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transformation of the NHS in England. That | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Tonight, a top judge condemns a council for trying to evict a | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
grieving widow and her children. After Claire's husband took his own | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
life, she was told she couldn't stay in the home they shared. I am so | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
overwhelmed that we have won it, and this has really been worth it. I'm | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
getting emotional. Also tonight, how a wrangle over a locked door delayed | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
vital time for this stroke victim. He thought the other side was open. | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
They were unable to get in. Plus the town were easing traffic congestion | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
with a new relief road comes with a catch. 4000 new homes. And the | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
winner is... ? We reveal which of these is our Unsung Hero 2013. | :00:59. | :01:11. | |
Good evening. Welcome to the programme. First tonight, a widow | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
says she feels overwhelmed after a judge ruled that her local council | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
was wrong to try to evict her and her two children from their family | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
home. Leicester City Council was trying to evict Clare Shearer | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
because the tenancy agreement was in the name of her late husband, who'd | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
taken his own life. Clare says the stress has meant she hasn't been | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
able to grieve for him, and any plans for the future have been put | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
on hold. Helen Astle reports. Claire and James were married for | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
six years before he committed suicide in 2011. Their council | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
tenancy was in his name after James had inherited it from his mother. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
James died, and Clare Shearer says she received a letter asking her and | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
her children to leave. I was mortified. I was having to deal with | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the death of my husband and this K only two weeks after. Over the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
following two years, Clare has battled with the council to be | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
allowed to stay in the home. She's had no strict right to stay there. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
It has left us not been able to plan anything, it has been hard because | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
at the back of my mind is the fact we have to leave. The court ruled | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
today that Leicester City Council had been wrong to try to evict Clare | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
and the girls from their home. I am so overwhelmed we have won it. And | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
this three years fight has really been worth it. I don't want to get | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
emotional... But it is such a relief to know that... You know, we are | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
going to get to keep all these memories. I think I need an apology | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
from the council. It is not a decision to be made lightly. They | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
should have considered and looked at it a lot more and not just gone on | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
there all is and regulations. In a statement, Leicester City Council | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
say that tenancies on council properties can only be passed to | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
another family member in limited circumstances. They go on to say | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
that in light of this judgement, it could be that we need to review our | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
housing allocations policy in light of this case. We are considering our | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
position and we will look into it further. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Governors of the troubled Al`Madinah free school in Derby have today been | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
meeting education officials to discuss its future. There's mounting | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
speculation that the trust which runs it could be removed. It's | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
thought the school may then be placed in the hands of an academy. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Our reporter Simon Hare is in our Derby studio now. What's the latest? | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
Well, the Department for Education has told us wants to make an | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
announcement on the future of the Al`Madinah school, quickly as | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
possible. As you say, officials have been meeting governors from the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
school today. No word yet on the outcome of that meeting but there | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
was speculation at the weekend that the trustees who run the school were | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
told they would have to go all the school would lose its funding. It | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
would then have to close. Any formal announcement could be made as soon | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
as tomorrow but the Department for edge of says it will release any | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
details and relevant documents to show what it has taken the decision. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
`` but the Department for Education. So, what could happen? Well, closing | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
the school would be politically embarrassing for the government. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
Free schools are a flagship education policy for the government. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Doing nothing is not an option. So if the trust was removed, that could | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
see the running of the school passed to an academy or a group of | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
academies. They are established education providers operating | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
outside local authority control. One name we are hearing quite a lot | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
during this situation is that of Barry dei who runs a foundation | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
trust in Nottingham who has got 22 academies across the country, mostly | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
in the East Midlands. He's going to be a favourite of Michael Gove, the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Education Secretary. And when I spoke to Greenwood Dale earlier, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
they had declined to comment. But we will learn the future of the | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
