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in advance of the general election. That is | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
in our region. More optimism, more investment, more jobs, as firms here | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
look to the future. Also, police searching this scrubland for | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Madeleine McCann ask the Portuguese authorities for more time. And the | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
community which has rallied round to help the school after its | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
remembrance garden was destroyed. And inseparable. Twin sisters Alice | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
and Mary celebrate their 100th birthday together. I have no idea | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
which is which! Good evening | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
and welcome to the programme. First tonight, it's now widely | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
accepted that recovery in the UK is taking hold, with | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
the economy growing faster than in And the Government is looking | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
to manufacturers to continue to So no doubt ministers will be | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
delighted with the findings of a new survey which has found that | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
record numbers of manufacturers in the East Midlands are looking to | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
further invest in their businesses Here's our chief news | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
reporter Quentin Rayner. A1 flues make chimneys and flues | :01:22. | :01:40. | |
from stainless steel. It was established 41 years ago in old | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
chicken sheds. Now it employs 130 people and has an annual turnover of | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
more than ?11 million. Businesses on the up. It is slowly coming back, we | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
are seeing very much of an improvement, particularly since | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Christmas. We feel that the jobs that have been put on hold over the | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
last couple of years are now coming to light. It's a little bit like the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
domestic market, people starting to spend money. According to this | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
barometer, 59% of small manufacturers in the East Midlands | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
are planning to spend more on plant and machinery. 62% report a rise in | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
sales. While 57% looking to create new jobs over the next six months. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
That's an increase of 11% on the same period last year. It could be | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
written for us, we are reinvesting into our own company. We've got | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
?250,000 worth of machinery on order. We are introducing new | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
products, recruiting, employing more people. The survey does reflect | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
continued concern about rising energy bills and the company has | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
just switched suppliers. At this year the company will stop exporting | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
for the first time. `` start exporting for the first time. It | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
also has a dramatic announcement about ten ?80,000 contract. We've | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
just landed the order for the Elstree Studios at the EastEnders | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
set. It's fantastic! The Manufacturing advisory service | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
believes its survey is the clearest signal yet that the recovery is | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
sustainable. Police investigating Madeleine | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
McCann's disappearance in Portugal are hoping they'll be able to extend | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
their search of land close to where The official permission to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
survey three sites in Praia De Luz expires on Friday, unless | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
something significant is found. Today saw a more scientific search | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
of an area of scrubland, on what's Our reporter Tom Burridge joins | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
us now from Praia De Luz. Most of the activity by both the | :03:39. | :03:59. | |
Portuguese police and police from the Metropolitan Police has been | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
taking place in this area behind me. The site is around 15 acres. An | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
extensive area of Scotland just outside the main central part of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Praia da Luz. We can show you some pictures we filmed in the last | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
couple of hours of quite intense activity. Police officers in | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
forensic suits going inside the tent. We've also seen the officers | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
taking out buckets of soil. We've also seen a sniffer dog on the area | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
and a lot of clearing of the grassland, a lot of strimmers being | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
used. The police were searching with their hands, shovels and through a | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
lot of areas of bushland. What are they focusing on? What we've seen | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
are the police identifying certain parts of this large area of ground | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
which they are interested in. We don't know why, but they seem to be | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
marking out certain areas. On this site behind me, the white tents have | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
gone up, we've seen yellow evidence signs going in. The police have also | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
been using a machine called ground radar. They pass it over the earth, | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
essentially that enables them to be able to map out what is in the soil, | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
if there are any anomalies. For example, if something had been | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
buried in a part of the land behind me, it might show up. Cavities | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
should show up. If they were to find anything of interest, then the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
police would then start to dig in that particular spot. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Some of the earliest film ever broadcast | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
It shows how the firm rapidly expanded after the outbreak of | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
