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But this is East Midlands Today. We speak to a couple tied up and | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
robbed in their farmhouse. Be raiders used a crowbar, a | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
machete and a cricket bat. This is where they threatened me with the | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
machete on my throat. They demanded to know where the money was, the | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
safe. To also, a big shake up for our | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
police forces in the way they investigate serious crimes. Budget | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
cuts and collaboration means fewer detectives are needed. | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
Plus, unfit best figures, the rogue trader's risking lives with unsafe | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
repairs. And the history of a whole | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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community, its mining and Good evening. Welcome to East | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Midlands Today. Fewer police officers and civilian staff working | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
on the most serious crimes. That is how five police forces in East | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Midlands see their collective future as they cut budgets by �26 | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
million over four years. But they insist it will not lead to | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
a drop in their crimes dating capability. We are going to be | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
talking to Mick Creedon, of Derbyshire's police constable. | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
First live to Derby. This is St Mary's Wharf Police | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Station in Derby where today the five police forces announced they | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
were creating two new regional crime squads. One dedicated to | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
major crime, murders, extortion. The other it to second -- the | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
second to serious and organised crime like people trafficking and | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
gangsters. Overall, it will lead to the reduction in the number of | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
detectives and civilian staff working in those two key areas. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
A lie is a murder incident room, police and civilian staff working | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
to get there. -- a live murder incident room. Several people have | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
already been charged with the murder of a man who was killed in | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
April. Now investigations will be taken over by the regional squad. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
There will be a second regional squad for what is called serious | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
and organised crime, drugs and people trafficking. They needed to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
make -- the budget cuts means that there will be fewer staff working | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
on these big cases. The sort of high-profile crimes that can create | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
a lot of public anxiety. It is a balance between being able to | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
deliver police and also being able to tackle the serious and organised | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
crimes. The nature of the spending review means that it is not | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
possible for us to invest more. is part of a plan to save �26 | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
million across five forces over four years. They number of police | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
and civilian staff working in major crime will be reduced by 85 to | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
around 230. And the number working on serious and organised crime will | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
be cut by around 100 to 250. Some civilian staff could be made | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
redundant. There will be other savings on overheads. The detector | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
is not needed for the new regional squads will be redeployed to fight | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
crime at a neighbourhood level. officers leaving major crime, they | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
will fill vacancies that have appeared in the five forces as | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
people leave the organisation because of the recruitment freeze. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
The union to night said they were not clear where the savings would | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
be named. We are now joint by the man in charge of the reorganisation, | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Mick Creedon, the Chief Constable of Derbyshire Police. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
The officers at working on these big crimes, that will surely hit | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
your ability to target the big villains? There are two sides to it. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
On the side of murders, we can profile very easily what we need to | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
deal with. On the other side, there is something about that, but the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
proper investigations with high covert assailants, they work with | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
the local teams. It is the totality of police that counts. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
We all know that to be successful, you need resources. Surely you need | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
more rather than less? You have to look at how we are going about it. | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
We are bringing teams together. They will work with local teams, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
local detectives and neighbourhood teams. They will also do the most | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
difficult investigations, be things that have an international | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
dimension that need covert tactics. These changes have been inspired by | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the cuts but if this is all going to leave -- lead to improved | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
efficiency, why didn't you do it earlier? The truth is that we were | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
expanding at the beginning of the century. There was big investment | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
but now that is not the case and we have big challenges with the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
spending review and we need to be more efficient. If we have been | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
talking about collaborating for many years and we has been | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
collaborating some units for nine years. This is growing that process. | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
Thank you very much. A couple have been at reliving the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
moments when they were threatened by three men wearing balaclavas at | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
