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Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight... | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
A four—hour walk out by firefighters. The impact in this | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
region. The curse of domestic violence — | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
experts say lessons need to be learnt from the Cromer shootings. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
In the cricket, Northants get promoted at Worcester. But as | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
wickets kept tumbling they had to do it the hard way. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
And a sign of the times in Sudbury — why the old fashioned art of | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
sign—writing has never been more popular. | :00:35. | :00:51. | |
Good evening. First tonight, the region's firefighters walk out in a | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
row over pensions. But the region's fire chiefs say | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
there have been remarkably few incidents to report. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
As you may have heard it was a four—hour walk out across the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
country — the first national strike for a decade. During that four hours | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
there were just three incidents across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
In a moment, we'll speak to the fire minister, but first this from Ian | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Barmer. 12 noon, and hundreds of | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
firefighters across the East walk out. All the strikers today were | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
members of the Fire Brigades Union, which says the fire service pension | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
scheme will lead to a dad 's Army of 60—year—old fireman. The proposals | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
are unsafe, unrealistic and one workable. We know that a | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
58—year—old, 60—year—old, cannot crawl around on the belly infill | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
dear in the smoke and a dark and rescue people. —— in filled gear. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Today, all our fire service were coping with a a 50% cut in resources | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
as fire services manned the picket lines. Senior officers were hoping | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
for a quiet afternoon and that is how it turned out. In Essex there | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
was one incident, flooding in flight. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
In Essex —— in Norfolk again just one incident, a grass fire. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
In the event of a large incident this afternoon, we would have had | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
some fire engines and firefighters available to deal with it. We also | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
managed to come to an agreement with the union that in the event of a | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
serious incident the striking firefighters would return to work | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
and help us to deal with that incident safely and quickly. In | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
Norfolk, 50% of fire stations were closed by the strike and in Norwich | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
this afternoon some drivers showed support for the pickets. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
TOOTING the union says this is not a | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
profession for firefighters to the age of 60. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
The firefighters here in Norwich have said this is not a dispute with | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Norfolk Fire service but a dispute, specifically, with the government. | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Essex Fire and rescue decided not to use its fire station during the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
strike, leaving them to the pickets and moving into special centres like | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
this one in Basildon, a breakdown recovery depot. The crews and | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
engines here were not needed and at 4pm they left. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
This is likely to be the first in a series of strikes. Both sides are | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
preparing for more disruption. Brandon Lewis is the Fire Minister. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
He's also the MP for Great Yarmouth. When I spoke to him just a few | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
minutes ago, I started by asking how he had monitoring the impact across | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
the country. We have a view of what is going on | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
across the country. Fire services across the country have been feeding | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
into others so we had a good overview of what has been going on. | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
What was your greatest fear when the clock —— clocked strut —— clock | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
struck 12 this afternoon. We had plans that fire services were in | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
place and we wanted them to work. Our chief adviser looked at them and | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
help they were robust and they have held up and done very well today. | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
Robust for four hours, but what if this becomes prolonged action? The | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Fire Brigades Union have said this could go all the way through to the | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
general election. All of the individual fire authorities across | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
the country have a duty to have contingency plans in place to deal | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
with strike action. We do feel those plans are robust, but obviously | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
nobody wants to see strikes, certainly not prolonged strikes. We | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
hope the Fire Brigades Union will not go forward with anything | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
further. One of the points of the Fire Brigades Union is that they are | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
worried firefighters will have to be on active service until the age of | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
60. It is not like being a civil servant in an office, they may have | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
to carry people from burning buildings. | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
A couple of points on that — firstly the Fire Brigades Union have made it | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
clear to the government that the age of 60 is not what they are striking | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
about, that has been in place since 2006. In terms of fitness and | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
capability, we have hundreds of firefighters already over 55 doing a | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
fantastic job around the country for the communities, and that should be | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
recognised, not criticised. We also have a demographic in the fire | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
service that that will not can —— particularly change. So many | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
currently in the screen have —— in this scheme have full protection of | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
