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Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight: Don't | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
destroy our universities - a warning from a Vice Chancellor over | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
taxing charitable donations. Anything that gets in the way of | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
that is going to harm every university in the country. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Fighting Parkinson's - eight of our hospitals are taking part in major | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
new research to find the cause of the disease. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
More criticism of the James Paget Hospital in a leaked report from | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
the health watchdog. And Frankel the wonder horse - | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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could injury mean the end of his career? First tonight: The | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Government's plans to bring in a so-called charity tax have been | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
attacked by some of our high- profile charities and the Vice | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Chancellor of one of our biggest universities. He was speaking on | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
the day the Universities Minister came to Harlow for the official | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
opening of a new part of Anglia Ruskin University. Under the plans, | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
unveiled in the Budget, there will be a cap on how much tax relief | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
people can get when they give money to charitable causes. This is the | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
region's newest a centre of learning, and �9 million a centre | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
which will teach education, journalism and graphic design. It | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
was funded by various grants, but with budgets under pressure, | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
universities are increasingly relying on private donations. Away | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
from the cameras, the minister was told today about the strength of | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
feeling over the proposed tax changes. We have ambitions well | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
beyond what any government can afford to support us to achieve. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Therefore, we have to look to a wealthy private individuals, trusts | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
and so on to support those ambitions and make sure we can do | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
all the things people across the world think we ought to be able to | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
do. Anything that gets in the way of that is going to harm each and | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
every university. Anglia Ruskin University has received around �9 | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
million from private benefactors. Nearly every university in the | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
region has dedicated staff who try to hunt out of large donations. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Their fear is that people will not give as much money if there is not | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
as much tax benefit, so the minister was trying to be as | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
reassuring as possible. If there is a whole range of organisations, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
including universities, that benefit from charitable donations. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
As we consult we will make sure that the philanthropic support for | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
universities and others is properly protected, as the proposals are | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
developed in detail. It is not just universities who are worried, many | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
charities across the region are, too. A raising money is always a | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
challenge and we could do without the additional challenge of putting | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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obstacles in the way of people donating money to people like us. | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Some significant donations missing from significant individuals will | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
have a huge impact on what we can carry it. The message today is that | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
the Government is listening and that there will be changes of sorts. | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Charities and universities will wait and watch closely to see | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
exactly what those changes are. Let's speak to the MP for Clacton, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Douglas Carswell. He's at Westminster now. So you think this | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
is a bad idea handled badly? centre-right government should be | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
giving tax breaks to help civil society and philanthropy. I thought | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
that was what the "big society" was supposed to be about. I am shocked | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
and surprised to hear that Treasury officials want us to tax the | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
charitable donations in this way. What you think of ministers going | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
around dropping hints that the there may be a change of thought? | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
do not to politics by hand. A lot of people are fed up by people | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
doing politics by a hint and spend and implication. It is three weeks | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
since the Budget, we should make it clear whether we are up to this or | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
not. I think it is the wrong plan and we should drop it, I think we | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
should speak frankly and allow those universities who, frankly, | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
invest a lot of effort in time in raising funds, let them know where | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
they stand now. A but the Government does need to raise money | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
from somewhere. Hang on, the people I represent work out how much money | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
they have coming in and then work out how they -- how much they have | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
to spend. Government, for some reason, works out how much it wants | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
to spend and then decides how much to fleece the rest of us. Maybe | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
they should start living within their means like the rest of us. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
This is your government - would you vote against it if you had the | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
chance? I point out, I am not a member of this government. I am a | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
member of the legislature. My job is to keep this government -- | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
called his government to account. When they have got it wrong, my job | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
is to say so and, if necessary, to vote that way. It should not try | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
his -- surprise anyone that, as a Conservative MP with a libertarian | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
outlook, I will hold the Government to account. I am willing to stand | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
by my principles in the boating lobby. You stand -- you sound like | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
a man who has perhaps fallen out of love with his party. I am as much | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
as a member of it as the Chancellor or the leader of it is. I have been | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
to the Leith in small stake conservatism in action, not in | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
theory. So if you had the chance to leave the party you would not go? | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
am staying put. I am very much part of the party. I believe in | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Conservative principles and conservatism in action. That means | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
less government intervention, I genuinely bigger society and the | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
Government getting off of people's backs. Some things work really well | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
without politicians. I think politicians in the Treasury should | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
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recognise that. Thank you. A charity is looking for 3,000 people | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
