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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Kylie | :00:02. | :00:09. | |
Pentelow. Our headlines tonight: Guilty. A union leader who stole | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
thousands from a charity for sick and elderly miners. Neil Greatrex | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
spent the money on home improvements. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
No comment. Why not? No comment! But he's been found guilty of 14 | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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charges. Metal theft madness. Hinkley's makeover finally make it | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
on the drawing board. And the sport that is great for | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
winding down. You have to get out of the why and stab them before | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
eight they stab you. Good evening. First tonight, a | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
union leader who was said to have given his life to coalmining has | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
been found guilty of stealing from a miners' charity. And he's been | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
told he will be going to jail. Neil Greatrex, the former president of | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, stole almost �150,000 from the | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
charity to pay for improvements at his own home. Another UDM leader, | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Mick Stevens, was cleared of all 14 charges. Quentin Rayner is outside | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Neil Greatrex's home in Nottinghamshire. Good evening, | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Quentin. Good evening. This is Neil | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Greatrex's home near Teversal, where thousands of pounds stolen | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
from a miners' charity were spent on home improvements, here and at a | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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previous home. Despite being paid a salary of �113,000 by the UDM, as | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
well as the union paying a third of his mortgage while he was an | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
official, the former president stole from a care home for sick | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
miners. In court he was accused of fiddling the books and feathering | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
his own nest, and today a jury agreed. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
Neil Greatrex was told by a judge he had committed fraud against | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
members who had placed their trust in him. The man described as a good | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
union man remained tight-lipped. Do you have anything to say? | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
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comment. Are you ashamed? And no comment. Why not? No comment. | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
six Sears -- six years, he used money to pay for improvements at | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
his homes. He spent the money on landscaping, building repairs. He | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
claimed it was in loo of a salary he was entitled to. They are in a | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
position of trust. He has stolen from them. Mick Stevens was cleared | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
of all charges. As a trustee, he countersigned the cheque, but the | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
jury accepted yet little to do with the daily running of the care home. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
Do you think what he did were shameful? | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
Neil Greatrex will be sentenced at the end of May. The prosecution | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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said, charity begins at home. It does not mean taking from charity. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Granting him bail, the judge told Neil Greatrex he will be going to | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
jail when he's sentenced at the end of next month. The care home was | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
sold in 2007 for �1.3 million and the charity has been wound up. With | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
the completion of this trial, the Charity Commission will appoint new | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
trustees to distribute those assets. Tonight, the Crown Prosecution | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
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Service said Greatrex was "guilty of deceitful and shameful actions." | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Quentin, thank you. John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, joins us | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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now. I know you are familiar with this case. What is your reaction? | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
Some justice has been done. There is tremendous anger. There is a lot | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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of elderly miners who have not had access to the care home. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
We had a no comment from Mr Greatrex after the trial. What | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
should he be saying to the miners whose money was taken? The best | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
apology he could make is to pay back the money. He should be | :05:37. | :05:47. | |
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volunteering information to the police. In the wider context of | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
this, these miners have been ripped off by various people. They have | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
lost their care home, there was a compensation scandal. That Kehoe | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
was to help people with their health needs. It should be there as | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
a care home, a convalescent home. Will all this end when Neil | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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Greatrex is sentenced next month? I would like to see the finances of | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
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the UDM being fully investigated. Thank you. You're watching East | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Midlands Today. Coming up later. Time to think about China. The | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Derby company that's running like clockwork in the Far East. | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
And the Labour leader is in Derby. Next tonight, a big a crackdown on | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
stolen scrap. All five of our police forces are working together | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
in Operation Tornado. Together, they're telling thieves that | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
there's now no market for the metal they steal. Carol Hinds reports. | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Over the last seven days, scrap metal thieves have left dangerous | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
holes in Derby's roads by stealing 80 cast iron drain covers. They're | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
being replaced with ones made from plastic which can be locked. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Each time we go to repair them, it costs in the region of �200. In the | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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last week, that is �16,000. There are 40,000 of these across the city. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
