Weatherday: Stand and deliver

Chatting to the clown, Barcelona (2001).

Following the overnight rain clearance there is an early mix of sun and cloud, with some showers expected over lunchtime. Brighter in early evening. 

Highest temperature 7deg with fresh to strong winds in the morning easing back to moderate. 

On this day in 1739, the English highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged for horse stealing. His criminal life was romanticised a hundred years later by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.

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