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Berkshire. Now it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight ` train bosses apologise for a broken promise of faster journeys | :00:09. | :00:21. | |
to London. They organised this photo opportunity knowing they could not | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
deliver quicker journeys. 15 arrests in Derby as police seized drugs and | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
suspected dangerous dogs. Plus, the streamlining of local government in | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Leicestershire but will it really deliver on big savings? And could | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
these DIY defences make sandbags obsolete? It is so much quicker. One | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
person could do it instead of the army doing it currently. | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
Hello and welcome to the programme. First tonight, the passengers | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
furious at what they call 'broken promises'. In December, East | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Midlands Trains announced faster links with London. But it's emerged | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
it made those promises knowing it may not be able to deliver. It | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
discovered, just before the launch, that Network Rail hadn't finished | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
work on the line. But the announcement to passengers still | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
went ahead and rather than faster links, some passengers are suffering | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
delays. Jo Healey's at Derby Station. What's the background to | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
this? Yes, hello. Two months ago in December on Derby station there was | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
quite a fanfare, the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
announced a new faster link to London, trains could travel at 125 | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
miles an hour knocking four minutes of the journey from Derby. But, two | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
weeks 0 of the journey from Derby. But, two | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
weeks before the announcement East Midlands Trains knew that network | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
rail had not completed crucial work on the line. Effectively, at times | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
slamming some of 0 on the line. Effectively, at times | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
slamming some of the trains. Last week East Midlands Trains talked of | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
network rail's failure to deliver the promised line speed improvement | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
on time. They say they underestimated the scale of the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
work. It was, they said, completely unacceptable. This is what some | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
passengers told us. My last several journeys have been late which is an | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
issue if you have connections and meetings. Everyday I come to this | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
train, it is always ten minutes late. It is normally on time and | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
also coming back from London. It is annoying because I had to catch a | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
connecting bus in Leicester. There was a new `` a united front | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
from both companies apologising but insisting they are small. Look at | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
this. It is a record, one passenger kept in January systematically | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
logging had delays between East Midlands and London. At its worst, | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
trains were cancelled, many many trains were a number of minutes late | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
and in one case there was a half an hour delay. She is furious. | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
Passengers were told to December there would be faster links even | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
though East Midlands Trains and Network Rail knew they may not be | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
able to deliver. We have had what East Midlands Trains said but have | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
they given an explanation as to why they went ahead with the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
announcement in December? Yes, they have said they went ahead | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
thinking they could mitigate some of the delays so presumably hoping no | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
one would notice but they were caught out by some factors including | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the bad weather we have been having. The managing directors have | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
apologised again to passengers, they say most of the work should be done | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
by April after that the timetable they promised in December would | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
finally be up and running just four month late. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
We will leave it there. Coming up. More wild weather on the way. Kaye | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
has the latest details. Yes, everything being thrown at us, the | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
snow and rain and wind. Join me for the 0 | :04:46. | :04:45. | |
snow and rain and wind. Join me for the details later in the programme. | :04:46. | :04:58. | |
Sixteen people have been arrested during 0 0 | :04:59. | :04:58. | |
Sixteen people have been arrested during a 0 | :04:59. | :04:58. | |
Sixteen people have been arrested during a series of drugs raids in | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Derby. Residents say their lives had been made a misery in recent months | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
with drug dealing openly taking place near their homes. And as well | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
as suspected drugs, officers today also seized four dogs, which it's | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
thought could be banned under Dangerous Dogs legislation. From | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
Derby, Simon Hare reports. It has been six months of evidence | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
gathering. An 0 It has been six months of evidence | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
gathering. An early morning briefing for a police operation to tackling | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
organised crime gang in Derby. For those who do not work the area, if | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
they see you walking around, they will intimidate you. | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
Let's support the teams. A dozen homes in the Peartree area city was | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
searched, officers using a sniffer dog recovered suspected class a and | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
class B drugs and stolen property. 16 people were arrested, among them | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
three women. One of them was taken in for questioning by officers from | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the National Crime Agency. Residents were too nervous to appear on | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
