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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight, | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
jail for a rapper who got caught up -- told she will never work again. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
The woman who claims stress at work ruined her life. I would wake up in | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
the morning and be physically sick. Eight years in jail for a Bristol | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
rapper macro got caught up in drugs. Also tonight, makeovers at last for | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the hospital wards in Taunton which were built during the war. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
And me and My Shadow, why the leader of a university spent a day | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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following one of her students. Good evening. The former managing | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
director of Cheltenham Borough Council says she still suffers | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
panic attacks, despite winning her case against her ex-employer. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Christine Laird claimed the atmosphere towards her at work made | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
her mentally ill. The council tried and failed to sue her for �1 | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
million for not telling them she'd previously suffered from depression. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Today in her first television interview, Christine Laird has been | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
talking to our Gloucestershire reporter Steve Knibbs about how | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
she's struggling to rebuild her life. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Running Cheltenham Borough Council was Christine Laird's dream job. It | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
came with a salary of �88,000 a year. But she says it quickly | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
became a nightmare, through no fault of her own. It's got to the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
point where I would get up in the morning and be physically sick at | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
the idea of going to work. I would risk endure my meetings or shaking | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
at the thought I might have to have a meeting with particular | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
individuals. You are filled with self-doubt and you begin to think, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
"what is it about me that they don't like? What can I do different | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
day?" Things got so bad her relationship with the then-leader | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
of the council broke down and she tried to take take out an | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
injunction against him to stop him coming near her. The case was | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
eventually dropped. As the situation became untenable, she was | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
suspended and then retired on ill health. The council unsuccessfully | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
tried to sue her for �1 million for lying on her application form about | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
her mental health. She admits she had suffered from depression in the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
past but was more than capable to taking on such a big role. She told | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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me the trial was a "cruel" blow. Part of that trial is still -- were | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
so horrific, they accused me of things I did not do, it is a | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
nightmare, still to this day. But today the council told us they | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
still don't accept responsibility for Mrs Laird's mental breakdown. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
The job of chief executive is quite a stressful and difficult one. If | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
somebody comes into a job with a pre-existing condition which makes | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
them vulnerable, their job of course may well be that more acute | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
-- make that more acute and that I think is what happened. Cheltenham | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Borough Council has been told to pay around �375,000 towards | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Christine Laird's legal costs. She's just become the first person | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
in the country to be awarded maximum industrial injuries | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
disablement benefits for life because she's been told she'll | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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never work again. There were times when I hit rock bottom. I cannot | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
think of anything worse than some body with mental illness being | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
dragged through court. If I can survive that, then you can survive | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
your illness and stick with it. I feel as if I have been a victim of | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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a campaign to destroy me. Not just reputation-wise, but it is | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
incredibly difficult that I am of so little worth or value as to not | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
matter. My mental health matters. She says she still suffers from | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
panic attacks. Her long-term prognosis is | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
uncertain but having made it this far, she says she'll now focus on | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
helping others to overcome the Mental health charities are worried | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
that the publicity and huge costs involved in this case may stop | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
employers offering people with a history of depression a job. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Earlier I spoke to Paul Clarke, the director of Bristol Mind and I | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
asked him how this whole affair could have been better managed. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
think it importantly highlight the issue of mental health in the | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
workplace and one in six people today will be people taking a day | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
off through stress or anxiety or depression. That is important but | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
it is also important that the right lessons are learned in terms of how | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
players manage to workplace environment. It is clearly | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
something that has gone wrong in this case. One effect that bosses | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
might look at an application form and say that somebody has had | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
depression in the past, and they do not want to touch them. As the boss | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
of an organisation where 50% of people who work for us have had | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
mental health problems directly and somebody who would be included | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
would be myself, you might be filtering people out and the people | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
will experience that. Christine Laird's case was recruited directly, | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
the public were paying their wages, are they not expected to find that | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
the person recruited has some very stable and robust mental health? | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
think they are entitled to expect that anyone in any post can do | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
their job effectively but any of us can be in a post where the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
pressures by an organisation not being run well causes anxiety and | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
depression. That can happen right to the senior levels in politics, | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
at any level of jobs. If you look at the health the workplace, in | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
2009, the top 100 companies in the FT two index, those who had really | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
robust mental health systems performs 10% better than | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
competitors. Some people sick competing for jobs, writing an | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
application form, should they admit having mental health issues? | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
should only say people should be honest in any walk of life. It | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
saddens me that I know in the current environment, even putting | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
that down can cause people who should get jobs to not get jobs and | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
