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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight ` tough questions for Derbyshire Police over the killing | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
of a pregnant woman and her two`year`old son. Why was Rachael | :00:13. | :00:25. | |
Slack not warned that her mentally ill ex`partner posed a lethal | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
threat. We have spent six weeks in the coroner 's court hearing of the | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
failings of Derbyshire Police after they assessed both Rachael and Auden | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
as being at high risk of homicide. On the day care and stabbed | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Rachael, Auden and himself, friends told as he could have been stopped. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
He was arrested for making threats that he was going to kill her, and | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
he has been let out to do exactly that. I hope someone somewhere is | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
accountable for what has happened, because we have lost a dear friend. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Also glad, an exclusive interview with the man who blew the whistle on | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
problems at the Al`Madinah School. There is hope for the future, but I | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
think it needs a radical shake up. And dredging the Trent in the hope | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
that commercial barges could soon be back in operation. | :01:27. | :01:42. | |
Good evening. Welcome to the programme. First tonight, the | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
long`awaited outcome of a seven`week inquest aimed at finding out how a | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
mentally ill man was able to kill his former partner and their child ` | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
before killing himself. Here's Anne with the details. | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
Unlawfully killed. A mother, Rachael Slack ` and her two`year`old son | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Auden. Unlawfully killed by the little boy's father ` this man, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Andrew Cairns. Who then, in the grip of mental illness, killed himself. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
An inquest jury returned those verdicts today after weeks | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
considering the killings in Derbyshire three years ago. But they | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
also said something else. The jury decided the deaths of Rachael and | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Auden were "more than minimally contributed to by a failure to | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
impress on her that she was in danger/at high risk of homicide from | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
her ex`partner." In other words, his illness made Cairns a lethal threat. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
But Rachael and Auden didn't get the warning they needed. This is what | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Rachael's family solicitor said today after the inquest concluded: | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
we have spent the last six weeks in the coroner's court hearing of the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
failings of Derbyshire Police after they assessed both Rachael and Auden | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
as being at high risk of homicide. We have also heard concerning | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
evidence about the failure of the police and mental health to share | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
information. We are very grateful to the coroner and the jury for their | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
work in ensuring that these failings have been brought to light. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
In a moment we'll be looking at what went wrong. First, James Roberson | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
reports on those shocking events in the village of Holbrook. | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
In the village of Holbrook, a bench under a shady tree reveals this is a | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
memorial. By mid`morning on second June 2010, | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
the whole of the centre of Holbrook was cordoned off. Eventually the | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
horrific news emerged that inside this House, two adults and a child | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
had been found. The man who led the inquiry believes Cairns stabbed | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Auden, Rachael and then himself. It would appear that Rachael probably | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
let him in. There was no forced entry. He has got both sets of keys, | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
he has got Rachael's phone, and then at some point he has picked up a | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
knife. At the time Rachael's friends were | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
appalled. This has happened because this person is mentally unstable. He | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
was arrested for making threats that he was going to kill her, and he has | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
been let out of to do exactly that. Rachael had met Andrew Cairns in | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Spain, but they both returned to her native Derbyshire. Rachael had Auden | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
in 2008, but Cairns put `` Cairns' mental health deteriorated and the | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
couple split up. Rachael and Auden moved into the Holbrook cottage. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Neighbours were suspicious of Cairns when he visited. He looked sideways | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
out of his eyes and I thought he was a very peculiar person. But | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Andrew's neighbour at his bungalow thought highly of him. Our family | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
knew her view of Cairns and wanted us to bear it. I always found it | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
quite urgent `` found him quite a gentleman. He was one of the noticed | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
gentleman I knew. `` nicest gentlemen. Late in 2010, | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
Rachael taught Cairns that she had a new relationship. Things escalated | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
when Cairns was arrested for making threats to kill Rachael and Auden, | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
then released on condition he kept away from them both. He was there | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
when he was distressed, after he was told that he must not go or ring or | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
anything to do with the boy. That is what upset him. Because that is all | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
the words he said, I am having my little boy. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Worried at how angry and `` Andrew was, Phyllis phoned the police. That | :06:05. | :06:16. | |
then made Auden at high risk of being abducted. His risk then | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
changed. While assessing Rachael at the time | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
to be at high risk of homicide, the police were later unsure if they | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
actually told her she was. Knowing Rachael was at high risk of | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
homicide, we needed to adjust our lives. I think it would have made a | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
difference. Derbyshire Police admitted in the | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
inquest that a cocoon of police putting neighbours under alert would | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
have helped as well. Especially since Rachael's neighbours spotted | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Andrew Cairns by the Holbrook cottage a few days before the | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
killings. On June two, 2010, this woman heard Rachael screaming next | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
door. She saw a shadowy figure through a window behind Rachael. By | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
the time police and paramedics arrived it was too late. Cairns had | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
killed Auden, a pregnant Rachael and himself. I do not think he had | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
planned it for very long. He had been to see the doctor that morning, | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
he had gone to the premises are unarmed. So he armed himself at the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
