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Tonight, as the pressure piles on the James Paget Hospital, the | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Health Secretary blames the bosses for the crisis. It is about | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
leadership. Making sure that leadership at all levels through | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
the James Paget Hospital is able to give, within the trust and for the | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
public beyond, an absolute assurance about the quality. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Meanwhile, patients complain to us about their treatment and a former | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
employee says she was bullied. witnessed and professionalism. We | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
had swearing and temper tantrums with staff storming out. In other | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
news tonight: 150 miles an hour around the streets of Milton Keynes. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
This speeding biker is banned for five years. And the Essex teacher | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
behind one of the TV hits of the year. Nice straight lines, let's | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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The most beleaguered hospital in the region is in crisis tonight | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
because of poor leadership. That was the message today from the | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley on a visit to the James Paget Hospital | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
in Norfolk. Mr Lansley said it was the hospital's bosses who were to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
blame for the mess, which yesterday resulted in the resignation of the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Trust chairman. But he refused to be drawn on the future of the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
hospital's chief executive. Our chief reporter, Kim Riley, reports | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
now on another day of pressure at the James Paget. Mr Lansley's visit | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
was arranged some time ago. He met the medical director and chief | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
matron from the hospital before a brief visit to the board and | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
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meetings with top management. hospital needs relief and a rest | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
from management. They need to be allowed to get on with good job | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
they are well capable of doing. fewer was amazed with an exchange | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
on our programme last night about resignation. Her I was told by | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
someone who knows a lot about what is going on at the hospital about | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
bullying from management down and shouting down people who raised | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
concerns. To recognise that? Not at all. -- do you recognise that? I | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
would not have stood for that. It is not in my nature to allow that. | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
I am an open person. I would do something about it if I knew about | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
it. Susie and used to work as an administrator at the hospital. She | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
was due to take it to an employment tribunal. A hospital settled two | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
weeks ago, paying her off. She refused to sign a gagging order | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
about the bullying. I witnessed and professionalism. There was swearing | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
and temper tantrums with stuff storing out. Ignoring and | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
victimisation. -- staff storming out. Blasphemous comments were made. | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
A thoroughly unpleasant place to work. Very. Something I had never | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
experienced at that level before. The trust announced the former | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
editor of the Eastern Daily Press was taking over as interim chairman. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
The embattled chief executive is determined to press ahead. We are | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
pleased that the achievements we have made have been recognised. We | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
are not complacent. Some people think you are the problem and you | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
are the weak link and you should have resigned. That has been said | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
that we work as a team. Everyone who works here is focused on | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
improving patient care and continuing the good work we do. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
have been here several hours. I have lost count of the number of | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
people who have come up to me wanting essay about the hospital. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Reg moved with his wife from Bedfordshire and she is being | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
treated right now I'm one of the wars. He said as for the hospital | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
and the staff, he thought they were great and could not fault them. So | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
how did the James Paget Hospital find itself in the Casualty | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Department? Debbie Tubby charts the story of an NHS Trust in need of | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
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emergency treatment. The James Paget Hospital was diagnosed as | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
sick in April. Its symptoms concerns about dignity and | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
nutrition. The health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission, told it to | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
make improvements. They issued a warning notice demanding a hospital | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
trust make swift improvements or its prognosis was prosecution or | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
restriction of services. Two-and- a-half weeks ago the hospital was | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
we inspected. The results are due soon. This whistle-blowing letter | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
sent to the Health Secretary was signed by a group of concerned GPs. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
It resulted in calls for the hospital chairman to resign. I am | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
concerned about the third report also ending in failure. Perhaps it | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
is time for someone else to take up the reins. There are the board of | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
directors. Yesterday the chairman stood down. I am so upset that | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
first double I feel I had to resign. Peter has been brought in as | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
interim chairman to lead the hospitals fight back to full health. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
During the period of intensive care, the independent regulator monitor | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
is assessing whether the hospital has breached its terms of | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
authorisation. In extreme cases it can remove directors. Up-to-date | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Andrew Lansley injected his views but can there be a hospital | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
revival? I talk to Andrew Lansley at the end of his visit to the | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
James Paget. I asked him how he now viewed the situation at a hospital. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
In the midst of concerns that were raised by CQC, which need to be | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
addressed and perhaps were not just as quickly as they ought to have | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
been, and where the public and people in hospital - we need to be | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
very clear about persistent pursuit of quality in all circumstances - | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
we should not let that obscure the fact that patients here, like in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
the wards I visited - at the stroke ward - are being looked after with | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
