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effort to put people off smoking. That is all from the BBC News | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Look E`st. In the programme tonight: 60 years | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
in jail for the gang who kidnapped and tortured a couple they thought | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
had murdered an elderly rel`tive. It is clear from the ditch that she | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
would have been in fear for her life. As well as the safety of her | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
unborn child. No technical malfunction ` the first | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
report into a helicopter cr`sh that killed four, including a | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Conservative peer. More smog and pollution across the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
East, but are we getting a lixed message from the experts? | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
And sealed for a century ` hnside the time capsule from the Fhrst | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
World War soldier that his family were too upset to open. | :00:43. | :00:57. | |
First tonight, 11 members of a Norfolk family who kidnapped and | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
tortured a couple they wrongly believed murdered their elddrly | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
relative have been jailed for a total of 60 years. They beat up a | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
pregnant woman and her partner to try to extract confessions `nd even | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
phoned the police while the beatings were going on. They were convinced | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
that they'd killed Gertrude Frankham ` who in fact had died from natural | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
causes. The judge said it w`s reminiscent of scenes from ` | :01:19. | :01:31. | |
Hollywood film. Our home affairs correspondent, Sally Chidzox, | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
reports. Behind bars tonight, members of the family fixatdd on | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
revenge. They are the daughters grandchildren, great`grandchildren | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and a daughter`in`law of Gertrude Frankham, the widow and matriarch of | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
the family. Her husband had been described as king of the gypsies. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Gertrude was found dead in her bed in December 2012. The familx were | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
convinced she had been murddred They kidnapped the man they believed | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
responsible and his heavily pregnant partner and severely beat them in an | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
attempt to extract confessions. They filmed at all. There was blood on | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
her face and she was very distressed. She was heavily pregnant | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
at the time. The people in the film where forcing her to say wh`t they | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
wanted. She would have been in fear for her own life as well as the | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
safety of her unborn child. Police were alerted after | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Gertrude's. Dial 999 to tell police they had a confession after beating | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
the women. `` the woman. Police investigated the famhly's | :02:43. | :03:07. | |
murder investigations. Two pathologists examined her rdmains. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
She died from natural causes. With the police call and the footage of | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the torture and kidnap, it was the family who ended up in the dock | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Sentencing the defendants to a total of 60 years in jail, the judge said | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
they were a family who saw themselves as being above the law. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
They imposed their own law. They punched, kicked and dragged e`mail | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
victim into a warehouse and forced him into each year. It was ` scene | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
reminiscent of some vile Hollywood film. The two victims lived at a | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
secret location under policd protection. The family still insist | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Gertrude was murdered. She will get her justice. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
On being jailed, none of thd family showed remorse. | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
A man who stabbed a young mother to death has been given a life | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
sentence. Mark Czapla believed his girlfriend, Kirsty Humphrey, had | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
been cheating on him. He has never expressed any remorse and whll now | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
serve at least 23 years in prison. Our Essex reporter, Gareth George, | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
was in court. This is Mark Czapla. Police | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
described him as a coward bdcause he wouldn't appear in court to hear the | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
evidence against him. Judge Christopher Ball QC describdd Czapla | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
as an emotional bully, obsessively jealous with a controlling nature. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
His paranoia and aggression fuelled by his abuse of cocaine. Last | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
September there was a policd cordon outside the house in Colchester he | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
shared with his girlfriend, 23`year`old Kirsty Humphrey. Their | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
relationship was described `s tempestuous. In a jealous r`ge, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Czapla stabbed Kirsty Humphrey to death and then fled. Dave H`rris is | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
a local councillor. He described Kirsty and the impact her mtrder had | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
on the estate. Very personable and a very caring | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
person. Always had a pleasant word to say to anybody. People couldn't | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
believe it could happen in this strong community here. It w`s just | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
so shocking. I can't describe how bad it was. | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Even now, outside the coupld's former home, pink paint on the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
