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Hello and welcome to Look East. In the programme tonight: Attacked with | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
a hammer in his own home: the 83`year`oldwho says the robbery | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
won't ruin his life. Is Stansted a free`for`all for | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
smugglers? A report highlights a lack of customs staff at the Essex | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Airport. And we'll be here later in the | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
programme, where the big talking point is water. This region is the | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
driest in the country ` but are farmers losing out when it comes to | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
extracting underground sources? And who lives in a house like this? | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The labour of love that's become a thriving business. | :00:35. | :00:49. | |
First tonight, he was tied to a chair and attacked with a hammer in | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
his own home. But tonight, this 83`year`old man says he won't let | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
the robber ruin his life. Ian McCann heard a noise at the back door of | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
his home in Northampton on Sunday morning. He was confronted by a | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
masked man who subjected him to a terrifying assault. The former | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
soldier was badly injured but survived. Just to warn you, you may | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
find this report by Ben Bland distressing. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
He hit me about the face and head with a large hammer. Around the eye | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
particularly, I had a very large lump there and what has happened | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
is, it has broken the capillaries in my face. And it is bleeding all the | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
way down my face, then mine `` down my neck and into my face. It let | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
this man with severe injuries. The man who broke in and attacked Ian | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
McCann and stole money and has still not been caught. He broke the | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
telephone cord off, tied me with my hands behind my back. And then he | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
demanded money. It was both violent, very violent indeed. He | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
threatened to kill my dog because the dog was barking. It is only a | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
little Chihuahua. It is not likely to cost him damage. He is a Nazi, | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
vicious dog that needs to be caught. About half past six, Mr | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
McCann heard a noise on Sunday. `` he is a naff day, vicious thug. `` | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
naff day. I heard a loud noise. I came out to find an assailant in my | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
kitchen and utility room. As you can see, he has used a crowbar to damage | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
the lot here in order to gain access police are appealing for anyone with | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
information to come forward. `` nasty, vicious thug. This is a very | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
dangerous person. He is attacking this person for financial gain. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Anyone with information, numb at how small, please contact us and | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
convince someone out there `` I am convinced someone out there will | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
know who the offender is. After the robbery, Ian McCann no longer feels | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
safe in his own home and he says he will not until his attacker is found | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
and brought to justice. A new report has criticised the | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
"almost total absence" of staff in the customs channels at Stansted | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Airport. The chief inspector of Borders and Immigration says | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
adequate staffing is an important visible deterrent. He's called on | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the Home Office to address the issue as a matter of urgency. | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
When Look East went behind the scenes at Stansted, we saw the | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
challenge faced every day by the staff of the UK Border Agency, now | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
the newly`constituted Border Force. Its staff have to be alert for | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
everything from rolled tobacco and cigarettes to fake travellers' | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
checks. The paperwork is completely naff, the colours are wrong. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
Significant quantities of class A drugs are seized. Smugglers often | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
swallowing drug pellets. Here we have some suspicious packages. | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
X`rays reveal the evidence. Today's report praises the professionalism | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
of staff in the face of fluctuating resources. But it says the need to | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
check all arriving passengers, and keep to queuing time standards, has | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
led to pressures elsewhere. It highlights an "almost total absence | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
of staff in customs channels, resulting in the removal of an | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
important visible deterrent to smugglers. It says checks on | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
high`risk parcels were often rushed, increasing the likelihood that | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
prohibited goods go undetected. And it says weak controls over passenger | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
movements allowed some to buy duty`free goods then leave without | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
travelling abroad. The Border Force answers to the Home Office. In a | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
statement, Immigration Minister Mark Harper says... | :04:47. | :05:04. | |
Tonight, in the light of the report findings, there are concerns that | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
the UK'sfourth busiest airport could get a reputation as a weak link in | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
our border security. Kim Riley, BBC Look East, Stansted Airport. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Our Chief Reporter Kim Riley is at Stansted now. Kim, what is the | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
airport saying about all this? I suppose the report begs the question | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
` just how much illegal material is not being seized at Stansted? That | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
is right. The Chief Inspector and his team came last August, they were | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
surprised by what they saw, surprised by what they did not see. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
They could not assess just what had not been seized but in that report | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
you saw that x`ray machine, that machine was used only once in the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
