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This is East Midlands Today with Quentin Rayner and me, Anne Davies. | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
Tonight, the price of a takeover. Hundreds are jobs are expected to | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
go at Castle Donnington-based BMI. Also, the family of a cyclist | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
killed on a highway call for tougher sentences. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Plus, the patients claim they were discharged from hospital overnight. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
I just felt like I wasn't important enough. My daughter wasn't | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
important enough. Find out what got these young | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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footballers so excited. Good evening, and welcome to | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Thursday's programme. Our main story tonight - the loss of up to | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
1,200 jobs at the airline British Midland. Half of them are likely to | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
be in the East Midlands with hundreds of posts going at the | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
airline's HQ at Castle Donington and at East Midlands Airport. It's | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
the result of the takeover of British Midland by British Airways. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
In 2009 the iconic East Midlands brand became part of Lufthansa. But | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
soon, British Airways' parent company became interested. The deal | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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was approved in Europe a fortnight ago. And the merger will be | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
completed next week, with heavy job losses. Let's cross over to Castle | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Donington now and our correspondent Anthony Bartram. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Good evening. Of course, this is very sad news indeed for a company | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
which can trace its history back in the East Midlands some 70 years, | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
but perhaps no surprise for staff at BMI, a company which is losing | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
the - its parent company BA tell us some �3 million a week. Here at | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
company headquarters, those cuts will be felt the deepest. They had | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
a meeting here this morning with management and, indeed, with the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
unions, and joining me is Colin Wyatt from the GMB. You were at | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
that meeting. Obviously, this news must have gone down terribly with | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
staff. Yes, Antony. The news today wasn't good, although it wasn't a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
complete surprise. It has totally devastated everybody here. OK. So | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
that's the initial reaction. We'll pause there for a moment because | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
James Robeson has been looking into the impact not just at BMI staff, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
but into the wider community. This afternoon, many staff were | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
leaving the headquarters at Donnington Hall under a cloud. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Those who who work for BMI know their jobs could well be on the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
line. As they passed waiting reporters, most staff members | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
wouldn't talk, but one woman said the news came as no surprise. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
wasn't particularly a surprise, and I totally understand why you're | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
doing it, to be honest. The company has been making a loss for awhile, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
so it makes sense to merge and reduce losses. It's thought about | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
400 jobs will go at the hall itself and a in the maintenance hangars at | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
East Midlands Airport. In the it haveage of Castle Donnington, there | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
is concern about the losses. This restaurant, which works for | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
many of the employees here, including BMI. If they lose their | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
jobs, I am going to lose them as well. Without them, I am going to | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
do a bit of struggling. A period of consultation will begin, but | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
British Airways has said it can't sustain two headquarters, one in | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
London and one in Castle Donnington, and regrettably, jobs had to go. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Well, let's talk to Colin Wyatt again about the figures involved | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
here because, as I said, the deepest impact will be here. Almost | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
half of those at risk. How many at headquarters and how many at the | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
airport? We were looking at 400 at the headquarters and also in the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
maintenance departments. Obviously, you face the daunting task of | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
sitting down with BA to try to minimise those cuts and try to find | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
opportunities for the people working here. Certainly. That's | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
within our role within the next few weeks is to try to find people here | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
and at the airport alternative employment that could be with | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
different companies locally and even if we can get employment down | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
south. Did you get a chance to ask those making that announcement this | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
morning any questions regarding as to opportunities that may come up | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
within BA itself? Certainly. One of the questions I raised at the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
meeting was, are we going to throw the voluntary redun Dansies out to | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
BA workers? Because there may be people looking at getting out of | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the company. That would open the way for people losing their jobs | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
here. For people in the Midlands, the wider concern must be a skills | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
loss. If some of the engineers go elsewhere, they'll be gone forever. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Certainly. We were all aware of the situation a year ago, and at the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
moment, it's another skill set what's going to miss from here. We | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
heard Rolls-Royce is doing well, but there is only so many skilled | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
