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Watchdog 's Hospital's result of the river settlements. We should be able | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
to trust hospitals. Phone—mac the need to know the truth. It is their | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
right to know what is going on. The A11is about to close for the | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
weekend. Get ready for divergence and delays. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
We discuss Conservative plans to scrap in efforts for the under 25. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
This is not about punishing people, it is about saying that you will see | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
the whole world open up to you, that is the whole point. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
The bomb disposal expert awarded a medal for bravery in Afghanistan. | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
First tonight: Another development in the row over | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
high death rates at Basildon Hospital. Now it seems the health | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
watchdog had concerns much earlier than we thought but the news was | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
kept secret for at least six months. The revelations come in documents | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
uncovered by the Conservative MP Stephen Barclay. They show the Care | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Quality Commission knew death rates were high by the Spring of 2009. But | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
the full picture did not become public knowledge until the beginning | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
of this year. Now the question of who knew what and when has become | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
very political. The details from our political correspondent Andrew | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Sinclair. An inquest this week says a catalogue of errors at Basildon | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Hospital contributed to his death. When you lose someone in tragic | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
circumstances, it can be hard to remember the good times. What do you | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
say to those complaints about the lack of leadership at both ward and | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
board level? Back in 2009, Look East was often reporting concerns about | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Basildon Hospital. At the time, the Care Quality Commission, which | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
monitors standards in hospitals, gave Basildon a good rating. Last | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
week, two regulatory bodies took action in respect of two NHS | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Foundation Trusts, Basildon and Thurrock, and Colchester. It was | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
only in November that the Health Secretary sent in staff to help turn | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
things around. This was the first admission that there was a problem. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
But e—mails unearthed by another MP suggest the CQC had evidence of | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
problems much earlier. An e—mail from its director of engagements, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
sent to a colleague in 2010, talked about having anxieties. | :02:42. | :03:03. | |
She left the CQC after it was criticised over Mid Staffordshire | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Hospital. Today, the organisation said it could not comment on e—mails | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
written by people who no longer work there. But in Basildon today, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
concern from local people. They shouldn't try cover anything up | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
because, obviously, this is people's health we're talking about. They | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
need to know the truth. They have a right to know what is going on. They | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
should do it and not hide it. There is a big political dimension to all | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
this. The Conservatives have long believed that with an election | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
approaching, Labour lent on officials to hide the full truth | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
about Basildon. Today, Stephen Barclay released this minute of a | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
meeting in which a Labour health minister said in early 2010... | :03:45. | :03:57. | |
The Care Quality Commission were being told to either tone down their | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
coverage or withhold information that patients have a right to know | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
and the patients that went into hospitals should have known the full | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
picture, not a glossed over, spun version. The Labour Party declined | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
to be interviewed today, saying this was all a Tory smear and insisted it | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
acted on Basildon as soon as it knew of the problems. | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
Andrew is here now. Was there a cover—up? If so, who was | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
responsible? It seems very clear that CQC knew about Basildon early | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
in 2009 and for some reason did not make it public. That is what we have | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
learnt today. Why did that happen? Because none of those involved will | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
talk to us, we do not know if it was incompetence or whether they were | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
lent on. The Conservatives say that this shows the CQC was lent on by | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Labour. You could see it like that but could also argue that Mike | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
O'Brien was just being a responsible minister by reminding his officials | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
to think very carefully about anything that goes out close to an | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
election. I don't think it's clear—cut. The parties will argue | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
about it. The MP for Basildon has called for a Cabinet Office inquiry | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
into all this. Labour are saying that the Tories are kicking up a | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
fuss about this to cover—up the fact that they are making to the NHS. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Remember, we are in election mode. The parties will keep on going on | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
this because it means so much to them. Thank you. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
The first in a series of weekend road closures on the A11 in Suffolk | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
begins later this evening. It's all part of the project to dual the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
remaining single carriageway section of the road between Barton Mills and | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Thetford. Our chief reporter Kim Riley is at the Fiveways roundabout. | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
Tim. This is the start of the missing | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
link of the A11in that direction and Norwich. Work is well underway of | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
