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In the programme tonight: A shortage of Specials - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
why one of our police forces is struggling to recruit | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
A father's vigil - Corrie McCague's dad watches | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
and waits as the search for his son continues. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
When I'm standing here looking at this and watching these guys | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
The police wouldn't be here moving all these tonnes and tonnes | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
and tonnes of rubbish if they didn't think Corrie was here. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Success at the stumps - as cricket bible Wisden names | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
a local batsman Cricketer of the Year. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Find out why operating on a shoestring has paid dividends here | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
in Kettering. First tonight - the police force | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
struggling to recruit Specials , as they are known, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
have the same legal powers as regular officers, | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
but are generally unpaid. Northamptonshire Police | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
is short of them. The previous Police | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
and Crime Commissioner set The current PCC reduced that to 600, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
but they've only got 377 Specials, with more than 20 a month leaving | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
over the past year. I will, to the best of my | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
skill and knowledge... This is our ceremony | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
where newly-qualified This was at the height | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
of the force's campaign to recruit up to 900 Specials, | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
but the force came Well, the new Commissioner says some | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
some simply went up to the job, some went on to become full-time | :01:36. | :01:50. | |
officers, but many decided it But actually, higher quality, | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
rather than just higher quantity. You know, we are upwards of nearly | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
400 and the highest, in the East Midlands I think, | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Lincs, Leicester and Notts, they have just over 200, | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
so in terms of percentage to force, Obviously, the key for us | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
is the number of hours that are actually deployed | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
across the year and that But in terms of investment, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
the loss of Special The admin fee to recruit | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
each special was ?120. 260 have left, leaving | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Northants Police with a bill of over ?31,000, but that doesn't include | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the training or uniform cost. On top of that, the force | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
spent a further ?42,000 One Special Constable contacted | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
BBC Northampton's Facebook page One Special Constable contacted BBC | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
Northampton's Facebook page to say the lack of help and support | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
within the force for Specials Here in Northampton Market, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
there was genuine support for the Specials, but a recognition | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
that as an unpaid role, I should imagine that they start | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
off, yes, full of enthusiasm and get delusioned and move on, | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
to be honest. They probably get a little bit | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
lambasted at times because people don't think they have the authority, | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
perhaps, that we think I think they do a good service | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
because they volunteer So, yeah, my Mum used to know | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
somebody who did that, so, yeah, The only thing that's disappointing | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
is the fact that we have to have them instead of the police getting | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
paid a decent wage. If they were paid a decent wage then | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
you wouldn't have the need for them, One thing the Police | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and Crime Commissioner is clear on is that the fall in the number | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
of Specials hasn't affected the quality or standard of policing | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
and says efforts are now being made again to recruit more staff, | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
including front line officers, Well, our political reporter | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Mousumi Bakshi is with me. Mo, a real shortage of Specials | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
in Northamptonshire, but what about the rest | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
of this region? The figures are interesting in as | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
much as they showed just how far ahead of the curve Northants police | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
was just 12 months ago. According to the Home Office, Hertfordshire and | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Cambridge police forces had 258 temp one last year, Beds had 228. In | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
contrast, Northampton to police had 722 Specials for the numbers spell. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
I have looked at the figures across all 43 police forces in England and | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Wales and you would expect the Metropolitan Police, Greater | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Manchester, you would expect them to have high numbers of Specials. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Greater Manchester had 800 Specials. The next highest force was | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Northants, which not only suggest that the recruitment drive was | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
successful, it was also ambitious. We now know that numbers have | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
We now know that numbers have tumbled. | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Specials are clearly a much needed asset for police | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
They may be underpaid police officers but they have full policing | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
powers. They can arrest people and they satisfied that public need to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
see bobbies on the beat. You will see them at football matches and | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
speaking to witnesses. You keep hold of them? They could learn from their | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
cousins in Scotland. British Telecom have offered their employees ten | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
base of the year every year to work a special constables. It is | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
