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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies. And me, Dominic Heale. | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
Tonight, thousands attend open air prayers for a family killed in a | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
house fire. The coffins were brought to a local park as grieving husband | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
and father, Doctor Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar, called for peace and | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
unity. All humanity, religions, denominations, nobody wants any or | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
mishaps. Hyde the laboratory mice prompting talk of an Alzheimer's | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
breakthrough. Plus it is claimed there will be thousands of more jobs | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
in the pipeline with a new training centre here in the East Midlands. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
And the tonnes of wood and rubble cleared by volunteers from the dyke | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
that floods their town. Good evening and welcome to the | :00:53. | :01:09. | |
programme. Thousands of people gathered in Leicester today for the | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
funeral prayers for a family of four killed in a house fire last month. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
The ceremony at Spinney Hill Park was held to remember Shehnila Taufiq | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
and her three teenage children. Our reporter Eleanor Garnier is there | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
now. Good evening. Just how many people were there? Police estimate | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
they were around 7000 people here, who started arriving around 3:30pm, | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
and by the time prayers started just after 4pm, the crowds were still | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
gathering. Clearly, the cold and windy weather did not put people off | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
coming to pay their respects. It is grief that brought thousands of | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
people together in Leicester today. Mourning the loss of a mother and | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
her three teenage children, their bodies brought to the park by police | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
escort. Row upon row, friends, neighbours, strangers, coming for | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
funeral prayers, and to support this man Doctor Muhammad Taufiq Al | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Sattar, now a widower and childless, but expressing thanks to | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
people all around the world. From all different the nominations, | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
getting e—mails, cards, telephone calls, that will give me peace and | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
strength in my heart so that I can see this in Leicester and Dublin and | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
throughout the world. —— different denominations. I am not angry, guess | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
macro, my heart is broken. Is silent in reflective prayer, remembering | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Shehnila Taufiq, her daughter Zainab, and her two sons back row | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
one and Bilal. This has brought everyone together. —— her two sons | :03:01. | :03:16. | |
Bilal and Jamal. This has brought everyone together. Fire engulfed | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
their home. And one more journey before their final resting place by | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
ferry to Ireland, where the doctor worked as a neurosurgeon. On | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Saturday, in Dublin, their bodies will be laid to rest. | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
Today was about paying respect to those who died and allowing a | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
community to come together to mourn, but seven people have now | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
been charged with the murder of Shehnila Taufiq and her three | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
teenage children, clearly a court case continuing and one man arrested | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
yesterday who remains in police custody. Thank you. | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
Next tonight, landmark research carried out in the East Midlands is | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
being hailed as a breakthrough in the eventual treatment of | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases. A team based in Leicester | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
has shown they can halt brain cell death in mice. However, the | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Alzheimer's Society has given the news a cautious welcome. They say | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
scientists are still a long way from finding a successful treatment. Our | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
health correspondent Rob Sissons can tell us more. | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
The work they have been doing in this laboratory in Leicester has got | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
people excited around the world. They have had interviews with | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Canada, America and New Zealand. It is work on the brains of mice | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
getting everyone so excited. The papers were full of it, scientists | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
saying it could be a historic turning point in the development of | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
medicines to treat degenerative new role —— degenerative conditions like | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
Alzheimer's. We were able to do it genetically, but having a drug that | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
can target the pathway is a huge step forward, leading ways for drug | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
companies to develop these further. Both these mice have a rub it | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
neurological disorder. But this one was treated with the compound, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
showing few symptoms, the other is not treated and moves with poor | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
coordination. This is now opens the way for drug companies to develop | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
treatments for people. It is hugely impressive in the whole Alzheimer's | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
sphere anyway, but we hope we can work with them and colleagues based | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
in Nottingham, chemists there to take this forward. Will it be a game | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
changer? Heather hopes so. She is an ambassador for the Alzheimer's | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Society in Derby and has early signs of dementia. Her attitude, until | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