a very high clinical standards. What you think about the fact the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
letter that was sent to you from an anonymous group of GPs actually | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
compared this to Mid Staffs Hospital which has had some very | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
serious problems? That letter was raised by an MP in the House. Has | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
this or not turned political? not about politics. It is about | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
being confident of the standards achieved in all circumstances. I | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
would not compare it with Stafford hospital. Then when things are | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
going wrong the hospital was in denial and patients were dying | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
because of the lack of appropriate care. The CQC was very clear it was | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
not a situation where patients today were at any risk of harm. It | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
is about leadership, about making sure that leadership at all levels | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
through the James Paget Hospital is able to give within the trust and | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
for the public be armed, an absolute assurance about the | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
pursuit of quality in all circumstances. -- and beyond. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
chairman resigned yesterday. Does that go far enough? He is not in | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
charge of day-to-day running the hospital. He gave enormous service | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
to this hospital over the years. He should be thankful or he did for | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
hospital. We're in a place where, in the cause of the last few months, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
it was clear the CQC were raising concerns. As they came back, they | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
were not clear that the response had been sufficient and the | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
leadership in terms of putting quality assurance in place had been | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
enough. Isn't that down to the chief executive and not the | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
chairman? The chair is the leader of the board. John, quite | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
appropriately, said it is my role to accept that responsibility. He | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
took that responsibility and he has resigned. It is not my job to | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
appoint a chair of a foundation trusts. I'm looking for there to be, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
in that sense, a change of leadership. There are staff at the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
James Paget Hospital who have demonstrated in the past and today | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
and in the future and are capable of delivering a high standard of | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
care. To have confidence in the chief executive of this hospital to | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
turn it around? -- do you have? had discussed it with stuff, | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
Patients representatives and others. They know there is a process to go | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
through. I am clear that the new leadership, starting with the chair, | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
needs to be in place to make sure they achieve that issuance for the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
public of high standards across the trust consistently. -- assurance. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
We're waiting for the outcome of the third inspection by the CQC. | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Are you aware of what they have found? It is not for me to publish | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
it. They are an independent quality inspectorate. They feel they have | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
failed a third time. How long are you happy to wait? | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
responsibility is to tell not least Monitor and CQC about what I had | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
gleaned being hit, talking to people. As Secretary of State the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
ultimate responsibility his mind. The immediate responsibility is | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
between CQC, Monitor and the board of James Paget Trust to discuss | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
what failings they have banned and to do that rapidly. Thanks to | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
everyone who has been in touch with us about this story. Remember, you | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
can always phone us or send an e- mail. Please remember to leave a | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
daytime contact number. And you might like to have a look at the | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Look East Facebook page. Here it is. Plenty to see and it is an easy way | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
to communicate with us. You can find us at facebook.com/lookeast. A | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
man who filmed himself riding his motorbike at nearly 150 miles an | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
hour has escaped jail. Robert Owens, who lives in Milton Keynes, was | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
given a suspended prison sentence of one year. He's been banned from | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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driving for five years. Peter Cooke was in court. Irresponsible, | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
idiotic and shameful. This motorbike rider's own admission a | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
day he was caught riding at speeds of up to 152 miles an hour around | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Bletchley and Milton Keynes. The budget was all phoned by himself. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
He had mounted a video camera on to his helmet. Police described the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
driving as some of the most dangerous they had witnessed. He | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
was doing wheelies, riding on footpaths and weaving in and out of | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
traffic. We saw on some of the clips that he was doing wheelies in | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
between moving vehicles. It's only what had taken one person to panic, | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
it move their steering will a matter of inches and that would | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
have involved a collision with horrendous consequences. He was | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
caught up to load in the videos on to YouTube to boast about what he | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
had done. Officers received an anonymous tip and he was arrested. | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
He admitted to four accounts of dangerous driving, or committed | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
last April. He had the suspended sentence of 51 weeks. He deserved | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
no mercy and had escaped prison by a hair's breadth. If not for the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
circumstances of his family he would have been behind bars this | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
evening. He has 10 points on his licence. The bike involved will now | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
be confiscated. Later on Look East, the classic BBC comedy, Steptoe & | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Son, is brought to the stage in Milton Keynes. We've a preview, | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
plus an interview, with the show's creators, Ray Galton and Alan | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Simpson. And Mike has been to meet a man, who has been called a | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
national hero. If you have been watching Educating Essex, you will | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
know exactly who this man is. I will tell you all about him and the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
series. That is coming up after more news from your part of the | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
We have already heard about problems at the James Paget | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
Hospital tonight. But there is trouble too at Ipswich Hospital. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
That's according to the Suffolk MP, Dr Dan Poulter. New figures reveal | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the hospital is spending millions of pounds on agency staff, after | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
