:00:05. > :00:08.This is East Midlands Today, with Anne Davies, and me, Dominic Heale.
:00:08. > :00:17.Our top story tonight: HS2 - the Government admits house
:00:17. > :00:22.prices will fall. The day after the rule was
:00:22. > :00:27.published, concerns grow over the impact of the. Shocked to think it
:00:27. > :00:31.is going to cut Harland in half. Plus, why the police are changing
:00:31. > :00:35.their attitudes to mental health. For five, six years ago we would
:00:35. > :00:39.have had to take somebody we had detained two mis-sell blocker was
:00:39. > :00:44.mentally ill. I do not think that is the right place. -- to a cell
:00:44. > :00:48.block. And why high streets continue to
:00:48. > :00:52.struggle but others go from strength to strength.
:00:52. > :01:02.And me the latest edition here at Twycross Zoo of that is causing
:01:02. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:06.Good evening and welcome to the programme. The Government has
:01:06. > :01:12.admitted that property prices along the new high-speed rail link will
:01:12. > :01:15.fall in the short term. The proposed new route between London
:01:15. > :01:17.and Leeds was announced yesterday, and already estate agents in the
:01:17. > :01:25.East Midlands are reporting that buyers are getting cold feet and
:01:25. > :01:35.pulling out of sales. Our reporter Geoff Maskell is at Long Eaton in
:01:35. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:43.Derbyshire, one of the communities directly affected by the HS2 route.
:01:43. > :01:49.Good evening. Nobody wants to talk about a property deal that has gone
:01:49. > :01:55.sour, at least not on camera. But I know about one sale that has gone
:01:55. > :01:57.to pot so far. �10,000 not of the value of their home. But the
:01:57. > :02:02.evidence from the Government is that after the confusion and
:02:02. > :02:05.building phase, property prices could be in for a bit of a boost.
:02:05. > :02:10.If welcome to the North London suburb of totem.
:02:10. > :02:14.But at least it could be in 20 years' time. Derbyshire based
:02:14. > :02:19.developers have an application to build more than 700 houses on these
:02:19. > :02:23.fields. They stretch from the island over there down to the
:02:23. > :02:27.siding at the bottom of the hill, and that will be home to the new
:02:28. > :02:31.HS2 station. And with a 51 minute commute into London, those houses
:02:31. > :02:37.will be effectively closer to the capital than any existing commuter
:02:37. > :02:43.towns. We are going to get Londoners moving in, I think!
:02:43. > :02:47.Pushing up your house prices? Possibly, yes. I think it is very
:02:47. > :02:52.good and will bring some prosperity to the area. At Robert Ellis they
:02:52. > :02:57.have been selling houses in Long Eaton for 25 years and HS2 could be
:02:57. > :03:01.a big change. When it takes place it will have a very positive effect
:03:01. > :03:05.but we did talk about the transport links we already have in the Long
:03:05. > :03:11.Eaton area because we are close to the M1 motorway, the railway
:03:11. > :03:15.station. So people do move into the area for these links and we know a
:03:15. > :03:21.high-speed train into London will move things up again. But first,
:03:21. > :03:25.the market faces its worst fear - uncertainty.
:03:25. > :03:28.At the other branch, they are already dealing with the kind of
:03:28. > :03:33.uncertainty that comes from the extension of the Nottingham tram
:03:33. > :03:38.network, but here they say they are expecting an uplift in property in
:03:38. > :03:42.those areas as well, which is a good bit of news for homeowners.
:03:42. > :03:46.Last night I spoke to Margaret and her neighbours at drink cottages
:03:46. > :03:50.and they were exhausted today by what they had been going through
:03:50. > :03:55.and still have had no communication from the VAT company and were no
:03:55. > :03:58.clearer about what any compensation package might mean from them. --
:03:58. > :04:00.the HS2 company. So, communities, businesses and
:04:00. > :04:04.individuals still trying to assess the impact of the high-speed rail
:04:04. > :04:07.link. But what about the effect on our landscape? Today the National
:04:07. > :04:11.Trust said it was opposed to the line's proposed route through its
:04:11. > :04:15.historic Hardwick Hall estate, as Mike O'Sullivan reports.
