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I This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Tonight, the single punch that destroyed a man's life. Brian Hogan | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
is now blind and paralysed. One reckless act, one moment of | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
craziness. It is just not worth it. No way. | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
Also, the expats whose dream of a life in the sun is in ruins. I | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
worked for my pension, and it is all gone. Plus, with hundreds more | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
children skipping school, I am at a primary taking a tough stance on | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
truancy. And as the Princess Royal pops by, | :00:53. | :01:10. | |
and eager puppy steals the show. Good evening. Welcome to Monday's | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
programme. First tonight, the victim of a | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
drunken attack who was left blind and paralysed is supporting a police | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
campaign to tackle a rise in violent crime. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Brian Hogan was hit in the face with a single punch during a night out in | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
the city. He was in a coma for three months and, four years on, is still | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
living in a rehabilitation centre. The 36`year`old says that one moment | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
snatched his life away from him. And he is now backing | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Nottinghamshire Police's Alliance Against Violence campaign. Sarah | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Teale has the details. This campaign comes in the light of | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
new figures which show violence in the county is rising. In the 12 | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
months up to this June it has gone up by 6%. And the numbers are large. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
We are talking around 13,000 cases of violent crime committed in the | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
last year. Of those, almost half resulted in injury. Ironically, this | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
campaign comes after a weekend which saw three men stabbed during a fight | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
between a group of around 20 people. It happened outside the gate`crasher | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
nightclub in the city centre in the early hours of Saturday morning. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Police say it is exactly that sort of alcohol`fuelled violence they | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
want to stop. And one man who knows more than anyone the impact violent | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
crime can have is Brian Hogan. Brian Hogan was once fit and active, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
with a promising future. He was on a normal night out with friends in | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Nottingham in 2009 when a single unprovoked punch changed his life | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
forever. Today, I am a blind man. I cannot see at all today. I had to | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
learn how to walk, and how to talk again, a bit like a baby does. When | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
you have to learn those things all over again when you are an adult, it | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
is much, much more difficult, it is very hard. Just say when you have | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
had enough. You are doing well. Brian 0 | :03:10. | :03:10. | |
had enough. You are doing well. Brian was in a coma for three | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
months. Now 36, he had to move back to Ireland to be near family, and | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
lives in a rehabilitation centre. When you go from being a very busy | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
professional person, very independent, fiercely independent, | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
very active, very sporty and fit, to being in a wheelchair in the dark, | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
you would do anything to get your life back on track, really. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Brian is not the only victim. Since 2001, eight people have died from | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
the force of one punch, including 19`year`old Liam, who was hit just | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
once outside the Halo club in 2009. His death was described in court as | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
another act of senseless city centre violence. Brian's attacker had drunk | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
around ten pints before he hit him. The damage you can cause to another | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
person, the way you can blow their lives apart, it is massive, really. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Through one reckless act, one moment of craziness. It's just not worth | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
it. No way. The consequences there of just one | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
single act of violence. What else will this campaign focus on? It | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
focuses on many things, and it runs for three weeks. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
It will look at hate crime, domestic violence and robbery, but the main | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
push is to tackle this kind of violence at night, and that is all | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
tied in to do with alcohol, and police say a lot of the problem is | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
this culture of pre`loading, people who go out and get drunk before they | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
have even gone out. They are the people that are most likely to get | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
caught up in violence, even as `` either as a victim or an offender. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Police reckon half of 18 to 35`year`olds do that, get drunk | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
before they go out, and the police say a major part of the campaign is | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
to stop them from the in the city at all. In the towns and cities you may | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
see more officers on the streets, directing people to leave because | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
they are too drunk. You will see officers on transport stopping | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
people coming into towns and cities because they are already drunk, they | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
have brought and guile and drunk to access prior to their night out. We | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
have seen some occasional horrendous incidents where one punch has | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
destroyed the life of an individual and meant somebody else has got a | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
significant prison 0 and meant somebody else has got a | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
significant prison sentence. When people have drunk too much alcohol | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
they do not make rational decisions, and that can be the end result. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
The police say they want the public's support for their Alliance | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Against Violence. And they will be naming and shaming anyone charged | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
with alcohol`related or violent crime in the next few weeks. | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
