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Hello, this is East Midlands Today. Our top story tonight, the pub | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
attack that has left a young man with serious burns. | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
This was the scene moments after Russell Banks was set alight. But | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
what was the motive? He said he was scared. He said, Dad, | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
I'm not a bad person, why has this happened to me? | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
It has been 10 years since he was sure to be back. But Tommy's | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
attacker is still at large. Plas Tan Research in Nottingham | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
could soon mean less salt in our shopping. -- plus how Research in | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Nottingham. The and the actress who will not lead to dyslexia beat her. | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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A fine that how I think dyslexia Hello, good evening, welcome to the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
programme. The at the top story tonight, the shocking attack that | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
has left a young man in hospital sedated with serious burns and his | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
friend suffering nightmares. The two men were enjoying a drink | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
in a pub when a flammable liquid was thrown at them. Somehow, it was | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
then set alight at the two men were on fire. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
With more on this story, let us join our reporter Helen Astle who | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
is in Leicester for us now. Good evening. It was meant to be a | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
normal night out, a few drinks at the pub. Instead, what happened | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
here behind me was horrific and the long-term effects could be forever. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
One family told me it has tarnished their lives. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Just every week ago, Russell Banks was enjoying a night out with | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
friends at the Rainbow and Dove pub in Leicester. He and his friend | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
were attacked, someone threw flammable liquid over them. Russell | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
now lies in a hospital bed with horrific burns. If his parents | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
managed to see him before he was sedated. A he said he was dead. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
He said, Dad, I'm not a bad person, why has this happened to me? | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Rosso's friend, Robert Laszewsk, who does not want to be shown on | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
camera, was also injured. He is now recovering at home. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
I am having nightmares sometimes. I try to keep strong. I am thinking | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
of Brussels. If it's going through my head all the time. If he is in a | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
worse condition than I am? I AM thinking of Russell. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
CCTV images have been released. The man police want to speak to is | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
shown running away but his jacket on fire. | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
If you know this person, how could you live with that? Just to do the | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
right thing. I do not feel anything at the moment. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
It is a horrendous crime, and we have got no motive for it, no | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
reason why someone would do this. It appears to be a total -- totally | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
random and isolated attack. If y somebody would do something I that | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
is beyond me. His arms and hands are very bad. He | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
is unlikely to get for use again. His face is healing nicely, we are | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
very hopeful on his face because that is the big thing. You can't | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
cover that, really. Russell's friend, who was also | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
injured, has been discharged from hospital. Russell's friends do not | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
know when he too will be allowed to come home, but they said the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
effects will last forever. It is not just burns. These people | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
have to know that it will affect him for the rest of his life. It is | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
not just one life they have tarnished, you have taken a bright | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
light and deemed it. A 5000 Bannan reward is being | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
offered. -- a �5,000 reward is being offered. Police are asking | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
people to come forward. Russell's that has said his children are his | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
life, and someone has taken a bit of that away. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Thank you very much. You are watching East Midlands | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Today. Still to come, the weather. And | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Sally has found something which sums up the forecast. | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
It is annoying side for motorists across the East Midlands, at this | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
recycling process was designed by students at the University of | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Nottingham, and these are not as annoyingly squeaky as mine will be | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
over the coming days. At the meals-on-wheels service | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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Next, a soldier from the East Midlands' largest army battalion | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
has been killed in Afghanistan. He is one of hundreds of men who have | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
just been deployed with the Mercian Regiment's 2nd Battalion. The | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
soldier was shot dead doing -- during a province in Helmand -- a | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
patrol in Helmand province this morning. He has not been named, but | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
his family have been told. An inquest has been opened into the | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
death of a 16-year-old girl killed and a hand gliding crash. Lois | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Preston was making a solo flight at Darley Moor near Ashbourne last | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Friday's when the hand glider crashed into the ground. She was | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where she died from | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
her injuries. The inquest was adjourned. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
They have been more protests over the government's decision to abort | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
a lucrative trading bill -- train making contract to a German company | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
instead of Bombardier. A campaign has gathered outside a rail | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
conference despite the key target of their anger failing to turn up. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Two days ago, Theresa Villiers pulled out where she had been | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
billed as the main speaker. We are supposed to live in a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
democracy where politicians represent the views of people. Here | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
she says she were not represent a more listen them. I do not want to | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
be in the same room of them! This is determination of a historic | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
industry of Africa in Derby, one that has shaped its past and we had | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
its future. A young father who was partially | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
paralysed in a shooting 10 years ago says he is desperate for his | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
attacker to be brought to justice. If Tommy Lau was visiting friends | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
in a village in Europe when a bullet was fired through a glass | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
door. He was not the intended target, and the gunman has never | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
