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This is East Midlands Today, with Kylie Pentelow, and me, Dominic | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
Heale. Our top story tonight: A young boy and his grandmother are | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
found dead in a lake. The grandmother's body was recovered | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
last night. The six-yea-old was found hours later. This may well be | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
one of those cases where we never fully establish how the accident | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
happened. A grim discovery beneath a motorway. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Workers find the remains of a missing Leicestershire man. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
knowing and speculation can now end. He can now be laid to rest and we | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
can say goodbye properly. Plus, a judge tells the man at the | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
centre of a huge police operation for owning explosives and guns that | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
he faces a sentence of over 10 years. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And an avalanche of snowdrops - the garden where they grow over 240 | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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Good evening, welcome to the programme. First tonight, a six- | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
year-old boy had been spending half-term with his grandma in | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Lincolnshire, but the stay ended in tragedy. The boy's mother, from | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Leicestershire, alerted police when the two failed to return home. They | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
had stopped off at a lake popular as a place to feed the ducks. Hours | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
later, they were both found dead in the water. The police believe it | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
was a tragic accident. It happened just outside Castle Bytham in the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
village of Holywell, which is between Melton and Bourne. Our | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
reporter Simon Ward is at the scene now. Good evening, Simon. Good | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
evening. Yes, this is the Lake where what appears to have been an | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
accident took place. The six-year- old was staying with his | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
grandmother but when he was and returned home just after 9pm last | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
night, his mother called the police. An RAF rescue search and -- search- | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
and-rescue Hollick -- helicopter was called. The bodies were found | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
but they could not be resuscitated. At 4 am this morning, the body of | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
the boy was found under the water. At this stage, the police are not | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
sure what happened. We believe from the work we did last night and | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
allow inquiries today, that this is a very tragic accident. We have | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
offices providing support to the family and we are working with the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
coroner to work out why this tragic accident happened. The police | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
haven't named the dead people but we know the grandmother lived | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
nearby in Castle Bytham and I have been getting reaction from local | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
people. It is absolutely tragic. It is somebody's family. The loss of | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
the oldest generation of a family and the youngest. Tragic. Heartfelt | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
sympathy to for the family. And for everybody involved. Absolutely | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
horrified. Everybody here is a very tight-knit community. Everybody | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
looks out for everybody. We have been unfortunate to have some | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
unlucky incidents in the last 12 months and the way it everybody has | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
rallied his phenomenal. Tonight, the police are working on a number | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
of theories. Did they come to feed the ducks? It is certainly a very | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
picturesque place. Or dig one of them falling and the other tried to | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
rescue them. -- did one? Postmortem examinations are taking place today | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
and the police will officially named the grandmother and the boy | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
on Monday. Next tonight, a wife has described | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the discovery of her missing husband as all of her worst | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
nightmares come true. Vinnie Derrick, from Castle Donington in | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Leicestershire, went missing after a night out in Manchester eight | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
years ago. Detectives say they don't yet know exactly how he died, | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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as Carol Hinds reports. 28-year-old Vinnie Derrick went | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
missing after a work night out in Manchester in August 2003. Today, | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
at a press conference, his wife, Vicki, said the discovery of her | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
husband's remains is a moment she has been dreading for the past | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
eight years. I have always said and believe that whatever happened to | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Vinnie happened on that night. Those fears have now been confirmed. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Eight years on, it isn't any easier to bear. We are devastated. Police | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
officers have confirmed that Highways Agency workers who were | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
clearing graffiti under a flyover in Stockport made the discovery on | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Wednesday. They initially thought it was a football before realising | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
it was skeletal remains. We have still got specially-trained | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
officers at the scene and there is an awful lot of work to be done. It | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
will take much time and care and it is not something that can be done | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
quickly. It is definitely going to take all of today and maybe most of | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Saturday and through the rest of the weekend. Vicki Derrick says | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
that finely knowing what happened to her husband will help bring | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
