:00:02. > :00:07.provide water for Northampton and Daventry. What a levels are down on
:00:07. > :00:09.what they should be despite the rain we have had. We need at least
:00:09. > :00:13.six months of above average rainfall for us to come out of
:00:13. > :00:17.trout status. We are being told that if we get just one more dry
:00:18. > :00:26.winter there could be devastating consequences, especially for our
:00:26. > :00:30.wildlife and farming. How are we coping with the drought?
:00:30. > :00:32.Despite the recent rain fall the last six months have been the
:00:32. > :00:38.driest in more than 90 years. The Environment Agency says that most
:00:38. > :00:41.of eastern England is now officially suffering a drought. How
:00:41. > :00:48.is that affecting us? I have been is that affecting us? I have been
:00:48. > :00:58.finding out. We are on the the finding out. We are on the the
:00:58. > :01:02.10,500 acre used an estate. It is owned by the Duke of Grafton.
:01:02. > :01:06.Andrew Blenkiron is the estate manager at Euston. He says the
:01:06. > :01:12.drought is starting to hit. This is the stream we take a lot of the
:01:12. > :01:18.water. Normally at this time of the Year you'd expect the water to be
:01:18. > :01:25.up here. We have only been able to pool one-third of the water that we
:01:25. > :01:33.usually do. How much do you normally take out in one year.
:01:33. > :01:37.million gallons. Last winter we only pulled out one-third of that.
:01:37. > :01:40.It has had a massive impact and we have had to reduce our cropping
:01:40. > :01:45.accordingly. That impact can be seen around the estate. What have
:01:45. > :01:52.you got here? We have got maize seed that we're going to plant in
:01:52. > :02:02.the field behind us. This takes one-third less water. This would
:02:02. > :02:10.have been a field of potatoes? would. The drought has cost us
:02:10. > :02:15.�6,000 alone on this field. Across the total area we are down �100,000
:02:15. > :02:20.this year. It is not just farmers feeling the strain. The drought is
:02:20. > :02:23.also taking its toll on our wildlife. Over the last month fish
:02:23. > :02:33.rescues have become a familiar sight in places like Welland in
:02:33. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:38.Cambridgeshire. Despite the recent rain water levels are at their
:02:38. > :02:45.River deben in Suffolk are still lower than they should be. This is
:02:45. > :02:51.the River Colne near Colchester. How worried are you about the
:02:51. > :02:54.river? It's is looking extremely low at the moment. You can see all
:02:54. > :03:00.this exposed gravel. At this time of year, coming out of winter, I
:03:00. > :03:05.would expect this to still be under water. Is of a similar picture
:03:05. > :03:09.across the county? Yes, we have made a survey across the country
:03:09. > :03:14.and have seen the same picture repeated over and over again. Even
:03:14. > :03:17.some of the headwaters have dried up completely. Water companies are
:03:17. > :03:20.allowed to take water from rivers like this, but the about of
:03:20. > :03:26.abstraction is strictly controlled and then drought conditions the
:03:26. > :03:36.about a greatly reduced. With levels solo, so early in the
:03:36. > :03:40.
:03:40. > :03:50.year, what are your worries? this river we have a major water
:03:50. > :03:50.
:03:50. > :03:55.problem. When water levels drop they are exposed. -- water voles
:03:55. > :04:01.are exposed. These are gravels are brilliant for
:04:01. > :04:09.invertebrates and fish fry. We want these sorts of gravels. But if they
:04:09. > :04:14.are already this exposed what would be like in the summer? There are
:04:14. > :04:21.five water companies in our region. Two have hosepipe bans. This has
:04:21. > :04:26.resulted in bizarre anomalies. St Osyeth in Essex is officially the
:04:26. > :04:36.driest place in the country, but the local cricket club is still
:04:36. > :04:36.
:04:36. > :04:44.free to water its perch. We are run by a small water company. Because
:04:44. > :04:47.they look after a small area or this is exempt from restrictions.
:04:47. > :04:53.You can water to your heart's content? That is correct. We have
:04:53. > :04:58.been told there is no prospect of a hosepipe ban. Other clubs must be
:04:58. > :05:02.green with envy? Virtually all the clubs we will be playing this
:05:02. > :05:08.summer will have their hosepipes turned off. They will all be very
:05:08. > :05:12.envious of the situations year. region's largest water company is
:05:12. > :05:18.Anglian Water. Its customers have been hit with a hosepipe ban. I
:05:18. > :05:22.wanted to find out why. We are constantly told these are
:05:22. > :05:26.exceptional situations, that is why you have introduced a hosepipe ban.
