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Tonight, a special programme. The Olympic countdown begins in earnest. | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
We are live in Loughborough, home of Team GB, and live in London. I'm | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
here at the Olympic Park. The Olympic Stadium, and now, open | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
today, the aquatic centre. We will be listing the ones to watch from | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
the East Midlands, and we will have exclusive access to our top | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Olympians. More sightings of a young mother hours before she was | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
murdered. Police hunting her killer Billy she tried to flag down cars | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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for help. She was after just a lift Welcome to Loughborough. One year | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
from now, the world's greatest sporting event will be under way. | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
We are in Loughborough, which will be home to Team GB in 2012. The | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
impact on the East Midlands will be massive. More on that later, but | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
let's go down to the Olympic Park in London, to join our sports | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
editor. It is breathtaking. This is the main Olympic stadium that will | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
become so familiar in 366 days' time. The whole park is staggering. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Local businesses have helped build it. Volunteers from the East | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Midlands will help staff it. You may have a ticket for the event | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
here. You may watch it on the TV, but one of the things that has | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
become clear to me is that this will be an event like no other. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
This is what the Olympics meant to Mansfield in 2008. Unprecedented | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
crowds. What about 2012? Some of our Olympic greats have been in awe. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
A venue can help bring the best out of an athlete. They will have a | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
test event next year, and then the Olympic Games themselves. You well | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
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enough this. It will be the biggest How is Loughborough in the build up | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
to the in Olympic Games? It has the best university in the country. We | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
have is in preparation camp there. Every member of the team will go | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
through Loughborough in one form or the other. I was delighted that we | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
chose Loughborough, for obvious reasons. I try not get too biased | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
about it. Here's another man from Loughborough. Steve Backley. It is | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
very special. It makes it feel very real. It has been a long time | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
waiting. The sixties has gone quickly, but a lot of work has been | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
done in the meantime, and East -- keep getting update. I have been | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
here for the first time, and it is very special. Most of the action | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
will be in the capital, but readers like the East Midlands should feel | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
very much part of the Games. This is a games for the entire country, | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
and people across the UK are more than welcome in London. That is | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Boris, and I will be down at Paul sideways-on -- late in the | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
programme. But it has been quite a It certainly sounds like it. The | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Olympic Park is in an area where people might not know that well. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
How easy will it be for people to find their way there? It is an | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
unfamiliar part. It is the East side of London. But they are fast | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
trains running from St Pancras to the heart of the park. There's a | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
new shopping centre being built in Stratford, and it takes 10 minutes | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
to reach here from St Pancras station. It is very much in the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
breach of the East Midlands. Thank you very much. The Olympics have | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
resulted in many lucrative contracts for the East Midlands | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
businesses. They reckon the total amount available could be �300 | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
million. Firms in our region are being encouraged to make the most | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
of this opportunity to grab this advantage of a decade that is being | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
called by some as a golden decade for British sport. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
London has been calling for 2012. But now it is time to consider | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
Flying Down to Rio. It was a call made in Loughborough today. | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
Businesses burst to compete for contracts at Russia's Olympics in | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
three years' time. For the World Cup. And the Olympics in 2016. | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Brazil is no different. With the right team behind Duke, we can | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
export ourselves to those markets. There are opportunities in | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
infrastructure. I had am sure that our products but we sell but can be | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
used. The government says that there is big business in big | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
there is big business in big sporting events like London 2012. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Around 220 businesses in our region Around 220 businesses in our region | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
will be involved. They won 315 contracts. A total value of �300 | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
contracts. A total value of �300 million. It is claimed that just | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
getting your product out there during the Olympics can make a | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
difference. This lot profound is supplying hydrogen engines for | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
London taxis. It isn't ideal first deployments of these zero-emission | :06:19. | :06:28. | |
vehicles. -- it is an ideal deployment. Opportunities abroad | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
over the next decade cannot be ignored. Who is supplying the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
curtain rails? Who is supplying the tickets to getting? They are many | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
small things that they really do need. They can be quite specialist. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Is the export recovery is to happen, businesses may have to be winners | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
in the world of sport, both home and away. East Midlands businesses | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
are being encouraged to have a shot at winning some new contracts. More | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
from us later in the programme, but now back to the studio. In other | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
news, police hunting the killer of a young mother in Nottingham say | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
there was a number of sightings of her flagging down traffic before | :07:18. | :07:28. | |
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she was found. Caroline coin's body was found later. A picture of a | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
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Her body was found by a -- with a head injuries. B28-year-old had | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
earlier left a party by foot, and a number of sightings like this one | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
at 1am saw her flagging down traffic. She was trying to flag | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
down buses. Somewhere on that route, she may have become de toric -- | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
disorientated. Maybe she was after a lift home or just a bit of | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
comfort. Maybe someone did give her a brief lift. Again, it is it | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
important and vital that people come forward so we know what was | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
going through Caroline's minds. Police also want to know where this | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
size 3 trainer went. It was missing from her right but. If the person | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
responsible for killing Caroline has discarded that Sue, it may be | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
vital evidence. Eight photo of the T-shirt Caroline was wearing has | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
