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In tonight's programme: a big setback for the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
owner of a children's farm in Oxfordshire | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
after thousands of pounds of power tools are stolen. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
Also on the way: a court's been hearing how sewage | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
systems, owned by Thames Water, led to serious problems | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
And later on: a tasty job opportunity in Reading | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
as thousands of people apply for a job trying chocolate | :00:23. | :00:37. | |
He says it's caused a big setback, not just financially, | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
but for the families who use the site. | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
The owner of a children's farm in Oxfordshire has been | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
expressing his anger after thousands of pounds worth of power tools | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The theft at Fairy Tale Farm in Chipping Norton was caught on CCTV. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Rural crime is something Thames Valley Police says it does | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
it cost the region three quarters of a million pounds in 2015. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
It's the early hours of the morning and a thief is seen on CCTV carrying | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
away loot after breaking into a farm for disabled children. | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
He broke into this building here, he forced the door open and now, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
He broke in there and he stole all of our power tools. | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
That was drills, jig saws, circular saws, | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
lots of other attachments and fixtures and fittings. | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
The farm reopened this weekend after it's winter break but, | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
because they've lost their tools, work that should have been | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
It's expensive, the tools are expensive and going to be | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
We'll have to replace them over time. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
It's almost setting us back to when we first started. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
We didn't have all these tools, we had to build them up. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
We do most of the work at Fairytale Farm ourselves. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
We don't have the funds to bring in lots of contractors. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
To not have these tools has just made our life really difficult. | :02:11. | :02:23. | |
Rural crime in this area is a big issue. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Latest figures from NFU Mutual show that while it | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
went down in the south-east, it actually rose in Oxfordshire by 16%. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Until about ten years ago, farms were pretty safe from crime. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Unfortunately, they're now pretty much hot targets for thieves | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
because they've got expensive items, like welders and chainsaws, | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
that thieves can pick up and sell on for a profit. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Thames Valley Police has started a month-long campaign to crack | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
It's been holding property-marking sessions and online chats | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Fairytale Farm says the response to the break in has been amazing, | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
with a number of strangers offering to donate tools. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
It wishes now to move on from what's happened as quickly as possible. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
A man's in a serious condition in hospital | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Police were called to Windmill Road in Headington just | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
A man in his thirties suffered serious injuries. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
It's believed the suspect and the victim are known to each other. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Next tonight, Thames Water has denied acting recklessly in failing | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
to control sewage spills in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
But the company has admitted breaching a number of environmental | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Aylesbury Crown Court has heard billions of pounds | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
is now being invested in upgrading equipment. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Today we heard more details about how stretches of the Thames | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire came to be so polluted | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
And we heard from the company, Thames Water, that's responsible | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
in what it's doing to make sure that what happened doesn't happen again. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Now, the company breached pollution laws in four sewage | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
treatment works in Aylesbury, Didcot, in Henley and Little | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Marlow and at a pumping station in Littlemore. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Thames Water said it accepts responsibility for damage | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
done to the environment, but QC Richard Matthews told | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the court it was negligence rather than recklessness | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
It's investing ?4 billion in upgrading equipment. | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
There have also been changes to the structure of the company | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
at the top and the QC argued that Thames Water kept a high standard. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Judge Sheridan said the company did not live up to that | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
standard or anywhere near it in 2013 and 2014. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Thames Water is bracing itself for a hefty fine | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
and the question was raised in court who would pay for it? | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Judge Sheridan said that it shouldn't be the customers | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
and that the company should be punished. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Mr Matthews promised that customers wouldn't feel | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
Thames Water will be sentenced on March 24th. | :05:14. | :05:24. | |
More than 7,000 BMW workers - including those at the Mini plants | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
in Oxford and Swindon - are threatening industrial action | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
over plans to close the final salary pension scheme. | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
The carmaker, which made record pre-tax profits | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