World War One, making everything from vermin powder to gas masks. | :05:45. | :05:57. | |
The trial of a couple accused of murdering her parents, | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
who were found buried in the back garden, got underway today. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
Susan Edwards admitted the manslaughter of her mother, | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
A middle`aged couple in the dock at Nottingham Crown Court. Susan and | :06:05. | :06:22. | |
Christopher Edwards, formerly of Dagenham in London, both accused of | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
murdering Susan's father and mother in May, 1998. The bodies of the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
couple were found buried in the back garden of their home in Blenheim | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
close in Forest town in Mansfield in October last year. Mr which Lee was | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
85 at the time of his death and Mrs Wycherley was 63. In front of the | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
jury, Mr and Mrs Edwards both pleaded not guilty to charges of | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
murdering her parents. But earlier, before the jury was sworn in, Mrs | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Edwards admitted the manslaughter of her mother. The prosecution said | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
they wanted to proceed with the murder trial. The Edwards have | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
previously admitted two charges of obstructing the coroner by burying | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
the bodies in the garden 15 years before they were found. They've also | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
pleaded guilty to the theft of a credit balance from the Halifax bank | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
between May 1998 and October last year. The trial is expected to last | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
up to two weeks. An MP says she'll be seeking answers | :07:24. | :07:36. | |
from the Highways Agency over roadwork delays on one | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
of Derbyshire's busiest routes. There was gridlock at the Little | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
Eaton Island in Derby yesterday. Rare white`clawed crayfish have been | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
found nearby and they have to be The Highways Agency says | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
the project may not be completed The Mid Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
says contractors should be working An oil exploration company claims | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
there will not be any fracking in Leicestershire, despite | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
a survey confirming it boasts huge The process involves drilling | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
and fracturing to remove reserves An independent study found there | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
could be more than five billion barrels of oil and almost three | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
trillion cubic feet of gas But Union Jack Oil, | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
which commissioned the report, says it was simply | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
about gathering intelligence and no Derbyshire County Councillors will | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
now have to reveal Freemason. It's been agreed that | :08:22. | :08:33. | |
councillors will need to declare their membership of certain groups, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
including the freemasons. Labour say it's about transparency. The | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Conservatives say it's about prejudice. They've compared the | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
situation faced by Freemasons to that experienced by ANC members in | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
South Africa during apartheid. Next tonight, | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
East Midlands Ambulance service, which has come under attack | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
for failing to hit response times, has received an offer of help from | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
health care and medical students. The students, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
from Nottingham and Derby, are the first in the country to operate | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
an inner`city First Responders' scheme, volunteers trained | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
in basic first aid who provide vital University students on the front | :09:07. | :09:26. | |
line in Derby. First year medical students, doubts and Haran, are also | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
first responders for the ambulance service. All packed and ready. They | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
are among volunteers at the University of Nottingham medical | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
School who attend 999 calls, providing vital help until trained | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
paramedics arrived. We learn a lot of theory because we are still first | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
years, but it's nice to get out there and see patients in the real | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
world, see how things can progress quite quickly and being able to make | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
a difference and do something. The initiative is one of the very first | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
city responded teams in the country. It was started by 25`year`old | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Darren, who came up with the idea of medical and health care students | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
responding. He went to East Midlands ambulance service after starting in | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Derby as a medical student himself. The initial response was great. The | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
support we've had from the ambulance service, University and the students | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
union has been fantastic. We've been to 70 or 80 calls in the five weeks | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
we've been operational. We've seen quite a few patients. Today, more | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
than 20 students came for an official launch of their service. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
They've already gone through extensive training. This is | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
absolutely not a replacement for the full`time professional ambulance | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
service. This is about community engagement. In those first few | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
minutes when a patient is in need, that had a cardiac arrest or chest | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
pain or choking, that the community first responders can get there | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
whilst the ambulance service are deployed. It says a lot about the | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
medical students that they are prepared to give up some of their | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
