:00:03. > :00:13.This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies.
:00:13. > :00:14.
:00:14. > :00:18.Our top story tonight: The green light at last for the A453.
:00:18. > :00:22.The government has announced the second busiest stretch of motorway
:00:22. > :00:26.in UK is to be improved. And mother's Christmas message to
:00:26. > :00:30.drink-drivers. If it makes one person stop and
:00:30. > :00:36.think and say I will get a taxi, then it is worth it, David will not
:00:36. > :00:40.have died in vain. The innovative procedure developed
:00:40. > :00:47.in America designed to help and eight year-old from Derbyshire walk
:00:47. > :00:57.unaided. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall pull a pint to help
:00:57. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:04.Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's programme.
:01:04. > :01:09.First tonight, the Government has at last given the go-ahead for
:01:09. > :01:12.improving one of the busiest and most congested roads in the country.
:01:12. > :01:18.Widening the A453, which links Nottingham and the M1, has been the
:01:18. > :01:20.top transport priority for the East Midlands for more than a decade.
:01:20. > :01:27.Business and council leaders say dualling the road will generate
:01:27. > :01:37.�540 million for the region and end congestion misery for motorists.
:01:37. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:43.Let's join our reporter Simon Ward on a bridge over the A453. You can
:01:43. > :01:46.see the light of commuters going home. If you have been stuck on
:01:46. > :01:50.this road you will know the frustration of drivers and
:01:50. > :01:54.companies held up in traffic. 32,000 cars a day use it. People
:01:54. > :02:00.have been talking about making improvements since the early 1980s,
:02:00. > :02:04.but finally today the government confirmed it will be widened.
:02:04. > :02:08.Just a single carriageway in each direction, but this is the vital
:02:08. > :02:11.linking road between the M1 and Nottingham. It took the Chancellor
:02:11. > :02:14.just seven seconds to commit the government to Midlands road
:02:14. > :02:20.improvements costing hundreds of millions of pounds. In the Midlands
:02:20. > :02:26.the A453, the Kettering bypass, they will all be improved.
:02:26. > :02:29.Donington services motorists welcomed the news.
:02:29. > :02:32.If they are putting some money into the infrastructure to improve the
:02:32. > :02:35.rate it will be a good thing. good dirtier. You always get stuck
:02:35. > :02:39.on the brow of the hill getting stuck down coming back to the
:02:39. > :02:47.roundabout. It will make things much easier, no more traffic jams,
:02:47. > :02:51.touch wood. It has always got problems. Good move. At last.
:02:51. > :02:55.Nottinghamshire councillors are in a buoyant mood and will still offer
:02:55. > :02:59.�20 million to a project that could cost more than �160 million in
:02:59. > :03:04.total. This is a major piece of road for transport in this area.
:03:04. > :03:07.Both all goods and services, people go -- going to the airport, goods
:03:07. > :03:10.coming from the airport, wonderful news for everybody.
:03:10. > :03:16.The city of Nottingham also expect to benefit.
:03:16. > :03:21.A obviously it dovetails into the tram extension up to Clifton. We
:03:21. > :03:25.have seen both schemes as integral to the transport no work for the
:03:25. > :03:32.staff of the city. It is the end of the road for campaigning. The next
:03:32. > :03:36.step is to actually construct the dual carriageway. The road is a
:03:36. > :03:40.major route in and out of Nottingham. It is essential for
:03:40. > :03:44.transporting goods. Time is waiting snarled up in traffic and that its
:03:44. > :03:50.deliveries. Many truck drivers say they take long did tours to avoid
:03:50. > :03:54.the road. It is the bane of our lives. We are
:03:54. > :04:00.very frustrated at the fact it hadn't been widened. Our vehicles
:04:00. > :04:02.get held up on a daily basis, and it is really getting to the stage
:04:02. > :04:07.where we are at having to tell drivers to get in other directions
:04:07. > :04:13.to get to their destiny since such as the M one because it is so
:04:13. > :04:17.frustrating -- their destination such as the M1. There is another
:04:17. > :04:24.transport company with 13 vehicles, and their drivers will do anything
:04:24. > :04:29.to avoid going on it. If it is getting late in the morning I would
:04:29. > :04:37.use an alternative route. In order to miss it out completely. You get
:04:37. > :04:44.held up and lose so much driving time. How do you feel about the
:04:44. > :04:48.fact it should now be jailed? Elated. Long awaited. It is
:04:48. > :04:52.something that will go ahead. So -- how long it takes, I do not know,
:04:52. > :04:57.but it has got to beat a good thing for everybody. The Road haulage
:04:57. > :05:03.Association here told me it is welcoming the expenditure on the
:05:03. > :05:13.road, the prospect of more free- flowing traffic on the A453, and as
:05:13. > :05:20.
