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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale, and me, Anne Davies. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight: A hospital halts surgery that could help children with | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
cerebral palsy. Shannon had her NHS operation but 30 | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
other children will miss out. I thought it was really bad and that | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
other people could not get it was really bad for them to. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
Also, police carry out raids across counties looking for suspected | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
football hooligans. Plus, the rise and rise of house | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
prices. And what is missing from the House of Lords is asked, apparently? | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Find 0 House of Lords is asked, apparently? | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
Find out why they later. Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's | :00:49. | :01:00. | |
programme. First tonight, growing anger and confusion after | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
potentially life changing operations for children were cancelled. The | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
surgery was designed to help children with cerebral palsy walk | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
again. The NHS has apologised for the pain, distress and uncertainty | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
the decision has caused. Tonight the affected families face | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
an agonising wait to see if there's any way that their children can now | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
get the surgery they need. Many fear they'll need to raise thousands to | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
go private. Our Health Correspondent, Rob Sissons reports. | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
Forward, that's it. This boy's family thought he was well on the | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
way to his surgery to help him walk unaided. But Nottingham's Queen's | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Medical Centre say the spinal operation is no longer routinely | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
funded on the NHS. There is hope there that he could walk, and | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
without the surgery, we question that he will ever do that. In | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
today's balls, the news his mum was dreading, and 29 other families are | :02:07. | :02:07. | |
in the same boat. His 0 dreading, and 29 other families are | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
in the same boat. His operation will not be going ahead on the NHS. The | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
procedure involves cutting nerves around the spine to reduce | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
spasticity. Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre should have stopped | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
doing the operations months ago when NHS England ruled there was not | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
enough evidence of that success. In a statement, NHS England told us | :02:30. | :02:30. | |
they were trying to achieve a: Shannon's family feel lucky. She got | :02:31. | :02:52. | |
her operation four days ago, and the hospitals honouring 18 other | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
children's operations. But to begin with, they had said no. I thought it | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
was really, really bad. And that other people 0 | :03:04. | :03:03. | |
was really, really bad. And that other people could not have it it | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
was really bad for them to. I want to do anything I can to help the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
other children who are not getting the surgery. Days on, they are | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
already noticing improvements. Before the operation, Shannon could | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
not raise her arms. That is brilliant. It is not fantastic for | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
this boy's family. It is quite a big mountain to climb, who knows how | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
long that will take? Families right across the Midlands have had 0 | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
long that will take? Families right across the Midlands have had their | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
hopes 0 across the Midlands have had their | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
hopes raised and then dashed. We asked for interviews from both | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre and NHS England and were told no one | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
was available. Tonight there is some hope, talk of NHS England funding | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
some cases, possibly around 100 to be evaluated, but there is no word | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
yet on who might qualify. Police have arrested 26 men in | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
connection with suspected violent disorder that broke out after a | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
football match last year. It happened on the day Nottingham | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Forest played Derby County in September. This morning, raids took | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
place across three counties in what police say was an almost | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
unprecedented operation. Tom Brown reports. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
It was barely dawn this morning, and a huge police operation was already | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
underway. Around 100 officers arrived in homes in Nottingham, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Derbyshire and Boston in Lincolnshire aiming to arrest 26 men | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
in a series of code needed raids. It was all in rear `` in relation to | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
suspected football related violence. It is the culmination of | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
the investigation that took place in response to a violent disorder that | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
took place in September last year. Since then, a number of people have | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
already been arrested who are currently on bail, and we have been | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
piecing together lots of different strands of intelligence, identifying | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
26 for the people we need to speak to in relation to that disorder. It | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
happened in this village right, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire border. | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
The men arrested today were aged between 16 and 50. The majority were | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
detained in Nottingham, where evidence and statements were taken. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