their isolated home in the Leicestershire countryside. David | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
and Sandra Clarke were beaten with a crowbar and cricket bat, tied up | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
and terrorised at their farm at Foston near Countesthorpe. The gang | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
stole cars, cash and firearms worth one-third -- �100,000. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Battered, badly bruised, but not beaten. The defiant stance of David | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
and Sandra Clarke after being threatened with their lives in | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
their own homes. They shouted, screamed, wanting car keys and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
money. There were three of them, in black. One was bigger than the | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
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other two. I was stopped by a cloud in the mouth. I was club to the | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
ground with a machete. I was brought out of the land into here | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
where they tied my hands and they sat me here with my hands tightly | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
tied behind my back which really did hurt. They threatened me with | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
the machete on my throat. A screwdriver from my cheek and in my | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
mouth. That was terrifying. I really did not know what they were | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
going to do. In his temper, he got the machete and hit his chest of | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
drawers. Then at the intruders found the licence firearms. They | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
stole five rifles, 10 shot guns, cash, a silver Range Rover and a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
grey Land Rover. A we want information about the whereabouts | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
of the firearms and to the offenders are and that information | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
to die they come from general members of the public or even from | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
people in the criminal fraternity who might want to keep these guns | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
off the street. Physically, I have not really been hurt like my | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
husband. But what goes on inside your head, that will be there far | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
longer than any physical injury they could do to either of us. You | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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do not forget it. They are cowards. Under ascribable really, what you | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
think of them. Truly terrifying ordeal. Anyone with any information | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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is asked to contact Leicestershire Next tonight, gas safety experts | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
say that rogue traders are endangering people's lives with | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
shoddy and sub-standard work. Four out of every 10 repairs | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
investigated by inspectors were classed as presenting a risk and | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
somewhere plain dangerous. For this lady, a work on her home | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
and business by a cowboy gas fitter has proved to be a knife to a -- | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
nightmare. It started with leeks, rattles, noises, pipes were not fit | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
-- fitted properly. There was a big leap into the kitchen. I had to | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
have industrial dryers here for three weeks. Her home was left as a | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
building site. There was a lengthy court battle, she won, but has not | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
received any damages. I wish I had the nerve to say hold on a minute, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
I am not happy with the work you have done, instead of thinking that | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
it might be OK, he must know what he is doing. We know that they are | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
our around 250,000 gas jobs carried out in the country by non- | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
registered illegal engineers. Potentially, this could be lethal. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
All registered gas engineers carry proper photo ID cards. You should | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
always check and Engineer's ID before you start a job. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Staff arriving for work at Derby City Council today were asked if | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
they wanted to take voluntary redundancy. The council wants to | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
lay off around 500 more staff. That would take the total number of job | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
losses that the council to almost 1000 this year. Council leaders say | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
government cuts means that they have to save �20 million from next | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
year's budget. There are traffic problems in Derby | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
city centre tonight. That comes after security staff at the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
shopping centre spotted at a suspect package. The centre has | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
been completely evacuated and an army bomb disposal team has been | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
called in. Several states are shows. -- closed. | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
I winds have been causing problems today. A lorry was blown over as it | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
tried to negotiate a roundabout back to the Hucknall bypass. A man | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
was taken to hospital. The atrium is also reported to have fallen on | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
a car in the same area -- a treat. Give us a taste of the winds. * | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
winds for tonight. It eases off by the early hours of the morning. -- | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
strong winds. We will have more weather towards the end of the | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
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A reformed drug addict has inspired his identical twin to follow his | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
example and go into rehab. Daniel Hirons used to be described as a | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
one-man crime wave but now he is at college and he is volunteering at | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
church. In the first of a series | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
investigating how offenders can break the cycle of crime and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
punishment, our social affairs correspondent reports from a | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
charity in Loughborough called the The Carpenter's Arms. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
When you meet Daniel Hirons and his brother, you can see how much | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