A couple from Rutland whose dream retirement villa is about to be | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
demolished say their lives have been ruined. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Peter and Margaret Hegarty used their life savings of ?150,000 to | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
buy the villa. But, to their horror, they discovered it had been built | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
illegally. They are now waiting for it to be | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
bulldozed and want to warn others about what has happened. Helen Astle | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
reports. For Peter and Margaret Hegarty, it | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
was their dream home. A villa in Andalusia, where they could spend | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
their retirement. Only a year after they moved in, they were told their | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
villa had been built illegally, and it would have to be demolished. For | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Margaret, the stress was too much. It took me through to the hospital, | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
and they said I had a heart attack. I was in intensive care for a little | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
while, and then it happened again. About a year, ten months, later, it | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
happened again. After a legal battle the couple moved back to the UK. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
They now live in a rented flat, and they are waiting for their villa to | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
be demolished. It has made a difference. Our social life... To | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
live in a villa with a big heart and then come back here... It just | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
changes everything. You don't have the same money as you had before. We | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
don't have any savings now. That makes a big difference as well. The | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
couple have lost around ?150,000. Last day, a Spanish court ruled | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
their builder should pay them compensation. They are still | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
waiting. I worked 30 odd years for my pension, my redundancy money, and | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
now it is all gone. Very devastating. It is. In what we? They | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
have ruined our life. We have got nothing. This has been hanging over | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
us for eight years and it is still dragging on, it does not seem to be | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
going away. You see television, people going over to buy cheap | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
properties. They are mad. Absolutely mad. Peter and Margaret say they | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
don't know what the future holds, but they will never return to Spain. | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Still to come: We heeded the warnings, we battened down the | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
hatches, but the wind stayed away. I think I have got some explaining | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
to do! It was closer than you think, we can count ourselves lucky. Find | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
out what happened with me later on in the programme. | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
More details from Kaye later, but, yes, we were lucky. The great storm | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
steered away from the East Midlands and we were spared much of the | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
anticipated flooding and damage. But we didn't get away scot`free. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Train services were badly affected and are only now beginning to | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
recover. Our chief news reporter Quentin Rayner is outside Nottingham | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
station with the latest. 0 Good evening, Quentin. Good evening. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Tonight, East Midlands Trains is still unable to get any services in | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
and out of St Pancras and won't be for the rest of the day. The Midland | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Mainline remains closed between Luton and London in both directions | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
while damage is repaired in Hertfordshire. As you can see here, | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
trees have fallen onto overhead power lines, and mains power lines | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
from pylons have also fallen onto the track. In the last couple of | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
hours, the East Coast Mainline has started to get trains in and out of | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Kings Cross. They will be travelling slower between Stevenage and London | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
on a reduced timetable. Flooding and fallen trees disrupted commuters | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
this morning, including these travelling from Grantham. | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
I brought my wife down to catch the 5:44am to London King's Cross. That | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
was cancelled. They said to get on the 6:17am to go to Peterborough. | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
That would catch the 7am to London. That was cancelled. I have just | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
heard it will be four hours before any trains get to London. My husband | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
is heading to London, I was just ringing him, so we will see how the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
trains. My train has been cancelled, I have got to wait an hour, so I | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
will be late for work. I checked the website this morning but it was | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
off`line. The servers have probably crashed through overload. | :10:14. | :10:26. | |
So what about tomorrow? East Coast Mainline plan to run as near normal | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
a service as possible from tomorrow morning. They do expect some | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
retiming but the frequency of trains should be the same. East Midlands | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
trains says it is reliant on network rail completing repairs. They say | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
they will have teams out all night and are confident there will be a | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
full service tomorrow morning on the Midland mainline. Check for updates | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
before travelling tomorrow. If you do have a ticket waited for today, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
it will be valid or two days on East Midlands trains and will be valid | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
just for tomorrow on the East Coast mainline. Thank you. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Derbyshire Police have dropped two allegations of rape against | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
convicted killer Mick Philpott. It is believed two women who made the | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
historic allegations have told police they no longer want to pursue | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
their claims. Officers say there is insufficient evidence to put to the | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
Crown Prosecution Service. In April, Philpott was found guilty of the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
manslaughter of his six children in a house fire in Derby. | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
