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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Kylie | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
Pentelow. Our top story tonight: just in time - a bone marrow match | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
for Rik Basra. After months of hunting for a donor, | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
the Leicestershire policemen will have a life-saving operation within | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
days. Also, the soldiers are spending | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
Christmas on patrol while their families worry back home. I will be | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
absent. But it is something that I have got to cope with the the day. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Plus, or what will the new year bring? All didn't want his work. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
the job counts. And I will be finding out why all | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
these people are counting down the days till Christmas in a very | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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Good evening and welcome to Thursday's programme. First tonight, | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
it's the lifeline he's been praying for. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
A last-minute bone marrow match has been found for a Leicestershire | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
police officer who needs a transplant to save his life. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Rik Basra could have only days left to live. Tonight his family say | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
finding a match now is the miracle they've been waiting for. Angelina | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
Socci reports. Rik Basra was diagnosed with acute | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
myeloid leukaemia in 2009. He went into remission, but in September, | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
had returned. The Leicestershire police officer was told that his | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
only chance of surviving was to have a bone marrow transplant. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
the moment that you find out, you realise that you need to find a | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
match to win you find that it is not go to be that easy, despair, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
frustration, sometimes even anger. And I think more so because there | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
is a process involved for somebody to be a donor, and it is steeped so | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
simple. So it is hard to understand or someone you love could die | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
because p But don't know about this. Desperate to find a suitable match | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
committed up a donor session to encourage people to come forward. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
And after an appeal, hundred registered. Today, the news they | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
had been waiting for. A match they had been found. It is not going to | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
be easy. But we will remain positive and take each day as it | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
comes and we have now got this opportunity which we will grasp | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
with both hands, and make sure he gets through it successfully. This | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
really is our Christmas miracle. My daughter has summed it up. Best | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Christmas present we have ever had. Well Angelina Socci is at the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Leicester Royal Infirmary tonight, where the transplant will take | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
place. Christmas really has come early for this family. Rik Basra | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
has been here at the Leicester Royal Infirmary for the last week, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
and is now in the transplant unit. The procedure is expected to take | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
place within 48 hours. Do we know anything about the Dover? The dough | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
and I didn't come from the session held at Leicester a couple of weeks | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
ago, but has come from an Asian male in Germany. -- they don't off. | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
Earlier, the Anthony Nolan Trust praised the efforts of the family. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Hopefully, the success of this campaign will mean that we can take | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
that to other areas within the UK, and really develop relationships | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
and build awareness within, particularly Asian communities, to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
build the numbers on the register, so more people like Rik Basra can | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
get that fabulous news. For Rik Basra and his family, this is a | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
dream come true, but they realise that this is just the start of a | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
long journey ahead. Thank you. You're watching East Midlands Today. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Later in the programme - Christmases past versus Christmases | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
present? Your fond memories of festivities in the '40s and '50s. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
And Sally's got the weather, including the latest Christmas snow | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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updates. # The weather outside his frightful | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
to Mark Roe. # With only three sleeps to go, it | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
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Hundreds of soldiers from the East Midlands are spending their first | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Christmas on the front line in Afghanistan. They're with the | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Mercian Regiment's second battalion - defending one of the most | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
dangerous parts of Helmand Province. It's a worrying time for their | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
families back home. But one mother's helping to inject a sense | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
of Yuletide normality - she's sent a Christmas tree to Afghanistan. | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
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Our Social Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball has the details. | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
Hay, mum and dad... A letter that means so much. It is going to be a | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
tough Christmas for the Hadleighs here in Derby, because the eldest | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
son is serving in Afghanistan. sit in a parcel with a Christmas | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
tree, some decorations, he has received it. I will be upset, but | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
it is something I've got to cope with for the day. Danny is at this | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
remote outpost in Helmand province, where they are getting into the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
festive spirit, but the work will not stop on Christmas Day, because | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
the Taliban could take advantage if they stayed inside their base. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
are on patrol in the ground, they are constantly watching us, and | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
they pick the right moment and the right time to have a pot shot at us. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
But we have a watch team on the roof. It makes you realise how | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
close they are to it. Danny's brother knows what he's up against, | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
because he served in Afghanistan last year. I worry more, because he | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
is my little brother, I have always been looking out for him. You think | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
about what he's going through, his next step, Andy were panicking all | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
the time. It is step -- scary to know how close he is do everything | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
that is going off. And how dangerous it is out there. I didn't | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
realise that he was right in the centre of it. I am really proud of | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
him. He is brave, strong and he would do his job well. They are | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
