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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Tonight, a pensioner's agonising wait for an ambulance. | :00:13. | :00:28. | |
Pat Lindsay was in severe pain for five hours. She says it was the | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
longest night of her life. If this is to pay for parents and | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
their luxuries, it is most definitely appropriate there is a | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
cap. Plus the wrong kind of rubbish. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
How contaminated loads ruin our recycling efforts. And could Kevin | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Phillips helped fire the Foxes into the Premier league? | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
This would be my fifth out of the championship into the Premier league | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
and another fantastic chapter in my career. But there is a long way to | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
go. Good evening. Welcome to Friday's | :01:05. | :01:17. | |
programme. First tonight, it was a low priority case but it left an | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
East Midlands woman waiting for an ambulance in agony, for hours. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Pat Lindsay says her five hour wait for an ambulance was the longest and | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
most painful night of her life. Bosses have defended the service | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
saying there were emergencies to deal with but have apologised for | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
the distress. How is your knee? A bit better. Much | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
of Pat's pain has gone but the memory of waiting for an ambulance | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
this week will take longer to fade. I've never had pain like that. I've | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
had children, a gall bladder, operations but never anything like | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
that. Vinnie went like a football. She was literally in tears with | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
pain. According to the amulet service, it took five hours for a | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
crew to get her home. I thought they have forgotten about us. It is | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
difficult to believe that this is what happens. I felt like it had | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
been days. I know it wasn't but that's what it felt like to be, laid | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
here. An act of hours GP on Monday night visited and requested the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
ambulance. The head of the service told me they were very busy in the | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
early hours of Tuesday. We are very sorry that Mrs Lindsay had the | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
experience she did with us. Clearly, in this case, her call was | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
categorised as what is called a GP urgent case, which means an ample | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
and will be dispatched within four hours. It was not classed as a | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
life`threatening emergency. At that time, we were dealing with a lot of | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
life`threatening emergencies. Ever since the downgrading of the | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
accident and emergency unit at Newark, there has been huge | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
sensitivity over how long ambulances take to get to patients. The major a | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
and E units are all more than 20 miles away. Lincoln County, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Kingsmill Hospital and the Queens medical in Nottingham. I know there | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
are a lot of people trying to improve health care in this part of | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
the East Midlands but I don't see it getting any better. In fact, I see | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
it getting worse. She spent three nights at Kingsmill. Tests were | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
inconclusive. Rob's here now. We keep hearing | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
about delays when will things get better. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
There is huge pressure on the Ambulance Service to improve | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
response times. The care, when Pat got it, she said was superb. It was | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
just the weight. The service has been called to a high risk summit | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
and at NHS England to demonstrate what improvements it is putting in | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
place. They are putting more staff into the control room to prioritise | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
calls better. Last year, they promised a dash a sell`off of | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
ambulance stations. Has that happened? | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
The Chief Executive has told East Midlands today that that is on hold | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
still. They may scale back some of those proposals, we don't know yet. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
They are not expecting to hit their response times, their annual target, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the end of this year. But she insists that things are improving. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
It is work in progress. Two major landmarks in Leicester will soon be | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
disappearing. The City Council's headquarters on | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
New Walk will be demolished later this year with 1,100 staff being | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
relocated. Elsewhere in the city, work to pull down the Belgrave | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Flyover will start as soon as next month. | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
Take a good look because these two towering office blocks right in the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
heart of our bustling city will soon be coming down. At the moment, they | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
are home to Leicester City Council but this 1970s development has been | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
labelled structurally unsound. It means finding a new home for 1100 | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
council workers and it will leave this prime plot of land completely | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
empty. I think they should replace those buildings with a leisure | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
complex which holds concerts and things like that. Certainly, good | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
quality office accommodation and also something to support the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
evening economy, like restaurants and so on. I would like to see | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
something more green and anything has got to be better than this. Work | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