with Parkinson's to take part in the biggest-ever study into what | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
causes the disease. Parkinson's UK is spending �1.6 million on the | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
research and eight hospitals from this region are taking part. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Mohammed Ali has it, so does Michael J Fox. Paul Sturrock, the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Southend manager, recently announced that he, too, was | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
suffering from Parkinson's disease. It may be overshadowed by illnesses | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
like cancer and heart disease, but thousands of it -- people in this | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
country suffer from Parkinson's disease. This is me at the Sports | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
Village in Norwich. When I was 23, I became the British champion. I | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
defended my title three times. I am not the champion any more. Symptoms | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
of the almost include tremors, movement problems, anxiety and | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
memory lapses. Mark, a former boxing champion, was diagnosed with | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
the disease at just 38. He it really knocked me for six. I did | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
not know anything about it. I did not know if I would die until I did | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
some research into it. You do not die from it, you die with it. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
will now be one of the 3,000 patients needed for this trial. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Patients need to be under 50 and to have had Parkinson's disease for | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
less than three years. Patients need to understand it will not | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
result in a treatment or cure for them. It is altruistic. People will | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
volunteer their services kindly so that we can better understand how | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the disease is presenting and developing in them. Hopefully, it | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
will allow future generations to benefit. Doctors will be looking at | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
changes in the body that can be measured and which could help with | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
diagnoses. The study will not just focus on patients. Some brothers | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
and sisters could also be asked to participate. Obviously, people | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
maybe a little fearful that things will be discovered that they might | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
not want to know about. But if we're going to understand the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
disease, and particularly the genetic side, we do need to look at | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
relatives, too. This will be a five-year project, a global | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
challenge, and, for some, it could make a huge difference. This is | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
something on my body that I would not mind showing you. Still to come | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
tonight: Frankel the wonder horse - could an injury on the gallops mean | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the end of his career? And can you get beautiful blooms in the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
drought? It's a bit is the time of year when many of us are stocking | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
up on plans for the garden, but with a hosepipe ban in force, what | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
impact as that had? Find out after more news from your part of the | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
region. A hospital which has been criticised a number of times over | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the quality of its care is due to get another negative report from | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the main health watchdog. A draft report leaked to the BBC says there | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
are still concerns about patient care at the hospital in Gorleston. | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
Here is our chief reporter, Kim Riley. Despite a recent survey of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
patient satisfaction giving it good marks, the James Paget has had a | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
rocky ride. Last September, the Care Quality Commission issued a | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
formal warning. There were concerns about dignity and nutrition in its | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
care of elderly patients. In November, a second formal warning, | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
though improvements had been made. This highlighted failings in | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
monitoring. The end result - patients still not always receiving | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
help they needed when eating and drinking. A whistle-blowing letter | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
was sent to the Health Secretary, signed by concerned GPs. The | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
chairman of the Trust, John Hemming, resigned. Much-criticised chief | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
executive Wendy Slaney soldiered on, with former newspaper editor Peter | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Franzen drafted in as interim chairman. The Commission carried | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
out another inspection last month. The draft report identifies | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
improvements but has moderate concerns over patient care, and | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
minor concerns over patient records. So we can expect another formal | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
warning notice. But a positive outlook today from the body which | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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represents patients. They always say you do not hit the bottom until | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
you really feel the bomb. I think we have been bumping along the | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
bottom and now we have a way to be positive and look forward. We have | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
a way to make sure that people are getting the best quality of service. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
For hopefully the new management gives us a new opportunity to step | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
forward with a fresh start. I have some real opera -- optimism about | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
them moving back to what they can be - one of the best hospitals in | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
the country. The Trust says it cannot comment until the final | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
report is published next week. The new interim chief executive, who | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
has just taken over, is David Hill. He left the hospital in 2006 to | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
work in Bermuda after steering it to success. He says his top | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
priority will be the issues raised in this report. The police in Essex | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
say a woman who went missing may be with people she knows, but they are | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
still worried about her welfare. Kariss Clarke was seen being | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
assaulted in Vange on Friday night. They want her, or any one who knows | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
where she is, to contact them. Three houses have been badly | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
damaged by fire in Basildon. Some people who live there say the | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
timber-framed houses are dangerous, and have started a petition calling | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
for safety improvements. Gareth George sent this report. The Red | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Cross here are offering support on this estate. The fire here start at | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
around 1:30pm today. Three houses were badly damaged. Around 10 | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
houses have been evacuated. bottom part was on fire within | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
seconds. The glass was smashing, the roof tiles were falling. It was | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
horrendous. The houses are timber- framed and firefighters had to work | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
very quickly to stop the fire spreading. It broke through the | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
ceilings -- we had to break through the ceilings and walls to stop the | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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fire spreading. Dacruz dead and and -- a fantastic job. -- the fire | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