pavement. Mark Czapla had thrown it at Kirsty Humphrey after a row. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Today at Chelmsford Crown Court Mark Czapla was sentenced to life. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
He'll serve a minimum of 23 years before he is eligible for rdlease. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Meanwhile, Kirsty Humphrey's mother, Nicky, said her murder had ripped | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
the family apart and said no sentence, however long, was | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
sufficient punishment. We welcome the conviction. However, | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
he is a coward and this was a despicable attack on his felale | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
partner, Kirsty. He did not have the guts to come before the court to | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
face the family and hear thd evidence or two`year sentence | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
pronounced upon him by the judge. Kirsty's family said how murder had | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
ripped them apart and they said that no sentence would be suffichent | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
punishment for what this man had done. | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
The investigation into a helicopter crash in which the Conservative peer | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Lord Ballyedmond and three others died has not found any technical | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
malfunction. The helicopter came down in thick fog at Gillingham near | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Beccles on March 13th shortly after taking off. Our reporter Silon | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
Newton is in Ipswich now. What we have here are in the initial | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
findings of the Air Accident Investigation Branch stop the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
indicate that the pilot bec`me disorientated in the moments before | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the crash. It happened on M`rch 13 at around 7:30pm. The helicopter | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
took off from Lord Ballyedmond's stately home, heading for Coventry | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
on a dark and foggy night. The commander at the controls whth is | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
captain. With Lord Ballyedmond, a fellow passenger. The nose tilted | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
downwards and it started to head towards the ground travelling at a | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
speed of 100 mph. Investigators say there is voice recordings of the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
copilot making comments abott the pitch of the aircraft moments before | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
it hit the ground. It crashdd 4 0 metres from the helipad where it had | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
taken off from. It killed all four men on board. The AIB say there is | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
no evidence this helicopter hit another object or there was any | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
technical malfunction. The full report is likely to be publhshed | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
next year. The AIB say that the lack of visibility will be a key area of | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
investigation. There are so many potholes on the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
roads in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex that it could take eight ye`rs to | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
clear the backlog of repairs. A freezing winter followed by a wet | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
one have caused a lot of dalage But our councils are now being given an | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
extra ?9.6 million by the Government for repairs. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
A routine service today for Frank's car at his local garage in | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Colchester. But last year, Frank faced a ?500 repair bill after | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
driving over this pothole. Dssex County Council had known about it | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
and paid him as much in compensation. | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Our roads are in a poor state. People should not have to drive | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
looking for potholes. They should be looking at pedestrians and other car | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
users. We see a lot of vehicles with | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
damaged wheels, buckled frol potholes, which seems to be common | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
at the moment. And we've sedn some broken suspension springs across a | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
variety of vehicles. As soon as one pothole is fhlled, | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
another one needs to be attdnded to. The council has reported nine and a | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
half thousand potholes in jtst six months. The roads are satur`ted Any | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
minor cracks or holes in thd road, the water finds its way in. The | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
pressure from the tyres onto the road expands those holes. The | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
inevitable consequence is more potholes. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
This is Mission control. Thd team works calls. It does not include | :09:28. | :09:39. | |
major trunk roads like the @11. Repairs to those roads is the | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
responsibility of the Highw`ys Agency. Of the new ?10 millhon of | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
extra Government money to ftnd appears locally, Norfolk gets the | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
biggest slice. It costs on `verage ?69 to repair each pothole hn this | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
region. That means our councils have enough cash to repair around a. | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
Those behind today's reports say the emphasis should be on prevention | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
rather than cure. Nationallx, we would not expect roads to gdt | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
surfaced for up to 70 years. In the east, that problem is more | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
pronounced, with some not gdtting resurfaced until they are 100 years | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
old. Make do and mend is not our option. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
We would resurface more if we could afford it. | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