:05:26. > :05:30.I put it to you there is nothing exceptional. We have tried every 20
:05:30. > :05:37.years. This demonstrates that you as a company have not been prepared.
:05:37. > :05:41.I disagree. This is exceptional weather. We have had the driest 18
:05:41. > :05:45.months for over 100 years in this region. It is important to
:05:45. > :05:49.understand that this is the first hosepipe ban but and then what are
:05:49. > :05:55.has imposed the 20 years. This reservoir is brimming full, so why
:05:55. > :05:59.are hosepipe ban? This is an exceptional reservoir. It has been
:05:59. > :06:08.get full. We have been able to abstract water from the river over
:06:08. > :06:13.the winter. This is the exception. It would all be well and good would
:06:13. > :06:16.it not that your company was wasting 230 million litres of water
:06:17. > :06:23.per day in leaks. It is a bit rich to restrict customers when you're
:06:23. > :06:28.wasting so much what a yourselves. No leakage is a good thing. You're
:06:28. > :06:32.have missed your target. We missed our target once last year. That was
:06:32. > :06:37.due to exceptional winter weather last year. We met our target this
:06:37. > :06:40.year. It is well below the target that be have been set. What if
:06:40. > :06:46.drought start occurring more regular be? What are the
:06:46. > :06:51.implications? Hosepipe bans are inconvenient. Are far more serious
:06:51. > :06:54.impact could be farmers struggling to grow food. I have come to a
:06:54. > :06:58.research centre in Cambridge. They are spearheading research into new
:06:58. > :07:04.types of plant that could cope with less water. The climate is going to
:07:04. > :07:08.get hotter and drier. We know this will happen. In order to cope in
:07:08. > :07:16.those conditions we need to have a wide variety of different types of
:07:16. > :07:21.crops. What do you have here? have been a recreating wheat. We
:07:21. > :07:25.have been it creating it from the wild ancestors of the species, and
:07:25. > :07:32.crossing it with other species. The earlier flowering varieties have
:07:32. > :07:38.been doing much better in drought conditions. All of these plants
:07:38. > :07:44.have been growing at the same time. These ones are growing much faster.
:07:44. > :07:48.This has been able to get its yield in before the drought comes along.
:07:48. > :07:52.In certain circumstances early flowering plants are the key.
:07:52. > :07:56.are potentially much better at coping with drought. Exactly. It
:07:56. > :08:01.could be that farmers will be growing these in the field. With
:08:01. > :08:09.farmers already struggling, the new crops could be seen in our fields
:08:09. > :08:13.sooner than we think. If the drought continues the
:08:13. > :08:16.Environment Agency has told us we need one-third more than average
:08:16. > :08:20.rainfall to top up the underground aquifers which will allow us to
:08:20. > :08:28.pump water over the next year. People are starting to get very
:08:28. > :08:32.concerned about 2013 already. Later we will have a detailed
:08:32. > :08:38.weather forecast. And I will be finding out what lessons we can
:08:38. > :08:43.learn from southern Europe. I have been to Spain where they are
:08:43. > :08:46.going through the worst drought for 70 years. I will be asking if our
:08:46. > :08:53.Government should consider some of the radical ideas about the way
:08:53. > :08:56.water is used over here. You will not be surprised when I
:08:56. > :09:00.tell you that we had above average rainfall in April. What is
:09:01. > :09:04.happening with a water supplies? Complaining about the rain in this
:09:04. > :09:14.country is a national pastime, yet we still have this drought. What is
:09:14. > :09:32.
:09:32. > :09:36.The Lake District is England's wettest place and looking below the
:09:36. > :09:45.word drought is the last thing that comes to mind. There is rain rich
:09:45. > :09:49.land. There are reservoirs with billions of litres of water. How
:09:49. > :09:53.come so much of England is then drought?
:09:53. > :09:57.The met Office is now looking into what is behind this apparent change
:09:57. > :10:03.in our climate. The first place they are looking is the jet stream.
