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Good evening. Here are the headlines: The soldier prince meets | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
the officers from the riot frontline in Salford. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
We report on Prince Harry's visit to Salford and how it was viewed by | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
the people who live there. Also tonight, our A-levels all was the | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
smart choice? We ask whether getting an apprenticeship is the | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
best idea. -- always. A court rules on the case of puffy | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
you -- puppy love. The leader -- and cannot go back to his owner. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
were devastated. This does not just end here. We will never forget him. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The farmer using the latest technology to monitor the way his | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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We have the most remarkable story. This lady walk from, and found out | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
she was a mother. -- walk from a coma. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
Prince Harry, himself a frontline soldier, said he is shocked and | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
outraged by the rioting which brought mayhem to Salford last week. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
He visited the city of Salford this week, a week after the May and that | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
brought misery to many. -- mayhem. He met fire and ambulance personnel | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
on the riot front line last week. Like his father, yesterday in | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
Tottenham, he was visibly taken aback by what he was shown. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Mindless, the Prince's take on the violence that hit the streets. As | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
an officer, he is used to conflicts, but he seemed shocked by the way | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
that fire crews were turned on when they came to help. Six fire engines | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
were damaged, fire crews pelted with bricks. Youths running around, | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
there was no control over them. The police were in defensive positions, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
defending us. He asked us ball we did and how we felt. Did we see | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
anything like it before? -- what we did. He was appreciative of the | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
work that we do on a day-to-day basis. Prince Harry's desire to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
understand what happened in Salford took him to the heart of the city. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
He has got guts, coming up here. And on planned walkabout through | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the precinct where shops were looted, smashed and torched. The | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
shopkeeper has two shops in Salford. The other one was completely | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
destroyed. Prince Harry has gone inside to talk to him. Everyone has | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
come out to have a look. Will this make a difference to people and | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
Salford Q Mac I would never thought he would be in Salford. He has got | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
more power than the other royals. It will make no difference. Not one | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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bit of difference. The five minutes he visited made me forget about | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
everything. He also met ambulance crews and injured police officers. | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
Out of the blue, I was surrounded by 30 people. One of them first saw | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
fit to throw a brick through the window. Glasson arise, con Somma | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
arms. It was scary. Nice to see that he cares and he was interested | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
in what the City has been through. Prince Charles's son's visit may | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
not change the lives of people here, but it touched them more than they | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
could have imagined. This time last week, parts of the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
north-west were starting to recover from some of the worst violence we | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
have seen for decades. For some, it was a turning point where they | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
decided it was time to do more to support the community. Since last | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
week's shocking scenes, three of the region's police sources have | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
recorded a surge in the number of people inquiring as to how to | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
become a special constable. There are already more than 2100 in the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
north-west. They give up 16 hours for free every week to make the | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
streets safer. There has been an assault in | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Chester city centre. Alastair is talking to a suspect, the sort of | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
thing he does for 30 hours every week as a special constable. This | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
time is given for free. It is a great feeling, when you actually | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
see the changes you have made to the community you love, it is a | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
great feeling. Jonathan is one of the people who watched events | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
unfold last week and decided he wanted to become a special. I think | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
it is exciting. To be able to do something and get some achievement. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
Going home at the end of the day, I did something, I made a difference. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Here in Cheshire alone, special constables gave up 143,000 hours of | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
their own time for free in the last six months. 68% of that time was | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
spent on the beat and they dealt with 15,000 separate incidents and | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
made more than 900 arrests. Rarely have they been more potent than | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
last week, freeing up thousands of colleagues from front I'm duty and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
providing visible reassurance for anxious communities. -- frontline | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
duty. I was working in the centre quite a lot last weekend. Every | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
other person was stopping you, thanking you for being you -- being | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
there. Giving you support and congratulations. It was mainly | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
after last week's events. David joined after the Toxteth riots. 30 | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
years later, he said that the response of his colleagues last | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
week was incredible. For 150 people to put their names forward within | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
four hours, when they have difficult jobs and families, it | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
really put a lump in the throat. And at a time when police are | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
making savings, the role of the special constable is expected to | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
become even more important. Staying with the riots, the faces | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
of people wanted in connection with last week's disturbances in the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
north-west will appear in a Crimewatch Special tonight. Images | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
of people taken during the public disorder will be shown during the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
programme on BBC One at 8:00am -- 8pm. There will also be new footage | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
of people looting shops in Salford and Manchester. More news from | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
