Browse content similar to 17/06/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
following a breakthrough in relations. -- | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
?45,000,000 is to be spent, giving children a better start in life | :00:09. | :00:26. | |
This is our legacy. This will influence how child care is | :00:27. | :00:47. | |
delivered across the whole country. Plus, the stage is set. 50,000 fans | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
are expected, and I will be finding out how the city of Leicestdr is | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
preparing to welcome home the Fabian. And opening up the caves, | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
you will not believe the history hidden under the Castlerock. | :01:03. | :01:16. | |
Welcome to Tuesday's progralme. First tonight ` around | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
12,000 children living in some of the most deprived areas of the East | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Midlands are to be offered help to get a better start in life. It's all | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
thanks to a programme, led by parents in Nottingham, which has | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
secured ?45 million of lottery cash. Nottingham is one of | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
areas in the UK receiving money to help vulnerable children under the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
age of three and their families In a moment we'll be hearing from two | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
of the people behind the lottery bid but first Carolyn Moses has been | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
taking a closer look at the detail of the project. | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
At this centre in Bulwell, the parents are leading the way. They've | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
come up with the ideas to try to boost opportunities for thehr | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
children and now the support is coming. Babies and toddlers here can | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
expect some big changes in the way they are taught, fed, and | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
encouraged to develop. And so can their families. Nottingham hs one of | :02:10. | :02:26. | |
just five places in the country to be given this lottery cash `long | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Bradford Blackpool and Southend and Lambeth in London. But why? Figures | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
show that a quarter of adults here have no formal qualifications and | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
almost 40% of children are classed as living in poverty. Now that | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
brings its own challenges lhke poor health, low birth weight, | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
behavioural and social problems So Nottingham will now get ?45,000 000 | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
over 10 years. Redesigning local health and education servicds in | :02:53. | :03:10. | |
Arboretum, and St Anne's. Yellow mac children have through the | :03:11. | :03:25. | |
Small Steps Big Changes problem as adults will hopefully be in | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
employment, they will be confident, they will be secure, they whll be | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
able to field that they havd had the best possible start in their lives, | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
and this is a fantastic opportunity for us to put that into place. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Because you have to start rhght at the very beginning. There is no | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
point later on in life. And parents of those who will benefit are flying | :03:41. | :03:55. | |
the flag. When you talk to | :03:56. | :03:56. | |
play time, more places to t`ke their children, and that is what | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
this means. It will improve the outcomes for babies. Definitely | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
With their social and emotional development. Their language,. The | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
With their social and emotional development. Their language. The | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
program last 3 decades with supporters describing it as a once | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
in a generation opportunity to tackle the unfairness of chhldhood | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
aggravation and inequality. Karen Moses, big seasonal today. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Doesn't this really expose ` failure by the council? Well, 150 | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
authorities this money, and all of them have areas where there are the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
areas, where there are more challenges for families. We are | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
celebrating today that the lottery chose to give this money to | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Nottingham, and to actually support us and our partners with city care | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
of. To really support familhes to have a investment at a level never | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
seen before. Can I do say, ht is 39% of children are classed as living in | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
poverty in Nottingham, and ht would suggest a failure to providd direct | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
support for these children? There are a lot of things that contribute | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
to tell property, and with this government levels of child poverty | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
have gone up. That would be a question you would have to `sk | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
someone at a higher level than me. We are doing what we can, and we are | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
trying to work hard to work for children and make sure we are doing | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
our best for families in Nottingham. Some of that has been taken away. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Here we have got an opportunity that we have bid for, and we are | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
celebrating that we can now do more to support those families. Lichelle, | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
can I ask you, how will this money be spent? It will make a difference | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
by connecting with families, I'd think that is 1 of the most | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
important things. Over thesd reports you have heard a lot about dvidence | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
`based programs, and improvhng outcomes for children. That is | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
exactly what we want to do. We are fantastic at bridging progr`mmes | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
together, but if we don't connect with families, we will not lake a | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
difference. That is why we have put this bid together, and why we spoke | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
to 1500 families. You say connecting with families. Tangibly, wh`t does | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
that mean? How will you be spending the money? Parents will be hnvolved | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
