:00:10. > :00:13.This is BBC World News Today. The fight for justice that became a
:00:13. > :00:16.defining moment in British race relations.
:00:16. > :00:19.18 years after the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, was killed in a
:00:19. > :00:29.racist attack - Gary Dobson and David Norris are found guilty of
:00:29. > :00:33.his murder. At the police done their job
:00:33. > :00:37.properly, I would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son,
:00:37. > :00:40.rather than fighting to get his killers to court.
:00:40. > :00:46.D-Day for Republican voters in the American state of Iowa as they
:00:46. > :00:49.prepare to choose their candidate for the 2012 Presidential race.
:00:49. > :00:51.Singer, percussionist, UNICEF ambassador and President? Youssou
:00:51. > :00:58.N'Dour confirms he will stand in Senegal's Presidential elections
:00:58. > :01:00.next month. Also coming up in the programme:
:01:00. > :01:03.The lurking menace found in the office of Hong Kong's Chief
:01:03. > :01:13.Executive. His brand new, multi- million dollar government building
:01:13. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:17.is found to be contaminated with And St Trinian's creator and
:01:17. > :01:27.internationally acclaimed cartoonist, Ronald Searle, dies at
:01:27. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.Hello and welcome. There were tears and shouting at
:01:38. > :01:42.the Old Bailey this afternoon as two men were found guilty of the
:01:42. > :01:44.murder, 18 years ago, of the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. Gary
:01:44. > :01:47.Dobson and David Norris were convicted after a six-week trial
:01:47. > :01:50.that hinged on new scientific evidence, in a landmark case that
:01:50. > :01:57.exposed racism in the Metropolitan Police, and led to a change in the
:01:57. > :02:05.law that allowed suspects to be tried twice for the same crime.
:02:05. > :02:10.Both will be sentenced tomorrow, as Tom Symonds reports.
:02:10. > :02:18.An unprovoked, a racist attack near a London bus stop. A young black
:02:18. > :02:25.man fatally stabbed. A notorious unsolved murder. As the police
:02:25. > :02:33.watched their suspects and public anger boiled over. A bereaved
:02:33. > :02:39.family fought for justice. Today, after 18 years, they got it. His
:02:39. > :02:45.mother, Doreen worked as a silent court heard the verdicts. She spoke
:02:45. > :02:50.afterwards of her relief, but also her anger. How can I celebrate when
:02:50. > :02:57.I know that this day could have come 18 years ago, if the police,
:02:57. > :03:04.who were meant to find my son's killers, failed so miserably to do
:03:04. > :03:10.so. This is not a reason to celebrate. We paid tribute to Mr &
:03:10. > :03:15.Mrs Laurence's courage and dignity. They have contributed to major
:03:15. > :03:19.changes in policing, the law and within society as a whole. Gary
:03:19. > :03:23.Dobson is convicted of murder following the scrapping of the so-
:03:23. > :03:28.called double jeopardy law. He had been acquitted in the 1990s. David
:03:28. > :03:33.Norris had never been charged. Forensic scientists at this company
:03:33. > :03:38.began what is called a Cold Case Review. Clothes are taken from
:03:38. > :03:44.Stephen Laurence and the defendants were subjected to months of modern
:03:44. > :03:48.forensic tests. Using this taping technique, clothing fibres were
:03:48. > :03:54.collected from the garments and the bags they were in. On this
:03:54. > :03:58.colourful jacket taken from Dobson's house and this cardigan,
:03:58. > :04:04.fibres which matched Stephen's clothes. On these genes from
:04:04. > :04:08.Maurice's House, a single her. significant finding was based small
:04:08. > :04:13.stain on the back of a collar. Microscopic blood stain that
:04:13. > :04:20.wouldn't have been apparent to the naked eye. That staying is on Gary
:04:20. > :04:25.Dobson's jacket collar, whose blood is it? It indicated it came from
:04:25. > :04:30.Stephen Laurence. Blood, fibres and her linked the two suspects to the
:04:30. > :04:35.scene, to the victim, to the killing. Dobson denied knowing
:04:35. > :04:39.David Norris, but despite these surveillance pictures, all the
:04:39. > :04:43.suspects had to be released. Detectives tried fitting a covert
:04:43. > :04:53.camera in Dobson's flat. They watched a group of friends and
:04:53. > :05:01.
