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Dominic Heale and me, Kylie Pentelow. Our top story tonight: | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
Schools on alert over the online grooming of children. A man, posing | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
as a youngster, has been befriended by hundreds of pupils on Facebook. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
I accepted thinking that he was coming to this school. He started | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
posting things on my wall. Also tonight: the protestors who's | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
plotted to shut down a power station have their convictions | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
quashed. This is a small success in the context of a much bigger | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
picture to do with police and CPS responsibility and accountability, | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
peaceful process and the use of undercover policing. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Plus - the army's coming to Cottesmore - and there's a big | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
welcome waiting. Beekeeping is we know there is a future and we did | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
not know that yesterday. -- the key thing. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And longer blades mean twice the power - an exclusive report on a | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
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new type of turbine. This is East Good evening and welcome to the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
programme. First tonight, police are trying to trace a man tried to | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
befriended more than a 100 schoolchildren on the internet. He | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
posted indecent comments on the social network site Facebook, tried | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
to get addresses for some children and arrange meetings with them. The | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
head teacher at the school targeted says it's vital he's caught. Rob | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Sissons reports. These children have learnt an | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
important lesson - be careful about who you accept as a friend on a | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
social network site. The head teacher at Nottinghamshire's | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Selston Arts and community college says someone posing under the name | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Hi Heart was made contact befriended more than 100 children | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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at her school on Facebook. It is very much a shock. When I looked at | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
the scripts the students read, I felt sick. I would not like to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
repeat the kind of comments that this person made on Facebook. It | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
was absolutely disgusting. I met one of the children who fund it -- | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
unwittingly accepted him as a friend. It made me realise that I | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
should look at people's profile before I go on Facebook and protect | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
my own profile. It seems everyone's a lot wiser. It has been a wake-up | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
call for me. It is almost good that it has happened because people are | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
more aware. This latest attempt of internet grooming shows a sinister | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
side of the internet which has been a real wake-up call for the school. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
It also shows the peer-group pressure that people can be under | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
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to get more friends on Facebook. The child exploitation and online | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
protection centre's received 1,536) of all reports of online grooming | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
in 2009-10. 135 cases involved making arrangements to meet a child | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
offline. There's now a warning on the Selston school's website and | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
neighbouring schools in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
alerted. So Rob's here now. Rob, you have | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
some more information about the police investigation. | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
Disturbing case. Nottingham police are taking the lead in this and not | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
trying to track down whoever made these postings on Facebook. In the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
meantime, their advice to parents is keep an eye on what your | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
children are doing on social networks. Easier said than done | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
sometimes, they get them to know about privacy settings and not let | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
anyone as a friend who they do not know. There is advice to parents on | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
a website. There are lots of tips there, it is given below. There are | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
lots of tips for children as well. Next, vindication for the climate | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
activists whose plot to close Ratcliffe Power Station was | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
infiltrated by an undercover cop. Today the Appeal Court overturned | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
their convictions because Mark Kennedy's secret recordings weren't | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
revealed at their trial. Nottinghamshire Police say they're | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
"extremely disappointed" by the ruling. Our Social Affairs | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports from the Royal Courts of Justice in | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
London. The protestors target was one of | :04:20. | :04:29. | |
Britain's biggest coal-fired power plants. They were going to stop the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
coal conveyer belts and scale Ratcliffe's tallest chimney in what | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
the prosecution described as a publicity stunt. But protestors | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
claim it was legally justified because they were making a genuine | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
attempt to cut dangerous carbon emissions. And today their | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
convictions for conspiring to cause criminal damage and trespass were | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
overturned. I don't think words will do it justice. We believed | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
after 825 days, since the arrest. That is all we can say. We will | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
wait for the outcome tomorrow, but the convictions have been quashed | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
so we are relieved, and a bit of justice has been done. It's more | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
than two years since the 20 were arrested in a raid at this school | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
