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deputy Speaker of the House of Commons has been cleared of rape and | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
other sex charges. This is East Midlands Today. A | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
police force is commanded to reinstate an officer who was wrongly | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
convicted of rape. He was cleared and Aiken `` a tribunal has decreed | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
that he must return to work. Problems at Nottingham prison. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
We are continually getting reports of incidents at Nottingham. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
Plus, inside the East Midlands' latest venue, the Derby arena take | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
shape. And horses and dogs step out with | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
the military in Melton Mowbray. Good evening. First tonight, | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Nottinghamshire Police have been ordered to reinstate an offhcer they | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
sacked after he was was wrongly convicted of rape. Detectivd | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Sergeant Trevor Gray was dismissed after being sentenced to eight years | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
for attacking a woman at her home. But that conviction was latdr | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
quashed and he was subsequently cleared at a retrial. Today, the | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Police Appeals Tribunal has ruled that Mr Gray can return to his job, | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
as Amy Harris reports. It is the long`awaited result Trevor | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Gray has hoped for. The forler police officer, who was wrongly | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
convicted of rape, was sackdd and jailed before clearing his name | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
during a retrial. He's been appealing his dismissal and | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
yesterday the Police Appeals Tribunal ruled he can return to his | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
job. It's a relief. I am delighted that my appeal has been uphdld. But | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
I am disappointed that this matter had to be determined by a tribunal | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
and Nottinghamshire Police force had to be ordered to reinstate le | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
despite both the Court of Appeal quashed my conviction and mx | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
subsequent acquittal. He was jailed in 2012 for attacking a wom`n in her | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
home but was cleared after his wife Alison found fresh evidence. We just | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
hugged each other and broke down in tears. We were so delighted. Mr Gray | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
was a detective Sergeant with Nottinghamshire Police for 25 years. | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
His appeal to get his job b`ck has been funded by the Police | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Federation, which represents officers. Today, bosses welcomed the | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
news. We ask the forced to reinstate him. They would not do so. The only | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
option was to go through an appeals process. Whilst delighted whth the | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
results, and it vindicates the position that he has not bedn | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
convicted of any crime, he has not been convicted of any crime. In a | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
statement, Nottinghamshire Police said they didn't oppose the | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
reinstatement, but had to follow a legal process. They're arranging a | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
meeting with Mr Gray to discuss his future with the force. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
Next tonight, a claim that Nottingham Prison is a "powder keg" | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
and that it's "running out of control". The allegation has come | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
from the national boss of the Prison Officers' Association. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
And tonight we can reveal that there's been a sharp increase in | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
disruptive protests at jails right across the East Midlands. Otr Social | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Affairs Correspondent, Jerely Ball, can tell us more. Jeremy, what has | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
been happening? Just this week, they've had a number | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
of protests. Prisoners climbing onto netting. One cell set on fire. And | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
yesterday, a six`hour standoff. As inmates refused to go back to their | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
cells. And prison officers have warning of trouble for some time. We | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
first started hearing their concerns two years ago when officers walked | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
out of the jail after a strhng of violent attacks. And now, their | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
union's boss has told me thd situation's become "extremely | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
dangerous". With fewer officers and more than 1,000 inmates in ` jail | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
that's only designed for 700. Nottingham, we would say is a powder | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
keg prison. We are continually getting reports of issues and | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
incident at Nottingham and xou only have to go back to January when | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
there was a major incident there as well. Our members were attacked | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
keys were taken off them, etc. How typical are the problems at | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Nottingham Prison? We've usdd the Freedom of Information Act to find | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
out what's happening across the East Midlands. There's no breakdown for | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
assaults by prisoners. But we have discovered there's been a sharp | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
increase in what's known as "incidents at height". They're a | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
common form of protest wherd inmates climb onto ledges or netting. | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
?NEWLINE You can see from this map that there are 13 jails across the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
the East Midlands. In 2011 they reported 25 incidents | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
at height. In 2012 the number rose stedply to | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
118. And last year there even more, with | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
169 incidents at height. Almost a third of those, happened | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
here at Nottingham Prison. @nd the POA says those incidents ard just | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
the tip of the iceberg. I would like a review into the staffing levels at | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Nottingham. It needs to be done before somebody is seriouslx hurt, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
whether a prisoner or a prison officer. I would say to minhsters, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
you don't want blood on your hands. So you need to work with thhs trade | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
union in order to resolve the situation at Nottingham prison | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
before it gets out of control. So a stark warning, but has therd been | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
any response from the prison service? They are adamant that | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
staffing levels are safe and in line with national guidelines. They say | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
that the prison service is not at all complacent about safety or | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
security. We have also been told that most of these incidents at | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
height are resolved without any injury or damage. We don't think | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
that'll be enough to satisfx the officers who work here the prison. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Next: The government has confirmed that it won't try to save Thoresby | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Colliery, the last remaining deep coal mine in the East Midlands. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Instead, it's making a loan of 10 million for what it calls a "managed | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
closure". The National Union of Mineworkers | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
tonight warned that the first redundancies could happen as soon as | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
next month. With more details, here's John Hess. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Thoresby Colliery in the he`rt of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Its first coal was extracted 90 years ago. Today, confirmathon that | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
it will shut in autumn of ndxt year..with the loss of several | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
hundred jobs. The government's 10 million loan to Thoresby's operators | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
UK Coal is to tide it over next few months. `` to tide it over for the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
next few months. The Business Minister Michael Fallon told MPs | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
maintaining coal production at Thoresby and its sister pit at | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Kellingley in Yorkshire wasn't value for money. We are prepared, in | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
principle, to contribute a ?10 million load alongside contributions | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
from other private`sector investors to help support a managed close of | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the two collieries which wotld avoid the significant losses and | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
liabilities which would havd materialised in the event of an | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
immediate and uncontrolled insolvency of UK Coal. UK Coal says | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
there are enough reserves at Thoresby for another four ydars So | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
there's been a mixture of resignation and disappointmdnt at | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
today's announcement. The ddbate now focuses on the impact on thd local | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
community. Do not let us forget that when a big employer closes, it has a | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
knock`on effect. For the people that supply falls B. `` for the people | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
that supply the colliery. The government also says a Job Centre | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Plus rapid response service will be sent to Thoresby to advise liners | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
now facing redundancy. And we'll be hearing from the local | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
MP, Sherwood's Mark Spencer, in the late edition of East Midlands Today | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
at 10.25pm here on BBC One. Coming up ` holding back thd waters. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Last July's flash floods in Southwell caused months of lisery. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Tonight residents will hear why it happened and what can be done to | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
stop a repeat. A public meeting is under over a | :08:36. | :08:58. | |
company that provides GP services. The medical group runs practices | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
across the Chesterfield are`. The regulator said there were problems | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
with two of those surgeries including problems with pathents | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
getting appointments and prhvacy not being respected. | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
Didn't it hurt a lot? Yes. Ddward Baker can still suffer `` rdmember | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the agony of suffering a burst appendix. He had to be rushdd into | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
hospital last Christmas aftdr days of pain. His parents believd his | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
condition should have been picked up sooner by local GPs before she only | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
had a stomach bug. We feel dxtremely let down because we knew how will | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Edward was. We took him to the doctors, twice. The second time he | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
should have been sent to hospital. Edward was seen by two diffdrent | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
doctors at two different surgeries which are part of the same ledical | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
group. His case is one of a number being highlighted by local LP, Tony | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Perkins. It has been clear for several month that there is a | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
significant problem with regard to services and also with the demand | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
that their race. And the qu`lity of `` the service there is, and the | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
quality of clinical care. The group says they are satisfied. We have | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
increased to 200 hours a wedk. There are now practitioners is av`ilable | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
for consultation and online meeting `` appointments can be bookdd as | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
well. Now Edward's parents `re taking part in a public meeting to | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
discuss their concerns. A man has died after being | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
discovered in the back of a rubbish lorry. Police were called to | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
Lyndhurst Road in the Sneinton area of Nottingham just after five | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
o'clock this morning. The m`n was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
where he later died. An investigation is under way hnto how | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
he came to be in the back of the truck. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
The jury in the retrial of ` Derby man who's accused of murderhng a | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
teenager have been dischargdd. They'd been deliberating for five | :11:15. | :11:15. | |
days. Kadeem Blackwood, who was 14, was | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
shot on a park at Sunnyhill in Derby in 2008. One man has admittdd | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
pulling the trigger and is hn prison. Michael Paul Hamblett`Sewell | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
denied ordering a fellow gang member to shoot Kadeem. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
A footbridge in Derby which was closed because of structural | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
problems is to be partially reopened. St Alkmund's bridge | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
connects the city centre with St Mary's Catholic Church. A tdmporary | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
repair means it'll open agahn in a fortnight. A permanent solution will | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
be in place by July. The City Council says the companies ht blames | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
for the flaw will pay for the repairs. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Hundreds of people are expected at a public meeting tonight to hdar more | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
about plans to stop a town from flooding again. Dozens of homes at | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Southwell in Nottinghamshird were battered by flash floods last July. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
A forum was set up to find out what caused the problem and how to stop | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
it recurring. Right now it's presenting some of their findings to | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the community. Sarah Teale reports. The flash floods of last July were | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
ferocious. Torrents of water poured through huge parts of | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Nottinghamshire. It took just a couple of hours for the rain to | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
fall. But it caused devastation which has gone on for months. Rob | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Jordan has only just moved back into his home at Southwell. The floods | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
haven't put him off from living here. We love where we live. We have | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
great friends and neighbours. Great community spirit. We just w`nt to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
sort out the flooding probldm out, not move away. So Rob and other | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
residents have come together to form the Southwell Flood Forum. Tonight | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
at a public meeting, residents are being shown a high`tech moddl which | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
replicates the July floods `nd from that can predict what will happen | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
with different rainfall levdls. It will help work out what flood | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
alleviation measures are nedded People say that dredging is the | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
solution. But that is not the only solution. That is what the purpose | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
of the model is, to identifx what would be the best solution. On a | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
spring day like today it's hard to imagine this road was like ` river. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
Nine months ago. Flood prevdntion schemes don't come cheap it's | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
expected to be ?1.85 million and ?125,000 will have to be rahsed by | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
the community. Residents will also have to pay more in their council | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
tax for the next three years to help fund the scheme. We need proper | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
measures to, engineered measures, to hold water back. We need to make | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
sure that drains, ditches and dikes are maintained regularly. Wd cannot | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
say never again, but if we get the funding, we can make it verx | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
unlikely. Campaigners say there is no single solution for prevdnting | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
flooding, but a series of shmple measures ` including a bypass pipe | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
to take surface water away from the town, dredging the drains and brooks | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
and slowing water down. There was a military parade with a | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
difference through a Leicestershire town today. As well as soldhers the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
stars of the show were the `nimals. It was the military dogs and horses | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
that particularly attracted the crowds in Melton Mowbray. Otr | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
reporter Simon Ward was there. The animals are preparing to go on | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
parade. Among them is Lara. She s a dog in training and this will be a | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
test for her. We have put a lot of work into her in the past couple of | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
weeks, but on the day, with animals, you don't know what will happen We | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
have done a lot of practice, so hopefully it will be well. `` it | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
will go well. She's a trackdr animal, she finds people. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Criminals, or whatever. She is doing well. The Defence Animal Centre is | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
based here in Melton and 104 Military Working Dog Squadron is | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
from North Luffenham. It is the first paraded through Melton Mowbray | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
for the military dogs and their handlers since they returned from | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Afghanistan last year. And the crowds have turned out to wdlcome | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
them. It is nice to see the forces walking through Melton Mowbray. `` | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
Melton. I have family over the years in the forces and it is nicd to | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
support them. I am proud to be British and proud of what wd see. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
The protection we were given while we were there was paramount. But the | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
tour that we did was part of the process to allow the Afghan people | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
to return to what they know, and do it in a safe and a proper w`y. A lot | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
of them come from the same `rea and they do appreciate that thex are | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
invested in Melton. Remember Lara, the dog still being trained? Here | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
she is, coping wonderfully with all the noise and the crowds. | :16:15. | :16:31. | |
She looks so happy to be thdre! The people of Derby got a bdtter | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
idea today of what to expect when the city's new velodrome finally | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
opens. A glitzy video shows how the ?28 million arena will stagd | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
top`level cycling and transform into a concert hall for 5,000 people | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
James Roberson donned his h`rd hat for a look inside to see how the | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
construction work is going. Hard at work inside the new arena | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
and velodrome. The building is now clearly taking shape, with the track | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
area and central infield arda clearly defined below it. A new | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
council video has been prodtced to give the public an idea of what the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
building will look like inshde when it's finished. Councillors say it'll | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
be unlike the four other velodromes in England Scotland and Walds. This | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
is not only a velodrome, it is a multi sports centre as well. We have | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
120 work stations in the gyl. We have a conference centre, an | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
exhibition centre. So we will be providing really good facilhties | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
here in the heart of the Midlands. It will put us on the map. The | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
wooden banking will start hdre and slope appears to the top of this pig | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
area. There will be 26 miles of Siberian pine, enough to stretch | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
from here to Leicester. The public will be able to hire bikes here as | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
well. The point about this lenu is that we have raised the track to | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
first`floor level. That means that we have use of the infield `rea For | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
concerts, three and a half `` 3 00 people can stand. With the dxterior | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
virtually finished, The council and contractors say the interior should | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
be completed by November and the building should be open for business | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
next February. Looks fantastic, doesn't it And you | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
can see more of that video on the BBC Derby website. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Here is the sport. I have bden in the velodrome. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
First, could Derby County bd our next team in the Premier Le`gue | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
With five games to go they need four more points for the play`offs and | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
head coach Steve McClaren s`ys it was a big deal passing the 70 points | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
mark this week. It is huge. We knew Tuesday was a high`pressure game. | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
The boys did very well. We keep challenging them, we keep tdsting | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
them, we keep telling them to put a marker down and they keep doing it. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
That is what we will continte to do on Saturday. | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Onto cricket ` and he's one of the biggest signings Nottinghamshire | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
fans have seen for years. Atstralian bowler Peter Siddle has now arrived | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
at Trent Bridge. The delays with his visa are now sorted out and Siddle | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
is raring to get going. He spoke to Kirsty Edwards. | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
He is a huge name in intern`tional cricket. And he is about to strike | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
fear amongst batsmen in the County championship. He tasted success with | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Australia in the Ashes during the winter and even though they lost the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
series here last summer, he had a great opening game at Trent Bridge. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
And now, he can't wait to bd playing here for the next few months. To get | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
three in the second innings, I did like bowling. That is a big draw. I | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
want to have a crack at herd again. They try to entice me to cole here | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
and it made the decision quhte easy. He is one of the best bowlers in the | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
world. That is what he has been labelled with and he has earned | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
that. To have somebody of that quality is amazing. The coach is | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
delighted and no doubt the local fruit sellers will be. I he`r you | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
are partial to a banana? Ye`h. Every product goes into my diet, but I is | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
a lot of fruit. About 20 a day. It keeps me going. The Notts f`ns will | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
be looking forward to getting their first glimpse of him. Expectations | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
will be big but the laid`back Australian is not feeling any | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
pressure. If I start playing poorly, I will get stick about being an | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Australian. That the moment, if I can keep having success likd we did | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
yesterday, and keep going forward. I have always dreamt of coming over | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
here and now I have my chance. Swimming ` the British Championships | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
are under way in Glasgow. For one man, they represent a chancd to mark | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
a comeback he feared might never happen. Loughborugh's world | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
backstroke champion Liam Tancock has been sidelined for much of the | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
season by an illness that took months to diagnose. Angela Rafferty | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
has more. He is out to prove he can c`me back | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
from the biggest challenge of his career so far. A mystery injury that | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
left the world champion serhously struggling. It was a nightm`re last | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
year. I didn't know what was going on. I had seen specialist, nobody | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
could pinpoint the problem. Might shoulders were hurting. Thex were | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
talking about nerves through my neck, different things going on It | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
was a year of my swimming c`reer. I lost a year due to injury. That was | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
frustrating. You have to st`y positive and move forward. The | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
British Championships in Gl`sgow are his first real test. There hs plenty | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
at stake. Selectors will decide who goes into the Commonwealth games. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
They can win their event by five or six seconds, but that does not | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
guarantee the selection. It goes on their ability to win medals at the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Olympic Games. It is a uniqte thing. Success is something Fran H`lsall is | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
very familiar with ` her first Commonwealth Games aged 15 seem a | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
long time ago. But this timd, she has added an entirely new event to | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
her repertoire. When you add relays to my programme, I will be hn seven | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
events. Heat, semifinals and finals, I will swim 20 races over shx days! | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
It is a lot, especially for a sprinter. We are not used to that, | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
it is a lot. Selectors to ilpress, a Commonwealth Games place to secure ` | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the stakes are high for the best in Britain. | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
And finally from me, one for motorsports fans ` a chance to see | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
the new all electric Formul` E race cars ahead of their launch season. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Five full test days at Donington Park starting on July third will be | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
open to spectators and free of charge ahead of the season opener in | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
Beijing. Work on the new series headquarters, which will be based at | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
the circuit, is also nearing completion. Donington are opening | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
their doors to the public tonight. Kids can get in free, everyone can | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
get in free. It is open to 8:30pm. Next, work on The National Trust's | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
newest East Midlands property is nearing completion. Stoneywdll | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
Cottage at Ulverscroft in Leicestershire is grade two listed. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
It was acquired by the Trust last year and is said to be a nationally | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
important example of the Arts and Crafts movement. Paul Bradshaw was | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
given exclusive access. Beautiful and useful, the two | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
qualities that embody the Arts and Crafts movement. And Stoneywell is | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
both. Built in 1899 by Leicester`born architect and | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
furniture maker Ernest Gimson, the cottage has been acquired bx The | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
National Trust for the nation to enjoy. Crafted out of local | :24:21. | :24:33. | |
materials, by the hand, not using mass production techniques. That was | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
the foundation of the arts `nd crafts movement. This cottage | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
started `` this cottage throughout its life has welcomed visitors from | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
all around the world. Peopld have admired the work of the arts and | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
crafts movement. We look forward to continuing that. Nestled in 15 acres | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
of gardens and woodland, thd property has required wiring and | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
minor repair work to restord it to how it would've looked in the 1 50's | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
when its last owner, Sidney Gimson moved in. In here, we see some quite | :25:01. | :25:10. | |
important pieces of arts and crafts furniture which part of the | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
collection. Not least this lovely bed. It was crafted in the workshops | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
in the Cotswolds and has bedn here throughout its life. There was local | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
opposition to the Trust takhng over the property, concerns which it | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
hopes will be addressed by limiting visitor numbers to 163 per day. It | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
is lovely to be able to havd a place within Leicestershire that The | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
National Trust members can visit more easily than they can elsewhere. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
The property will open to the public later this year. | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
What a beautiful cottage. Bdautiful and useful! | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Talking of which... Beautiftl, anyway! | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Thank you. A quiet weather story at the moment. It will remain settled | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
for the rest of the week. A beautiful sunset yesterday. And | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
here's the warm up oriel at Queens Park. Plenty more opportunities to | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
take photos in the next few days. We have a weak weather fronts to get | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
out of the way tonight. It hs going to the south, taking cloud with it. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
High pressure is building from the South West which will domin`te for | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the next few days. There is a lot of cloud around for the moment but it | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
will break to bring clear skies first thing this evening. Then that | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
weather front moves in which will bring thick cloud for a while with | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
light patchy rain. It is a weak front, not amounted to much. It will | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
move away towards dawn. Then we will have clearer skies. There m`y be | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
frost in sheltered spots. For the rest of us, a fairly mild nhght | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
Tomorrow morning, that cloud sinks southwards. Decent sunny spdlls | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
through the morning. More in the way of cloud in the afternoon btt still | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
bright and sunny intervals. Feeling fresher, but not bad with a high of | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
13 Celsius. The weekend is `lso looking dry and sunny. | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
Good news. Beautiful and usdful I never doubted it. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Join me for the late news. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:47. |