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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and Anne Davies. Our | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
top story tonight: Thorntons unwraps some shock news for the | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
high street. As it celebrates its centenary, the chocolate maker says | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
it may close up to 180 stores have been there -- over the next three | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
years nationwide. Or so the news cancer treatment giving hope to | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
patients, this is the first-of-its- kind in the Midlands. This machine | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
can hit it, the exact spot we wanted, and not destroy too many | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
cells. Plus the school that's facing | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
almost a week of strike action by teachers. And I am at Wollerton | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Hall catching up on those who managed to get a secret look at the | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Good evening and welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight, | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
more high street gloom for the East Midlands. The chocolate-making firm, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Thorntons, is shedding hundreds of jobs and closing dozens of shops. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The company, which is based at Alfreton in Derbyshire, says it | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
wants to expand its online business and develop new products. Anne has | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
more details. The news of the shake-up came at | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
about 7am this morning. At the moment, Thorntons has 364 stores | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
across the country. The plan is to close 120 of those, with the | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
possibility of 60 more being cut. One prediction is that more than | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
1,000 jobs are threatened, but the company hasn't yet put a figure on | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
it. James Roberson has been examining the reaction to today's | :01:46. | :01:55. | |
In Derby this morning, staff at one of the two company-owned stores in | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the city were trying to attract customers. The future of this | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Thorntons store, and around 120 others nationwide, is now under | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
review. Over the next three years, dozens of stores could close as | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
their leases expire. It could mean anything between 750 and 1,100 job | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
losses. It is a lot of jobs to lose, and a lot of jobs are going the | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
same way. Were have not got Woolworths, what have we got left? | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
What are we going to do? Are we going to survive? Are don't think | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
it is fair to the high street, they keep taking things into these | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
centres. Thorntons, like other retailers, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
has seen the drop in footfall on the high street affect sales at its | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
shops. That's despite major revamps of stores like this one in | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
Kingston-on-Thames, and rebranding of products in the last few years. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The hot spring has not been good for selling chocolate. Now the firm | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
wants to concentrate on other areas of sales that make them less | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
dependent on those traditional periods like Easter, Christmas and | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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Mother's Day bus stop it will focus now on online sales. On creating | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
new lines and slightly cheaper products, and increasing sales | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
through other retailers. We looked at research and we found that one | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
supermarket was serving 60 types of chocolate. There was a great threat | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
an opportunity to businesses like this. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Thorntons has also announced that chocolates produced at its factory | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
in Somercotes in Derbyshire will not now be distributed by its own | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
staff. The operation and 134 staff are being outsourced to freight | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
hauliers, DHL. As Thorntons approaches its 100th birthday, with | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
belt-tightening on the cards, it seems centenary celebrations at the | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
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With us now is Professor Joshua Bamfield from the Centre for Retail | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Research which is based in Newark. What's your reaction to the | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
decision by Thorntons to shut so many stores? It is a shock reaction | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
but it is probably irrational in the circumstances given that online | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
retailing and selling through other stores seems to be much more | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
successful to them than the existing stores they have got and | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
trade as Thorntons. If you have got a successful product as they | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
certainly seem to have, it makes perfect sense to sell it on line | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and have a bit of shelf space in the big supermarkets but if this | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
process continues, our high streets will look very different, won't | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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they? Yes and Thorntons is one of the most -- more interesting shops. | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
People will regret Thorntons shops closing. Do you see a point where | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
maybe it is just supermarkets with sections for Thorntons and things | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
like that and traditional high- street shops gone? No, I don't | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
think so. We feel that online will grow by perhaps 20% in retailing | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
but we think that really the property owners in high streets | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
have really got to reduce their rent. They have got to bring in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
more independent stores because that provide the interest and the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
difference compared to other high streets and there needs to be a lot | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
of remodelling because many retailers complain that existing | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
