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chilly old week, George. Rais thank you. That's all from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This is East Midlands Today, with Anne Davies, and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight, after spending 20 years on the run, a paedophile priest looks | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
set to die in prison. 85`year`old Francis Paul Cullen gets | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
15 years for a series of sex attacks on children. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Also tonight, Forest manager Billy Davies is sacked following | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Saturday's drubbing by Derby. Did a good job. Don't know how he will | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
turn it around, to be honest. Plus, should pregnant women be paid | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
hundreds of pounds to stop smoking? And from this... To this. A council | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
gives way to complaints over faded road markings. | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
Good evening and welcome to Monday's programme. First tonight, a Catholic | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
priest who abused children across the East Midlands over a four`decade | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
period has been jailed for 15 years. Today a court heard claims that the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
church covered up Francis Paul Cullen's wicked crimes and | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
effectively helped him to avoid capture. One victim wrote a personal | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
letter to Cullen saying he hoped he would rot in jail. From Derby Crown | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
Court, Simon Hare reports. To some, you was an enthusiastic, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
charismatic and friendly priest. `` he was. But to others, a predatory | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
paedophile. Last month, Francis Paul Cullen admitted 21 counts of sexual | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
abuse against seven boys and girls over a 34 year period from 1957 to | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
1991. It began here at a church he had helped to set up. Christ the | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
King on this estate in Derby. Altar boys and schoolchildren in his care | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
were abused. A complaint about his conduct was launched as early as | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
1964 but he stayed in his job and later to Buxton, and then | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Nottingham. The abuse continued. Many of the victims say Cullen stole | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
their childhood and deeply affected their adult relationships. In a | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
personal letter to Cullen read out in court today, one told him, you | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
had a calling from the Devil and I am sure your maker cannot wait to | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
meet up with you. I don't know if you will what in hell. I hope you | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
rot in jail. Today's sentence, the 15 years imprisonment, go some way | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
to providing a degree of pleasure for the victims of this case. Any | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
sentence passed will never truly reflect the damage that has been | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
caused by Francis Paul Cullen towards his young and vulnerable | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
victims. Cullen had been on the run from the authorities for more than | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
20 years. Living here in Tenerife. While here | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
comic he told that he had been a priest back in the UK. `` while | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
here, you told. And he even wore a priest's. Collar. He was arrested | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
last summer. Jailing Cullen for 15 years, the judge told him, you took | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
full advantage of your position and the trust in which you were held to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
satisfy your perverted lust. To say that you were a disgrace to your | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
cloth understates your activity. This was gross hypocrisy. Your | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
entire life was alive. It is expected Cullen will be aged almost | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
96 before he can be considered for parole. Meaning his sentence could | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
prove to be for the rest of his life. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
Earlier this evening I spoke to Father Andrew Cole from the Catholic | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Church, and asked him for his reaction to today's sentence. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
I am pleased Cullen has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. It | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
is a long sentence which reflects the gap `` gravity of his offences | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
and the scandal it has caused among the wider community and the hurt he | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
has caused to his victims. One victim did say they felt the church | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
turned a blind eye to this and Cullen was moved from parish to | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
parish as part of a cover`up. I can understand why they feel that. I | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
have not seen anything in his personal file to indicate that was | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
the reason why he was moved on. If there was, if people knew and did | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
nothing, then I am truly sorry about that. But will something be done? It | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
is wonderful you are sorry but will something be done about it? We now | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
work transparently with the police and other statutory authorities when | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
such patients arise. If a priest is suspected of having abused a minor, | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
he is immediately taken out of the ministry and the alleged offences | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
are investigated by the police and services. All of those who are | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
selected for ordination to the priesthood have to undergo. A | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
logical assessment and we are confident that the measures we have | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
taken as a response to what has happened before have led to the | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
Catholic Church being a much better safeguard of children and vulnerable | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
adults. `` undergo a psychological assessment. It needs stamping out | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