vacancies out there. That's the view of the GMB Union locally. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Nationally, they sit down with BA I am told tomorrow to start talking | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
through those proposals. Obviously, it is a daunting task to try and | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
limit the number of redundancy, but BA seem fairly sure it's likely to | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
be around the 1,200 mark. They say, though, if this deal hadn't gone | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
through, BMI would have lost all of its staff. It certainly couldn't | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
sustain as a company. And that would have amounted to some 2,700 | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
job losses, although most of those jobs earmarked for being saved at | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
the moment, appear to be based at Heathrow. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Thank you. Plenty more on its way here on East | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Midlands Today, including the day's sport and weather. And it's kickoff | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
at the City ground for a pioneering football charity to help youngsters | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
beat the dole. Before all that, there has been a | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
demand for jail sentences to be imposed on drivers involved in | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
fatal crashes. It came from the family of a racing cyclist who was | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
killed by a lorry in Derbyshire. The driver of the HGV was given a | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
suspended prison sentence after admitting careless driving. The | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
family of cyclist Karl Austin said that doesn't send the right message | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
to other road users and say they've been left with a life sentence. | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
Carolyn Moses reports. Karl Austin had been cycling for 35 | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
years since he was 12 years old. He was known as a talented and safety- | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
conscious rider, but in June last year, he was racing on the A50 near | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
Hatton in Derbyshire when he was hit from behind by a 26-tonne lorry | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
and killed. It was driven by Michael Bray from near Mansfield, | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
seen here on the far left. At an earlier hearing he'd pleaded guilty | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
to death by careless driving, then magistrates were told the lorery | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
was travelling above its 50mph speed limit. His body tumbled like | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
a rag doll and he died at the scene. The judge told Bray he had shown an | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
appalling loss of concentration and made an appalling error, but it | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
came after years of blameless driving. He said he too had been | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
badly affected by the collision both mentally and by the fact that | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
at 62, he'd probably never work again. | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
But it has been a double tragedy for Karl Austin's father. Before | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Karl, his daughter died in a road accident too. He says all he can do | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
is hope for tougher action. Hopefully, there will be stiffer | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
sentences for motorists who kill in situations where they have been | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
careless or driven dangerously. You know, if that was happening and it | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
was sending out a stronger message, perhaps oui we'd have fewer road | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
deaths. I feel like I am too young to lose Karl. I don't know how I am | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
going to rebuild my life, so whatever sentence he has been given | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
today, I feel I feel like we have a life sentence now. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Earlier I spoke to John Stewart, who organised the time trial along | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
the A50 last June. I asked him how cyclists justified using highways | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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effectively as race tracks. It's a peculiar British tradition. It | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
started in the 1890s. It started as the answer to the opposition of the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
authorities at that time, particularly the police - that's to | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
start road racing. It's a sport where people go off at one-minute | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
intervals. It's designed not to cause inconvenience to other users | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
of the highway. It's always taken place on public high waist. It's a | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
branch of the sport that is totally different to one people are | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
familiar with these days, track racing. Highways have become much | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
busier. There is much more traffic, and no other vehicles are allowed | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
to use the highways in this way. That is perfectly true, but of | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
course, a cycle is a human-powered vehicle, not a motor vehicle. | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
don't pay demiroad tax. How do you justify using the highways. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
dispute the sort of thing as road tax. There is vehicle excise duty, | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
but not road tax, and of course, the duty is not devoted and has | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
never been devoted to road maintenance purposes. Cyclists pay | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
a lot of tax. We pay income tax. We pay 20% VAT on all the equipment we | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
buy. We pay an awful lot of tax. Sadly, this is not the first death | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
on the A50. Seven years ago another cyclist died a few miles away from | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
this spot. Now, this would suggest it's a bad idea to use that road | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
for time trials. That is a dual carriageway of a | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
very high standard. The times we use it are times of relatively low | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
traffic. This road has a capacity of about 2,000 units an hour. We | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
never use it if the flow is above 1,000 units an hour. That gives | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
plenty of time for other vehicles to overtake riders. You plan to | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
continue using the A50? We shall be using it. It is a very suitable | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
