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Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. Stroke Tonight ,the Government tells | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
councils to get tough on travellers. A costly clean-up after the | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
travellers move on but what can be done to stop illegal camps? Peep | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
hole will not be able to play football on it for a long while. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Also tonight: A former beauty queen goes on type -- trial for illegally | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
selling gun parts. And the builder who created theme | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
park for kids. It was a lank piece of ground and nobody had been here | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
since the war. And brightening up the bridges, a | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
new sponsorship appeal to give Trent Bridge a spectacular new night-time | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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programme. Tonight, a massive clean-up operation has been going on | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
all day after a group of travellers camped on a local recreation ground | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
for almost two weeks. Almost a dozen caravans were parked on land in | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Gedling, near Nottingham. Councillors say it'll cost thousands | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
of pounds to tidy up. This comes on the day that the Government urged | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
local authorities to get tough in tackling illegal travellers' sites. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
They say they're simply reminding councils of their existing powers | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
such as: using temporary stop notices to stop and remove | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
unauthorised caravans. Pre-emptive injunctions that protect vulnerable | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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land. And possession orders to remove trespassers. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
They can take immediate action if somebody is developing something | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
which is illegal in the first place. The police also have powers to move | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
people on and we want people to understand that those powers exist | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
and they can be used so there is no long-term damage. The council does | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
not then get caught up in a protracted legal at all. I do not | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
think it is as much of a problem as the government is making out. A lot | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
of people get on well with the gypsy community. They are not outside | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
people's boundaries. They are people they know. There needs to be more | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
site provision and less of an end is on the negative. In the East | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Midlands there are a number of legal, authorised sites for | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
travellers, run by a mix of private operators and local councils. There | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
are just over 100 of them. The vast majority are in just two counties, | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. The number of illegal sites is much | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
smaller, just ten. But councils admit that this figure can be very | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
fluid, and that the sites are difficult to monitor. Well this | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
morning, our Chief News Reporter Quentin Rayner joined council | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
workers as they began clearing one of these illegal sites, on Lambley | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
Lane in Gedling. Last night, the evicted travellers | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
moved a few miles down the road to another illegal site, having left | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
their mark on where they have just been. A small army moved on to | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Lambley Lane recreation ground in Gedling to clear up their mess. The | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
open space is popular with footballers and dog walkers. Ten | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
days of illegal occupation left 14 tonnes of garden waste for the | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
council to remove, dumped after tree cutting jobs in the area. A large | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
amount of human excrement was also left behind. The area behind the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
tape is littered with toilet paper. There is a strong smell in the area. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
The council says it will take until October 's to fully decontaminate | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
this land. It is the excrement that is left everywhere, needles. There | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
are no words to describe it. It is terrible. They break in, cut the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
bolt off and then run their business of Lambley Lane car park. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
council leader is facing a bill of �30,000 to clear both sites in the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
borough. I cannot believe the amount of rubbish that has been left ear | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
and illegally dumped. It is very frustrating. I have to deal with the | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
cost of clearing this up, the public pay for it and it is making me | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
really angry. For the second year in a row, the travellers are back on | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
Teal close, another recreation area in Gedling. The council has served a | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
48-hour eviction notice but they know it will be at least a week | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
until anyone is moved. The leader says councils need stronger powers | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
than those granted by the government. We need one day and we | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
will clear them. We will bring bailiffs in and get them off very | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
quickly. Give us the power from government to a local level and we | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
will implement that. The clean-up team will return on Monday to finish | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the job. Next tonight, a former Miss | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Nottingham finalist has appeared in court accused of selling gun parts | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
illegally. 27-year-old Rebecca Draper runs a shop that sells air | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
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weapons. Our social affairs correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
This is Draper 's airgun Centre, a well-established field sport | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
supplier. A family business has been here in Radford for nearly 40 years. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
But now the managing director has been accused of selling weapons | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
parts illegally. Rebecca Draper appeared at Nottingham Crown Court | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
to face for firearms charges, charges she denied. The charges | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
involve components for prohibited handguns which cannot be owned | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
without a licence. She is accused of selling or transferring four firing | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
pins without lawful authority. The charges relate to components for | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Luca handguns and Glock pistols, weapons which are commonly used by | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
police forces. The allegations against Rebecca Draper will not be | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
set out in detail until she goes on trial. The judge said that case will | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
take place in December. Still to come: Britain's most wanted | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
tax fugitives. Two of the latest to join the list are from this region. | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
Here they are. And we'll tell you more about them, later. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