in Nottingham where their meetings to plan the protest were being | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
bugged by a undercover detective. But Mark Kennedy's recordings were | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
never disclosed and the activists claim his tapes could have proved | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
their defence. Today the Lord Chief Justice agreed that their trial | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
wasn't fair. The convictions have been quashed today, and that is | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
welcome, but this is a small can -- success in the context of a much | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
bigger picture in the -- what to do with police and accountability, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
peaceful protest and the use of undercover policing. Today's appeal | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
was highly unusual because it was sparked by the Crown Prosecution | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Service, a decision that Nottinghamshire Police say still | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
hasn't been explained to them despite repeated requests. And the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
force says it'll act on any relevant findings when the judges | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
explain their rulings here tomorrow. Schools in Nottingham have been | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
told that funding for their rebuilding programmes will not be | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
restored. The Building Schools for the Future projects at Top Valley | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
School and Trinity School in Aspley were cancelled in the first days of | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
the coalition government. The City Council had forced a judicial | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
review of the decision. Today the Education Secretary Michael Gove | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
confirmed the �33 million cuts would not be reinstated. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
The Probation Service in Derbyshire has defended its actions after a | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
convicted murderer, released on licence, went on to kill two of his | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
neighbours in Derby. Yesterday Andrew Dawson was told that he | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
would spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murders of Dave | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Matthews and Paul Hancock. Probation officers who were | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
supervising Dawson's licence conditions say he was closely | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
watched and had no way of knowing he would kill again. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Still to come: Plans for a big shake-up in the way day care for | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
the elderly is provided in Derby. Yes, we're live from a meeting that | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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could see one of the city's two-day After months of uncertainty the | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
future of RAF Cottesmore in Rutland has finally been decided. It's been | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
chosen as the headquarters for a new multi-role brigade, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
incorporating thousands of troops. So, what does that involve, and | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
what do local people think of the army taking over from the RAF? | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
Here's our Chief News reporter For decades the skies around | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Cottesmore roared to the sound of the RAF, soon you're more likely to | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
hear the roar of a Sergeant Major. From 2014 the army will move in. As | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
troops return from Germany Cottesmore will be the HQ for one | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
of five multi-role brigades around the country. Thousands of troops | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
will be split between four sites in the East of England, including | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
North Luffenham also in Rutland. So what is a multi-role brigade? | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Well, it's made up of between 5- 6,000 troops and could include a | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
regiment of Challenger 2 tanks, four infantry battalions and one | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
reconnaissance regiment. The base brings in more than �30 | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
million to the local economy, so the army is warmly welcomed. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Absolutely brilliant, better than some of the autumn its that were | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
suggested. -- alternatives. It will give jobs to people. Rutland has | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
lost a lot of income and hopefully they will regain some when the army | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
comes back again. There will be a lot of passing by trade hopefully. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
With the army coming in, there will be more traffic and more people | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
stopping off. RAF closed, Ashford present closed as well, the army | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
coming is good. Political leaders say Rutland has nothing to fear | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
from so many troops in the county. I don't think it will be flooded by | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
thousands of troops. Have they noticed any significant difference | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
with the Army in North Luffenham? I believe that with the army | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
personnel I have dealt with, they will work with the community and | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
they will be very, very good tenants. The base itself is still | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
in the dark about many of the details but at least the main | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
uncertainty is over. Leicestershire Police have thanked the public for | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
their help in tracing a missing man. 63-year-old Michael Brookes was | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
reported missing on Saturday afternoon, having last been seen in | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
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Shepshed. He's now been found safe Next, it's a fledgling industry, | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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I have secured over 50,000 signatures for a petition, calling | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
on the government to look again at the proposals to all the contract | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
to Siemens in Germany, not least because the Prime Minister visited | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Derby almost four months ago and said he was committed to | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
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rebalancing the economy in favour Next tonight, the cost of looking | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