of more than seven and half billion pounds two years ago, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
BMW has previously said the pension schemes are "increasingly | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
It's agreed to hold talks with the union later this month. | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
A professional footballer, on loan to Swindon Town, | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
has gone on trial charged with causing a man | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
Rohan Ince is accused of deliberately hitting bouncer | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Gregor Jurcic with a bottle near the Attic nightclub | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
in Windsor in the early hours of Christmas Day in 2015. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
In court today, the security guards recalled the attack and spoke | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
Bullying, harassment and abuse by patients affects around | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
a quarter of staff working at Oxfordshire's main hospitals. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
results of a staff survey, at Oxford University Hospitals | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
It also found that almost 20% of staff there, | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
say they've been on the receiving end of bullying by colleagues. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
The NHS Trust says it aims to empower staff who experience | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
or witness unacceptable behaviour in the workplace, to | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
More than 1500 staff and students have moved out of one | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
of the Oxford University buildings because of asbestos. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
It was discovered at the Tinbergen building | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
The University says it doesn't believe there is, or has been, | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
But the site has now been shut while removal work is carried out. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Asbestos was first discovered there during a survey last year. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
The building is expected to be closed for around two years. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
We've been doing some building work on the back of the building | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
and as we've been doing that building work, we've been | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
discovering some extra pieces of asbestos that are not contained. | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
As we've found them, we've encapsulated them or removed them, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
but as the process has gone forward, we've discovered that there's | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
so much of that to do, we can't safely do it, | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
at least not conveniently, with people still in the building. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
This year, it's 50 years since homosexuality became | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
To mark that and LGBT history month, all the museums and collections | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
in Oxford have created a special trail to celebrate it. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
What kind of things will you see in the trail? | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Well, earlier I was joined in the studio by Beth Asbury, | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
the main organiser of the trail and Clara Barker from the LGBTQ | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
I went to a lecture in LGBT history month in February last year | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
by Professor Richard Parkinson and he called for more explicit | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
rather than implicit representation of LGBT+ people | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
And the project itself, it's called Out In Oxford, | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
How did you go about finding the items? | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
I contacted members of staff and curators from the museums | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
and collections around the university and encouraged them | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
to suggest items for inclusion and then I held a workshop in August | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
with volunteers from amongst the LGBTQ+ community and allies | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
were invited to discuss the object and think about which ones they'd | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
The interpretations in the trail booklet are all written by LGBTQ+ | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
It's really introducing accecssibility and multi-vocality | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
into the museum collections, which is a really important | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
And, Clare, you're heavily involved in this and you've written | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Which ones have captured you the most? | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
There was a lot of different examples of non-binary | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
This is sequentially hermaphroditic, which means it changes from male | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
It means that we're thinking abou the world in a slightly different | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
way than maybe we're used to when we're talking about humans. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Was there anything like this at all when you were growing up? | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
I'm a scientist as well and I've met very, very few out LGBT scientists | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
So I think this is a really important step, that we just need | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
more visibility and to know that we're not so different. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
And, Beth, what's the feedback been like from people who've been | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
to the launch party and people who are hoping to visit this trail? | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
We had about 450 people at the launch party on Saturday | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
and we've got a series of other events throughout LGBT | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
history month, February, in the Pitt Rivers Museum | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
And everyone had fantastic big smiles on their faces on Saturday | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
and had a really good time, I think, so I'm hoping this will be the start | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
of something really, really positive in the future | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Beth, Clara, thank you so much for coming in to see us. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Thank you. Thank you. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
Now more of today's stories with Sally Taylor. | :10:23. | :10:35. | |
The lights on, the TV cameras have a right. Can must halt their slide | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
down the Premier League? We will have a preview shortly. -- can | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
