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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies. And me, Dominic Heale. | :00:03. | :00:11. | |
Our top story tonight: The dole queue just got longer. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
11,000 people joined the East Midlands drops unemployment total | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
last month. A gang's Hama raid on a gold shop | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
but the jeweller fought back. got out the shop, they took a few | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
items. On the Alps say it -- outside, I started to smash their | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
car. Copper thieves will be caught after | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
a mile-and-a-half of valuable cable like this was stolen from | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
underground. From Belfast to Brisbane, find out | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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wind -- why one Nottingham's artist Good evening. Welcome to | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Wednesday's programme. First tonight unemployment on the rise | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
and more gloom in the housing market. New figures on the economy, | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
published today, show a big rise in the jobless total in this region. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
The East Midlands alone accounts for nearly 14% of today's rise in | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
the national jobless figures. Our reporter Mike O'Sullivan's in Derby | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
where people facing redundancy have today been looking for new jobs. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
Good evening. Good evening. Egg Bank has been | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
here for 11 years, and it was a major financial employer moving | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
into Derby but now 650 redundancies are being made at a time when | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
unemployment is rising. Many workers feel they have got the | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
skills that employers want. Recruiting now. A hopeful sign for | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
650 workers that are being made redundant at the Egg Bank in Derby. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
It follows the takeover of their credit card business by Barclays. | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
Today, a recruitment fair at Pride Park. I would prefer to stay local. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
I think there are some companies locally I would look for | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
opportunities that are available. You need to make sure you are a | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
competitive and cellular skills and the people here have got a lot of | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
skill. But it is a challenging time to be looking for a job. Figures | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
out today showed unemployment in East Midlands now stands at 186,000. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
That is an increase of 11,000 on the previous quarter. An | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
unemployment rate of 8%. Around 30 employers turned out at the Egg | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Bank recruitment fair. 1,000 jobs on offer. One firm came up from | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
Brighton. He we have seen people here complaining about payment | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
insurance. It is worth it for us to see those people. The 650 | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
redundancies at Egg Bank mean that some of the customer calls answered | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
that Derby will be handled by Barclay's staff abroad. Some will | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
be answered in the UK, some in India, some in the Philippines. We | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
have a diverse operating model. After November, they -- there will | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
be 550 workers on site, but with the Yorkshire Building Society | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
buying the savings and mortgage business, it is not clear what the | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
long-term future of the site will So, Mike, some gloomy news for the | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
region's housing market tonight. That's right. A survey out today | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
said the economic gloom is impacting on the housing market. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
This from the asked -- RICS, the property surveyors. It is a measure | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
of how confident they are with the market. The market continues to be | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
subdued. 91% felt it was because of the uncertainty in the economy. 45% | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
more expected prices to fall. I am joined by George coucher from the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce. What is your | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
reaction today to the rise in unemployment? Obviously, it is not | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
unexpected. We thought it would rise in the autumn, so it has risen | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
stronger than we had hoped. It puts great pressure on the private | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
sector to generate more jobs. would you describe the situation at | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the minute? Patchy, fat lining? have just come from a meeting at | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
the Chamber of horrors in Derby and employers are optimistic. -- | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Chamber of Commerce. They are concerned about the long-term | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
prospects. Egg Bank is a number of employers in Derby or making job | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
losses. Still to come on the programme: | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
A massive new forest in the heart of the East Midlands. Millions of | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
trees are to be planted on 460 acres of Leicestershire countryside. | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
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Next tonight, dramatic pictures showing how a jewellery shop owner | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
tried to fight off thieves armed with hammers. The four men went | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
into the shop in Leicester at midday yesterday and escaped with | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
around �30,000 of gold. But as Kylie Pentelow reports, it was all | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
caught on CCTV. Kuala the sudden, my wife rushed | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
into the back-office screenings. Seeing these four lads come in with | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
hammers and smashing all of the tulip counters. At the same time, I | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
got something in my hands, a baseball bat and started to use -- | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
started to fight with these guys. It is the second time the shop has | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
been targeted and this time the owner did not want to let the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