Al`Madinah school in the next couple of hours. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Still to come, why Rebecca`Anne's a revelation. Deaf since the age of | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
18, Rebecca's used her memory of music to write songs, and to | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
challenge a few stereotypes about deaf people. | :05:50. | :06:05. | |
A distressed daughter says she's furious that her father, who'd had a | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
stroke, had to wait 26 minutes behind a locked door at a care home | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
before staff opened it to let in paramedics. 89`year`old Leslie | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Coombs from Nottingham died of a heart attack nine days later. Those | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
caring for Mr Coombs say they did follow correct procedures. But his | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
daughter, Glenis Riley, says she's now considering legal action. James | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Roberson reports. Glenis Riley and her husband are | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
deeply upset about what happened to Glenys's father last month. Leslie | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Coombs was an RAF war veteran and a much loved grandfather who had gone | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
to live that sheltered housing complex in Nottingham. One Saturday | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
morning last month, the 89`year`old suffered a stroke when paramedics | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
arrived, no staff on duty were allowed to use codes to access the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
safe with emergency room keys. That's all it took. These numbers to | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
be given out so they could get this master key up to get into his flat. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
And they just refused. It is their policy. The home is run by Places | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
For People, but it is run by somebody else on the weekends. It | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
took 26 minutes of anyone to get in. The ambulance crew could see him | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
through the letterbox. He was asking when they were going to come in and | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
help. Nottingham city homes say they have recorded this incident and they | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
say... The faster you act, the more of a | :07:43. | :08:03. | |
person you say. The government's an advertising campaign stresses fast | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
action is needed if a patient is to survive a stroke and recover. This | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
is what I have to live with right now. Would it have made a difference | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
if they had got in straight away? Leslie Coombs died nine days later | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
of a heart attack. Nottingham home says the safety of their customers | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
is of utmost importance. "We are reviewing the current process with | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
the emergency services and changes will be made as a priority." Glenis | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Riley is considering taking legal action. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
The company running Mallory Park race track in Leicestershire has | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
been put into liquidation. The decision was made today after a | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
meeting with creditors, who'd put the firm into administration in | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
September. It follows a row over the number of race days allowed at the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
circuit. Creditors say the site will go back into the hands of the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
landlord who will decide on any further racing at the track. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Three men have appeared at Nottingham Crown Court today charged | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
with the murder of a man from Arnold. The body of Andrew Dosiuk | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
was found at his home in Laneham Avenue last Monday. The 33`year`old | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
died from a gunshot wound. Detectives charged the trio with | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
murder on Friday. They've been remanded in custody. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
For years, it's been a frustrating bottle`neck for motorists on one of | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
the region's busy east`west trunk roads. Now a new multi`million pound | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
relief road is to be built just south of Grantham, linking the A1 | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
and the A52 heading to the East Coast. But for some residents, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
there's a catch. It's tied up with a planned development of 4,000 new | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
homes. From Grantham, here's our Political Editor John Hess. | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
This is what happens when a high street is also on one of the main | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
routes from the Midlands to East Anglia. But relief it is on its way. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
At the shape of a new road linking the A52 south of Grantham to the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
A52. The local economy will get a lift. An estimated ?745 million | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
boost. I think it could be huge. Not only in terms of the retail | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
opportunity but also the out`of`town distribution opportunities with the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
trunk road, and I think there are plans with regards to a distribution | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
hub around the south side of the town which would take advantage of | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
the new road. The plan also includes building 4000 new homes which an | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
arms this woman, who has lived in little pond and since she was eight. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
It is a nice little village. And you are likely to have new neighbours. | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
No, not at all. How do you feel about it? It is not good at all. If | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
residents are hoping for a sympathetic hearing from their local | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
MP, they might be disappointed because Nick Bowles is the local | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
planning minister, and he has been urging local councils to speed up | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
such housing schemes. Frankly, there is no it screws for a local | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
authority not to put in a local plan in place. That is a fundamental | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
responsibility of theirs and many authorities have done it. Those that | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