:05:20. > :05:23.for the truckers, any improvement Joining us now is a member of the
:05:23. > :05:27.Area Chamber of Commerce. Presumably money as they lost by
:05:27. > :05:31.not having a better road? This has cost us a lot of money over a long
:05:31. > :05:34.time. We have lost opportunities for investment, particularly in
:05:34. > :05:40.Nottingham city because the approach has been simple. Why has
:05:40. > :05:44.it taken so long for the government to listen? If we had the answer to
:05:44. > :05:49.that we could answer that very well. It has taken a long time to get
:05:49. > :05:53.here. It is a very important decision taken today. Is the devil
:05:53. > :05:57.in the detail? Do you have further worries? Until we actually see a
:05:57. > :06:02.precise timescale and how it will be funded, there is always still an
:06:02. > :06:06.element of doubt. We think it is a very important decision taken today.
:06:06. > :06:11.We have to see it builds in. used to buy as the government
:06:11. > :06:15.approved it? Very police. What will it mean for the region? Excellent
:06:15. > :06:20.news. The most important piece of infrastructure that needs to be
:06:20. > :06:26.built in the area, and will improve transport links here enormously.
:06:26. > :06:36.We still don't know when it will be built. The county council had work
:06:36. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.could start next year. Still to come, a busy evening of
:06:40. > :06:43.football. Jeremy's at the City ground to tell us more.
:06:43. > :06:48.Forest, Derby and Leicester all at home. There will be a minutes
:06:48. > :06:56.applause here before the game against Gary Speed's old club,
:06:56. > :06:59.Leeds United, just days after his Next, a disabled boy has just
:06:59. > :07:05.undergone an operation which could mean he'll be able to walk unaided
:07:05. > :07:08.for the very first time. Joel Rogers had the life-changing
:07:08. > :07:11.surgery in Bristol just a few hours ago. In the past, children have had
:07:11. > :07:14.to travel to America for the procedure and families have had to
:07:14. > :07:18.fund it themselves. But Joel's surgery is being paid for by NHS
:07:18. > :07:27.Derbyshire. From Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, our health
:07:27. > :07:32.correspondent Rob Sissons reports. Getting the television to work next
:07:32. > :07:36.to his hospital bed seemed his biggest worry. If he was anxious
:07:36. > :07:43.about the major Neurosurgery, he wasn't going to show it.
:07:43. > :07:47.I am feeling fine. I am not feeling nervous. Because of his terrible
:07:47. > :07:51.palsy, he has relied on splints as his Walker to get around. He will
:07:52. > :07:56.be far from his classmates for the next few weeks, undergoing
:07:56. > :08:00.physiotherapy. But he is close to their hearts. The community near
:08:00. > :08:05.Matlock has raised money for extra physio to top up what the NHS will
:08:05. > :08:10.pay for. In the last few years he has really become very aware of the
:08:10. > :08:13.different and what he cannot do, and begins he cannot play. And
:08:13. > :08:18.hopefully this will mean he is a lot more involved like he wants to
:08:18. > :08:23.be. His operation takes hours. After removing a section of bone in
:08:23. > :08:27.the spine, the neurosurgeon exposes spinal cord nerves. These are
:08:27. > :08:32.divided and tested electronically. The responses from muscles reveal
:08:32. > :08:38.which are causing spasticity, stiffness and pain in his legs.