innovative and it is working. If employers here work something | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
similar you could see a rise in Specials all over again. Thank you. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
Plans to rebuild HMP Wellingborough have been unanimously approved | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
With capacity for 1,600 inmates, the new prison will be more | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
than double the size of the old building, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
It's one of five prisons the Government said it | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
The Ministry of Justice will now have to get its detailed plan | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
signed-off before the existing buildings can be knocked | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
The father of Corrie McKeague is keeping vigil at the landfill | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
site, where his son's body may be found. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
For almost five weeks, the police have been | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
combing the area at Milton in Cambridgeshire, after the airman | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Police are now almost certain he ended up in bin lorry. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
Every day for a fortnight, Martin McKeague and his wife, | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Tricia, have been camped-up in this lay-by, A stone's throw | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
He's been to the site five times now, mindful that at any | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
moment his son's remains may be recovered. | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
Every time that excavator picks up a load and lays it out, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
there's every chance that that's the one that could | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Today, Corrie's mother shared this video of the airmen from Scotland. | :06:48. | :07:00. | |
He is based at RAF Honington in Suffolk. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
The 23-year-old disappeared in Bury St Edmunds last September. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Suffolk Police are now convinced that he ended up in a commercial bin | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
and was then transported to the landfill near Cambridge. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Why are you putting yourself through this, visiting this five | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
And there's every possibility that Corrie's there. | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
Police were criticised for not searching the landfill sooner, | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
but at the time they were mistakenly told that the bin weighed | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
It was, in fact, heavy enough to contain a body. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Martin McKeague says the police could not have done more. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
The McKeague family back in Scotland, that is supporting us, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
cannot thank Suffolk and Norfolk Police enough | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
and what they have done to try and find Corrie. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
You don't feel this landfill could have been searched far sooner? | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
This could not have been done sooner. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
1,500 tonnes of waste have been sifted so far, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
but the search could last another five weeks. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
While Martin McKeague keeps his vigil here, | :08:03. | :08:03. | |
Corrie's mother, Nicola Urquhart, and her two other sons haven't | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
They say, for them, the experience would be too distressing. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
However, since this search started almost five weeks ago, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
they have been staying in the local area almost every day. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
All Corrie McKeague's family can do now is wait. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Their agony compounded by the knowledge that | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
if his remains are found, they may never know how | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Next, the major regeneration of one of our town centres. | :08:26. | :08:35. | |
Plans for new flats, a new supermarket and a new | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
transport interchange have been announced for Flittick. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Councillors have earmarked a brownfield site next | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
to the train station, but there are already | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
A new vision of how the Bedfordshire town of Flitwick could look | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
A transport interchange linking up rail and bus services, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
At this stage, these are no more than ideas - | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Well, it's hard to imagine exactly what this new development will look | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
like, but where the trees are now up to the fencing, that | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Also a new entrance to the station and the transport hub. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
Then, on this side, we will have a major national | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
retailer, also a multistorey car park and, behind that, new housing. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
The idea is to create a focal point in the town centre, which is divided | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
On the streets today, the plans were given a cautious welcome. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
I have heard about the developments a couple of years ago, actually, | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
that they were going to do something. | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
I think it is probably a good idea because Flitwick needs something. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
I mean, I think Flitwick has always been after | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
something like this, but, like I said, we get promised it | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
and then it disappears into thin air, so... | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
I don't see why they need to build something like that here. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
For me at least, it looks fine based on the information | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
According to Central Beds Council, the project would provide affordable | :10:07. | :10:20. | |
housing and provide up to 200 jobs. It is a major project that will | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
revitalise the centre of Flitwick completely. We are standing beside | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
what could be a new broad access to the residential development and to | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
the shops and to a street level multistorey car park. How much is | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
this likely to cost? We haven't done costings yet. What we have is | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
permission from the executive of Central Beds Council to take broader | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
mixed-use option. Not all residents are happy. What are you going to do | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
about this road, them? There will be cars coming up, there will be a | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