thieves escaped. I was a bit more wary and I knew that at the end I | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
had to protect my jury. And eyes get them out. That is what I did. | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
Human instinct. And just started to fight with them. He followed them | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
outside but the men did it away. Police say the increase in these | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
robberies is because of the soaring price of gold. It is something | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
nationally we are seeing an increase in that jewellery is being | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
targeted. It is a worry for the owners of his jaw will restore that | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
their livelihood has been attacked but I would like to reassure | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
everybody in this community we are trying to do everything to tackle | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the problem. The police warn people that where large amounts of gold | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
not make themselves a target. Now the owner is left with the clean-up | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
but will not let the fear of being attacked again affect his business. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Are a scary time and we do get scared, but we do have security in | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
place in our jewellery shop, and it is something we will fight against. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
The police and electricity companies are warning metal thieves | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
and disreputable scrap dealers that they are employing new technology | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
to catch them. The authorities are seeing an epidemic of cable thefts | :07:14. | :07:24. | |
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as the world price of copper hovers close to an all-time high. More | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
than a mile of heavy cable was stolen more -- before it could be | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
switched on. A whole wind farm was put out of action today. | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
On a windy day, wind turbine is not turning because thieves have stolen | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
cables from this wind farm on all five turbines. This is not the only | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Nottinghamshire's site thieves have targeted. Today in a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Nottinghamshire ward, engineers were putting in a mile of cabled | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
back underground. The original wiring, capable of carrying | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
electricity at 33,000 volts, was stolen in May just before it went | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
live. They dragged it out using a 4x4 or which type equipment. They | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
had six tons of material. The cost us is into several hundreds of | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
thousands of pounds. You can see the valuable metal in the centre of | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
this cable. This piece alone, the copper is worth �20 and the thieves | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
got away with the equivalent of six drums of it which is about 2.4 | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
kilometres. Distribution companies go to extensive lengths to protect | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
the cable. This has been sprayed with smart water before it goes | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
underground but it is selected urban sites in the Midland, | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
tripwires have been set up. It also -- spray thieves with Smartwater | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
which can be seen for weeks afterwards. If criminals are | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
cutting metal, their tours, clothing, home will be infected and | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
contaminated with that Smartwater. And they will be identified with | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
the crime scene. Thieves are targeting copper because after | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
dropping in price three years ago, it has ridden -- risen again at. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
This time, this cable will be guarded until it goes live and the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
police are working with the wind farm owners to improve their | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
security, too. Police in Australia have charged a | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
man in connection with the death of a Nottinghamshire woman. Sally | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Brooks, who was 48 and originally from Stapleford, was found with | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
severe head injuries at her home in Melbourne in July. She died in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
hospital on the day she had been due to return permanently to the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
East Midlands, along with her three children. Robert Meade has appeared | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
in court in Melbourne charged with her murder. | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
The parents of Madeleine McCann are to take part in the inquiry into | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
the phone hacking scandal. They're among a number of high profile | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
names invited to be what are called "core participants." They'll have | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
the right to make statements and cross examine witnesses in the | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Leveson Inquiry into press ethics. A man from Nottingham has been | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
scammed out of �300 by a telephone caller claiming to be from the | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Ministry of Justice. Trevor Richardson says the caller knew his | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
bank details, passwords and even his mother's maiden name. He was | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
told he was entitled to �3,000 in compensation. Police are warning | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
people to check the details of any suspicious callers. | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Nottinghamshire County Council has announced that six of its | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
residential care homes are to be sold off for just under �2 million. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
The authority is planning to re- invest the money in care for older | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
people. But, today, UNISON called on the council to scrap the idea. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
A petition containing two-and-half 1,000 signatures. That wasn't the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
only opposition to the County Council's plans to sell off its 12 | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
care homes. Rival political candidates ditched their | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
differences and turned their fire on the Conservative controlled | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
authority. This is one of the homes. Bramwell. It provides specialist | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
care for up to 22 elderly people. The council's proposing it and five | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
