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weekend. That's all from us. Now the news | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
where you Tonight: The two cities that could | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
benefit the most from HS2. It is an opportunity for us to get a | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
rebalancing of the economy so not all of the growth happens in the | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
south`east. Also tonight: In the witness box at | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
the Old Bailey. A Leicestershire teenager is accused planning a | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
massacre. Plus the mystery of a child's | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
coughing, discovered in a ploughed field. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
And a cost conscience family reigned in the energy bills. Anything that | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
can be done to bring costs down is a good thing and it's good for the | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
environment as well. ` cost conscious family. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight: Nottingham and Derby | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
are being held up by the Government as a good example of why HS2 should | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
go ahead. The case for the high speed link was | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
laid out again today in the government's latest report. It says | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
the potential business rewards for Nottingham and Derby will be greater | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
than for any other area along the route. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
But it comes as new findings also reveal that the overall | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
value`for`money rating of the HS2 project has slipped. We're joined | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
now by our political editor, John Hess. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Up until now, it has all been about speed and reduced journey times. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Today though, it stopped being about high speed. Now it is about economic | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
benefit sand conductivity, how businesses are able to connect with | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
suppliers and potential customers. And the government 's latest report | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
puts the figure on that. 23.3% improvement in business connectivity | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
for Nottingham and Derby, higher than Birmingham, noticeably higher | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
than the northern cities. In fact it is the highest of any city region | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
along the route. But does it make it value for money? We are always | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
supportive of infrastructure projects and in particular projects | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
like this but at the end of the day, they have to provide proper | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
value for money. All the independent bodies, the CBI, the IOD, the | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
National audit office, Public accounts committee, the Treasury | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
select committee said there was no business case. When this station is | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
built, London will be 51 minutes away. It'll be 19 minutes to | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Birmingham. But that is no longer the main selling point. This | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
argument that somehow or that it is going to do is benefit London is not | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
something which is shared by those city leaders who have led their | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
cities for many years and look after the interests of their cities. They | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
say that this scheme is absolutely vital. High`speed travel on Eurostar | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
had cross`party support but the cost of the second phase is costing | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Labour doubts. The government cannot be responsible about the costs. They | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
have to keep the cost under control and have to demonstrate the public | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
that it represents good value for money. Nottingham 's Labour leader | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
doesn't share such doubts. It's an opportunity for us to get a | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
rebalancing of the economists are not all of the growth happens in and | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
around the London area. Actually, we can see significant economic benefit | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
coming to the Midlands and the north. That is the reason why people | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
should really be strongly supporting this project. Today's report is the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
fifth from the government to persuade the doubters. Nottingham | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
and Derby 's top position in the economic benefits league table may | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
win over some spec text ` sceptics. John, yet again the Government feels | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
it has to make the business case for this high`speed rail line. No blank | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
cheque, says Labour. Is it all coming apart? | :04:06. | :04:06. | |
Remember how at the Labour conference, the Shadow Chancellor Ed | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Balls signalled that a future Labour government would pull the plug on | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
HS2 if the cost reached in excess of ?50 billion. David Cameron said last | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
week that HS2 would only contuinue if there was cross party support. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
The government's also saying that the alternative to HS2 will be 14 | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
years of weekend closures to upgrade existing lines and to bring them up | :04:24. | :04:37. | |
to HS2's capacity. Critics like Andrew Bridgen are now looking to a | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
key Commons vote on Thursday on HS2. A Loughborough teenager, accused of | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
plotting a terrorist attack, has told the Old Bailey that he was just | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
messing about. The court has heard allegations that he targetted his | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
school and a local mosque. The 17`year`old took the witness | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
stand this afternoon at the start of his defence. Our Social Affairs | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Correspondent Jeremy Ball heard the youth give evidence. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
He joins us now. Jeremy, what more was did the teenager say? | :05:06. | :05:17. | |
We've heard his own explanation of what the prosecution say were | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
preparations for an act of terrorism in Loughborough. He sat facing the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
jury, had his arms crossed, was wearing a black T`shirt and | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
throughout, he spoke in a very low, quiet voice. He was taken to the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