course for the sort of time trialling that time triallists want | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
to do. Jon Stewart, thank you. Health managers have described as | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
misleading new figures which put their hospitals among the worst | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
offenders for discharging patients during the night. This morning the | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Times newspaper reported that hospitals in Derby and Leicester | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
are sending patients home between 11.00pm at night and 6.00am in the | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
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morning at a rate that's twice the national average. Tom Brown reports. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
He's is a's daughter suffers from severe asthma and needs two | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
inhalers a day. Two years ago her condition worsened, and Lisa was | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
forced to take her to hospital. She was treated at the Royal Leicester | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Infirmary and given a bed for the night, but at 2.00am, Lisa and her | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
daughter were told to leave. I was worried I wasn't going to be able | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
to get home or was going to have to disturb family or friends in the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
middle of the night. A two-and-a- half-year-old girl had been awake | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
all day, didn't fall asleep until 1.30am in the morning. The bay was | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
empty. It was completely clear, the bay that was on. Why wouldn't they | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
let her stop until 6.00am, 7.00am? I just felt like I wasn't important | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
enough. My daughter wasn't important enough. The hospital says | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Roxanne was given the necessary treat and was well enough to go | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
home. When it comes to being discharged overnight, she and her | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
daughter aren't alone. This morning the Times revealed under a Freedom | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
of Information request that hospitals in Leicester send home | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
1,300 patients overnight. But the Trust today said these figures are | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
misleading because they don't take into account patients who have died | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
or had babies. In Derby, they sent home one in 11 patients overnight. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Today their Trust too said the figures aren't an accurate | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
representation of the situation. have recently started to survey all | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
patients who are discharged. We aim to get a sample of at least 10% | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
every week, and that is not showing us any problems with patients | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
feeling they're being discharged at an inappropriate time. The NHS's | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Medical Director says it's simply not fair to send people home late | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
at night. Hospitals, though, say patient safety will always come | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
first. Often they have no alternative. | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Police are trying to track down three youths who deliberately | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
forced open the doors of a train and then walked down the tracks. | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
These are the three people who are wanted in connection with the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
incident which happened near Trowell junction in Nottingham last | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
month. The train was stationary at the time. British Transport Police | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
have described the act as reckless. Hundreds of people in | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Nottinghamshire have applied to hold street parties to mark the | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Many celebrated last year during the | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Royal Wedding. So far the county council has received 108 | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
applications. A survey last month placed the county second only to | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
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Hertfordshire with the number of parties planned for June. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Councillors are planning to spend almost �5 million over the next 4 | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
years on free school bus travel for children in Nottinghamshire. It | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
will benefit families who choose not to send their children to the | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
nearest catchement-area school. The County Council's scheme has been in | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
place for year seven pupils since September. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
A man from Leicestershire who was seriously ill with leukaemia has | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
inspired hundreds of people to sign the blood stem-cell register. After | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Rik Basra from Lutterworth was diagnosed with the disease, he and | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
his family started a campaign for more asians to sign up and save | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
lives. And hundreds of people have done just that as Helen Astle | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
reports. He was desperately ill when he and his family launched the | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
campaign in October. Six months on, and not only has there been good | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
news for Rik but also others. has found a donor. Great. But these | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
people that are signing up - they could be signing up to help people | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
that haven't even been born yet. I mean, they - they're passionate | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
about wanting to be a donor. They really are in a position to help | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
save someone's life, and for us, that is what it was all about. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Antony Noeland Trust says there has been a 300% rise in the number of | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Asians who have signed up to the register thanks to the families' | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
campaign. From the patients' point of view, from the point of view of | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
someone who is waiting for a transplant, how important it is to | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
have someone on that register when they need it. He is now home. He's | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
not allowed any visitors, but is recovering well. Christmas, he was | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
