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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
Tonight: After five long years, the all—clear for Alex. | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
He had pioneering brain treatment —— brain tumour treatment in the US, | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
now he is completely cured. Plus, 131 guns that will not be | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
falling into the hands of criminals. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
And when Harry met William. At 87, the country's oldest referee is | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
welcomed at Buckingham Palace. To think I have got here through | :00:50. | :01:04. | |
football, unbelievable, isn't it? Good evening and welcome to a new | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
week on East Midlands Today. And we start with a celebration for a | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
remarkable young boy — just nine years old — who for most of his life | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
has been living under the threat of cancer. Alex Barnes from | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Leicestershire was only four years old when his family gambled | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
everything and took him to America for pioneering treatment. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
It was only with the help of thousands of well—wishers in the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
East Midlands that they could afford it. Today he was finally given the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
all clear — the news his family thought they would never hear. | :01:33. | :01:44. | |
Just take a look at Alex now. He is alive and kicking. The sky's the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
limit, and cancer is a thing of the past. Five years, are really | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
important milestone. His mother was given the news today that everything | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
is looking good. What a relief. I cannot believe how bad the last five | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
years have been, and now we can relax. That decision to go to | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
America was huge. Yes, it wasn't an easy thing, and to take that chance, | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
into the unknown, I would like to thank everybody who helped us. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Let us have a look at everything you have been through. Alex may have | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
looked the picture of health five years ago, but a brain tumour the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
size of a golf ball was growing inside his brain. His mother had | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
family in Florida, but it was the biggest decision of her life to go | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
to America. For life—saving therapy. If I can | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
get him treatment like the proton therapy treatment which does not | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
have side effects, he will walk out of that centre afterwards and there | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
will be no side effects. It is my responsibility as his mother to | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
ensure that you get the best chance. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Proton therapy was already making headlines in America. Here is how —— | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
how ABC News explained the treatment. | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Conventional radiation burns everything in its path. By | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
contrast, the new radiation shoots proton particles that can be told | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
precisely when and where to explode, releasing all their energy to | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
destroy cancer cells. By 2011, Alex appeared to be beating | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
cancer. The NHS was talking of funding 400 children a year to go | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
abroad for proton therapy. And there was a pledge to build centres in the | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
UK. We paid £110,000 altogether, but it was well —— worth every penny. We | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
went back to Florida at Christmas time to flip —— say thank you to all | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the people at the therapy centre. There were already three or four | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
families there from the UK. Alex, can you remember anything | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
about America? You were four years old. I can remember all the cars | :03:59. | :04:10. | |
parked out in the car park. And the beach? What about your dreams for | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
the future? I would like to become a footballer for either Liverpool or | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
lustre. You better not say Liverpool Road here! There are probably a full | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
—— a few glory supporters who arrived. Are you proud of your | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
brother? Yes, he has been really brave and he has gone through a lot. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
The story of proton therapy goes on because they are bringing it to the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
UK, and they? Hopefully, by 2017 we will have this treatment here for | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
our children. Because you had to raise all that money. Luckily | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
everybody rallied round and help us. Well, it is great to see you | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
doing so well. I went to Florida with Alex and his family, I will | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
never forget it. What a fantastic outcome. We won't | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
forget it either, how nice to start the programme like that today. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Police have named a man whose body was found near a Derbyshire miners' | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
welfare club as they continue to question five people. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
48—year—old Barry Smith was found dead in Kilburn yesterday morning. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
The cause of death is still being investigated. Two men and two women | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
have been arrested on suspicion of murder, another man's been arrested | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
on suspicion of assisting an offender. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
An ex—classmate of the Leicestershire teenager accused of | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
planning a series of bomb and gun attacks has told a court the boy | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
threatened to shoot him in the head. The prosecution told the Old Bailey | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the 17—year—old boy, who can't be named for legal reasons, also | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
brought a knife into college to show fellow students. He denies terrorism | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
charges, and the case continues. Still to come — a controversial free | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
school re—opens, but there's still no official word on why it closed. | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
Also tonight, we look at some of the weapons which have been handed in | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
during an amnesty. Next this evening: The family torn | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
apart for carrying out voluntary work abroad. Gill Reagan has been | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
married to her American husband Herb for twenty years, and they have | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
three children in Nottingham. But after they all spent ten years | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
working together on a church project in South Africa, Herb was told he | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
couldn't come back to live with them in the UK. Carolyn Moses reports. | :06:40. | :06:51. | |
Gill Reagan and her three boys have happy memories of the ten years they | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