been caught. This was not the life that Tommy | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
had planned. He was a student who was looking forward to working in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the fashion industry and travelling the world. But those dreams came | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
crashing down the moment he got caught up in an appalling crime. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
I heard a bang. I've felt a tingle on my back, and it was like I had | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
been electrocuted or something. It was close to bonfire night, so I | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
thought one of the kids was playing with a firework. And then I looked | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
over my shoulder and I saw smoke coming out of my back. Everyone was | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
screaming, I was screaming. I looked at the doors, and three- | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
quarters of the way up I could see a whole. After that. I knew I had | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
been shot. It happened only weeks after he had | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
been married. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gun | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
was fired into warehouse where he was visiting friends. It is | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
suspected to have been organised by a notorious organised crime Group, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
and the bullet is still in his spine. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
It is hard to carry on with your life knowing that there is someone | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
still out there who has done this to me. I would just like some kind | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
of justice and for them to suffer as much as I have suffered. They | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
did not even look be in the eyes that night, so they did not know | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
who they were shooting. When the bullet went, that is the head | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
height of the kit. So one of the kits is really lucky not to have | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
been shot in the head and killed. Now Tommy has a child of his own, | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
as looking after his daughter has given him a new lease of life. 10 | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
years on, the police still want witnesses to the shooting. There is | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
still a �10,000 reward if his attacker is caught. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
We often reminded that a high level of salt in our diet is not good | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
enough for us because it is linked to a host of problems. But research | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
carried out here in the East Midlands could be about to change | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
all that. A University of Nottingham design | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
company has created a new type of salt which is apparently better for | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
us, at the food industry is finding it very tasty indeed. | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
We are all told to think healthy and cut back on things like fat, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
sugar and salt. Scientists in Nottingham are about to | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
revolutionise our shopping without us even noticing. From next year, | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
things like bread, Peter ready meals and fast food could all have | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
their salt levels cut by as much as one-third. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
It is because of this, a new type of salt developed here which does | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
its job a little better. It is all down to its revolutionary shape. | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
This is normal salt with its square grains. This is the new type. It is | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
created by the University's company. We take standard salt and we to a | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
process on that that miniaturise is it into a hollow ball of salt. So | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
you actually have the same effect and taste, but actually get far | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
less of it in the product. From a brain a 100 times smaller | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
than usual, comes some very big money. A multi-million pound deal | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
for with a global food brand will mean products across the world will | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
soon be using it. It is very exciting. You are sat in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
your lap and you do not really think it could have a wider impact. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
It is very exciting when you find that it is such a big issue and you | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
can do something about it. This product will enable people to | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
carry on eating the food they like to eat, Brett, Peters, a range of | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
these foodstuffs, but actually get less salt into their bodies. -- | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
bread, Peter. We will enable this to open up | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
access to more people. You may have already tasted it. A | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
small number of people have tried it. The hope is that it will soon | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
be in every house. You are watching East Midlands | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Today. In other news, campaigners who are opposed to plans to drop | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
low-level radioactive waste in a landfill site near Stanford have | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
lost an appeal in the High Court. In May, the government gave the go- | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
ahead for the proposals at Kings Cliffe despite widespread | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
opposition. It followed a two year battle between local people and the | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
waste company Augean. Campaigners have vowed to fight on. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Work to repair an electricity sub- station in Derbyshire is expected | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
to cost around �1 million. It has been three weeks since an explosion | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
at Winston led to thousands of homes without power. The road that | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
runs past the sub-station is still closed. Western Power Distribution | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
says it is talking to customers who have been affected by the closure. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Police are appealing for three people who witnessed a fatal car | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
crash to come forward. 42-year-old Vicki Dorman died in September | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
after her car span out of control at Selston in Nottinghamshire. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Police say another car stopped after the crash, but the people in | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
it left before police could get It was the fatal car crash that | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
left a daughter without her mother. Tributes lined the spot where 42- | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
year-old Vicki Dorman lost her life. The crash happened on 24th | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
September. She was travelling with a man and they were driving out of | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Selston. The car spun out of control before hitting a fence here | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
behind me. Vicki Dorman was pronounced dead at the scene. The | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
police want to find three people who were driving a dark blue | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
vehicle behind her as they would have seen the accident happened. | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
That vehicle was driving behind Vicki Dorman's vehicle. Until we | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
speak to them, we will not know fully, not just how far behind, but | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
more importantly, how Vicki Dorman came to leave the road. We need to | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
hear about it. Police say there were three people in the car. A | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
young blonde haired woman and two males. They are believed to have | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
