:00:00. > :00:25.with each side blaming the other. That's all from the BBC News at
:00:26. > :00:27.It's a bad day, a black day for Northampton Museum.
:00:28. > :00:30.Made in a garden shed for jtst a few pence but it made them thousands.
:00:31. > :00:33.A couple face jail for selling fake bomb detectors
:00:34. > :00:40.The work of war poet Siegfried Sassoon goes online.
:00:41. > :00:42.And remembering a famous big brother.
:00:43. > :01:02.Leon Hendrix talks guitars and life with a star.
:01:03. > :01:04.Its sale sent shockwaves through the art world.
:01:05. > :01:06.The Northampton Sekhemka, an ancient Egyptian statue sold
:01:07. > :01:08.off by the borough council for a record`breaking sum,
:01:09. > :01:12.Today, as punishment, two museums in the town havd been
:01:13. > :01:15.struck off by the Arts Council, losing their accreditation `nd
:01:16. > :01:20.putting an end to extra funding for the next five years, but thd borough
:01:21. > :01:25.It needed the money because of budget cuts.
:01:26. > :01:45.That is a small museum at the centre of a global row. The sale h`s been
:01:46. > :01:50.criticised by the Egyptian ambassador and now today,
:01:51. > :01:53.sanctions, the museum ostracised for the next five years at least. But
:01:54. > :01:58.the council say they made the right decision.
:01:59. > :02:00.The Sekhemka statue, described by Christie's as the most ilportant
:02:01. > :02:06.For its museums, it meant punishment.
:02:07. > :02:10.We do need to put this into some context.
:02:11. > :02:13.We don't receive huge amounts of money every year from thd
:02:14. > :02:15.Arts Council for the museum service and this was
:02:16. > :02:18.part of the decision we had to make when we decided to sell the statue.
:02:19. > :02:21.Actually, now we've got ?8 lillion, we can invest
:02:22. > :02:23.Well, we've got the Arts Cotncil statement here.
:02:24. > :02:27.They speak of their dismay, they speak of negative consdquences,
:02:28. > :02:33.Clearly, if the accreditation doesn't mean that the museul closes,
:02:34. > :02:36.and the museum will continud to open its doors and carry out
:02:37. > :02:38.the service it does tomorrow, it begs the question, what hs
:02:39. > :02:43.Northampton Museum today at the start of its exclusion,
:02:44. > :02:50.Losing its accreditation, the museum is now unable to dip into
:02:51. > :02:53.certain pots of money, eithdr from the Arts Council or the Herhtage
:02:54. > :02:57.Lottery Fund, but the museul's open today, it'll be open tomorrow.
:02:58. > :03:03.It matters a lot, says Ruth Thomas, who worked the museum and c`mpaigned
:03:04. > :03:11.It's a bad day, it's a black day for Northampton Museum and
:03:12. > :03:20.We used to be the leading mtseum in this region.
:03:21. > :03:23.We were the first to get accreditation some years ago and
:03:24. > :03:28.being deprived of it means that we fall behind all the other mtseums.
:03:29. > :03:32.Sekhemka was a powerful man, an Egyptian royal chief,
:03:33. > :03:39.Acquired by the second Marqtis of Northampton, in 1880,
:03:40. > :03:46.it was gifted to the town and sold in July for nearly 16 million,
:03:47. > :03:56.a sale that prompted Egypti`n protests and today, sanctions.
:03:57. > :03:59.It will have an impact on their ability to raise ftnds
:04:00. > :04:02.It will have an impact on their ability to engage with
:04:03. > :04:05.the wider museum community which, in turn, will have an impact on
:04:06. > :04:08.what can be offered to the public and the people of Northampton.
:04:09. > :04:10.And, I suppose, ultimately, we're very saddened that thhs will
:04:11. > :04:16.have an effect on the peopld of Northampton, of course.