haven't needed to get a move on. It is all quite here, but this time | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
next year, this ancient village might have some noisy neighbours as | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
the road builders move in. Beautiful skies there. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Colin's here with the sport later, but earlier today he was out and | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
about meeting someone very special. We are hidden away. He has no clue | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
we are coming. Find out in a few minutes to has won this Unsung Hero | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
2013 award. This time next week, there'll be a | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
special service getting under way at Southwell Minster to bid farewell to | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Paul Butler as he leaves to become Bishop of Durham. It'll be well over | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
a year before a successor is in place, but the outgoing Bishop | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
denies there'll be a leadership vacuum in the Diocese. As he | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
prepares to take up one of the most senior positions in the Church of | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
England, he's been reflecting on his time there with Quentin Rayner. | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
When Paul Butler arrived almost four years ago, he assumed he would be at | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Southwell until he retired. He's a priest who never expected to be a | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
bishop. I was very surprised when I was first approached with it. But it | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
is a huge challenge and a huge privilege. It is slightly scary | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
knowing I will be the 73rd Bishop of Durham. He feels he has achieved his | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
aim of being out in the community. Things like transforming lots | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
together, rural support, there have been some good developments in terms | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
of engagement in the community, the relationships with community | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
leaders, City Council, County Council have been great. We are very | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
sorry to see Paul going. He has been a man of the people, out and about | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
in the towns and villages. He has been on his prayer walks, he has | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
clean shoes in the town centres. And he has been around for people to see | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
him. A backlog of appointments in the Church of England means there | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
will not be a new bishop installed until Easter 2015 at the earliest. | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Added to that, the dean of Southwell has announced his retirement from | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
next year. What effect will this have on the leadership of the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
dioceses? It is a fantastic leadership team. The real work is | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
done in the parishes. And the parish leadership will get on with what | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
they do well in the parishes because that is where the Church of England | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
is at his bets. `` is at its best. I will take with me great memories, | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
wonderful people, great plays. I will have lots and lots of happy | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
memories. A former Derbyshire soldier who's | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
helped set up a new charity for disaster victims is about to fly out | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
to the Philippines. James Harris from Draycott served with the Royal | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Engineers for 13 years. He says there's a huge pool of skills among | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
retired military people and their new charity, called Unseen Heroes, | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
has a lot to offer. He and two other colleagues will be flying out | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
tomorrow to help those affected by Typhoon Haiyan. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
A fresh bid for ?14 million of lottery funding to develop | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
Nottingham Castle has been approved for submission. The Heritage Lottery | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Fund has asked the city council to resubmit its plans, which include a | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
new visitor centre and greater access to the caves. The council's | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
first bid for funding the revamp was turned down back in May. Second time | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
lucky, we hope! A deaf actress, dancer and now | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
singer`songwriter who lives in Derby says it's her ambition to break into | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
the music industry. Rebecca`Anne Withey worked on the BBC teenage | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
drama Grange Hill. When she lost most of her hearing, she says, she | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
also lost her confidence. But now she's determined to make her musical | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
mark, as our Reporter Satnam Rana's been finding out. | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
Rebecca`Anne Withey is severely deaf with her hearing being lost when she | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
was 18. She uses her memories of music to write songs now. | :15:30. | :15:46. | |
This video filmed at Elvaston Castle is the first song she has recorded | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
with Stephen Heselton, also deaf and works with the deaf charity. There | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
is definitely a stereotype that people believe that you can't hear | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
anything, and that you never did and can't. That's not the case | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
especially with the technology and equipment we have now. I'd like to | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
think that this project demonstrates that actually deaf people can be | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
very talented in the music world. That's a fantastic achievement for | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Rebecca and it's so important the deaf community is aware that Rebecca | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
has created her own song in that way, and it means the deaf | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
community, hopefully, will become inspired to make their own songs as | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
well. This is just the start for Rebecca. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
She wants to continue working with Steven and become the first deaf | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