come round and term -- turned round and come back to the scene of the | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
crash. Before police could talk to them, they drove off. The we are | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
not saying they are in trouble. The problem for them is that the longer | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
the period goes before they come forward voluntarily to us, | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
obviously a cloud of suspicion may rise around them. Police say the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
people who have left tributes deserve to know what happened that | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
night, not least the young daughter it she left behind. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
The big night is nearly upon us but with Bonfire Night fast approaching, | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
police in Leicester are cracking down on people who start illegal | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
fires in the City. It is called Molineux apparently. | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
It is a special arson task force which will be taking a tough stance | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
on damage to property. For most of us, it is a fun night out. It can | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
quickly turn to this, with firefighters having to respond to | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
incidents across the region. On Bonfire Night last year, | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service attended 18 illegal | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
bonfires. With fence panels and new parks being torn down for firewood, | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
the police say the arsonists are putting lives that risks. We do not | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
want them to build these fires because they are causing damage to | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
property is within their own neighbourhoods and damage to other | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
people's property and we are afraid for their safety. We do not know | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
what the bonfires are made of and we are afraid that someone will be | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
hurt or injured. Residents say the problem is not going away. They are | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
finding any kind of rubbish from the street so it can be things like | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
aerosols which are completely inappropriate. It puts them in | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
quite a lot of danger. The kids do it every year. Meanwhile, in Derby, | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
the authorities have been working with its shops to cut the number of | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
complaints about fireworks. policing has been very successful | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
in recent years. We find that by restricting access to fireworks at | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
the point of sale and giving a clear message regarding safety it | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
has reduced the number of accidents. The find that a lot of people | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
complain about the misuse of fireworks to the police, but most | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
of those complaints are unsubstantiated. There is a | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
perception that fireworks are being misused but that is not the case in | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
many circumstances. Let us hope that the message gets through this | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
year. Children at a primary school in | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Nottingham have held a special virtual Hajj pilgrimage in the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
school hall. The annual pilgrimage to Mecca happens this Saturday. | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
Children do not usually go. The event featured poetry readings, and | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
throwing pebbles at a rock representing the double. A it is | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
important for children to learn that that every individual, every | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
human being, was created by God. Every human being is equal. That is | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
what we are trying to get the children to understand. It brings | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
people together, people from different countries. They are all | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
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the same. Still to come, it may look the nuts, but there is a | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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simple explanation. Find out later what has happened to this squirrel. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
A service which delivers meals to thousands of elderly and vulnerable | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
people in Nottinghamshire has been named as one as the top providers | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
in the whole country. The Meals at Home service has been running for | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
almost 40 years. It is so highly regarded that other councils have | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
started to use it too. It is another busy morning at the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
this distribution centre. Thousands of meals are boxed up and ready to | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
be delivered to customers. Many meals are cooked by en route in the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
back of the vehicles. It is sliced ham in barbecue sauce today | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
followed by apple pie and custard. 30 vehicles leave the depot every | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
day delivering around 1700 meals across Nottinghamshire. It operates | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
seven days a week. The service provides people with much more than | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
a meal. The driver goes in, often on a daily basis, and is often the | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
only person that the service user will see. They carry out small | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
tasks, make sure they are comfortable and if there is any | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
cause for concern, they bring up the office here and we alert the | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
relevant authority or next of kin. Edna Bradbury has had deep Meals at | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Home service for many years. It is invaluable. I would only get | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
sandwiches if they were not here. Despite some of the challenges | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
faced by staff, many feel it is to be extremely rewarding. I have been | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
doing it for almost nine years and I have seen changes, the quality of | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
the meals, but we get them out on time, we come through awful weather | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
every year. We try to get the meals out. We do a good job. It has | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
recently picked up a national award for the range of meals it offers. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
More importantly for its customers, it is a lifeline they simply could | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
not do without. A brilliant service. Now it is time | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
for sport. Colin is here to meet some sports | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
stories. It has not got quite that bad yet. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
First tonight, Leicester City. One of the bookies front runners for | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
the manager's job at the King Power Stadium has issued a statement | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
saying he is not interested. Huddersfield Town manager Lee Clark | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
was knocking down paper claims he was on the verge of becoming the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Foxes box. He wants to put an end to the rumours. He is 39 and on an | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
amazing run of 49 games unbeaten. - - 41 games unbeaten. In the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
meantime, one of Leicester's caretaker bosses has said that the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
club's owners are keeping their cards close to their chest. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Speculation is rife. It is a big job and the media are driving it. I | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
am sure they will be making the decision since. They are taking | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