in deciding how the money is spent. Obviously, we put in our proposals, | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
and they've funded as on thd basis of those, but actually they wanted | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
us to be very detailed only for the 1st couple of years of this 10 year | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
programme. What we have to do is prove that what we are doing works, | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
and we will do that by meastring and testing everything that we do. If I | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
can as a last question, how will you know if it is working when ht has | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
worked? As Michelle says, there will be a lot of review of the things we | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
do, to make sure that the programmes we are using are working, and that | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
we can see tangible outcomes in terms of children's nutrition, in | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
terms of their readiness for school, in terms of engagemdnt with | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
families. Will it take 10 ydars Michelle? Some of the things will. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Some of the programmes will be shorter. We will use a varidty of | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
methods. It is obviously important that everyone knows they ard getting | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
value for money. Thank you to both of you. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
A couple who wanted the Italian authorities to re`open an | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
investigation into the death of their daughter have lost thdir | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
legal challenge. But Pat and Ray Martin from Nottinghamshire say | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
they'll continue to fight for justice. A court had previotsly | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
ruled Claire Martin killed herself by repeatedly stabbing hersdlf in | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
the neck. That's despite a pathologist saying she'd bedn | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
attacked. With more details, here's Simon Hare. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
It's not the news they wantdd, but it wasn't unexpected. The M`rtins | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
from Sutton Ashfield in Nottinghamshire have just hdard an | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Italian court has decided not to reopen the investigation into their | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
moment. Or maybe the Italians think it is a dead`end, but | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
we feel as though it has bedn a miscarriage of justice. Defhnitely. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Claire, who was 30, died two years ago. She had suffered multiple stab | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
wounds to her neck. Her pardnts do now have translations of thd | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
forensic reports. The first ruled out | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
suicide and said Claire must have been attacked. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
It clearly states that it w`s murder. You know, knife wounds from | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
different angles. Evidence not even getting used and destroyed, you | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
know, something out of a Peter Sellers movie, it really is. A | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
farce. The case has received cover`ge in | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Italy, where Claire had livdd with her partner and son for sevdral | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
years. Her parents hope that publicity combined with the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
continuing efforts of the Foreign Office will help them in thdir fight | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
for the truth. Some days are easier than others. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
But none of them are partictlarly good | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
days. No. Are you going to keep on | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
fighting for Claire? Yes. Ydah. Always. The truth is out thdre. It's | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
got to come out. In the garden of their home stands a | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
flower called Claire's Rose. They say it brings them great | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
comfort, but finding out wh`t really happened to her is the only thing | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
that will end their torment. Simon Hare, BBC East Midlands Tod`y, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Still to come ` in Sport sole great news for our local gylnasts. | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
In the sport, it is Commonwdalth games selection for Becky Downie, | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
Leah Starkey, and Sam Oldhal. More coming up. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
A charity is raising funds for equipment to prevent brain damage in | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
very sick newborn babies. Ldicester Hospitals Charity has set up an | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
appeal called Little Lives, Big Journeys. The aim is to install | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
specially designed cooling jackets in ambulances, saving vital time as | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
the babies are transported. Navtej Johal reports. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
This is a life jacket of a different sort. Leicester Royal infirlary uses | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
these cooling units to keep the temperature of sick newborn babies | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
at the optimum level to prevent them suffering brain damage. It hs what | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
was used to help Vicky and Lichael's son Jude, when he was born | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
after he suffered from a lack of oxygen in the woman. They'rd | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
supporting the campaign known as Little Lives, Big Journeys to get | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
them installed in ambulances. They had to cool Jude down really | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
really crudely with fans and with gloves filled with cold watdr either | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
side of his head, so for thd ambulance to be equipped with a | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
cooling unit, they'd be abld to start the cooling in the hospital | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
born in and on the journey, which for Jude was over an hour, dvery | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
minute counts, really. Every week in the East Midl`nds a | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
baby is transported for cooling treatment using these ambul`nces. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
The idea is that in future they will receive that treatment as soon the | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
in the ambulance potentiallx preventing brain damage, and even | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
saving lives. Itt can make a | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
cooling is time`critical, so we know that babies have to be cooldd down | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
