow promotion chasers
:18:26. > :18:29.Cheltenham tonight. And we will have the goals tomorrow.
:18:29. > :18:33.Danny bricks, the 20-year-old Hampshire left-arm spinner has
:18:34. > :18:40.received his first call up in the England one-day squad. -- Danny
:18:40. > :18:44.Briggs. He had a real break out season in the Hampshire side last
:18:44. > :18:48.year. The the back story with Danny
:18:48. > :18:50.bricks is that when he was a toddler, he played against some of
:18:50. > :18:54.us and the Isle of Wight and he was pretty good.
:18:54. > :18:57.A remember! He gets embarrassed when we remind
:18:57. > :19:02.him. Most of you know, 200 years ago,
:19:02. > :19:07.Charles Dickens Osborne. In Portsmouth. Today they have been
:19:07. > :19:15.celebrations to mark the occasion. As one of our most famous figures,
:19:15. > :19:20.he generates a huge amount of cash for the UK economy. �280 million a
:19:20. > :19:25.year. Sales of his books and books about him are almost �3 million.
:19:25. > :19:28.Theatrical productions associated with Dickens, �64 million. David
:19:28. > :19:35.Allard takes up the story once again tonight, from the Portsmouth
:19:35. > :19:39.New Theatre Royal. Hello. In a few minutes, the actor
:19:39. > :19:44.Simon Callow and young performers will take to the stage for a
:19:44. > :19:49.dickens birthday celebration. This is the magnificent dickens Berti
:19:49. > :19:54.cake that was Cup here earlier this afternoon. -- Charles Dickens
:19:54. > :20:04.birthday cake. People have been turning out to events across the
:20:04. > :20:04.
:20:04. > :20:07.city to mark the bicentenary. In the place where it all began, a
:20:07. > :20:13.celebration of Dickens birth and enduring achievements. Bringing
:20:13. > :20:18.together fans from the air and four. But you are Portsmouth person?
:20:18. > :20:23.and bred and we love our history. That is where we are here. I came
:20:23. > :20:29.here because I read a lot of his novels, back in China. I am also a
:20:29. > :20:33.great fan of draws dickens, so today is a good chance any to be
:20:33. > :20:37.here at the celebrations. Dickens has long attracted devoted
:20:37. > :20:43.followers, who fought of the possible demolition of the House in
:20:43. > :20:53.1903. Today, Simon Callow let the rejoicing in the dickens legacy.
:20:53. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :20:59.Three cheers for that great man, Charles Dickens. Here, head! Re!
:20:59. > :21:05.There was a special thanksgiving service. The newest member of the
:21:05. > :21:10.dickens dynasty, his great great great grandson, Joe Allen Charles.
:21:10. > :21:15.And though the singing might be rude, it was real. And sounded more
:21:15. > :21:20.musical to Oliver's ears, at least, than any he had ever heard in any
:21:21. > :21:27.church before. Poor Smith's deacons celebrations do not end here. What
:21:27. > :21:30.is to be the UK's first statue of him was unveiled today.
:21:30. > :21:36.research for this is to Rick -- read all his novels and biographies
:21:36. > :21:39.of him. A larger than life-size Charles Dickens will take up
:21:39. > :21:45.residence in the Guildhall Square later this year, a homecoming the
:21:45. > :21:49.city proudly a waits. The celebrations have not been
:21:49. > :21:53.confined to Portsmouth and Westminster Abbey. Dickens is a
:21:53. > :21:56.global phenomenon. In his day, he was treated like a rock star
:21:56. > :22:04.wherever he travelled the many events have been taking place
:22:04. > :22:10.across the globe to mark the anniversary.
:22:10. > :22:15.Dickens visited Philadelphia twice, he made quite an impact. 100 years
:22:15. > :22:19.ago, a glamourous ball marked the centenary of his birth. Now, the
:22:19. > :22:26.city is celebrating all things English. Another couple of attempts,
:22:26. > :22:29.a birthday wreath adorns the statue of the writer in Clarke park. In
:22:29. > :22:39.Christchurch, New Zealand, a Dickens Fellowship Group dresses up
:22:39. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:47.for a gala deliver. -- gala dinner. Youngsters in Turkey marking the
:22:47. > :22:53.bicentenary with a special school project. A birthday Lecture draws a
:22:53. > :22:55.huge crowd of University of Oslo students in Norway. While
:22:55. > :23:02.Australia's celebration is focused around the world's only other
:23:02. > :23:05.statue of Dickens in Centennial Park in Sydney.