to demolish the towers will start this summer. Whether they are | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
brought down floor by floor or destroyed in one big explosion, | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Leicester City mayor admits it will not be cheap. We are talking about | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
the cost of summer between 3.5 main pounds and formally hands. That is a | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
significant sum but it is investment. Its investment in an | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
important site in the city and it is one that will bring many times that | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
time `` amount of investments which will bring jobs to our economy. | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Demolition will start as soon as next month. It is up to residents to | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
decide if they want the short option, a nine week option, or with | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
less disruption to traffic, work that will go on for 14 weeks. There | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
is a warning, both options involve noisy demolition up until midnight. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
The idea though, to link the Golden mile back`up with the rest of the | :06:39. | :06:50. | |
city. Coming up: in sport, an exclusive | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
interview with Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi. | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
And your weekend weather with Anna. If you have outdoor plans this | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
weekend, I can tell you when this rain is set to arrive. But I also | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
have good news. The sun is set to shine. I will tell you when, later. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Next tonight: it's been revealed that more than a thousand households | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
in the East Midlands were claiming more than ?500 a week in benefits | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
before a government cap was introduced. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Opinion polls reveal that the benefit cap is the most popular | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
policy ever devised. Sarah Teale joins us in the studio with more. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
The government introduced the benefit cap last July to try to | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
encourage people back to work and to cut the welfare bill. It means | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
couples, with or without children, and lone parent households are | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
limited to a maximum claim of ?500 a week in benefits. And single people | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
with no children can receive a maximum of ?350. More than 33,000 | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
households have been affected by the benefits cap. And new figures reveal | :08:04. | :08:13. | |
that a total of 1,278 households in the East Midlands have seen their | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
benefits cut because of the policy. According to a survey three quarters | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
of the public support the benefit cap. With 70% saying people affected | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
should find jobs, work more hours or move to a cheaper property. So is a | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
maximum of ?500 a week the right way forward? I asked people in | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Nottingham what they thought. That is more than I get a week and I have | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
to pay all of my bills out of that. So, yes, sad `` ?500 seems a lot to | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
me. That would work fine in London but the further north you go, it | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
doesn't make sense. Do you think ?500 a week is enough to live on? | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
No, I don't think it is. Not in Great Britain no more. It needs to | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
be more than that. My concern is about ?800. It's difficult for | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
people to exist on benefits. That's my experience as a social worker in | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
the past. There has to be a cap because there has to be some | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
reality. To have a blanket approach is going to be wrong because that | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
will be detrimental to some families. If it is to pay for | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
parents and their luxuries, it is most definitely appropriate that | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
there is a cap. Unfortunately, we all have to do without our | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
luxuries. If we work full time, which I do, and I know lots of my | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
friends do, but I've have moments where have not been able to afford | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
things and something 's got to give. I think it is considering when you | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
see families who've got everything and have done nothing to win it. `` | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
slightly disconcerting. So that's some of the views of the | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
public. What about the politicians? We can hear now from Iain Duncan | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Smith at the launch of the cap last July. And then from Nottingham North | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
MP Graham Allen who says he doesn't think it's fair at all. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
People on welfare, who are not in work, apart from exemptions such as | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
those who are disabled, they should actually not be earning more than | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
average earnings netted out after tax. That's fair to taxpayers, who | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
are themselves often struggling. I don't think this is fair at all. It | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
is trying to scapegoat a section of the community. It's a tiny number of | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
people. Most people on benefits are either benefits or the disabled. | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
It's estimated that the policy is saving taxpayers ?2 million a week. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
And by the time of next year's General Election that could add up | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
to savings of ?225 million. There's been major travel disruption | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
today, on both the roads and rail. One of the busiest roads in the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
region, the A453, had to be shut for several hours this afternoon after a | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
section of gas main was damaged in Clifton. Meanwhile trains to and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