closure but the discovery doesn't make it easier for the family. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Vinnie can now be laid to rest and we can say goodbye properly. He was | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
loved by so many people and I have so many memories that I will | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
treasure forever. Detectives are trying to establish how Vinnie died | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
and if there were any suspicious circumstances. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Vicki, Vinnie's widow, phoned his mother in Long Eaton to tell her | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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the news. Tonight she has spoken to our reporter Helen Astle. It was | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
5pm last night. She said, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to tell you it | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
was Vinnie. And I just went to pieces because half of view was | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
probably hoping it was... But you were still thinking, no, it cannot | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
be my boy. He can't have been there all this amount of time. It is not | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
at home... I thought we would go for years and years, still hoping | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
and praying he would come back through that door. But I suppose in | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
your heart of hearts, you knew that wasn't going to happen, knowing | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
Vinnie is a guy who never would have left home in the first place. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
You say you have got him back. But what does that mean? Because it is | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
not the ending you hoped for? always said I wanted to bury him in | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
peace. I thought that weather -- wherever he was, it was not where | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
he wanted to be. He was not safe where he was. So if you can say | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
that is a good thing that we can do that, but it is not in a way that | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
we wanted him to be. A man's been told he faces at least | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
ten years in jail for making an explosive and for possessing guns | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
illegally. Darren James, from Bulwell, appeared in court today. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
The discovery of the chemicals used to make the explosive prompted a | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
huge police operation last year, as James Roberson reports. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
In October last year, dozens of police descended on this area of | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Nottingham. They discovered suspicious chemicals. Hundreds of | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
locals and school children were evacuated from houses and a school. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Bomb-disposal teams arrived and then came this... A controlled | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
explosion on the substance. Today, Darren James pleaded guilty at | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
Nottingham Crown Court of 13 charges, including making and | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
possessing the explosive nitroglycerine and possessing three | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
guns illegally. His barrister told the judge here that his crime was | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
eccentric. He was a loner with no agenda, despite the fact he had | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
admitted possessing firearms and an explosive. But the judge, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
adjourning the case to next month, told James that such were the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
seriousness of his charges, he must put himself for his sentence in | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
excess of 10 years. -- must prepare himself. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Next tonight, big changes to the NHS. The Prime Minister is pressing | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
ahead with reforms aimed at making the health service more productive. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
However, his parliamentary bill has been beset by criticism. So Labour | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
turned up the political heat today and in one Nottinghamshire town | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
staged a protest. But, as Quentin Rayner reports, some locals there | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
are in favour of change. Good morning, ladies. We are here | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
to save the NHS. Labour Party members were out | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
drumming up opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Nationally so far, 120,000 signatures have been collected and | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
a few more were added this morning to the petition. The protest was | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
organised by a local MP anxious to stress the rejection of a bill for | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
bodies representing nurses, midwives and doctors. Despite | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
scores of amendments and three Cabinet ministers thought to have | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
doubts about the goal, the Prime Minister says he is at one with his | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
beleaguered Health Secretary. So is this a lost cause? We don't think | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
it is a lost battle. We're getting tremendous support from the Royal | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Colleges, doctors and nurses. They are saying no to this bill, leave | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
our health service alone. Government says the changes are | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
needed to make the National Health Service 4% more effective. GPs and | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
clinicians will have much more responsibility for spending the | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
budget and there will be greater emphasis on the private sector. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Some are in favour of reforms. it releases power to the doctors, | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
that is a good thing. It will probably bring more technology. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
don't think they should alter it. Leave it as it is. I don't like | :10:43. | :10:53. | |
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changes but that is me. The Prime Minister may be set on seeing the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Bill passed but opposition is still rife. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
So, exactly what are these NHS reforms about and how will they | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
affect us in the East Midlands? Our political editor, John Hess, joins | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
us in the studio. This health bill is becoming quite a minefield for | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
David Cameron? Managing change in any complex organisation is tough. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
But the going gets more difficult when budgets are being squeezed to | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