counting down the days until Danny comes home on leave, but Christmas | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
won't be the same this year. Jeremy Ball has joined us in the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
studio. He is one of hundreds of soldiers in Helmand. What are they | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
actually doing? A lot of them are projecting a new bomb-proof road. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
This road goes right through hostile territory, and connects up | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
to �9, roughly as far apart as Nottingham and Leicester. -- | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
connect up to main pounds. This is helping of the Afghan government | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
keeps things open for business, which is why the soldiers are such | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
a target. How much action I actually seen? It has been pretty | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
tough in the first stage of the tour, they were exchanging fire on | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
pretty much a daily basis. Two months on, there is more of a | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
threat from improvised bonds. 80 of them have been seriously wounded | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
and had to be flown home, and one of them, Matthew Haseldin, was | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
tragically killed last month. you. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Jobs are under threat at the Castle Donington-based airline BMI. The | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
owners of British Airways plan to buy BMI for more than �170 million. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
The company IAG is warning jobs will be lost, if the deal to buy | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
BMI from current owners Lufthansa goes through. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
The partner of a missing man from Grantham is pleading for him to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
come home for Christmas. 46-year- old Stuart Taylor was last seen on | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
the 13th December in Market Harborough in Leicestershire. He | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
was reported missing a short time later. His family and the police | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
are getting more concerned for his safety. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
People can now apply for the first new jobs to be created by the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
planned extension of the Nottingham tram network. Two lines are to be | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
built next year, extending the tram to Clifton and Chilwell. Nottingham | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
City Council says 70 people will be recruited for a range of jobs | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
including receptionists, researchers and engineers. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
It's very nearly the end of the year and one story has dominated | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
our headlines. And everyone else's. Yes, the economy. Over the last | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
year we've followed the region's cuts, crunches and crises. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Mike O'Sullivan's been looking at how the East Midlands economy fared | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
in 2011. And what might be in store for 2012. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Need a man from Leicester who says he is not fussy about the job he | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
does. Dylan has been unemployed since Jean. Around the time things | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
began to slide in our economy. can take a factory job, security | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
job, which is why I have just completed a job in that. In -- any | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
job that comes I am willing to take that. I am not saying I have to get | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
a job in an office. It is a mixed picture in the jobs market. Will | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
the number of people claiming jobseeker's Allowance has gone up | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
in our region by 12% in a year, figures show there are more private | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
sector jobs around. The public sector has shrunk to help cut the | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
national deficit. 16,000 jobs gone in a year. But the private sector | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
is creating jobs, up by 42,000 in a year, although it is not clear how | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
many of those are part-time. So how has the economy of the East | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Midlands shaped up over the last year? This chart shows some | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
indicators. The East Midlands climbed after the recession in 2010 | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
and seemed to be doing OK for the first six months are up 2011, but | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
the pace of things has slowed down. This is what comes out, showing a | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
downward trend at the end of the year. This firm in Nottingham share | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
is rising the export waver. Supplying a low carbon injured | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
penology to Sweden and the USA. Part of the trend in which experts | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
-- exports are. The company now wants to start training -- trading | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
with Brazil. Fearon legislative barriers, they are the right | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
partners, it is cutting edge into different languages, long distances | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
to travel. And there are surprising stories in the domestic market. At | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
this engineering firm in Ilkeston, it is claimed at the lack of | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
conference to attend work abroad means more orders for work at home. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
People haven't got confidence to take their money somewhere else | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
abroad, so people have brought the business back into England, so they | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
can see where the parts are being made. This business leader told me | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
she is keen to focus on the positives, but said the euro-zone | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
debt crisis is a dark cloud looming ahead. Business confidence is | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
fairly weak, but as we move into 2012, we hope to see some changes | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
in this. I think we also need to focus on the positives. A but Dylan | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
is taking things one day at a time. I really want to work, and on a | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
daily basis I look for job. region has climbed out of economic | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
slowdowns before. Now it is going to have to do it again. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
The car maker Toyota, which has a plant in Derbyshire, is predicting | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
a 20 per cent increase in global sales next year. The company | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
produces cars at its base in Burnaston. It's forecasting sales | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
of almost 8.5 million vehicles in 2012. Toyota hopes to recover from | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
losses caused by natural disasters in Japan and Thailand. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
A coach driver from Nottinghamshire has been charged with drink driving | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
after a crash damaged eight cars earlier this year. Paul Shields, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
who's 47 and from Mansfield, is accused of causing the collision at | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Worthing in West Sussex in June. He's due before magistrates next | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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They �6 million refurbishment of East Midlands trains was completed | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
today, 11 weeks ahead of schedule. The Meridian fleet has been given | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
up -- and updated look, including new seats, carpets and a larger | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
luggage space. Talking about travel and such | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
things, the Christmas tempo is quickening and if you are not yet | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
