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Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. Our top story tonight: don't call | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
them riots. Aid chief constable tells MPs this was a violent | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
disturbance. -- a chief constable. It is about accuracy and making | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
sure that we are proportion it. Also tonight: I am with the police | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
operation targeting matter of theft in Nottinghamshire. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Plus the 999 calls that have got the police spitting feathers. | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
your partner has gone missing? my parrot. Your parrot?! | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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And meet the Super potatoes from Welcome to Thursday's programme. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
First tonight, Nottinghamshire's Chief Constable has told MP's that | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
last month's disorder in Nottingham shouldn't be referred to as a riot. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Julia Hodson denied she was downplaying what happened in order | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
to protect the city's reputation. She said it was more accurate to | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
describe it as a violent disturbance. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
In a moment some surprising facts about the people arrested during | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
the violence but first from Westminster here's our Chief News | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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On its own figures, Nottinghamshire police estimated a group of up to | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
40 police station -- 40 people attack this police station with a | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
petrol bombs. So it was on this basis that the chief constable told | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the owner says select committee it should not be called a riot but a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
violent disturbance. terminology and the description | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
riot can be Dommett -- damaging for many years. The confidence of the | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
community... It is a presentation issue? It is about accuracy and | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
making sure that we are proportion it. Her a gold commander took issue | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
with the premises criticism that across the country they should have | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
been more officers on the streets, insisting the rioters were | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
contained in Nottingham. If we did not half -- we did not have people | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
at the end of the road wishing to vent their anger which dictated | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
different tactic. At the time, social media networks had been | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
blamed for allowing the rioters to mobilise. Representatives from | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Twitter, Facebook and others argued they were a force for good. Several | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
chief constables agreed. Did they accept any responsibility? The use | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
of social media was used for malicious purposes. Our demographic | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
range is from FTSE 100 companies to 30 % of 20 euros and below. That | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
means for mobile phone of choice is a blackberry for youthful stop | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Julian Hodgson told the MPs that of the 125 arrested so far, 71 % had | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
previous convictions. She said policing the riots had coursed -- | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
cost �1.2 million. At a time of cuts, she called for the government | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
to meet those costs. Well, today it emerged that around half of those | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
arrested for the trouble in Nottingham have already appeared in | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
court. New figures from the Ministry of | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Justice show about a third of them were children. Kylie Pentelow can | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
tell us more. This is the most notorious case | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
they've dealt with so far. An 11- year-old girl who was charged with | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
criminal damage offences. We can't name her because she is so young. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
And this is Amed Pell, the teenager admitted that he used Facebook to | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
encourage others to join the riots in Nottingham. He sent messages via | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the social networking site to more than 2,000 people. It earned him | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
almost three years in jail. The trouble only went on for a couple | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
of nights. So far 64 people have appeared in Nottingham's courts. 54 | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
of them are charged with violent disorder. Four others are accused | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
of burglaries that were linked to last month's trouble. Most of them | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
are still going through the legal system. We are now in the position | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
where we are dealing with a more complex cases, which are being | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
committed to the Crown Court, where we are preparing the evidence, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
cases, and getting ready for trials. They will take place in and course | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
of the next few months. -- in the course of the next few months. And | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
today more details emerged about Nottingham's suspected | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
troublemakers. The 64 who've appeared in court so far are all | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
under 40 years of age. Almost three quarters of them had previous | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
convictions. And more than 20 were children. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
A Muslim student who was arrested as a terror suspect, has received | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
an apology from Nottinghamshire police and a payout of �20,000. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Rizwaan Sabir had downloaded the Al Qaeda Training Manual for a PhD | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
study into counter-terrorism. Our Social Affairs Correspondent, | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
Jeremy Ball, reports. It was the terrorism inquiry that | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
prompted these protests at the University of Nottingham. It all | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
started when the man downloaded the manual, US website and e-mail it to | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
a friend who was helping him to draft his PhD proposal. They were | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
both arrested but never charged with any terrorist offences. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
supervisors were insisting quite categorically that I was a | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
legitimate academic research. It was disproportionate and over- | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
zealous action taken by the university and the police and now I | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
can proudly and happily say that some form of vindication has been | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
achieved and my name has been cleared. Nottinghamshire police | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
have agreed to pay him �20,000 in an out-of-court settlement. They | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
don't accept his claim that it amounted to false imprisonment. The | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
force has apologised for unlawfully stopping and searching him outside | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
his home nine months later. misinformation was that I had a | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
terrorist conviction which is frankly far from the truth. It had | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
a damaging impact, especially when I was travelling. I hope that now | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
