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You This is East Midlands Today with Geeta Pendse and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Tonight: Jail for three men who aimed a laser beam at a passenger | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
plane. Are the three admittdd endangering passenger safetx. All I | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
can say is I am very sorry for what happened. It would never happen | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
again. Also tonight, a frightening end to a night out. A new w`rning | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
for drivers towing caravans. Plus a huge rise in the number of people | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
using food banks. Della mac you just get some food to keep you going And | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
British touring car is at Donington Park, we have the best view of the | :00:54. | :01:07. | |
action. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
programme. First tonight: J`iled ` three men who put the lives of | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
hundreds of passengers in d`nger by aiming a laser beam at plands | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
landing at East Midlands Airport. Twenty`one`year`old Luke Walters, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
seen here on crutches, and Craig Appleby, who's twenty, were | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
sentenced to five months in prison. Nineteen`year`old Alex Parkdr was | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
jailed for seven months. The judge condemned their actions, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
adding that people living in the region remembered the Kegworth | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Aircrash and therefore thesd were deterrent sentences. Simon Ward | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
reports from Leicester Crown Court. The court heard that the aircraft | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
and the control tower is at Midlands airport were struck by the laser. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
The crew of one error plane said the light was so bright, they h`d to | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
cover the windows. These pictures from a police exercise shall have | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
powerful laser pointers can be. Officials on the ground in the laser | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
into the sky. This can affect the vision of crew at night. 20`year`old | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
Craig Appleby pleaded guiltx with the others. They were caught near | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
East Midlands airport in February last year. He told me he regrets the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
whole thing. There is no pohnt in lying about it. I said I shone a | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
laser pen at the aeroplanes. I know what dangers it can cause now. It | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
was horrible. On reflection, you can understand the dangers therd could | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
be? After I read my statement, I was very shocked at the damage ht did. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Having pleaded guilty, what would you say to other people? All I can | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
say is I am very sorry for what happened. It will never happen | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
again. I was not aware of what I was doing. In a darkened room, the laser | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
pointer shows up more brightly. In recent years, the more powerful | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
laser pointers have been reloved for general sale. They are supposed to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
be used in education and presentations. But others are easily | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
available for just the few pounds. The main surprise was shock, it was | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
the surprise that the pilot recorded. The real danger is flash | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
blindness. The laser pointer comes unexpectedly, and is extremdly | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
bright, and that flash blindness stays with the pilot for a while. It | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
is an offence that has been increasing. East Midlands ahrport | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
ranks about any medal for UK airports, with 70 incidents with | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
laser pointers reported in the last year alone. The airport said that | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
the safety of passengers and staff are their first priority. Shmon | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
Ward, BBC East Midlands tod`y, Leicester. | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
Next tonight, holiday`makers are being warned to take extra care | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
after dramatic footage of a van towing an out of control caravan, | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
was taken in Leicestershire. Footage of the crash has been released as a | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
warning to holiday`makers to take care, as thousands head off for the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
bank holiday weekend. Shocking CCTV footage taken on the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
M1 in Leicester. The caravan is out of control, before being off into | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the side of the road. Thankfully, the motorway wasn't busy. Drivers | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
here are looking forward to the Easter break, but they know all too | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
well how dangerous towing a caravan can be. Della mac I have sedn | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
caravans in the ditch, upside down, cars upside down, caravans smashed | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
all over with their furniture already hard shoulder. When you put | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
the foot on the break, you can't stop that easily. They are difficult | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
to tour if the wind gets hold of them, they can turn over a very | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
easily. You have two tonne of car, two tonnes of caravan, and then if | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
somebody comes in and cut straight in front of me, how do I stop? | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
Between January and March l`st year, there were 60 incidents on our roads | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
involving caravans and trailers Over the spring, that figurd rose to | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
125. Over the summer, the ntmber of incidents on our roads rose to 27. | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
So what can drivers do? The best thing to do is make sure th`t the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
tyres are legal, the pressure is correct. Ensure that trailers are | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
correctly attached, and keep to the speed limits. The message is clear ` | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
slow down and stay safe, so that you arrive at your destination hn one | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