evidence by his defence barrister. The teenager was asked about those | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
video clips that showed him testing petrol bombs with his friends. He | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
said they were just messing about, having fun, having a laugh. He was | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
asked why they identified themselves as the United rebel army. He said | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
that was in images because it sounded cool. He also said he had | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
written notes about mass killings simply because he was bored. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
What did the court hear about the teenager's background? | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
They heard that he had a very unsettled childhood in Loughborough. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
He said his parents are separated before he was born. It described | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
himself as a loner. He said he had been bullied since a very early age | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
at school. In fact, we heard he moved between several schools in | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Loughborough, partly because of that bullying and partly because his mum | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
had been evicted. We also heard he was diagnosed with a form of autism | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
have that condition was not spotted until after his arrest earlier this | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
year. We will be back on the witness stand tomorrow. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
Leicestershire police are dealing with what they're calling a | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
suspicious incident at Donington Park services. They were called to | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the site which is operated by Moto at junction 23a of the M1, just | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
before five o'clock this evening. Fire crews are also attending the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
incident. Northbound traffic is said to be very heavy, but moving from | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Junction 23 up to 23A. Four men have been charged after | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
stabbings in the centre of Nottingham in the early hours of | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Sunday. Three people had to be treated in hospital. A 23`year`old | :07:05. | :07:24. | |
has been charged with dangerous driving after a pedestrian was hit | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
by a car. A court's been told a baby was | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
shaken so vigorously he suffered a catastrophic head injury and died in | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
hospital three days later. Scott Gladwin who's 20 and from | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire denies manslaughter. Jo Healey reports from | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
Nottingham Crown Court. The jury heard of the tragic and | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
premature death of the four and a half month old baby boy. He had been | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
left in the care of Scott Gladwin, who was 16 at the time. The baby 's | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
mother was popping to the shops. In court this afternoon, she wept as | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
she described the last time she saw her baby boy healthy. He was wearing | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
a yellow sleep suit. I left him there quite content, she said. He | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
was awake and absolutely fine. The court heard, as she returned from | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
the shop, she saw an ambulance. It was there to take a baby son to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
hospital. He was transferred to the Queens medical Centre intensive care | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
unit, where, after three days, his life support was withdrawn. The baby | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
died on February the 6th. The jury heard the man had claimed he went | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
upstairs to the toilet and when he came down, it looked like the baby | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
was having a fit. He went to a neighbour who dialled 999. Gladwin | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
denied causing any injury or ever touching the baby. But the doctors | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
concluded, said the prosecution, the baby had been gripped and shaken | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
with a force far inappropriate to his age. They suggested that perhaps | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
in a moment of temper or frustration, he gripped and shook | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
the baby. Gladwin denies manslaughter and the trial | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
continues. Home owners say the sale of their | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
houses is being put in jeopardy because of delays at Leicester City | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Council. Searches carried out by the council tell prospective buyers | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
about any local planning developments. They used to take | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
days, now they're taking months. The council currently has almost 600 | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
to complete. Louise accepted an offer on her | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
house in July. She is still waiting to move. It has gone on and on. I | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
had to reinstate a lot of my direct debits, cancelled the removal match | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
ban, cancelled the time I booked off work. The sale is being held up by | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
local searches carried out by Leicester City Council. They are now | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
taking months, rather than weeks, to complete. Louise has no idea when | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
she will move. The amount of different things I've been told from | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
a time frame of 24 hours to a week, to a month. The latest I heard today | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
was 14 weeks. I just don't know what to believe any more. The reason is | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
the only one who is waiting to move and for some, the weight means their | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
house sale may fall flu. The average time video is taking to complete has | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
extended from six weeks to three months. That is jeopardising chains. | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
It is causing problems for people who have agreed deals on timescales | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
they now cannot deliver upon. In mid`August, sadly, three of our 14 | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
of officers resigned. Since that time, I've been applying resources | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
to make sure we make inroads to the volume of cases we have to deal with | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
and also prioritise those cases where a person insured transaction | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
might be at most risk. I've packed everything away thinking we were | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
ready to go. I was ready to get into the removal van. I have literally | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
