:00:05. > :00:07.Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. The region's top
:00:07. > :00:10.stories tonight: Jobs lost, jobs gained. British Gas workers react
:00:10. > :00:20.to the loss of 500 call centre posts as Barclays says it's
:00:20. > :00:25.creating another 300. I worked for British Gas and stenting 81. It is
:00:25. > :00:30.a disaster. -- since 1981. Tailored to fit the current climate. Small
:00:30. > :00:34.businesses talk of the challenges they face. You have to work seven-
:00:34. > :00:37.day weeks, early mornings and all that to just survive. As new
:00:37. > :00:39.figures say half of young drivers text at the wheel, just how much
:00:39. > :00:42.does using a smartphone affect their concentration? And the
:00:42. > :00:52.inspirational racing driver who has battled cancer to get back behind
:00:52. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:06.the wheel. I did not sit there and cried, I said, can you today? --
:01:06. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:10.can you cure me? It's been a mixed day of employment news in the south.
:01:10. > :01:11.The IT company CSC, which employs around 2,000 people at its
:01:11. > :01:15.Aldershot headquarters, announced it's cutting 640 jobs across the
:01:15. > :01:25.country. The news broke less than 24 hours after British Gas said it
:01:25. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:34.was axing up to 550 call centre posts in Southampton. However,
:01:34. > :01:36.Barclays Bank said it intended to create 300 temporary and permanent
:01:36. > :01:39.posts in Poole. We'll have more on the Aldershot job losses in a
:01:39. > :01:43.moment. First, Steve Humphrey has been talking to British Gas workers
:01:43. > :01:48.who have been talking of their shock at the company's plan. It is
:01:48. > :01:56.a tough time for British Gas staff in Southampton. It was horrific.
:01:56. > :02:01.Everybody was crying, horrible. We are still very raw. The plan to axe
:02:01. > :02:08.up to 550 jobs at this call centre was announced yesterday. I have
:02:08. > :02:12.worked here since 1981. It is a disaster. Especially at my age, and
:02:12. > :02:17.may never work again. Finding new jobs is going to be a struggle and
:02:17. > :02:21.at the moment there are just 6200 people out of work and claiming
:02:21. > :02:28.benefit in Southampton and currently 1300 vacancies in the
:02:28. > :02:33.city. At the very least, British Gas should look very seriously at
:02:33. > :02:39.support for retraining and redeployment and some package that
:02:39. > :02:42.will assist large numbers of people. British Gas says it is planning to
:02:43. > :02:48.close the call centre because one in three customers make contact
:02:48. > :02:53.online. The truth is that we need fewer people in call centres at a
:02:53. > :02:57.time when trying to keep costs down to help households with bills.
:02:57. > :03:02.unions said they will fight hard to persuade British Gas to think again.
:03:02. > :03:06.Unison says it will be rigorously examining the company's business
:03:06. > :03:13.case with a view to defending members' jobs and trying to avoid
:03:13. > :03:19.compulsory redundancies. British Gas proposes to transfer 50 staff
:03:19. > :03:21.in Southampton to an office in Chandler's Ford. The city council
:03:21. > :03:27.and Jobcentre Plus say everything possible will be done to help the
:03:27. > :03:31.500 people expected to lose their job. Meanwhile, Barclays Bank
:03:31. > :03:36.confirmed that it is creating 300 permanent and temporary jobs at
:03:36. > :03:40.their customer complaints department but 126 jobs will be
:03:40. > :03:48.lost their after a review of the pensions department based in the
:03:48. > :03:50.same building. More jobs are under threat at an IT firm based at
