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Midlands. This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and Dominic | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
Heale. Our top story tonight. Schools and offices close on a day | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
of protest by teachers and civil servants. I hunger-strikers as they | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
take to the streets. You will hear about by they're fighting for | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
affair pension. And I were people who have been on the receiving end | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
of strike action. Also tonight. The millions of pounds urgently needed | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
to restore this country estate. And in sport, already a triumph for | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Liam Brady. It was a day when for local players were in action at | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Wimbledon. Good evening. Welcome to tonight's programme, on a day when | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
thousands of people went on strike to protect their pensions and to | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
protest about spending cuts. Unions described the turnout as great, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
while one business leader said the action will have cost the region | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
more than �20 million. In a moment we'll analyse the economic impact, | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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but first this report from Sarah Teale. Fight back! A sea of | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
strikers joining together in defence of their pensions. Rallies | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
like this took place across the East Midlands. Pickets were held | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
outside schools and other public sector offices, like this one at | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
Revenue and Customs. Their message quite clear. You will have to work | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
longer, we will have to pay more and we will get less. A lot less. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Public sector workers from across the board joined the action. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Teachers, lecturers and civil servants marching side-by-side in | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
protest at the government plans to increase their pension | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
contributions and raise the retirement age. They're talking | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
about increasing contributions by �100 each month, that is �1,200 the | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
year and that is a big impact. have our pensions reduced, it will | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
not help workers in the private sector and the best way to help the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
private sector is to fight for our rights. There are lots of things we | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
are being hit with and it just does not seem fair on the idea of being | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
60 it and working is absolutely ludicrous. Hundreds of strikers | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
joined the rally. It is well supported. It is noisy with | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
chanting like fight back against cutbacks. Rallies like this have | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
been held in Leicester and Derby as well. About 200 strikers gathered | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
at the market place in Derby. think we are sending a message to | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
the public and to the Government. In Leicester, dozens also took to | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
the streets to march. And protestors, young and old, gathered | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
at Victoria Park in the city. But turnout hasn't been high everywhere, | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
with some picket lines featuring just a handful of people. And | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
despite fears of widespread closures, most government offices | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
did remain open. Despite that, unions call this the most supported | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
strike they've ever had, with some members taking action for the first | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
time in their careers. Are you happy with how it has been | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
supported? I'm very pleased with the number of people, it is a great | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
turn out and it is great that the three unions are striking together. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
The government is keen to point out that three quarters of civil | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
servants didn't take part in today's strike action. What is | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
clear is that protestors who did walk out, like the 1,200 who | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
marched through Nottingham, are ready for a long fight to win their | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
battle. Today the Government played down the scale of the strike and | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
said the vast majority of public sector employees hadn't supported | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
it. So what was the impact here? Anne has been looking at the | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
figures. I have indeed. Well, the civil servants' PCS union claims | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
nine or 10,000 members went on strike today in the East Midlands, | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
about 85 or 90% of members. The PCS figures are already hotly disputed | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
by the Cabinet Office, though. Looking at Government agencies, the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
impact seems to have been rather patchy. Five out of six courts at | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Leicester Crown Court were shut because of today's action and two | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
out of five closed at Nottingham. Some others had reduced services | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
and there could be paperwork backlogs tomorrow. Driving centres | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
appear to have been only lightly affected. And it seems the vast | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
majority, if not all, of the region's Job Centres stayed open, | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
too. There were fears airports could be affected because of | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
immigration officers striking, but East Midlands Airport has reported | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
no disruption. It is schools that have borne the brunt of today's | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
action. The NUT can't yet say how many teachers were on strike and | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the figures we have are only for schools that reported problems to | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
county councils, so there might be more affected. But as far as we can | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
tell, across our region 299 schools were totally shut down by | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
industrial action. That's one in five or 20%. Some others had to | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
shut down at least some of their classes, a further 396 of them. So | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
nearly half were affected in one way or another. With more now on | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
the impact on parents and others, here's Angelina Socci. This is one | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
of many schools across the East Midlands that was either shut or | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
partially closed today. Some of the protestors here at Kingsmead School | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
in Derby were too young to know what was happening. For others who | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
took to the picket line, it was a time to show solidarity. But not | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
everyone was standing by them. have had to have both of them off | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
school. And find something to do with them. Which is most unusual. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
had to use up one day of my annual leave. It has been a little bit | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
inconvenient. I think the teachers should be in school and we should | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
have a more civil way of discussing things. They supplied a service and | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
we pay taxes for. They need to get their backsides into gear. But in | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Nottingham, where a rally was also held, at least a dozen parents | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