:04:15. > :04:17.It wasn't on East Midlands Airport's radar. So it was news to
:04:17. > :04:23.them that a giant 2.5-kilometre tunnel would be built underneath
:04:23. > :04:31.the airport to bring high-speed rail to the region. They're still
:04:31. > :04:34.looking at the implications. I do not think we can expect the
:04:34. > :04:38.Government to have told everybody whose land they were going to
:04:38. > :04:43.tunnel under. I think they would probably say East Midlands Airport
:04:43. > :04:48.should not be an exception to this. After tunnelling under the airport,
:04:48. > :04:53.there is another huge construction job for HS2. It will pass under
:04:53. > :05:01.junction 24 of the M1 motorway and then go under the flood plain of
:05:01. > :05:04.the rivers or under a two mile viaduct to the power station. After
:05:04. > :05:07.two miles of elevated travel, the line will touch ground again as it
:05:07. > :05:10.cuts through Red Hill, near the Ratcliffe Power Station. Then it's
:05:10. > :05:20.onto another viaduct for another mile to get across the River Trent
:05:20. > :05:28.
:05:28. > :05:32.and its floodplain. Further North, the most spectacular bridge of all.
:05:32. > :05:41.The landowner is stunned. Never heard anything about it before and
:05:41. > :05:50.it was quite a surprise, probably a shock, to think it was going to go
:05:50. > :05:53.and cut our land in half. Further North, HS2 will run through
:05:53. > :06:00.National Trust land at Hardwick Hall, tucked alongside the M1,
:06:00. > :06:04.which already bisects the estate. We will discuss things with them to
:06:04. > :06:08.get the best possible solution, whatever that might be. We hope
:06:08. > :06:11.people will look at the positive benefits. There could be a lot of
:06:11. > :06:17.jobs and the railway supply industry, regardless of who builds
:06:17. > :06:19.it, the actual trains. The public consultation period for the high-
:06:19. > :06:22.speed rail proposals will end on 29th April.
:06:22. > :06:25.Well, forget high-speed for a moment. Because later in the
:06:25. > :06:28.programme, we'll celebrate a slower pace of life. A camera causes
:06:28. > :06:35.excitement in the Derbyshire countryside. Well, it is the 1930s,
:06:35. > :06:40.when for many, this was as fast as things got.
:06:40. > :06:44.We have been giving with one hand and taking with the other. It is a
:06:44. > :06:50.lot milder now but it is about to get a whole deal wetter and a good
:06:50. > :06:56.deal when as well. Join me for the details later in the programmes. --
:06:56. > :06:59.A police force is training thousands of officers and staff to
:06:59. > :07:03.deal with people who have mental health problems. Leicestershire's
:07:03. > :07:06.Chief Constable has told us that up to a quarter of calls to his force
:07:06. > :07:16.are the result of mental health issues, as our social affairs
:07:16. > :07:17.
