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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Tonight: on the eve of a crucial inquiry into Bombardier's lost | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
contract, the Government's accused of an "act of vandalism". | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
As Bombardier's supplies a struggle, Whitehall is accused of turning its | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
back on a world-class business. will potentially destroy it and it | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
is tragic and it is a vandalism. Also tonight, Y Kate and Gerry | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
McCann want to have their say at the phone hacking inquiry. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Plus the other victims of 9/11, the East Midlands soldiers fighting the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
war on terror. I still expect him to come bounding through the door | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
and it is something I will never get used to. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
And ploughing on, have allow farmers cope with the longest dry | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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Welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight, the local businesses | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
losing out because of Bombardier's failure to win the Thameslink rail | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
contract. Many fear they'll suffer from the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
knock-on effect of reduced sales and lower spending in the Derby | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
area. One supplier's told us it's going to wipe out their plans to | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
create new jobs. All this comes on the eve of a | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
much-anticipated hearing into how the contract came to be awarded to | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
the German firm Siemens. Mike O'Sullivan can tell us more from | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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Derby. Good evening, Mike. Good evening. Workers from | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Bombardier will be heading down to London on a specially chartered | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
train tomorrow morning to a select committee of MPs, he will be asking | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
tough questions about why the Thameslink trains are due to be | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
built near Dusseldorf instead of Derby. Today, there was more | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
evidence from the City about how it could suffer from the loss of that | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
big rail contract. A small engineering fear -- firm at | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
the heart of the �34 billion -- part of the Bombardier supply chain. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
They make lots of things for trains here, the metal strips that hold | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
down the seeds, grab handles, even the desolation display boards that | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
you see in front of May. But the loss of the 1.4 billion pound | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Thameslink contract at Bombardier means there will be less of work | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
around. The supply firm employs 45 people. Plans to create another 30 | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
jobs now look like being wiped out. We would have expected to have | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
taken on another 25-30 staff to cater for the work that we would | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
have accepted -- expected to have won with Thameslink. These are | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
still jobs requiring not only existing skills but also training | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
of staff for the future as well. That won't happen now? If the | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
decision is not reversed, those 30 jobs will not exist. There are also | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
concerns from firms not connected with the rail industry. After | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Bombardier announced 1,400 job losses. Shown in a survey of | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
businesses in Derby, by a chamber of commerce. 92% said that | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Thameslink contract should have stayed in the UK. 67% say the loss | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
will mean reduced sales. 61% say they will need to lower spending in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the local economy. The chamber is accusing the Government of ignoring | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
a world class train maker, risking an important part of manufacturing | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
in the UK. The Government has done nothing to protect it at all and | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the decision it has taken well actually potentially destroy it at, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
and that is tragic and it is vandalism. The supply firm has been | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
around for 50 years. It hopes to be around for another 50, but it is | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
not sure if Bombardier will be in the City as well. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
So a big day tomorrow, who will be on the train to London? | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Dominic, a real cross-section of campaigners who all want the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Government to overturn that decision on the Thames TEC | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
contracts. The workers and management here will be joined by | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
union representatives, or representatives from the Derby and | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Derbyshire Rail Forum that represents the supply its affirm we | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
had a bad, councillors from all of the main parties in Derby City | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Council, and some of the campaigners will be protesting | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
outside the Houses of Parliament as the select committee goes on. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
What will actually happen in the Select Committee? | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
First up, you could say it would be the case against the Government. It | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
will be Bombardier themselves appearing first, then an two | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
academics who have been critical of the way the Government had given | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
the contract to Siemens, and the Government has said they cannot | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
reconsider. Then Siemens, the arch rival of Bombardier, they will give | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
evidence. Next up is the EU's Director General for the internal | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
market. How the EU rules have been interpreted by the Department for | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
transfer it is a big controversy. - - transport. Bennett is the star | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
witness, Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary -- then it is. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
What sort of evidence are we talking about? | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Well, they are going to hear oral evidence and then after that, they | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
might decide to launch a full inquiry into the country's rail | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
procurement process. If that happens, they could make | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
recommendations to the Government. The Government doesn't have to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