artist in the UK to be signed up I label. `` by a label. | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
Now, something else equally wonderful... | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
That was over egging it slightly. As he prepares for his 100th Test | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
match, England batsman Kevin Pietersen has launched an attack on | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
his former Nottinghamshire colleagues. He's revealed he was | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
given a hostile reception when he signed for the club in the year | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
2000. Pietersen's currently preparing for this week's opening | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Ashes Test with Australia. He had several falling outs in his five | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
years at Notts and says the issues started as soon as he arrived. When | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
you get to Nottingham, and one of the first songs you hear when you | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
get into the dressing room is I've Never Met A Nice South African, and | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
you hear it all the time, and a young kid starts coming in and | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
stealing the headlines and taking the gloss away from Nottingham's | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
finest youngsters and established players, it hurts a lot of them. I | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
copped a lot of it. I will talk about it when I finish my career in | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
a locked more detail. Notts have declined to comment but it's well | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
known he clashed with a number of members of staff, including the | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
captain, who was once left so frustrated he threw Pietersen's kit | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
out of a top floor dressing room window. More, I'm sure, in his next | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
book! But, first, Carl Froch says he's getting better with age. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
For the next two nights, we've got exclusive behind the scenes access | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
to the world boxing champion's final sessions in his Nottingham gym. On | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Saturday, he'll be at a sell`out Manchester arena against fellow Brit | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
George Groves, who's ten years his junior. Mark Shardlow has been | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
finding out the key to Carl's success. | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
It's that time in life when your body starts slowing down. When | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
footballers retire, when newspapers start calling you a veteran. So far, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
the mid 30s have brought the best out of Carl Froch. At 36 people say | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
I'm getting old, but I am 36 years old but I've been a professional | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
boxer first 11 years. And I am in my physical prime. His last fight was a | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
modern classic. He became four times world champion. And lapped up the | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
celebrity lifestyle by joining ITV's Stepping Out programme. Do you | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
regret being out of that celebrity scene? I never do anything with | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
regrets. I wouldn't take part in something I think I will regret | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
this. I'm you only enjoyed it. I did myself proud. I did Patrick Swayze | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Prout on my last dance and I pulled it off. You all doubt. I was | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
injured, my lover back was sore. I didn't want to risk it. I had to say | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
to myself, what's more important? Dancing or boxing? Boxing is my | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
livelihood. On Saturday, Carl Froch five to 25`year`old, who is never | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
lost a professional fight and who is annoying him. One thing I've noticed | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
about this fight, you usually respect your opponents. I wouldn't | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
say your friends, but this is not the case with this clean cut George | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Groves. He is downright rude and I don't like rude people. It has | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
motivated me, it has given me that extra drive. When I get up in the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
morning, and I think, shall I go tomorrow? I think I am going to go | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
today because I want to do the business with him. The fact he is so | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
arrogant, it's given me the motivation at this late stage of my | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
career. Tomorrow we go on a training session | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
with Carl and his best mate as they prepare for the fight which will | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
have a worldwide pay per view TV audience on Saturday night. | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
Leicester Tigers next Premiership Games are crucial to the season. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
That's according to the club's Director of Rugby Richard Cockerill. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
He says, despite all the injuries, he has a strong squad to draw on for | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
the upcoming match with London Irish. | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
We've got a good enough squad and good enough players and we did | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
against wasps. We just didn't play well enough. That is my fault. We | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
need to start putting that right and it starts this weekend. You've got | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
to crack on. It's not all doom and gloom. Somebody's misfortune will be | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
our opportunity. Now, it's time to find out who has | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
won the BBC East Midlands Sports Unsung Hero for 2013. | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
We've gone through all the nominations. We found a final three. | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
And today I made a surprise presentation to the winner. But, | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
first, a quick recap on our finalists. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
John Ball has written the footprint for coaching football to blind and | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
partially sighted players spending nearly 50 years volunteering. Monica | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
and Shaun White are close to 30 years running the trampoline club. | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
And Colin Magee has half a century of teaching sailing. He has broken | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
