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In tonight's programme: Summoned to work and told they're sacked — 180 | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
people lose their jobs at Thomson Local Directory. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Are families being kept apart? What effect recent immigration laws are | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
having on those working here. Southampton's latest international | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
makes up for lost time with his first touch of the ball. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
And we find out how this scientific glass—maker's latest design has been | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
conceived. Losing your job is never easy but | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
for 180 people at the Thomson Local Directory company, redundancy has | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
been particularly harrowing. Staff were summoned to the Farnborough | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
headquarters to be told the company was in administration. It's since | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
found a buyer, saving the majority of jobs. But 180 staff were sacked | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
on the spot and those with company cars were told to hand over their | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
vehicles and use public transport to get home. Ben Moore reports from | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Farnborough. From blue hook to balancing the | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
book, the reason that Thomson Local Directory has gone into | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
administration is not the popularity of its directory but rather that the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
parent firm has gone bankrupt in Italy. But by yesterday evening, a | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
buyer had been found — Corporate Media Partners. The firm says 340 | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
jobs, 65 descent of the workforce, have been saved. But 180 jobs are to | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
go, mainly sales records. Obviously, people are still nervous. None of | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
the people we let go yesterday were let go because of performance. It | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
was purely the financials of the company and the purchaser deciding | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
which divisions to take. Thomson Local Directory staff have been told | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
not to talk to the media at just over the road is this pub and this | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
is where many of the staff gathered yesterday. There are reports that | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
emotions are running high and we've been told that staff were divided | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
into two groups, one going to the second floor, the other to the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
fourth. Staff on the second floor were told they no longer had a job | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
and also we have been told that some staff drove here in company cars, | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
only to be told they had to hand them over. With staff not being any | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
longer part of Thomson Local Directory, the cars were no longer | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
insured. It's as simple as that. We plan to reimburse staff. Staff went | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
stranded. The message from the company is that it has survived and | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
is moving on. It says it will retain a strong online presence and the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
blue directory will continue to be printed. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
It's been a long wait, probably a few sleepless nights, but today tens | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
of thousands of students got their A level results. For those going on to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
university, their grades will have either confirmed long—standing | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
arrangements or prompted a bit of a scramble to come up with a plan B. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
The issue of tuition fees still looms large — but colleges are also | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
doing more to financially tempt students who get the best grades. | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
Dani Sinha reports. Like most students picking up their | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
A—level results, it was an anxious time for paper. More so for her | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
because she was one of the arts students whose unmarked coursework | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
was destroyed in a fire at a school in Dorset at Christmas. Teachers | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
gave her predicted grades to compensate. Good news for paper, who | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
got higher grades than she needed to do an industrial design course at | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Loughborough University. But like a lot of students we talked to, they | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
are willing to pay the higher tuition fees of £9,000 if it needs | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
going to a better university. I just think I'm going to be in so much | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
debt anyway, I might as well go for it. I know it's an awful lot but I'm | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
just not thinking about it. I do think it's worth it in the end if I | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
get a good education. I was pretty dead Seas and deeps and I have come | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
out with an A. I can go to uni and get a £2000 scholarship. And that's | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
just it — those students who did better than expected may be offered | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
the chance to change their scores or get a scholarship. It's known as the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
adjustment rosettes and is one of two systems in place to help | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
students. Universities can now take as many students as they want with | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
grades of AAB or above. Southampton, Surrey and Sussex | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
universities are now offering scholarships of up to £3000 to | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
attract these are students. With all their clearance places filled, | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
Southampton University have set up a call centres are trying to woo the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
brightest students. We will lose some students to adjustment and gain | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
some two adjustment. We are here to attract the best possible students. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
The traditional clearing system still exists, however, for students | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
