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Hello, I'm Tony Husband. Welcome to Friday's South Today. Coming up | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
tonight: Binning the bedroom tax. As Labour prepares for its party | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
conference Ed Miliband tells us he would scrap the government's | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
controversial housing benefit change. Crossing the line. The | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
mother of a soldier serving in Afghanistan hits out at a british | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
red cross campaign. I still feel, as I did then, that it was just wrong, | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
it's just so wrong, it was just wrong, it's just so wrong, cruel. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Scrap the cycling. As the Tour of Britain heads for Surrey some | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
residents say they're being confined to their homes by events. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
And greased lightning, endurance swimmer Anna's off to a fast start | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
as she takes on her final gruelling swimming challenge. There are | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
moments out there when you would give anything to not be there | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
because it is like going through hell. | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
Ed Miliband says he will scrap one of the controversial housing benefit | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
changes if he wins the next election. The under occupancy | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
charge, which Labour calls the bedroom tax, was introduced in | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
April. It reduces benefits paid to claimants who are deemed to have | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
spare rooms in social housing. Speaking exclusively to BBC News | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
ahead of the party's conference in Brighton, the Labour leader says he | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
would find cuts elsewhere. I am joined by our political editor. As | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
you say, benefits are reduced according to the number of spare | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
rooms in a house. It's a 14% cut for one room, 25% for two rooms. There | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
are 40,000 claimants affected in the south—east, slightly less in the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
south—west. More than half of those affected are disabled. On average, | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
in our part of the world, they are losing about £780 a year. In Dorset, | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Jaki Loebig has lost £64.68 a month from her housing benefit because | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
they have a small box room used as a study as well as a bedroom. We are | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
sitting under blankets instead of putting the central heating on. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Because I can't walk very far, we have a vehicle but the fuel has gone | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
up so much that we are staying indoors a lot. There are a lot of | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
silly problems. I have to cut back on housekeeping, I can't afford to | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
have my hair cut. The point about these changes is that they are to | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
reduce and unfairness. In the private sector, there is no housing | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
benefit paid for private bedrooms. This policy has been saving since | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
April £470 million a year. When he sat down with me earlier in an | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
interview ahead of this weekend's conference in Brighton, Ed Miliband | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
was ready to pen his colours to the massed for the first time, spelling | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
out clearly what he would do in government. We are going to end the | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
bedroom tax because we think it is unfair, wrong and not working. We're | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
going to find the money to do so by ending boardroom tax loopholes. We | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
have got a government saying the economy is healing, the economy is | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
fixed. Families feel life is getting worse. The Labour Party is on the | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
side. This £470 million that you are saying you will use to get rid of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
the subsidy could surely have gone towards living wage campaign is, | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
something you have been behind, particularly for the south of | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
England? You have always got to make a judgement about how you spend | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
money. But I believe the bedroom tax is deeply unfair. I believe as a | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
country we should do the right thing, we should not be cutting | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
taxes for hedge funds is. This is about the Labour Party taking the | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
side of ordinary families. Up until now, Labour has been cautious about | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
making these pledges. This is one of the first substantial ones. But now | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
they are up to substantial questioning. Another party getting | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
substantial questioning is UKIP. They found success in the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
by—election and have pledged that they will win that seat at the next | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
general election. 20 years might not be quite | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
coming—of—age, but UKIP arrived here with much to celebrate. Some old | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
habits die hard. They have come of age, and official opposition. When I | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
started canvassing 30 years ago, you would knock on the door and say I am | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
from UKIP and people would say, who is that? Now, whether you love so | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
us, nobody in this country can say they have not heard of UKIP. Many | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
queueing for copy would not have looked out of place at a Thatcher | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
era Tory conference. But what of the claim they do not represent Britain? | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
The secretary of our branch is Italian, certainly not what you | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
would class as a standard UKIP voter. My sister—in—law is | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Portuguese, she votes. My husband is Scottish, he is UKIP. But still the | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
face of UKIP is this one. While the other parties for notes to hold | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
their conferences, the police UKIP want to be is right here at the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
centre of things. But the question remains, do they have the party | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
machinery to get to the place real party should rest —— real power | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
should rest? We don't get much power from central office. The hard nut | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
symbols of it has to come out of our own fundraising. As they return to | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
the battle ground of their choice, UKIP seem set to keep up the heat on | :06:07. | :06:18. | |
the more established parties. And Peter will be back with Sunday | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Politics on Sunday at 11am. He will have a full interview with Ed | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Miliband. A man from Gosport who made bogus | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
bomb detectors in his garden shed was given a suspended two—year jail | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
sentence at the Old Bailey today. Anthony Williamson, seen here in the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
centre, made a profit of between £22 and £37,000 by selling the fake | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
