Just a moment. To . It's a very special day for the city center of forces of the 1st Battalion The Rifles if you. Actually this lunchtime going to be treated to the one ruffles homecoming freedom parade through the city at the parade is to welcome home the battalion after their operation a tour in Afghanistan are getting ready to host in the morning is the mayor of Los the cats the common organ who joins me in the studio Good morning Colleen good morning to you on a very busy day for you you're such a lunchtime then we'll talk about what's going on here with with the rifles just explain then a bit about the freedom March and its relevance to Gloucester The rifles are in fact returning from their duties in Afghanistan and the operations there were mainly humanitarian and they're coming to join us in the city to exercise their freedom of the city which we granted them back in 2011 we have the 1st rifle 6 battalion Gloucester army cadets the rifle regiment supporting veterans and members of the Lost City Council and the rifles ban will also be performing in the person and so quite a big day for Gloucester we're really looking forward to seeing them and I'm sure it's going to be a great spectacle you are going to say there is going to be a spectacle is innocent of all of those troops plus as you said not just the Battalion but also the veterans and the cadets as well all part of this and the band it's yeah it's going to be quite incredible Christmas shopping if you did if you didn't know it was going to happen certainly going to be blown away by this early absolutely all we need Steve is a little bit of decent Well fingers crossed I think just last night how important is it to have the battalion attached to the city center have this freedom and then and this freedom March it means an awful lot to us because obviously our association goes way back into history and in fact to the original Gloucestershire Regiment So it does mean an awful lot to us and of course having the Indian barracks you know just a. Miles from us as well it is really really something special for Gloucester we're very proud of our armed services Yeah and these guys of course based Beachley home for Christmas which will be great for their service of their products that's like Christmas will be great for them and their families it'll it'll be really really fabulous Yeah I am what's your role on the day then so what have you what will you be doing as part of this right well we start off but 10 o'clock to get into our ceremonial role with them processed down to Gloucester Cathedral where the troops will be seated there is a cathedral service which takes place at 11 o'clock. And then we then process back to the Guild Hall the troops will form up and then they'll start at about 1215 from the cathedral and then we take the salute. 1225 and then from there we all move into King Square where there be a reception for the troops and we end around about 2 o'clock prince asked a couple of local businesses have got involved and put on the food and drink for them as well so it's a real kind of welcome from the city not just from the dignitaries it is it just shows that the business is also welcome you know this event and to pay respect to the troops and their families and everything else and they've been really really supportive from from that point of view yeah I guess this is one of the reasons why you are suggest becoming American it to be involved in events like this. It is one of them still. There it's never boring I must admit been a mare you never quite know what you're going to do next and I think it is quite exciting but yeah it's very very full on I can assure you no matter especially this time of the year so it's not just this you do today what else are you out. Well for here I oversee go to to start this this particular parade and procession from there I I'm going to try to get out to quite chilly where there is a church fete there taking place and from there I'm back in to North warehouse to get back into ropes to process back into the city to do the tree of light which is our by the Rotarians that's always a super super charity event take place and they've got a recession this year and this is yeah. Well you know for the recession yeah I'll do it again yeah so roped twice in in one day so if you pop into if you pop into the city at large time and you see the bad part of the recession and then you think oh I forgot something pop up later you'll still be numbers are still be all it was . Still be there and from there we then go to the Salvation Army to celebrate our 140th anniversary there and up to now I haven't got one after that probably be about 10 o'clock to like you know better but what a great what a great day to be part of all of this going on a gloss that is plenty going on that is the center and it is it is and as you're aware also to link him with that next week for the we will be subject to counsel's approval we will be given freedom of the city to actually our or our allied rapid reaction Corps which is in Jim barracks effectively rain a lot of b.s. . Thing to happen as well brilliant thank you so much for taking its time to come in and explain all this morning yeah you can get ready for the ropes that they're going to you're not even. Going to be under on the back to get you very much Mary gloss the colleen organ joining us in the studio this morning then on this very special day for the city center of Gloucester this lunchtime and kicking it all off. With the freedom parade through the city and a little later on in the program we'll catch up as well with the rifles themselves somewhere like catch up with the rifle Scotty can't account for Gloucestershire at how many ads. And we get through and so nautical. Off of the Wilson Show and the stuff to make likely I. Must. Say. It's 90 minutes past 7 Good morning. Now does the name only skim some mean anything to you. I lived and worked in satellites and hearing loss this year for most of his life and it was there that he became a very famous as one of the key designers in the Arts and Crafts movement and this year actually marks the centenary of his death so his work is going to be celebrated in a brand new exhibition that opens today at the Wilson in Cheltenham it's basically a mixture of items how by the Wilson with other pieces that are in loan from all over the country a baby where to go says Joe Duran went along to the Wilson as the loans were arriving and there she met Kirsty r c o 6. This exhibition of an instance in features all of the crafts that he was involved in is really quite a lot so we've got the 1st kind of