People living in Loughborough are being asked for their views on plans | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
to allow buses through the town centre. A portion of the A6 in the | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
town will be pedestrianised as part of a transport scheme costing ?19 | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
million. Over the next six weeks, Leicestershire County Council wants | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
feedback on whether buses should be allowed in the pedestrian area or | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
routed away from the town centre. Next, could a railway line axed by | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Dr Beeching in the 1960s provide a much cheaper alternative to HS2? The | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
Great Central Railway used to link Nottingham and Leicester with | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
London. The idea of re`opening the line has | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
been put forward ahead of an updated Government report on HS2, which is | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
due out tomorrow. Mike O'Sullivan reports. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Could the great Central line become great again? These days in our | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
region, the great Central line is a ten mile Heritage route between | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Loughborough and Leicester. Axed by Dr Beeching in the 1960s, it once | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
ran between Nottingham and London. Now there is an idea that much of | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
the great central should become operational once more. It would not | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
affect the Heritage line, but the boss says the rest could become an | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
alternative to HS2. That is currently costing ?50 billion. The | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
government said all parties have got to agree and, if they agree, they | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
would support HS2. If that failed and there was then another | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
alternative, this looks like a good alternative. The disused great | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Central line would become part of the freight line between the Channel | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Tunnel and Glasgow. The cost, ?6 billion. Services could then be | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
carried on upgraded existing passenger routes, says the Labour MP | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
behind the plan. I think HS2 is not sensible, personally. I think there | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
are all sorts of sensible alternatives. It is not necessary, | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
expensive, and we should invest the money in other schemes, including | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
the GB frequent. This retired railway worker started as an | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
apprentice on the great central. He believes it can be rebuilt. South of | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
Leicester, you could use that very well. It would be good for freight | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
macro everything. If it did make a comeback, it would be one of the | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
great return journeys in railway history. I wonder if that idea will | :13:54. | :14:07. | |
fly. Still to come: Notts County looking | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
for their eighth manager in the space of just four years. | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
Chris Kiwomya departed after Saturday's home defeat at Meadow | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Lane. We'll be talking to Magpies' chief executive Jim Rodwell. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
There has been a marked rise in the number of children skipping school | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
here in the East Midlands. Latest figures suggest an extra 2,500 | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
pupils missed lessons in the past year alone. | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
But schools are taking action against truancy. Some are now | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
informing parents straightaway, via texts and emails, that their | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
children have not turned up. Jo Healey reports. | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
If you are the parent of a child here at hillocks primary and your | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
child does not turn up for school or skipped lessons, you will instantly | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
get a text or an e`mail to let you know. Because they miss school, they | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
won't learn anything. When the teacher asks you a question, you | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
won't know what to do. You don't really know anything. I think it is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
bad because you won't learn anything and get a good job. Just how bad is | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
truancy here in the East Midlands? Recently it went up from 5% to 5.4%. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
That .4% might not sound very much, but, in real terms, that is more | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
than 2400 pupils, extra pupils, missing school. But does this really | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
help? They see the texts, access their e`mails, see we are continuing | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
to raise attendance issues so they know it is a high priority for us as | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
a school. Does it work? I think it definitely works. I have just done a | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
trail of attendance for the last half term and there were a lot of | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
children who have improved their attendance based on the work we have | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
done. Many schools have taken up the advantage that this offers and it | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
means they can get in touch with parents quickly, find out reasons | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
for the absence, and do something about it. And they are doing plenty | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
here to try to tackle truancy head`on. | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
Of course, everyone here had an exemplary attendance record. | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Including Colin, who is here with the sport. | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
Absolutely. Notts County's chief executive, Jim | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Rodwell, has admitted the club's board have not been good at choosing | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
managers. Saturday's home defeat was followed by Chris Kiwomya becoming | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
the seventh manager to leave in just four years. And today Jim Rodwell | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
told me it was all because of results. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
We are very disappointed to see Chris go, he has worked hard and | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
been diligent, but at the end of the day we are a result driven industry | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
and we have to win games of football. If we don't, it affects | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
the business and we have to do something about it. Ultimately, the | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
manager becomes the fall guy. Do you have questions to and they hear? If | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