:23:05. > :23:13.The performance tonight is in aid of the Portsmouth Diggin stature
:23:13. > :23:19.and I am joined by Simon Callow. -- Dickens statue. What was that that
:23:19. > :23:24.first gripped you about his work? Warmth, comedy, bigness of spirit,
:23:24. > :23:31.fantastic use of language. A complete writer. A most thrilling
:23:31. > :23:37.storyteller. And this great feeling for mankind at the centre of it.
:23:37. > :23:42.and your new book, it looks at the theatrical side of Dickens, actors
:23:42. > :23:47.love to play in his roles. What it is -- what is it about that that
:23:47. > :23:51.actors respond to? He adored the theatre, he said the video of his
:23:52. > :23:56.life for three whole years when he was young, he put those characters
:23:56. > :23:59.into the books, theatrical types. They have a can of energy. He
:23:59. > :24:04.himself was a wonderful actor and director. You feel that the books
:24:04. > :24:10.are being performed for you by a master actor. He rejoices in his
:24:10. > :24:15.brilliant different voices and the comic timing. It is very personal
:24:15. > :24:19.and that is one of the other things we like. And this is your first
:24:19. > :24:23.visit to Portsmouth, what do you make of the city's celebrations?
:24:23. > :24:29.Fantastic. Starting at his birthplace and going on to the
:24:29. > :24:32.place where he was baptised, then here in the theatre, cutting cakes
:24:32. > :24:36.and children reciting dickens, wonderful, he would have adored
:24:36. > :24:43.every second. A the performance tonight is a sell-out, but if you
:24:43. > :24:46.want to find out more about Dickens in Portsmouth, cut to the website.
:24:46. > :24:52.Clipping those people who are going to the theatre to what Simon Callow,
:24:52. > :24:58.make sure you wrap up warm. It could well be really chilly
:24:58. > :25:02.tonight, minus 15 up north, minus six or seven, possibly called it,
:25:03. > :25:08.in our region. in our region.
:25:08. > :25:13.We have radical day today. The catkins are out at Longstock in
:25:13. > :25:18.Hampshire. A dramatic sunset here over Didcot, thanks to Rich
:25:18. > :25:24.Blenkinsop. We finished the the reflect a photo taken by Sean
:25:24. > :25:30.Aherne in Chichester, just as the ice was starting to melt.
:25:30. > :25:34.A very cold forecast ahead, we are already at minus three at Chelwood
:25:34. > :25:40.in Surrey. We have an ice warning in place from the Met Office. A
:25:40. > :25:43.yellow warning For icy conditions on untreated surfaces. From the
:25:43. > :25:49.satellite picture, you can see eastern parts of the region got
:25:49. > :25:53.some sunshine. Further west, quite a bit of cloud. Tonight, the cloud
:25:53. > :25:57.continues the journey out towards the West. We'll see clear spells at
:25:57. > :26:02.times. Temperatures across the region set to plummet down to minus
:26:02. > :26:08.three or four. Two were three degrees cooler out in the
:26:08. > :26:12.countryside. We will see more cloud building in from the Eastern the
:26:12. > :26:21.early hours. One or two wintry forays could crop up in eastern
:26:21. > :26:28.parts. -- forays. First thing tomorrow, quite a bit in of cloud,
:26:28. > :26:33.a great start to the day. A few holes developing. Temperatures two-
:26:33. > :26:38.to-three degrees, feeling more like minus three or minus four because
:26:38. > :26:43.we have very fresh easterly and north easterly breezes. A very cold
:26:43. > :26:48.day in store for tomorrow. Tomorrow night is also set to be cold. We
:26:48. > :26:51.still expect a widespread frost, temperatures down to minus to and
:26:51. > :26:57.three, but more cloud in the picture. Damage has not tumbling
:26:57. > :27:02.quite as far. Thursday, quite a bit of cloud. Some brighter breaks at
:27:02. > :27:08.times. This evening into Friday, this is when the uncertainty will
:27:08. > :27:13.rise. More of these fronts heading in from the Atlantic, against that
:27:13. > :27:17.cold air. Another battleground situation. Some uncertainty, but it
:27:17. > :27:21.looks like that band of rain has it beats the cooler air could turn to
:27:21. > :27:27.snow. We will keep you posted. There could be the potential to see
:27:27. > :27:32.There could be the potential to see some snow for Friday.