liberate efficiency savings. The headlines become unwelcome and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
politically damaging. The latest figures for cancelled hospital | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
operations in the East Midlands are one example. They reveal that 376 | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
operations were called off at short notice at Leicester's three | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
hospitals between October and December. They are the highest of | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
any NHS Trust in England. And not far behind are the Nottingham | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
hospitals, where 356 operations were cancelled. They are two of the | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, with huge demand on critical care beds. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
But compare those figures with 78 cancellations at Derby. That's more | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
in line with the national average. Would the Government's NHS reforms | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
solve that? Under the changes, consortiums of GPs control the | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
budgets and commission, and purchase health care. The | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Government say that will make the NHS more responsive to patient | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
needs. In the Leicestershire district of Charnwood and | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
Rushcliffe, near Nottingham, GP consortia are already up and | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
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running. One former Health Secretary says reform is needed. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
think it's a good idea to put in the clinical input, the purges the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
services, by getting the GPs in and the debate is becoming hysterical. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
The management of the hordes of us is very complex. Most don't have | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
the time to work out exactly how the NHS is run and the money is | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
distributed. It continues to need reform. On the NHS reforms, Labour | :12:47. | :12:56. | |
want to "drop the bill". The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
determined to tough it out. But if a succession of negative NHS | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
headlines continue, the Prime Minister may embark on some | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
political surgery of his own. There are more details on my blog. And | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
both Ken Clarke and Graham Allen will be our guests for the Sunday | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Politics programme in the East Midlands, on BBC One from 12pm with | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Marie and Andrew Neil. A senior Nottinghamshire police | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
officer has apologised to a coroner for delays in staff training. It | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
came at an inquest into the death of a teenager who died in police | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
custody. Reece Staples collapsed and died after swallowing packets | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
of cocaine which he'd smuggled from Costa Rica. Police officers were | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
unaware of national guidelines that said he should have been taken | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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straight to hospital, as Sarah Teale reports. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Former Nottingham Forest Academy player Reece Staples died in June | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
2009. He was arrested and taken to a police station. He had just | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
returned from Costa Rica, where he had swallowed 19 packets of cocaine | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
and smuggle them into the UK. At the inquest into his death, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Broadbent was asked why police | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
officers had ignored Reece when he told them what he had done. New | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
guidelines were introduced in 2007. They stated anybody suspected of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
swallowing drugs should be given medical attention straight away. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Though that policy was available on the force internet, no staff were | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
given formal training until late last year. More than two years | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
after Reece died. Today, the Assistant Chief Constable said that | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
was unfortunate and regrettable. He said, I apologise it took a long | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
time. Five police officers have since been disciplined for their | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
handling of the case. An inquest jury is expected to deliver a | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
verdict on Reece's death shortly. Jobs at Rolls-Royce in Derby have | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
been made more secure thanks to a multi-million pound agreement | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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between Britain and France to build nuclear power stations. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Next tonight, the uncertain future facing our high streets. A new | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
survey says 14 shops a day are closing in the UK. But figures for | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
the East Midlands show our region may be bucking that trend. Today, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
we went back to one of the three shopping streets that we're | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
focusing on throughout this year. Simon Hare has more details. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Here on the Strand in Derby, Chris Lings began selling clothes and for | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
more than 20 years, he has traded in jewellery and other gifts. But | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
on Saturday, he will be closing. He says recent changes to the road | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
system in the area have killed off his trade. Very sad after all this | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
time. It has been a big part of our lives. He will be keeping his | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
second store in Ashbourne and continuing to sell online. Anew | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
survey published today has found that on average, 14 shops run by a | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
major retailers close every day across Britain. But the East | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Midlands has actually bucked that trend, with a net gain of four | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
shops in recent months, and recent figures released today show a | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
surprise rise in sales of almost 1%. We are seeing a changing scene on | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
the High Street, which is a move away, with shops going into | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