after the elderly. Our population may be ageing but one council is | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
tonight considering closing one of its last two remaining day-care | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
centres for old people. To tell us more, Simon Hare joins us live from | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Derby. Good evening, Simon. Yes, the cabinet which effectively runs | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Derby City Council is meeting here tonight. On the agenda, plans to | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
close the Whitaker Centre and merge it with another one elsewhere in | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the city. Unsurprisingly, it's an idea that's not gone down well with | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
many who use the service. I did 15 years on the buses. | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
and Brian say their day-care centre is a godsend. When I get on the bus | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
in the morning, I say, OK, girls, get on the number two. I love being | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
with people and I love talking. can tell! This place, they have | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
worked wonders for me. Under council plans it would remain, but | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
also have to accommodate everyone that currently uses this centre at | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Littleover. In this time of economic austerity, we are looking | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
to make the best use of our resources and therefore it seems to | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
make more sense to close one of the centres and have a full and vibrant | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
remaining centre. Dennis has been coming to the Whitaker Centre for | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
three years and doesn't feel it's promoted properly. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
We have been a reduced number, not because we are unpopular, nobody is | :11:57. | :12:05. | |
tapping and going around saying, day centre for the old people. | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
bring out your elderly! Among the alternatives to day-care | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
centres being considered is a plan to recruit volunteers who are | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
willing to invite older people into their homes. No, this is best. We | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
are all together. It is great. It is just a mingling of people | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
together and we are happy. I have just been told from my | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
colleague that the recommendations have been approved. Labour says it | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
is flawed thinking, but there will now have to be a period of public | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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The growth in the number of wind turbines being installed across the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
country shows how determined the industry is to meet the | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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Inventors have come up with a new design. Weeping it is absolutely | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
critical. It is not a panacea for war, but when you go offshore into | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
deep waters where there are a lot of Tower Bines installed, it is | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
very important that you do not have too many to maintain and you | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
minimise your risk of things going wrong. Having 89 that is twice as | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
big, and we are going for more robust and health and safety | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
benefits, fundamentally if we can make something twice as big, you | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
will reduce your operational costs and the costs are for electricity | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
for everyone. This small-scale model demonstrates the concept, but | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
its testing and see what a place in the next few years. The | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Loughborough team will need a big industrial partner to make the idea | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
a reality. They hope the parts can be made in the East Midlands. | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
a case of show me now. It is a case of funding going forward. We need | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
to build a demonstrator to validate the numbers we have created through | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
the modelling process. We believe there is a massive market to fill | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
and if we could fill just 10 % of it, we would be run off our feet. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
We are very excited about this technology and believe it has its | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
place in the market. We are looking to drive it there. If the designers | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
in Loughborough are successful, their invention could mean a global | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
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The growth in the number of wind turbines being installed across the | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
country shows how determined the industry is to meet the | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
government's ambitious targets. They want to generate 15% of the | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
UK's energy needs from renewable sources by 2015. At the moment we | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
get our electricity from a range of sources. In the 1st Quarter of 2011, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
38% came from gas, 34% from coal, 17.9% from nuclear power and 8.1% | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
from renewable sources. Once seen as a fringe industry, the renewable | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
sector has seen something of a boom in recent years, encouraged by | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
government subsidies. The types of renewable schemes vary greatly - | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
for example beneath the waters of a reservoir at Kings Mill hospital in | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
Nottinghamshire is a massive geothermal heat exchange system | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
which produces up to 7kW of energy for every 1kW it uses, | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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significantly reducing the hospitals energy bills. And this | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
crop growing on a restored landfill site at Fiskerton is actually bio | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
fuel. It's a plant known as elephant grass and is part of a | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
pilot scheme. The first crop, which is similar in appearance to bamboo, | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
will be harvested in the spring of 2013. | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
The leaves fall off after the first frost. You are then left with this | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