and we will do whatever we can to do that. Thank you. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Police have made a number of arrests after two men died in a road | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
accident in Nottinghamshire. It happened around 10pm last night in | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Ravenshead. Three men were inside a silver Rover when it went off the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
road and hit a telegraph pole. The driver and front`seat passenger died | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
at the scene. A third man sustained injuries described as | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
non`life`threatening. Police have arrested three other men in their | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
20s suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
ASDA has announced that 200 managerial jobs are to go at its | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
George clothing headquarters in Lutterworth and its main offices in | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Leeds. The supermarket chain won't specify how many posts will go from | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
its Leicestershire operation. The move is part of a new five`year plan | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
by the firm to tackle increasing competition from rival supermarkets. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
The police watchdog is to investigate Nottinghamshire Police | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
over a former officer who was wrongly convicted of rape. Trevor | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Gray faced a re`trial last month where a jury unanimously found him | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
not guilty. His wife Alison helped to clear his name by finding new | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
evidence. The IPCC will examine whether steps were taken to identify | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
and locate significant witnesses. Still to come, goodbye Billy. As | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Nottingham Forest sack their manager, we'll be looking at the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
possible replacements being lined up at the City Ground. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
Next tonight, a controversial experiment paying pregnant women | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
hundreds of pounds to quit smoking during pregnancy. It's been tried in | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
one part of Derbyshire and may soon be extended. The women can pocket | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
more than ?700 each in shopping vouchers. That's if they stay off | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
smoking both during and after their pregnancy. But is it a proper way to | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
spend taxpayers' money? Here's our health correspondent, Rob Sissons. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
It's thought to be an East Midlands first, Offering financial rewards to | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
help pregnant women who smoke kick the habit. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Just over 200 women in Derbyshire signed up to it. Their challenge, to | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
be smoke`free from around 12 weeks into pregancy right the way through | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
to six months after the birth. Their reward, up to ?752 in shopping | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
vouchers. But it proved too difficult for most of them. Just 56, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
only a quarter, managed to stay off the cigarettes all the way through | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
till birth. And only 26 resisted smoking all the way through to the | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
finish line. That is six months after the baby arrives. On the face | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
of it a poor success rate, but those behind the experiment insist it's | :08:10. | :08:10. | |
money well spent. ?700 is very consider the cost and | :08:11. | :08:22. | |
the cost to the NHS of smoking is very high. ?6,000 per pregnancy. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
So does how it work? To avoid cheating, the women were given | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
regular breath tests. Every time they passed, the vouchers stacked | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
up. Starting at ?8, incentives for each clear test rise to a maximum of | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
?32. So, the less you smoke, the more you can shop. And now there's | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
talk expanding from one part of Derbyshire to the rest of it. But | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
with the risks of smoking in pregnancy well`known, should it | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
really take vouchers for women to put down their cigarettes while the | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
taxpayer picks up the bill? It sends out the wrong signal. It is | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
morally wrong and wasting taxpayers' money. It doesn't work | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
and is taking valuable resources from other schemes which might work. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
In what way is this a good idea and in what way can this rolling out and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
expansion be justified? Well, it can, say those at | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Derbyshire County Council behind the scheme. ?37,000 has already been | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
spent. And they say you can't put a price on the health of a baby and | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
its mum. Thank you. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
George Osborne, has been talking up the revival of the East Midlands | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
economy. His post`Budget visit to the region today coincided with a | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
multi`million pound jobs boost for Leicester and Leicestershire. Here's | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
our political editor, John Hess. On the factory floor today, the | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Chancellor was praising the makers and manufacturers of the East | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Midlands. Boal Aluminium makes components for the construction in | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the car industry. We export about 30% of what we make but at the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
moment the main growth is coming through from the UK and that is | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
where it is really being led from. The company employs 130 people but | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
because of the revival in the East Midlands Manufacturing, it is orally | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
considering taking on extra staff to meet demand. `` already. That will | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
be music to the ears of George Osborne, especially after a | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
multi`million pound programme to boost jobs and apprentices in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
