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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Our headlines tonight: Why did the prosecution take so long? It's | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
revealed this North Somerset teacher, jailed for abuse, was | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
The new drop-in centre helping the teens who give up so much to look | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
after ill relatives. If no one's doing it, who will? If | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
no one else is doing it, no one else will. Also tonight, find out | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
what makes Yeovil Town a better team than Manchester United. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
And the online gallery putting a part of our heritage back on public | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
A BBC investigation has found that a North Somerset teacher, jailed | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
last month for child abuse, was first accused of being a paedophile | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
more than seven years ago. Keith Ruby was described by police | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
as "manipulative". He was sentenced in January to ten years in prison | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
for 16 counts of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
It's emerged that a former colleague first raised allegations | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
of abuse in 2005 but charges could not be brought at the time. Alice | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Teacher Keith through be abused his teenage victim for months. When | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
sentencing him, the judge at Taunton Crown Court said the | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
offences were an abuse of trust at the highest level. Now the BBC's | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
inside-out programme has discovered that allegations about Keith Ruby | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
were Firth -- first race to his employers seven years earlier. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Police say the former teacher could not be charged in 2006 because the | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
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victim felt unable to disclose Unfortunately, at that time, the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
victim, in this case, was not in a position in his life where he could | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
fully disclose what had happened to him. Because of the evidence | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
available at the time, it was insufficient for him to be charged | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
and prosecuted with any offences. The alarm was raised by a former | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
colleague at the school. By then it Ruby had already left the school. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
When no charges were brought against him, I can believe it. I | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
thought everything I had done was for nothing and I had so much | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
sympathy for the pupils, and I felt no one was the leading me. It felt | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
unreal. Andrew also went to make some unfounded claims against the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
school and was sacked for gross misconduct. A later employment try | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
the or said he made the allegations public out of spite -- tribunal. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Despite his later behaviour, we have also discovered that North | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Somerset council had concerns about the way Sidcot School, a private | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
Quaker institution, dealt with the allegations. The school said it was | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
safe guarding procedures at the time that were completely compliant. | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
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You can see the full investigation on tonight's Inside Out West on | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
BBC1 at 7.30pm. A former vicar from North Somerset | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
is facing jail after admitting spying on and filming intimate | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
pictures of three children and a woman. Richard Lee, who was based | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
at churches in Locking and Hutton, pleaded guilty to 26 charges. He'll | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
be sentenced next month at Bristol Crown Court. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
The Lord Chief Justice is to decide if the sentencing of some members | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
of a Gloucestershire family found guilty of forced labour was too | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
lenient. The Connors family from Cheltenham were jailed last year | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
for beating their victims and making them to work for as little | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
as �10 a day. Detectives complained that the sentencing of William, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
John, James and Miles Connors was unduly lenient. The appeal will be | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
brought by the Attorney General at the High Court on Thursday. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
School children across the west are on their half-term break this week. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
But for thousands of young people, their holiday will be spent looking | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
after members of their own family. Charities say the number of young | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
carers is increasing at a time when there are widespread cuts to social | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
care funding. Today a new support group was launched in North | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
Somerset to try to help out. Rachael Canter has been to a youth | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
centre in Portishead to find out Billy, like many 13-year-olds, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
likes playing pool with his mates. But unlike many 13-year-olds he has | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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to fit his social life around a job. Billy looks after his mum. She has | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
arthritis and a muscle wasting condition which makes it hard for | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
her to get around. Going up to the shops to get things we need is a | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
lot harder for her so I'll go up and do stuff like that. And a lot | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
of the hoovering and housework. don't have a child expecting them | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
to look after you but I like to think maybe now, especially with | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the help of young carers that it's making him a better person for when | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
he's older. Billy may not be like most 13- year-olds, but his | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
situation is far from unique. In North Somerset, there are more than | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
1,000 young people caring for over 30 hours a week for their parents | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