stick by them but they do have to respond within 60 days. The | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
committee could recommend changes to the way the country plays the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
game in these big rail contracts, especially when faced with foreign | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
competition. It might not tell people in the short term facing | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
voluntary redundancy or forced redundancy, but what the people in | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Derby want to hear is that the Government is prepared to | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
reconsider this big rail contract. We shall see. Thank you. | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
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Next tonight: then Kate and Gerry McCann have offered to be core | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
participants in the Leveson Inquiry. The couple don't believe their | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
phones were hacked, but they're happy to contribute to the wider | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
inquiry about press standards. Their press spokesman Clarence | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Mitchell has already spoken to police about suspicions that his | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
mobile phone was hacked. Our political correspondent Ross | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Hawkins was in court this morning. I spoke to him a little earlier | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
from our Westminster studio and started by asking what a core | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
participant actually is. Basically, it is people who believe | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
they could be central to this issue. Central to the inquiry which is | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
going on at the moment, looking into all sorts of things, including | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
not just phone hacking, and it is worth saying that the McCanns did | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
not believe their own phones were tapped, but much broader issues. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Notably, how the press and broadcast media deal with the | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
public. They think they can make a contribution to that debate. They | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
obviously have a unique perspective through what they have had to | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
undergo and they are going to try and contribute to this inquiry. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
What do they want to achieve? What is in their interests are to do it? | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
In short, nobody contributing necessarily get anything out a bid, | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
particularly in the first year which will look at the broad issues | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
of the structure of the press, how it deals with politicians and the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
public. You speak to a great deal of money people who have had | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
dealings with the media, the newspapers, not media people who | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
suddenly find themselves in the eye of a newspaper storm and they talk | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
about a tough and difficult times. There are a great many people, the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
McCann's included, who want to make sure their experience of that sort | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
of time is reflected in the evidence given to the judge leading | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
this inquiry. You mentioned a year, that would | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
suggest this inquiry will go on for some time. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
What the Prime Minister wants is in a year Rossouw to have a report | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
back, and quite a wide range of issues -- or so. To do with the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
structures and the ethics of the way the press works and how it | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
deals with people. Beyond that, there is another a whole set of | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
work about what went wrong at News Of The World, and there will be | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
major limitations on what can be done with that until the police | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
have finished their investigations. We will leave it there, thank you | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
very much. Still to come, the sporting passion | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
that unites a father and a daughter. Yes, after years of supporting | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
triathletes Hollie Avil, her dad has been inspired to take up the | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
Police have identified the body of man found in a canal in Nottingham. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
The body was found by a member of the public at 6:30 this morning at | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Wilford Street in the Meadows. His family have asked for his name not | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
to be released. Officers say they're not treating the death as | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
suspicious. A 15-year-old boy will appear in | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
court again next week after being charged with stabbing a man in | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Derby last weekend. The 22-year-old was assaulted outside an off | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
licence. He suffered stab wounds and remains in a stable condition | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
in hospital after the incident on Sunnyhill Avenue on Saturday night. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
The 15-year-old was arrested the next day. | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Everyone knows these are tough economic times - confirmed by a | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
rise in the most recent unemployment figures - so any | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
glimmer of hope is to be welcomed. So here is one. On its first | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
anniversary, a free careers service says it's advised more than 60,000 | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
people in the East Midlands and many people have now found jobs. | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
Quentin Rayner met one of them. 21-year-old Lauren Buchanan is a | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
success story. She has recently been given a permanent job as a | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
purchase Clarke at the cash and carry in Nottingham, a city with | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
one of the highest Adam Parr rate in the country. I did the same at | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
another country. -- unemployment rates. They couldn't offer me the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
hours I wanted to look after my son. She got in touch with Next Step, a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
free step for adults, online face- to-face or on the telephone. It | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
advises about the way to get jobs, polishing CVs and improving | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
interview techniques. I thought an interview was one person, but | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
obviously sometimes you can have a panel of people all firing | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
questions at you and you don't know what to say. So they help me deal | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
with that. We need to find a few suppliers and play some orders. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Lauren was lucky and got the second job she went for, despite the tough | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