spare time on an already busy course to try and help the community. Last | :11:10. | :11:22. | |
week we responded to a cardiac arrest and performed resuscitation | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
on the patient, that patient ended up surviving. It's a great feeling. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
If the scheme can continue to do that, that's great. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
A school in Leicestershire has been given thousands of poppies after | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
its Remembrance Garden for World War One was accidentally destroyed. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Locals have knitted poppies and people from across the country have | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
sent paper versions, so the school can build a commemorative wall. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
The headteacher says it shows the World War I community spirit | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
Helen Astle reports from Stoney Stanton. | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
This school field is meant to be full of poppies, planted to create a | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
But, by mistake, a council worker mowed the field, | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
We've got a bit of an issue because the idea was to build | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
The poppies had been sown earlier in the year. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
I was very disappointed and thought, "What are we going to do now?" | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
I came up with the idea of "yarn bomb" of the fence with lots | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
We were going around the playground recruiting parents to help out. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
People who could knit were given knitting patterns. | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
Other parents said they couldn't knit or crochet, | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
so they decided they would make something out of anything red we can | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
In the classroom, pupils are still busy making poppies. | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
We're making these poppies to show what has happened in the war. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
And the people that have died in the war. | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Originally, staff were hoping to collect around 700 poppies | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
But as news spread about what had happened, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Relatives have got involved, we've had grandmas from Swansea | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
We've had poppies sent to us from Cheshire. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
People who have been on holiday and came back with poppies as well. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Yes, it has definitely been a nationwide thing. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
We've got such a wonderful community here that in our time of adversity | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
they've all pulled together in a real community spirit. | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
And learning about the war has had a big impact on the children. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
We should always remember because people gave up their lives for us | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Ever since the dramatic resignation of Patrick Mercer, the people | :13:37. | :13:50. | |
of Newark have been at the centre of a political whirlwind. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
But tomorrow, finally, they'll get the chance to vote for a new MP. | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
The by`election has drawn dozens of high profile politicians to | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
But tomorrow, to the relief of some no doubt, all canvassing must stop. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
Our political editor John Hess joins us. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
John, what's been happening on the very last day of campaigning? | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
Today saw the final head`to`head debate between the candidates from | :14:18. | :14:27. | |
the main parties. This was Radio Nottingham's Studios this morning, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
where the would`be MPs squared up for a debate. Unlike the Carl Froch | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
fight, there was no eighth round knockout punch, more of a score | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
draw. Fascinating all the same, with each candidate anxious to win over | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
any of those final undecided voters. If you want to listen back to the | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
debate, just catch up on the iPlayer. Click on the Mark Dennison | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
show that is on the Radio Nottingham site. Signs of last`minute | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
campaigning? I bumped into bus pass Elvis in the marketplace this | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
morning, looking very chipper and confident. The main parties this | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
evening will be delivering leaflets and getting their messages out. Over | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
the next few hours, party workers will be gravitating to new work. | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
This was the scene at Newark Northgate session, campaigners | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
arrived from London this evening. The Prime Minister has urged | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
conservative voters to get to Newark tonight and tomorrow, to help in the | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
final push for votes. The Conservatives are defending a 16,000 | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Conservative majority. Remind us when the voting starts. The polling | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
stations open from 7am tomorrow. They will remain open until 10pm | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
tomorrow night. Here is a reminder of all 11 candidates standing. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
The final result should be somewhat where between 3am and 3:30am on | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
Friday morning. You will be up all night! | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
No one can predict the outcome of the vote with absolute certainty. At | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
least we know someone who can predict what the weather will be | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
like. I can, if you are planning to vote | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
tomorrow, the weather shouldn't stand in your way. It is said to be | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
drier, brighter and warmer, but it's looking stormy just around the | :16:24. | :16:24. | |
corner. This week we've been marking | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
the centenary of the start of It was a time | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
of great social change. And the Nottingham`based Boots | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