If this happened widescale across the city, it could cost �8. This | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
week has seen the start of new measures to tackle the crime in our | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
region. Operation Tornado brings together all five police forces in | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
the East Midlands to try to restrict the movement of stolen | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
metal. -- �8 million. Anyone that brings in an item of metal and | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
wants to exchange it for cash would have to bring in a photograph and | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
some ID. But the scheme is voluntary, Sims Metal Management in | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Nottingham has signed up to Operation Tornado, but is concerned | :08:22. | :08:32. | |
that other dealers in the city have not. It is vital that every scrap | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
merchant in the area signs up to it. Those that do not need to be weeded | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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out and brought to book. wouldn't you sign Aalborg it? -- up | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
for eight per. Police officers stress that the measures are not | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
designed to damage legitimate businesses, but to clamp down on | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
unscrupulous dealers who choose to overlook where the metals they're | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
buying may have come from. Well, we're staying with this | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
subject briefly, because suspected metal thieves have damaged a | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
memorial statue built to commemorate Nottinghamshire's | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
wartime oil industry. The oil patch warrior in Dukes Wood near Eakring | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
was attacked on Saturday. It marks the work of the American oilmen who | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
helped build the UK's first onshore oil well in 1939. It'll now be | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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removed from the site because of fears the thieves will strike again. | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
The Nottingham bicycle maker Raleigh could be taken over by one | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
of its rivals. The company is in talks with the Dutch firm Accell, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
which is one of Europe's leading bike manufacturers. Raleigh still | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
designs its cycles in Nottingham, and this year it's celebrating its | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
125th anniversary. The family of the Nottinghamshire | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
woman murdered by her son say he's robbed them of a wonderful, loving | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
and caring woman. Daniel Bartlam from Redhill near Arnold was only | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
14 when he attacked his mother Jacqui with a hammer. He tried to | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
destroy the evidence by setting fire to the family home. Yesterday, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
a judge told him he would serve at least 16 years for the senseless | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
and grotesque murder of his mother. Jeremy Ball is with us now. Jeremy, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
what's been the reaction from people who knew Jacqui Bartlam? | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
We've been hearing warm tributes. She was clearly very popular, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
despite Daniel's attempt to convince the jury he was provoked | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
by a "bad mother". Her family say that couldn't be further from the | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
truth. That she was caring, and loved her boys. I've had this | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
statement from her workmates at the Land Registry in Nottingham. They | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
say Jacqui was a pleasure to work with. She had a wicked sense of | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
humour. And almost a year on, they're still in shock. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
There has been a quite extraordinary reaction to the story, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
hasn't there? Huge. Look at the national papers today. It's on a | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
lot of the front pages. Headlines like "Devil Child,""Corrie | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Copycat."And this story's been making headlines across Europe, and | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
as far afield as Australia. That's because Daniel Bartlam's crime was | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
so extraordinary. You reported on Bartlam's trial two | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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months ago, but he hasn't been identified until now. Why's that? | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
It's because he was so young that his identity was protected by a | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
court order. This week that's been lifted, after a legal challenge by | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the BBC. And there were two reasons the judge agreed to that. First, | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
because this crime was so horrific. And secondly, because Jacqui | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
Bartlam's family wanted to pay tribute to her publically. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
One paper described him as a devil child and described him as evil. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
How did he appear during his trial? He came across as an extraordinary | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
character. Intelligent. Articulate. But very cocky. He spent two whole | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
days in the witness box, holding his own against the prosecution. I | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
think it's pretty clear he thought he could outwit some very | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
experienced lawyers and some very experienced and detectives, even | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
though he was still only 14 years old at the time. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
Thanks, Jeremy. It's been talked about for years, but finally one of | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
our town centres will get a massive facelift. �80 million is being | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
spent in Hinckley in Leicestershire on a new bus station, cinema and | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
shops. But not everyone's in favour, as Angelina Socci found out. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
It is a sight for sore eyes. The bus station and surrounding area | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
has been decline for years. �80 million will be spent on the site. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
This will give the town a major boost. It will bring new facilities, | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
new jobs, and transform what is predominantly a fairly run-down | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
area. People have mixed views. has been a long time coming. The | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