:08:38. > :08:43.Part of the nerve are then cut. They call it selective dorsal rise
:08:43. > :08:50.lottery. It was developed in a mess Africa. He is the 10th patient in
:08:50. > :08:55.the UK to undergo this -- it was developed in America. They become
:08:55. > :08:59.more independent, improve their balance, and some of them, and
:08:59. > :09:03.children like Joel will be able to walk independently in the future.
:09:03. > :09:07.After the operation he will be able to finally wear something here has
:09:07. > :09:12.always dreamed of, trainers. What sort you want?
:09:12. > :09:15.Cool ones. Infra-red cameras in the special lab will be following his
:09:16. > :09:21.footsteps over the next two years for Dub year-old has travelled many
:09:21. > :09:28.miles from Derbyshire for this treatment but in many ways his
:09:28. > :09:31.journey is only just beginning. Let's go live to rub now in Bristol.
:09:31. > :09:36.Rob, what the latest on how Joel's operation has gone?
:09:36. > :09:40.It has gone really well. Took about four hours. Less than expected. He
:09:40. > :09:44.is in recovery, doing really well. He will spend a couple of days in
:09:44. > :09:48.the high dependency unit, then a lot of work learning to walk
:09:48. > :09:54.unaided, which will of talk -- of course take months. Fantastic news
:09:54. > :09:57.it has gone well. So when will Joel be back in Derbyshire?
:09:57. > :10:07.About three weeks. I would imagine with those new trainers as well.
:10:07. > :10:10.
:10:10. > :10:13.I do hope so. I would imagine we Police have made an arrest after a
:10:13. > :10:15.police officer was badly hurt in a hit and run incident. Mansfield
:10:15. > :10:18.officer Diederick Coetzee remains critically ill after being knocked
:10:18. > :10:21.off his bicycle while off duty. Today a 32-year-old man was
:10:21. > :10:30.arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, failure to stop at the
:10:30. > :10:33.scene of a collision, and failure to report a crime. Families in
:10:33. > :10:36.Leicestershire are clearing up after a burst water main flooded
:10:36. > :10:38.five homes. The leak began around midnight on Dorset Avenue in South
:10:38. > :10:48.Wigston. Severn Trent engineers have now stemmed the leak and say
:10:48. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:52.they'll do what they can to help those whose homes have been damaged.
:10:52. > :10:55.A mother whose son was killed by a drink driver is calling for
:10:55. > :10:59.motorists in Leicestershire to say no to alcohol this Christmas. David
:10:59. > :11:03.Johnson was on his motorbike when he was hit by a man driving over
:11:03. > :11:06.the limit. It's a timely campaign as figures from Nottinghamshire
:11:06. > :11:15.police suggest drink drivers are consuming more alcohol than ever.
:11:15. > :11:19.Victoria Hicks reports. He was my whole world. Such a level
:11:19. > :11:25.of life, and cheeky with it sometimes. He was a gentleman. You
:11:25. > :11:31.have these plans and dreams for your children, and then suddenly,
:11:31. > :11:35.they are gone. David was 33 when he was killed by a drink-driver in
:11:35. > :11:40.Leicestershire. The impact of the crash broke every bone in his body.
:11:40. > :11:43.He died in the arms of a stranger. As he overtook there was nowhere
:11:43. > :11:49.for him to go so he went off straight into David and his fiancee
:11:49. > :11:55.landed on a brick wall and had a fractured pelvis and her leg pinned.
:11:55. > :12:00.David was flung into a drive, and he died of a ruptured aorta. It is
:12:00. > :12:06.like somebody has just punched me in the chest and ripped my heart
:12:06. > :12:09.out and just thrown it away. It is so painful. 125 drivers were
:12:09. > :12:14.arrested for drink-driving in Leicestershire last Christmas. This
:12:14. > :12:17.year's message, don't drink at all. The reason being, if you drink and
:12:18. > :12:20.drive you are likely to get caught, you will be breathalysed, if you
:12:20. > :12:24.get breathalysed and it proves positive you will get a ban. That
:12:24. > :12:29.could possibly lead to the loss of a good job or even prison. The man
:12:29. > :12:33.who killed David Johnson was sentenced to three and a half years
:12:33. > :12:38.in prison. He served 18 months. Dawn Bycraft went to visit him.