their put —— pensions anyway. It is likely disingenuous for the union to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
be making that argument, not least because they are not striking about | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
that. What is this situation when it comes | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
to making sure there is cover during strike action? | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
We have a large proportion of what is called retained firefighters come | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
on call firefighters. The retained firefighters union have not had | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
strike action and they have been against strike action. They have | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
been doing a lot of cover work out there, so those contingency plans | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
have worked. All of those firefighters at all | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
times have been on duty today through the strike, and the UI great | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
debt of thanks to them for the work they have done. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
The police in Essex have issued an urgent appeal after a man went | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
missing with his 12—week old son. Nathan Hamilton disappeared from a | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
house in Mistley this morning. Officers say they're very concerned | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
for his welfare. Gareth George is in Mistley now. | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
There is great concern here in the Mistley area for the safety of that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
12—week—old baby boy. He was taken by his father from his mother's | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
house in the Mistley area. His father is called Nathan Hamilton, 24 | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
years old. His nickname is Chase and police say there has been an issue | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
between Nathan Hamilton and the baby Buzz Michael mother, they cannot go | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
into details at this stage. —— the baby's mother. It is worrying | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
because the boy has been in the care of his mother since his birth, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Nathan Hamilton has had no access to the child. Inspector Christopher | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Willis spoke to my colleagues at BBC Essex after —— short time ago and | :07:08. | :07:21. | |
they said they are worried because Nathan Hamilton has no childcare | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
experience, and no clothes or food for the baby. There is a train | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
station you're in Mistley and it is thought Nathan Hamilton may have got | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
on to other Ipswich, Colchester or even London. Police want anyone who | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
may have seen a man carrying a baby to contact them. Nathan Hamilton is | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
described as black, 5'10" tall, of slim build. He has short Afro here | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
and sometimes wears glasses and was wearing a grey Converse tracksuit. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
The baby was in a blue T—shirt, a grey cardigan and had she known | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
style trousers and booties. If you think you have seen them both, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
please call Essex police on May nine 19 they have both been missing now | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
for several hours. With each passing hour concern deepens. —— call Essex | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
police on 999. More now on the hidden extent of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
domestic violence after an inquest into the death of a well—known | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
couple in Norfolk. Yesterday we reported how Keith Johnson killed | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
his wife Andrea and then turned the gun on himself. But it emerged that | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
he subjected her to years of physical abuse behind closed doors. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Tonight, a closer look at the recommendations of the review. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
How can professionals — how can lead people — spot the tell tale signs of | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
violence within the home? —— lay people. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Andrea Johnson chronicled her pain in a secret diary. Police find it | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
after her brutal husband, council leader Keith Johnson, shot her and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
turned the gun on his cell. He planned the execution and suicide. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Inside the bungalow he laid out the couple's wills. The homicidal review | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
of this case identified witnesses in systems. Andrea suffered from | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
depression, attempted suicide and had numerous contacts with her GP | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
practice. Her controlling husband was already —— always with her at | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
the Doctor. When she went to the GP, she was not seen on her own. That is | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
something for local practitioners to be in mind. There are issues around | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
cleaning and looking for the subtle signs of domestic abuse. The review | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
says GPs and health professionals should receive training to spot | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
domestic violence, improve information sharing and look at | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
links between medical conditions and abuse. Victims are prone to | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
depression and alcohol addiction. The report has already impact on | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
police. —— impacted. In Norfolk we have introduced a system where are | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
all domestic violence incidents, before officers are dispatched, | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
checked in the control room. In the future we want to automate that | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
across both Norfolk and Suffolk so the system is checked | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
automatically. The review says gun licence applicants should prove they | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
are fit and proper got —— fit and proper, pay for a medical and ensure | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
others and household are fit and proper got —— fit and proper, pay | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
for medical and ensure others and household checked out. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
It is actually quite difficult to admit it is happening to you. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
You are married to a guy because you loved them, you think you still love | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
them and these things keep still happening to you. They do not happen | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
all the time. Maybe once a week. In my case, it escalated until it was | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
everyday. She threw things at me, she hit me... And nobody... Nobody | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