This police operation was so big it was partly funded by the Home | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Office. It is unprecedented. I have not seen, on many occasions, the | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
amount of intelligence gathering and preparation that has taken place in | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
relation to preparing for today's arrest phase. Anyone convicted of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
football related violence gives the real fans a bad name, the police | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
say. More arrests could follow. Almost 600 affordable homes are to | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
be built in Leicester over the next two years ` as figures today | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
confirmed the average house price in the region stands at a whopping | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
?176,000. The average cost has remained | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
constant for three months in a row, meaning our annual rise hasn't been | :06:29. | :06:29. | |
as sharp as elsewhere. 0 meaning our annual rise hasn't been | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
as sharp as elsewhere. But today one estate suggested the housing market | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
was at the beginning of another boom. Mike O'Sullivan reports. | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
There is a cluster of estate agents on the street in Leicester, one of | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
them saying that the cycle of house price boom is about to start up | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
again. With increases of up to 27% across the country, and here in the | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
East Midlands, up to 7%. We have seen it before, at the beginning of | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
the market you get that kind of gradual steady growth, and as that | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
bubble builds, the increase becomes more rapid. So our house price boom | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
is around the corner? It could be, in my humble opinion. Today the | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Office for National Statistics said the average price for a house in the | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
East Midlands was ?176,000 last year, unchanged for the third month | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
in a row, there's been a steady 1.9% increase in a year. For this | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
family, who live in social housing, the average price is a figure they | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
just cannot afford. No way, not a chance. There is no way we could | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
afford a new house. Or any sort of house to move into. This is it for | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
us. In Leicester, more affordable homes or on the way. The city | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
council says 600 will be provided in the next couple of years. Wages have | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
not kept up with inflation in house prices, so many people cannot afford | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
to buy. There have always been many people, because of low`income, low | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
wages, disabilities are other reasons, who would never buy. We | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
have got an increase of 31% more buyers, that is a fact. There is | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
more 0 buyers, that is a fact. There is | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
more confidence out there. At the moment, the market is growing. Help | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
is out there for mortgages, but around ?60 million is also being | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
spent on affordable homes in the city. With the money coming from the | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Council, the government and outside investment. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
The RSPCA have returned to a field in Leicestershire at the centre of a | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
campaign to move some horses being kept there. People have been at the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
field near Fosse park protesting that the animals need to be taken | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
somewhere dry. The owner insists he's done nothing wrong and the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
horses are taken care of. The RSPCA visited today and said afterwards | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
their inspectors had no immediate concerns and the owner was | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
co`operating in mending fences and clearing some litter. They said the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
horses do have access to dry land and food. One was put down at the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
weekend, unable to rise from a large puddle of water. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
A council is defending plans to introduce a two tier rent system | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
which would essemtially give a discount to so`called responsible | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
tenants. Nottingham City Council says the idea is to reward those who | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
play by the rules and pay on time ` while those who don't would pay | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
more. It says it won't disadvantage those who genuinely can't pay. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Benefits campaigners in the city though, have called the idea | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
'divisive' and 'unfair'. Nottinghamshire Police are to hold a | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
fortnight long firearms amnesty next month. It's a decade since the last | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
one was held in the county. Officers are asking for people to hand in | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
unlawfully held or unwanted guns and ammunition to stop them getting into | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
the wrong hands. There'll be no questions asked. The amnesty will | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
begin on March third. Still to come: Big changes and big | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
challenges for Mansfield's Golden Girl. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Rebecca Adlington talks about her life away from competitive swimming. | :10:13. | :10:27. | |
Before all that, a deafening silence in Parliament's second chamber. A | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
new survey reveals that our voice is going unheard in the House of Lords. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
The East Midlands has fewer noble Lords and Baronesses than any other | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
part of the UK. Now there are calls for that under`representation to be | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
addressed. Here's our Political Editor John Hess. | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
