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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and Anne Davies. Our | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
top story tonight, the paedophile who deceived charities so he could | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
abuse boys. He used to betas and offer us chocolate. And then he | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
would say nothing had happened afterwards. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight, Bomardier's lost contract, how the Government spent | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
millions on consultant. Plus these East Midlands soldiers | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
risking their lives to train the Afghan army. | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
I and a brooch that nearly went for a song causes and internet | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight, a special | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
investigation by the BBC's Inside Out has revealed how a paedophile | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
deceived charities to gain access to vulnerable children. Former | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
headteacher Derek Slade from Mickleover in Derby is now serving | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
a 21-year sentence for abusing boys at a boarding school between 1978 | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
and 1983. Back then, alarm bells about his behaviour had been rung | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
in a BBC programme for Radio 4 with investigative reporter Roger Cook. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
But, as Roger now reports, Slade went on to abuse boys in India at a | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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school paid for by a Leicester When Derek Slade was finally | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
convicted of child abuse, his victims had become grown men. They | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
are still living with the legacy of that abuse. I tried to commit | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
suicide within six months of leaving school. I am a loner. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
Several failed relationships. I have tried time and time again. | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
Back in 1982, the BBC Radio 4 check point programme had exposed Derek | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Slade's reign of terror with the help of some pupils and staff. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
pupils made to swap clothes. whole of his backside was covered | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
in bruises. They were every colour. Even though the sexual abuse | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
remains covered up, it made national headlines and he resigned | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
later on. Further accusations made access to children difficult for | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
him so Slade took on a false identity. Years later, he launched | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
an organisation called International British education | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
projects and then exploited his connections to abuse more children | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
at more schools abroad including this school in India, funded by a | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
Leicester charity. We tracked down some of their's victims. How many | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
of you were beaten by a Slade? All of you? He used to beat us every | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Sunday. He used to beat us and then take notice and then offered | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
chocolate. He would review afterwards and say nothing had | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
happened. -- he would rob you afterwards. Much of the school was | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
paid for by the Leicester Gujarat earthquake Relief Fund. Another | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
charity also gave Slade funds. He was given a glowing account of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
children across the world and they admit they did not check his | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
credentials. In all our lives, we make mistakes and this was a very | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
grave mistake that made me think that if I was to pass by this ever | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
again, I would never do this again. So how was he caught and convicted? | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
The full story in a special 30 minute programme they did tonight. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
And that programmes, An Abuse Of Trust, goes out on BBC One at | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
10:35pm. Next tonight, the soldiers from | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Leicestershire and Derbyshire who are now playing a crucial role in | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Britain's exit strategy from Afghanistan. The 9th/12th Royal | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Lancers are fighting and patrolling alongside Afghan troops in Helmand | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
province. They'll be in charge of security when British forces | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
finally come home. Our social affairs correspondent, Jeremy Ball, | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
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Afghan tours are less about fighting a war and trying to win | :04:34. | :04:44. | |
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BP's. This is a tank regiment patrolling on foot. The Royal | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Lancers are working with soldiers from Afghan's National Army, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
helping them to do skills on their own. We are using interpreters but | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
it is a bit of a struggle but they seem to be picking up on everything | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
we are teaching them so it seems to be be getting better for them. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
are letting them lead the patrols to the Afghan locals concede that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
the Afghan national army are doing it for themselves and hopefully | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
take over. Some East Midlands soldiers are running high where | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
patrols protecting Afghanistan's busiest roads, that makes them a | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
prime target. This was one of several improvised bomb was | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
discovered and last week, Paul Watkins was shot dead on patrol. It | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
is being investigated whether his killer was wearing an Afghan | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
National Army uniform. This is how they were training just before | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
their deployment and now almost all of them have been in real firefight. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
We have had come to that with insurgents which lasted about | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
around five hours. That was my first small arms contact, quite a | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
surreal feeling. These love hearts on local taxes are pretty surreal | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
as well. In a place where peace is still a long way off. Where the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Royal Lancers are keeping this part of Helmand province open for | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
business. It's emerged today that millions of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
pounds of public money was spent on private consultants as part of the | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Thameslink train deal that's left Derby's train-making industry | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
fighting for its life. It's feared that Britain's last train-builder, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Bombardier, could close after the loss of the Thameslink deal to a | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
rival firm, Siemens. The trains will now be made in Germany. To | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
tell us more, our reporter Simon Hare joins us from Bombardier's | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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Good evening. Bombardier front page news again today, this is the Daily | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
Mirror talking about 15 million Train robbers in relation to the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
amount of money the Government is said to have paid to private | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
consultants to advise it on the awarding of that lucrative | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Thameslink contract. Somebody else says that �20 million of public | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
