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Independence Hello and welcome to Look East. In | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
the programme tonight, the fight to keep vulnerable teenagers safe from | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
sexual predators, how yesterday s keep vulnerable teenagers safe from | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
sexual predators, how yesterday s conviction of a pita bread gang is | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
just the start. Extending the M11, just the start. Extending the M 1, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
there is a plan to take it onto the Humber, but how realistic is that? | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
We will be here later in the programme, Saint or sinner? | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Dylan Hartley on grabbing his last chance. And she liked it so much she | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
bought the pub, and the Ivory Coast to East Anglia. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
`` from the Ivory Coast. First tonight, the fight to protect | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
vulnerable children from sexual predators. Last night on Look East | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
we reported on the sentencing of five people aged between 33 and 14 | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
who sexually abused five girls from Peterborough. It was the result of | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
the authorities specifically targeting this type of offence. But | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
experts say more needs to be done, as Louise Hubball reports. | :01:12. | :01:29. | |
Five members of a gang who raped and abused vulnerable young girls have | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
been jailed. The court heard the girls were seen as easy meat, sexual | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
playthings. And all this happened here in Peterborough. What do | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
shoppers here think? Shocking. Really shocking, that this is | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
happening in Peterborough. It is disgusting. What can you say? I have | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
a sister, if it happened to her, it a sister, if it happened to her, it | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
would rate my heart. It is horrible to think that there is people like | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
that walking about. One of the social workers supporting the girls | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
agreed to talk to me. We've concealed her identity to protect | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
the young people she works with. concealed her identity to protect | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
the young people she works with How the young people she works with How | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
important was the sentencing for the girls? Although the criminal process | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
has come to an end, it's the start of the girls being able to live with | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
what has happened to them. They were all pleased to know what the outcome | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
was. The biggest milestone was giving their evidence. We have | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
spoken about the impact on the girls, but how do you cope with | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
listening to what they are telling you? It's really difficult. There | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
are days when I drive home in the car and I'd be in tears, just | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
thinking about what I'd heard and what the girls had said during the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
day. But you have to stay strong for them. They need to know they can | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
rely on you to be there for them. This video is shown to young people | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
at risk of sexual exploitation. Prevention is now key. And so is the | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
need for youngsters at risk to talk. One of the most basic tools this | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
charity uses is jewellery making. If you are making something, you can | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
talk without having to make eye contact with your worker. And it | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
increases confidence to talk about the things that have happened to | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
you. Sometimes, these young people are very angry, and you commercially | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
for all of this out and explain your feelings and discuss your feelings. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
And of course, yesterday, five abusers were jailed precisely | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
because young girls had the strength to discuss their feelings. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
Well, earlier I spoke to Professor Jenny Pearce from the University of | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Bedfordshire, and asked her how widespread this kind of crime is. | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
The office of the children's commission produced a report last | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
year that said we know for sure that over 2000 young people are being | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
sexually exploited by gangs and groups. That isn't under | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
representation of the numbers, because young people do not report. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
In our research, only one in 12 in gang affected neighbourhoods said | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
they would tell anybody about the sexual violence. They have no | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
confidence that those they tell will be able to make any difference or do | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
something about it. Until we improve the responses to young people who | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
tell us about sexual violence, we will continue to have an | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
underreporting of the amount and the scale. We know that in Peterborough, | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
this was a proactive response by the police and social services, but what | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
can professional wadis elsewhere do to try and better identify those at | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
risk? What we do know is that young people who experience sexual | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
violence, for example in the research we did, 41% of 188 young | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
people talked about experiences of individual rape. 34% talked about | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
multiple rape. If young people are experiencing social violence, they | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
may be going to health professionals, sexual health | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
clinics. Fashion is right across the board, not only child protection, | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
need to get much better at identifying the signs and indicators | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
of abuse, and share information between them about the experiences | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
young people are telling them off. What are the main failings in the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
child protection system? We have examples of really good practice | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