:04:17. > :04:22.For more than 100 years in Northampton, it was public property,
:04:23. > :04:31.now gone, sold to a private collector. The council say, do the
:04:32. > :04:39.maths. ?8 million will pay for the museum to be doubled in sizd. The
:04:40. > :04:47.arts Council have given to payments over last few years. It might be
:04:48. > :04:51.financial but is ethical? Abi Hunt is from the
:04:52. > :04:52.Anglia Ruskin University. She has a background in Egyptian
:04:53. > :04:55.archaeology and a PHD I put it to her that with the
:04:56. > :04:59.Northampton case, it was desperate Well, I would slightly disagree in
:05:00. > :05:06.that I think it's a short`tdrm fix to funding issues and I would argue
:05:07. > :05:11.that there are real issues when you Of course, there are ethical issues
:05:12. > :05:18.with it, but I'm not sure it's really a sustainable way of sorting
:05:19. > :05:22.out funding problems, and I think museums should really consider their
:05:23. > :05:28.funding, their public engagdment activities,
:05:29. > :05:32.carefully to be more sustainable. It Do you think that there's
:05:33. > :05:36.a risk that other museums are going to follow suit,
:05:37. > :05:42.ditch the ethics and grab the cash? This isn't the first time that
:05:43. > :05:45.a museum has sold an item from its collection to raisd funds
:05:46. > :05:48.and I'm sure it won't be an isolated case but I think it s
:05:49. > :05:55.not a long`term fix. It's a very quick fix to thd
:05:56. > :05:58.situation and I think if museums took a more businesslike approach to
:05:59. > :06:02.their work, then maybe they could become more sustainable in the
:06:03. > :06:06.future, so look at different ways of funding, different ways
:06:07. > :06:09.of working operationally Abi Hunt,
:06:10. > :06:15.thank you very much indeed. Maternity services
:06:16. > :06:22.and children's care WILL relain That's according to health
:06:23. > :06:26.bosses who are looking to m`ke The assurances follow weeks
:06:27. > :06:31.of speculation and anger th`t services at the hospital will be
:06:32. > :06:35.seriously downgraded but despite today's announcement,
:06:36. > :06:51.the hospital's future is sthll This baby is just three days old. He
:06:52. > :06:59.is one of more than 3000 babies born here every year but the closure of
:07:00. > :07:03.this and the children's award is being seriously considered. Patients
:07:04. > :07:10.would have to travel to othdr hospitals instead. We have one of
:07:11. > :07:15.the best hospitals in the area. It's a growing population. To have a
:07:16. > :07:25.hospital that has reduced a knee, no paediatrics and no birth is a
:07:26. > :07:29.growing sign of this size. One of the highest scoring options includes
:07:30. > :07:38.the closure of the maternitx and children's departments. Thex are
:07:39. > :07:43.just ideas the now. I can rdassure you that we want what is best for
:07:44. > :07:48.our patients. We can't carrx on as we are and we are looking to find
:07:49. > :07:54.the most sustainable future for Bedford Hospital which will include
:07:55. > :08:00.inpatients and emergency services. And maternity and children's care?
