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chilly old week, George. Rais thank you. That's all from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Clocking off in Corby. 900 jobs go as Solway announce it's closing its | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
factory for good. It was shocking. It was a shock to everybody. Nobody | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
thought it would shut compldtely. Hello and welcome to Monday's Look | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
East. The report Kettering Hospital didn't want you to see. 43 drrors | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
which lead to the death of teenager Victoria Harrison. We will be here | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
later in the programme after decades of disappointment, Cambridgd United | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
finally lift a trophy. And `t Luton Town, they are swapping headscarves | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
for football scarves. First tonight, 900 jobs are to go in | :00:38. | :01:02. | |
Corby as one of the town's biggest employers announces it will close | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
down this Summer. Two weeks ago Solway Foods announced in would cut | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
more than 500 jobs. But at lunchtime today, staff were told that the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
remaining 400 posts would also go. It's a huge blow for the town which | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
already has one of the highdst rates of unemployment in the region. Our | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
reporter Mike Cartwright is outside the factory now. And, Mike, you were | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
actually there when the news broke. There has been a huge questhon over | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the future of this factory but nobody expected this news today You | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
could sit on people's faces. They were stunned. Many emerged on | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
mobiles telling their familx and friends the news. People have worked | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
here for 30 years, help famhlies working together. But come the end | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
of the summer, all the jobs will go. They filed from the factory moments | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
after being told it was to close. They knew more than 500 had lost | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
jobs here. Now all of them have We've just been told. So wh`t's your | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
reaction to that? Well, of course, it's a shock. But I've taken | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
voluntary redundancy so tod`y is actually my last day which hs very | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
sad. People must be shocked, aren't they? Yeah, they are, totally. Did | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
they think the factory might actually stay? Yes. They thought a | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
solution would be sought. It was shocking. It was a shock to | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
everybody. Nobody knew they were going to turn around and sax it was | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
going to shut completely. They've asked for voluntary redundancy and | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
people have put in for it. H haven't and I should have done maybd, and | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
got out and got another job as soon as possible but it's frightdning. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Yeah, they want to say they tried to get a buyer but nobody bought the | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
factory and they are not getting any more products. So, we are hdre until | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the summer so that's about ht. The factory, which packs salad, was one | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
of the largest employers in the town. Opened by Princess Anne in the | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
'80s, three decades on, Solway Foods say the site must close. We have | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
fully explored all the options available, they say. | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Handbrake. Come off the foot brake onto the accelerator. Until Friday, | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Sean Hall worked at Solway. He's walked straight into a new job. The | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
trainer here helping youngsters learn new skills. Workers at Solway, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
he says, believed the factory had a strong future. The core staff have | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
been here for more than 20 xears. They've done well. A lot of business | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
has come out of the place. Then it was taken over and within 18 months, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
it's not viable so a lot of questions are being asked about how | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
genuine it is. We haven't got no grounds to argue it really. A task | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
force had tried to keep Solway Foods in Corby. But couldn't. It hs | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
devastating. 913 people employed there. That's 913 families `ffected, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
so you can make the multiplx effect yourself. The workforce is loyal, | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
hard`working. They have demonstrated that over many years to Solway. It's | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
disappointing that Solway h`ven t been able to recognise the loyalty | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
of the workforce here in Corby. For more than 500, today was thdir last | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
day of work here. By the end of the summer, all of them, more than 00, | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
will have gone. Members of the task force were surprised by tod`y's | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
announcement and bitterly disappointed. They say they worked | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
hard to try to keep them in this time. Unemployment has been creeping | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
up in Corby. Clearly, there are jobs here. It will be difficult for any | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
town to swallow more than 900 redundancies. Thanks very mtch, | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Mike. Let's go live to Westlinster and the MP for Corby Andy S`wford. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
You lobbied hard for this not to happen. But what we've now got is | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
the worst case scenario, isn't it? Definitely. This is what we were | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
trying to avoid with all thd hard work of the task force, the local | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
partners and we were talking to the company in good faith and wd | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
believed it might be possible to keep some jobs at Corby. And then | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
the news came out a fortnight ago, 500 jobs. Today, just as thd | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
consultation closes, they h`ve shocked everyone by saying the whole | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
factory will close. I think there could be a different way forward and | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
I'm incredibly disappointed. So you're telling me that you were | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
genuinely shocked? You didn't think the writing was on the wall? They | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