bus station is a bit of a mess. It is not very nice for people that | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
visit. Probably a good thing. Hinkley has become a dormitory town. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
The really does need the shops, and with all the industry gone, it does | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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need redevelopment. Some people have real concerns about the | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
development. It will effect what has been here, businesses like | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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myself. We are in very tough economic times at the moment. We | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
want to support businesses as much as possible. The council says it | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
will knock -- it will look to help independent retailers. Loyalty | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
schemes will be introduced in some shops. Work will begin early next | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
year and be completed by the end of 2014. A stately home in | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Lincolnshire will be turning off its fountains in an effort to | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
conserve water. Belton House near Grantham is run by the National | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Trust. Although the property is excluded from Thursday's domestic | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
hosepipe ban, managers say it's important to play a part in saving | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
water where they can. A teaching union in Nottingham is | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
advising its members not to pay the new Workplace Parking Levy. The | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
charge, which came into force on Sunday, has been brought in by the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
council to fund improvements to the city's tram system. But the NASUWT | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
says anyone who has the charge forced on them could have a legal | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
case against their employer. The city council says teachers won't be | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
allowed to park at work if they don't pay the levy. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
The Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has been in the East Midlands today, | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
with a message aimed at boosting our manufacturing sector. On a | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
visit to Toyota's car plant near Derby, he called for new government | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
measures to kick-start the economy and get people buying cars again. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
John Hess was with him. On the production line at Toyota's | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
Burnaston factory, Ed Miliband is shown some of the new cars heading | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
for the showrooms. If this political event looked familiar, it | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
was. It's almost six months since the Prime Minister was making the | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
same journey. Today, it was the Labour leader's turn to highlight | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
the importance of manufacturing to the British economy. | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
We have a future for British manufacturing. It needs government | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
support, like the last Labour government and its car scrappage | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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scheme. We need initiatives like that, from this government. | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
The Labour leader also had a pressing political reason for the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Derby stop-over. The city council is run by the Conservatives,in | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
coalition by the Lib Dems. Sounds familiar? There aren't that many | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
local elections in the East Midlands this May, but for Ed | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Miliband, Labour winning back control of Derby would be a big | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
prize indeed. Looking to block any Labour advance on Derby, the | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
Liberal Democrats today unvieled their manifesto for the city | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
elections. They're promoting support for local business, and | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
that involves rejecting one big Labour idea from Nottingham, the | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
work place parking levy. We've had approaches already from | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
companies considering relocating from Nottingham, so I think we are | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
not going to have work place parking or congestion charging. | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
The Labour leader wants a new economic approach.May's elections | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
will show how many of us agree with him. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Of course, another issue that's hugely important for British | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
business is the global export market. One boss in Derby says up | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
to 40% of his business could soon come from China. Mike O'Sullivan | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
now has the second of his special reports from Shanghai, the | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
epicentre of the world's second largest economy. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
The three men at the top of a leading Shanghai construction | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
company. They turned to the clockmaker Smith of Derby when they | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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wanted a signature piece at their headquarters. Smith of Derby were | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
praised by Xu Chang, chairman of the East Asia Holding group, and he | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
went on to say that these days in China many customers feel the | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
product and the service are more important than the price. The | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
shopping streets of Shanghai are bustling with the rise of the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Chinese consumer. And at Shanghai University, I met a business expert | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
who has close links with Nottingham Trent University. He'd love to see | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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Nottingham's Paul Smith in Shanghai. Paul Smith is very good. They have | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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not established a branch in China. I think it would be very popular. | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
An elegant emporium of motoring style in Shanghai. Bentley says | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
China is its biggest market. The cars may be made in Crewe, but the | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
B on the Bentley is made at Lestercast in Leicester. And some | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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cars are literally flying out to China. The demand is there. BHL at | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