devices, which were described as no more than a 'novelty toy'. The Judge | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
said they increased the risk of injury and death because they didn't | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
detect explosives as expected. A 73—year—old man has been arrested | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
on suspicion of murdering a pensioner from Dorset. Police were | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
called to a property on Wareham Road in Lytchett Matravers this morning. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Officers found a 62—year—old woman with life threatening injuries in | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
the garden. She was taken to Poole hospital but later died. A | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
68—year—old man from Hampshire has been trampled to death by an | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
elephant in Indian forestry has been visiting for years. Colin Manvell, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
from Havant suffered fatal injuries when the large elephant knocked him | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
to the ground with its trunk and then stomped on him in the | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Masinagudi forest in Tamil Nadu, southern India. It is believed the | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
retired geography teacher may not have heard the elephant approaching. | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
At 23—year—old Bournemouth man who was found dead next to the busy A35 | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
was believed to have had multiple injuries. Daniel John Robbie was | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
pronounced dead at the scene. It is believed he had been writing a | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
child's micro—scooter in the early hours of Saturday when he was hit by | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
a vehicle which did not stop. The Sussex Chief Constable has been | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
questioned today about the anti—fracking process. It is | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
believed that the costs are estimated at £4 million. Chief | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Constable Martin Richard said the cost could be met from reserves | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
without affecting other police operations. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
It has been two years in the planning and today is the big day | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
for Anna Wardley. She is attempting to swim nonstop around the Isle of | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Wight in the final part of the challenge to circumnavigate five | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
different islands. This is the toughest swim, the equivalent of two | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
and channel crossings. How is she doing? As you will know, if you | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
attempt anything on or in the water, it is all about the conditions. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
Today, conditions have been near—perfect. That is not just down | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
to chance. And and her team have worked closely with a meteorologist | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
who had calculated that today was likely to be the best day to take | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the plunge. And that is exactly what she did this morning off the coast. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Greasing up to make sure this epic challenge does not slip away from | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
her. Anna had to pull—out of her last injury and swim the Hebrides. | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
That has made her even more determined to finish well. I am just | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
incredibly stubborn, I am really stubborn, when I set out to do | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
something, I don't let anything stop me. That is really important because | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
there are moments out there when you would really give anything to not be | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
there because it is like going through hell. Only three others have | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
ever managed to circumnavigate the island, but Anna knows these waters | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
well. I walk my dog on the beach every day, and I look across, and as | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
a swimmer, it has been on my mind a little while that I wanted to do it. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
It is a huge undertaking, not just because it is a 56 mile swim. Anna | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
set off this morning. The plan was to get past the Needles I the time. | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
She should be around Saint Catherine 's point I'm midnight. Then she must | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
spend five hours swimming against the tide in the small hours. After | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
that, the tide turns. Then back home around lunchtime on Saturday. One of | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
the main challenges facing Anna is the cold. I just reached down here, | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
that is called. The other challenge is fatigue. After about 12 hours, | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
she could become disorientated and start hallucinating. On previous | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
swims, she has lost the use of one arm and been horribly attacked by | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
jellyfish. In the officiating role is Ken Murphy, quite a name and | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
endurance swimming. He was the first man to swim the island 42 years ago. | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
I am the independent observer. I make sure that she does it properly, | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
she doesn't cheat, I'm sure she won't. There has to be an | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
independent observer to verify that she has done it. Anna made a great | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
start, careering through. Hurtling past Hearst Castle and rocketing | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
past the Needles. I think she is a very brave lady. I wouldn't want to | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
be out in that water. It is just absolutely mind—boggling what she is | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
doing. Mind—boggling, that is one word for it. With me is one of | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Anna's support team. Can she make it? Of course you can. She has never | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
been so determined, we cannot keep up with her. We are part of the | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
shore—based team who are fundraising. We have got a 250 K | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
target. We need people to go to her website to donate because we cannot | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
keep up with her. How have the public than reacting? They are | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
loving it. We need to fund raise. The hard bit is still to come. Back | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
to you. Still to come: This woman takes a close—up look. Join me later | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
when I have my first lesson in this bad boy. | :12:21. | :12:29. | |
The mother of a soldier serving in Afghanistan has described her as she | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
felt sick to the stomach when she opened a letter and a wooden cross | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
with a poppy on it fell out. It is part of a direct marketing campaign | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
by the Royal British Legion. It is not the first time the Royal British | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Legion's letters have caused upset. The organisation has apologised for | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
any distress it may have caused. The first thing that happens, the cross | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
fell out of my lap. It was the most heart—wrenching, gutless feeling I | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
have ever felt in my life. The whole world went through the floor. Joe | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Edwards lives on the Isle of Wight and does not want to identify her | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
