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Hello and welcome to Tuesday's programme. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the ambitious plans to boost the Northamptonshire economy. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Hope for Holly - how pioneering stem cell treatment is giving this | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
To suddenly see some tiny little steps is wonderful and gives us hope | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
for what might happen in the future. High-tech help to tackle Cambridge's | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
congestion problems. And later, we are at the rehearsals | :00:25. | :00:36. | |
of a very special performance. Find out why the original Luton girls | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
choir of the 1940s and 50s has come back together. | :00:43. | :00:55. | |
Hello, first tonight, building business post-Brexit. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Next Wednesday, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50, | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
officially starting Britain's exit from the European Union. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Business leaders from across Northamptonshire are not waiting | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
around to find out what that might mean, they are meeting tonight | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
to discuss how to capitalise on that historic moment, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
to grow existing industries, attract external investment | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
They believe working together will actually make things happen, | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Logistics, moving things around is one of the driving forces of the | :01:24. | :01:37. | |
Northamptonshire economy, and so is key to future jobs. Iain Rogers in | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Northampton employs more than 100 people, its lorries and up across | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Europe. We came here last year and the director told the East she was | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
putting Remain. She stands by that but says one of her concerns may | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
have a surprising outcome. There will probably be a lot more it -- | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
administration as our vehicles cross borders, there might be a lot more | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
red tape. So it might mean we have to take on extra people to manage | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
that. So that means extra costs so that is a conversation we will have | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
to help with our customers. On the other side of town, at this domestic | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
logistics firm, the boss told us last year she was putting Leave. No | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
she is keen to get things moving. Can we please just get on and get on | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
with the negotiations? I think what we need to do is give the Government | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
a chance to go away and negotiate with Europe a good deal for Britain, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
and I am confident that is what will happen. Tonight, businesses from | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
across Northamptonshire will meet here. The purpose is to put previous | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
differences of opinion aside and look at what needs to be done to | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
create jobs in a post-Brexit world. Politics drives economics and | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
economics drives business so whichever sector... Lecturers at the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
University of North London are amongst the organisers for tonight's | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
event. They say businesses will be wary going into talks with the EU | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
starting next week. In terms of negotiations, the quicker and sooner | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
we have clarity and certainty, I would say the fundamental issue | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
really is control of immigration against market access, but certainly | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
those people currently working in the UK that are from the EU, that | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
their rights should be protected. Students are here from around the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
world, many were about to become job-seekers. My family have asked me | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
if I am scared that I will be thrown out of the country. But I said, this | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
is not America! I feel fine. It is affecting me but not as much as | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
other people who came to the country recently. I do not think there will | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
be any major changes immediately. But going on a few years, there will | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
be definitely changes to business confidence. The economy has done | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
better than many predicted since devoted to leave. The message from | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
tonight's events is businesses need to act if that is to continue. They | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
need to concentrate on what the business is good to try to make | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
their products better, look at innovation, to reduce costs, to look | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
at their school based to make sure they have the skills for the future, | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
and also just look at what opportunities may be around the | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
corner. We do not yet know the destination of talks with the EU so | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
for now, businesses have to find their own weight to local economic | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
success. Sam Read, BBC Look East, Northampton. | :04:30. | :04:30. | |
But while Northamptonshire did vote about 60 to 40 for Brexit, | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Cambridge was overwhelmingly pro-Remain. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
The leader of the Liberal Democrats has been speaking to entrepreneurs | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
and business students in Cambridge today. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
I spoke to Tim Farron earlier and he had this message | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
Business should feel like they've got the ability to change | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
the direction of this country, as should everybody, | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
We know that the British people voted marginally, narrowly, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
to leave the European Union, but that was not a mandate | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
for the Prime Minister to give us the hardest possible Brexit, | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
to damage education, farming and business in the process. | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
But you don't know what the deal's going to look like yet, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
so in a sense, aren't you fear-mongering, rather than helping | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
No, we don't know what the deal's going to look like, so it's right | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
So, outside the Single Market, that means that, for example, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
agricultural producers in Cambridgeshire will be facing | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
Given that 75% of their exports are to the Single Market, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