upgrading a five mile section of existing road and building a new | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
bypass for the village nearby. Now the whole purpose is that that is to | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
be prepared for here because this is a massive intersection. This has all | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
got to be dug up and rebuilt. This roundabout is one of the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
busiest junctions in the region and for the next three weekends, it is | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
being closed in stages to allow a major reconstruction. From late | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
tonight, one section will be out of bounds to traffic as the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
construction team moves on. It is this section coloured red, blocking | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
access from the Ato the south and the A1101. It means that traffic | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
will be diverted along other roads. They will rejoin the road later. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Northbound local traffic will be diverted from red Lodge, eventually | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
rejoining the roundabout through another road. The historic pool in | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
from the round but has always been dependent on passing traffic. The | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
owners bought the hotel six years ago and have turned it into a | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
flourishing business. They said that the Highways Agency first told them | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
that they could be compensated for lack of trade but have now been told | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
it will not happen. Even a promise of road signs, will not be | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
happening. We have not had any contact and my partner got in | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
contact with them. He then said that they would not be putting any signs | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
up so we have been completely misled. Absolutely no sympathy for | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
the fact that this is an old country and that has traded for 500 years. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
They say they care but their actions have demonstrated that they do not. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
We have tried hard to work closely with the business in danger we | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
minimise impact. Some businesses where we are compulsory purchasing | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
land will be eligible for compensation. The businesses where | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
we do not take land are eligible for a clean but I cannot guarantee that | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
any compensation would be played. Businesses close by fear the next | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
few weekends will cost them thousands of pounds in lost trade. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
A cyclist who nearly died after she tried to dodge a closed level | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
crossing barrier has come forward. The incident at Waterbeach in | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Cambridgeshire was caught on CCTV. British Transport Police say they'll | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
speak to her next week. A former BBC local radio presenter | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
accused of child sex offences has been forced to apologise to the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
judge and prosecutor at Norwich Crown Court. Michael Souter accused | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
them of being part of a conspiracy to smear him. He denies 19 offences | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
against seven boys and nine counts of possessing indecent images of | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
children. The Prime Minister floated a radical | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
idea this week — scrapping benefits for young people under the age of | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
25. He believes young people should either earn or learn. It's not | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
policy yet but today, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Secretary, has been defending the idea at a jobs fair in Essex. | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
It is the second year they have held a job sphere here and today, they | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
were queuing out of the door. Christian has been on job—seeker 's | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
allowance since January. He has had numerous jobs in shops and | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
warehouses but wants to work in construction. I have been offered | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
jobs in shops and it has only been a four—month contract. The minute I | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
come of that, I have to go back on job—seekers and will have learnt | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
anything. I can pay for rent and bits of food but that is. Under an | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
idea of actively being considered, in future, he and other job—seekers | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
may have to take whatever job is offered. At a two—day's there, the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Work and Pensions Secretary argued that is what taxpayers expect. He | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
insisted that benefits might only be cut if young people rejected | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
opportunities to work, retrain or take up apprenticeships. The key | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
point is that you stay focused on obtaining work because honestly, the | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
taxpayer, who is also in this debate, has a question which is, if | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
I am paying money to support people, quite right. We also have to | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
expect that when a job becomes available that they take it and try | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
to become free of the benefits system. Youth unemployment is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
falling but has been stubbornly high for years. An estimated 40% of women | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
under 25 are young mothers. Getting them off benefits and into work is | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the real challenge. I am a single parent. I can't leave them at home | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
by themselves. I have got nobody to look after them. The unions accused | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the Conservatives of wanting to force young people into low paid | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
jobs with the prospect of little training. Nobody is forced. To use a | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
term such as people being forced into low paid jobs is a distortion. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
If that is the only opportunity they have got, surely it is. I think that | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
is the case. Certainly not in a place like this. All of the parties | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
now they ignore the cost of use and implement to their people. This will | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
be a key issue in the next election. —— of youth unemployment to their | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