A gang which used children to courier drugs between the East | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Midlands and London have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Officers from the Special Operations Unit have told this programme they | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
exploited teenagers to avoid the police as they bought and sold crack | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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cocaine worth around half a million pounds. Eleanor Garnier reports. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Behind bars for their parts in a criminal conspiracy worth hundreds | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
of thousands of pounds, bringing crack cocaine from London to the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
East Midlands, to sell on the streets of our towns and cities. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Officers say the drugs run from Leicestershire to the capital | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
happened at least 18 times. To keep a low profile and try and avoid the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
police, the drugs gang used children as young as 14 to career the crack | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
cocaine. These type of people will exploit anyone and they have | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
demonstrated that on this occasion by exploiting children to fetch the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
drugs so they can stay out of the handling and the transportation of | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
the drugs. The four men have all been sentenced at Leicester Crown | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
Court. The gang leader Ruben Crawshaw was given 13 years after | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
being found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine. The three others or | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
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from Leicester will serve between seven and 5.5 years. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
There's been a massive surge in the number of private ambulances used | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
for 999 callouts in the East Midlands. Three years ago just 12 | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
emergency journeys were handled by private vehicles, but this jumped to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
246 last year. The cost to East Midlands Ambulance Service also rose | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
from �638,000 to 3.5 million. EMAS has blamed increasing demand, but | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
says it's now investing more than �4 million in its own vehicles and | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
extra staff. The driver of a digger who backed | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
his vehicle into a lorry, crushing and killing its driver, has been | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
given a suspended prison sentence. Mark Nayland who was 24 and from | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Sutton-in-Ashfield died from multiple injuries at a landfill site | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
in Cambridgeshire last year. Kenneth Miller from Linton admitted | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
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breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act. | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Today, the government added two more names to a list of wanted tax | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
evaders. Several of them are on the run owing millions of pounds. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The Treasury's most wanted. These are the men and women who are | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
getting away with millions of pounds they should have been paying in tax. | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
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New to the list, two from the East Midlands. He is alleged to have cost | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
the taxpayer �3 million but he failed to appear in court. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
In 2002, this woman failed to turn up to Leicester Crown Court where | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
she was accused of her part in a tax fraud. She is thought to be on the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
run in Pakistan. They join Wayne Hardy from Nottinghamshire who was | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
on last year's list. He is wanted for his part in a major counterfeit | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
plot. Today, the Chancellor was visiting tax investigators training | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
in arrest techniques. He says the evaders must pay up. We are | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
publishing the names of ten of our most wanted tax evaders who are | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
costing the country millions of pounds and this comes on top of the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
support and investment we are giving to the men and women here who go out | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
there on the street on our behalf to raise the money that is due to pay | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
for our public services. The message to people who evade their taxes is | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
very clear, we are coming to get you and we will catch you. It is the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
second time the government has tried this naming and shaming. HMRC | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
insists the idea works but so far, only one of the top 20 most wanted | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
has been caught. It is hoping to increase that arrest rate here in | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the East Midlands. One of the country's best known | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
bridges, Trent Bridge in Nottingham, is to get a light show | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
transformation. The idea is to make it as iconic at night as Brooklyn | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Bridge in New York or London's Tower Bridge. Nottingham City Council | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
believes the new night-time look will be popular, so it's looking for | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
sponsors to help meet the costs. Let's find out more from our | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Political Editor John Hess, who's where you'd expect him to be on this | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
story. Good evening, John. Good evening. Two figures to conjure | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
with: 920.That's the date the first bridge was built here over the River | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Trent. The second figure: 38,500. That's the total of vehicles each | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
day that go into and out of Nottingham over this bridge. But I | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
wonder how many of those drivers have ever thought about what the | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
bridge looks underneath the arches, especially at night. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Cricket fans crossing Trent Bridge last night after the 2020 match, | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
with the ground's eye-catching flood lights blazing in the dark. What | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
fails to catch the eye at night of the historic bridge itself. At | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
night, Trent Bridge is almost lost in the dark. Today, and I idea to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
illuminate Trent Bridge and make it one of the most eye-catching bridges | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
in Britain. The council's deputy leader and the senior lighting | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
engineer were looking at lighting designs which could lift the bridge | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
out of the gloom at night. It will cost �150,000 but with finances | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
squeezed, it is looking to the business and public for sponsorship. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
We are looking for somebody to sponsor the under lighting which | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
will look amazing and we are also looking at somebody to sponsor the | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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columns. Some of the bridge's lights are suffering wear and tear. Forest | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
are playing one evening, we could change it to read if we wish, or | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
