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Hello. Welcome to the programme. In the programme tonight, almost 500 | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
million litres of water, looking into the ground every day as the | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
hosepipe ban begins. We have all got a hosepipe ban now, haven't we? | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
We have got to sort it out. Tributes to a rock legend. Jim | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Marshall, who invented the Marshall amplifiers and made it in Milton | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Keynes. The police car crashes whilst using a stolen vehicle, | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
injuring three people. And the old soldier who can hear again after 60 | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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First tonight, on the first day of the hosepipe ban, we highlight the | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
hundreds of millions of litres of water leaking into the ground. One | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
literate in every six is wasted, every day. Many of you have | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
contacted us to say what the companies must do more to cut | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
leakage before they stock was using hosepipes. The biggest water | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
company is Anglican water -- Anglian Water, one of six companies | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
which fail to meet leakage targets set by the water regulator. It is | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
allowed to use 200 and and 12 million litres each day through | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
leakage. Last year, it lost 230 million litres. If we all use water | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
more carefully, Anglian will save 120 million litres, only half the | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
amount lost through leaks. The other company banning hosepipes is | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
ideal essential. It loses 181 million litres each day through | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
leakage. Essex and Suffolk Water was 65 million litres each day, | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Cambridge Water loses starting 0.7 million, and Veolia East loses 5 | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
million. None of them have was paid by us. -- have hosepipe bans. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Anglian water leakage detection teams on patrol today. Above ground | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
there is nothing to see, but what lurks beneath? Armed with listening | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
sensors, leaked tent - and Tom Harrison and his team have answered | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
that question. We measure the Lake Sound get into either a sensor, and | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
the coral like that into the distance. We have redoubled efforts. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
We have got leakage down to the lowest ever levels. We have 150 | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
people out every day, looking for leaks and fixing them. Here is one | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
waiting to be fixed, on the outskirts of King's Lynn, the water | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
is escaping from a mains pipe, coming up through this concrete | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
coverings. It has been going on for a long time and the surrounding | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
fields have been flooded. We heard about this leak from a Look East | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Europe who walks his dog near here. He said he contacted the water | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
regulator, Ofwat, and Anglian Water, weeks ago. Anglian Water is aware | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
of it, but the water continues to flow. It is not news to the ground | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
maintenance team from King's Lynn Borough Council, who regularly pass | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
by and have watched precious drinking water seeping away. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
have got the hosepipe ban, now, haven't we? Why doesn't somebody | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
sort it out? Anglian Water said this leak near Bury St Edmunds is | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
due to be repaired as soon as possible. Across the region, water | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
escaping from the system is enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
every eight minutes. Water companies no they have to do better. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Are there, I spoke to the director of water services at Anglian Water | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
who said they missed leakage targets because of the harsh winter | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
of 2011, when the frozen ground caused problems with water pipes. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
One decision be made was that we continue to supply customers during | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
that time, and that pushed leakage up higher. We could have pushed up | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
pressure and reduced leakage but that would have affected customers. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
We get the pressure or high, and unfortunately pushed more water out | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
of the leaks caused due to bad weather. Can you understand why | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
viewers are asking us why the matter having a hosepipe ban, when | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
the company is losing millions of water -- millions of litres each | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
day through leakage? I understand that, absolutely and we have been | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
working hard to minimise the amount of leaks. Just to get you some idea | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
of scale, we have invested an additional �14 million in leakage | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
in the last year. We have deployed 62 additional people to look for | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
leaks every day, and we have 60 teams out working every day, | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
repairing leaks across the region. We are working very hard. People | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
have contacted us to say they have seen water gushing down the road | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
near them, and it does not get sorted out for a long time. Are you | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
getting on the case quickly enough? You're absolutely right. In the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
last year we have changed the level of service from an average of 10 | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
days to fix water leaks to an average of two days. We have to | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
make sure that we get someone out to assess the leak to trace where | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
it might be coming from, then we have to mobilise resources to get | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
out there to repair it. Sometimes that involves road closures for | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
which we need permission. There are many factors in making sure that we | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
do the work quickly, but safely, with minimum inconvenience to | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
customers. That sometimes takes some planning. Not all the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
companies have the same trouble with that you do to stop you are | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
one of six companies that fail to meet its leakage targets. Why are | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
some companies better than others? It is important to clarify, Anglian | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Water missed its leakage target last year for the past time in 10 | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
years. It has one of the lowest leakage levels and the country. But | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
you realise with the circumstances that we are a in that we have to do | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
an even better job to minimise or water losses from the system. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
you are planning to get away for the first holiday weekend of the | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
year, there are problems on the road and a reduced service in some | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