down barriers to make the sport available to all. So, now time to | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
present our award. It has gone to Colin Magee. He has no clue it's | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
coming. I am here very proudly to make you the BBC East Midlands Today | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Unsung Hero 2013, congratulations. I get the impression that you're not | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
often stuck for words, but you are now. I am absolutely flabbergasted. | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
You nominated Colin, why did you do that? He is very special. The time, | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
the effort he has put in to make sailing accessible for everybody. He | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
has helped volunteers who have put ours back into the sport and he | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
never looks for recognition. Let's see if you've gathered yourself. I | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
haven't got over the shop. Tremendous thank you to everybody. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
It's just something I do and something I love doing, for young | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
people, for disabled people. And getting people on the water. But I | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
am just absolutely overwhelmed. And it is not very often that I am moved | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
to tears. And then it was photos, and plenty | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
of chat. Certainly not lost for words later. Colin Magee will now | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
represent the East Midlands at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Awards here on BBC One in December, where he has a chance of winning the | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
national award. Goodness knows how he would react if that happens. | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Colin, we love you, great reaction, fantastic. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
Kaye will be here any minute with the full weather forecast but you | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
can't have failed to notice that it's getting a lot colder. So no | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
prizes for guessing who's making significant preparations for the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
freeze. Yes, our gritting lorries are getting ready to go out on our | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
roads tonight. Sumeer Kalyani reports. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
As temperatures dropped this week, motorists are being warned about | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
treacherous conditions. Cue the winter hero, grip. We fully stocked | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
in terms of salt. Have two tonnes of an hundred thousand tonnes of salt. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
That's enough to last as 100 days of frost, 15 days of heavy snowfall. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
Leicester City Council have stockpiled nearly 3000 tonnes. They | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
have a fleet of six trucks to wheel into action. The authority says the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
onus isn't only on them. We have put out over 100 temp on Mac `` would | :24:34. | :24:46. | |
have put out over 100 grit bins. We have been explaining to people how | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
they can help themselves. With winter at around the corner, and if | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
weather predictions are anything to go by, these gritting trucks will be | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
Council money well spent. It is cold in here. | :24:58. | :25:09. | |
He is a gentleman and he has given me his jacket. | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Now, the weather. Can I borrow it? It is freezing in | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
here! But we have had some gorgeous sunshine to go with that coldness | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
today, and it got you out snapping. This beautiful photo taken this | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
afternoon. Thank you for that one and keep them coming in. Things are | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
changing unfortunately. We have an area of low pressure pushing in from | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the North this time which will bring some wet weather tomorrow. Some | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
wintriness in this across the Peak District and that anions. A serving | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
of what an windy weather to go with the coldness. `` wet and windy | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
weather. It is a game of two halves tonight. We dry, clear, the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
temperatures are falling like a stone. We will see an early frost | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
tonight. By midnight, we will be down to minus one or minus two. The | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
winds cup, and the temperatures recover by the end of the night. We | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
will be above freezing at about three or four. With the comes the | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
wind and rain. It is a crowded, wet and windy start the day tomorrow. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
The rain is patchy to start off with but we will see a band of heavy rain | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
following on. It clears out of the way by the end of the afternoon so | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
sunshine returning. But the showers could turn wintry. Most of us | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
staying dry into the afternoon. It will be cold again with highs of | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
six. For the latter part of the week, things settle down. An area of | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
low pressure pushes southwards, pressure builds on behind that, we | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
will keep this cool wind. A cool day on Thursday, but mostly dry and | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
bright and it stays that way into Friday. The winds ease down by | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Friday so it should feel a little bit warmer by then. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Good, because I would have to give you your jacket back! | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Now, after months of build`up, tomorrow morning at 7:45am we'll | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
find out if Leicester is the next UK City of Culture. Up against Hull, | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Dundee and Swansea Bay, the Culture Secretary will announce the winner | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
early tomorrow morning. Last week, each bid team had their final chance | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
to fight for the title and pitch to the judges. We'll be live in | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Leicester as they wait for that all important decision. So do join us | :27:30. | :27:41. | |
tomorrow morning on BBC One. Fingers crossed. Go, Leicester, the! See you | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
tomorrow. | :27:44. | :27:47. |