who did not do as well as expected. Bournemouth had up to 150 vacancies | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
to fill. Solent University set up a clearance call centre last night. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
They received two calls at midnight as some students started to receive | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
results via the internet. By 7am, they had dealt with many enquiries. | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
What is happening today is hundreds of thousands of students getting a | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
guaranteed place at university. In fact it looks as if we're going to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
achieve more students getting their first choice university—based than | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
ever before and that's great news for them. For some, life after | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
A—levels will mean leaving the academic world and joining an | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
apprenticeship scheme. Students have more choice and | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
therefore more decisions to make than ever before. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Well, from September, some students in the South will have the option of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
choosing to pursue A levels at one of the new University Technical | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Colleges. These are schools for 14—to—18—year—olds with a technical | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
focus. Wiltshire's new college was due to open in Salisbury next year | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
in what's currently the main police station. But the opening's been | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
postponed until 2015 because the police say they need more time to | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
relocate. Nikki Mitchell has more. The police were due to move out of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
this building in November but that would have not taken prisoners —— | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
meant taking prisoners usually locked up here 18 miles away for up | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
to 18 months. We would have had some teams based at the County premises | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
and we would have had to use the custody nemesis elsewhere. We could | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
have made that work but I couldn't guarantee the same level of service | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
to the public. The 12 month delay does mean that Salisbury will get | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
its own purpose—built operational police station and custody suite in | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
the city centre but the new classrooms, workshops and science | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
labs to be created inside this grade two listed building now want to be | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
finished until 2015. We were surprised and disappointed, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
particularly on behalf of the students because a lot of students | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
had expressed an interest and we had to let them know that the project | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
was going to be delayed. We fully understand the position the Chief | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Constable finds himself in. I'm disappointed but I understand and | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
accept the judgement of the Chief Constable. The UTC will happen in | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Salisbury in 2015 and it will be a great asset to the city and the | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
surrounding region. In Berkshire, Reading's new University Technical | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Colleges is soon to be finished and will open next month. It's backed by | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
big employers like Microsoft, whose struggle to find recruits with the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
right hi—tech computer and engineering skills. In South | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Wiltshire, it's the army and employers from the local defence and | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
scientific sector who are going to have to wait a bit longer for the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
UTC they're backing in hopes of addressing the skills shortage here | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
to open. Police are questioning two brothers | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
in connection with the murder of a man in his 50s who was stabbed to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
death in Guildford. The brothers, aged 22 and 14, walked in to a | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
police station last night following the discovery of the man's body at a | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
house in the Bellfields area of the town. He's not yet been identified. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
A husband says he's shattered and bewildered at the closure of a | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
mental health facility which cares for his wife. Brian Payne's wife is | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
being cared for at Regnum Cottages in Chichester. He first learnt about | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
NHS plans to close the unit in the local paper. Mark Sanders reports. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Cheryl Payne has schizophrenia and the place where she is being cared | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
for is closing. Her husband is anxious about what will happen to | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
her. He learned about plans to shut the facility at Regnum Cottages in | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Chichester after seeing the news in the local paper. Bewildered is one | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
thing. Shattered. It came so suddenly. I read it in the paper | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
before I was notified. I can't afford for it to make me ill. It's | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
very distressing. Regnum Cottages RL is of a new, having opened at the | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
end of the 1990s. They were built on the grounds of the old hospital. —— | :09:43. | :09:54. | |
Regnum Cottages are relatively new. The Sussex partnership NHS | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
foundation trust gave us a statement about why the cottages are closing. | :09:57. | :10:26. | |
As for how Brian Payne learned about the closure plans in the paper, the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
trust says it would have been inappropriate to begin those | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
discussions without the approval of the West Sussex health and social | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
care select committee. Ryan Payne loves his garden but it's no | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
distraction from his worries about where his wife will end up. —— | :10:44. | :11:07. | |
Brian. Still to come in this evening's | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
South Today: Tony Husband has been enjoying a game of cricket. The | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