months of July and August last year and Stansted Airport missed its | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
annual targets for the seizure of Class A drugs. No heroin has been | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
seized here since July 2012. We know from recorded seizures that | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
packages, parcels are used for things like importing a firearm | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
drugs and indeed endangered species, and if these checks are simply not | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
up to scratch, you we can only speculate as to what might have got | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
through unchallenged. Its end worrying for the airport. What are | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
they saying about it tonight? `` it sounds worrying. They have | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
emphasised that as far as border concerns are concerned, this is a | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
border force matter although of course the airport works with border | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
force, it says maintaining a secure border is important and can be | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
achieved while also giving passengers a good experience. It | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
said the two are not mutually exclusive. It says most of the time | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
passengers have a good experience here but still believed, they still | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
believe there are too many who experienced delays. It is important | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
that we continue our work with the border force to find ways of | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
improving performance. The bottom line is that the message in the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
report to the Home Office is simple. You have got to put the resources in | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
to recruit more people, if necessary, to do this very important | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
job and do it well. Thank you very much. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
The jury in the trial of two men accused of helping Joanna Dennehy | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
cover her tracks during a killing spree has been shown new CCTV | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
footage filmed at a service station at the height of a national manhunt. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Dennehy has admitted the murders of three men, whose bodies were dumped | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
in ditches near Peterborough in March and April last year. Our Home | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
Affairs Correspondent, Sally Chidzoy, joins us now. They were | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
shown CCTV images of Joanna Dennehy and Gary Stretch, taken on April the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
2nd last year as they walked hand`in`hand into the service | :07:43. | :07:54. | |
station on the' `` on the M5. They left. Gary Stretch waste his arm | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
around her and they won't to the car. Later that day, she attempted, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the jurors were told, to murder two men who were randomly chosen in | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Hereford. Joanna Dennehy and Gary Stretch were on the run after she | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
killed men in Peterborough and dumped their bodies in ditches. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Earlier, the jurors were shown images of the pair taken from | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
service station Dan shops as they travelled across Suffolk, Norfolk | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
and Leicestershire. `` service station shops. At one garage, they | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
left without paying ?40 of petrol and the stalled dotted roles and | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
pasties. The number of shopkeepers noted her tattoos. During this trial | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
we have heard a lot about Joanna Dennehy's behaviour but we have | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
started to hear about her mental state. After she was arrested along | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
with her alleged accomplice Gary Stretch, after the stabbing, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
psychiatrists spoke to her at length. She told them she suffered | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
from depression and was on anti`psychotic medication and had a | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
history of cutting herself along her arms and her stomach. They concluded | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that she had three personality disorders, emotional, unstable | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
personality disorder, anti`social personality disorder and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
psychopathic disorder. The traits include anger outbursts, violence, a | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
lack of feelings for others, a lack of capacity to show any remorse On | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
trial, Gary Stretch, who deny to show any remorse. On trial, Gary | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Stretch, who denies two counts of attempted murder and three of | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
preventing the decent and lawful burial of men, Leslie Layton denies | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
perverting the course of justice and faces two counts of inventing the | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Lovell burial of the men. The trial continues. Thank you very much. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
The former leader and founder of the English Defence League, Stephen | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Lennon, has been jailed for 18 months for mortgage fraud offences. | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
The 31`year`old from Luton, who s also known as Tommy Robinson, | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiring with others to obtain a | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
mortgage by misrepresentation from the Abbey and Halifax banks. `` two | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
counts of inventing the lawful burial of the men. One of the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
properties involved was here at Shingle Close in Luton. `` two | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
counts of preventing. He committed the offences in 2009 and was | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
sentenced today at St Alban's Crown Court. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Specialist police officers and divers have begun searching the | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
river in the hunt for a missing man from Leighton Buzzard. Neil Devlin | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
was last seen on New Year's Day He was reported missing after failing | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
to turn up for his job at Morrisons. The 36`year`old has mild learning | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
difficulties. Police have also been out in Leighton Buzzard, asking the | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
public for help in the search. We have got some specialist police | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
search officers from the water search team. We have got the Norfolk | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Fire and rescue dive team, Bedfordshire Fire and rescue and | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