camera. One man said living in the area was a living hell. And a woman | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
said the 0 0 area was a living hell. And a woman | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
said the area had become dangerous Jude to the amount of drug dealing | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
taking place. People have been complaining `` | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
Chivu to the amount of drug dealing. The impact on the local community | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
has been unbearable for them and frustrating. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
I understand the frustration because they see the drug dealing going on | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
and they think what are we doing, what are the police doing but today | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
is to show we have been doing something in the background. Four | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
dogs are suspected of being banned and the Dangerous Dogs Act were also | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
recovered. Tonight, 15 of the 16 people | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
arrested were still being questioned. | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
A Sikh spiritual leader has told a court that allegations that he | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
sexually abused a man who attacked him with an axe "are totally | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
absurd." Harjit Singh Toor from Oadby alleges the abuse took place | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
on a number of occasions at his uncle's house in India when he was a | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
boy. Here's our Chief News reporter Quentin Rayner. | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
The allegations against his Holiness date back 20 years before he became | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
spiritual leader. Harjit Singh Toor claims the abuse took place when he | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
was seven years old at celebrations at his uncles house in the Punjab | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
attended by hundreds. In court, his Holiness gave evidence by video link | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
and he repeatedly denied ever visiting the house or the village. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
He told the court I have never met him and there is no question of | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
touching him. The defence then suggested at the time of the alleged | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
abuse he told the seven`year`old Harjit Singh Toor not to say | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
anything to anybody and the Guru replied it isn't true. When asked by | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
the prosecution if there was a word of truth to the serious sexual | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
allegations, the Guru told the court absolutely none. It is absurd. | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
Earlier, the Guru described how he had not suspected anything in the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
temple, he made a swing targeting my head with an axe, I lifted my arm | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and felt pain. There was a lot of blood. Harjit Singh Toor denies | :08:34. | :08:49. | |
attempted murder but admits GBH. An American clothing company is | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
creating more than 150 jobs in Nottingham at a new customer service | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
centre. VF Corporation owns brands including | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
The North Face and Lee and Wrangler jeans. It's now recruiting staff for | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
a new office on the NG2 Business Park. The firm already employs more | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
than 200 people at the Wrangler UK base in Calverton. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
There's anger at a decision to spend sixty five thousand pounds of public | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
money sending Nottingham City Council delegates to the French | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
Riviera. Council representatives are attending the Annual International | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Property Fair in Cannes. They say it's an opportunity to attract | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
investment. Critics argue it's a waste of taxpayers' money, at a time | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
of budget cuts. For the past three years, the cost of the trip's been | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
met by private backers. Scrapping district councils in one of our | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
counties and merging them into one single, big authority, could save | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
around 30 million pounds a year, and cut council tax according to an | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
independent report. It would mean the biggest shake`up | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
in the structure of local government for decades. But could it also help | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
councils struggling to balance their budgets. Our political editor John | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
Hess has more details. Sensing the bins is one of the most | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
valued of local services but is it time to tidy up the council to an | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
merge them? In Leicestershire, seven district councils and the County | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Council. Accountants suggest replacing them all with one powerful | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
unitary authority. The report was commissioned by a politician, the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
leader of Conservative run Leicestershire. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
If you believe the Chancellor going forward in the next ten years, the | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
savings are only going to get greater. Maybe the time has come for | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
a sensible debate about local government. | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
The report targets duplication, eight chief executives and 19 | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
directors, merging those posts could save ?15 million. Merging the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
district and county into one would save 31 point formerly an pounds | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
annually. Setting up the new council would cost ?13 million, says the | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
report but the move would cut council tax. And with the merger, | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
the number of councillors would be cut from 316 to 100. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Even if Leicestershire vote for unitary status, the council chamber | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
here would have to be expanded to take more councillors to ensure | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
there was fair representation. For the district councils, the district | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
`` is it a cut too 0 the district councils, the district | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
`` is it a cut too far? The leader of one of the smaller councils | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
speaks out. You end up way Wah with less | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