peril. The MP for Chelmsford has stood down | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
in order to run for possession of Deputy Speaker in the house of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
commons. He has been a real minister and previously worked for the | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Department of health. He says it is now time to move on. —— two runs for | :11:33. | :11:44. | |
Deputy Speaker. Growers in the East say they will | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
struggle to find enough reliable workers when the Government | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
abolishes a special scheme at the end of the year. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
It's called the seasonal agricultural workers scheme. And | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
it's mostly used by overseas students. The Government says it's | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
keen to get UK citizens to fill the gaps. | :11:58. | :12:09. | |
A group of Bulgarian and Romanian fruit pickers on this farm at | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Tiptree. This is where they make the world—famous jam. This girl is | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
Bulgarian. A 24—year—old student, she has been coming for six years | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
under the seasonal agricultural workers scheme. She is up at first | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
light, hours a day and can earn around £320 per week before tax. We | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
are living in the camp so I've made a lot of friendships there. Not only | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
Bulgarian 's. So I have made different people here. This company | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
have implied foreign workers since 1953. They have come from all over | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
the world to work in Essex and the scheme has always worked well. Fruit | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
yields have been exceptionally good. Flavour has been good. The | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
farm's director is worried that when the scheme comes to an end, he will | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
struggle to get enough reliable workers to pick the fruit. We are | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
licensed by the Home Office. We are monitored by the Home Office. They | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
come and see us several times a year. So a great disappointment and | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
great frustration because it is a scheme that has worked well. | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Everybody has acknowledged that it has worked well. I think it is a | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
shame to see the whole thing and so easily. The company has invested | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
heavily in the long term future and are very disappointed at what they | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
see as the Government's short—term decision described the scheme. They | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
would never take production abroad to somewhere like Spain but other | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
growers say that is now a real possibility. | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
It's been a week when the use of migrant labour has been making the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
headlines on this programme. On Monday, our special investigation | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
highlighted the plight of many migrant workers employed through | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
illegal gang masters to harvest leeks in the Fens. Now, the problem | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
with SAWS. The Government wants the soft fruit and vegetable industry to | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
use British and EU workers. But according to James Hallett from the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
British Growers Association, that's not always possible. What we have | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
found across a number of years, we have recruited from the UK Liverpool | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
and to be perfectly honest, we do find that there is a degree of | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
unreliability for those people who come and take this job. —— the UK | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
labour market. When a product is ready to be harvested and planted, | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
it has to be done at the right time. What will happen when this is | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
abolished? We will end up in a situation where we have a much | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
greater churn of labour coming into the industry. At the moment, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
typically, one of these workers will remain in post for 24 weeks before | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
heading back to their home country. What we have experienced with other | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
sources of Labour coming in under labour providers and the licensed | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
schemes is that typically able worker will stay in our industry for | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
something like 12 weeks and then will go off and find a role in | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
another industry, such as building and hospitality. We saw earlier this | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
week that many employers are treating these people very badly. | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
They are economically abused, even. Is it not better that we stop it | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
altogether and start from scratch? What I can be very clear about is | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
that employers in this industry are not in the slightest bit interested | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
in exploiting workers. What we are interested in is having a happy | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
workforce that is well paid, well housed and able to work efficiently. | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Those are fine words but actually if the people who are the growers did | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
not employ people through gang masters, illegal gang masters would | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
not exist. We would love to give 70,000 people in this country a role | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
to come and work in our industry. Quite fangled, we have tried to stop | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
we have tried recruiting. This year, in fact, there was a pilot scheme. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
We only managed to get 50 people successfully into roles because | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
people did not appear interested. Where are you shocked by what you | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
saw this week? The four I was. It is that people that are working in this | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
industry, in this country, in this day and age should be treated this | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
way. It is wrong and we will be working incredibly hard with the | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
Labour providers involved, the organisations representing them and | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
the GLA to ensure that we find instances of this and get rid of it | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