organised, time is running out. You could just forget about the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
whole thing, get on a plane and fly off. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Despite the financial squeeze, passenger numbers are up at East | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
Midlands Airport this Christmas. You could say that this flies in | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the face of the grim economic times. Despite everything else pointing | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
down, passenger numbers at East Midlands airport are up at this | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
time last year. This is her 4th Christmas abroad. We just love it, | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
sitting in the sun on Christmas Day. You cannot be it. How can you | :13:55. | :14:03. | |
afford it? Have a word with my husband. You can either sit back | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
and think about all of the difficulties or and you can just | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
enjoy yourself. Top vested destinations this year | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
include Tenerife, Alicante, Dublin and Belfast. Today is is seen as | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the start of the Christmas getaway, with more than 8,000 passengers | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
travelling through the airport. Between now and the beginning of | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
January, the 80,000 people are expected to be on the move, with | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
January second set to be the busiest day with around 10,000 | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
passengers travelling through here. We are around 2.5% up on last year. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
People are really determined to get away this year. It has been a grim | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
here economy wise. Even on Christmas Day itself, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
flights will be coming in and out from the likes of Malaga and | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Barbados. The odds are that we will not be getting a white Christmas, | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
where these travellers are heading to, there will not be snow. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
They are getting away from it all, but we can have just as much | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Christmas fun at home. This next but can, anyway. | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
They are a group of neighbours who decided to make an advent calendar, | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
but they went one better than the traditional version and the what | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
beggar. These houses in six streets. It has become a daily delight this | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
month for people living in this area of Derby. Going to see what it | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
chant and will be revealed this morning. Which one do you like? | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Residence in the six streets airier have gone together to make their | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
homes into a giant advent calendar. One or sometimes two houses Peddy | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
unveiling their displays in their windows. There has been a buzz | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
about it. The local nursery have walked the children up to look at | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
the windows in the morning. It has been great fun to see how different | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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they all are. Me and my sister made an angel. I like the sparkly dress. | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
I wanted something to sort of attach Santa to the house. I have | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
gone for something quite glitzy and well let. Summing to let him know | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
that we are here and that he does not forget the family. There is a | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
lot of Christmas spirit in the area. It is a bit of fun and to make | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
people laugh. We have a Penguin a winter Wonderland. We made it all | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
ourselves with recyclable materials. Everybody met when we were giving | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
out the numbers to decide who was getting which stays, and we had a | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
glass of wine while we did that. People have been very secretive | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
about what they were doing and not telling other people, it has worked | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
very well. Injury advent tradition, there are only two more windows to | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
reveal, what will they bring? On Christmas Day, the teddy bears will | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
wake up and open their presents. We love that idea. I want to do | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
that in my street next year. It is one of those weird ideas that | :17:22. | :17:31. | |
actually works. Time for the sport. They say good things come in small | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
packages, and cricketer James Taylor is a case in point. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Nottinghamshire officially welcomes the diminutive batsman to Trent | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Bridge today after his move across the border from Leicestershire. He | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
has been tipped as a fancied favourite for next season. | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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James Taylor was loved by the Leicestershire fans, but like his | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
predecessor, he has left to join Nottinghamshire in pursuit of | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
international cricket. It is a great opportunity for me to face | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
the best bowlers in the country and the First Division, and show | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
selectors what I can do at the top level. He was born in Nottingham, | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
but played for Leicestershire when he was still doing A-levels. He | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
became the youngest player to score 1,000 runs for the county in one | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
season. He currently plays in one rung below Test cricket. I'd just | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
got off a plane a couple of days of war from India, and straight back | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
to Bangladesh, a quick stop for Christmas in England and straight | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
back out there. James is a terrific signing and a wonderful batsman. He | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
will be a great addition to a squat. His father was a jockey, and at | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
five feet 5, James is one of the smallest players in cricket. | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
suppose I have a lot of scampering allow up -- around the wicket. A | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
lot of unusual shots to expect. When I am required to, I could hit | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
the ball out of the park. Want to football, and Derby | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
County's Chris Riggott is leaving the club by mutual consent. He | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
rejoins the Brahms after a long lay-off through injury, but has not | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
played for the first team so far and has decided to move on. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
It is the time of year when you look back over the past 12 months | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
and see what you would like to do differently. As ever in sport, | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
there have been plenty of highs and lows. Here are our review of how | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
our football clubs have fared. -- here is a review. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
No doubt where the most turmoil has been, Nottingham Forest fight their | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
way into the top six, but lost the play-off semi-final. Then they lost | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
their manager, too. Billy Davies finally lost his job after months | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
of conflict with the club's board. His replacement had a shocking | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
thing, looking like a fish out of water. He lasted 112 days. So did | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Steve Coppell, his arrival paid instant dividend. Right now he has | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