the police have agreed to take office incorrect information, I can | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
stop being of the subject of police harassment and can carry on with my | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
life. Now he has moved away to another university after what he | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
has described as a frightening experience here. But it is a | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
personal experience that will form a valuable part of his dissertation | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
on counter-terrorism. Still to come on the programme: midwives deliver | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
some worrying news. Their association claims there's a | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
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midwife shortage and the safety of Last night we reported on the | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
growing problem of electricity cable thefts, as the price of | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
copper hovers near an all time high. We looked at a wind farm that had | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
been targeted, as well as how a mile and a half of cable buried | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
underground had been dug up and stolen. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
The police are concerned that the copper from thefts like these is | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
being bought and sold by disreputable scrap dealers. So | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
today Nottinghamshire Police raided one dealer to check if stolen | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
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metals were being processed. On the hunt for a pile of old junk | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
but these officers are actually looking for valuables stolen goods | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
in this scrapyard. New technology has made their job much easier. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
This is a piece of lead we have just recovered. As you can see, it | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
is very bright, fluorescent under a month UV light. It makes metal | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
identifiable. Her very fingerprint is unique. There are no two which | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
are ever the same again. -- every from the print. We can trace this | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
piece of metal back to where it came from cost stop the operation | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
involved partner agencies such as BT and the Department of works and | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
pensions. It is in response to a disturbing new trend in the county. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
In the past three years, metal theft has risen -- risen by 17 %. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
In the past 12 months, that has risen to 46 %, with a copper and | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
lead being targeted the most. is a lot of cable here, a lot of it | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
is clearly Network Rail property. It is identified as signalling | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
which, when stolen, causes major delays that we have been suffering | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
over the last few years. With not around the scrapyard and there are | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
a number of items we suspect have been stolen. -- we have looked | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
around. We have arrested the owner on suspicion of possession of | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
criminal -- proper to. With new measures in place, people risk | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
being caught and prosecuted. Mine rescue specialists from | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Nottinghamshire have travelled to South Wales to help free four | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
trapped miners. The men are trapped beneath the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
surface of the Gleision Colliery near Swansea. Their would-be | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
rescuers are from MRSL, a company based at Mansfield Woodhouse. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
Andrew Watson is a spokesman for the company. What's the latest news | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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from your team at the mine? information we have got, there are | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
four pumps operating in of the mind. We are beginning to see water | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
levels dropping, allowing us to get people in. Are you going to get a | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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mad? -- get them out. Yes, we hope to get into their pocket of air and | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
bring them Mineworkers out. What are the main dangers facing your | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
team? To be honest, we have trained for this repeatedly. We are very | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
experienced and doing this. We have long duration apparatus which has | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
the best available in the world. We have environmental monitors with | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
every individual who needs it underground. We minimise the risk | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
in that way. Our priority is actually to get to where the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
workers are and to do that we need to get the water out. We need to be | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
careful what we are doing but potentially, we can move as quick | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
as the water now. We will leave it there but the best of luck to your | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
team. A man's in hospital following an | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
attack in Derby. The 50-year-old was taken to the Royal Derby | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Hospital after being assaulted by four men. He'd been using his phone | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
after his car broke down on Osmaston Road, not far from the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Spider Bridge island. He sustained cuts and bruises after being beaten | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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about the body and head. Emergency, which service? Now it's | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
a message we've heard many times before, people who make hoax or | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
just plain ridiculous 999 calls to the emergency services, are putting | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
lives at risk. Now, Leicestershire Police say | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
they're pleased that a man who made over 1,400 nuisance calls to them | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
over three years has been brought before the courts. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
But the emergency services say people still need to be educated | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
that they should not ring 999 if their toenail is falling off or | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
because they've lost their parrot! Another emergency call, it could be | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
life-or-death. But many of these real calls the emergency services | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
take, are blocked by nuisance calls. Shares Cotterell Tote -- told me | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
about a man calling himself Captain chaos who made many calls are. | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
individuals like him, they will be seen by the courts. He served a | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
week imprisoned. But the emergency services also receive thousands of | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
downright daft calls. You are free to Leicestershire police emergency. | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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By Parrott has gone missing. -- my East Midlands Ambulance Service | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
also receives inappropriate calls. Somebody who has injured their | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
ankle and called two weeks after that asking for an ambulance, or a | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
patient who stabbed their toe and then Mail has fallen off. We | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
occasionally get ridiculous ones such as the individual who ran up | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
wanting to perform resuscitation on his kitchen. The service is free. | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
For example, we get people wanting directory inquiries. The police | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
