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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Our top story tonight: The anguish of a mother who lost | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
all four of her children in a house fire. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Rachel Henson has spoken of the moment she realised none of the | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
youngsters had survived. A got to A&E. As that of the doctor, how | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
many children are alive? He didn't speak, just shook his head. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Also, the horrific attack behind a pub that left a young man burnt and | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
badly scarred. I was on fire. I thought everything. I knew my eyes | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
were open. I saw the flames. A bleak midwinter Beckham's as | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
council's plan more cuts. Join me later for the latest in our | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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series on collections. Can you Welcome to Wednesday's programme | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
live from the East Midlands. At this time last year, four children | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
in Derbyshire were looking forward to Christmas. Weeks later, in | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
January, they died in a fire at their home. Their mother managed to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
get out alive. Today a coroner recorded narrative verdicts on | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
their deaths. He said a damp log had been put on an open fire. It | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
had split on hot coals, and burning embers had escaped. There was no | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
fire guard, and no working smoke alarms. He said either of these | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
could have saved the children's lives. In a moment, we'll be | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
hearing from the children's mother Rachel Henson about the night of | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
the fire. But first Kylie Pentelow reports on what happened at the | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
inquest in Derby today. 9-year-old Tommy Bowe, 6-year-old | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
and the Show, and their brothers and sisters. They dead in January | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
in a fire at 11pm. Their mother, Rachel Henson, got out alive. The | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
court heard an open fire was put in the home around Christmas time. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Rachel said she had been trying to get a fire guard and had not got | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
around to it. A partner said it wasn't a priority. There was a | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
battery operated smoke alarm that wasn't working in the house and | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
some years before, Rachel had ripped out a hard-wired system | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
installed. The censors were found in a box. I regret every day we | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
didn't realise it was broken. Most people turn them off, most people | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
don't use them, a lot of them don't have them in their house, and you | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
think would they have made a difference? The coroner said if | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
there had been a fire guard, the blaze would not have started and | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the children would have survived. If there had been working smoke | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
alarms, they would have got time to get out alive. Rachel spoke outside | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
the court. It was a very fair hearing. The coroner made some | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
important points with the importance of fire guards and... It | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
has been a distressing time. investigating officers said the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
blaze was extreme zero visibility. This is where his firefighters | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
train. I went inside the smokehouse to see what those conditions are | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
like. Visibility, deteriorating. And that is in seconds. If you woke | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
up in this situation, even in your own home, you would know which way | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
to get out of bed, let alone get somebody else out. There are 500 | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
accidental house fires every year in Derbyshire and only about half | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
have working smoke alarms and the force says simply they save lives. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Well, at the hearing today, there were more questions over how Rachel | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
managed to get out of the house and the investigating fire officer was | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
recalled to give evidence. Rachel has always maintained that she | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
tried to help her son Tommy escape from a bedroom window, which she | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
then fell out of. The inquest heard she'd drunk almost a bottle and a | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
half of wine that evening. Earlier this year, Kylie Pentelow spoke to | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
Rachel about that night and about losing her four children. | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
Tommy was the eldest, he was nine. Just a mummy's boy, really. Then | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
Felicia. She was beautiful. And then Apollonia. She was bossy and | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
in charge. We were a happy family. It all changed on generally 24th. | :05:02. | :05:11. | |
and Rachel and her four children went to bed. The next thing, I woke | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
up and the house is full of black smoke so there you couldn't see the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
palm of your hand in front of you. I heard Tommy saying, "money, the | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
house is full of something." I got into the other bedroom where | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Apollonia would have been asleep and I got the window open. I was | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
standing behind Tommy and I picked it up like this, tried to push him | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
out, but his arms and legs were going like this, and he was | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
fighting to go through the window. I didn't have enough about me, I | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
was confused, said, "if you don't go, you will die." the next thing | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
she knew she was going through the air. I don't believe I jumped, she | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
said, maybe I've Bell. The coroner said there was no forensic evidence | :06:03. | :06:12. | |
the window had been opened and he was not able to say how she escaped. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
The doctor said how many children are alive? But he shook his head | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
and I knew. In hospital is -- her partner arrived. She rolled into a | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
ball. She had bruises everywhere. Horrible scratch down one-arm which | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
she was staring at where Tommy was holding on to. Every time you get | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
that smoky smell, that is all we think about. Four small coffins. A | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
kiss for each. I summoned all my strength up and tried to compose | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
myself. It was probably the worst day of my life. Rachel is a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
hairdresser and her business has helped her cope with the tragedy. | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
My clients have come in with long hair because they have waited for | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
me to come back. I have a new home with Clint. We have got friends. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
And I miss Apollonia's arms on my neck when I wake up in the morning. | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
Rachael... Always around my legs, cuddling me. Felecia, I miss her, | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