premises. He may not have gone prepared. When his attention to | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
kill? Was it before, was it inside? I don't think anybody can say for | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
certain. I think he was at the end of his tether, but I did not expect | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
him to do what he did do. Rachael and Auden's death will be in | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
absolute vain if people who are living with people with mental | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
health problems could end up going down a similar horrific power. So it | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
has got to change by change in procedures. Making sure things are | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
done tighter. Making sure people have the support they deserve and | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
they require. Why then was Rachael not warned of | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
the danger Andrew Cairns had become? There WERE warning signs in that | :08:19. | :08:32. | |
late spring of 2010. On the 26th of May, Cairns was detained under the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Mental Health Act, assessed by a psychiatrist and released. The next | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
day, he was arrested after threatening to kill Rachael and take | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Auden. However, on the 28th, he was released so further inquiries could | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
take place ` on condition he did not contact Rachael. On June the 2nd, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
the killings. James Roberson was at the inquest's ending today for the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
reaction of both families. The results of a serious case review | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
and an inquiry by the IP CC, best `` both yet to be published, limited | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Derbyshire Police's response today. I would like to express my deepest | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
sympathy to the family of Rachael and Auden. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
He believes Derbyshire Police's actions in June 2010 did meet the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
national guidelines of the time. From the evidence it is clear that | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Rachael's report of Andrew Cairns' verbal threat to kill was taken | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
seriously by the police. We were actively investigating that threat | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
with a view to charging him, and we took steps to ensure that Rachael | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
and Auden's home were secure. The family of Andrew Cairns has | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
expressed their extreme disappointment that more was not | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
done by the mental health trust to provide the proper level of care for | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
him. Derbyshire health care trust say | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
they will assess the jury's findings and the coroner's comments. Robert | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Barlow summed up what everyone had lost. Somebody that was so kind and | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
so on condition with their love, and respect for life, and that is what | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
we all lost, not just me. The family, friends, everybody. She was | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
a very, very inwardly beautiful woman. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
James joins us now from the coroner's court. The coroner has | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
three recommendations for the authorities, James. Yes, the coroner | :10:26. | :10:39. | |
said he hoped that this would bring some closure to the families | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
affected by the tragedy, and he has those three recommendations. He is | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
asking the Home Secretary to look at bail conditions as the Powys police | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
have to detain people before charges, and a possible change in | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
the law on violent and sexual offences. Also, with two women a | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
week being killed in the UK, better training for the police on domestic | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
violence. Secondly he is writing to Derbyshire's Chief Constable, the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Home Secretary about ensuring `` improvements police forces can make | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
in record keeping doing domestic incidents. Finally, a joint report | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
the mental health trust and the police to ensure `` exchange more | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
information in the future about such incidents. Did anybody except the | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
bigger picture, did anybody join up the dots? | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
Next tonight, the inside story of how a headmaster turned into a | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
whistle`blower and initiated a crisis at the controversial Islamic | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
free school in Derby. Andrew Cutts`McKay was the Principal of the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Al`Madinah School in Derby. Speaking for the first time he says | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
his last term at the school became very difficult. And he eventually | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
quit after receiving an anonymous threat that his children would be | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
harmed unless he left. He's been speaking exclusively to our | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
reporter, Simon Hare. Until now he has declined to | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
comment, but now Andrew Cutts`McKay feels he can have his say about what | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
happened at the Al`Madinah School in Derby. He helped to set it up and | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
open it in September last year, but by the end of the last time he had | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
become concerned at how the school was being managed, particularly its | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
finances. There were fairly major concerns, and what I suggested what | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
`` was that a meeting take place to raise our concerns, and it was then | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
given to them to investigate. You were the whistle`blower that brought | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
in the outside bodies to investigate the Al`Madinah School. How do how | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
difficult was that for you? Very challenging indeed. It has been | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
challenging for my family and my children. He handed in his | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
resignation after an anonymous threat was made towards his family. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
The threat that was made was against my children, and I don't know who | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
made it. I made this clear, I gave evidence to the Department for | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Education. I don't know if it was racially motivated, I don't know if | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
it was faith motivated. I knew that I had received this, there was never | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
any reference to faith in it, it was just very specific. Unless you do | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
this, this will happen. What did you have to do? Unless you leave the | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
school, this will happen. But he still hopes the school survives and | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
can be turned around. I am hopeful that it will be `` stay open, there | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
are wonderful staff there. The children I miss every single day, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
they are wonderful children. I do believe that actually there is hope | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
for the future of the school, but it does need to change, and I think it | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
needs a radical shake up. He himself is due to resume his career as the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
head of a new free school at Newark in Nottinghamshire. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
