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It's almost 6:30pm - you're watching East Midlands Today. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Is public money being spent appropriately | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Union criticises pay levels after this school leader was paid more | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
than a quarter of ?1 million last year. To see people at the top | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
profiting from money that is meant for our children is upsetting. Also | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
tonight... Police searching for mothers Samantha Baldwin who had | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
abducted her two young sons carry out house-to-house inquiries in | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Newark where she lived. Plus, the dramatic story of how | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
passers-by had to rescue a pedestrian and driver from this | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
canal after a collision on the bridge. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
And the growing campaign to secure a knighthood for the last British | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Dambusters. It is enough for me to remember the 50,861, my comrades, | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
who gave their lives fighting for this country. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
Good evening and welcome to Thursday's programme | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
with Geeta Pendse and me, Maurice Flynn. | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
First tonight, a teaching union has criticised what it says is a lack | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
of accountability for top pay at publicly-funded school trusts. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
And they claim some trusts are just paying too much. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The comments come after this programme investigated 15 trusts | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
and found that one school leader here in the East Midlands | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
was paid more than a quarter of a million pounds last year. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Another union that represents school managers says there's competition | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Mike O'Sullivan has this exclusive report. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
Newark's getting a new free school this year. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Demand from parents has been shown, funding's coming from the Department | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
for Education, now they have to find a site. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
The idea for the free school is coming from the people who run | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
the nearby Toot Hill Comprehensive at Bingham, rated outstanding. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
In control is John Tomasevic, the chief executive | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
of the Torch Academy Gateway Trust, an organisation that is | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
The chief executive of Torch is believed to be one | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
of the highest paid in England, earning more than a quarter | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
The National Union of Teachers says top pay at some school | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
academy trusts is too high and there is a lack | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
To see people at the top and those further layers of management | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
being put in and profiting from money that is meant | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
The BBC looked at the pay for chief executives or similar posts at 15 | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
multi-academy trusts operating in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
Their pay ranged between ?90,000 and ?260,000. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
The top three earners, all based in Nottingham, were... | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
Wayne Norrie of the Greenwood Academies Trust, earning ?160,000. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Diana Owen CBE of the LEAD Academy Trust. | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
Paid the most was John Tomasevic of the Torch Academy Gateway Trust... | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
?260,000, in charge of six schools, including Toot Hill. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
All three declined to be interviewed and the trusts | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
The Association of School and College Leaders | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Here, they say trusts are paying for top talent. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
They will be looking and benchmarking those salaries | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
to show they are competitive, whilst at the same time | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
not taking too much out of their academy budget. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
The Department for Education says it is up to individual trusts | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
to set their own pay for school leaders. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Well, Mike joins us now in the studio. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
We heard there that it's up to individual academies trusts | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
to pay their leaders what they want... | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
It's because of the way the academy system's been set up. | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
Any school can become an academy and so get funding directly | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
from the Department for Education instead of the local authority. | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Now some of these trusts have become quite large in terms of numbers | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
of schools and geographical area, some becoming national chains. | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
They have the freedom to organise their own budgets | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
and their own remuneration committees to determine top pay. | :04:34. | :04:46. | |
And that the cheeky -- chief executive is that were featured to | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
have good reputations. How does the quarter of a million | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
pound salary we've heard about in your report compare | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
with other salaries in schools Well, for a head teacher - | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
outside London - in a local authority school the top rate | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
is around ?109,000. The Chief Constable | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
of Nottinghamshire's salary is about ?145,000, | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
the chief executive of Nottinghamshire County Council | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
is on around ?170,000 and his counterpart in the city | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
is on around ?160,000. The Education Minister Lord Nash | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
told the Education Committee of MPs last year that if it was thought | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
anyone was being overpaid at a school academy trust, | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
they had no powers to stop it, but they could take | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
it up with the board Next tonight, the latest | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
on the police search for a Nottinghamshire mum, | :05:30. | :05:49. | |
