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It's almost 6.30pm. You're watching East Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight - Philip Hammond's first budget. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
?3 million for online ambulances, Alptekin patients to hospital is | :00:09. | :00:30. | |
getting high-tech. We will be speaking to the artist behind the | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
iconic Szromnik poppies of the Tower of London which will be coming here | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
to derby. Tributes to the ground-breaking playwright Joe | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
Orton, 50 yards after his murder. He helped change the course of British | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
theatre. Good evening and welcome | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
to tonight's programme with Anne Davies and me Dominic | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Heale. First tonight, it's been an eventful | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
day as the Chancellor There's been good news | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
for adult social care, for businesses and for roads | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
in our region. But for people who are | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
self-employed, it's bad news as National Insurance contributions | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
are set to rise. There are also questions | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
as to whether some of In a moment we'll be hearing | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
reaction from some of our MPs, but first our reporter Helen Astle | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
takes a look at what the budget It was a full house in the Commons | :01:28. | :01:37. | |
as the Chancellor took to the Despatch Box. Gathering in | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Leicestershire to watch the developments in London, a group of | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
business leaders keen to hear how the budget will affect the East | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Midlands economy. National Insurance will rise for the self-employed, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
there will be help for small businesses and particular reason to | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
celebrate amongst pubs as most will get a ?1000 discount on business | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
rates. It is news that's been given a cautious welcome. Relatively, | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
business friendly budget. Fairly steady state which is clearly what | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
we expected from this Chancellor. One clearly designed for the UK | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
going forward in a post-Brexit business landscape. I think it will | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
have a significant effect on self-employed people as there are a | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
lot of people moving to that basis and a lot of them are genuinely | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
trying to set up new businesses. The crisis hit social care system will | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
have another ?2 billion pumped into it over the next three years. But is | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
it enough? A major concern for us is the 3 billion that have been offered | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
is to be spread over three years. That is really not enough. The need | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
is there now, we have 1.2 million older people who should be in care | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
and are not getting it. Vince Cable was that the university of | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Nottingham today, the former Secretary of State for business says | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
the extra money will only help short-term. We need a long-term | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
solution and this is a sticking plaster. They've got to address the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
question of how an ageing population pays for personal care. You can't | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
just keep throwing a billion here and there, it doesn't solve the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
problem. To help boost business in the Midlands even further, ?23 | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
million allocated to east projection and tackle pinpoints on our roads. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Fantastic because I spend a lot of time on roads. It sounds a lot but | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
it is not when you come to use it. I can think of a pinpoint where I | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
live. Philip Hammond's first budget was never going to be full of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
surprises, instead, it's a budget for Brexit and the uncharted waters | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
that lay ahead. Our Political editor Tony Roe has | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
been down at Westminster today looking at the speech | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
and going through the small Good evening, Tony, anything buried | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
in there we should know about? You heard from Helen about the ?23 | :03:55. | :04:06. | |
million, money spread across the whole Midlands. We will get news on | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
the Midlands engine, what investment there is tomorrow. Also, news about | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
improvements on the Leicester outer ring road but I think the headline | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
figure overall is social care. That extra money into social care. I'm | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
joined by two MPs, Chris Leslie first of all, this money for social | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
care, ?1 billion, that is great? We've got to do something for social | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
care, I'm worried it is just a sticking plaster. It's there but | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
tapering off again by 2020, I would like to see a more permanent | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
solution. We have a bit of a conveyor belt, if you can't get | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
people out of hospital and into proper long-term care, you clog up | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
your A departments. As we have seen at Kew MC, waiting times have | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
been exceeding four hours' time and again. We need to do that absolutely | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
but let's not just have a temporary political fix but let's get to the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
root cause of this issue. The Local Government Association have said 1.3 | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
billion was needed next year, clearly there is a gap and people | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
will still suffer. It's important to recognise this is extra funding, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
which is important. We need to make sure this makes a huge difference | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
now and is invested properly and that's why it's been targeted at the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
sustainable and transform ability plans which will help the way health | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
and social care work together. Getting people out of hospital | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
