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Some are calling it the Christmas of discontent | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
- how strikes at Stansted and at post offices | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
I don't see why they shouldn't get their Christmas gifts on time | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
because we're taking action today and tomorrow, that still gives | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Wednesday and Thursday where we can guarantee that delivery. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Two men are arrested after a double stabbing at | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
Celebrating half a century, the big local firm | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
doing big MOTs on this very big plane. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
One of the biggest thrills in the summer months | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
And why this water slide has become Britain's | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
First tonight, how strikes at post offices and at airports | :00:43. | :00:59. | |
It's led to a prediction that we could be facing | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
20 Crown Post Offices across Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk are affected. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
And at Stansted Airport baggage handlers and ground staff | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
will strike on Friday and Saturday just as the Christmas rush | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
We'll hear from the Communication Workers Union in a moment | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
Despite today's strike action, the Crown Post Office in Newmarket hopes | :01:25. | :01:37. | |
it still delivered a first-class service. The union says it is one of | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
many key high-street post offices in the east disrupted by the walk-out. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
We had to wait half an hour before we got served, the queues outside | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
the door. It's seems normal, always courteous. I didn't find any | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
difficulty whatsoever besides the long wait. The Colchester post | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
office was still guaranteed a normal service despite the strike. It is | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
dispute over pensions, job security and concerned that the Post Office | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
will no longer exist on our high streets. We are up for sitting down | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
and talking, what we cannot do is change the statutory which is about | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
improving post office services for customers in an increasingly | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
competitive marketplace, within changing lifestyles, the Post Office | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
needs to change and is changing and that will continue. A number of | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
union members from our region made a special Christmas delivery this | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
morning to the Government, 70,000 postcards signed by the public, | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
supporting the campaign. Meanwhile, Swiss airport baggage handlers at | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Stansted and across the country could go before Christmas. This | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
woman is due to fly to Australia to meet her grandchild but if the | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
strike goes on, it could mean that she would only take hand luggage, | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
having to leave luggage behind. It is a blackmail for the Government | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
and I just think that is outrageously unfair. Ryanair is the | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
key airline at Stansted Airport using Swissport baggage handlers. It | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
says flights are expected to operate as normal but they might have to | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
operate with hand luggage only. It is usually disrupted for employers, | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
it has a massive impact on business. We cannot forget that the workers | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
being able to strike is vital to them being able to negotiate | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
properly. Talks are due to be held tomorrow to try and avert the | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
baggage had the strike later this week, as for the post office strike, | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Downing Street said all parties should get around the table to | :03:42. | :03:42. | |
settle their differences. Tim Pavelin is the regional rep for | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the Communications Workers Union - which represents Post Office | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
workers. At the moment the action only | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
involves staff who work in Post Offices but deliveries | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
could be affected if drivers refuse Of course, as a trade unionist | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
I think it is one of the fundamental rights is for people not to cross | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
a picket line if they don't want to. That doesn't just apply to postmen, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
I think it also applies to members of the public who realise what we | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
are trying to do is save the Post Office which is in crisis so, yeah, | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
fundamentally I don't think anyone So if that happens | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
and people don't get their Christmas gifts on time, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
do you think you will still | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
have public support? Well, I don't see why | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
they shouldn't get their Christmas gifts on time because we | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
have taken action today and tomorrow, that still gives | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Wednesday and Thursday, people the opportunity to post | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
and the Post Office do a service where we can guarantee that | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
delivery so if people want to get their items | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
there for Christmas, But the thing is that | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
pensioners don't get their pension at the Post Office, | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
or as many of them who used to, people don't send parcels, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
as many as they used They send a lot of e-mails, they use | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
couriers, the work that the | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Post Office used to do Well, post offices do still | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
have a vital part to play in the It is a centre of the community | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
in many locations and without a post office, you don't get | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the follow-on business from You say they need to be | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
in the high street but they are in the high street, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
if they are in one of Well, if they are in the back | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
of the WHSmith, is a prime example, where they are going | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
on to the first floor, they are stuck | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
away at the back of the WHSmith, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