others should be taken over which it says has a fine track record. -- | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
taken over by a company. They are rare quality company with a good | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
name with the Quality Care Commission and with our own Vizards, | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
they have excellent quality and they will put further development | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
in and infrastructure into the homes in Nottinghamshire and they | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
shouldn't be worried. Today, the Nottinghamshire branch of Unison | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
called on the council to abandon the proposed sale of the six care | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
homes, saying it would be a bad deal for the residents, their | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
carers and the staff working in homes. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
England's green and pleasant land is about good greener. The Woodland | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
Trust wants to plant -- plant one million trees. A 460 acre public | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
would in Leicestershire will be the centrepiece which is being created | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee next year. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
62 trees form the New Grove. Though first is planted by Her Majesty... | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
Tree planting and royalty. The two are firmly linked and in February | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Princess Anne kicked off the UK's largest-ever native tree planting | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
project. This was to commemorate the Queen's diamond jubilee in 2012. | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
The idea is that 6 million trees will be planted across the UK to | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
create 16 new diamond woods. The Woodland Trust also wanted want to | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
be bigger than all the rest. A flagship. And this is where it will | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
be. In Leicestershire. Near to Ashby de la Zouch. It is near to | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
people, and by Derby, Leicester, lots of population, lots of people | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
can use it. The first thing we need to do is to buy the land so, | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
clearly, before you start planting, there is lots of work to do as an | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
organisation. We need to raise �3.3 million to buy this side. Moderate | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
this land was not always pleasant although it is green. This was an | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
active operational site three years ago which was removing coal and | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
taking it out of the ground. Negotiations have taken place and | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
we hope to be party to this Reddy tremendous project. Some people | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
assume they would will take decades to read properly. Is there? Mare. | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
This Asher's about 10 years old so you can see that people will be | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
walking through a beautiful woodland soon. Sumptuous relations | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
will be short-lived but not the creation of this would. Its impact | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
will be felt for centuries. -- this wood. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Workers at British Sugar in Nottinghamshire are to be balloted | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
on strike action. It's part of a dispute over pay. Staff at four UK | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
sites, including the company's factory in Newark, rejected a 3.5% | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
pay offer. Union leaders are calling for a rise of nearly 6%. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
The ballot by the union Unite will close on October 12th. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Managers of the Peak District National Park are to be directly | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
elected by the public. It's one of two areas to try out the elections | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
from next year. The Government's announced the move, calling it part | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
of its 'big society'. At the moment, the Peak District's run by a | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
National Park Authority, made up of appointed members, mainly local | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
councillors. If you ever get burgled, you'll | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
probably want the person who did it to get punished. But, for some, | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
prison is nothing more than a university of crime. Here in the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
East Midlands, thousands of convicted criminals were caught re- | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
offending last year. So now the government's looking for ways to | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
break that cycle. In the final part of this week's series on Crime and | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
Punishment, our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
from Nottingham Prison. If you'd been the victim of a | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
serious crime, there is a fair chance the person that did it has | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
been locked up here. For some inmates, the prison system isn't | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
revolving door. Look at these reoffending figures in the region. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Well over 3,000 criminals committed another offence within three months | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
of being sentenced. That is a reoffending rate of 9%. So, how do | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
you break that cycle? Just up the road in show would, we found a wide | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
range of views. Don't make it so easy inside prisons. You can | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
inflict ever more severe penalties costing the taxpayer more and more | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
but it doesn't work. I think it is linked to poverty and deprivation. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
They commit a crime, they are in prison, out in six weeks and going | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
to do it again. As a barrister, this woman has seen this first hand. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
She used to represent criminals but now she is a local MP. I had a | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
number of clients that I had a lot of time for. They had terrible drug | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
addictions and they had to have a radical change of their morality, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
approach to live, how they live, get up in the morning, attend | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
appointments, how they want to work etc. Ken Clarke's the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Nottinghamshire MP in charge of the justice system and now he is | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
planning radical reforms, among the new Troke recovery wings in several | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
prisons, meaningful work for criminals in jail and payment by | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