high streets, these stores are no longer suitable. To go back to the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
product that Thorntons produces, is it good enough in the current | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
international market? There are rivals for higher end confectionery. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
That is true and a few years ago, you could say that Thorntons was | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
seen as elegance, and the high end of chocolate product. I am not sure | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
that is the case any more but nonetheless, it is a quality | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
product. It has a good reputation and you could see they will want to | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
defend it as hard as possible. have been hearing an awful lot of | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
shops closing on the high street, is it really bad out there for | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
retailers at the moment? Yes, Next were told they were running up the | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
down escalator and we have been seeing figures something like | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
15,015 1,000 employees have lost their jobs in returning -- 15,000 | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
employees. But things look like they are getting worse. Thank you | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
for coming to speak to us. And there was another blow for | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
retailing in Derbyshire as the historic Bennetts store announced | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
it would be closing one of its shops. One of the country's oldest | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
department stores, the company has shops in Derby, Ashbourne and | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Bakewell. Now the Bakewell store is being closed because of a dip in | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
trade over the last three years. The other two branches will remain | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
Still to come on the programme, the secrets of the Batcave. A | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
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tantalising glimpse of the filming And how these pupils are hoping to | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
get first place when it comes to A young mother has appeared in | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
court accused of shaking her seven- week-old baby to death. The 24- | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
year-old denies killing her daughter at the family's former | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
home in Leicestershire. Victoria Hicks joins us now from the city's | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
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Crown Court. What's the background? The baby was born 6.5 weeks | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
premature and she died when she was just seven weeks old. The | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
prosecution told the court that her mother had gone out in the garden | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
to hang out the washing. She had a cigarette and then returned 10 | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
minutes later to find the baby lifeless in her Moses basket. We | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
heard the mother's frantic call to the pan at -- paramedics and that | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
was played to the court. We heard her cry out "my baby is dead, help | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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me". She thought the baby's big comedown. Tragically the baby's | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
life-support machine was turned off later that day. The baby's mother | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
held her head in her hands. The prosecution said no natural cause | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
for the baby's death other than injuries consistent with having | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
been shaken. The baby's mother said she shaped the baby to try to | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
revive her but the prosecution says the injuries were not consistent | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
with collapsing first and then being shaken. The baby's mother | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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denies manslaughter and this case Cancer patients in this part of the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
world are now benefiting from a new form of radiotherapy. Nottingham | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
City Hospital is the first in the Midlands to offer tomotherapy. The | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
multi-million pound machine offers more targeted treatment for head | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
and neck cancers. Our health correspondent, Rob Sissons, has had | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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Michael goes for the new form of radiotherapy five days a week with | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
difficult to target tumours, tomotherapy offers hope for the | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
cure. I have got one up the right hand side, one at the back of my | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
tongue and one on the side of my brain. The steamers are being | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
targeted precisely with tomotherapy. Nottingham City Hospital is one of | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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only five in the NHS across England which has a machine. We get a | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
spiral of dose distributed in the patient's body. Michael is one of | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the very first patients to use this equipment in Nottingham and | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
eventually they are hoping to treat up to 30 patients every day. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Although he only has the treatment for minutes, it feels longer. | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
was tiring afterwards. Late in the afternoon. It is different to what | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
we have used before and so it is interesting for us. You can see the | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
salivary glands here... Spare in healthy cells -- sparing healthy | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
cells of a high dose of radiation can help improvements. We know that | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
cancer patients do very well indeed after this treatment and it is | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
among the best in the country. However what we want to do is not | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
only cure people but help them to live well in the long term. | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
hopefully after sailing through therapy, Michael wants to go on | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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Rob is with us now. This is in addition to a existing techniques, | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
not instead of? Yes, it will offer more options to patients in the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
East Midlands. There are gruelling treatment but this is another | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
option. These cancers are detected early enough, there is a really | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