company rose to the challenge of providing much needed supplies | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
for the war effort. Jesse Boot, who founded | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
and ran the company, was determined to play his part by turning the firm | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
into a manufacturing powerhouse. In the archives of the Imperial War | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Museums we've found some film footage, believed to be the earliest | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
moving images of the factory. I went to meet the company | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
archivist to find out more. As with Rolls`Royce in Derby, the | :16:59. | :17:10. | |
outbreak of war changed everything Germany had been a major exporter | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
of pharmaceuticals. Now our medicines would be made | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
at home. The Daily Mail saw their mass | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
copying of German medicinal products Jesse brought a team | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
of scientists to Nottingham. He increased his manufacturing | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
capacity in the factory side, reconstructing the company | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
and moving it much more towards We rose from about 9000 to | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
around 12,000 employees over the war period, | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
most of them here in Nottingham. Medicines, too, | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
had to be manufactured for soldiers in the trenches, in | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
containers small enough to be sent This tells us an awful lot | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
about conditions in the trenches, This was one of the early responses | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
to the war, to produce a range of products designed to give comfort | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
to the men serving overseas. Power like this could get rid | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
of those bugs keeping them awake And scientists at Boots created | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the chemicals that went into respirators, designed to protect | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
from the horror of gas attacks. 8 million of these respirators were | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
made at the Nottingham factory and over 900 women were trained | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
on the production line. A slight amount of dust would give | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
enough space for gas to come We had to run night shifts to | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
be able to accommodate the huge It's always said the First World War | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
really showed what women could do and that's absolutely the case, | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
a lot of this work was really physical and women could do it | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
as well as the men. As well as seeing the Boots logo | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
on their vermin powder and gas masks, soldiers who'd been | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Boots workers in Nottingham had The paternalistic Jesse Boot set up | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
a magazine called Comrades In Khaki. Issues were crammed with photos, | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
letters and news reports, providing a vital link between the troops and | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
their loved ones back in Nottingham. This photograph in an edition | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
of Comrades In Khaki would have been an absolute joy | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
for Boots workers serving overseas. It shows a festive party, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
which happened in January of 1916. And pictured are all the wives | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
and children they left behind. It feels like a family magazine, | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
almost like an old school letter, the familiarity with | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
the people writing back in and responding to pictures they've | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
seen people they know. Jesse and Florence wrote in each | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
of the magazines to the soldiers, to tell them they were thinking | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
of them and praying they would Those soldiers who did return to the | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
island's quarter would have found Bigger, more mechanised and | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
employing women on a large scale. Now based in Beeston, | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
8000 people are still employed in A firm now known the world over, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
and one which was given a huge boost Leicester City have confirmed | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has Also today, winger Marc Albrighton | :20:14. | :20:32. | |
has been speaking about joining the club from Aston Villa, as Leicester | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
strengthen for the Premier League. It's bound to be | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
a wrench leaving somewhere after 16 years, but imagine if you'd | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
been there since you were a kid? Well, Marc Albrighton joined | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Aston Villa when he was just eight years old, now he's 24 and he faces | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
a new career with Leicester City. Villa said I was getting released, | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
they didn't offer me anything. When I found out Leicester were | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
interested it was That's a mistake, | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
here is Albrighton. And 24 now, I've got | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
my peak ahead of me hopefully. With a bit of luck it will come off | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
and it'll be a great move for me. Albrighton has signed | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
a four`year deal. He is a tricky winger with | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
England Under 20 and Under 21 caps. He troubles defenders and he's | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
a great crosser of the ball. I like to get out of full`back | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
and whip across. With the strikers we've got here, | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
it's definitely going to be... They are going to get on the end | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
of them. After winning promotion | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
as runaway champions, Leicester have been quick to invest with Matthew | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Upson and Jack Barmby also signing. But Marc Albrighton can't wait to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