Earlier Graham Bygrave ` a Highways manager for Norfolk County ` told me | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the money was welcome, but was a drop in the ocean. He said ` number | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
of factors had led to the pothole problem we're now seeing. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
The weather is obviously a key factor. But we also have agding | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
infrastructure in this part of the UK. Many roads were never rdally | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
designed, they just evolved over time. The unclassified road network | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
really has been just layers of car and chip. Surface dressing over a | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
number of years. Those sorts of roads are not very weather | :11:09. | :11:09. | |
resistant. So it is the rural roads th`t are | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
the real issue for you, and probably quite Norfolk is getting more money | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
than Suffolk or Essex. It is certainly part of the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
equation. Norfolk County Cotncil also has a very large highw`y | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
network. We maintain 6000 mhles of road, second only to Devon hn the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
UK. That is a key element in getting this extra Government funding. | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
You talk about potholes, thdn there is the actual resurfacing of roads. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Some people say there should be more resurfacing because that brhngs more | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
value for money than just p`pering over the cracks. | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
If money was no object, that is certainly what we would do. We | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
manage our acid and try to linimise the deterioration. `` we manage our | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
asset. But in the current fhnancial climate, both nationally and for | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
ourselves, there is just not enough money. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
There will be people listenhng who say: "you haven't done the pothole | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
on my road". How do you prioritise? We prioritise on the depth `nd size | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
of the pothole. Over the past 1 months, we have repaired sole 7 00 | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
potholes, a phenomenal numbdr. We have over half of our workforce | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
engaged in repairing potholds on the highway network, keeping it as safe | :12:34. | :12:34. | |
as possible. Thank you. | :12:35. | :13:01. | |
If you know of any bad examples of pot holes near you, we'd love to | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
hear from you. You can phond on 0845 seven 630 630. Or send photos via | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
email, Facebook or Twitter. Don t forget to leave a contact phone | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
number. Essex Police have bden given more time to question a man accused | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
of murdering a father of five. He was found with more than 100 knife | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
wounds in Colchester last S`turday. The 38`year`old suspect was arrested | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
yesterday afternoon. A man from Ipswich, once described | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
as the fattest in the world, has had to postpone his surgery in the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
United States. Paul Mason planned to travel to New York for an operation | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
to remove his excess skin. But his application for a visa has been | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
delayed after it emerged he had a fraud conviction. He served six | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
months for the offence 20 ydars ago. His application's been referred to | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
the department of homeland security. He used to weigh 70 stone, but is | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
now down to 22 stone. The operation could reduce his weight by ` further | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
seven stone. Still to come: The pioneering surgery to help women | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
with all bladder problems. Smog and pollution levels in parts | :14:03. | :14:17. | |
of this region have been higher than anywhere else for the second day | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
running, according to the Mdt Office. South easterly winds have | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
blown dust from the Sahara.. And pollution from the continent. But | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
tonight there are questions over the levels of pollution and whether | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
they've really been as bad `s predicted. This is a Birds Dye view | :14:30. | :14:45. | |
at Luton Airport. All of thdse buildings shrouded by a curtain of | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
smog. It has been a murky phcture in more ways than one. I region was | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
predicted to be one of the worst places in the country for pollution. | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Depending on which experts xou listen to. There is still a blanket | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
of haze across Norwich at the moment. The Met office says that any | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
pollution scale of one to tdn, it will be ten. That means verx high. | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
Defra says it will be low. Tnless you are in a city or town or buy a | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
busy road. If one or two pl`ces have a high reading and you colotr a | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
large area of the map with that colour then everybody thinks they | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
will get bad pollution levels. It is a bit like telling people who live | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
on the top of a hill that there will be flooding and it applies only to | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
people in the valleys. Saharan dust coated cars yesterday. | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
A perfect recipe for high ahr pollution. The Defra websitd showed | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
the highest alert possible hn purple. But it has not been as high | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
as forecast. Despite the warnings, this man took his job for `` took | :15:52. | :16:03. | |
his dog for the usual walk. I would not say the experts are | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