:05:01. > :05:06.Months turned into years. In 1995, Stephen's desperate parents tried
:05:06. > :05:12.to prosecute three of the suspects themselves - the case collapsed.
:05:12. > :05:16.The men refused to answer questions at the 1999 inquiry which run --
:05:16. > :05:21.produced a report critical of the police. Even this latest
:05:21. > :05:27.prosecution has taken four years. But the case remains open. Nine
:05:27. > :05:33.people are still of interest. From the original five, two are guilty.
:05:33. > :05:40.What of those that remain? Stephen Laurence is buried in Jamaica, his
:05:40. > :05:46.mother still turns his grave. always a very sad time. As his
:05:46. > :05:51.picture is beginning to wear out, I will have to get another one done.
:05:51. > :05:57.It has been 18 years. But for him, the British justice system has now
:05:57. > :06:04.finally delivered. Joining me now is the writer and
:06:04. > :06:10.broadcaster, Darcus Howe. A long road to justice for the family.
:06:11. > :06:20.What was your reaction? More importantly, when I heard he was
:06:20. > :06:25.killed, I thought, there but for the grace of God go I. I have boys,
:06:26. > :06:31.a couple of years younger and older than he was. That was the first
:06:31. > :06:37.thing. To be concerned your son would be playing football all be
:06:37. > :06:43.dead. It went through the black community. That was in 1983, 18
:06:43. > :06:47.years later how has that changed attitudes? So much has altered in
:06:47. > :06:56.the last 18 years hasn't it? and No 4 stock in the sense we
:06:56. > :07:06.carried through enormous trouble to get these guys before the court. It
:07:06. > :07:07.
:07:07. > :07:14.seemed to be over. His parents, they are my age, my generation and
:07:14. > :07:18.they did it. That is important. you think the elements of racism
:07:18. > :07:24.that existed in British society in 1983 has been changed for ever, as
:07:24. > :07:29.a result of this murder? And the inquiries that followed? I would
:07:29. > :07:35.like to say that, but it goes backwards and forwards. A few hours
:07:35. > :07:43.ago a young students was walking near student when my daughter works
:07:43. > :07:49.in the BBC and lost his head, for no apparent reason. Whether things
:07:49. > :07:55.are improving or changing, then something like that happens.
:07:55. > :08:01.Metropolitan Police, the inquiry deemed to be institutional racist.
:08:01. > :08:10.These are issues being discussed across the Establishment? Yes it is.
:08:10. > :08:15.Even in football? It goes back and forward all the time. In that sense,
:08:15. > :08:25.sometimes you think, we are moving nicely along. Then something
:08:25. > :08:28.enormous happens, like this the police being institutionally racist
:08:28. > :08:33.in the Mac fierce an inquiry. That is accepted and we are working on
:08:34. > :08:43.it. Then they say they are not institutional racist any more, and
:08:44. > :08:44.
:08:44. > :08:49.we go backwards. The consequences that happen that produces change,
:08:49. > :08:55.you don't begin to shake and tremble when these moments happen,
:08:55. > :09:01.that one not happen again. Is that the legacy of his murder? It is the
:09:01. > :09:10.legacy of his execution. I am very careful with my words. It was his
:09:10. > :09:18.execution. It is for young people, young blacks, it is one thing. But
:09:18. > :09:23.for us, his parents have lost a son. Their relationship crashed. She is
:09:23. > :09:30.stuck with it. Only a couple of years ago she started a school in
:09:30. > :09:35.his name and the most horrible racist graffiti was there. Coming
:09:35. > :09:40.out of that school, some students have graduated and had started
:09:40. > :09:46.working as architects, which is what Stephen Laurence wanted to do,
:09:46. > :09:56.so some good has come out of that? It is fine by me, but to have the
:09:56. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:15.graffiti, the abuse of the institution.