junction here. Traffic in the time is one of the big concerns. We do | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
suffer in terms of transport from road congestion. The fact that is | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
looking to regenerate the centre of Flitwick has to be a good thing, it | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
is the weather go about it. They have a vision for improving public | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
transport, buses, cycle waste etc. It is too early to say what the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
final project will look like. A public consultation is due to begin | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
?10 million is being invested in a new cancer therapy centre | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
The centre will cost ?15 million in total. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
The 24-bed centre will bring together all the different cancer | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
The hospital has already received ?2 million from the charity Macmillan. | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
Let's join Stewart and Susie for more from Look East. | :11:48. | :11:59. | |
You're watching Look East with Stewart and me. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
Next tonight: The double amputee army veteran who's running a six-day | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
ultramarathon in the Sahara desert - again! | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
And it's going to be beautiful this weekend. | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Lots of lovely spring sunshine on the way and temperatures could be up | :12:10. | :12:22. | |
to 20 degrees by the weekend. Imagine running five marathons | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
back-to-back in four days. Now imagine doing it in one | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
of the hottest deserts in the world. And imagine doing it as a double | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
amputee for the second time. Duncan Slater was serving | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
in Afghanistan when he lost lost Last year, he took part | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
in the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara, but was devastated | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
when he had to pull out just before the end, | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
so this year, he's trying again. We'll hear from Duncan in a moment, | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
after this from Robby West. It is known as one of the toughest | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
races in the world. Last year, former RAF gunner | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Duncan Slater, here in the white, took on the week-long 251 kilometre | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
ultra-marathon across Just a day away from finishing | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
the race, he had to pull out due to an issue with his prosthetic | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
limbs causing him absolute agony. I had been on the go for 28 hours, | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
so I felt a huge sense of achievement by doing a double | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
marathon, but the body is just saying, "No chance, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
we are not doing this." Duncan's legs were amputated | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
on his last tour of Afghanistan when his vehicle ran over | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
and improvised explosive. Despite this, he has since trekked | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
across the Antarctic alongside Prince Harry, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
becoming the first double amputee Hugs, a few tears here and there, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
but all in all, mission success. This time, a successful mission | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
means returning to the desert For this hero from Diss, | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
failure is not an option. Well, Duncan leaves | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
tomorrow for Morocco. He's part of a team raising money | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
for Walking with the Wounded. I spoke to him this afternoon | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
and asked whether, for him, Yeah. It is bittersweet because last | :14:16. | :14:33. | |
time I was so close to finishing, but it was very disappointing, but | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
having said that, I have another chance to go out there and put it | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
right. What will be different this time? Because you had problems with | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
your strap things. This time I had an amazing offer when I came back | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
last time from these guys that make prosthetics in Italy and they said, | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
tried these ones. When you are walking, the stump forms a certain | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
shape and it is hard to recreate but they have done it and there is no | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
room for error, there are no blisters and I have not looked back | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
since. Last year you went out there not knowing really how it was going | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
to be. This time you know what to expect. Will that make it easier or | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
harder to face? In a sense it is harder because I know last time I | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
got so close, I only had one marathon left to do but I have quite | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
a hill to climb before I get to a point where I feel I am continuing | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
on, but it does not take from the fact that the only way I will get | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
there is by doing every day and just there is by doing every day and just | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
keep on going, so it is just a case of getting out there and take every | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
day as it comes and getting on with it. During your training you had a | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
surprise visitor, Prince Harry popped by. Yeah, that was a bit of a | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
surprise. That was the first heat chamber session I did to hop | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
acclimatised when we go out to the Desert, so I was about 40, 50 | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
minutes into the session and you are thinking about how hot and | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
uncomfortable it is and all of a sudden, Prince Harry turned up. I | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
was not expecting that one, so that was a shock. Amazing that he took | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
the time to come out and spend a bit of his time with myself, very lucky. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
You are very driven, you set yourself these amazing roles, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
amazing targets. Do you enjoy it? Ever since I have started doing | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
things like this, I know I'd pick things that are quite hard on paper, | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
but I do not want to pick something easy because at the heart of this, I | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
