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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Tonight: operations are cancelled for a second week at two of our | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
busiest hospitals. Non-urgent operations are postponed | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
in at Nottingham as medics as lacy prize in emergencies. I can only | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
apologise to the patients and their families for the occurrence of an | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
operation being cancelled. Last summer's disturbances, a man | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
admits tried to burn down a police station. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Of also denied: at remembering Sam, a teenage victim of cardiac arrest | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
in the young. He lit his life to the follow and it is so said that | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
he got -- society didn't get a chance to fulfil his dreams. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Plus where the closure of this chain-store has caused fury among | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Welcome to Monday's programme. First tonight: a hospital boss has | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
apologised for the cancellation of hundreds of operations in | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Nottingham. Dr Peter Homa who's in charge of the Queen's Medical | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Centre and City Hospital, admits the disruption to patients' lives | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
is unacceptable. It's a shortage of hospital beds | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
that's causing many of the cancellations. But for patients | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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caught up in the delays, the situation can seem baffling. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Third time unlucky, Geoff should have been getting ready for | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
hospital today but an operation to treat the impact of cancer on her | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
spine was put off again. It means he is still not walking as tall as | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
he would like. High hopes dashed. It has not been music to his ears. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
He just want to get your life back together. You get yourself all | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
geared up to have an operation and obviously, you are concerned and | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
worried as to what that is going to be like. And then it is all | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
cancelled so you seem to be at a loss. He is not the only one. 541 | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
operations have been cancelled this year. It was bad with 41 last week | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
put off and 10 put off today. They included routine operations on a | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
finger, a knee replacement and surgery to remove Lenin plant. The | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
problem the hospital says is a surge in emergencies, leaving not | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
enough beds for routine planned surgery. Today, the chief executive | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
said sorry, admitting it is unacceptable. I can only apologise | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
to the patients and families that have experienced the distressing | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
occurrence of an operation being cancelled. All of the staff who | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
work at the hospital understand intimately how upsetting that is. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
But I would like to say that all this within the hospital are | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
working absolutely flat out to make sure the emergency and non- urgent | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
cases receive an excellent service. The situation has been going on | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
since the beginning of the year. When will it be sorted out? We are | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
in the process of sorting it out. We have put additional beds in | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
place. With some on the way, they hope things will East and the | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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situation is being reviewed daily. Nottingham is becoming a major | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
trauma unit, the most serious injuries in the East Midlands will | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
be dealt with a. The services being built up gradually. The hospital | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
stresses that that is not having an impact on others. They say it is | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
down to the usual emergencies coming through the door and a | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
shortage of beds. Referred this has been going on for a long time so | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
there is a lot of pressure to sort it out. -- we have heard. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
People who were expecting treatment tomorrow, what should they do? | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
The latest news tonight is that seven operations, as least seven, | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
have been cancelled tomorrow. Those patients have been counteracted -- | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
contacted by phone. But the duration could change but the | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
advice this week is if you got their routine, planned operation | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
coming up, to expect it to go ahead unless you here otherwise. But with | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the situation being reviewed daily, there could be more cancellations | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
on the way, until this whole thing is sorted out. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Next tonight, a Nottingham man has admitted trying to burn down a | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
police station with petrol bombs. Curtis De Jean will be sentenced | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
after 14 other men stand trial for rioting. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Their case is due to begin tomorrow. Jeremy Ball has been at the Crown | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Court in Nottingham today. And he joins us from outside the City's | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Canning Circus police station which was damaged in the attack. Jeremy, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
tell us about Curtis De Jean. What did you hear about him at the court | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
today? This afternoon, he admitted | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
basically carrying out an arson attack which could have put lives | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
in station. He also admitted a separate charge of carrying | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
explosives of the court heard that involved him coming here with | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
petrol bombs. This all emerged just as a jury was being sworn in this | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
afternoon. And what does that Dury have to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