there is a cure, make the most of every day. The white there and enjoy | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
life as best you can. In the meantime, —— go out there and enjoy | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
your life. In the meantime, make the best of it. This man died last month | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his '40s. His wife | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
says this gives hope to people. We always hope for a cure, but | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
unfortunately, there was not, but this is hopeful that other people so | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
they do not have to go through what we went through. In Leicester, it | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
has taken five years to get this far and two and a half million pounds. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
This story has been everywhere, huge reaction understandably? I guess it | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
is because of numbers. According to the NHS, the number of people with | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Alzheimer's in the UK is well over 600,000. As we live longer, of | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
course, more will get it. How far off is the treatment going to be | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
available? There are works going on on other treatments, but in that | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
laboratory in Leicester, they are protecting five maybe ten years | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
before treatment humans. Alzheimer's Society, perhaps understandably, | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
being cautious, what have they said? I believe they are managing | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
people's expectations, because this will take years, and it may not | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
translate to an effective drug. We know the compound given to those | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
mice had a nasty side—effect with their pancreas. In humans, that | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
could mean the treatment does not work. Still a long way to go. But | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
keeping fingers crossed. IQ very much, —— thank you very much, Rob. | :07:57. | :08:08. | |
Coming up, traders who sell so—called legal highs are told to | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
examine their consciences. Plus we find out about the new IVF treatment | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
that increases pregnancy rates by 20%. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
A court has heard extracts from a teenager's diary in which he | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
describes how he'd carry out a massacre at his school. The Old | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Bailey was told the teenager from Loughborough, who can't be | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
identified, intended to lock the exits, throw explosives into a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
classroom and "finish off" any survivors. Earlier the court had | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
been shown weaponry, including pipe bombs, found in the boy's bedroom. | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
Investigators have been trying to get inside a burned—out derelict | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
building in Derby where a man's body was found. The discovery was made on | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Tuesday night after a large fire at the former Friargate Pine Company | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
building. The cause of his death and the cause of the fire are not known | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
at the moment. Police think they know the identity of the man, but | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
haven't released any further details. Two men have been arrested | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
in connection with the fire. More than £11 million is to be spent | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
improving Nottingham's bus services. Five cities across the UK will | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
benefit from the government's new Better Bus Funding. The idea is to | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
drive up performance and passenger numbers. Nottingham City Council has | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
received the biggest pay out and will be able to choose where the | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
money goes. You are watching East Midlands | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Today, here on the BBC. Shopkeepers are being urged to stop | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
selling "legal highs", substances that have the same effects as hard | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
drugs. The call has come from a Nottinghamshire charity that helps | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
young people who've taken them. Some have seen friends die. Our Social | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Getting high doesn't have to mean breaking the law. But that doesn't | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
make it safe. These young men in Sutton in Ashfield have all | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
experienced problems with legal highs. It can be quite frightening. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
I have seen little green men, I tried to pick them up, tried walking | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
through a door, but it was a wall. I was instantly tripping, could not | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
thing straight, or control my mind or body. It is like your brain turns | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
off. John was only 11 when he started taking legal highs. Three of | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
his friends have died from overdoses. They overdosed on it, not | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
knowing what was in it, did not know how to deal with over diocese —— | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
overdoses. This is what legal highs look like. They're chemical | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
compounds that mimic the effect of hard drugs. But they can be sold as | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
incense or bath salts, as long as they're labelled not for human | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
consumption. And they are easy to get hauled off. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
Shops like this seldom over—the—counter. And it is | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
perfectly legal to buy them online as well. But one charity is asking | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
traders to examine their consciences. This conference in | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Mansfield heard why they're so worried. A survey of vulnerable | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
young people found that two thirds of them had taken legal highs. Far | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