around the north-west. The widow of a man killed by a shark in the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Seychelles said they were told the water was shark free. Ian Nelson | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
died after the -- Ian Redmond From Nelson died after he was attacked. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
I asked the lady on the reception if there were sharks and she said | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
no, the Seychelles have very safe waters. One of the reasons we came | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
here was the fact that the beautiful water, it is an | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
underwater aquarium. The BBC understands that Manchester United | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
are going to sell off a significant stake in the club up on the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
Singapore Stock Exchange. The Glazer family will raise several | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
hundred pounds. -- several million pounds. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Richard, is that why the Glazer family are doing this? To clear the | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
debt? Certainly in part, yes, to try and | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
pay off some of those debts, �550 million accrued since the Glazer | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
family to call for in 2005. We understand they have lodged a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
listing application with the Singapore Stock Exchange. -- took | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
over. We're not talking about a change of ownership. 30%, racing | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
somewhere between 400 and �600 million. A huge amount of money | :08:24. | :08:33. | |
that could be used to pay off those dents and bring in more players or | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
even advance of a pass of the empire. There will be suspicion | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
from supporters. Despite success on the pitch, you will notice a large | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
number 19 on the front of Old Trafford, signifying the 19th title | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
they won last season. Here is what a few supporters said to me a | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
couple of moments ago. If it brings and the money, fair enough. Lots of | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
shares. Lots of people. Possibly unnecessary. It depends how bad the | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
situation is. You hope they will invest in other players and put | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
money back into the club, rather than take money away. The reason I | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
asked, I wondered if there might be something else to it, a potential | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
sale in the Far East. Yes, there are other factors at work. It has | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
been suggested that United want a bigger presence in a shaft than | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
they already have. They already have 190 million fans in a share, | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
300 million worldwide. There are many Asian fans in the area around | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
today, taking pictures. There is the suggestion that there wanting | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
to tap into that market. Also, they will get some estimate on the Stock | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
Exchange, what it values United at. Richard, thank you very much. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
20 or 30 years ago, the brightest students seemed to do A-levels and | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
those not so academically gifted tried for an apprenticeship. Today, | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
as A-level results came out and with only a scramble for university | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
places ahead of some of them, youngsters could be forgiven for | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
thinking that getting an apprenticeship might be the clever | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
choice after all. We have been meeting teenagers from both sides | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
of the divide. The day of reckoning has arrived for students at | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
Blackpool: She, collecting A-level results. I got three Bs. Are you | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
pleased with your results? Yes. What are you going to do now? | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
into uni! When they have the results, they have decisions to | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
make. I got an A in maths and a C in physics. What are you going to | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
do? I got exactly what I need. I should be straight into the | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
University of by choice. Taking this place will cost him more than | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
�3,000 a year in tuition fees. �3,000 a year in tuition fees. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Adding in rent, food and living expenses, the annual total is more | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
than �11,000. I do not feel that I am mentally capable of making the | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
am mentally capable of making the leap to university just yet. I | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
think of a weighty here, I will be think of a weighty here, I will be | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
dedicated. That decision was cost her dear. -- I think if I wait | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
another year. She will still have to live, bringing her annual bill | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
to more than �17,000. Studying and to more than �17,000. Studying and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
passing exams is just part of the pressure facing students this year. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Getting the right grade is essential if they want to be sure | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
of securing their place at university this September. There is | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
such an enormous competition for places. If they put it off, they | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
will get a hike in tuition fees. But what options are there for | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
those who do not want to go to university? They could consider an | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
apprenticeship. Years ago, that might have been seen as a poor | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
alternative to university. But not now, according to many of the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
current generation of apprentices at BAE Systems. When it came down | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
to it, I got an offer from Lancaster University. The job offer | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
here as well. I thought that this option provided a wage and still | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
offers me development opportunities. Does it close the door on at a | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
university degree? No. The apprenticeship opened many doors. I | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
am doing a part-time degree now and BAE Systems has sponsored me for | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
that. With the cost of learning rising, it is possible that there | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
will be growing interest in the auction for an apprenticeship. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Universities and colleges throughout the north-west have been | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
fielding calls. They have just closed for the night. Jane Barrett | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
was at Edge Hill. She has sent us this. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
This is the clearing Room at Edge Hill. Plenty of people manning the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
phones. Trying to put people together with the right course, no | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
matter what their results were. It is was a scramble, days like today, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
to get people into courses. This year, more of a scramble, more | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
frantic. It is not just about getting people into university, it | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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is keeping them out of debt. We will chat briefly with Dr John | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