administration and a move towards a put -- proliferation of charity | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
shops and pawnbrokers. A quick stroll down the Strand shows a | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
similar mixed picture. But when this shop shut -- shops next week, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
it will become the 8th empty shop in the arcade. That is almost half | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
the trouble number of promises. And we will be keeping an hour on | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
the three of our chosen streets this year. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Now for the sport. All the Friday build-up from me, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
starting with an absolute must-win for Nottingham Forest. They face | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Coventry, who are also haunted by relegation. At least top-scorer | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Marcus Tudgay, who's missed the last two matches with illness, is | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
fit again. Jeremy Nicholas reports on a proper six-pointer. | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
When the two teams met at Coventry earlier in the season, Steve | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Cotterill watched from the stands, having just agreed to take over as | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
boss. Four months on, his side is keeping him awake at night. It is | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
tough. Sleepless nights of aplenty at the moment. All games are vital | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
when you're in the relegation zone, but especially those against your | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
fellow strugglers. On Tuesday, while Nottingham Forest were losing, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Coventry beat Leeds by the same score to be level on points. Both | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
clubs are six points adrift from safety. It was a massive game after | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
what has gone on but now it is even bigger because we have to take | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
points away from our relegation rivals. The Captain can take | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
inspiration from a regiment cycling distance from Nottingham to | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Afghanistan to raise money for the soldier charity. You are a sergeant | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
and used to link -- to telling him what to do. What would you say to | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
the men on Saturday? I would say, carry on as you finish the second | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
half. I am hoping we will win. It is a game we could quite easily win. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
If they play as they did last week, made it seem settled and they | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
should be OK. If they go down, we go down but I will still come and | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
support them. We want to get results for them. I said to the | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
lads, they don't come along every week. They come along because they | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
support you. So Nottingham Forest have a mountain to climb a but | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Marcus Tudgay is back from illness and a win will be just what the | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
doctor ordered. Well, our top Championship side, | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Derby County, head to Southampton. The Rams were disappointing against | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Reading on Tuesday night. So a chance for Nigel Clough's young | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
side to make amends. The youngsters are learning what it is like in | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
front of 20,000 odd people who want to see a better performance and | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
chances created. They have got to be on the ball and want it. And | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
then this season, next season, everybody will be better for it. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
For Leicester City, a chance to put Championship football to one side, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
as they face Norwich in the FA cup. The Foxes under massive scrutiny | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
this season as their multi-million pound squad have struggled with | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
consistency. And the captain admits it hasn't always been easy. Matt | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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Mills gives Angela the lowdown on He signed last summer at the club | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
he supported as a boy, but arriving with a �5 million price tag means | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
it hasn't been plain sailing. People expect you to keep a clean | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
sheet and score every week, and as you know, that isn't really going | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
to happen. The price tag puts a certain pressure on. I am sure I | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
have fans who like me and those that don't. But I am determined to | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
turn everybody to liking me. He had a chance to sign to a few teams. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
The captaincy has been an added bonus. When I signed here, and I | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
was given that honour, it was fantastic. Obviously, supporting | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
Leicester when I was growing up. Now to be here and wearing that | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
armband every Saturday and Tuesday is very special. His love of | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
football is evident on the pitch and off it. It is no wonder given | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
his background. I have three brothers, two order who are | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
professional. My younger brother plays for Reading. That is | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
fantastic for him. This weekend, a chance to put Championship football | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
to one side and face Norwich in the FA Cup. No doubt where Leicester | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
City's biggest focus lies. You only get one career and one chance. When | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
I first signed for the club it was my aim to get into the Premier | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
League and if I don't achieve that, that won't happen. I will happen -- | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
I will achieve it in my time at Leicester! That excites me and | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
makes me one to work harder. -- want to work. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
As well as all that, can Notts County's revival continue? They're | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
away at Hartlepool. All the matches are on your BBC Local Radio station, | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
with your first look at the goals right here on BBC One. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
