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extraordinary row over council regalia. I will be reporting from | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the town where the mayor has been banned from wearing his chains of | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
office after being accused of parading in bling. Also tonight, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
anger as personal tributes to a young woman killed in a cliff woman | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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why Britain's store cupboard is bare. And Ghost crosses the great | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
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divide. One of film's steamiest programme. First tonight, a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
political row as a mayor's official regalia is described as "bling". The | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
bust-up has erupted in the Nottinghamshire town of Mansfield | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
over who is entitled to wear the civic chains of office. Its | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
directly-elected Mayor Tony Egginton has been banned from wearing them. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Instead, the Labour Party says the council's chairman should have the | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
honour. Over to Mansfield now and our political editor, John Hess. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
It was Karl Marx who famously said that the workers of the world had | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
nothing to lose but their chains. This evening, inside Mansfield Civic | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Centre, there is a worker far from happy at losing his chains, the | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
mayor. Independently elected 11 years ago, | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
proudly wearing his chains of office on a day of enormous pride for | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Mansfield, the Olympic homecoming of Rebecca Adlington. But the opening | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
of the new bus station this spring could turn out to be the last big | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
event in which he could wear his chains. The main issue for me is, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
for the people to enjoy seeing their elected first citizen with the chain | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
of office on, particularly the children. Today, in Mansfield Civic | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Centre, he showed me the gallery of past council chairman. Labour, now | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
the majority party, says that the chairman should wear the chains, not | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
the elected mayor. He should really be concentrating on running | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Mansfield District Council, as a medium sized business, and driving | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
the district forward. This is not 20th-century politics. This is | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
parading around in bling. They would normally be here, in a display of | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
civic regalia. But this has become such a sensitive issue that they are | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
locked in a safe and not even the mayor can put them on. What is your | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
reaction? I am disgusted, frankly. He is our first citizen... | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
governorate ombudsman has been asked to intervene. The constitution | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
clearly says that he has the right to carry out ceremonial duties. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
you are inviting the mayor to an event, you expect to turn up with | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
ceremonial chains. Does it matter? As long as he does a good job for | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
what he has been paid to do, I don't know if it matters if he wears them | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
or not. Mansfield was one of the leaders in having a town mayor, so I | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
think it gives a little bit of a difference. Sadly, rather than doing | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
the work they should be doing for the people that elected them, they | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
are concentrating on trying to undermine me all of the time. I find | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
that sad. Until it is sorted, this Olympic photograph could be the | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
nearest that he gets to the chains. This is a row over politics, rather | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
than bling. There is no sign of it being resolved. In the meantime, I | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
am advised that they are packed safely away inside the Civic | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
The family of a woman killed by a cliff fall on the Dorset coast have | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
been asked to stop leaving tributes near the spot where she died. A | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
holiday camp had agreed to a bench being placed on its land in | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Charlotte Blackman's memory. But it says items left there for the recent | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
first anniversary of her death make it resemble a "shrine." Charlotte's | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
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family say they're shocked and Blackman's death, her family | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
returned to the Dorset coastline where she died. The 22-year-old, was | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
caught in the path of a devastating landslide. Her family had already | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
placed a memorial bench in the grounds of the holiday camp where | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
they had been staying at the time of the tragedy. This time, they left a | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
view floral tributes and a couple of small mementos chosen by her younger | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
siblings. After your recent visit, a number of items were left on the | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
memorial bench... Now her mum has received a letter from a holiday | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
camp, asking them not to leave anything else there. We do not feel | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
it appropriate for the area around the bench to be treated as a shrine. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
I was in shock, quite disappointed and angry. Very angry. I just | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
couldn't believe it, really. They don't want to, sort of, remember | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Charlotte, that she was a girl that was killed there. They are trying to | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
push it away and forget that part of it. We went to walk on the beach, | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
five of us went down and only four of us came back. The holiday Park at | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Dorset declined to comment to the BBC. Charlotte's dad says she now | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