currying Bentley Motor cars to China. There are lots of people | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
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there who can afford to do and want to buy Western products. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Probably about 30 % of business is from China. Hopefully, we will keep | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
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investing. The famous Customs House clock on Shanghai's waterfront | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
inspired the businessmen to go to Smith of Derby for theirs. It was | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
made in the 20s by a company in the Smith group. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Their own Smith's clock in Shanghai shows it is the Year of the Dragon, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
considered to be a good year for business. Perhaps time for more of | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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our region's exporters to cash in. I hear that cricket is becoming big | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
in China. The County season starts on Thursday. England are in Sri | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Lanka, struggling with the very different cricketing conditions | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
there. And Stuart Broad - England's Twenty 20 Captain - is frustrated | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
to be at home injured. But preserving him now will mean he can | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
play a big part in the summer. And that'll please members at the club | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
where Stuart got his start. Egerton Park Cricket Club in Melton | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
has got a decent track record of turning out top level cricketers. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
But the brightest star in their firmament is definitely Stuart | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
Broad. And, when he visits, he knows what he owes the place. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
means a huge amount to come back. The club was fantastic to me when I | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
was growing up. There support means a lot to me now. One thing that | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
setting out was his absolute enthusiasm. It was typified by the | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
way he used to come haring in. Broad was in town promoting | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
NatWest's support of club level cricket. And no wonder. Without it, | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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the country's side is nowhere. Hopefully, we will find | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
international stars for the future. But at the moment, however they | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
start, England's cricketers are toiling in the sub-continent. At | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
least in tests. Persistance, the key. It is a learning experience. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Very good athlete have gone to these conditions and failed. | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
They'll be glad to be back in English conditions. Lots to look | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
forward to. A game which stand out in my mind is the 2020 game at | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
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Trent Bridge. It inspires you to get out and play. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Still inspiring - and not forgetting his roots. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Only one bit of joy for Broad's Notts teammates with England today | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
- Graeme Swann getting the big wicket of Mahela Jayawardene. Lots | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
more cricket from us tomorrow as we preview the county season. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Now we've reached the letter F in our A to Z of Olympic sports and | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
that means 'fencing'. Jeremy Nicholas has been along to Chilwell | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Olympia Sports Club in Nottingham to thrust and parry with the | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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I thought fencing was something to lean on one you chatter to the | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
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There's three sorts of fencing. switched to epee. It is the most | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
exciting. With the sabre, you use the cutting edge. It tends to be a | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
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little bit quicker. It is just a fantastic sport. You get a good | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
workout. We are having a good time at the club. If you are worried | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
about work, and somebody's coming up to you with a sword, you have to | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
just get out of the way and stab them first! It would be rude not to | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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have a go, wouldn't it? I am more of a thruster than a cutter. I | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
remember a James Bond film were there was a fencing scene. After | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
that, it became very popular. I'm sure the Olympics will do the same | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
kind of thing, especially if we do well. | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
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It is unlikely car but you never know! | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
Inventing, they stab you in the front. | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
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Now the weather. Sunshine last week, tonight, | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
possibly snow. For most of us, it will stay as rain and sleet. We do | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
have a yellow weather warning, that is for the next 24 hours. It really | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
just relate to high ground. We have this unsettled weather because of | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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this area of low pressure. Tonight has been quite damp and the rain | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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will start to increase through the night. To the north of the region, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
particularly the Peak District, we will see some snow. Generally, it | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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will not snow. Only on higher ground. Temperatures overnight, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
down to freezing, so quite a cold night. As we head into Wednesday, | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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have very words and the potential to see some sleet. Maximum | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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temperature, five degrees. Things will feel very bitter. As we head | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
into Wednesday night, it will be cold, so don't be surprised if you | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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wake up to some frost. By Good I head in some parts of Scotland, | :27:28. | :27:31. |