that is a crackers thing for a government that wants to take | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
care of its own people to choose to do, and this deal will end up | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
being done at some point in the next two years, | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
then it will be imposed on the British people. | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
Someone is going to sign this deal off at the end, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
either it is going to be the politicians, or it will be | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
the people, in a referendum on that deal that as yet, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
But businesses don't like uncertainty, do they? | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
So, if you are saying you want another referendum in | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
two years' time, that's two years of more uncertainty. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
That can't be popular in the business community. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
It is increasingly popular that the Liberal Democrats | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
are the only party giving the people, including businesses, | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
the chance to say yes or no to the eventual deal the Government | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
If they feel they may actually have to face the people in a referendum | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
at the end of all this, there is much more incentive for | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
So, why have you come to Cambridge with that message, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Why aren't you spreading the message amongst the pro-Leavers? | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
How we approach these things is all about attitude and tone. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
I was talking to a big employer up in my patch, | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
up in Cumbria, just two weeks ago, and he said to me, | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
"Brexit is a disaster, but we are positive | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
He said, "We're a Victorian company, we've lived through three fires, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
umpteen floods, two world wars, we'll get through Brexit and we'll | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Now, I think that is the right attitude. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
It doesn't change the fact that Brexit is a disaster. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
And later in the programme, we are looking at the air industry | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
in this region and the impact of the Leave vote. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Other news now, and the parents of an 11-year-old girl with | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
cerebral palsy say they've seen a huge improvement in her condition | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
since she underwent pioneering stem cell treatment in America. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Holly Greenhow is now home and back at school, | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
11-year-old Holly has cerebral palsy. | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
To help her conditions, her parents use this special suit, | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
which uses electrical pulses to stimulate the muscles | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
that were damaged when she was deprived of oxygen at birth. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Holly is unable to do anything, really, movement and balance wise, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
and speech, all that part of her body got affected. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
But her intelligence remains totally intact. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
In October, the family travelled to America for stem cell treatment. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
They paid ?10,000 for stem cells to be injected. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
The idea, they would multiply through the damaged part | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
of Holly's brain, replacing the dead ones. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Since then, her parents say she is sleeping longer, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
her vision is improved, her vocabulary expanded, | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
and has more control over her muscles. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Did it start at the candlestick maker's? | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
Although Holly has a teaching assistant, she attends | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
a mainstream school, and her friends there | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
I've noticed that she's been concentrating more in class, | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
and in games, and she's been a lot more relaxed. | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
I know that she's been able to use her communication book more | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
and is able to express how she feels. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
And she's been concentrating more in our games and in school life. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
And at home, they have been keeping a diary of any developments. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
What have the improvements meant to you as a family? | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
It's wonderful, I mean, I guess we've missed loads | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
of milestones with Holly, as any sort of special needs child | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
would, which is tough, but to suddenly see some tiny little | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
steps is wonderful, and just gives us hope, really, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
for what might happen in the future as well. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
This kind of treatment is controversial. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
The Stem Cell Foundation stresses the complex science hasn't gone | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
through clinical trials, so there are potential risks, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
and as Holly is receiving a range of treatments, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
it is difficult to establish which is responsible for any change. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
But for a young girl who has already broken boundaries as a model, | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
our family hope that the pioneering medicine could hold | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
Louise Hubball, BBC Look East, Huntingdon. | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
Well, technology experts will tonight say Cambridge | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
One proposal at the Intelligent City presentation is better tracking | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
how and where people and vehicles move around. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Yes, imagine walking out of your office or your place of work and | :09:32. | :09:45. | |
jumping in a driverless vehicle that will take you from A to B. Will look | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
at your phone and noted the second when your bus will arrive at your | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
bus stop. Even knowing how many bikes there are on the streets. That | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
is what a smart city is. In here, this is the Microsoft building, | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
where politicians and academics are trying to develop Smart Cambridge. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
This is all about creating data, knowing how many vehicles are on the | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