:08:01. > :08:06.Is that a guarantee? I will not stand up and say otherwise. The
:08:07. > :08:10.hospital is under financial pressure. There is a greater demand
:08:11. > :08:14.for care and limited funding to meet it but the chief executive says
:08:15. > :08:19.changes have already been m`de while keeping key services. Things were
:08:20. > :08:27.not as good as they could h`ve been. We had a review that brought
:08:28. > :08:31.in an external new Doctor. Now we have got a service that meets or
:08:32. > :08:37.national standards. Some of our doctors work in the community. We
:08:38. > :08:42.have visited `` visiting consultants as well. It seems as though these
:08:43. > :08:47.changes will affect patients and where they get treatment. There will
:08:48. > :08:52.be a public consultation in the winter, where people would be
:08:53. > :08:53.invited to comment on plans, but final decisions would be made until
:08:54. > :08:59.after the general election next May. Two men have been jailed for
:09:00. > :09:02.the murder of a snooker club worker Jamie McMahon, who was 26, died from
:09:03. > :09:06.head injuries after he was `ttacked Michael Francis was sentencdd to
:09:07. > :09:10.a minimum of 26 years, A couple from Dunstable havd been
:09:11. > :09:16.found guilty of making fake bomb detectors in their garden shed,
:09:17. > :09:18.selling them all over the world The devices, they claimed,
:09:19. > :09:25.could also track down drugs and find The couple, Samuel and Joan Tree,
:09:26. > :09:55.called it the Alpha 6 and it cost A deal has been signed to hdlp
:09:56. > :10:00.develop the north`west area of Cambridge. Works have already begun
:10:01. > :10:11.to build a new road junction, homes and shops. His latest deal hs
:10:12. > :10:14.between the University of C`mbridge. Back to that story about thd fake
:10:15. > :10:15.bomb detectors. Our reporter, Liza Hampele,
:10:16. > :10:28.has been following the case They made these devices in their
:10:29. > :10:32.garden shed and made them ott of black plastic which they imported
:10:33. > :10:40.from China. It only cost ?5 each one and they used bits of paper and glue
:10:41. > :10:45.and an antenna stuck on the top and they said these devices could find
:10:46. > :10:54.my new substances including explosives, drugs and even lissing
:10:55. > :10:57.people. The company said `` the man said he could find Madeleind McCann.
:10:58. > :11:03.The prosecution said they m`de outlandish claims but they said they
:11:04. > :11:10.were not guilty because thex believed they worked. This thing
:11:11. > :11:15.sounds pretty unbelievable! How did they get away with it for so long?
:11:16. > :11:21.They did some years and it was said in court that it was remark`ble that
:11:22. > :11:26.only one person returned anx of these devices. They sold about. .
:11:27. > :11:33.Hundreds of them. They made hundreds of thousands of pounds and the
:11:34. > :11:35.public were gullible and believed they were sold all around the Middle
:11:36. > :11:41.East and in many countries. Now we can join Stewart and Susie
:11:42. > :12:34.for the rest of the programle. which started 100
:12:35. > :12:35.years ago this coming Mondax. And today in Essex there has been
:12:36. > :12:47.a special ceremony to pay tribute to In a moment, we will have ddtails of
:12:48. > :12:50.Monday's First World War centenary The last known words of Private
:12:51. > :13:01.Herbert Columbine He was telling
:13:02. > :13:07.his comrades to escape during With an isolated gun, he held off
:13:08. > :13:15.several attacks for several hours, which his mother donated to the
:13:16. > :13:33.town. Now, almost 100 years later, his
:13:34. > :13:37.home town is remembering his bravery It stands in the Marine Gardens
:13:38. > :13:45.overlooking the sea front. Among those paying tribute `
:13:46. > :13:49.the Bishop of Chelmsford, the Light Dragoons, the Roy`l
:13:50. > :13:54.British Legion and his relatives. It is obviously sad
:13:55. > :13:57.as well that he died very bravely And so it is sad but also a day that
:13:58. > :14:04.really marks the sacrifice that officers and ordinary soldidrs
:14:05. > :14:10.like Herbert made in World War I. It is the first time
:14:11. > :14:16.a private soldier has been honoured Private Columbine was, I thhnk,
:14:17. > :14:23.very typical of those young men who came and served and actuallx had to
:14:24. > :14:28.give their lives. This is not
:14:29. > :14:31.a makeover to make him look good. This is what the real man w`s
:14:32. > :14:35.like and I think it is a grdat, It has taken three years and nearly
:14:36. > :14:43.?60,000 to build the statue. The inspiration to build it came
:14:44. > :14:47.from a local man called Mikd Turner, I was never really passionate
:14:48. > :14:53.about it in the beginning. And as it came along, not jtst
:14:54. > :14:57.because Mike died, we got to understand it mord and
:14:58. > :15:00.began to get the feeling of it and we felt that
:15:01. > :15:07.it would mean something. That maybe
:15:08. > :15:10.people would look at it and stop us having these terrible war for years
:15:11. > :15:12.to come. but the power of the story still
:15:13. > :15:15.inspires and now the town has a perm`nent
:15:16. > :15:20.tribute to Private Columbind The anniversary is actually
:15:21. > :15:30.on Monday the 4th of August. Some events have already st`rted
:15:31. > :15:33.and we're making a weekend of it. Shaun Peel is in charge
:15:34. > :15:36.of our centenary coverage. Let's start with a big
:15:37. > :15:49.announcement today in Cambrhdge The announcement is about Shegfried
:15:50. > :15:54.Sassoon, one of the great W`r poets. He actually signed up on dax one. He
:15:55. > :16:01.wrote quite graphically abott the war, no holds barred. 4000 pages.
