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Good evening. The mayor of Swindon BBC2 in a few | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. The mayor of Swindon has resigned after making derogatory | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
remarks about people with disabilities. Conservative | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
councillor Nick Martin breached council guidelines when he made his | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
offensive comment during a training session. Now some say he should also | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
stop being a councillor. This report does contain the offending words. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Swindon's mayor was at a training day at the Civic Offices in Swindon | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
last October learning about the abuse faced by people with | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
disabilities. During the training day the conversation turned to | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
people with Down's syndrome. He was heard to say, they are not allowing | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
those Mongols to have sex with each other, are they? There was a | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
complaint about using a particular word. A standards panel found the | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
mayor had breached the code of conduct. He's apologised, as | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
ordered, and has agreed to undergo training. But today in a letter to | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the council he said: Disability campaigners welcome his | :01:16. | :01:36. | |
resignation, saying his remarks expose a deep seated ignorance. | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
There are local elections next month. Swindon's Tories are | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
defending a one seat majority. Opponents say the mayor should now | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
resign as a councillor. He spent six months denying he actually said it. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
He is coming out with an apology which is very half`hearted. One | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
statement, one slip of the tongue, should not necessarily mean you | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
should not remain as a councillor. This evening there was a protest | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
demanding he resigns. He has told us he has no intention of leaving | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
politics. A little earlier I spoke to Rosemary | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Fraser from the disability charity Scope. I asked her if she was | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
surprised that views like this still exist. I think I am quite surprised | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
that views like this are around, suggesting disabled people should | :02:32. | :02:43. | |
not be having sex with each other. That really does surprise me because | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
I would've thought we have moved on from having those views. I think the | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
reaction of the general public to the comments that Mr Martin has | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
made, I think that is an indication that these are comments that are out | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
of the ordinary. Most people do not think that way. What is Scope's | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
stance on this? What is worrying about this from Scope's point of | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
view is that someone in a position of power and authority raises issues | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
like this and presents a certain view and there is a danger then that | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
other people hear that and it affects their behaviour. The way in | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
which people behave and the way in which they think about disability | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
and disabled people is really important. It has a huge impact on | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
how disabled people live independently in their communities, | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
how they get jobs, how they are generally treated in society. So I | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
think people really need to be very careful about the things that they | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
say. West Country farmers hit by flooding | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
were told today they can now apply for grants of up to ?35,000. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson announced the extension to his farm | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
recovery fund on a visit to the Somerset Levels this morning. The | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Government had originally offered farmers grants of up to ?5,000. | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
A woman from Wiltshire who's waited for a kidney transplant for six | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
years is hoping she may finally have found a donor. Julie Francis`Lang | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
has a rare blood type which means it's very difficult to find a match. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Now an anonymous woman has come forward to offer a kidney. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
For nine hours a night, every night for the past two years, Julie | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
Francis`Lang has attached herself to her home kidney dialysis unit. I | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
have two of those bags, and that fluid goes into my stomach. It | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
filters my blood, cleans my blood through. She has polycystic kidney | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
disease and the organs have almost stopped working. I need a kidney | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
transplant. You're born with 100% kidney function. I have 3% left of | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
my kidneys. If I did not do dialysis, it would be very bleak. It | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
is dialysis that is keeping me alive. But after six years on the | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
waiting list, not one phone call. It's because Julie has a B positive | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
blood type, shared with only 8% of the UK population. Then last month | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
her friend and colleague got her story into the local paper. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Unbelievably, within days, a stranger offered her a kidney. I had | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
a phone call off this lady, she was anonymous, don't know who she is, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
she came forward and said she wanted to donate. Which I just could not | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
believe, but she is a match, she is a B positive. The anonymous donor | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
and Julie have to wait for test results to see if they are a tissue | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
match and only then they'll know if the transplant can go ahead. In the | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
meantime, Julie's dialysis will continue, but at least now it's with | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
hope in her heart. Now, just before we go to the | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
weather, take a look at this. It's a 90 metre water slide going down Park | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Street in Bristol. It'll soon be a reality and people will be able to | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
go down it. It will open next month for just one day. | :06:29. | :06:29. | |
We'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow's weatherhead line has | :06:30. | :06:46. | |
become familiar, and other chilies dart `` another chilly start. There | :06:47. | :06:59. | |
will be some ground frost about. Despite the chilly start, little | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
bits of low cloud which will quickly change as things start to get | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
underway with a good deal of sunshine around. A moderate breeze. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Things will follow a similar revolution to today, a little bit of | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
patchy cloud through the afternoon, wall`to`wall sunshine, the pollen | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
count will be high. Temperatures as high as 15 or 16 Celsius. A bit more | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
cloud around on hopefully warmer. This is a summary | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
and the look at the National forecast. | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
The sun has set on another beautiful day. Like last night, temperatures | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
have taken a nosedive this evening. It will be a cold night for the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
middle of April. Temperature is well down into single figures in towns | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
and cities. Across eastern England in rural spots, close to freezing. | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
We are expecting another frost across many parts of England and | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
where. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, temperatures were covering | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
later in the night but for most of us, a cold but sunny start. The last | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
one for a while. We will see cloud increasing across Northern Ireland | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
and Scotland, the breeze freshening and rain heading into the far | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
north-west. Further south, a sunny day for most of England and | :08:23. | :08:24. |