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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Our top story tonight, time for the tarmac tax. Nottingham's workplace | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
parking levy starts on Sunday. There is criticism from business | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
leaders that it will drive firms out of the city. Plus, when it | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
raised as much money as the council had hoped? | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
Also: 10 operating theatres could close as hospitals in Leicester | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
look for more big savings. A of course people are worried and in a | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
sense, we are worried and it is our duty to be worried so refocus on | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
doing this properly. Plus: fears of a fuel shortage | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
spark another day of queues and shortages. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
And who is a lucky girl? Sally helps smooth for the way for a lamb | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the programme. First tonight, | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
Nottingham becomes the first city in the UK to charge people to park | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
at work and it starts this weekend. Business leaders fear it will drive | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
companies out of the city and stop others from moving in. The council | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
says the money raised will help it to invest in public transport. But | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
fewer spaces than anticipated have been registered and, as a result, | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
the council now faces a �2 million shortfall. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
It is controversial and will cost businesses thousands of pounds a | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
year. The workplace parking levy comes into force this Sunday. His | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
is the first place in the sup -- in the country to charge people to | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
charge at work. Business leaders fear the charge will drive | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
companies out of the city. This lorry servicing company which has | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
been in Nottingham since 1985 says it will look to relocate. It is | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
like having a 20 % hike in business rates. Imagine having to take that | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
cost with no benefit. One of the lease is up in five years, we will | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
be looking to move out of the zone. Obviously, we will not have to then | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
worry about the cost. Businesses with 10 or fewer spaces will not be | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
charged but companies with 11 spaces or more will have to pay | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
�288 a year for each one. This company will pick up for �5,000 | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
bill for its 19 spaces and 30 staff. In this current climate, �5,000 | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
represents a significant amount of turnover. We would have to get at | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
least another �150,000 worth of business to stand still. The levy | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
applies to a total of 20,000 car parking spaces. That is 10,000 | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
fewer than first expected. The council says it should raise �80 | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
million, �2 million short of the target. But council leaders say | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
they are confident the income will meet targets over the next few | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
years and the money will be invested in local transport, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
including the extension of the tram network. I think the council is | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
here to represent the people of Nottingham and I don't think they | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
are doing that. They have not taken into account how we feel about it. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Nottingham may be the first but more than half a dozen other cities | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
are now considering a workplace parking levy. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Joining us now is Graham Chapman, Deputy Leader of Nottingham City | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Council. Councillor Chapman, what do you say to companies who say | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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this is effectively a 20% increase on business rates? I would say that | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
what this city has got to do his advance and it needs to keep | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
transport investment going, especially under present conditions. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Without this investment, there would be no additional tramline, no | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
improvement in this station. We would have to take the buses off | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
and would have no prospect of increasing the tram network in | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
future years. Therefore, we've got to keep investment going and the | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
biggest beneficiaries of investment are businesses. Businesses say they | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
are not going to stay here. Nottingham's Forum of Private | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Business says, it sends out a clear signal to anyone thinking of | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
setting up business in Nottingham, to look elsewhere. We are not | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
finding out. Inevitably, any tax is going to be unpopular. You are | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
going to get a bit of exaggeration and that is what happening. Some | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
business leaders to recognise its benefits. We've had no sign that | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
people are moving out because the costs do not justify it. Moreover, | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
we've had one company relocating with InterCity and another just | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
vacations is it will be near the tramline. It is one of the | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
bargaining tools we have to try and get the Broad Marsh reinvested in. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
What about the claim for a business and who says you are fading with to | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
represent people. They didn't ask for this lovely. No, they didn't, | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
but sometimes you've got to take decisions for the next 20 years and | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
this is what we're doing. On that basis, we would never have invested | :05:18. | :05:28. | |
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in Suez, in schools, in anything public. -- sewers. Is it going to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
take 20 years before you know whether this has worked, whether | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
this has benefited the city? No, I think we will know quite soon. The | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
other advantages it creates jobs. It believers in the millions of | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
pounds worth of government investment. Without the levy, we | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
would not have had the money to pay for our part of the triumph. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Briefly, you are not concerned about this �2 million shortfall in | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
the first year. No, because we look over 20 years and we think it will | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
balance out. We are also cutting our cloth. We are very efficient at | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
producing tram systems, and like another of other cities. | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
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-- unlike. Still to come on the programme: a drug implant that can | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
restore sight. We report from a hospital where 12 patients have | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
already benefited from the new Many fuel pumps across the East | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Midlands ran dry again today because of panic buying. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Even though the threat of strike action by tanker drivers over | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Easter has been ruled out, drivers have still been queueing to fill | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