son. She admires the work of the Royal British Legion and is | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
surprised by what she feels is the thoughtlessness. To me across | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
signifies a grave, a death. My son being over there at the moment, I | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
did not need to see that. I need to know that he is going to come back | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
safe and sound. And not be reminded of the dangerous situation that he | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
is in along with everybody else. The crosses are meant to provide a | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
tangible and meaningful way of helping people honour the memory of | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
a loved one who may have died in service. More than 100,000 people | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
send them back to Royal British Legion each year with personal | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
messages on, many accompanied by donations. The Legion then plans | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
them in the fields of remembrance in their behalf —— on their behalf. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
This isn't the first time their envelopes of upset people. In a | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
statement, the Royal British Legion told us it empathises with Joan | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
Edwards. It says it is very sorry for any distress caused. The | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
envelopes carry a message in small print offering sincerest apologies | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
for any upset caused if the letter arrives at an inappropriate time. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Thousands of residents in Surrey have signed a petition calling for | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
professional cycling races in the county to be scrapped. The Tour of | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Britain race arrives in Guildford tomorrow and once again there will | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
be a series of rolling road closures. Some residents say it's | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
like being "kettled" in their own homes — a reference to the police | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
tactic of restricting the movement of protestors. Ben Moore reports. | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
It's almost like a chain reaction in Guildford when the cycling comes to | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
town, the roads are closed. Now some residents in the middle of the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
course wish cycling would get on its bike. | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
The entrance to and from my property leads me to a road that is closed. I | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
cannot get out of my house in a motor vehicle and SI wish to leave | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
before 5am or come home after 7pm. How do you feel? Kettled, to use an | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
expression. More than 60,000 cyclists took part | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
in the riding event this summer. Some roads were closed for many | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
hours. Tomorrow's event is for professionals, so some of the | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
cycling chaos should be avoided. We have had a consultation that has | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
gone out to individuals and residents, talking about what we can | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
do to make this less inconvenient. Surrey has been a focus for cycling | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
since the Olympics. It is that legacy that is also causing | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
problems. This whole part of the county is | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
absolutely saturated with people who wish to be like the Olympic road | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
racers. Businesses on the course say that | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
despite the popularity of races, they are not cashing in. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
It is putting our normal customers of the area, because they are slowed | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
down by the cyclists. They ride three or four abreast on the country | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
lanes, and it becomes a real nuisance for them to come out and | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
use the local businesses. Tomorrow, the finish line will be | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
packed, testament to the popularity of the sport. Surrey post—Olympics | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
is making the sport its own. But it is hoped that the popularity of the | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
cycling will not be a divisive issue for those and to wheels or not. | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
It's an interesting debate, because the Tour of Britain is big this | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
year. It has proved a hit with cycling fans, sporting fans. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Indeed, it is the other side of the coin of the Bradley Wiggins affect. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
We start off with another sport, World Cup qualifying starts for | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Britain's —— England's women tomorrow. England had a difficult | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
summer with poor performances in the British Championships, which led to | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
the sacking of manager Hope Powell. Tomorrow, temporary boss Trent Hills | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
is in charge, and with the visitors from Turkey to Fratton Park. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
There are a few new additions to the team, so everyone will be looking | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
forward to being a bit better than a few months ago. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
That match is live on BBC One tomorrow from 9:50am. In the Premier | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
League, Southampton travel away. After a 0—0 game, it means that | :17:56. | :18:05. | |
Saints have lost only once, but they have struggled to score. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Reading have signed form and Southampton defender —— defender, | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
and also Saints striker Billy Sharpe could be set to join him. They are | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
trying to bring the man aside from Doncaster to them. Also, a record | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
signing of tequila ran the pipe once must could lead to a leading start | :18:29. | :18:41. | |
—— coq lo Runcie. Don't forget, there is commentary on all of the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
matches later. In cricket, Surrey has been | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
relegated to the second—tier of the championships. Surrey gambled and | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
forfeiting as they needed to win to stay in the Division One. But they | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
did not pay off, Warwickshire won by six wickets. | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
Ben Ainslie and Oracle USA stayed alive in the Americas cup | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
yesterday, after beating team New Zealand. Yesterday's game was as | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
boned until today. The Kiwis lead 8—2. —— was aspirant until today. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
The Kiwis need only one more race to win the trophy. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Making the change from enthusiastic amateur to contender must be one of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the most exciting and difficult tasks. It certainly will be for a | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
Dorset teenager, George Rogers has cerebral palsy. He is setting his | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
sights on the Paralympics, but tomorrow he is setting itself a | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
different fundraising challenge. George has only been swimming | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
competitively for two years. He wants to progress. But if he needs | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to races game, he needs to raise some cash. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
I need to be at every competition, you need to be up three places at | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