wanted to listen to me. Nobody wanted to listen at all. The report | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
says it is not just public agencies that must act, it is everybody's | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
business. Friends and relatives should be alert to signs of domestic | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
abuse and be aware of the help out there. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
Two men were stabbed in the street in Braintree this afternoon. Police | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
were called to Fore Field just before 1pm. The two men's injuries | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
are described as serious. Six people have been arrested. Parts of the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
area have been cordoned off while forensic investigations take place. | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
Ipswich Hospital has admitted that its finances are much worse than | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
predicted. £4.6 million worth of debt has been accrued so far this | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
financial year. It could rise to £9 million by next April unless | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
spending is brought under control. The Hospital says measures are being | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
put in place including cutting the number of agency staff. | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
Still to come on the programme tonight... | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
A nail—biting day for Northants fans in the cricket. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
And the old—fashioned art of sign—writing — the writing's on the | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
wall. After months of turmoil, the East of | :11:48. | :11:59. | |
England Ambulance Service says its withdrawing its application to | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
become a Foundation Trust. Trust status would have allowed managers | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
more control over the way they run things. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
The decision comes almost a week after the directors failed to | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
appoint a new chief executive. The interim boss, Andrew Morgan, made | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
the short list, but didn't get the job. | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
So, where now? In a moment, one of the MPs who has criticised the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
service in the past. The kiss of life came too late for | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
most of the ambulance to trust's directors. By June, six board | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
members had left the top table as it attempted to regain the confidence | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
of the public and politicians. It follows a litany of poor ambulance | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
response times, poor morale among medics and an endless list of | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
complaints from patients. In June, a damning report by the head of the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
West Midlands and blood service accused the board of a sense of | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
helplessness and a lack of canned ability. We spoke to a front line | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
paramedic who voiced alike of confidence in the trust board. His | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
words are spoken by an actor. I do not know who they are, they have no | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
experience of front line work except one of them. They have continuous | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
meetings giving directors and are disconnected from the front line and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
how we should work. Mindful of the need to focus on | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
patients, today the service said it is withdrawing its current | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
foundation trust application and will not be reapplying until | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
sustainable improvements have been made to the service patients | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
receive. The advantages of becoming a foundation trust are that they | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
have freedom to implement good ideas quickly. They can invest surplus | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
finances to improving services and have good engagement with local | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
people. If they do not become foundation trusts they can do it in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
their own time and meet the standards they need to. They need to | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
assure themselves that is right. Almost a week since the trust failed | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
to appoint a permanent chief executive, Andrew Martin, himself a | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
candidate, remains the interim boss. —— Andrew Morgan. The board has just | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
one permanent director. The lack of permanence at the top of the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
region's beleaguered and Dillons service cranks on. | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
—— ambulance service. The South Norfolk MP, Richard Bacon, | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
has been hugely critical of the Trust, saying it was a case of lions | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
led by donkeys. Earlier he came into the studio, and I asked him how | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
worried he was that there was still no permanent chief executive | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
appointed. I am very concerned. This is a | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
serious and important job come a very serious and important | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
organisation. £230 million organisation across the East of | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
England and they have no permanent leader. It is a source of serious | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
concern and it needs fixing. You said memorably a couple of months | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
ago during the crisis in the trust that it was lions led by donkeys. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Are you now saying it is Lions led by interim donkeys? | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
I am concerned no appointment has been made. Everyone relies on this | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
service from the ambulance trust and it is important it is well led. We | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
have a team of terrific people working very hard who do not feel | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
valued, do not feel motivated and I am concerned that in trying to make | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the appointment they have not looked more broadly, because there are many | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
people, perhaps outside the health service, who may be able to do this | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
job very well. Senior army officers with decades of experience of | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
leading teams, motivating people, pointing them in the right | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
direction, making sure the achieve objectives and make the best use of | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
available resources, making sure they feel valued and thanked for | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
what they do, who could do this job. We heard the trust is suspending its | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