because we do not want workers being treated that way when they are doing | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
a hard days work. It seems to me that both you and the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Government want the same thing. So why is it that you disagree with | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
what they are doing? You're absolutely right. We and the | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
Government to want the same thing. The Government want more jobs and | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
growth in the economy. Yet in the next breath, another government | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
department, the Home Office, are taking away a bedrock of our labour | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
pool by taking away this scheme. We are as frustrated as many others | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
with apparently a government who are acting and not understanding what | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
the left and right hand or about. Would you say the Government is | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
grandstanding? They are absolutely reacting to some of the comedy Rice, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Daily Mail politics that goes around immigration. —— some of the, dear I | :17:23. | :17:34. | |
see it, Daily Mail politics. Workers come into this country for less than | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
six months and go back home where is all this concern is about | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
immigration. This scheme is nothing to do with that. It is about migrant | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
workers coming for a short period of time. I am afraid to say, this has | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
probably been a political decision, not necessarily based on sound | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
economic sense and evidence. Thank you very much. Thank you. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
An army bomb disposal expert has received one of the highest awards | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
for bravery after saving the lives of several soldiers in Afghanistan. | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Andy Peat, based at Wimbish in Essex, was with a Danish patrol when | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
one of them was fatally injured by an IED. In a moment, I'll be | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
speaking to him. First, this from our Defence reporter Alex Dunlop. | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
This medal is given to very few. Andy Pete is one of the few. Last | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
winter, TV news in Denmark reported how and Danish special forces were | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
caught in an explosion. One man died but his actions saved the lives of | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
many others. He disarmed a second bomb and then braced himself across | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
another saw the patrol could be extracted. Andreas Oliver Peat is | :18:41. | :18:53. | |
awarded the George medal. Idioms are already shown their | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
gratitude. Crown Prince Philippe personally handed the soldier the | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
prized Danish award, for the first time to a non—Danish. As soon as you | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
are rewarded this honour, you will be known in Denmark. He will be on a | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
very significant list of names. Honoured also, Rachel Hughes, the | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
Army medical officer saved lives on three separate occasions, including | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Afghan children. She was mentioned in Dispatches. As we withdraw from | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Afghanistan, so to the number of honours. These recognised part of | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
next increasingly select few. —— part of an increasingly select. | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
As we heard in that report, Warrant officer Andy Peat not only disarmed | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
a bomb which was underneath one of his colleagues he also physically | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
covered the device himself so that his team could get the injured | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
soldier out. I spoke to him earlier and asked him what was going through | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
his mind at the time. My concern at that stage was is in the dark we | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
concentrate on the covering the casualty, which was a major priority | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
at that stage, the guys would inadvertently kicked the unstable | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
device that high had just taken some action against. —— the unstable | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
device that I had. The mindset was that if I was too braced myself | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
against the wall, and let the guys shimmied past me, they would | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
physically have to push me onto the device for it to initiate. So they | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
could then set their minds on recovering the casualty from the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
roof. They did not really have to worry about the device because I had | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
that one covered. What does it mean to you to get this medal? I am not | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
entirely sure it has sunk in. It has been a bit of a roller—coaster this | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
week. I am immensely proud. I would definitely, you know, add that if I | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
had a different sort of calibre of individuals on that roof, I think | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
the outcome would have been very different. You have been recognised | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
also in Denmark by being given an important Danish award. What was it | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
like being given that one? I mean, it is fantastic privilege to be | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
recognised by your own country but to be recognised by somebody else's | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
and the community that I was working with, yes, I am speechless. Yes. You | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
also got awarded some money was of the Danish award which I know that | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
you donated to the Danish soldier's family. Yes. The MoD have a policy | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
that British soldiers don't take financial incentives from foreign | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
governments. But, you know, primarily, even before being | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
informed of the policy, my wife and I had had a discussion and we felt | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
that the casualty's widow and family, with three children, would | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
clearly benefit a lot more than we would. It is great to talk to. Thank | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
you very much for being on the programme. Thank you. I am always | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
staggered when people describe an act of bravery, they do it in such | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