or siblings. There are activities here for young carers of all ages. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
It's a chance to make friends and a break from their responsibilities. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Young carers are susceptible to bullying, just because they are | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
different. They may not be able to take their friends home after | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
school and have those friendships that build up after school because | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
someone in the family is disabled or misusing drugs or alcohol. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Before I came to young carers I felt very alone and I had to do it | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
all by myself and it made me very upset. But when I started coming it | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
made me feel a lot better because there were a lot of people there | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
that were in the same situation so it took a lot of stress off and | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
made me feel great. This Youth Centre is holding groups for young | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
carers every other Monday evening. And it hopes more youngsters like | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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Billy will come here for support. And if you'd like to find out more | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
about the support group for young carers there's more information on | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
their website - www.crossroadscare/ns.org.uk. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Well, while charities and families do a lot, much more care is | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
provided by our local councils, especially for the elderly and | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
disabled. Today the government announced it's to change the rules | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
about how that care is funded. Joining us is our political editor | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Paul Barltrop. What is the government proposing? At the moment | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
there is no cap on what people may have to contribute to their care, | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
but from the -- 2017 there will be an upper limit of �75,000 and you | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
will only have to contribute to that if you have assets of more | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
than �123,000. Although if you own a house, you almost certainly | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
included in that category. Much care is delivered by the local | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
councils. How has that been affected by the cuts made? There | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
are a lot of elderly people in the West Country, proportionally more | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
than anywhere else in the country. For the council's it is a real | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
challenge. You have normal people living to a ripe age. It is a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
ticking demographic Kuyt -- timebomb. They have struggled to | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
cut the adult care budget. They are simply just putting in more money. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Any reaction and politically from here in the West to the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
announcement? I spoke to Barbara Jack from Bristol City Council, and | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
she said the cap has been set so high that most people will not | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
benefit. Some criticism men. The big concern is that it comes in in | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
2017 and it will cost councils more, and the government is raising money | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
through inheritance tax changes and the council be concerned to make | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
sure the money is passed on to them. It's Sarah Jane and Sabet here, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
with all your regional news and sport and weather. Do stay with us | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
as there's plenty still to come, including: A major revamp for | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Clevedon Pier as it receives �500,000 in extra funding. And | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
we're live with Lee Mears as he announces his shock retirement from | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
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The Cheltenham grandmother, who's been sentenced to death in Bali for | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
drug trafficking, has provided fresh information to the Indonesian | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
courts as part of her appeal. Lawyers acting for Lindsay | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Sandiford are trying to save her life by getting her sentence | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
reduced. They've emphasised how sorry she is and how she co- | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
operated with police. The appeal could take several months. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Bristol Children's Hospital could lose out as one of the country's | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
centres for infant heart surgery, if legal action launched today is | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
successful. A report last summer concluded the number of hospitals | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
doing children's heart operations should be reduced from ten to seven | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
with Bristol chosen as one of the sites that should expand. But | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
campaigners in other parts of the country are worried they will | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
suffer and today took their case to the High Court where it is expected | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
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to be heard for two days. Clevedon Pier has received �500,000 | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
in extra funding towards a new visitor centre. It was built in the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
19th century as a ferry port for rail passengers and then rebuilt in | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
the 1980s after parts of it collapsed. Now the hope is the new | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
money will add to what Sir John Betjeman described as the most | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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beautiful pier in England. Laura Promulgating the Victorians taking | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
in some sea air, just exactly what the peer was designed for -- | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
promenading. Under hundred and 50 years later, a lot has changed, but | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
it is still pulling in the crowds. But things do alter, and plans are | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
afoot for a brand new visitor centre to keep the crowds happy. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
But it won't come cheap. They need to �0.2 million to build it. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
They've already got �750,000 and were awarded a further half million | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