:10:15. > :10:24.There are six candidates thought of the Iowa election. The BBC's Steve
:10:24. > :10:28.Kingston is in Iowa. On the island eyes, a slow and
:10:28. > :10:35.arduous struggle to move in the right direction. An image for many
:10:35. > :10:41.here, sums up President Obama's America. I feel like he made a lot
:10:41. > :10:46.of promises prior to the election that hasn't necessarily come to
:10:46. > :10:50.fruition. We need a change in direction. We need somebody who
:10:50. > :10:55.will get the economy moving and get some confidence built back up in
:10:55. > :10:58.the people. This is a country where the mood of hope and change of four
:10:58. > :11:03.years ago has given way to disappointment, even
:11:03. > :11:08.disillusionment with Barack Obama. Which gives the Republicans a real
:11:08. > :11:14.shot at the White House in 2012, if they can unite around a credible
:11:14. > :11:20.candidate. The polls suggest this man, Mitt Romney as the broadest
:11:20. > :11:25.appeal, the best chance of beating Barack Obama. And in a polling day
:11:25. > :11:30.rally, he was already looking ahead to November. The President said he
:11:30. > :11:35.wants to transform America. I don't want to transform America. I want
:11:35. > :11:40.to restore the principles that made America. I want to make sure we
:11:40. > :11:43.take those principles to the White House and get America working again.
:11:43. > :11:49.More conservative Republicans are suspicious of Mitt Romney, they
:11:49. > :11:53.think he is not one of them. Which explains the late surge in support
:11:53. > :11:58.for Rick Santos Oram, a social conservative backed by evangelical
:11:58. > :12:06.Christians. The other main challenger is Ron Paul, a plain-
:12:06. > :12:13.speaking champion of small Government. For weeks, the
:12:13. > :12:18.Republican rivals have been tearing each other apart. The attack and
:12:18. > :12:22.its of brutal as they seek the tiniest advantage in a small state
:12:22. > :12:30.that punches above its weight. is not first because it is
:12:30. > :12:34.important. It is first. So this offers the first chance to see what
:12:34. > :12:38.real life members of a particular political party think about their
:12:38. > :12:42.candidates. The man whose job they covert, arrived at the White House
:12:42. > :12:51.today after a Christmas break with family in Hawaii. He might not
:12:51. > :12:58.admit it, but Barack Obama will have a close eye on Iowa.
:12:58. > :13:03.Let's speak to someone from a think-tank. The polling for Rick
:13:03. > :13:10.Santos Oram has jumped, but Iowa has a mixed record in picking
:13:10. > :13:14.eventual winners? It is batting less than 500. In the last five
:13:14. > :13:18.contested caucuses, only twice has the winner in Iowa gone on to be
:13:18. > :13:23.the nominee. It is not a great percentage. It does not mean the
:13:23. > :13:28.race is not important. It can exclude people and a poor showing
:13:28. > :13:36.tonight means they don't have much longer on the trail. What is the
:13:36. > :13:40.problem with Mitt Romney, it seems to be him against everyone else?
:13:40. > :13:47.lot of the conservative wing of the Republican Party is not sold on
:13:47. > :13:54.Mitt Romney. He was the governor of Massachusetts and has changed his
:13:54. > :14:00.position on difference core principles. Voters are more
:14:00. > :14:05.religious than in general, so that is why I think we are seeing this.
:14:05. > :14:10.Mitt Romney gets about 25% a cannot seem to get more. Is his biggest
:14:10. > :14:15.assets is that potentially he might be able to reach out to voters
:14:15. > :14:19.outside the Republican Guard? is what he is arguing is his
:14:19. > :14:24.biggest strength. If it comes down to electability, that is his
:14:24. > :14:30.strongest argument. Even though the Republicans say they will break the
:14:30. > :14:35.turnout record to nine, the turnout record is only 119,000 people. --
:14:35. > :14:40.tonight. This is a small amount of dedicated individuals, who are more
:14:40. > :14:46.concerned about Conservative values than necessarily political
:14:46. > :14:52.considerations. It is a huge media focus on this, but this is nothing
:14:52. > :14:57.more than a non-binding straw poll is it? No delegates will be sworn
:14:57. > :15:01.up having to vote for candidates later on? That is correct. This
:15:01. > :15:05.cannot Crown a winner but it can tell you who the losers are going
:15:05. > :15:11.to beat. It mitt Romney comes in a distant third and suddenly
:15:11. > :15:15.collapses, that electability argument takes a hit. If he
:15:15. > :15:25.outperforms expectations, he's a La Paz or -- solidify has himself as
:15:25. > :15:29.the prominent favourite. It is a quest for momentum. If the
:15:30. > :15:39.Conservative Christian cannot win in Iowa, where can she win?
:15:39. > :15:42.Now a look at some of the day's other news.
:15:42. > :15:45.The authorities in Southern Sudan say more than 150 people have been
:15:45. > :15:48.killed in the past few days in clashes in Jonglei State. Tens of
:15:48. > :15:50.thousands more have fled into the countryside, due to the violence
:15:51. > :15:52.between members of the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes.