struggling to attract new consultants. Amelia Reynolds has | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
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more. She is in our newsroom now. �6.7 million is demand Ipswich | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
Hospital spent on agency staff Lustig compared with just over �0.5 | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
million the previous year. Essential key services at Ipswich | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Hospital have been lost. Therefore specialist consultants have gone | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
elsewhere to work. Agency staff have been brought in to plug the | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
gap. One local MP says it has left the hospital with a large bill and | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
also with low staff morale. We understand there are calls for the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
chief executive to resign. hospital is spending �6.7 million | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
on locum and agency staff. They are making other permanent staff | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
redundant and asking them to reapply for jobs. Staff are not | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
happy and that will affect morale and patient care. What has the | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
hospital said? The chief executive said a significant amount on that - | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
- that money were spent on one consultant grades. He goes on to | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
say, a consultant locums were required because of some hard to | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
acute specialities matinee. The hospital was extremely unlucky that | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
that should -- with episodes of Cygnus last year. A former Labour | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
minister, who apologised for patronising a Norwich MP over her | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
age, has now accused her of misleading parliament. Fiona | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
MacTaggart used the banned phrase in the Commons this afternoon. She | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
had just apologised for her earlier remarks about 29-year-old Treasury | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
Minister Chloe Smith. Will he ask her to come back here and | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
apologised to the House for misleading it when she claimed that | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
unemployment under the last government had reached 30%? I would | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
draw the attention of my right honourable friend to this exchange | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
and ask her to write to the Honourable Lady, clarify the use of | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
the figures and justify any figure she used in the chamber. -- | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
clarifying. The Justice Minister has been in Suffolk to see how the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
new policy of mediation is working in divorce cases. The law has just | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
been changed and it means that any couple splitting up must consider | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
mediation before resorting to court action. Would that make a | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
difference? This is how the Government wants to see divorces | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
handled. Not in the courts but through face-to-face negotiation. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
This one is being staged for the cameras. For many people it is less | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
stressful and expensive and there is plenty of demand. In the last | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
year this law firm in Suffolk has received 1000 referrals. If you had | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
three meetings and a summary and the plan, the overall cost of the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
�500 to �600. Legal costs can be thousands of pounds so it makes | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
good sense. She was wanting full custody and there was no way hours | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
going to give that up. Tony has just finished mediation after | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
spitting out with his partner. time something needed to be | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
arranged, it was ended in arguments. She did not want to speak to me and | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
I did not want to speak to her. Now we get on and up agreeing things. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
His mum and me have long conversations. I need my space and | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
my privacy. The minister who changed the law came to its titch | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
to sit in on a stage mediation certain -- session. It is a more | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
simple, cost-effective way where people get together. It is an | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
empowering. They are deciding their own futures. The Minister is very | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
proud of the role he has played in pushing this legislation through. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
He believes it will make a difference but not everyone is | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
happy. The Citizens Advice Bureaux said, while mediation will be | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
useful, it cannot take the place of proper legal advice. Splitting up | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
will not be completely trouble-free nor Campaigners fighting plans to | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
dump nuclear waste near their village have lost their High Court | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
challenge. Villagers at King's Cliffe near Peterborough say the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
waste would pose a serious health risk. They challenged the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Government's go-ahead for the dumping of low-level waste. But the | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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High Court ruled there was nothing wrong with the decision. It is now | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
12 years since the BBC sports presenter, Helen Rollason, died | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
from cancer. But the fundraising goes on. Today Sir Trevor Brooking | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
officially opened a new research centre at the Broomfield Hospital | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
:17:57. | :17:58. | ||
in Chelmsford. An icon of the beautiful game. Today football duty | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
is put to one side. The former England star is on hand to do the | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
honours in Chelmsford. You need support for friends and have a deal | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
with it. If you can do that on a local basis, it makes a bid defence. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
Set up by the Helen Rollason charity, she was one of the first | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
women to present sport on the BBC. In 1999, she died of breast cancer. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
She was 43. Today her legacy continues. It is fantastic in as | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
much as it is exclusive. You come through a treatment and it is done | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
quickly. There is no waiting like there would be in a hospital. There | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
are dedicated parking places. patients a week will be seen here. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Not only will the site treat cancers but it is also involved in | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
clinical drug trials. There will be more focus on Phase 2 trials. | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Particular patients who have no other standard treatment available. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
These patients have to go all the way down to London, Cambridge, | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
became a habit here locally. centre will help patients from | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
across less -- Essex. With the formalities over, said Trevor still | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
had time to meet some West Ham fans. You are watching Look East from the | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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BBC. Coming up: Harold and Albert Every year there are TV programmes | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