from a fund that support seaside communities. It's important to get | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
this done for Cleveland. -- Clevedon. It will be good for | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
businesses along the seafront, because the more people that visit | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
here, the more people will use the whole of the facilities. The peer | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
at Clevedon is pretty special. It was opened in 1869, and it is today | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
the only Grade 1 listed one in the whole country. It has had a tricky | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
time of it though. Back in 1970 it collapsed, and there was talk of | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
demolishing it altogether. The local people reacted furiously and | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
a trust was formed to protect and restore it. For many, it always be | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
a treasured place. We used to live in Clevedon, so it is a tradition. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
There are not many Pearce left in the country, and that is one of the | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
:11:51. | :11:53. | ||
famous ones. I'm going there to go fishing off it. I like that you can | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
get ice-creams. The trust still needs more money to complete the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
project, but they are confident they will get it and a hoping to | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
start work in the autumn, injecting a bit of the 21st century into this | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
You could have been the other face there? Too ugly for that, I'm | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
afraid. This week marks the anniversary of one of the most | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
controversial allied operations of the second world war, the bombing | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
of Dresden. More than 20,000 people were killed. The man behind that | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
operation was the head of Bomber Command, Cheltenham's Arthur Harris. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
Now an unseen interview with the man famously known as "Bomber | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Harris" has been released by the Ministry of Defence and Steve | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
Knibbs has had a look. We will never descend to the German and | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
Japanese levels, but if people want to play rough, we can play rough as | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
well. Cinema newsreels fired steely words, forged in the heat of war, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
to weld a nation together. And now another film has emerged which | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the British war effort. | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
For 35 years, the film reel lay hidden in the archives of the RAF. | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
Retired Air Vice Marshall Tony Mason tracked it down. And there on | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
the screen in 1977 sits a young, newly promoted Group Captain Tony | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Mason. Opposite him, the most senior RAF Officer you could | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
imagine. Arthur Bomber Harris. Jeremy Paxman it was not. As you | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
will see from the interview I was deferential. I hope I wasn't overly | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
sycophantic but I was very, very nervous. When you took over were | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
you given a specific directives? yes. I lived under a shower of | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
directives. From the day I took over to the last day of the war. | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
But the directives when I took over was the one I was not too | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
specifically aimed at anything except when I was told to, and just | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
blast the German cities as a whole. One question had to be asked, and | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Harris did not duck the subject has what people regard still as a city | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
too far. 25,000 people died in Dresden, and critics say Harris hit | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
civilians harder than the Hitler war machine. But he disagreed. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
kept well over one million fit people out of the army because of | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
the bombing. Many of the anti- aircraft defences, making the | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
ammunition, and doing urgent repairs, especially tradesmen. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
you had your time over again, would you do anything differently? If I | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
had the same time over again, I would do the same thing. But I | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
would always hope not to have the same time over again. I thought | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
that response was astonishing. I have to say, I didn't expect him to | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
say he'd do anything differently, because he is not that kind of man. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
The film is an opportunity to hear from a figure of much controversy | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
about why he did what he did, but also how he felt at having to make | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
A playground in the Cotswolds is to be repainted after residents | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
complained it was too bright. The playground in Kingshill never | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
opened after some neighbours said the colour and scale of the | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
equipment didn't suit the area. Now the developers have agreed to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
repaint it. A road in Bath will be closed for | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
six weeks from today, to help toads reach their breeding ground. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Charlcombe Lane will be shut during the breeding season of the common | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
toad, because so many of them try to cross it. Volunteers will be out | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
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escorting them safely across the lane. The group organising it all | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
say 21,000 toads have crossed the road during the last 11 years. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
The Bath and England star Lee Mears shocked the sports world today by | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
announcing his retirement from rugby with immediate effect. The | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
hooker was advised to quit after a heart abnormality was detected on a | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
cardiac screening. Lee spent 16 years at The Rec, making 268 | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
appearances, and has been capped 42 times for his country. He was also | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
included in the Lions squad for the tour of South Africa in 2009. Well, | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
