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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Our top story tonight: a woman's denied IVF treatment because her | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
fiancee already has a child. The NHS won't pay for Susie's treatment | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
because her partner has a grown up son. And classed as having a family, | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
not classed as being childless. Also tonight, Boots pulls its ads, | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
on the day the News of the World self-destructs. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Plus, I've never abused anyone. A care home worker says claims of | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
ill-treatment are rubbish. And Golden Hynd, and Sam Hynd's | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
brother gets a Silver too. He is like a crocodile. He never stops | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Good evening, welcome to the programme. First tonight, the woman | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
denied IVF treatment on the NHS because her fiance has a grown up | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
son. The rules in the East Midlands mean | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
she's not seen as childless because she has a stepson. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
The rules apply even though he's 20-years-old, and she's never even | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
met him. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons reports. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Susie makes dreams come true. She designs wedding dresses in | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Nottingham but is furious the NHS will not find her own dream to have | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
a child. I cannot imagine myself being childless. I disagree with | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
people who say IVF shouldn't be on the NHS because it is a lifestyle | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
choice. Infertility is a disease. This affects one in 10 women. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Regional criteria mean that if either partner has children, the | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
course of IVF will not be funded. Susie's fiancee has a grown-up son. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
He is 20. She has never met him, he lives hundreds of miles away in | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Wales. And not about to start nurturing and protecting it went | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
year-old man. -- I am not about. I'm not going to cradle him in my | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
arms. That would be very weird. I want the opportunity to be a mother | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
and a real mother. Unravelling the NHS rules has proved baffling for | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
her. She has won many awards for her business. She loves her career | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
but says it will not love her back. It is a baby she doesn't just want | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
but needs. More than anything, and desperate to be a mother. I feel we | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
are being discriminated against because I had a child in a previous | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
relationship over 20 years ago. They say at the end of the day, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
they will find the money somehow for IVF. They say it is the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
principle of the whole thing. They insist the NHS should pay for at | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
least one course. Well, there are several conditions | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
that have to be met for you to get the go ahead for IVF on the NHS but | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Susie fails on one. Because she has a grown-up stepson. Now that rule | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
applies throughout the East Midlands. And in fact is now the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
case across most of England. The only way round it is to opt for | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
private IVF treatment and that would cost Susie around �7,000 for | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
one cycle. Dr Greg Place is a Nottinghamshire GP who has to deal | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
with this emotive issue. A line has to be drawn somewhere in terms of | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
funding services for people who are not in law. That means you can | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
maximise treatment options for those with cancer, those with heart | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
disease, those with chronic lung disease, for kidney transplantation. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
For those people there were not physically ill, there is funding | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
available to some extent and the idea of the funding guidelines as | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
to maximise chances of having a baby for a certain number of people. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Susie Henson's MP Vernon Coaker says he's taking the matter up in | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
the House of Commons. That criterion that means she is | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
automatically excluded. In other parts of the country, she would get | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
IVF. It is very unfair. I will meet her tomorrow, discuss it with her | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
and then I will see what I can do to help both locally and nationally. | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
This is of such importance that it needs to be raised in Parliament. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Well, the Commissioning Group responsible for making the policy | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
say they recognise the difficulties couples face but they believe their | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
rules are fair. Explosive news tonight from The | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
News of the World - it's closing down. The phone-hacking scandal has | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
finally sunk the top-selling tabloid and Sunday's paper will be | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
the last. Only today, Boots the Chemist pulled its advertising from | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the paper. The East Midlands company was one of the paper's | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
biggest advertisers but felt it had to withdraw its backing today as | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
the size of the scandal grew. Simon Hare's at the Boots site now. Good | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
evening, Simon. Good evening. The day began with | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the company saying it was reviewing its advertising with the News Of | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
The World. LEA -- later can use it was put in its adverts on hold, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
although one at that will appear in the newspaper's Sunday supplement | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
magazine which will now be the last. A significant Advertiser, as you | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
say, said to be the 7th biggest advertiser with the News Of The | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
World, spending almost �1 million a year plugging its range of health | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