wants to bring the memorial bench back to Derbyshire. I would like it | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
to be there, as a reminder, for families to sit on and enjoy the | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
view of Fresh water. To sit and contemplate a little while, and also | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
to remind people that these cliffs are dangerous. Charlotte's family | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
visit her grave every day. They say that is, unashamedly, a shrine to | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
their much loved daughter and sister. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Still to come - the young man who woke up and smelt the coffee. A | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
jobless 19-year-old takes matters into his own hands and sets up a | :06:20. | :06:30. | |
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In a first for the UK, scientists at the University of Leicester have | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
created a database of cat DNA that has already helped to convict a | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
killer. The feline research was used to link the body of dead man with | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the main suspect in a police investigation on the south coast. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
There are now hopes it'll help lead to more criminal convictions, as | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
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University of Leicester where scientists have collected DNA from | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
152 cup from around the country. -- cats. It is that feline research | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
that helped convict David Hilde of manslaughter. Scientist linked his | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
cat's further with eight feline hairs found on the curtain, wrapped | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
around a dismembered torso of David Guy from Hampshire. We were able to | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
say that the suspect's Carter shared its profile with around 2% of the UK | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
population. -- the suspect's cat. That provided good evidence able to | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
link it to the hairs on the curtain. That provided a direct link between | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
David Hilde and the deposition of David Guy's body. This is the first | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
time cat DNA has been used in a criminal trial in the UK. But | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
scientists is hoped that once they have published their database it | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
will help solve many more criminal investigations. I think it could be | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
quite significant. The transfer of fibres has been a long established | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
method. We are adding in that cat hair can be linked to individuals, | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
places or other individuals. It is through the transfer of this animal | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
DNA trace evidence. As any cat owner will know, it is difficult to avoid | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
feline fur. An irritation for many, but one that is welcomed by criminal | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
investigators. Six people arrested as part of an | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
investigation into the death of a resident at a Nottingham care home | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
have been bailed. 86-year-old Ivy Atkin died shortly after the closure | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
of Autumn Grange in Sherwood Rise last year. The Care Quality | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Commission had raised concerns about standards of care there. Yesterday, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
11 people, five men and six women were arrested. Two of the men and | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
three women were released onn bail last night. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
A group of houses in Nottingham has won a prestigious national award for | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
their eco-friendly development. 38 new town houses on Green Street in | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the Meadows, were named as one of the Best Residential Developments in | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
the UK Property Awards. The Nottingham developer, Blueprint | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
could now go on to compete in the Production at the historic Denby | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Pottery in Derbyshire has been affected by a dispute over pay. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Members of the ceramics workers' union Unity set up a picket line | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
outside the factory this morning. Managers say it's regrettable that | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
they can't offer the staff a salary increase this year. But union | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
officials say it's just the latest pay freeze. These people are not | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
greedy. They are saying, come on, six years? We have had two pay rises | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
in six years. People are working overtime and taking on temporary | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
labour. Those are not the signs that we sometimes come across with a | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
company that has got problems. are hoping if we can have a better | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
year this year, when we get to this time next year, hopefully normal | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
wage negotiations resumed and we can offer a cost of living increase. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
That is dependent on this year's results. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Next tonight, it may surprise you to learn that in Britain we produce | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
less than two thirds of the food we consume. The National Farmers' Union | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
has calculated that if all the food produced in the UK in a year were | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
stored and eaten from January the first, the cupboard would be bare by | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
today. The NFU in the East Midlands claims that Britain is becoming more | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
and more reliant on imports and more needs to be done to support the | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
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region's farmers. Helen Astle busiest time of the year at his farm | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
in Caldicot, in Rutland. In the next fortnight, the wheat will be | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
harvested. It will then be used to make biscuits. But Andrew is worried | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
about the future. My concern is that if we do not get behind British | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
farmers today, we will not be here to produce the food for tomorrow | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
because the population of the UK is increasing and we need to increase | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