and doing girly things with her. I missed Tommy's support and his love. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
You're watching East Midlands Today. Still to come on the programme, the | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
sport and weather. Plus, tea, cakes and TLC. We pop into a cafe in | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Derbyshire that's serving up advice and support for a town's local | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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Before that, a Leicester man has been speaking about the moment he | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
was attacked with a flammable liquid whilst drinking in a pub. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Russell Banks spent a month in hospital with severe burns and is | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
now trying to come to terms with what happened. Geeta Pendse reports. | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
All of a sudden, I was on fire. I felt everything. My eyes were open. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
I saw the flames. I could feel it in my mouth. It was a night that | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
changed this 21-year-old's life. He had been out with friends at a pub | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
in Leicester when someone threw a flammable liquid into the beer | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
garden which fell on him and another friend. He spent the last | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
two months in and out of hospital after severe burns to his arms, | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
chest, is unfazed. I was scared, lonely, heartbroken. Absolutely | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
heartbroken because if anybody knew me before, they knew I was a | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
perfectionist and I loved to look after myself. I like to dress | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
myself well, get my hair nice, and just to think for a split-second | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
that was all taken away from me from one thing... I knew we are | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
severe. This footage recorded minutes after the attack shows a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
man running away with his jacket on fire. So far, the police have | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
arrested and bailed a man. It has changed my whole life. It has me -- | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
it has made me ashamed of my scars, it is not allowing me to go out. I | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
hate it. The performing arts graduate, he says it was the | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
support of those around him that has kept him going. When I first | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
broke up, I felt lonely and I didn't want to be here any more. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
And then you realise all of the people that cared for you. It is a | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
shame it takes this for you to realise how many people care for | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
you. Speaking out about his experience, Russell Banks says he | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
is determined to move forward and not let the attack behind him. -- | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the attack do find him. An inquest has opened into the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
death of a pilot killed in a mid- air collision in Leicestershire on | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Sunday. 55-year-old Martin Hickin, from Coalville, was taking off from | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Leicester Airport when his plane collided with another light | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
aircraft and crash landed in a field. Tom Brown reports. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Martin Hickin, a man with 30 years of flying experience. He owned his | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
own plane and regularly flew out of Leicester Airport but on Sunday | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
afternoon, shortly after taking off, his plane crashed after colliding | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
with another light aircraft. Paramedics were called but he was | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
pronounced dead it seemed. The inquest into the death of Martin | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Hickin was opened and adjourned at the coroner's office in Leicester. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
His partner and five members of the family attended the Kirit and the | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
55-year-old was described as being an experienced flyer but how his | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
plane came to collide with another is still unclear. In a statement, | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
his families spoke of their devastation. Martin was a wonderful, | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
generous and warm individual who was dearly loved by all his family | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
and friends and his death has left an enormous gap in our lives. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Martin bereave -- Martin's bereaved family includes two or daughters. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
With the police and the air in that -- air Investigation Branch will | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
try to find out what caused the crash at the inquest will continue | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
next year. For now, his two daughter as -- his two daughters | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
prepare for Christmas without him. The Derbyshire chocolate maker | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Thorntons has said that it may not make any profit this year. The | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Somercotes-based firm says it's seen a drop in sales and a rise in | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
marketing costs. Last summer it announced it was planning to close | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
at least a third of its 360 high street stores. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
East Midlands Ambulance Service says only 28% of emergency calls it | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
receives are for life-threatening conditions. Inappropriate calls in | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
recent months have included a request for help with changing the | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
batteries in a TV remote control. A Derbyshire man was also given a | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
suspended prison sentence for making repeated 999 calls without | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
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good reason. This is East Midlands Today. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Council leaders in the East Midlands are warning of further | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
cuts to local services. Leicester City Council is one of the first | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
authorities to announce where those cuts are likely to fall. Union | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
leaders claim services for vulnerable children will be hit. | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
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Here's our Political Editor John It is a pivot Christmas Carol, but | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
there was a touch of the bleak midwinter about the city's finances. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
The headlines tell part of the story. As a result of the cuts, we | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
are being forced to slash �70 million from our budget. We still | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
have �40 million of that to find and that is requiring some | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
difficult decisions. Job losses in children's services and has some | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
0.2% rent increase. Just two measures towards an immediate -- | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
immediate cuts target of �40 million. Leicester City Council and | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
the trade unions have been working on his -- on efficiency savings for | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
many years and we think there is not a lot more that can be taken | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
out. It is not efficiency savings but cuts to sit -- cuts. There's | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
not much cash around here and Leicester is one of a few big | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
council -1 of cuts and expect some other councils to sing from the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
same song sheet. So is Leicester's cash difficulties | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