representation and less ability to connect 0 | :11:36. | :11:35. | |
representation and less ability to connect with people. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
County Hall Tories say it isn't a grab for cash or power but it may | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
take more than a chocolate cupcake for this council leader. | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
A Nottingham mother whose four`year`old child has had major | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
open`heart surgery three times is calling for more to be done to raise | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
awareness of the problem. Her son, who was born with a congenital heart | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
defect, faces an uncertain future. When this four`year old grows up, he | :11:59. | :12:11. | |
wants to race cars. But for now running around is a dangerous | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
activity. You probably can't tell but Harvey was born with a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
congenital heart defect which means the right side of his heart doesn't | :12:23. | :12:23. | |
work 0 the right side of his heart doesn't | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
work so the left works twice as hard. He already has had three major | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
surgeries. Eventually, he may need a transplant if he has delivered past | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
his 20s. For him, it is normal, makes no difference but as he gets | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
older he will face problems and arguments when he wants to play | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
football and do the things other kids are doing which will be risky. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
The prognosis is guarded, they don't like to say what the future holds, | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
the only certainty is uncertainty with heart conditions. | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Somebody in every 20 families is affected. It is time`consuming, | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
heart`rending, it is expensive. It's expensive for the families and the | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
NHS. It is hoped by raising awareness kids like Harvey are able | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
to stay their feet. Good luck to him. How early can | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
doctors find out if a child has a heart defect? | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
Increasingly they find out in the womb, at the 20 week scan or | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
sometimes earlier. That allows doctors to identify the most serious | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
problems. They found out about Harvey's condition when she was | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
pregnant and he was operated on at a day old. Had it not been picked up | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
then, he would not have survived. And what options are available for | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
treating the problem? Surgery, keyhole intervention, medical | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
treatment but in some cases treatments are not needed for many | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
years. There is no magic here. Patients often come back, they need | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
treatment and work later on and also the consultant said they are | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
continually surprised that some people often live veritably | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
healthily into adult hood. Let's keep our fingers crossed for Harvey. | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
A Nottingham head teacher says keeping young people safe online is | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
an impossible issue but one that needs to be tackled. | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
His comments came on Safer Internet Day ` a world`wide event to | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
encourage more responsible use of the web. To coincide with the event, | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
Bramcote 0 the web. To coincide with the event, | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
Bramcote College hosted BBC Radio five Live and Radio 1 for a special | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Safety Summit. Our reporter Eleanor Garnier has been finding out how it | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
went. Tuesday the 11th of February, all | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
around the world today is Safer Internet Day. The BBC broadcasting | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
live from a college but talking about staying safe online is a lot | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
easier 0 about staying safe online is a lot | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
easier than putting it into practice. | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Students here think the way it is taught needs to be better. | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
We should adapt more lessons, bring in people more specific to teach it | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
and raise awareness. We need to adapt to the internet rather than | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
running from it and being scared. You can find out... If we had more | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
education and teachers gave a small support it would definitely help the | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
younger children especially. There is so much danger, people can | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
get hurt. Girls especially can get predators on there. It is important | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
we tackle it. Hannah from Leicestershire took her | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
own life last year. Her father has claimed she 0 | :15:52. | :15:51. | |
own life last year. Her father has claimed she was being bullied | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
online. The headteacher at Bramcote College | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
says staff and parents need to get up to speed. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
It is an impossible issue because as adults we are always learning from | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
the students about what is out there, you only have to see the news | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
about deaths because of cyber bullying or drinking games and most | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
adults are not aware 0 bullying or drinking games and most | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
adults are not aware of these things. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Lots of experiences from parents who have been shocked about what their | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
kids were looking at online and how easily they find it. The primary | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
emotion is panicked and they want to learn more and get better at talking | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
to their kids about going online. It might 0 0 | :16:42. | :16:42. | |
to their kids about going online. It might be 0 0 | :16:43. | :16:42. | |
to their kids about going online. It might be a typical discussion but | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
it is one that cannot be avoided. Young people must stay safe online. | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