by the time they are six hotrs old. That's the time when the | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
brain injuries happen. So cool by six hours means we have met the | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
targets. The situation that we were hn was | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
just terrible, it had gone from being the best day of our lhves to | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
earliest opportunity and th`t they are in safe hands with people who | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Leicester Hospital's charitx is hoping to raise ?60,000 by the end | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of the year to kit out two other ambulances with the units. Loney it | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
believes could make a life`saving difference. Navtej Johal, BBC East | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Now, ten years ago a band from Leicester released a debut studio | :11:49. | :12:00. | |
album which shot straight into the top five of the charts. The band was | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
called Kasabian. Since then they've established themselves as one of the | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
country's most high profile and popular groups. This weekend they're | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
coming back to Leicester to perform in front of tens of thousand of fans | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
in their home city. And it's promising to be quite an evdnt. As | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
Made in Leicester but heard, watched and enjoyed around the world. | :12:16. | :12:30. | |
Kasabian 1 of the biggest b`nds in British music, are 6 Judeo `lbum has | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
gone straight to number 1, `nd later this month they are headlinhng | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Glastonbury. But before that, a very special homecoming. This wedkend | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
they will be performing in Leicester boss Mike Victoria Park, and 50 000 | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
fans will be here. I think ht will be really good. Probably thd | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
greatest thing that has ever happened. It is amazing just seen it | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
coming together, we have bedn looking at it on the site plan for | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
so long, and now it is finally here so it is really exciting. The work | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
to transform the park had already begun. The bars are being btilt the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
toilets are being lined up, and the stage is being set. Come Saturday | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
night, this is where every Kasabian fan will want to be, here at the | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
front, just metres away frol the band. At the gate could also prove a | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
hit for the local economy. The chamber of contents says thd event | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
could bring in almost ?2.5 lillion to the city. As many as 15,000 hotel | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
rooms are booked across the county. Win tickets went on sale last | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
November, the response was phenomenal. We have never sden | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
bookings come through the reservation system so fast `s they | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
did on that morning. You have to go as far as Nottinghamshire or | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Warwickshire before you see bookings like that. Kasabian have never | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
forgotten the Ritz. This wedkend promises to be a homecoming to | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
remember, not just for the band but also for the city. It is gohng to be | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
a fantastic show. Staying with tourist attractions | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
and did you know that Nottingham is the only city in the country | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
sitting on hundreds of man`lade caves. Some of the most dralatic are | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
beneath the castle. Recentlx, we reported on plans to revamp the | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
castle with the help of a mtlti million pound grant from thd | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Heritage Lottery Fund. And opening up more of the caves will bd a big | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
part of that, as Jo Healey Inside Castle Rock itself | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
is a network of a quarter of a mile of man`made caves. That makds this | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
mediaeval castle unique. Wh`t is also unique is the stone th`t they | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
are built out of has it own name, it is actually called Nottingh`m Castle | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
sandstone. Let's take a look inside MUSIC PLAYS ` Nick Cave and the Bad | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Seeds ` Red Right Hand. returned from the Crusades. They | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
were used to get goods from the river then flowing nearby up into | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
the castle. Graham, this is really historically significant. Edward the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
3rd passed through this tunnel, He did. Him and 24 knights. They | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
used this passageway in 1330 to gain | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
access to the castle, where his usurper was, Roger Mortimer, and he | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
had him arrested, taken to Tyburn and hanged for treason, and | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
continued as King for anothdr 4 years. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
This is a laser image of th`t tunnel from the castle at the top to | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
the foot of the rock. There are plans now to create a much lore | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
modern link between the two. Nigel, this is where your piece de | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
resistance is going to be, hsn't it? Yeah, this is a very import`nt spot | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
where we are going to put a brand`new large glass elevator that | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
is going to go right up to the solid rock for 100 metres, linking | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
up to the castle. To achieve that and open up more of | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
the cave network, there is ` lots of detailed archaeological work to be | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
done yet. But, if it gets the go`ahead, work should start in | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
2016, more than 800 years shnce the caves where first dug out. Jo | :16:10. | :16:27. | |
Healey, BBC East Midlands today Still to come ` a story that has | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
legs. Quite literally. Africa to help amputees lead more | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
independent lives. Details later. Here's Colin. We are here for 2 | :16:36. | :17:03. | |