:03:50. > :03:54.Aldershot. Computer Services Corporation is to make 640 staff
:03:54. > :03:57.redundant in addition to 500 job cuts announced in February. CSC
:03:57. > :04:03.works from more than 100 locations across the UK and it's not yet
:04:03. > :04:05.known how many staff will be lost in each location. It hopes to lose
:04:05. > :04:14.as many posts as possible through redeployment and voluntary
:04:14. > :04:20.redundancies. Obviously I am concerned at any job losses but it
:04:20. > :04:25.is important to understand that CSC Corporation is a very large firm
:04:25. > :04:31.which employs 7000 people across the UK of whom about 1300 are in
:04:31. > :04:38.Aldershot. It is less than 10% of the overall people working for the
:04:38. > :04:41.company. In the current economic climate, running your own business
:04:41. > :04:44.can be a lonely, difficult experience. This week, Salisbury
:04:44. > :04:46.City Council has joined with the Chamber of Commerce and sponsors to
:04:46. > :04:49.host a free event aimed at supporting small businesses in the
:04:49. > :04:52.area. From financial to marketing advice, the aim is to lend support
:04:52. > :04:59.and give confidence to entrepreneurs who are determined to
:04:59. > :05:04.succeed in challenging times. Briony Leyland reports. Lift up
:05:04. > :05:09.your arms... And will measure your chest. Jason is a very modern kind
:05:09. > :05:12.of Taylor. He measures a wide range of clients, from lords and ladies
:05:12. > :05:16.to jockeys and actors and his business in Salisbury is seven
:05:16. > :05:24.years old. He says the last few years have been challenging and the
:05:24. > :05:28.attitude of the banks have not helped. We had lots of cash flow
:05:28. > :05:33.problems and a very small shop and banks were saying no to us. You
:05:33. > :05:38.have to raise your game in this economy at the moment and try over
:05:38. > :05:42.the odds. We are here late at night, people think businesses work from
:05:42. > :05:46.nine-to-five, you must work seven- day weeks and those early mornings,
:05:46. > :05:50.you must deal with that to just survive. Today, Jason joined other
:05:50. > :05:54.business people in Salisbury for the first big business event. The
:05:54. > :05:59.chance to make contacts and develop. Elliott Jones has a gardening
:05:59. > :06:05.business and says that finance is a big issue. It has definitely got
:06:05. > :06:10.more difficult, they are asking more questions when you are looking
:06:10. > :06:15.to get finance. Three and four years ago, it was very different
:06:15. > :06:20.and it was much simpler. It has got more difficult and that is a
:06:20. > :06:23.problem for many businesses. I need somebody to help me in that
:06:23. > :06:28.direction. Edward makes children's furniture and he is here to find
:06:28. > :06:32.out more about marketing after a tricky time. He is beginning to
:06:32. > :06:36.feel more confident. I am starting to see the light at the end of the
:06:36. > :06:40.tunnel but if you asked me this one year ago, I would say, what am I
:06:40. > :06:45.doing? Organisers say there is no doubt that businesses in Salisbury
:06:45. > :06:50.and beyond are facing challenges but they hope that extra support
:06:50. > :06:54.will help to make that hard work paid off. The climate is mixed,
:06:54. > :06:58.there are businesses struggling but a lot are very ready to do business
:06:58. > :07:02.and invest but they just want more confidence in the market. They
:07:02. > :07:06.wanted that people are there for them and there is a sense that
:07:06. > :07:09.something is happening. It is beginning to turn. We really need
:07:09. > :07:13.more confidence and for the business community to rally
:07:13. > :07:16.together. Of course, banks are a key part of that business community.