am raising money for a charity and it keeps you going and the harder it | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
gets, the more you push on. I get a lot out of it selfishly, a huge | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
sense of achievement that on the other side of it, you are raising | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
money for charity and that is dear to my heart. Their best of luck to | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
you. I hope you succeed this time and finish. Thank you very much. I | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
see him our training very often. Six marathons in that he! Unbelievable. | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Now, when was the last time you used your local bank | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
For lots of people, the reason they don't use | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Over the last two years, more than a thousand have been | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
It's because we're not using them as much or as often as we did. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
But Age UK says the impact of the closures on elderly people | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
shouldn't be underestimated, particularly if they happen | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
in an area where bus and internet services are poor. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
This from our business correspondent Richard Bond. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
The Norwich and Peterborough Building Society has 45 branches | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
across the region serving thousands of customers each year. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
But 28 of them face closure under a drastic cost-cutting plan. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
The N says the use of branches has been falling steadily | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
The town of Downham Market is typical of those | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Just three years ago, there were seven banks and building | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
societies open for business here, but when the N closes, | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
there will be just two left, Barclays and Lloyds. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
If everybody goes to King's Lynn to bank, that's where | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
they will do their shop, so our high street wall totally, | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
When we're talking about online banking and all that, | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
you've got to bear in mind the age of the people that are doing it. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
One, do they doubt that they trust it, and two, they might not be | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
But the fact remains branches are being used less. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
The N says the ones its closing had an average of just | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
The Saffron building society has 11 branches in Essex, | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
It says they are visited by an average of 38 customers a day. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
There used to be several branches in Royston, | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
but now this seems to be the only one that is left. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
The Saffron has no plans to close branches but is not immune | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
We are seeing a decline in branch usage, 5% year-on-year, | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
and whilst I cannot say that we are never going to close | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
a branch, we are absolutely committed to making sure | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
the branches remain relevant on the high street. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
The Cambridge Building Society closed five branches last | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
year, but has reinvested in remaining ones. | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
The St Ives branch has been equipped for the digital age. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
What we are finding is people want to use technology, | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
but sometimes need just a bit of help to do that, | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
so for the branches, we see that they are very much | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
about people still, but we will have staff in them who will be | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
knowledgeable and be able to help people with big | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
That is if you're lucky enough to still have access to a branch. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
For elderly customers in places like Downham Market, | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
Now, at the start of every new cricket season, Wisden, | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
the cricket lovers' bible, selects its five best | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
This year, one of them is a 22-year-old from Northamptonshire. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Ben Duckett was singled out for what they call his "remarkable" | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
total of 2,706 runs across all formats of the game last year. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
It gave him a debut for England in Bangladesh and India this winter. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
He started brightly enough, but was later dropped. | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
Ben Duckett, hardly a household name, but last year's leading run | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
2,706 runs, the highest for seven years. | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
Now a chance to prove it wasn't just a fluke. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
It's getting that balance of being too relaxed | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
Going out, there's still a good ball round the corner, | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
At times maybe last year I was guilty maybe of being a little | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
bit too relaxed at times and then lose a shot. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
I think this year, especially when you are in good form, | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
I know in the English season, you've got to make it count and try | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
as get as many scores as you can, because it can flip and you can have | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
His swagger with a bat earned him an England place on the winter tours | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
It started brightly with two centuries, but soon he came unstuck. | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
Instead of ingenuity and instinct, Ben Duckett had to be | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
patient and pragmatic and he was later dropped. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
In India and Bangladesh there was no getting away from it, | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
because your downtime is sitting in your hotel room or in your hotel, | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
on your phone, it's all over social media. | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
There's not really any way of getting away from it | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
and you start believing it, you can't go an average 15 | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
in Test cricket, it's clearly not good enough, | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
but it was one bad series and for me, personally, | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