money could also be spent. I am joined by the Derby North MP, Chris | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Williamson. It sounds like a lot of money but it is only 1% of this | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
very lucrative contract, isn't it? Surely the Government should get | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
the best advice it can? In to a huge sum of money and one thing | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
that is a kick in the teeth to the Bombardier workforce is that these | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
are consultants and have been working on how to give away the | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
last train manufacturing factory in the UK. His inability to build | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
trains, if this decision is not reversed, will be gone for it. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
of the money was spent apparently by the previous government, the | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
Labour government will stop I am afraid that is a. I am afraid that | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
is a rather pathetic smokescreen. The outcome is disastrous. If the | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Government does not do the right thing. Rolls-Royce went bust 40 | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
years ago and the Government did the right thing and saved it. It is | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
now an icon. It can be the same for Bombardier. This is a centre of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
rail technology excellence and it is vital to the sector in this | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
country for the Government to reverse its decision. Thank you for | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
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your time. From Bombardier, back to A man who allegedly conned Peter | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
A man who allegedly conned Derbyshire pub landlords out of | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
thousands of pounds is on a list of the ten most wanted suspected | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
fraudsters in the UK. Peter Stead is accused of posing as an | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
entertainer and the brother of Peter Kay. He offered to put on a | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
comedy night to raise money for Lewis Mighty, a youngster suffering | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
from cancer. His family want to take him to America for specialist | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
treatment. Stead was allegedly given cash to secure bookings but | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
failed to turn up to perform. The car-marker Toyota has announced | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
a dramatic fall in profits and has plunged into the red. The Japanese | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
company, which has a factory at Burnaston in Derbyshire, says net | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
profit fell by 99% in the three months to June. It made a loss of | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
just under $1.5 billion. It's blamed the earthquake and tsunami | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
in March for a fall in sales. But it predicts sales will rise over | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
the coming year. Next, the museum shut by council | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
cuts that could be re-opened by local people. Grantham Museum | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
closed its doors when Lincolnshire County Council decided it was no | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
longer viable. Now volunteers have committed themselves to re-opening | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
the museum in June next year. Geoff Getting to grips with the scale of | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the task, these volunteers are among 200 people who have come | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
forward to save Grantham Museum. Anybody across the East Midlands | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
will know what it is like to be involved in voluntary organisations | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
but let's not forget the great work being done for generations by | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
people coming together with a common aim which is not necessary | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
for personal profit. For the Diamond Jubilee weekend this week | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
next year, it will be open again. �30,000 had been pledged to upgrade | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
the building but the district council is offering volunteers a | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
deal on the rent. Were it was founded 100 years ago, | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Grantham Museum was that set up by volunteers like Henry Preston here | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
he used to run the water works. The charge for contemporary as it had | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
to make this museum modern, interesting and relevant but still | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
pay the bills. I still perceive it as taking on something that I am | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
passionate about, having something in the community. I do not want it | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
to go. We have got plans for a shop to make it successful, we want to | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
get corporate sponsors and have a scheme for friends of the museum so | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
a whole set of plans to raise the profile of the museum. Every member | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
of the group here and all the other volunteers have a different room, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
we have got to try somehow to get them close together so they can | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
work together a. Are the home of Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher, | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
cramp and certainly has a story to tell, and the Iron Lady has a story | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
to tell. If we can manage the funding carefully and well, we will | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
reap the rewards without some of the costs back go into local | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
authorities and big organisations getting involved. The museum is due | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
to open its doors next June to coincide with the Diamond Jubilee | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Wildlife experts at the Attenborough Nature Reserve near | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Nottingham are warning blackberry pickers to be extra careful when | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
rummaging for fruit. This year, the berries have ripened much earlier | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
than usual, coinciding with the bird breeding season. Geeta Pendse | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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For many, blackberry picking is a highlight at the end of the summer. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
But this year in some places, the fruits have ripened much earlier. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
And as visitors flocked to Attenborough Nature Reserve in | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Nottingham, some staff say that because are disturbing the nests of | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
young chicks without realising. As well as a source of food, these | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
brambles are prime locations for birds to nest. Partly because these | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
groups are forming and uninviting to predators like crows and weasels | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
but people walking through, it is also exposing their nests. Last | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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week, staff were exposed to this nest which was left empty. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
chicks have been eaten by a predator which may not have seen | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
the nest otherwise or been able to access it because of the thick | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
vegetation. The main problem is that the berries have ripened at | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
the same time as the bird's breeding season. People are being | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
warned to stick to the paths and not wade through vegetation. It | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
seems in many cases, visitors were unaware of the problem. I was very | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
surprised because I thought they had flown the nest by now. It is | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
not something that one would normally think about. I should be | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
aware of this. People have obviously gone right into the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