got two cups, two plates, all my pictures are off the wall. None of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
my personal belongings which have made the house my home are around me | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
any more. I'm living in an empty shell. The council are hoping to | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
complete the searches in the next month. For Louise, it cannot come | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
soon enough. Still to come: the young poet who | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
writes about the highs and lows of life in Leicester. There is life at | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
night, get out of here, they will not take you seriously... We are in | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
for a cold night to night. Temperatures are already down to | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
seven degrees. Make sure you wrap up because rurally tonight, we could | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
get as low as one or two Celsius. The government will announce who has | :11:54. | :12:09. | |
won the next UK city of culture in three weeks time. Leicester is | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
bidding against Dundee and Swansea Bay to host the title in 2017. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Today, the Department for culture media and sport revealed that the | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
winner would be declared on the 20th of November which is just days after | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the bid teams pitch their ideas to the judges. | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Administrators for a Leicester firm have managed to save more than half | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the jobs at its headquarters. W R Refrigeration Limited employs 600 | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
people across the UK, including around 300 in Leicester. Officials | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
have secured 178 posts at the Thurmaston site in the city, with a | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
further 77 at depots across the country. Administrators are now | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
focusing on options for the remaining parts of the business. | :12:50. | :13:01. | |
Next: how a family in Derby turned a derelict former stable into an | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
energy efficient home. It's in an area once known for drugs problems, | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
but the owners say for them it's been a good move. | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
As energy costs continue to rise the owner believes more and more people | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
will want to investigate ways of cutting their energy bills. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
Tucked away in the heart of Derby city centre, these old buildings | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
have been turned into an energy`efficient family home. | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Architects Nigel Turner bought the building for ?20,000 at auction and | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
spent another ?56,000 doing it up. Underfloor heating is one of the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
most important energy saving measures. It's a much more efficient | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
as cash system than radiators. It can run at a lower temperature and | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
the room still feels warm. It's a much more even he'd see don't get | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
hot spots. It feels nicer, I think. This is what the building used to | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
look like. Now, with the house being all electric, the energy bill here | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
is around ?1200 per year but Nigel is to fit yet another energy`saving | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
device. We are installing a unit which is a mechanical ventilation | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
with heat recovery unit, which chucks the stale air out of the | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
house, draws the heat out of it and then uses that to warm up the fresh | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
air coming in. Today, the top executives from the UK's six largest | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
energy companies appeared before the climate change committee of MPs. | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
Following recent price ranges ` writers. Back in Derby, it is | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
upstairs but skylights can also help with eating. These simple windows | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
allow the sun to come in and he took the space in the winter, in | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
particular. You can feel the heat now? Yes, you can do. There is a | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
stark event... As energy costs soar, the owner here believes more people | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
will want to investigate ways to save money on their bills. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
It looks lovely as well, doesn't it? Two metal detector enthusiasts have | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
unearthed an unusual find in Leicestershire. A rare Roman child's | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
coffin, believed to be 1,700 years old, was discovered in a field near | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Hinckley. It's being called a significant | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
archeological find and is now being studied by experts. It was a | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
particularly poignant discovery for one of the detectors. He's a grave | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
digger. It may not look that exciting but | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
this led Coffin is believed to be one of the earliest Christian | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
burials anywhere in the Midlands. It is archaeologically significant | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
because it is regionally unusual. From my experience, it is quite | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
rare. The Coffin is thought to contain the remains of a young child | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
from a wealthy you ` Roman child. Archaeologists studying this rare | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
find say it could answer many questions. There is a lot we can | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
tell from the technology in the Coffin construction. There's a lot | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
that the pathology of the bones campus. The right of burial itself | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
tells us something about the way people were behaving at that time. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
What does the cemetery in Nottingham have to do with the discovery of a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Roman coffin on the Warwickshire border? Well, for one of the metal | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
detector wrists, the find had more than a little connection to his day | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
job. Steve works as a grave`digger although his passion is metal | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
detecting but when he and a fellow enthusiast from Derby picked up a | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
signal in a field in Leicestershire, they had no idea they had just come | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
across the most significant find of their lives. What a surprise! We | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