would be Cape which has got a high lignin content, making it ideal for | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
burning, which is worthy of growing this crop. It's not certain that | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
all these innovations will help the government reach its renewable | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
target, but one thing is clear - however our energy is generated our | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
bills will continue to rise. British Gas recently put their | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
prices up and others are expected to follow suit. A short time ago, I | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
spoke to Dr John Andresen an energy expert from the University of | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Nottingham and began by asking him if we could really end our | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
dependence on fossil fuel. Very much so, yes, I believe so. | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
Not only win, but you need to have a package of alternatives, | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
including wind. There is also biomass, different types, | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
geothermal, wave power. If that all comes together, I think you should | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
get an alternative package to replace the decline of fossil fuel. | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
I suppose people are concerned at all levels, but to provide a viable | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
alternative, wouldn't you have to coat the entire country in the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Tower Vines was mad yes. Another problem is that when you have taken | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the best spot, the ones that are left over are not in production. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
For example, last year we had an increase of 20 % in capacity, but | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
actually that effect can be less. You can't have a system that is | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
dependent on wind if the wind drops for months on end as appears to be | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
the case. When we need electricity the most, typically in winter, wind | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
is low so for example last December when we had a snowstorm, there was | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
virtually no wind at put their tour and electricity demand was highest. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
The other concern is cost. Inevitably, renewable energy is | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
going to be more costly than fossil fuel. Unnecessarily. Initially, | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
most renewables will be very expensive, but as more capacity is | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
being snore -- being stored, those costs will go down. A certain part | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
of wind and solar, and certainly some biomass energy, is cost | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
competitor with fossil fuel today. Thank you very much indeed. | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
Let's see if Colin can fuel our interest in sport! | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
First, Leicester City manager Sven- Goran Eriksson says there's been no | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
approach from Derby County for the club captain Matt Oakley despite | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
reports this morning. Sven was speaking from Sweden last night. He | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
and his team have been in his homeland for a pre-season tour and | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Natalie has been with them. Well, Leicester City ended their | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
10-day tour of Sweden in Stockholm, the country's capital city. They | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
won the Stockholm Trophy comprehensively and Sven has had so | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
many players at his disposal because of his clubs glittering | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
spending spree. He's been able to field to two separate teams. | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
But is everybody on board with such a large squad? We have got a strong | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
Swat and hopefully good competition for places. They have all got to | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
compete and to pull in the same direction. You only to spend a bit | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
of time with the team to see how well organised Sven is and well | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
liked. Strong arms! Last night's game was against Swedish third | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
division side Vasalunds. And while the players crammed into the tiny | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
dressing room Sven discussed more transfer targets with his football | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
director. It is a major investment that they are making, not just on | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
players, we are looking at training ground improvements, video screens, | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
a new playing surface as well. There is an awful lot that the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
owners are doing. Last night a number of the club's seven new | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
signings got a run out, but it was an established favourite who | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
impressed the manager. Steve Howard scored all the goals, the with so | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
many new players it is easy to mix all the names up. No. 9, Steve | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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Oakley! Sven-Goran Eriksson it still wants more editions. As a | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
manager, you are never happy because you always want more. But | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
so far, they have been fantastic for us. | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
We will have more with Sven-Goran Eriksson in Sweden tomorrow. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Now, over the last couple of weeks, we've been looking around our | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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counties through the eyes of our After a fallow and frustrating | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
fortnight, things are starting to happen at Nottingham Forest. Last | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
night we brought you news of Jonathan Greening's signing. This | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
afternoon Forest confirmed they'd managed to seal a deal to keep | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
French midfielder Guy Moussi at the City Ground for the next three | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
years. I have an attachment in Nottingham so when I spoke with | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Steve McLaren, that made the difference. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Boxer Carl Froch will be returning to Atlantic City in America for the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
final of the Super Six tournament. Froch will fight in the main | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Boardwalk Hall arena against unbeaten American Olympic champion | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Andrew Ward at the end of October. The pair are the world champions | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