:15:53. > :15:56.Thousands of Nigerians are demonstrating against the removal
:15:56. > :15:58.of fuel subsidies which has caused the price of petrol to soar. In
:15:59. > :16:04.Lagos, protesters lit bonfires, blocked main roads and forced
:16:04. > :16:07.petrol stations in the city to stop selling fuel. There were reports of
:16:07. > :16:10.one person being killed in the west of the country.
:16:10. > :16:15.The Taliban in Afghanistan say they have a preliminary agreement to
:16:15. > :16:19.open a political office in Qatar or another Islamic country. They said
:16:19. > :16:22.the move would help communication with the international community.
:16:22. > :16:29.Last week, President Karzai said he would support the idea of a Qatar
:16:29. > :16:31.office to strengthen a peace process.
:16:31. > :16:34.The renowned musician and political activist Youssou N'dour has
:16:34. > :16:37.announced that he will stand for President of Senegal in elections
:16:37. > :16:40.next month. The singer said he was responding to requests to run
:16:40. > :16:43.against the incumbent, Abdoulaye Wade, who intends to seek a third
:16:43. > :16:51.term. Youssou N'dour has long been involved in humanitarian issues,
:16:51. > :16:54.being a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund.
:16:55. > :17:04.He is probably the best known Senegalese in the world, and he
:17:05. > :17:05.
:17:05. > :17:09.could be about to get even more famous. International musical star
:17:09. > :17:13.and UNICEF ambassador Youssou N'dour has confirmed he will stand
:17:13. > :17:16.in Senegal's presidential election next month. He made the
:17:16. > :17:26.announcement on his own television station, saying Senegalese people
:17:26. > :17:27.
:17:27. > :17:32.had urged him to contest the election. TRANSLATION: For a long
:17:32. > :17:37.time, we have demonstrated the optimism, other news sensible.
:17:37. > :17:40.People have called for me in many ways to stand in the February
:17:40. > :17:46.presidential race. I have heard and I am responding positively to their
:17:46. > :17:50.request. Youssou N'dour will be facing veteran leader Abdoulaye
:17:50. > :17:54.Wade, who caused controversy last year when he proposed
:17:54. > :18:00.constitutional changes to pave the way for him to seek a third term in
:18:00. > :18:04.office. The proposed changes, which sparked violent street protests,
:18:04. > :18:09.also include provisions for the creation of the post of vice-
:18:09. > :18:13.president for his son. Youssou N'dour has been a vocal critic of
:18:13. > :18:18.the President, accusing him of wasteful spending in a country with
:18:18. > :18:24.a low income and high unemployment. During his announcement, he
:18:24. > :18:29.answered his critics who claim he is not qualified to be President.
:18:29. > :18:35.TRANSLATION: It is true that I don't have a university education,
:18:35. > :18:38.but the presidency is a function and not a profession. I proved my
:18:38. > :18:42.competent, commitment, rigour and efficiency on numerous occasions
:18:42. > :18:48.and I learned a lot at the School of the world. Travelling also
:18:49. > :18:53.educate, in the same way that books do. -- educates. Youssou N'dour
:18:53. > :18:58.announced in November that he was cancelling concert dates to focus
:18:58. > :19:02.on politics. And while he enjoys huge popularity in Senegal, it
:19:02. > :19:07.remains to be seen if he will be able to translate his fame into
:19:07. > :19:09.votes. The authorities in Hong Kong are
:19:09. > :19:12.disinfecting a brand new multi- million dollar Government building
:19:12. > :19:14.after finding that it was widely contaminated with the bacteria that
:19:14. > :19:17.causes Legionnaire's disease. Tests were carried out after the
:19:17. > :19:21.Education Secretary became ill with the potentially fatal disease last
:19:21. > :19:28.month. Traces of the bacteria were found to be 14 times above
:19:28. > :19:31.acceptable levels. Peter Biles reports.
:19:31. > :19:36.The new government building in Hong Kong was officially opened last
:19:37. > :19:40.August. But when the Education Secretary was diagnosed with
:19:40. > :19:46.Legionnaire's disease last month, checks were ordered and water
:19:46. > :19:50.samples collected. Nine out of 31 samples were found to be
:19:50. > :19:54.contaminated and the authorities began disinfecting the building.