right or wrong. But we do normally get sand blowing up from thd Sahara | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
at this time of year. With ` strong southerly and I suppose with the | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
high`pressure and low presstre, weak spectre it. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
The warnings have continued. Although the readings from this | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
monitoring station in Norwich have been consistently low. This man is | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
an expert in weather and air pollution at the University of East | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Anglia. He says it does not take much for the forecast to be wrong. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
There are three elements kex to a good forecast. Getting the weather | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
right, quantifying how much volition there is, and understanding the | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
atmospheric chemistry. `` quantifying how much polluthon there | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
is. Experts say that while air pollution | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
is a serious issue, it should be kept in perspective. We apologise | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
for sound problems during that report. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
It's nearly four months since the Government's Airports Commission | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
left Stansted off the short list for a new runway. It was a move that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
delighted campaigners opposdd to expansion. But ever since Stansted | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
has been showing signs of growth, handling more passengers and | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
announcing new deals with ahrlines. And it's not just at Stanstdd. Luton | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
and Southend have also been expanding. So does it matter we re | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
probably not going to get a new major runway? | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
The Airports Commission may have said an initial "no" to a sdcond | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
runway at Stansted. But that does not mean that the region's `irports | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
are going nowhere. They havd substantial spare capacity. Recent | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
weeks have seen a flurry of announcements by airlines planning | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
major growth. This week it was easyJet, planning to double | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
passenger numbers at Luton. Last week, Flybe announced six ndw routes | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
from Southend. Two weeks ago, Ryanair said it would incre`se | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
passenger numbers at Stanstdd by 50%. How much spare capacitx do the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
region's airports have? Luton currently flies ten million | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
passengers a year. It could, with Government permission, fly tp to 18 | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
million. Southend currently flies ond million | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
and could go up to 5 million, if it was allowed to. Stansted, ctrrently | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
at 18 million, has permission to go up to 35 million. But if pl`nning | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
controls were relaxed, it could go up to 45 million on just ond runway. | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
From an 18 million passenger starting point this year, wd believe | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
in the next 15 to 20 years, we'll be at 35 million. As we go beyond that | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
figure, depending on growth rates over the next ten to 15 years, | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
getting up to 45 million. 45 million would be ten million more | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
than they presently have permission for. That's the size of Birlingham. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
So we would not simply roll over and accept it. We would want to discuss | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
with the airport the noise hmpact, the air quality impact, and to | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
ensure the interests of loc`l people were safeguarded. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
With anything up to 35 years of spare capacity, Stansted fedls it | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
can ease any shortage of runway space in the South East. And it is | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
not the only place that feels that way. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Southend is one of the airports that will be able to provide addhtional | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
capacity before any new runway is built. So we can grow our route | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
network and help to solve some of the South East airport capacity | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
issues. The Airports Commission is looking | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
at Heathrow and Gatwick for possible new runways. But fears Stansted will | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
be left with nowhere to grow appear overdone. More women are sahd to | :19:40. | :19:55. | |
suffer from bladder problems than some forms of cancer. But it can be | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
embarrassing to talk about `nd many suffer in silence. 18 at | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridge has become the first in this region | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
to use a new type of keyhold surgery to repair the damage. They want to | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
get this message across: If you have a problem, get help. | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
Are you feeling nervous abott your surgery today? | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Ahead of her operation, this woman hopes it will change her life. She | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
is lucky that the gynaecology team here has won a national accolade for | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
helping women with unary and pelvic floor problems. While some `re keen | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
to have this operation, othdrs don't have it so easy. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Older ladies may just put up with things until it has got to the point | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
really cannot put up with any more. That is because they just dhd not | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