A Nottingham man and his mother arrested on suspicion of kidnap and | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
attempted child abduction are still being questioned by the police. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Two`year`old Na'ilah Khan and her ten`month`old brother Sulaimon were | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
taken from a hotel room in Stoke on Trent on Friday. Their father Saleem | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Tahir and his mother Denise Smith`Sellers were arrested last | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
night at a guesthouse in Derby. The children are safe and well. In a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
statement their mother said it was like a part of her had been missing. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
It's emerged that Government inspectors forced the closure of a | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
care home in Nottingham. It was announced yesterday that St | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
Andrews Lodge in Basford would shut following a number of serious | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
concerns about the care and safety of its residents ` many of whom have | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
dementia. The Care Quality Commission says taking action to | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
force a closure is only ever done as a last resort. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Another 1,500 school places are expected to be created in Leicester. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
The City Council has put forward plans to invest ?16 million in | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
primary schools in the city. The money is likely to be used to expand | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
schools across the city. It's the second phase of improvements aimed | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
at meeting a growing demand for places. | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Care homes across Nottinghamshire will get more money if they can | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
demonstrate a higher standard of care for people with dementia. | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
Social services are giving the extra payments to those awarded their new | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
quality mark ` that's 32 so far. The awards have been brought in to | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
try to improve the care surrounding one of the biggest health challenges | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
of our age. This report from our Health correspondent Rob Sissons. | :15:59. | :16:12. | |
Myra recalls looking after prisoners of war in the 1940s. Her friend has | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
dementia. Like many relatives, her daughter felt guilty when she went | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
into a whole, but says it has worked out. I have had such a life of | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
moving around over the place, you just adapt when you are at that | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
particular position. You don't feel institutionalised at all. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
Some of the homes are quite scruffy, and they don't really have | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
enough staff. Dementia is now one of the biggest health challenges of our | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
age. The latest Government estimates suggest 58,000 people living with | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
dementia in the East Midlands, and that will go up by 25% by the year | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
2021 if National projected trends are reflected here. We are looking | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
for a style of care that encourages people with dementia to be involved, | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
and to communicate, and to be stimulated with a range of | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
activities and good conversation. This home in West Bridgeford is one | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
home awarded the Care Quality Commission quality mark. They have a | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
background, history, and they have interests we want to continue | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
supporting them to do. Getting residents out and about is valued as | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
part of the quality mark, and today it is something to raise a glass to. | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
A trip to the local wine bar. It's hoped that commercial freight | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
barges could soon return to ferry cargo along the River Trent. The | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
remaining half a dozen barge operators stopped working there in | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
the summer after a quarry company said it would no longer use the | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
river to transport materials. Well, now a million pounds is being | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
spent on clearing the Trent's navigation routes to keep them clear | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
enough for cargo vessels. Mike O'Sullivan has this report. | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
On the River Trent near Cromwell in Nottinghamshire. | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
A huge dredging operation is under way, from a floating platform | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
supported by legs that stand on the river bed. A digger plunges beneath | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
the water, reaching deep down 12 feet or so, taking away the material | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
that can block the navigation routes along the river. This target takes | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
away the full hopper. It is captained by a man who was made | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
redundant during the summer, when the last commercial barges stopped | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
work on the Trent. A big quarry company ended its operations. I got | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
made redundant, so we are finding other ways `` means of work. How do | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
you feel that there is no barge work now on the Trent? I think it is very | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
sad. It was cheap, it was efficient, it was friendly. This | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
dredging operation is costing around ?1 million. They are targeting | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
pressure points along the 45 Bal stretch of the River Trent. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Back in the heyday of water cargo, millions of tonnes a year were | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
transported. Today it is less than half a % nationally. The dredging | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
operation is being funded by the canal and River and Canal Trust, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
which has to maintain navigational standards. The work will help | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
leisure craft, but it could help to bring back the barges. Should the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
freight operators be looking for ways to transport the materials, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
they can be sure that the river will be able to provide that function for | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
them. The dredging operation should soon be over, but when will the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
barges be back in business? From the razzmatazz of Broadway to | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Shakespearean tragedies, theatre director Paul Kerryson has brought | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
an eclectic mix of shows to Leicester. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Along the way he's discovered a few stars and switched from one | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
theatrical venue to another. In the latest of our Made in Leicester | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
series, our arts reporter Geeta Pendse found out why Paul's plan to | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
stay for a year in the city turned into two decades. | :20:31. | :20:48. | |
Auditions for the latest production of Chicago coming next month, and it | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
has special meaning for the `` artistic director who started out | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
his career in Leicester 21 years ago with a then little`known show. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
What was it like starting out opening with Chicago? It was a show | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
that nobody knew, but for me it was very important that I started well | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