foundation trust status application, argue pleased two —— argue pleased? | :15:42. | :15:53. | |
I think it is the right thing to do, it is a distraction. This trust is | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
better funded than many other trusts of its kind across the country, so | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
it is not about funding or money particularly, it is about the way it | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
has led and managed. At a time like this, when you are trying to sort | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
that out, thin —— filling in huge, long documents to achieve foundation | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
did —— status is a distraction. Our local MPs have been the service —— | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
the syphilis and forward about their criticism lately, what will you do | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
to make things known? —— vociferous. I have not had a chance to talk to | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
my colleagues, but we have coming into our surgeries people, | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
paramedics working for the ambulance trust, who are very worried about | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
what is going on. I have no doubt we will keep the pressure up and make | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
sure an appointment is made quickly to give this organisation the top | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
quality leadership it deserves. Richard Bacon, thank you very much. | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
Cricket now, and Northants are celebrating winning promotion to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Division One of the county championship at the expense of | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Essex. There were two games going on at the same time today — Northants | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
away at Worcester, Essex away at Hampshire. All Northants had to do | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
to guarantee promotion was to score 250. But in cricket, it's never that | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
simple. James Burridge has just sent this report. | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
It was a simple plan — scored another 147 runs, secure promotion | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
and create a little bit of cricketing history. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Northamptonshire's best laid plans was quickly pulled apart against the | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
mist in Worcester. 103—4 overnight, they lost three wickets in the first | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
hour. Fans looking for divine intervention settled instead for Rob | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
Keogh foot took them past 200 and gained a bonus point. Then, cue the | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
calamitous run out. One batsmen ran the other didn't, and the run chase | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
was as good as over. If you are a fan or a court of | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Northamptonshire you are keeping across what is going on between | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Essex and Hampshire. Essex mathematically also have a chance of | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
that second promotion spot but they have been losing wickets at a rate | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
of knots this afternoon. If that continues, Northamptonshire's what | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
is done for them and they can celebrate that long—awaited | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
promotion. It didn't take long. By 4:45pm the | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
news had come through — were out, Northamptonshire were going up. —— | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
Essex were out. It feels good, I made get some sleep tonight. Just | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
great to get over the line. In my mind we have done under —— | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
undoubtedly been the second—best team in the division this year and | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
it would have been cruel not go up. Amazing, absolutely fantastic. Great | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
for the club and great for the supporters. How nerve racking has | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
this afternoon been? The last few weeks have been a bit tense. It has | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
been in our hands but we have been aware of Essex breathing down our | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
necks, we have not been quite able to shake them off. Credit to them | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
for fighting all the way. The 2013 cricket season will rank as | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Northamptonshire's best ever. A bus open top aide is planned for Friday | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
but the planned —— party here has already started. —— an open top bus | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
parade is planned. In golf, the former Solheim Cup | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
captain, Alison Nicholas, has been the star attraction at a new | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
tournament in Suffolk today. The competition at Stoke by Nayland | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
is aimed at aspiring young players. So we took the opportunity to team | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Alison up with 25—year—old Hannah Moul. | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
Nice. I am getting longer now. After 30 years on tour, Alison's game is | :19:45. | :19:59. | |
sharp as ever. For Hannah, the WG —— WPGA International challenge | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
represents the first taste of true life. I'm a little short. | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Enjoy that, yes, this is what it is all about. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
It is going to be a bit different for me. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
You will be all right, nerves are good, you will get nervous and that | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
is fine. You have to try and embrace that feeling... Hannah is one of 20 | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
amateurs in an international field, and in a series geared at improving | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
the links between elite amateur and professional golf. | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
Well done. A practice round with a seasoned professional — an | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
invaluable insight into what it might take if she turns pro. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Obviously there is water on the left so I need to go right. | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Yes, favour the right with it comes out, then it is a layup... | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
Perfect. Alison Nicholas, yet to win as a professional... Alison's | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
breakthrough came in 1987. What would you say was your career | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
highlight key matter what is the most memorable thing that has | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
happened? When I won the British Open in 1987. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
A long time ago now, but it was my first tournament win. Somebody said | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
enjoy the experience and embrace the pressure, like I said before. I | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
managed to do that and obviously crossed the line. That was very | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
memorable. What about you, in terms of your aspirations? | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