:16:02. > :16:04.But the announcement by the University of Cambridge library is
:16:05. > :16:09.that his entire collection has been digitised so that we can all look at
:16:10. > :16:12.it. It can be seen online throughout the world. The public could not
:16:13. > :16:19.touch it before because it was thought brittle. But becausd it is
:16:20. > :16:20.online, we now can. It even has traces of the ground from the
:16:21. > :16:23.storm. The mud is really clear
:16:24. > :16:25.on the digitalisations. It's not a great deal of mud,
:16:26. > :16:29.we have to say. There are ridges
:16:30. > :16:32.on the bindings and bits of mud It is minute quantities
:16:33. > :16:51.but it is the journal he was keeping Lots of commemorative events,
:16:52. > :16:57.services. We are going to bd in Colchester at the warm Oriel from
:16:58. > :17:01.6:30pm. So many to mention. At the stadium they are having a p`rade and
:17:02. > :17:07.a service and a release of 000 balloons. Most war memorials
:17:08. > :17:11.throughout the day on Mondax there will be something happening in
:17:12. > :17:14.villages, towns and cities. And very quickly, what is the lights
:17:15. > :17:19.out? In the evening, we are all being
:17:20. > :17:23.asked to switch off our livds between 10pm and 11pm to mark a
:17:24. > :17:29.period of darkness because before the start of the war, it was said we
:17:30. > :17:35.were entering a period of d`rkness with the lights never let again We
:17:36. > :17:39.are asked to symbolically m`rked that by turning off our namds. ``
:17:40. > :17:43.are lights. It's been another day of medals
:17:44. > :17:46.for the regions athletes Once again gymnast Max Whitlock was
:17:47. > :17:49.on the podium, winning There was also success in the lawn
:17:50. > :17:53.bowls and tonight 19`year`old athlete Jessica Judd from C`nvey
:17:54. > :18:05.Island could add to her growing With two golds and a silver in the
:18:06. > :18:09.bank, Max has a Phil said. He entered the competition with a
:18:10. > :18:14.bronze on the parallel bars. `` ended the competition. Five medals
:18:15. > :18:21.in a row, it has been a dre`m competition. COMMENTATOR: Ydt
:18:22. > :18:27.another medal. I am so happx and I was very much looking forward to
:18:28. > :18:32.this final. To finish on a good routine and a bronze, it was good
:18:33. > :18:36.fun. I was first up so I was quite nervous but I got to watch `ll the
:18:37. > :18:41.other athletes so it was am`zing. For Scotland, Daniel Keatings was
:18:42. > :18:48.going for number three but hnstead landed flat on his back to finish
:18:49. > :18:56.sixth. Gold was one yesterd`y in the lawn bowls for the women and the
:18:57. > :19:01.men's team had to settle for silver with Scotland winning. They played
:19:02. > :19:05.well but I am disappointed hn our own performance. We did not play as
:19:06. > :19:11.well as we could. Another mddal heading back to Essex might come
:19:12. > :19:15.from a diver. She has already struck gold but is currently in action in
:19:16. > :19:22.the springboard final. If she gets eight she will go top of thd
:19:23. > :19:29.leaderboard. And in this Sqtash just two wins from a gold mddal in
:19:30. > :19:32.the men's doubles. The beat New Zealand, with still be trying just
:19:33. > :19:41.about every shot in the book. Thankfully, no harm done. Sdlby had
:19:42. > :19:46.his fun at courtside and he is currently on court now against
:19:47. > :19:52.another English couple. In badminton, the singles playdr is
:19:53. > :20:01.into the doubles, eating his training partner from Scotl`nd. And
:20:02. > :20:05.tonight, on track, there ard high hopes for Jessica Judd, a
:20:06. > :20:12.19`year`old, in the 800 metres. Her final is at 8:45pm, prime thme for a
:20:13. > :20:13.medal. We have done fantastically.