at Leicester, because I was only here on a year's contract, so I had | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
to make my first choice a good one, and Chicago of course went down a | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
bomb, because a lot of the critics and audiences had never seen it | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
before, so they discovered it. It is the world of musicals that | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
earned him critical praise, from the Haymarket days to the run of big | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
number shows. The joy of the singing, dancing, visuals, | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
everything coming together, it is like so many talents coming | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
together. If it works, you cannot beat it. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Along the way Paul has also spotted some future stars, like Eddie | :21:58. | :22:10. | |
Izzard. Pas Minder started off tearing | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
tickets, then she was in the youth theatre, then she just sort of went | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
on and look at her now so after 21 years, what keeps him excited? | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
I love the theatre here. I love the atmosphere here. And I am always | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
trying to bring the best in Leicester, getting the best out of | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
Leicester, just basically entertaining people. | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
It is a great theatre. Another crowd`pleaser, Colin with | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
the sport. First tonight, we understand | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock is leaving on a | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
three`month loan deal to Leeds United. He's struggled to break into | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
the Forest line`up this season but has attracted plenty of interest ` | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Brighton were also interested. We understand that Blackstock chose to | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
go to West Yorkshire. The deal doesn't allow the forward to play | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
against Forest. And final confirmation from Derby | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
County of the arrival of highly rated Liverpool defender Andre | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Wisdom. He's coming in on a season`long youth loan. | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
There is action tonight. League One strugglers Notts County go to | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Gillingham ` who've had some well publicised troubles of their own. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
While in League Two Mansfield Town go to Bury. All very tight at the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
top of League Two ` the Stags are in eight, but just three points off the | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
top spot. On to rugby, and starting with the | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
code most familiar to us here ` union. But the World Cup gets under | :23:39. | :23:52. | |
way this weekend and just like they did with the Olympics, Loughborough | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
University's playing a huge role. Kirsty Edwards reports. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
The next few weeks will be huge for these players. The countdown is on | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
for the rugby week `` rugby league World Cup, and the England team are | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
preparing right here at Loughborough. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
And this is the prize they are about to do battle for. 14 teams are | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
competing. England are third favourites behind the holders New | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Zealand, and the overwhelming front runners Australia, who England face | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
in Saturday's opening match. We have no time to build into it, we are | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
straight in against the best in the world. But I think that is good, we | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
can test ourselves in week one. We have been working up to this for | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
such a long time but we are ready to play. Hopefully we can make an | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
impact in that first game. England may be based at Loughborough, but | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
there is no getting away from the fact that it is generally `` | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
genuinely all about rugby union here in the West Midlands. Leicester | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
Tigers are just down the road after all. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
So, should anyone in these parts be interested in this rugby league | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
World Cup? This is only the eighth ever World Cup staged in this `` on | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
the shores of any sport. I think on the back of the Olympics, people | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
went to some events that they would never have dreamt of before. Rugby I | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
think should be on your agenda this year. This can spread the world for | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
`` spread the word for our sport this year. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Rugby league is a bit faster paced, a little bit more entertaining. I | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
would just urge people to have a go and watch a game and see what you | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
think. So the battle is on for the biggest | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
prize of all, and they hope, some new fans as well. | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
My code is still soaking this morning `` after this morning's dog | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
walk. `` my coat. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
We will continue overnight to see some squally winds and further | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
heavy, possibly thundery downpours. It has been quite wet on and off | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
today. We have seen a few showers through this part of the us back | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
through the afternoon, but they `` more are coming in across the West. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
The winds will start to increase, with `` we could see gusts of 45 to | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
50 miles per hour. Some torrential rain expected into the early hours, | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
so difficult driving conditions. Gradually through the morning, mild | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
start again. We will start to see the show is diminishing, and into | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
the afternoon some decent weather, some sunshine and still feeling | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
quite mild, but it will be quite a windy day. We see the showers across | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, but better | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
conditions than how the day starts. 16 Celsius the maximum daytime | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
temperature. Overnight tomorrow night the wind falls a lot lighter, | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
and temperatures will go down to two Celsius. There is a chance of a | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
grass frost, so we will see a decent day on Thursday. The cloud | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
increasing gradually, and then this next area of rain on the way up from | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
the South West. That is linked to this area of low pressure, which | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
will put that weather front across most of the country through Friday. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
It is also going to give as strong winds as well. The ground is already | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
pretty statute `` saturated, and there will be a chance for quite a | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
few branches and the occasional treat to come down. | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
Quite a spell of weather on Saturday, more rain to come after | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
that. There was some good news in there somewhere! | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
The thing that worried me was that two. | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
More weather at 10:30pm. | :27:47. | :27:49. |