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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and Anne Davies. Our | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
top story tonight: Guilty, the care worker who ill-treated frail, | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
elderly pensioners. Dawn Heaney abused two vulnerable residents at | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
the care home where she worked. Also tonight, how safe is our | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
children's walk to school? Parents anger as their free bus is axed. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
is three miles, it is disgusting, and my daughter is 11 years old, | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
she is not been put at risk. Plus can a canal project bring much- | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
needed jobs to Derby? And a taxi for one - a new breed of | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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Good evening and welcome to Friday's programme. Tonight, the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
woman who was supposed to care for frail pensioners, but abused them | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
instead. Dawn Heaney, a senior care worker, was found guilty of ill- | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
treating two elderly residents at a home in Wymeswold near Loughborough. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
After today's hearing at Leicester Crown Court, the police said | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Heaney's conviction sends a clear message that society will not | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
tolerate anyone who chooses to mistreat or abuse vulnerable | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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elderly people. James Roberson was in court and joins us now. Good | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
evening, James. Good evening, Dominic. The jury here at Leicester | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Crown Court took three hours to deliver their verdict, they have | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
been here all we can have heard evidence which the judge | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
acknowledged would have been very distressing for them. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Relief for the relatives of the ball Noble, elderly patients where | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Dawn Heaney worked. They sat inside Court Room five at Leicester Crown | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Court to hear the jury returned guilty verdicts on two charges | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
against two different patients suffering from dementia. The family | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
of Barry well done, an Alzheimer's sufferer, had heard evidence in | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
court that Dawn Heaney had called him a derogatory name. I would have | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
liked it to have been all guilty but it is not and that is the way | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
it goes. I don't know how she can slip with what she has done. Heaney | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
from Woodford in Loughborough worked at a care home in Wymeswold. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Colleagues gave evidence how they saw her hitting a patient and treat | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
others with a lack of respect. She was found guilty of putting | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
excessive sugar and vinegar in a cup of tea being drunk by and 85- | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
year-old Alzheimer's sufferer and she was guilty of striking a 93- | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
year-old woman around the head. She passed away in 2009 and her | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
daughters gave their reaction. is disgusting. Particularly to | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
people will dementia and Alzheimer's. She was in a confused | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
state of mind. She should not be working with people like that at | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
all. I am delighted with the outcome of the court case today. It | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
is only correct that Dawn Heaney has been held accountable for her | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
actions. This conviction cent after a clear message that society will | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
not stand by and allow anybody who chooses to ill-treat or abuse a | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
vulnerable and defenceless elderly person. Heaney was found not guilty | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
of two other charges, for speeding and elderly patients and slapping | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
another. -- force-feeding an elderly patient. The case has been | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
adjourned while sensing prepares next month. And the judges warned | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
her that she may well receive a custodial sentence but accept that | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
this is her first offence and he will listen carefully to the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
reports that a prepared and to any mitigating evidence. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Thank you. A campaign's started to get more | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
life-saving first-aid kit in businesses and public places. The | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
St John's Ambulance charity in the East Midlands wants workplaces to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
make sure they have a defibrillator in case someone has a cardiac | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
arrest. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has been to meet a man | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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who owes his life to one of these I saw you down there. And then the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
next thing I knew what a wasn't hospital. Reunited at Notts | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
County's ground with the volunteer who saved his life. Thanks is the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
obvious thing to say but it isn't obvious understatement. I keep | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
telling him I will not kiss him! Man and boy, well has watched the | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
Magpies since 1946. It was after a 1-1 draw with Burton Albion that he | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
suffered a cardiac arrest whilst leaving the ground. Adrian from the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
St John's Ambulance, he legged it all their weight from the cup to | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
the travellers rest and he was there in about 10 seconds. He used | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
the defibrilator to shock his heart. It brought him back to life, it is | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
quite pleasing. ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Apply it to the | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
bare chest. But the headquarters of St John's Ambulance, they show how | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
easy it is. It is a case of pressing the button to turn it on, | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
touching the pads, and there are clear diagrams as to whether should | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
be attached. In the Leicestershire village of Saltby, the locals | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
clubbed together for a defibrilator. The whole village voted to have won | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
because everybody recognised how important this is for the people | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
that live here. Who knows, perhaps there will be a common occurrence | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
to see these, like a phone box. Will his thinking tonight about the | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
lottery draw. When I get my lottery draw tonight, I am buying it on | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Monday. The football club? Yes, 66 millions, it should just about | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
cover it. And he can take us out for dinner as well! You are a cheap | :06:20. | :06:30. | |
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Luck was on his side that day? and the campaign to get these, | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
these are expenses, -- these are expensive. But people are hoping | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
that people clubbed together and share them. They just want to see | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
