21/07/2011 East Midlands Today

In this is East Midlands Today, with Dominic Heale and Kylie

Pentelow. Our top story - the police hunt for a bogus doctor

who's sexually abusing elderly women.

Because the victims are elderly, and because of the sexual element,

I would put it as very, very, very serious. Also tonight, in critical

condition, the hospitals that have blown their budget.

Pulled up for not wearing a seatbelt, police make drivers an

offer which is hard to refuse. can watch this three-minute DVD or

take a fine of �60. Plus, we're with the children of Chernobyl, who

are benefiting from the healthcare Good evening. First, police have

issued an urgent warning to the elderly after two women were

sexually assaulted by a man posing as a doctor. In both cases, the

bogus GP claimed he had been sent to examine them. Our chief news

reporter is in our newsroom. Over to Quentin Rayner. The lead

detective told me this evening that given the nature of these sexual

assaults, he regards these attacks as very, very serious. They both

occurred in Nottinghamshire and both followed a similar pattern.

The first one happened on Tuesday 24th May in Sutton-in-Ashfield. An

24th May in Sutton-in-Ashfield. An 89-year-old woman was visited by a

smartly dressed man, claiming to be had up to, and saying he needed to

examine her. He sexually assaulted her. In the second attack, a 74-

her. In the second attack, a 74- year-old woman was sexually

assaulted. I cannot go into specific details,

but what happens within the household, what is said and done,

makes us believe they are linked. Clearly we fear it could happen

again, so I would like to warn people, not just the elderly, but

family members of elderly females and also the local communities,

please look after the elderly, and please do not let anyone into your

house purporting to be a doctor unless you know that person or you

have checked by winning the GP. -- by ringing the GP. Police have

managed to get some form of description from the victims. He is

described as white, aged between 40 and 60, with a slim build. It is

believed he was wearing a pin- striped suit. Police are asking

anyone who might have information Next, the NHS Trust that's going

bust. It costs �2 million a day to run the three hospitals which make

up the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust. But between them,

the Glenfield, the Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General are

haemorrhaging cash. Bosses say drastic action is needed. Despite

efforts to make cuts, not enough money is being saved, and more

radical treatment is now being prescribed. Unions fear patients

will suffer. We can go over to Rob Sissons at Leicester General. Good

evening. They reckon hundreds of posts will have to go because of

this financial crisis. There's likely to be a trawl for volunteers,

and the offer of severance pay if the Treasury gives the go-ahead,

rather than more attractive redundancy pay. Ideas being looked

at include using operating theatres, reducing the stays of patients in

hospital and reducing readmission rates. Today, some other

controversial suggestions have also been mentioned. Half of Leicester

hospital's services lose money. Too many beds were kept open and

staffed after the winter, and temporary staff on premium rates.

�8 million overspend, just four months into the financial year.

you take �8 million in one quarter, and multiply it by four, that's �32

million. That would affect our ability to continue. Now, the top

boss says more radical action is needed. Otherwise they will not be

able to pay the 10,000 staff. is going to happen to accident and

emergency, maternity units? That's isn't the demand is not going to

stop. Making better use of theatre time is just one idea. But some

groups fear patient care will suffer. This campaign are challenge

the directors, earning more than �100,000 a year, to take a 10% pay

cut. For those people earning hefty salaries, it would not be too much

for them to concede a small percentage of the salary at this

stage on a temporary basis. Also controversial, hospital Karl Pryce

-- car park prices look like going up for both staff and patients.

Many staff will see this as them paying the price for the financial

Missen management of UHL, by Do the bosses really think that

putting up car parking charges will help them cut that debt?

parking charges is a real poisoned chalice. These are the fees at the

moment. They claim these short stay rates are the cheapest in the East

Midlands at any acute hospital. Also, that call for executives to

take a pay cut - I can reveal that at least one director has taken a

pay cut, from my sources, but they have not gone public about it. We

will not know who it is until we see the accounts. But there will

now be pressure on others to do the same.

A man is still being held by police after he was arrested following a

serious sexual assault on a 10- year-old boy in Nottinghamshire.

