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This is East Midlands Today with Quentin Rayner and me, Anne Davies. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Tonight, eight years for a paedophile who posed online as a | :00:07. | :00:18. | |
teenage boy. This is the moment he was confronted by paedophile | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
hunters. I found out she was 15, but I cannot remember if that was after | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
or before we consented to sex. Also, this simple device designed to | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
prevent mistakes. Why hospitals not using these? Plus, charged with the | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
murder of the family of four. An 18—year—old man appeared in court. | :00:43. | :00:54. | |
Leicestershire play their first YB40 final for 24 years. | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
Good evening. First tonight, a man confronted on camera in a sting by | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
amateur paedophile hunters has been jailed for eight years, for sexual | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
offences and grooming a teenager online. The group of parents from | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Leicestershire, who call themselves Letzgo Hunting, had been approached | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
by the 15—year—old's mother, who asked them to investigate her | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
concerns. They've been criticised as being vigilantes who don't | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
understand the risks involved. This report from Marie Ashby. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Caught on camera. This is the moment 24—year—old James Stone was | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
confronted by paedophile hunters, Letzgo Hunting. We've got a copy of | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
all your conversations with us and copies of pictures you sent. Letzgo | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Hunting had been approached by a mother worried her daughter was | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
being groomed. Without our involvement, he would never have | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
been arrested. Nottingham Crown Court was told | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Stone had posed as a 16—year—old schoolboy in an online chat room. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
What were contained in those pictures, because you said some were | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
dirty? Yes, there was one of my penis there. Have you still got | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
copies of these pictures? I believe so. Sorry, I don't want to see them. | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
I know you're looking for them. If I look at them, I am looking at | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
indecent images of children. All right, OK. He lured her back to his | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
flat, shut the door, bolted it, and that was it. She couldn't get out, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
and she was there for hours, going through this hell she has been going | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
through. Stone worked at this pub at Lenton in Nottingham. Letzgo Hunting | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
set up online decoys. Thinking he was chatting to a 15—year—old, he | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
admitted he'd had sex with the girl in question. After a confrontation, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
they told the mother to go to Nottinghamshire Police, who did | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
their own investigation and arrested Stone. We've just persisted to try | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
and get him behind bars for as long as possible, and it wouldn't have | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
happened without Letzgo Hunting. James Stone pleaded guilty to seven | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
charges, including grooming, sexual offences, and possession of extreme | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
pornography. In a statement, Nottinghamshire Police said Stone | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
not only preyed upon his young victim in the guise of a schoolboy, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
he did it in the family home and during school time, under the noses | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
of the adults in her life, because James Stone was hiding in her mobile | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
phone. The national organisation which protects children online says | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
paedophile investigations should be left to the experts. Confronting | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
people is really bad practice. It risks loss of evidence, people | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
panicking, and possibly harming children as a result. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Nottinghamshire Police say Letzgo Hunting's involvement did not lead | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
to James Stone's conviction. The Crown Prosecution Service told us | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
that because Stone pleaded guilty, there was no trial, so no evidence | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
was tested in court. Inside Out's Marie Ashby is with us | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
now. You've been talking to Letzgo Hunting since May — who exactly are | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
these people? It is a group based in Leicestershire, and the people I | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
have met, there are three men, who have families and children of | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
varying ages. They say they are concerned patients, parents who want | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
to protect children from paedophiles, and fearful of their | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
safety because of what they do. How do they operate, and was this a | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
typical case? This was an unusual case, because a mother contacted | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
them, feeling her daughter was being groomed. This is not usually how the | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
work. They set up profiles using pictures of teenage girls as decoys, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
and see who approaches them. The police have real concerns, don't | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
they? They do, and Leicestershire police have had the most dealing | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
with them, cause Letzgo Hunting of Beeston Leicestershire, but the deal | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
with them and have a relationship with them. The force will not | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
endorse them, because they both say that it would absolutely employ the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
public to come forward to them if they have any suspicions of criminal | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