:07:16. > :07:19.Earlier, I spoke to Peter Ibbetson, chairman of small business for the
:07:19. > :07:26.Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest. I asked him whether banks were
:07:26. > :07:29.being generally unhelpful in lending money. I will be at the
:07:29. > :07:34.Salisbury business event tonight and I am talking to businesses to
:07:34. > :07:39.make sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure we
:07:39. > :07:44.can help them with start-ups and make sure that the help businesses
:07:44. > :07:49.trade out of the down cycle and one of the questions will be, how can I
:07:49. > :07:52.access finance? NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland bend about �100
:07:53. > :07:56.million every day but we ask a lot of questions and it is our
:07:57. > :08:00.responsibility to make sure that businesses can repay. That optimism
:08:00. > :08:06.goes against what the Bank of England figures show, that lending
:08:06. > :08:11.to small and medium businesses continues to fall, 3.9% lower in
:08:11. > :08:17.February this year. What the Bank of England report tells us is that
:08:17. > :08:20.we are lending the same amount of new money to businesses and we are
:08:20. > :08:25.lending about �100 million every day to businesses but what is
:08:25. > :08:29.happening is those businesses are repaying that borrowing much faster
:08:29. > :08:32.so the amount of money that businesses borrow is reducing as
:08:32. > :08:38.the total amount but we are still lending a new money and that is all
:08:38. > :08:43.about confidence. People say there is no confidence, the economy is
:08:43. > :08:47.fragile. How do you give businesses optimism? It is about confidence
:08:47. > :08:51.and research that we have done tells us that about one-third of
:08:51. > :08:55.the businesses in the country do not want to borrow and invest
:08:55. > :08:59.because they are nervous. It is quite a small number, about him %
:08:59. > :09:03.at one not invest because they cannot get the money from banks so
:09:03. > :09:07.most of the time we lend the money but we need those businesses to be
:09:07. > :09:12.confident. In my 38 years, we are seeing finance at the cheapest
:09:12. > :09:19.price it has been. So some people say that there are fees and
:09:19. > :09:23.commissions are going up? They are not. NatWest and Royal Bank, if you
:09:23. > :09:29.take good, secure credit, we lend to that business on a three-year
:09:29. > :09:37.fixed rate at just over 3.5%, including fees. Rates are very low
:09:38. > :09:40.in relation to what they were. Thank you. Poole's new �37 million
:09:41. > :09:44.Twin Sails Bridge will be closed overnight tomorrow for a series of
:09:44. > :09:46.tests and adjustments to be carried out, just weeks after it opened.
:09:46. > :09:48.Transport bosses say some minor issues have arisen since the
:09:49. > :09:51.lifting bridge opened to traffic following emergency repairs to the
:09:51. > :09:54.road surface. The bridge, which links Poole Harbour with Hamworthy,
:09:55. > :10:02.was originally due to open at the end of February. It will reopen on
:10:02. > :10:05.Thursday. Still to come in this evening's South Today: Sarah Farmer
:10:05. > :10:12.has the weather forecast and is attempting to stay dry. Brollies at
:10:12. > :10:17.the ready. We have got lots of rain in the forecast tonight and
:10:17. > :10:26.tomorrow. In fact, there is a weather warning in place. I'll have
:10:26. > :10:29.more later on... A Dorset postman who claimed he was forced out of
:10:29. > :10:32.his job has lost his employment tribunal. William Blight from Corfe
:10:32. > :10:36.Castle said he felt bullied when he was ordered to abandon his bicycle
:10:36. > :10:44.and deliver mail by trolley. Royal Mail told the tribunal it has gone
:10:44. > :10:46.out of its way to resolve the situation. Ambulances had to be
:10:46. > :10:49.diverted away from a Sussex hospital this afternoon after it
:10:49. > :10:52.ran out of water. Tanks at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards
:10:52. > :10:55.Heath ran dry after the system that should have automatically refilled
:10:55. > :11:00.them failed. South East Water has pumped enough water into them to
:11:01. > :11:03.supply the site for 24 hours while it investigates what went wrong. A
:11:03. > :11:06.drugs company is mounting a legal challenge against four health
:11:06. > :11:12.trusts here in the South who have been reducing costs by using a
:11:12. > :11:15.cheaper alternative treatment for a common eye condition. Novartis,
:11:15. > :11:17.based in Frimley, makes the more expensive officially licensed drug
:11:18. > :11:27.and wants to put a stop to doctors prescribing the more affordable
:11:28. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:35.medicine. Allen Sinclair reports. This company has spent years and
:11:35. > :11:39.money researching and developing drugs to treat age-related macular
:11:39. > :11:43.degeneration, and that effort was rewarded when the National
:11:43. > :11:49.Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence licensed Lucentis but
:11:49. > :11:55.that is expensive at �740 for a dose and some doctors in the area
:11:55. > :11:59.believe another drug is as effective at a fraction of the cost.
