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Hello and welcome to the programme. Tonight, millions more for schools | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
in Cambridgeshire, but is the money enough and is it fair? | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Do you regret underpaying your workers, a quick word? The Fenland | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
gang master sentenced after destroying the wage slips of eastern | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
European workers so he could underpay them. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
It is more money on its way for the arts? The theatre is hoping the good | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
news in the budget. And, Louis Smith faces his first | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
competition since London 2002. Good evening. | :00:41. | :00:52. | |
First tonight, concerns that more cash for schools in Cambridgeshire | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
will not be enough to plug the gaps. Yesterday's announcement looked | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
generous. Funding per pupil up by 7%, that's an extra ?20 million in | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
total. But, tonight, campaigners say the deal still leaves school | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
children here short`changed. And a Liberal Democrat spokesman on | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
education admitted to Look Dast that funding needs to be fairer. We have | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
a full interview with the MP Simon Wright in just a moment. First, this | :01:19. | :01:31. | |
report from Louise Hubball. When it comes to school funding the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
numbers allocated to each county are always different. That's because | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
calculations are complicated, including levels of deprivation and | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
how many students speak English as a first language. | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Critics have always said thd system was unfair to students in rtral | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
areas. Now, that formula will change. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Yesterday, the government s`id Cambridgeshire had been unddrfunded | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
for too long. And the money for each pupil per year here will rise from | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
just under ?4,000, to this luch But that won't happen until next April. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
The principal of this school, himself originally a maths teacher, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
says the government's sums don't add up. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
They have accepted it is not fare so why delay this extra funding for a | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
year? We have to balance thd books next year. Secondly, they appear to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
be backing off to their comlitment to fair funding. It says in their | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
documentation beyond 2016 it will depend on Spending Review. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
That Spending Review will, of course, be after the general | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
election. And, waiting until next year means these Year ten ptpils | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
won't get any benefit until after their GCSEs. And, even when the cash | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
does come, staff say it won't go far. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
This money will go into eathng the increased cost of increased | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
salaries, pensions, utilitids. It won't be enough to offset all those | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
costs which may mean managing with less teachers. It is a feelhng of | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
anger and frustration that we are impairing the education of our | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
students here, simply because we can't get fairer funding. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
That battle for funding herd in Cambridgeshire has been raghng for | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the past 30 years. It seems it's not over yet. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
So, is it a fair deal? Yestdrday's government announcement was made by | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
the Liberal Democrats. The chairman of their Education Committed is the | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
MP Simon Wright. Earlier thhs afternoon, I asked him why ht's | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
taken so long for Cambridgeshire's funding shortfall to improvd. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
It has taken decades. The previous Labour government did not gdt to | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
grips with this issue. So C`mbridge, Norfolk and Suffolk has seen their | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
pupils funded at a lower rate than the national average. This coalition | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
started by protecting school funding so it was not affected by the cuts. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Now, we have got a lot further by bringing that level of fundhng per | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
pupil so that counties here are closer to the national aver`ge. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Isn't ?20 million a short`tdrm fix? Cambridgeshire will get over ?2 | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
million in total for the cotnty which will mean schoolchildren in | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Cambridgeshire will get the benefits of more resources in classrooms | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
headteachers will have great ethics committee to recruit staff wanted | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and invest in professional development of teachers. Th`t will | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
make an enormous difference. Campaigners are saying this is too | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
little, too late. They are worried because the funding will not come | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
through for a year that teachers will be made redundant, and some | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
schools will go into deficit. Schools will continue to sed their | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
budgets protected until this new uplift comes into effect. That | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
additional money will go a long way to addressing the shortfall that | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Cambridgeshire schools have had Looking to the longer term, we need | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
a national funding formula which is transparent, so every parent in the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
country knows what their chhld is entitled to. At the moment, that | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
isn't the case. There is a longer term challenge. This announcement | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
means caber show will go a long way towards getting the money it needs. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
You admit the funding formula is still unfair to Cambridgeshhre. Why | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
can't it be changed now? Thhs announcement will take us 90% of the | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
way there. We need a fairer funding formula for all schools for the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
whole of the country. That leans difficult decisions about which | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
schools will lose out. Many schools are overfunded compared to the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
average. This amount of mondy will lift those underfunded schools. But | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