results for independent providers that stop criminals reoffending. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
There are plans that a controversial. These can be very | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
damaging because it is likely to reduce professional standards in | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
terms of how these community penalties are delivered. If they | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
are delivered by private companies seeking profits. That is going to | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
lead to more reoffending and more victimisation in the community. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
This Nottingham MP thinks tackling the cycle of crime needs much more | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
long-term solutions. Graham Allen's idea has caught early and event | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
from. The best way to stop reoffending is to raise kids and | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
the right way, give them the right values, a purpose in life. You can | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
spend billions of pounds when things have gone wrong and when | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
they are deep-rooted with drink and drug abuse and all those other | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
things. Why not spend a few pounds early on to stop those things from | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
happening in the first place? Reoffending is an age-old problem | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
and the one thing everyone agrees on is there are no easy solutions. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Still to come on the programme: The Nottingham artist who's | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
changing the skyline of cities around the world. He's the | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
curiously named Wolfgang Buttress. His sculptures are rather eye- | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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Talking of eye-catching... We know what is coming. Here is the | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
sport. First, Derby County manager Nigel | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Clough told us today emotions won't come in to it when deciding whether | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
or not to play Nathan Tyson at the City Ground on Saturday. Tyson | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
controversially left Nottingham Forest for bitter rivals Derby | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
County in the summer. He's been injured for the last six weeks so, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
ironically, he could make his debut against his old team. Tyson will | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
always be remembered for his flag waving antics while at Forest in a | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
grudge match against Derby, and Clough is well aware Tyson possible | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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debut is what many fans are talking about. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
I think Derby fans will want know if he is going to make his first | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
start for us and the Forest fans might be thinking up songs for him. | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
He has only played an hour behind closed doors at Leicester on | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Tuesday afternoon. He has had 1.5 training sessions as well so we | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
will see how he goes and we will make it is session on Friday. -- | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
make a decision on Friday. At Leicester City, Yann | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Kermorgant's contract has been cancelled and he has left the club. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Kermogant came to prominence when he missed this penalty in a crucial | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
play-off game for Leicester two seasons ago. Former Foxes coach | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Chris Powell is now manager at Charlton Athletic and he has signed | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
the striker on a two-year deal. In League One, Notts County moved | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
to joint sixth in the table last night after winning a point at | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Exeter. The real Magpies were playing at real St James Park! Mark | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
Shardlow reports. Last week at Turin, last night | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
Exeter. A crazy week included with a -- concluded with a crazy goal, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
an own goal. With just eight minutes gone, a mistake from the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
left back was not what they needed. They were playing well and there | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
was a welcome equaliser. County, in the blue, or dominating. Geoff | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
Hughes came close. And he was again in a good position. He went down, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
but claims for a penalty were waved away. In the second half, the | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
goalkeeper made a decent save from a free-kick and then Exeter's | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
striker stumbled with a goal. So, just like with trim, it finished 1- | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
1. -- just like in Turin. Rugby now, and Nottingham are | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
hoping regular Friday night rugby will be the key to their success | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
this season. They take on Esher at Meadow Lane on Friday looking to | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
boost their attendance. Jeremy Nicholas reports. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
The club are based at Lady Bay, playing home games over the river | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
at Meadow Lane. They did not get on with the previous owners of the | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Football Club but they became part of Notts County plc last year and | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
now the future is looking good, if they could get bigger crowds. | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
target is two and a half 1,000 and we are averaging about 1,800 and | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
beyond, but the crowds are improving. We would like more | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
people to come because what we do, we believe, is worth seeing. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Playing on a Friday night they hope will bring large attendances, | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
targeting people that want to stop the weekend and a. They can come | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
after work, have a beer, some more wine, spend a few hours and go home | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
and still have the weekend. If you have had a hard week, there is | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
nothing better than watching a physic contested game of rugby and | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
have a pint. After training, they meet up with their footballing | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
neighbours. While imagining the rugby guys eat more than the | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
footballers. We try. We tried to eat their food. But we stay over | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