times, perseverance paid off. In its first year, Next Step has | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
offered career advice to more than 60,000 adults in the East Midlands. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
54% were aged between 25 and 49. 76% were out of work. So what is | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
the success rate in finding a job? We have contacted 20,000 so far and | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
around 20 -- 10,000 have gone into learning all volunteer | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
opportunities and a further 3,000- 4,000 people got into work. There | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
is a good deal of jobs that they, more than people think. Lauren may | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
be in charge of checking paperwork at the moment but she already has | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
her sights set on becoming a buyer. Next, the lives turned upside down | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
by the 9/11 attacks in New York. The atrocity almost ten years ago | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
prompted the war in Afghanistan, where Vicki Holmes from Clifton in | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Nottingham, lost her son, Kieron Hill. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
He's one of 20 East Midlands soldiers who've been killed in | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Helmand Province. She's been speaking to our Social Affairs | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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We had got the Radio 1, we were in the kiosk in the petrol station on. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
-- radio on. It was big news. Little did I know a few years down | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the line, it would be devastating me as well. If it wasn't for the | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
bombings, Patrick wouldn't be out in cannot stand and Kieren would | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
have been here today. -- Afghanistan. He was only 12 when | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the twin towers came down and was looking forward to joining the army | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
cadets. This was in seven years later when he passed his lance- | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
corporal exams, a teenager preparing to fight in Afghanistan | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
for a second time. I was just worried sick, basic impulse of he | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
had nightmares and things like that, so I knew how it affected him -- | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
basic it. I just thought it would be the same, he would come back the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
second time. But he didn't come back alive, he was killed by a | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Taliban bomb. His coffin was brought back to Nottingham so he | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
could be buried with full military honours. He has said to have one of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
his friend's mothers that he would be on it to come back in a coffin | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
with the Union Jack draped over it. Bash on it. So he did believe in | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
everything he was fighting for, but for me, it was not worth it. I have | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
lost too much. It has changed my life completely. I still expect him | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
to come bounding through the door. It is something I will never get | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
used to. Never. I will never get used to the fact he is not coming | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
home again. I think to myself, has he died for nothing? Things are | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
still happening they were hoping to stop, so has he died for nothing, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
because things have not been solved? | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
That's Vicki Holmes speaking to our Social Affairs Correspondent, | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
Jeremy Ball, who's with us now. Jeremy, obviously, military | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
families are affected so very deeply by the war on terror. On a | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
much lesser known, what about the rest of us? | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
I think the most obvious effects RFU travel by plane, you will have | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
seen all of the extra security -- are iffy. The chances are you will | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
have bought some of these little Bagster put your toothpaste and | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
potions in. -- backs are to putt. Last year, you might remember this. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
When the freight terminal got caught up in an al-Qaeda plot last | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
year. They found a bomb in a printer cartridge, in a parcel from | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Yemen. That was being sent to the United States but it was security | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
services here that dealt with it. It is not only air travel that has | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
been involved. No, for all of our police forces, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
terrorism has become an X -- increasingly expensive priority. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
There have been high-profile arrests in this region and they | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
have had to protect Muslim communities against the backlash | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
and we will hear tomorrow how they walked a tightrope between keeping | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
those communities on side and all of us safe. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
Still to come on the programme: Remember the scorcher of 1976? | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
Well, the last seven months have been the driest since then. So how | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
have farmers coped? We'll be finding out later. | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
And we may have been lacking the rain over the past few months but | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
we are certainly not lacking in the wind department. I will have a | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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fault when the forecast later. In other news, police said they are | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
growing increasingly concerned about a 46-year-old man missing | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
from home since yesterday. David field left his home in Sheffield on | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
Monday morning but he never arrived at work in Nottingham. His car was | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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found in the park and ride at Phoenix Park. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Here's an interesting statistic. Nearly a third of all accidents on | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
the road are work-related. And here's another. One in three | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
company drivers has an accident each year. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
The stats come from researchers at the Department of Transport. Now a | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
safety organisation in Leicestershire is calling on | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
employers to do more to protect workers when they get behind the | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
wheel. Tiredness, distractions and time | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
pressures. The three main causes of accidents on the road. Now the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health is calling on employers | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
to do more to protect their staff. Unfortunately, it is still very, | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
