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In the programme tonight: This police constable walks free after | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
being accused of dangerous driving. And the judge says he should never | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
have been charged. Hello and welcome to Look East. | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
Also tonight: Dale Farm latest: more travellers are pulling out. A | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
former UN advisor condemns the plans, and eviction preparations | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
continue. We've had actresses, we've had bishops, anarchists, the | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
UN and the EU. The bottom line is that this is not about human rights | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
- this is about planning regulations that have been broken. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Why so many teenagers end up in hospital suffering from eating | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
disorders. And how an old Norfolk airfield | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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could save the world from global First tonight, a Crown Court judge | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
has slammed the authorities for the way they treated a police officer | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
accused of dangerous driving. PC Kerry Smith was on an emergency | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
call when he collided with another vehicle in Luton, killing two | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
pedestrians who were walking nearby. Today Judge Gullick criticised the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission for what he called an | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
"inept" investigation. The Crown Prosecution Service was also in the | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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firing line. Jo Black was in court, and is in St Albans. Jo. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Yes, more on the judge's extraordinary comments in a moment. | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
First, there have been emotional scenes here today at the court as | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
PC Kerry Smith was cleared of all charges of death by dangerous | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
driving. He put his head in his hands and wept. After the verdict, | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
he looked across to the jury and said thank you. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
Leaving court today cleared of all charges. In June last year Pc Kelly | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
Smith was an officer and a 999 call. He was going at around 56 mph with | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
his blue lights flashing and his siren sounding. After a crash with | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
another vehicle, his car knocked down two pedestrians who had been | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
walking home after a night out. PC Smith was travelling from that | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
direction, but when he got to this part of the road, waiting and | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
indicating to turn right was a silver car. A police officer | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
thought that the driver had seen him so he began to overtake. The | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
driver started to turn right and, when the two vehicles collided, the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
police car mounted the pavement, killing the pedestrians. The driver | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
of that silver car was this man, a chef on his way home from work. He | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
told the court he had looked into his mirror before starting to turn | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
right but had not seen anything and thought it was safe to go. During | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
the trial, he exercised his right not to answer questions about | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
whether he was on his mobile phone at the time. PC Terry Smith gave | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
his reaction today. My thoughts and sympathies remain with the families | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
of the men who died that night. I wanted the family is to know the | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
exact circumstances of how their loved ones died. Two young men have | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
lost their lives and I will live with the consequences. Nothing I | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
can say will help the families but I do hope now that they have heard | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
the evidence that this will help them in some small measure. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
The cousin of one of the victims was there at the time of the | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
reaction. A representative spoke on his behalf. He could not believe | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
the verdict. How could he not be guilty for anything? | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
As you can see, this has been a tragic case for all involved. The | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
telephone of the driver of the silver car was seized and it was | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
shown that there was an incoming call at around the time of the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
collision. With concern about his evidence and how that piece of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
information was used, the judge said that the IPCC investigation | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
had been inept and the CPS had missed the glaringly obvious. He is | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
going to take it up with the chairman of the IPCC and the | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
Director of Public Prosecutions. Some breaking news now. We have | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
just learnt that Lord Hanningfield has been arrested today and then | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
released on police bail. We understand detectives are | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
investigating expenses claims he made when he was Leader of Essex | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
County Council. Lord Hanningfield was arrested at | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
his home near Chelmsford by police this morning and was taken to | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Braintree police station for questioning about his expenses when | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
he was leader of Essex County Council. He has been questioned by | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
members of the Serious crime Directorate, who then released him | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
on police bail. That Valens on 18th January next year. He was only | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
released early from prison last week after serving just nine weeks | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
of a nine-month sentence imposed upon him on the 1st July for his | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
expenses fiddling at the House of Lords. A few minutes ago I spoke to | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
a London-based solicitor who represents Lord Hanningfield. He | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
had this to save a study was quite outspoken. He said that, at the | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
first trial, there was no criticism of his Clyde's expenses. He did not | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
understand now why his client was arrested. He said, "This is hitting | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
a man when he is down. His arrest is shocking. Why was he not | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
interviewed when he was in prison?" On now to the preparations for | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
evictions at the Dale Farm travellers' site in Basildon. It's | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
now just five days until the bailiffs are due to move in. And | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
that means the countdown has very much begun. Yesterday security | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
contractors started to build a control centre in the field next | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
door. Today, as we will hear, a UN party visited the site. Tomorrow | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
the eviction will be discussed at an emergency debate in Vienna. On | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Friday the travellers say they will seek another injunction from the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Court ofAppeal. Over the weekend more temporary buildings for | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