and beauty care products. Through the course of the day, other | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
advertisers and organisations said they were stopping or suspending | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
their relationship with Britain's biggest selling newspaper. The | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
allegations of hacking also expanded to include alleged hacking | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
off phones of soldiers and their families, soldiers killed in Iraq | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
and Afghanistan. For the latest information, I'm joined by a | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
lecturer in politics and the media at Nottingham Trent University. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Quite an amazing story breaking late tonight but how influential do | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
believe the loss of advertisers like Boots the Chemist has been in | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
this amazing decision? I think it has been incredibly important. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Advertising is the lifeblood of the newspaper industry. It is also | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
important because people were not going to buy the newspaper on | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
Sunday. I think Rupert Murdoch thought this might jeopardise the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
BSkyB deal. Stay with us for the moment. Within the past hour, we've | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
been out on the streets of Nottingham to assess the reaction | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
of readers. I think that the salaciousness of the News Of The | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
World is probably represented elsewhere in the media now. I think | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
it is a good thing. By May writer and it is not very good for | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
literacy anyway. -- I am a writer. It has been a shameful episode for | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
everyone concerned has and it, really? Sunday is not going to be | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
the same without it. Some reaction to the news that the News Of The | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
World is no more. Do you think that this is going to be a simple | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
rebranding exercise? This is an amazing commercial decision. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
would be very surprised if in a couple of months' time, we don't | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
see the Sunday Sun or some equivalent been launched. This has | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
been an amazing week, a long- running story but an amazing | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
development. A what is interesting is how quickly it has happened. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
the space of four days, a newspaper which has 168 years old has been | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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closed down. Many thanks. Back to the studio. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Still to come on the programme: Sally struggles for words. | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
A brief period of precipitation, six letters, starts with the letter | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
S, shower! Why didn't I think of that?! Or showers in the forecast | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
later. And I will be finding out why this | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
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time of year is especially A senior care home manager has | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
adamantly denied ill-treating three elderly patients in her care. Dawn | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Heaney told a jury at Leicester Crown Court today that in her 22 | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
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year career she'd never abused anyone. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
She said claims that she'd slapped two residents and had a lack of | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
respect for the diginity of her residents were utter rubbish. Sarah | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Teale was in court. Dawn Heaney took to the stand at | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Leicester Crown Court today where she repeatedly denied allegations | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
of mistreating patients in her care. The 38-year-old from Woodthorpe in | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Loughborough faces four charges relating to her time as a senior | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
care worker at Wymeswold Court Care Home at Wymeswold near Loughborough. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Relatives of some of the patients were in court to hear claims that | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
she'd slapped one 93-year-old wheelchair bound resident on the | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
head and forcedfed chocolate to an 81-year-old patient. The | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
prosecution then questioned her over allegations that she'd slapped | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
and sworn at an 85-year Alzheimer sufferer. Heaney was calm and | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
assured under cross examination. She denied ever hitting the elderly | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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patient or swearing at him, but she did admit shouting. She told the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
jur,y in my 22-year service I have never hit a patient, ever. The | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
prosecution is backing up it's case with claims that Heaney treated the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
patients with a lack of a respect and displayed a casual attitude to | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
their dignity. They told cross examined her over claims she called | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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several patients names. No, it is rubbish, she said. The residents | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
would not have hit me use also a language like that. The judge began | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
his summing-up this afternoon and the jury is expected to begin its | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
deliberations tomorrow. It's emerged that a county | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
councillor and former equalities spokesman faced a standards panel | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
hearing after he used an offensive racist term during a Conservative | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Association meeting. It's not the first time Rob | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Fraser's phraseology has got him into trouble. Well, our chief news | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
reporter Quentin Rayner joins us now. Obviously this was a deeply | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
offensive term and many people will be upset by it. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Yes, they will, and certainly someone who attended the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
association meeting at a pub in Ratby in March last year did find | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
it offensive and complained to the County Council. Councillor Fraser | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