:10:03. > :10:11.That carries rain bearing weather fronts across the Atlantic. The jet
:10:11. > :10:15.stream has tended to be placed a bit further north. By the time it
:10:15. > :10:22.gets to the south, it is running into higher pressure and it is not
:10:22. > :10:28.doing the job that be what which is to produce grain. At this time of
:10:28. > :10:32.year we are competing with nature for water. You do not get England's
:10:32. > :10:36.green and pleasant land without it. While everything around us is
:10:36. > :10:39.turning green, and you see the river starting to fill up, what you
:10:39. > :10:49.do not see in some parts of the country is even more important.
:10:49. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :10:59.Handed and 50 miles south-east of Windsor may our main droughts
:10:59. > :11:03.territory. I am visiting the National Geological Survey in
:11:03. > :11:10.Northampton. They are constantly surveying the consent of the ground
:11:10. > :11:15.water in the UK. They have an underground map of Great Britain.
:11:15. > :11:21.The areas in green here are a shock. This is Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
:11:21. > :11:25.This is the south-east. This is a really important aquifer. This is
:11:25. > :11:34.only recharged by rainfall in the winter and we have had to
:11:34. > :11:37.relatively dry winters so we have not had the recharge we expect.
:11:37. > :11:41.Groundwater levels are normal in the North West but by the time you
:11:41. > :11:44.get to the south-east they have dropped by a third. In the last
:11:44. > :11:50.couple of years only four months have been significantly wetter than
:11:50. > :11:55.normal, including the able just on which to live at record rain. To
:11:55. > :12:00.find out how low our ground water stocks are, last week I went to do
:12:00. > :12:05.a survey. This is the South Downs. In drought
:12:05. > :12:09.and one of the driest parts of England. Below me is the most
:12:09. > :12:14.important source of ground water, the chalk aquifer. Today we will
:12:14. > :12:19.find out how far we have to godowns of find that water.
:12:19. > :12:24.This aquifer is at a giant pressurise sponge, full of water,
:12:24. > :12:29.which the Victorians tat with Wells. The water would normally be about
:12:29. > :12:34.20 metres below ground level. This is the exciting bit. How far
:12:34. > :12:38.down are we? It is looking promising. I can see
:12:38. > :12:44.a reflection at the bottom of the well. We are 30 metres below where
:12:44. > :12:49.we started. Below up -- before long, we pass
:12:49. > :12:55.the point where we would expect to see water.
:12:55. > :12:59.There are really dry walls to the ball. If there was moisture at the
:13:00. > :13:04.was a big balls would be listening. They are not. There completely dry.
:13:04. > :13:08.He even though it has been pouring with rain, at the it has not made a
:13:08. > :13:13.jot of difference to the water level down here.
:13:13. > :13:19.No, it would take weeks or months for her at the water to infiltrate
:13:19. > :13:21.if it was going to. But it will not. The water is taken up by plans.
:13:21. > :13:25.This is the surface of the water here.
:13:25. > :13:31.How does it compare with how low it has been before?
:13:31. > :13:37.Were a have 180 years of record. This is the 5th or 6th driest we
:13:37. > :13:40.have seen. It is pretty low. The last major it drought was in
:13:41. > :13:45.1976 when a dry winter was followed by a hot summer.
:13:45. > :13:51.Now we are saying, save water, we are going to need it.
:13:51. > :13:54.People were forced to queue and get water from standpipes. This was his
:13:54. > :14:01.difference. It is not hot and sunny it has been pouring with rain and
:14:01. > :14:05.yet we are told it could be in droughts big -- we could be in
:14:06. > :14:10.droughts until Christmas. This rain has still not reached where many of
:14:10. > :14:14.us get our water from, the Aqua first.
:14:14. > :14:19.What the Victorians started with Welles was soon expanded to exploit
:14:19. > :14:24.the natural resources in the chalk aquifer on a much bigger scale.
:14:24. > :14:27.This aquifer is operated by South East Water, supplying two. 1
:14:27. > :14:35.million customers from pumping stations like this one.
:14:35. > :14:40.So down there is the precious water. Just how low are the aquifiers?
:14:40. > :14:44.It is a very serious situation. They are very low. We all see the
:14:44. > :14:52.reservoirs and rivers flowing at higher levels with the rain fall
:14:52. > :14:57.but it is not OK. We are seeing low levels. They are at all-time lows.
:14:57. > :15:01.So that means it is even worse than 1976?