that sneak in under the radar and become big hits. This year it has | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
been Educating Essex - a fly on the wall series about the Passmores | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
Academy in Harlow. Tonight is the last in the series. So, it is the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
last time we'll see the star of the show, Mr Drew. He has been called a | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
national hero. Mike Liggins has been to meet him. Come on, guys, a | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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nice straight line. Do not stop. Assistant head at the Academy in | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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Harlow, and start of Educating Essex. At this school in Essex, 160 | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
students are in their final and most important year. They are | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
teenagers. Oh, my God! Emotional. Excitable. Filmed by 65 remote | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
cameras over seven weeks, it is a warts and all looked at a live in a | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
:20:57. | :21:01. | ||
modern secondary schools. Overall I was happy with it. -- look. What | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
this pie? Where did it come from? Most of the pupils featured in the | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
programme have moved on. Kieran, the lad he wanted time off school | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
to write a novel, is still here and so was Gabby, who was involved in | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
the text bullying episodes. People recognise me. Someone asked for an | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
autograph. I did not know what to save. Just say, yes. It was so | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
:21:39. | :21:39. | ||
surprising. People were saying, you are famous. Series two? Absolutely | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
not. That is the way we are. That is the way we behave. In a second | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
series we would not be the same. We had been on BBC Breakfast, we have | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
done lots of things. We know how it works. We would not be quite the | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
same fulls stop it is now in a brand new building. -- quite the | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
same. Where are we going? Art. The artistic. He says there will not be | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
another series. But, in TV, we never say never. And there is an | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
extended interview with Mr Drew on our Facebook page. You can find it | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
at facebook.com/lookeast. Milton Keynes has scored a bit of a coup | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
this week by staging a live performance of the classic comedy, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Steptoe and Son. Tonight's opening performance is being attended by | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Galton and Simpson are the creative force | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
not just behind Steptoe, they have also worked with Tony Hancock, | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Frankie Howerd and Les Dawson, to name just a few. Mike Cartwright | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
caught up with them at the Chrysalis Theatre just a few | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
minutes ago. You have not seen the play. What are you hoping for? | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
have not seen the play but the adaptations are very good. I see no | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
reason why it should not go well. We are keeping our fingers crossed. | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
If they do go well, we're hoping other amateur groups will take up | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
the flag around the country and used the same adaptations. Why do | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
you think step to struck such a chord with the public? Because it | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
was so miserable, I suppose. That was the key thing about it. Unlike | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
most comedies, it had a very dark, black inside to it. People could | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
relate to that. If it were not for their own family, someone else's | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
family. They knew this couple were doomed fulls dog where did the idea | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
come from? -- doomed. We were made an offer. The offer has not be made | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
before and will never be made again. He said we could do what we like. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
You can write what you like, cast would you like, be in it if you | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
like, produce it if you like. I want you to do this and keep my | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
title. Two rag and bone men. I thought it was a silly idea and did | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
not even think it was an idea until about three hours later. We sat | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
there trying to think about something. Out of desperation, I | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
said, what about those rag-and-bone men? We had to do something. We had | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
no plot but no story, nothing. We sat there and wrote, first rag-and- | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
bone man, second rag-and-bone man. We wrote about 11 pages - half the | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
show - just having an argument. We did not know who they were, what | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
their relationship was. We stopped. There had to be an ending and a | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
plot. That is when we hit on an idea of being father and son. That | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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A big load to the west of us. Areas of rain are moving up from France. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Very heavy rain in some places. You can see this cloud. One or two | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
bright intervals. The heaviest rain developed over southern England and | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
then moved up through the west of the region. It is moving away | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
northwards. Some showers in Essex are capable of producing thunder | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
and heavy rain. The rainy weather will become more extensive in the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
east and moving westwards once more. All in all a mild and wet night | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
which will be rather breezy to begin with. Temperatures, because | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
of all this going on, not that load - ten Celsius. The winds in the | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
West will become quite light by morning. The last of the rain will | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
move away. Not long before we see heavy showers developing. Some will | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
be heavy enough to give torrential rain in places and the odd rumble | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
of thunder. To be just a mile up to 16, 17 Celsius, in the warmer spots. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
-- temperatures up. In the second part of the afternoon the showers | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
should fade away. That is good news for any bonfire parties tomorrow | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
night. By the weekend it looks as though we will have some unsettled | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
weather which could bring us some rather keen north-easterly winds. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Quite a lot of cloud and drizzle the rain. Not ideal bonfire weather | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
but it does look as though things could hopefully become a little bit | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
drier in the east of the region at least, on Saturday evening. Despite | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
being very unsettled, we could get away with two half decent but soggy | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Bonfire Night. High pressure built next week. The temperatures were | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
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not for much so no cold nights on offer. 994 millibars on the | :27:26. | :27:31. |