they don't have of the post office which is | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
directly managed and you have the staff that can give you | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
a knowledgeable service and great The truth is that if people | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
could make post offices pay, Well, yes, this is where | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
it comes back to the issue of government | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
because if the Government were willing to invest | :05:45. | :05:45. | |
in the post office and we do have | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
a strategy to the union that we can make that investment pay | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
with a postbank then I think You keep mentioning | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
that the Government should put money into the post office and support it, | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
and yet you deny that it is No, I think that the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Government should be If you want to talk | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
about a government strategy then I do think it would be | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
better if they were prepared to invest rather than the decline | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
we are seeing on the high street. The region's hospitals | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
are facing growing pressure They say that months of planning | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
mean their systems are all coping well but some planned surgeries | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
are being postponed until Kim Riley is at | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Ipswich Hospital now. What is the situation like that? | :06:32. | :06:43. | |
Beds are available here tonight. They seem to be managing pretty well | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
so far, I suppose, you have to say. The chief executive at Ipswich | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Hospital, also at Colchester in general and he knows how year by | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
year the pressures are building on these hospitals. | :06:57. | :06:57. | |
We have seen an increase this year of about 10% in people who are | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
attending A in both hospitals, both at Colchester and at Ipswich, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
and that's a fairly consistent increase that we have seen every | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
We knew it was coming so we have planned for it so both in terms | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
attending A and the number of people who have to go | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
into hospital, we have seen an increase. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
We've got some additional capacity, both in the hospital and | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
outside and we do know that that will be enough, | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
as long as we don't see either a sudden cold spell or indeed | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
But indeed even if we have those situations, we have got contingency | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
plans to make sure we can deal with that as well. | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
There's a new system for measuring pressure on hospitals, coping well | :07:37. | :07:47. | |
to under intense demand. One hospital is at coping well. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Colchester Hospital, Basildon, King's Lynn, all on level two. Level | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
three means local health and social care systems are experiencing major | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
pressures. Norfolk and Norwich today on level three. It says its | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
programme of nonemergency surgery is temporary suspended until after | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Christmas and its emergency department and urgent care centre | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
will remain open. We talked about Black Friday before the weekend, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
with the Ambulance Service coming under intense pressure to? We did, | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
they had over 3300 calls on Black Friday, 3% up thereabouts on last | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
year. Interesting, this time, there were more clinicians in the control | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
room they were able to give advice to people bringing in. So what we | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
actually had was the numbers of accidents and incidents attended by | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
ambulances going down but they are expecting a very, very busy day | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
indeed this Friday. Thank you very much. | :08:48. | :08:48. | |
Councillors in Norwich have denied they are profiteering from more | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
than ?400,000 of fines from drivers using bus lanes. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
The figure comes from a Freedom of Information request | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Between last December and September they collected ?255,000 from drivers | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
who drove down St Stephen's Street and ?150,000 for driving | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Norwich City Council said the money goes back into road projects. | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
Well-wishers have donated koi carp to replace fish which were killed | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
when vandals damaged a tank at Castle Park in Colchester. | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
The fish were being held in a container while their pool | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Most of the fish were about 30 years old. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
Four replacement koi have been added to the pond today | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
Two men have been seriously injured in a double stabbing | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
It happened late last night in a multistorey car park | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
This morning, officers from Suffolk Police painstakingly | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
search the area around Foundation Street | :09:55. | :09:55. | |
Yesterday evening, at ten o'clock, the | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
Ambulance Service called the police to a serious assault where two men | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
Both were taken to hospital in a critical condition | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
with what were described as life-threatening injuries. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Suffolk Police say that one is still in a | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
critical condition whilst the other is now stable. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
The area around Foundation Street will remain | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
cordoned off whilst the investigation continues, | :10:24. | :10:24. | |
Blackfriars car park that has been closed all day. | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
This morning, I have been speaking to some of the local | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
residents who told me what they experienced last night. | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
This must've been around about 11 o'clock I got | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
back and there were a few police cars parked outside my house and I | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
was told I couldn't actually enter my house because of an incident | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
involving a few people being stabbed and they didn't really disclose much | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
I just got told there were a few people critically injured | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
and a few people arrested at the time. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
The area itself, it is what is known for drugs and stuff. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
There's a lot of trouble that happens down here and everything. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
But it is a rough area but really there should be more lights and | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
public cameras as well for the police so they can monitor it | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
better and I think that then it would be like a deterrent to keep | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Suffolk Police say they have arrested two men, 57 and a | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
48-year-old on suspicion of conspiracy to commit | :11:17. | :11:17. | |
The police force are now asking anyone with any information | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
The weather for the week ahead, right up to Christmas Day. | :11:28. | :11:41. | |
you might think of castles and stately homes. | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
All the fun of the fair from Wicksteed. | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
We hear a lot these day about robots being used for surgery in hospital | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
But it's actually quite an old idea, the first operation using a robot | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
Nowadays, the technology is very advanced and used | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
At Addenbrooke's Hospital, they recently started | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
using their robot to treat bladder and kidney cancer. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
It means a shorter recovery time for patients easing pressure | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
Rita Willey from Saffron Walden kindly let us watch her | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Mike Cartwright's report contains footage of the surgery. | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
The day after a major operation and she is already going home. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
A quick recovery, after surgery carried out by a robot. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
I am quite honoured, actually, to have it done | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
because it's much less invasive and much more precise. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
It is important because I want to get back to normal | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
The day before, her medical team get ready. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Its arms are remotely controlled by a consultant. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
He explained why Rita needed that operation. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
This is our patient lying on her back, as if we are looking | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
These are the kidneys, we can see here. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
This is the left kidney and that is the kidney we are operating | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
on today. It is a lump, a tumour. | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
We do not know yet if it is cancerous, | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
You can see the way he can twist its fingers. | :13:33. | :13:46. | |
All of the movements of his wrists, to | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
It gives all the same freedoms that your wrist does. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
The three incisions are tiny, compared to | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
A previous incision could be up to six inches long. | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
Then, the recovery time could be up to three months. | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
This way, they can be fully recovered within a month. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Blood supply is down there and we have isolated it. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Now we're just making some marks on the normal kidney, to | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
check where exactly we will make the incision. | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
Rita will have to wait for her results, but she left hospital | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
Normally, after surgery like she had, you would be | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
expect to stay in hospital for about a week. | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
And things are seemingly going from bad to worse | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Yes, humiliated in Europe on Saturday night by Leinster. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
And for boss Jim Mallinder, it's now a make or break week. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Lose at Sale on Friday night, and his ten year | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Let's cross live to Franklin's Gardens and join James Burridge | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
Good evening. December truly has been a dreadful mad when you | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
consider it all started with a concussion story, we have not seen | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
him yet. Dylan Hartley, six-week suspension and then of course, the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
on the pitch battle which is being sorted out. There is talk the team | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
be fined because of the changes. Let's talk about all of this with | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Ian Hunter who within Dublin. Ian, so much pressure on the team and on | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Jim. What is going to become's mind? An enormous amount of pressure. A | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
perfect storm. A lot of people asking me what is going on, what has | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
happened and is a combination of so many different factors. This week, | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
it has been tremendously a huge amount of cash on Jim. When you are | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
thrashed by 60 odd points, how much damage does that do to a team? | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Believe it or not, I was one of the players who played in the 60 to nil | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
drumming we had back in the early 90s and I can tell you as a young | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
19-year-old, it certainly scarred me and I remember it now 25 years | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
later. It is not good to do that. The fans are growing restless, the | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
board is sticking by Jim and his coaching staff. Who has the greater | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
power, if you like? At the end of the day, you could say the power | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
falls over on to the spectators. They are the guys who love to come | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
here week in and week out. There is a lot of talk on social media, a lot | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
of talk in the forums about what is going on, everyone chucking in. I | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
think what is coming up in the next few games against sale, Gloucester | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
and Bristol will be absolutely crucial to the coaching staff and I | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
hate to say it but I think if the Saints find themselves on losses on | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
there, then that decision might have to go to the board and the board | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
might have to make them very hard decisions. Thank you. Plenty for | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
anyone regarding this club right now to ponder. It is going to be a very | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
tough week. Thank you. Moving on to football | :17:10. | :17:10. | |
and Mick McCarthy was a relieved Town earning a late victory, | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