:15:01. > :15:09.Yes, I think it is worse and far more widespread. Our greatest fear
:15:09. > :15:12.is if we have a third dry winter. The level of recharge in our
:15:12. > :15:17.groundwater is a third lower than it should be after two dry winters
:15:17. > :15:21.in a row. We have come a long way from the Lake District and it seems
:15:21. > :15:26.we are even further from that soaking rain that has been falling
:15:26. > :15:36.above ground. Down here it is winter rain the matters and if we
:15:36. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:44.do not get enough next winter, then So what does happen if we do get a
:15:44. > :15:49.third straight win Seki Mac as you can imagine, there is no shortage
:15:50. > :15:56.of people offering advice to the government and water companies? Do
:15:56. > :16:01.we have a strategy? I have been looking into this, starting in a
:16:01. > :16:04.world where they are used to little rain. This church has stood here in
:16:05. > :16:08.this valley in Northern Spain for more than 500 years, but the thing
:16:08. > :16:11.is I shouldn't even be able to be here because this is the bottom of
:16:11. > :16:14.a reservoir and that spire is usually submerged under thousands
:16:14. > :16:17.of tons of water And the reason it's so dry is Spain is going
:16:17. > :16:25.through its worst drought for 70 years, reservoirs are drying up and
:16:25. > :16:29.forest fires have been raging in Just look at the water line in this
:16:29. > :16:34.reservoir come over here look how high it should be and look at how
:16:34. > :16:37.low it is. Just below those trees is where that water should be. That
:16:38. > :16:44.is incredible. So can Spain give us a glimpse into an uncomfortable
:16:44. > :16:54.Four years ago the situation got so bad the taps in Barcelona almost
:16:54. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :16:57.ran dry and the city was forced to Its 3.5 million residents, like the
:16:57. > :17:04.Lardner family, have had to completely change their attitude
:17:04. > :17:10.towards water. I find it incredible that something as simple as water
:17:10. > :17:15.had to be transported in in tankers into Barcelona. What was that like?
:17:15. > :17:19.Well, erm, it's a first as far as I know. Luckily it never had to be
:17:19. > :17:23.carried thorugh on a massive scale or for a very long time. But before
:17:23. > :17:26.that there really was a sensation that it was not going to be easy,
:17:26. > :17:31.that if the drought continued for very much longer people would have
:17:31. > :17:34.to have water rations and it was going to be complicated. So how
:17:34. > :17:39.have you adapted your lifetstyle in the current climate where water
:17:39. > :17:43.isn't in abundance as it used to be? I think we took consciousness
:17:43. > :17:46.of how precious water is when we had that drought and when we were
:17:46. > :17:51.about to have emergency measures. So, you know, the children talk
:17:51. > :17:56.about it a lot in school. At first they had an easier time adapting to
:17:56. > :17:58.turning the tap off all the time and they would be the water police.
:17:58. > :18:00.Through simple measures such as turning off taps, having timed
:18:00. > :18:04.showers and teaching water conservation in its schools,
:18:04. > :18:07.Barcelona is now well on its way to becoming one of the worlds leading
:18:07. > :18:17.cities in saving water people here use just 107 litres a day compared
:18:17. > :18:20.to 150 in the UK. Across the city they've also tried using water from
:18:20. > :18:26.showers to flush toilets as well as recycling the water in Barcelona's
:18:26. > :18:29.famous fountains. This isn't the first and it certainly won't be the
:18:29. > :18:32.lat time Barcelona has faced drought but that experience four
:18:32. > :18:42.years ago here in Barcelona forced everyone to change the way they
:18:42. > :18:47.And this place was the answer. They built this massive desalination
:18:47. > :18:49.plant and it's the largest in Europe. By taking sea-water from
:18:49. > :18:53.the Mediterrean the plant can produce 180 million litres of fresh
:18:53. > :19:03.water a day but that's still only a fifth of the city's needs, so it is
:19:03. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:12.used as a stop gap when the reservoirs are low.