crews did a fantastic job. Residents are starting a petition | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to get the wooden frames replaced. There are so many children here, | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
that is the worst bit. These places are lethal. Because of the fire is | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
still unknown. A fire investigation is under way. Meanwhile, families | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
to have been left homeless are being found temporary accommodation. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
A man who fled from custody at a court hearing in Norwich has been | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
arrested by police in a branch of ASDA. Arfath Ali was found at the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
superstore in Bury Road, Ipswich, yesterday afternoon. He escaped | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
from Norwich Crown Court on 3rd April after being charged with | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
assault. Sport now, and a thrashing for Norwich City in the Premier | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
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League. With that and the rest of the weekend action, here is Phil. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
It's not every day Norwich City fans get to see over �100 million | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
worth of footballers grace the pitch at Carrow Road. And they'll | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
be glad of that. The Argentinian pairing of Carlos Tevez and Sergio | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Aguerro put on a masterclass in goalscoring. Just as well Norwich | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
are safe. The last time a team with 43 points were relegated from the | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Premier League was in 1995. Reflecting on their season, most | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Norwich City fans would say it has been a success, even after | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Saturday's result. Paul Lambert admitted that they were taught a | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
brutal lesson in finishing. You are about to see why. 18 minutes gone, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
step up Carlos Tevez. Sergio Aguerro doubled the lead ten | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
minutes later. After the break, it was Norwich who started off the | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
brighter side. Andrew Surman got his fifth goal of the season. It | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
seemed a genuine lifeline for the north up site. Then the grand plan | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
began to fall apart. 20 minutes from time, a master class from the | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
Argentinian national team mates. Carlos Tevez got a hat-trick. He | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
showed he really is back in the swing of things. Adam Johnson then | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
made it 6-1. Manchester City beat Norwich 5-1 last time out at their | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
Etihad Stadium. This time out, things were even worse. Is there | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
anything to complain about for the fans? It has been a fantastic | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
season and we cannot complain because we have done so well. | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
complaints. We have proved everyone wrong. This season has been | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
absolutely superb. Mancini's prayers were answered, and the same | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
could be said about Norwich, booking their place in the Premier | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
League for next season. Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell will meet | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
with owner Marcus Evans tomorrow to discuss who will stay and who will | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
leave the club this summer. One man who did his chances of staying the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
power of good this weekend was striker Jason Scotland, who started | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
against Crystal Palace. Ipswich came out of the blocks like a Grand | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
National winner. F Jason Scotland had an extra yard, he would have | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
gotten in the opener. He could have had a first-half hat-trick if the | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Crystal Palace keeper had not been on his game. Against the run of | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
play, Time went behind, Chris Martin doing the damage. Scotland | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
would find the back of the net emphatically. In League 1, | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Colchester United harassed Sheffield Wednesday and took an | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
early lead. Ian Henderson got egg strike -- got a goal within three | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
minutes. Wednesday then equalised. Both sides could have won it, but | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
an honourable draw was a fair reflection. Southend and Torquay | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
are both trying to climb out of the division. A goalless draw that | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
neither side any favours. Became close on many occasions but that is | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
not good enough. That is it for mower. -- for now. And on Late Kick | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Off tonight, along with reaction to the weekend's games, an in-depth | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
look into the impressive career of Norwich boss Paul Lambert. How he | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
started in Scotland, went on to win the Champions' League with Dortmund, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
and has taken the Canaries back to the Premier League. Not to mention | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
his time with Scottish super-club Celtic. And tonight's special guest | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
is another former manager, Nigel Worthington. It will be interesting | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
to see what he thinks of the achievements. Make sure you stay up. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
BBC 1, 11:05pm. Have a look at this. It's the size of a credit card, but | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
actually it's a fully functioning computer. And it was designed here | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in the east. It's called the Raspberry Pi, it sells for �25 and | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
its mission is to get children interested in computer programming. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Today, after a number of delays, it will start arriving in schools | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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across the region. Six years in the planning, this is one of 700 sent | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
out from this company in Corby today. Already they have 250,000 | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
come for -- customers on the waiting list. There is an amazing | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
amount of excitement around Raspberry Pi. We have never had | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
this level of interest before for product. It is a tiny computer with | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
a memory card, a USB port to connect your mouse and keyboard, a | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
connection for your monitor and a power cable, the same as a mobile | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
phone. Developed in Cambridge, the brainchild of this man. You can do | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
all the stuff that you can do on a conventional desktop PC. For | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
example, we can play a video. We think that one of the things that | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
this device is extremely good at is running multimedia applications. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Then we bundle our large amount of educational and general purpose | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
programming software. The idea is to have a smooth run from this sort | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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of thing to professional equipment. We say that you do not make a | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
concert pianist by putting someone in front of a piano for the first | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
time when they are 18. Young children are extremely good at | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
learning new things. By putting these devices in front of children | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