:07:17. > :07:21.correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports. A stranger pushed under a moving
:07:21. > :07:24.train in Loughborough. A Nottinghamshire pensioner stabbed
:07:24. > :07:29.to death by his paranoid schizophrenic grandson. Mental
:07:29. > :07:33.health makes headlines when things go badly wrong but for Simon it is
:07:33. > :07:38.a Daily priority. He is in charge of dealing with mental health for
:07:38. > :07:42.police chiefs across the country. Probably 25% of our business has
:07:42. > :07:46.some linked to mental health. It is 3am, who do they turn to? Quite
:07:46. > :07:51.often it is us and that means are patrolling officer who literally
:07:51. > :07:57.saves the life by the way they talk to somebody. You talk about people
:07:57. > :08:00.having a psychotic episode. And now all frontline officers are being
:08:00. > :08:06.trained here to deal with everything from dementia sufferers
:08:06. > :08:10.who are missing or island to preventing suicide. Then needs to
:08:10. > :08:14.be 24-7 access for crisis care for people it is perhaps more immediate
:08:14. > :08:19.ban at the moment, so if an individual is at a point of crisis,
:08:19. > :08:23.they know who to call or their friends and family no mood to call
:08:23. > :08:29.at 3am and then a officers can support them, and I think that
:08:29. > :08:38.could be done more effectively across the country overall. --
:08:38. > :08:45.their friends and family know whom to call. Many of the people end up
:08:45. > :08:50.under lock and key and it is protecting the staff and care staff.
:08:50. > :08:53.Patients, where, at the first stage, we can identify the consultant for
:08:53. > :08:58.that patient and classified the type of offence. It has made a
:08:58. > :09:01.massive difference. Five, six years ago we would have had to take
:09:01. > :09:04.somebody we had detained who was mentally ill to a prison cell and I
:09:04. > :09:08.do not think that is the place where we should be treating
:09:08. > :09:11.somebody. You would not take somebody with a broken leg tour
:09:11. > :09:18.prison cell and expect them to get better. Often these are people who
:09:18. > :09:23.are ill rather than those who have committed a crime. People have this
:09:23. > :09:25.will keep all of us safer in future. -- the police hope.
:09:25. > :09:29.Cuts to services in Derbyshire of �127 million have been approved
:09:29. > :09:33.today. It'll mean big reductions in the budgets for adult services and
:09:33. > :09:38.support for children and young people. It'll also lead to more
:09:38. > :09:40.than 1,000 jobs being lost over the next four years. Derbyshire County
:09:40. > :09:42.Council says the most vulnerable people will be protected but their
:09:42. > :09:51.services will be delivered differently, as Quentin Rayner
:09:51. > :09:56.reports. The Conservative Cabinet met to
:09:56. > :10:01.County Hall today and ratified and other four years of cuts. Between
:10:01. > :10:05.now and 2017, �127 million of savings will be made. 25 million
:10:05. > :10:10.will be cut this year. Exactly where has now been revealed. Almost
:10:10. > :10:15.a million pounds will go from support for children services and a
:10:15. > :10:19.further �9 million from adult care. -- �8 million. �3 million will be
:10:19. > :10:29.saved from the budget for highways maintenance. The council says money
:10:29. > :10:31.
:10:31. > :10:34.can be saved by be -- by fixing potholes in other ways. We are
:10:34. > :10:38.focused on their needs and there will be different services
:10:38. > :10:42.delivered in different ways to cope with these budget pressures but we
:10:42. > :10:47.are well practised at this and we have their interests at heart.
:10:47. > :10:50.frontline services be reduced? will be changed as a result of this,
:10:50. > :10:55.as we have already delivered changes. It is the only way to cope
:10:55. > :10:58.with these sorts of pressures. is this denial again - trying to
:10:58. > :11:03.carry on, doing the same as they have done with less money, and if
:11:03. > :11:07.you keep doing that, you end up sailing. Those involved in
:11:07. > :11:13.providing adult care say there will be an impact on services on top of
:11:13. > :11:19.what they are already experiencing. Many are going to have the only day
:11:19. > :11:23.of day care they received taken away, and we have one man going to
:11:24. > :11:27.a centre and it is the only service he received. That is being cut.
:11:27. > :11:36.Since 2000 and, the council has already cut 2000 jobs, and with
:11:36. > :11:40.this latest raft of cuts, it expects to lose 14 another 1,400
:11:40. > :11:42.posts. -- since 2010 of. A 50-year-old man has been charged
:11:42. > :11:46.with a Public Order Offence after a police investigation into disorder
:11:46. > :11:48.at a football match in Leicester. It follows an under-15s game
:11:48. > :11:51.between Blaby and Whetstone Football Club and Leicester Nirvana
:11:51. > :11:54.FC last October, in which players from both teams and the referee
:11:54. > :11:59.were charged with improper conduct. The man is due to appear at
:11:59. > :12:02.Leicester Magistrates Court next month.