that saddens me. Thank you, Paul A well-known musician from Bristol | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
has been jailed for eight years after being found guilty of | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
possession of a firearm and ammunition. Leon Baker was | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
described by a judge as extremely talented. The rapper, who has | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
worked with the country's top urban music artists, was arrested by | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
armed officers during an operation against drug dealers. Our home | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
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affairs correspondent, Steve Brodie, He's 30 and a talented musician and | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
actor, already having performed with the biggest rap artist in the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
UK, Tinie Tempah, and appeared on the television drama, Casualty. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
But tonight Leon Baker is beginning a long prison sentence. He was | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
arrested in an armed police operation in Whiteladies Road in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
May. He had this gun and ammunition | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
hidden in his boxer shorts. This is an eight millimetre reacted firearm | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
and was loaded at the time when it was found on Mr Baker. Clearly, | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
very dangerous? Very dangerous. It has been examined and it could | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
seriously injure or fatally injure somebody. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Baker goes by the name of Baker Trouble on stage. He's also | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
performed with one of the most successful hip-hop groups in the UK, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
N-Dubz. This clip on his now aptly- named website shows him being | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
arrested, not for real but was a mirror for what happened next. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Jailing Baker, who he described as a talented young man, judge David | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Ticehurst told him, "You were convicted on the clearest of | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
evidence. Guns are designed to kill and maim. Those who carry guns can | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
expect to be given lengthy prison sentences". We will always treat | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
any information to do with the illegal use of firearms very | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
seriously and we will put all our resources to deal with it and that | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
activity. Avon and Somerset is committed to dealing with firearms | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
offences. With Baker in the car was Leon | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Fergus who had earlier pleaded guilty to possessing an ounce of | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
cocaine with a street value of �7,500 with intent to supply. He | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
was jailed for five years and nine Meanwhile tonight, Baker's once- | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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bright musical career has come to You're watching BBC Points West, | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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still to come: Even with the latest weather forecast. And find out what | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
it takes to clear up at the First though, the inquests into the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
deaths of two young Royal Marines from 40 Commando based near Taunton | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
have praised their courage while serving in Afghanistan. Marines | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Steven Birdsall and Richard Hollington both died in hospital in | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Birmingham after injuries sustained in separate insurgent attacks last | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
year. John Maguire reports from the Steven Birdsall was guarding Royal | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Engineers as they worked to reinforce protection at a | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
checkpoint when he was shot in the head by a single bullet. Today, | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Birmingham's deputy coroner described as "remarkable" the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
effort to transport him to medical help first in Afghanistan and then | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
just the next day back in the UK in Birmingham. But the bullet caused | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
such a serious injury that he could never have survived. At his inquest | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
his family drew some solace from repeated evidence that he hadn't | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
suffered. The hearing found he had been unlawfully killed while on | :10:24. | :10:34. | |
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active service. He was just 20 years old. The come up -- the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
coroner said she wanted to take the unusual step of paying some | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
tributes. She described Stephen as an incredibly brave Breen, liked | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
and respected who died protecting others -- incredibly brave Marine. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
She had warm words for their quiet dignity. It was a credit to them | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
and he was a credit to them as well. 40 Commando endured a tough time in | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the Afghan summer of 2010. Today an officer described how they were | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
undermanned until American troops arrived and doubled their numbers. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Some of the Marines who gave evidence this morning also | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
witnessed the explosion that wounded another young colleague, | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Richard Hollington. He had been on foot patrol in the same area in | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Sangin just the day before Marine Birdsall was shot. He died later at | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
the same military medical unit in Birmingham as a result of the | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
wounds he sustained. At his inquest here, he too was praised for his | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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bravery, his professionalism and at A Somerset charity is warning | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
others to beware, after a fraudster tried to con them out of �30,000. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
The team at SOS Africa in Shepton Mallet are fundraising for a new | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
minibus in South Africa. One expert has told the BBC that charities are | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
often being seen as a soft touch. Back to school for Matt Crowcombe | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
in South Africa. His charity works to help children in the townships | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
here. It's a long way from his office in Shepton Mallet, where he | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
received this email from a supposed Italian businessman who wanted to | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
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donate �30,000. We were obviously a bit sceptical. It is a large sum of | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
money. We have not received that sort of donation just yet. We did | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
not see any real signs that it was a scam, given that they would write | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
as a cheque. But it was a scam. The cheque was | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
fake and made out for �60,000, double what was promised. The | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
businessman, Francisco, wanted Matt to send half the money back. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
What would you say to Francisco now? I'd ask him for 30,000 and why | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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he could do such a thing as well. Matt is not alone. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Those who investigate these scams say they always increase in a | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
recession. Charities are seen as a soft touch. It is seen as a chance | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
to exploit their very nature. and his team visit South Africa | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
several times a year. If they'd paid out to the fraudsters, this | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
one could have been the last. A Somerset hospital is to spend �34 | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
million replacing wards that date from World War II. The old building | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton was meant to be a temporary | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