their tanks. Simon is at a filling station in Derby now. | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
This petrol station is normally very busy, particularly at this | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
time of night, but as you can see, the forecourt is deserted. That is | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
because the entrance is combed off and as the sign says, no fuel. When | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
the there was some fuel earlier this morning, apparently the cars | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
were queuing out on to the busy road. That was a scene repeated | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
across the region today. Despite the tanker drivers' union saying | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
that they were not going to stage any industrial action over Easter, | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
the panic buying has continued, with some garages and supermarkets | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
have and to lay on staff to control the traffic. As well as the panic | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
leading to the shortage is that everybody was worried about in the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
first place, it has also led to price rises in some places, with | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
many garages now charging more than one pound 50 a litre for diesel. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
Here, they are hoping for a delivery sometime overnight. -- 1 | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
and 50 and 80. Earlier, my colleague was at a garage when a | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
tanker arrived. The it was delivery time but | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Rosemary Street service station but they had been out of fuel since | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
yesterday, after record sales. We've been flat out. We are doing | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
four or five deliveries a day. Passing drivers quickly spotted the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
delivery. I came out and saw everyone queuing and thought I'd | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
better get some petrol. It's getting serious. The last place | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
only allowed me �10. It will be about another 15 minutes before you | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
can get fuel. The garage owner says panic-buying is bad for business. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
We've sold the fuel anywhere but it is the knock-on effects. If they | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
are not coming in for the fuel, they will not be buying the other | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
stuff either. With the queues have come price rises. James says costs | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
have risen as well. Our price went up so the price has to go up to the | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
customer. It only went up by the same rate. There has been no price | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
hike. If the rush for fuel continues, this 18,000 LEA to load | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
might only last until tomorrow. -- 18,000 litres. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Derbyshire Fire Service is so worried about people potentially | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
stockpiling fuel, they've issued -- issued a warning saying not only | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
could you be wishing -- risking your safety but it could lead to a | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
criminal conviction as well. Next tonight, 400 posts could go | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
and 10 operating theatres could close at one of the biggest | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
hospital trusts in the East Midlands. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has got to make | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
savings of �35 million in the next financial year. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
The plans, which hospital bosses say won't affect patient care, were | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
discussed at a board meeting today. These are tough times for | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Leicester's hospitals. This financial year, millions of pounds | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
of cuts had to be made and more are to come. Of course people are | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
worried and in a sense, we are worried and it is our duty to be | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
worried so we focused on doing this properly. We think there are | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
opportunities, not only to preserve frontline services, strengthening | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
them. The way we have been providing services and the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
challenges on us are that the fund and has to be strengthened. How can | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
you do that? We've got to do both. They have cut a lot of money this | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
year and a lot of jobs over the last of months. They keep cutting | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
their cloth. It can only go so far. Patient care does it affected. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Bosses are hoping to reduce the wage bill but over -- by over �14 | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
million a year, 400 posts could go. That is two weeks' wages so we are | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
talking about �14 million out of a turnover of �700 million. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
repetition of this trust has gone down in the last 12 months and that | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
is mainly because of a lack of numbers of staff on the wards. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Things need to change. I do understand the need to save money | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
but cutting jobs all the time is never a good thing. The proposals | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
are just that at the moment. They are due to be discussed again next | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Thursday. A man's died after a van and lorry | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
collided in a lay by near Derby. It happened on the A52 at Borrowash, | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
just after nine o'clock this morning. It meant the dual | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
carriageway out of Derby was closed for almost five hours. The van | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
driver died. Police want to hear from anyone who saw the accident. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
The sale of the Castle Donington airline BMI has been approved by | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
the European Commission. The company's being bought by IAG, | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
which already owns British Airways and the Spanish airline Iberia. The | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
deal's thought to be worth around a �170 million. It's been given the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
go ahead, after IAG agreed to give up some of its flights at Heathrow. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
More patients are benefiting from a new treatment that can restore | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
their sight. Nottinghamshire's Kingsmill Hospital was one of the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
first to offer it on the NHS. And there's been an encouraging | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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response. 12 patients have so far been treated and are doing well. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
This woman was going blind and a new treatment has saved her sight. | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
A in a plant was put in her left eye, soaked in a very powerful | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
steroid. -- and in plant. She had problems because of a certain | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
condition. Once it is blocked, it gets jammed. It leaks along with | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
fluid form the jammed blood vessels and causes damage to the photo | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
receptors in the retina. A such as the improvement, that she says she | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
can now read. She says the treatment has made a world of | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
difference. Since I had been planned, the fish in his Clearing, | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
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slowly but surely, so I can now see properly. -- inplant. Putting in | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
the anti-inflammatory drug returns the rest in that way normal state. | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Brenda got a good result because the problem. Early. I didn't | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
realise how bad it could have been. Before I had a chance to worry | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