used the phrase "ligger in the woodpile" which the Standards | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Committee felt brought his office or the Authority into disrepute | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
when it met earlier this year to consider the case. That's right. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
When did he justify using this claim -- word? | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
He said the word was offensive but the phrase was not. He rhetoric -- | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
he said it was a recognised and traditional phrase meaning | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
something bad happened to him. If he thought he had offended anybody, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
he would apologise. The standards committee accepted that some voted | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
not to take any action in the light that he had apologised. | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
This isn't the first time that he has used some kind of phrase and | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
made a public comment. In January 2009, while he was | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
addressing a public meeting concerning the proposed travellers' | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
site, he said this: The Romanians, they'll stick a knife in you as | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
soon as look at you. Going on to say, some of these European ones, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
they make the Irish look like complete amateurs and I would dread | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
to see them in Groby. On that occasion, the county council did | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
take action. He was suspended for a month as well. He was ordered to | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
attend a diversity course. Mr Fraser has pointed out that the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
next council election -- at the next election, he doubled his | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
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majority. Derbyshire Police are investigating | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
after a 28-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Ilkeston. She | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
was approached near the Pewit Golf Course yesterday but managed to | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
fight off her attacker. He's described as white, slim and in his | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
late 20s. He was wearing a black Umbro jacket with white stripes | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
along the arms and a dark beanie hat covered in dog hairs. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Villagers opposed to a Tesco store being built in Keyworth in | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Nottinghamshire have told a public inquiry that they would would | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
prefer the land to be used for sheltered housing instead. The | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
supermarket chain's application was refused permission by Rushcliffe | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Borough Council in November. But if their appeal is successful, it | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
could be built. A leading rail union says the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
possible loss of 1,400 jobs at the Derby train-maker, Bombardier, will | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
be at the top of the agenda when it meets the Transport Secretary next | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
week. The union says it wants to stop the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
government actually signing a huge train contract with a German firm. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Meanwhile, the leader of a task force helping rail workers facing | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
redundancy, says she believes they will be able to find jobs. James | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
Roberson reports. Three rail unions and the TUC were | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
due to see the Transport Secretary Phil Hammond on Wedsnesday, anyway | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
to discuss railway reform. But now the RMT union says the Bombardier | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
situation has jumped up the agenda. The union wants pressure kept on | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
the government to review the contract, even though Philip | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Hammond's stated he does not have the power to change the contract, | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
whose term were written by the previous Labour government. Isn't | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
that strange, that they are quick to blame everyone else put | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
themselves. They've been in government for 14 months. It is | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
happening on his watch, on Cameron's watch, and they need to | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
change their mind. However, if jobs do go at Bombardier and elsewhere, | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the government's new task force leader, a former Rolls Royce | :14:25. | :14:33. | |
executive, believes other work can be found for workers. I think this | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
town has a very high skilled population. The city depends on | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
higher skilled people. There will be opportunities. It is our job to | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
make sure thereof. A government trade and investment tsar, based | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
here in our region, says there could also be jobs for any local | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
redundant railworkers in Europe. would much pig -- I would much | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
prefer people to stay in this kind of the world, selling engineering | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
products around the world. That said, better job than no job, and | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
one of the advantages is the free movement of labour. When you come | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
back, you bring back additional skills you've learnt somewhere else. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
A further pressure is being put on the government for national | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
newspapers. Thus the story in today's Daily Mirror. This is the | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
story in today's the Sun. And the Daily Express has gone one further | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
with a full campaign. We asked for an interview with Philip Hammond to | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
discuss bombarding a. We were told he did not have time today to talk | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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They're known for crossing roads, often badly, but hedgehogs it seems | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
often end up in all sorts of places that really aren't very good for | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
them. Which is why so many end up at rescue centres. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
At one in Leicestershire they're currently looking after dozens of | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
babies who've been found without mothers. But it's not just the | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
babies, or hoglets, that need our help. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
No, the whole species really need a little bit of TLC from the human | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
