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It's almost 6:30pm. and on BBC One we now join | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
You're watching East Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight, calls for the full force of the law to be used | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Land owners say it costs 50 million a year to clear up the mess and the | :00:07. | :00:23. | |
culprits are getting away with it. Local authorities are not | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
undertaking enough prosecutions. Fine levels are not high enough to | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
make it not worth their while to fly-tip. The city that is suffering | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
a drop in shops. We will find out why more shops are closing in Derby | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
than the rest of the East Midlands. Plus the inner-city project that | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
keeps drawing Prince Harry back to Nottingham. 162 years on, memories | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
of a cavalryman from Leicester who survived the infamous charge of the | :00:53. | :00:53. | |
light Brigade. Welcome to Tuesday's programme | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
with Dominic Heale and me, First tonight, stiffer penalties | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
for flytippers, including prison. That's what the Country Land | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
and Business Association And it says local councils should be | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
doing more to stop the scourge Well, one district council | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
determined to get to grips with the problem | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
is Harborough in Leicestershire. There, cases of flytipping | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
have more than doubled Our reporter, Victoria Hicks, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
has spent the day with Three days of illegally dumped | :01:29. | :01:46. | |
rubbish collected in Harborough. Today it was temporarily tipped onto | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Welland Park in the town to show how big a problem fly-tipping has | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
become. We are getting reports that fly-tipping in the last two or three | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
years has increased and we want to tackle it and raise awareness about | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
what local residents can do. We also want to send a message to those who | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
do fly-tip that it is a crime, it is illegal, and we will prosecute you. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Already the issue there have been 300 cases of fly-tipping in | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Harborough. The District Council does not believe the introduction of | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
tip charges are to blame. And no, I don't. We've discovered the vast | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
majority is household waste. There is no charge for people have | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
mattresses or 30s, bring them into the tip. There will be no charge for | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
that. Do not dump it on the roadside. People are dumping their | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
rubbish. A mile and a half down this country lane we found this eyesore. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
This is a typical fly-tip. Most of this is household... All of this is | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
household waste wood or this can be disposed at a local household waste | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
site. We deal with this day in and day out. It costs of time and money | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
and is an eyesore. We look at it and think, why would you dump it here | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
when it tip is less than two miles away? It is not hard-core where you | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
have to pay for it at the local tip. You can easily put it in recycling | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
bins. That makes it more irritating. At the far end of this lane, this | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
load was dumped last night for that is the owner is traced, they could | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
face prosecution and a hefty fine. Well, the Country Land | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
and Business Association have told us the full force of the law needs | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
to be used against fly tippers. The CLA believes too | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
little is being done. Our concern really is local | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
authorities aren't undertaking prosecutions and the fine levels | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
aren't high enough not to make it Surely people are not going to pay | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
that kind of money. The thing is, what's happening, | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
they are actually putting That's the maximum but when they | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
actually do the fly-tipping fines, It is costing our members | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
and people who own land more money to actually | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
clear up the fly-tipping In terms of enforcing this, | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
you look at councils. Surely they don't have the money | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
currently with the budget cuts they're facing to pursue it | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
in the way that you want. The problem is they also | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
have the same issues we have in that they spend over ?50,000 | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
across the country clearing up The issue is, if we can get | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
to a point where people are being fined at a high level and it | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
puts people off, hopefully their problems will be reduced and they | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
will have to fine less people because they will realise it costs | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
money rather than fining lots of Obviously people who own | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
land in the country We need people to get access | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
and dispose of their rubbish We need people to learn | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
about what their duties Next tonight, shops in Derby | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
are closing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the East | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
Midlands. Research by Price Waterhouse Cooper | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
shows that while some new retail businesses are opening in the city - | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
that's outweighed by Lucy Vladev is in | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Derby this evening. Good evening. That our shops closing | :05:16. | :05:33. | |
up for the evening now. The concerns of some will be whether they can | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
keep reopening in the morning. Research by PricewaterhouseCoopers | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
shows that for the first half of this year the number of shops | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
closing in Derby was higher than anywhere else in the East Midlands. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