Police were called to woodland near the village of Rainworth yesterday.

They arrested a 43-year-old man in Ollerton in connection with the

attack. A man has been banned from

travelling to West Bridgford in Nottingham and given a suspended

jail sentence after admitting involvement in the placing of a

pig's head on a pole outside a planned mosque. 25-year-old

Christopher Payne, from Hucknall, was a member of the English Defence

League. He pleaded guilty to racially aggravated public-order

offences. The court heard he had also daubed offensive graffiti.

Payne will also have to do 100 hours' community service.

Still to come - the nuclear disaster that's affecting a whole

new generation. They are the children of the children of

Chernobyl, and they have come here Before then, an offer errant

drivers may find hard to refuse - pay an instant fine for breaking

the law or agree to an on-the-spot safety lesson. Today, dozens of

drivers were stopped for various offences, but instead of

prosecution, there were offered education. Paul Bradshaw reports.

You have been spotted not wearing a seatbelt... Another motorist is

cautioned as part of Operation Fatal 4. The road policing unit was

in Coalville on the lookout for miscreant drivers. What we're doing

today, as an alternative to prosecution, we are putting the

drivers through this educational workshop, showing them DVDs which a

graphic and giving them some idea of what can happen on the road by

indulging in these Fatal 4 offences. Police stopped more than 60

vehicles in total, mostly for people not wearing a seatbelt.

was my fault for not wearing a seatbelt. But my own safety is not

always in my hands. Obviously, lives can be taken for not wearing

seatbelts, so I will make sure I wear mine all of the time from now

on. It has been very informative and I have taken note. I do not

really want to have it happen to me. It does make you think and

obviously it is better than a �60 fine. People do not realise the

damage they can do to themselves if they are not wearing seatbelts, or

indeed, using mobile phones, doing damage to others. Officers hope

Fatal 4 will help motorists avoid making a fatal flaw.

Now, in many cases, our bins are collected for lack the. To try to

cut down on landfill, Leicestershire County Council

thought it had the answer, a �68 million incinerator. But the plans

have now been shelved. So what next for our rubbish? This is what

Leicestershire County Council had in mind for the future of our

rubbish. But three years after planning began, the Government

withdrew its funding, and the scheme is now in the rubbish bin as

well. Except this is costly waste. Around �1.5 million has been spent

on the plans, and that does not include the cost of buying the land

near Coalville. It is very disappointing. We have private

finance in place, we were ready to go. It can now no longer happen.

But Leicestershire's waste will certainly be looked after. This was

going to be the site. It would have dealt with thousands of tons of

rubbish every year. But while the plans have gone away, and locals

are delighted, we have still got the problem of what to do with our

rubbish. We are delighted to win this battle, but what we have to do

about the rubbish, we have to start at the top, we have to stop buying

things. We have to cut out the carrier bags, we have to we used

before we recycle. That's right. We have got to save the resources we

have. -- we have got to re- use. The first thing is education and

packaging and paper recycling. There's loads of alternatives to

this - re-using, recycling, composting. If you look at

recycling rates in Germany, they are vastly more than here. We have

got to up our game. As a nation which relies on landfill, will all

of this be enough? Just as the school holidays are

starting, a museum in Derbyshire has temporarily closed because of a

flood. Water pipes have burst at the Museum of Childhood. The main

collection has not been damaged. The main building is open as normal.

