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First tonight, a historic d`y of commemoration has seen young and | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
old come together to remembdr what history hopes we will never forget. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Choristers from Cambridge s`ng for Prince Charles and world le`ders | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
While closer to home, children learned the skills | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
of war their forebears had to master to head off foreign invaders | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
veterans at Bayeux Cathedral today, those who could only imagind the | :00:43. | :01:00. | |
sacrifice stood alongside those who were remembering those who would | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
fall in. Among them, the choristers from St John's School in Calbridge. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
And across the Channel near Kettering, youngsters were being | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
given a taste of wartime drhlls American troops were stationed here | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
in the days running up to D`Day And these recruits realise the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
significance of the Day that changed the war. It is why great wrhtten is | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
a free country, because if we didn't win this, then Germany would be .. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Just doing the activities they have set out for us is hard, but they | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
would have to do it with he`vier guns and more equipment. Ond of | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
those veterans was born in Northampton. James Peake lidd about | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
his age to enlist, and landdd at Normandy. But he couldn't travel to | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
today's commemorations becatse his son`in`law misspelt his namd on his | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
passport. But today, veterans on both sides of the Channel wdre | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
united by memories history will never forget. | :02:07. | :02:20. | |
A protest has taken place in Milton Keynes calling | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
for changes to council tax and the so`called bedroom t`x. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
It's more than a year since new rules on benefits were brought in. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
But with a change in power at the local council, protestors | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
are calling for a better de`l for low income families, worried | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
A reduction in the number of prison officers at a jail | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
in Milton Keynes may have ldd to the death of an inmate. | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
21`year`old Sean Brock commhtted suicide in his cell at | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
Today the prison governor told the coroner cuts in staff | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
in the past five years have had a negative impact on inmates. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
The coroner will now write to the Secretary of State. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
It's promising 1,500 jobs and a ?20 million | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
A new Center Parcs holiday resort opened in Bedfordshire todax, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
but will it give the county the tourist boost it needs? | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Our business correspondent Richard Bond reports. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
An even bigger splash for Center Parcs. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
The swimming complex alone cost ?20 million, the whole of Woburn Forest, | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Plenty for the first paying guests to get stuck into today. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
Including the Aycock family from Tamworth. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
We've been coming to Center Parcs since the early 90s, | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
so we have been to them all, and we just wanted to come `nd try | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
There are 625 lodges, a 75`bedroom hotel and a full range | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Center Parcs already has fotr holiday villages in England, | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
It is been ?250 million, two years in construction. | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
It is going to inject about ?20 million per annum to | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
As you will know, we have generated 150 jobs 0500 | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
jobs, permanent jobs, and a great news is that 90% of these pdople | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Among the workers, Rosemary Oakton, who's just had her second child | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
I do ten hours a week, within the hours that I need to pick | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
up my children from nursery, Monday and Friday only. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
The hope is Woburn Forest whll beef up tourism in Bedfordshire | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
The fact is, Bedfordshire h`s an underdeveloped tourist industry. | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
It has just 7% of the staying visitor market in the East. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
That compares with 26% for Norfolk, 21% for Essex. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
Well, Bedfordshire does reasonably well from the tourism perspdctive, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
but of course, a lot of people pass through the county, | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
and we need to create reasons for them to stay in the county, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
And the Center Parcs development is exactly the right thing | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Woburn Forest is expected to draw most of its visitors from | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
London and the south`east, `nd with that part of the world boomhng, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
today's's launch of a major new tourist attraction could be very | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Let's look at how much monex our region makes through totrism. | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
Out in front, no surprise, is Cambridgeshire with ?1.2 billion | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
a year, boosted by huge numbers of overseas visitors to Cambridge. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Hertfordshire makes ?773 million a year followed by Northamptonshire | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Bedfordshire has a much smaller share, making ?317 million. | :05:36. | :05:47. | |
So will the county be able to catch up with the opening | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Earlier I asked Sally Everett, a tourism expert. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
There has been some research in the past, and I've reallx looked | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
at it, looking at, OK, how many times does someone go out | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Once, probably about 20 or so percent, twice is quite rare | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
I think there is real importance to making sure that the visitors and | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
the tourists who to go to Cdnter Parcs do go out, and I hope that | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
there will be a lot of job creation, using local suppliers and local food | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
and the things that they bux in different resources | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Villagers have been giving their views about plans for a new | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
The site at Rookery Pit had been earlarked | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
for a giant incinerator, but those plans have now been shelved. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Instead a gas`fired power station is planned near the villages of | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Marston Moretaine, Stewartbx, Millbrook and Lidlington. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
Before we go on this special day of remembrance, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
let's go to the weather centre and Dan Holley with the fordcast. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Good evening. Some very heavy downpours in places, but | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
temperatures not dropping too far. The Met Office do have a yellow | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
weather warning out for the rain tomorrow. We will have some storms | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
during the morning on Saturday, and then it comes prior. The risk of | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
further thunderstorms through the afternoon working their way | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
northwards, possibly with h`il and gusty winds. It will feel r`ther | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
humid. Your national forecast coming up, but your outlook back hdre: | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
improve to some extent. The showers move away and a fresh appeal to | :07:32. | :07:32. | |
things. Good evening. The good news is, | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
there will be some decent dry on a sunny moment to come through the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
weekend. But over the next 24 hours, the threat of thunderstorms | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
looms large. The ingredients have been coming together today - warm | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
air pushing northwards out of Iberia, cooler air from the Atlantic | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
trying to pushed away. In between the cloud has been building with a | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
lot of energy in the atmosphere sparking off some nasty | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
thunderstorms across parts of northern Spain and south-west | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
France. They will produce most of the rainfall tomorrow. Ahead of it, | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
the cloud is starting to produce thunderstorms itself. We've seen in | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Cornwall. A few sporadic thunderstorms across central and | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
southern areas and towards Northern Ireland through the | :08:21. | :08:21. |