:12:02. > :12:06.Roadworks have been blamed for bringing traffic in Derby to a
:12:06. > :12:09.standstill this morning. The three bridges that carry the city's inner
:12:09. > :12:14.ring-road between the Derwent Underpass and King Street, close to
:12:14. > :12:17.the A52, are being renovated. The team behind the bridge project at
:12:17. > :12:24.Derby City Council say that this morning's problems should be the
:12:24. > :12:28.worst that motorists experience during the renovation work.
:12:28. > :12:31.A woman was taken to hospital after being trapped in a car which
:12:31. > :12:33.crashed in Nottingham. Part of Canal Street in the city centre was
:12:33. > :12:37.closed for four hours after the vehicle lost control near the
:12:37. > :12:43.London Road roundabout. A second car drove off. Police are appealing
:12:43. > :12:46.for witnesses. Traders and shoppers in Ilkeston
:12:46. > :12:51.say they need more support from the local council to stop more shops
:12:52. > :12:55.following the Co-op and quitting the high street. The department
:12:55. > :12:59.store is one of seven in the East Midlands to close, threatening
:12:59. > :13:02.dozens of jobs. But over in Belper, many shops say parts of the town
:13:02. > :13:12.there are thriving. Tom Brown has been following the varied fortunes
:13:12. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:17.of these two Derbyshire towns. The end of the road from one of
:13:17. > :13:19.this town's biggest shops. Last week's announcement that the Co-op
:13:19. > :13:23.department store would close was another blow to the struggling
:13:23. > :13:28.high-street. Today, traders and shoppers Tommy morale in the town
:13:28. > :13:33.is at its lowest binges and that the local council needs to step in.
:13:33. > :13:38.-- local shoppers told me. If they do not step in now, it will become
:13:38. > :13:43.a ghost town like many others. I would like to know what the council
:13:43. > :13:46.will do about it. Sadly, nobody from the council was able to talk
:13:46. > :13:49.to us today but in a statement, they said they were working
:13:49. > :13:54.together with partners to improve regenerate the town centre. But it
:13:54. > :13:56.did not mention any concrete proposals, so what do the people of
:13:56. > :14:01.Ilkeston thing should be done to revive the fortunes of their high
:14:01. > :14:04.street? What they need to do was move with the times and incorporate
:14:04. > :14:10.the customer shopping experience with the internet as well. Get rid
:14:11. > :14:19.of Tesco! They are building another Morrisons down the road, so this is
:14:19. > :14:23.doomed, really, I think. But while sales go down in Ilkeston, bin
:14:23. > :14:29.Belper, thanks to innovative ideas, stores on the streets there are
:14:29. > :14:32.striving and. You can even buy chocolate shoes! It is having the
:14:32. > :14:36.courage to open up the first job and be the first people to do it
:14:36. > :14:39.and also the council has to be behind us with rates and the
:14:39. > :14:44.landlords with their rent. There has to be something in place so
:14:44. > :14:49.these shops can start up and hopefully flourish. Backing
:14:49. > :14:53.Ilkeston, the Chamber of Trade says supporting the businesses is the
:14:53. > :14:57.key to high street revival. The is has been going on for years. All
:14:57. > :15:01.sorts of proposals have been put to the council. They have even agreed
:15:01. > :15:05.some ideas are good but they do not seem to be able to implement them.
:15:05. > :15:15.Two towns separated by 10 miles up worlds apart when it comes to
:15:15. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:20.confidence on the High Street. Chocolate shoes! That his genius!