It is hoped people will be able to visit again from Monday, after the

water has been mopped up. The Derby train maker Bombardier

has reacted with scepticism to a hint from Pinter about new

government contracts to avoid huge redundancies. David Cameron said

work for the London Underground could be brought forward to avoid

Bombardier having to mothball its Derby works or indeed pulling out

of the UK altogether. We have been following the latest developments -

why is the company apparently unconvinced by this? First of all,

Bombardier a wrapping up a contract to build 47 carriages for the

Victoria line at the moment. The Prime Minister is hinting at

bringing forward contract which will in the pipeline, for example,

upgrading existing carriages on the rest of the London Underground. And

perhaps there is also promise of bringing forward work for CrossRail,

also in London. But when I spoke to Bombardier's boss this afternoon,

he said his main priority was the Thameslink contract which so

controversially went to Siemens. For us, the main thing is that

Thameslink is still not a done deal. It is still at a preferred bidder

stage. We are a reserved bidder, and we are very hopeful that in the

negotiations which take place, there could be issues where we get

called upon, and we will be very willing and able to step up to the

mark. More political fall-out tonight on this Thameslink

contract? The Government has admitted that the Transport

Secretary, Philip Hammond, was not told the name of the two main

bidders for the Thameslink contract before he made the decision. The

Labour Party have seized on this, because Labour's spokesman John

Denham has said this evening it beggars belief that the Transport

Secretary was not told by his own officials that the contract for

this �1.4 billion deal was going to Germany, rather than staying at

Bombardier in the UK. Very quickly, what is happening for the

Bombardier workers? They are being offered the possibility of working

for Jaguar Land Rover, who are about to take on 1,000 skilled

engineers. So that gives them the prospect of working an hour down

the road in Solihull. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

happened 25 years ago, but still, the people living nearby are

suffering from the effects of radiation. Each year, a group of

children come to the East Midlands for one month, a trip which is

thought to vastly increase their life expectancy. They have

important health checks which they do not get back home. This report

from Sarah Teale. This is the second year this Nottingham mother

has been a host for children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear

disaster. She has opened her home to 11-year-old girls from the

Ukraine and from Belarus. When they first come, they're

really shy and timid, they seem listless and lifeless, in a way.

But after four weeks, they seem to be thriving. Chernobyl was the

world's worst nuclear disaster at. It was 25 years ago now, but the

people there are still affected by the radioactive exposure. So, part

of this stay in England includes health checks, and today, it is the

dentist. It all started when a patient of

mine was looking after one of the children, and asked me to see them

because they had a discoloured tooth. And it has snowballed since

then. We have been seeing them for more than 10 years now. My wife and

I have hosted since 2001. We are still in touch with our first

children that came over, who are now both at university. It is

incredible to have that link. host families are always needed,

and there's an astonishing statistic to prove just how vital

the trips are. Every four weeks spent in this country is believed

to add two years to the life expectancy of the visiting child.

It is all down to things that we take for granted - cleaner, clean

water and good food. -- clean air. When they're asked whether they

enjoy the trips, we do not need an This week we have been

investigating the increasing number of large wind turbines in our

region. But within a few months, the East Midlands has also become

the solar capital of Britain. Anthony Bartram reports from the

latest solar farm to go live. Carefully planted, row after row,

these once-green fields of Nottinghshire are harvesting power

from the sun. The scale can only be appreciated from above. You could

fit 20 football pitches in here, and they want to get almost five

megawatts of power out. Roger Pykett's family has farmed this

land for four generations. He has seen it transformed in just a few

weeks. It is awesome to transform it from horses and arable into a

power station within six weeks. Hawton is almost -- is one of

almost a dozen solar farms built across the region since February,

each one bigger than the last. Why the rush? Companies are trying to

beat a deadline at the end of this month which will drastically cut

the amount of money sites like this can earn by feeding power into the

national grid. Where wind farms have often triggered objections,

the planning application for this went through in a month, with

strong local support. As far as I can see, it is a kind of low impact,

high yield thing, really. There is a proposal that they are going to

build another 5,000 houses around here. So it will help those. Five

megawatts is enough for 1,300 homes. The Government says there will be

many left for smaller projects, too. Still to come on the programme -

the final chapter for a school where one of our most famous

Time now for the sport. Thank you. After days of speculation,

Nottingham Forest have confirmed that Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has

been appointed first-team coach. It reunites him with former boss Steve

McClaren, who signed him at Middlesbrough. Hasselbaink was a

prolific goalscorer during his playing carrier, before retiring in

2008 and going into coaching, and working with McLaren during his

time at FC Twente. No news yet on Forest's other Dutch target, George

Boateng. Meanwhile, Notts County have had a bid for Paul Benson

accepted. His goalscoring record was enough for Notts County to

offer �150,000 for his services. Olympic gold medal winner Tim

Brabants has suffered a major blow with just over a year to go until

the London Games. Brabants, a doctor in Nottingham, failed to

make the team for the World Championships after losing a race

off in the 1,000m canoe sprint. Three years ago he became Britain's

first ever Olympic gold medal- winner in canoeing.

