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Now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Quentin Rayner. Good evening. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
It's hoped that a major new contract for the troubled train- | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
builder Bombardier could provide work for many of the people | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
recently laid off by the company. And it's thought the multi-million | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
pound deal could help to keep the firm's plant in Derby. But Labour | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
says the government should rethink their whole approach to major train | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
building contracts. Simon Hare reports. The future just got | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
brighter for Bombardier's plant in Derby. It has won an order worth | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
�188 million. Work on the 130 carriages for Southern Railway is | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
will start in the second half of next year. This could mean work for | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
a further 12 to 18 months. It is of course one contract of a couple | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
that Bombardier of bidding for at the moment. We are delighted they | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
have won this one and we are in discussions with them about a | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
further contract. It is excellent news for British jobs as well. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
campaigner hopes that there for 200 people laid off in recent months | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
will now be able to return. -- the 1400 people. They were a | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
fundamental part of the workforce and it would be great for them to | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
come back. Hopefully if we could get some more work, then they could | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
be full-time workers. Obviously I am like everybody else, eager | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
really. I would like to get back if possible because I did enjoy | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
working there. It is thought that the deal today will mean that | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Bombardier will keep its Derby plant open in the hope of winning | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
the �1 billion order for the new CrossRail route. After six months | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
of bad news for Bombardier, the year is ending on a high and it has | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
led to renewed hope that Britain's last train builder is here to stay. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
A 60 year old man has appeared in court charged with stabbing a | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
neighbour in the street in Nottinghamshire. Harry Tindall, who | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
was 70, was found injured at Pearl Close in Rainworth on Boxing Day. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. The accused, Jeffrey | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Burton, is expected to make an application for bail at Nottingham | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Crown Court within the next few days. A 54-year-old woman arrested | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
in connection with the incident has been released on police bail | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
pending further enquiries. A man has appeared in court after | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
being charged with the murder of his wife on Christmas Day. Gillian | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Woodward, who was 56, was found dead at her home in Bosden Close in | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Bilborough on Sunday afternoon. She'd been stabbed. Her husband, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Stephen Woodward, appeared before Nottingham magistrates and was | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
remanded in custody to appear at the city's crown court on Friday. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Protesters who've set up their own tent city in the heart of | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Nottingham's Market Square have no plans to leave in the New Year. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
It's now three months since Occupy Nottingham supporters set up their | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
camp, in protest at the financial system. Here's our Political Editor | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
John Hess. Bargain hunters drawn into | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Nottingham for the sales have another attraction to catch the eye. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
It is now 75 days since protesters against the global banking system | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
set up camp in the market square. After three months and with the new | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
year approaching, is it time to pack up? I think they were like an | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
excuse to move us on but at the moment they are not going to and we | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
have the right to be here because this particular land is owned by | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
the citizens of the city of Nottingham. Nottingham City Council | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
and some shoppers are beginning to run out of patience. They should | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
have the right to be here. They have been here for quite some time. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
They should move on. They should move on, yes, it is an I saw. They | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
should definitely move on. support them. They are doing a | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
grand job. The council has a dilemma. While they sympathise with | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
the reasons for the protest, they are hinting that they would rather | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the protesters would move out of the market square. The flag is | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
still flying, but will it still be there to marquee -- to mark Occupy | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Nottingham's first 100 days? An East Midlands authority says | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
it's on track to make efficiency savings this year. Leicestershire | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
County Council needs to save �57 million over four years. Some of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the measures include having fewer and better offices, which will lead | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
to a saving of almost �1 million, and cutting the council's | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
streetlighting energy bill, resulting in a saving of �800,000. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
A textile firm which has invested half a million pounds in new | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
knitwear machinery is planning to expand, bucking the economic trend. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
David Nieper, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, employs 200 | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
people at its factory at Alfreton in Derbyshire. The company says it | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
hopes to continue to expand and is determined to keep all production | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
in Derbyshire to provide more local jobs. This investment has allowed | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
us to increase the work force recently here and over the last two | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
months we have recruited and trained an extra 10 people here. We | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
have expanded the company every year for the last 25 years and we | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
are even growing today during the recession. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Good for them. Most people like a challenge, but a | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
woman from Castle Donington is setting herself quite a task. She | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
is going to the Arctic, with a team of husky dogs. As she hasn't | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
perfected the art of dog sledding yet, she went to Sherwood Forest to | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
have a go. Kylie Pentelow reports. There would normally be a few more, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
but for this training run, just two will do. Amanda Halliday is off to | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the Arctic in April and it all came about because her mother was | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
diagnosed with skin cancer. I have watched her suffer a lot this year. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
It has not been a pleasant experience for her. Hopefully we | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
have got rid of the full-blown cancer now but she is still | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
undergoing treatment for another disease. She is raising money for a | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
skin cancer charity based in West Bridgford. In the Arctic, the dogs | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
will not do all the work. When it is to stick, there is no other | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
option but to get off and push. It is going to be culled. I think we | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
will struggle with the overnight temperatures the most. It will get | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
down to minus 30. We will be tucked up in our nice warm sleeping bags. | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
Even though it will be hard work, she hopes it will be fun as well. | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
That was just amazing. It takes the It has been another mild day today | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
but it might be trying to feel more wintery tomorrow. Temperatures will | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
not be minus 30, will they? Thankfully, none of that in the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
forecast tonight! But it will feel cooler than what we have been used | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
to. Thank you very much to James for this beautiful photograph. The | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
cloud has increased already deceiving and is pushing in over | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
the next few hours, bringing some spots of rain. -- this evening. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Leicestershire will remain mostly dry with clearer spells. Minimum | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
temperatures of four, so colder, and with the strong westerly winds | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
it will feel breezy and quite cold. Winds and rain will push in through | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
the morning. There will be outbreaks of rain in the afternoon | :07:44. | :07:49. |