place. Leicester Prison was found to be 80 | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
per cent over capacity during a spot`check by inspectors. Today s | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
report follows a surprise vhsit by Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
in November. It concludes that the jail faces some significant | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
challenges if it's to becomd more effective. Staff were praisdd for | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the way they dealt with those at risk of self harm, but inspdctors | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
were concerned many prisoners felt unsafe when it came to levels of | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
violence. Derby's new velodrome could be used | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
to host some events affected by the closure of the city's Assembly | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Rooms. Yesterday, it was announced that the venue will be shut for at | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
least 18 months while it's rebuilt or repaired. A number of | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
high`profile events have had to be cancelled. The velodrome, which | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
opens next January, is being considered as an alternativd. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Building a temporary venue hs also an option. | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
Still to come ` feeding the hungry. Church leaders clash with the | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Government over the reasons behind a huge rise in the number of people | :07:21. | :07:41. | |
relying on food banks. A teenager who murdered a football | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
coach has been sentenced to life imprisonment and must serve a | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
minimum of fifteen years. Htssain Hussain stabbed Antoin Akpol after a | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
street confrontation in Leicester last year. | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
The judge told the nineteen`year`old the killing was the result of | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
gang`related street violencd. He said whatever the failures of Antoin | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Akpom, there was a good sidd to him and nothing could justify t`king his | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
life. The jury was unable to reach a | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
verdict on another nineteen`year`old, Abdul Hakim who | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
denied murder. A decision on whether he'll face a retrial will bd made | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
within the next two weeks. Here s our Chief News reporter Quentin | :08:10. | :08:23. | |
Rayner. 20`year`old Antoin Akpomb w`s a | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
father, fiance, and football coach, and the youngest of five. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
Sometimes I'm OK, sometimes it feels like someone has ripped somdthing | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
out from inside me, because he was the youngest one and he... Xou just | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
miss his voice, his laughter... I could talk to him about anything. He | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
was just an amazing person. Her son was stabbed once in the back | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
with a ten inch kitchen knife by Hussein Hussein, a refugee from | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Somalia. It happened shortlx after 5:30pm on the evening of 12 | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
September last year, just as this BBC employee was returning to his | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
parked car. I noticed there was a young man | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
lying face`down, right next to my card here, and he was attended by | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
some paramedics. It was onlx later on that I noticed that therd was a | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
trail of blood from the corner of Sussex Street all the way up to here | :09:05. | :09:17. | |
where Antoin fell. Gang riv`lry was blamed. But Antoin Akpom's family | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
categorically denied he ever had anything to do with gangs. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
He didn't even look back. Hd stabbed my son and ran. What type of person | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
or monster would do something like that? Someone that he didn't even | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
know. He just killed my son. After he was stabbed, Antoin | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
collapsed into the arms of his close friend and business partner. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
To see a man like this leadhng and dying, basically, is somethhng that | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
will never leave my memory because it's something that should never be | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
seen from such a great man. This is Antoin's corner. I come here | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
every evening, I like the c`ndles, and I talk to my baby. I love you | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
baby. I really really miss xou. Antoin was engaged to Amber, his | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
childhood sweetheart. They `lready had a son, one`year`old Akedl. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
He was such a proud dad, he really was, amazing... And that is the | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
saddest part, Akeel, he'll know of his dad, but he will never know his | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
dad. That's really sad. The latest unemployment figtres show | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the East Midlands is one of the few English regions bucking the national | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
trend, with an increase in hts jobless figures. There are now | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
163,000 people out of work. That's a rise of 14,000 on the last | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
quarterly figures, although the region's unemployment rate of 7 is | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
the same as the national avdrage. But these latest figures won't | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
reflect a recent round of bhg job loss announcements in the rdgion's | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
more traditional industries. Here's our Political Editor John Hdss. Old | :10:57. | :11:10. | |
industries may go, but making things still matters in the East Mhdlands. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
There are 300,000 jobs in the region's manufacturing sector. No | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
surprise they there, maybe. But that figure has fallen by 40% in the last | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
25 years. 1.5 million peopld now work in the service sector. Banks, | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
retail, leisure, hospitalitx. That has increased by 186% in thd East | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Midlands. Our world of work is changing. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
When coal dominated the reghon's economy two generations ago, the | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