hope the new and much -- non- emergency number available next she | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
will cut the number of unnecessary calls. -- which will be available | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
next year. Detectives have released CCTV footage of a man which shows | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
him in the minutes before he was found with life threatening | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
injuries. Yesterday morning, Jason Jelley, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
who's 30, suffered injuries to his head and face in Beaumont Leys in | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Leicester. Captured on CCTV yesterday morning | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
at his garage, but an hour later, the man arrived home with a life | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
threatening injuries. Police have not worked out how he ended up in | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
this condition. Having left home at 7:45am, he arrives at the garage 20 | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
minutes later. It is believed he then made his way back, possibly | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
using a Strasbourg drive, before arriving at his house just after | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
9am. This is where police believe Jason may have been injured. It is | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
a cut through used by many people on their way to work of school. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Officers hope that members of the public will be able to help them | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
piece together exactly what happened. All day, officers have | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
been carrying out house-to-house inquiries. We are treating it as an | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
isolated incident and as I say, he may have fallen, he may have been | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
assaulted. We really don't know. I would like to reassure the public | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
not to be frightened by what has happened here. A 26 year-old woman | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
who was arrested in connection with the incident has been released with | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
no further action. So far, police have not been able to speak to | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Jason, who remains in a serious condition in hospital. Officers are | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
now hoping this footage would encourage any witnesses to come | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
forward. Plans by the government to cut | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
legal aid are to be opposed by Nottingham City Council. The | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Nottingham Law Centre, which provides free legal advice to | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
thousands of people every year, faces closure as a result of the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
cuts. But the council say losing the service would mean more | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
problems for the region in the long term. It is a form of early | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
intervention. It says state money. It is not a dead weight on the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
state in any way. It is safe -- self-defeating way to save money to | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
cut legal aid in this way. It will harm these people and quite | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
significantly. The Peak District National Park | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Authority says that action is needed now to prevent more | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
wildfires in Derbyshire. Climate experts are warning that moorland | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
in the Peak District is in real danger due to the hotter, drier | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
weather being predicted for future years. Firefighters from across the | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
UK and Europe have gathered at a conference in Buxton today to | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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examine ways to reduce the risk. Nottingham has won a Gold Award in | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
the East Midlands in Bloom competition. It took top honours in | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
the best large city category, getting a special award for the | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
city centre floral sculpture trail. The judges also admired the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
renovation of the cascade at Highfields Park carried out by | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
offenders. The win was Nottingham's first in the competition after a | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
four year absence. If you're having a baby in the East | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Midlands are you at risk? There are claims tonight that the region has | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
one of the worst shortages of midwives in the country. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
The Royal College of Midwives says 600 more are needed to ensure women | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
here get the care they need. But the NHS insists safety always comes | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
first. More than 55,000 babies were born | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
in our region last year, up nearly a quarter since 2001. The Royal | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
College of midwives argues 600 more midwives are needed. We have been | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
lobbying health ministers to invest in maternity services, so that | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
women have true choice, access to midwives and one-to-one care. | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
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college says the ratio should be one or two every 2830. -- one or | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
two every 28 births. You can end up with a poor continuity of | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
information and Paul individualised care. Nancy is one day old. Nine | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
months after Christmas and the New Year, September has the highest | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
number of birds. Even in these tough times, maternity has been | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
prioritised. With the birth rate going up, they are taking on the | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
equivalent of an extra 20 full-time midwives in Leicester. They will | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
start work next month. For more people of Iraq to help, the better. | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
-- the more people there are to help, the better. We have only | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
close to three times and that has been for short periods, when | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
activity is very, very bad. Otherwise, so we have two sides and | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
they are not always busy together, so we can transfer activity. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Department of Health says a record numbers of people entered training | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
less Gia and says women should expect and always get safe care. -- | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
entered training last year. Still to come on the programme: that | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
condor moment. No, not a cigar, but a huge Condor | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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potato grown by a man who's a giant There is no way of following that | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
really! Starting with an interesting bit of to and fro | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
between Derby and Leicester over the Foxes former captain Matt | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Oakley. There had been strong suggestions that Oakley would be | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
leaving Leicester to go back to Derby on loan. But Foxes manager | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
Sven Goran Eriksson says that's not happening, yet. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
A it has been talked about for a long time. -- it has been talked | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
about. I'm sure he has had some offers and when he wants to leave, | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
he will come to us quickly. He hasn't done so. I don't think it is | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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for the moment serious. They have signed off their | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