turned up with their children. Every single one of them supporting | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
the action. It is very frustrating working in the public sector to | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
find that the supports that we took for granted to do a job on a day- | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
to-day basis are being cut. But as traffic was brought to a standstill | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
as strikers marched through the city, one driver caught up in the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
jam said it had caused him real disruption. I think they should all | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
be at work. I work in retail, people are losing jobs all over the | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
place. Why should they not pay for their pension? It is disgusting. I | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
have got three kids at home, who cannot be at school because of this. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
It is disgusting. And it wasn't just parents that were | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
inconvenienced. This man was unable to visit the Job Centre this | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
afternoon. Because I have wanted to speak to my advisers today because | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
they are meant to be starting a job next week, I do not know what to do. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
I could be committing fraud without benefits by accident. So while many | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
have felt the personal effects of today's strike, experts say a much | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
wider impact has been felt across the economy. We're joined by George | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Cowcher, the chief executive of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
Chamber of Commerce. Is it possible to say how much the strikes have | :07:50. | :08:00. | |
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cost the region today? National surveys say that it has cost about | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
�600 million in terms of lost production and additional costs as | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
a result. We have done some extrapolation on a county by county | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
basis and in Nottinghamshire we estimate companies have lost about | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
�9 million. What factors are used to gather that figure? We can look | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
at the national figure and we will know what the gross value added is | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
of companies in a particular county. If you can see what the national | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
figure is, you can extrapolate that. These are missed deliveries and | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
closures? Extra costs that employers must bear? We have had a | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
number of phone calls from members and other employers about certain | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
problems, particularly staff who have not been able to come to work. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
That has affected what companies can do. Would potential investors | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
be put off coming into the region if they see hundreds of people on | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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strike? It is very destructive and it has been reported in New York | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
and around the globe. And it's hard on the heels of all the problems in | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Greece. This isn't the right message to send out about how to do | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
business in the UK. Do you understand the anger of the | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
strikers over their pension provision? Yes, but many in the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
private sector have seen their pensions also altered substantially | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
and most public sector pensions are substantially better than anybody | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
gets in the private sector. Some are. This is a conversation we have | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
not got time for. Thank you. Still to come - the 11th hour dash to | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
save a childrens' heart unit. A public consultation on the | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Glenfield closes tomorrow, so campaigners made sure all their | :09:53. | :10:03. | |
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paperwork made it on time. Yesterday they were in Downing | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Street. Today, families fighting to keep children's heart surgery in | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
the East Midlands gave their campaign a final push. This | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
afternoon, over 10,000 completed consultation questionnaires were | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
sent to the team reviewing the future of childrens' heart surgery | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
across England. That's on top of thousands already despatched. As | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
our health correspondent, Rob Sissons, reports, the public | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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In here are the hopes and fears of 10,000 people from across the East | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Midlands. As the latest boxers have completed consultation | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
questionnaires are piled up, so, they hope, is the pressure to keep | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
children's heart surgery going in at Leicester. We have had enormous | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
support from the trust and from staff and parent organisations and | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
we would like to have done more but in the end, we are here to do the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
job of looking after children with heart disease and despite that, we | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
have a pretty good argument. have the address? You can | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
understand and last-minute nerves, this is precious cargo and the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
consultation closes tomorrow with everyone still in the dark about | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
what the review will decide. This is the picture at the moment. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Children's heart surgery is done at hospitals in these cities. There | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
are ten services and the plan is reduce it to six or seven. There | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
are more than 1,000 combinations possible. In this, one of four | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
short-listed patterns - it's only one in which Leicester's Glenfield | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
service survives. It happens to be the preferred option but local | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
campaigners are taking nothing for granted. They cannot be complacent | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
and the people have shown they are not complacent. There used to sit | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
in hearts and in the past few months it has been about winning | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
minds. Protests and petitions taken to the top, a famous football | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
manager on board helping them achieve that goal. The result is | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
expected at the end of the year but campaigners just hope they have | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
been heard loud enough. A Nottinghamshire man jailed for life | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
in the US three years ago for shooting dead his wife and baby | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
daughter is appealing against his conviction. 32 year-old Neil | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Entwistle from Worksop is arguing that he should get a new trial | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
because police searched his home without a warrant. His wife and | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
baby were found dead at the property in Massachusetts. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Investigations are continuing into the death of a snake breeder who | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
died after one of them bit him. Luke Yeomans ran the King Cobra | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Sanctuary near Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. Paramedics were | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
called there yesterday afternoon. It's believed he'd suffered a heart | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
attack after being bitten. A reward is being offered to try to catch | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
vandals who scrawled graffiti over a new memorial to the armed forces | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