activity of any kind. —— implore the public. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
And you can see a lot more of those interviews and the confrontation | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
with James Stone on Monday's Inside Out East Midlands. That's at 7:30pm | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
on BBC One. The mother of a teenager who died | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
because of a hospital blunder is frustrated technology to prevent a | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
repeat of the tragedy still hasn't been taken up across the whole NHS. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Wayne Jowett from Nottinghamshire died when a powerful cancer drug was | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
wrongly injected into his spine instead of a vein. Our health | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
correspondent Rob Sissons reports. In 2001, 18—year—old Wayne Jowett | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
was in remission from Kenya. Then, in an act described as gross | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
negligence, doctors wrongly put this into his spine instead of a fine. He | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
suffered and agonising death. He only had one more treatments, and he | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
would have out of the air, walking out of the hospital with his family. | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
It needs to be used everywhere, not just any few places. Wayne's mother | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
and grandmother cannot believe the devices designed to prevent Bess are | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
not being used by every hospital. I want to see it in every hospital | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
around the world. If it is going to be introduced, bring it in. Don't | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
hold back. Get it going. Only 55 Acute Hospital trusts are known to | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
have taken up the fail—safe devices. The man who led the enquiry says it | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
is vital the rest follow. There is a small chance that the events that | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
occurred to Wayne Jowett all may happen again, and I want to see all | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
trusts using these connectors as soon as possible, because that | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
reduces the risk of that event ever happening again. This is designed to | :07:11. | :07:22. | |
save lives. What you have here is the red one dessert —— designed for | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
the Spain, and the other for the vein. The connectors will not screw | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
onto the wrong one. Wemyss family spends years campaigning, and now | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
the Health Secretary is being lobbied, and they have a meeting | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
with the chairman of the health select committee to get more trusts | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
to use these devices. In a moment, the Labour leader talks | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
exclusively about one of politics' hottest topics. The weather is also | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
hotting up. Probably not hot enough for one of these, but certainly a | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
whole lot better than what we have seen of late. | :08:09. | :08:22. | |
Hundreds of people are gathered at a church in Leicester this evening for | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
a multi—faith vigil to remember the victims of a fatal fire a week ago. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
A mother and her three teenage children died in the blaze in the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Wood hill area of the city. Today an 18—year—old man appeared in court | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
charged with murder in connection with the fire. Also at the vigil are | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
the family and friends of a 20—year—old football coach who was | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
killed a week ago in the city. Our reporter Eleanor Garnier can tell us | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
more. Coming together in shock, after the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
loss of loved ones. People from across the community arrived at | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Saint Peter's Church in Leicester for a prayer vigil for those who | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
died. Exactly one week ago, I e—mailed and her three teenage | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
children died in a house fire on Wood Hill in Leicester. Chennai | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Latour freak, her 19—year—old daughter, Xena, at and Jamil, who | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
was 15, also perished. 18—year—old Kemo Porter appear today at | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Leicester Magistrates' Court charged with their murder. In a brief | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
hearing, he spoke only to confirm his name, address, and that he | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
understood the charges. He was remanded into custody and will | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
appear via video link at Leicester Crown Court on Monday. Meanwhile, at | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Leicester town Hall, the inquest into the four deaths was opened and | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
adjourned. The coroner heard that the four bodies had to be a gent is | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
—— identified by dental records. They had all died due to smoke | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
inhalation. The bodies will be buried in Ireland, where their | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
father works as a neurosurgeon. Until the bodies of a mother and her | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
three children are released, the funeral must wait. | :10:11. | :10:23. | |
A derelict rectory in Loughborough has become a target for drug use and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
anti—social behaviour. The house on Steeple Row, which is close to a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
school, has been empty for almost four years since it was sold to a | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
developer. Now, residents have handed a petition to the local | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
council, calling for it to be pulled down. Charnwood Borough Council says | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
it has investigated the site and has a demolition notice from the site | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
owner which should start in the next six weeks. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
More staff are being taken on by East Midlands Ambulance Service in | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Leicestershire and Rutland. A recruitment event is being held in | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Narborough. At least 25 jobs are on offer, including qualified | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