Bournemouth. And it seems that name might be more | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
apt today than it's ever been. Because a so called "Dad's Navy" | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
of former sailors is being sought to fill key posts on Portsmouth's | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
new aircraft carriers and other ships because of a shortage | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
of skilled personnel. With its ships, submarines and | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
aircraft, the Royal Navy needs a lot But it has been facing a skills | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
shortage and to plug the gap, some people over the age of 60 | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
could be allowed to serve. Here in Portsmouth, | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
the home of the Royal Navy, people I spoke to today said | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
they don't think that's a problem. I think it is sad | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
that they haven't got the people that are coming | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
the bottom as engineers to do it but obviously the experience | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
All those old seaman who are drifting | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
around at the moment doing nothing, they could be back on warships doing | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
If they were trained appropriately, they knew what | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
They've got skills and experience, yeah. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
The latest figures show the Royal Navy | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
and the Royal Marines have a manning deficit of 2.2%. | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
An advertising campaign was launched last September to try | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
The Navy is offering trained ex-regulars | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
It says there will be opportunities to | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
serve on the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers and | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
One former naval officer says it's not just the Armed Forces | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
who are having a problem recruiting engineers. | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
There is a national shortage of engineers in this | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
country so the Navy is fishing in quite a small pond to get | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
It takes a long time to recruit and train people and the | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
Navy seems to be putting a lot of effort, quite | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
rightly in my opinion, into retaining people in the Navy of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
-- or getting back people who left a year or two ago. | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Today, the Navy said in a statement, the upper age for | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
service is normally 60 but if there is a service requirement or | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
specialised skills, age waivers may be given on a case-by-case basis. | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
And with the imminent arrival of the first | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
of the new aircraft carriers, the Navy's engineers face a very | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Hepatitis C patients could be putting themselves at risk buying | :12:59. | :13:11. | |
drugs online from South Asia because they're being denied | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
Fewer than 5% of people with the condition in the south | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
will receive the new more effective treatment in this financial year. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
The Hepatitis C Trust unsuccessfully challenged the rationing and says | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
patients are turning to the internet because NHS England's policy | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
of treating the sickest patients first means they don't know how long | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
It's a drug with a cure rate of around 95% and the Hepatitis C Trust | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
says it could eliminate the disease as a serious public health concern. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
But the number of people allowed to have it through the NHS is limited. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Others, like Jaci Fleming, are buying it much more cheaply from | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
I have paid ?1100 to have the whole three course, | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
three-month course after years and years of gradual decline when even | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
to do it privately here, I would have to get a mortgage. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Harvoni, daklinza, viekirax and exviera are | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
treatments for hepatitis C that were by the NHS in November 2015. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
They're considered better than other treatments because they have a | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
significant high cure rate without the chemotherapy-like side-effects | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
but they are also much more expensive. | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
As a result, NHS England has limited their use. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
In the Wessex area, 327 of the 6848 patients will | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
If trusts treat more patients, they face financial penalties. | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
But buying drugs online could expose patients | :14:56. | :14:56. | |
People could put themselves in danger and certainly | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
could put themselves at risk of not getting cured when they could be | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
NHS England says it is spending an extra | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
?200 million a year on these new drugs and | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
it's reduced the number of people dying from | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
NHS England says the numbers being treated will increase | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
each year and that it hopes that as the costs of the drugs come | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
down, it will be able to further expand those numbers. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
In the meantime, patients such as Jaci have | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
Under sport now. Lewis is live at the stadium tonight where | :15:39. | :15:54. | |
Bournemouth are taking on Manchester city. I suspect fans are expecting a | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
great game, a cracking game in fact. That is right. When Bournemouth came | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
to the Premier League, these were the night that the band had been | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
waiting for. The floodlights are on, the sky TV cameras. Tonight is about | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
whether Bournemouth can halt their slide down the Premier League, the | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