them in more places. A good idea. Thanks for coming in. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Still to come on the programme. Friday ends with a bang, but will | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
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things quieten down for the weekend? We have had heavy rain, it | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
thunder, and winds, don't you just love the summer? But I might have | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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A school worker from Nottingham has been jailed for raping a 13-year- | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
old pupil. The court heard how Mikhail Mohammad, 45 from Radford, | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
befriended the girl whom he took to his flat and raped in November last | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
year. Today he was sentenced to ten years in prison and a further nine | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
months for a fraud offence. He was also placed on the sex offenders | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
register. A mother accused of killing her | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
baby by shaking it is expected to give evidence next week. Jodie Pick, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
24 from Broughton Astley in Leicestershire, has said she shook | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
her seven-week-old daughter to try to revive her after finding her | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
unconscious in her crib. The prosecution claims she did it in a | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
moment of anger. She denies the charge of manslaughter. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
The number of volunteer police officers in Nottinghamshire is set | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
to increase. The plan, to boost the ranks of the specials, comes as | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
dozens of long-serving regular officers are forced to retire. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Currently, there are 320 specials. This is likely to rise to 550 over | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
the next three years. Some parents in Sileby are angry | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
that they'll be asked to pay �400 a year for a school bus service which | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
used to be free. They weren't charged for the service because the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
route to the school was considered dangerous. But the council has | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
reconsidered and has now decided that it's safe. From Sileby, Mark | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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A narrow footpath alongside a Parents say children's lives will | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
be put at risk if they have to walk to school along this route. I am 34 | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
and there is no way I would walk along this in the morning in the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
winter when it is pitch black. No way. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
It's a dilemma facing 52 families in Sileby after the council decided | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
to axe free bus travel for children living less than three miles from | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
their school. From September, parents must pay �400 a year for a | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
ticket to ride. �400 to us is obviously a lot of money. We have | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
all had price increases with the gas, utility bills, petrol, food, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
everything is going up. Children qualified for free bus | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
travel because the route was dangerous, but after cutting back | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
undergrowth and branches, the council says it's now safe and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
those living less than three miles away must pay up. Parents have | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
accused the council of putting money before their children's | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
safety. We're not making money are to be risking a of children's | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
safety and there is a service bus and people could choose to use that | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
if they did not want to pay a �400 fare. My daughter is one 10th of a | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
mile short of the distance, if you measure it from where the bus | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
picked her up, it is three miles. It is disgusting. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
This morning parents drove the route in convoy to highlight the | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
dangers of having even more cars on the road and more protests are | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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planned to persuade the council to Next tonight, it's been a dream for | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
many years but now plans to reconstruct part of Derby's canals | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
have become a reality. Last night the city council agreed to restore | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
a seven-mile stretch from the city to Borrowash. To complete the plans, | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
two other councils also need to give the nod, but campaigners are | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
confident this will happen in the next few weeks. Kylie Pentelow | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
reports. Built more than 200 years ago, for | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
decades the canal was essential for industry. But in 1961 it was | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
abandoned in Derby. Now there are few signs it ever existed. But | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
after the city council said yes to a seven-mile stretch being restored, | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
campaigners are confident others will follow. Phenomenal news, we | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
have been waiting for this and this is the best news I have had in | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
eight years. There was District and South Derbyshire have also been | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
involved so Derbyshire have 400 metres and error Wash have five | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
miles per Derby City have taken the position of Lydd council and we | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
believe other councils will take the other guidelines. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
If that happens, the canal would be restored from Sandiacre, through | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Borrowash to Swarkestone. Parts have been filled in and are now | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
used as footpaths. So in years to come this part of the canal will be | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
flowing with water right up to Derby. And just below my feet is an | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
old lock and that will be dug out and preserved as part of the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
project. But it's not just about restoration, | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
the canal work could come at just the right time. It's a huge | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
opportunity, Derby has been worried about loss of job losses. This | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
canal will generate a huge number of short-term jobs and long-term | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
jobs as well. Bringing the canals back to life | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
could cost around �45 million, partly funded by developers and | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
grants and the first work should begin in the next two years, the | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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start of a huge project to link Santander, which acquired the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Alliance & Leicester Bank three years ago, has brought its call | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
handling back to Leicester and two other centres in the UK. 100 jobs | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
have been created in the city. It's made the move after having more | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
customer complaints last year than any other bank. Calls that were | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