race so for this months what's on guide Kylie Pentelow went to | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
Quiniborough to find out a bit more about this prickly problem. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
When they're this small, they've not spiky, just don't really keep | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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still. And they seem to like our mini camera! Pat Wadd runs Helping | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
Hands from her home and it's a time consuming job. These little ones | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
need a feed every three hours! Right, your turn. He is not spiky. | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
There you go. I need an extra hand. It is harder than it looks, Pat. | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
If you're into wildlife there's a whole weekend of activities coming | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
up. Find out about Nottinghamshire's inhabitants at | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
Clumber Park. Across the region there are events for Archaeology | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
week, that starts on 16th. And it's the Ashby show in Derbyshire with | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
vintage tractors, activities, dogs and horses. Now, it's not just the | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
hoglets who need a helping hand here. The grown-up hedgehogs get | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
into the odd prickly situation too. This is Charlie. He came to me when | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
he was found in the daytime. He had a little injury. He came in in a | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
very bad way and now he is quite happy. He is ready to be released. | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
Charlie's off to an enclosed garden to live out his in days. This month | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
the Open Air theatre season gets underway, this play's at Nottingham | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Castle. In Leicester the Mela is celebrating 25 years, that's this | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
Sunday. And for more music the Splendour festival is in Wollaton | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
Park in Nottingham, with bands like the Scissor Sisters and Blondie! | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Some tips for you if you want to help hedgehogs. Don't give them | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
bread or milk, they much prefer a puppy food. If you have a pond, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
make sure it has a hedgehog escape route. Do not put slug pellets in | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
your garden. Hedgehogs don't like them. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
They are very cute, aren't they? Still to come on the programme, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
changing churches. The vicar who's been ordained as a | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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Catholic priest, at the tender age But what does age matter? | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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Not at all! First, its looks like Leicester City have made the | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Championship signing of the summer today. Later tonight they're | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
expected to announce that Reading defender Matt Mills has become a | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Leicester player. Premier League clubs have been chasing Mills but | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
we understand Leicester have paid a fee of �5 million to get him. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Natalie was the first to get a glimpse of him at the King Power | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
stadium in the last hour. Here he is, Matt Mills leaving | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Leicester City tonight. The deal is not done. But tomorrow, it should | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
be. He could become the championships most expensive player. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Leicester City of really splash in the cash. This is what his new | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
team-mates had to say about him. There are going for the best | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
players in the championship at the moment. He has proven that he is | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
that one of the best defenders. He is worth over to March and nobody | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
will be arguing. Phil spending a lot of money to bring him here. -- | :19:38. | :19:47. | |
they are spending. David Newton... They are highly rated players in | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
their own right. But Mount Mills was wanted by a number of Premier | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
League clubs and Sven Goran Eriksson has been chasing him for | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
weeks. Of them more on the way? cannot talk specifically but yes, | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
there are also more common. Not many but it is important for us to | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
find the right ones. How many more? Is it possible to say? No, I don't | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
know. One or two, three maybe. understand why Leicester City have | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
paid Reading a fee of around �5 million and we've heard that his | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
wages are about �25,000 a week. Leicester are certainly splash in | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
the cash. Mills will be their 6th summer signing and Sven says there | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
are more aware. We are even hearing that the former Manchester United | :20:42. | :20:51. | |
star Owen Hargreaves could be on his way to the stadium here. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Astonishing spending! Just a line on Derby County, confirmation that | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Luke Varney has moved to Portsmouth. Still no news of signings at | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Nottingham Forest, though. Some good news for | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Nottinghamshire's Lee Westwood as he builds up to next week's Open. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
He's currently playing the Scottish Open, which is on a links course | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
too this weekend. Westwood is in the lead after a first round seven | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
under par. In Cricket, Leicestershire are in | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
the T20 quarter finals and Derbyshire are still in the hunt | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
after both sides won yesterday. No doubt about the moment of the | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
evening. Leicestershire's Jigar Naik taking three wickets in just | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
one over. His only over. As for the Falcons? They probably still need | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
to win all three of their remaining games but you can see they're still | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
fighting. A year ago today, Mansfield's | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Paralympic swimming champion Sam Hynd was involved in a car accident | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
that was so serious, his mum thought he'd never pull through. | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
This week, he claimed gold in the European Championships. And what's | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