from the two leading boxing organisations. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Derby weightlifter Chris Freebury is another step nearer the Olympics | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
after claiming the British title. The 22-year-old took the 69-kilo | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
crown showing he's bang on course to make the team for London. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Great to have so many athletes heading towards those 2012 games. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
That looked very heavy! Now, over the last couple of weeks, | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
we've been looking around our counties through the eyes of our | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
local radio presenters in our series Pride of the County. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
In the final part, tonight BBC Radio Leicester's Jim Davis takes a | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
slightly different look at Leicestershire. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Welcome to castle gardens in the heart of Leicester. This is really | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
the home of Leicester's historical development where the Normans and | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Romans first settled on the town grew up around here. King Richard | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Bird welcomes you to the park with this stature and the lead and is | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
that his body was thrown into the River Soar after he died in 1485. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
It is largely to this rare and its connections to the River Trent that | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Leicester's industrial park land grew up around this spot. It is | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
from the river where I think you can get a truly unique perspective | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
on the city. Geoff lives on board his narrowboat and has offered to | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
show me some of the sides. The canal was purpose built in 1890 to | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
bypass the difficult to navigate section of beach saw Mark -- the | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
River Soar. The tow path still forms a useful purpose and gives | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
people a chance to escape the busy roads and get from A to B. Heading | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
out alongside Leicester's famous abbey Park and north past the world | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
renowned Space Centre and then on and beyond, linking the city to the | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
fabulous Leicestershire countryside and some of the most rural | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
landscapes you can find. But it is one Leicester's Belgrave | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Road that I really get a sense of why I love this city so much with | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
its shops and incredible restaurants. I was born in South | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Africa to British parents and we travelled around the world before | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
we chose to settle right here. I think that is why I feel a | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
connection to this city so much. Continuing along Belgrave Road away | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
from the City and towards Seisdon, there is something even more | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
surprising going on. Minutes from the busy hobby horse | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
roundabout, in Burnaston is this beautiful and tranquil lake. -- | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
Burnaston. This is Murphy's Lake, a format sandpit which is home to a | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
water boarding card. Wait boarding is one of the fastest growing | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
sports in Europe and you can have a go yourself. That is what I love | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
about Leicestershire, whether it is a city-centre park, a walk along | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
the towpath or something for the less faint-hearted, my cloudy of | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Leicestershire has got it all. Amazing! | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
He was very good about. Very good indeed, and he must have | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
been cold. We have had some very heavy showers | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
across the eastern side of our across the eastern side of our | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
region and we have some with us now. A rather wet picture was captured | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
today By Philip, thank you for this. It was needed to Trent Lock with | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
the power stations in the background. We will seek the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
weather improving towards the end of the week, but we have got a | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
showery been for now, including this evening. Those at heavy | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
showers sitting on the east. They will be thundery at times, | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
producing a lot of rain in a short time. They will play throughout the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
evening and we will see clear spells come in tonight. A minimum | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
temperature of 11 degrees. First thing tomorrow morning, the early | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
part will be dry with a bit of sunshine. But again, it will turn | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
Sharif towards tomorrow. These showers will develop in the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
afternoon, they will not be as heavy as the ones we have had today, | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
but there will be a lot around. The temperatures will be similar to | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
today: A maximum of 20 degrees. A very gentle breeze. On Thursday, | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
there will be the return of those heady slow-moving showers again. | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Thursday will be wet again in the East Midlands, but by Friday, we | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
will have a ridge of high pressure trying to build an. It will be a | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
weak affair, so not overly successful, but it will be settled | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
down enough on Friday to give us a reasonable day. The temperatures | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
are not doing too badly for the time of year. We are hoping Friday | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
will be tried if you want to get into the garden. The wins one macro | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
-- the winds will be light. It will not hang around, that rich of high | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
pressure, so Saturday and Sunday will see the showers returning. The | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
winds will be light this weekend, and sunshine in between the showers | :27:26. | :27:32. |