:11:59. > :12:02.Eileen's sight was failing but for the vast number of years the slow
:12:02. > :12:07.degeneration has been stopped and she does not mind which drug
:12:07. > :12:15.doctors prescribe. I have not noticed any difference between both
:12:15. > :12:22.of them. As long as it was still treating my condition, I would not
:12:22. > :12:25.mind. Unsurprisingly, the makers of Lucentis are angry to lose business
:12:25. > :12:30.to this cut-price alternative and they lunched at judicial review,
:12:30. > :12:34.saying... It is unacceptable to put the safety of patients at risk to
:12:34. > :12:38.the widespread use of unlicensed treatment when the licensed
:12:38. > :12:43.medicine is available. It undermines the process that was
:12:43. > :12:48.introduced to safeguard patients. The cheaper drug it is approved to
:12:48. > :12:52.treat cancer but its wider properties and price mean that
:12:52. > :13:02.Primary Care Trust in Hampshire want the freedom to use this as an
:13:02. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:14.alternative and in a joint Immaculate disease Society in
:13:14. > :13:18.Andover says this by one and evidently very patient. If experts
:13:18. > :13:22.cannot agree, then this hardly seems reasonable to pass the
:13:22. > :13:30.decision to the patients. A legal challenge will undoubtedly
:13:30. > :13:33.influence what drugs patients are offered in the future. A court has
:13:33. > :13:38.heard the friend of a man accused of strangling his girlfriend feared
:13:38. > :13:40.he would kill her on the night she died. Emily Longley lived in New
:13:41. > :13:43.Zealand but was studying at Brockenhurst College. The 17-year-
:13:44. > :13:48.old's body was found in Elliot Turner's bed at his parents' house
:13:48. > :13:52.in Bournemouth. Tom Hepworth reports. Tom Crow, on the left of
:13:52. > :13:56.the picture, told Winchester Crown Court that Elliot Turner had become
:13:56. > :13:59.suspicious that Emily was having an affair after finding messages on
:13:59. > :14:04.her phone. He said that he fantasised about killing the
:14:04. > :14:10.aspiring model and at one point asked him, how should I do it?
:14:10. > :14:14.Should I centre on fire? Or drown her? The jury were told that Mr
:14:14. > :14:17.Turner had found out that MLA planned to meet another man at a
:14:17. > :14:21.night club in Bournemouth on the night before she died. Tom Crone
:14:21. > :14:25.said that Elliot Turner went looking for them armed with a
:14:25. > :14:30.hammer, saying he was going to back to her. He returned later, saying
:14:30. > :14:34.that he had killed her and dumped her body in a nearby car park.
:14:34. > :14:38.Picture, Elliot Turner told him he was joking. In cross-examination,
:14:38. > :14:44.the judge asked him, he did absolutely nothing and you say you
:14:44. > :14:50.believe in? Tom replied, no, I stayed with them. Why? I felt
:14:50. > :14:54.intimidated. At this point, he broke down in tears. The court
:14:54. > :14:59.heard that Tom Crone said the following night, she and Mr Turner
:14:59. > :15:03.were at his home and Mr Turner asked him to kill her. He refused.
:15:03. > :15:07.When the couple had gone inside and started fighting, he told his
:15:07. > :15:11.neighbour, I think he is going to kill him money. Her body was found
:15:11. > :15:16.in his bed the next morning. The prosecution alleges that Elliot
:15:16. > :15:20.Turner strangled her. He denies murder. His parents are accused of
:15:20. > :15:29.covering up for their son and all three deny attempting to pervert
:15:29. > :15:32.the course of justice and the trial continues. Last year at least 26
:15:32. > :15:35.people died in crashes caused by drivers using a mobile phone. This
:15:35. > :15:38.internet campaign produced by Gwent Police is designed to warn young
:15:38. > :15:48.people of the dangers of using the new generation of smartphones while
:15:48. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:54.Research carried out in Berkshire for the Institute of Advanced
:15:54. > :15:58.Motorists has found that half of young drivers have used their
:15:58. > :16:00.phones to text while at the wheel and one in four even check Facebook
:16:00. > :16:10.pages and emails. Our transport correspondent has been finding out
:16:10. > :16:11.