even more remarkable is that Sam's brother was just behind and took | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
the silver on his international debut. Ross Fletcher reports. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
2008 and the high point of Sam Hynd's swimming career, claiming | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
gold in the Paralympics. But that was almost his final flourish. 12 | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
months ago, a car crash nearly ended his life. The car was code to | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
the concertinaed. I don't want to see the car. The emergency staff | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
did not think he would get out alive but luckily he did. He has | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
made a fantastic recovery. After missing the world championships his | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
recovery has been quite something. This week he was back in the water, | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
winning the 400 metres in Berlin. But this has been about Team Hynd, | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
with younger brother Ollie coming second. I knew he would be there | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
for the whole of the race. I cannot say how chuffed I am to do it. And | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
chatty got second as well. I turned a 300 with 100 to go and I thought | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
he is not as far ahead as he was in the heat so would put my head down | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
in the last 100 but I couldn't quite catch him. He is like a | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
crocodile. He never stops snapping. That is how I wanted. It is absurd | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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it is fantastic, but we are about this level of competition. Both | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
swimmers have a condition which is gradually weakening their legs, so | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
London 2012 could be very special for the Hynd family. It will be | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
fantastic to be at their home games. To have to plea... Quick, Valium! | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
So the way things are going? Well, Sam might have to share the | :23:28. | :23:36. | |
limelight. But they both belong to us! That is | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
the important thing. Finally, he's nearly 83, he's a | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
great grandfather, he's been an Anglican vicar for nearly 60 years | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
and now he's just been ordained a Catholic priest. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Father Peter Peterken is one of three former vicars who've recently | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
become priests. Jo Healey has followed his extraordinary story. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
Peter walks near the two miles each morning from his home to his new | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
church, to say Mass. So why? He has become a Catholic priest in his | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
eighties. All of my life, I've believed in the unity of the Church. | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
When the Pope offered us the opportunity to join the Catholic | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Church, it seemed the right step to take. He was recently ordained in | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
St Barnabas Cathedral. There are priests with a difference. Peter | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
has four children, 12 grand children and four great- | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
grandchildren. How does it feel to be married to a Catholic priest? | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
have been married to a priest for such a long time, nearly 58 years | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
now. It doesn't seem very different. It is different of course and we've | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
been made to feel so welcome in the Catholic Church. Other clergy we've | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
met have made us feel so welcome. He was an Anglican minister for | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
nearly 60 years and among his new congregation are people from his | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
old church were converted with him. It is Father Peter's 83rd birthday | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
soon but he says his journey is just beginning. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
A lovely story and Happy birthday for whenever it is. | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
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I do crosswords regularly! Good evening. We've had a showery theme | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
through the past few hours and that will continue for a time. This | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
picture depicts the scenes across the East Midlands this afternoon. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Philip sent this one in the from Leicestershire. He was on a bike | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
ride. He managed to escape the showers. Do keep your photographs | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
coming in. For now, there are one or two showers for us to try and | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
avoid. We are looking at this area of rain that is sitting in the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
south-west corner of the UK. That is gradually making inroads during | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the course of the night. And of course we've had a pretty cloudy | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
day and from those clouds we seen a lot of showers. Blustery showers as | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
well. It has been a windy day. It will get when you are still by the | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
time we get to tomorrow. For now, those showers are becoming few and | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
far between. Trying overnight with clear skies. Temperatures staying | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
in double figures. There it is, but rain hours talking about. It is | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
gradually making inroads and by the early hours of tomorrow morning, it | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
will be continuing to make a wet and windy start to Friday. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Gradually, that band of rain works its way northwards. Behind it, we | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
will get a blustery showers coming in. Interspersed with nice, sunny | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
spells. 20 Celsius is your high, 68 Fahrenheit. We could do better than | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
that and we will try our best over the weekend. This low pressure | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
gradually works its way northwards and moves away from us so after a | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
showery start on Saturday, we are left with a dry and bright | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
afternoon. Sunny spells, lighter winds. Highs of 22 Celsius. | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
Hopefully getting even warmer still. Sunday is looking a much more | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
settled day. Dry with sunny spells. The best of the sunshine through | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
the morning. As we going to the start of next week, all I can say | :27:21. | :27:26. |