I'm pleased to say Lee joins me now from his home in Bath. Great to see | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
you smiling, but you must have been very scared when you heard the news | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
about your heart. Yes, it took a bit of time to sink in. It is a bit | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
of a shock. The minute you sort of hit 30 you know that rugby is going | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
to end at some point, but you never know when. I suppose, in some ways, | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
it was good because of short and sharp, but in other ways I did have | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
to think about it. But you know what I'm like. I'm always smiling | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
and positive, and I started thinking about the memories I've | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
got. We will talk about them in a second. But does this affect any | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
other part of your life? Are you OK otherwise? I should be fine. A bit | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
of a de training and everything will go back to normal. They say | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
that at the elite level, the amount you put your heart through, day-in, | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
day-out, it could have serious and -- implications. It is time to stop | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
with immediate effect. Let's just say that the BBC's Justin Webb | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
tweeting that you were a proper English sporting hero, choosing the | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
same day as the Pope, further evidence of big style. You have had | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
an incredible career. What other biggest memory she will take away | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
to tell your grandchildren? -- the biggest memories you will take | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
away? My first ever game for Bath, against Saracens. Then my first cap | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
for England against Tonga, and then the Lions was the pinnacle. They | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
are the ones that stand fresh in your mind. But overall, winning the | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
European Challenge Cup with Steve Borthwick, playing with the legends | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
like Evans, Humphreys, Jeremy Guscott, all of those boys. The | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
reason I took up rugby was for travelling and making friends, and | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years. Hopefully | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
the memories will stay with me. What is next for you, Lee? I'm not | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
really sure. I always think I would like to give something back in | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
rugby. I've had lots of guys help me through my career, so the | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
natural progression would be a bit of coaching, but I have a business | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
interest, and hopefully as rugby has given me loads and loads, I | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
want to try and work on a few of those things and see where light | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
takes me. But if I can be half as successful as I was in rugby, I | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
will have a good few years ahead. Thank you very much. All of us will | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
join you insane, whatever you do, good luck. -- join you in saying. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Here's a quiz question. Who are the only football team in the top four | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
divisions with a 100% league record in 2013? No, not Manchester United, | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
in fact, it is Yeovil Town. They've managed six wins in a row | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
stretching back into last year, and tomorrow's home game against | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Preston gives them a chance to break into the play-off places. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Here's Alistair Durden. And they are full of confidence and | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
unstoppable at the moment. Yeovil Town have not lost a league game | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
since Boxing Day, making them the team of 2013 so far. Their record | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
is better than their divisional rivals Walsall, who have won six, | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
but also lost one. And even tops Manchester United in 2013 who have | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
won five games but drawn one. Yeovil are on top as the only team | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
in all the divisions to have a 100% league record. It is always down to | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
hard work, and it's getting a group of lads who are up for it. They are | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
showing the desire, and so are the supporters. Everyone is showing the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
belief as well. Hold on a minute, we are quite close to where we | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
wanted the. One of the main reasons for the success is this man, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
striker Paddy Madden who rarely misses on the training ground, but | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
more importantly a matching -- match-day. His goal at Coventry on | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
Saturday was already his 8th of the calendar year. It has been a very | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
happy new year for the Irishman. still Misha as -- I still miss as | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
well. Your only seeing the good ones. I just keep getting in the | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
right position, and the goals are going in. The Borges seems to going. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Yeovil have not won seven league games since being crowned the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
champions of League Two back into 1005, a campaign also masterminded | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
by Gary Johnson. We have shown the lads the video of the type of club | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
they have came to. It is not just a quiet club in the country, it's a | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
club that is competing in the first division. We are within touching | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
distance of something you are really wanting, say you have to | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
keep reminding people it's not far away. They are just five points | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
from the top of the table. By tomorrow night the gap could be | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
even smaller. But nobody's getting too carried away with a third of | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
They are an important part of our heritage, but more than three | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
quarters of the paintings in our national collection are not | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
actually on public display. Many are in storage, others are on | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