had two major contracts. We know they lost the biggest contr`ct a few | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
weeks ago, the first big announcement. We met with l`st | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Monday. I talked of a company and they said they were looking to | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
continue their other contract and in the long term, they could h`ve | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
rebuilt the business. This hs really disappointing. Of course, it's | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
particularly bad news for the families who are going to bd | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
directly affected and all otr focus now has to be on helping people into | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
new jobs. What kind of hope can you offer the workers and their families | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
at home tonight thinking, in a few months, there won't be a job to go | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
to? We were always doing two things with the task force, trying to save | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
jobs and recognising, if jobs went, we had to support people so | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
already, this week there is a jobs fair organised on Thursday. Just | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
around the corner from the company. 30 jobs there, two major colpanies | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
are going into the company with hundreds of vacancies betwedn them, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
and they are food companies, so people will have the relevant | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
skills. Hopefully, they can find new jobs. I met the boy in a report | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
there, was already found a new job. Unemployment in Corby is ond of the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
highest in the region. The National office of statistics say it is | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
creeping up. I know you are hopeful but realistically, we are going to | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
hundreds of more people join the dealt you, aren't we? `` dole | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
queue. It is worrying for the workers and families. It shows | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
what's happening across the region, ran the country, some parts are | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
doing OK, the South of Engl`nd but, in Corby, we have very high youth | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
unemployment and we have had this year, 160 more people on thd dole | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
before the announcement. But we re working locally to attract | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
investment. There are some jobs coming along. I hope people will | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
come to the jobs fair, and hf we can support them through the task force, | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
we will do our best. OK, th`nk you very much indeed. Kettering General | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Hospital has finally releasdd details of a catalogue of errors | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
which led to a teenage girl bleeding to death. 17`year`old Victoria | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Harrison died after an appendix operation in 2012. The hosphtal | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
carried out an investigation into her death but refused to publish the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
report, saying it could end`nger the mental health of staff. But a | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Freedom of Information requdst from the BBC has forced Kettering General | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
to reveal details of 43 mistakes, oversights and errors. In a moment | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
we'll be hearing from the hospital, but first this report from Neil | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Bradford. This is the Victoria Harris and her family remember. A | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
teenager full of life and whth everything to live for. Last August, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
aged 17, she was admitted to Kettering General Hospital with | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
appendicitis. A series of hospital blunders meant she never cale home. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
It just wasn't one mistake. It was 43 mistakes that started with the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
surgeon, right through to the nurse when she eventually died. The | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
teenager suffered a damaged artery during the procedure. Surgeons had | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
worked to stop the bleeding but not all nursing staff were made aware. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Few formal observations werd recorded on the day of surgdry | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
before nursing staff find Vhctoria unresponsive the following lorning. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
The hospital withheld details of the mistakes because managers fdared | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
releasing them would have an impact on the mental health of the staff | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
concerned. The BBC challengdd that under the Freedom of Inform`tion Act | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
and today the hospital's internal enquiry has been released to the | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
public. It reveals ten staff members were disciplined. There werd a total | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
of 43 mistakes, errors and oversights. They included poor | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
record`keeping, poor communhcation between staff and a failure to check | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
Victoria's abdomen after surgery. And the list goes on with a string | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
of inconsistencies, inaccur`cies and failures. There was no form`l pain | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
assessment, vital signs werd not monitored. And there was no record | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
of discussions with the famhly. Victoria's mother believes ht's | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
important the public know what happened. We have a right to know | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
what our hospitals are doing. If we are going into hospital, ard we | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
going to come home? You know, they have a right to know. Patient groups | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
say hospitals have a duty to be more transparent. Ideally, we wotld like | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
to see them proactively discussing these incidents in public board | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
meetings. As a real demonstration to the public that they serve that they | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
are being open and honest and transparent and learning lessons to | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
make things safer for all of us The hospital has since set up Vhctoria's | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Legacy. A programme of improvements to ensure the same mistakes are not | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
made again. Victoria's family say it's important the public know the | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
quality of the care they receive. So do the hospital feel thex got it | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
wrong and should have released their report in the first place? @ short | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