:19:12. > :19:17.TRANSLATION: Of the system is much more secure because of this plant
:19:17. > :19:27.but this is not total security. It allows us a chance to function
:19:27. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:34.between rainy periods. If there is . After building Europe's first
:19:34. > :19:37.desalination plant 40 years ago Spain is now a world-leader in the
:19:37. > :19:40.technology but it's not a perfect solutiuon. The water produced here
:19:40. > :19:43.is very expensive and the Barcelona plant uses enough energy to power a
:19:43. > :19:46.small town. Now, unlike Spain which uses most of its water for
:19:46. > :19:49.agriculture, this is where we use most of ours - for generating
:19:50. > :19:53.electricity in our power stations. Most of the rest, around 40 percent
:19:53. > :19:57.is used in our homes and gardens but the trouble is we use too much,
:19:57. > :20:00.more than many other developed countries. As Head of Water
:20:00. > :20:10.Resources at the Environment Agency its Trevor Bishop's job to try and
:20:10. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:16.find a solution, so is desalination We have already got one big
:20:16. > :20:20.desalination plant near London and that is important for safeguarding
:20:20. > :20:25.what a surprise for London. I think the likelihood of seeing more
:20:25. > :20:30.desalination plants in England is quite high. You do not want to rely
:20:30. > :20:35.on desalination. It is very expensive and produces a lot of
:20:35. > :20:39.carbon. We are these as picturesque locks
:20:39. > :20:44.in a wheelchair. What it gets me down here. Is that an option for
:20:44. > :20:48.water companies, to move water to other parts of the country?
:20:48. > :20:53.Absolutely. The Victorians look what around. Manchester is supplied
:20:53. > :20:58.by water from the Lake District largely. In future, a living was a
:20:58. > :21:01.red even more, greater complexity between the networks, will be part
:21:01. > :21:06.of the answer but not all the answer.
:21:06. > :21:10.Connectivity is the new buzzword, isn't it? Are we talking about a
:21:10. > :21:17.National Grid? As far as electricity is concerned, that if
:21:17. > :21:23.some area is having a power, all areas have power.
:21:23. > :21:28.We're not looking as they grow it - - a grid in the same way as power.
:21:28. > :21:32.What is heavy and expensive to move. If you build a big main from the
:21:32. > :21:36.north to the south of England, you can have droughts in the North of
:21:36. > :21:40.England. You cannot rely on that exclusively.
:21:40. > :21:44.If desalination has problems and we cannot rely on moving water, what
:21:44. > :21:49.will happen if we have a third try a Windsor?
:21:50. > :21:55.It is difficult to save. It would be a very bad thing. We have never
:21:55. > :22:00.had three dry winters in a row. You would be expecting measures to try
:22:00. > :22:03.and conserve water there would be quite dramatic. There would be
:22:03. > :22:07.standpipes in the streets. Water suppliers would be cut off and
:22:07. > :22:13.buckets and containers would need to be taken standpipes. It could
:22:13. > :22:19.affect tens of thousands of people. As far as I am aware, there is no
:22:19. > :22:23.strategic national plan to deal with three dry winters in a row. I
:22:23. > :22:30.would like to be proven Warren. I would like to think we have a plan
:22:30. > :22:34.to deal with it but I do not know of one. -- to be proven wrong. Hope
:22:34. > :22:37.is a very poor strategy for planning business Annes domestic
:22:37. > :22:42.security? So is there a strategy on not?
:22:43. > :22:48.Caroline Spelman as the Roman secretary.
:22:48. > :22:54.Yes, we do have a pot at the foot of. Three has seen this coming
:22:54. > :22:56.bands have been planning for it. We are putting measures in place.
:22:56. > :23:00.Things like the temporal restriction on a non- essential
:23:00. > :23:06.uses of what a in a domestic setting is something we plan to do
:23:06. > :23:10.in order to conserve water and make sure we do not have to knit a more
:23:10. > :23:14.stringent restrictions. Three. 3 billion litres of water, a
:23:14. > :23:19.quarter of our water, is a loss every day. D'you think that is
:23:19. > :23:23.acceptable? We Need To encourage the water
:23:23. > :23:30.companies to reduce leakage. She didn't they targets be more
:23:30. > :23:35.stringent? Germany only loses temper cent of its water.
:23:35. > :23:39.We believe these targets are a challenge to the industry to meet.
:23:39. > :23:42.The government is also pushing water companies to do more to
:23:42. > :23:46.connect up water suppliers across the country but Caroline Spelman
:23:46. > :23:50.says we need to think differently about the water we use.
:23:50. > :23:54.When you go to a dry country and explain that we use drinking what
:23:54. > :23:58.other everything, we wash our clothes in drinking water, we flush
:23:58. > :24:03.the loo with drinking water, we wash up with drinking water, they
:24:03. > :24:06.are sometimes quite surprised by that.
:24:06. > :24:10.Can you guarantee that if we get a third try winter we will not have
:24:10. > :24:14.thwart a rationing and standpipes in the street?