form has not been great, without a win this year. Six points above the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
relegation zone. Chris has been following bomb this season. Has the | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
performance in as bad as the results suggest? It is yes and no. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Defensively yes they have been bad. Everton last time out, they have | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
been ravaged by injuries and suspension but has been a problem. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
They have been at the length of Provence is by showing us what | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
Bournemouth is capable. Actually, they haven't managed to raise their | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
game against the big teams here and that will keep them in good stead | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
this evening. -- they have managed. Any indication for this evening? 15 | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
minutes away from getting the official teams, hopefully some good | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
news as far as the defence of the consent. The racks of Charlie | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Daniels and Adam Smith, it looks like they are going to be fit this | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
evening. That will be abused as well. Captain Simon Francis looks | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
fit as well. Reverting to some of the former season. Full commentary | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
on the radio. Bring a scarf, it is cold. Hopefully get the Manchester | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
city coach arriving shortly. Southampton had a confidence | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
boosting win ahead of their trip Saints who had lost six | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
of the previous seven in the league, now head into a two week break | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
on the back of a 4-0 January signing Manolo Gabbiadini | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
scored his second and third goals for the club to put | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Saints in control. A late own goal and Shane Long's | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
fifth goal of the season earned Claude Puel's side their first | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
points on the road this year. They're the right results | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
for us, you know? We haven't been playing badly | :18:05. | :18:05. | |
but we haven't been taking opportunities when they come | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
and sloppy goals and, you know, it all adds up but we | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
know our ability in the squad. We know that we are | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
better than what we are showing on the table | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
at the moment so nice to get another thing under our belts and hopefully | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
kick on from here. Meanwhile, Brighton continue to go | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
from strength to strength at the top And that's where we start our | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
round up of the rest Manager Chris Hughton | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
says just missing out on promotion last season, | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
is motivating his side Goals from Tomor Hemed | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
certainly help. Sam Baldock tapped home from close | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
range to make it two. And after more good | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
play from Solly March, Michael Kightly's free-kick | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
briefly gave Burton hope before Glenn Murray's header sealed | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Brighton's sixth successive home league win, another step | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
towards the Premier League taken. Reading had plenty of the ball, | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
but couldn't find a way past A combination of wayward shooting | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
and a goalkeeper in form the reason. Swindon were dragged | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
into the League One relegation zone after defeat at fellow strugglers | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Bury. James Vaughan's 37th-minute | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
penalty the difference after Raphael Rossi-Branco | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
was judged to have fouled. Oxford left it late but made | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
it five wins in a row thanks to substitute | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
Kane Hemming's glanced header. The U's could've made it two | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
in injury time But were thwarted not once, | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
not twice but three times Portsmouth defender Matt Clarke | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
hasn't scored for over a year, but he took just two minutes | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
to give his side the lead Substitute Kal Naismith sealed | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
the victory in added time, slotting home after being sent clear | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
by Noel Hunt. Pompey back to winning | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
ways in League Two. Good wins there. The man city coach | :19:57. | :20:11. | |
has just arrived here at the stadium. ?300 million of talent | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
getting. The fans out there. Let's do a round-up. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Onto ice hockey and four goals from Vanya Antonov helped | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
Basingstoke Bison to victory over Hull on Saturday. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Vanya both opened and closed the scoring in a 7-1 win, a match | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
which saw forward Ciaran Long become the club's record | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Bison lost the reverse fixture 3-2 on Sunday. | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
After finishing second in the Vendee Globe round the world | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
yacht race last month, Gosport's Alex Thomson has announced | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
he's going to try again in four years' time! | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Thousands of people braved the weather to welcome Thomson home | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Despite sailing for much of this year's race with a damaged boat, | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
he broke several speed records along the way and now hopes to go one | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Good luck to Alex. I'm sure we are going to follow his journey. | :21:02. | :21:17. | |
Manchester City had just arrived. Bournemouth will put on a | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
performance when the big boys roll into town, hopefully this time as | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
well. Thank you. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Time for the weather. Alexis is here. It was bitterly cold over the | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