where police and children's protection workers are working | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
together, that is where we get these prosecutions and that is where young | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
people have confidence to talk. What needs to happen in child protection | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
is that rather than see child protection as something that is only | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
relevant for young children within the home experiencing the Malee | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
abuse, `` familial, we needed to engage with teenager, that is a very | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
different form of child protection. It means going out to whether young | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
people are and recognising that a lot of them will not want to talk. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
So we need to get better at making sure child protection systems reach | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
out into schools, into the areas where young people are, and improve | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
the way they share that information between them. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
The partner of a man stabbed to death in his own home has told a | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
court today how she pleaded with his assailants to leave him alone. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Sharif Demirsay was attacked in the hallway of his home in Kempston last | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
May. Neil Bradford spent the day at Luton Crown Court and joins me now. | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
The court has heard how six to nine`year`old `` how a six to | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
nine`year`old was left traumatised by the attack on her partner. They | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
had been together for more than 20 years. `` a 69`year`old. She gave | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
evidence from behind a screen. She broke down at various points as she | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
went into detail about the attack on Sharif Demirsay at the home they | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
shared in Kempston in Bedfordshire last May. She said it was later | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
tonight on the 14th of May, when there was a loud knock at the door | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
of their bungalow. Three young men, all wearing hooded tops, burst in, | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
demanding cash and gold. She said they were armed with knives, and | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
they began stabbing her partner She said, he put the knife everywhere. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
The courts and forwards. Blood came out from everywhere, she said. The | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
prosecution say the attack on Sharif Demirsay was vicious and sustained, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
but it only lasted a matter of minutes. Today, we got a sense of | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
just how long those few minutes must have felt to Sharif Demirsay's | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
partner. She was also injured in the attack and required surgery at she | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
tried to fend off the attackers. She described how she was stabbed | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
through the arm. She said she tried to fend them off by hitting one of | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
them over the head with a metal attachment from her vacuum cleaner. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
She told the court, he pushed me, I felt the floor. He said, where's | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
your money and where is your gold? I said, take the money, take the cold, | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
leave Sharif alone. `` take the gold. She said, they continued to | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
stab him, even as he was on the floor. He was kicked and has hands | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
were beaten with a metal pole. She said one of the attackers was even | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
shouting, kill him, kill him, kill and! The accused all deny murder. | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
The trial at Luton Crown Court is expected to last six weeks. | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
The Government has floated the idea of extending the M11 motorway north | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
from Cambridge. It's one of the ideas being considered for the next | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
round of funding, which would start in 2020. Under the new scheme, the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
new road would run all the way up to Hull. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Dennis Jones knows almost every road in and out of East End where. The | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
nearer he is to motorway, the less stressed he is. The worst bit of my | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
job is the A17. It would probably say was a good 45 minutes just to | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
get to Newark. Ayes his boss runs 23 trucks on tight margins. For him, | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
and extension cannot come soon enough to stop it could make a | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
significant difference. Any movement in the road system where we can get | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
onto dual carriageway or motorways, that improves our fuel economy and | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
our journey times. The current 5 mile Stretch from London stops just | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
north of Cambridge. Extended it could see it run through the fans | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
into Lincolnshire and all the way up to the Humber Bridge. But it is only | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
one idea in the plans for the next round of road funding, starting in | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
2020. It is early days and nothing has been confirmed. The idea was | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
around when very young looking Ken Clarke first opened the M11, but | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
extending it was put on hold. Now it is back in the frame. Some say it | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
will be a lifeline to Norfolk and Cambridge's economy. I think it will | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
be great. It is a perfect opportunity to improve the economy | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
of East Anglia. It would cost Williams of pounds and others say | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the money would be better spent on local roads. `` billions of pounds. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
We ought to concentrate on upgrading the roads. Aside from the local | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
debate about the benefits or otherwise of a brand`new motorway, | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
those who study Government policy and road spending say it is highly | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
unlikely that an M11 extension will ever be built. I think this scheme | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
is probably Dreamland, it is a scheme that many would argue is | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
essential, but equally, there are other priorities, with the existing | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
network that needs upgrading. So that need sorting out first. This | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