we look at your record, no one can blame the club for hands back and | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Steve Cotterell going, they volunteered. And you had Craig Short | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
for 4.5 months, Paul Ince for five months, three managers in succession | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
all of whom got less than a year. Surely you have got to look at | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
yourselves? Without any shadow of a doubt there is a lot of | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
soul`searching this weekend. Absolutely right, ie, we as a board | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
of directors, choose the managers, and clearly we have not been very | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
good at it or we would not be having this conversation again. If you | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
listen to a lot of fans, they felt the performance was poor on | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
Saturday. Obviously the result was poor. How do you find someone to | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
pick that up and turn it around now? I think the players are better | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
than they are proving at the moment. There is a lack of confidence. But | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
we have got to stick together and try to move forward, to do something | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
about it. Fundamentally, will this not be about finding someone and | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
giving them two years, no matter what, just letting them do it? You | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
can look at it both ways, absolutely. You could give Chris as | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
long as you like, but could we also argue that we offered ling while | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Rome burns? We are bottom of the league, we have to do something | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
about it. If you change for changes sake? Only time will tell. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
There's no stopping Leicester City at the moment. The Foxes have now | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
won their last six Championship games at home and they're up to | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
second in the table. Saturday was a special day all round for the club | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
as it was their fifth annual Respect day. Kirsty Edwards was there. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
A date for the players to keep their run going, and to promote a cause | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
close to the club's heart. Leicester have had at the forefront of | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
promoting the FA's Respect campaign, which aims to make names as safe and | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
enjoyable for fans as possible. It's all a special mixed zone set up for | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
you and Leicester supporters to sit and watch the game alongside | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
Bournemouth once. It adds to the sort of integration, if you like. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
They can have some friendly banter, that is what it is about. And there | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
is loads going on today, not just the mixed fans but stuff going on | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
outside as well? Plenty going on around the place today. Outside the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
stadium, inside, before the game we had presentations, 30`something | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Junior teams parading around, proud as punch. A special day for this | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
football club and the kids. If you see the kids now, they are smiling, | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
happy. It is just brilliant, it really is. Plenty of respect amongst | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
the fans today, and now the players will be hoping to earn it on the | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
pitch. The foxes looked bright from the start, lots of early pressure | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
saw David Nugent bag his eighth goal of the season. As the half went on, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Bournemouth got back into the game. By the break, it was all square. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
Leicester are a team high on confidence, though, and fully | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
deserved this second`half winner. It lifted them into the automatic | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
motion places. Promotion is always the aim, and in previous seasons we | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
have not quite gone on to retain that but we will keep working hard, | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
and the players are enjoying themselves. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Elsewhere, Derby County are continue to watch Kalifa Cisse. The Malian | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
international is on trial at Pride Park. On the field, Derby failed to | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
make it three wins in a row in front of their biggest crowd of the | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
season, whilst Nottingham Forest were blown away as the storm came in | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
at Yeovil. Mark Shardlow reports. More than 27,000 fans at Derby, but | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
it was to be a frustrating afternoon. This mess was followed by | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
a lovely chip, and this shot cleared off the line. Ward found the net | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
before half`time but it was Derby's only goal. A defensive lapse in the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
second half saw Novak equalised for Birmingham. We had enough | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
opportunities and chances to win the game. We didn't. That is football. | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Nottingham Forest were hit by two wonder goals, but in the end a key | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
penalty miss cost them dearly at bottom club Yeovil. Simon Cox, the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
man brought down, went on to take the kick. It produced a | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
straightforward save from penalty, followed by a marvellous reaction | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
from the first rebound and excellent defending for the second. Dobson | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
scored his second long`range goal in the frantic end to the first half. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
But two minutes later Forrester on the scoresheet. Within a minute, | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
Yeovil extended their lead to 3`1, and that is how it stayed, their | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
first home win of the season ending forest's run without defeat. The | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
second half, we came up against an outstanding goalkeeper, one man of | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
the match. That is what happens in football. | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Meanwhile in League Two, Mansfield lost out to a late`winning goal as | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
they hosted Plymouth. The Stags will regret a series of missed chances, | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
with Sam Clucas going close in the first half. But deep into the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
second, Plymouth headed past second`choice keeper Liam Mitchell | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