about it, everything was cleared up. Within one week. What this shows is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
just how fault medical red and the treatment has come in the last five | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
years. -- just how far. They've done 12 patients with this new | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
treatment and they are all said to be doing really well. If the | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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problems come back, the treatment can be repeated. Trading Standards | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
say that nearly every car-boot sale will have counterfeit goods on | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
offer. Leicestershire officers say this year they've already seized | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
�350,000 of clothing at car boots. Today thousands of pounds of fake | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
designer handbags, tops and footwear were de-branded and | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
donated to charity. Now running one marathon for | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
charity would be more than enough for most of us but how would you | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
fancy running a marathon a day - for a month!? | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
Well, it sounds extreme, but that's the plan of a runner from | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Derbyshire. Gerard Varan is running more than 700 miles to Switzerland, | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
to raise money for breast cancer research after nine friends of his | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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developed the disease. Out training, Gerard replicates the | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
kind of parts he will encounter. This Sunday, he starts his 740 mile | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
run all the way from Derbyshire to the Swiss village he is from | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
originally. He is doing it after learning the plight of an unusually | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
large number of women in Duffield. Nine people in the village I know | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
of have had breast cancer. It is staggering. I thought it would be a | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
good idea to promote breast-cancer screening and the -- reduce the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
amount of people who contract the disease. Two of those patients are | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Tracey and Louise. Gerard is absolutely awesome. I think it is | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
fantastic that he is doing this huge run to raise money for breast | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
cancer. The money is going to press cancer accounts -- campaign, and | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
they fund research so we hope it will make a big difference to help | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
save lives. Following the foot paths, right up to the Swiss / | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
French border of... Gerard will be leaving behind his own wife and | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
four children, and taking to the byways for the run, using the | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
internet and paper maps to find his way. Why run back to Switzerland? | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Because that is where I've got my roots. It is an attraction to go | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
back home. The landscape gardener who -- hopes to go back in one | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
month. And coming behind now. Hopefully there will be a lot of | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
people waiting for me. That the plan. In all, Gerard is hoping to | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
raise �20,000 for breast cancer research and services in England, | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
France and Switzerland. Good luck! A fantastic effort. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Still to come on the programme: April's almost upon us, so it's | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
time for some April weather. We have been truly spoilt this week | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
with the glorious sunshine and the unusually high temperatures, but | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Mother Nature is about to press the reset button. More details at the | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
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You could reset so many things in life... Wouldn't it it be | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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marvellous to do that? I don't think there is on! First | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
tonight, there are fears that many football league clubs are not well | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
enough prepared to cope with a life- threatening situation | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
involving their players. The football world was shocked when | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Bolton's Fabrice Muamba suffered a heart attack on the pitch. He is | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
recovering but as Angela discovered there are fewer safeguards in place | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
for professionals at smaller clubs. We are afraid that due to a serious | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
illness to a Leicester player, both clubs have agreed to abandon the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
match. It was an afternoon which could change one man's life for | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
ever. Leicester City's Clive Clark had suffered a heart attack and was | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
fighting for his life. This was the man who helped save him. We knew | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
straight away it was a serious event. It was literally two minutes | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
into the half-time period, Clive collapsed from a seated position. | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
That is never a good starting point. Clive made a good -- full recovery | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
but his football career was over. Such incidents are rare but the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
medical response can be the difference between life and death. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Safeguards have to be in place for Premier League matches. It's a | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
different story in the lower leagues. There are no specific | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
recommendations within the Football League with vigour -- regards to | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
this. I don't believe everybody is ready for this type of event and I | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
would call upon people like the Football Association, the Football | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
League and the Premier League to sit around the table and try to | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
hammer out some of the issues. Leicester City, they've invested in | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
equipment to make sure they are as prepared as possible. It is a case | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
of belt-and-braces. We are being a little bit of a protected. You | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
wouldn't expect these people to our problems but there is always going | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
to be one or two that maybe slip through some of the screening | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
processes. They are the ones we need to be ready for. The only way | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
we can do that is through adequate training and equipment. That comes | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
at a cost. The big question is, whether it is a price some clubs | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
are willing to pay. Leicester, just one of our Championship teams still | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
in with a shot of making the play- offs. The Rams are also still | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
dreaming. They've got a trip to Bristol City. One man who's just | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
happy to be back out on the pitch is defender Jake Buxton. He's been | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
telling Kirsty Edwards about his trials and tribulations at Pride | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
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Park. The past few years have been a | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
rollercoaster for Jake. He got a dream move to the Rams in 2009. The | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
next season, his injury nightmare began. Pretty much ruling him out | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
of contention until halfway through this season. Playing week-in, week- | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