It was Oscar Wilde who wrote that the House of Lords and never takes | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
into account public opinion. That is why, he says, it is at a civilised | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
body. But a new report suggests Parliament's unelected second | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
chamber is out of touch with many of the regions but the country `` | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
regions of the country, especially the East Midlands. Out of 432 | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
working peers, only nine or from the East Midlands. At 2%, that is the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
lowest representation of any part of the UK. That compares with 4% for | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
the West Midlands and Yorkshire. 11% for the East, and 20% from the | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
south`east. At 24%, peers living in Greater London make up the biggest | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
share. The Bishop of Leicester is one of our handful of peers. There | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
is also lauds Charlie Falk in, a former Lord Chancellor in Tony | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Blair's government. I'm very conscious listening to the | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
contributions... This baroness, a former BBC head of communications, | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
now a government Environment Minister, and Baroness Lister, a | :12:02. | :12:13. | |
professor of social policy. It is ghastly there are so few peers from | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
East Midlands. I can't think of any sensible explore nation for that. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Members of the Lords have no constituency to represent. We are | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
scrutinising legislation, bringing our experience of where we live, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
what is going on. If a particular region is underrepresented it means | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
that the people bringing knowledge of the effects of legislation in | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
this region are not there. Over the last 100 years, governments have | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
attended to reform the House of Lords. The last attempt a couple of | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
years ago to have direct elections also ended in failure. Would that | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
surprise Oscar Wilde? I think not. Parts of the Elvaston Castle Estate | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
could be taken over by local businesses and organisations. | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Derbyshire County Council currently spends ?800,000 a year maintaining | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
the 17th century castle and parkland. Now it wants to see if | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
local groups or firms would like to move in to some of the park | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
buildings to help secure the estate's future. It'll be holding | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
open days next month. English Heritage has objected to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
plans to knock down part of a former Nottinghamshire brewery. Developers | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
want to build 150 homes on the site of an old malt house at Kimberley. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
It's part of a major redevelopment of the disused brewery site. But | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
English Heritage says the building is listed and the homes will be out | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
of character. 0 is listed and the homes will be out | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
of character. The firm behind the proposals say they're vital for the | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
area's economy. Now to the only hospice of its kind | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
in the East Midlands caring not just for children and young adults but | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
for their families too. This year, Rainbows celebrates it's 20th | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
birthday. For two decades it's given respite, palliative and end of life | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
care. And as Jo Healey reports there's been an awful lot of 0 | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
there's been an awful lot of laughter among 0 | :14:07. | :14:06. | |
there's been an awful lot of laughter among the tears over the | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
last two decades. It is very, very special place isn't | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
it? It is 0 It is very, very special place isn't | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
it? It is a lifeline for the families and children who come here. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
Rainbows has been here for two decades, and in that time, it has | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
helped thousands of children and their families. One of them is | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Chloe, who has been coming for ten years. How important as this place | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
been to Chloe? It has been really important. Rainbows has been a place | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
she can come and have fun and get the support she needs. She gets 16 | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
nights of respite care a year, doesn't she? She has had time to | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
recharge your batteries. The staff are 0 | :15:03. | :15:02. | |
recharge your batteries. The staff are just amazing. The facilities | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
have improved beyond recognition since it was officially opened by | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
the Prince of Wales. This man was the first child through the doors, | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
he is now 21 years old. At the moment they are supporting around | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
300 children. They are also supporting 250 grieved families. But | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
at all costs ?4.5 million a year just to run. And this, its 20th | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
year, they want to raise an extra ?100,000. We need to provide complex | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
care for our children. We rely a lot more on technology. It is a huge | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
undertaking. But they are rising to the challenge to help children and | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
their families for decades to come. Fantastic. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
Still to come: A bit of a redesign for the Red Arrows. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
The new look was unveiled today but you'll have to keep watching to find | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
out exactly 0 you'll have to keep watching to find | :16:11. | :16:11. | |
out exactly what 0 you'll have to keep watching to find | :16:12. | :16:11. | |
out exactly what has changed. You will have to stay watching. Do | :16:12. | :16:30. | |
not go away. I know it is the sport. We have got good stuff too. A lovely | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
interview with Rebecca Adlington on life after sport to come, but we | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
start with current footballing stars. Derby have a match at | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Sheffield Wednesday tonight which could more than consilidate their | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
place at the top of the table. Natalie Jackson has been looking | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
ahead. If Steve McClaren's Derby County win | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
at Sheffield Wednesday tonight they could go into third place. It is a | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
remarkable rise up the table for the Rams. Over the last five years on | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
average they have finished 15th in the Championship. It is changing the | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
mentor Lydia the players. `` the mentality of the players. Being in | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
this position, what does it take? We have to take the pressure away from | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
them. It is about mentality. Derby have had eight days of rest since | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
their last game. A win which left the players feeling full of | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
confidence and desire. A nice mix of guys in the changing room. Everybody | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
is hungry for success. There are some senior players who have had | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
good success throughout their careers. And young lads who are new | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
to this type of situation. But it is working well for us. Full match | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
commentary at Derby's game on Sheffield Wednesday tonight, 7pm on | :17:58. | :18:10. | |
BBC Radio Devon B. `` Well, hosting that Radio Derby coverage is our own | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Mark Shardlow who can look ahead for us at Hillsborough. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Sheffield Wednesday lost last week for the first time in 12 games. One | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
crucial factor here will be the pitch. It is still damp. It might | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
cut up a bit. And it has just 0 cut up a bit. And it has just | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
started raining again. Kick`off here is at 7:45pm. | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
Nottingham Forest's chairman says they will support champion boxer | :18:42. | :18:50. | |
Carl Froch to fulfil his dream. The chairman says they would like to | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
thank `` help if they can. It is potentially the biggest ever | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
all British boxing match but where will it take place customer Carl | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
Froch would love it to be at his beloved Nottingham Forest. The | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
chairman is not ruling it out. We will try to help them as much as we | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
can. I will sit with them and talk about his game, and I wish him all | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
the best. The chairman is busy with footballing matters at the moment. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Speculation is rife that there midfield could be returning to the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
club. Loan signings are real possibility. We are missing a number | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
of players. These are key players for Nottingham Forest, good | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
players. I'm sure the manager is looking for a midfielder, but we do | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
not want to bring any player, we want to bring the right player. And | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
despite the injury problems, the chairman is still confident of | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
success. We have 16 games to play. If we win ten games out of the 16, I | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
think we'll do well. We can do this season. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Huge ambitions. In other sport, a big night coming up for Nottingham | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Panthers ` they have a 5`3 lead going into the second leg of their | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
Challenge Cup semfinal with arch`rivals Sheffield Steelers. Face | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
off is at 7:30 and it's live on BBC Radio Nottingham with, well, me. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Join me then if you can. At the Winter Olympics some joy at | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
last for Nottingham speed skating star Elise Christie. She's been | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
denied medals in the 500 metre and 1,500m events by controversial | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
judging decisions but skated today in the heats of her favourite 1,000m | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
distance ` and came from fourth to blow the field away in the last | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
three laps. It was a confident return to the ice. And it helped | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Elise put the earlier events ` and abuse she's had on social media ` | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
behind her. It is good that I was out there, everyone has hated me and | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
I did not feel good out there, and it was emotional and stuff. But I | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
have got back out there today knowing that people are helping me | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
get on with things. It is great to get out there and skate again. | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Also skating today in the 500m heats were Jon Eley and Jack Whelbourne. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Jon is safely through, but Jack had a really tough draw and has been | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
knocked out. Now for the second in our series on | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
how sports stars cope with retirement. Tonight, Mansfield's | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
Rebecca Adlington ` the Golden Star of the pool at the Beijing Olympics. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
She's only 25 but already she's got to carve out a whole new career and, | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
as Helen Barnes found out, cope with some big changes to her body. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Rebecca 0 some big changes to her body. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Rebecca Adlington is Great Britain's most successful ever | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