each other's sides. One win this season. Nottingham hungry for | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
success. The season started with defeat with Bedford in a tightly | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
fought game. They lost 28-26, but then won 20-10 at Moseley. It | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
looked like an uphill struggle, but that might be the camera and goal. | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
It is not a bad start. The home game should be much easier. | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
In cricket, Nottinghamshire's Graeme Swann will captain England | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
for the first time. It was announced this morning that he's | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
been put in charge of the Twenty20 team for the series with the West | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Indies. His Notts colleagues Alex Hales and Samit Patel are also in | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
the squad. Well, in the County Championship | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
today, Nottinghamshire's season is drawing to a close. In Division Two, | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Derbyshire were well beaten by Surrey at the Oval to bring to an | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
end their season. Whilst Leicestershire's miserable year in | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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the Championship ended with a win at Grace Road against Middlesex. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
That is all the sport from me tonight. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
From Brisbane to Belfast, a Nottingham artist's rather larger | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
than life sculptures are attracting global attention. Looming as high | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
as 120 feet, Wolfgang Buttress's works form a distinct part of the | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
landscape. This week, one of them will be unveiled in Northern | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
Ireland. We sent Geeta Pendse to see him at work. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
His first sculpture were created in this garage but 20 years on and art | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
is mac's work on a much bigger scale. In Nottingham, his mammoth | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
sculptures are pieced together. This one will eventually end up in | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
Brisbane, at the Grand Hyatt of 75 feet. -- big height of 75 feet. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
did on the computer, and you have the sense of the scale, but it | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
isn't until you start making it you think, oh, my goodness. What have I | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
done? This week, his mistress and sculpture will be unveiled in | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
Belfast. It took three years to create. It straddles the two | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
communities. The Protestants and Catholics. So what I wanted to do | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
for that sculpture was so that it would be seen around, so it | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
wouldn't turn its back on any community. It is the scale of his | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
projects that are quite mind- blowing. For the sculpture, there | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
are currently seven people working in Nottingham, then shipped over to | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Australia in three pieces and welded over there, and, eventually | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
placed in a park, and all that would have taken two years. Venus | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
rising will be placed in an area once used for worship by Aborigines, | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
linking the ground with the heavens. Wolfgang Buttress hopes his work | :24:48. | :24:57. | |
will echo that tant he wants the public to walk inside did. It is | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
nice. It is good to do things in Nottingham. And then in four | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
months's time to think this will be the other side of the world. It is | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
crazy. He says he often feels like a big hit with a giant Meccano set. | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
Though it should be a giant set -- giant Challenge round the corner | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
soon. And they look different up close, | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
don't they? Beautiful. We will go from Venus to | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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Yes, you could see it last night. It is the brightest star and quite | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
prominent. We have got a bit of cloud at the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
moment, but yesterday we mentioned on Twitter that we had a rainbow | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
over the BBC building. David Cross managed to capture a double rainbow | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
so please keep your pictures coming in. We always look forward to | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
seeing your weather related pictures. We have got a small | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
amount of cloud sitting over us. There is a small and weak weather | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
front working over us which fizzles out as the night goes on, leaving a | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
very small amount of cloud across the South of the region but the | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
further North you are across those clear skies, it will turn chilly. | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
We are down to single figures. In rural areas, it could go down to | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
about four or 5. This will give us a cold start tomorrow morning. A | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
bit of a September morning in store for Thursday, but it'll be a dry | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
and bright start. The day not doing badly at all with some small cloud | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
developing and daytime temperatures reaching a maximum of 19. The winds | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
as well very light because the high pressure is virtually sitting over | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
the top of us. It will be quite transient and doesn't stay around | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
long. It moves away on Friday, allowing this weather front to come | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
in from the West. We have a few showers into the afternoon on | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Friday and Saturday, too, a deep area of low pressure cuts across | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
the country although the winds are not on this chart, they will | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
strengthen. Although it eases on Sunday, it is a blustery day with a | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
chance of a few thunderstorms. If you would like one of the | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
weather team to visit your school, get in touch. We'll bring a mini | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
weather studio, show the pupils how we forecast the weather and each of | :27:25. | :27:34. |