good cure rate. A police officer was thrown out of | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
court today after listening to messages on his mobile phone. It | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
happened at Leicester Crown Court while evidence was being given | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
during a murder trial. The officer was asked to leave after he was | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
seen listening to his voicemail. Public meetings have been held | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
about plans to set up a drugs rehabilitation centre next to a | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
primary school. Councillors are considering turning the building, | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
known as Florence House in Hinckley, into a treatment centre. It would | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
be next door to a primary school. Last week, many parents said it was | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
totally inappropriate. The plans have been deferred to allow more | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
time for public consultations. Work aimed at helping vulnerable | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
young children in Nottingham has won a national award. The city | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
council's running several pilot projects aimed at reducing child | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
poverty. The Early Intervention scheme aims to solve problems | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
before children start school and save money in the long-term. It's | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
now been given a national industry award. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
The political war of words over this Thursday's national strike by | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
public sector workers is warming up. Among those due to walk out, | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
members of Britain's biggest teaching union. But at one | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Derbyshire school it'll actually be the third consecutive day of action, | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
as Simon Hare reports. Beauty therapy trainees at Heanor | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Gate Science College were adding a touch of sparkle to their studies | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
today. But for many pupils there are no lessons today and tomorrow | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
over plans to turn it into an academy and on Thursday as part of | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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the national action on pensions. have to be mindful of health and | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
safety and we just looked at the day's individually and we do the | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
best we can to work at which students can be in. We planned this | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
action in March and we postponed because we thought we had an | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
agreement with the Government, they went back on that, we tried to get | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
an agreement confirmed with them again. It failed and therefore we | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
had to take this action today and tomorrow. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Younger pupils have been given extra homework, but the industrial | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
action has caused problems for some parents. I am on holiday today but | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
my wife works at another school in the area. If I had been at work | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
today and if she was at work today, it would have been a real problem. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
I can understand the concerns of the parents and the inconvenience | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
but these are key issues for staff and we have to respect that they | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
have the right to express their concerns about future Government | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
policy. A And tomorrow night we'll have more | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
information on how Thursday's strike is expected to effect the | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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Earlier today we told you about a family in Nottingham who were | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
desperate to have a shrub area in front of their home cleared because | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
they felt it was dangerous. Kay Greensmith contacted us about this | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
green verge in Arnold that had been left in a state of ruin. Her family | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
are not as happy stepping out of the front garden because of this | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
green verge. They say it has been left in a state of ruin and | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
combined with an uneven footbath, it is posing a serious risk. I am | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
concerned because when I get out of my car I have got a three-year-old. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
She gets the rose bushes in her eyes. She is walking to school | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
daily and dripping. The steps are not safe. Her mother says she | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
tripped over a slab and fell. Of the most frustrating part is that | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
no one is taking responsibility. Every department we speak to passes | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
you on to another and then back to the original one. Nobody is | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
accepting responsibility for. we approached the borough council | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
yesterday, they said it is unclear who has responsibility for the | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
maintenance of the area but they planned to make the area safe and | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
tidy. 24 hours later, the area has now been cleared up. It family say | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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they are delighted and it is a huge The future of Sherwood Pines Forest | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Park is to be debated following announcements about cuts to the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Forestry Commission. Last month the Commission was told it will lose a | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
quarter of its budget by 2015. Tonight members of the public are | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
being asked to give their views on the future of Sherwood Pines and | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
can meet those in charge of overseeing the changes. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
The Support Derbyshire charity is backing a national campaign to get | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
free eye tests for those over 60. According to research by Age UK, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
nearly 40,000 people in Derbyshire haven't had an eye test for at | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
least two years. Figures suggest one in every 14 falls suffered by | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