who's disappeared with her two sons. This afternoon officers | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
were carrying out house-to-house Samantha Baldwin was last seen | :05:53. | :05:53. | |
in Nottingham on Monday and police are becoming increasingly concerned | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
about the safety of Our reporter Sarah Teale | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
is in Newark for us now, Well, Samantha Broadhurst two sons | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
have been missing for four days now. Just a short time ago police | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
released these new CCTV images of Samantha, the 42-year-old mother. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
These are from Monday when she was last seen in Nottingham. We know | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
that Samantha does not have legal customary of nine-year-old Lewis or | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
six-year-old Dylan and have said that this is being treated as | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
abduction. Earlier here on the street and other street in this | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
area, police began house-to-house inquiries. Samantha lived in this | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
area and residents were shown photos of her and the boys to see if anyone | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
could shed any light on their whereabouts and it is all part of an | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
investigation which involves a huge team of specialist officers. Earlier | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
today, Superintendent Richard Fretwell gave us this update. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Every day that passes we become increasingly concerned | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
and I would appeal directly, both to Samantha - | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
to do the right thing - and to any members of the public | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
who have any information, to come forward, give us that one | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
bit of information that might be the little bit in the jigsaw that | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
actually helps us find those boys and return them back safe and well. | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
And there have been lots of developments, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Well, this started out Beazley as a missing persons inquiry and quickly | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
turned into an abduction. This is what we know so far. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Samantha was last seen alone in Nottingham city centre on Monday. On | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Tuesday, a police press conference was held issuing an urgent appeal | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
for information on the Nottinghamshire mother and her two | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
young sons. Yesterday, a direct plea from police to Samantha, urging her | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
to get in touch and tell them that she and the boys were safe. Ports | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
and airports were put on alert. And they found out that two women, one | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
aged 62 and 18 36 had been arrested on suspicion of assisting an | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
offender within the first 24 hours of the investigation beginning. This | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
morning, those women were released on police bail and today | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
house-to-house inquiries began in Newark as officers were to glean any | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
piece of information that may help to trace the family. And then, a | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
short time ago, police released this CCTV image of Samantha from Monday, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
just before she went missing. Well, they obviously want to give | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
this in the media spotlight. Today on social media they started a | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
hashtag, find Louis and Dylan. This is to try and keep it in the public | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
eye and they are urging anyone with any information to contact | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Crimestoppers or dial 101 to speak directly to Nottinghamshire Police. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
Tomorrow Samantha, Louis and Dylan will have been missing for three | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
days and all the police have said is that they want them to come back | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
safely. More than 40 volunteers have been | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
searching a wood in Derbyshire Another six have been | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
left ill after walking It's feared they may | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
have been poisoned. The car park has been closed | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
by the Forestry Commission while Two drivers have had a lucky escape, | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
after a stack of straw bales came This dramatic footage was captured | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
on the A1 sliproad near Newark. It was filmed on the dashcam | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
of a Mid UK Recycling lorry. Both vehicles were left damaged, | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
but amazingly nobody was hurt. It did however cause long delays | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
for people travelling You're watching East Midlands Today | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
with Geeta and Maurice. Lucy's here soon with the forecast | :09:39. | :09:53. | |
and Colin's out tonight with the sport at the big varsity | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
showdown of the week. No, it is nothing as a genteel as | :09:57. | :10:09. | |
the boat race! This lot are pouring into Nottingham Arena to watch | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
University ice hockey, more than 7000 people, it is the University of | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Nottingham against Nottingham Trent. What is later for the biggest of | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
rivalries. -- the join us later. A man remains in a critical | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
condition in hospital this evening - he was one of two people rescued | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
from a canal after a road collision. The crash involving a van and car | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
near the village of Swarkestone in Derbyshire saw a pedestrian | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
and driver pulled out Our reporter Navtej Johal joins us | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
from there this evening. What more do you know | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
about what happened? Good evening. It was just over 24 | :10:42. | :10:53. | |
hours ago that a car and van were involved in a collision on the A5 | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
one in Swarkestone is not far from us. During a collision a pedestrian | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
was also out and both he and the car went into the car went into this | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
canal and you can still see some of the damage caused by the collision. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Just over here is the barrier which usually belongs up there on the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