damage drug addiction does. They are identical twins, but look at | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the difference. Damien has just arrived here at The Carpenter's | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Arms and Daniel Hirons joint nine months ago. The it has changed my | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
life more than I can really describe. There was a time when I | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
just accepted myself as a drug addict, I was never going to get on | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
in life. For me to come here and feel how I do at the minute and two | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
of that term, it is a big inspiration. I look at my brother | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
and I realise it can be done. it successfully is painful and | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
tough. Daniel Hirons has been through this. His visit goal -- | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
vigorous physical regime is just the start. Addicts who come to The | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Carpenter's Arms or give up their time as volunteers. Is about | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
building up respect. The used to think I was a one-man crime wave. | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
You lose your job, fall out with your family, shop lifting. I used | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
to steal computers out of factories. I ended up living with one of my | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
friends. It just so happened that he lived above a heroin dealer. It | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
just went from bad to worse. things could not be more different. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
He is studying to start a plumbing business while his brother is still | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
waiting to be sentenced for a street robbery. It is funded by | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
charity donations and is run like a family homes. We have had men here | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
who have been up in jail 30 times. If we can get them off jobs -- off | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
drugs and stabilise them, it helps the community. This is my room. | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Daniel, the most important thing is the Christian ethos. I was falling | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the walls when I was coming off drugs. I used to think that they | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
were off their hair -- off their heads, but the more I heard about | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Christianity and Caesars and saw how pure it was, the more I wanted | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
it. -- Christianity and in Jesus. This centre is the kind of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
independent provider that could soon be used much more widely under | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
the government's plans for tackling reoffending and these twins are | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Tomorrow, tackling violent gang culture, as we meet a former | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
firearms offender who's been given a second chance. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Two union leaders will stand trial in March, accused of stealing | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
almost �150,000 from a charity for sick and elderly miners. Neil | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Greatrex, former president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
and Mick Stevens, who was the general secretary of the Notts UDM, | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
both deny 14 theft charges. They were trustees of the | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Nottinghamshire Miners' Home charity, set up to run a | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
convalescent home at Chapel St Leonards. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
The Denby Pottery Factory in Derbyshire got a royal seal of | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
approval today. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was guest of | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
honour, marking the company's 200th anniversary. The Princess toured | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
the pottery's visitor centre before chatting to staff and getting a | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
preview of designs on the factory floor. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Next, the growing importance of music festivals to tourism in the | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
East Midlands. It's estimated that they're now contributing �38 | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
million to the local economy. But in these challenging economic times, | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
some of them will have to really fight to pull in the crowds. Paul | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Bradshaw's been to one festival that's hoping to become a firm | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
fixture in the ever-expanding festival calendar. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
Head to stock isn't exactly would stock, but it has high hopes of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
becoming a big crowd-puller. About 3,000 people rocked on at this | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
year's festival near the village of Newstead in Nottinghamshire. Now in | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
its second year, it cost �60 for a weekend ticket, and the organisers | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
say the competition for the festival pound is fierce. It feels | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
like there is an awful lot of new festivals every year. This year, | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
several cancelled at the last minute, they failed to get off the | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
ground. It is a tougher and tougher market. They are getting too busy | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
and too expensive, this one is pad for it. The prizes are a bit steep. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
�35 for such a small festival. Music festivals are big business | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
and it is no wonder that more are springing up. It is estimated that | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
in 2009, 125,000 people went to music festivals in the East | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
Midlands. They spent around �38 million. That is 71% of all | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
spending in the region by music tourists. Although there have been | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
hundreds of people here today, not every festival has been as well | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
attended, and the story across the region has been mixed. The secret | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
seems to be to have niche first of that specialise to a specific kind | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
of crowd. There is a lot out there and in more difficult economic | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
times, I think there will be a lot of pain. The festival scene is | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
growing, but surviving and thriving could be as tricky as writing a top | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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10 hit. We love a good festival! | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Time for the sport. A disappointing day for Leicester | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