leave it white for County. nearby suspension bridge owned by | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Severn Trent Water had its own lighting make over a couple of years | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
ago. As for Lady Bay Bridge, its owners, Nottinghamshire county | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
council, are being urged to consider something similar. When you consider | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
the number of people who come over this bridge for football matches and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
cricket, international cricket, you will get many many people and it | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
will be impressive. It is an iconic symbol and need some special | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
treatment. There will be some test lighting in the autumn to try it out | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
and if that and the sponsorship goes well, Trent Bridge could have a | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
whole new spectacular night-time look. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
And Dominic and Anne, if you were wondering about the daily running | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
costs of powering up all that light, I was told today it will be | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
equivalent of switching on three electrical kettles. That does not | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
seem very much. Is that like switching them on and they go for | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
keeping them on all might? We do not know! | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Now it's one of the most successful, family-run visitor attractions in | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
the region, and this year it's celebrating its 35th birthday. We're | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
talking about Gulliver's Kingdom, the children's theme park at Matlock | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Bath. But when Ray Phillips bought the site in the '70s, a theme park | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
was not what he had in mind at all. James Roberson explains. | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
Screaming, music to the ears of theme park owners. It means | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
customers are in and enjoying the rides. Ray Phillips and his son, | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Nick, also like to hear it at Gulliver 's kingdom. The steep site | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
was owned to aid -- home to a dance hall in the 19th century. When Ray | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
bought it, it was a dense woodland. It was soon home to a model village. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
We soon saw that the children wanted to do something. The first terrorist | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
had a little train which went from one end to the other and that was | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
the first mobile typewriter that we had. And then we have grown from | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
there. 35 years on and Ray's children have taken on the | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
business. It spread from Matlock Bath to Warrington and Milton Keynes | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
which include superior camping facilities which the staff make in | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
Derbyshire. We are creating other attractions inside the park and | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
outside so we are extending our season. A lot of attractions like | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
the spy school here at Matlock are in Dorset they can operate all year | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
round. -- they operate in doors. original site is popular, including | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
with those who came when they were children. You go back to where you | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
went as a kid. It is close and it is a nice day out. We come every year. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
The kids enjoyed it. It is a good family day out. Mum and dad are | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
there in the background. They are ready to step in and give advice but | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
we are taking the business forward. A third generation is coming but Ray | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
recalls his kids growing up as the Park did as well. They said why | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
don't other kids have theme parks they can go and play in | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
after-school? They had a lot of friends coming to play in it and now | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
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it is their children coming. , here never return. They said he was not | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
for sale. But tonight Kelvin Wilson is back home and a Nottingham Forest | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
player. We broke the story three weeks ago that he was coming to | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Nottingham. And we were there today as Kelvin completed a three year | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
deal from Celtic to Forest, for a fee of �2.5million. | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
The hero returns, welcome back to Forest. In a real statement of | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
intent, Forest have paid �2.5 million for defender Kelvin Wilson | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
on a three-year deal. You walked away from champions league football | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
to come here, so why? You are playing with international players | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
week in, week out, playing Champions League football. But I am coming to | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Nottingham Forest. This is not a small club. It is a massive club | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
with massive ambition and great players. You said when you went to | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Scotland it was hard for you to leave your family and child behind, | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
has that been a deciding factor for you? It was one of the main | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
reasons, my daughter, but it was not the case of me just coming back and | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
signing for anyone close to Nottingham. It had to be the right | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
club. He had a medical last night, trained today and admitted Celtic | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
did not want to let him go. They did not want to let me go but they | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
respected my decision. Forest is perfect for me. His time at Celtic | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
was a very good time for him and very educational for him. He had the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
pressure of playing European games involved with Celtic. I think we are | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
getting a player who is at a very good agent we are very fortunate to | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
have him here. Kelvin, who is 27, left Forest for Scotland 2.5 years | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
ago. They said he he left after a dispute with Davis. Did you fall out | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
with him? This is the first time I have played with Preston and I have | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
never fallen out with him once. Billy Davies and his coaching staff | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
now have their back five. They are still looking for some in midfield | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
and upfront. Forest say they expect three more new faces before the end | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
of the transfer window. A new face too at Leicester City, | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
they've signed Spanish starlet Ignasi Miquel. The 20-year-old | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
defender has agreed a year long loan deal from Arsenal and as Angela | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
found out he has quite a footballing pedigree. | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
He signed up to the season, brought up the Barcelona way, but now Ignasi | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
Miquel is set to prove his worth for the Foxes. I know the competition at | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Leicester is hard. I think I can get in the team. I fight for it and that | :20:20. | :20:28. | |
is it. That is why I am here. teenager in Spain's youth squad, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
both Manchester United and Arsenal were after his services. The gunners | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