quicker? Party that but partly keeping people in their own homes | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
rather than being admitted to hospital in the first place. Your | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Conservative colleague Nigel Milles stood up in the budget debate and | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
said he was nervous by the phrase Midlands engine. He is worried East | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
Midlands gets left behind. I share the same concerns, I think people | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
always look at the Midlands as the West Midlands and it is not, there | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
is a huge part of the Midlands in the East Midlands and we have got | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
great stories to tell. It's up to people like myself and Chris to tell | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
their stories and make sure we really put the East Midlands on the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
map and have our fair share of whatever is coming through with that | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Midlands engine. What would you like to see tomorrow? We have to make | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
sure it is not just about Birmingham. We have got big cities | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
but they don't necessarily always catch the headlines in London so the | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
East Midlands deserves that investment. Wiese been waiting a | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
long time for this strategy to come on so let's get on with it. We need | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
it because Brexit is the big storm on the horizon to put our | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
infrastructure right because some of our businesses will really find that | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
a struggle if trade is impaired, if we end up with tariffs. That's the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
big thing the Chancellor should have been focusing on. Thank you both. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
One final fact, there will be money available for the Mayflower project | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
celebrating 400 years since the pilgrim fathers left, why relevant | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
to us? Some of them were from Nottinghamshire. Indeed they were. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Still to come - spring is in the air, there's a touch | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
of gold in the countryside - must mean Sara's here. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
We've got lots of lovely daffodils now starting to appear | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
and with a bit more sunshine tomorrow, let's hope | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
A murder investigation is underway in Leicester following the death | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
of a man in the city centre in the early hours this morning. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Police were called to London Road just after 12.30am for was thought | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Detectives say that as a result of lengthy enquiries throughout | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
today, a 30-year-old Leicester man has been arrested on suspicion of | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Nottingham University Hospitals has apologised for delays to surgery | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
An assistant coroner says Sheila Stokes' family were kept | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
in the dark for six months after the 83-year-old was referred | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
to Kings Mill Hospital. She needed urgent treatment | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
on a dangerous abdominal aneurysm, which later ruptured. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
NUH says it's since changed its systems. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
A fresh appeal for witnesses is being made after rubbish | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
was illegally dumped in Hinckley last month. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
It took eight council employees two days to remove the load on an access | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
road next to the A47. It was a mix of building | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
rubble, commercial waste and household rubbish. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Removing the waste has so far cost local taxpayers more than ?4,000. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
East Midlands Ambulance Service is to spend more than ?3 million | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
New electronic tablets will make it easier for paramedics | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
to add medical details, and even send information | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
It comes after the service was criticised for not keeping | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
patients' confidential paper records secure. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
On the road, and under pressure like never before. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
Now, East Midlands ambulance crews are going high-tech. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
They have brought in a new 4G tablet system that they hope will transform | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
the way they treat and transport patients, and alert the waiting | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
Previously we may have had to describe it over a phone, | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
which can be difficult and cause confusion. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
With this they can see what we are seeing in front of us. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
It allows them to be ready for our arrival and patients | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
will be seen quicker. Everything is in place, | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
and it is a better outcome for the patient. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
Potentially life-saving? Definitely, yes. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Until now, half the ambulance admin was done on heavy laptops, | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
cumbersome and hard to keep clean, but the majority of patient records | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
You might have been bounced around because of road conditions. | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
It is difficult, it can be illegible, and that causes potential | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
This is all definite and much quicker to fill in. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
In return, crews can access detailed advice about medical treatment | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
and they can send heart ECGs and even photos of accident | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
scenes to hospitals. And there is another benefit, too. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
You were criticised last year by the Care Quality Commission | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
for leaving confidential paper records on show in ambulances | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Absolutely, and we wholeheartedly acknowledge the CQC | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
This system will be the de facto record solution | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
for our patients across the Trust, so there should be no | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
That is one of the reasons we are doing it. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
The new tablets will be brought in from next month, | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