:16:11. > :16:16.what impact that has on the way they drive. This is a driving some
:16:16. > :16:24.later near Crowthorne. At the wheel, 17 year-old Calvin Cotton. He
:16:24. > :16:28.passed his driving test for less than one month ago. We have sent
:16:28. > :16:32.you a Facebook message saying, don't worry... This woman is
:16:32. > :16:37.measuring his reaction times when he is distracted by Updating his
:16:38. > :16:42.Facebook status or sending texts. You don't really have much control
:16:42. > :16:48.over the car. I was not really in my only end. I was all over the
:16:49. > :16:52.place. Research has found that more than half of all young drivers have
:16:52. > :17:00.sent texts at the wheel and one in four of them have read e-mails were
:17:00. > :17:05.checked Facebook. On the test track, members of the under 17 Car Club
:17:05. > :17:10.try manoeuvring into a series of parking bays whilst texting. An
:17:10. > :17:15.instructor sits in the car for safety. By an just asking Kelvyn to
:17:15. > :17:19.send me the names of all the planets in the solar system.
:17:19. > :17:25.almost at once, his driving sufferers. I am not asking him to
:17:25. > :17:30.tell his friends on Facebook what he is doing. You look down to type.
:17:30. > :17:35.You look back up and you are in the wrong place. It is very distracting,
:17:35. > :17:40.especially at high speed. A we saw him knock over some road cones and
:17:40. > :17:45.we saw him looking down more at his son. Ang Lee also saw him taking
:17:45. > :17:50.longer to complete the circuit. All these things together mean that his
:17:50. > :17:53.driving was worse. A number of people using the internet on their
:17:54. > :17:58.phones has doubled in the last three years. The consequences of
:17:58. > :18:08.doing that behind the wheel are obvious. But, unlike drink-driving,
:18:08. > :18:11.it isn't seen by many young drivers as socially unacceptable. The
:18:11. > :18:14.warnings are clearly there. It's a small island in the middle of the
:18:14. > :18:18.Atlantic Ocean made famous when Napoleon was exiled there. The
:18:18. > :18:21.British overseas territory of St Helena is home to 4,000 islanders.
:18:21. > :18:24.But 7,000 of its descendants live here in the South. The highest
:18:24. > :18:27.concentration in the UK. At the moment, the only way to travel to
:18:27. > :18:32.the island is by ship and can take weeks. But now, the British
:18:32. > :18:35.Government has agreed to pay �250 million to build an airport.
:18:35. > :18:40.Rachael Canter has been finding out what this means for the South's St
:18:40. > :18:45.Helenian community. Sandie hasn't seen her six-year-old son, Pascal,
:18:45. > :18:53.for seven months. She came here to work as a housekeeper in Fording
:18:53. > :18:58.Bridge in Hampshire. I had to go away to find work, to pay be enough
:18:58. > :19:02.money to keep myself and my son. It was very difficult. I know that a
:19:02. > :19:09.lot of people do this on St Helena. I never thought I could but I had
:19:09. > :19:15.to, but many times I wanted to turn back. When put in this position,
:19:15. > :19:20.you will do it. April is a student in Portsmouth. This is the most her
:19:20. > :19:23.family have seen of her in two years. Usually once a week and will
:19:23. > :19:27.catch up with my family on the island. St Helena's remoteness is
:19:27. > :19:34.part of its charm. Sailings from Portland ended last year. Now you
:19:34. > :19:40.have to catch the ship from Cape Town. Environmental campaigners say
:19:40. > :19:44.the airport will impact the ecology and go but the plans on hold,
:19:44. > :19:48.saying �250 million was too much. The Coalition government disagrees.