scheme may be in a few years time, it might get more of a hearing. The | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
new M11 debate is just underway but new M11 debate is just underway but | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
on one point, all agree. The local routes must be upgraded before they | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
can feed into any new motorway. It's been confirmed today that the | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
body recovered from the River Ouzel in Layton Buzzard as that of the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
missing man Neil Devlin. The body was discovered on Monday. The | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
36`year`old was last seen on New Year's Day. Extensive searches | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
followed to try to find him. His route home would have been close to | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
the river. An inquest will be held. Later, Alex has all the weather | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
details, but first, broke out early this morning. Crews | :11:47. | :11:47. | |
had to use a digger to create a firebreak. The woodchip pile | :11:48. | :11:48. | |
measured 50 metres by 30 metres. Also coming up: | :11:49. | :12:02. | |
Could you name your Police and Crime Commissioner? Is the new system | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
really working? Also, from 2014 to 1914, a look | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
ahead to look back at the impact of the First World War had on this | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
region. The Six Nations returns tomorrow | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
with England taking on Ireland at Twickenham. But who should be | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
England's hooker? The contenders are both from this | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
region. It's Northampton's bad boy Dylan Hartley versus Tom Youngs, the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Norfolk lad who made the grade with the British Lions. James Burridge | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
reports from the England training camp. | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
COMMENTATOR: England make changes. Hartley comes on for Young's. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Norfolk's Tom Youngs and another player are battling for one jersey | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
between now and the Rugby World Cup in 2015. The seesaw of form and | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
favour is as clear as ever. Hartley, frankly, is lucky to beat. Last May | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
another moment of madness cost him a Premiership trophy and a Lions | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
jersey. Tom Youngs to be his chance and the glory in a string. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Hartley's list of indiscretions, the biting and gouging, was mounting. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
When the call came from the England head coach, he feared the worst. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Instead, they met over a pint in a Northampton prop. He was given one | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
last chance. It shows how quickly things can turn on its head and I am | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
very realistic that you are only one game away from, you know, being back | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
on the bench or, you know, until form. Or, in my case in the past, | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
with a ban or something like that. And you're grateful that you have, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
like Stewart Lancaster giving you the chance? Yes and obviously Jim at | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
the club. But, you know, I am on a chance here and I like to think I am | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
repaying some of that faith shown in me. Hartley is back in favour partly | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
because of his consistency. Take the line`out for instance. He has thrown | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
30 times in this year's Six Nations. It has gone wrong just once. Youngs | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
is now the one having to sit and stew. Dylan, for me, his errant the | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
short at the moment. Youngs is desperate to get it back. Tom | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
recognises that Dylan is playing well and will please the porting | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
role from the bench. It is a great position to be in as a national | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
coach to have two players fighting for the shirt. Tom Hall after week | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
for the opportunity when he gets the chance to come on to show what he | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
can do and through injury, form or whatever, he will get the chance | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
again. I have no doubt that when he gets his shot, he will play well. It | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
is nice to know that I have waited a year and I'm getting my shop. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Hartley has been on trial and have had his fair share of two relations. | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
He has channelled the intensity and it is serving him well. With terrier | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
like Tom snapping at his heels, it is serving England also. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Police and Crime Commissioners across the country have been in the | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
firing line today over a concern they are not talking to the public | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
enough. The first PCCs were elected in November 2012 when only 15% of | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
people turned out to vote. The latest figures concern the | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
police and crime panels, which were set up to hold the commissioners to | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
count. Across the country, BBC News found that only 52 questions have | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
been asked by members of the public at the 280 meetings held so far. In | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
our region, no questions at all had been asked in Bedfordshire, Norfolk | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
or the Thames Valley. In Suffolk, it was just three questions. So what's | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
going on? Earlier today, I asked Tim Passmore, the Suffolk Commissioner, | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
if the figures showed people just weren't engaging with the new | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
system. I do not agree with that. That is one small part of the | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
engagement. If you look at the public engagement sessions we have | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
right across Suffolk, I can assure you that we have had hundreds of | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
questions on our district and panels. I think you're referring to | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
the Police and Crime Panel. They are organised by the County Council. I | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
would like to reassure the list is that the last panel, I was | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
questioned relentlessly for two and a half hours! You must remember that | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
the members of the panel are there to represent the public. I think we | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