City on the way, but we're going to start with some very grumpy | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
managers. And no wonder. Both Nigel Clough at Derby and Steve McClaren | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
for Forest saw some very dubious decisions go against them. We've | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
done some analysis. Three controversial penalty | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
decisions, all three disputed by the management. No one would be a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
referee, would they? It is a difficult job, but somebody has got | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
to do it. We will start with Nottingham Forest and seeing how | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
their game with Nottingham Forest panned out. Matt Derbyshire scored | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
first after just seven minutes. The first after just seven minutes. The | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
lead lasted just 60 seconds, Ricky Lambert got what turned out to be | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
the first of a hat-trick. Forest equalised earth just before half- | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
time. They could not make it stick. Defeated by Lambert and a set piece. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Controversial decisions aplenty. Ishmael Miller thinks he should | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
have got this. The Southampton player looks to have got a touch on | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
the ball. We are put in that down as a good tackle. This one, Forest | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
are furious. I can see why. The goalkeeper had a bad first touch. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Just as his food goes to ground, eclipse the heels of match | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Derbyshire, he brings him down, it is a penalty. -- he clipped the | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
heels. This is what Steve McLaren heels. This is what Steve McLaren | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
had to say. It is tough being a referee. But it is not often that | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
referee. But it is not often that we talk about blaming officials. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
They make a decision, I just think that on two occasions, they got it | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
wrong. Let's move on to derby. I think they might feel even worse. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
They were going pretty well against Coventry when this happened. Nigel | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Clough is not impressed. It wasn't a penalty. Have you spoken to the | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
referee? You're not allowed to speak to the referees, you're not | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
allowed to talk about them. You might have a word 30 minutes after. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
I am sure he will talk to you and explain his decision. He has bought | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
the penalty and you can understand why the referee has called it, he | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
can't see it from where he is standing. Sometimes when a referee | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
has got it wrong, it would be nice to see them come out and say they | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
got the decision wrong, to say sorry, and to move on. We will see | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
sorry, and to move on. We will see if it ever happens. Thank you. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Derby lost 2-0. You might expect Sven Goran | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Eriksson to be grumpy too, but he says he is happy with Leicester's | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
point at Barnsley. The Foxes were under the cosh early on, but came | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
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back to earn a draw. Jeremy To rain Beckford wasted no time | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
getting into the action on his debut at Barnsley. His flick nearly | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
caught out the keeper at the near post. Caspar as Michael's goal came | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
under pressure from Barnsley who would score more often if they hit | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
the target -- Caspar Schmeichel. Drinkwater looked hungry, but just | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
over. Andy Gray again missed the goal. Eventually, they did hit the | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
target. Although it took two goes, Jacob Butterfield got the nod. | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
After some great work from Beckford, Andy King turned in for Leicester. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Leicester are 10th, lower than fans expected after the summer signings. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
It might have been worse than a -- if not for good work from | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Schmeichel. It was a hard Ford point and time for handshakes | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
before the managers gave their thoughts. I thought the performance | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
thoughts. I thought the performance deserved more points. Disappointed | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
with their equaliser. The timing of it, the circumstances which led to | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
the goal. We took a point, that is good when it is 1-0 away from home. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
We have to be happy with the result. Onto the goal of the weekend, and | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
indeed, the best of the results. You could have forgiven Notts | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
County for being a bit tired after the Turin trip, but Lee Hughes | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
showed no sign of it when he cracked this beauty into the back | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
of the Walsall net. The visitors did manage an equaliser, but as | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
loan acquisitions go, Cristian Montano looks a complete winner. | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
Classy player, classy finish. Now, rugby and how a Leicester | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Tiger saved Martin Johnson's England from defeat to Argentina. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
It finished 13-9, thanks to a moment of magic from Leicester's | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Ben Youngs. The Tigers star scored the only try of the game in Dunedin, | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
much to the relief of his head coach. England, despite their new | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
kit, are someway off the standard of the All Blacks. Meanwhile, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Leicester went down to another team Leicester went down to another team | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
in black. They lost 35-29 at Wasps. Tigers seemed to be on a roll when | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Twelvetrees scored the first of his two tries, but the lead changed | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