:12:38. > :12:42.After I had seen him and we got the whole picture came together, I came
:12:42. > :12:47.out with the conclusion that as biased -- as bad as it is for me
:12:47. > :12:51.and the husband, I still feel sorry for him, because he has got to live
:12:51. > :12:56.with the fact that for a couple of extra pints he has taken a life. If
:12:56. > :13:01.by what I have said today just makes one person stop and think and
:13:01. > :13:05.say I will get a taxi, and save one person from going through the pain
:13:05. > :13:14.I am going through, then it is worth it, David will not have died
:13:14. > :13:16.in vain. More than 900 schools in the East
:13:16. > :13:21.Midlands are expected to close tomorrow as public sector workers
:13:21. > :13:24.go on strike. They're taking action over proposed pension changes. But
:13:24. > :13:30.as Kylie Pentelow explains, it's not just schools that will be
:13:30. > :13:33.affected. For parents, school closures will
:13:33. > :13:37.mean the biggest disruption tomorrow. Here are the latest
:13:37. > :13:40.figures: In Nottinghamshire, more than 380 schools are closing. The
:13:40. > :13:44.number in Leicestershire and Rutland is 330 and in Derbyshire
:13:44. > :13:52.there are expected to be at least 210 closures. But one education
:13:52. > :13:56.union in Derby is against the strikes.
:13:56. > :14:00.We don't believe we should involve children in industrial disputes. It
:14:00. > :14:05.is as simple as that. The children come first. They are not our
:14:05. > :14:12.employers, yet they and their parents are the ones who suffer,
:14:12. > :14:15.when teachers take strike action and we don't believe that is right.
:14:15. > :14:18.Hospitals too are preparing for their staff to take action. Bosses
:14:18. > :14:20.in Nottingham say they've already let patients know if they'll be
:14:20. > :14:23.inconvenienced and only ten operations have been postponed. And
:14:23. > :14:30.they say tomorrow, the most urgent medical cases will be protected
:14:30. > :14:34.from the impact of the strikes. We haven't had industrial action in
:14:34. > :14:38.the health service since the ambulance strike in 1989, so it is
:14:38. > :14:43.something we are not used to as employers. In fairness, our staff
:14:43. > :14:48.are not used to doing it. I think for most of them it is a big step
:14:48. > :14:52.they are planning to take. We are concerned to make sure that the
:14:52. > :15:00.days are not repeated into next year, and we do believe people are
:15:00. > :15:03.doing their very best to maintain emergency services.
:15:04. > :15:06.So what do you think about the strike action? Well we've been out
:15:06. > :15:07.in the East Midlands today and there certainly isn't united
:15:07. > :15:11.opinion. I don't normally agree with strikes
:15:11. > :15:14.because you get nothing out of it, you have lost money. But I agree
:15:14. > :15:18.with this because they have paid into it, they are entitled to get
:15:18. > :15:22.it out. The country is in a mess and the public sector are no
:15:22. > :15:26.different from the private sector who are suffering badly. So, we are
:15:26. > :15:29.all in this together. I have a lot of sympathy for them. They have
:15:29. > :15:32.been left in a position where they don't have any choice.
:15:32. > :15:37.Inconvenience for me with my three- year-old, day of school and
:15:37. > :15:41.everything. But I can understand where they're coming from.