their time and giving us another day or two days, so be it. We are | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
ultimately here to do the right thing by Leicester City. Derby | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
County have slipped out of the top six in the championship for the | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
first time this season. Their injury-ravaged side lost dreams-0- | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Cardiff last night. -- lost 3-0. Nigel Clough has rolled out | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
bringing in any loan players. 15- year-old Mason Bennett started for | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
Derby on a school night. experience that the likes of Mason | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Bennett are getting will benefit the second half of the season and | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
years to come. You take it on the chin and you get on with it. We | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
will not be getting down about one defeat. Kick-started with a kiss. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Filip Kiss planted a smacker in the corner. The Welshman meant business. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
Frank Fielding kept the Rams in the game. Not many chances fell Derby's | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
wave. When it Jamie Ward found a way through, it was a good save. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Derby never looked comfortable at the back in the second half. The | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
second goal came. Kenny Miller, a near-post header. Peter Whittingham | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
scored a the third goal. It might have been four when this back pass | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
nearly found its way into the net. A miserable night and for young | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Mason Bennett, there is more to come. A if you are feeling sorry | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
for yourself, we said to the lads, do not. You have got lots of | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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lessons Tamara! Posh a Derby's next opponents. Jaanai Gordon-Hutton | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
could well end up on their side. Nottingham Forest, another of their | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
players has revealed how much happier they are under new manager | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Steve Cotterill. Striker Marcus Tudgay said he had been told by | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Steve McClaren that he would not feature for the team while he was | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
in charge. Steve Cotterill had other ideas and Marcus Tudgay | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
scored Forest's win against Reading earlier this week. He told me I was | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
not going to play. I was disappointed but I was keeping | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
myself fit. A change of manager, telling me, work hard, I know what | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
you are about. Tommy, you have got to take your chances when you get | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
them. At the moment, you can see results. Finally, a reminder that | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
our tickets available for you to be part of our East Midlands Sports | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Awards later this month. We are planning to put on quite a show at | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
Loughborough University on 17th November. You have to stand as a | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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stamped addressed envelope. -- send I have had a sneak peek at the show | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
and it will be well worth a couple of stamps! Here will be a really | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
good evening. One of the questions we | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
occasionally asked on this programme, or what do Tom Cruise, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Sir Richard Branson and Keira Knightley have in common? They all | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
have dyslexia. As does singer and actress Toyah Willcox. Toyah has | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
been telling our reporter how she has not let the condition get in | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
the wake of a life in the limelight. My dyslexia is a moveable force. I | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
always call it a force because I look on it as why I am creative. | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
With dyslexia it means that your brain is wired differently. It also | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
means that it is wired exceptionally well in other areas. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
I was very lucky at an earlier age... I was seven when I found are | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
the areas that I was exceptional act. I have capitalised on that. | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
Singing, acting and writing. I ended up at the National Theatre by | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
the time I was 18. Once I got a there, ironically, they recognised | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
my dyslexia. They recognised it as a creative force. It was from then | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
on that I was allowed to see my dyslexia as my benefit, as my gift, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
because I think you will find most singers, actors, writers, are | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
dyslexic. When you have got learning difficulties... | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
amazing thing about this programme is that it has turned me into how I | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
imagine a champion athlete would be in that everything is sold double, | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
doable and possible. That is what this programme did for me. There | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
are so many things I have not done. As a singer, there are so many | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
things. As an actress, there are so many things. As a writer, there is | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
an infinite amount I have not done. There are plenty of things I have | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
no intention of retiring. I love my work and I still have lots of ideas. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
She is a lovely lady. I met her once. She was at the Plain English | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
Awards at which I want some colleagues -- I and some colleagues | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
won a prize. Now we are going to solve the | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
mystery of the White squirrel. I? I am kidding, of Bisley! It has | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
:25:46. | :25:49. | ||
Heavy rain on its way later. An albino squirrel. They are very rare | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
but not totally unheard of. One in 100,000 will be born at albino. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
There are 2.5 million grey squirrels in the UK. That means | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
there are only 25 of these little fellows across the UK. One of them | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
is in Leicestershire which was captured on camera. Brilliant! | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Whatever you fancy, send them into us. A deep area of low pressure. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Lots of rain around. Various systems working their way through. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
The main one tonight is covering the whole of France at the moment | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
and working its way up from the South. We are left with one or two | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
showers after this afternoon. There are still one or two this evening | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
though they are starting to have fizzle out. The rain will come from | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
the south and will break up in places. Everyone will see a little | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
bit in the early hours. 11 degrees, the minimum temperature stop -- the | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
minimum temperature. Some heavy bursts of rain in the morning, | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
particularly in the west, over the Peak District. It will clear up to | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
the north but we will not really notice it because there will be | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
some pretty heavy showers left. Some fund as well, potentially. | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
Some brighter spells interspersed - - some thunder as well. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Unfortunately, tomorrow night, if you are going to a bonfire, the | :27:25. | :27:30. |