That is causing concern for some. Shop fronts in a city with nothing | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
to sell inside. This is a growing picture of Derby's High Street. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Research shows shops are closing at a faster rate here than anywhere | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
rows in the East Midlands. I don't think Derby has a huge range of | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
shops will stop if people want to spend a little bit more on clothes | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
and want a designer item, there isn't really anywhere in Derby. It | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
is tough for. What we tried to do is to provide fresh food and good | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
quality and decent prices for customers. It is difficult. In the | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
first half of this year, Derby saw in 11 shops open but 19 clothes. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
That is the highest net reduction in the whole of the East Midlands. The | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
type of shops is also changing. Gone are the pubs and expensive clothing | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
stores as they are replaced by estate agents and fast food | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
restaurants. Not everywhere is suffering. Towns like Belper and | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
Leicester and Melton Mowbray have been doing well. Some are feeling | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
the pinch. We should remember that Derby has done very well in these | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
surveys in the past. It is competition. Leicester has performed | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
particularly well probably on the halo effect from the football team | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
and Richard III. It seems shop owners in Derby have an uphill | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
battle on their hands as they fight to stay afloat on their local high | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
street. As you can imagine, this afternoon | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
we received a statement from marketing Derby as well. They said | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the study is useful as a baseline for measuring the comings and goings | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
on the high Street, several of the bonuses that is whether the | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
businesses that have closed have been affected by shops like BHS. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
They say there are still some challenges to be addressed but the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
retail sector in Derby should not be viewed in a negative light. As you | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
can imagine, shop owners here will make up their own minds in the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
coming months. Thank you very much. If you like misty, mellow autumns, | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
there's some good news from Kaye. You mean a bit like this? It is | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
certainly looking more autumnal. And we are going to add the word mild to | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Misty and mellow. Join me for the details later in the programme. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Police in Derby have released CCTV footage of the moment a pedestrian | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
was struck by a car in an apparent hit and run incident. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
They say the 47-year-old man was crossing Boyer Street | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
in the city on the evening of the 23rd of September | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
when a black car knocked him to the ground. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
He suffered a fractured shoulder and facial injuries. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
Officers are appealing for witnesses. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
Talks have been taking place today to try to resolve a long-running | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
dispute between school support staff in Derby and the city council. | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Unison members have walked out several times since their contracts | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Some teaching assistants claim they've lost up | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
Unison says it's called off next week's strikes. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
Police in Nottinghamshire says they're concerned for the safety | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
Paige Summers was last seen in the Gamston area | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
She's described as slim around 5ft 1 inches tall and was wearing a black | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
coat with fur around the hood, grey leggings and white trainers. | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Officers are appealing for witnesses. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Now, why should... It's been a big decision at Westminster for | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
Nottingham. Dan at Westminster, the city has been made in a big effort | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
to encourage investment and attention. It is called Nottingham | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
in Parliament a foot of business leaders, sportspeople and | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
schoolchildren have travelled to make the case for that area. Our | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
political editor is at Westminster now. Do tell us | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
more. The news at Westminster J was dominated by the expansion of | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Heathrow Airport but also creating a buzz was the city of Nottingham and | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Nottinghamshire as the county. It is all down to the University of | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Nottingham staging this day to try to bring courage investment, to talk | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
to the politicians. They had 45 different events will stop into | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
context, normally about one event each time a constituency stage | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
something and they normally last two hours. This is 45 events over nine | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
hours. Simon Ward has been getting a feeling as to what has been going | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
on. He is trying to persuade the rich | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
to invest in Nottinghamshire. The University of Nottingham led | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
many events in and around Robin Hood helped remind people | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
about his city and county. Robin Hood always stood up | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
for the people of Nottingham. But today, we've got an entire | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
of people who are here We've got past, | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
we've a great future. Children from Bluebell Hill School | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
in Nottingham helped Conservative and Labour to battle | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
each other but with common cause. 45 different events from Nottingham | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
down to Parliament, plus some fresh ideas to make sure that nobody | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