an elderly person is linked to vision problems. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Two schools in Nottinghamshire are swapping the whiteboard for the red | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
cross this week. Pupils from East Leake are taking part in a national | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
first aid competition. But the pressure is really on because | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
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they've won the title for the past English, maths and now first aid. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
It's all on the timetable here at Lantern Lane Primary. For months, | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
these pupils and a group from neighbouring Harry Carlton | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
Secondary have been given training by St John's Ambulance. Now their | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
skills will be examined at a first aid competition being held in | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
London tomorrow. The pupils will be given a variety | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
of real life settings to deal with. They'll be tested on their | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
knowledge, the treatment they give and how well they work as a team. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
These incidents are only a rehearsal but some pupils have | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
already had first-hand experience of the real thing. I was in Paris | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
with my family and my dad got a bee sting and they got it out with a | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
credit card. I was out in my garden with my own sister and she fell | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
over and I went inside and washed the wind and put a dressing on. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
This morning somebody in my class had a nosebleed and I treated them | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
for that. Out in the playground, they are the first on the scene. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Because the school is so busy, knowing the difference can save | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
some money's life and putting those skills and showing their friends | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
what they can do can make a difference of. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
A �1,000 prize is at stake for the winning school. It's an amazing | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
achievement for the children, they have worked so hard since showing | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
an initial interest in first aid and there is a competitive element. | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
We have won for two years at the junior level and they would like to | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
win again. But more importantly, the chance to | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
demonstrate how their newly acquired skills could mean the | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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difference between a life lost and Is that boy all right, he looked | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
quite poorly! I am useless at that sort of thing, I could not do | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
anything. A full weather forecast coming up, | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
are we in for another muggy night? Once the showers clear away, we are | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
looking at cooler temperatures tonight so hopefully we might get | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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some sleep tonight! More weather Derby County are close to making | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
their seventh signing of the summer. The Aberdeen striker Chris Maguire | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
is expected to finally join the Rams. The 22-year-old is a Scotland | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
international and was out of contract north of the border, but | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
he'll still cost around �400,000 because of his age. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
And a sixth signing for Notts County too. Left-sided player Jeff | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Hughes arrives at Meadow Lane on a free transfer after scoring 11 | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
goals for Bristol Rovers last season. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Derbyshire bowler Steffan Jones will retire at the end of the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
season, to take up a job in teaching. The 37-year-old has | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
turned down a three-year deal to stay at the county as player and | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
coach. Meanwhile, Derbyshire have been in | :19:53. | :20:01. | |
cracking form. They got to 367 before reducing Glamorgan to 60 for | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
five. The hosts have recovered since then. But Derbyshire in | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
control. He's the man who makes sure that | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
the Wimbledon fans are always kept in the loop. Mansfield's John Parry | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
made his name as a top umpire and had the odd run-in with John | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
McEnroe but now, as far as the visitors to SW19 are concerned, | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
he's the voice of the tournament. The morning rush for the best seats | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
in the house. But even at this most genteel of sporting tournaments, | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
the fans need a little persuasion to keep calm. In the interests of | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
your own and others' safety, please do not run. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
The voice belongs to John Parry and this is his Wimbledon debut behind | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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the mic. It is pretty awesome when you go live and I am looking out | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
just before and there is 30,000 people and all the people in the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
courts as well. And they do listen, it is nice to have a good audience! | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
I have not always had that. He might well be referring to his | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
30 years in the umpire's chair and more specifically when this man was | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
at his posturing peak. You cannot be serious! That Paul was on the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
line. John handled the halcyon days of | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
John McEnroe, as well as several Wimbledon finals. There was an | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
infamous confrontation with McEnroe in 1981 but these days he's more | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
worried about keeping the crowd happy. You have got to develop your | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
own style. I am trying to be a little bit lighter because it is | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
entertainment, in a way. It is a fantastic sport and very serious | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
but people are still coming along for a nice day out so I try to be | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
cheerful even if the weather is not. When it rains, John's at his | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