from London were suspended this morning after damage to overhead | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
power cables. Some trains are now running but East Midlands Trains | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
says a full service won't resume until tomorrow. | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
The country's first ever secure college for young criminals is to be | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
built in Leicestershire. Ministers say the ?85 million fortified school | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
will open next to the Glen Parva Youth Offenders Institution in three | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
years time. It'll cater for more than 300 boys aged between 12 and | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
17, using education to try to cut re`offending. Prison reform | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
campaigners say the money would be better spent supporting teenagers in | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
the community. A man who groomed teenage boys | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
online before abusing them, has been jailed for 15 years. Derby Crown | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Court heard 24`year`old Nicholas Geddes contacted a 13`year`old from | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Long Eaton via social websites. He later met him at a hotel and abused | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
him. Another of his victims was a 15`year`old from the same town. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Geddes, from Ellesmere Port also faced charges relating to four other | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
boys. Business leaders in the region today | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
warned that an increase in the minimum wage to ?7 an hour could | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
cost jobs. The government's looking at an increase after getting a | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
report from the Low Pay Commission. But a senior councillor who's paying | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
his staff what's called the living wage says higher pay would boost the | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
economy. Michael runs a hospitality company | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
in Nottingham. It employs 7000 staff on the minimum wage. He says a | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
potential increase from ?6 31 to ?7 an hour is too much, too soon and | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
would hurt businesses like his. What we would have to do with any | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
increase in cost is passed that on to our customers which in turn could | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
mean that customers are going to look up the prices and go elsewhere. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
The Chancellor, seen here on a visit to a Derbyshire company last year, | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
says he would be in favour of an above inflation rise in the minimum | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
wage, saying the economy can now afford it. In Leicester, the City | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Council is already paying 1100 members of staff what is called the | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
living wage. It is ?7 and 65 per hour. This council says small | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
businesses can now import `` afford an increase. It recognises the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
rising cost of living. It would increase morale and I'm confident it | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
would be accused `` boost to the local economy. It has to be balanced | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
against the need to protect employment as well. The more | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
expensive we make labour the fewer jobs we are able to provide. The low | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
pay commission is due to make a recommendation on this year 's | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
increase in the next few weeks. It needs government approval and would | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
come into effect in October. Three armed robbers who threatened | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
staff at a Nottinghamshire DIY store with nights have been jailed for a | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
total of 25 years. It happened at this store last July. The masked men | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
forced their way inside before demanding cash from the safe. Today, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
the men from Mansfield were given jail sentences of between six and | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
nine years. Police say they had inflicted on measurable step `` | :14:36. | :14:36. | |
stress on the staff. A teaching union is calling for more | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
cash for Nottingham schools after the Government described several of | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
them as failing. Six secondary schools, including three academies, | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
were placed in special measures by Ofted last month. At an Education | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Conference in the city this week ministers compared them unfavourably | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
with those in London. Now the NASUWT says local schools should be given | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
the same funding as those in the capital. | :14:58. | :15:09. | |
Nearly a fifth of all the recyclable household rubbish in one of our | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
cities can't be processed, because it's contaminated. Officers in | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
Nottingham say the reason's simple, people are putting the wrong things | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
in their bins. By contrast, Derby and Leicester | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
councils have much more successful recycling rates. James Roberson's | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
been looking at the dos and don'ts of recycling. | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
Mountains of waste, rivers of it and best practice demands that nowadays, | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
councils try to recycle as much of it as they can. While Nottingham | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
City Council tackles its recyclable waste as seriously as any other | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
council, it is finding it has having a recurring problem. People keep | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
putting their recycling in plastic bags. If they take that to the bin, | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
they will split that bang... They could help us. This simple mistake | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
plus contamination of recycling with things like nappies, foil and crisp | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
packets actually means complete loads of waste cannot be recycled. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Currently, of all Nottingham pass mark waste, 18% is not being | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
processed. It is higher than what I would like it to be at this present | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