In rugby, Leicester Tigers are desperate to find some form towards | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the end of the season. They go to high-flying Saracens, who gave a | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
World Cup-weakened Tigers a spanking earlier in the season. A | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
chance for revenge and building form. | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Traditionally, we have done very well in our games and we have put | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
ourselves in a secure position. This year, it is a bit tighter and | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
we're going to have to build a bit of form going into the last part of | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
the season. Nottingham Rugby's build-up to the | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
playoffs continues with a trip to Plymouth tomorrow. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
And ice hockey's Panthers may yet again have missed out on the League | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
title, barring miracles. But that hasn't stopped them selling out | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Nottingham Ice Arena for tomorrow's visit from Sheffield Steelers. | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
Loads of sport this weekend. Keep up with it right here. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
It's that time of year when, by rights, winter should be heading | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
for the exit. And to herald the change, snowdrops start to appear. | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Easily recognisable, of course. A snowdrop, after all, is just a | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
snowdrop. But is it? BBC Radio Leicester's Ady Dayman has been to | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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one garden where they grow over 250 Now that the snow is finally melted | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
away, it is hard to believe just how much colour there is in the | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
garden, especially at this one in Anne Milton. In Beeches Garden, Jim | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
and Margaret have been working extra hard and braving the cold to | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
make sure their gardens are in tip- top condition for their open days. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
What higher particularly interested in are there rather impressive | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
collection of snowdrops. Margaret, the garden looks absolutely | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
fantastic. Just how many different varieties of snowdrop do you grow? | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
About 260 now, because I must have lost well since last summer and I | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
think the dry patch we have had is something to do with it. Can you | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
tell me how much a snowdrop Mary's? Many people think they are the same | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
but you can see differences in the leaves, they are different heights | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
and shapes and you can look at the patterns on the inside of the | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
flower. Sometimes they have green markings on the outside, which are | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
the ones I loved. There must be a favourite you have? Early on, I | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
liked Three Ships, but now I like this one. Believe it or are not, | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
but there are over 3,000 varieties of snowdrop, with interest to | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
spreading worldwide. Recently, somebody played �360 for just one | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
bulb. They are so much more interesting and there is so much | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
more interest in this garden. They are open on Sunday its and | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Wednesdays. They are open to the public and you can even get a cup | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of tea and a slice of cake. See you next time. | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
In fact, we've heard that one snowdrop variety called Elizabeth | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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Harrison sold on E-bay yesterday for a staggering �725! Wow! She | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
must have been very nice! And just to say that the Beeches Garden in | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Milford is open this Sunday as part of the RHS National Garden Scheme | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
so all money raised will go to charity. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
Well worth going to, not least because I understand the weather | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
Yes. A lovely winter's day with cold conditions but lots of | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
sunshine around on Sunday. But lots of changes before then. We stay | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
cloudy tonight and on the mild side. This cloud was captured beautifully | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
this afternoon. This is the footbridge over the River Trent. | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Thank you for that. Do send us your weather pictures. We are keeping | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
the cloud and the mild conditions overnight tonight but this is all | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
ahead of this cold front which will start to sinks south through | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Saturday morning. It will bring heavy bursts of rain and the wind | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
will become quite gusty through the morning. Behind it, we get the | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
introduction of colder air but that will be brief because we return to | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
the milder weather early next week. A lot of cloud around at the moment, | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
which is producing a few spots of light rain and drizzle, and that is | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
how it continues through this evening and overnight. The cloud | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
hold those temperatures up as we have the mild air pushing in. A | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
minimum temperature of seven degrees, which is the average | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
daytime temperature for February, so a very mild night ahead. The | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
rain starts to sweep in tomorrow morning, with the gusts of picking | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
up and being quite windy. Clearing for the afternoon with lovely sunny | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
skies to end the day. Breezy through the day with a temperature | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
of around 6pm. It will be warmer first thing in the morning and | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
getting colder as the rain pushes through. Perhaps the odd wintry | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
shower with light snow, but not amounting to much and not everybody | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
will see it. But temperatures not getting much higher than four | :27:29. | :27:33. |