paramedics and also emergency care assistants, who would receive | :10:54. | :11:08. | |
training for the job. Labour's conference is about to | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
start this weekend, and ahead of it, this evening Ed Miliband has | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
announced the party will scrap what it dubs the bedroom tax. The | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Coalition, of course, refers to it as the spare room subsidy. The | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Labour leader has been talking exclusively to the BBC English | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
regions. Earlier, I spoke to him in his Westminster office and I asked | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
him what impact scrapping it would have in the East Midlands. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
It will help lots of families. Tens of thousands of families across the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
East Midlands, and it will make a real difference to them. And how are | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
we going to do it? We're going to end the boardroom tax loopholes that | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
have been introduced by this Government, and use this money to | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
end the bedroom tax. I think that's the right thing to do, because we | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
have so many families who are struggling with the unfairness of | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the bedroom tax, the hardship. There aren't other properties for them to | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
move to, and two thirds of the families are disabled, so it is the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
right thing to do. A Labour government would end the bedroom | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
tax. According to your figures, it would affect 40,000 claimants in the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
East Midlands. What do you say to people in arrears? Don't pay, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Labour's going to save you? What I say to the 40,000 families across | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the East Midlands who've been hit by the bedroom tax is that we will end | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the bedroom tax. We will do it by closing the boardroom loopholes. It | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
is the right thing to do. Obviously, people have to wait 18 months or so | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
for the election, and a Labour government being elected, and will | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
have to be dealing with their councils on the issues that they | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
face. We're going to get rid of it as soon as we can, and we are | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
serving notice that that is what a Labour government will do. It is the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
right thing to do, because so many families, two thirds of whom are | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
disabled, are really been hit by the bedroom tax. And it's the wider | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
issue for our conference — how you tackle the cost of living crisis, | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
not just on the bedroom tax, but on every issue facing families in | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Britain. One other thing I need to ask you about is High Speed two. It | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
will eventually connect with the East Midlands. KPMG, the | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
accountants, say it will bring upwards of £2 billion a year to | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
boost Nottingham and Derby's economies. You think that is | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
plausible? Well, I'm a supporter of High Speed two, but we've got to | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
make sure it's value for money. As we've said, there can be no blank | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
cheque for any project, particularly at this difficult economic time, but | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
the reason I'm a supporter of High Speed two is precisely because of | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the economic benefits that come with it. But I think the British people | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
and people of the East Midlands would expect a Labour government or, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
indeed, any government, to make sure that we keep the costs under | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
control, and that's what the Labour government would do. Ed Miliband, | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
thank you. Thank you. And I'll be discussing the implications of | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Labour's policy decision on the Sunday Politics Show at 11am here on | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
BBC One. People who use skin lightening | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
creams are being warned they could be damaging their health. It comes | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
after a check by Trading Standards officers in Derby. Tests found that | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
half of the treatments bought over the counter had traces of mercury. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
From Derby, Simon Hare reports. It is a skin lightening cream, but | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
it actually contains mercury. An undercover Trading Standards officer | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
explains what was found in a spot check on one Derby shop. All ten | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
hair and skin products were incorrectly labelled, but five of | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
them were potentially harmful to health. This hair dye contained | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
lead, while four of the skin lightening creams had traces of | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
mercury. If people persist and use it on a regular basis, it could lead | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
to brain damage, kidney failure, your nervous system can go, and it | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
is important that consumers and traders are aware of exactly what is | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
in these products. Although these products are perfectly legal in | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
their country of origin, usually the Indian subcontinent, the contents | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
mean they are banned here. But they still end up on sale in the UK. Many | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
also question why people would want to use such creams. A lot of people | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
just feel that if their skin was lighter, it might give them more of | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