time. Meanwhile, it is bin day in Leicester. The crews and lorries are | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
identified picking up household rubbish, both recyclable and | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
general. All the waste that people put in the black beans goes to our | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Ballmer facility that measures up the material, takes out any metals, | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
con possible material and can also take out some plastics. We recover | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
as much as possible from the material that people actively | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
recycle but also that they put in the black bin. Unlike Nottingham, | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Leicester's recycling contamination rate is only 2%. Even in Derby, it | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
is only 4%. Paradoxically, Leicester does want recycling in bags, special | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
transparent ones. We get very few problems with trans`` contamination | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
because the crews can see into the bag and if there are any problems, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
they leave it and put them the door a note saying why it was not OK. The | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
scheme is being promoted by Leicester's one`man recycler, Adrian | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Ablett. Several projects have been run to help people understand what | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
can and cannot be recycled. Nottingham also once a education | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
campaign in March. We will probably target it around the four worst | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
postcodes for contamination. There is nothing rubbish about the | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
sport tonight. Quite the opposite. First that exclusive interview with | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Nottingham Forest chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi. His message is not to worry. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
He says he knows it is mid January but fans should not worry because he | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
is trying to bring in players this month, up to three and the situation | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
in terms of signings will becoming clearer in the next few weeks. In | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the last few hours he's been talking to Natalie Jackson. | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
You say you want the third star for Forest. What are your ambitions in | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
this January transfer window? I just had a meeting with the manager | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
regarding what he needed. For example, players. He told me about | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
some players we are discussing together. Hopefully, they be within | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
the week or less, things would be clear for everybody. How many | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
players would you like in this window and how negotiations going? | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
Well, maybe two or three. Maybe one. I don't know. Are you in the middle | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
of negotiations now for a striker? We are negotiating with many | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
players, not only strikers. Midfielders, right backs, strikers. | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
To be honest, the manager has told me about which players he needs. | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
Afterwards, we can do something about it. If it is one player, will | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
it be a striker? My opinion, if I am one of the fans, I sign a striker. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
But to be honest, I keep this until the end because this is not about my | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
opinion, it's the manager's opinion. Maybe we share things but | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
in the end, it is going to be his call, not mine. This is his team and | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
he knows what is needed for the team. This is the most important | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
thing. He said in a week that you agreed a deal for Jack Hobbs. What | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
is the length of his contract and what are the details of that deal? | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Actually, we have a deal until the end of the season. We are working on | :19:57. | :20:10. | |
it right now. We are going to work hard to keep Jack Hobbs with us. We | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
working on his agent. At the moment, we have him until the end of the | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
season. Have you paid a fee to keep him until the end of the season. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Yes. We've discussed it, me and the owner. Blackburn tomorrow. Will you | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
be here? I don't think so... Of course I'm going to be here. Silly | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
question. We will have more from that chat on | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Monday. Leicester City meanwhile have | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
confirmed that Fulham have made a bid for talented youngster Liam | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Moore but say the player is simply not for sale. The championship high | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
flyers face Leeds tomorrow and hoping to make his debut veteran | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
striker Kevin Phillips. Here's Angela with our guide to his career | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
in numbers. Clipped into Phillips! E has done it | :20:55. | :21:30. | |
again! Kevin Phillips... The headlines are written again. He has | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
been there and done it. He is as keen now as when he first started. I | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
look forward to coming into training and I still have the buzz and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
excitement. His plan to retire at the end of the season... This would | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
be my fifth out of the championship into the Premier league and it would | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
be another fantastic chapter in my career. There's a long way to go. A | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
wealth of experience, always able to score goals when they count... Many | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
clubs came calling but it was Leicester who landed him. This was | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
the place I wanted to be. I know the manager and assistant very well for | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
my time at West Bromwich. And obviously the club are flying in the | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
championship. For me, it was a no`brainer. First, he has to make | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