:15:41. > :15:45.Everybody has got a right to do what they are doing. If it was in
:15:45. > :15:48.the private sector, there would be exactly the same situation that a
:15:48. > :15:53.up you will not get any more money and you will the people in the
:15:53. > :16:00.lurch. The private sector, didn't get the gold-plated things they get,
:16:00. > :16:03.it is ridiculous. Well whatever your opinion, the strikes are
:16:03. > :16:06.taking place tomorrow. And if you want to know the latest on school
:16:06. > :16:11.closures and how it could affect you, go to your Local BBC radio
:16:11. > :16:17.station and online. Nearly half a billion people have
:16:17. > :16:27.been infected with it and a child dies from it every 45 seconds. We
:16:27. > :16:29.are talking about malaria. But now a major breakthrough in how the
:16:29. > :16:32.parasite survives in the bloodstream has been discovered.
:16:32. > :16:37.One of the teams which made the discovery is based at Leicester
:16:37. > :16:41.University, so that's where our reporter Jonathan Cecil went today.
:16:41. > :16:46.If they bite you it can hurt, but the female mosquito can also
:16:46. > :16:52.transferred their sleep -- deadly malaria parasite. -- can also
:16:52. > :16:56.transfer. A child dies every 45 seconds from the disease. Now,
:16:56. > :16:59.after 10 years of research, there has been a breakthrough. It
:16:59. > :17:02.happened in part right here in the East Midlands. The team has
:17:02. > :17:08.discovered how the parasite survives in the bloodstream of its
:17:08. > :17:12.victims. We have identified a group of more than 30 proteins which are
:17:12. > :17:17.essential in the parasite. That means if we inhibit or stop the
:17:17. > :17:21.action of any one of those 30, you will stop the parasite from growing,
:17:21. > :17:26.and you will kill the parasite. next stage is to design and build a
:17:26. > :17:29.drug that can stop one of these proteins, but that will not be easy.
:17:29. > :17:34.Yearly half a billion people in the world have malaria at the moment.
:17:34. > :17:37.Many are children. Many of those are pregnant women. You drug has to
:17:37. > :17:41.be incredibly safe. That is why it takes so long to develop these
:17:41. > :17:45.drugs, because it is all about developing a safe drug that is also
:17:45. > :17:55.going to work. But it could take up to another 10 years before a
:17:55. > :17:56.
:17:56. > :18:00.complete cure against this deadly Good work going on there in at
:18:00. > :18:03.Leicester. Still to come on the programme: The
:18:03. > :18:07.weather switches into early winter mode.
:18:07. > :18:12.As we near the beginning of December, it is a rather topsy-
:18:12. > :18:22.turvy weather story. One moment, wet and windy, the next, still
:18:22. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:31.windy but the cloud clears. Time to Was that a star or the police
:18:31. > :18:37.helicopter? Anna was the star. We have got the sport with another
:18:37. > :18:42.star here. More than 60,000 football fans across Derby,
:18:42. > :18:45.Leicester and Nottingham will pay their tribute to Gary Speed tonight.
:18:45. > :18:49.The 42-year-old manager of Wales died at the weekend. We've a full
:18:49. > :18:52.programme of matches tonight. The picture behind me from Leeds
:18:52. > :18:58.explains why we will start with the City Ground. It is where the
:18:58. > :19:02.occasion will be the most poignant. The Official tribute will be a
:19:02. > :19:07.minute's applause before kick-off, but the Leeds United fans also plan
:19:07. > :19:14.to sing Gary Speed's name for 11 minutes starting in the 11th minute,
:19:14. > :19:18.in memory of their great number 11. It will be a strange feeling where
:19:18. > :19:22.fans will unite. Give a lot of support to an individual who has
:19:22. > :19:26.had such a successful career. was a member of the Leeds team that
:19:26. > :19:31.won the title in 1992. He joined the club as a teenager on the same
:19:31. > :19:35.day as the man managing Leeds tonight. Two innocent 14 euros who
:19:36. > :19:39.came on the morning of the game, signed the forms with Mr Saunders,
:19:39. > :19:43.the chief scout, and Eddie was the manager. That was the first time we
:19:43. > :19:47.came across each other for top 20 years down the line, it seems like
:19:47. > :19:52.yesterday we were starting off together. Obviously, very difficult
:19:52. > :19:55.to understand and work out why this has happened. At times like this
:19:55. > :19:59.the football world comes together and the Nottingham Forest fans were
:20:00. > :20:03.joined in the applause. It is a huge loss. He was one of the first
:20:03. > :20:08.people to text me when I got the Nottingham Forest a job. I had
:20:08. > :20:13.spoken to him a few times. He is an absolute gentleman, that has been
:20:13. > :20:18.mentioned quite a few times. Aside from that, in football terms,
:20:18. > :20:23.Leeds are 5th, Forest are 20th. Four wins and a Steve Cotterill but
:20:23. > :20:29.that doesn't seem so important on what is bound to be an emotional
:20:29. > :20:32.night -- under Steve Cotterill. At Leicester's King Power Stadium
:20:32. > :20:34.there'll be a minutes applause before the game for Gary Speed.