won that battle. But his desire for first-team football says he -- means | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
he is happy to call this the stadium home for now. I think Leicester has | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
given me a big chance so that is why I am here. He is a welcome new | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
edition on what has been a quiet transfer summer for the Foxes. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
was very enthusiastic and looking forward to being here. That is a big | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
part of players having a successful loan spell. He may have to wait to | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
make his debut but make no mistake, he is a man eager to make his mark. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
Derby County can complete a really solid week's work with an away win | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
at Brighton tomorrow. Last season the Rams form away from Pride Park | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
failed to match their home record. Manager Nigel Clough says they can, | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
and should, do better this season. It might balance itself up a bit | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
more this season. On Tuesday night we will do well, a good clean game. | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
The Brighton away game last season probably epitomised our away form. | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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We gave two soft goals away. Also in action, Notts County at home to | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
Peterborough and Mansfield have their first home Football League | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
match in some while when they host Exeter. You can follow all the | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
action on your BBC Local Radio station. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
For the third time running, a very disappointing night for Cricket's | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
Notts Outlaws in the quarter finals of the T20 Cup. And for three overs | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
the Outlaws looked up to the job with some big hitting of their own. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
But the wickets just would not stop falling and Notts lost by 47 runs. | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
There are lots of things which have not gone our way and that is the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
bottom line. Apart from David Hussey and Alex Hales, we have not played | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
well enough. We have not been good enough. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Staying with Cricket, the men may have already retained the Ashes, but | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the women's campaign is only just about to get underway. The squad | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
includes two Notts players, Jenny Gunn and Danielle Wyatt, plus a | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
whole group with Loughborough connections including the likes of | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
Lauren Winfield and Anya Shrubsole. They play a combination of T20s, | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
one-dayers and a single test which starts on Sunday. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Good luck to them, and all our best wishes to Loughborough Sprinter | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
James Dasaolu. Earlier this year he went under ten seconds for the 100 | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
metres. This weekend he faces Usain Bolt at the World Athletics | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Championships. Every hope of a medal. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Now, a special weekend of wildlife's getting underway at one of our | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
longest established nature reserves. The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
hopes the event, at Attenborough near Nottingham ,will help identify | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
dozens of new species, both insect and mammalian. It comes as the Trust | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
celebrates its 50th anniversary, this year. I popped along this | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
morning to see how they're getting To celebrate their birthday, the | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
trust has organised what they are calling the big 50, that is 50 hours | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
where they will try and find 50 new species at the Attenborough nature | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
reserve. One of the activities on offer is adult pond dipping. Nothing | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
to do with budgie smugglers or bath towels, but a lot to do with finding | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
new species of bugs. The technique is simple, scoop up a net full of | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
water, weed and silks, tipped everything into a bowl and then look | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
through one of these magnifiers. People use pond life as a | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
disparaging term but resume ugly you find it interesting? It is | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
fascinating. The smaller species are eaten by the bigger ones and they | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
are eaten by bigger things still and eventually by the fish. It all began | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
50 years ago so entirely appropriate that there are these big | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
celebrations this weekend? This started because of a fight to save | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the wildlife that Attenborough. We want to save the hidden wildlife | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
that people do not see from the far corners of the reserve. Yes, because | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
90% of the reserve is not accessible to the public and I know you have | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
your eye on another reserve. Absolutely. We want to create a | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
wonderful new wetland reserve, 50 years on, wonderful parallel. | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
big 50 started this morning and continues until Sunday at noon. Pop | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
down and have a look. And bring your wellies and a jam jar. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
And if you want to get involved then the BBC has a special website with | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
loads of wildlife tips. Just go to bbc.co.uk/summer of wildlife. | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
You were well protected from the sun with your big sun hat. Yes, I can | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
take no chances at my age. Less coverage than they used to be! | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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we need hats and factor 20 at the that moved through last night. It | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
gave a sprinkling to the gardens. We have a little ridge of high pressure | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
building for the weekend. It is not looking too bad at all. It will be | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
dried tomorrow. Just the small chance of a shower. The winds will | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
be a lot lighter for us. It should feel warmer. Here is today's | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
satellite picture. We did see a lot of clout today. That is starting to | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
melt away. The winds are starting to ease down. Lots of lovely sunshine | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
for the next couple of hours or so. The cloud will start to increase | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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from the West. It will be nippy once again. Tomorrow morning, NEP start | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
to the weekend. Some sunshine to start off with. That cloud will | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
build up. Cloudy at times but some decent spells of sunshine between | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
the clouds. A small chance of showers which will fade away later | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
in the day. Not a bad day tomorrow, the winds are a lot lighter. For | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Saturday night into Sunday, we have these weather fronts converging | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
across us. It looks as if there is a greater chance of us catching a | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
shower on Sunday, particularly on Sunday morning. These should be | :27:27. | :27:34. |