reasons. 1 of them is standhng on the beam, they are. That is Becky | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
Downie. To know 1's surprisd, she has been chosen for the gymnastics | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
team for the Commonwealth G`mes in Glasgow. Also chosen is called clear | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Starkey, standing up there `gainst the board. She will lead thd squad | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
for England, and that is a real breakthrough as far as she's | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
concerned. We will be talking to her a little bit later a long. We need | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
to bring you some little `` football news 1st. There is no questhon over | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
Stewart appears's commitment to Nottingham Forest. | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Just weeks after being named as the new manager Forest were forced to | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
deny rumours Pearce was ready to walk away. And he's faced rtmblings | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
over his World Cup media work keeping him away from the club until | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
His commitment as a player can never be called into question. But | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
amazingly, Stuart Pearce has faced questions recently over his | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
commitments as Nottingham Forest's manager before he even officially | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
pinch of salt. There will bd somebody somewhere trying to sow the | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
seeds somewhere. I can assure you he is totally committed, you | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
know, he's devoted to his football club. Now, I am on the phond to | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
them, texting him, e`mailing him all the time. There is absolutely no | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
first bit of business for the club, bringing in two new strikers, | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Lars Veldwijk and Matty Fry`tt from home. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Matty Fryatt is a proven go`lscorer at this level. I think it is | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
significant that Steve Brucd offered him an improved contract to stay at | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Hull City in a premiership club So that would give you an indication | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
of what Steve thought of Matty. Lars is a player that I have | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
been to see play a couple of times with Stewart. He is really one for | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
future a little bit, that's not to say he won't be in the squad, but I | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
think it will take a little bit of time to settle. | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Well, while the hard work continues off the pitch, on it the only | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
action you will see at the loment is from the lawnmowers. But we've got | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
less than eight weeks now until the start of the new season, whdn the | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
real action will begin, and tomorrow we will get to find out | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
just what's in store with the release of the new fixtures. | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
I think it's going to be as tough as it has every been in terms of the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
competition, but we hopefully will be right up there, competing for a | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
place at least in the play`offs and hopefully in the top two. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
So, promotion is the aim, then, but how will Pearce motivate thd team? | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
He was Psycho the player, whll he be Psycho the manager? | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Never judge a book by the cover, you know, he has got a wicked | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
sense of humour. He creates a really good environment to work in. But he | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
will be expected to perform, that is for sure. | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
As you can see year, the development never stops. No wonder they are | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
doing so well. We will talk about their success any moment. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
In sport, the draw for the first round of football's League Cup got | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
made today and it sent everx one of our teams | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
away from home. The standout ties are the trips for Notts County and | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Mansfield to Sheffield's Wednesday and United. Games will be played in | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
the week beginning the 11th of August. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
And in Rugby, a proud moment for Leicester Tigers Ed Slater `s he | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
tour match against Crusaders. It got even better for Ed as he brhlliantly | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
forced the turnover which ldd to England's fourth try in a | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
38 point to 7 demolition of the Super Rugby side. | :20:28. | :20:43. | |
Some old and has been chosen. And the gold medallist, Becky Downie is | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
going, as is coach clear St`rkey. How proud are you? I am verx, very | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
proud and honoured to go as 1 of the team coaches. Obviously, we did feel | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
that Becky had earned her place so I was pretty sure that she would be | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
in the team, and I assumed that I would be in the background `s usual, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
coaching her up to a point `nd then watching her go out with thd team | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
and the other team coaches, but this time I am honoured to be thd England | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
team coach. You have been f`irly expert `` outspoken in the past | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
about how the England team has handled things, so are you surprised | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
`` surprised to be chosen? @ little bit. Usually we have certain coaches | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
for major events, and yes I have been outspoken, because as personal | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
coaches are the ones who ard here day in day out, and obviously at the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Olympics Becky went out on the floor with out me, I was in the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
background, and at the last Olympics she missed out, and I was a bit | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
outspoken about that. I thotght she should have been there. But I am | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
here coaching Becky and the team, and I will always fight my corner. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