and that companies will pressure drivers to go from A to be very | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
promptly and will ring them on route to ask where they are, get | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
there quickly, and people need to think again, because the risks are | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
out weighed by the benefits. This is why. Research suggests one-third | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
of traffic accidents are work- related. That amounts to 14 deaths | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
and 160 serious injuries per week. One in 10 people killed or | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
seriously injured in the East Midlands were in a goods vehicle. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
There is an element of haulage companies out there that are | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
struggling to make a living up. Thankfully, I don't believe we are | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
in that, but in terms of pushing drivers, making them drive harder | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
and longer. I can understand the pressures on the industry, the cost | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
of fuel and the cost of vehicles and the margins. But companies like | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
foxes fit their optic lorries with the latest sake -- safety | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
technology to help protect their drivers. Why have adapted cruise | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
control which monitors the speed of the vehicle in front and it will | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
adjust this vehicle's speed to compensate. If the vehicle in front | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
stops suddenly, it will momentarily apply the brakes in this vehicle. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
We also have acted Lane control, this black box, and it monitors the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
white lines on a dual-carriageway or a motorway and will alert the | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
driver fired a buzzer if he treats out of his lane. They are now | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
calling for all serious work related driving accidents to be | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
reported to the Health and Safety Executive, so companies are more | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
accountable. Next tonight, would you or your | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
company like to run two of Nottinghamshire's best-known | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
tourist attractions? The County Council is looking for | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
entrepreneurs and private investors to help manage a new visitor centre | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
for Sherwood Forest and the water sports centre at Holme Pierrepont. | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
Geoff Maskell has the details. Running a facility like the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
National Watersports Centre isn't always plain sailing. It is two | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
years since the county council took over managing Holme Pierrepont from | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
Sport England. When they did, it was making an annual loss of �1.2 | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
million. That has now been cut by a third. We have it -- invested a | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
significant amount of money, around �400,000, and into a campsite as | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
well and we are seeing returns on that investment. What the centre | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
needs is some transformational change, some significant capital | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
investment. That is where the private sector could come in. The | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
council insists the two sides are not for sale, they want a part that, | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
not a buyer. Sherwood Forest needs a centre. It is tired and old and | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
needs an investor. We need people who can work with us. It is not | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
about selling them off, we want them viable, enjoyable experiences | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
for the public of Nottinghamshire. The legend says Robin had kept | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Sherwood Forest save for ordinary people -- Robin Hood. Councillors | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
say today they want access to the public maintained and don't oppose | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
private sector involvement but insist both sides must remain in | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
public ownership -- but sides. It will go to Cabinet next week before | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
being discussed by the full council. If there are any chocolate | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
factories they want us to run, we are up for that. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
Yes, volunteers here-and-now. Time for the sport now, with Colin. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Nottingham hurdler Andy Turner says winning a bronze medal at the World | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Championships has given him a huge pre-Olympic boost. It was a | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
controversial third place - awarded after the original winner was | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
disqualified - but as Turner arrived back from South Korea and | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
met his family at the airport, he wasn't worrying about that. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Chris Loader confident. My last three championships, I have taken | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
medals away. -- loads of confidence. I am looking forward to London. I | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
have a lot of work to do but I am confident things can go well. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Well, Turner's reached the top - but life as a parent to a young top | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
athlete is often one of sacrifices. It's a life of ferrying your child | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
around the country, often at unearthly hours, as they try to | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
reach the elite. Of course, it has its rewards. Hollie Avil is a | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
former World Junior Triathlon Champion. And now, as she trains | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
for London 2012, she's inspired her dad so much that he's taken up the | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
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Triathlon. Give-and-take, a mile swim, 20 mile ride and six-mile run | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
and one of the fastest sports and growing in the UK. Hollie Avil | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
loves it and now, so does her dad. I will get the towels. Since she | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
was eight, Mark was the taxi. For 10 years, his life revolved around | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
his daughter's training. Then she left home. Dad got me into | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
triathlon and he wasn't doing it himself at the time but in the back | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
of my mind, I thought he would start to give it a go. It is in | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
sight left home and he has had more time on his hands to train. -- | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
since I left. Yes, I got used to getting up at 4:30am to take care | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
to the Lakes and the swimming pool to swim and suddenly she went off | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
to love pre-university and I was still getting up at 4:30am, so I | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