swimmer. Rebecca Adlington, two gold medals in one Olympic games. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Absolutely brilliant. In February 2013 Shirov retired from sport. `` | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
she retired from sport. She moved to the north`west, got herself a new | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
job. Becky has launched a network of swimming schools. She wants to | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
improve her swimming is taught across the country. My ambition is | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
for every child leaving primary school to be able to swim 25 metres. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
It is one of those things that if you are in a situation, you have to | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
save someone's life, you will not panic if you're confident in water. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Becky turned 25 yesterday, and she is loving her new life. It is nice | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
not waking up at quarter past five in the morning. I don't have much | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
routine and structure any more like you do when you are and athlete. It | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
is so relaxed. But there have been some surprises. Now I have lost all | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
my muscle, pretty much. Nothing is toned, everything wobbles. I am | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
like, what is this? Why is that wobbling? That is very different. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
You kind of expected when you retire, that you just kind of, you | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
will never be as fit as you are in that moment when you are competing. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
You will never be that body shape again, because that body, for me, I | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
am so grateful for my body in many ways because it has gotten me to | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
four Olympic medals. Please welcome the incredible Becky Adlington. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Those medals put Becky in the media spotlight. I wondered how she feels | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
now about being so famous. It is crazy to me. I have never had a | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
desire to be famous. I would prefer to be with my family and friends and | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
do nothing. I know exactly how she feels. I don't know how I cope if I | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
lost this tone and body. Dominik said earlier the reason he | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
never went into sport was the feeling of not being toned. Anyway, | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
this summer The Red Arrows celebrate their 50th year of aerobatic | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
displays ` displays which have taken the Lincolnshire based team around | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
the world. And to mark the anniversary the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
pilots and their engineers, known as the Blues, unveiled a new paint | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
scheme at their RAF Scampton base. Gemma Dawson was there. | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Unveiling their new look, and it is up to the Blues to reveal the Red | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
Arrows' anniversary tail fin. I always had an idea for a union Jack | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
on the tail. The engineers came up with the final design. I was really | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
impressed with it. The tale features the Hawk and the Nat. Red Arrows, | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
marking the opening of the 19 six D5 season of aerobatic display. `` | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
1965. The way we operate as a team is similar to how we did years ago. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
It is a huge privilege to be on the team in this 50th year. For some of | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
the pilots, their first glimpse of the paint's new look. On the 50th | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
season, it is even more impressive. Knowing that is going to be on the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
back of the aircraft I am lying. This one is getting its make over | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
today. And over the next few days, all of the aeroplanes should be | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
ready for the Red 0 all of the aeroplanes should be | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
ready for the Red Arrows' 50th display season. | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
Nice tail. It was edging stuff. Anyway, it is | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
time for the weather forecast. Sadly. | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
There is good news in the forecast, at last. It has been quieter for us | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
today, and that quieter weather has enticed you out. A beautiful carpet | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
of snowdrops here. Do not be shy. Send in your weather pictures. The | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
next 24 hours is staying fairly quiet. In between these weather | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
systems. This one is heading in for Thursday. Tomorrow, very quiet, | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
dry, bright, there will be sunshine around. We are still on the mild | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
side, temperatures will peak into double figures. We have had some | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
showers around today. They are starting to fade, so it is a dry | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
night, clear spells developing through tonight, light winds as | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
well. It will be a little chilly tonight. We will keep frost away, | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
lows of three or four Celsius. Tomorrow will start off bright, some | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
spells of sunshine, cloud will thicken up through the morning, that | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
may squeeze a very light shower. By the afternoon, sunshine should come | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
back again, decent breaks in the cloud. Light winds, it will feel | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
pleasant, nine or 10 Celsius. It may actually feel springlike later on, | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
dare I say it. But it is not going to last. That weather front is | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
zooming in for Wednesday night. That will be with us through Thursday. We | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
are back to cloudy, damp and breezy on Thursday. | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
Tomorrow is looking lovely. I am going to love it. It might change by | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Thursday. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:48. |