Midlands was unveiled today. It is so important is Midlands is making | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
things and that is Mrs growing. `` it is important the East Midlands. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
The local MP and Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan needs a revived economy | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
if she is to retain her seat next year. A TUC report suggests the | :10:51. | :10:59. | |
value of average workers' pay is unlikely to recover for another ten | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
years, though. People can afford to buy more now even compared with six | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
months ago. We are really pleased with the new Budget report. Things | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
seem to be getting better. It means we have an area of the country that | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
is growing as the economy grows and that is the way to grow the living | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
standards of people here. The Chancellor also stopped over at | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
Derby, weather can be `` where the Cathedral could be doing with some | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
more cash. Some more tea and a little bit of sympathy for this | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
Chancellor. The servicemen who inspired the | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Hollywood film The Great Escape were remembered in Leicester today. A | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
service was held at the War Memorial on Victoria Park to mark the 70th | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
anniversary of the murder of 50 RAF officers, shot by the Gestapo. A | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
wreath was laid by the Leicester RAF Association. I think those men | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
represented what Allied servicemen represented, that they made the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
ultimate sacrifice to allow you and I to live the lives we are leading | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
today. What aid from well this would have been if they hadn't paid that | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
ultimate sacrifice. `` what a different world. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
And now for news of a victory for people power for residents who'd | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
been complaining about a lack of visible road markings. Just a week | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
after we ran the story on East Midlands Today, fading white lines | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
were refreshed and repaired. Locals say they're delighted their voices | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
have been heard, as Sarah Teale reports. | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
The lines at the bottom of the road have been newly painted. This | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
driving instructor takes us on another journey around | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Nottinghamshire. The transformation along the route is obvious. Well, | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
you filmed on the Thursday and on the Monday, the white lines were | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
there! The problem was highlighted by the road safety markings | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Association about two weeks ago. They released a survey which showed | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
38% of all the white lines in these Midlands needed replacing | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
immediately or within six months. `` in the East Midlands. All the ones | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
we pointed out have been done! Absolutely! It is extremely | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
pleasing. Nottinghamshire County Council were responsible for | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
repainting the markings in Key West. They have around 2500 miles to | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
maintain across the county of road. Has it been affected by cutbacks? | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Yes. All of our highway maintenance budgets have been affected and so we | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
have less money now to spend on the white lines that we had two or three | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
years ago. But, nevertheless, we are trying to do the ones which are a | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
priority, so the junctions, the zebra crossings and stop lines at | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
signals. All the ones which have a real safety implication if we don't | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
do them are the ones we are trying to do first. It is a problem which | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
stretches across the area. We filmed this roundabout which motorists | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
complain is virtually invisible because it is so worn out. The | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
council says they will be fixing it in the next few weeks. | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
Fantastic! Getting things done! Still to come, after the weekend's | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
hailstorms and this morning's frost and ice, what does the weather hold? | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
And meet my new friend Candy. She has turned down the chance to | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
perform for Simon Cowell and I'm not telling porkies! | :14:39. | :14:48. | |
An interesting name for a pig! Candy! Doesn't go with bacon! Oops! | :14:49. | :15:00. | |
I did say that! Now for the sport. `` I did not say that! | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
First tonight, Nottingham Forest chairman and owner Fawaz Al Hasawi | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
has stressed the need for patience as he looks to appoint a new | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
manager. Billy Davies was sacked last night after just over a year as | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
boss of City Ground. To light, Fawaz al Hasawi is looking | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
to appoint his fifth manager in 20 months. Things need to change. We | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
have nine games to go and we have to concentrate on it, we have to do it | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
and that is that. There is nobody in mind at the moment. The manager for | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
the reserve team and academy, he is in charge at the moment. It might be | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
temporary or he might continue to the end of the season. Billy Davies | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
returned for his second spell in charge 13 months ago. Forest have | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
been in the top six all season but on Saturday, they suffered an | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
embarrassing 5`0 defeat in Derby, they haven't won in eight games and | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
they slipped out of the play`off places. Stunned, really. Why no we | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