another search and rescue supporting us today. We searched the length of | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
the live rough time, to the best of our abilities, but because of the | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
flooded was too dangerous and too deep in places. `` the length of the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
river last time. Bedford Hospital is continuing the | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
reinstatement of paediatric services with the news that children can now | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
be treated at its A E department. For the past few months, children | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
have been taken to nearby hospitals at Luton and Milton Keynes after the | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
paediatric unit was closed over concerns. All children's services | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
have now returned to Bedford Hospital, apart from long inpatient | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
stays. Children arriving at the hospital by ambulance or by walking | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
in will be assessed in the A E department. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
The company hoping to build four wind turbines close to a National | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Trust property in Northamptonshire took their case to the Court of | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Appeal in London today. West Coast Energy is appealing a landmark | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
decision by the High Courts last year to reject their plans for the | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
415`feet turbines near the historic Lyveden New Bield. The land is owned | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
by the Duke of Gloucester ` and the plans are heavily opposed by | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
heritage groups and local campaigners. Lyveden New Bield, a | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
unique landmark, said to be the finest example of an Elizabethan | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
lodge in the country. The question today, will the building of four | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
turbines nearby have a negative effect on this historic site? There | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
are many anti`wind farm campaigners who think it will. We had a lot of | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
support, not only from the local area, Rommel over the country. And | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
we have a lot of interest from a number of European countries. `` | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
from all over the country. Even America. People are concerned about | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
keeping the site as it is. 415 feet on open countryside are still going | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
to be very interested. An application was admitted four years | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
ago but that was reviewed by the local council. West Coast energy | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
appealed that decision, leading to a public inquiry which upheld that | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
appeal. One year later, East Northamptonshire District Council, | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
English Heritage and The National Trust then took their case to the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
High Court. Which overturned the inspectors' approval and today, this | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
long`running saga has made it to the Court of Appeal. West Coast Energy | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
today outlined their case that they believe that the High Court was | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
wrong to overturn the planning inspectors' decision. They believe | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
the High Court did not properly assess the balance between the | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
potential benefits of the wind farm proposal and the potential impact on | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Lyveden New Bield. The outcome of this case is not just significant to | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Northamptonshire but to the rest of the country. And this appeal is seen | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
by both sides as a landmark case, which could determine the outcome of | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
future wind farm decisions. The evidence heard today is now | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
being considered and Lord Justice Kay is expecting to deliver his | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
ruling in the next few weeks. The Education Secretary, Michael | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
Gove, has announced a new Free School for Corby. The 420`place | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
school will be called Lodge Park Primary and will share the site of | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
the existing secondary school, Lodge Park Academy. It's expected to open | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
for the new school term in 2015 It's one of ten new free schools | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
announced by Mr Gove today, who also earmarked a new University Technical | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
College for Peterborough. The college will have 500 places and | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
will specialise in sustainable engineering. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
The Queen has been on her annual visit to the Women's Institute in | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Norfolk. Her Majesty is President of Sandringham Women's Institute and | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
likes to attend their January meeting while on her Christmas break | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
in the county. This year's guest speaker was BBC Breakfast presenter | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Bill Turnbull. He brought the Queen some of his homemade honey. It looks | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
lovely. Those are the top stories. That goes without saying. If I did | :14:35. | :14:50. | |
not Still to come, the schoolgirl from Suffolk who has become the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
youngest woman ever to win the world Bowls Championships. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
And the amazing bird boxes selling for thousands. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
I know it doesn't feel like it but this region is the driest in the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
whole country. Which is why farmers have been meeting today to talk | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
about water. Here's the problem. They get their water from rivers and | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
from underground but to do that they need a licence and with all the red | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
tape they are worried they could get squeezed out. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
More than a third of the country's vegetables are grown in the Fens. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
30% of the potatoes and 25% of the fruit and vegetables supplied to the | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
supermarkets are grown here. And water is critical to the whole | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
industry. Farmers have plenty of water, the fields are sodden and | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
right now it is not a problem. But in a hot, dry summer, many of our | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
most important crops would feel if they were not indicated. At this far | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
they have just built a reservoir to store 45 million gallons of water | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
but even this will not be enough to whatever crop. We need five inches | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
per water for every acre of potatoes we go, whether it is raining or not. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
That is why we need to build this reservoir to guarantee that supply. | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Farmers are concerned because the government is changing the system | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
for extracting water. They want to make sure they are not left high and | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
dry. Farmers only use 1% of all water taken out of the ground and | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
from rivers, but the environment agency says this has a | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
disproportionate effect. It is taken at the driest time of year and is to | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
the system. Here in the East, what is it most precious commodity, we | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
are one of the fastest`growing areas of the country and one of the driest | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
is with this means more competition here in many parts of the UK. The | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
farmers have historic rates on the water at the have used in the past, | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
and so the whole process for us is to make sure that farmers get enough | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
water to grow the food that we all need. These potatoes were grown in | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the heatwave last summer. Here, they may have 30 educators working at one | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
time. It costs 30 or ?40 to put an inch of water on an acre of ground. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
The other like we have had 22 days of recorded brain in the last 25. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
There is a huge volume of water going pastors no, it goes 800 metres | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
down the field and into the salt water. We all must be given the | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
opportunity to save this during the winter with period and save it for a | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
dry periods. Overall, it is unlikely farmers will be allowed to take more | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
water than we do now, the only option now would be more storage. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
And more reservoirs. Now we have a new world champion | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
from this region. Katherine Rednall, who's just 18, has become the | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Women's World Matchplay champion in bowls. Today's final at Potters in | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
Norfolk was billed as an East Anglian derby with Rednall from | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Ipswich, up against last year's defending champion Rebecca Field | :18:02. | :18:13. | |
from Norwich. For a sport often battling its own | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
image, a welcome sight. The youngest ever ladies final. 24`year`old | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Rebecca Seal up against the teenager Gavin the week off school. The | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
defending champion eager to teach the young pretender a lesson. It was | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
clear 18`year`old Katherine Rednall would not be overwrought. It come | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
confident approach that belied her tender years, despite the experience | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
of her opponent and the magnitude of the occasion. Classmates were given | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the afternoon off to watch it on TV and she sure put on a show. At | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
times, Rebecca rendered helpless. You can just sit back and admire it. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
She is having an absolutely blistering match. And after pleasing | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
a fair set, Kathleen had this ball for the title. That looks very close | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
for number two. `` Katherine Rednall had this all for the title. A | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
remarkable achievement on Katherine Rednall's first appearance at | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Potters, her family beaming with pride. The 2014 ladies matchplay | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
champion! Give it up for Katherine Rednall! Quickly study, it youngest | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
ever winner with a new prize possession. `` quite a story. | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
There's a gala dinner at Potters tonight. Both finalists are there | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
and both are with us now. Katherine Rednall, just show is that trophy. | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Do you have it? Hold it up. Where's you nervous? Not really, I just sort | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
of went into it as I would any other game, I knew that if I played well I | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
would have a chance. Rebecca, was it something you did wrong or was it | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
just that Katherine Rednall did everything right? I think it was | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
certainly Kathleen's day`to`day, we all have days like that and she | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
played exceptionally well. Catiline, when did you take up balls | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
and who taught you? I started playing at around the age of five, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
the whole family have played as well, both grandparents on both | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
sides. My mum saved in Yorkshire played so it was really dad who | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
first got me started at the Ipswich district Bowls club and the junior | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
section he ran. We saw some shots of your family watching, what were the | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
first things we said? They all just congratulated me massively, I have | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
had so many XM calls and everything from people who have been | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
supporting, it has been brilliant. Rebecca, we are so often told that | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
this is an old people 's game, there you are at 24 and you are the old | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
person leaving your title to someone younger! | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
I no, it is brilliant. It is fabulous to see so many young | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
people. When I play in national competitions I am the eldest. This | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
is a very good competition. Katherine you are studying A`levels, | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
so it is back`to`school for you? Hello Mac definitely, I am back for | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
double history. `` definitely, I am back for double history so it will | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
be back`to`school. We are seeing some pictures of you heading in with | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
your trophy, that must have been nerve wracking. I was more nervous | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
about that than I was about going on the green this afternoon. Can I ask, | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
firstly, Rebecca, what's next for you? It is crazy, busy, mad at the | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
minute. I have a national club editions coming up. No rest, that is | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
for sure. Both of you presumably this will be a challenge between the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
two of you, it will go on for years and years? I would imagine so. We | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
have had a few good tussles already. Congratulations to both of you. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Argue so much for bringing the trophy on to talk to us. Rebecca, | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
thank you for coming. Consolation prize not what you hope for but | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
there is a long way to go. Enjoy the evening. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
This weekend it's the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. Nearly 68,000 | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
people here in the East took part last year and I'm sure most of them | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
had a bird box in their garden. But how about this? 'Den' and 'Simmo' | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
who live in Suffolk are making bespoke bird boxes.This report from | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Mike Liggins. If you have a bird box or bird table | :22:51. | :23:03. | |
in the garden then the chances are it is cheap and cheerful. It make | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
even have seen better days. But for Simmo and his friend Den, bird boxes | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
and bird tables are something more. Much more. We made a few bits for | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
friends and family and then they told us really to show it to the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
wider world and since we have done that it has gone a bit crazy. A | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
builder from Essex, Den started by making this packing crate. Simmo | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
from Suffolk works in security, he thought he would then have a go and | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
created this wheel. It kind of appeals to wives and mums because it | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
is wildlife, birds, garden, that kind of thing. A lot of it appeals | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
to dads because it is interest related, sport. Motor vehicles. And | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
various other interests. Since they started three years ago things have | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
really taken off. A spark plug bird box, a giant bolt for sparrows. And | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
this bird table where everything is handmade. Hand cut real slate, every | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
slate is individually cleaved from a big lump of slate and every mortise | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
and tenon is a true mortise and tenon with a true peg through to | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
make the joint. They work apart but share ideas help each other all the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
time. For now it is a hobby but they would like it to be a business one | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
day. Generally you come in here armed with a list of things the wife | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
would particularly like you to make, occasionally you manage to get that | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
and get it installed in the house but more often than not you will | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
make something and someone says, "That's nice," and you end up | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
selling it. It is a crazy world we live in. You name it, Simmo and Den | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
will make it. How much? Well, hundreds and even thousands. So, not | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
for everyone. But how bonkers, how British, how brilliant the bird | :24:58. | :24:58. | |
boxes and bird tables are. Very clever. | :24:59. | :25:18. | |
I wonder what the Brits then. Not very much, I should think. Time | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
for the weather. It is already very cold and if we | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
look at the Eliot rainfall we will have problems with A/C patches. It | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
banned of rain coming through but it will brighten up and we had some | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
showers. For most of us it does look dry. Under those clearing skies a | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
widespread sharp frost with the risk of icy patches, also turning misty | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
in places. Quite widely, temperatures down to the teasing and | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
certainly below in the countryside. These are the values for towns and | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
cities, certainly getting down to `2 and `3. It will be a bright start | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
tomorrow if you take away some of the mist patches that will be | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
around, they should lift away but there will be patchy rain later. It | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
will come along this weather front and be quite slow moving. As the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
rain crosses the country he weather front will weaken so far as it looks | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
like it will be mainly light and patchy drizzle. Some early mist to | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
lift with a lot of bright weather in the morning. Increasing amount of | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
cloud in the West so it will turn cloudy cracker across the western | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
half and it will be chilly in the West. Five degrees or six hour top | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
temperatures. Here is the weather front for the afternoon, making its | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
way eastwards. Eventually getting into Norfolk and Suffolk and Essex | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
by nightfall. Certainly wet weather too, by tomorrow. It should be out | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
of the way by Saturday, and head of the two days Saturday looks like the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
better of the weekend. An area of low pressure will bring in some rain | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
and some of that will be on the heavy saves to the afternoon and | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
evening for Sunday. For Saturday, temperature of the cover and it | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
looks largely dry and break through the morning, certainly, there will | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
be some showers that move through the Northwest for the afternoon in | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
the cold evening follows once more, frost expected. It is Sunday when we | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
make will start strike across the East, increasing amount of cloud | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
bringing rain and some of that turning heavy but at the moment it | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
looks dry. That's it for now. Back tomorrow. | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
Goodbye. A star will be born | :27:36. | :27:53. | |
on The Voice 2014! | :27:54. | :28:16. |