Ashes with a difference. England against Australia over 70s. The | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
first match in a three—game series. I'll tell you who came out on top in | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
a moment. The Bournemouth group of Surfers | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Against Sewage are meeting now with the developers of proposed offshore | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
wind farm at Navitus Bay. The proposed wind farm would have more | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
than 200 turbines some 12 miles off Bournemouth's shoreline. The surfers | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
want to discuss how that could affect sea conditions including the | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
swell. Figures out today reveal there's | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
been a big jump in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
the UK. Many nationalities still want to come here and the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Government's focus is on trying to control the numbers arriving from | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
outside the EU. A year ago it introduced new rules so workers can | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
only bring a husband or wife into the UK if they earn more than | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
£18,000. Only one other major Western country has a higher limit | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
and campaigners say it's unfairly keeping families apart. James Ingham | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
reports. After a decade in the UK, Inodeen | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
Naizai has the same rights as every other Briton. But his low pay is | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
stopping him living with his wife, who he married in Pakistan. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Immigration rule changes mean he's unable to sponsor her visa. Is too | :12:18. | :12:29. | |
much for my wife, for me. Life is no good for me and my wife. Anyone in | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
this country wishing to be joined by their husband or wife from outside | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
the EU must prove they earn £18,600 a year — more if they have children. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
The Government says that ensures couples won't become reliant on the | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
taxpayer for financial support. The community is very worried. Leaders | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
from communities across Southampton — representing Sikhs, Muslims and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Christians — are campaigning to get that threshold reduced. It's causing | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
the family is anxiety, depression. They're getting mentally disturbed, | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
it's causing family arguments, ripping them apart, keeping them | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
away from loved ones. The income threshold has been criticised by a | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
group of MPs looking at migration. A High Court judge has also described | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
them as onerous and unjustified. The government says it will review the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
impact of the rules are having and in the meantime has put all | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
applications that don't meet the minimum requirement on hold while it | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
appeals against the court ruling. The threshold is well above the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
minimum wage of around £13,000 a year. Nearly half of all working | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
people would be unable to sponsor a partner based on their earnings. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Opposition politicians agree with the need to limit immigration, but | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
question the figure chosen. Obviously, the Conservatives have | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
picked out a figure so that poor people can't reach it. What we say | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
is, as long as you work, as long as you contribute, no figure really | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
matters, as long as you are contributing to the country and not | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
expecting the country to look after you. Inodeen talks regularly to his | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
wife. If the rules remain the same, this is the only contact he'll have | :14:10. | :14:23. | |
with her here. On to sport and Tony tends to pick | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
his moments to get out of the TV studio very carefully. Two reasons | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
tonight — particularly good. One is the weather and the other is to | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
watch his favourite pastime, the cricket. I can see the sun is | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
beaming down on you! Yes, it's glorious. We are at one of | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
the most picturesque grounds in Hampshire. It has hosted the first | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
test match between England and Australia. I'll have a bit more | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
about that. But you mentioned that I've got a beaming smile and the sun | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
is beaming down. Now, they say good things come to | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
those who wait. Southampton striker Rickie Lambert waited a long time | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
for his England debut. But he made the most of his big chance last | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
night. It took the 31—year—old just two minutes and 47 seconds to score | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
on his debut. His goal proved to be the winner in England's 3—2 defeat | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
of Scotland. King of the back pages — and the | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
headline writers' darling. Rickie Lambert's achievement last night | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
spread delight around the world of football. It also sparked an | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
explosion of ecstatic tweets in Twitter feeds across the South. The | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
former beetroot factory worker's call—up at 31 had come late — but an | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
hour into the match he came off the bench to replace fellow Scouser | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Wayne Rooney. But how's this for making up for lost time, after just | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
under three minutes on the Wembley pitch? | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
Lambert's header proved to be the decisive moment in the game and — | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
but for a bobble off the turf and the width of a post — he very nearly | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
bagged another. He could have scored three! I had the post. A little nick | :16:00. | :16:13. | |