while ago, I put that questhon to Kettering's Director of Nursing and | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
Quality, Clare Culpin. The decision wasn't made lightly. It was | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
considered because the internal investigation describes every aspect | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
of care and treatment that Victoria was given and we have to thhnk about | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
protecting the dignity and respecting that patient. And | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
thinking about the detail of that report on our staff, as well. In the | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
words of Victoria's mother, though, she says we all have a right to know | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
what our hospitals are doing. Her mother wanted that report ptblished. | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
Absolutely. I agree. I agred that organisations, particularly | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
hospitals, should be open and transparent. We are not dis`greeing | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
with that. Why did it take ` BBC Freedom of information requdst to | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
get you to publish this report, because the panel that conshdered it | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
ruled that it was in the public interest? Well, what is in the | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
public interest is that you are open and candid and transparent `bout | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
what happened, which is exactly what we have done, what is in public | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
interest is that you actually respond to a tragedy like the loss | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
of Victoria. It was not a qtestion of not releasing it because we | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
didn't want to share it. It is based on being a considered decishon | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
because we actually felt th`t we had shared an awful lot of detahl and | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
been very open around the f`ct that mistakes were made and errors were | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
made and we have been very candid about that. Thank you very luch A | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
man and a woman have been charged with stabbing two people in Wisbech | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
at the weekend. The victims, two men, remain in a serious but stable | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
condition. They were attackdd shortly after midnight on Stnday in | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Orange Grove. The area in the centre of the town was sealed off for a | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
forensic examination. The ldader of Cambridgeshire County Counchl is | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
quitting his post. Martin Ctrtis says he's going because of the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
council's decision to move from a cabinet to a committee systdm of | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
operating. He says the authority's strategic focus will be harled and | :12:56. | :13:04. | |
he'll step down in May. Now it's over to Stewart and Susie for the | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
rest of the programme. still to come, and amazing ?53 | :13:06. | :13:20. | |
million raised for Sport Relief Look out for some of your phctures. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
And some wonderful scenes at Wembley, as Cambridge United | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
celebrate winning the A question: what was the biggest | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
airborne operation in World War II? If you said D`day, you would be | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
wrong. The biggest in a single day happened nine months later. It was | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
called Operation Varsity and it involved 40,000 troops. The | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
objective ` securing a bridgehead over the Rhine. Today a service was | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
held at Coggeshall in Essex to mark the anniversary. This report is from | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
Alex Dunlop. Imagine this: Xou are strapped into a six tonne plywood | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
glider, 28 soldiers crammed in the back. Four hours later, you will be | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
to glide behind enemy lines. Survive that, and you will have to hit the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
ground, pick up your gun and start fighting. David Brooks did `ll of | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
that and is here to tell thd tale. We saw the Rhine, which of course, | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
is a very wide river, and there were smudges of fire around us, `nd | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
several gliders got shot down. And 100 glider pilots were actu`lly | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
killed, and that is why we're here today in of those pilots th`t we | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
lost. It is poignant that the memorial to those menaces they | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
stone's throw from the airfheld where some of those pilots took off | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
60 years ago today. So willhngness to act, as much of their action | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
that gives the state is that they should be remembered... Manx, of | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
course, remember operation Larket Gardening, September 1934, the | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
classic bridge too far. The viewer will remember Operation Varsity | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
review be the most daring and successful airborne operation in | :15:10. | :15:21. | |
history. The soldiers' job was to create a bridgehead to advance | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
across the Rhine. It was dangerous, but it worked. Today, the Army Air | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
Corps, still on active servhce in Afghanistan, organised the service | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
and the Apache fly`past. Certainly through technology, we are `ble to | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
protect ourselves more, but the fundamental basics are very much the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
same. We are still aviators, prepared to be soldiers on the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
ground, as they were, and they were soldiers on the ground. The pilot | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
glider regiment no longer exists, but its memory and contribution to | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
Allied victory in Europe is secured. In sport, great goals, great wins | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
and day to remember at Wembley this weekend. Here's Tom. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Good place to start. Some shlverware for non`league Cambridge Unhted who | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
won the FA Trophy for the fhrst time. It ended a 45`year waht for | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
victory in a cup competition. The U's hope their Wembley win will | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
inspire them to a return to the Football League after nine xears | :16:17. | :16:17. | |
away. Wembley! Wembley! Cambridge United | :16:18. | :16:30. | |
fans were out in force yestdrday afternoon to see if their tdam could | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
make it third time lucky Welbley Stadium. No promotion on offer this | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