:19:48. > :19:53.The UK is giving �24 million each year just for the life support to
:19:53. > :19:57.keep the island going. By investing in the airport, we will not have to
:19:57. > :20:02.do that because the island will become self-sufficient. When the
:20:02. > :20:06.airport opens in 2015, 35,000 visitors are expected each year. A
:20:06. > :20:10.recent poll showed more than half of the islanders living in the UK
:20:10. > :20:14.will return. Sandy is now living. She does not want to miss the boat
:20:14. > :20:20.when it comes to future opportunities for her and her son.
:20:20. > :20:26.It will create jobs. So he has a chance to stay put on the island.
:20:26. > :20:30.And do something for the island, instead of having to come away.
:20:30. > :20:38.Hopefully, it will create a future for i-Generation, the young
:20:38. > :20:43.generation. It will be quite right. He might be a pilot! That is a good
:20:43. > :20:47.idea! Bringing families together. By the sport... We will meet a
:20:47. > :20:51.young man who has beaten the odds but we start with football. I was
:20:51. > :20:56.at a charity event last night and quite a lot of people were on their
:20:57. > :21:00.telephones checking the score from West Ham? Absolutely. I was
:21:00. > :21:05.debating on Twitter. What is the scenario for Southampton? If they
:21:05. > :21:11.get promoted with the crowd, that would be the best way. But they
:21:11. > :21:14.have some work to do. To guarantee that place. Closest rivals West Ham
:21:14. > :21:17.won at Leicester last night, which means the Hammers could still pip
:21:17. > :21:23.Southampton to second spot. West Ham came from behind to seal a 2-1
:21:23. > :21:26.win, thanks to Jack Collison's strike. That was a good night for
:21:26. > :21:29.Sam. He is still in the race. Southampton know a win on Saturday
:21:29. > :21:32.against Coventry will guarantee them promotion. Anything less and
:21:32. > :21:37.West Ham could claim second. Goal difference and goals scored could
:21:37. > :21:43.come into play. If they were level on all those, Saints would go up
:21:43. > :21:47.due to a better head-to-head record. We hope it does not come to that.
:21:47. > :21:49.You can watch the drama unfold here on BBC One this Saturday lunchtime,
:21:49. > :21:57.Southampton versus Coventry is live here and on BBC Radio Solent.
:21:57. > :22:01.Tonight we bring the story of a motor racing champion who's battle
:22:01. > :22:04.against cancer we reported a year ago here on South Today. In 2011,
:22:04. > :22:07.Dean Stoneman should have been impressing Formula One scouts. In
:22:07. > :22:10.fact, he was having treatment to save his life. The Southampton
:22:10. > :22:18.driver has spoken exclusively to us about the challenges he's faced and
:22:18. > :22:24.his hopes for the future. Here's Emma Vardy. He was the rising star
:22:24. > :22:28.on the brink of a promising new chapter. Dean Stoneman, at 20 years
:22:28. > :22:33.old, worked his way through the ranks to win the Formula Two World
:22:33. > :22:39.Championship. And after that test drive at the pinnacle of his sport,
:22:39. > :22:47.he was, it seemed, destined for more success. I was training very
:22:47. > :22:51.hard for the test, to get myself ready. Then... In 20th January 11,
:22:51. > :23:00.I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. It was a big shock to the
:23:00. > :23:04.family. It spread to my liver, lungs and chest. I was told that it
:23:04. > :23:07.was not nice. The cancer was so advanced that when he saw a
:23:07. > :23:12.specialist, he was taken to hospital and started chemotherapy
:23:12. > :23:18.the same day. He was told that had been one week later, he could have
:23:18. > :23:26.lost his life. I didn't sit there and cried, I said, there is a 40%
:23:26. > :23:31.chance of survival. It's hard to take. But I just dealt with it. The
:23:31. > :23:35.number one goal was to survive. Dean withdrew from racing and began
:23:35. > :23:39.undergoing intensive treatment followed by four operations. 14