:20:34. > :20:39.It'll be poignant for one City player in particular. Mark Shardlow
:20:39. > :20:42.is at tonight's game. We heard from him briefly yesterday but when the
:20:42. > :20:46.teams come out of the tunnel and stand for the minute applause it
:20:46. > :20:49.will mean more to one young man and many others, that is Andy King. He
:20:49. > :20:53.played against Gary Speed as a teenager down here for Leicester,
:20:53. > :20:57.but more significantly when Gary Speed was appointed manager of
:20:57. > :21:01.Wales he gave Andy King his international debut. Myself
:21:01. > :21:04.personally, I will be looking for a performance to show him how
:21:04. > :21:08.thankful I am for what he has done for my career. The one thing I have
:21:08. > :21:12.said, he wouldn't want anybody to miss any football because of what
:21:12. > :21:17.has happened. He loved football, he was a great football man. The best
:21:17. > :21:22.way to do it is go out and play and show him, and really pay your
:21:22. > :21:25.respect for him by playing football. As for tonight's game Nigel
:21:25. > :21:28.Pearson's first two matches in charge have resulted in a win and a
:21:28. > :21:38.draw. Another winner will make sure Leicester are firmly knocking on
:21:38. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:43.Our third side in action is Derby County where memories of Speed are
:21:43. > :21:47.also strong. At Pride Park before the visit of Brighton was Ross
:21:47. > :21:50.Fletcher. Everything ready for Derby County
:21:50. > :21:56.against Brighton but like at Leicester and Nottingham Forest a
:21:56. > :21:58.minute applause to remember Gary Speed. Striker played under him at
:21:59. > :22:03.Sheffield United and things were not going so well but here is the
:22:03. > :22:07.measure of Gary Speed, he offered to pay bonuses out of his own
:22:07. > :22:11.pocket when Jamie helped Sheffield United, such a mark of the man.
:22:11. > :22:16.always had the time to talk to you. If you needed -- if you needed
:22:16. > :22:19.advice he would help you. He would do anything for you. It is
:22:19. > :22:25.obviously a sad day for football, I would love to score for him. It is
:22:25. > :22:29.just one of them things. An emotional night for everybody
:22:29. > :22:33.involved. Derby County need a result. Four straight defeats has
:22:33. > :22:41.seen him go from second in the table to 15th in just a couple of
:22:41. > :22:44.months. Let's hope that changes tonight against Brighton.
:22:44. > :22:47.There'll be commentary on all the games on your BBC Local Radio
:22:47. > :22:56.station and you'll get first chance to see the highlights in our late
:22:56. > :23:00.bulletin tonight. And we'll have more here tomorrow night.
:23:00. > :23:02.A lot happening on the Late News tonight.