And if you'd like more information about how to use the internet in a | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
secure way, then there are lots of tips if you visit the | :17:01. | :17:01. | |
saferinternetday.org. Website. | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
Coming up, homes benefiting from a flood defence system based in | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Canada. The water does the rest. Details later. Sports details now | :17:16. | :17:29. | |
with Colin. Forest play tonight ` they're coming up ` but we start | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
with Derby's thrilling win over Queens Park Rangers last night which | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
has blown apart the top of the Championship table. With two teams | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
automatically going up, the win leaves Derby a point from second | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
place. The result strengthens Leicester's position at the top. And | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
it also opens the door for Forest who are hovering waiting for others | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
to fail. It meant so much for the Rams ` and it really was quite a | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
night at the Ipro Stadium. Mark Shardlow was there. | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
Get ready for the 0 Shardlow was there. | :17:55. | :17:55. | |
Get ready for the ride. 0 Shardlow was there. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
Get ready for the ride. The derby win means all sorts of things with | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
them, for Leicester and forest. QPR have the meanest defence in the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
championship but it could have been broken in the 0 | :18:08. | :18:07. | |
championship but it could have been broken in the first minute. As the | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
Rams put on the pressure, they almost fluked a goal. The | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
clearance... When it finally came, the goal was a rarity. I had the | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
second in a Rams shirt for him. QPR protested but this was going to be | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Derby's night. Their first win against the top 16 this season. | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
Derby had plenty of defending to do and the keeper was at his best. The | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
work was tireless. For 90 minutes they did everything needed to keep a | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
clean sheet and claim the points. Even if at times it was unbearably | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
tense. The fourth official decided they had to do it for another five | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
minutes, bring on more agony, more worried and finally relief. The | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
final whistle brought what Steve McClaren says was his finest victory | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
at Derby whilst others are talking about automatic promotion, he is | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
looking at the finish in the top six and the play`offs. We are looking at | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
seventh position and how many points they have got and so that if the | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
target at the present moment. Burnley, QPR, Leicester, they have | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
the experience. Derby are a point behind QPR, but Sharon began the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
season as a coach, he could defy the odds by ending the season above them | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
in the league. Nottingham Forest can go within a 0 | :19:45. | :19:45. | |
in the league. Nottingham Forest can go within a point of Derby if they | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
win at Huddersfield tonight. They're looking to extend their unbeaten run | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
to a remarkable 16 games. Kirsty Edwards has been to see a man whose | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
goals could be key. He scored eight goals so far this | :19:54. | :20:10. | |
season and he has helped the red go on impressive run. 50 games without | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
defeat `` 15. Simon Cox is loving life at Forest, | :20:13. | :20:27. | |
he has eclipsed last seasons goal tally having only started in 20 | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
games. I had a couple of injuries which I am over now which is good. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
I feel like I am getting back to what I thought was my best. While | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the striking injury problems are behind him, the same can't be said | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
for a number of his team mates, the captain Chris keirin, the defender | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
and more recently Henry Lansbury and David Vaughan have picked up | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
long`term injuries. Big players for us, influential | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
players. But like I say, it is about the squad game and when one goes | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
down, someone steps in and it gives someone else an opportunity to show | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
what they can do. We are still buoyant and happy and smiles on the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
faces. We feel we can go anywhere at any point and get a 0 | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
faces. We feel we can go anywhere at any point and get a result. | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
Tonight, they are looking for a result at Huddersfield to extend | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
their impressive run of 15 unbeaten. I am proud of that. I don't see why | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
we can't do another 15 and go to the end of the season. Winning games | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
will keep us in the play`offs. Looking forward to that. Mansfield | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Town's match with Bury 0 Looking forward to that. Mansfield | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Town's match with Bury tonight was called off at lunchtime today. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Relentless rain this morning left the pitch in not state for football. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
And finally, news from the Winter Olympics that Leicestershire | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
bobsleigher Craig Pickering may be forced to retire because of injury. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Pickering ` who lives in Coalville ` was a sprinter who missed London | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
2012 because of a back problem and turned to bobsleigh. Last week he | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
was ruled out of the Winter Games after suffering another back injury. | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
He's told BBC Radio Leicester it could end his athletic career | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
altogether. When I had surgery I was told having surgery would put | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
pressure and it is the disk above surgery which has gone so if any | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
disc was going it would be this one. It is just how it goes. | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Very rough for him. 0 It is just how it goes. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Very rough for him. More Olympic action tomorrow. We have not been | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