knew we were on a Roman site but yes, it was the pinnacle of the day. | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
As things have unfolded, this is far greater than we initially thought. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Archaeologists say it will be next week before the Coffin is opened to | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
find out what is inside. Only then will its future be decided. | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
Intriguing, if not a little spooky! Time now for sport and after yet | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
another manager bit the dust over the weekend, Notts County are in | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
action at home tonight. Yes, Chris Kiwomya was Notts | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
County's seventh manager in just four years. And tonight the Magpies | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
are deep into their search for a eighth. None has lasted longer than | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
a year and the club hasn't been able to build on its ambitions or | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
crucially, its crowds. Tonight Steve Hodge is in caretaker charge here | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
and the team have Oldham to worry about on the pitch. But our eyes are | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
on the boardroom behind me and what they might decide. With me is Dean | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Yates, ex`Notts County player, now with Radio Nottingham. Let's | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
start... It was obvious he was not the right man because he was not | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
getting the results and his overall record meant he had to go. Seven | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
league wins in 30 league matches tells its own story. He has gone. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
What has gone wrong at Notts County that they've had so many managers in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
such a short space of time? They've only had one which has brought real | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
success, Steve Cotterill, because he was brought in as the first | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
appointment just after the chairman and owner of the club came three | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
years ago. He drove them to the title of league two. Know whether | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
manager has enjoyed such success. In the end, don't that boardroom have | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
to answer for that? Yes, they do have to answer. The chief executive | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
has been saying this week that they have to do some soul searching. The | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
soul`searching in my view has two include the question, why have we so | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
often got it so wrong? How do they get it right this time? They've got | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
to take their time over making the right appointment. There may be an | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
appointment by the end of the week. Of the many candidates who have | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
applied, two of the preferred names towards the head of that list are | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Dean Saunders, who of course left Wolves earlier this season, and | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Danny Wilson, who has got more experience of those two and is the | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
favourite with the bookies. Thanks for joining us. Much appreciated. So | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Notts County in action tonight, as Leicester City. They are against | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
premiership Fulham full study and though it is premiership visitors | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
and they think they have a shot, there will still be changes to the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
side which has been on such a good run at the moment. Nigel Pearson is | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
making no apologies for shuffling his pack. I make no bones of the | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
fact that the league remains the most important thing for us but it | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
is nice to play in cup competitions. I think it gives us that added | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
advantage of being able to freshen the side. People have their opinions | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
on that but it is not a case of going into this game with any less | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Saint tend to go and get a win. They were 2500 fans at pride Park | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
today. That's a 10th of the normal number but impressive for what was | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
an open training session. Steve McClaren was leading it. He was | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
given the Derby public a real insight into the life of a | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
professional footballer. The training ground is normally a | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
closed world. That's why they were queueing to get a peek at the inside | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
life of a footballer. It was here in the mid`1990s that Steve McClaren | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
into his reputation as one of the countries could top coaches. He | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
brought in the best practices and the constant and introduced | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
cutting`edge sports science like heart monitors on players and | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
cameras all over this ground, trained on individuals during the 19 | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
evidence of matches to analyse their performance. `19 minutes. You know, | :21:03. | :21:16. | |
I was here in 95, 96 and we were starting them. It was evolving. This | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
was no going through the emotions. It was a typical, physical, Tuesday | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
morning training session. We are working in a situation of four | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
attackers against three defenders, which is something that you get a | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
lot in the game. They have ten seconds to get a goal. Just to make | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
sure there are no slackers, the players where GPS monitors to track | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
every step, every sprint. The scientists and coaches work together | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
to get the best out of everyone. It's his attention to detail. He | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
cares, both individually and collectively. He knows what is | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
required and makes every practice enjoyable. It has always got a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
purpose to it. The doors were opened as Derby tried to engage more with | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
funds. They are trying to reverse last season 's declining | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
attendances. It's important for us to get out there broke into the | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
wider community and also here, so people feel it is their club. It is | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