bridge. Passers-by helped pull the man, the pedestrian, out of the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
water and the elderly woman that was driving the car was rescued by a man | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
who used a brick to smash through her window and pull her to safety. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
James McArthur lives just a few metres away from where all of this | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
happened and saw the aftermath. She told me that the man who rescued | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
this woman is a key role. -- is a key role. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
I could see a car had gone into the canal... | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
There were two people on the side of the canal, | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
an elderly lady that was sat all wrapped up and a gentleman that | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
The lady was actually the driver of the car, | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
which somebody had actually dived into the canal to get her out | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
He was an absolute legend, no regard for himself, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
just dived straight into the canal to rescue this lady. | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
Now, the college collision the woman was taken to hospital with minor | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
injuries and later discharged. We understand, however, the man, the | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
pedestrian, remained in hospital in a serious condition and still has | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
some serious injuries. Meanwhile, the police have asked for any | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
witnesses who saw what happened to come forward. Thank you very much | :12:24. | :12:24. | |
for that. For most of us, it's pretty much | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
a daily routine and we don't give But for those on the autistic | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
spectrum, shopping can be a daunting So to mark Autism Awareness Week, | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
extra support has been introduced at Nottingham's two main shopping | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
centres to make it less stressful. Over 100 staff have been trained | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
to help and spot those For any of us, shopping can be a | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
battle, bewildering and exhausting. But for those on the autistic | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
spectrum, processing of the sensory Debbie Austin was diagnosed | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
in her early 40s and now works for Autism East Midlands, | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
which helps 1,000 families. For people with autism, | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
sometimes they get too much information and they cannot filter | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
out things that other people can. So, for some people with autism, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the noise, the crowds, the lighting can cause them | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
to really not be able to function Now the charity has linked up | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
with the Victoria and Broadmarsh Over 100 staff have been trained | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
to spot the signs to look out Using a guide, people | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
on the spectrum can plan their visit beforehand to avoid particularly | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
busy times and familiarise They can also choose to wear | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
a wristband so that trained staff On a Sunday and a Monday morning, | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
we turn off the music, which, the feedback we have received, | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
suggests that is a great thing to do because sensory-wise you are tuning | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
it down a little bit but if a visitor came to the centre | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
that felt uncomfortable, we have got quiet areas of the mall | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
that we can take them too. To date, the charity has trained | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
over 800 staff and organisations They include people | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
such as Rolls-Royce, Notts County Football Club, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
the hospitals in the city and the universities | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
have been fantastic... And as many people we can work with, | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
we will, because that is what really makes a difference to the lives | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
of autistic people. After all, they say a little bit | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
of retail therapy does us Quentin Rayner, BBC | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
East Midlands Today, Nottingham. Lord Sebastian Coe has been named | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
as the new chancellor The Olympic gold medallist | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
was a student there in the 1970s and went on to organise the 2012 | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
London Olympics. He says he's incredibly flattered | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
to have been named chancellor. And he says he intends to ensure | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
that Loughborough remains at the top The Rail Minister says he's excited | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
about the grand opening of a Derbyshire railway | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
station this weekend. Ilkeston Station will open | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
to the public on Sunday, 50 years It was part-funded by a ?6.6 million | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
government grant and local MP Maggie Throup says she hopes | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
the investment will help Does the Minister agree | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
that this is money well spent and would he encourage people to use | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
the train to visit Ilkeston and bring a boost to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
the much-needed local economy? Well, I can only vouch | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
for the anticipation in the Maynard household about this coming Sunday | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
but I am glad to hear that Ilkeston too is looking forward | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
to utilising its new train services. Now the East Midlands has had | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
a special visitor today - the only surviving British member | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
of the famous Dambuster Yes, Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
was a bomb aimer during the attack which took off from Lincolnshire | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
in May 1943. But after the war, he became | :15:55. | :15:55. | |
a teacher at a school in Newark. Well, today - now aged 95 - | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Johnny visited his school again and reflected on the current | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
campaign to get him a knighthood and a recent return to the German | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
dam he bombed 74 years ago. His body may be getting frail, but | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