:20:14. > :20:16.I know, it has been amazing. Jimi Hendrix is described
:20:17. > :20:21.in the official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably
:20:22. > :20:23.the greatest instrumentalist She is always reading that book
:20:24. > :20:33.I know this one also! Rolling Stone said he was rock
:20:34. > :20:35.music's greatest guitarist. When he died
:20:36. > :20:38.in 1970 he was just 27 years old. These days, his brother Leon
:20:39. > :20:40.carries on the family name. Next week he's playing in C`mbridge
:20:41. > :21:00.and earlier today, he spoke to His spirit is always so strong with
:21:01. > :21:04.me. He has been taking care of me all this time. I did not get any
:21:05. > :21:12.money from the lawsuit and H did not have a job. I got this vision, he
:21:13. > :21:18.gave me this vision, and sahd all you have is a guitar. " Plax it " I
:21:19. > :21:27.times now. Because of him. What are times now. Because of him. What are
:21:28. > :21:33.you expecting from England? What can we expect from you? We can only see
:21:34. > :21:38.how it goes. I heard you guxs are pretty critical over here, because
:21:39. > :21:44.you have seen every great b`nd in the world. They came from you. And
:21:45. > :21:45.we have seen it Jimi Hendrix. How much pressure does that put on?
:21:46. > :22:02.None. Is England somewhere you have always
:22:03. > :22:08.wanted to come? No, I am not going to follow in his that steps. I
:22:09. > :22:12.barely play my brother's music because I wanted to be in a rock 'n'
:22:13. > :22:18.roll band myself as a child but my father forbade it. He said that he
:22:19. > :22:23.already had one idiot playing guitar, he did not need to Lac. So I
:22:24. > :22:30.did not play until after I was 0 years old. If your brother was in
:22:31. > :22:34.the crowd, what would he make of it? Ewood Park bubbly say it was good to
:22:35. > :22:49.be home. Would he be proud of his little brother? Yes, becausd I was
:22:50. > :22:52.bad and I am breaking good. I saw Jimi Hendrix, you know? Digit.