hands constantly and in the end Wasps were inspired by Wade, making | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
it two defeats out of two for Tigers. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Nottingham Rugby Club claimed their first win of the season too, but | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
what a start to the World Cup for the club's fly half, James Arlidge. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
He scored all of Japan's 21 points in their opening game against | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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It's been a terrific weekend for some of our leading sportsmen and | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
women all round. Mark Selby, the Jester from Leicester, won the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Shanghai Masters to become the World's number one snooker player. | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Leicestershire's Olympic eventing hope, Piggy French, had the best | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
win of her career at Blenheim. Melton Mowbray's Simon Price won | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
bronze at the Para-cycling World Championships. And Derbyshire's Jon | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Kirkham claimed a podium spot at the British superbikes at Donington. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
And finally, a big congratulations to the 8,000 or so runners who took | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
part in the Robin Hood marathon, half marathon and mini marathon | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
yesterday. And we had two local winners over the 26 miles. Sutton's | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Carl Allwood won the men's event, and Sandiacre's Sarah Harris, the | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
women's. That is just about all from me but catch up tomorrow at | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
the Nottingham Playhouse, it is the gala charity of the Ashes play. | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Mangles, tin bathtubs, miner's lamps and old ploughs. On their own, | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
not particularly valuable. Together, though, a priceless reminder of | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
times gone by. Sadly, though, they'll all go under the hammer | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
this weekend. Locals who run the Museum of Agriculture and Mining at | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
Langwith in Derbyshire say they can't afford to keep it going. | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
James Roberson reports. Visitors to an old Methodist chapel | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
in a Derbyshire village, but these are not ordinary visitors, and this | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
is no ordinary chapel. I don't really know what this is, but this | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
is the needle that the farmers used to lose in the haystack. This is | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the metal rod farmers put in haystacks to check they were not | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
overheating, risking a fire. These people are examining one artefact | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
in what has been the Langwith Heritage Centre. It is crammed with | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
items chronicling the history of the area, an area dominated by | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
agriculture and the local pits. The association can no longer afford | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the rent for the chapel and the whole collection is to be auctioned. | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
The collection here has brought out a lot of nostalgia discussions with | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
our visitors. It depicts a whole heritage for this area. Which we | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
shall lose for ever. Two miles away, another collection up for auction. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Tony is selling in the same sale, his own private collection of | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
farming and Hulse old instruments. I deliberately collected the -- | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
household instruments. I deliberately collected the items I | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
remembered from my childhood. means the everyday items that local | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
people used for over a century will be scattered. Cath feels it is sad | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
that funding can't be found for existing projects like there's. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
cannot get funding to pay for utilities, heat, light, and keep | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
going, something which is proving popular. The auction will start on | :25:23. | :25:32. | |
Saturday morning and continued at Tony's property from around noon. | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
How sad. The winds of change. That was seamless, I bowed down to | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
you! Why? Oh, because it is the | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
It has been warm air, a balmy south-westerly wind. The maximum | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
gust has been at RAF Cranwell. RAF Cottesmore was not far behind. We | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
have still got a warning in force with regards to the fact that the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
wind will stay strong overnight. It was all due to the former hurricane | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
Katia, it has been getting some strong gusts across parts of | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Scotland, Wales and Ireland. For ourselves, the wind felt strong | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
enough, and we have got a dry night on the cards. Quite a lot of cloud | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
with us, but it will start to thin and break to allow clear spells by | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
the early hours of the morning. We will start to sea temperatures | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
dropping to a minimum of 11. The winds, remaining strong first thing | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
tomorrow, and the cloud increasing across the south. Some showers | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
bridging up from the south-west, the odd one might become heavy -- | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
pushing up from the south-west. It will remain windy throughout | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Tuesday, they should move through quickly. The best of any sunshine, | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
across parts of Derbyshire. A pleasant day despite the fact it | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
will be windy and daytime temperatures reaching a maximum of | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
19 tomorrow. We have a weather front working southwards on | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Wednesday, coming up against high- pressure building up from the south. | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
That should weaken as it works southwards, producing cloud cover, | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
maybe the odd light shower. Thursday, a cloudy start initially | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
and this guy starting to brighten. We have high pressure over us on | :27:22. | :27:27. |