:19:54. > :20:00.Positive samples were found in private washrooms, kitchen water
:20:00. > :20:05.taps and a tap at the food counter. If the water entering a water
:20:05. > :20:10.supply system of a building is not fully treated, not fully
:20:10. > :20:15.disinfected, the bacteria can persist in the water tank and in
:20:15. > :20:20.the pipes. Legionnaire's disease stems from bacteria that can cause
:20:20. > :20:24.a lung infection or pneumonia. It is often founded heating or air-
:20:24. > :20:28.conditioning systems and it is contracted by inhaling water
:20:28. > :20:33.droplets containing bacteria. The investigations are continuing as
:20:33. > :20:40.the final Laboratory results are still pending. Experts say it would
:20:40. > :20:44.be surprising if more tests samples prove positive. Either way, it is a
:20:44. > :20:46.deep embarrassment for Hong Kong. He created St Trinian's, a world of
:20:46. > :20:49.misbehaving girls in a comic and chaotic school, and he drew
:20:49. > :20:53.cartoons for a string of publications including Punch and
:20:53. > :20:56.the Sunday Express. Ronald Searle has died at the age of 91 and has
:20:56. > :21:01.been hailed today as one of Britain's most influential
:21:01. > :21:11.cartoonists. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito looks back at his
:21:11. > :21:13.
:21:14. > :21:21.These drawings of pigtailed anarchy, the hockey stick-wielding girls of
:21:21. > :21:27.St Trinian's, made Ronald Searle famous. It was only a small part of
:21:27. > :21:31.his life's work. What people don't remember is that there were so few
:21:31. > :21:36.drawings, it was only a small part of my work. There were no more than
:21:36. > :21:41.60 drawings, probably. To me, it was a series of drawings of no
:21:41. > :21:48.consequence. Born in Cambridge, he sold his first cartoon as a
:21:48. > :21:55.teenager, but the war intervened. His grim experiences as a prisoner
:21:55. > :22:00.of the Japanese led to drawings of a very different sort. In the 1950s,
:22:00. > :22:05.along with the Molesworth books, his images were everywhere. Term
:22:05. > :22:15.has begun. When St Trinian's was turned into a film, the characters
:22:15. > :22:18.took on a new life. This very British mix of slightly saucy
:22:18. > :22:23.mayhem was loved. Even when he tried to blow St Trinian's up, the
:22:23. > :22:28.public wanted more. He created St Trinian's, which we all loved. He
:22:28. > :22:31.despised it. He couldn't get away from it. Everybody called him St
:22:32. > :22:35.Trinian's. He did many other things. He worked in France, in America, in
:22:35. > :22:38.Germany. He is known throughout these countries, yet we know him
:22:38. > :22:48.through St Trinian's. He moved to France, he produced books, graphic
:22:48. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:55.art. His dark wit and intelligence won acclaim. There was far more to
:22:55. > :22:57.Ronald Searle than just hockey sticks.
:22:57. > :23:00.Ronald Searle, who has died at the age of 91.
:23:00. > :23:03.Anita O'Brien is curator at the Cartoon Museum in London, which has
:23:03. > :23:06.recently held two exhibitions of Ronald Searle's work. Thank you for
:23:06. > :23:10.coming in. There was something very different about his work. I wonder
:23:10. > :23:15.if it is possible in a few sentences to describe what that was.
:23:15. > :23:20.You have brought in several books of his work. Let's look at this one,
:23:20. > :23:25.maybe, first of all. This is the obsolete generation. This is one
:23:25. > :23:31.that Ronald very kindly dedicated to the cartoon grim collection. In
:23:31. > :23:36.a way, it sums up their humanity and the tragic comic quality that
:23:36. > :23:40.he was able to bring out. Hugely talented in terms of his
:23:40. > :23:48.observation and the details of say, an older couple, but also the
:23:48. > :23:52.pathos. And also the tumour. -- but the humour. And you can see what is
:23:52. > :23:57.not far away. The thing that came from his experiences as a prisoner
:23:57. > :24:01.of war -- do you think? When he came back, he was six stone and he
:24:01. > :24:06.had witnessed so much slaughter. the people died from dysentery and
:24:06. > :24:11.cholera and he said that he went in as an art student and he came out
:24:11. > :24:14.as an artist, because he had a reason for drawing. He felt that a
:24:14. > :24:18.drawing was going to be a testament to the people who didn't come back,
:24:18. > :24:27.the people who lost their lives. He didn't even know that he would
:24:27. > :24:37.survive. I remember this, Down With the School. That cartoon is
:24:37. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:44.brilliant. Also, Mrs Moore. -- Mal. He was internationally recognised.