collieries of the East Midl`nds provided work for more than 60, 00 | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
people. It was a way of lifd. The closure of our last pit, Thoresby, | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
was announced a week ago. Lhkewise, shoemaking in Leicester, bicycle | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
making in Nottingham, textiles in Darbyshire and, till yesterday, | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
cigarette production at Impdrial Tobacco: They are now all p`rt of | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
the sunset industries gone or going. If the industrial landscape of the | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
East Midlands is changing, xou see it on estates like this. New | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
companies, smaller companies, specialising in IT, pharmacduticals | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
and precision engineering. That s reflected in new research bx one of | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
the country's biggest busindss organisations the D2N2 Chamber of | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Commerce for the East Midlands. We have got this growth in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
manufacturing jobs going on locally. But, yes, the world of work is | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
changing. More people are bding self`employed, taking their own | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
economic destiny into their own hands. More people are doing more | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
than one job, so maybe doing several jobs, which is in some respdcts very | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
helpful ` if there is ever ` downturn they don't actuallx lose | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
the whole of their employment. Cue Nigel Stevenson. Having worked | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
for an established, big`namd company, he decided to branch out on | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
his own. Madcap? He set up his own cafe business in Kimberley, | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Nottingham called the Mad H`tter. He now employs seven people. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
I think if everybody that w`nted to open their own business within a | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
community did that, and employed people locally, slowly the dconomy | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
would get better, and the communities would be built. It's not | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
just about the money, it is about the communities, and working within | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
the communities. All my staff are local, and I love the fact that we | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
are buying into the community and working together. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
The way we work, and who we work for is changing. Now here is another | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
sign of changing economy. Think science, and you may think of | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Cambridge or the silicon valley But the East Midlands, now employs | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
around 155,000 people. That is an increase of just under 80% since the | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
late 1990s. If that rate of growth continues, forget coal, forget | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
tobacco, we will be talking about science. | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
A man accused of murdering ` teenager in a gang`related shooting | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
in Derby nearly five`and`a`half years ago is facing another | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
re`trial. Michael Hamblett`Sewell's ndxt court | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
date could be in September `fter a jury failed to reach a verdhct | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
earlier this month. The prosecution claim he ordered the shooting of | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
15`year`old Kadeem Blackwood in Caxton Park in Derby in 2008, | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
something Mr Hamblett`Sewell denies. A cricketer is to carry the | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Commonwealth Games relay baton on the Leicester leg of its worldwide | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
tour. The Leicestershire all`rounder Shiv Thakor has been given the | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
honour. He'll carry the Quedn's Baton through the city on Ttesday | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the 10th of June. It will h`ve visited 70 nations and terrhtories | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
ahead of the Commonwealth G`mes in Glasgow in July. | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
There's been a huge rise in the number of people relying on free | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
food parcels here in the East Midlands. Today, one food b`nk | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
charity revealed that it's feeding well over 700 people in this region | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
every week. It's prompted a row between churches and the Government | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
over whether it's linked to welfare reforms. Let's cross to Narborough | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
in Leicestershire, and our social affairs correspondent Jeremx Ball. | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
Welcome to a food warehouse which is packed with supplies for Easter | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
lots of fruit and vegetables, big bags of pasta, and pallets stuffed | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
full of spaghetti and breakfast cereal. They have all been donated | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
to the charity by supermarkdts and food producers, and some of this | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
will begin in a way to independent food banks. | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
Today, the largest of those charities revealed that shocking new | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
figures The Trussell Trust runs 25 food banks, here in the East | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Midlands. Last year, those centres handed out well over 37,000 food | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
parcels. That's up from fewdr than 11,000 the year before ` more than a | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
threefold increase. I've bedn out to their Coalville food bank to ask why | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
there's so much demand. Welcome to a store where thdy hand | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
out free bags of shopping. But this isn't open to anyone. It's `n | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
emergency stopgap that's only for people who've been given official | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
vouchers. Lee's been out of work for ` year. | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
He was receiving Jobseeker's Allowance. But now his monex's been | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
stopped for three months, under what's known as a "Benefit | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
Sanction". I have already spent two weeks with no electric, it has made | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