an opportunity to get on in life. It's the wrong kind of attitude to | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
have. At this Derby hair salon, which has many black customers, the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
owner worries about the growth in this market. I find it really, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
really strange, how people want to lighten their skin. I find it weird | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
when people of ethnic origin want to go on a sun bed, also. I don't think | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
these kind of creams work. If anything, it's going to do a lot | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
more damage than good. These products will now be destroyed, and | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
a survey of other shops across the city is being carried out. | :15:28. | :15:42. | |
They say you reap what you sow, and our colleagues at BBC Radio | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Leicester have proved it and impressed the boss as well. This | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Spring, their Grow Your Own project got people planting loads of fruit | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
and veg and the harvest has been bountiful. Here's Ady Dayman. | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
The studios here at BBC Radio Leicester have been transformed to | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
celebrate the culmination of the Grow Your Own project, which started | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
in spring. The idea is to show people how easy and how productive | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
it can be to grow your vegetables. It is also fine as well. —— fine as | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
well. There has been a lot going on today. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
We have had special harvest songs, people bringing in their own | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
produce, cooking demonstrations, even the director—general of the BBC | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
showing a keen interest in the whole project. Although supermarkets and | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
other places make wonderful vegetables, there are something | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
about something you grow for yourself. Well done, this is | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
absolutely fantastic! This produce was grown from seeds given away at | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the start of the project, and a primary school was one of the | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
growers. That is nice! Is everybody ready to get planting? Yes! Hands up | :17:02. | :17:14. | |
if you enjoyed the Grow Your Own project. And what did you enjoy most | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
about it? Which they did you enjoy growing the most? Sweetcorn! It has | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
been wonderful. The children have taken so much from it. They are | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
thinking about what is healthy to eat. The children are here today to | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
help celebrate the festival. Heads, are you having a good time? Yes! | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
Well, you've done a brilliant job. It's been a wonderful celebration | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
today, and the project has been nothing but success. Let's hope we | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
can do it all again next year. How lovely! Staying on crime | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
matters, Colin is not here this evening. He is at a very famous | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
green area for us to and eight. I have come to Lord's, this special | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
place, and this is why. This is the widely 40 trophy, and this is what | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Nottinghamshire will be playing Glamorgan for tomorrow. There is | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
only one trophy and one award available. This moment is full of | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
tradition and history, and the squad has promised so much and wants it so | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
much. I have been talking to them. It's going to be right up there. Not | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
to have been to Lord's for 24 years is something we are very proud of. | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
This is my first time at Lord's, the first time in a Nottinghamshire | :19:11. | :19:20. | |
shirt. With this team, the sky is the limit. We have an unbelievable | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
squad. The line—up has been without compare. We have a good bowling | :19:26. | :19:37. | |
unit, and we are on a roll. It makes it so exciting. Once the first ball | :19:37. | :19:46. | |
is bowled, you're into it. You have to just concentrate on getting a | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
result. Having a packed house at Lord's, playing for Nottinghamshire, | :19:56. | :20:08. | |
it's just unbelievable. I won't enjoy the cricket, no. This is what | :20:08. | :20:24. | |
it comes down to. One day. You can see why they wanted when it so badly | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
when you are here. It feels special and like the home of cricket. There | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
is so much more going on than the YB40 final. There is championship | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
football and news of a signing at Leicester City. Gary Taylor Fletcher | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
is joining today on a one—year deal. He was released by Blackpool, | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
witches who Leicester play tomorrow. Derby will be hoping to take their | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
away form into their game with reading, and Forest have made one of | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
those signings that makes you take notice. Natalie Jackson was there to | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
meet him. All the clubs wanted him, but today, this highly rated young | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
Chelsea star experienced his first training session with Nottingham | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Forest. The session was quite hard. It was very intense. Like I said, we | :21:18. | :21:26. | |
were just having a chat, and I told him the intensity of that session | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
was pretty high, and it's what I was used to at Chelsea. The 18—year—old | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
caught the eye while on loan at Watford, having made it to the | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
championship final. He is a young player who can certainly tackle and | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
to create and score goals, and he is the very, very good up—and—coming | :21:46. | :21:54. | |
midfield player. Last year, and Nathan signed a five—year contract | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