are not quite hitting the right target that we see `` when we say | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
there are no questions from the public. How can you convince people | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
that this system is better than what we had before? It is certainly | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
cheaper. It is certainly in Suffolk making for much quicker | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
decision`making. Without being disrespectful to the old police | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
authority, nobody had any idea who they were whatsoever. All I can say | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
is that the huge number of public meetings I go to, I have one tonight | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
and last Wednesday and three more next week, the number of questions | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
and awareness is rising rapidly. We are doing our best with things like | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
social media and Twitter. The website, e`mails, letters. Another | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
statistic you may be interested in, in the first year, we had over 1000 | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
e`mails and letters sent directly to me. The police authority in its last | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
year did not even have 50. We are on an upward trend and have a lot of to | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
do. I am not complacent but we are getting there. Labour says the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
system is not working. It wants a reformed. Do you think we have | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
another Labour Government that our jobs will be abolished? If you talk | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
to some of the other commissioners, and there are some good people but | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
our labour commissioners, the wind of change is blowing through the | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Labour Party. They realise that our job is about trust and | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
accountability. Policing spends 12 volume pounds per year throughout | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
the UK. What we need is a system for that accountability and | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
transparency. `` ?12 billion. There have been some difficulties | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
nationally in the last year. Part of the role of these commissions is to | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
build trust and confidence in a good and important public service. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
All next week in Look East, we're looking at how people in this region | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
were affected by the First World War. We'll be starting to tell 100 | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
stories selected to mark 100 years since the outbreak of World War One | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
in 1914. A taster now from Shaun Peel. | :18:20. | :18:32. | |
We begin the week in the trenches as we try to get a sense of the horrors | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
of battle on the Western fronts. The sheer misery of the war they said | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
would be over by Christmas. We take you back to a time when life | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
expectancy for men was 52 and when the school leaving age was 12. But | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
there were many ten`year`old who actually had jobs and it was very | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
unusual for many children to go on to secondary school. We also find | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
out how our region bore the brunt of the German Zeppelin attacks, as | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
bombs rained down from the skies over Britain for the first time | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
ever. This is Zeppelin crashed in the fields of Essex. All of the | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
campers got burned and just left a bit of the piece of the relics, you | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
see. That is aluminium for lightness. As the war raged, we find | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
out how the shoemaking factories in Northamptonshire rose to the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
challenge of producing 50 million boots for the Allies. If attack from | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
ships in the skies were not enough, what about the ships of the seas? | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
The devastation wreaked upon Lowestoft as German vessels fired | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
bombs on the Suffolk town. They realised what was happening and | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
shouted bombardment, all downstairs now, as you are. Also, the Reverend | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
Richard calls on Bernard van, the only ordained priest to win a | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Victoria Cross as a serving officer in the British Army. How could a man | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
of God become a man of war? Van is actually killing. He at this point | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
becomes a killing machine. On Friday, the tragedy of the 100 lost | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
boys from a Norfolk school and headmaster who was said to have died | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
from a broken heart. For him particularly, the war was utterly | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
shattering. Extraordinary stories from the war they said would end all | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
wars. World War I at home, all next one on BBC Look East and BBC local | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
radio. And you're going to be in the | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
trenches on Monday night but not the real trenches? | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Thank goodness for that. They're actually in Suffolk and used in a | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
lot of film sets. You will have seen them in television programmes and | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
movies. I have only seen the photographs but they look very wet | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
and very uncomfortable and it is incredible to think that people | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
spend weeks and months it is going to be fascinating. | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
So that is the series that we will start on Monday, as Susie said. I | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
shall be in the trenches in Suffolk. And our radio stations will also be | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
looking at the First World War next week. Every morning, every breakfast | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
show at 8.15. Now we often hear that the pub trade | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
is having a really tough time at the moment. Around 20 pubs in Britain | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
close every week. But not everybody has been put off. Eunice Wortley | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
comes from the Ivory Coast and when she walked into The Crown at | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Smallburgh in Norfolk, she just knew she had to buy it. This from Mike | :21:33. | :21:45. | |
Liggins. This is a village on the edge of the | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Norfolk Broads, a traditional English village with a very | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