I have just come back this January, I had for years off, so I am sort of | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
looking at taking the good things from this tournament and seeing how | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
I get on then seeing where I go from there. With a purse totalling 25,000 | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
euros, the pressure is on. On this evidence, Alison is still the one to | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
beat. It is not compulsory that everyone | :22:00. | :22:19. | |
working at Look East has to be good at golf. | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
In the age of the computer you might think that traditional sign—writing | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
would be a dying art. After all, even your own laptop can | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
churn out hundreds of different fonts with just the click of a | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
mouse. But it turns out that people still like things done the | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
old—fashioned way. Richard Daniel has been speaking to Wayne Tanswell | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
from Sudbury. In an age of mass production, Wayne | :22:37. | :22:53. | |
Tanswell is a breath of fresh air. I could not wait to leave school. I | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
did not even want to wait for the bus. I scarpered through the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
alleyways down to Milford Road and I was hitchhiking a lift. This guy | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
came along and give me a lift and he said, what are you doing? I said I | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
had just left school. Have you got a job? I said, no. He said I am | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
looking for a lad to chain —— train as a sign writer, you better come | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
with me. He never looked back. Demand for his traditional | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
handwritten signs has never looked stronger. With a deft hand he makes | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
it look simple. These two strokes again but a shorter right—hand one. | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
We have got be, then we have a seat —— then we have a C... | :23:37. | :23:48. | |
No job is too big or too small. He now teaches sign writing and has | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
written three books. My father, who passed away in 2007, said to me the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
more technology moves on the more you will become a specialist. Stick | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
at it. He said, believe me, boy, it is not about the money all the time, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
it is about doing something that will keep you interested in life for | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
ever. And he was right. Next month, Wayne holds the first solo | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
exhibition of his work in Cambridge. Not bad for a boy who left school | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
with no qualifications. People talk about job satisfaction. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
It is everyday, every sign. I cannot do anything else, so it is just as | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
well I do love it! I do have banter with my customers with my spelling, | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
but I carry plenty of right and white spirit. Do I make a mistake? | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
Guess, of course I do, but I can get over it. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Now there is a talent. It has been beautiful today, nice warm weather. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
I went for a run this morning, got home a bit hot, so I took my top off | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
outside the house... No, no, nor! I put it on top of the beleaguered. I | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
went into the house and forgot today was collection day. —— I put it on | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
top of the bin. I went out and they took it, so there is a lesson. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Don't strip off in public! It was quite humid today, but we | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
have some changes on the way. We have a weak cold front on the way, | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
marking the boundary between the warm air below it and behind it some | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
much cooler but clear air. That is introducing more cloud already | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
across the region and will continue to increase through this evening. It | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
will be a night of two halves. We start with a lot of cloud around, | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
turning Misty in places, possibly some fog patches, but as the night | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
progresses the northern half of the region will start to see the clear | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
air. It is here that temperatures could get lower. These are the sort | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
of values expected in tandem cities, around 11 and 12 Celsius, some | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
places could get down to single figures and the winds will be a | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
light north or north—easterly. Tomorrow will start cloudy in places | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
but we should see Sunny spells developing. It will be noticeably | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
cooler and fresher, a little bit of a chill in the air, but the cloud | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
will continue south. Decent sunny spells are expected through the | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
day, but temperatures will be lower than today, so for many of us highs | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
of around 16 or 17 Celsius, perhaps getting up to 18 degrees in some | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
places. The winds are alike to moderate easterly. Tomorrow | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
afternoon and evening, increasing cloud on the southern half may | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
produce an isolated shower. On the next pressure track you can see | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
low—pressure moving up from the south—west. This will bring with it | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
an increasing risk of showers, but not for everyone. We should stay | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
largely dry into the weekend but the showers might start across southern | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
counties of the region. Friday May start a little misty and foggy in | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
places, but we should see some sunny spells, still on the cool side and a | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
variable amounts cloud. Saturday starts dry and a bright increasing | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
amount of cloud may produce showers across the southern half of the | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
region, but for most of us here we should stay dry. And Friday on | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Sunday, but certainly a freshening easterly wind. Temperatures | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
overnight staying in double figures, but it could get a little lower in | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
the countryside. Good running weather! Yes, don't go | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
out without your shirt on! That is all from us, goodbye. | :27:42. | :27:46. |