no school in the country will lose out. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
An air accident report into a plane crash in Bedfordshire has rdvealed | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the company which owned the plane broke several rules. A trainee pilot | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
and his instructor were serhously injured, when the Piper Tom`hawk | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
crashed at Cranfield last Jtne. The Civil Aviation Authority has since | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
withdrawn the licence for Hhnton Flight Training. The companx itself | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
has yet to comment. One of the best known gang lasters | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
in the Fens has admitted deliberately destroying the payslips | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
of Eastern European workers,.so he could underpay them. Martyn Slender | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
paid some Latvians less than half the national minimum wage. His | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
punishment was a suspended jail sentence. But he'll also have to do | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
200 hours' community work.unpaid. Our chief reporter Kim Rilex was in | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
court. Martyn Slender, arriving at court, | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
after admitting using unlicdnsed gang masters to provide labour. He | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
deliberately destroyed payslips to underpaying workers. The prosecution | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
said the managing director was paying nothing that you shotld have | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
been, one Latvian worker reported he was earning ?60 a week less than | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
Lithuanian colleagues. ?151 for five ten hour days, half the nathonal | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
minimum wage. Defence was s`id to be so serious it merited a prison | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
sentence but as Mr Slender buzz of previous good character and had | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
pleaded guilty, it would be suspended. Do you regret underpaying | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
your workers, a quick word, please? Getting rich while they werd getting | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
poor? Living on a breadline? I am sure you regret it, wouldn't you | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
like to say that two people? Have you repaid any of them? Last | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
September, Mr Slender was exposed in a BBC East investigation. Two weeks | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
later, he was one of ten people arrested in police raids. Today the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
court heard his business had now collapsed. He was ordered to carry | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
out 200 hours of unpaid work. Long`awaited plans to redevdlop | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium.got under way today. As well | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
as increasing the number of seats in the ground, the project will also | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
include new shops, houses,.`nd a conference centre. Today's official | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
launch follows an 11`year b`ttle with the local council to gdt the | :08:40. | :08:51. | |
plans approved. The battle to get these plans | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
approved has been a long ond. For years, club and council were | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
locked in a dispute, with the borough raising concerns thd retail | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
element of the proposals cotld damage the town centre. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
We have fought this for 11 xears. The problem for Northampton was it | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
was a hung council. The borough council was under control bx the Lib | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Dems who have different polhcies. For us, it was a manifesto | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
commitment that we would make this happen. It shows where therd is a | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
will, there is a way. The East and West Stands will be | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
completely rebuilt, increashng the ground's capacity from 7,500 to | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
nearly 10,000. This project is about much lore than | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
increasing capacity at Sixfhelds, the plans include new houses and | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
shops to be built on the land where this track is. Ultimately, the | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
revenue from that will pay for the increase in capacity at Sixfields. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
And the timetable is an ambhtious one. The developer hopes to have the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
stands reopened in time for the new season. We started on the stadium | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
right now, taking out the changing rooms and refurbishing one of the | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
stands. As far as completion of the stadium, due to be handed b`ck in | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
August, this is a tight schddule. From there, we will move into the | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
athletics track, to look at residential and retail development. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
And conference and banqueting utilities will follow in early 015. | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
With a larger capacity, and a hotel all adding revenue, its chahrman | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
thinks in the longer term the club can push up the leaks. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Northamptonshire can easily take Championship football. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
But, with Cobblers next to the bottom of the League, fans will be | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
hoping that, when they do gdt into the new stands to watch the first | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
game of the new season, thex'll still be watching Northampton | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
playing in League Two. It's five years now since the retail | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
guru Mary Portas criticised Dunstable, in a TV series c`lled | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Save Our Shops. Stores were closing, business confidence was collapsing, | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
and the town was caught in ` vicious spiral, she argued. So, what's | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
happening now? Many say the tide is turning, and new stores are opening. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Anna Todd reports. The town that's been nicknaled | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Dumpstable, is slowly starthng to bloom. Sure, it's not perfect. Still | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
empty shops. Still endless traffic. But, it's a far cry from thd | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
portrait painted by Mary Portas Queen of Shops, a few years ago | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
It looks like a cemetery. It is more about Mary Portas and her PR rather | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
than thinking of a solution. People were talking it down. How c`n a case | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
ever improve? Fortunately, there are more forward thinking peopld in | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Dunstable. Like the owners of these shops. When | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Mary likened Dunstable to a graveyard, they all upped their | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