the mind of Johnny Johnson is as sharp as ever. Thank you, I am from | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
the local school. Today he was greeted by the local peoples of | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Highfield School in Newark. He was helped through the door that he | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
first entered as a teacher in the 1960s when he taught there. What is | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
it like being back at the school again for Utor so many years ago? It | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
will always be a pleasure to come back to the school. This is where I | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
first learned to teach children who want to learn. The ethos of the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
place remains the same now as it was then. But it is for his role in the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
famous dambuster ride in 1943 that he will always be remembered. At the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
school today, the crew photo from 1943, his medals, a Lancaster model | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
and even the switch that he pressed to release the bomb... There was a | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
petition to give you a knighthood, how does that make you feel? It is | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
enough for me to remember the 58,000 861 of my comrades who gave their | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
lives fighting for this country. Perhaps more poignantly, last month | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
he went back to the dam that he bombed in 1943 and met a German | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
survivor of that night. What was it like after all of this time? They | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
remembered as well as I remembered and eventually, the presentation | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
from the museum there, which sits on my desk at the moment, very much | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
there is a reminder of what it was all about. To the strains of the | :17:45. | :17:55. | |
dambuster March, Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, celebrated by a new | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
generation of admirers for his, and the bravery of his RAF colleagues 70 | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
years ago. The new future for a figure | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
from many of our pasts... I'm Timmy Mallet and coming up later | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
on BBC East Midlands Today, find out who is the artist | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
who created these paintings. Now, its the University | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
Boat Race this weekend. Oxford against Cambridge | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
is a student rivalry like no other. Colin Hazelden, though, | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
is at the National Ice Centre because he thinks he has one | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
to match it... When I was younger there was nothing | :18:43. | :18:57. | |
to top Oxford against Cambridge but this is University sport, ice hockey | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
between the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent, it is | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
remarkable how the atmosphere is already building in here. I have two | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
student support officers, Warren and Matt. Quickly, let us show people | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
what we're looking at, this place. Amazingly. The atmosphere is | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
fantastic. Over 7000 attending tonight. It is growing in popularity | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
every year. Matt, what is that about the sporting event that makes it | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
tick off more than others? Everyone has pride in their university, they | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
were their colours bright and loud and to be honest, university ice | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
hockey, you could try it in other countries, but this is probably one | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
of the biggest you will find. I am sure it is. As it get spicy between | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
the two universities? There is definitely a rivalry but it is | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
friendly competition. Ever universities get behind it and | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
support their teams. It is the culmination of a few weeks of | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
competition. Who will come out on top? I am hoping that it will be a | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
pink win this year, we are the underdog but sometimes that helps. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
We will see what happens. Thank you both for joining us. Later we will | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
be talking to the sporting directors. Firstly have ever... -- | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
firstly have Onto cricket, and former Notts | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
and England batsman James Taylor has Donington's busy motorsports | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
calendar gets off to a roaring start this weekend with the first rounds | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
of the British Superbikes It still pulls in some | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
of the Worlds best riders and, this year more than ever, | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
it's packed full of The champion, but where will this | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
challenge come from this year? Leon Haslam is always where you look | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
first. From a Derbyshire racing dynasty and denied last year only by | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
a one-off disaster in the end of season showdown. It was frustrating. | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Up until that point we had been doing well very frustrating. But | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
every year we score more points than anyone else and have more wins than | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
anyone so we cannot look at it as a disaster. We have got to make it | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
count this year in the showdown and hopefully we can go that one better. | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
Then you have the French here. This other Frenchman is back with the | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Brits after only two years after his world title. Plenty of track | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
experience and knowledge. It was competitive last year, some big | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
battles going on. Hopefully we can be part of that as soon as possible. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
His team-mate Steve Mackenzie is rising through the ranks. He will | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
not really challenge this year but will be well supported. I have to | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
drag him out of the bowling green. That is down in Ashby. I dragged him | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
out and if we do all right you will see him running on the track again | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
probably! Which leaves this mob... The Yamaha team and Josh Brookes, | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
the former British champion. He is back and one setback. Absolutely, we | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
want to give ourselves every chance and I have expectations of what I | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