roads, where the buses are, where the pinch points are, and many car | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
parking spaces there are boss they are fed by sensors around the city | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
to a hub. It is about making the city flow more freely. One of the | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
organisations behind this had a chat with us earlier. | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
Firstly, the planners can use it for working out | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
where bus routes should be, where cycle routes should be, | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
where the traffic bottlenecks are, that we can then sort out. | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Secondly, we can help members of the public by using travel apps | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
and other data to know where the buses are, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
how many minutes you've got to wait at your bus station | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
That bus app should come into effect here in the summer, and also in | :10:42. | :10:53. | |
Milton Keynes. But effectively it is about making cities less congested, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
greener and much easier to get around. | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Detectives investigating the death of a woman who was attacked | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
in her Milton Keynes home are following up | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
The case of Hang Yin Leung was featured | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
on the BBC's Crimewatch programme last night. | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
It included new CCTV and police bodycam footage. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Let's get the rest of the news, sport and weather from around | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
You are watching Look East. Still to come: Peterborough gets ready to | :11:18. | :11:35. | |
honour two of its own, we'll speak to gymnast Louis Smith and rower | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
James Fox, live. First, the last in our series of | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
looking at what the region thinks of Brexit, nine months after we made | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
the decision to leave the European Union. | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
Over the last week or so, the Brexit mini has been wending | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
And our political reporters have been talking to a range of people | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
from scientists in Cambridge to tourist bosses | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
Tonight Simon Dedman is in Essex, reporting from the Olympic mountain | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
bike venue in Hadleigh, and the runway at Stansted. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
The EU opened up the skies, blowing aviation regulation into thin air. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
The boom in budget airlines took off, with Britain in the EU driving | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
Today, it can be cheaper to fly to Croatia than to get | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
7 million people travel via Stansted every year | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
The airport is lobbying Government to keep Britain in the EU | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
We are working very closely with Government, with our partners | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
to ensure that as part of the deal, that we ensure that there is open | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
The liberalisation of the aviation market over the last 25 years has | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
really spurred on the creation of airlines like | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
It is vital that the Government take this seriously and it's their number | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
one priority when it comes to discussions with | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
based on complex international agreements made by the EU, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
There is real concern the industry will get grounded | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
Unless the Government actually comes out and tells | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
the industry what is happening, it's going to be very | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
expensive for all concerned and we are going to suffer. | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Most airlines were against Britain leaving the EU. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Some even campaigned for Remain but recently Ryanair has said it | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
will still expand here at its main base adding more | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
But Brexit brings uncertainty and elsewhere airlines are waiting | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
to see what deal is struck with Europe over the skies. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
But can we bring back that winning 2012 spirit, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Hadleigh held the mountain biking for the Olympics. | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
The facilities are still used today by the Olympians of tomorrow. | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
Last year this area had the largest Leave vote in the east. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
The people of Castlepoint voted 74% for Brexit. | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
The bulldog spirit is strong here in South Essex but these local lads, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
training for the top, are not all convinced about the direction | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
The people now don't want to leave but we have already | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Your friends and family round here wanting actually to Remain? | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
Yeah, quite a lot of them have changed their mind actually. | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
Because there was the whole thing about money going to the NHS. | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Now that that has come out that it is not going to happen. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Now people are saying - we should have voted to Remain | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
Britain normally has a way of getting by and finding | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
I know we're obviously talking to America and everything | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
So are you quite optimistic about the future? | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Yeah, yeah, we always find a way of working things out. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
That work begins now, as our journey ends. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
The task of building Brexit Britain and renewing | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
relations beyond our shores is in the Prime Minister's | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
Vicky Ford is one of seven MEPs who represent the East of England. | :15:28. | :15:42. | |
Earlier she told me she'd talked to the chief Brexit | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
I asked what her priorities were when it came to this region. | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
I always had three priorities during the Brexit referendum | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
One of which is trying to make sure that the economic disruption | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
is as small as possible, which means trying to get that | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
long-term trade agreement between ourselves and the rest | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
The second was actually keeping access to science and research | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
because I believe passionately that we are better when we work with | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
We have world-leading science in this area. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Actually the Prime Minister's also put that as one | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
The third issue is just trying to keep this as peaceful | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
So what do you feel the mood is, because we hear a lot of tough talk | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
We're going to have a very intense two-year period. | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
I see that the majority of my colleagues from across Europe want | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
That's why they've just voted me back to chair the committee | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
that's looking at market access, for example. | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
They want to have an amicable, workable solution but there | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
are others who want to disrupt it for their own political gain. | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
So those of us who are in the centre need to try and keep very focussed | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
on the long-term stable strategic partnership between the EU | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
You're going to be briefing some of the MPs from this region tomorrow. | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
Will you tell them that you're optimistic about the future? | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
I think there's a huge amount to be done and we have a short | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
negotiators on both sides, that they both have a long-term | :17:30. | :17:46. | |
vision of where they want to land but there is an awful lot | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
of potential uncertainty on the way and that we from the UK, | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
in leadership roles, need to all get behind | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
and support the Prime Minister and the negotiators and try and help | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
show the solutions in these negotiations and that is | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
A special reception is being held in Peterborough tonight to honour | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Gymnast Louis Smith, winner of four Olympic medals, | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
and gold medal winning Paralympic rower James Fox are being awarded | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
We'll speak to them both in a moment. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
First a reminder of their achievements. His dazzling routine | :18:19. | :18:34. | |
have wowed the crowd for years. He has won countless medals, including | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
silver at Rio It means so much. I've been in the sport for two decades. I | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
don't know if it'll be my last Olympics. Doing that routine made me | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
so happy. An emotional journey for a man credited for rejuvenating his | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
sport. He became a national celebrity winning Strictly but then | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
was in the headline for the wrong regions, he had to visit mocks, | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
after he appeared to mock Islam I have let people down. It was a silly | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
moment. Also there stop the James Fox, three time World Champion and | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
now Paralympic gold medallist. The Paralympics is so special. Aged 1 | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
#1, James' career began at Peterborough rowing club. Now he's | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
helping others reach their potential. Young guys need someone | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
to look up. If I can be a part of that, that would be incredible. Two | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
sporting heroes who've done Peterborough proud. | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
And Louis Smith and James Fox are at Peterborough Town Hall now. | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Congratulations to the both of you. James what does it mean to you? Oh, | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
yes, it is incredible. It is a real honour to be privileged with the | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
freedom of the city. This is the city I grew up in. I went to school | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
here, was born here and lefrnt to row here. It is bringing me back to | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
my roots, which is great. Lewis for you, you have travelled the world | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
and been a star on both the television and gymnastics, what does | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
it mean for you. Well, Peterborough is home. This is where it all began, | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
where it all started. Where all my friends and family are. I have had | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
incredible support from Peterborough and to be given this award just | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
means an incredible lot to me. Do you get something special to go with | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
it, to show that you are who you are? Do you get something special? | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
I'm not sure yet, I'll tell you in an hour or two. I'm not sure what we | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
get given. Regardless, I think the principle is, we have been given | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
this award, you know, not just us but other people have sacrificed so | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
much to help us get so where we are and there's lots of flashing lights | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
and stuff going on but at the end of the day we are from Peterborough, | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
proud to be from Peterborough and I think Peterborough are proud of us, | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
too. James in a lot of other places you would be allowed to drive your | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
sheep through the centre of the city but you are not allowed to get that | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
there but it is something that will make you and your family proud? I | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
think it is an outrage. I wonder how much trouble I would get into if I | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
took a sheep across the town bridge anyway? No, it is amazing, an old | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
tradition. The freedom of the city is a massive thing. It is an honour | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
for anybody. For us, we do sport for a living, we do what we enjoy and it | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
is amazing to be recognised. My life's changed and I'm sure Louis's | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
has since we went to the Olympics and Paralympics. This is incredible. | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
You said in the film it is important people had somebody to look up to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
and it is important to above the of you, isn't it? 100%. Speaking from | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
experience, it's not been easy growing up and sport has the ability | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
it change lives and I think if any of us can get kids into sport, keep | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
them in sport and kind of show what sport can do, then I think we're | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
both doing ourselves proud. You have done the city proud. Congratulations | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
to both of you. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you for | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
having us. Thank you. And we should also mention | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
the paralympic basketball player Lee Manning, | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
who is also getting the Freedom of the City | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
but can't make Now think of what Luton has been | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
famous for over the years... The carnival, the Vauxhall | :22:23. | :22:37. | |
plant, the Airport. And - of course - | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
the Luton Girls Choir. The girls sang at the | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Olympic Games in 1948. They sang all over the world | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
and they all paid 4 old pence a week | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
just to be a member. After 40 years of singing, the choir | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
folded in 1977 when the But now they have been reunited - | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
for a special occasion. They were expected to conduct | :22:53. | :23:07. | |
themselves Azam bass doers for Luton, conditions under choir master | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
Arthur Davies were strict. But the rewards were many. -- conduct | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
themselves as ambassadors. If we missed the bus we crept in so he | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
wouldn't see us. He thought we should be there on the dot. As | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
teenagers they foamed around the world. Two months in Australia and | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
one month in New Zealand. Absolutely wonderful Princess Alexandra was | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
there. She got back in her car and sat on the chauffeur's top hat. I'm | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
the little one in the front here. When we got through to the | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
passports, they didn't want to see them, we sang to them. I don't know | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
what we sang. Because I was born and bred in Luton, I had to go to this | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
singing teacher who would secure me of my Luton accent. Right I'm going | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
to show you some footage from 1961. Let's see if you remember this. | :24:11. | :24:21. | |
Look, there's me, Katrina. Oh, right. '61 Jill and Pamela, look. | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
Luton girls' choir, they've sung up and down the country, taken their | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
music abroad. Two years ago they made a three month tour of New | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Zealand and Australia. We met the choir. Do you have much trouble | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
looking after them all? Non-whatsoever. The choir will be | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
performing at the reopening of the town's war museum in April. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
Isn't that wonderful. There is nothing better than pointing out | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
people in an old photograph. I love it. | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
The weather now. Thank you very much. A chilly start | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
to the day but lots of fine weather across the region this morning. A | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
beautiful photograph showing Norwich cathedral behind me. Blue sky there. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
There were showers as well. We'll continue to see some showers across | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
western counties. A double rainbow you might be able to make out in | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Cambridgeshire this afternoon. The satellite image shows how cloud has | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
developed from the west. With that some fairly heavy showers, with one | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
or two reports of hail across counties such as Northamptonshire. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
So the threat of those continues really for western counties, the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
east staying largely dry. The trend will be for those showers to fade | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
through the evening and night. Across all areas, clear sky tonight, | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
so that will mean another chilly night. Temperatures widely down to | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
three or four. But locally we could get as low as one or two degrees in | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
some spots. The winds easing to a lot-to-moderate south-easterly. | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
There could be just a touch of frost to some of us first thing tomorrow | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
morning. It does look as though it'll be a bright start it the day. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
But this is the pressure pattern, so some unsettled weather before we get | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
to fine weather later on in the week. Low pressure on the scene, | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
which will bring rain across all areas by the afternoon. It should be | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
a dray start for many of us, with good spells of sunshine. Quite a | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
keen south-easterly. Despite the sunshine it'll feel chilly in the | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
wind. You can see that area of rain, really an area of showery rain | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
crossing to the north-east during the afternoon, and there could be | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
some hail. There will be some showers following on behind. Some | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
could be on the heavy side. So with the wind and temperatures around | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
eight or nine, it'll feel quite cold but eventually those showers will | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
start to die away. Then we'll be on to another chillyish night. Then | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
things start to settle down. By the end of the week this is the pressure | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
pattern. Low pressure pushed away by a large area of high pressure | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
pushing down from the north. That will mean fine weather as we get | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
into the weekend. So, some good spells of sunshine, but also some | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
chilly nights. Before then, we have Thursday, so Thursday is looking as | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
though it is going to be quite cloudy across this part of the | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
country. Perhaps an isolated shower but most places seeing some dry | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
weather with good spells of sunshine. Then we are into Friday | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
and Saturday, so temperatures lifting to 11 or 12. So fine spring | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
sunshine around but with high pressure and clear skies overnight | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
we will have chilly nights. So average temperatures around 4, could | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
be lower than that locally. Back to you. . Thank you very much. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
That's all from us. I hope you have a good evening. We will be back | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
tomorrow at the same time. Good night. | :27:36. | :27:42. |