weekend. We go into double figures in temperatures. | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Natasha Weyers took this picture of the sunrise at Southampton Docks. | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
Cathy Anning photographed a seal after catching a fish | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
And Richard Welch took this picture on a walk in Petersfield. | :21:40. | :21:52. | |
Beautiful blue skies overhead. Last week, temperatures struggled to | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
raise to a high of just for starters. Into double figures today, | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
13 filters. Some brightness this week. Some patchy light rain at | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
times and a good deal of cloud as well through the course of the week. | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Overnight tonight, eight few clear spells that may allow temperatures | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
full freezing or just below. These of values in our towns and cities. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
The wind will ease by dawn tomorrow. There will be some brightness | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
berthing tomorrow. It will be fleeting because the cloud will | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
start to increase from the self and we will see some outbreaks of mainly | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
like an patchy rain. Not amounting to too much. A lot of cloud as well. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Nine to 11 Celsius beehive. The wind will be fairly light. Tomorrow | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
night, clear spells are possible. During the early hours of Wednesday | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
morning, temperatures start to rise. It will be a mild start Wednesday | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
with losers six to eight Celsius. When state itself, a lot of cloud. | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
-- when states. The winds are gradually changing direction from | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
that south-easterly airflow to start date a more south-westerly airflow. | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
Driving in milder air. Through Wednesday, we are looking at Heise | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
to ten of 11 Celsius. Thursday, high pressure starts to build an even | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
further. A lot of cloud around on Thursday that there will be some | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
brighter and sunny spells and it should stay mainly dry as well. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Friday, very similar to that state. A mild day, ten to 11 Celsius. A lot | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
of cloud but some breaks in the cloud cover. The wind is fairly | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
light. As we look ahead to the weekend, mainly dry, high | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
dominating, the night will be chilly and it will be milder by day. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Temperatures remaining in double figures. Right, the subject. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
It may not have escaped your notice that tomorrow is Valentine's Day. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
So here's a subject which is close to many of our hearts. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Because, believe it or not, a company in Berkshire is looking | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
for someone to take on the onerous task of testing their tasty chocs. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
We sent along our own "little sweetie", Ben Moore, to apply. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
One of the world's biggest chocolate makers | :24:05. | :24:21. | |
really does want a new taster and it really could be you. | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
There's no real requirements that you can have for the | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
job, you know, you can't train for it. | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
It's basically what is in your mouth, it's the taste buds | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
Mondelez owns brands like Cadbury and Oreo so this is the big one. | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
But getting this sweet job won't be a piece of cake. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
It was advertised on social media so there | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
We are not looking to see whether they like the sample, we want them | :24:46. | :24:57. | |
to taste it and basically say what they see or say what they taste from | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
the product. It entails a fair bit of training. You would not think so | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
that you need training to eat chocolate. | :25:06. | :25:06. | |
Through the tasting hatch, there's a change of mood. | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
I can assure you it isn't seedy, we use a red light so when | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
the candidate is assessing the samples, it masks all of the colour | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
This is where the lucky applicant will be | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
confined with chocolate for seven and a half hours a week. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
So I'm ready to taste my first chocolate samples. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
I open the hatch, there we are, three samples. | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Now, this one is the control sample, I try this first and | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
then I have got to decide which of these two it tastes most | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
like and all the while, writing down what I | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
think about all the flavours of the chocolate. | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
Once I've done that, I eat a cracker, | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
This'll be the test they the short listed candidates over three days. | :25:46. | :26:08. | |
At the end, there will be left. -- there will be one left. | :26:09. | :26:09. | |
Yes, you have shown that you can discriminate but | :26:10. | :26:18. | |
sadly you've not quite made the grade to go onto one | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
There was no sweet talking my way round it. | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
But I suppose for times like these, there's | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
So we weren't going to let Ben have all the fun | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
We have to try the chocolate in each of these three pots and decide | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Slow down. Which is the odd one out? This as number 646. How many | :26:41. | :26:53. | |
chocolates are there? I have got the answers. I think this is the odd one | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
out. Probably not great with the cold because I don't think I can | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
taste as well. I could just keep eating chocolate. Which one? 646. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
You'd think that is the different one? 272. I think we should carry on | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
eating chocolate. Never mind working out which is the odd one out. | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
Goodbye for now. Good night. | :27:23. | :27:29. |