spent volunteering in South Africa, but when they decided to move back | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
to the UK they could not have imagined the stress they would be in | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
three months later. Because while these four live in | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
Nottingham, Herb is 3,000 miles away in Georgia after being refused | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
re—entry to the country he has lived in for more than ten years. | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
It has been a roller—coaster, emotionally, for both of us. And for | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
all of us. We keep being positive and helpful, but sometimes it just | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
feels desperate. Each time we have had the turn down, and had the Visa | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
declined, we have just been desperate. It does not make sense to | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
have a family separated like this. It was going to be hard as it is | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
moving internationally, but it is much harder without your father. I | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
hope we can get him into the country. Even if it is just a | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
tourist visas so we can properly see him, that would make it so much | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
better. Jill and Herb spent their wedding | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
anniversary last month talking over the Internet. They say they did not | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
know the terms of Herb's Visa. Despite a new appeal, Visa has still | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
been rejected, with their options limited the family face having to | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
live apart like this for some time come. | :08:31. | :08:40. | |
An inquest has heard that a man found dead in a Derbyshire cottage | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
three years ago, along with his former partner and their little son, | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
had an excessive need to control. A clinical psychologist has told the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
inquest that Andrew Cairns had obsessive compulsive traits, yet was | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
so helpless in other ways that his former partner described him and | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
their two—year—old son as like having two children to look after. | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Well, James Roberson's been at the inquest and joins us from our Derby | :09:00. | :09:11. | |
studio. Yes, this all goes back to June 2010 | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
when three people were found with fatal stab wounds at this cottage in | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Well Yard in Holbrook, just a few miles north of Derby. They were | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Rachael Slack, aged 38, and her 23—month—old son Auden, and | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
44—year—old Andrew Cairns, Auden's father and Rachael's former partner. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Now, the inquest has heard that in his early years Andrew Cairns, from | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Wigan, was a junior golf star, who then travelled the world. He worked | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
in Ibiza, Israel and New York, before moving to California to set | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
up a golfing business. There he also married an American make—up artist | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
with Universal Studios. However, he became bored, moved to Spain where | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
he set up another business and met Rachael. But when, in 2008, Rachael | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
moved back to Derbyshire with Cairns, and they had Auden, Cairns' | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
mental health began to spiral downwards. | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
In his final year of life, Andrew Cairns was under the care of a | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
particular psychologist, wasn't he? Yes, that's right. He'd previously | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
spent some time in mental health wards at Derbyshire hospitals, but | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
from April 2009 Cairns was under the care of Dr Andrew Raynor, a senior | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
clinical psychologist with Amber Valley Mental Health Trust. | :10:17. | :10:28. | |
Dr Raynor said at an early meeting with Cairns and Rachael Slack that | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Rachael said Cairns had an excessive need to control, that he had | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
obsessive compulsive traits, and that he was unable to easily process | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
emotions. In all, Dr Raynor had 22 phone calls and meetings with | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
Cairns. He said Cairns was deeply depressed about the loss of his | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
house in Spain, and his formerly successful life. Rachael said it was | :10:54. | :11:12. | |
like having two children to look after. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Leicestershire football club Hinckley United has gone out of | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
business. The club had suffered years of | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
financial difficulty, and earlier today a winding up order was granted | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
by the High Court in Birmingham. In September the Knitters were given a | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
reprieve because of hopes that there could be new investment. But today | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
it's been announced the club will cease to exist. | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
Campaigners against a controversial waste treatment plant in Derby have | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
lost their latest bid to block the development. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
The proposal for the site in Sinfin is to turn the city's waste into a | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
gas which can then be used to generate electricity. In April the | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
High Court threw out claims the plans were unlawful. Today the Court | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
of Appeal again rejected their case. The MP for South Leicestershire | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Andrew Robathan and the MP for Loughborough Nicky Morgan have both | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
been given new roles in the Prime Minister's reshuffle of his | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
ministerial team. Andrew Robathan is now the Minister | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
of State for Northern Ireland, while Nicky Morgan takes over from Sajid | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Javid as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. The promotions are of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
a number of changes announced earlier today. | :12:10. | :12:22. | |
Leicestershire Police say they've had a "fantastic result" from their | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
first weapons amnesty in a decade. A total of 131 firearms were handed | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
in, including antique rifles and fake Uzi machine guns. The police | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
say it's a major step in making sure guns are kept out of the hands of | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
criminals. Sarah Teale reports. This is the impressive haul of | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
weapons handed in across Leicestershire and Rutland during a | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
two—week gun amnesty. 131 firearms have been given up, including 49 | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
shotguns, rifles from the first and second world Wars, three stun guns | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
and this dangerous looking weapon. This is a Uzi machine gun made of | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
metal, pointed at somebody they would think this is a genuine | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
firearm and would cause a lot of fear. Changes in the laws governing | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