out, bearing in mind there was playing in a conference the year | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
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before. That is what I missed being injured the most. The buzz. For the | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
club to continue paying me for 14 months whilst being injured, I | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
think that is why it drove me on. And then, after all his injury | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
nightmares, came that dreadful injury to his fellow defender, Sean | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Barker, earlier this month. It saw Buxton come off the bench to | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
replace them and score the winning goal. I had been given the | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
opportunity and the wrong circumstances. -- Under the wrong | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
circumstances. People forget you and it is understandable. Even the | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
coming on for 10 minutes away at Burnley, I still did OK, but it | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
takes something like a goal to show people you are still alive and | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
kicking. So, from feeling like the forgotten man, Jake Buxton was | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
suddenly a hero. It is certainly a game he will never forget. I'm not | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
going to let it go to my head and think and the world's greatest. I'm | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
just a normal lad he likes to work hard and graft for a living, and | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
continue doing all I can afford Derby County. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Forest are away again. It has been a run of troubles for the Reds but | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
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at least they've been lifted by their loan players. Since I came | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
here, everybody has tried to settle me quickly. The staff, the players, | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
and the fans as well. I am really enjoying the hit. -- enjoying being | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
here. We've had for five tough away games. A few of the of big gains -- | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
teams have had for five at home and it shows we've had a good man | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
forced of -- month. Notts County are the only team at | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
home. And well worth watching at the moment. Oldham are the visitors. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Our reporter Kirsty Edwards is at Meadow Lane. Say hi if you see her. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
All the games are on your BBC Local Radio station and you can catch the | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
goals first here on BBC One. Reports and analysis on Monday. | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Outside football there are some really big sporting fixtures. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Leicester Tigers play tonight, at home to Worcester Warriors. They're | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
still aiming for a top two Premiership finish and are bang in | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
form. Nottingham, meanwhile, have a must win game against Bristol this | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
evening, in Bristol. Play-off hopes for the Green and Whites hanging by | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
a thread. Nottingham Panthers have the second leg of their play-off | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
quarter final as they defend their title. But they're 3-0 down to | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Braehead going into the match. Good luck to them. | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
It's been a fantastic week of sunny weather. And before things get back | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
to meteorological normality, take a look at these. They're a few of the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
snaps you've emailed us showing just how strange and lovely this | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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early and really rather unexpected taste of summer has been. We have a | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
region full of fantastic photographers! And all week Sally | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Pepper has been enjoying the weather at Calke Abbey in | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Derbyshire, where of course it's lambing season. And today we see | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
her lending a helping hand to a I have been getting stuck in this | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
week, helping with their newborn lambs, and today I got to see One | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
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man And his Dog inaction. -- In With when it rounding them up, you | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
obviously have to be careful. she can be a bit hard at times, so | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
we try to hold her back. This one, I don't know if you can see, but | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
she has found himself in this nice little pen on her own, with the | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
door open, but she's now got a problem. When she rolls over, come | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
on, girl. There is a head there but no feet. I'm just hoping... He's | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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all right, he is still alive. The head is tucked back. Here it comes. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Give him a bit of a stimulus on the chest when they are born. He should | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
be fine. He is only a little one, she will certainly have another one. | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
She will come and find what she's got. He looks OK to me though. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
is, he's fine. I think Sammy stayed at the right | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
end of that. We'd get it all on this programme, | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
We have been spoilt and had some of this week but spring will return | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
this weekend although the drop in temperatures will come as a bit of | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
a shock to the system. Feeling cooler across the weekend and we | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
will see quite a bit of clout. Remember that? Firstly, another one | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
of those beautiful photos. This was taken by Dave. Send us your | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
photographs. For high pressure that has been dominating all week has | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
now moved out into the Atlantic and that will allow this cold front to | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
move south tonight, bringing colder air and a lot of cloud. As we go | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
through this evening, lots of sunshine on a cloud -- cards first | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
thing before it gets dark but gradually, that Clive will increase | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
and it will bring drizzle for a time, particularly during the early | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
hours of Saturday morning. Temperatures tonight will hold up a | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
little bit compared with what we've had this week. Six sells this is | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
your minimum temperature and show it should stay frost-free. -- 6 | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Celsius. Drying up as we go through the morning into the afternoon and | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
we will see some brightness tomorrow but not the wall-to-wall | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
sunshine we've been expecting, or we have been having all week. With | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
that colder air coming from the north, temperatures will struggle | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
to get much higher than 11 Celsius on Saturdays are you will notice a | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
difference. Sunday, another very similar data come. The best of the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
sunshine in the morning before clouding over as we going to the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
afternoon. Similar again into Monday but just look at this cold | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
front sitting across the north of the UK. That will bring some | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
rainfall on Tuesday and with the temperatures dropping again, only | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
around eight Celsius. There is a chance of some sleet and wintry | :27:03. | :27:06. |