in the whole of Westminster and the Government can be an aware | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
of how great Nottingham and We need to sell ourselves | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
to the country make sure people are aware | :11:08. | :11:18. | |
of our sporting heritage, our great It's a good place to do business | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
and a great place to The new man taking | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
the job of marketing says they are not worried about | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
the sporting success and historical In bringing the story of Nottingham | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
to Parliament, to the corridors of power, it's quite | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
a momentous occasion. The reaction we've had today | :11:36. | :11:36. | |
from various invitees and attendees has been | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
incredibly positive. I think this is the beginning of an | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
exciting, new period for the city. John McGovern knows how | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
to be a winner. Enough people come here | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
and enquire about Nottingham itself and obviously again | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
on the sporting side that's why I'm There is a lot of interest | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
and that's great to see. In the formal surroundings of | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
the Palace of Westminster, you don't normally see football and table | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
tennis taking place. We'll have to see if it | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
improves the fortunes of Simon Ward with some of the sporting | :12:14. | :12:25. | |
events. We even had Dennis Skinner playing football. With me now is the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
man behind this from the University of Nottingham, the Vice Chancellor, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
said David Greenaway. Can you tell me some of the serious discussions | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
that have gone on today? Will they make a difference? I think they | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
well. First thing this morning we had a forum on the Midlands engine. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
That is an initiative to try to drive economic growth in the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Midlands. The Midlands is the second largest region outside London. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Bigger than the northern powerhouse and twice the side of Scotland. We | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
are the second biggest city in the Midlands engine and we need to help | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
to power about. How will you take this forward from today question out | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
there have been a lot of events and discussions. How do you make | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
success? We persuade parliamentarians that our city and | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
region are worth investing in. Investing in infrastructure to | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
improve collectivity East - West as well as North- South. All the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
businesses we have here, we are sending the message to them for that | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
this is a great place to live and a great place to work. Come and do | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
business in Nottingham. The Speaker said it was a one off. We have been | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
the first university in city to do it. It has had enormous impact | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
within Parliament. Will we do it again? Let's take a look and make | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
sure it has had the impact we want. Why not? Thank you very much was | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
that you have another event to go to in about 20 minutes. They go on | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
until nine p.m.. Thank you very much. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Plans to bring in a private company to run parts of a popular | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Nottinghamshire tourist attraction have moved closer. | :14:11. | :14:11. | |
The county council agreed earlier this year to change the way | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Rufford Country Park near Ollerton was operated. | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
At the moment it gives the park around half a million pounds | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
Now it says it's identified a preferred bidder to operate | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
It's thought they'll be named next month. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
The Chancellor says the Government WILL look again at the cuts faced | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
The authority's warned it needs to make savings in areas, | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
which include looking after vulnerable children. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
In the Commons, the Bolsover MP, Dennis Skinner, said | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
constituents view the county as the "Northern Poorhouse", | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Philip Hammond now says the Government will review | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Campaigners in Leicester have broken a record - | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
for the most stem-cell donors registered in a single day. | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
It was part of a recruitment drive at the university, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
working with the Rik Basra Leukaemia Campaign. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
They've been asking people to sign up to the Anthony Nolan register, | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
which helps match stem cells with blood cancer patients. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
The drive managed 1405 signatures today - | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
beating the register's previous record by nearly 50%. | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
Now, Nottingham will be welcoming Prince Harry tomorrow on his third | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
"official" Royal Visit to the city in less than four years. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
The Prince set up an inner-city youth project that's tackling gang | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
violence in St Anns, and tomorrow he's going back there. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball, has been finding out | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
how the project's been changing young lives. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
From dancing and from rapping to acting. | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
These young performers are all part of Prince Harry's | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
It was set up after the Prince made his first visit to the community | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
Since then he has made a number of private trips back. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
He has taken such a close interest that he knows | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
We had a couple of kids in here and it was like, | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Watching Prince Harry teaching young kids about how to play bass. | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Harry was in the booth and he sang Pharell Williams' Happy. | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