bushes at the back so we are trying to stay across the border here and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
not tried to go into them too much. Staff hope that people continue to | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
enjoy the berries were the -- while the sun is out but hope people take | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
care of the wildlife as well. Nottinghamshire's fire authority is | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
consulting on plans to radically change the way the service is run. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
More than �6 million needs to be cut from its budget over the next | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
four years. Up to 80 part-time firefighters may go, and some | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
traditional fire engines could be replaced with smaller fast response | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
vehicles. The consultation will last 12 weeks. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
The sister of a soldier who was killed serving in Afghanistan has | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
completed a sponsored skydive in his memory. Lance Corporal Liam | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Tasker was a dog handler and had been based at Melton Mowbray before | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
being deployed. He was shot dead while on patrol in Helmand province | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
in March. His sister Laura and her friend Emma Rushton are hoping to | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
have raised thousands of pounds for the armed forces charity Help For | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Heroes. It's the first in our new series | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Historic Holmes, looking at the industrial legacy of the East | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Midlands with John Holmes. This week he explores the uprising of | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
the Luddites who targeted knitting frames. A protest against | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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mechanisation which began in The year is 1817 and here in the | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Galleries of Justice, 21-year-old Daniel Biggar will is about to be | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
sentenced to death for attempted murder. His hanging sounded the | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
death-knell of the Luddite uprising It is hard to believe that our | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
story begins with a simple domestic seen here in Calverton. A local | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Rector was in love with a man who was in love with knitting and so he | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
tried to impress her with a knitting machine that spared the | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
whole process up. It caused a revolution when it caught on. After | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
a series of bad harvests and the war with France, the four of loss | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
of jobs and starvation was the last straw. 200 years ago here in | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Nottingham, the No 10s' frustration erupted a revolution of frame | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
smashing which started in Arnold West 60 frames were destroyed in | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
one night. Support was strong. The authorities could not find out who | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
did it. The writers published a declaration. An address in Sherwood | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
Forest, Ned at large. He did not exist but 30 years earlier somebody | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
had smashed up two machines. He became known as the patron of the | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
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Luddite. The response was to make frame breaking a capital offence. | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
They were never against technology, they claimed the frames were | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
turning out an inferior garment. The legacy? The Luddite sadly means | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
someone who opposes technology, not somebody who embrace his | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
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It is scary seeing John Holmes with a sledge hammer in his hands! | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Still to come on the programme, that brooch. Its owner almost sold | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
it for a tenner. Its guide price at auction was �10,000. So what did it | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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We know the answer but we will not tell you. Somebody told me anyway. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Time for the sport. Nottingham Forest's manager Steve | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
McClaren says there's still a lot of work to do. It was team photo | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
day at the City Ground, but there aren't enough new players for | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
McClaren's liking. He made his thoughts clear to BBC Radio | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
Nottingham. We are still not at this stage where I would say the | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
squad is complete. We are ready with our squad for the rest of the | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
season. There's are still what I feel is a lot of work to be done | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
off the field for. Derby County have signed the | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Republic of Ireland international Kevin Kilbane from Hull City. The | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
34-year-old joins on a six-month loan. He can play both midfield and | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
fullback and will play in tomorrow's friendly with Aston | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Villa. It's the same time every year, so I | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
don't know why the start of the football season comes as a surprise. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
But it does, and it's this Saturday. So, it must be the week to look | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
ahead for all our football clubs, Derby, Forest and Leicester, over | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
the next couple of days. But tonight it's Notts County, where | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
manager Martin Allen is outlining a clear philosophy. I want people to | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
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be happy. Award our players to be # Happy days. # Ready to race to #. | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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We will compete to get the ball back if we do not have it. When we | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
score, we will love it. And the club for everybody who pays for a | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
ticket. Everybody who has the privilege of playing for Notts | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
County will be happy. Making it Notts County happy has a lot of | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
players to do with places like this, a lot of time and energy spent in | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
making it look that much more professional. If you're a fan, the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
improvement that would really cheer you up would be one that happened | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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here, on the pitch. Money, all his money. Football clubs are like pack | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
men who eat away at it. Cash required to pay the new and old | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
players' wages so what about them? Have they bought into the whole | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
Happy Days philosophy? When you are on your knees, it is hard to put a | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
smile on your face but we have got some great characters and the | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
gaffer has got his own take on things. He is fantastic. It has | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
been good and the Boys Are Back, he has gutted the way he wants it. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
should win every game, full houses every week, I will be the happiest | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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man in the well. # These happy days In rugby, two Leicester Tigers | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
players have had their World Cup hopes ended. Hooker George Chuter | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
and number eight Thomas Waldrom have been released from the England | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
training squad. Away from the heady heights of Test | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
