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25/08/2014

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Good evening. tonight on BBC1 at 10.30.

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As international tributes h`ve flooded in to mark the death of Lord

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Attenborough, the people of his home city of Leicester have also been

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He is irreplaceable, and th`t loss will be something that will

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He may be gone, but within the city he calldd home,

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It is nice to see people do remember him, and the fact he did a lot

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Over the years, he has done so much, and I think they're fond melories.

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He always talked about coming to Leicester as

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"coming home", and certainlx he was very generous to the city.

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His contribution to the arts in Leicester, starting

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at the Little Theatre but l`ter in life, the Richard Attenborough

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Richard, for all of his soft exterior,

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He could be very angry if we didn't get it right.

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But for all that, he supported, he was committed.

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For months, Leicester has bden preoccupied with another Richard,

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But today, the city is mourning the loss of a Lord, but who wanted

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Richard Attenborough's caredr in film stretched back to the 0940s,

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From the 1960s, he achieved critical and colmercial

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Quentin Rayner has been looking back on his life.

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Born on 29 August 1923, Richard was one of three brothers

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His father was principal of the University of Leicester, and Richard

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We went camping, we went to discover new areas around the county and

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My first girlfriend, I caught in Victoria Park.

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Young Richard spent much of the childhood down at thd

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Little Theatre in Leicester, and in 1942, his love of theatre eventually

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took away from home and to RADA where his career soon took off.

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Lord Attenborough even used money from one of

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his feature films to help rdnovate a rundown centre for disabled people

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at the University of Leicester after a conversation with its founder

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So I said, "Yes of course I will" ` with my love for Leicester

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and the University in particular and my family connections and so on

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And so we decided to try to design and create

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a centre where people with dvery kind of disability and infirmity

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And after the tragic death of his daughter and granddatghter

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in the Boxing Day tsunami, Richard decided to donate

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his entire Picasso collection to the museum in Leicester.

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Jane, the daughter, met Picasso and she loved them.

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So the joy that they had and the joy that they gave ts can be

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transferred through Jane and Lucy to other people.

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My life has been blessed, and my life has been phenomdnal and

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I think I would like those who knew who I was, to say, "Well, I'm glad I

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met Dick because he was fun and he was kind, and he was caring for

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other people and he shared his good forttne by

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Police are appealing for information after a 9`year`old boy slipped

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Kai Lambe, who was from Hatton in Derbyshire, was rescued by fire

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The incident happened on Frhday evening near Tutbury Mill

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His death is not being treated as suspicious.

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All this week, East Midlands Today will be marking

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the centenary of the First World War with a series of special reports

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Typically British bank holiday weather, but in Belgium.

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I'm here today at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders Fields,

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who, like so many people, are visiting these cemeteries,

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trying to find some evidencd or link with their relatives who fotght in

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Today, we have been speaking to some people from Rutland.

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We're part of a project looking for the grave of Harry Waters,

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part of the North Hampshire Regiment, who died as part

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The project is trying to visit every Rutlander who died in World War I

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by 2018, wherever they are in the world.

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Seeing his name on the wall brings it home the

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So some people from Rutland finding a link with the past.

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Join us from tomorrow on East Midlands Today, when we will have

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a whole series of features `bout the Great War and the Centenary

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Well, it's been a bit wet in Belgium and back home.

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Let's get the latest on that weather now with Anna.

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It has been a rather disappointing bank holiday Monday,

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and we continue to have rain with us this evening and overnight tonight.

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If you are hoping for something better for tolorrow,

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you are in luck, as it should be a largely dry day and eventually, we

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For now, that rain is still with us, and the Met Office warning still

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It will continue to track north and east as we go through this dvening.

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It does look like it starts to ease and break up a little bit

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The cloud and rain holding temperatures up tonight with

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Tomorrow morning, it is cloudy and the damp start

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first thing, but eventually that rain starts to clear away.

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The cloud thinning and breaking through the morning,

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and it looks like we may evdn get some decent spells

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In that sun, the temperaturds respond ` a high of 18 Celshus.

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If you are hoping to get out about with the kids

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during school holidays, not looking too bad Wednesd`y.

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A fair amount of cloud, but temperatures not too bad.

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20 Celsius is likely the maximum on that day.

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Looking further ahead, rain is set to arrive into Thursday.

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It looks breezy Wednesday night itself.

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We expect there will be showers during the day on Thursday.

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If you are looking to be out and about this week,

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Tuesday and Wednesday look like your best bet, with further

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I'll see you with the late news at 10.20.

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Hello, if you love wet weather, you appreciate a satellite picture. A

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big swell cloud around to the west of Ireland. If you love bank

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holidays, you would choose different words to describe the weather, but

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Italy this cloud which are the heaviest rain. In Scotland, you have

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been derived with lovely sunshine in the north-west. Within the cloudy

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zone, further outbreaks of rain this evening. Difficult driving

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conditions if you are heading back after the long weekend and further

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heavy showers from the

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