So, yeah, that's a recording I keep close to my chest. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
There's nothing happy about the blighted past that first | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
A place where several young lives had been cut short by | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
This boy was getting into trouble with the police before being helped | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Now he is employed as a full-time mentor for school children | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
With perverting these children from certain paths | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
Obviously there's the risk of gangs, violence, drugs. | :16:55. | :17:07. | |
I can literally see myself in these children. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
So this allows me to work using my interests and life | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
experiences and pass that on to someone else. | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
So we're creating these activities, music, sports or drama. | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
For those who engage in that, put their effort and talent in that | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
# You came on a journey from a foreign land. | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
In a studio, they're preparing to demonstrate those | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
talents when Prince Harry comes back tomorrow. | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
Most likely showing bits of musical compositions. | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
I've got together and showcasing some of my emceeing. | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
It's someone from the Royal family coming to invest in communities | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
It's like it's not just big for me, it's big for Nottingham as a whole. | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
Prince Harry is also going to see rehearsals for what they're | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
This musical being performed in Nottingham next month | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
with a gritty message designed to give Saint | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
We will have coverage of the royal visit on East Midlands today appears | :18:05. | :18:20. | |
all with a very visitor, isn't he? Do you know who else is pretty | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
legendary? Tom Brown, who is doing the sport. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
How Rio revived one of our local hockey clubs. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
The Nottingham Forest owner Fawaz Al Hasawi has told us a deal | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
to sell the club has moved a step closer. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
He's revealed 95% of the due diligence process needed | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
We understand Forest are to be bought by an American consortium. | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
The Nottingham rider - widely regarded as Britain's most | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
successful female jockey - has received her OBE | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
Hayley Turner rode more than 700 winners over a 15-year career. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Today she received her honour for services to horse | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
Afterwards she tweeted that the day had meant a lot and thanked | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
In ice hockey, five Nottingham Panthers players have | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
been selected to play for Great Britain next week. | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
It's a two-match series against Norway - the first | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
taking place in Nottingham at the National Ice | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
Now, to hockey on a different surface. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Because it was one of the defining moments of last summer's Olympics. | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
The GB women, winning gold in front of nine million TV viewers. | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
Now, one of our local clubs has told us it's helped fire them to the top | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
of the national league and get more people through the gates | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
I've been along to Beeston Hockey Club. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Holly Webb on her way to win gold for Great Britain. | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
To win the Olympics, everyone wants to play hockey. | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
Always has a very good, strong youth section and | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
I think it's just gone even stronger. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
It may be more than two months since that golden moment back | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
here at Beeston, the impact can still be felt. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
Holly Webb, who scored the winning penalty, | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
So her and her team says has been an inspiration. | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
To have pictures on the clubhouse wall of people who have now got gold | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
In terms of numbers, the junior numbers that are | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
coming into the club, it's been fantastic. | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
Also getting lots of parents coming back to the game. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
It has raised the profile brilliantly. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
The trophy cabinet speaks for itself. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Last season, the men finished mid-table in | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
After six games this season, they find themselves top. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
They are even attracting a bit of a crowd. | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
People who do come and watch hockey are always pleasantly | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
surprised at the speed and skill level of it. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
And so, as playing well, attacking hockey, is always | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
The women's first team has started strongly. | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
Flying high in the Second Division, they are pushing for promotion. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
They've even signed an Argentinian player to help. | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
We come to every practice, thinking our | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
goal is to win this league and go to the Premier League and do our best | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
It always wanted to compete in Europe. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
We got to the quarterfinal of the Euro Hockey League | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
twice and it will be nice in the next five years to actually | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
take a step further and compete in a final four and maybe | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
I think we're moving in the right direction. | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
Let's hope they can keep it up for the rest of the season. | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
It's 162 years to the day, since one of the most famous actions | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