haven't been doing well but stunned. Quite surprisingly really, | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
given the team's performance on Saturday and the results previously. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
I think he caused in self, not talking to the media. It was all | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
conspiring against him. Just one bad performance. I do not think you | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
should be sacked. This afternoon, he met with the owner. In a surprise | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
move, one former captain arrived and the club confirmed he had joined on | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
loan. Something the chairman later denied. No, we don't have any loan | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
signings. So he hasn't signed? No. The former captain was today at the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
training ground, too. He has been given an ambassadorial role and Al | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Hasawi says all immediate bands have been lifted with immediate effect. | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
`` immediate bans. Our sports editor joins us now. This morning, we were | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
all convinced he was coming. Tell us where we are? It seems there has | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
been a massive U`turn and Fawaz al Hasawi told us himself he had spoken | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
to representatives earlier today and I spoke to a person who is usually | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
part of Neil Warnock's coaching staff. They expected to be at the | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
City Ground this afternoon. Then the former captain arrives at the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
training ground but later the chairman says he has not signed on | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
loan, despite confirmation on the club's own website! He says now he | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
is talking to a number of managers and Gary is in temporary charge, who | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
is the academy coach at Forest. This all sounds like utter chaos! That is | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
football, Colin! Predictably unpredictable. For many years there | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
have been ups and downs that Forest. Only Fawaz al Hasawi now knows what | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
will happen next. And we are in danger of forgetting the play`off | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
race isn't over for them? No. Nine games left, they are seventh and not | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
out of touch. They have a game tomorrow evening against Charlton. | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
We presume Gary will be in charge for that, but who knows?! We will | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
wait and see. So, the match between Derby and | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Forest is followed by a sacking for the second time this season. For | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Rams fans, the stunning result just highlights their transformation | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
since Nigel Clough got the axe. Angela Rafferty now reports on a | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
great day for Derby. It has been 20 years since a derby | :18:48. | :19:05. | |
match has meant quite so much and it could mean for either side `` glory | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
for either side and disaster for the other. The dream starts for Derby | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
County... Billy Davies in the dugout could barely watch as the rounds ran | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
rampant. `` the rounds display `` the rounds. Then they made it 3`0. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
And back for the Reds. The misery mounted for Forest as Johnny Russell | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
made it four. And then hat`trick history was rewritten. Derby's | :19:44. | :19:53. | |
biggest ever win over Forest in more than 100 years. Absolutely | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
fantastic! Best day of my life! What you live for! Main rivals! | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
Brilliant! I think it was just outstanding. They hat`trick. A day | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
I'll will never forget. So remarkable, that, on so many levels. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
Drama, too, at Leicester City. Their manager, Nigel Pearson, is back home | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
this evening after a two`night stay in hospital. He was ill during | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Saturday's game at Blackburn, as Mark Shardlow reports. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
The club says Nigel Pearson was suffering sickness when the team | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
arrived at the burn. He was in the stands, watching, as this goal | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
extended Leicester's unbeaten run to 17 games. But this wasn't to be | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
another win. A Blackburn equaliser put an end to the scoring for the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
day, and while the fans were pondering a second`half miss that | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
might have captured the points, Nigel Pearson was getting medical | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
attention. He was taken ill. He felt unwell in the game and was taken to | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
hospital as a precaution. To get tests on a Sunday is very difficult | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
so we're just waiting for the final tests, but fully expecting to be out | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
today and hopefully at the game tomorrow. Just feeling unwell. They | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
haven't had the test results so I think it would be wrong of me to | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
speculate. He just felt unwell. It is not the first time he has been | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
admitted to hospital. Four years ago he went tests when feeling ill while | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
at Hull city. His message today was that it is business as usual. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Elsewhere, there was a massive boost to Notts County, who can begin | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
dreaming of a great escape after hammering fellow strugglers | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Carlisle. Haydn Hollis and Ronan Murray had the Magpies two ahead at | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
half time. But no`one in the ground will have felt properly secure until | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Hollis got his second and Notts' third on 47 minutes. James Berrett | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
did pull one back for the visitors. But when Gary Liddle sealed it, he | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
did so in style. Just watch this ` brilliant! Notts remain bottom but | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