miserable four-day season by watching Middlesex win the Second | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Division. At Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire crumbled against | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
Sussex this morning as they hand on the champions' mantle. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
Some of the worlds best swimmers have begun their road to 2012 by | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
camping in Derbyshire. From now till next summer we'll be with the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Loughborough squad preparing for the London Games. So we bring you | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
some of the cream of British swimming, and their dogs, as you've | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
never seen them before. So, whose idea was it to go camping | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
in the windiest week of the year? To take some of the best swimmers | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
away from their comforts? Give me a five-star hotel! Here is the man | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
responsible. I am questioning my idea right now. But his methods | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
seem to be working. We will be running, biking, community -- | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
canoeing and so on. They have returned with a string of personal | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
bests and a gold medal. To actually retain my title was phenomenal for | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
me. Now it is all about taking those performances to London 20 | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
12th. We are finally in the last year, the last cycle leading up to | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
it. This camp is a lot of fun but it is putting us in the right | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
direction. We cannot wait. One of their campaign challenges was raft | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
of building and racing, a world away from the routine of swimming | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
up and down a call for hour upon hour. You sometimes get stuck in a | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
rut so it is good to get away from that within used to them this -- | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
with a new stimulus. Amongst the most competitive is Fran Halsall. | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Beside an injury disrupted season, she was a fraction of a second away | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
from two medals. She once more from London. I came 4th which will give | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
me extra drive and passion to want to win next year. I've also done a | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
time that has run to the high enough to get a medal next year. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
All in all, I don't think it could have gone better really for me. | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
is not just the swimmers, lots have dogs. They love them. With a | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
routine that leaves them free for several hours during the day, they | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
are unimportant part of their lives. We have loads of time during the | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
day so it is good to take them out for a walk. They can have a laugh | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
with you as well. Many years of relentless training are behind them. | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
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The long road is nearing its end. Dogs and babies, I'm sorted! Or | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
vegetables... Is biggest always best? It is if you're Peter | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Glazebrook from Nottinghamshire. His vegetables are enormous. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Onions, cabbages, you name it he can supersize them. But there's one | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
exhibit he's particularly proud of. A world beating spud that weighs in | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
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at almost a stone. In a suntrap, this is Peters grow | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
your own dream and he likes to do it in a big way. He has spent the | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
last 15 years making his vegetables super sized and he has certainly | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
succeeded with this, a world record-breaking Super aspired. | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
Weighing a staggering �11, it is heavier than the average baby but | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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the previous world record holder will not mind. -- 11 pounds. I have | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
been scratching around, looking at what has grown. I was surprised | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
just how large it was. You can only see the tops of the potatoes | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
normally but when I released it, there was a great lump of potato | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
underneath. When I weighed it I was amazed. Peter knows his onions. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
About a very large vegetables, he is an expert. The cut the size of | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
these cabbages. Having prised vegetables like this can cause a | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
problem. The big challenge is how to get it to the show because I am | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
taking it 100 miles tomorrow and have got to get it into the back of | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
the estate car. As it stands, it is wiser than the car! I stopped | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
growing pumpkins because I could no longer lift them. What about a hot | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
potato? What will he do with this colossal variety? At the moment, it | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
is being kept a lookout. It will not be used again. We may eat it | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
later. I guess I've got my work cut out. Still, it will make a few | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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chips! We've not been getting much rain | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
over the last few weeks but very few showers on their way. First, a | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
rather nice sunrise picture captured by Kevin, first thing. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Thank you for that, Kevin. We've got a lot of cloud with us now. It | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
started off well first thing but the cloud has increased this | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
afternoon. It is starting to break but we will stay mainly cloudy | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
overnight. We will start to see a few showers coming in by the early | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
hours of the morning but not as cold as last night. A minimum | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
temperature of 11 Celsius. It means that tomorrow will be a cloudy | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
start first thing and we will see further showers on and off | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
throughout the day on Friday. Maybe the odd little bit of brightness as | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
well but the wind continues come from the south-east. It will be | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
reasonable one that comes to their daytime temperatures. A maximum of | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
20 Celsius for tomorrow afternoon. If you have any plans this weekend, | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
it will become quite windy once again. Not as windy as last weekend. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Low-pressure is sitting to the north of Scotland but it will make | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
it blustery at times. A few showers around on Saturday although the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
showers for Saturday will be more widely spaced. There will be if | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
you're on Sunday as well. Those showers will work their way into | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the afternoon. We will see their skies brightening on Sunday and the | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
breeze will ease off. It will still be in general a blustery weekend. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
As we start of next week, low- pressure is hanging around. It will | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
control the weather, giving us a showery start to Monday with | :27:27. | :27:36. |