a side which plays well but cannot score. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
Derby County, by comparison, I'd be very model of stability. So much so | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
that this season is in mirroring the last. A brilliant beginning of | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
followed by a slide. They kept their head above the relegation | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
places earlier this year, they kept their manager and brought in a new | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
signings in the summer. The result was the best start to a season in | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
over a century. Followed by a terrible run of defeats. All they | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
want for Christmas is an end to injury. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
It is never dull at Leicester City, with a target of the top two, the | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
club's Forest Hunt on the money tap. And who it flowed. Signing after | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
signing arrived. The results have a resolutely failed to match the | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
ambition. With its not quite clicking, SenEricsson is on his way. | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
What happens text here if promotion does not? | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
As for Notts County, they are still enjoying the fruits of last year's | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
rescue mission from the man who sounds like a warrior, Mad Dog and | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
Martin Allen. Sting against the odds was one thing, carrying County | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
into the League 1 top six was quite another. Staying in touch with the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
promotion race is tough, but a whole calendar year in the division | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
is perhaps more than we might have expected. | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
Next for our clubs, who knows? Every year, every club has a story. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Yes indeed, and finally big night tonight, it is the BBC Sports | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
personality of the Year award. Leicester cyclists Lucy Garner has | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
made it to the final three for the Junior Sports personality after she | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
became junior road race champion of this summer. Derby's Steve Pate and | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
will be at the award show, too. He won the East Midland's unsung hero | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
war for his 25 years working at a gem with youngsters, specialising | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
in some more wrestling. It is at 8pm tonight on BBC1. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Thank you. There is always one Christmas that | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
you will never forget, a memorable present, a dinner cooked to | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
perfection or maybe Nana having won too many sherries. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
But where they've really all better than they are today? Our | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
correspondent has been along to meet a group from the 50 Plus Club | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
in Derby to hear their memories of Christmases past. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
He used to be got in the morning, and who would be the first one to | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
rush downstairs? I was basically frightened of Father Christmas | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
coming into the house. We would all go to Mass. We used to go to the | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
church for a carol service. That sort of thing. We used to go to | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
church on Christmas morning. Derby, will be had, like most towns, | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
departmental stores rose wedded to a grotto or on a boat to see Father | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Christmas, and I truly thought that you travel the long way. It was | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
absolutely amazing. Every Christmas morning be used to have a pork pie. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
It had lashings of, torsos on it. It was more tomato sauce than it | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
was pork-pie. Turkey was a novelty. They'd used to be just a rooster, a | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
cockerel. You could get a turkey if you could afford it. I can remember | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
seeing my grandmother and my and doing that. I remember going into | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
the living room with a big roaring fire. We had this Christmas tree | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
and be put these paper garlands on, because that was all we had. And we | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
lead candles and my dad went to the fire with the long piece of paper | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
and let its and went to the candle on the tree and set the whole thing | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
on fire. That was the end of that. We did not have a television then. | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
You were lucky if you had a radio. We had a little TV. It was not on | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
all day, was it? It was very simple, you had a piano, probably and | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
neighbours would come in and we would all sing and have carols. | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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had a good time, a really good time. Don was just telling me about one | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
of his memories come, come on, share. | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
Too many drinks and my uncle almost dropped his trousers. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Unlike you teased earlier, with your lovely singing. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
I can tell you are so genuine when you make that remark. I have heard | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
you make that remark. I have heard of listening the waistband, but | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
your uncle to get too far. We have had a really lovely day across the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
East Midlands, some really nice sunny spells. It has been mild, | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
with most places into double figures. Surprisingly mild for the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
time of year. Through the evening, we will stay mild. A lot of cloud | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
building up. It is coming ahead of a cold front. The wet look to | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
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tomorrow. I thought I would share this sunrise. A gorgeous shot. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
If we take a closer look, here is that cold front that is working its | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
way towards us. Heading towards the Atlantic and working its way | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
towards us during the course of the night. Tomorrow, ahead of that, we | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
will see that cloud increasing. One or two clear spells. As the cloud | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
staff to increase to the evening and overnight and thickens up. We | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
will see one or two drizzly spots, but it will mainly stayed dry. Many | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
places will stay in double figures. Was of eight or nine degrees. We | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
will start mild tomorrow. Cloudy and drizzle, and then there comes | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
this cold front working its way and from the north-west. The middle | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
portion of the day will be heavy, persistent rain. Strong winds | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
accompanying that train. As we go into the afternoon it will clear, | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
but cold air will feed in. There will be one or to show any | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
outbreaks into the afternoon. We could see some sleet and snow mixed | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
in. Then into Friday night, and very cold with good, clear skies. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Frosty as well. The frosty but lovely and sunny start to Christmas | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Eve. On Christmas Day, a cloudy and when the affair, but mainly drive. | :27:33. | :27:36. |