his debut and be warned, don't get between this man and the game he | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
loves. I cannot wait to stop talking to you and get on the training | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
pitch. Hint! I'm only joking. Yeah, I still got the appetite. It's all I | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
know and Wednesday was great for me, my first training session for two | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
weeks. It was like being a kid again. That told Angela! | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
Derby, who we featured yesterday, have a tough home game with Brighton | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
as they try and pull out of a mini slump. Midfielder Craig Forsyth says | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
everyone needs to remember how far the Rams have come lately. I don't | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
think many people would have said we would be where we are now. We've got | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
to look at it as a positive and make sure we continue to be the and stay | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
there until the end of the season. And there's a long interview with | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Rams Head Coach Steve McClaren on the BBC East Midlands Today Facebook | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Page. Have a watch and give us a like. | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
Some really good news for Notts County fans. Young midfielder Jack | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Grealish, who's made a real impact at Meadow Lane, will be staying till | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
the end of the season. His loan from Aston Villa has been extended. The | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Magpies are off to Stevenage in League One, while Mansfield head to | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Portsmouth in League Two. Follow those games, and everything | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
happening in the Championship, on your BBC Local Radio Station. I'm | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
going to leave you with the rest of the sport. Starting with rugby and a | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
key weekend for the Leicester Tigers. They play Ulster in the | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
European Cup at Welford Road tomorrow night in front of a sell | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
out crowd. The reason this game is crucial for | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
the Tigers is because the winner will earn a home quarterfinal. A | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
home tie is significant because the big teams in Europe are really | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
difficult to beat. Clermont have not lost at home for 72 games. It shows | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
how strong the French are on home soil. If we have to go away, we will | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
give it our best shot but it always makes it a little bit more | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
difficult. Nick Buckland and Penny Coombs have won their first ever | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
major championship medal. They were third after Wednesday's short dance | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
at the European figure state `` Skating Championships in Budapest | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
and took bronze. Their score was a new personal best. This is a huge | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
boost as they approach next month's Winter Olympics. This, to keep | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
himself in this his masters. One stunning piece of play saw Mark | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
Selby Q2 this year's semifinals. An amazing shot who beat John Higgins | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
by six frames to five. He will now face Shaun Murphy. There have been | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
times when I've been negative. Towards the end, at one stage, I | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
looked like getting beaten so I thought if ever I get a chance, I | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
was good to. He certainly did that. Just one game this weekend for | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Nottingham has `` Panthers. Well done to Nick and Penny for that | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
bronze. Fantastic. The weather is not looking great, | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
for tomorrow anyway. But things will improve on Sunday. There will even | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
be a little bit of sunshine. Let's look at what we can expect over the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
weekend. There is going to rain first thing tomorrow morning. Once | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
that clears, behind it we stay cloudy and it will be thick enough | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
to produce some rain. Rain pushes through Saturday night and we are in | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
for quite a promising day on Sunday. Feeling more like winter should do | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
on Sunday. Great for getting out and about with a camera. This is a view | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
towards Underwood. Thanks for e`mailing in to us. The pressure is | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
in charge and we have fairly light winds through the night. That may | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
allow some fog to form first thing. This rain will push up tomorrow. | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
Here we are at a moment `` the moment, one or two showers around. | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
They will die out through the next hour or so. Then we have some clear | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
spells around first thing. That will allow temperatures to drop quickly | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
early on. Maybe some mist and fog forming over the Peak District. As | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
we go towards the early hours, cloud will feeding and rain will arrive | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
from the south. That will help temperatures to recover. They will | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
be around four degrees by first thing tomorrow morning. On Saturday, | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
that rain pushes away to the north. Behind it, that cloud will stay with | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
us. There will be some drier weather and high temperatures of eight | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
degrees. Saturday night, we start to see the rain from the West push | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
through so quite a wet spell of weather. It clears away behind it. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Colder air comes into play. There will be a lot of sunshine around on | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Sunday itself. Highs of six but freezing fog is something to watch | :27:13. | :27:13. | |
out for on Monday morning. That is the day for a barbecue! | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
That's about it from us. Have a great weekend. Goodbye. | :27:25. | :27:27. |