at their earliest age where they can understand what they do, we | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
give them access and more chance to learn when they're younger, when | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
their brains are more flexible and we give them access to this. I | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
founded an incredibly exciting experience as a child. This is a | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
cheap computer for less than �30. It could change computer technology | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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for the next 30 years. The future of Frankel, the superstar of the | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Horseracing world, is tonight in the balance. He is trained in | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Newmarket by Sir Henry Cecil and was endured on the gallops on | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Wednesday. He is due to have a scan this week to see if he has damaged | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
his tendon, which could mean the end of his career. In a moment, we | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
will speak to the man in charge of his stables, but first this from | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
Debbie Tubby. Frankel is said to be the best pace | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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draws -- resource in the world -- racehorse in the world. He did this | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
at Goodwood. Trained in Newmarket by Sir Henry Cecil, he describes | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
them as the best horse he has ever seen. Frankel was due to compete | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
next month which he has had his leg while light on the gallops. Damage | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
to the lining of his tendon is recoverable. If it is the tendon, | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
it could be the end of his career. No-one is watching him more closely | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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right now than the people at his home in Newmarket. Lord Grimsthorpe | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
is the racing manager for Frankel's owner, Prince Khaled Abdullah of, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
and he joins us now from Cheveley near Newmarket. Can you tell us | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
exactly what happened. I heard he hit himself. A yes, he has got such | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
an exuberant stride that we think probably what happened was that his | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
hind leg, which came straight underneath him, might have banged | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
the back of his front leg as he was galloping at full stretch. We think | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
that is the most likely way that it happened. To those of us outside | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
the the horse racing world, it just seems to show the fragility of the | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
horse as an athlete that something that could be a minor injury could | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
end up ending a career. Yes, I think that, especially with what we | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
call soft tissue - tendons, sinews, ligaments - they are much harder to | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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repair. The damage is much more serious than with a bone injury. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
They can be given time are they can depend and you can see from X-rays | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
how well they do, but with soft tissue it is always a bit more | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
tricky to stop how worried are you at this stage of what will happen | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
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next? The horse will be scanned this week. We're taking veterinary | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
advice about when the best time is for that happened. It will lobby | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
tomorrow. It will probably be between Wednesday and Friday. That | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
is really because he had some filling in his tendon sheath and | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
that has to dissipate so that you can get a very good picture of the | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
tendon and to see if there is any damage or not. Briefly, are you | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
optimistic? Very optimistic, yes. I have spoken 10 rare regularly. He | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
is pleased with the way the horse has done. He has been laid out and | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
was ridden out just gently this morning. From that point of view, | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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he is very happy with that. Of course, that is externally -- | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
externally, he does seem to be doing well. The we hope for good | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
news. Thank you very much. Gardeners across the region will | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
know we are in the driest part of the country, in a drought, with a | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
hosepipe ban. And if you like your plants and flowers, it's not a | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
great combination. Now half the country is officially in drought | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
and the Environment Agency says it could last until Christmas. Alex | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
Dolan reports. This nursery in or fork is already feeling the impact | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
of the hosepipe ban. So far, we have sold out of watering cans. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
People were asking for drought- resistant plants. We're looking at | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
more of that. Although some seasoned customers are taking it in | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
their stride. It is rain. That is what happened since the hosepipe | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
ban came in. I am, I suppose, optimistic that it is always going | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
to rain. The idea of gardens filled up with all these dry-loving plants | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
I think would be quite boring. water resources at a premium it is | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
floral displays that are suffering. We do baskets for the general | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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public. A we do not want to go Whitewater ring these baskets | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
because we do not think it is appropriate. We are determined that | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
the town will still look very colourful. You have to be lost it - | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
- optimistic. Everything is green and the grass is growing. Even if | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
it is, experts say that we need above-average rainfall fourball of | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
next winter before the situation improves. | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
We can't predict the whole of next winter but maybe the next five days. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
Which, I have to say it is looking Which, I have to say it is looking | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
very unsettled. This cloud is heading our direction, bringing | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
some rain later tonight. We start this evening and the first part of | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the night dry with clear spells. Then the thicker cloud pushes him | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
from the West. Eventually, the rain spreads towards the east. The rain | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
will start of patchy but will become heavier and more persistent | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
as the night goes on. Temperatures will be down to around two are | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
three Celsius before the rain arrives. There could be some ground | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
frost. That will be short lived, with the rain pushing him. As the | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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rain arrives, the wind will pick up to a blustery suddenly. -- | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
southerly. There will be just a scattering of showers tomorrow. | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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Temperatures will be similar to today. Some of the showers will be | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
on the sharp side, though they will rattle through very quickly on | :27:13. | :27:22. | |
those westerly winds. Wednesday will see showers, potentially heavy | :27:22. | :27:29. |