and it is hoped they will be in every ambulance by September. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Still to come - the Leicester lad who changed British theatre forever. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Playwright Joe Orton was murdered 50 years ago - | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
now the play he wrote just weeks before his death is being | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
A 59-year-old man has appeared in court in Derby charged with 16 | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
Chris Fernandez from Chaddesden is accused of making false | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
signatures on nomination forms during last year's local | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
He stood as a candidate in the Darley ward for the Trade Union | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
and Socialist Coalition party. He made no plea and has | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
been bailed to appear at Derby Crown Court next month. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Leicestershire police are making a second appeal for help | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
in finding a missing teenager from Northamptonshire. | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Lily Rose Carr hasn't been seen since she left her home | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The 16-year-old is five feet seven inches tall and of a slim build. | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Officers believe she could be in Leicester and are appealing | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
for her, or anybody who knows of her whereabouts, to contact them. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Another new cave has been discovered in Nottingham city centre. | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
Construction workers have unearthed a 20 foot deep | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
It's thought that the site used to be a pub. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
A new building's going up there which'll be used | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
by Nottingham Trent University and Confetti College students. | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Millions of people from around the world came to see Derby artist | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Paul Cummins' ceramic poppies at the Tower of London two | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Now, some of those poppies, made to commemorate the start | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
of the First World War, are coming back to Derby to be | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
displayed at the Silk Mill. Navtej Johal reports. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
The blood-swept lands and seas of red where angels dare to tread. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
As I put my hand to each, as God cries a tear of pain, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
The lines from a poem written by an unknown Derbyshire soldier | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
in World War I that inspired the artwork seen and | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
People came from around the world to see Derby artist Paul Cummins' | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
installation at the Tower of London for the First World War centenary. | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
These poppies, most of which were handmade in Derbyshire, | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
became the centrepiece of the commemorations. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
It just became a living thing, a life of its own, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
which is very hard to do. And it wasn't expected. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
It's one of those things that could have gone either way but it | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
went the right way and a lot of people benefited from it. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Since then, they've been touring the country and this summer, | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
they are coming home, to Derby's Silk Mill for six | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Basically, it's going to come down from the arches at the top | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
of the tower and sweep down the windows, into a little | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Probably about 3,000, 4,000 flowers will do it. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
It's exciting but it's a little bit apprehensive because I don't know | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Every location is different but there's a lot of people | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
who made them here - about 120 people - based in Derby, | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
So it's going to be interesting, lots of stories, good and bad! | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
During the war, the mill was used to grind corn | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
and make medical supplies, both integral to the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
British war effort. A fitting place to honour | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the sacrifice represented by each of the poppies. | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
That should looked absolutely beautiful, I would have thought. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Against that backdrop. Also looking good... LAUGHTER | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
On International Women's Day, and with three months to go, | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
it was announced that England will open their Women's World Cup | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
The County Ground hosts eight games - including a semi-final. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
At Leicestershire, they're looking forward to seven matches. | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
Three England cricketers, a horde of happy children | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
and a delighted Leicestershire Chief Executive. | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
The fact that it is a global competition being beamed all over | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
the world, that in itself will provide a high profile | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
to the club, to Leicestershire County Cricket Club and that can | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
You couldn't do a launch like this without staging a quick game | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
CHEERING The England stars were embracing it. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
This is a lot of why we play cricket. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
You are reminded why, when you were a little girl | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
or boy in the garden, playing with your brothers | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
and sisters, this is what it was all about and it was fun and hopefully | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
that is something we can bring, certainly, hopefully if these kids | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
come and watch us play in the summer, then they will bring | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
CHEERING I was really lucky, when I was at primary school, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
I got the chance to go and watch England women play India at Trent | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
That memory has always stuck with me, from that day, | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
that women do play cricket as well and I always wanted to play | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
for my country and that's something now I am living. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