production. We need to back British farmers today so that we are there, | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
ready to produce food, for future generations. Britain used to produce | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
75% of its own food. That has dropped to 60%. The idea behind the | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
NFU campaign is to encourage others to buy British. And also, to reverse | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
the trend. The organisation wants the farming community to be given | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the confidence to invest in the future. It is in everybody's | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
interest to produce more food. If we put all of the food that we produce | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
in the UK in a pile on the 1st of January, the 14th of August is the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
date at which that pile would be exhausted, we run out of food and we | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
must go abroad to import more. Every year, we produce a little less. We | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
are just trying to draw attention to that. As well as tended to his crops | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
and sheep, Andrew helped look after the countryside. At times, he says | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
he is overwhelmed by paperwork. amount of red tape means that I am | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
almost farming with one hand tied behind my back. There are | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
restrictions on the amount of fertiliser, the amount of crop | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
protection products that we can use. Other countries do not have the | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
same restrictions, meaning they are free to use these things and produce | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
cheaper. It is a sunny day in Caldicot, but Andrew paints a bleak | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
picture for the future. If we cannot afford to grow the crops, we could | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
see the scenario where there are food riots in cities and shortages | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
in shops. As Andrew prepares to harvest his crop, he is urging | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
others to back his efforts and I British. -- buy British. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Earlier I spoke to the Agriculture Minister David Heath. He told me he | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
agrees with much of what the NFU is calling for. The fact is, we produce | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
extremely good food in this country. I want British people to have the | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
opportunity to eat that food. I think that there are still many | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
incidences where we see things on supermarket shelves that could be | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
produced in Britain, where they are imported from abroad. At the same | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
time, there are things that we do not produce, which we will always | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
have to import. We are not going to suddenly start producing coffee | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
beans or lemons. So, let's recognise the fact we are a trading nation. We | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
do need to import some things, but let's recognise the quality of good | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
British produce. What can you do as a government without sparking a | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
trade war to prevent unnecessary imports of food that we can produce | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
perfectly well here? We are keen to ensure that people understand the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
very high production and welfare conditions under which, for | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
instance, meat is produced in this country, which is not always the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
case overseas. At the end of the day, the consumer has to make a | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
choice. When they go into a supermarket, they have to decide | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
what they pick off the shelves, or perhaps they may prefer to go to a | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
local butcher and ask exactly where the Filatov meat came from. Does the | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
NFU have a point when it says that made decisions made in Europe have | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
seen farmers worrying more about the protection of the environment than | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
producing food? I don't think that is true at all. I think the two | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
things are entirely compatible. We need sustainable agriculture. That | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
means a sustainable in terms of viable in economic terms, but also | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
in terms of the environment. I see no reason at all why we should not | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
continue to produce top quality food in sufficient quantities and protect | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the environment at the same time. Thank you very much. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Unemployment in the UK has fallen slightly - but gone up in the East | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Midlands for the second quarter in a row. | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that in the | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
three months to June, the jobless total in the East Midlands was | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
181,000. That's an increase of 4,000 on the previous quarter. The | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
unemployment rate here is now 7.9%. Nationally the jobless total fell by | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
4,000, leaving 2.51 million out of work. Well, one teenager has found | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
an ideal way of avoiding unemployment. He's started his own | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
business. 19-year-old Lee Vernon from Mansfield admits he's struggled | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
to find a permanent job because of a lack of experience. But he recently | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
decided to take matters into his own hands, as Rebecca Brice has been | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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would not look twice at a ruined art deco cinema. But Lee Vernon saw it | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
as an opportunity. Is this your work? It is their work, they are | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
teaching me the recipes. The theme and food is inspired by his Russian | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
stepmother. But he is inspired by a very un-Soviet spirit of free | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
enterprise. I don't want to work somewhere, with the hope of being | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
promoted, and then say I am never going anywhere. I don't want a | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