time, but silverware and ?50,00 prize. That combination will be | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
music to their ears. I think they're the best team in the world, but who | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
knows. I've been here twice before and got my heart broken. I don't | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
want to do it again. Amber nation out in force today. That is what | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
it's all about. They almost got off to a flyer inside four minutes. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Despite struggling in the ldad below Cambridge, Gosport were out for the | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
challenge, also having some early challenges. In the 39th mintte, | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
though, Bird settle the nerves. Ryan Bird against the keeper! And United | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
take the lead! And for the first time in three attempt, Unitdd are in | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
front. After the break, Ryan Donaldson added goal number two and | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
he was the right place at the right time to make it three zero. He could | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
have had the rarest of Wembley hat`trick when a penalty was | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
awarded. Luke Berry, however, slotted home from the spot. 4`0 the | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
final score, and memories to savour forever. It's amazing. I can't | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
explain how good it is. Adddd it to the rest of your footballing | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
career? It is amazing. I can't even speak. I think we all deserve this, | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
and hopefully, we can use it as a springboard for the rest of our | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
season. If we can get back through the play`offs, it will do us good, | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
but we've got a really tough line up now, want to make sure we are in the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
play`offs first of all. For a club that has laid a loss for thd last | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
decade, prize of a hundred `nd ?50,000 would make a differdnce the | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
promotion would you worth hhs weight in gold. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
Now, it's rare you ever see Chris Hughton as animated as this. The | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Norwich boss was quick to rdgain his composure. But he and the f`ns had | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
just witnessed one of the goals of the season by Alex Tettey. @ 2` win | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
over Sunderland handed them some breathing space in the Premher | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
League. Norwich are seven points clear of the drop`zone with seven to | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
play. It is vital for us pl`ying at home, winning 2`0, and the way we | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
played today is huge for our team, and has brought us confidence as | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
well. Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy admits | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
this week's matches will go a long way to deciding their play`off fate. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Town won 2`0 at Brighton, Slith and Murphy scoring, meaning thex're five | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
points off the pace going into home games with play`off chasing Derby | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
tomorrow night, then Nottingham Forest on Saturday. And thex sacked | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
their manager today. For Late Kick Off tonight, I spoke to the Ipswich | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
manager on the golf course `bout the club's progress despite the need to | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
make huge cuts to the playing budget. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
I tell you what I thought when I came in 16 months ago. Make sure you | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
get enough points to stay in the league. I didn't consider what I | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
would be doing the following season. That was the remix. At the start of | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
this season, I thought, I h`ve a good squad, I thought we had a | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
chance. And we still have, but we must make sure we stay therd. If you | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
have had a bit more money available, you think that would have m`de a | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
difference? But it wasn't. H know what my room it is. That thd gate. | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
That's the job I've got. People say we haven't spent anything, but we've | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
put ?5 million in this year, just to keep is where we are. We ard | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
adhering to financial fair play I'm not saying everybody else is. In | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
fact, I'm certain they aren't. So within those parameters, we've done | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
well. You mention financial fair play. Is that why things have been | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
cut back, or the owner wishhng to keep a lid on things, or a bit of | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
both? That policy is therefore everybody, supposedly to add here | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
too. Queens Park Rangers can have a huge fine, and the rest of them but | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
we are sticking to it, and within that, we have done really wdll. If | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
it doesn't happen this year, do you think you'll be under more pressure | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
next year to deliver promothon? Listen, the longer you're in the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
job, the more pressure it bdcomes. But I do worry about that. H would | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
do my job under whatever circumstances I'm doing it. I think | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
what people underestimated the amount of pressure I put on myself, | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
and I get people patting me on back saying doing your job. We mhght miss | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
out on the play`offs, howevdr. I think we've got a chance thhs year, | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
and still have, but to get hn those play`offs, and I `` if I don't think | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
I can do it, there'd be no point me being here, and if Marcus doesn t | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
think I can do it, there'd be no point in being here either. So we | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
continue to try and prove otrselves. They may have had their | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
international stars back, btt it couldn't prevent a second stccessive | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
defeat for Northampton. Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
insists they're "not down and out", despite losing top spot going down | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
at Sale. More sport on the website, where you | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
can find tonight's team news ahead of Southend's league match with | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Oxford. Thank you very much. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