props that he learnt to do himself so he was a chair Bodger and that was one of the things that he did early on in the 8090 s. When he arrived here in Gloucestershire and we've got one of the chairs that he made by himself it's not the best chair in the world but you know starting out at that point he also made plaster work as well he made that game with his own hands and then he also designed furniture as well so more cabinet making and joinery and we've got quite a lot of that on the show both from Mark lections but also really generous loans from around the country he designed metalwork and he also designed for his family members only embroidery designs and we've got some really beautiful examples of those from family members both in our collection and from the Johnson family themselves there's a few that you said are already here at the will so that you've got back we've got a piece of furniture over here haven't Wayne and it is got 3 drawers that either side and then this lovely cabinet so most incredible wood and then at the back of it sort of little slats hasn't it can you tell me about this one so this is a sideboard. It was made during the 1st World War It's a combination of different wood so it will not and that was a really favorite word of Jensen's it has a beautiful grain to it but the plate rack at the back of that kind of latches structure that's made of something called Macassar Ebony one of the things that Jimson like to do is to look around him in the rural area and see what he could adapt and so it looks very much like the side of a Gloucestershire wagon so a lot of items here I said are in boxes and crates that we've got let's come over here and got various bits of tissue here what do we find in some of these boxes or these are some of the loan items that we have got in today in fact it's really exciting really just unpacking them ourselves this particular piece is another wooden item not a piece of furniture though this is a really lovely little box it's a box with stationery now in the Arts and Crafts movement you could have either simplicity or splendor and items that were going to be used for special purposes letter writing is so important so a stationary box is important to keeping in touch with your loved ones and for business and so this item is again it's well not a Macassar Ebony this is the same words but this time it's been inlaid with mother of pearl which we can see glimmering here little diamonds of mother of pearl in the box. He was fascinated by textiles used to take with him a piece of William Morris cloth so they had something nice to look at in horrible rooms in pubs and so on when he was travelling this is. Up. This beautiful so it's wooden frame dissin and it's beautiful embroidery where we've got we've got a tree I can see some animals in there and then some wording as well and it's very much based on 17th and 18th century samples which would have been made by you know girls as young as 9 or 10 this was made by quite a young girl actually it's a cousin of his Phyllis lovable and it's quite funny. Did but we've got the original design for this and you can see then how bright the colors where it's obviously been on the wall in the family home for a long time but what really stands out and my favorite thing on here the kind of mysterious nature of Jim's imagination because we've got a black cat climbing up on to a bird house and the birds are just about to fly away and all of these things the birds in the little tree that is the central section with 2 deer on either side it's very much inspired by textiles of the past but also picks on up on Jim's love nature. Now we go behind the scenes. This with b.b.c. Radical shoes Joe Daryn's at the Wilson art gallery and museum the exhibition the unit skips an exhibition opens today it runs until the 25th of February to get 5 pounds 3 pounds concessions and the fives go in free there but to celebrate somebody from Gloucester then he's perhaps not celebrated enough say how much I question your kind of parenting skills you know why they. Need 8 yet. David Smith. Lad So there's been a lot of winching overnight is that you. Feel for. A game on half the day she has to distill as you want to view to me when I'm still like this I wouldn't want to talk to me for saying that he's a dog that holds a grudge. Saturday mornings from my day to me Saturday. B.b.c. Radio Gloucestershire. You have a bet with you this morning from 9 o'clock with Professor Adam Harvey in the University of Gloucestershire in the studio for the science sas to find out if dogs hold grudges and many other things that you've always wondered how you put your questions to Adam during the program also hear from friends Leanne Shelley from the county who 2 years ago created a product that is basically a shower tablet that creates an m aroma therapy experience and since then they've enjoyed incredible success the fun of it about their story with a this morning from 9 o'clock David back with you at lunch time with Elaine proverbs who will be joining him live from the British national borin Championships at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool she's made her way up there from Gloucestershire to catch up with Elaine a little later on and then hopefully as much day you've got a choice of listening with the Chapman time our forest green Rovers in action whichever one you choose from from 3 o'clock. Kitchen b.b.c. Radio Gloucestershire. Sporting News this morning England's bowl a straw. To make inroads on day 3 of the 1st Test against New Zealand after an unbeaten century from b.j. Watching put the hosts in control only 2 wickets fell all day is the Black Caps close 41 runs ahead at 394 for 6209 behind in their coach Chris dismissed suggestions his side put in the performances fast as the pitch was a flop. Is a flop which. I did enjoy but we implemented plans and we gave them time to work and we stopped. Short of the ball obviously. It's been a bit different that's again on the football having lost at home to Plymouth last week forest green will try to get back to winning ways at Leyton Orient today rovers have the joint best away record in League 2 and head coach Mark Cooper says there can be more opportunities on the road especially on the counter-attack the. Pitch space to play. Test away from home. Rovers on the road then a lower frequency is the softer in apart from da be a match they were chairman Tan against coaches' United at one road the robins returned home after last Saturday's draw taxes and choose the f.a. Cup win at Swindon while cultures to have gone a fortnight without a game and the chant