:22:53. > :22:54.Yes, I did. And you can see Leon in concert
:22:55. > :22:57.at Downing College in Cambrhdge on Monday, and at the Cambrhdge
:22:58. > :22:59.Rock Festival a week tomorrow. We're going to take you on ` tour
:23:00. > :23:04.of the Swiss Garden. It's part of the Shuttleworth
:23:05. > :23:06.Collection site in Bedfordshire It's spread out over nine acres
:23:07. > :23:09.and boasts beautiful grassy glades It's just re`opened to the public
:23:10. > :23:12.after a landscape renovation The garden manager Corinne Price
:23:13. > :23:28.explains the background. The Lord created the first garden
:23:29. > :23:32.in the 1830s and it was later embellished by
:23:33. > :23:35.Joseph Shuttleworth in the 0870s. And the idea was that he was
:23:36. > :23:38.creating, or recreating, a landscape that he might have seen on his grand
:23:39. > :23:41.tour of Switzerland, for ex`mple. And as Jane Austen put it
:23:42. > :23:44.in a letter to a friend at that time, everxbody was
:23:45. > :23:46.in Switzerland. You can see the buildings,
:23:47. > :23:49.ponds and landscape do emul`te For a nine acre garden, it has been
:23:50. > :23:57.an enormous restoration project So what we have today
:23:58. > :24:00.and what we have restored as part of this project are two wonderful
:24:01. > :24:12.historical layers of landsc`pe. Thanks to ?2.8 million Heritage
:24:13. > :24:16.Lottery funding, we have bedn able to restore all of the buildhngs
:24:17. > :24:19.and artefacts in the garden using specialist consultants and lots
:24:20. > :24:24.of craftsmen using traditional techniques and skills to restore
:24:25. > :24:45.them to their former glory. I have got a big charity golf day
:24:46. > :24:48.tomorrow so I want good weather and you are doing things with dtcks
:24:49. > :24:53.I have a duck injured in thd duck race.
:24:54. > :24:58.I am feeling the pressure. Ht is hard to relieve it is the 1st of
:24:59. > :25:02.August already. A quick look back at July. Interestingly, warmer, sunnier
:25:03. > :25:09.and wetter than average and it has been the eighth month in thd role ``
:25:10. > :25:12.in a row that we have recorded warmer than average temperatures.
:25:13. > :25:15.Today has been pretty good. We have had an area of low pressure moving
:25:16. > :25:20.up from the South West which has not really affected us but it h`s
:25:21. > :25:24.brought rain across the Midlands and out towards the south`west. If you
:25:25. > :25:28.live in places like temperature and Northamptonshire, you might just
:25:29. > :25:33.catch a shower this evening. For most of us, it is a fine end to the
:25:34. > :25:37.day and are still quite warl. `` voices like Cambridgeshire `nd
:25:38. > :25:42.Northamptonshire. It is overnight that we will start to see some rain
:25:43. > :25:46.arriving but that is after ` dry stored. Some thunderstorms possible
:25:47. > :25:51.mating from France but it whll be an all or nothing event. Some places
:25:52. > :25:55.will get absolutely no rain but others will get a deluge into the
:25:56. > :26:02.early hours of tomorrow morning with some flashes of lightnhng and
:26:03. > :26:06.thunder around. It stays quhte warm. We start tomorrow with a bit of
:26:07. > :26:10.cloud around and actually some are in for some of us, first thhng. It
:26:11. > :26:15.will start to brighten up and does not look like a bad day. Thdre is
:26:16. > :26:19.the risk of showers but thex do not fall everywhere. Some of yot may end
:26:20. > :26:24.up with a completely dry dax for tomorrow and wonder what thd fuss is
:26:25. > :26:27.about and others might have some heavy downpours throughout the
:26:28. > :26:32.afternoon. It will be quite warm throughout tomorrow afternoon, maybe
:26:33. > :26:36.even up to 25 Celsius. Another thing you might notice is that through the
:26:37. > :26:40.afternoon and evening the whnd speed will pick up. This is bringhng lots
:26:41. > :26:48.of warm and humid air up from the south`west. Looking ahead, this
:26:49. > :26:53.is... Well, just to summarise the weekend. On Saturday, the rhsk of
:26:54. > :26:58.showers but not for everyond. Look how it starts to settle itsdlf down
:26:59. > :27:02.for Sunday. Some long spells of sunshine and some really settled
:27:03. > :27:04.starts to next week. Temper`tures overnight not too warm. Quite a good
:27:05. > :27:07.start to next week. We'll be back later
:27:08. > :27:10.on with the late night bulldtin And it's about time
:27:11. > :28:29.that I did something about that I leave the ashram, travel halfway
:28:30. > :28:34.across the world to find my father,