if you can pick out the winning goal The manager admitted afterwards | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
he probably deserved some But their win moved them | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
up to 15th just five points behind Norwich, | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
who lost, bringing at least some I think the fans have | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
got a little bit more convincing yet, I think | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
the tide of opinion towards Mick I think understandably | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
has may be turned in recent weeks. The football has not been | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
particularly entertaining throughout the entire calendar year | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
and it is going to take more than one victory to win them | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
back over, I would say. It's not often you enjoy a perfect | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
weekend but for our League Two sides Four games, four wins, all four | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
teams now climbing the table. Stevenage ninth after | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
four wins in six. Colchester after a dire start have | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
taken ten points from a possible 12. But the division's big | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
movers Cambridge United. Now up to seventh after four | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
successive victories. It's always hard to pinpoint a major | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
factor but if we were to they found a striker | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
in Uche Ikepeazu who is scoring goals, something they didn't simply | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
have at the start of the season. Luke Berry arguably their star man | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
has hit a rich vein of form and they have been | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
fortunate with injuries. Finally in Birmingham last | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
night, Andy Murray may Being voted the BBC | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time but our very | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
own Max Whitlock The Basildon gymnast, who won double | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
gold at the Rio Olympics, wowed the thousands in audience | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
and the millions watching around the country, | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
eventually coming 7th overall. My Olympic dream came | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
when I was about 17 years old, when I sort | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
of stepped up to the senior level, I thought, you know, | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
what is possible. Ever since I was growing up to that | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
age, I started when I was seven, so for ten years, you know, I was | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
just absolutely living a dream, loving a sport and | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
doing the best I can. Their FA Cup replay | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
with Notts County Chelsea That should be good. | :19:24. | :19:40. | |
Max told me he was going to do something that he wouldn't tell me | :19:41. | :19:41. | |
what it was. 50 years ago today an RAF Hercules | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
transport plane flew into Cambridge Airport, | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
to be serviced by the engineering It was the beginning of a long | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
business relationship with the RAF that's now worth more than a quarter | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
of a billion pounds. So today the great and the good | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
gathered to watch four Hercules aircraft fly over the airfield | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
to mark this very But this is December | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
and visibility at midday less This from our defence | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
reporter Alex Dunlop. Like bridesmaid running up the aisle | :20:03. | :20:14. | |
before a wedding, an American spree flies past the expectant crowd at | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Marshall Aerospace today. The VIPs collect on a balcony to watch four | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
Hercules descend 500 feet. Sadly, the clouds descended even lower but | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
at least we heard the roar of their engines. But in the best addition, | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
here is one that Marshall prepared earlier, or 50 years ago. Similar | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
foggy weather but this was the first Hercules to be serviced here. The | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Cambridge -based company has had the contract ever since. The latest one | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
is worth ?269 million. The RAF has 24 of these planes, around half a | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
dozen servers by the 1200 workers had at any one time. They are fairly | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
complex but the fundamentals of it are quite basic. Which explains its | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
longevity and service. Designed to carry troops and equipment, DC 130 | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
is the backbone of the RAF transport fleet. This is an airframe that can | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
and often does take hard knocks. In the last 15 years or so, I have done | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
more light on that Albert as she is eventually known than I can recall. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
She might not be the most comfortable plane but she certainly | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
is one of the most reliable. -- Fat Albert. An overhaul of the same | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
frame takes up to nine months. Hercules from across the world | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
servers that Marshall but the aria is a far its biggest customer. The | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
last contract we signed with the MoD, we took 20% out in terms of | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
real value and are greeted by 30%. Year-on-year, that is pretty | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
significant. How did you manage that? By doing things smarter. It | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
helps to when other MoD contracts, they work on the submarine and a buy | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
the kit for Army mobile hospital units. But this is the flagship | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
bill, celebrated with a special paint job on the tail of an iconic | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
aircraft. Fat Albert of the few decades of life and her yet. -- has | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
a. How many listed buildings are there in this country? If you said | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
400,000, you are about right. historic places in England, | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
places like battlefields, Today a new addition - | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
the country's oldest water slide. It was invented by the engineer | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Charles Wicksteed and you'll find it One of the biggest thrills | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
in the summer this provided by this water chute which never fails | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
to attract the more adventurous spirits who | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
eagerly await better. Built in the 1920s, | :22:52. | :22:52. | |
it has been thrilling One of only two surviving | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