to secure the three points. Mansfield, who are five games | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
without a win, are 11th in the table. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Leicester Tigers continued their poor record at London Wasps, going | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
down 22`12 yesterday. Tigers boss Richard Cockerill was without lots | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
of first`team regulars due to injury and international duty, and it | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
showed as the Wasps went over early on. Owen Williams' four penalties | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
were not enough for Leicester and they are now six years without a win | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
at Adams Park. They stay fifth in the Premiership. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
And the Nottingham Panthers also lost at the weekend, twice. First to | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Belfast on Friday, then at home to Coventry on Saturday. The Panthers | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
had come back from 1`0 down to level the scores through Matt Francis. By | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the end of the second period, they had powered to a 4`2 lead with goals | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
from Steve Lee and this belter from Bob Wren. But a lacklustre final | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
session allowed Blaze to draw level and force overtime. No goals in | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
overtime and the Panthers lost 5`4 on penalty shots. | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
And that is it, after a very busy weekend. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Finally, before the weather, one of our military bases hosted a royal | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
visit today. The Princess Royal braved the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
blustery conditions to visit the Defence Animal Centre near Melton | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
Mowbray in Leicestershire. Paul Bradshaw went along to find out why. | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
The Princess Royal officially opening the new military dog kennels | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
at the Defence Animal Centre earlier today. The newly built block now | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
comprise the National Centre for military canine training. It boasts | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
facilities such as central heating, air conditioning, and an acoustic | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
roof that reduces noise. It can accommodate up to 200 talks. It | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
makes the conditions for success a lot easier to achieve. The dogs are | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
kept healthier because they are in better conditions, the days they | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
lose due to owners are reduced to a minimum. There is staff morale, the | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
staff are indoors in an easy to keep clean Cannell complex and it can | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
only be good news. We know that they will have a good welfare for them, | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
so it makes the handler a lot happier. The centre trains dogs and | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
handlers for a range of duties from searching for explosives to | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
security. It is a crucial role in an ever`changing world. If they do not | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
get the correct training here, then on operations if they do not do the | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
job correctly it could cost lives. The better training here, the better | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
handlers they are on operations. Today, they were thereby will | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
demand, tomorrow they will follow different commands. `` they work | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
their by Royal demand. Lucky dogs with central heating and air | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
conditioning! Time now for the weather. I asked | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
and down the hatches and took away my wheelie bins. I am pleased to | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
hear it! We got away with it. The storm | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
tracked further south than we were forecasting. It took the strong | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
winds with it. I am sure you have seen the footage of the southern | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
half of the UK, but for us we were under the centre of the low, the eye | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
of the storm, for much of the night. That is where the wind is | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
actually dropped out, so for much of it we had quite light winds, but it | :25:44. | :25:59. | |
was not far off, just 50 to 100 miles away. That, in forecast terms, | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
is not far at all, so I think we can say we should count ourselves lucky. | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
We saw heavy rain, though, over an inch in parts of Leicestershire. | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
More autumnal weather to come for the rest of the week. A breezy week, | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
for sure, but it will be cooler than recent days. It has been quite | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
mild, and there will be some dry weather and perhaps some sunshine to | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
cheer things up as well. For the rest of the evening and from tonight | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
the showers will fade away. We are dry for a time, with clear skies, | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
but the winds are turning more north`westerly through the night, | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
with some shallow speeding in on those bruises. Under clearer skies | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
tonight we will be a little bit cooler. Tomorrow morning, there will | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
be a fuchsia was from the word go. They will continue to spread | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
eastwards, but there will not be many of them and there will be | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
drier, brighter weather in between them. Feeling cooler, quite a brisk | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
wind. Into Wednesday, we have another weather front lurking in the | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
wings on Wednesday, which will sweep on later in the day. It starts | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
drier, a cool start to the day, but the cloud increasing and the wind | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
will pick up and we will see more rain later on Wednesday. Other than | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
that, not too bad. Not too bad at all, thank you. | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Very mobile at the moment. We were very lucky. | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
We will see you for the late news. Goodbye. | :27:21. | :27:50. | |
that's going to present us with the ten grand. When we win it. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
You've just got to make it as bearable | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
Here we are in the PR nerve centre of Iceland | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
at the end of 96 hours of total hell. | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
But we haven't tested for dog or cat either. | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
Is this the warmest supermarket around? | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
Iceland Foods - Life in the Freezer Cabinet. | :28:13. | :28:16. |