:23:39. > :23:42.months since diagnosis, he is free from cancer and has been back
:23:42. > :23:47.behind the wheel, testing his strength, despite still feeling the
:23:47. > :23:51.side effects of treatment. first time coming out of the pit
:23:51. > :23:55.lane, there were some tears in his eyes and the whole pit lane watch
:23:55. > :23:59.and drive, and that was a special day. To get behind the car was very
:23:59. > :24:04.tough. After being out for the season, and my hands and feet are
:24:04. > :24:08.affected by one of the drugs I have been given. But I am determined and
:24:09. > :24:11.I want to race. One year on from now, Deane hopes to raise
:24:11. > :24:15.professionally but the next few months will be about getting back
:24:15. > :24:21.to that level of debt does he wants had that is needed for the demands
:24:21. > :24:25.of racing. I struggled with that this but I am chipping away and I
:24:25. > :24:30.am in the gym every day, just to get that back. After what I have
:24:30. > :24:34.been through, I want to get back to racing. Those close to Dean say
:24:34. > :24:39.that as in his racing, he has shown the same determination and desire
:24:39. > :24:46.in fighting cancer. He still has some way to go but with belief, he
:24:46. > :24:51.will recover and return to the racetrack. And we wish him all the
:24:51. > :24:56.best. Lots more of that story online on our website. Thank you.
:24:56. > :25:01.Now the weather. Sarah is with us. And for the final time, you're
:25:01. > :25:11.going off to have your baby? Here is, my last one! Make it a good
:25:11. > :25:13.
:25:13. > :25:16.Anni Stevens took this dramatic looking sky above it will happen
:25:16. > :25:26.today. Nick Edwards said this picture of showers over Cowes
:25:26. > :25:30.harbour. Out with a bang. We have the odd shower but they are drying
:25:30. > :25:34.out and for a time we will have some dry weather, this slice of
:25:34. > :25:39.clear skies in store but not for long. This is what is waiting in
:25:39. > :25:42.the wings. Low-pressure working its way end and that brings rather
:25:43. > :25:47.hefty downpours through the course of tonight. And then to tomorrow as
:25:48. > :25:51.well. The showers are around for this evening and they will slowly
:25:52. > :25:56.fade away, clear skies for some time and then the cloud builds and
:25:56. > :26:01.the wind picks up and you will see that band of Balloo sweeping in.
:26:01. > :26:07.Heavy downpours and temperatures at seven or eight degrees under the
:26:07. > :26:11.cloud and were we see the clear skies, 5 and 6. Tomorrow morning,
:26:11. > :26:14.there is an Met Office yellow warning. That is for the wet
:26:14. > :26:18.weather. We will see some torrential downpours but also some
:26:18. > :26:24.really crusty went, particularly for the rush hour tomorrow morning.
:26:24. > :26:29.Gusts of 50 mph inland and along the coast, 60 mph. It is a blustery
:26:29. > :26:33.start. The afternoon, some showery conditions develop but these could
:26:33. > :26:38.be rather sharp with some hailstones and thunder.
:26:38. > :26:43.Temperatures, if you see any slice of sunshine, up to around 13 or 14
:26:43. > :26:46.degrees. But that brightness will be quite limited. Tomorrow,
:26:46. > :26:50.overnight there will be wet weather and try intervals here and there
:26:50. > :26:54.but still some rather heavy bursts and overnight temperatures of
:26:54. > :26:58.between eight degrees and 10 degrees and that showery theme
:26:58. > :27:02.continues into Thursday and you can see that low pressure gradually
:27:02. > :27:07.going northwards, we are left with that unsettled weather. Still
:27:07. > :27:10.showery conditions, isobars tightly packed with strong, gusting wind
:27:10. > :27:17.and blustery showers for Thursday and there will be some brighter
:27:17. > :27:19.skies at times. Friday, things settled down and it will add for a
:27:19. > :27:26.short while, still some showers and lighter wind but perhaps more