hospital for American soldiers. Now at last much of it is to be | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
They built this place in 1942. Then it was called the 67th General | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Hospital and was designed for American servicemen wounded in the | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
Second World War. You don't have to look far to see | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
that this place is well past its sell-by date. In fact, one | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
consultant told me that the fact this still exists shames the 21st | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
century NHS. Very excited... Small wonder then the chief | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
executive is excited that much of the old building is to be | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
demolished and replaced by a new three-storey centre which will | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
provide 112 single rooms, all with en suite facilities. It'll cost | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
around �34 million and about a third of that is coming in the form | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
of a Government loan. We have saved a large proportion of that money | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
ourselves and being more efficient and delivering the care we do | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
efficiently, we have managed to do that and we have topped it up. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
This is the Queen Mother visiting this old wards of Musgrove back in | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
1959, not long after it was taken over by the NHS. Today the beds and | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
the staff may have changed. But you can see the buildings haven't. Five | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
wards are pretty much as they always were. When we have had a | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
heavy winter, we do get some water coming through the ceiling at times | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
and things like that. It has been repaired every time I have been | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
here for the last 10. Even now, not all these buildings | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
are being demolished. Operating theatres and the intensive care | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
unit will still be here. But at least the wartime wards will go. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Rebuilding work should start in the spring and be completed by Autumn | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
Joining me now is our health correspondent, Matthew Hill. In | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
such a tough economic climate, how has Musgrove Park managed to find | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
the money to rebuild? It was one of the first foundation status trusts | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
which means it can use savings. Others cannot and any surpluses | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
have to be reinvested to other hospitals. It was able to do that | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
at a time when growth in the NHS was above inflation. What about | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
elsewhere in the West, are the hospital tried to find money to do | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
something similar? Yes, there are other projects going on, the | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
biggest is the �430 million private finance scheme with a new hospital | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
being built at the very moment and also we will have a new children's | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
hospital expansion at the BR right to take a more patient there. -- | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
the Bristol Royal Infirmary. I suspect less will be going on in | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the next few years because we will not get these above-inflation rises | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
that we have had in the past. The Vice Chancellor of the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
University of Bath got a taste of student life today. Glynis | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Breakwell was taking part in a new project where senior managers | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
shadow students for a day to learn more about what they do. And in | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
some cases, the results proved surprising, as Will Glennon found | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
out when he joined them. How many of us have thought it'd be | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
a good idea for the boss to come down to the shop floor and see how | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
things are, what daily life is really like? Well, that's just what | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
they're doing here at Bath University. The Vice Chancellor is | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
picking up her pencil case, and she's joining a typical student for | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
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seminars and socialising. Hello, Hanna. It is really nice to see you. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Students, up early? Well, this one was, meeting before nine in the | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Vice Chancellor's office. How things have changed, and after a | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
brief introduction... It was off to the first lesson. The Vice | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
chancellor's had quite an academic career, and published 20 books. | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Student days though were a few years ago. Hanna Wade's in her | :17:41. | :17:50. | |
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fourth year of a languages degree. And a French seminar is today's | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
premiere classe, an early tester. Now the Vice Chancellor told me her | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
French is a bit rusty so she may have struggled a bit in that | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
seminar, the next task is easier though, it's coffee break. Off we | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
They're calling this the shadowing project and the whole idea is for | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
managers to find out what life is really like for students, and vice | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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In my day it was grim and nobody spoke in your lectures and you | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
wrote your notes and there was no interaction so this was a totally | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
different experience, very much more positive. | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
But did the presence of the Vice Chancellor change things? I was a | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
bit nervous and the lecturer was a bit nervous as well but ultimately, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
it is a lecture here, it was not any different to how it would | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
normally be on any other day and I think it was relatively normal. I | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
don't think anything special happened that would not have | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
happened any other day. Professor Breakwell says she's | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
gained a lot from today. No lie-ins or drinking games. Instead, a real | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
feel for what it means to be a student. | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Hanna will get her management experience day sometime next week | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
and there are about a dozen or so other students involved in this | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
programme, which both sides hope will lead to a greater | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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I hope she enjoys the party's tonight! | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
In sport, Judd Trump from Bristol is through to the quarter finals of | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
the UK Championships in York. Today he beat the three times world | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final frame. Despite some quality | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
shots it was a game littered with this to take the final frame down | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
to the wire. But he missed and Trump was through. Trump now faces | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
either John Higgins or Stephen Maguire in the next round and was | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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Ronnie has been playing well lately so I was looking forward to the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
game. It was a good game today and the last couple of times it has | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
come down to the decider. I think we are roughly at the same level at | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
the moment. Any preferences, Maguire or Higgins was back they | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
are both good players. I would rather stay away from Higgins | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