in the world today in one It is on runners | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
and it comes down at great speed and it lands | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
in the river here. And today, it has been given | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
special protected status It's all about simple | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
pleasures and family spending time here, quality time | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
together and this ride sort of typifies that, | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
it is the ride the whole family can enjoy | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
together, all coming down sitting side-by-side, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
enjoy a little thrill, The park was founded | :23:25. | :23:25. | |
by Charles Wicksteed in 1921 who wanted to create | :23:26. | :23:38. | |
a safe place for families to play | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
when many homes had no gardens. He owned an engineering | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
company and used those skills and his | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
imagination to create a ride The architecture of fun | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
was really taking off people were making public parks | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
places of entertainment as well as relaxation and this | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
is an amazing one-off example by an engineer | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
who became very famous for his | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
fairground rides, giving back to the people of Kettering who had helped | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
to make his fortune. It might not be the most | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
sophisticated of rides but it is one of the most popular | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
on the park with people having the chance to hurtle | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
towards the water and it is that sense of simplicity will | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
mean it will endure for generations And for people today, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
it was all about those I think it's fabulous, | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
I remember going on it when I was a child, I think my nan has got | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
a photographs of my parents. It's great, just having a really | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
old-fashioned ride there that, you It is now undergoing | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
a winter overhaul, ready for the summer and soon to revel | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
in its new-found historic status. Emma Baugh, BBC | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Look East, Kettering. It is lovely. I love the fittest. We | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
are going to find out about the Christmas weather. Green footage. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
A lovely photograph. It's dull the forecast that is actually full of | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
uncertainty on the run-up to Christmas. I will start to the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
night, largely dry with a lot of cloud. That will have clear | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
intervals at times. That could lead to some patchy mist and possibly | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
some frost. Some of thing between three and five Celsius. Some spots | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
costing down to freezing. We will have light winds and perhaps a | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
future with for some of us. Tomorrow, high-pressure moving away | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
onto the continent. This weather front storming on the western side | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
of the country. Not a bad day, I think we will have some drizzle and | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
possibly some showers first thing. A lot of cloud and mist but then the | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
cloud should break and we should see some decent sunny spells developing. | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Temperatures near average, seven Celsius. We hold onto mainly light | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
winds and we finished the day fine and dry. Now from Wednesday, it | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
becomes messy and quite complicated. Weather is dependent on how quickly | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
fronts moving and away again. At the moment, Wednesday, this thread is | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
likely get stuck over the top of us, develop a bit of a bit overweight. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
The thinking is we will start off cloudy with outbreaks of patchy | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
rain. That should clear into the North Sea and become drier and | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
brighter with some sunshine but also some showers fishing in from the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
west. Quite a blustery day with moderate to south-westerly and | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
temperatures getting higher than this, up to 10 Celsius. Thursday, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
depending on how quickly this front pulls away, we are likely to start | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
up with some rain but some of us but it should quickly dry out and we | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
should enjoy a largely dry day decent spells of sunshine and the | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
winds easing down for a time on Thursday as well. Friday, we are | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
expecting high pressure to build on. This fact pushing in from the west, | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
introducing thicker cloud but not brain-dead until after dark. Friday, | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
possibly some mist and frosts berthing, that should clear as the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
winds pick back up. Hopefully some brightness and sunshine before the | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
cloud increases and the rain expected to move forward on Friday | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
night into Saturday. Saturday, Christmas Eve. It looks like we did | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
have that rain around their thing and that should give way to sunshine | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
and some blustery showers, possibly gale force winds time on Christmas | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
Eve and the same again on Sunday. A dry start and some wet and windy | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
weather pushing in from the west. Thank you. | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
The Christmas walk will have to be before lunch. Wednesday is messy and | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
complicated. It reminds me of some friends of mine. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Ben dropping a frozen turkey on Mum's foot. | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
Put me down! No, we talked about this. | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
Taser him! That is a video game, isn't it? | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
I'm going to need at least another 15 years to recover from children. | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
This is all nonsense - it's highly entertaining, nonetheless it's... | :28:01. | :28:25. | |
I'm starting this new job, I'm taking over a really tough school. | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
Where is it? You're not going down south...? | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
Huddersfield? I know. That's like the dark side of the moon. | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
You do know that this house is haunted? | :28:35. | :28:40. |