pretty typical? These are year-on-year cuts ordered | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
by the coalition Government, and many of our councils are now | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
running out of wriggle move. Take Leicestershire. It plans to offload | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
all of its schools, secondary and primary, so they become academies, | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
directly funded by Whitehall. That in itself means Leicestershire | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
finding a further �16million in cuts, because the Government has | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
taken the education funding away from County Hall. This is a further | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
financial headache for someone like David Parsons, the Conservative | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
leader in the East Midlands. I asked him what impact he thought | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
the latest financial squeeze would have on local government. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
I think it will have less money. If I were to have a crystal ball. The | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
stress points will be the services that are provided. Notably for | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
vulnerable people, for children, roads, for instance. All of those | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
services we will have to look at. Two things to watch out for - will | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
some councils like Nottingham and Leicester ignore the Government | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
line and increase council tax next May? And will the Treasury demand | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
more spending cuts because the economy is faltering? | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Not great news, but, anyway, thank you. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Bryony Balen, the Derbyshire student who's skiing to the South | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Pole, will celebrate her 21st birthday on the ice today. She's | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
hoping to become the youngest Briton to complete the full 700- | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
mile trek across Antarctica. She's managed to lay her hands on | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
something for today's celebration but says the big party will have to | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
wait until she's home. Will she had a tipple to celebrate? | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Could it be this? Later we meet the man that has got | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
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A cafe has opened in time for Christmas. Doesn't sound a huge | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
news story on the face of it, but this is one with a difference. Cafe | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Heroes at Heanor in Derbyshire is designed not only to serve the town, | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
but also to act as a drop-in centre for ex-service people. James | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
Roberson reports. Michael knows what it is like to be | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
from Heanor and the military. He was a soldier, as were his father, | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
grandfather and great-grandfather and became centres like Cafe Heroes | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
specifically designed to help service people are needed in Heanor | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
and elsewhere. They are going out there to give their lives for us. | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
It is about time this country started making a contribution and | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
helping towards them for. product has been set up by a | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Derbyshire based charity which helps people with social and | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
personal difficulty is. There is more evidence that particularly | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
young ex-servicemen are finding it hard to resettle into the community | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
and may or may not have mental problems because of the traumas | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
they experienced. What we need to do is refer the guys here... There | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
are experts on hand not only from the Royal British Legion but from | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
this ex RAF trauma counsellor. There is no particular group that | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
is isolated from this. It can go across the board. It could be an | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
event that happened years ago or yesterday. We can signpost to | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
occupational therapy, or advice about money or house in or benefits. | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
The charity helps at the Cafe will become popular with local people | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
thus helping Heanor's regeneration as well as service people. | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
Nothing like coffee and a cake! Time now for support. | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
-- for sport. First Nottingham Forest key | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
defender Wes Morgan has told us tonight he's in talks with Forest | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
about a new contract. His current deal runs out in the summer and | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
he's already being linked with other clubs. Wes is also out | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
injured for six weeks but while giving out presents on a Children's | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Hospital Ward today he told me his problems are insignificant compared | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
to others. So, you will feeling flustered? | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
Absolutely. I am feeling festive. It is nice to see the children in | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
hospital because they might be here for the end of Christmas. I am hit | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
to cheer you up. Eight in his ear. Does this toucher doing this? -- | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
Aden is here. Of course. We love putting smiles on kids' faces. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
you need cheering up because you are out for six weeks. Yes. I had a | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
scan and that. I could be out for up to six weeks. It is not the best | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
time for me because I am missing a hectic period of football for. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
is your message for Forest fans this Christmas? Our performances | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
have been good but we haven't found the right results. Cheer them up | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
and tell them you're going to sign a new contract. It is still a long | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
way to go before we signed it. would you like for Christmas? What | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
is on your wish-list? Three points, please! | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Now onto Derby County and manager Nigel Clough was pleased to see | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Nathan Tyson play 65 minutes of a friendly against Burton Albion | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
today. It means he will figure in some of the festive fixtures. Nigel | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
himself has been giving his own special Christmas present today as | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
Jeremy Nicholas reports. There are not many football | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
managers as community-minded as Nigel Clough, supporting local jobs | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
and making things better for the people of Derby. There was a | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
hospital visit and today a bit more. A pint of blood. It is similar to a | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Saturday, looking out onto the pitch and feeling pain. Just 25,000 | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
people missing. He has done brilliantly. He was nervous | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
beforehand but he is a good sport. He has given his donation and it | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
will help save someone's wife. felt the needle going in, but it | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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was Pamela's. Times are tough. It has been one | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