the fans club and we are delighted we can have days like this. It may | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
have been too much for some but for two hours, the fans got close to | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
their heroes. They are making a real effort at | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Derby County to bring the fans in close with the public... Don't | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
forget, games on tonight: Leicester City in Carling cup action against | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Fulham at Meadow Lane. Notts County play Oldham. He death reference | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
earlier on `... The big question they need to answer | :22:48. | :22:59. | |
here at Notts County over the next little while it is who in the end is | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
going to be in the home dugout? Who indeed! Or the results will be | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
on the latest news with me at 10:30pm. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
For Wordsworth it was the Lake District and for Chaucer the | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Pilgrims of the Canterbury tales, for centuries writers have been | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
inspired by the landscape and people around them. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
In the latest of our Made in Leicester series, arts reporter | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Geeta Pendse has been to meet a young poet who's found the Muse in | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
her own home City. This city is the key to working away | :23:27. | :23:49. | |
in the corner, at home on a bus untouched, scribbling and making and | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
no one ever looks hard enough, and I know that feeling because I did | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
twice a week in the capital, and I used to live when the last trains | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
stopped... A poem dedicated to her hometown, | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Jess has been slowly carving a reputation as a performance poet | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
around the UK but the 24`year`old decided was time to put the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
spotlight on Leicester. Because perform around the country, I need | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
so many people from London and Manchester, the bigger cities, who | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
are a little bit snobby about the smaller cities. You say where you | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
are from and gloss over. This is a poem trying to celebrate Leicester | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
but maybe not the most obvious things. The poem tries to capture | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
the changing form of the East Park Road area, where just grew up. I | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
grew up just up the road in a part of town that he is the rumours | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
first, that changes taste and size each year and has done for 24 of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
mine, with each new family business and shop arrives... As well as | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
performing at just festivals, she has worked with the prison service | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
and schools around the city. She says despite initial reservations, | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
many find a new form of expression. I work with young people from | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
deprived areas, people within the prison service and just being able | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
to give people the skills to voice their opinions, their | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
frustrations... As Leicester vies for the title of UK city of culture, | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Jess hopes it poem will inspire a new generation of artists to come | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
forward. Maybe you are too humble, Leicester, maybe you shouldn't let | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
the others shouted down, thank you for letting me make my own mark on | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
the city to say actually, you can make a living from being a poet, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Gilles can do it too, I will show you... Well done, Jess excavation | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
mark you can see Jess performing her poem in full by logging on to the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
website. Good luck to her. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Good evening. A very cold evening as well. I've already lost the feeling | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
in my toes. There is that update out of the way. If you head out here to | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
tonight game, wrap up warm because the temperatures are only going to | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
continue to drop. Around seven or eight Celsius at the moment. It very | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
cold night and thoroughly, as we go through the night, although there | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
will be a couple of showers here and there, those two butchers will | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
continue to drop. Really, down to one or two Celsius. A very cold | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
night indeed. Grass frost tomorrow morning. As far as 0 | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
night indeed. Grass frost tomorrow morning. As far as tomorrow goes, | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
despite that, it would be a frosty start. Through the morning, it would | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
be largely bright and dry. Plenty of sunshine. A nice, crisp autumnal | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
morning but there is a front which will gradually make its way in from | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
the West. When we get into the afternoon, it will be just a little | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
bit cloudier. Quite cold all the same. You might get the odd 30 | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
degrees and southern parts of Leicestershire. At least it is | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
mainly dry until we start to see rain late on in the day. As far as | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
going through into Thursday, that is a mainly dry day again. There will | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
be a little bit more cloud around throughout the day but a mainly dry | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
and bright day again. Thankfully, we get the rain out of the way | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
overnight. A rather wet between Wednesday and Thursday. We are | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
timing things quite well at the moment. We are keeping our eye on | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
two areas of low pressure which are spinning their way in and swirling | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
their way towards us. They will be talking about in the media over the | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
coming days and unconscious about becoming like Michael Fish, but it | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
looks like the weekend will not be quite as bad as what we saw in the | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
south`east earlier this week. For tonight at least, very cold. | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
That's all for now. Goodbye. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:47. |