:15:20. > :15:22.Everything combine in one! Coming up, the sport, and here's a
:15:22. > :15:32.brief preview. Yes, when it comes to a pay-off,
:15:32. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:44.you could say our Helen is on a roll. Helen Barnes... BBC East
:15:44. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:48.Lovely! Now it's time to travel back in
:15:48. > :15:52.time to the village of Kniveton, right in the heart of Derbyshire.
:15:52. > :15:55.We can see what life in the countryside was like in the 1930s,
:15:55. > :16:05.thanks to a local gent, a Mr Wright and his chauffeur, a Mr Radcliffe.
:16:05. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:16.Here's Teresa Mikula with Go right, turn at the Old Vicarage,
:16:16. > :16:21.and he was the first person in the village to have a car and a
:16:21. > :16:28.telephone. And a refrigerator! I think it was just the novelty of
:16:28. > :16:37.having something. I do not think he was minded that always so he got Mr
:16:37. > :16:42.Radcliffe to drive the car and make the films. Beth Hunt was born in
:16:42. > :16:50.Kniveton and is on one of the films. I don't know what I was doing but I
:16:50. > :16:54.was putting this thing in his hat. They took a lot of films and he
:16:54. > :16:59.used to London to various organisations, like the mothers'
:16:59. > :17:05.union, to show them. Now, some 80 years later, those same films have
:17:05. > :17:10.been shown again as part of the media archive collection. Oh, yes,
:17:10. > :17:17.there were lots of people wanting a film of their parents. And
:17:17. > :17:22.grandparents! My wife's family is on the films. I recognised my
:17:22. > :17:26.father-in-law and his father, who was still living there. Kniveton
:17:26. > :17:33.was quite a remote village in the 30s but this did not concern the
:17:33. > :17:37.residents. People do not want to go out, apart from going to Ashbourne.
:17:37. > :17:45.Apart from that, people did not seem to worry about going out of
:17:45. > :17:51.the village. With people not travelling very far, we were
:17:51. > :17:58.families who very much into married. It was a very good community spirit.
:17:58. > :18:06.Go and they knew how to party! It is 1936 and George V's Silver
:18:06. > :18:11.Jubilee. Everybody had a commemorative mug and there was a
:18:11. > :18:20.tea and races and so on. They now work with local communities to
:18:20. > :18:26.preserve such local history. These films would probably have got lost
:18:26. > :18:36.in time. It is very nice that they should be kept and that the younger
:18:36. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:41.generation can look at them and see What beautiful pictures! I could
:18:41. > :18:46.watch that for hours. Just lovely! It does make you hanker a bit,
:18:46. > :18:49.doesn't it? Yes, for a gentler pace of life.
:18:49. > :18:52.But we're going to break the spell now, because it is time for the
:18:52. > :18:56.sport. Notts County is in action in League
:18:56. > :18:59.1 tonight, away at struggling Portsmouth. Now, it's a long enough
:18:59. > :19:03.trip to do once, but for many fans, this is the second time they've
:19:03. > :19:06.been down there in just a couple of weeks. Last time around, the match
:19:06. > :19:12.got called off at the last minute because of torrential rain. Kirsty
:19:12. > :19:17.Edwards has been down to see them get ready for round two.
:19:17. > :19:21.It is deja-vu for these fans, off again to the south coast. Notts
:19:21. > :19:25.County saw their impressive away unbeaten run come to an end at the
:19:25. > :19:29.weekend. I am sure they had hoped to get another run going tonight at
:19:29. > :19:33.Portsmouth and in fact, I am sure they would love to get all three
:19:33. > :19:38.points. 12th in League One and eight points off the play-off
:19:38. > :19:42.places. Not where they were hoping to be. But as the fans waited to
:19:42. > :19:47.set off, the mood certainly seemed positive. Still early days yet. Not
:19:47. > :19:53.even February. I am hoping we can get to the play-offs at least.