There are three months to wait and a true challenge ahead for England. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
More of the eight teams in action fancying their | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
chances than ever before. But the belief is there. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
Especially, the home World Cup, we are really looking forward to it | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
and hopefully put a good show on and see if we can get a World Cup | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
But for this younger lot, it's not about that, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
In football - Derby County's manager Steve McClaren says his team should | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
have done better after letting in a late equaliser | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Whilst Forest's boss Gary Brazil says his team lacked energy | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
as they went down 3-2 at home to Brentford. | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
It was another frustrating night for Derby County. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
They took the lead through record signing Matej Vydra and that ought | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
But late pressure from Preston saw Derby concede in stoppage time. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Nottingham Forest came down with a bump after their 3-0 victory | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
over title-chasing Brighton at the weekend. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Brentford carved their way through the Forest defence | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
with ease, on their way to a victory at the City ground. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
They moved from defence to attack at speed and Forest were left | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
reeling as they went three goals down. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
The third was all too easy as yet again, the home side | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Forest had missed chances early in the game but rallied | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
in the last ten minutes with two substitutes scoring. | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Ben Brereton almost walking this one in. | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
And then three minutes into stoppage time, Zach Clough | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Nottinghamshire's Ellie Downie and Sam Oldham have been selected | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
for the World Cup of Gymnastics at the O2 in London next month. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Nine of the world's best men and nine of the world's best women | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
will compete in a new format aimed to attract crowds | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
The East Midlands next Olympic medals could come | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
at this time next year. The Nottingham-based speed skating | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
squad believe they can challenge the best in the world. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
And we should know how realistic their aims are this weekend - | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
as the squad take part in the World Championships. | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Christian Hewgill has been to see them. | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
Imagine travelling at more than 30 mph, balancing | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
on a one-millimetre-thick blade with four or five different | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
all jostling you for position on the ice. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
It's an everyday occurrence for Team GB's short track stars. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Elise Christie already has bronze and silver | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
World Championship medals to her name. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
Now, having battled back from a spell on the sidelines | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
with concussion, there is only one colour on her mind. | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
Gold! Definitely gold. | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
I mean, my coach sat me down about two weeks ago and said, | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Are we going to try and win the overall by picking up medals? | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Are we going to try to win the distance? | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
And I just said, well, I don't see the point in going out | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
and picking up medals because it's not going to change my life, | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
I've done it before. So right now for me, it's going out | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
and winning or losing. It's all about winning the gold now. | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
In the run-up to the competition, these athletes are on the ice | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
The emphasis of the sessions, as well as building crucial | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
technique, is learning how to cope with the sheer speed. | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
Obviously, with the skating position, the squat position, | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
that actually has a restriction of blood flow, so there | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
is a restriction of oxygen and therefore you get build-up | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
of lactic acid which is what creates that burning feeling and that | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
deterioration in performance. So with the skating position, | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
that's one of our major barriers to overcome. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
With World Cup and European medals this season, the former | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Charlotte Gilmartin is making many sit up and take note. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
I've got five consecutive 1,500 metres A finals back-to-back so I'm | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
definitely up there now but I like to go into each race | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
feeling like the underdog so I'm trying to hold onto that. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Clearly trying to keep your feet on the ground. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
Are you surprising yourself a little bit with your form? | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
Obviously, you're always looking up and wanting more but I think | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
that is like many athletes, to be competitive. | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
The preparation for the World Championships has lasted nearly | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
a year and there's no better time to grab some | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Next up, it's the South Korea Winter Olympics less than a year away. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
This is when the build-up gets really exciting. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
They go so fast around there! It's 50 years since | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
the controversial Leicester born playwright Joe Orton was killed | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
by his lover. At the time his works | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
were considered ground breaking, taking on subjects | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
like homosexuality To mark the anniversary | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