took it off my foot a little bit but I'm thankful to have scored a goal. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
For the fans at one Southampton pub today, the Lambert glow showed no | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
sign of fading. It went absolutely mad in here. When he hit the post | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
later, it went mad again. It was all about Lambert last night, not | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
England. When Lambert came on, he was there for three minutes, scored | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
a brilliant goal. Excellent game. Back training with Saints today, | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Lambert's smile said it all! How are you feeling? I'm all right, | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
OK. Lambert was not doing interviews | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
today but one of his Southampton team mates was more forthcoming. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Everyone was very happy for him, everyone was buzzing. We said | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
congratulations to him but it wasn't really a surprise for us because we | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
knew that if he played more than 30 minutes, he would score goals. Most | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
pundits thought Lambert's selection for England was as a stopgap. But | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
with his appetite for goal, who knows? At 31, maybe international | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
life is just beginning for St Rickie. Fantastic. A full | :17:16. | :17:30. | |
Southampton Premier League preview is coming up tomorrow. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
A Hampshire golfer is into the last 16 of the US Amateur championship | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
after two wins in the match play part of the competition. Neil | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Raymond has just gone onto the course in his match against | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
Australia's Nathan Holman. You may remember Neil, who plays at | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Corhampton Golf Club, topped the stroke play leaderboard at the event | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
at Brookline. He is going very well indeed. That is one England—is truly | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
a battle. How about another one? It's the first test match of a | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
three—year match series in the England and Australia over 70s. Is | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
truly were bowled out short time ago. This is the first of a three | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
match series. —— Australia were bowled out. Let's talk to the two | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
captains. Hugh Miller and Gordon Ives. Tell us about these matches, | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
how they've come about. Senior figures involved over the years | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
thought it was a logical move that when the Australians were coming | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
over and invited us to pay test cricket we would take them up on the | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
challenge. —— played test cricket. Gordon, great to have you over | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
here. A big travelling contingent? There's 17 in the squad, plus | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
ladies. We thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality. It's been so fantastic | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
every game we've played. A good one today but unfortunately, one to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
England and zero to us at the moment but it's going to change in the | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
test, hopefully. Two more test matches to go. We'll turn the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
tables. We lost the toss. I was going to bat today but it was fair | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
enough. It's a good batting wicket. They would be expecting 250 to get | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
out today. They only got 160 so we're in there for sure! It's been | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
an English summer so far for the Ashes! I have to stop you because we | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
could go on all night. We'll go to the bar in a second. England won the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
first one, they go to Crawley for the second. I harbour hopes that | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
maybe one day I will play cricket for my country still! | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
There is a future for you but the immediate future is behind you! | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Do you remember chemistry lessons in school? Getting to grips with Bunsen | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
burners, test tubes and a pipette! In full scale laboratories there's a | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
lot of glass equipment and some of it is very specialised. Professor | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
David Phillips had a unique piece of glassware he used in chemistry | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
demonstrations and when it broke, he turned to Southampton University for | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
help. He joined me earlier on the sofa and the first thing was to | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
reveal what was so special about his glass item. So, this is the item, in | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
fact, which is the unusual piece of glassware. It's a baby!It is and if | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
you look carefully, you can see it is a male baby. This is Mike. It's | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
not the first one you've had, because your accident prone, I | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
understand. I had one for many years, which was made in | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
Southampton, also, and he went with me to a big lecture in Berlin just | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
before Christmas and, alas, did not make it. So we had a funeral in | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
Berlin. Let's bring in the glass—blower. Have you ever been | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
asked to make anything as strange as this? Know, without doubt.It's all | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
hand—blown, isn't it? Is that tricky? Yes. We make each part | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
separately so we made the arms, the legs, the head all separately and | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
then put together. It's putting it all together that is the tricky bit. | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
David, you use it for educating, helping people to understand | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
science, but have you got to have something like that to make this | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
more educating and interesting? You don't have to bid if you can engage | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
your audience with seeing something unusual, it helps. But it does a | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