:24:44. > :24:49.Last year, he got a special order of merit from the Government of
:24:49. > :24:53.Saxony. When we did the exhibition, we had a Mexican cartoonist who
:24:53. > :24:57.came all the way just to see the exhibition and ended his car to the
:24:57. > :25:01.following Saturday about Ronald Searle. You met him when he was 90.
:25:01. > :25:04.Someone was quoted today as saying he had a ferocious bark and
:25:04. > :25:08.actually the bite was as ferocious but it was always done with a
:25:08. > :25:12.twinkle in his eye. He also said he thought his longevity was down to
:25:12. > :25:16.drinking copious amounts of champagne. That was what Ronald
:25:16. > :25:20.would say himself, his favourite thing was champagne. He had
:25:20. > :25:25.incredible focus, you can see it in his work, is up -- in his
:25:25. > :25:29.observation. Another thing that makes him so exceptional is the
:25:29. > :25:33.versatility and the breadth of his work. He was influential in
:25:33. > :25:38.animation. I spoke to Mike Leigh today, a film-maker who was usually
:25:38. > :25:41.inspired by the observation and the detail of the characterisation. In
:25:41. > :25:45.some ways, it is not dissimilar to Charles Dickens, where you have the
:25:45. > :25:49.tragic and the comic. Has he created a school of people who have
:25:49. > :25:57.come through his tradition and are now a sort of taking his style and
:25:57. > :26:01.taking it further? Gerald Scarfe, for example? It is hard to imagine
:26:01. > :26:06.how the satire boom would have happened without Ronald Searle. He
:26:07. > :26:10.was such a huge influence on them. If you look at people like Steve
:26:10. > :26:16.Bell, so many artists and cartoonists, and not just in the
:26:16. > :26:20.world of cartooning, so many people have been influenced by him and
:26:20. > :26:24.sometimes they are not even aware of it. What was so wonderful was
:26:24. > :26:29.when we did the exhibition, so many young students, illustrators, came
:26:29. > :26:32.in and went away saying they were inspired. We will leave it there,
:26:33. > :26:37.but thank you very much. Ronald Searle, who has died at the age of
:26:37. > :26:39.A reminder of our main news: a court in London has found two men
:26:39. > :26:46.guilty of killing a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, nearly two
:26:46. > :26:50.decades ago. That is it from me and the team
:26:50. > :27:00.here in London. Stay with us, more on BBC World News, but back again
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:27:02. > :27:06.Hello, there. And after an exceptionally stormy day across the
:27:06. > :27:10.country, things stay windy through the night and for tomorrow, but the
:27:10. > :27:14.wind is not as strong as we have been seen. It is also going to be
:27:14. > :27:17.quite cloudy. If we have a look at the overall picture, the area of
:27:17. > :27:21.low pressure that brought the strong winds through Tuesday has
:27:21. > :27:24.cleared to Scandinavia. The isobars are still very tightly packed,
:27:24. > :27:28.there will be some early brightness across the south-east corner but it
:27:28. > :27:31.will cloud over for the afternoon and we have some rain in the north
:27:31. > :27:35.and the West. The rain could be heavy at times across parts of
:27:35. > :27:38.Cumbria and Lancashire but to the east of the Pennines, a little bit
:27:38. > :27:42.more patchy and light. Grey skies for the afternoon across much of
:27:42. > :27:45.the Midlands and the south coast. We will see some outbreaks of
:27:45. > :27:50.patchy light rain at times. The breeze is quite strong, coming in
:27:50. > :27:53.from the West, temperatures of nine degrees across Devon and Cornwall.
:27:53. > :27:58.For Wales, the wettest of the weather across parts of Cardigan
:27:58. > :28:01.Bay and the mountains in the north. A little bit drier further south. A
:28:01. > :28:04.blustery day for Northern Ireland where it will be cloudy and wet for
:28:04. > :28:09.much of the afternoon, the north- west corner seeing the heaviest
:28:09. > :28:14.rain. Some hill snow across parts of Scotland, to the north-east, a
:28:14. > :28:17.touch drier but cloudy and the damp. Wednesday night, weather fronts