ordinary conversational language. And always very keen to see as part | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
of a team. Part of a team, absolutely. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Rugby now and the last time Northampton Saints played Leicester | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
it ended in heartbreak at the Premiership final. But over the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
summer, they've brought in some big names — among them George North. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
But they also signed one of the best prop forwards in the game — the | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
England international Alex Corbisiero. James Burridge has been | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
to meet him at his new home in Northamptonshire | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
—— Northamptonshire. This started in Argentina with England, ending in | :22:44. | :22:59. | |
Australia. He pulverised two packs of forwards, helped when two test | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
series and scored that unforgettable try. Touching down after 77 seconds, | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
you must have been euphoric. I was just trying to not get too excited | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
and lose my head and start running around like a madman. Just staying | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
focused on the task at hand. But now, it was awesome. It wasn't till | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
after the game that you get to enjoy it and sit back and reflect on it. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
Alex grew up watching and wrestling. He has since grappled with some of | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
the ugliest packs in rugby. Did you think about being a wrestler? It is | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
always something that I said to myself, if I did not play rugby I | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
would have tried it. I am sure I would have tried it. No, it is | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
always something, you know, if I had not play rugby or had not had this | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
passion, I probably have tried it. Tomorrow, his task is to be placed | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
into submission. Their archrivals, who they lost to in the Premiership | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
in May and have not beaten in eight games. Playing Leicester is never | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
easy. It is never an easy win, never an easy time at the office. It is | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
going to be tough but we are going to go out there and try and | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
implement our game plan and see what happens. He understands the game. He | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
lost the game. He lost the scrum. He is a good chatter. He is ably | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
likeable person around the field and I think he has just added to the | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
mix. He is just one of the prized signings at the team. The wrestle at | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
the stadium will be worth, well watching —— well worth watching. | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
If you're one of the forwards who had played against them, James did | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
not mean to say that you were ugly! Adjusting to mention Max Whitlock. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Last night, he produced an excellent display to finish fourth in the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
all—round competition at the World Championships. —— just time to | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
mention. Tomorrow, he will be in the final of the Pommel Horse. He was | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
very good in that yesterday. Let's have a look at the weather. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
It has not been a bad day. Yes, we have had some showers but they have | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
rattled through very quickly, an very blustery winds. These are the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
maximum cost at our official recording station. All of our | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
counties the end of at 30 mph. Those winds are starting to ease down. We | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
have got a few showers out there but a lot of dry weather. Some clear | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
skies also. I think those showers will fade away fairly quickly as | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
they push away to the east. Then, we're left with a largely dry May. A | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
fair amount of cloud at times but some clear spells also. —— a fairly | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
dry night. Some mist and fog also. It will be cooler than recent nights | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
but still above average for a time of year. Some rural spots are likely | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
to drop into single figures. As I said, those winds are already | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
starting to ease so we are looking at a very light breeze by the end of | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the night. Tomorrow, we have high pressure building from the | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
south—west. Actually, this stays with us for a couple of days. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Difficulty will be judging the amounts of clothes from day—to—day. | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
More about that in a moment. Tomorrow, some mist and fog. —— | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
amount of clouds. For most others, a dry day. Yes, there will be a fair | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
amount of cloud but should see some brightness. Temperatures, at best, | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
even with the clouds, it will be around 18 Celsius which is 64 | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Fahrenheit. The best of any sunshine will bring it a degree higher. The | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
difference tomorrow is that we are going to have much lighter winds. As | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
we head into the later part of the afternoon and evening, one or two | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
showers but a largely dry end to the day. So Sunday and Monday, two very | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
similar days as it stands. The high pressure Steve Douglas. We will have | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
some mist and fog first thing but then it will be fine and dry. —— the | :27:03. | :27:10. | |
high pressure stays with us. On Tuesday, a lot of uncertainty. It | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
all depends on the movements of a weather front. At the moment, it | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
looks like it will be pretty weak and fragmented so introducing more | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
in the way of cloud and perhaps a little bit of light and patchy rain. | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
Even on Tuesday, at the moment, it looks like it will be a lot of fine | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
and dry weather. We have above average temperatures and light | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
winds. Julie, thank you very much. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
That's it for this week. We will see you on Monday. Have a great weekend. | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:44. |