previously handled in India will be East Midlands Trains has set up a | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
new website offering special fares to Olympic and Paralympic ticket | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
holders. The 2012 Games train tickets will allow spectators to | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
change the time they return should an event be unexpectedly | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
rescheduled. The company will also provide more late night trains and | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
additional capacity on a number of Next, it's on the road at last - | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
what's believed to be the first single-passenger taxi service in | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
the East Midlands. The idea was rejected a couple of years ago. But | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
the businessman behind it refused to be beaten and he's now got his | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
cars out on the streets. He says it'll mean big savings for | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
Taxi for one, and one only. This new service is aimed at passengers | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
who are travelling alone. The owners claim 40% of taxi fares | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
during the day are single passengers. And they say using | :13:46. | :13:56. | |
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these compact cars will cut what I don't know why this did not take | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
off years ago because let's face it, most people travel singly in cars. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
This is ideal. This is the businessman who's come | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
up with the idea. He's spent around �20,000 putting two of these taxis | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
on the road. But it's been tough. Two years ago, Gedling Borough | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
Council said these cars couldn't be used as taxis. The reasons were | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
varied but they were issues like the actual size of the vehicle, | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
they were concerned about safety levels. The comfort level, | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
technical data. After resubmitting the plans, | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Gedling Borough approved things for a limited time. In a statement the | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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The taxi firm says you can get a wheelchair or a guide dog into the | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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boot. And they claim more services Two passions, football and shopping. | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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First tonight, Leicester City could pay out as much as �20 million in | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
fees and wages this summer if their spending spree continues as | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
expected. Behind me, the six signings who've come in so far and | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
the reported fees they've cost. Remember, even the freebies will | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
command a signing-on fee and some hefty wages. So the headline | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
transfer fee figure doesn't begin to tell the story of what Leicester | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
have laid out. Today's new boy, for a Championship record fee, Matt | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
These are the first pictures of Matt Mills at training with | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Leicester City today. Sven-Goran Eriksson has smashed the club's | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
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record transfer fee to bring him He's cost around 5.5 million from | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Reading, �200,000 more than the �5.3 million Leicester paid for | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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How do you feel about the price tag? It has only been mentioned | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
with the media talk and in terms of me, I just want to come here and | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
get my head down and play football. In the past, at Doncaster and | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Reading, it was either a close to record three, I have had it before | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
and I would like to shake that off as quick as possible and get to | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
work. Mills is the latest recruit in a | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
bonanza of spending. Sven has brought in six new players and is | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
also preparing a fourth bid for Bristol City striker Nicky Maynard. | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
If successful, he'll have spent nearly �14 million in a staggering | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
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statement of intent by the new I have got to say thanks to the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
owners because if it was not for them, then this would not be | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
possible. As nothing the Leicester City fans -- I think the Leicester | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
City fans are really excited about it. There is a real enthusiasm and | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
they have shown in Ted by playing and bringing players in -- showing | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
intent. And Sven-Goran Eriksson's | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
glittering spending spree mean the bookies odds have shortened | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
drastically for Leicester to get promoted even ahead of the likes of | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
West Ham and Birmingham City who have just come down from the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
At Nottingham Forest it's a very different picture. Nine players | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
have gone out with only one, Andy Reid, coming in but we understand | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
they are trying to sign Newcastle winger Wayne Routledge. Notts | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
County might be sadder the fact that Michael Johnson has left the | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
club as they chose to not using as the leader of the youth team | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
manager. Onto a rarely-seen sporting legend | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
now. He's not been on the Mallory Park track since 1979 but this | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
weekend motorcycle champion Kenny Roberts will change all that. Best | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
remembered for some astonishing duels with Barry Sheene, he's | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
appearing at the Festival Of A Thousand Bikes at Mallory Park, | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
where I caught up with him. King Kenny Roberts is the poster | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
boy for the festival and with memories of duels like this with | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
Adding to the lustre is the fact that you just don't see him much | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
any more. I twisted my arm and I have memories here. A lot of my | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
early career and a thick that touched a hotspot in my heart for | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
it and I decided, why not? There's a whole host of riders from | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
what was a golden era and on Sunday, they'll all go out together. It's | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
supposed to be a parade. It is impossible to ride around and not | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
good Beanie on the ground. It is impossible, I would not do it, I | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
may end up doing something stupid. We will try to out-accelerate each | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
other, it will be brilliant. Ah, Phil Reed - another one who | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
duelled with Sheene. From an era when you could get close up, and | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
everyone had a bit more personality. We just let it exciting. You had | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