decide when the case does get started tomorrow? | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
They are going to be hearing a case against 14 other men. This is a | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
case against 14 men and boys who come from estates across the city | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
of Nottingham. Today, we heard those 14 have all denied a charge | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
of riot and there have also been accused of violent disorder. We | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
have also heard that six of those 14 are also accused of involvement | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
in an arson attack at Cannings circus. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
We were told at the time there was not officially any rioting in | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Nottingham. You will remember there was huge | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
political controversy over this. The authorities in Nottingham have | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
always existed -- insisted the trouble in the cystic -- city was | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
not serious enough to be described as rioting. What has changed now is | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
that the Crown Prosecution Service have looked at this case. They have | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
decided that there could be enough evidence that there was rioting | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
here. We have heard this is because at least 12 people are alleged to | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
have been involved in this trouble together. We will get details | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
tomorrow. Police are investigating the death | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
of an 80-year-old woman at a Derbyshire care home after reports | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
that a wardrobe may have fallen on her. Police were called to the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Coach House Nursing Home in Milford near Belper on Easter Monday | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
morning. A post-mortem examination was inconclusive, and police are | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
now working with the Health and Safety Executive to investigate the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
death. Police are trying to trace party- | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
goers at a hotel in Nottingham, after two people were injured by | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
pellets. Officers were called to the Stage Hotel on Gregory | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Boulevard on Saturday night. A 17- year-old man and 36-year-old woman | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
were found with minor leg injuries. Police say it's not yet clear what | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
weapon fired the pellets. MPs are to discuss the future of | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the Midland Mainline tonight. A Commons debate is scheduled for | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
this evening, with changes such as electrification and longer trains | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
up for discussion. The leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, Kay | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Cutts, has written to eight local MPs asking for their support. The | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
authority says improving the line would cut journey times to London | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
and boost the local economy. Still to come on the programme: the | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
latest in our occasional series on the health of our High Streets. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
The Prime Minister has launched the Conservative election campaign in | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Amber Valley. Is that a sign of the voters are about to swing against | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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Next tonight: it's official, the whole of the East Midlands has been | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
declared a drought zone. There are no hosepipe bans in place | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
yet because public supplies aren't affected. But rivers, streams and | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
farms are showing signs of the driest 18 months since records | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
began. These crops are safe from are | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
growing at the moment but if the dry spell carries on, farmers could | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
be in trouble. It means we are very low wall reserve water and crops | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
are looking OK because they've had a bit of rain. But we know there is | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
nothing down below at all. If the dry spell continues, there is | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
nothing down there to feed the crops and it could get very serious. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
What is happening here is happening across the East Midlands. In the | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
last two months alone, there have has just been 40 % of the average | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
rainfall and in the last 18 months, it has been the driest since | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
records began. The rain we've had of late is too little, too late. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
What we are urging people to do over the summer is be wise with | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
their water used. It is not just fish that will suffer. Back at the | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
farm and for John, the drug could be costly. If we don't get the | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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reins, the other crops suffer and this could be very expensive for us. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
We are talking about an environmental drought. It is a risk | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
to the environment, not the water supply. If we are wise with our | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
water use, we avoid the possibility of getting one next year. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
advice for all of us is save water now in the hope that things will | :09:58. | :10:07. | |
not get worse in the future. The Prime Minister was in the East | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Midlands today to kick-start the Conservatives' local election | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
campaign. He spoke to activists in Amber Valley, where the Tories face | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
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a strong challenge from Labour. After his Far East tour last week, | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
to he was an Alfred will. Inside the committee centre, there was a | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
noticeable lack of the exotica, just a platform of LEA eager -- | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
eager Amber Valley candidates hoping to get elected. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Traditionally, Amber Valley is classic swing territory but for the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
last 12 years it has been safely held by the Conservatives has to be | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
third of seats are being contested here on 3rd May and the Prime | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