cricket, two county games started today. Durham opener Michael Di | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
Venuto has been the stand-out player on Day One of Notts' visit | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
to the Riverside. Meanwhile, honours even so far in the wooden | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
spoon clash at Grace Road. But at least Leicestershire's James Taylor | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
is pressing for a full England Test place. An excellent 76 for England | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
Lions. Fifties for the Notts pair Alex Hales and Samit Patel too. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Next to a new cult hero. Nottinghamshire's Scott Elstone has | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
never played a first class cricket match. But he found himself | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
fielding for England at Trent Bridge yesterday. The game ended | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
with him being cheered every time he touched the ball. And he | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
received a modern day accolade too. He was trending on Twitter. Mark | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
When millions are watching on television, nobody wants a catch | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
like this but he had never played championship cricket, how much to | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
be feeling? At first, or between nerves. A run at it as quick as I | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
could and relief when I got it in my hands. After that, he developed | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
a fan club. Absolutely, I would not call myself a hero but certainly | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
the cheers were a very good experience. A substitute in cricket | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
is not the 12 best player, they are not allowed to bat or ball and | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
unlikely to be able to field in a specialist catching position. What | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
they tend to be for England is open coming cricketers who are dynamite | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
in the field. It is never easy coming on as it wolf man and being | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
expected to take every chance -- coming on as a 12th man. But he is | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
supported by the team. Scott Elstone is the flying poster boy of | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
the Nottinghamshire marketing campaign but nobody expected him to | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
have such an impact on the game. is a relatively early. And a great | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
experience. He looks like a good fielder, so it is nice to have him | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
there. It was not all a fairy-tale, he dropped this very difficult | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
chance. A couple of the senior England players said don't worry | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
about it, concentrate on the next one. His date finished in triumph | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
but only just with the second catch. Absolute relief when it went in. It | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
was just relief, I have just been very, very lucky and I thank the | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
people who have supported me up until now with what I have been | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
doing, so thank you. Trust me, the Nottinghamshire dressing room will | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
bring him back down to earth but it will take a while. | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
Fantastic. Finally an update from last night's | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
programme. The forgotten brooch which turned out to be a treasured | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
collectable sold at auction today for an astonishing �31,000. Jill | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Cousins was two days away from selling the brooch for a tenner at | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
a local antiques market when experts told her just how valuable | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
it really was. She decided to sell it and today is much the richer. | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
:23:31. | :23:40. | ||
Something close to �10,000. Oh, my God! Oh crikey! TV gold, the moment | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Jill Cousins found that just how valuable her forgotten broached | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
really was. The brooch by the Victorian designer and architect | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
William Burgess was featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. When | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
jewellery experts called it his most wanted item. Gill, from Market | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
Harborough, realised she had it went she went back onto the show | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
and said that instead of selling it for �10 at an antiques fair as she | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
had planned to, she could get around �10,000 for it. And more | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
surprises came today when it actually ended up selling for | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
:24:29. | :24:33. | ||
�31,000 at auction in Exciting wasn't quite the word! If | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
I had been at home in private, I would have been jumping up and down | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
screaming but it is not bad at all, it was very exciting. Wonderful. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
Two rival bidders helped to push the price up, much to her surprise. | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
I actually did not think it would sell. I was convinced it would not | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
and I was making sure I was not too disappointed but certainly never | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
expected this. It is... Out Of This World, just wonderful. So the moral | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
of the story is make sure you have a rummage through your trinkets | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
:25:19. | :25:23. | ||
because you never know what hidden I shall check my hand by! -- | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
:25:33. | :25:36. | ||
Another hot and sticky day to day across the East Midlands and it has | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
not stopped the farmers becoming very busy digging in the fields and | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
his picture was captured by Graham from Rutland, so thank you for that. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
It must have been hot working out there. We will stay hot and humid | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
overnight as well and the only change across the south-east corner | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
of our region is a few showers developing and they seemed to | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
become a bit more active throughout the evening. Some could be quite | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
heavy and thundery and slow-moving as well. We do not lose them | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
totally, remaining with us along the Lancashire coastline until the | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
early hours of the morning -- the Lincolnshire coast line. It will be | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
difficult to get some sleep where it is quite muggy. We will see the | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
showers becoming widespread throughout tomorrow and again, they | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
will become quite heavy. Quite thundery as well as the day goes on. | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
Temperatures even warmer than to date, highs of 27 Celsius but it is | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
actually 81 Fahrenheit so we finally reach the 80s. The change | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
comes in in the early hours of Thursday morning and it is a plume | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
of rain coming up from the Continent and what it will do is | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
become quite heavy and persistent, possibly thundery and the | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
opportunity for it to cause some localised flooding as well because | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
the ground is so dry, Senate will be a wet day on Thursday. A big | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
change to what we have been getting used to -- so it will be a wet day. | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
On Friday, if this hot and humid weather has not made you feel | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
uncomfortable, temperatures will come down to what they should be | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
for this time of year, possibly a bit lower. Highs of around 19 | :27:27. | :27:34. |