can do with the bike. Call for that is enough to take the championship | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
again. So where is the talent is coming from? We cannot wait to find | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
out. -- challenge coming from? Good luck to all of our riders. Back to | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
the ice hockey arena. Here are the two sporting directors. Here is | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
James Hayter. We talk about the accuracy but the quality is high as | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
well. Yes, really high. As a city, we probably have the best University | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
sport in the whole country, I would say. We have had gold medallist at | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the last Olympics, Haughey, canoe, slalom, so really high standard. Let | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
us talk to Dan from the University of Nottingham. All around, | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
universities are lifting their sport. Yes, a huge investment going | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
into University sport at the moment. One has just spent ?40 million on a | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
new centre. Birmingham has done likewise. We are very lucky to have | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
these fantastic facilities in Nottingham and students can take | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
advantage of the ice arena here. Thank you both very much. If you | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
want to sample the atmosphere at the weekend, there are tickets on sale | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
for the Panthers. Tonight however it is sold out. | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
Thank you for that, Colin. He's known for wacky glasses, | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
loud shirts and a mallett - we are of course talking | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
about the 1980s children's But what you might not know, | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
is that Timmy's swapped TV fame for fine art and his latest | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
collection goes on display this We sent Amy Harris along | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
for a sneak preview. He is, for many, the face of their | :23:57. | :24:08. | |
childhood. Fondly for hosting shows that brought smiles. Several decades | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
on, the wacky glasses and shirts are still in the wardrobe of Timmy | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Mallet but he has swapped his trusty TV companion the Mallet for a | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
palate. Today launching his fine art collection in Leicester. Leicester | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
were the founding of the King in the car park and then Premier League | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
champions, trying to win the Champions League, I did not put this | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
exhibition anywhere else but right here, right now, Leicester, it is | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
the perfect place. As you would expect, the collection is colourful, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
inspired by the seasons it includes local landmarks from the water in | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
late summer to Sherwood Forest in the autumn and a certain stature in | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
the heart of Leicester. Choosing Timmy Mallet's work was an easy | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
decision for this new gallery. People know him for his wackiness | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
and stuff in the past, his children's DVDs, but they do not | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
know how serious his artwork is and it blew me away. I think it will | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
blow everyone else away as well. Years after those famous | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
entertainment shows last aired, as an artist he has told me that he is | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
still playing games, this time with his own name. I always put the | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
signature somewhere different and I make it as hard as possible, so your | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
job is to spot it and by the way, any, Maine is much better. I did | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
spot a couple, honest, including this one. If you did not manage it, | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
the collection will be on display in Leicester for the next fortnight. | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
I spotted it. Zoom den, you did a great job. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
I think that he did a great job. There is more cloud as we move | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
through the night but today has been very one, temperatures across the | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
East Midlands reached a maximum of 20 Celsius. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
The average for this time of year is that any grey Celsius. Well above | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
what we would expect to see for this time of year and that has been | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
courtesy of this southerly wind direction. We have dried up some | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
warm air from the South and adding in the sunshine it has made it feel | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
mild. As we move into tomorrow it will not be quite as warm. Slightly | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
cooler, temperature still in the teens, so not cold by any means. We | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
will see sunny spells but the risk of seeing the old shower. Putting | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
the detail onto the map then, as we move through this evening and | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
overnight, just the chance of the odd isolated shower. We will see | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
more in the way of cloud as we move through the night. If you patch | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
habits of light rain. But it will be mild, overnight lows of 11 Celsius. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
And tomorrow and the fairly cloudy start to the day. Then we will start | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
to see more in the way of brightness into the afternoon. Lovely sunny | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
spells developing, but always the risk of seeing the odd isolated | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
shower. Temperature is not too badly, a maximum of 15, 16 Celsius, | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
it will be fully breezy. This is what is going on in the bigger | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
picture, this cold front moving across on Friday and that will drag | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
in some cooler air. Saturday will feel noticeably fresher, some quite | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
thundery showers to look out for, temperatures | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
at a maximum of 14 Celsius, but high pressure on Sunday settle things | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
down, so it does look like it will be drier and brighter by the time we | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
get to Sunday. Thank you very much, if ever there | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
was an excuse for a lion, that was it. | :27:46. | :27:46. | |
Join us again for the | :27:47. | :27:47. |