gun ownership mean that it is now illegal to keep many of these | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
weapons without registering them. Police say it is important they are | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
kept out of the public arena. Unfortunately over the years through | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
burglaries and such, these weapons may fall into the wrong hands. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Having them off the streets mean they cannot be passed to people who | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
will use them for a crime. Many of these weapons are family heirlooms | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
which have probably been handed down from generation to generation, | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
including this, and 1850s revolver. Something like this is pretty much a | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
collected —— collectors item and will probably be handed on to a | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
museum. The rest will be melted down. | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
A free school in Derby that was shut down following an Ofsted inspection | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
has reopened today. The Al Madinah school closed on Tuesday on health | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
and safety grounds. Today many parents said they were | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
happy with the school — but it hasn't yet made any comment. Mike | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
O'Sullivan reports. Back to the classroom at the | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Al—Madinah free school in Derby. Set up with £1.4 million of taxpayers' | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
cash. The school says it has overcome the health and safety | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
problems that led to its closure. Will the school be making a | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
statement? Sorry, I can't. They have not told us why the school closed | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
down. I would rather they closed and did not put my child in trouble, van | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
stayed open and have difficulties afterwards. You would expect a | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
publicly funded body to give reasons why, and allay the fears of the | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
parents. I am amazed it has been all over the national press and radio | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
and television, and nobody has explained to parents why it has | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
closed. I think that is crazy. There have also been concerns about female | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
teachers having to wear headscarves and girls allegedly being told to | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
sit at the back of the class. This man says he's —— help to set up a | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
cumulative group to question the direction of the school before it | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
opened. I raised concerns and complaints, and members of the | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
non—Muslim community did the same. Why were they not investigated, why | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
did they not sent officers to take interviews and find out what the | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
picture was? Labour is asking Michael Gove what checks were | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
carried out prior to Al—Madinah's opening. | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
Still to come — a passion for football since the fifties. | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
87—year—old Harry Hardy is still going strong, and says he has no | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
intention of hanging up his referee's whistle. | :16:06. | :16:22. | |
Someone else with a passion for football. | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
First, Derby County manager Steve McClaren says there's still a lot of | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
work to do despite a winning start as the new Head Coach. He officially | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
took charge for the first time on Saturday when the Rams beat Leeds in | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
style for their first home win of the season. Kirsty Edwards was | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
there. The buzz is back. I can feel it in | :16:40. | :17:08. | |
the crowd. Hopefully things will start improving and we can start | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
pushing on to the play—offs and who knows, see what happens. | :17:11. | :17:21. | |
This is always a big game for Derby. The players are heading out | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
now, knowing today is even bigger. It was about more than the old | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
rivalries with Leeds, it was all about the start of a new era. Steve | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
McClaren sat up in the stands for the first half, saw some great | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
passing football from Derby, with Chris Martin giving them the lead | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
after 20 minutes. Three minutes later, this happen. | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
Just before half—time Derby saw their lead pegged back. Signs of the | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
familiar defensive frailties. Probably the worst time to concede a | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
goal, but it just shows the character we have got, we came out | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
and played the same way we did first half. Eventually we got ourselves a | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
win. It was Will Hughes who made sure of | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
all three points. Amazingly it is Derby's 10th win in a row against | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
Leeds. He said go out and enjoy it, and I think we showed some really | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
good glimpses of stuff we can play this season and hopefully it will | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
continue. We know this team can play football, and it showed today with | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
the discipline and organisation and character. We can win games | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
consistently and that is the key. Onto Nottingham Forest, who go into | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
the international break on a back of a six—game unbeaten run, and after a | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
superb 3—1 away win at the seaside against Brighton. Mark Shardlow | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
reports. This was not Nottingham Forest at | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
their best, but it was them at their most responsive. In front of more | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
than 27,000 fans on the south coast, they produced a remarkable | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
second round —— half turnaround. It began with Henri Lansbury's header. | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
Then two goals in two minutes, coming —— starting from Darius | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Henderson's snapshot. Next, a penalty. Lansbury won the fight to | :19:26. | :19:37. | |
take the cake and scored his second of the game. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
But there was still a man —— match to one —— match to be one. | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
Nottingham Forest one and are now fourth in the table. | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
We are pleased with the victory. Second half was tremendous. Forest | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
are now unbeaten in six league games as they go into the international | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
break. At Leicester City, manager Nigel | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Pearson says he wants his players to use the international break to | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
refresh themselves. City are third in the table, but went down 1—0 at | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
Doncaster at the weekend. There was a real howler from keeper | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Kasper Schmeichel. This the only goal of the game, as the normally | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