been released. Police are doing the rounds reassuring the public. It is | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
the public that will most likely hold the key for them. The nothing | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
she met -- the Nottinghamshire police authority... Nottinghamshire | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
police say that some stations are not accused by the public and many | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
NICE to be saved. Police can be contacted via community centres | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
instead. The details of closures will be confirmed later this year. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
We are having to make decisions about a Weatherby make these kind | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
of savings or whether we reduce the amount of police officers doing | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
frontline activities, and we clearly said that our priority is | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
to keep officers involved in neighbourhood policing and the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
front line. We believe that is the priority that the public want. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
than 300 jobs will be created if a supermarket is built on a former | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
after -- hospital site. Morrison's wants to build on the old | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Derbyshire Royal Infirmary site. The company says it is aiming to | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
open at the end of next year if planning permission go through | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
smoothly. There will be opportunities for construct and | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
workers. One of our biggest manufacturers has switched on the | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
biggest Solar Panel rate at any factory. They have been installed | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
in record time. The power from the solar panels will provide enough | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
energy to build 7,000 cars per year. That is all from us. Time to go | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
back to Loughborough. Thank you. They keep tell -- they keep telling | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
us that the Olympics is not just about winning medals, but also | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
about the taking part. And also inspiring young people. Charnwood | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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Athletics Club inspiring -- I am in Derby Market Place, where | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
they have been marking the final countdown to London 2012 today. | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
Let's be to one -- I will be speaking to one of our Olympic | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
locals. And the weather tomorrow is likely to be a knockout. I will | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
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have the weather at the end of the As you can see it is all beginning | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
to happen here. There is a proud sporting tradition at Loughborough | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
University. When the 2000 Olympics happened, what effect all that have | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
on the town? It might be over 100 miles to the | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Olympic village, but five-under million pounds of improvements are | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
under way at the train station. is great news. There are platform | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
extensions. We have wanted them for many years, we have increased | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
parking, if we also have new lifts. Many of the athletes, they will see | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
this town for the first time. staff are looking for to read. They | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
are having the Japanese team, they have been burning a few words are | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Japanese. It is not just that the train station where the work is | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
taking place. Hearing the centre of the town, there is building under | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
way on a new hotel. They are excited about what the Olympics can | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
be the last breath. A it will be very good for the town. Go Team GB. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
We will bring money to the town. I'll be there! A I think it ought | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
to have a lot for the town. Olympics will be massive the | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Loughborough. The tower has suffered over the last 18 months. | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
With the Olympics being here, we have Japan, the Olympic team, that | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
will be a great boost, for the years to come as well. Hopes are | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
high that it will not just be the athletes getting the gold. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
They are doing their warm-up exercises, looking at them I am | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
feeling tired just watching. It is not just about the athletes, there | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
are thousands of volunteers who will be helping the smooth running | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
of the Olympic Games. They are called Games Makers, we joined a | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
tour of the candidates during the selection process. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Over 240,000 people have applied to volunteer, that only 70,000 will be | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
Games Makers. Clement is having his it burst into view. I'm a bit | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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nervous. I'm not used to interviews. The difference between the games is | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the volunteers. I used to be a football referee. I've always | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
enjoyed the Olympics. I want to try and make it a success for the | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
British people. They should not be nervous. It is a one that to one a | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
discussion of what they can tell us about their skills and experience. | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
It is not like a job interview. Mean there is a volunteer, she is | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
helping to do the interviews. was excited when I heard London was | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
going to get the Olympics. I was pleased with how it went. When she | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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asked me about anything challenging, I was surprised. I delivered a baby | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
last week. If I can do that, I can do the Olympics. | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
I am sure he can. Clement proving there that he can deliver. He will | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
hear the has got the job in October. Let's go back to Derby and enjoy | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
another Olympic celebration. They have been staging a party here | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
all day. It is the only one of its kind outside London. People are | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
looking at some of the Olympic torches close-up. This man was part | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
of the Olympic torch relay team back in 1948. The main reason today | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
was to give youngsters the chance to have a go at different Olympic | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
sports. Boxing will there be a sport for women for the first time | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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next year. I am joined by Naomi Reid. My dad was a professional | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
boxer. You are triple jumping, if 20 Todd has come to Cynthia? Yes it | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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has. I'll be 18 when the Olympic comes. How confident will be be | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
ball-winning something at the next Olympics? And I'll try my hardest. | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
You have seen kids having a chance, it is great to see. Yeah, I have | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
seen some of the kids doing triple- jumper. If they are at a very high | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
standard. The bigger the Olympics will have a big legacy in | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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Derbyshire for? I hope so. The torch coming to Dhabi is massive. | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
Derby is planning on building a new track. Back to you. | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Thank you very much. Coming up later in the programme. We are | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
going back to the aquatic centre. Find out how crocheted lie-ins and | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
ceramic flyer -- flowers are playing their part in the Olympics | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
There is no doubt that facilities here at Loughborough University are | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
superb. Let's talk to the Director of Sport, Chris Earle. It feels | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