Minister's visit may indicate some party jitters. This is the real | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
heart of England, because of hard work, independent minds and strong | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
communities. But the trouble with independently minded voters is they | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
might not always vote for you. have frozen the council tax as | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Labour half oppose that council tax freeze. There are many Conservative | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
councils I could choose from but here we are, in the heart of the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
country, a councillor is giving good value for money. We need to | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
help them with their family budgets and the council tax freezes a good | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
way to do that. 25 miles away in Nottingham, Labour were unveiling | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
their poster campaign to urge voters to reject the Prime | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Minister's ambitions for a directly elected mayor. The referendum is | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
also being held on May 3rd. At the number Valley, that prompted a | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
further round of bashing of Nottingham Labour. The only council | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
that will not be transparent, that's right, Labour controlled not | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
ago. Let's take that argument for transparency out around the country. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Afterwards, the prime minister warmed to his theme. I hope people | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
in Nottingham will vote for a mayor, someone who can give great | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
leadership. Mayors are a good way to have proper accountability and | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
to have real leadership in our cities. The Tory faithful left | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
feeling upbeat, after all it has not heard -- every day you get a | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
Prime Minister at your local election launch. | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
A family says people need to be more aware of the risk of | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
potentially fatal heart problems in young people. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
The parents of Sam Wright from Derby were speaking at a charity | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
event in memory of the 19-year-old, who died suddenly just before | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Christmas. The event was to highlight the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
shocking statistic that 12 under- 35s a week die in Britain from | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
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often undiagnosed heart problems. A few moments of enjoyment at a | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
fundraiser for Elaine Wright, Kevin Wright and their remaining son, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Mark. They helped helps organise the event in Derby it as -- in | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
memory of their son had died suddenly just before Christmas, on | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
his return home from a run. Sam's friends remember him as full of | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
life. He was a lot of fun. I don't know, it's weird not having him | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
about now because this would have been one of the things he would | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
have turned up to and would have been running around doing | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
everything. If there was anyone who lived their life to the fullest, it | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
was some and it is sad he never got the chance to fulfil his dreams. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
During the busy event, a moment of reflection as well for the family. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Some had been a lifeguard and instructor at the Seoul poll and a | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
keen sportsman. 12 young and fit help the people are dying every | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
week and it is terrible. The family says the recent case in the | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
football world highlights how, on these problems are. This has helped | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
increase awareness and hope it will help save more people. They also | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
believe greater public access to Diouf liberators could start -- | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
help those like Reece Geoffrey who died last year. If we could get | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
more people aware of it and hopefully save more lives. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
fund-raising event raised over �7,000 for a charity but the rights | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
hope that if publicity hope -- helps one more family avoid the | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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pain they've suffered, Sam's death will not be entirely in vain. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Next tonight - more on our occasional series The Street where | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
we follow the fortunes of three shopping areas in the East Midlands. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Tonight we're back in Beeston which is seeing big changes as | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
Nottingham's tram network is extended through the town. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
The works are forcing the closure of a high street chain store. And | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
that's provoked a furious response. Removing what's left of Wilkinson's | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
in Beeston. You may not believe this chain-store could provoke such | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
strong emotion but its closure has stoked up fury in this town. The | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
building is being demolished to make way for the extension to | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Nottingham's tram network. The stores shut this weekend, despite | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
2000 residents signing a position demanding that the store remained. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
It is going to be like a ghost town here. I cannot imagine life without | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
it. I can imagine life without the tram. Wilkinson's is a part of | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
everybody's everyday life. Every time he went in the store, it was | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
for. Everybody is going to miss this door. Everybody unspoken | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
doesn't want the tram. Nobody is in favour of the tram. Nobody. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
source of support for the tram does exist in the form of councillor, | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
Steve Barber. It's terrible, a disaster that they are chosen to | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
close at this stage, when they could have relocated. It had a | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