in Mansfield. It was blessed by the families of soldiers just weeks ago. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Six names have been sprayed onto the stone. A 13 year-old girl is | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
helping the police with their enquiries. Those behind the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
Mansfield Heroes Memorial Fund spent months raising the money for | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
it and say it's a huge blow. When we discovered it had been | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
vandalised, the were firstly absolutely devastated. As a trustee, | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
I spoke to many of the families whose relatives were on this | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
memorial and they were absolutely distraught. Some of them in tears | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
and complete disbelief. A new report says it's going to take more | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
than �6 million to restore a country estate. And without a new | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
use being found for it, it'll fall into further disrepair. Campaigners | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
say Elvaston Castle, near Derby, must remain open to the public. And | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
developers have pledged that their plans will improve access for | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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everyone. Simon Hare went to take a look around. A it was England's | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
first country park. But Alison castle is in need of serious | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
attention. Some are small-scale work has been carried out. Today's | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
report shows the full scale of the task in hand. A team of architects, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
structural engineers and surveyors have spent months looking at the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
castle and their conclusion is what many people have known for years. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
It is in dire need of repair. The full cost of the works hanging over | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
the future of this estate is said to be nearly �6.5 million. The | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
honour, Derbyshire County Council, says the castle urgently needs new | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
use. It has been 15 years since the council first mooted the sale of | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
the place. 11 years on the market. And here we are and nothing has | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
been signed. I hope decisions can be taken much more quickly this | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
time around. And we will see something going out of the ground | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
in 2013. That could see the Cassidy, the conference hotel. I am thrilled | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
we're at this point and we can move on to the next stage. It has | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
confirmed the level of costs we are aware of and I'm really excited | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
that we can move on with English Heritage and the county council. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Looking at different uses that can support this cost and support the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
public access. People have had their ashes scattered here and | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
people cannot afford to go away on holiday and have days out here, | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
people are asking for permission to hold events here and we can see | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
just what revenue is being lost by the council. The authority says it | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
is committed to maintaining public access but it will not burden tax | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
payers with massive bills. Still to come on the programme. Tales from | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
the riverbank with Sally. tonight's programme, we're at | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Cranford canal and we might have spotted what we have come to look | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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for. Find out later... Now the sport. No surprises, given the big | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
news of the day? Certainly. SW19... He would not want to be anywhere | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
else. It has been quite a day. Four players competing from or neck of | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
the winds. The star of the show is this man, Liam Brady. He has come | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
out here and nailed it today. I would explain, yesterday he put out | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
the No. 1 seed from the boys' singles and he followed that up | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
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today with an epic on Court No. 18 against the German. On Court No. 18, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
this has to go down as one of the games of his life. Fine tennis in | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
the first set and he took on the tie-break inspired perhaps by | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Heather Watson. She was part of the crowd that just kept growing around | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Court Number 18 and no wonder, he had lost the second set and turned | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the third into something special. As the young pair battled to very | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
nearly a standstill. No tie-breaks in the final set so he had to fight | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
through some real spells at Tardis. And he finally claimed victory. 13 | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
- 11 in the third set. I have played in the men's qualifying and | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
I won that so I knew what I needed. I managed to just focus, point by | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
point and with the support of the crowd. It made it easier. He won | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
the junior doubles last year and what on earth might he do next | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
time? The answer is partly that you might win the junior doubles again | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
because fresh off the court for the junior doubles, that is just hours | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
in the singles and two hours in the doubles? Yes, and tired. And will | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
get some food and sleep. It is tricky because at this stage, it | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
gets relentless? You were asked a question about perhaps scratching | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
the doubles? I have my points to defend. It is a great honour to | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
play every match. How much has last year's triumph prepared you? It has | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
helped loans because obviously it helps you in terms of preparation | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
for the big crowd. How far do you think you can go? As far as you can | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
go in the juniors? There's not much pressure because I am one of the | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
law seeds. I will go out and try to enjoy it. Just enjoy it and relax? | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Yes, I will be fighting for every point but yes, try to get the crowd | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
behind me. Thank you for talking to us. We would chat in a moment. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
There has been plenty of other stuff going on. Let's catch up with | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
the rest of the sport. First football and a busy day at | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Leicester City. It's looks like Peterborough United striker Craig | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Mckail Smith is coming to the Walkers Stadium. He could join | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
tomorrow. Meanwhile, Leicester say goodbye to defender Jack Hobbs, who | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
has signed a three-year contract with Hull City. Also on the way to | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Hull, Nottingham Forest striker Dele Adebola. The 36 year-old was | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
released by Forest at the start of the summer and he'll be joined at | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
the KC Stadium by Forest midfielder Paul McKenna, who's likely to | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
complete his transfer from the City Ground before the weekend. In | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
cricket, Nottinghamshire have been showing off their new signing. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Tamim Iqbal is only the second Bangladeshi to play county cricket. | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