dead-end job. I like a challenge and I like to learn something myself. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
That's cool, I never really learned anything because somebody was | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
telling me. But I make a mistake, I will do it again. It doesn't feel | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
real yet. I don't think it has quite sunk in. I have always just been | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Del-Boy, doing the market stalls. To have something like this, it has not | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
sunk in yet. It didn't sink in with the banks either, because he says | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
they were reluctant to lend him money to get him started. The bags | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
let me down big time. They promised me good things and let me down. | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
Where did the finance come from? Google there is something called a | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
start-up loan. I got accepted for a �10,000 loan because I had a good | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
business plan, which will probably be gone in a couple of weeks in this | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
place. But I had a lot of family input, doing all the hours that we | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
can. The whole family put timing, more just handing out leaflets. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
Every nail, plasterboard and wire, where we could, we have done it | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
ourselves. Obviously we had to have an electrician is in for some of it. | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
But we had such a tight budget we thought, maybe not, but he has done | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
it. He is 19 now, but steaming straight ahead with a 10-year plan | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
for his coffee empire. I will have 60 shops in ten years. I might even | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
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have one a year. Ten. -- six shops rising star of the business world to | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
stars of a more celestial kind. If you did not see these last night, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
not much chance of seeing them tonight. The cloud is back and so is | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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the rain. But I can offer you some link to sport. But I don't think I | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
can use it, as Colin is presenting. Coming up - the Leicester Riders | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
basketball players flying the GB Flag. But news first, because Derby | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
County Manager Nigel Clough says he's confident young talent Will | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Hughes will still be at the club when the transfer window closes. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
18-year-old Hughes played in England under 21's 6-0 thrashing of Scotland | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
last night. He didn't score himself but it was a performance that would | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
have done his growing reputation no harm - a reputation that has seen | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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Liverpool become the latest club position. He is not for sale unless | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
somebody really comes in and makes the club a spectacular offer. Even | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
then, we would hope to retain him for this season. That is for his | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
good as much as anything. We are building a team around him and we | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
want him around for as long as we can. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
An update on the cricket, because all three counties were in YB40 | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
action last night - but all three lost! The key games were those at | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Trent Bridge where Notts Outlaws could have sealed a semifinal place, | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
but got blown away by Worcestershire Royals. And at Bristol, where | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Leicestershire Foxes made it all too easy for Gloucestershire. But in a | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
very tight group, the Foxes could still make the semis. Derbyshire, | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
already out of the hunt, were comfortably beaten by Lancashire. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Big congratulations to Mansfield's Paralympic swimmer Ollie Hynd, who | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
became a world champion last night. Ollie found himself just behind | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
going in to the final turn of his 200 metres medley final. But he | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
powered though to win the gold medal and set a new European record. Older | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
brother Sam Hynd just missed out on a medal though finishing in fourth | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
place. Basketball now, because Leicester | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Riders Captain Drew Sullivan has a mission - to make sure the Great | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
Britain side fulfil their potential. GB disappointed at the London | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
Olympics - and then lost their funding. After a big campaign, they | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
got it back. But only for a year. What happens next all depends on | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
next month's European Championships. This is a huge few months for | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
basketball's national side and they are going all-out to make it count. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
They are training the England from all teams at the astonishingly well | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
appointed St George's Park in Burton. Their coach comes straight | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
from the top league in the world, the NBA. I'm truly enjoying it, it's | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
a great group of players and a great group of people. What they are | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
doing, that I appreciate, is that they are going to make it difficult | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
for me to turn this roster down. started well enough, a comprehensive | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
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defeat of Porto Rico in front of a are going to play, which I think all | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
of the players here, they are embracing it and it's a matter of | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
going out and putting it into a game situation. At St George's Park, | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
everybody knows how key next month's champion chips are. Future | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
funding depends on a good result in Slovenia. But they can't afford to | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
start thinking about that. We will be prepared, but we have to focus on | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