get going I'm looking forward to coming in | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
at the start of pre`season, fit and raring to go | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
and meet the lads and get started. Is there anyone in the club | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
that you played with before? No, I did have a look at that | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
and there's not a single player. I could be the loner | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
in the corner but I'm sure I will Staying with football, | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
and Derby County have signed goalkeeper Jonathan Mitchell | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
on a free transfer. The 19`year`old will join the Rams | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
when his current deal at Newcastle Onto the Commonwealth Games, | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
because there are just under 50 days to go and Team England have named | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
nine squash players who will Among them, current world champions | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Laura Massaro and Nick Matthews, who Stuart Broad took another couple of | :22:49. | :23:11. | |
wickets at Hove, we're not strewn with Sussex. Derbyshire were also on | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
the south coast. They held on for a draw. | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
All this week we've been featuring how the First World War affected | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Tomorrow night on the programme, we'll find out how it impacted | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Trent Bridge was used as a military hospital and also how | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Derby County's legendary striker Steve Bloomer, who was coaching | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
in Berlin at the time, spent the war in a German prison camp. | :23:41. | :23:53. | |
Fascinating pictures tomorrow night for Derby fans. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
Turning 100 is a pretty good reason to have | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
a party, but for Alice and Mary it's a day they get to share together. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Born in Lincolnshire, the twin sisters have never lived more than | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Today family and friends gathered to celebrate their big day, | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
It was always going to be a day to remember, but for Alice and Mary it | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
wouldn't have been the same without each other. Born in 1914 in the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
village of Rawls Brie in Lincolnshire, it was a quiet but | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
happy childhood. We used to be together. It's nice to be together | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
at our age. I haven't seen you for a long time. It was lovely to know I | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
was coming over to see her today. She knows me. I don't know. Was that | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
me? Identical twins, even Alice and Mary sometimes struggle to tell each | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
other apart in photos. So you can imagine what it was like for their | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
husbands. He didn't know one from the other at one time! The only | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
thing he knew was different was because I hadn't birthmark on the | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
back of my neck, and that's how he knew which was which. You could | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
never tell the difference, for maybe 50 years they looked identical. Then | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
one day my auntie decided to have hair straight and that was so much | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
easier. It's almost unreal. You don't necessarily expect to be | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
celebrating 100th birthdays as identical twins, they are both still | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
happy. The centre of attention, but Alice and Mary seem to be taking it | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
in their stride. Happy to be surrounded by family and friends, | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
and a little something from the Queen. | :25:43. | :26:01. | |
Today has been rather disappointing. The clouds have stayed with us and | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
the rain has been relentless. After a damp start to tomorrow, things | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
will be improving, drier, brighter and warmer. Good news if you are | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
heading a bit further away to see the Antiques road show tomorrow. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Tonight, low pressure is still with us. It remains cloudy, further | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
outbreaks of rain, may be heavy at times as we head into the early | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
hours of Thursday morning. As we head towards dawn, they become | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
patchy and lighter. Not a cold night. Cloudy, damp start to your | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Thursday. But then the rain starts to fizzle out, the cloud starts to | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
thin and break. It's an improving story through the morning. We will | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
start to see some decent spells of sunshine during the afternoon. The | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
temperatures respond, highs of 18 Celsius. Friday is set to be a humid | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
muggy day. What we do expect is Friday night into Saturday, the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
weather front starts to move through. This has the potential to | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
give some thundery downpours. Thunderstorms expected to start the | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
weekend. The reason for this is humid air has moved up from the | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Compton and. Cool air starts to move in from the Atlantic on Friday | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
night. Where they collide, that's where we have the potential for | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
thunderstorms. It's hard to pinpoint where the heaviest of the rain will | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
be, I will keep you informed. We do have warning in force as it could | :27:32. | :27:32. | |
lead to some localised flooding. Is that warmth whooshing up? We will | :27:33. | :27:45. | |
be back for the latest news. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
When the first travellers crossed America, they were faced with this - | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
The very nature of the American personality was defined. | :27:58. | :28:13. | |
Ray Mears explores the land behind the Hollywood legend | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
and discovers the wild that made the West. | :28:16. | :28:19. |