going through the chemo. He was dad, but he wasn't the same. Now it's | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
back to the same dad I had before. Now he has the listen to all his | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
girls moaning, coming home going, "Dad, guess what's happened?" It is | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the same old dad. It is a little bit different for us. We go out for | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
walks around here, which is fantastic. We have been doing that | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
for the last 11 days. It's lovely to see him out and about and | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
smiling, and we're starting to pick up the threads of our life again. I | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
feel like a bit of a guard dog because I don't let anyone speak to | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
him because I don't think he's ready for the kinds of questions. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
We want to get this bit out of the way, then I promise everybody can | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
talk to him. He'll find out in the next couple of weeks if the | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
transplant has been successful. We wish him all the best. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
We do. This is East Midlands Today where | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
we offer a huge amount of vait, much like the weather. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Very much like the weather. Haven't we had it all today - sunshine, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
showers, hot and cold? Is there anything else we should possibly | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
know about? I am afraid so. How about I throw some sleet into the | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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mix? But just how wintry will it get? I'lls than shortly. | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Did she say sleet? Oh, no. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
One of our best known football clubs today unveiled a new charity | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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to help young people to prepare for the world of work. It's called | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Nottingham Forest in the Community, and it hopes to help almost 100,000 | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
youngsters over the next three years. Today it received the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
backing of the Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
Meet the new signings at the City ground. There is no football in | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
sight but plenty of pitch-side coaching from the Labour leader. In | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
the team, a 25-year-old dance instructor looking for a break. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
meet new people and get opportunities in job, especially in | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
business because I have done dancing, self-employed, so I am | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
hoping to get opportunities. This centre offers job training tips and | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
advice on a healthy lifestyle. It's linked with other organisations for | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
youngsters who might otherwise slip through the system. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
I think it's good to have a back-up plan. If you don't make it, you can | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
fall back on education and learn lots of things in life, life skills, | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
doing education. The Labour leader officially opened the charity's | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
offices, but keep it under wraps. He supports Leeds United and still | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
feels rather bruised after Forest's victory. Nobody is going to mention | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
7-3 to me today. The centre itself took a clobbering at least | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
financially because of coalition funding cuts. That's why the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
charity has been set up. A couple of years ago the funding was | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
removed during the change of Government, but we decided to | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
create the charge at Nottingham to help sustain the benefits for the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
people across the county. Well done to the people for what they're | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
doing. We're stepping in where Government has got out of the way | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
because of cuts. Government funding has stopped for the youth problems. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
We have stepped in. The charity needs to raise almost | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
half a million pounds a year to keep the centre going, but today it | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
has had the type of promotion the Forest team can only dream of. | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
There we go. Maybe he'll pick up management tips from Cloughy. I | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
think we're staying at the City ground. | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
We are. Forest will be getting lots of political backing, though, but | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
not so much I am afraid from the football authorities. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
They are reacting to the news that the red card on Monday won't be | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
rescinded. They say they're really | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
disappointed their appeal was turned down. It means the | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
influential winger will miss the next three games. If you look at | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
the reaction after the tackle, I didn't think I was going to get a | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
yellow card let alone a red. It was massively disappointing. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
referee led me to believe he was going to look at it strongly, and | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
in the end really he didn't, so probably the least said, the better, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
really, on that. On to cricket - not a day for the | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
bowlers in the County Championship - batsmen - because it has been a | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
tough first day at Durham. They were all out for 161. The bowlers | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
taking 3 wickets in reply there, and not many runs on the board for | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Derbyshire either, who are all out for 130 at Glamorgan. They also | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
managed to take three wickets in reply. Both of those games heading | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
for a finish, the weather notwithstanding. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
It's Olympic Thursday across the BBC - follow it all with the | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
Olympic Thursday hashtag on Twitter, and here on East Midlands Today | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