want to talk to their GP about it. It is not pain, just discomfort But | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
you don't want to tell people about it. | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
She is being given a general anaesthetic but the procedure will | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
only take 20 minutes. The hospital has been praised for its usd of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
keyhole surgery. But today, the operation is being done | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
conventionally. I can see where the healthy tissue is and where the | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
weaker tissue is. I can then join them up and provide strength. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Figures show that one in five women suffer from these kinds of problems. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
Higher than some cancers and diabetes. But only a quarter of | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
women seek help. If they did look for treatment, there is an 80% | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
success rate. Penny has alrdady encouraged others to seek advice | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
over similar problems. The lore ladies that go out and talk about | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
what they have had done, and that has made a huge difference to their | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
lives, those who are out thdre worrying that it is surgery need not | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
worry. We have a vast range of options. | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
One alternative is Botox. Soon the surgery is over and it is only lunch | :22:22. | :22:31. | |
time. She will go home tomorrow In 1916, a young soldier from | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
Hertfordshire was killed at the Battle of the Somme. Edward Ambrose | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
was just 18 and when he went to war he took a suitcase with him for all | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
his personal possessions. There's all sorts of things, this | :22:41. | :22:53. | |
being perhaps one of the nicest .. Stored away for almost a century, | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
this suitcase tells a fascinating story. Inside, the personal | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
possessions of Private Edward Ambrose, just 18 when he was killed. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
His mother was said to be so heartbroken that she locked the case | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
and its contents in an attic. The case is an incredible condition as | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
are its contents. Photographs, medals, and Private Ambrose's pipe | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
and cigarette case containing hand`rolled cigarettes. | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
It's the totality of everything a snapshot of a young man's lhfe at | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
the moment he died. The poignant half smoked pipe or picture of his | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
girlfriend is just so touchhng. Private Ambrose, the eldest of six, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
joined the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment in 1905. The | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
following year, he was on the front line in the Battle of the Somme He | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
died a few days after being hit by shell fragments. | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
One of the most interesting pieces is his wallet. It contains pieces of | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
shrapnel. The suitcase contained many letters. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
This was from Private Ambrose's father, just days before his son | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
went to war. "No doubt you will think it is | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
strange to get a letter frol dad but I thought I must write you just a | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
few lines before you sail away from home. I remind you that you are | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
quite young, so you must trx to take care of yourself and don't forget to | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
ask your Heavenly Father to help you." | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Private Ambrose's possessions, including this French phrasd book | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
for soldiers, will go on display later this year as part of the | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Hearts At War project. A unhque collection, but sadly and all too | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
familiar story. So poignant. A very moving letter. | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
Now the weather. The air quality is changing. More | :25:04. | :25:26. | |
clear air coming in from thd Atlantic will mean less pollution | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
around. We will also see sole rain. The cleaner air is coming in on this | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
weather front. It has some rain on it but as it tracks its way eastward | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
it is weakening. For most p`rts of the region, it will turn | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
increasingly cloudy. A few spots of rain. By the end of the night, it | :25:46. | :26:01. | |
looks dry. Not particularly cold. A south`westerly wind. Into the | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
morning, Mr will clear first thing. The cloud is expected to thhcken. We | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
may see some sunshine. Tempdratures are bit cooler than they have been. | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
The afternoon looks as though it will be brighter with a better | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
chance of sunshine. Pressurd patterns show that there ard more | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
Atlantic weather fronts on their way. Tightly squeezed isobars saw a | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
noticeable south`westerly breeze over the next few days. That will | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
bring mixed fortunes for thd weekend. Some rain at the wdekend, | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
but not throughout it. We start Saturday dry and bright sunshine. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
But that may turn cloudy as the day progresses. A south`westerlx breeze | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
for the weekend. Some outbrdaks of rain on Sunday morning. But try and | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
break by the afternoon. `` but dry and bright by the afternoon. Some | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
sunshine. A mild night. I suppose we need a bit of rain | :27:22. | :27:37. | |
That is all from us. Goodbyd. | :27:38. | :27:48. |