ignoring you, looking at the papers. It's not often all our newspaper | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
front pages feature the same story. But today it was no surprise given | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
the scale of the flooding in the Home Counties and the Westcountry. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Some really dramatic pictures here. Of course, the East Midlands isn't | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
immune from flooding. In some Nottinghamshire villages ` they've | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
been flooded three times in the last seven years. 0 | :23:00. | :23:00. | |
been flooded three times in the last seven years. But in one of them, a | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
young entrepreneur ` determined not to let water pour through his home | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
again ` has started importing instant flood defences. James | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
Roberson has more. In the pouring rain this morning, | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Simon and I bring out some flood barriers. It is quite simple, it | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
uses the force of the water to hold it back. Simon found these Canadian | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
water gates after flash floods in 2007 devastated dozens of homes and | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
businesses. It went into the shop and 0 | :23:37. | :23:36. | |
businesses. It went into the shop and it 0 0 | :23:37. | :23:36. | |
businesses. It went into the shop and it covered 0 0 | :23:37. | :23:37. | |
businesses. It went into the shop and it covered the bottom of the | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
shop. The home was just as bad if not worse. We filmed the family | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
mopping up after the water went down but that was just the beginning. We | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
were out 0 but that was just the beginning. We | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
were out of the house for nearly a year, it was such an upheaval and | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
stressful. You don't want to go through that again. We scoured the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
market with things, we came across this product in Canada 0 | :24:01. | :24:01. | |
market with things, we came across this product in Canada and 0 | :24:02. | :24:01. | |
market with things, we came across this product in Canada and it sat in | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the Garrard for five years. We then used it in 2012 and it worked so | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
well, everyone said its brilliance, can you get is one question one | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Simon became the sole importer of the Watergate system, they can be | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
easily carried and unrolled stretching hundreds of yards. The | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
water raises the barrier, the barriers can be apt to six feet | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
high. They have proved a hit. Since the properties have had these | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
barriers, none of them have flooded. They have been protected. The six | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
properties with the water gates have been fine and protected. I feel much | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
more reassured because when the barrier is in place we know we are | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
safe. It is easy to sleep at night. The devices are now protecting | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
substations by the Thames but the MP wants the more widely used. I would | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
be interested to hear from him if his 0 | :25:02. | :25:01. | |
be interested to hear from him if his solution is portable and easy to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
move around. We can get them fairly quickly into the UK and it is so | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
much easier to deploy them than sandbags. It is taking the Army all | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
day to do the same job I can do in five or ten minutes. | :25:17. | :25:29. | |
It seems amazing. It seems to work. These headlines, will they be | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
repeated tomorrow? Yes, more rain on the way. A lot of weather, the snow | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
has been the talk of the 0 the way. A lot of weather, the snow | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
has been the talk of the town making a change from the rain and it looked | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
pretty today. It did not last long. This is the picture in ravens had | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
earlier at lunchtime. It started off with the rain 0 0 | :25:50. | :25:50. | |
earlier at lunchtime. It started off with the rain and it rained this | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
morning. We saw cold air digging in turning the rain to snow and we are | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
still in the colder air mass. There is the chance of snow showers | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
tonight, some of us could be waking up to a dusting of snow first thing. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
If you wintry showers at the moment, they are moving through quite | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
quickly, try with clear spells but then a cluster of showers pushing | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
in. These are more likely to turn to snow and across the Peak District | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
and higher ground we're talking around two to five centimetres of | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
snow accumulating. Even at lower levels, there may be a dusting or a | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
centimetre or 0 levels, there may be a dusting or a | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
centimetre or two. It is a short lived cold snap because we have | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
another area of low pressure zooming in off the Atlantic. Tomorrow | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
morning, any snow is washed away as the rain starts to push in. The rain | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
starts liked and patchy but for the middle part of the day it gets | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
heavier and more persistent. Later on in the day, turning more showery, | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
the rain eases but as the rain eases the winds pick up. Tomorrow | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
afternoon, a yellow weather warning for the winter, gusts of 50 miles an | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
hour. So, a lot of whether going on, tonight, the chance of snow across | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
higher ground, and tomorrow the focus is back with the brain and the | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
winds, gusts of up to 60 miles an hour. Later in the week, getting | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
quieter but more wet and windy weather to come for the weekend. It | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
isn't good. Not at all. It looked quite pretty for all of three | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
minutes today. See you on the late news. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:48. |