contractors will be installed on the control centre field. And on | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Monday we expect the eviction to begin. Alex Dunlop has spent the | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
day at the site. Five days before the eviction, the | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
pressure has been racked up on both sides. Firstly, by Basildon Council, | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
who continued to bring in the infrastructure needed before the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
bailiffs moved in in five days. But also by the travellers behind the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
at Dale Farm, who have continued to lobby ever harder for the right to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
stay. They brought in an adviser to the United Nations to help argue | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
their case. More activists arrive today, some less keen to be | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
identified, others more cryptic about why they appear. What has | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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brought here today? Cheeses. I am the avenger of blood. -- Jesus | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
Christ. This man feels that the British | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
government has broken into national law. What are the rights that had | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
been violated? The right to be defended against forced eviction | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
and the right to non-discrimination. They said they would respect the | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
law and they're not doing it. Doing what we do today, we hope to | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
influence public opinion. The 400 travellers in the illegal | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
half of Dale Farm admit they have broken planning law but maintain | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
they have been given no alternative, nowhere else to pitch their | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
caravans. This is very distressing. It is tearing my life apart. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Realistically, do you think you will be moving out next week? | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
willing to fight, to die for it. Today Basildon Council gave police | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
a tour of their build-up to next week on land next to Dale Farm to | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
stop even now, a last-gasp attempt from travellers to have the Court | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
of Appeal quashed the eviction. We're taking fresh action in the | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Court of Appeal on Friday. It is based on new medical evidence to | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
show that some residents here on Dale Farm, very frail people, would | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
not survive an eviction. A mobile chalet was taking out | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
today, apparently being sold by one of the travellers. Eight caravans | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
are also left within the last 24 RAS. Basildon Council maintains | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
that any solution must be one which upholds the laws of this country. | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
It also points out that it has more approve travellers' sites than any | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
other local authority in Essex, and more than many in other parts of | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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the country. The Prime Minister says the Government is doing | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
""everything we possibly can" to ensure the safe release of Judith | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Tebbutt, the woman kidnapped in Kenya on Sunday. Her husband, David, | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
was killed in the raid. Nikki Jenkins has been following | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
developments today. Mr Cameron a told MPs that the | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
emergency committee met yesterday to discuss the case and that, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
although it would be wrong to raise all the issues in public, he wanted | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
to reassure the family that everything possible will be done to | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
help. He also revealed that William Hague had met with the family in | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
person this morning. It has been more than three days since Mrs | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
Tebbit was taken and her husband, David, murdered. It is believed | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
that she may now have been moved to a city in southern Somalia up. It | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
is a stronghold of Al-Shabaab, an extremist group. It has been | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
suggested that she would be paraded in front of the cameras in a press | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
conference this afternoon. Reuters news agency has said that no-one | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
has accepted responsibility. There is no evidence of her whereabouts | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
or well-being. Later in the programme: Ambitious | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
plans to help deal with climate change. And we have also been | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
speaking to four young people who have all had to spend time in | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
hospital after suffering from There has been a small increase in | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
unemployment in the region. The total most fans at 192,000, a rise | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
of 1,000 on a month ago. 6.3 % of the workforce is unemployed, | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
compared with 7.9 % nationally. But the figures out today also show | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that the employment rate in the east is higher than in any other | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
part of the country. 74.4 % of the workforce here has a job. So where | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
might new jobs be coming from? Some experts say the future is in lots | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
of small companies employing a few more people each. Companies, | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
perhaps, like the jewellers Robert Gatward in Ipswich. Louise Holmes | :11:44. | :11:53. | |
has this report. Based in the centre of town, this family run | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
business used to specialise in high end jewellery. New trade means new | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
premises and three new members of staff. If I can get the tray out, | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
you can have a look and see what you like. | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
Laura started working here about a month ago. The story is expanding | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
and I am really excited about the future of the business growing, | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
really. By the end of the month a new store next door will have 900 | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
square feet of extra retail space. This, they say, is the reason for | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
the company's expansion - fashion jewellery. These small charms | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
certainly mean big business. At a starting price of around �30, these | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
new ranges have meant a massive increase in customers. We used to | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
see clients a few times a year, now people shop every week. That is a | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
huge change since I started in this industry 15 years of bottles of it | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
is hoped that success can be replicated across the town, | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
bringing in new shoppers and ideas. We are finding that companies are | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
looking at apprentices now to help get the business to grow. It is | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
coming together in a positive way. So, bit by bit, job by job, small | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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businesses like this could breathe life back into our town centres. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
This year's sugar beet harvest could be affected by industrial | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
action by workers at British Sugar. The Unite union is balloting its | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
members over pay after rejecting a 3.5% offer. The union wants 5.2 per | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
cent, equal to the retail price index. British Sugar says its pay | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
offer is fair and reasonable. The wife of one of our MPs has | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
spent part of her summer holiday filming the work of a charity in | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Tanzania. Victoria Bacon made the video diary with her husband, | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Richard, the MP for South Norfolk. Her charity raises money to buy | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
prosthetic limbs for amputees. You may find some of the images in this | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
report upsetting. This is a school in north-west | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
Tanzania. It is one of the poorest regions in a very poor country. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Some children are able bodied and the walk miles to come here every | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
day. Others live here because they are disabled. That is often because | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
they live in a very dangerous country. A few months ago, Sharif | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
was with his mates on the shore of the lake, washing his clothes. He | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
was the last to jump and got caught by a crocodile. It had already | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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taken his leg. I was sent to go and buy tomatoes -- this boy was sent | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
to buy to matters that the market when he was hit by a truck. He was | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
shot by bandits. That is how he lost his leg. | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Some are disabled not by accident but by design. The school has | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
become overcrowded because of an influx of albino children who are | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
brought here for their own safety after which doctors were massacring | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
these poor children to get their limbs because they believe that | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
grinding their bones they could create life saving remedies. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
Emmanuel is a case in point. They cut his fingers off and dropped his | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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hands off with a machete. They removed four teeth with a hammer. | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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This charity was set up in memory of one of the founder's' mothers. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
The money the charity raises goes towards giving these amputees | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
prosthetic limbs and it will help to set up a specialist centre here | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
in the near future. And you can see more on that story, in the form of | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
a video diary from Victoria Bacon, on the Politics Show this Sunday at | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
the later than usual time of 1.35. The MP for North Norfolk says he's | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
been told there could be a decision on the future of RAF Coltishall by | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
next month. There's been uncertainty over the former air | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
base after an aviation company pulled out of plans to develop the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
site. Norman Lamb raised the issue with the Justice Minister today. He | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
says the uncertainty is destabilising for local people. The | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
airbase, which closed in 2006, could be used for green energy, | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
aviation or returned to agricultural land. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
The Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service opened its new training facility at | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Wattisham Airfield today. Already home to the army's Apache | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
helicopter and the RAF's search- and-rescue Sea Kings, Wattisham now | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
provides the Fire Service with what they believe are some of the best | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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facilities in the country. An RAF search and rescue helicopter hovers | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
over a train crash in Suffolk. It is there to take casualties to a | :17:13. | :17:23. | |
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nearby hospital. They take training very seriously here. Training is | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
absolutely fundamental. The reality is that firefighters often work in | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
inherently dangerous environments and we cannot make them safe. A | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
building that is on fire cannot be made safe. We need to train | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
firefighters to be safe people in those environments so that they are | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
able to take quick decisions in fast-moving circumstances, very | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
often on the basis of very limited information. The new centre | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
includes what they call live fire area of where firefighters can | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
tackle the closest thing to a real blaze. They can experience a back | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
draft, when a fire can cause sudden violent explosions. When the | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
incident commanders and breathing apparatus teams turn up to these | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
incidents they need to be able to recognise the signs and symptoms | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
that everyone recognised here today. Failure to do so can have | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
disastrous consequences. Suffolk Fire and Rescue believe their new | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
training facility is among the best in the country. The casualty was | :18:38. | :18:48. | |
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airlifted to safety with the But 28-year-old woman has been | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
arrested in Luton as part of the ongoing investigation into a | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
suicide bombing in Sweden last year. It later emerged that the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
perpetrator had lived in Luton for several years with his wife and | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
three children. It has emerged that nearly half of | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
all patients admitted to hospital for an eating disorder in our | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
region are under the age of 18. Treating anorexia for children and | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
teenagers can often be a difficult and long drawn-out process. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
Tonight's special report from Fatima Manji comes from the Phoenix | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Centre at Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire. | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
I feel like I missed a certain amount of my childhood. It makes me | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
angry that a lot of people think it is like extreme dieting. It is so | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
much more than that. Ever since coming here I realise how bad I was. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
If you think about it rationally you'd do not think it is bad. But | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
then you feel it and you react to that. You react to how you feel. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
These are the voices of those who often struggled to be heard. In | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
trying to deal with personal problems they became excessive -- | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
obsessive about their weight and isolated in their illness. They are | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
getting treatment but are still struggling to understand the | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
reasons behind their anorexia. fear of gaining weight and becoming | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
fat. That is how I would describe it. Why did it scare you? I don't | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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know. Lots of people talk about magazines, celebrities and TV | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
making people want to be thin. Is that something that you think | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
influence issue? I do not really agree with planing magazines and | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
stuff and having skinning models. That is just the society we live in | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
now. Most of the population see the people and those magazines, and not | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
all of them have anorexia. I am quite clear that this is not | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
something that people choose. It afflicts them and controls their | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
behaviour and ruins their lives. For me it is quite clear it is an | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
illness. Treating that illness involves three stages: Help | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
restoring weight by eating properly, understanding the psychological | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
factors and getting back to normal life. At her worst, this girl was | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital. Her heart rate reduced to half of | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
what it should be at its worst. do not know how I got there. It is | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
scary that you can get to that stage. I have had a nurse following | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
me around at one stage. That is really hard because, in the end, I | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
am a 15-year-old girl. And that is the hope for all four of these | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
girls - that one day they will be able to return to normal teenage | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
life without the worry of trying to control what the eat. -- what they | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
eat. A possible solution to global | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
warming now, with a bit of help from an academic at Cambridge | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
University and a deserted airfield in Norfolk. Dr Hugh Hunt is a | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
specialist in what they call geo- engineering, in other words, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
deliberately changing the Earth's climate for our own benefit. And Dr | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Hunt is here now. He has a pressure washer, a long piece of whores and | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
a balloon. What are you going to be doing? It is part of a bigger | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
project and it is about seeing if we can cool the planet by emulating | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
the effects of volcanic eruptions, getting particles into the | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
stratosphere. We do not plan to do that, that might be 20 years away, | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
but we are thinking about the engineering difficulties. We have | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
to put a balloon up at 20 kilometres. We have to pump high | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
pressure liquids and we're going to use this pressure washer just to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
pump water up to one, to just to get used to the idea. Then we will | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
look at how that balloon behaves in strong wind. How will you go about | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
rectifying global warming from doing something like this in a big | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
scale? We do not know the answers to that. The debate has to carry on | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
over the next few decades. We are looking at some of the engineering | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
questions - can we do it? Is it feasible? The pressures we have to | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
pump had a very high, the balloons are very large, we need amazingly | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
strong pipe to go 20 kilometres up. We need to start thinking about | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
these questions. Our tests at Scunthorpe are really about looking | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
at how balloons behave in high wind. Will the people in the rear notice | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
anything? No. It is a big airfield and no-one will notice. It will not | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
affect them but say this does happen in the future - how does the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
science work? How do you reduce the temperature of the planet by having | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
these balloons in the stratosphere? The theory is that we put tiny dust | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
particles, like what happened in 1991 in a huge volcanic eruption. | :24:30. | :24:39. | |
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It cooled the planet by about half of one Celsius. It is a bit like | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
putting sunscreen on the planet, it might reflect some of the Sun's | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
rays. How many would you need? do not know the answers for sure. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
That is why we're doing the research. We think that perhaps 20 | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
to 40 of these balloons around the planet might be enough. Hopefully | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
they will not have to be as big as Wembley Stadium, but they will have | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
to be over 100 metres in diameter. They are the biggest balloons that | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
anyone has ever put at that altitude at the end of a piece of | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
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rope. So it releases the particles and that cools the weather? | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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There was not room for me in the studio tonight so I have come here | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
to enjoy the last of the sunshine. We have high pressure building from | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
the south. There has been a weak weather front that has moved from | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
north to south through the day. It has made things slightly more | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
cloudy. There has been plenty of sunshine, however. A fine end to | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
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today. There will be long clear spells over night. Temperatures at | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
their lowest expected to get to around seven Celsius. The winds | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
will be light and north-westerly. The wind speed will be a little | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
higher on the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts. Tomorrow will be fined but | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
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-- fine but Chile. It will be a little cloudy at times. The top | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
temperature could be 19 Celsius. A change of wind direction for | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
tomorrow - light south-easterly winds. There will be plenty of | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
sunshine to end the day. For the rest of the week, back to the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
pressure job, you will see we have a weather system coming in from the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
West. The weather front will turn it a bit cloudy and bring some rain | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
towards the end of the day on Friday. That area of low pressure | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
brings wet and windy conditions at the end of the week. It will be wet | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
and windy over the weekend with showers or longer spells of rain. | :27:24. | :27:32. |