About 100 Asian women were `t Luton Town this weekend for the g`me | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
against Chester. It was part of a campaign called "From Headscarves to | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
Football Scarves". The club is trying to persuade more Asi`n and | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
female supporters to go to games. Chettan Partak from the BBC's Asian | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Network went with them. For most of these women, who lived | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
locally, it's the first timd they've been anywhere near a football match. | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
They're coming to watch en lasse. I'm nervous. I don't know what's | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
going to happen. I know will be very loud. The crowd is quite | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
intimidating. You always here about football hooligans, but bec`use I | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
think there is a large group of us, I think you'll be OK. Today is about | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
these young ladies experiencing something of a haven't in the past, | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
and a lot of them live quitd nearby, and they often see the supporters | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
going up and down the streets, but today, they are going to go to the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
ground. I think it is about the misconceptions that this colmunity | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
has about football, but also what football supporters have about this | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
community, and I hope will be a real sharing experience. Same echo its | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
really important to have people from the Asian community here, bdcause | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
commercially, they form a significant part of the demographic | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
of Luton, and the numbers attending a relatively small. We want to | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
increase that because we want to increase our revenues. It is good | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
commercially and socially. We want to achieve a better demographic mix. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
The match sees top of the t`ble Luton town face Chester. Despite the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
novelty of the experience, lost seem to be having a good time, and have | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
had no problem fitting in. Ht's a really great buys an atmosphere Is | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
actually quite unifying. It was boring at the beginning. But it is | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
pretty cool. The atmosphere is awesome, and everyone is chdering. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
They are singing tunes, it's quite good. If their first time at the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
football today, and they bedn a little bit confused about some of | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
the songs they have heard. We've been teaching them the words. The | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
organisers hope seems like this will become less uncommon, and won this | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
match to become one of many for these funds. `` fans. | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
Very chilly overnight, wasn't it? It was. The average lowest temperature | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
this time of year should be three Celsius. | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
As you can see, last night got a lot colder than that. `5 in Norfolk and | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
in many other places, below freezing. So a cold, frosty start to | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the day today. We have enjoxed a lot of sunshine. This frontal sxstem and | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the cloud and rain associatdd are still down to the south`west, so we | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
saw a bit more about pushing through, but it stayed dry `nd lots | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
of us enjoyed some sunshine. They are skies to start today, btt | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
eventually, thicker cloud and rain pushes in from the south`west. Most | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
of it is light and patchy, but we can't rule out some heavy btrsts, | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
and even as I speak, there hs some uncertainty as to how far e`st this | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
rain will get. So a good part of rain will get. So a good part of | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Norfolk and Suffolk could stage I overnight. Lowest temperatures by | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
the end of the night underndath the clearer, drier skies are down to | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
around two or three Celsius, so there might be a ground lost in some | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
places. Elsewhere, if there is an earlier ground frost, it will be | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
gone as the temperatures rise as the rain spreading. Tomorrow, a front | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
brings thicker cloud and rahn, comes to a halt, and then starts to pull | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
away again to the west. So the best of any brightness and sunshhne first | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
thing in parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. Elsewhere, cloudy day with | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
outbreaks of rain. At the France does the pull away to the wdst, it | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
should start to take the thhcker cloud and rain with it. So we should | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
see brighter skies from the east. Temperatures inland could gdt up to | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
nine or 10 degrees. Where wd keep the thicker cloud and rain for | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
longest, and along the coast, with onshore wind, temperatures will | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
struggle up to about seven or eight degrees. Through the afternoon, the | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
last of the thicker cloud and rain clears, with a view showers | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
following. A largely dry end to the day. Into the middle of the week, | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Wednesday and Thursday, hopdfully some fine and dry weather, but those | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
the chance of showers on both days. On Friday, a good deal of | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
uncertainty, but as it stands, another cold day, perhaps more cloud | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
and outbreaks of rain. Looks like a frost on Tuesday and Wednesday | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
night. Thank you very much. If you took part in Sport Rdlief at | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
the weekend, well done. ?53 million pounds raised so far. The atmosphere | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
in Norwich, as I started up the Sport Relief raised there, was | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
fantastic. Your daughter finished it? Yes, she's only little. So we'll | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
leave you tonight with some pictures, including a speci`l video | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
made for Sport Relief by Dance Matters, a dance school in | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
Cambridgeshire. Good night. | :26:48. | :26:51. |