more real now, we one year to go? The children are inspired by the | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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fact it is coming up soon. Deep think it all come down to medals? | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
It matters that we get at least 4th in the medal table, that is where | :18:02. | :18:12. | |
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we were in Beijing, that is our aspiration this time. You must be | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
excited on a personal level, this has been five years in the making? | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
We are very excited. It is a fantastic opportunity for a bus. | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
How do you think that you're at Leeds will do in London next here? | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
I think we will do well. We have this a 19 based here, we have the | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
athletics team as well. They will make a good account of themselves. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
I have no predictions. Thank you very much for talking to us. | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
There is a lot more sport going on. Welcome back to London. This is the | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
aquatics venue. It is a spectacular setting. 17,500 supporters will be | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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in here. The most notable feature is the wave like a roof. Tom Daly | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
will be performing the first dive in a BBC One Special shortly after | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
our programme. We are hoping their medals in one year's time. Heres | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
might take on the East Midlands as to watch. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Rebecca Addington was the first one to win gold last year, it would be | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
remarkable to repeat its, she will be disappointed not to get one. | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
This man has been set back by illness. On the track we are | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
expecting medals, this girl has showed signs of returning to her | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
best. Andy Turner has a medal in his sights. As long as we do not | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
drop the baton, we have a very good record in relays. Our hockey sides | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
are remarks the world's elite. Piggy French should be in the medal | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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hunt in the eventing. This man may be our surprise package. | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
They will be medals in people, we all know about Rebecca Badminton -- | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Rebekah Addington. The swimming team have given the exclusive | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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These are some of Britain have's the best swimmers. Ballet was part | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
of their preparation for the World Championships. We are all ready to | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
go to performance. It is about thinking how you use your body. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Over the next 12 months you'll be getting to know this team if Batty | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
follow their Olympic process. Fran Halsall, I swim freestyle and | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
sometimes but applied. Saw me maybe an individual support -- sport, but | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
this is death and the team. We have so much banter, he it is a lot of | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
fun. It is like a team sport. not let the joking full-year, they | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
are as dedicated as they come. the head coach of the intensive | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
training centre. Early-morning starts, strict diets, and miles and | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
miles of practice. You cannot say died in and give me a gold medal, | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
you have to look at your strike rate, when you are breathing, if | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
how many kicks you do off the turn. It is all about the Olympics. Some | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
of the group will be hoping for a medal, others know they are just | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
trying to make the team. It is a dreamy have had since a child. I | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
want to be the surprise winner on the team. We will have the inside | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
track on the swimmers are aiming to be Britain proud. | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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This is where their journey will end. The Olympic Paul. The world's | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
media attention will be focused here. We may be the only original | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
crew allowed here, but they are 1000 representatives from all | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
points of the world. Looking good. Meet the athletes of | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
the future. They are doing toning up exercises. Crocheted a lions and | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
ceramic flowers, not the first thing you would associate with the | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Olympic Games. But they are works that had been a commission to tie | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
in with the Games. Two artists we are very different | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
works of art. They are part of the Cultural Olympiad. This manner is | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
producing ceramic flowers, they are moulded from play with painstaking | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
detail. I am producing 2000 ceramic flowers to go around the country. I | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
am producing things like this. This is going to Blenheim Palace. The | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
roses are going to the Houses of Parliament. Marrying the arts with | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
the Olympics is not a new idea. Up until the 19 up 50s artists created | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
works are that was up -- inspired by sport. It is clear to see the | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
scale of challenge is still there. This artist has spent 18 months | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
working on a three joined crocheted lions. They are inspired by the | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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Olympics. She has got prove 36 miles a Derbyshire were all. -- | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
wall. The Lions are going to tour the region. The art work which has | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
been produced will last for decades. There is all relate what we do to | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
raise specific time when this time hosted an Olympic Games. With one | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
year to go, there is clearly a lot left to do. Both artists are hoping | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
that they will leave a legacy supporting sport and culture. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
We liked our art. Merle art, this is my Romeo and Juliet moment. Are | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
you there? I am hoping you are going to come up and rescue me. It | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
is far too early to think about the weather for the next 12 months. | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
Something like today would be Something like today would be | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
perfect. We have had a cloudy all week so far. We expect it to stay | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
that way. It will be a little bit he made. Let's look at tonight. | :25:56. | :26:05. | |
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This was sent in by Graham. He was out harvesting using a 1940s binder. | :26:06. | :26:16. | |
It has been a cloudy day. You can see the cloud of bubbling up. There | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
are only one or two breaks in the cloud. That is how it will stay | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
going into the evening. As we go overnight, the cloud will be | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
increasing. We expect some low cloud are too old in. -- to come in. | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
A minimum temperature of 13 Celsius. Tomorrow is a cloudy start. It will | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
lead than clear, we are hopeful it will become a brighter day, maybe a | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
little bit of sunshine. With that sunshine, temperatures will warm up, | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
23 Celsius. Friday will see high pressure, are a few showers first | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
thing, dry and brighter as we go into the afternoon. The outlook on | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
Saturday will be Brier -- dry and sunny. A good weekend. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
What do you think of this? And the original Olympic torch from 1948. | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
That is yours to borrow, to borrow. What will the weather be like for | :27:33. | :27:40. |