traditional English pub. But inside, there is something... Or someone | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
very African. Her name is Younis and she is | :21:56. | :22:11. | |
originally from the Ivory Coast. She met George at the start of 2010 and | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
married him before the year was over. In December last year, they | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
went for a drink in The Crown and Eunice decided she wanted to run it. | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
They started coming but they were wondering if I had to have AIDS or | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
if I bite! She did not, in fact she was lovely. Now, the locals are big | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
fans. It is nice to have someone with a little bit of cultural | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
difference, I think. Have you ever been to the Ivory Coast? No, but it | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
has come to me! When you walk through the door, there is a huge | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
smile which is lovely. Become over and stand with me and chat and | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
families come and dogs and anything. And they are just lovely, lovely | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
locals. But The Crown really is your traditional English pub. There is | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
darts in the back and the snug has not been decorated in donkeys. It is | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
about as far from the Ivory Coast as you can imagine but Eunice does not | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
plan to change it. You would be lots of money to have this done. Lots of | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
money to have chairs made of old barrels. Lots of money to have all | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
of this wood and everything. She might be 3000 miles from home but | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Eunice is loving the wave of the pub landlady. There is official opening | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
on the 1st of March she is promising African food and locals cannot wait. | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
Issue not just great? Was my wonderful! | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
If you're interested in what the BBC does in this region then you might | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
be interested in joining the BBC's regional audience panel. We want to | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
hear from people of all ages and all backgrounds from across the region. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
The panel meets three times a year and it's your chance to tell us what | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
you think about the BBC. You don't get paid but you will get expenses. | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
The closing date for applications is seventh March. Just go to | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
bbc.co.uk/ace for an information pack or call 0800 092 6030. | :24:18. | :24:30. | |
I am always deeply impressed when you do that! | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
One day I will get you to read the number. Let's have a look at the | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
weather. number. Let's have a look | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Hello. It has been a pretty lovely day. It might have felt a little bit | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
chilly in the wind, a little cooler and fresher but we reach highs of 10 | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Celsius in the sunshine and plenty of that threw out the morning. This | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
is our satellite picture of today. We did see a little bit more patchy | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
cloud in the middle afternoon a lot of that has good away. Set a scene | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
for quite a chilly night and there are some showers around as well. I | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
am going to draw your attention to the radar. They are not on our part | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
of the region but creeping into the Western counties. If you live in | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
pieces like the western half of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
into Hertfordshire, you might catch a showers rate this evening. In | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
fact, the computer is predicting more showers than there may be will | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
be. They will be very isolated. For most of us, it looks like a dry | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
night with long, clear spells. The winds have been quite brisk through | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
this evening. Still some gusts of 30 mph but they will continue to ease | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
overnight. With those light winds, temperatures drop close to freezing. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
For some of us, there will be patchy frost around by the time we get to | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
tomorrow morning. By the end of tonight, a south`westerly wind. The | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
chilly start to the weekend. Out of the two days, Saturday looks like | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
the best. There will be some rain spends sunshine and it will stay | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
mainly dry throughout the day. `` some long spells of sunshine. Sunday | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
will be cloudier and it may mean some light rain or drizzle but the | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
feature of Sunday's weather will be the wind. Very windy expected on | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Sunday. We will start tomorrow with light winds and plenty of sunshine | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
through the morning. Into the afternoon, was a bit more cloud | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
feeding through into Western counties. `` a little bit more | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
cloud. Highs comfortably claiming to 10 Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit. The wind | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
will be coming from a south`westerly direction and will pick up through | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
the afternoon and into the evening. Increasing amounts of cloud by the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
end of the day. It may well produce some light rain or drizzle. That is | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
how Sunday ships up. The pressure pattern maker would be dramatic. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
There will be rain across the western half of the country, but not | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
much for us but a brisk wind. Gusts of around 40 mph or possible and a | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
lot of cloud around on Sunday. The figures across the West, producing | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
some light rain and drizzle not significant amounts. The winds ease | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
little for Monday but there will be some showers, staying pretty | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
unsettled to start next week. Tuesday, little cooler. There will | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
be some showers and windy once more. Thank you very much. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Just when you think things are getting better, along comes the | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
forecast! Had a great weekend. Goodbye. | :27:13. | :27:17. |