more than the number who smoked. We are really concerned. The stuff they | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
are selling is just as damaging as illegal drugs. They may think it is | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
legal, but may have some legal substances such as mephedrone. —— | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
some illegal substances. Legal or not, these young men say they don't | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
want to repeat the experience. But there'll be plenty of others still | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
taking legal highs tonight. Next tonight, a breakthrough in IVF | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
treatment which gives women a 20% greater chance of falling pregnant. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
It's a relatively simple procedure which is being trialled by | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
researchers at a Nottingham clinic. They say the results are very | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
significant and very promising for women trying to have a baby through | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
IVF. Sarah Teale reports. Let's see what he is up to. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
This is an exciting time for mum—to—be Jo Cummings from Ripley. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
She's almost 29 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. After trying to conceive | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
for three years, she fell pregnant on her first cycle of IVF treatment | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
at the Nurture Clinic in Nottingham. She was part of a clinical trial for | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
a procedure called endometrial scratching. A tiny sample of the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
womb lining is taken away before IVF takes place. It is fantastic to know | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
now how worthwhile it has potentially been for me to take | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
part, but at the time, even 1% more of a chance was worth it. When you | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
feel desperately trying to get pregnant, I read that and thought, | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
if it helps me, or anyone else, it is worth it. There have been greater | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
developments in IVF, such as number of eggs and embryos. The missing | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
part of the puzzle has been implementation. It's something as | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
safe as this to do that, it would be fantastic. 180 women are taking part | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
in the Nurture trials. The first study took place in Brazil. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
And the results are pretty astonishing. Pregnancy rates are up | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
from 29% to 49%. And live births up from 23% to 42%. Why such a simple | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
procedure works is still a mystery. A lot of anecdotal evidence. People | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
who have had IVF in the past, or infertility investigations, and it | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
has not worked, but the fall pregnant. It may be the lining of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the womb regenerating itself. Or maybe complex than that, but that | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
could be an easier way to understand it. Jo says she still can't believe | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
she was one of the lucky ones. It still has not sunk in in, despite | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
seeing him beautifully on—screen all. It amazes me every day. It is | :14:20. | :14:32. | |
wonderful. Wonderful indeed. Lovely. | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
New jobs in the gas industry are being promised with the opening of a | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
£6 million training centre in the East Midlands. Half of National | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Grid's gas engineers are due to retire in the next ten years and new | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
apprentices are now urgently needed. Simon Ward has been to the centre in | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Nottinghamshire. National Grid is a company that | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
distributes gas and electricity to our homes on behalf of the energy | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
firms. This training complex is being officially opened today at | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Eakring in Nottinghamshire. These pipes would normally be under high | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
pressure with gas. For training purposes, high pressure air is used. | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
With so many gas engineers due to retire from the company in the next | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
decade, new staff will be needed and they'll be trained here. Technicians | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
coming into this industry can experience the real physical reality | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
of the equipment and the computers that drive the gas around the UK. We | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
are going to be hiring and training thousands of engineers in the | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
future. This industry needs a lot of talent coming in. We are investing | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
in skills and people. There is another half miles were below ground | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
of pipework. Davey is a big issue in this high—pressure. Trainees working | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
very realistic conditions. The first apprentices studying here in | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
Nottinghamshire have come down from Scotland. We can pick the brains of | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
people with this knowledge, working in the industry for 40 years, and | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
hope lay fill their boots at some point. It is not traditional to want | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
to work in engineering, but interested for me. There must be | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
more women interested in this type of job. The issues of how much | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
energy costs and how it is generated are very much in people's minds at | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
the moment. National Grid says it will stay at the forefront of the | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
industry with this new centre. Beautiful sky there. Very nice. | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Still to come... A big moment for a mixed up mutt at the Mother of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Parliaments. An "almost poodle" called Noodle is crowned Westminster | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Dog of the Year. But which honourable member does he belong to? | :16:37. | :16:49. | |