at least stay in touch. And in League Two, Mansfield played | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
out a derby draw with Chesterfield, Ollie Palmer very nearly winning it | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
for the Stags in stoppage time. In Rugby, Leicester Tigers have a | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
habit of hitting form at the right time, and they're doing it again | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
this season. Led by the power of the Pacific to six tries and a complete | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
mauling of Exeter. The best they've played with the ball in hand all | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
season, according to Director of Rugby Richard Cockerill. And set up | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
beautifully for the upcoming derby away at Northampton and European | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
quarterfinal in France. Brilliant stuff from them! And | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
also, a big, big week ahead for Nottingham Panthers. They will try | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
an overturn a three`goal gap in the second leg of the Challenge Cup | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
final tomorrow night, all before the first leg of their play`off against | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Braehead Clan on Thursday. Do not forget, more on late kick`off on the | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
departure of Billy Davies' departure. Tomorrow night, a full | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
football programme, so, no doubt, all the drama will keep rolling and | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
rolling and rolling! And Natalie might be making an | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
appearance on the late news just in case anything happens between now | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
and then. Stay tuned! Next tonight, she's turned down | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Simon Cowell and an offer to bypass the auditions to appear on Britain's | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Got Talent. Not many people do that! That's because she's simply not up | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
to performing yet. She will, though, when she's ready, "darling"! So just | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
who is this diva? Well, she has graciously agreed to appear on East | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Midlands Today, and Jo Healey went to meet her. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Yes, I have come to Manor farm at Eastleigh to meet Candy, the | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
performing pig. I'm a bit cautious about this. The last time did | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
anything like it, I met Darren, the waving goat. But he would not waive | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
for me. You are not going to, are you? You are not. Goodbye. I'm | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
going. Don't believe you! Candy is a two`year`old rescue pig. | :24:11. | :24:29. | |
She loves showing off. I think Apple Mac is an amazing animal! `` I think | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
Candy! She was fantastic. She is clever! She turned down the chance | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
to perform for Simon Cowell. We don't feel she is there yet. She | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
needs a bit more training this summer and then maybe next year we | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
will think about it. She knows her name and she knows she is the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
special pig out of everybody. We have our Easter Parade coming up and | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
she dresses up as an Easter egg. She was a dark princess at Halloween. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
She has ATR. But will she performed for me? Sit! Sit! Up! Candy? Up! You | :25:10. | :25:24. | |
won't do anything for me, will you? You won't, will you? Just no point! | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
You won't even sit! What is the point?! She went to do | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
it! I can think she of something Candy might have done and Jo | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
wouldn't have liked it! We could have had her sitting in here if she | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
were up to being in a studio. I'd think the director would want to | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
think about that! Or, indeed, our lovely weather presenter! | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
Good evening. We had some beautiful spring sunshine but, boy, was it | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
wintry today. Temperatures as low as `3. Our tender plants have had a bit | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
of a shock, that is for sure, and they are looking a bit sorry for | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
themselves, but do keep your pictures coming in. We had a ridge | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
of high pressure across us for the last 24 hours. | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
That gave us the clear skies overnight and the gorgeous sunshine | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
today but it is very transient. It has been shoved out of the way and | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
in its place comes a weather front, and this will be stubborn and stay | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
with us for much of the day tomorrow. So a completely different | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
feel and feeling autumnal, if anything. Feeling quite chilly and | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
cloudy and damp. You can see the cloud quite nicely on the satellite | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
picture. Ahead of that, we are dry at the moment but the cloud starts | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
to increase and we see the rain pushing in through the early hours | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
of the morning. Nothing particularly heavy about it at it is cloudy and a | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
damp night. The cloud, wind and rain will hold those temperatures up, so | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
nowhere near as cold tonight. Down to four or five degrees. A | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
completely different start to tomorrow. Wetter, cloudier and we | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
see these outbreaks of rain through the morning. They will slowly | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
fragment into the afternoon, breaking up a bit, but then heavy | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
showers following from that as the wind starts to turn into an easterly | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
direction. Chilly, and seven or eight is the top to budge. The rain | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
pushes out of the way tomorrow night and we are picking up an easterly | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
wind. That will make it feel cold over the next few days and bring in | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
few showers as well. No one day ever the same, is it? | :27:38. | :27:46. | |
That is the delight of living here! Good night. | :27:47. | :27:49. |