thought I would be useful learning to swim properly -- Loughborough | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
University. Sunday morning, holly and a bad compete for the first | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
time together. An open water swim over a mile -- Hollie and her dad. | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
She is now have competing for Ironman events. In the last two | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
years, Mark has lost four stone and it needs a whole new wardrobe. | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
Hollie won the race at a stroll but she has London 2012 on the radar. | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Dad came in Sidath dad was first to congratulate her. Well done, you. | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
That was a surprise. Thanks, Dad! In Beijing, I didn't qualify until | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
the end of May 2080 so I have been patient and just enjoying racing | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
and hopefully I will be on top form by the end of this year -- 2008. | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Hollie has moved back to Loughborough to train full-time and | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
if she does make it to London, that will be there at the sidelines, | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
swimming, biking and running all the way. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
If he ever overtakes the, he might enjoy it. -- her. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Just a couple of quick bits of news to finish. Derby County's Chief | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Executive has told us that the club will have to move players on before | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
they can sign any more. Nine players arrived during the summer - | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
and Tom Glick says any more would unbalance the books. | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
In cricket, fast bowler Charlie Shrek is leaving Nottinghamshire to | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
join Kent. Shrek, who was twice player of the year, is keen to get | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
regular first team cricket. There you are, you are up to date. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
I love Hollie's bad. Fantastic. On a grey and windy day | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
today, it is strange to report that 2011 has a lot in common with a | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
scorching summer of 1976. I don't remember it! Figures out | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
today show that across the Midlands, we have had the driest January to | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
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August period for 35 years. So now that this year's harvest is | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
complete, we sent Mark Heathcote out to a Nottinghamshire farm to | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
see how they are coping. Peter farms 80 her tears of land. | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
He has been here for 50 years -- hectors. This year, it has been | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
strange. The we have had a year of great variation. Will we had a very | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
harsh winter, and that was followed by a very dry spring which took us | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
into a drought situation in this region in the East Midlands, and | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
then through harvest combat it has been a mixed bag of weather forced | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
up recently, farmers could only stand and watch. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Bash recently, farmers could only stand and watch as they feared | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
crops would rot in the ground. This year, they could not hardest at all. | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
It was a hardest of catch it while you can, it was sunshine one moment, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
you could get its quality, and the next minute it was raining and we | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
were back into the shed, so a lot of ground had to go through an | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
expensive drying system to get it fit. This year has seen the price | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
of oil seed rape go up by 15%. Barley prices have fallen and wheat | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
crops have also dropped by 15% on average. The same farming... They | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
say in farming, no two years are the same at this is the year to | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
prove all of that. From what I could tell, we are ready for | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
another harsh winter. Add that is probably what none of us wanted to | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
hear -- and that. I have read that, another harsh | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
winter on the way. As if they can tell! | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
You are supposed to be able to tell by the berries. Sally will know. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
You can't expect me to be an expert on that. I was picking blackberries | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
yesterday so signs of autumn on the yesterday so signs of autumn on the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
way and today has felt autumnal. Windy with share was blowing | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
through. They are fizzling out but the strong winds continuing -- | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
showers. Thank you for this lovely picture of the sunset. If you have | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
got any photos of the wind, that would be great -- when the photos. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Between January and August, it has been the driest across the East | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Midlands since 1976. You have been complaining we have had of rubbish | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
summer, maybe that it has not been as rubbish as you thought, we are | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
not lacking in the wind department. Plenty of strong winds, these | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
isobars squeezing together as they circle around the area of low | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
pressure. We have seen one or two share was blowing our way through | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
the day but they are starting to fizzle out nicely -- showers. One | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
or two isolated showers, over the Peak District, but most places dry | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
with clear spells. Temperatures not too bad, a little cooler than last | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
night, 12C as your minimum temperature. We will start with a | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
much brighter note on Wednesday, sunny spells through the day but | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
with the chance of an occasional shower into the afternoon. Many | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
areas getting away with a dry day. We will see rain spreading in later | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
on in the evening, temperatures around 18 or 19C, but the wind will | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
not ease off until Wednesday evening. That eases off but we get | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
further rain starting to spread in and that makes Thursday a rather | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
wet looking day, even though the wind would be quite as strong. Then | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
we seem to see a little return of summer come Friday. Although it | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
will be quite blustery, it will be will be quite blustery, it will be | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
quite warm, with temperatures into the low twenties. | :27:35. | :27:41. |