of his death, Curve in Leicester is putting on a production | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
of his last play. And our reporter Geeta Pendse | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
is at the press night. Lots of excitement here as audiences | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
arrive to see tonight's performance of what the butler saw. Joe Orton's | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
last play he wrote. In life and death, he was a very controversial | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
figure. I've been taking a look to see why this Leicester writer is | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
still so compelling 50 years on. What may seem like a comedy | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
of errors is in fact a dark farce, challenging ideas around | :21:19. | :21:31. | |
gender and sexuality. What The Butler Saw was written | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
in 1967, the last play by Joe Orton who was violently killed by his gay | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
lover that very year. Raised on the Saffron | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
estate in Leicester, he was a working-class boy all too | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
aware of his disadvantages. I went to the ordinary sort | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
of school poor children go to and didn't get the 11 plus, | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
because I was rather dim at school. Well, I wasn't actually dim | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
but I didn't get the 11 plus anyway. Despite his setbacks, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
Orton would go on to shake up the theatrical world and subvert | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
views on homosexuality. My action could only result | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
in a gross violation His work is still incredibly | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
relevant and I think it was ahead of its time when he wrote it | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
and I imagine it's still Let's just take the fact | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
that this working-class kid from Leicester who I guess, | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
when you look at where he came from, and the opportunities available | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
to him, the fact that he went on to change the course | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
of British theatre... I am joined by Joe Orton's younger | :22:38. | :22:54. | |
sister who lived in Leicester for many years. We can see Joe behind | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
us, this wonderful painting, a brand-new painting commissioned for | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
this 50th anniversary. Leicester university has many of his plays and | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
they have the entire archive. We are standing at Aughton square. Why is | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
it important to see how Leicester is remembering your brother? I think | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
it's fabulous, that what the butler saw, his last play and considered | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
his masterpiece, is put on in this wonderful theatre. This is a credit | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
to Leicester. Am really I pleased that in the 50th anniversary year of | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
his death that the company had decided to do this play and thrilled | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
to bits. What would Joe have made of it? I haven't seen it yet so I can't | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
tell you! He was very pleased with this play, he knew it was | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
contentious and subversive, but unfortunately, Joe never got to see | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
it. But I just think it is wonderful and my advice to anyone thinking of | :24:10. | :24:19. | |
coming, it is his master piece, it's his greatest play. You have heard it | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
from Joe's sister and this play will be on here for another week and a | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
half. It looks brilliant, that is such a | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
lovely theatre. Time now for the weather and it was rather nice | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
today. And after all that rain last night. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
The skies have tried to brighten a bit more and it felt a bit milder | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
outside as well. Tomorrow is going to be quite a | :24:51. | :25:00. | |
pleasant day so hopefully, these two will get the chance to go out in the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
field! We are starting to see this evening, a little bit more cloud | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
around for a time. Still the remnants of the weather front | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
sitting across southern parts of the country and it will gradually start | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
to thin and break into the early hours and still a breezy night said | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
temperatures dropping down to a minimum of six Celsius. We will then | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
find tomorrow morning that the breeze continues but it eases a | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
little more into the afternoon so the cloud breaking up quite nicely | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
and we will see some sunshine as well which will help the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
temperatures. Maximum of 12 Celsius tomorrow. The breeze still coming | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
from the north-west so if you find yourself in the shade, you'll | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
notice, it will still feel chilly but it's nice to see that sunshine. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
A cold night into the hours of Friday and Friday, a very different | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
day because we have a weak weather front starting to come up against | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
high pressure in eastern parts of the country. The cloud will be thick | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
enough to produce some drizzle at times. It will be grey and a bit | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
damp. That front continues eastwards in Saturday. Saturday will be a bit | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
damp as well to start, then reasonable into the afternoon but | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
more rain waiting in the wings and this comes in later on Sunday. We | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
are classing it as mild up until the weekend, probably a little colder | :26:24. | :26:24. | |
the other side. A little window of gorgeousness in | :26:25. | :26:39. | |
the middle. That's very sweet of you (!) That's all from us, we will be | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
back with the late news, hope you can join us then. Goodbye. | :26:44. | :27:22. | |
Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto our screens, | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
setting the stage alight...literally. | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
Stars were a-swinging... Could somebody help me? | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Join the party, as new stars perform on... | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
You can still see her - but it has to be supervised. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
You thought it was YOU I was afraid of. | :27:48. | :27:50. |