number of years to get their act together. It is not the trams fault. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
The tram is an easy scapegoat. what of Wilkinson's future? It is | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
not looking hopeful. The company says it has genuinely been | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
overwhelmed by the strength of feeling expressed by customers but | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
it says in spite of best efforts, it hasn't found anywhere that is | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
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suitable, where it can relocate. First tonight, all of our | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Championship teams went into the weekends fixtures with something to | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
play for, but only one of them came out with anything! Leicester City | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
and Derby were hoping to strengthen their bid for the play-offs, while | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
Forest were looking to distance themselves from the relegation zone. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
Leicester were looking for three points that the new stadium to | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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bolster their hopes. But things didn't go to plan. Daniel | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
Drinkwater brought one back but they only have three games left. | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
We've been playing catch-up for a while so we need a lot to go for us | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
and we got to win our remaining games. It is a tough call but it | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
today is disappointing. It was a similar story at Derby, whose own | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
hopes for making the play-offs were left remote, after this goal. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
was a brilliant finish. The lad has come on, put his head down and | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
smashed the ball and hit the target. It's something I wish one of our | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
players would have done. We've had similar situations, if not better | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
ones, and failed to do that. Better news for the Reds who picked up a | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
potentially vital home. Against Blackpool. Forest are now seven | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
points clear of the drop zone. Blackpool are a tough nut to crack. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
There are good team. The counter- attack very well. We knew it was | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
going to be a tough game but we thought probably we deserved the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
three points. While major issues for our | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
Championship clubs are all but settled, League One Notts County | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
will see the drama continue to the end of the season. And hopefully | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
beyond. The Magpies are in a battle to get the final playoff spot. The | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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competition is Carlisle, Stevenage Notts have been out of the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
championship for 17 years. Their journey back, heavily rests on this | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
game, against a team who won play- off rivals and breathing down their | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
necks on a potential road to Wembley. So, Keith, what you | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
normally do on the bus on the way to the ground? Watch a bit of | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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football. It is a big day today. A lot of them are coming around to | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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him and appreciate his style of I was allowed to sit on the bench | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
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with my own, tiny camera, and we The view from the away dug-out is | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
actually the worst in the house. But the pace of the game looks so | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
much faster close-up. There are minutes to go now and if not can | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
come on, this would be a brilliant... As the clock ran down, | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Damian Stuart headed a free kick off the line to give them the press | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
that advantage -- precious advantage. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
You can see a longer version of that report on tonight's Late Kick | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
Off, together with extended highlights from the Championship. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Former Leicester and Forest man Stan Collymore is on the sofa too. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
One last bit of football news before we move on. Well done to | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Mansfield Town, who have secured their spot in the Blue Square | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Premier play-offs. A return to the Football League perhaps just three | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
games away. Some sporting teams just have the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
knack of timing their runs of form perfectly. So it is with Leicester | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Tigers. If you want to win Rugby's Premiership, the secret is to | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
finish strongly. Tigers are going so well, they're setting records. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
The game at Northampton Saints could have been really tough. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Usually a feisty local derby between teams close in the | :21:16. | :21:26. | |
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standings. Instead, Tigers maul at With all of that in mind, they were | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
not going to leave Franklins Gardens without getting on the | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
scoreboard. The try was quality. Five bonus wins on the trot, a new | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
record, as was the scoreline. And Nottingham Rugby did all they | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
could do by posting a bonus point win at Doncaster. But it wasn't | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
enough and they're out of the Championship playoffs race with a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
game left to play. Nottingham Canoist and Olympic | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Silver Medal winner David Florence has qualified for the London | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Olympics in two events. Some time back Florence set himself the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
target of making history by winning Olympic medals both on his own and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
as a pair with partner Richard Hounslow. Some brilliant racing in | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the qualification event at Lee Valley means that he's still on | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
track to do it. Not so great in the Kayak for Campbell Walsh, though. | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Distressed and angry with himself for missing out. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