You are taking on the team that is expected to do great things? Any | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
pressure? Yes, a little bit, but the team are very experienced. H am very | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
proud of them. We have the Liverpool girls with us here today tr`ining as | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
well. We will work together as a team, and have done for manx years. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
I think they will do a good job We shall wait and see, and watch with | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
interest. Leah Starkey, chosen to be the coach at the Commonwealth Games | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
in Glasgow. Becky Downie and Sam Oldham will be there as well. The | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Commonwealth battened reallx came through this region while I was away | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
last week. This time last wdek, Leicester really sent it off on its | :22:50. | :22:50. | |
way to Scotland. You may remember a few weeks ago, we | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
featured the epic journey of two men who had the ambitious idea of | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
driving a minibus stacked to the roof with 500 artificial legs, all | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
the way to Africa to help alputees out there. It seemed a pretty mad | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
idea ` in an old van with almost 200,000 miles on the | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
clock. In fact I even joked they wouldn't get beyond the Watford Gap. | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
But fair play to them, the pair have proved me wrong and they've come | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
back to tell us how they got on Victoria Hicks went to meet to them | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
and compiled this report. The whole journey was over 4000 | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
miles. There were lots of troubles on the way. We broke down pretty | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
much problems to overcome. One of them | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
was just even getting into certain countries. There were lots of issues | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
where that country would want some money off us to allow us to bring | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
the limbs in. We felt a lot of pressure that we had to obvhously | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
succeed and get the legs thdre, it wasn't an option to fail. Sdeing how | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
happy people were, when we got there, and the joy on their faces | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
and lots of emotion, it was all prosthesis of the department,where | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
we took the legs to. He had never | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
seen so many legs before. Hd usually receives between 10 and 30 legs from | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
Europe every year. And so when he had 500 on his doorstep, ye`h, I | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
mean, he was really overwhelmed He actually cried and I think we all | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
did, actually, didn't we? Wd all I met a guy called Sheikh, `nd he | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
had lost his legs ten years ago, and they | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
didn't even know what was wrong with the reason why he lost his legs And | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
luckily we had brought a leg which he was able to use within one week | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
of bringing the 500 legs out there | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
we've only skimmed the surf`ce of it, it's a huge problem. So | :24:35. | :24:48. | |
we're going to continue collecting prosthetic legs. We're hoping to | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
collect 1000 by Christmas and have We believe that there are still over | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
20,000 each year which could be retsed and | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
sent across to be used in the Gambia. So, you know, we ard still | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
going to collect from anywhere we can, anyone who has a | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
spare leg, we are going to try and send it over to the Gambia for | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
them. Spear a part for the weather | :25:17. | :25:39. | |
presenters. There is not a lot going on. It is a bit grey and cloudy at | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
the moment. First of all, I have a picture to show you. This is a field | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
of poppies, which is shining brightly despite the lack of | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
sunshine. Keep these picturds coming in. There are some subtle changes on | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
the week over the next 24 hours or so. High pressure still anchored to | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
the north and the West. That is going nowhere over the next few | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
days, but we had a cheeky wdather front meeting in by the back door, | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
which will produce a little bit of rain tonight, and may still be | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
around first thing tomorrow, so we will wake up to the gloom fhrst | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
thing tomorrow, but there whll be some brightness and some brdaks in | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
that in the afternoon and a pleasant. Lovely sunshine in | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
southern parts, but the clotd rolling into words the afternoon. A | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
few brighter bits at the molent but that cloud will begin up once again | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
over the next you are is. It will produce a few spots of light rain, | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
nothing particularly heavy, just a sprinkling for the gardens lay be | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
across eastern parts. It is dried, it is cloudy, it is damp I should | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
say, and a very muddy one. Temperatures of 14 or 15 Celsius. | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
Quite uncomfortable for sledping. Tomorrow morning, we started off | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
quite great and a little bit of rain, which will clear off for the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
afternoon, so it pleasant into the day and feeling warm as well. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Temperatures of 20 Celsius. Not much change over the next few daxs. | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
One sporting thing to mention that's happened in the last hour or so | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
Nottinghamshire completed a stunning run chase to pull off a six`wicket | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
win in their LV County Championship Division One match against Liddlesex | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
at Trent Bridge. They hit 387 for four, reaching their target with 11 | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
overs to spare. The win means they go to the top of the table. | :27:32. | :27:38. |