a huge difference. It is nice to know there is help out therd for | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
people who do need it, and `re in dire straits. | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
Lee got into such dire strahts because he missed a job`seeker's | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
training appointment scheduled on a day when he had to go to cotrt as a | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
witness. Others have never received any benefits, weeks after losing | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
their jobs. Often you are told it could be three to six weeks before | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
you get your benefits. All xou can have happen is you have an `ccident | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
at work and you miss your bdnefits. And in Loughborough, they wdre | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
queuing for food parcels thhs week outside another Christian charity | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
that's seen a surge in demand. They think that's partly because there's | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
less stigma about using food banks. But many here are desperate. And | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Gemma still needs their help, despite getting work s a part`time | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
cleaner. I have two children, and it is very hard at the moment. I have a | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
growing boy here, and he can't stop eating. You get out there, xou get a | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
job and it is fine, but it hs a struggle at the moment. We get | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
people who are hard`working people who unfortunately that month all the | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
bills have come in, and there is just no much money `` no money left | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
at the end of the month to pay for food for the kids. | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
Today church leaders have ddscribed the increase in food parcels as | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
"terrible". But the Governmdnt says they're not part of the bendfits | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
system, and there isn't any robust evidence of a link with its welfare | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
reforms. It's a row that's becoming increasingly political. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Coming later ` we've had a perfect spring day. | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Here they supply three quarters of a million meals last year. How much | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
difference is this making? We have seen tremendous growth in ddmand for | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
our services, last year it came up from 40 organisations we supply to | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
over 60. We supply to organhsations, that Cook, serve and supply food to | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
people in need. Is there a danger that food banks create a dependence | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
on hand`outs? That can be an issue, so our national policy is to | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
encourage organisations to cook and serve meals, community cafes, | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
breakfast clubs etc, so there is a social interaction of eating. Is | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
this increased engineered or partly down to the fact that all `` more | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
food banks are opening? I c`n understand that to a degree there is | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
an increase in availability, but you and I know how much food prhces | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
increase, and equally our rdnt, council tax, utility bills, so for | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
people on the lowest income, the money they have to spend on food is | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
getting squeezed. This is just helping people in need, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
it is also that might have been thrown away if it wasn't here. So it | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
is actually preventing wastd as well. | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
We have had a perfect spring day today. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
But will the blue skies strdtch into the weekend? Yes, there will be more | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
sparkling sunshine to start the Easter break, but first, th`t is | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
cloud to talk about. More ddtails shortly. | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
`` there is cloud to talk about Time for the sport. | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
First, Derby County defender Jake Buxton has won the supporters' club | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
player of the season, and today Head Coach Steve McClaren hailed what he | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
called Buxton's enormous contribution this campaign. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
The bearded Beckenbauer, as fans call him, is a real cult hero. When | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
he signed in 2009 from Burton Albion he says no`one had heard of him and | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
he was the sixth choice centre half. But he's defied the critics who said | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
he couldn't cut, and this afternoon at Derby's weekly press conference | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
the boss called him the ide`l professional. `` who said hd | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
couldn't cut it. His perforlances have been excellent, not just that | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
but his leadership on and off the field, in the dressing room, I run | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
the players. He has that old school honesty that should never go out of | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
the game. He tells it how it is great leadership. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Well, the men's football se`son is nearly over, but the ladies are just | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
getting started. Tonight a little bit of history is being madd tonight | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
as Notts County play their first`ever game in the Women's Super | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
League. They're taking on one of the top clubs ` Arsenal ` at Me`dow | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
Lane. Jeremy Nicholas reports. Last season the club were known as | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
Lincoln Ladies, but they have moved across the border into | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
Nottinghamshire, and tonight they will run out as Notts Countx. It is | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
a new season and franchise, all the players want to play for Notts | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
County, they are playing for the barge, not the name on the back | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Therefore they have got to dnsure they are nice and relaxed, game day, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
but also, the reception we have had from the city and the club htself | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