The pressure was on the former Nottingham Doctor Tim Brabants at | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
the weekend. He won gold in Beijing but has struggled with form after | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
injury and still has to qualify for London. So it's down to a best of | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
three race-off and Brabants, in the blue, held off his rival Paul | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Wycherley by three one hundreths of a second in the first contest at | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
Holme Pierrepont and become national champion. The pressure is | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
on. It is unimportant here, an Olympic year. I'm feeling strong | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
now and looking forward to the Olympics. Have been watching people | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
qualify in the other sports and I want to be one of those people | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
wearing the GB kit. And the next race-off is in May. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Couple of final things to mention: In cricket there's been a flying | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
start to the County Championship for both Nottinghamshire, who are | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
on top of Division One, and Derbyshire, on top of Division two. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Both two games, two wins. And in Hockey, Leicester Ladies are | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
national outdoor Champions after beating Reading this weekend. Sadly | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Beeston's men couldn't match them. They went out in the semi-finals. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
But that's a brilliant performance by Leicester's women. Outdoor and | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
indoor champs this season. Continuing with a sporting theme | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
really and a look ahead to the London Marathon next weekend and a | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
remarkable woman who's going to be breaking a few records. Yes, Karen | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Hodgson from Derbyshire needed a new heart in 2006 after suffering | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
from cardiomyopathy. Now she's on track to become the first woman | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
heart transplant patient to ever run in the big event as Tom Brown | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
reports. Today, she is looking forward to | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
her first marathon but looking back, Carole Hodgson knows this they may | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
never have come. I was told I had about a year to live. One year to | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
18 months. I went on to the transplant waiting list. That was a | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
very nerve-racking time because I knew that a lot of people don't | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
make it but I was very lucky. And here I am now, a week away from the | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
big day. I cannot believe it. lived with cardiomyopathy for more | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
than 15 years. She doesn't know who donated her new hardback in 2006 | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
but they remain her biggest motivation. I feel I owe it to the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
person now as well, but as well of the big reasons why a exercise and | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
from, because that kind person signed up so I could have this | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
chance. I want to make the most of it. It has been a long journeys is | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
the day of the transplant but now for Karen and her husband, the | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
finishing line is inside. She is running it for the donor and for | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
her family so it is going to be quite overwhelming. I think there | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
are going to be lots of shoulders to cry on at the end. A mixture of | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
relief and exhaustion and gratitude. It is something I never thought I | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
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would be able to do. Things are changing tonight and | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
we've got a wet week in store. It might be a band of rain or it could | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
also be showers as well, on and off towards the end of the week. We | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
will keep a close eye on the area of clothes -- I pressure coming in. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
This was the shot first thing and thank you to Geoff for sending the | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
sin. We have got wet and windy weather on the way tonight. There | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
is an area of low pressure starting to move towards the country and it | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
will produce a band of rain and some very strong winds across the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
East Midlands as it comes towards the east. But the moment, we still | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
got the broken cloud with us but it will gradually start to increase | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
during the latter part of the evening. Then you'll start to see | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
that rain coming through into the early hours of the morning. That is | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
when the wind will also start to strengthen. A strong and gusty | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
south-westerly wind. Gusts of up to 40 mph as that rain band works its | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
way eastwards. A minimum temperature tonight of four Celsius. | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
We are still around during the rush hour period tomorrow morning so a | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
lot of surface water and spray and gusty winds as well. As it clears | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the way eastwards, it leaves us with Sky's stars into Brighton but | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
there will be further blustery showers coming through. It will be | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
one of those wet and windy days with a little bit of sunshine. A | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
maximum daytime temperature of 12 Celsius. There is another wet day | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
on Wednesday. A band of rain pushing its way northwards | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
throughout the daytime. The wind is not quite a strong on Wednesday so | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
that rain band a little bit slow moving but it is much needed. We | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
are going to stay quiet and subtle as well as we get closer to the | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
weekend. The temperatures what they should be for the time of year. | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Once the rain band clears on Wednesday leaving us with a showery | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
theme again for Thursday and Friday, a little bit nippy at night time | :27:22. | :27:31. |