personalities there as well. COMMENTATOR: Look at that, Barry | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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Sheene ways to Kenny Roberts and I know what it was like in the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
early days were you could go to a Grand Prix, you could touch the | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
riders and smell the bikes but modern-day MotoGP is really sterile, | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
it does not have that good feeling about it, it is not quite human | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
enough for me. A 50,000-strong crowd's expected | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
for a taste of old bikes, and even older riders. But Roberts is the | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
star. The fund gets going at Mallory Park. Two Twenty20 games, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
one under way so far, Derbyshire fighting all the way for a quarter- | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
final spot, and Lords starts A Derbyshire teenager is planning | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
the trip of a lifetime. She's going skiing. But this isn't Val D'Isere | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
or the Cairngorms. Bryony Baylen, a student at Newcastle University, is | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
skiing to the South Pole. The 19- year-old came into our studio a few | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
days ago. But before we hear from her, let's have a look at how | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
Bryony's preparing for her big She wants to become the youngest | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
Britain to ski to the South Pole. Bryony will have to trek almost 700 | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
miles in temperatures of 40 degrees below freezing. I know it will be | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
cold, eight hours of skiing every day, 63 days if the weather is good | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
and everyone is fit and healthy and all our equipment works. Bryony's | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
going in December and despite all the training, one of the most | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
difficult tasks ahead is building up her weight. She needs to put on | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
three stone. The first stone was easy but now I am slowing down, I | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
have got quite a way to go to my target. It is the volume you have | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
to eat and make sure it is healthy weight and not just a Chinese | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
takeaway for dinner every night, I have got a long way to go. She has | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
until the end of the year to reach her goal. Then the real challenge | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
So I know you have been thinking about this for years but what first | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
motivated you to consider it even? The very first idea was at about 4 | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
o'clock in the morning at Mont Blanc. As you do on your summer | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
holiday! It was just to keep us going, my mountaineering parte | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
started to do a bucket list, we had got Mark Everest on there and then | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
the North Pole and the South Pole and we thought yes, of course we | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
will do it at some point. You did not think it would be this quickly? | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Definitely not, but then the idea was in my head. And my scout troop | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
was fortunate enough to get the current record holder for the young | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
is Briton to speak to the South Pole, he gave us a talk -- the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
youngest Briton. And I asked him for advice on somebody wanting to | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
replicate the feet and somebody like myself, a young woman and | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
effectively he turned round and said it might be too difficult, you | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
are a woman, I don't know if you should do it. And that really | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
pushed me on a. You are determined! Are you nervous at all because it | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
is not easy to. Definitely. I would be more worried if I was not | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
nervous, I have no idea what it will be like when I'm on the ground | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
and it is a bit late, to be honest. I am just try to make sure I am as | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
prepared as I can believe. I am putting on the weight, I am doing | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
weights, and tried to prepare it, reading experiences. Two months of | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
extreme challenge and then it is a finish. Or is it part of your life | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
that is something you are aiming to what was Mike it has been in the | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
works for three years, the last 18 months have been pretty much | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
directly towards this expedition. Cutting back, social life and | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
changing my diet, when I eat and what, trying to put the weight on | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
so I am safe out there. And the long-term picture is I would like | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
to get into expedition guiding, the experience on this will be | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
invaluable. The you are going the right way about it. We wish to the | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
very best. Thank you. Briny speaking to us a few days ago, she | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
has probably put on about half a pound since then. I think she will | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
do it. She is very determined. guess it will not be as cold here | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
Yes, but we have seen pretty dramatic scenes over the past few | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
hours, some heavy and thundery showers. You'll be pleased to hear | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
that over the weekend it is looking drier with some sunny spells. A | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
great piece of news if you are planning for an event over the | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
weekend. Do let us know of those because we can tell everybody else | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
about that. Senders and e-mail. The pressure chart shows at a low- | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
pressure area, that will move its way towards the north of the | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
British Isles and that means things will settle down but we can see the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
radar picture, we had some pretty feisty showers, the brighter the | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
colours depicting the really heavy and thundery ones which have been | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
crossing much of the East Midlands. For now, the trend tends to be for | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
those showers diminishing. Not altogether, some places further to | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the north and west will be seeing some showers continuing overnight. | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
Temperatures down to around 12 Celsius as your minimum temperature. | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
The winds will ease up as well. Saturday will be less windy and | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
fewer showers around. Not getting rid of them all together but the | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
best chance of seeing showers into the morning, by the afternoon most | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
places should be quite dry and sunny and the blight of winds, the | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
temperatures feeling a bit better. And then Sunday it is a bit more of | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
an improvement, it should be definitely a dry day for pretty | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
much everywhere across the East Midlands to rout the day and | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
lighter winds style and plenty of sunny spells to be had. -- | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
throughout the day. 23 Celsius is your high, and we stay with this | :26:05. | :26:09. |