the task at hand or we will be overwhelmed, thinking, we have to | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
win five games. We don't, we have to win one game at a time. Among the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
changes, a willingness to look at new faces. Jamell Anderson played a | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
full part in the Championship winning year, and this is his | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
reward. Unbelievable, from start to finish. The staff, facilities, the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
feeling of being there. It feels incredible. It's an amazing | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
opportunity for me. Leicester Riders season is approaching as well. Can | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
they help the team repeat? This team's year is better than it was | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
last year. I think we have upgraded every position, to be honest. | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
going to do what we did last year, focus on winning and play well. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
seasons and they can break, for Team GB, this could be one. We will keep | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
an eye on how they do. They have a load of warm up games before the | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
European Championships. It's a production on a grand scale. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Just 18 cast members but more than 100 people behind the scenes making | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
it all happen. This week, Ghost the Musical arrived in the East Midlands | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
and with it came special effects, illusions and state of the art | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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technology. Angelina Socci has been technically complex shows to come to | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Nottingham. The cast of ghost of the musical are preparing for their | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
second performance in the city. But it is not just the cast on stage | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
that have a busy few hours ahead of them. Shows have different | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
challenges, whether it is a big cast or big orchestra. The real challenge | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
of Ghost is the technology. It is such a fast-moving show. We have | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
nearly 40 scenes in the show, so the set is constantly moving. You cannot | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
move backstage for all of the equipment. It was brought in ten | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
articulated lorries. The whole production has taken 50 hours to set | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
up. Where we are now, this is the automation computer, one of the most | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
important in the show. It controls all of the flying scenery, that goes | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
on and off stage, the lighting bars and everything is controlled by this | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
one computer. Quite an important part of the show. What would happen | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
if this went wrong? We give people a free drink and people sit around for | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
a while! You have got a few hundred thousand LED lights to maintain? | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Yes, we have. They become a really big part of the set. Things like the | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
subway scene, the cast appear inside the video. The slots between the | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
LEDs, it achieves a gauze effect, so you can have people within the | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
video. It is full of special effects and allusions designed by the man | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
responsible for many of the magic props in the Harry Potter films. For | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
the cast, there are different challenges to worry about. For the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
actor, the hardest thing is backstage. The footprint of the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
stage stays exactly the same. Your path when you leave the stage, how | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
do I get to the other side, where is my quick change, where is my | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
dressing room, where is the toilet? After his two-year run here, the | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
team will spend two weeks dismantling the set before starting | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
all over again in Bristol. It is very easy to get lost in that | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
theatre. You need to have a ball of string. I ended up in the theatre | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
next door, by accident. You can go underground, it is weird. | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
Pyrotechnics in the weather last A roller-coaster of whether in the | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
next few days. Some rain, sun and warmth. The warmth is coming behind | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
this warm front. It is bringing us some rain and you can see the | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
isobars squeezing together. It is going to be fairly windy over the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
next 24 hours or so. Damp weather, fairly breezy conditions through | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
tomorrow. Do not write tomorrow off. There will be some sunshine to | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
enjoy. In the sunshine, temperatures peaking into the mid-20s. We have | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
seen a bit of everything today. Lovely sunshine around this morning. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
The clouds have been increasing this afternoon and the warm front is | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
bringing spotty outbreaks of rain. The rain is not particularly heavy | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
or persistent, but it will be on and off through tonight. It might pay up | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
through western parts of Derbyshire, but no scarred -- stargazing. | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Tonight, we are looking at Lowes of 16 or 17 degrees, very muggy. A | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
completely different feel to things. The clouds will break up in the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
afternoon. Where we get the break we will be seeing some sunshine and the | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
temperatures will be increasing. 223 or 24 degrees. A few light showers | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
here and there, but most of us staying dry. Another weather front | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
moving through tomorrow night. Some heavy and persistent rain to move | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
through an Thursday night and through tomorrow morning. It might | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
strike its heels on Friday morning, but it will finally tearaway. | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
Brighter, drier weather behind that. Lots of Sunday. -- sunshine. Highs | :27:24. | :27:30. |