The big hitting international will play the next six Twenty20 matches | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
and he says to play here is a dream come true. When I was young I | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
father used to tell me that it's all about the history of this | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
county and from then on it was a dream. It's a big deal and it is | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
for him to play here. He has been in the training camp in Bangor - so | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
he is fit and ready to play. He'll start his first match for Notts | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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tomorrow against Derbyshire. Let's hope he does well. We should catch | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
up with the other three players at Wimbledon. Jocelyn Rayner, she was | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
competing in the mixed doubles. I am afraid they went out. You can | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
see her performing rather well. They lost that set. The second set, | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
straight sets. And look Banbridge, another familiar face. But Josh | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
ward is still on court in his boys' doubles doing much better, one set | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
up and three - 3, in fact, 4 - 4 in the second set. Ian Brodie, you | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
could just hear, how impressed are you? He has performed at a high | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
level for a few weeks. He was informed. He is getting a lot of | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
attention, is the part of your job to help can manage that? It is one | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
of my roles. But he is level-headed, he gets on with it and enjoys the | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
challenge. What is it like being coached by Mark? He is great. I | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
have only started six months ago in Nottingham and it was a great set- | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
up and great facilities. Everything is great. And the wider scene, for | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
competitors from one part of the world, does that inspire you? | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
great for Nottingham. And the Nottingham Academy has a fantastic | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
programme and it inspires youngsters to follow in his | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
footsteps. Singles triumph? One step at a time! He is playing good | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
tennis and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. He will follow that of | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
away. We will let you know how Josh Ward Hibberd gets on. His game is | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
still going on. Thank you very much. It's not very often that our | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
presenters have to think about what's happening behind the camera. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
But in this month's Sally Goes Wild, Sally Pepper heads to Derbyshire to | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
put her new wildlife photography skills to the test. This is my | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
local Haven, not far from where I live, I can picnic here and I ride | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
a bike here. And I take time to look at all the fabulous wild life, | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
dragonflies, and were hence, the little grebes. And if you are lucky, | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
you might spot water voles. This is my slice of heaven. This is | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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Cranford canal. You will get some good shots today. Back with Paul | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Hudson, he lasts a lonely spot of the mountain hare in January. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Having won a photographer, he has been coming to Cranford for 30 | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
years. They could be doing their business on the same spot every day | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
so we can build up. It's like a calling card. It does help the | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
researchers because they can see them and it's a good way of | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
indicating that they are here. Which can take ages. Hopefully not | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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today. Time to wait. And wait... And wait. And what some more. | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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There... Under the bridge, we spot a small summer. He has dived under. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
We have to wait for it to pop back out. Really quiet. Now that we had | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
spotted this little water vole, Paul give me tips on how to take | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
the perfect picture in case he rapiers. We have seen him on that | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
bank so there is a fair chance he welcome back out. It's always nice | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
if the animal is looking into the frame. So you have some of the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
animal looking across the picture so you have got more space on the | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
side of the animal. Giving that exposure. He might only be there | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
for a few seconds. That allows you to move quicker when he disappeared. | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
And if Mr Ahern goes past a well practised... -- I will practice. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
And he finally popped back out. Next time you are in your local | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
slice of quiet life heaven, bring a camera and have a little patience, | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
you might capture your perfect wind In the Willows moment... And if you | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
would like to pick up more wildlife photography tips, then you can take | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
a look at the extended version of the Cromford Water Voles online at | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
www.bbc.co.uk/derby. Dear little things. Now the big blue yonder. It | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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I have some nice clouds to show you. Things are set to turn settled over | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
the end of the week but on the county side. Sorry about that, this | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
is a cloud we had earlier on, increasing through the day and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
turning thick for a time before turning away and we have at the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
moment broken cloud, decent sunny spells and any of the earlier | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
showers have now cleared towards the east coast and eventually | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
overnight, all of us will be clear. With this clear skies, you would | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
expect it still to be mild and it will instead dropped down to eight | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
degrees, that is towns and cities. In rural spots, it will get 10 to | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
about four five degrees. It's a fresh start to the first day of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
July, actually going through the Friday be when it is that cloud | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
bubbling up. That is the high pressure, trapping the cloud and | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
still fairly warm with the top temperature of 19 degrees. 66 | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Fahrenheit. Friday night into Saturday, what we have had all week, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the cloud breaking and turning San'a and into Saturday, high | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
pressure still with us but look... Still cloud round and it starts dry | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
and sunny but that cloud slowly increases through the day on | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Saturday and the isobars are far apart so it will be a lovely still | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
day on Saturday. Further ahead, again, high pressure for a Sunday | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
but we trap the cloud. It will feel warm earth. Top temperature, 22 | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
degrees. Let us recap, tomorrow, cloudy with 19 degrees. Slowly | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
through the weekend, things get water and into Monday, staying with | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
that high pressure, settled and a top temperature of 23. Nice and | :27:28. | :27:37. |