:24:15. > :24:18.I cannot tell you how much rain we are going to get and it is too
:24:19. > :24:23.early to tell whether we will have the wet winter we do need but a but
:24:23. > :24:28.whereas it is most unlikely that we would have to standpipes this year,
:24:28. > :24:33.or if we have another try when so that becomes more likely.
:24:33. > :24:37.Given the recent heavy rain and floods in the UK, talk a standpipes
:24:37. > :24:42.may sound extraordinary but at the -- but as they have discovered in
:24:42. > :24:47.Spain, the world is changing. Climates change as an expanding
:24:47. > :24:51.population means that demand for water is set to increase. Even if
:24:51. > :24:55.the rains do come this winter, we are have to start thinking of
:24:55. > :25:01.drinking water as the precious and scarce natural resource it it
:25:01. > :25:11.really is. Let us find out what the weather is
:25:11. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:21.doing closer to home. Here is Alex At the moment this weather front is
:25:21. > :25:25.going to cause us problems. The met Office has issued at a yellow
:25:25. > :25:30.weather warning for overnight. This rain fall could be slow-moving
:25:30. > :25:34.producing significant rainfall in areas where we have already seen
:25:34. > :25:40.some flaws in. Do expect problems on the roads. Overnight lows no
:25:40. > :25:44.more than seven degrees Celsius. Be winds will be a light north-
:25:44. > :25:49.easterly. Tomorrow that rain will be quite slow to move. You can see
:25:49. > :25:53.it here on the chart. The jury is out as a how quickly that will
:25:53. > :25:59.clear. It will become lighter and more patchy during the course of
:25:59. > :26:06.the day, leaving a lot of cloud behind. It will feel chilly in that
:26:06. > :26:10.wins with highs of 10 or 11 degrees Celsius. Through the afternoon,
:26:10. > :26:16.further spells of rain trying out they gradually, leaving a lot of
:26:17. > :26:22.ploughs behind. Looking ahead, it is staying pretty unsettled. We
:26:22. > :26:26.could get further light of patchy rain and ties of 11 degrees Celsius.
:26:26. > :26:32.Cooler into the weekend with highs of 9 degrees Celsius. We will see
:26:32. > :26:36.the return of some frost by night. Still some unsettled conditions. On
:26:36. > :26:42.most of the debate should be dry on Saturday but Sunday and Monday will
:26:42. > :26:45.see some further showers with some sunshine in between. That is the
:26:45. > :26:48.weather. That is it from here in
:26:48. > :26:58.Northamptonshire. I will be back in the autumn with a new series the
:26:58. > :27:05.Inside Out. The we will also keep watching the drought story for you.
:27:05. > :27:15.Keep up-to-date on your local radio station and on much east of BBC 1.
:27:15. > :27:22.
:27:22. > :27:25.And you can e-mail me with any of Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your
:27:25. > :27:28.90 second update. The death of the MI6 spy found dead
:27:28. > :27:31.in a bag may never be explained. That's the coroner's view. She said
:27:31. > :27:32.it was highly likely someone else was involved and that Gareth
:27:32. > :27:36.Williams was probably unlawfully killed.
:27:36. > :27:39.The body of a baby boy's been found at a recycling plant in Scunthorpe.
:27:39. > :27:44.He's thought to be up to six months old. Police have appealed for his
:27:44. > :27:47.mother to come forward. Many friends of Claire Squires wore
:27:47. > :27:50.her favourite colour, red, for her funeral today. She died running the
:27:50. > :27:54.London Marathon. More than �1 million has since been donated in
:27:54. > :27:57.her name. New research shows half of all
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:28:00. > :28:05.conscious and un-feminine. One suggestion is to try things like
:28:06. > :28:09.Zumba classes. Imagine waking up with a hangover
:28:09. > :28:17.and a penguin in your hotel room. Two Welsh tourists have been fined
:28:17. > :28:20.�600 for the prank in Australia. Dirk made it home safely. Hi, I'm
:28:20. > :28:23.Katherine Nash. A former bouncer accused of murdering his ex partner
:28:23. > :28:25.and daughter has been giving evidence today. David Oakes denied
:28:25. > :28:28.shooting 2 year old Shania and claimed it was Christine Chambers
:28:28. > :28:31.who pulled the trigger. This was the scene at an airbase in
:28:31. > :28:34.Suffolk an hour ago. More than 100 personnel have returned from
:28:34. > :28:36.Afghanistan to RAF Honington. 2 Squadron lost one serviceman in