Cater. How many courses did you have this morning? We probably had | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
200 places available out of 2700 this morning. Now we perhaps have | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
60 a 70 places. Behind your back, this is the sold board. No more | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
courses in any of these subjects. Health, midwifery, all gone. Around | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
here, let me introduce you to call Kingston, manning the phones all | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
day today. Is there a sense of people being slightly more | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
desperate this year? There has been a greater sense of urgency with the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
amount of phone calls that have common compared to last year. It is | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
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a definite increase. I think it is because of the fees. They need to | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
getting to avoid the �9,000 a year? Definitely. There has been large | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
quantities. Any tears today? There has been some excitement. I do not | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
think there has been any tears, but there have been some very excited | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
students. You have been holding your hands through it -- you have | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
been holding their hands through it! Back to the Vice Chancellor, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
because there is this sense of urgency, is there a danger of | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
people accepting the wrong course just to get in? Yes. I would advise | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
them to stand back and reflect, to go to the university they are | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
contemplating, to turn up by the open days. It is an important | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
decision. Easier said than done. You are facing �9,000 a year. A | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
media student will pay the same here as a law student would in | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
Oxford. Will that put people off? do not think so. The application to | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
study here has increased by 400% over the last nine years. Will it | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
put people off in a few church? Official figures suggest there may | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
be a downturn in applications next year but in the end, a graduate | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
will typically end over -- earn more than �100,000 more in their | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
lifetime. In a word, briefly, if someone is sat at home watching | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
this and they think their life is over because they did not getting, | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
what do you say? First of all, do not panic. Secondly, come and talk | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
to the universe -- experts. We have an open day on Saturday. The phone | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
lines will close in three minutes time, so back to Manchester. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Good luck to everybody who was trying to move on to the next level. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
This is a much what -- must watch story. Imagine waking up and | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
finding out that you had given birth to a baby without being | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
conscious. Impossible? Well, that is exactly what happens to Lisa | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Boland from Hatfield. She was five months pregnant when she fell ill | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
with swine flu. She slipped into a coma and did not we come for two | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
months. Not only did she have to deal with a baby she did not know, | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
but she also had to learn to walk, talk and eat again. I'm glad to say | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
that she and her fiance and baby Samuel are here. You look like a | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
perfect family. What an extraordinary and terrible thing | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
you have been through. When you will come from the coma, what did | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
you think? After have the baby, Mark had been telling me that I had | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
had the baby while I was in the coma. Some of that must have | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
registered because I was not shocked or surprised. He had | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
photographs and he was showing me photographs of Sam. He said "This | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
is our baby." And it was seven weeks after that you walk up? Was | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
five weeks. I had a couple of weeks where I had a tracheotomy fitted -- | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
tracheostomy fitted. And you were hallucinating? It sounds quite | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
scary. It was frightening. And your emotions must have been all over | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
the place. He was you're fiancee lying in a coma. -- here was your | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
fiancee. And suddenly the baby is being born. It was quite an amazing | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
time. At the time of the birth, I was in the waiting room, just | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
waiting for news. They prepared a earlier in case she had to have a | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
Caesarean. But the baby was born naturally, and it was quite amazing. | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
They say that is very rare for anyone to have a natural birth in a | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
coma. I think it it happened once in the last decade. And obviously, | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
you missed seven weeks of the baby. You had waited a long time for a | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
baby and he missed seven weeks of his life. What was it like when he | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
met him for the first time. first time I met him, it was quite | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
difficult. I did not have an instant bond, which I found very | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
difficult, because I had so many plans when I was pregnant, with how | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
the birth was going to be. It was very difficult for me because the | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
environment is quite scary. He was very poorly. He was not a healthy | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
baby. He came home oxygen dependent. But now he looks the picture of | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
health. He looks so much like his dad. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Mark, is it right that for the whole seven weeks, you did not want | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
anyone else to pick him up? Yes. I think it was the best thing for a | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
lease up to have been the first person to cuddle and hold him. -- | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
for my wife. Three days after the birth, you proposed. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
When she came out of the coma, yeah. You had to learn how to love | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
breeds? What happened, she asked me through one of the nurses. -- How | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
to lip read. You do not remember! asked him, but he could not | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
understand what I was saying because I could not speak. One of | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
the nurses could lip-read and she said that he was -- I was asking | :20:01. | :20:10. | |
him to marry me. He got down on one side of the bed. I am Welling up! | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Wonderful story. How was life now? Sam is getting | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
there. My wife is still recovering. Hopefully we are on the right road. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
And you have had to learn how to walk and do everything again. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