:23:03. > :23:06.It's generally agreed that every rural village needs a thriving shop
:23:06. > :23:12.and a good pub. So bring the two together and you've got the perfect
:23:12. > :23:18.combination. That's what a scheme called Pub is The Hub is all about
:23:19. > :23:21.and it comes with royal approval. It was the idea of The Prince of
:23:22. > :23:24.Wales, and with his wife The Duchess of Cornwall, he's been to
:23:24. > :23:26.visit a Lincolnshire success story, a pub that's really doing well
:23:27. > :23:30.despite the tough climate. Quentin Rayner's report contains flash
:23:30. > :23:32.photography. The Cholmeley Arms welcomed Their
:23:32. > :23:38.Royal visitors with open arms. Their support for rural pubs is
:23:38. > :23:45.well known. This one and its adjoining farm shop near Grantham
:23:45. > :23:49.are proof the pub is -- the scheme does work. It is close to the
:23:49. > :23:53.Prince's heart. He came up with the not-for-profit idea 10 years ago as
:23:53. > :23:57.part of his Rural Action programme. The pub had closed before they to
:23:57. > :24:00.go over three years ago. But by tapping into the schemes advice on
:24:00. > :24:10.a project funding the pub was refurbished, and a farm shop opened
:24:10. > :24:15.in a derelict barn. Three couples in the last two months have sent --
:24:15. > :24:19.said to us they are looking to diversify to get the trade-in. The
:24:19. > :24:23.scheme has then people to see how things work here, and they were so
:24:23. > :24:26.impressed getting that guidance. Any help for pubs is welcomed by
:24:26. > :24:32.the trade at a time when the beer sales are at their lowest since the
:24:32. > :24:39.Great Depression did up 14 pubs each week are closing in the UK.
:24:39. > :24:43.Best is partly due to the rising tax. 27,000 jobs could be saved if
:24:43. > :24:48.further proposed tax rises were scrapped. We have probably done 30
:24:48. > :24:52.or 40 schemes. Some have been immensely successful, everything
:24:52. > :25:02.from post offices to school meals, two obituaries and things like this.
:25:02. > :25:08.
:25:08. > :25:10.Anything that adds to the village - They tasted a drop of Newton strop,
:25:10. > :25:17.although the prince bought the press would missing out on the
:25:17. > :25:24.local brew. -- new to's Drop. I think a pub selling chocolate
:25:24. > :25:29.cake could be a marriage made in heaven. We saw a twinkling little
:25:29. > :25:33.star earlier, he has another one. Kylie thinks that is Jupiter.
:25:33. > :25:43.We have had a rather wet and windy afternoon. The rain has now cleared
:25:43. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:51.away. It will be staying windy This photo was taken a couple of
:25:51. > :25:56.weeks ago in the rain. Please send them into us. Let's have a look at
:25:56. > :26:03.the pressure track. You can see a friend that has cleared up across
:26:03. > :26:07.the East. -- pressure chart. -- you can see that front. We have got
:26:07. > :26:12.colder air coming in. The isobars are staying a fairly tight,
:26:12. > :26:17.continuing to be windy. The rain has pushed away a cross towards
:26:17. > :26:24.Lincolnshire. Behind it, mostly dry, you may just note the odd passing
:26:24. > :26:28.shower. Mostly clear skies. Temperatures will fall to four
:26:28. > :26:38.degrees. Because his days when the overnight it should be frost-free.
:26:38. > :26:41.You might just get attached in rural parts. -- a touch. Showers
:26:41. > :26:44.may develop across Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire, but
:26:44. > :26:50.beautiful sunshine as we go into the afternoon. Temperatures
:26:50. > :26:54.reaching a maximum of 10 degrees, but staying fairly breezy so it
:26:54. > :27:01.will feel quite cold. More rain to come, Wednesday evening, tried to
:27:01. > :27:07.start, this area of rain will move in. Then another band of rain will
:27:07. > :27:11.push its way in from the West. But once that clears, Thursday will be
:27:11. > :27:17.dry. We will see broken cloud, sunny spells. The wind will
:27:17. > :27:21.gradually ease on Thursday. Much more settled day to come. Friday,
:27:21. > :27:25.one of those perfect winter's days. Widespread frost in the morning.
:27:25. > :27:30.Lot of sunshine in the afternoon. To make the most of it. There will
:27:30. > :27:34.be still some unsettled weather at the weekend.