Our other gold medal winner in Beijing was of course Rebecca

Adlington. She's with the British team for the World Championships in

Shanghai. Alongside her is a teenager from Derbyshire called

Molly Renshaw. And her place in the national squad came right out of

the blue. Ross Flechter reports. Early morning in the Derbyshire

village, and a regular training session for a slightly redact and

Molly Renshaw. -- slightly reluctant. She does it four

mornings a week. Her mother comes armed with a trusted?. She tends to

get in the pool and swim, and I can sweep in the car for a couple of

hours. -- sleep. That's before I go to work. I bring an extra sleeping

bag in winter as well. But the huge dedication has brought even greater

rewards. Molly smashed her personal best at the recent national

championships. She got silver in the 200m breaststroke, earning her

a place in the World Championships, and wait for this, she's only 15.

did not think I could go that fast. She has been consistently at the

national events. But to have his meteoric rise into the senior

British team is a bit of a surprise, not just for us, but for British

swimming. Despite her rapid rise, the pressure is off. The trip to

Shanghai is a chance to mix with the likes of Rebecca Adlington.

Does Molly know what to expect? do not know, but it will be a good

experience. It is going to be tough, no doubt about it. We're going in

with our eyes open, we know she is ranked about 25th in the world. C

lido expectation for her to win a medal. Whisper it quietly, there is

an ambition to make the team for Cricket, and there has been some

play today. Stuart Broad has kept his place in the England team for

the Test match with India. In the County Championship, after the

washout yesterday, Nottinghamshire are responding to Hampshire's 213.

At Leicester, James Taylor finished on 168 not out in their game with

Sri Lanka A. Schools across the East Midlands

are closing for the summer holidays today, but one historic school is

shutting for good. Pupils at the primary school that DH Lawrence

went to a moving across the road to a new �6 million cool. But as Peter

Snow reports, they were not forget their links to the famous writer.

Head teacher Donna Chambers is the latest in a long line of head

teachers in the same building since 1878. But she will be the last.

She's moving with the school on to a brand new site, leaving behind a

Grade II listed building with a special historic connection.

Lawrence himself was a pupil here in the 1890s. When we amalgamated

to years ago, we could not all fit in here, so we had to move. The

doors are closing on education children for the last time here.

But the building will always be here. It makes you proud, because

you're in the same building as DH Lawrence was. You actually went to

the same school as DH Lawrence. He also taught here. It makes you feel

like so key part of the history. Wonderful, it evokes marvellous

memories, we had some fabulous teachers, like Mr Oldbury, the

headmaster. The teacher commented, whatever next? We have lost India,

now the king has died. It was very good, I can remember my first

headmaster, Mr Mallett. He was a man I'm going to say I detested, to

be quite honest. Just nearby is the new school, costing �6 million. But

for the old school, the future is less certain. It is no longer

needed by education so it will be marketed. It is a listed building,

so we shall see. So, after 133 years, the school will empty for

We were just saying, we like a bit We were just saying, we like a bit

of DH Lawrence. It's time now for the weather forecast.

This weekend the weather is going to be a bit divided. First, we have

got quite a spectacular picture to show you. This was captured the

other evening. We're going to start to see the showers gradually fading

this evening. The skies will also start to clear-up behind those

showers. First thing tomorrow morning, it is going to be the

drier part of the day. After that, the cloud will be increasing once

again. And there will be a few showers around. There will be a

northerly breeze. Now, the weekend's weather. It will be a bit

divided. We have got low pressure sitting out in the North Sea, which

is likely to push some cloud in our direction. If you're heading to

Skegness, it will be quite a cool there. And there's the possibility

of a few showers as well. The further west you go this weekend,

the more sunshine you will see. The rain is never very far away. The

weather front will be producing quite a bit of cloud as well. The