win in a Gwytherin gaze -- home games to come. What is more painful, | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
watching Derby County or giving blood? Watching Derby County. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
Coming here to watch them is very painful, believe you me. Midfielder | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Jeff Hendrick limped off in the final minutes of the Ipswich game | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
and today he has been ruled out of the festive fixtures with ankle | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
ligament damage but there is better news about Nathan Tyson. He was on | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
the pitch on Ipswich. He has been friendly, and he will play with | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
Burton Albion. He looks strong. He is in with a shout. Nigel Clough is | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
hoping for points but the blood and sweat of the next few games might | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
be rewarded, like he was today with the biscuit. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
One more bit of football news. Leicester City manager Nigel | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Pearson says there is a future for striker Steve Howard at the club. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Howard is 35 but Pearson says he will play a part this season | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
because he is still a big threat in the Championship. | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
And in rugby the fixtures for the Heineken Cup have been announced | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
today. The Leicester Tigers will play against Ulster in a must-win | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
European Cup game in Belfast on Friday, 13th January. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
That is all the sport when Nigel Clough was a very good sport. | :22:13. | :22:22. | |
He has, he was. -- yes, he was. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Now for a drop of the black stuff. And a certain brand of Irish stout | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
which wasn't always as famous as it is today. Guinness really took off | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
back in the 1930s and 40s because of its arty adverts, catchy slogans | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
and striking, collectable merchandise. Well, in the last of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
our series about collectors, Jeremy Nicholas meets Steve Tedds who's | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
not really interested in the stout but the stuff that help to sell it. | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
He waits. That is what he does. First thing I do, get up, put the | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
kettle on, and then straight on to eBay. Steve has been collecting in | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
his memorabilia for five years and, my goodness, he has got below. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
There was a guy called John Gilroy, the most famous artist that worked | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
for a company Benson's, an advertising company, and this guy | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
used to go around London Zoo just to do paintings and drawings of | :23:14. | :23:23. | |
animals and then make them into the animals you see behind here. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
You have got quite a few of these flying to cans. People ask me why I | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
have got so many of the same ones. My wife Tommy the kids were not | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
getting interest on their money. That wasn't the Bank. But these | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
will make a better return when they reach 18. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
The slump comes from an off-licence in the 1960s and when you switch it | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
on, that he'd from the lamp causes the shade to spin around. It is | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
worth �800 today. This is a nice item I got from | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
somebody that phoned me up out of the group. The nice thing is if you | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
look on the back of the bottle, it gives the names of 70 odd people | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
that were left at the Park Royal brewery before it closed. You will | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
not see many of those around are. Steve has paid first for water drew | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
it. The one that was the rare one had the gold guineas underneath and | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
the harp on the top. He thought the red jug was great. But when it | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
arrived, it was crack. Unfortunately, it was smashed. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
has locked up to comes and penguins, but which one does he like best? | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
have no preference. You can go out today and see a poster with the to | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
come on at. The penguins lost it when they started to do biscuits! | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
These are from the last 10 years. A good place to stop, so you can, too, | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
become a collector. To come. You see? | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
It may not be a white Christmas but it certainly will be a colourful | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
one across the East Midlands. Yes, it's the season of Christmas lights, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
when householders get to vie with each other to produce ever more | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
elaborate displays of Santas, reindeer, and snowmen. We may be in | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
the middle of an economic downturn, but that hasn't stopped people | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
getting into the Christmas spirit. I think they look really nice and | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
it is nice to see somebody is getting into the Christmas spirit. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
The train blew off last year and dented the car, so I type it up now. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
I started with a couple of lights. And one of my neighbours thought we | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
were having a competition. He pulled up -- he brought out a few | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
more, I brought out a few more, and there we are. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
They are lovely. Not a time for subtlety, is it? | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
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It is not going to turn to win these are no trains frying tonight. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
-- it is not going to be two windy so no trains flying tonight. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Thank you for sending this picture in, send them into the normal e- | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
mail address. This area of low pressure, it is going to work | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
towards us by the end of the week but ahead of that, mainly dry | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
weather to come. Cloudy skies across the East Midland, but going | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
through to the rest of that evening, we see the cloud breaking up. For | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
now, we see just some drizzling spit sunspots, but most places dry. | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Around about eight overnight. The cloud will start to break up. We | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
will see some mist and fog developing by the early hours of | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
tomorrow morning, but a brighter start compared to this morning and | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
a better chance of seeing some sunny spells through the day. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
Temperature-wise, on the mild side, 11 is your maximum. This time last | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
year, we were struggling to get above zero. The rain has not | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
arrived and by the time we get to Friday morning, a drizzly start and | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
that rain turns persistent, heavy the remark of the date on Friday. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Once it clears by late on, colder air feeding in soap by that time we | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
get to Christmas Eve, it starts on a chilly note, so a little mild on | :27:29. | :27:35. |