of manager Michael says it's anyone's guess who that favors. I'm sure after. They look fresh. Which is what we've got to. Do with the thought of that when they reached the top of the league. Elsewhere no game for gloss the city today they take on Bradford Park Avenue in the f.a. Trophy that game taking place tomorrow in the summer league division one side syndicate host benefit sorry sister and Steyn Winchester and slim bridge welcome willand to Thornhill park in rugby Gloucester plates are more of course in France against. Have a. And often the chairmanship syndicate do play they go to struggling rather than toxins in National Division one Gloucestershire racing train and Davis' 2 runners in the big race of the day the Betfair Chase. Is the outsider in a 4 run a field well pressed of the miners the 65 favorite having won the race for the last 2 years and jockey Darren Jacob is rushing the chance of a hat trick in annual showpiece it's won every jockey dreams of his getting right in good races and getting good razor. Haydock all these good meetings and to me national remember defense drops you humongous So it's a very very good test of arson You know one of you coming to. Closure on the big meet it's always special. Dan Evans secured huge singles wins to help put a great beat Germany and send them through to the Davis Cup semifinals for the team when they face hosts Spain Good luck to them I'd. On the ground. Look at the roads and thank you good morning let's stop and that with the ongoing flooding issues said he would claim the course is closed for flooding as is the how it was rolled into. At last all shot has been of course since last Friday that's still the case unfortunately Santa has lain between the 14 Santas that's also still close as it's way into the lane in the Apple a the southbound side setting down towards the Red Lion shuts as well major routes to Rome to help them on the move nicely no problems through Stroud and siren says to em 5 and 50 starting to get to. It is for a Saturday morning but in the main nicely on the move that's it for them. Just before 8 o'clock thank you very much Jules responding 101217575 your free phone number to go. Timeout 732 to get b.b.c. News headlines for Gloucestershire with Duncan Jeremy gobby and has told voters he will take any neutral stance in another break set referendum if Labor wins power speaking on a b.b.c. Question Time special involving the leaders of the 4 main parties at Westminster Mr Corben said such a position where they allow him as prime minister to credibly carry out the results of the vote the audience also pressed Boris Johnson on whether he could be trusted on the s.n.p. As Nicolas Sturgeon was asked about whether she'd prioritise Scottish independence over other issues the Liberal Democrat leader Joseph winsome was challenged over her party's support for scrapping breaks it with voters accusing her of ignoring the will of the people I just think we have to level and be straightforward about it we are true European party we always have and if we fight an election on the basis of stopping breaks that people who give us a majority don't be surprised if we don't stop right there but as I say we have a lead that campaign for a people's vote and we with more liberal Democrat m.p. Is in the next parliament campaign for a people's vote if we're not able to revoke the Environment Agency keeping an eye on the weather in Gloucestershire with more rain forecast today the agency warns it could lead to localise service flooding and river flooding with showers falling on already wet ground there are currently 2 flood warnings in place for the river $77.00 ham and happily and the lady the homecoming of 1st Battalion The Rifles from Afghanistan will be marked today with a freedom parade in Gloucester the events will welcome the Tallinn home from their current operational tour arrivals return to the barracks in September and October of this year communities across Gloucestershire was a local Christmas lights switched on this weekend events are taking place in new unsplit me and challenge them where there's. A Christmas parade while in Gloucester the tree of light is being switched on an east gay straight so you Smith is from the Rotary Club of glass there they will be snow falling down we've got a couple of princesses joining us as well to help some to turn the lights on and we're actually going to have a procession from the north where house with the mayor and the mock mayor and various of the people joining in and we're going to collect the Dean from the cathedral is then going to join our possession. For the last 26 minutes to spare stone. Pitcher b.b.c. Radio Gloucestershire. Good morning welcome along the road Fresh Air Let's catch up with the latest the weather for Gloucestershire the smaller ones is where the morning Dan how is the morning I thought it was to hurt someone mentions no there and not quite there got some rain today further outbreaks of rain and drizzle for crosses here I'm afraid rather grey overcast a lot of cloud around which to see a lot of the rain clearing away to the north or later on becoming drier for most possible of brightness coming through here in there fairly breezy today the winds coming in from the east or the southeast and Temperature wise we're looking at around 9 or 10 Celsius so many dry it by tonight it could just be the odd hour Breckenridge where the clouds thicker through the night but mainly dry for us a few breaks in that cloud and it's likely we'll see some mist and fog patches well with some low clouds over the hill so quite a murky start for us tomorrow and overnight low of around 5 or 6 Celsius and at the fall could just be a bit slow to clear in some parts a minor thing into low cloud but generally a drier day than today with it more in the way of a brighter spells don't need to break through the cloud and maybe try as I say just a small chance of an isolated shower or a bit of drizzle in places tomorrow with lighter winds and there is a bit more rain moving in overnight into Monday to Matt rates of rain rather unsettled start to the week but becoming drier towards the end of the week currently looking like it will turn a bit cooler by then thank you. A much that's the way you were looking you know the snow is fakes now it's a lot of the Christmas isn't Christmas events and light switch on happening today will keep you up to date with all of those and the something going on where you are let me know about it this morning very easy to get in touch. Always 101217575. Taking your calls you can drop me an e-mail as well as Steve don't kitchen at b.b.c