because he is such a good player but Maguire is exactly the same on | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
his day, he can beat anyone. In football, after the excitement | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
of drawing Premier League opposition in the FA Cup, Swindon | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
are tonight in action in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. They play | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
League Two leaders Southend in the southern area semi-final. Swindon | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
won the last round after a penalty shootout with AFC Wimbledon. They | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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will play either Barnet or I know you are a fan of Strictly | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Come Dancing, just imagine I am Bruce Forsyth! A young dance club | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
from Gloucester are still celebrating after beating 17 other | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
teams to take the title of the National Supadance Champions. The | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
team from dance stars are aged between 9 and 12 and represented | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the South West at Blackpool this weekend. Tonight, they are back | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
rehearsing with Jules-who is with I am hiding away because you | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
mentioned Strictly Come Dancing and I know it is popular and ball and | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
is popular at the moment but that is not where the real stars of | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
dance are, this is where they are. These are the Gloucester dance | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
stars and they are national champions. I have to say that the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
surroundings may not be that glamourous but their achievements | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
are. Look at this, they are as you say recovering from winning and | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
winning big. Three medals, loads more medals, individual trophies, | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
and then the all-important National Supadance Champions Trophy. These | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
guys, most of them, are only 12. The person getting them all in | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
shape and their feet in time with the music is this man, John, their | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
instructor. How tough was the competition? Extremely tough for | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
them. They were up in schools that were far bigger and had all the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
great facilities to train with whereas these guys, they do it | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
part-time, they do it twice a week. To take on these schools to do it | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
full-time, it is absolutely terrific. What do you think gave | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
them the edge? I think it was the desire to win, they wanted it that | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
bad that they literally danced their hardest they could do. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
are not full time or well-funded, how do you manage that level of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
success? It is a lot of hard work from myself and my wife to put in | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
the work with the kids and to train them to the right standard to take | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
on these big schools who have got all the facilities that we have not. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Congratulations again, John. Thank you very much. I mention the team | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
prize but also an individual prize. The individual national champions | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
are... They are over here, they keep moving about! This is Elli and | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
Mrs James. Congratulations. How did it feel when you were about to | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
dance, what went through your mind? Really nerve-racking. I was really | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
excited but very pleased when it came first. It was one of the best | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
days of my life, really. How does it make you feel to win that? | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
everybody was screaming, it was emotional, everybody was crying, | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
but I was really happy. James, let us have a quick word with you. What | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
was the Dow's you did to win? was the waltz and the quickstep. | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
What do you like about that? It is easier and I enjoy the quickstep | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
more. You are doing jive tonight, is that difficult was my guess, | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
We would like to see you do more dancing, if that is OK. So we will | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
go back in there with the jibe. We will leave you with the Police | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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-- with the National Supadance They are still going with the | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
cameras going. They were fabulous, darlings! We will not ask him in to | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
do anything like that, just have a It will be a day tomorrow which for | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
the vast majority of us will be dry. It will be a win the affair from | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
start to finish with some virtually clear skies and that will be pretty | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
typical for the vast majority of the West Country. A different story | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
if you're heading abroad. Winter starting to set in further north. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
These are the temperatures you can expect if you are heading off, and | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
if you're going to Tunisia, get the sunbed and Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
around 27 degrees. Different story here, you will have heard about the | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
snow over the northern parts. The win the set-up will be a feature | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
for all of us tomorrow but also the showers will not -- the windy set | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
up. The Welsh high ground giving us a decent shelter apart from the | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
western parts of Somerset. A fair number of showers over part of | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Gloucestershire and now they are becoming more confined to southern | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
areas and with time they will fade away. Largely speaking, the night | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
will become dry bark some of these showers would continue through the | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
Bristol Channel. The winds starts to pick up and it will be a fairly | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
chilly story, not as cold as last night and will see the icy patches | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
in part of Wiltshire on the road but nonetheless, down to around | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
five Celsius but may be below that in sheltered areas. Tomorrow, | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
starts with some showers into western districts but they should | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
be confined to the west of the M5 motorway and other parts of the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
south-western quarter of Somerset. Elsewhere, virtually clear, blue | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
skies and as you can see from the wind speeds it will be windy | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
through the middle part of the day and then they tend to ease of as we | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
get to was the evening. The hint of blue starting to appear and that is | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
because the high pressure starts to edge in. We could see a frost | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
forming that that process will then get reversed. Temperatures tomorrow | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
up to around nine degrees with a chilly filled with the wind as into | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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a -- the wind adding to it. It will mostly be mild compared to what we | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
have had recently on Thursday, and then we are back to the chilly set | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
up as we go into Friday and Saturday. Saturday looks lovely, a | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
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I cannot imagine it being 27 degrees anywhere. A reminder that | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
our friend Chris is retiring this weekend, his final programme this | :27:29. | :27:34. |