busiest but there's no room for fat fingers whenever the Centre Court | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
roof is closed. It would be a complete disaster if I hit the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Centre Court button and I suddenly said can I have your attention | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
please in the middle of a tie-break point, I would probably be on the | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
red bus up the road by lunchtime. Especially if it was McEnroe who | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
was on court. Staying with Wimbledon, mixed | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
fortunes for us in the second round of the boys' junior tournament | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
today. Josh Ward Hibbert couldn't cope with the Austrian seventh seed | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Dominic Thiem and lost in straight sets. But much better for | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Nottingham-based Liam Broady. He's 15th seed and comfortably got past | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
the unseeded French lad Matthias Bourgue six-one, six-four. Safely | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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into the third round and looking And in case you're wondering what | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
was going to be said in the hand over that was not, you can check on | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
If you've been trying to visit Wollaton Hall this week, forget it. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Batman got there first and it's shut for the next few days. They're | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
right in the thick of filming part of the Hollywood blockbuster | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
starring Christian Bale at the stately home in Nottingham. No- | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
one's allowed onto the set of The Dark Knight Rises, but that hasn't | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
stopped people trying. Quentin Batman's certainly making its | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
presence felt here. Not only has the crew managed to damage the main | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
gate, but both the house and grounds are shut for the next few | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
days as its transformed into Wayne Manor. No-one's allowed on set but | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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Go on the internet and you'll see footage of a scene being filmed | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
between Christian Bale and what's thought to be Anne Hathaway, who's | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
said by those working on the film to look "smoking hot" in her | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
Catwoman costume. Also captured, the moments shortly | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
after that truck crashed into one of the main gate posts trying to | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
get into the park. A graveyard's been built prompting rumours | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
there'll be a scene where Bruce Wayne visits the graves of his | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
murdered parents. And someone's got a shot of Batman's new car, a | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
Lamborghini Aventador, coming in at Rumour has it the stars have been | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
seen drinking in one of Wollaton's locals. | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
I have not seen them yet. We have had the film crew, they were in | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
last night but we have not seen any of the famous ones yet. Who are you | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
hoping for a? Michael Caine, I would like to see him. To see if he | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
talks like that in real life. would be nice to see anybody, | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
:24:53. | :24:53. | ||
Christine Dale, anybody. -- But the bats are in the belfry at | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
Nuthall apparently. That's where the stars are said to be staying. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
have got a friend who works there and he cooked breakfast for Morgan | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Freeman, they said he was a really nice guy. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
But wait a holy moment. Why aren't they also filming here in Goatham? | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Legend has it that ancient tales of madness in this Nottinghamshire | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
village inspired the dark underworld that is Gotham City. To | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
What's this? Where's the Lamborghini? I can't rescue Anne in | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
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this. The Joker would just laugh at It is the BBC, the budget has been | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
cut. And I have been not rescued because I am still here. A fate | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
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worse than death! And now for a A noticeably cooler day-to-day but | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
we have had a picture of the Millbrook at Shepshed, dry with a | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
picture of some of the wild flowers. We have got the cloudy skies at the | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
moment and if you have been travelling on the A one road, there | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
have been a few lively thunderstorms as well but they have | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
been moving away. Not many of us expecting anything different from a | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
cooler, dry night overnight. Tomorrow morning starting off dry | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
and we will start to see a sunny start, some showers developing into | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
the afternoon. Many are across the northern part of our region but | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
some of them working towards their way towards the south. But in the | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
sunshine, daytime temperatures reaching a maximum of 20 Celsius. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
It should feel pleasant if you manage to miss the showers. We have | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
got high pressure and that will give us some settled weather for | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
the next few days. We will see variable amounts of cloud but by | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the time we get to Thursday and Friday, more sunshine and they may | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
start to see it changing again. It will stay dry with the high | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
pressure not moving very far away but then the wind changes direction. | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
We will see the cloud gradually increasing once again and we have | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
got the opportunity of things trying to brighten up but daytime | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
temperatures go back to what they should people this time of year, | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
about 15 Celsius lower at around 18 Celsius so a bit more bearable on | :27:24. | :27:33. |