display - but not in places that the public can go. The Public | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Catalogue Foundation has been working with the BBC to collate and | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
catalogue more than 210,000 paintings that aren't normally on | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
show and to put them into an online gallery. Some of the works are very | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
familiar. Others less so. And some tell a story all of their own. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Here's Jules Hyam. There are around 100 million in Australia, 30 | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
million in New Zealand but they all came from elsewhere. And if you | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
were to explore the family tree of an average Australian baa-baa, the | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
chances are that you'd end up not just with an ancestor from the UK, | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
but with one particular ancestor, this one, a chunky old beast of a | :22:39. | :22:49. | |
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Romeo Ram known as Two Pounder. He was a very famous Ram, part of | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
the new Leicester beat -- breed that Robert Bakewell created. He | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
was one of the first people to in breed sheep to make the treaty was | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
looking for in terms of quality of meat and walk absolutely | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
outstanding, and he produced him as a prime example of the new | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
Leicester sheep. Two Pounder wasn't just a prime example, he was THE | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
prime example, immortalised in his portrait kept here at the Royal | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Agricultural College. And in the 18th century, his celebrity status | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
meant he got to spend an awful lot of time with an awful lot of lady | :23:21. | :23:30. | |
sheep. He was leased out for one season, a third of the season for | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
the 400 guineas. There are a number of paintings are cattle up there. | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
This is a prize-winning bull, exhibited four times and it one- | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
third the sovereigns in 1839. But if you really want to seek a very, | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
very impressive piece of livestock, how about that for a prize-winning | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
ox? Now, I know it doesn't really look anything like an ox. This is | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
not photo-realism. The paintings have a style that is distinctive, | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
and was very much deliberate. could ask the artist to enhance the | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
0.24 almost important, so you could ask for a big, meaty body -- the | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
point that she thought were most important. It was painted by Digby | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
Curtis in 1790 as an advertisement before the days of IT and Twitter. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
It's not just rams and bulls in the online collection. There's more | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
than 210,000 paintings are there for you to view at | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
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And beautiful. They should have a painting of us. Now just before we | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
go to the weather, some of us woke up to more snow today, these were | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the scenes at Hack Pen Hill on the Ridgeway near Swindon earlier. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Obviously winter hasn't finished with us just yet, or with the | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
wildlife outside battling the elements. So will we see any more | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
of the white stuff? Here's Ian with I can beat those pictures. This one | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
was taken not too far from Little Rissington where they had seven | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
centimetres, but we saw nearly double that in High Wycombe. As we | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
run through into tomorrow, we are likely to see a little more of a | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
wintery mix in the morning for some of you. Inconsequential amount, and | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
broadly a dry day. Thank you to the Val Ponting for the lovely photo of | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
Stroud. This is how the week will shape up. As Forest tomorrow is | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
concerned, a slack flow, and a weak feature in the morning giving a few | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
flurries of light snow. Broadly speaking, it will be dry. Going | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
towards Wednesday, the next Atlantic front comes in, delivering | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
snow from the Midlands or North. Maybe some transient snow over the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Cotswolds. Gradually the rain will clear on Thursday, and it is drier | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
behind that in the afternoon. That is how things should remain an | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
temperatures should come up, as they will through the course of | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Friday which looks like a dry day and knocking on the door is another | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
week system, but by the end of Friday it will go into Saturday so | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
that temperature trend is gradually back to about average for the time | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
of year. Not so for tonight, fairly chilly, and light snow flurries | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
across some areas. Some sleet for some of you but a good deal of dry | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
and cloudy weather continuing. The winds not much of an issue. Towards | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
tomorrow morning, just running into some western areas, a week front, | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
and temperatures will drop down to close to freezing, maybe just below | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
in one or two spots. Tomorrow we would struggle to squeeze a | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
centimetre out of the area in the West, a 20% chance of a centimetre | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
of snow, if that. The rest of the day is dry, but very little hint of | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
a break in the cloud, so it will remain Dahl, the winds will not be | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
a feature, 10 miles an hour at most. We will notice temperatures similar | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
to today or a little more up, three or four Celsius will be typical for | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
the vast majority. A recap of how the week is looking. Rain, sleet | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
and snow on Wednesday afternoon. It changes to rain. A dry a picture | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
after, and the temperatures That is where we leave you for the | :27:28. | :27:35. |