reliable No.1 made a complete hash of a corner. Schmeichel made amends | :20:25. | :20:39. | |
later with two top saves. But Leicester rarely threatened, and | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
lost 1—0. Into League One, and a classy | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
display from Notts County. They beat Crewe 4—0 on Saturday and played | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
some fine football at Meadow Lane. This was just the boost Notts County | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
needed. A handsome win, kick—started by Calum MacGregor. The 22—year—old | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
is on loan from Celtic. He scored the first and the second, as Notts | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
totally unplayed crew. More than 6,000 fans were there, and | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
it was a performance to give their biggest crowd of the season some | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
real hope. Danny Haynes with the third. The win was completed by a | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
perfect header. If not display like this every week they will quickly | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
rise up the table. Notts and Mansfield play tomorrow in | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
the Johnstone Paint Trophy. The Stags were beaten 4—1 by Hartlepool | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
at the weekend, but have had a great start to the season in the league | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
and have top supporters. In rugby, the Leicester Tigers have | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
no fresh injury problems as they prepare to launch their European Cup | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
campaign. They're at Ulster on Friday night. The Tigers salvaged a | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
draw at the weekend in their East Midlands derby. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
There was a terrific atmosphere at Welford Road with a 24,000 sell out. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Tigers Head Coach Richard Cockerill is still serving a touchline ban. | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
But the crowd made sure his presence was felt. After a tight first half, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
it was Northampton who took the lead when Corbisiero got the first try of | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
the game. With ten minutes remaining the Tigers were ten points behind, | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
but in a thrilling climax Ed Slater touched down and the game finished | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
19—19. In ice hockey, the Nottingham | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Panthers are through to the quarterfinals of the Challenge Cup | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
following a win at Coventry last night. It completed a winning | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
weekend. The Panthers beat Braehead on | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Saturday, but made heavy work of it after taking the lead in the first | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
period. Panthers sealed the game early in the third, to win by four | :22:48. | :22:59. | |
goals to two. That is all the sport. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
A Derbyshire man who's thought to be the country's oldest football | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
referee has been recognised today at Buckingham Palace. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Yes, Harry Hardy is 87 years old and has been refereeing since the 1950s. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
This afternoon he was given a medal by Prince William for his services | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
to the sport. It's all part of the Football | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
Association's 150th anniversary, celebrating the sport's grassroots | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
heroes. Tom Brown reports. Football look a little different | :23:20. | :23:36. | |
when Harry Hardy started refereeing. The top players were | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
paid £20 a week, England had not one the World Cup. More than half a | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
century later, 87—year—old Harry is still going strong. To be involved | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
in this game, it is better than sitting at home. Marvellous. But | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
Harry still remembers what the 50s game was like. Especially the ball | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
itself. When it was wet, it was like kicking a dead pig. What do you need | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
to be a referee in your 80s in the modern—day game? Vision, that is | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
most important. I have been playing since I was 16 and he has refereed a | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
long time. His whole enthusiasm is absolutely fantastic. And this | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
afternoon Harry's service to the game was given royal recognition. He | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
was one of 150 volunteers rewarded by the president of the FA, Prince | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
William, as part of the FA's 150th anniversary. I think it is | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
absolutely marvellous. To think I have got here through football? | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Unbelievable, isn't it? Unbelievable. It was a reward for | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
more than five decades of tireless volunteering, but Harry just takes | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
it all in his stride. You have to do your best. They will tell you it is | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
not good enough, but that is by the by. Any plans to hang up the whistle | :25:07. | :25:16. | |
yet? Now, what for? Harry Hardy calling the shots since 1959. | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
Harry, we salute you! It is warmer here than it was when I | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
was in the past few days. It has been lovely here, temperatures up | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
into the 20s in the last few days. But you have probably heard it is | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
set to get a lot cooler towards the end of this week. By the middle part | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
of this week temperatures will be shooting down, 1112 degrees our top | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
temperature by Thursday and Friday. —— 11 or 12 degrees. Northerly winds | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
developing will make it feel quite bitter towards the end of the week. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Nothing in terms of rainfall, just a few light showers. But it is all | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
about that temperature drop. And east—west split in terms of the | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
sunshine today, the best of the sunshine across more eastern parts. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
We stay mostly dry with clear spells through tonight. A very weak weather | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
front edging its way into northern and western parts, so it will cloud | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
over here. Look at the temperatures, 13 or 14 degrees. Tomorrow morning | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
will start off quite cloudy, a few spots of rain is that weather front | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
goes southwards. But it will clear in the afternoon and the sun will | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
come back out. Dry, bright, decent spells of sunshine and the | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
temperatures approaching that 20 mark, perhaps 18 or 19 degrees. But | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
as we had through the middle part of the week I think Wednesday our | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
transition date, as we pull in these northerly winds as we go into | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
Thursday and Friday. We will lose these orange, warm colours and pull | :27:09. | :27:17. | |
in these cold, blue colours. It is about time, I suppose. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Seasons of mellow fruitfulness! Goodbye. | :27:22. | :27:22. |