real experiments so there is some real science here. And, of course, | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
they find this very attractive. The adults as well as the children, I | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
assume? Well, we're all children at heart. The serious side about how | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
you use this is about jaundice in babies, isn't it? Yes, about ten | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
percentage babies are born with jaundice and it really needs to be | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
treated. It was discovered by accident in the mid—1950s that if | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
you use blue light on a baby, it will convert the yellow substance, | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
which is a breakdown product of red blood cells, into a water—soluble | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
form so you can get rid of it in the way that you and I would recognise. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
How does that manifest itself in your glass baby? This is just a | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
separating phenomenon. He might object to it being described as | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
that. In the legs, I have a fat solution of the authentic material | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
that is the cause of jaundice in newborn babies. Above I have some | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
water. You can see that it will not go in the water. If you radiate this | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
with blue light or ultraviolet light or both, this converts into a form | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
which will dissolve in water. So I can show you that if you like. I | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
have to take his dummy out. Here is the light. I have to put it there. | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
It takes about two minutes so we need to radiate for about that | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
length of time. So we're going to let that radiate and come back to it | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
in a second. So, you've been doing that for a couple of minutes. That | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
should be long enough, I hope. So now what I have to do is see if the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
yellow colour will go into the water. I have to mix it. Which you | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
wouldn't do with a normal baby, of course! Don't do this at home! With | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
any luck, it has been long enough that some, if not all, of the yellow | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
colour has gone into the top layer. It has now gone into the water | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
layer, so now little Mike can do exactly what nature intended and get | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
rid of it. That is incredible and it really does show exactly what will | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
happen. I suppose the worrying thing now is, as far as you're concerned, | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
Lee, you can make the baby but what if he wants an adult? I would kindly | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
invite him to go somewhere else! It's fabulous to meet you. Professor | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
David Phillips and Lee Mulholland, thank you. It's fascinating. | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
I loved Lee's face. It was a picture! We go onto the weather now. | :24:48. | :24:57. | |
Sarah is here. Gorgeous again. Yes, we have a mixed bag. Many of us | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
stayed dry. A beautiful butterfly spotted by | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Beryl Matthews today at Wakehurst Place Gardens, near Ardingly. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
An action shot of a Canada goose coming into land. Taken by Dan Smith | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
in Midhurst. And a moody feel to this one — taken | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
at the top of the South Downs by Katarina Hutchings. | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
We have had some showers and there are still a few in the mix for this | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
evening. It will fade away, so we'll see dry conditions for a time before | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
we see more wet weather into the early hours. The showers feed | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
through the M4 corridor, easing away later, and then we'll see the cloud | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
building in from the West during the early hours with patchy outbreaks of | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
rain and perhaps some heavy bursts. We start tomorrow with the grey, | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
damp feel and perhaps one or two more heavy bursts in the mix. In the | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
sunshine, feeling pleasant, with highs of 23, but still some showers | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
later in the day. Tomorrow evening, the rain eventually cleared through | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
and we are left with some dry conditions overnight. Temperatures | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
are still muddy and perhaps some mist and Merck. Dry and bright | :26:13. | :26:24. | |
conditions but a band of weather will bring us some windy conditions. | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
The wet weather will sweep through during the latter part of Saturday. | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Isobars still tightly packed. One or two showers in the mix but still the | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
wind is pretty strong and gusty. We have weekend events to look forward | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
to. For the National Feast of Lanterns | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
on the Somerley Estate in Ringwood it looks like we'll see a dry spell | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
tomorrow evening, as things get glowing. The event runs right | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
through this weekend, so expect some rain at times. And for the Rewind | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Festival in Henley on Thames, it should be dry for a time on Friday | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
evening, but wellies at the ready for Saturday! We do have the wet | :27:06. | :27:14. | |
weather to come. Take a look at your summary for the next few days. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
Tomorrow, rain to start, becoming drier into the evening. A bright | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
start to Saturday but the wet weather sweeps in from the West with | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
very strong winds at times, particularly along the coast. Sunday | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
looks blustery with one or two showers in the mix. | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
Tomorrow night, we look into the future, quite literally, about how a | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
pair of glasses in an app could help in the developing world. | :27:43. | :27:46. |