in British military history - the ill-fated charge | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
More than 300 cavalrymen were killed, wounded, | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
or captured when they rode against the Russian guns. | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
But some of the soldiers DID survive - including John | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Burton from Leicester - it's thought the only man | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Now his descendent is determined his grave | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
should at last be marked, to commemorate him. | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
It is famous as the last resting place of Thomas Cook and the mother | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
But Leicester's cemetery should also be better known for another grave. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Jason Robinson has come 140 miles from his Aldershot home to search, | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
with help from Leicestershire experts, for that grave of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Born in 1810, John Burton joined the British Army in 1830. | :22:49. | :23:02. | |
24 years later, he found herself fighting in the Crimean War. | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
He survived and came back to Leicester. | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
Now Jason is about to see his great, great-grandfather's unmarked burial | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
This the first time I've actually ever visited his grave. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
You wouldn't think there was a grave here, just flat grass. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
What Jason wants more than anything is to celebrate his ancestor's part | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
On 25th of October 1854, according to Tennyson, about 600 light | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
cavalry, the Light Brigade, got a confused order | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
This bugle now at the Lancers and Yeomanry Museum in | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
But the troops were heading down the wrong valley | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Heroic though they were, the Light Brigade were decimated. | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
Over 300 British were killed, wounded or captured | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
Incredibly though, John Burton was one of about 200 survivors. | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
This is the actual case of my ancestor's Crimean War medal. | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
The actual box itself is that it comes from the actual jeweller | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
It has been passed down the family over the generations. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
When I was a child, we always knew it as the Light Brigade medal. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
Later discharged from the Army, John Burton returned to | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
It was here in Russell Square in Leicester in 1879 John Burton died, | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
It was then known as the Leicester pension district. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Cleared in the 1950s, there is now virtually | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
nothing left that he would recognise. | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
His grave for 130 years has remained unmarked. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
It is really nice that family members, even this far | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
after the last burial, are willing to come along | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
and put the memorial up to their family members. | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
To walk past it and not even know there is a grave here. | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
It is moving to be here and to think there is no headstone but hopefully | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
Jason hopes to have a headstone in place in time for next year's | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
We are surrounded by history, aren't we? Particularly in the East | :25:09. | :25:24. | |
Midlands for them a beautiful family history. What a thing to be a part | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
of! Now it is time for the weather. Wasn't there some gorgeous sunshine | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
today? Yes, there was. Blink and you'll miss it. It has been a very | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
autumnal day. We had an eerie, Misty sunrise this morning but there was | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
dense fog with stubborn fog patches. It was chilly this morning. I am | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
sure a few of you were scraping the car. As you say we did get some | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
sunshine. The best of that was across northern parts of Derbyshire | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
into the afternoon. Despite sunshine today, it has still been quite | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
chilly for the temperatures are still struggling with that we have | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
had cold easterly winds for the past few weeks. Things are changing now. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
We have high-pressure slinking southwards. The winds will shift | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
around to a south-westerly direction. Thankfully, at last went | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
thing. To warm up a little bit. It will be a warmer in the next couple | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
of days. In terms of the weather not a lot in a way of change was that we | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
are pretty quiet to take us into November. Largely dry with riders | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
coming through the mist and fog to content within the morning. We have | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
seen cloud increasing. Most of that will stay with us through tonight | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
with a bit of mist and fog forming again particularly in the would be | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
quite dense in the South. Then should not be as much of it further | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
north through the early hours. Tonight will be a lot milder | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
temperatures will stay into double figures in towns and city centres. | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Perhaps seven, 8 degrees in rural spots. Tomorrow will be a mild | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
start. A bit of mist and fog first thing. The breeze is picking up | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
tomorrow to shift the mist and fog and help to break up the cloud. The | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
chance of a light, drizzly shower. Otherwise it is dry, bright into the | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
afternoon and the winds in the south-westerly direction. Feeling | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
warmer, 14, 15 degrees. Little changing into Thursday and Friday. | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
Staying largely dry and cloudy but on the mild side. That sounds | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
lovely. Brilliant. Good to see the beast and bees doing | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
so well. That is a direct knock-on from Rio. There is a good feeling at | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
that place. I will be back for the late news. Bye-bye. | :27:44. | :27:55. | |
It took us once to get through the novel Anna Karenina. | :27:56. | :27:59. |