and talk and set-up. Thank you for coming in ensuring that with us. -- | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
sit up. Good luck with everything. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Would you go from that? I think we may have some tears and | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
a minute. Next tonight, a man who went to | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
court to try to get his dog back after his wife give it away has had | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
his claim dismissed. He has had to pay 1500 pounds in costs. Days | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
after they had handed over Bailey, a dachshund, Gary and Moira | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
Rowlinson changed their minds. The new owner would not give them back. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
-- give him back. The couple were devastated. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
46 months, Bailey the dachshund has been at the centre of a custody | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
battle. His original owners gave him away after he bit their | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
granddaughter. -- for six months. Days later, they changed their mind | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
but the owner would not give him back. They offered money, then took | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
him to court. Today, the judge ruled that he now belongs to him | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
and not them. We are devastated. This does not end here. We will | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
never forget him. Whenever we see a similar dog, it will bring it back. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
A in court, Mr Robinson argued that while he was the leader owner, it | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
was his wife who had given the dog away. -- legal owner. The new owner | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
said that Mr Robinson was there when the dog was handed over and | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
therefore agreed to it. Dismissing the claim, the judge | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
said that he had given authority to his wife to give away the dog. He | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
said that once given, such a gift could not be taken back. He also | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
ordered Mr Robinson to pay almost 1500 pounds in costs. This | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
afternoon, he told me he had to try to get the dog back. I knew it | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
would cost me money. If there is any hope of getting Bailey back, I | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
am resigned to spending their money. I would never have forgiven myself | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
if I had just rolled over and said "Keep the dog". Bailey' Warner told | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
last night that he is glad it is all over. The family say they will | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
not be getting another dog for a long time, if ever again. -- | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Bailey's new owner. Bailey's new owner. | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
The rain has swept in this afternoon after a decent day. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Here is the latest. It will not change too much. We warned you at | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the beginning of the week that the conditions would be changeable. | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
That is how it has panned out. Over the next couple of days, Saturday - | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
- over the next couple of days, that is how it is going to pan out. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
It might be light and patchy at the moment but Sunday looks like it is | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
going to be better than Saturday with dry weather. There is room for | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
change over the next 24 hours. We did not get it exactly right today. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
This area of rain has moved into the southern parts of the country. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
We thought it would get north to us but it did not. It has caused | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
problems for the cricket in the south. The rain is waiting in the | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
wings. While we did not see the bulk of that, there is new rain | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
moving in. It has left Isle of Man, so the clearance has come through. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Moving across the north-west of England. This is how the forecast | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
picks it up. From time to time, one or two of the heavy bursts will be | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
in parts of Cumbria. There is a warning that there could be up to | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
40 mm of rain, room for localised flooding. By the time we get to | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
midnight, it will be leaving us. Behind it, the cloud cover will | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
break and the temperatures will fall away. Because there is so much | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
moisture around, the visibility will not be brilliant for the first | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
few hours. It is going to be cool as well, feeling autumnal. Away | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
from that, it does not look too bad. Some reasonable spells of sunshine | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
through the morning. Into the afternoon, cloud cover thickening. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
afternoon, cloud cover thickening. Not a bad day. Top temperature of | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
Let us talk cows. Richard Park is paying a lot of attention to the | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
way his career's walk. -- his cows. It is very important and his | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
livelihood depends on it. He has invested thousands of pounds on new | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
technology to make sure he does not miss a thing. We have been to Low | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Sizergh Farm to find out why. Richard Park is introducing me to | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
his cows. They are getting to know me. This one is very friendly. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Richard needs to know everything about them. Especially when they're | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
ready to breed. To produce milk, a cow needs to have a calf. Ideally, | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
it will have it naturally. Richard used to watch closely for signs | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
that the animals were in season. I'm looking for them coming into | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
season. I'm looking for a cow standing and another cow riding on | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
top of her, pretending to be a bull. Delicately put. Richard cannot be | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
watching them all the time. The answer, a pedometer. One sign of a | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
cow being in season is that she suddenly starts to walk longer | :26:00. | :26:08. | |
distances. I will put this around the front leg, gently. She cannot | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
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see what I'm doing. That is it. they mind having it on there? | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
just like wearing a wrist watch. The results are scanned at milking | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
time. She was going through her daily routine and then this spiking | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
activity shows that she will be coming into season, and the cycle | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
every 21 days, so we have another spike inactivity 21 days later. | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
They should be ready to be inseminated next month. | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
Only Stuart can tell that story! We still have our guests with us. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Lisa, you want to say a special thank you. I want to thank the | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
staff at both hospitals that looked after us while I was in the coma. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
The care was amazed in. One is the wedding? As soon as we can afford | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
it. Really?! Are you planning a big get together? Yes. I cannot believe | :27:20. | :27:26. |