with Chelsea, but his manager regards hemp highly, and wanted him | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
to go out on loan to get more games. Would you stay here longer if | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
possible? Yes, if I'm having a good time, and the loan is going well, | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
you know, if I'm not home sick, you then yes, of course. He is in the | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
squad tomorrow, Andy Phil interview with him is on the BBC Sport | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
website. Notts County and Mansfield are at home, and our reporter is | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
there. Leicester Tigers are in action, with everyone available for | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
this season. For the Nottingham Panthers, it is the first visit of | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
the rifles, the Sheffield Steelers. Sold out already. Here, Lord's, | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
we're inside a privileged area, which is only open to members | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
usually. The reason we get to be here is we know the Chief Executive. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
Derek Brewer, how are you settling into the role here at Lord's? Is | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
such an exciting role here to be leading at such a time of great | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
change. It's a great time to be involved, and I'm so pleased that | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Nottinghamshire are here, walking onto the field tomorrow to take part | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
in the final. Will you be allowed to what —— be watching and cheer them | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
on? It never leaves you, so I have been following the results very | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
closely and they have had a to the 60s in. Why is Lord's special, do | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
you think? It is the place everyone wants to play cricket. The club | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
cricketers always aspire to play here, and I want to make sure with | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
my team that that aspiration remains for generations to come, and this | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
place is regarded as the finest place in world cricket. It still | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
takes your breath away. Thank you very much for joining us. That is it | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
from Lord's, but we'll be back tomorrow to see if Nottinghamshire | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
can lift the trophy. Fingers crossed! | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
A recycling champion from Leicester who voluntarily picks up thousands | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
of discarded cans from the streets has been rewarded with a | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
pedal—powered carrier, so he can pick up even more. | :24:27. | :24:39. | |
This is Can Man. For the past three years, he has collected around 1000 | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
cans a week from the streets of Leicester. He used to push a | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
converted bin around, but today, he has the latest pedal—powered cargo | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
trike. It was donated to Adrian by Leicester City Council, in | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
recognition of his crusade to collect dumped aluminium cans from | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
around the city's West End. We have a huge team of people that are out | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
cleaning our streets every day. They do a fantastic job, but really, | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
people are still dropping litter in hedgerows and side streets, and | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
volunteers like Adrian are able to go that little bit further and | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
really make the city look much better. It's very strange to drive, | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
because I've been used to a push—bike. In short distances, I | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
haven't managed to run anyone over yet, but it's going to take a little | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
bit of getting used to. I've got to use it to get used to it, but it | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
should make a really big difference to me going out and about. Adrian | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
has already collected over 90,000 cans, and with help of this larger | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
carrier, he hopes to reach 100,000 cans from the streets and parks | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
within six months. If he does that, he will need a | :25:41. | :26:02. | |
bigger carrier! He can do it! Charlie, is the weather going to be | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
nice? Yes! I have good news! I'm pleased to be able to say I have | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
good news for a change. Warm air is spelling in, with high pressure | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
which will ensure a nice weekend. It will be cloudy at times, but a lot | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
warmer than of late. As far as the season goes, there will be clouds | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
event in places, but plenty of white spells as well. Saturday morning | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
will be largely cloudy, with temperatures at ten or 11 Celsius is | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
the overnight low. Tonight is actually a much more tarmac warmer | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
night, tomorrow, not too bad. Cloudy to start, but it will improve as we | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
make our way through the day. As you can see here, it's bank of cloud | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
sitting over as in the morning, just in time for the football. By | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
evening, we should see widespread sunshine, and the temperatures will | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
help, 19 Celsius. Sunday will not be bad as well. The further east you | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
are, the better it will be. By later on in the day, the sunshine to be | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
making its way through, some not too bad. I'm pleased to see the high | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
pressure is going to hang around, blocking areas of low pressure from | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
making a return, so it looks like we should see this brighter and more | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
settled spell of weather lasts for a few days. So we can promise good | :27:31. | :27:40. | |
weather. An Indian summer! A brief one! Would be back for the late | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
bulletin. Goodbye. | :27:43. | :27:46. |