once in order to get your name into the Paralympics swimming world. You | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
cannot do that without substantial financial backing. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
He is in training now, not force women competitions but for the | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
fundraising challenge he has set himself, —— not for swimming | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
competitions. He will be walking, in a kayak and in his racing | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
wheelchair. He is under no dissolution of how hard it will be. | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
With my training, it will be very challenging thing to do, especially | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
as I have just got out of a kayak. Travelling to accommodation and | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
competitions will cost £5,000 a year and will increase if he competes | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
abroad. It is the challenge itself that holds the appeal. It is a | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
difficult time for teenagers with a disability. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
When people start achieving in the sport, their self—esteem goes | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
through the roof. That has happened to George. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
I would go mad without this sport. I would not like to not be able to do | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
it myself. His team is to —— his dream is to | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
competes in team GB in the Paralympics. He is looking forward | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
to future competitions. Quick mention, the Portsmouth | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
triathlon, good luck to all the 700 competitors taking part. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
A national conference with the American football taking place too, | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
good luck to them. Here is Sarah Farmer with the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
weather. Is there a good weekend? Yes, it could warm up a bit as we go | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
through the week. We will look at the weather now. Newbury Racecourse | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
had glorious sunshine. This is Benjy. He is drying off in | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
the sun. He was photographed by his owner. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
This is the picture of the Monet Pond at the Queen Elizabeth Country | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
Park, it is in sunshine. Whichever picture you look at, they | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
are all beautiful. There will be some good weather, but | :22:21. | :22:34. | |
there will be cloudy skies as you move into the evening. The class | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
will perhaps be thick enough to produce some rain or drizzle. Some | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
—— our temperatures tonight down to ten or 11 degrees. We start tomorrow | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
and at weekends on a cloudy note. We are looking at seeing maybe some | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
light rain in the picture, that should gradually cleared through the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
day. We was to see the cloud winning and breaking. Some sunny spells | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
developing in the south. Temperatures at 16, 17 or 18 | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
degrees. Some decent sunshine, might make those temperatures go up to 20 | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
degrees. So a pleasant afternoon. Tomorrow evening looking fine as | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
well with some sunshine. But we will see the cloud increasing through | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
tomorrow night, some patches of mist and fog developing. Relatively mild, | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
temperatures 14 or 15 degrees, but Saturday morning starts with low | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
cloud around and patchy mist and fog will lift throughout the morning. | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Sunday itself will be a decent day, most of us will be dry, but there | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
will be some drizzle in the picture. As we start the new working week, we | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
have this every of high—pressure from the continent, winning is some | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
dry conditions. As we start Monday, we have some dry and settled | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
conditions to come. Most others will have a dry day with some good sunny | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
spells. It will be pleasantly warm in the sunshine. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
We will look at the summary for the current days. There will be some | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
cloud through the days on Saturday and Sunday, improving into the | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
afternoon. Monday, there will be some brightness and the temperatures | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
will climb a little. Very good indeed. We will be looking | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
at the town meeting the country and food producers meeting their | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
customers. Yes, it is a celebration of all | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
things rural with great food and farming machinery. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
And thousands will be flocking to the Showgrounds near Newbury for the | :24:43. | :24:58. | |
current events. This is the Berkshire Showgrounds. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
There will be livestock and even a hot—air balloon. Today, it is about | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
putting the finishing touches to the showground. Final preparations are | :25:07. | :25:19. | |
under way. We are very lucky in our county. We | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
have a lovely mix, to the east there is some real industry and business, | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
and in the West we have very rural areas with farming. The show brings | :25:34. | :25:42. | |
the two areas together. Amongst the marquees and sales | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
stands, the education tends shows work from local schools. | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
We took our children to the seaside to have a first—hand experience. The | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
children became deep sea explorers and invented their own creatures. | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Coming to the show gives us a chance to celebrate the children's work and | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
show it off. Time for a wash, cuts and hairdryer. | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
Sadly not for me. Put this in the bucket. Brush left | :26:14. | :26:25. | |
and right on her feet. The merger is coming off. That is | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
what we are after! —— the moat is coming off. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
It is my first time on the tractor. You have a very fancy tractor. Yes, | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
it will steer you up the field and then it will guide steer you at —— | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
up the field, although you will have to turn the corner. Can I have a | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
drive? Yes. You are sitting on two questions of | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
air, one in the cab and one above to give you some comfort. I was quite | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
nervous driving that, because it is such a huge vehicle and a different | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
aspect of software you are on the road will stop it is time to get | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
back to the office. Which way to the A34? | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
We thought you were late getting back. But we are very jealous. I | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
went 65 miles an hour. The show continues over the weekend? Yes, | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
both on Saturday and Sunday. It will be great. We will leave you tonight | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
with some live shots across the Needles at censure —— sunset. See | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
you on Monday. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:47. |