trees. Industrial action at Stansted airport will not happen | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
but there could still be some disruption. The good news is that | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
the threatened Easter strike by baggage handlers at Stansted | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
airport is Op. Just as well, because over the break, 100,000 | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
people are expected to leap from Stansted airport and 65,000, from | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Luton airport. But, airlines are warning that major airports could | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
face gridlock with not enough staff to carry out full security and | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
passport checks. That has been dismissed by the head of the UK | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Border Force. We have linked resources to the demand, the plan | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
is to cure. You will be saved and you'll have an enjoyable Easter and | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
we will get on and try to do the job, to make sure that you remain | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
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safe at all times and that destruction is at the minimal. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
you're travelling by train, you'd best check before you set off. From | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
9 o'clock on Saturday night through till Monday night no Greater Anglia | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
trains will operate between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. A | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
bus replacement service will be in place. There's a reduced service on | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
the Liverpool Street to Norwich mainline from tomorrow. First | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Capital Connect will have no trains between Stevenage and Royston on | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Saturday and Sunday. Buses will be laid on. After the chaos on the | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
region's forecourts, fuel supplies to garages are returning to near- | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
normal levels, so drivers should have no concerns about heading off | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
for Easter. Once on the road though, you may run into some trouble. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Roadworks remain in place on a 22 mile stretch of the M1 near Luton | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
in Bedfordshire. And on 11 miles of the M25 near St Albans in | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
Hertfordshire. And on the M25 around Brentwood. Major congestin | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
bottlenecks to avoid are: the A11 at Elveden. The A14 between | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Cambridge and Huntingdon. And the A47 between Peterborough and King's | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Lynn and between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. An AA survey estimates | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
that 39% of drivers it polled in the East have decided not to travel | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
this Easter. Still to come. The World War Two veteran who can hear | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
probably for the pastime in more than 60 years. And Alex will be | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
here with a full weekend forecast. The Easter weekend is almost upon | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
us, but what does the weather have in store? I will be back with more | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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details after the news would you lead. -- where you live. A young | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
woman from Essex has received life- changing injuries after crash with | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
a police car. Two police officers were also taken to was that of. The | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
wreckage of a police car after a high-speed crash. The police car | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
was following a vehicle that had been reported stolen. And here it | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
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is. A Fiat Stilo. It was said to have been taken from Lowestoft. It | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
was not as badly damaged as the other vehicles. The two men inside | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
it ran off after the crash. One has been arrested. The other has | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
disappeared. Wreckage littered the road for hundreds of yards because | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
two other cars were involved, driven by members of the public | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
caught up in the crash. The driver of this Volkswagen was badly shaken | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
but uninjured. The driver of this Twitter, a 25-year-old woman from | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Maldon, suffered what is described as potentially life-changing | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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injuries -- Toyota. She was hysterical, as I would have been. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The police and the ambulance were there. She was trapped up against | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
the windscreen. The window was smashed and hanging forward. I just | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
hope that she is OK. Accidents like this raised questions about police | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
pursuits but a spokesman for Essex police said only specially trained | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
police officers are able to carry it pursuits of other vehicles. Any | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
decision to authorise its pursuit must be a reasonable and | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
proportionate response to the crime or other issue. Two police officers | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
needed hospital didn't. Tonight, Essex police said that the thoughts | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
of the police force are with the injured woman and her family. The | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
police and the courts service had begun an investigation into the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
escape of a prisoner from Norwich Crown Court. Arfath Ali, was | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
charged with assault, was escorted by a single guard. He overpowered | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
the guard during a court appearance. A man from Essex has been forced to | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
hand over more than 200,000 towns in rent from illegal waste sites. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Kevin Allsop and can Stondon Massey let out units on an industrial | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
estate near Chelmsford for vehicle broking and -- braking and waste | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
burning. The developer then the project to build the world's | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
biggest indoor ski resort in Suffolk has been made bankrupt. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Godfrey Spanner insisted that the �350 million scheme will still lead, | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
but critics say that the idea is dead and the water. Three years ago, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
and Godfrey Spanner celebrated after the government said yes to | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
the project in a quarry. This is absolutely ideal. It is going to | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
put Suffolk on the world map. going to bring a huge number of | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
visitors. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot. Repeated delays, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
negotiations over finance, and for Godfrey Spanner, bankruptcy. | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
Nothing has changed. It has, because you have been made bankrupt. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
That does not affect this project in any way. But there is a | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
confidence issue. People might think that but for the last eight | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
years, they have been saying that this would happen. Every day, we | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
get nearer to it happening. comes after a lengthy battle over a | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
separate development. He must step down as the company director of | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
risky project. Critics doubted that the project would ever be built and | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
this, they say, has proved them right. I do not think it will go | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
ahead. There might well be another application on this site. People | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
see brown signs in front of their faces and because they do, they | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
ignore everything else about it and do not want to know. The local | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
council said planning permission was granted to the land, not the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
individual and that promoting economic prosperity and growth | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
remains top of its agenda. So then peer has reopened for a holiday | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
weekend -- Southend Pier. Repairs have been completed after it was | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
hit by a fishing boat. The accident had damaged the walkway, the | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
walkway and a railway have now reopened. Further repairs are | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
needed but will be carried out whilst the peer is still open to | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
stop fertility experts want more aid donors to come forward to help | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
childless couples. For many women, the only chance of having a baby is | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
from donated eggs. But the waiting- list is now two years long. Pamela | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
and Nathan, playing with their twins after being told they would | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
never have children. Pavel Wolves 40 and could no longer conceive | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
naturally. Crawley option was to join a two-year waiting list for an | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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egg donor, but then her sister-in- law offered X. B-- eggs. Just under | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
nine months later, Pamela gave birth. I don't think people realise | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
the impact that it has on people's lives, not being able to conceive. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
How amazing it is, and without the kindness of her sister-in-law, they | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
would not be alive. For many women, at the age of 35 the quality of | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
their eggs fall sharply and donated eggs are the only answer. They are | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
waiting to receive treatment with donor eggs and are totally | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
dependent on the generosity of the egg donor. Because there is a | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
shortage of donors, many couples remain childless. Nathan and Pamela | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
were lucky and know it is only because of their family, that they | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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One of the most important figures in rock music has died. He didn't | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
play and sing but his name appeared onstage with some of the biggest | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
names in rock music. Jim Marshall invented the Marshall | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
amp and he moved his company to Milton Keynes to make them. Today | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
many of the world's top guitarists have posted tribute to the man they | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
call the Father of Loud. Jim Marshall. His name, his | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
signature, his sound became part of rock history. They called him the | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
Father of Loud. He was wonderfully kind to us. He would help us out | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
with things and he remained that way through everybody's life and he | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
was still regarded by everybody as the great Godfather of everything | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
amplification. I think there is not a musician in the world who doesn't | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
owe a great big thank you to the wonderful Jim Marshall. From | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
running a climbing shop, he moved to the amps. His factory in | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
Bletchley went on to build thousands every month. In the | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
company museum, some of the rarest. This is the most. The first ever | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
made. The drummers brought the guitarists with them and the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
guitarist said, could you supply us with amplification equipment? We | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
cannot get the sound we want. That was produced in the garage behind | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
the shop. After six attempts, we came up with this amp and that was | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
the birth of the Marshall amp. does over the years from rock | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
royalty. This picture, among the most poignant. His last visit to | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
his factory in February. Even though he had not been well for | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
some time, the amount of condolences we have had, and the | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
feeling I had when I was giving the news was surprised. It is a very | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
sad day for me and the industry. Outside, flowers were laid for him | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
today for a man whose name of Robert -- reverberate long after | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
his passing. If you want to know what a martial | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
and sounds like, listen to this with the American guitarist, Joe | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
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Bonamassa. Joe Bonamassa, who is playing sell- | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
out concert across the country and has been using Marshall amps for | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
years. When I spoke to him this afternoon, he'd told me why they | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
are so special. What makes a Marshall amps special is the fact | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
that it has redefined the sound of so many guitarists. You know, | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
everybody from Pete Townshend, who was instrumental in developing the | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
amps that you can see over my shoulder, to Eric Clapton, you know, | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
everybody who has picked up an electric guitar has at one point | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
plugged into a Marshall amp and it is the sound of rocks. It has been | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
synonymous with rock and roll. But they can be very blues music as | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
well. And you have got to know their family? I have got to know | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
the entire Marshall and family and obviously my condolences go out to | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
Paul and his family. The loss of a legend. Jim Marshall is a legend. | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
You know, like, everybody who has played with his product... The | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
whole thing about the Marshall family and everything is their | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
sense of where they come from. Milton Keynes. Most of the Marshall | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
amps now, I think, they are made in the UK and they want to keep it | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
that way, which is the real testament to them in these times. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Do you think that Jim Marshall realised how important he was? | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Probably if you asked him, I did not know him very well, I met him | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
once, and he probably would have just said, I get a kick out of all | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
of the guitarists over the years to have had so much fun playing for my | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
amp, and it goes back to the days when it was just him and Ken and a | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
few other guys developing the amps and putting four 12s into a Cabinet | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
as opposed to making small combinations, and being on the cusp | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
of invention, not only musically but on the equipment side of it. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
Joe Bonamassa, thank you. Thank you, I appreciated, man! | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
was a really nice bloke! In cricket, the County Championship | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
got under way. Our two teams, Essex and Northamptonshire, have to | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
survive on small crowds but numbers are on the rise. | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
True to form, a new cricket season dawns and the temperature plummets. | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
The players arrived undeterred. These days it is probably healthier | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
than it was 20 years ago. We posted a small profit, but it is very much | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
a balancing act. As long as they don't pay the wages too much and | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
get carried away like they do with football, we should be all right! | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Half-a-million people watched a county game last season but the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
fact that many sides have turned a profit is in part down to the loans | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
provided by the England and Wales Cricket Board. It is tough, no | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
question. Every year we are working hard to keep our heads above water. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
We have no substantive Det. Northamptonshire, the playing | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
budget is one of the smallest on the circuit. Their pre-season tour | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
of South Africa was cancelled. This year's signing is Cameron White but | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
his salary has been funded by three anonymous benefactors. It is a | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
high-profile name that will hopefully put bums on seats and | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
that is a key part of what we need to do so we are very grateful for | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
the support. The biggest thing for us is that when I walk into the | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
changing room, I know the players want to be there. I do not want to | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
look around and think, these guys are getting paid a lot but they do | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
not want to be here. The success of the county game goes hand in hand | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
with England's success worldwide. But the county fixture list has | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
suffered. Professional sport is driven by the broadcaster and when | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
you sign into a deal, like we did with Sky, like football and rugby, | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
we need to be consumer-driven. Thankfully the county game is not | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
all about the money but whether it is the team you play for or the | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
money you earn, it is better together than out on your own. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Ken Broom from Norfolk is 89. This year, for the first time in a very | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
long time, he heard the birds sing. Ken has been totally deaf for more | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
than 40 years. His hearing started to go during the Second World War | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
after a mortar bomb exploded just a few feet away. But now incredibly, | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
Ken can hear again. This report from Mike Liggins. | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
# If I had my way #. # We would never grow old #. | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Tariq Jahan lives in a British Legion residential home -- Ken | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
Bruen. For more than 40 years, he has lived in a silent world, forced | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
to lip-read. Now, voices and electronic, he says, that he can | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
hear them. Ken was involved in heavy fighting in Italy during the | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
Second World World. -- second world war. We had no tanks when we were | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
attacked. Eventually, we were shelled for the rest of the day and | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
a mortar bomb landed three yards from me. When Ken was married in | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
1947, he was starting to lose his hearing. By 1970, he was totally | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
deaf, but an operation at Addenbrooke's Hospital last year | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
and the use of an electronic device called a cochlear implant means Ken | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
can now here again. A couple of weeks ago I suddenly realised, I | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
was walking along and thinking, what is that Norway's? I realised | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
it was the birds singing! -- what is that noise? It is the first time | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
I have heard the birds sing for 50 years! He loved music when he was | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
younger, Vera Lynn and Bing Crosby. There is bedewed box where he lives. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
-- a jukebox. He cannot hear the words, he says, but he can catch | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
the rhythm. And when he is out walking along the seafront with his | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
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son, he can now hear the waves. # If I had my way #. | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
At the age of 89, Ken is living life to the full. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
What a great story! Now, the weather. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
Good evening. I bring news of a fairly cloudy Easter weekend. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Although it will be mainly dry, there is the chance of rain but | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
temperatures should be bang on average for this type -- time of | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
A bit of patchy cloud but that will disappear and under the clear skies, | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
it will get quite chilly tonight. We are expecting a widespread frost | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
with most locations getting below freezing. Minus 3. In terms of | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
winds, light and westerly. Tomorrow, the changes will happen because of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the weather front. It will turn increasingly cloudy and it could | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
bring patchy rain. It will be a cold and frosty start of through | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
the morning with plenty of sunshine. Hopefully it will warm up after | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
that. The odd spot of rain. Temperatures are likely to get into | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
double figures. Generally, a light westerly wind. Through the | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
afternoon, it will turn cloudy further south. The rain should not | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
amount to very much. The rain for the Easter weekend is not likely to | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
really spoil things, it is not particularly significant. What is | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
significant is the rain on Easter Monday. We have a cold front right | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
across us and that could produce heavy rain that will gradually | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
clear up later on. Fairly cloudy conditions for Friday and Saturday. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Some brighter spells but not much in the wake of sunshine. Saturday, | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
late on in the day, we are expecting patchy rain which will | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
linger into Sunday. A greater risk of rain on Sunday. Temperatures | :27:11. | :27:15. |