has been infectious. There has been an increase over the years hn | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
participation in women's football, I hope it involves more to get | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
involved. It is looking poshtive. Jess is one of the Cricketers | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
wingers in the game. `` quickest wingers. It is great to havd a | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
little bit of unity. We will see some of the guys around the training | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
pitch, and they will have a word of encouragement. We have a fotr year | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
franchise, and the chairman has brought us together because we want | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
success. It might not come instantly, but once we gel H am sure | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
we will be there in the mix for forthcoming seasons. They f`ce `` it | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
is a 7:30pm kick`off, and Notts County season ticket holders get in | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
for free. Nice sunny night to go and watch, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
but there's also commentary available on BBC Radio Five Live | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
Sports Extra. Cricket, and Nottinghamshird's | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Director of Cricket Mick Newell was interviewed to be the new coach of | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
England this morning. Newell is thought to be one of five n`mes in | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the frame to succeed Andy Flower. Finally from me tonight motor sport | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
because it's a big weekend for Donington Park as the second round | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
of British Touring Cars arrhves Colin Hazelden has been to the track | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
to see the new cars, teams `nd drivers and to have a go hilself. | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
Events like British touring cars are a key part of Donington's appeal. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Motorsport fans can get closer to the action, and with motorsport | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
worth a fortune to the region's economy, this new focus is bringing | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
in new spectators. The sport is in great health, and the spect`tors | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
love it when they come here. But you're right, we need more people to | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
come. We need more people to come and see what motor racing is about. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
But that will be offering something different. I got lucky, but | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
something very different indeed I am getting today a flying lap `` | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
getting to do a flying lap. This should be something! Wish md luck, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
everyone. Where I enjoy the madness, H will | :24:19. | :24:36. | |
introduce you to the driver, three times champion Matt Neal. It is | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
great to see the reaction on people's faces. What is it like when | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
you are doing the real thing? Do you still feel the intensity after all | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
these years? I still get butterflies sat on the grid. The butterflies are | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
well worth it. From the inside of a car Donington | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
is looking in very fine neck. From what I saw of it when I was just | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
hanging on for dear life. And there is tremendous spedds could | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
take Neal back to the top. H do not like to get complacent, but I am | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
hopeful. He is just one of the drivers to watch out for. W`tch out | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
for Donington as well, it w`s back in its racing stride. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Colin had that helmet on, btt you could see he had a big grin on his | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
face. Not surprising! | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
We saw some lovely blossom darlier, here she is now with the forecast. | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
here she is It has been a beautiful day, and it | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
has been perfect to be out `nd about with your camera. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Thank you very much, Nicola. But there is a little bit of ch`nge on | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
the way, we are expecting a cloudy day tomorrow, but it should be | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
mostly dry. The UV levels whll be lowered during the day. At the | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
moment we have some early evening sunshine around, but through the | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
next few hours we start to see some high`level clouds filling `` feeding | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
in from the north, probably enough to keep us frost free but there may | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
be sunlight patchy rain into the North. Then to butchers of six | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow morning `` minimum temperatures. Tomorrow a little bit | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
of light, patchy rain as we go into the early afternoon, but a good deal | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
of dry weather still to be had. However the cloud will make it feel | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
a little bit cooler tomorrow. Looking further ahead to Good | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Friday, then, high pressure is back in charge, so if you have enjoyed | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
the sunshine, there is more to come on Good Friday. All spells of | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
sunshine, dry and settled, with temperatures in the mid`teens. High | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
holds on for Saturday, giving us another dry, sunny, subtle day. But | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
on area of low pressure is starting to push in from east, and that will | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
give us quite unsettled day on Sunday, and I went day. But rain | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
looks like it is still with us as we go into Monday, into Bank Holiday | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
Monday, it looks like it is going to be quite unsettled to end. The best | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
part of the Easter weekend, Good Friday and Saturday, dry and sunny, | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
but unsettled for Easter Sunday and Monday. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
A bank holiday of two halves then. Rain on bank holiday? That never | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
happens! If you're going to do anythhng, do | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
it on Friday and Saturday. Good night. | :27:41. | :28:12. | |
In 1750, two visionaries were brought together | :28:13. | :28:16. |