:19:53. > :19:56.season hangs in the balance tonight, I think. Things will be easier
:19:56. > :20:02.after this one if we can get momentum and get out strikers
:20:02. > :20:06.sought it. After that, we should be OK. So off they go, and indeed the
:20:06. > :20:16.team will have to get very used to sitting on a bus over the next few
:20:16. > :20:16.
:20:16. > :20:22.days. Tonight it is the second of the four a way -- away matches for
:20:22. > :20:26.the team. I sorry if you had trouble hearing the earlier.
:20:26. > :20:29.Hopefully it is now fixed. Nottingham Forest are stepping up
:20:29. > :20:32.their efforts to add to their squad before Thursday's transfer deadline.
:20:32. > :20:35.They've made another offer for Birmingham's Chris Burke. The Reds
:20:35. > :20:37.have already had one bid for the winger, turned down, but Birmingham
:20:37. > :20:41.say they are considering this improved offer. He's actually
:20:41. > :20:43.scored a couple of decent goals against the Reds over the past two
:20:43. > :20:46.seasons. Now, the first ever programme to
:20:46. > :20:49.find Olympic canoe slalom stars of the future has just been run right
:20:49. > :20:52.here in the East Midlands. And it's been so successful, similar schemes
:20:52. > :20:55.are about to start round the country. So, for the first in her
:20:55. > :21:05.series on the Olympic legacy, Helen Barnes has been to meet the
:21:05. > :21:06.
:21:06. > :21:10.youngsters who are progressing way 12 months ago, these were just a
:21:10. > :21:14.bunch of ordinary school kids. Then they got picked by talent spotters
:21:14. > :21:23.to do canoe slalom and now they are some of the best up and coming
:21:24. > :21:28.The youngsters have benefited from having training sessions during
:21:28. > :21:31.school time, as well as evenings and weekends. We will really
:21:31. > :21:35.ambitious with the targets we set and they have always delivered
:21:35. > :21:39.whatever we have asked them to. And there progress has been absolutely
:21:39. > :21:44.phenomenal. The kids are all loving it and it is pushing them and they
:21:44. > :21:49.have got focused on getting the gold medal. Etienne Stott was part
:21:49. > :21:55.of canoeing's record 2012 medals and the sport is still on high.
:21:55. > :22:00.think it is really cool. It is part of what the sport thrives on. You
:22:00. > :22:04.need inspiration and a champion to draw the youngsters up and to push
:22:04. > :22:08.the standards amongst the elite athletes. He is a great inspiration
:22:08. > :22:12.for the sport and he is just an inspiration for all of us. You can
:22:12. > :22:16.now think, I can get a gold medal as well. Talent-spotting and
:22:16. > :22:22.training is behind many gold medal successes but these Nottingham
:22:22. > :22:25.youngsters are the first ever in canoe slalom. Be a complicated
:22:25. > :22:31.sport like ours it is difficult to tell what are the most important
:22:31. > :22:35.factors you try to identified in youngsters. -- in a complicated
:22:35. > :22:38.sport. People out there are being coached and learning to canoe on
:22:38. > :22:48.their own and those will be successful as well. We will see who
:22:48. > :22:55.
:22:55. > :23:00.gets the prize first! It is really I have been canoeing for 25 years,
:23:00. > :23:05.but so much has changed recently. For a great role models, the
:23:05. > :23:12.opportunities these kids have got our just better than ever. Helen
:23:12. > :23:16.Barnes... For BBC East Midlands Today in Nottingham!