that means it's time for our latest Olympic A to Z. Today, the sport | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
that both unifies AND divides the nation more than any other. On a | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
wet day in Leicester I went to see why people from every community in | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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Nought to a hundred players in a year. Hamilton Youth Football Club | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
has found its place and the children have responded. Many of | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
them are British Asian - as the first generation of the community | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
to embrace football look to give the next lot that extra support. | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
We're trying to give back to the community we never had as kids to. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Give something back and to offer something that would probably mean | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
the opportunities we never had - to be able to do that is fantastic. | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
For a lot of the kids as well I think it's the first time they're | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
playing competitively. They obviously love it. I like matches. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Yeah, the matchs are really good. It makes you concentrate, get more | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
active and stuff. They're here learning good habits I hope. | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
They're loving it - even in the rotten weather. So what... Parents | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
are the crucial factor. If you get the support and you get their | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
backing like we do on match and training days, they can go very far. | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
I believe they can go far, absolutely. Oh, yes, parents | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
willing to stand in the rain? Check. It's all about the kids, standing | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
here watching them, their excitement. They see all the stars | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
playing. That's who they want to be. I don't mind the money. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
LAUGHTER Some of the older Hamilton lads are | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
already putting on the Premier League vibe. I am loving the look. | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
I love football. The top players inspire me - my favourite would be | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
Robin Van Persie. There is some similarity! To test that, there has | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
to be a cross-bar challenge. Just when you think they're not so hot, | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
here is the very last kick of the day. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Fantastic. We have a story to tell that Colin has just told us. | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
We have. He did it offcamera that chap - so Colin - "I missed it." | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Can you do it again? He put the camera on the tripod, and he did it | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
again - what are the chances of that? | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Anyway, it's weather time. We have said we have had about everything | :23:03. | :23:12. | |
It's all been down to the typical April weather, the unstable air and | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
developing shower clouds. More on that, though, in a moment. We've | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
still got some April showers around this evening probably losing the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
intensity over the next couple of hours, and then generally, it will | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
be dry overnight, but really quite chilly. We have colder air starting | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
to move its way in. On to the next weather picture of the evening - | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
this is from Mollie - the dafgo dills spotted in her garden | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
recently. She's only 14. Thanks for that. If you would like to send | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
your pictures in, send them in to us at this address at the top. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
At the end of the forecast, we have a lovely montage of oil pictures | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
you have been sending in over the last couple of days. Low pressure | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
is driving in all the showers we have been having in today. They | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
really have been quite heavy. We have had hail, thunder, some really | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
quite loud thunder in places. As we go through the evening, we've got | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
the scattering of showers still with us, but gradually they'll lose | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
the intensity and become quite few and far between overnight, some | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
lingering on overnight. For most, it will be dry Friday, the cloud | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
breaking with clear spells. Temperatures close to freezing | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
tonight, lower in rural spots where you may get a touch of frost in | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
places. Into Friday, we'll start to see the showers starting to develop | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
into the morning and afternoon. They'll be lighter than what we | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
have had today. There will be less of them, but still just that chance | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
you might hear the odd rumble of thunder. A high temperature for | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Friday of 10 Celsius. We have a northerly air flow, so it will | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
start to feel quite chilly tomorrow and colder on Saturday. These | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
isobars are pretty much vertical across the UK. That's because the | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
wind is coming in from the north bringing in cold air. Any showers | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
we get will be wintry Saturday, possibly even a little bit of sleet | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
or light snow on higher ground. That's how it stays into Sunday, | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
though it looks like a drier day on Sunday. Earlier on in the forecast, | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
I promised you lots more of these weather pictures you have been | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
sending in over the last couple of days. We have had some spectacular | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
storms over the last couple of days in the East Midlands, which has had | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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some stunning cloud formation. How lovely. You kept saying wow. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
did all the way through. There is something so stunning about clouds. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
We have some good photographers in the East Midlands. I took some | :26:19. | :26:24. |