But that was the hardest thing, I think, on the subcontinent, | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
just being locked in your hotel and there was no getting | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
The year he had last year was just out of this world. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
It was a joy to watch, to be honest, and it was brilliant. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
But to have him back at top drawer for Northants, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Ben has had a tough winter, I think him coming back | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
to Northampton, he will want to bang out as many runs as he can to put | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
himself back up for England selection, so that's only | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
He started the winter strongly, had a lull in the middle | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
and finished reasonably strongly as well, so that augurs well | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
But I think he has applied himself well, got good feedback | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
for him from all quarters, so hopefully no lasting damage done | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
and learned a few tough lessons along the way I think. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Back home at the crease, this time with a wiser head. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Ben Duckett ready to thrash a loose ball. | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
It's often said that you get what you pay for, | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
but splashing the cash doesn't always guarantee the best results. | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
Ask Kettering Museum and Art Gallery. | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
They have just been nominated for a national award, | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
That exhibition celebrated the town's art history and now | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
the museum is asking everyone to bring in their own creations | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Built in 1913, the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering - | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
named after the man whose bequest enabled the construction of this | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Now the gallery has much less cash to play with. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
An exhibition held here earlier in the year, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
making use of ribbon to show the connection between local | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
artists past and present, has just been nominated for an award | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
We are part of local government, so we are part | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
of Kettering Borough Council, so all of our exhibitions have to be | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
But the only real thing that we spent money on was our | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
It was quite intricate in its design and so we got external designers | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
to come in and do all of our panels and information boards. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
And for artists living in the town, it is essential. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
The gallery is an important part of Kettering, an important part | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
of an local artist's life, because if they actually | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
want to exhibit their work, this is the only part of the county | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
All the exhibitions are superb for local artists. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
And now the gallery has a new exhibition where anyone can | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
The only criteria, it needs to fill this space. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
The reasons for wanting a spot on the wall varied. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
This is the second year that we have submitted | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
work from our school, Fryers Academy. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
It's a school for children with special educational needs | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
and it's absolutely wonderful for them to be able to do | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
some artwork and have it displayed in a public space. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
A nice chance to sort of get my work at an open exhibition and get | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
seen by people and maybe get some feedback. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
I am an artist that has not been taught, I taught myself, | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
and they really encourage you here to have a go | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
This gallery has positioned itself at the heart of the community. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
It will find out if it has won that national award next month. | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
What a great idea! Now the weather. It will get warmer by the weekend so | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
for once the weather is improving right at the right point. Today we | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
have had a lot of sunshine as you can see, but you will have noticed | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
that call, north-westerly breeze has been in evidence, but by the weekend | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
we get a southerly breeze and that while warm things up. More cloud had | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
been anticipated but we have done pretty well for sunshine and we | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
start the evening with clear skies. There will be some areas of patchy | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
cloud that come and go, but with a lot of clear sky, temperatures could | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
drop to two or three Celsius so the risk of a touch of grass frost. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Tomorrow we start with high pressure over the top of us and while it is | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
in that position, we still have that north-westerly breeze. Good spells | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
of sunshine, some patchy cloud at times. Once more we record | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
temperatures in the mid teens, around 14 or 15 degrees. For the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
afternoon it still says fine and dry. Looking ahead, high-pressure | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
gets pushed to the east and we start to get more of a southerly wind and | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
this will draw up warm air from the continent. Temperatures could peek | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
here in the south-east, maybe 20 or higher by Sunday. Saturday is | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
looking good with good spells of sunshine, temperatures around 80 or | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
90 degrees and 20 Celsius predicted for Sunday but we may find it gets | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
than that. It will be short lived because you will notice a difference | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
in temperature for Monday. Cooler air will come out worse way; most of | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
the weekend. 20 down to 12? That is all from us. See you tomorrow. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |