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Good evening, welcome to Tuesday's Look North. Tonight, a Sheffield | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
woman who lured weak and vulnerable girls into a child sex ring is | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
jailed for 12 years. Amanda Spencer gave vulnerable, young girls drink | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
and drugs before forcing them into prostitution. We hear from one her | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
victims about the abuse. Also tonight. With the Tour de Yorkshire | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
fast approaching we take a look at how the countryside is getting | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
ready. And the Doncaster soldier who was | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
one of the most seriously injured to survive the Afghanistan conflict is | :00:33. | :00:45. | |
to retrace a daring World War Two raid. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
Good evening. A young woman from Sheffield who ran a child sexual | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
exploitation ring has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. The judge | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
said 23`year`old Amanda Spencer had used young girls as her meal tickets | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
and to pay for her drink and drugs habit. She has been found guilty of | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
16 counts of arranging the prostitution of children. Meanwhile | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
68`year`old Ian Foster has been sentenced to 14 years for sex | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
offences against ten young victims. Tom Ingall's report contains details | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
you may find distressing. Exploiter or exploited? That was the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
central question in the trial of Amanda Spencer. The court heard | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
about her chaotic background, but the jury decided she was guilty of | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
16 counts of forcing children into prostitution. Get the camera out of | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
my face! This was her first appearance in court last year at the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
age of 22. Tonight, she's starting a prison sentence. In this trial, the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
jury have had to listen to his narrowing `` some harrowing | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
evidence. Time after time, victims said that she befriended them, and | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
then turned on them, forcing them to sleep with men, and then assaulting | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
them if they refused. The judge said, you are as bruised and damaged | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
by life as the girls exploited, but I have no safety for your heart less | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
exploitation. Behind this trial, a three`year police operation which | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
also saw 68`year`old Ian Foster sent to prison for 14 years. In two | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
trials, he has been found guilty of this teen sex offences against ten | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
children. `` 15. Originally the investigation was centred around | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Spencer, but it was anyone we spoke to some witnesses that Foster became | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
a focal port and was a focus of the trial before this one. As you have | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
seen today, he was no less an offender, in many ways, in fact, he | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
was as bad if not worse than Amanda Spencer. The attention has fallen on | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Spencer, though. She was barely an adult. Her nine victims, Findlay | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
children. In the Word of the judge, they were her meal ticket. In their | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
words, she ruined lives. So how did Amanda Spencer find her | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
young victims? Jenny, whose name has been changed, is now 19. She met | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Amanda Spencer when she was 13. They became friends, and went out and got | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
drunk and took drugs. She told us what impact this had on her life. | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
How words are spoken by an actor. `` her words. I did not really you have | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
anybody. My friends did not want to know me. Me and my mum weren't | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
getting on, me and my sister weren't, me and my family didn't get | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
on. I'm not exactly a parent person, I don't do parents. I don't do | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
really do people who tell me what to do. I don't know, I didn't really | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
have anybody. I went out to go and meet a friend of my exes, she was | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
with him and just have the right things. We were going out and | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
getting drunk, taking drugs, just stuff, just that I thought wanted to | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
do. She just stopped being a nice friendly person. And when people | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
came along, she just used to tell me everything would be all right. Give | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
me a bit of a drink, and then it would happen. I spent a long time | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
pretending it never happened, I spent a long time pretending that it | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
was just a nightmare. It is easy that way, to get through your life | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
that way. I hate her, just hate her. I cannot wait for her to get her | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
comeuppance. She shouldn't be breathing the same air as me and my | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
daughter, she shouldn't. Next tonight, Ofsted inspectors have | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
painted a damning picture of the running of a Bradford school amid | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
fears of an Islamist plot to infiltrate some UK schools. The | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
entire governing body of Laisterdyke College was sacked last month, and | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
it's emerged one of the sacked governors has links with a group | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
accused of trying to introduce Islamist practices in schools in | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
Birmingham. Cathy Killick reports. Some schools in Birmingham hit | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
headlines last month when it was alleged Islamist plotters were | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
trying to take them over. And introduce hard`line practices like | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
making girls sit at the back and stopping education. Now there is a | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
fear similar aims were on the cards in Bradford. Sped inspectors visited | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Laisterdyke College in September last year `` Ofsted inspectors and | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
then raised concerns about its governors. One of its members, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Faisal Khan, has links with the suspected plotters in Birmingham, | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
but denies any links. He says he will simply trying to raise | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
standards. It is all about good quality teaching, putting the right | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
standards in place. And if the headteacher is not capable of doing | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
it, they should move on and let somebody who is really good at it. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Irrespective of their race and religion. All of the interviews I | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
have been involved in, I have never implied a Muslim headteacher. So the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
facts on the ground say differently. `` I have never in | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
point. But Ofsted inspectors criticised behaviour of some of the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
governors. It says it had serious concerns. And the governors had a | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
limited understanding of how students were doing. It said | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
relationships between leading staff at the school and governors had the | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
deteriorated. Bradford Council has intervened, sacking the governors | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
last month and installing an interim executive board to govern the school | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
instead. While Ofsted makes no mention of any evidence of an | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
Islamist plot, the situation here at Laisterdyke College and other | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
Bradford schools is being monitored by the council very carefully. Later | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
on Look North. In tribute to a much loved teacher. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
A West Yorkshire community comes together for Ann Maguire who was | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
killed in her classroom last week. Now, what's the best way of tackling | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
traffic jams in York? A report is going before councillors this | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
evening which says the trial closure of Lendal Bridge did cut congestion | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
and even increased visitor numbers. The council had to abandon the | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
scheme because of mounting criticism. Tonight councillors are | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
discussing what can be done instead to tackle the traffic problems. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Professor Greg Marsden is the Director for the Institute of | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. He took part in this | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
report. What briefly where your findings? Well, the scheme to Lendal | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
Bridge was opening up a really important gateway for York for | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
visitors for the row `` from the railway station. The findings we had | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
from our independent survey were that visitors valued the improvement | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
of the environment in the area, it was a lot more pleasant to walk in, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
there was an increase in cycling and walking along the bridge as they | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
anticipated. The diversion of other traffic around the city was not as | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
significant as they had into stated in terms of congestion. So overall, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
from a traffic point of view, the scheme was a success. Obviously | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
there were some issues around the palace the charge notices. `` | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
penalty charge notices. There was a lot of criticism, where did the | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
council go wrong? These trials are very difficult, because essentially | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
they took something away from people without giving them any alternative. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
So they did not have any time to invest in improvements elsewhere in | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the network. Then there were difficulties in enforcing the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
system. Nowadays, everybody has a sat night in their car. Unless the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
subtle knife company `` the satellite navigation company says | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
the bridges close, you presume it is open, that happened for a lot of | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
visitors. And they were also told they had to import the penalties in | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the first instance, and then that was changed. If they had had a | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
lighter touch, they could have had more acceptance. What can York | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Council will learn from other cities who have been in a similar position? | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
I think they lead to look to some of the lessons that we can learn from | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
European colleagues. There is not a simple solution, classical grow, `` | :09:42. | :09:51. | |
traffic will grow, there will be `` there needs to be a significant | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
handing over of space to make cycling a good environment. They | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
need to carry on with their park and ride schemes. There was not an easy | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
answer, we are looking at some sort of increase of restraint for cars | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
because the economy is growing, there are another 1000 jobs per year | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
forecast for York, something has to be done. Thank you for joining us. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
In other news now, and West Yorkshire Police have announced that | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
two women have been charged with child neglect at a school in | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Calderdale. Rachel Regan, aged 43, from Illingworth and Deborah | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
McDonald, who's 40 and from the Pellon Lane area of Halifax, will | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
appear before Calderdale Magistrates Court tomorrow. It's understood that | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
the charges relate to an alleged incident at the school last year | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
after which the two women were immediately suspended. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
A 37`year`old man from York has been given a sentence of life | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
imprisonment for a series of rapes, sex assaults and the kidnap of a | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
woman in the city last October. Mark Thompson must serve at least 11 and | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
a half years in jail. Police say Thompson subjected his 20`year`old | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
random victim to a horrifying and traumatic ordeal. He's been | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
described as a violent and dangerous man. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Police say they are becoming increasingly concerned for a | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Bradford woman who's been missing since last week. Anita Racz, who's | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
from Hungary, was last seen on Bolton Road on Thursday morning. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
West Yorkshire Police say her disappearance is completely out of | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
character, she has no money with her and her family are very worried. The | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
force has urged anyone who thinks they've seen Anita since Thursday to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
get in touch. The sister of a South Yorkshire | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
schoolgirl who was murdered 50 years ago has made a fresh appeal for help | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
to find her killer. 13`year`old Anne Dunwell was sexually assaulted and | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
strangled in Maltby near Rotherham in May 1964. It's South Yorkshire | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Police's longest running unsolved murder case. Anne's sister, Irene | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Hall, says she can't move on until the killer is brought to justice. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
The English Democrats have launched their campaign for the European | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Elections. At an event in Barnsley the party's candidates for the six | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
seats in the Yorkshire and Humber region called for an English | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
Parliament, withdrawal from the European Union and a curb on | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
immigration. It is another issue that people in | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
Yorkshire care about, opinion polls show that people are sick of mass | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
immigration, and we as a party campaign against that. And more | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
information on the parties and candidates can be found on the BBC's | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
Election 2014 website. It's a week since Ann Maguire, a | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Leeds teacher, was stabbed to death in her classroom. But tributes are | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
continuing to pour in for the woman who taught for over 40 years at | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Corpus Christi Catholic College. Over the weekend hundreds of people, | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
including her former and current students, gathered to celebrate her | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
life. Charlotte Leeming has more. The skies were filled with colour. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Hundreds of balloons released in memory of the much loved teacher | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Anne Maguire. The crowd applauded as the balloons flew on their way. Many | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
had special messages attached from the pupils, parents and staff who | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
knew her and would this have. Respected, really, and a teacher. It | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
is really horrible for the community in general. It is wonderful to have | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
this turnout. My lad who was now 19, he got an a in Spanish and that was | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
down to Mrs Maguire. She pushed him and pushed him and she believed in | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
him. This was a reflective and thoughtful event, but also a | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
celebratory one. Hundreds gathered on the playing fields opposite the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
school, sharing memories and supporting one another. Boys and | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
girls took part in to Memorial football matches. Many of them pay | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
for their own special shirts with the choir 61 printed on the back. A | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
minutes silence was held before each game. I think she would have loved | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
it because of everyone getting together and supporting one another | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
through it, and not dwelling on the situation itself, but supporting one | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
another and smiling and laughing and enjoying themselves. Not forgetting, | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
the main reason of this, to send off and celebrate Mrs Maguire's life. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
More than a week on from her death, and flowers and messages are still | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
being left at the school which she dedicated 40 years of her life too. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
It is young people in particular he seemed to be the driving force | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
behind all of these fundraising events we have seen in the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
community. Mrs Maguire did so much for them, they now want a permanent | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
memorial by which to remember her by. Much of her life is dedicated to | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
her pupils, and that is something they will not forget. This event was | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
just one way they could say thank you to the inspirational teacher. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
Certainly a beautiful site with all those balloons. And a symbol of how | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
the community has pulled together in the last seven days. | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
I am in Bishop Dale, were the first intermediate sprint of the Tour de | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
France will be decided, asking the people of the Yorkshire Dales if | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
they are ready for the tour. And injured Doncaster soldier Ben | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Parkinson defies his disability and takes to the water for a huge | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
expedition. Wickets have been hard to come by | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
for Yorkshire on day three of their county championship match up at | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Durham. Chasing Yorkshire's huge first innings total of 589 for eight | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
the home side lost a couple of wickets before lunch, the big one | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
being Sri Lankan international, Kumar Sangakkara who went for zero. | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Mark Stoneman and Michael Richardson though both got centuries for | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Durham. Liam Plunkett eventually got Stoneman lbw for 131. Crucially, | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
Richardson was stumped after some clever bowling for 148 at the close. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
At the close, Durham were 361`8. The Yorkshire trio of Katherine | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Brunt, Danielle Hazell and Lauren Winfield are among 18 England | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
cricketers to be awarded the first central contracts issued in the | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
women's game. The England captain, Charlotte Edwards, says it's | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
something she never thought she'd see in her time in the sport. We are | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
role models and hopefully we can spread the word that this game is | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
professional will stop you can earn a living out of cricket, and that | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
will hopefully attract girls who may have chosen other sports and | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
hopefully, put their time into cricket. And hopefully keep more | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
girls in the game it is most important. Yes, well done, ladies, | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
girl Power! Exactly! With just two months to go till the | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
start of the Tour de France here in Yorkshire and preparations are in | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
full swing for the world's biggest bike ride. All this week we'll be | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
reporting live from different parts of the region, to find see how they | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
are preparing for the predicted two million visitors that will line the | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
route each day. Well, our Tour de France correspondent Matt Slater has | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
spent the day in the Dales. By the way, I have cycled that route! Did I | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
tell you? Did you miss that? He joins us now from Aysgarth. So Matt, | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
how ready is Yorkshire? That is a very good question, | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Aysgarth is beautiful! Right in the Dales National Park, and this view | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
has inspired some great artists, people like the painter Turner, the | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
poet Wordsworth, the American Kevin Koestler, because it was just over | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
there that his Robin Hood Prince of thieves fought Littlejohn! I want to | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
focus on the clean fun like the Tour de France. I have been out in the | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Dales all day, I know, it is hard! I have been meeting the people, asking | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
them if they are ready for the tour. It is rush hour in downtown Buckton. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Gary and Gayle had arrived at the office for the day's first class, `` | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
tasks, clearing some real estate for squatters. What are they hoping will | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
be left behind after the race is gone? I hope that the people who | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
come to the day on the weekend, they won't have time to see the Dale as | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
it naturally is, I am hoping they will come back over the years to | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
come and stop in the guest houses and bring trade into the valley | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
which is so required. Ultimately, I think people would like to come and | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
live here. The memories of a good bike race Arsene fading if thousands | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
are left without showers, toilets and P. `` will soon fade. Yorkshire | :18:24. | :18:34. | |
water is confident it can cope. We are. We are very confident that the | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
water situation is healthy over the winter, we can meet the demand as | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
and when it is needed. We see peaks in the morning and evening, we need | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
to plan for that and understand where people will be using water and | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
when. All of that has made me feel quite parched. This place has been | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
quenching the first visitors than 20 years, but perhaps not in the | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
numbers they are expecting this summer. We are worried about the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
numbers, because we do not know how many people are coming. So it is | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
slightly nervous, until we get too near the point where we know how | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
many people actually going to be booking and have booked. We will | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
have enough beer, we are quite lucky that our suppliers said they will | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
take 25% of the beard back if they do not sell it, but I do not want | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
them to take any back. When in doubt, order more beer, that is the | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
spirit! Did you know that is the only street | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
head in in the country? Enough of such trivia. Tracy, what you doing | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
to help the people we have seen in the video and people like them, to | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
prepare for the race? We have been watching a lots of different | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
agencies, with the councils, and natural England, and making sure | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
that the plans are ready and that we can get out the message about | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
protecting the countryside and coming here, having a great time. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
But respecting that this is a living and working environment. One of the | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
really hard things must be how many people are coming, that | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
unpredictability, how are you handling that? There have been quite | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
a lot of estimates done and crowd modelling, they think there will be | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
about 400,000 people coming to watch the race within the Yorkshire Dales | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
National Park. We have set up some spectator hubs, one at Aysgarth, one | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
at Grassington, to help with crowd management. One last one, what are | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
you hoping in terms of a legacy with the park? What are you hoping that | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
the race leaves behind? We are hoping people will see what a | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
fantastic and beautiful place the Yorkshire Dale National Park is and | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
they will come back. It is certainly beautiful. We are at the other end | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
of the route tomorrow. It will not be me so it should be good! | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
It was a head`on wind into Aysgarth, an unexpected help, other hell and | :21:09. | :21:22. | |
then down. That macro `` a big hill. A former soldier from South | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Yorkshire who was one of the most seriously injured to survive the | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Afghanistan conflict is to retrace one of the most daring raids carried | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
out in World War Two. Ben Parkinson from Doncaster is preparing to | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
follow the path taken by the Cockleshell Heroes in an attack on | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
German shipping in France in 1942. Joe Inwood has this. | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
As Ben Parkinson prepares for training sessions in the new Forest, | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
he can reflect on a remarkable few years. His physical and mental | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
recovery have astounded everyone. Thousands cheered the Afghan veteran | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
as he carried the Olympic torch in Doncaster. The pride of that day was | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
matched only by receiving his MBE. But for the paratrooper, it is no | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
time to rest on his laurels. He is taking on a helm the challenge. This | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
time in water. And they have been working hard. I have trained | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
everything go day. `` every single day. And Ben will need all that | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
strength and fitness. They are doing ten miles today on the south coast. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
When it comes to the actual challenge in France, they are going | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
to have to do 90 miles in five days. That is because they are recreating | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
one of the most daring raid the Second World War. Commandos dubbed | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
the Cockleshell Heroes canoed up the vestry in France, dodging German | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
patrols and the elements to bomb the ships. I read proud of them. Every | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
one of them. I feel very good, doing this. But the pilgrim bandits who | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
organised the challenge, it is not just about remembering the soldiers | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
of the past, but those of the present. By putting them on the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
challenges that we do, the extreme challenges, it gives them a sense of | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
worth and proved to them as well as those doing the expeditions with | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
them, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Something Ben | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
Parkinson is proving with every step and stroke. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
What an incredible achievement, he has done so well. Well done. An | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
extraordinary young man. It was a glorious weekend, I was planting | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
some petunias over the weekend, I think I have done my back in. You | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
are so rock and roll! You sound so middle`aged these days! | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
This is the best picture I have seen this weekend, looking fabulous | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
there. It was 5:30am, this one. This is the oilseed rape crop looking | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
very yellow. And then an alternative view of Whitby, looking from the | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
other direction. Keep your pictures coming in, e`mail me. Or you can get | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
me on Twitter. Tomorrow, turning much more | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
unsettled after a few fine days. After a bright start, Carling over | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
with showery outbreaks of rain and will be coming under attack. From | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
the West, with showers as far as the eye can see. `` after a bright | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
start, clouding over. At the moment, mostly fine, one or two showers on | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
the picture. Some bright and sunny spells the end the evening. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Overnight, Cloud will thicken and we will see showers or even longer | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
spells of rain pushing in from the West. One or two heavy bursts, but | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
it will mostly clear. One or two showers (lowest temperatures around | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
80 degrees. `` and the lowest temperatures are about eight | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
degrees. Mostly dry and bright start, one or two showers around but | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
essentially not too bad start to the day. The best of the sunshine | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
towards the coast but cloud gradually increasing. Some showers | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
and then longer of rain washing across the West, especially along | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
northern areas. The best of the brightness will be on the coast. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
Temperatures will take a hit. Two or three degrees down, the wind will | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
freshen from the south. Looking further ahead, Thursday, another | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
weather system brings rain in from the south`west. Friday, it is a | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
mixture of sunny intervals and scattered showers. Back to square | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
one on Saturday, outbreaks of rain, locally heavy, spreading around. | :26:14. | :26:25. | |
There is nothing wrong with middle age, it comes to us all! | :26:26. | :26:29. |