Got a glimpse there. Just a tiny glimpse. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Volunteers have completed the first leg of clearing blockages from a | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
dyke which caused major flooding in a Nottinghamshire town a few weeks | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
ago. So far, tonnes of debris has been collected from the waterway in | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Southwell. The group is now demanding that it's regularly | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
maintained by council workers. Quentin Rayner is there. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Whenever floods hit Southwell, Potwell Dyke is usually to blame. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Unable to cope with sudden surges of rainwater, and clogged by debris, it | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
overflows causing misery and mayhem. In July, three inches of rain fell | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
in just 80 minutes, making the county the wettest place in the UK. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
Since then, twice a week, a team of volunteers has been clearing the | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
dyke to improve its ability to cope with any future flash floods. In | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
seven weeks, a lot has been removed from the half a kilometre cleared so | :17:35. | :17:46. | |
far. All this huge pile, we have taken to the tip, huge quantities of | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
recycling, metal, plastic, huge rubbish, about 120 bags of what | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
looks like domestic rubbish, but it is nasty and smelly. The problem is | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
the dyke isn't actually owned by anybody with overall responsibility. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
There's confusion and uncertainty among the 80 or so landowners as to | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
their responsibilities about maintaining it. We are looking for | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
one government agency to take this on board and look after the dyke | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
properly. The County Council, District Council, perhaps. Done | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
piecemeal will not work. We need one board to look and make sure it is OK | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
and clear it when needed. The County Council was at work today, repairing | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
a hole caused by the floods beneath a bridge over the dyke that | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
threatened to rupture a sewer. Last month, hundreds of people packed | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
into the Minster for the first public meeting of the newly formed | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Southwell flood forum. The County Council has commissioned a detailed | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
flood study, which is expected to be published by next April. Action is | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
promised. It can't come soon enough for those in peril from the Potwell | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
Dyke. Thank goodness we have had a quiet | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
autumn so far. So far, chickens and hatching and whatnot. Now for the | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
sport. First, the chairman wants them in | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
the Championship. Their manager says second place sucks. I am quoting | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
there. No lack of ambition then at Mansfield Town. Back in the Football | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
League after a five year exile, expectations are high. Despite two | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
recent defeats, the Stags have been surprising people this season. | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Angela Rafferty went behind the scenes at their midweek cup game | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
this with week. An hour before kick—off and this is | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
where you'll find the man who masterminded Stags promotion. Alone | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
in his office, finalising his set pieces for tonight's match. The last | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
three or four years have been fourth from bottom and people calling for | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
my head. But off to a good start. The club seems to have a massive | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
smile on its face. Little wonder. An unexpected defeat last weekend ended | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
an eight game unbeaten run enough to put them into the playoffs. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Expectations are high. I wanted to drive on the club. Try and finish as | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
high as we can. For Mansfield fans, a return to the Football League | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
means the world. Something you cannot define, it is in your heart. | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
The add your site. Absolutely fantastic, brilliant start to the | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
season. —— the team is your side. A fantastic start. As the fans | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
streaming, it is down to business. A break from league action this week | :20:32. | :20:49. | |
brought the auld enemy to town. Up against Chesterfield in the | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Johnstone's Paint Trophy. The Stags' performance outstanding. The result, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
though, a big disappointment. Gutting, but it is a long season. I | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
have to stay focused, mentally strong, I have good young players. I | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
believe in them. I think they will achieve. A post—match beer with the | :21:07. | :21:18. | |
fans. A chance for the chairman to make clear his vision for the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
future. We are a championship club. We want to be in the championship | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
season after season. They've proved many doubters wrong already. You | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
would not bet against them doing it again this season. | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
Some other news, Leicester Tigers will hand a debut to winger Miles | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Benjamin in tomorrow's Heineken Cup clash with Ulster. The game in | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Belfast will cap Benjamin's return from injury. Ulster's Ravenhill | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Stadium is already sold out. But we'll be there for you. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
One of the country's top sprinters is moving to the region. World | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
junior 100m champion Adam Gemili will train in Loughborough for the | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
forthcoming season. The 20—year—old has split from his coach and will | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
now work under British Athletics senior sprint coach Steve Fudge. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Gemili's new training group will include James Dasaolu, who is | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Britain's second—fastest sprinter in history and Paralympic star Jonnie | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Peacock. He'll divide his time between Loughborough and London | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
where he's studying for a degree. Finally tonight, our search for the | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
BBC East Midlands Sports Unsung Hero. We're looking for a volunteer | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
who's given their time and effort to help sport in your community. The | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
winner will get a very special night out at the BBC Sports Personality of | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
the Year show in December. So if you know someone who fits the | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
bill, please fill out a nomination form. You can get them online at | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
bbc.co.uk/unsunghero. Or you can ring 0845 308 8000. Calls cost up to | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
5p a minute from most landlines. They may cost considerably more from | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
mobiles. Nominations need to be in by next Wednesday. Please get in | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
touch if you know someone, they deserve the recognition. | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
Please do, it is so worth it. 500 Aquaboxes have been packed up | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
ready to leave the East Midlands bound for Syrian refugees in | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Lebanon. The boxes contain water filters and survival essentials. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
They have been assembled by volunteers in the Derbyshire village | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
of Cromford. Over two million people die every | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
year due to waterborne diseases. If an earthquake or flood has displaced | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
you, it can have tragic effects on whole communities. The charity | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Aquabox is trying to help. This morning, 500 boxes of filters and | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
aid worth £60,000 are being shipped to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Each | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
one goes to a family, containing a family filter which will give at | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
least 18,000 litres of safe drinking water. The rest of the boxes full of | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
emergency aid, tarpaulin, tools to make shelter. Stainless steel cooker | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
parts, plates, bowls, mugs, to enable people to eat. They make the | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
water filters here in Cromford. These smalls pumps can filter all | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
bacteria out, so families can drink safely. It is a project we are | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
immensely proud of. I think the fact we get about 70 volunteers coming | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
here every week to either assemble the pumps or the boxes. They come | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
and enjoy coming. They realise that they are doing something that will | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
help these poor, unfortunate people. There's a constant need for these | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
boxes all across the world. And that needs constant donations. | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
They are brilliant, those water boxes. Great work being done in | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
Derbyshire, as ever. Weather now, it was pouring outside. Not very nice, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
feeling chillier, because of dramatic changes. | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
Some lovely warm temperatures on Monday, but dramatic come down | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
today, struggling to reach double figures. | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
11 degrees not particularly unusual, but the strength of wind made it | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
feel chilly. A northerly wind particularly felt across the East | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
Coast. That is normally a sheltered wind direction, keeping most of the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
showers subway, some decent sunshine this morning, but the wind coming to | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
an easterly direction, bringing more showers tonight. Quite a damp night, | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
cloudy, breezy, but all of that will hold temperatures up, so not that | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
much lower than the time highs, around seven or eight Celsius. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
Tomorrow morning starting cloudy, damp, spit sunspots rain through the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
morning, but brisk northerly winds continuing, driving the showers | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
through. Tom Dryer sports tomorrow, but staying cloudy and breezy. —— | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
some Dryer sports. Temperatures higher around 13 or 14 degrees. The | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
wind will make it feel cooler. Into the weekend, keeping that strong | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
easterly wind through Saturday. The weather front will edge northwards | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
through the day as well, so not a very good day for Saturday, cloudy, | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
damp, outbreaks of the rain, and the wind making it feel chilly. | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
Hopefully, the wind easing down into Sunday. Some rain around, some | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
cloud, and quite cool, and not much fine of things warming up next week. | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
Never mind. Staying cheerful. Finally, one local pet has been | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
putting their best paw forward. A Leicestershire MP's dog has been | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
crowned Westminster Dog of the Year for 2013. Alan Duncan's cocker | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
spaniel poodle cross, named Noodle, was the proud pooch who took the | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
title in today's competition. This is a dog —— dogafesto, not a | :27:18. | :27:35. | |
manifesto. Noodle once an end to politics and ruff justice! I have | :27:35. | :27:44. | |
never seen him looking so pleased. That is it from us. | :27:45. | :27:47. |