:23:16. > :23:18.A bit of news about Helen herself to leave you with - after 20 years
:23:18. > :23:22.as an international canoeist and two Guinness World Records, she's
:23:22. > :23:25.decided to retire from the top level of the sport. It will miss
:23:25. > :23:33.her. But you can see Helen again tomorrow as she explores whether
:23:33. > :23:39.the Olympic legacy is going far enough. It will be well worth a
:23:39. > :23:44.watch. Trust me! Just like that! Good luck, Helen. In whatever you
:23:44. > :23:48.do. She will be fantastic whatever it is. Next tonight, Twycross Zoo
:23:48. > :23:51.is celebrating a new arrival. A baby gorilla from an endangered
:23:51. > :23:54.species native to Central Africa. Western Lowland gorillas are dying
:23:54. > :23:56.out due to declining habits and hunting. There are estimated to be
:23:57. > :23:59.fewer than 100,000 in the wild, which officially classifies the
:23:59. > :24:09.species as being dangerously close to extinction, as Rebecca Sheeran
:24:09. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:13.reports. Meet the latest edition at less
:24:13. > :24:20.than four weeks old, this little baby has been clinging so closely
:24:20. > :24:24.to mum, zoo-keeper has still do not know if it is a boy or A Gill.
:24:24. > :24:26.are always excited about these gorilla births. Every birth of a
:24:27. > :24:31.gorilla is an important contribution to the conservation of
:24:31. > :24:34.the species because of the numbers are dwindling. It has made a year.
:24:35. > :24:42.Be it might be small, but this little baby is attracting a big
:24:42. > :24:46.audience. We have been looking forward to seeing it. We've been
:24:46. > :24:51.trying to spy on the baby be on the adults. But Daddy is very
:24:51. > :24:58.protective! In his thought and there are fewer than 100,000
:24:58. > :25:03.lowland rivers in the wild. Hunting and habitat loss are just a couple
:25:03. > :25:08.of the reasons that they are coming so close to extinction. So the
:25:08. > :25:11.birth of his baby is being celebrated. The birth of a baby is
:25:11. > :25:16.actually very important for the whole structure, social structure,
:25:16. > :25:21.of the group, because it brings a whole cohesiveness to their society.
:25:21. > :25:26.A zoo is learning more about the birth of this baby but like any mum,
:25:26. > :25:31.this one is keeping her baby under wraps.
:25:31. > :25:41.The baby does not let go of its mother properly for two years! It
:25:41. > :25:43.
:25:43. > :25:49.must be true! That is a miracle. Along milder for us today. This
:25:49. > :25:54.time last week we were struggling to get above freezing. -- a lot
:25:54. > :26:02.milder. But today we have been at 13 degrees. The average for this
:26:02. > :26:08.time of year is about seven Celsius so we have gone from well below to
:26:08. > :26:13.well above. The reason for that is these westerly winds. It is a lot
:26:13. > :26:18.might as well. We have picked up a wondering whether front. So far
:26:18. > :26:21.today, we have had a force-field around us. The rain has been
:26:21. > :26:25.skipping across us but we don't think we will be quite as lucky
:26:26. > :26:29.this evening and overnight, so the cloud will be thickening up and we
:26:29. > :26:34.will see outbreaks of light, patchy rain to start with it through the
:26:34. > :26:38.early hours of the morning. Later on, we see the rain padding up,
:26:38. > :26:44.particularly across parts of Leicestershire, where Grieg could
:26:44. > :26:48.get an inch of rain. -- the rain increasing. Very mild tonight with
:26:48. > :26:52.the temperatures. Tomorrow morning, still some rain kicking around
:26:52. > :26:57.early on but it clears away fairly quickly and behind that, the skies
:26:57. > :27:06.are brighter, with beautiful sunshine for tomorrow morning, but
:27:06. > :27:09.very windy with showers coming in but -- behind that. We have a
:27:09. > :27:17.yellow weather morning in force for tomorrow with gusts of around 40-50
:27:17. > :27:22.miles an hour. A cross wind, a westerly one, going across the M1
:27:22. > :27:27.motorway. Further rain to come through Thursday night from
:27:27. > :27:31.Wednesday. A word of warning - it looks like it is cooling down once
:27:31. > :27:35.again towards the end of the week and into the weekend. Lots of