game. Invested thousands. And are now reaping the rewards. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
It was a wake`up call. Small independent retailers needed to be | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
putting things into place and into action. It is a case of looking at | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
what you can do to benefit xour business and the High Street. | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
With the bigger, bolder Luton just a few miles away, this market town | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
can't play the big name gamd anymore. A question mark hangs over | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
the future of its shopping centre. But, as the guided busway brings | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
more people in, and a new bxpass once open takes the lorries out | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
there is a positive vibe. We had a greengrocer open, two | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
delicatessens, said the High Street is thriving. But it needs change, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the pavements need widening, cafe culture needs to develop. It will be | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
a completely different anim`l in four years. | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
And new companies are investing in the town. Which was evident at | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
today's small business expo in Bedford. Frankly, it was appalling, | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
it was not a nice place to go. That is a big deterrent, you havd to | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
recognise that. They have sharpened their act up, there is a new | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
interest, new businesses. It's all about shaking off the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
negativity. Shrugging off the bad mouths. If Dunstable can do that, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
and turn itself around, it will bring hope to high streets | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
everywhere. Labour has held its seat in a | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
council by`election in Luton. The poll was prompted by the resignation | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
of Robin Harris, one of the most senior councillors in the town. He | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
left, after a row within thd Labour Party. Paul Castleman is thd new | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
councillor for the Farley w`rd. He had a clear majority, 1,200 out of | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
1,700 votes. Later, we have the weather. First, back to Sushe for | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
the rest of the technical centre will remain on site | :14:02. | :14:02. | |
until May. Still to come: Tales of two | :14:03. | :14:17. | |
Olympians. More medal glory for Paralympic skier Jade and their | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
ethics guy, as they take silver and Louis Smith prepares for his first | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
competition since London 2002. It's the budget next week, `nd for | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the first time in a number of years, the region's theatres are fdeling | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
cautiously optimistic. All 30 theatres in our region have had to | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
endure funding cuts. And it's not been helped by the fact that most of | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
the money which the governmdnt gives to the arts is spent in London. It | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
works out at ?69 for every resident in the capital, but just ?4.60 per | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
person outside London. Thosd are the annual figures. But George Osborne | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
just might have some good ndws, as our political correspondent Andrew | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
Sinclair reports. I hate the piano and I hate you | :14:56. | :15:09. | |
Final rehearsals at this thdatre in Colchester for Betty Blue Exes, a | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
new musical opening tonight. Good audiences and increased sponsorship | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
has helped them get through austerity, but any extra help would | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
be most welcome. We are verx help hopeful after the budget, that | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
regional theatre will see more funding, more investment in the arts | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
means we have opportunities for new talent, that we can be more | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
ambitious, and that we can put on great shows. Running a theatre has | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
always been a challenge, and a massive disparity in funding with | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
those in London has always felt unfair, particularly now, whth money | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
so tight. London, which has all those fringe theatres and concert | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
galleries, major national theatres and dance companies, all those | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
commercial theatres as well, is absolutely stuffed with cultural | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
product, and why is it that the fattest kid in the room gets all the | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
bonds? MPs from the region have campaigned for years for more | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
funding, and that could be `bout to happen. Ministers are understood to | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
be looking at ways of pushing more lottery funding away from London. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Next week, the Chancellor is expected to announce a constltation | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
into plans for tax breaks for regional theatre. The proposals are | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
still being worked out, but companies which take reducthons on | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
tour may well benefit from this tax break. `` productions. This also | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
applies to theatres producing their own work. There may also be | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
incentives for investors. I think the government recognises that a | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
loss of investment has happdned in our capital city, and we have also | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
benefited in the regions, pdrhaps as much as we could, and I think this | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
commercial incentive will do a loss for companies to come out into the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
regions more, but also, critically, to support new writing. Any changes | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
will not end the disparity with London, and in fact they ard likely | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
to be very small. But after the last few years, they will be verx welcome | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
in our regional theatres. And as well as reviewing thd week's | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
news, the Sunday Politics whll be looking at what else next wdek's | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
budget may hold for our reghon. That's on Sunday at 11 here on BBC | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
One. Sport now, and with news of more | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
success in Sochi, here's Tol. Thank you. | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
They've become the most successful British women in Winter Par`lympic | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
history. Visually`impaired skier Jade Etherington and her guhde | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Caroline Powell, who's from Essex, have won their fourth medal in | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Sochi, silver in the super combined event, taking their individtal tally | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
to three silvers and a bronze. Jade Etherington, led by Basildon's | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Caroline Powell, had a tough decision this morning. Push hard for | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
gold and risk losing everything or get to the bottom safely and claim | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
another silver or bronze. They went for the first option, throwhng | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
everything at the mountain. Was great gaining by Caroline Powell. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
They made up almost three sdconds on the Russian favourites, onlx to miss | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
out by a fraction over half a second. Ayes she is an amazhng speed | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
skier, and an amazing technhcal skier, and I am just happy. Without | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
Caroline and asked to working together, the communication was spot | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
on, and we fought all the w`y, so silver. They are the first Britons | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
to win four medals at the P`ralympic Winter games. They still have one | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
final chance for an elusive goal on Sunday. | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
To football. It's the start of a vital few weeks for Norwich and boss | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Chris Hughton. His side takds on four teams currently in the Premier | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
League's bottom seven beford that dreaded run`in. First, though, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
tomorrow it's Southampton who're mid`table. Nathan Redmond scored the | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
winner against Saints back hn August. | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
We can't look at the last four games and feel that we need to get all our | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
points before then. We have nine games to go, and nine games means | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
nine opportunities to get points. But we are getting to the stage of | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
the season now where the gales are becoming bigger. | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
Elsewhere, two significant battles in the play`off race. Wigan are at | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Ipswich ` that's seventh ag`inst ninth in the Championship. Hn League | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
One, MK Dons could jump above Peterborough and into the play`offs | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
if they win their regional derby. Peterborough won the best tdam in | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
the league, and we want to lake sure that we are in a position at the end | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
of the game that we are still competing with them. But it is just | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
another game. Now, it's the first of thred | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
successive cup final weekends. Cambridge and Peterborough's | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
footballers are at Wembley hn the coming weeks. But this Sund`y, | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
Northampton's rugby players are hoping to kick things off whth | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
victory in the LV Cup. Saints are at Exeter. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Cup finals are always going to be close, closely contested affairs, | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
and playing at Exeter is a big challenge. We are aware of that and | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
we asked training hard, tryhng to stick but we at are doing. Good luck | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
to them. Over the years, sporting colebacks | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
have been a bit hit and miss. For every Sir Steve Redgrave, there are | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
several Bjorn Borgs! This wdekend, Cambridgeshire gymnast begins his | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
bid to qualify for the Commonwealth Games. `` Louis Smith. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
It is time for Louis Smith to prove he has still got it. But ond | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Briton's modern greats will only find out when he stands and cons of | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the judges. It has been nearly two years since I have competed. I have | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
been doing routines in training and they have been going really well, | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
but who knows? As soon as I put my hand up to do the routine, H don't | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
know if I will be excited or nervous. All I can do is prdpare the | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
way I know how to in the gyl. Was like old times at Huntingdon, Lewis | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
and his training partner back in harness and targeting this summer's | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Commonwealth Games. One step at a time, Louis needs to perforl in | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
three competitions, starting at the Indus Championships in Wigan this | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
weekend. He has changed a loss. He is more mature, he is a mord rounded | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
individual, I should say. Hd understands the media, work, and so | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
many sing there were things he did not understand a few years `go. He | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
is working diligently and economic, and understands exactly what you | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
must do to get ready for thd competition. I have every confidence | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
that he will make it. Louis has been in the gym for two months, `nd needs | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to return to somewhere near his London best, when he coped with a | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
tonne of pressure to leave Twenty20 with a silver and a bronze. If his | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
comeback is successful, it will likely end in Glasgow. The road to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Rio is blocked for a specialist like Lewis. I could not go to Rio just on | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
the pommel horse. I would nded to do other apparatus, and the wax the | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
British team is evolving, I don t think I have what it takes to make | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
the team. But if I was my own nation, and I was representhng | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
myself, I could definitely go to Rio and challenge for a medal! But that | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
is not the case. Louis will be working on the pommel horse again in | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
Wigan, along with the parallel bars. It does not always go to pl`n, but | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
he has had the ability to pdrform when it matters. Wigan might not be | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
London, but you get the feeling the show man wants to prove he hs still | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
the man. Unbelievable! That's it. Previews to all this | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
weekend's fixtures on the BBC Sport website. | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Thank you. Thorpe Hall in Peterborough is a | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
historic house but it's also home to a hospice. And that can cause a few | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
problems. Which is why the Sue Ryder charity has launched a ?6 mhllion | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
appeal. The charity currently helps 1,500 families, but is hoping to | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
double that with a modern extension and a day centre. | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
Did you have a good sleep? Xes, I slept a lot this morning. C`ring is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
sometimes just about making time. Graham from Peterborough is being | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
treated for lymphoma. For this sister, it is less a ward, lore a | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
home. I came here as a studdnt nurse and fell in love with the place | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
really. It is like one big family, and it is really centred on the | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
patients. These people are `t a really difficult point in their | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
lives, and they need support and a bit of laughter, and I think that is | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
what we try and give them. @ lot of people think it is very mord bit and | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
a miserable place, but it is really not. It is a beautiful building but | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
it has its challenges. With shared rooms and facilities that are hard | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
to get to. That is a too bad. That is a too bad, and there is ` | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
three`bedroom down there. To get to the bathroom, anyone on this site | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
needs to go over there to the toilet. Now, they are trying to | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
raise money to build a modern extension to old building. This is | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
one of the old walled gardens at Thorpe Hall, and it is going to | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
become home to the new hosphce building. It will have 20 ensuite | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
bedrooms offering greater privacy, and it will all be on one ldvel | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
offering the latest in hosphce care. With end of life care, they need | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
privacy, they need to spend time with their families, so within the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
new`build, having single rooms with ensuite facilities and the | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
opportunity to have the accdss to the gardens outside, that whll be | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
fantastic for them. But for now care continues in the same | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
thoughtful way it has for ydars They have lovely personalithes, all | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
of them. They are all sweet and kind. Once again, she is allost back | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
to my old Shirley. Laughing and smiling, and not quite full of them, | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
but the quarters, I knew? The charity Sue Ryder has already raised | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
more than a million. Today, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire has plddged its | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
support. It is thought it whll be next year when the ?6 million tiger | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
is reached. `` target. | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
And for more information about Thorpe Hall and that appeal, go to | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
log on to bbc.co.uk/radiocambridgeshire. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
Let's find out about the we`ther now. Here's Alex. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Good evening. Last night we experienced thick fog and also low | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
temperatures. Quite a shift night, with no fog and the temperatures | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
will be milder. Let's review those temperatures from last night. A | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
number of places recorded temperatures close to freezhng or | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
just below, but look at the swing. It has to be said, some fog took a | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
long time to clear, so the sunshine did not come out till lunchtime for | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
some of us, but 16 Celsius hn a number of locations. 17 Celsius at | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
Writtle in Essex. We are expecting those values to continue through the | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
weekend, particularly Sundax, when there will be long spells of | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
sunshine. Having said that, that we can get up to be cloudy start. When | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
the sunshine comes out, it will feel pleasantly warm, but compard to last | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
weekend, it will be slightlx breezy, so even though we rdcord | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
temperatures of 16 or 17 degrees, it might not feel as warm as that. | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Let's look at the detail with the pressure pattern at the momdnt. A | :26:03. | :26:16. | |
weak front head down from the north`west. That already me`ns that | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
the breeze is starting to phck up, and it becomes cloudy across the | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
region, so for much of the night, it looks as if that will stay cloudy. A | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
lot of low`level cloud around, but we shouldn't have problems with the | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
mist and fog. With breeze and cloud, milder temperatures for tonhght | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
something like six or seven degrees. The wind is a moderate | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
north`westerly. We start thd weekend with a huge amount of cloud around, | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
but it looks as though therd is some hope for it too thin and brdak | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
through the morning, so into the afternoon, it looks brighter. The | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
cloud will hold temperatures back, but sunshine comes up, 16 Cdlsius, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
and maybe even above that is possible. A noticeable breeze comes | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
from the north`west, but thd afternoon for all of us looks like | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
better prospects for some stnshine. Then, the pressure pattern stays | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
pretty much the same, certahnly into the start of next week. High | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
pressure still dominates. A bit of a breeze for Sunday as well. Sunday | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
also looked like we will sed some long spells of sunshine, a really | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
fine day. Locally, temperattres may get to 18 Celsius. There will be | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
increasing cloud moving in from the west later, but that should not | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
spoil the day. We start next week that it will be difficult to predict | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
where we get cloud. Any clotd that starts to break out, the values | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
could be higher for Monday `nd four choose day. | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
could be higher for Monday `nd Thank you very much. That is | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
authorised this evening. Hope you have a very good weekend. Wd will be | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
back on Monday. Goodbye. | :27:38. | :27:42. |