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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale.

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Our top story tonight - a murder investigation as two bodies are

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found. The discovery was made at this house in Nottingham. Police

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have recovered a weapon. Also, a million pounds for charity

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- the astonishing legacy of marathon women Claire Squires.

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Plus, four years in jail for the union boss who stole for sick and

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elderly miners. And the soldier who served in

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Afghanistan then took his family there to live there. Everybody

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immediately things you are barking mad. On the face a bid, it is the

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most crazy thing you can think of. Good evening. Welcome to Friday's

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programme. And first, a murder investigation's begun in a

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Nottingham suburb after two bodies were found at a house. The man in

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his sixties and woman in her thirties were discovered yesterday

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morning. Police confirmed a weapon was found in the property. There's

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been a major development in this story tonight but first, here's

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Sarah Teale's report. The gruesome discovery was made

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yesterday morning. Inside this house on North Road in West

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Bridgford. Today police confirmed that that they have found the

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bodies of a 64-year-old and a 31- year-old woman. A murder

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investigation will be under way to establish the circumstances

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surrounding their deaths. Forensic officers have been in and out of

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the property all morning. Detectives have also been

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conducting house-to-house inquiries with neighbours. Many of the people

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we have spoken to said they have no idea it from lived in the House,

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but they were shocked by what had happened. It is a bit worrying, we

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heard on the news there was a drugs raid in Nottingham recently as well.

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So it is all a bit much. I didn't expected in an area like this, I

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have been told it is one of the most affluent areas in Nottingham,

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so it is one of the things you try and avoid, I don't think I would

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want to live here next year. Today, police were trying to reassure the

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local community. A weapon has been recovered from the scene, only to

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emphasise to the public we are not seeking anyone else at the current

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time in relation to this. Two other houses have been cordoned off as

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part of the investigation, including this one. Formal

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identification of the people who died he is yet to take place.

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Locals who knew them say they are upset and shocked. They have been

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living here since we have been here, over 20 years. It was a nice -- he

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was a nice guy, he always chatted with me. Very sad. Post-mortem

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examinations have been carried out to find out how the two people died.

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In the last few minutes it there has been a new development.

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Nottinghamshire police have just told us that they are looking into

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whether there are any links between those two deaths in West Bridgford

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with the discovery of another woman's body. She was found in the

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River Trent on April 15th. Police have said tonight it was her death

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which led them to the man and woman who were found in this property

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yesterday. Police say they are not formally identifying any of the

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victims at this stage, but asking anyone with information to get in

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contact with them. The amount raised in memory of a

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Leicestershire runner who died shortly before completing the

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London Marathon on Sunday has reached more than a million pounds.

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The donations, plus the associated GiftAid, will go to the Samaritans

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via Claire Squires' charity web page. Our reporter Carol Hinds

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joins us now from the newsroom. Yes, it was around five o'clock

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this afternoon that the donations and the Gift aid contributions made

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to Claire Squires' Just Giving web page totalled more than a million

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pounds and even now, is still rising. It's a figure that's more

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than 20,000 times the amount she had initially hoped to raise for

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the Samaritans. The 30-year-old from Great Bowden in Leicestershire

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collapsed and died on Sunday as she was approaching the final stretch

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of the 26 mile race. Since then there's been a huge response from

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the public, with more than 70,000 donations from the UK and all over

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the world. It is a stunning total. What has been the reaction?

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Claire's friend Nicola Short said today that they are absolutely

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overwhelmed by the generosity and messages of support that have

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poured in. This afternoon, the Samaritans issued a statement

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saying that although the circumstances under which the

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donations have reached a million pounds are heartbreaking, they

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would like to thank everyone for their support. They also plan to

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sit down with Claire's family in due course, to discuss what they

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feel she would have liked these donations to fund within their

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organisation. Thank you. An arthritis patient is furious

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that the NHS has withdrawn a treatment she says improves her

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life massively. Sue Harrison from Nottinghamshire has been told the

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knee injections she was getting are too expensive and there isn't

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enough evidence to prove they work. Here's our health correspondent Rob

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Sissons. Sue's knees are bad and she says in

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retirement, her health is going downhill. She blames the NHS for

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stopping the osteoarthritis jab she had the years, because it says they

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are not cost-effective. At home, she cannot even ride a horse these

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days. The injunctions they took away from me, it causes a lot of

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reaction. -- injections. They made my joints so they would move freely.

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Why has the NHS stopped the The couple reckon the scrap

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medication cost of �300 a year per patient. She says the replacement

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steroids don't work as well for her and there are side-effects. Change

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of weight, daft as a side-effect! The medication maybe band in the

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character, but is given to patients in Nottingham city. That is now

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being reviewed. At this arthritis charity's headquarters in

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Derbyshire, there is sympathy. of people have osteoarthritis and

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find it very difficult to get the right treatment. If she is lucky

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enough to find something that works, to have it taken away... On the

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other hand, the treatment hasn't been proved to be cost-effective.

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Sue used to enjoy trekking. Now she says she faces having to go private

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for the medication or overturn a maze of Anne Rogers decision making

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it she is ever to make it through the jungle.

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Still to come on the programme - some record-breaking rainfall - and

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rising river levels. Yes, we have broken a number of rainfall records

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for April. So these live shots will come as no surprise. I will have

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all the details and your fault "Calculated and sophisticated

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greed." That's how a judge described the actions of Neil

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Greatrex, the former president of a Nottinghamshire miners union.

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Earlier this month he was convicted of stealing almost �150,000 from a

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charity for sick and elderly miners. Today he was jailed for four years.

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Simon Hare reports. Neil Greatrex's family leave court

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without him. He gave them a wave goodbye as he was led away to start

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his sentence. The court heard his family have suffered harassment

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since his conviction. Have you could anything to say about

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betraying the miners? Nerve. jury had found him guilty of

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stealing almost �150,000. He sprinted on improvements to his

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home and his previous home, which included a new kitchen plus a

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replacement windows and doors. He persuaded the white man to provide

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false invoices which said they were repairs -- to work men. He was a

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trustee of the charity, and claimed he had taken the improvements in

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loo of a salary, but the judge today said he was already well paid

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for his role as president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers.

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Sentencing him to four years, the judge told him, "you saw an

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opportunity to make personal profit at the expense of those less

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fortunate than yourself, whose interest you had agreed as trustee

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to protect. This was calculated and sophisticated read". He was in a

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position of trust, and instead, he stole real -- money, he had no real

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need to. He stole money from sick and ill miners. A hearing which

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will determine how much money has to pay back will be paid in -- held

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in June. Nottinghamshire police say that

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more than 60 officers are investigating the murder of Malakai

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McKenzie, almost a week after the teenager was killed. The 19-year-

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old suffered fatal injuries in a shooting in the car park of the

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Hubb in Sherwood in the early hours of last Saturday morning.

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Detectives are continuing to follow-up several lines of enquiry

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and have searched four addresses with a number of vehicles being

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seized. A train driver and passenger were

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taken to hospital with minor injuries after a train was derailed

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by a mudslide in North Nottinghamshire. 17 other

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passengers walked clear of the incident that happened at the exit

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to the Clarborough Tunnel near Retford this lunchtime. Rail

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services through the tunnel have been suspended.

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And now - a first for a high-tech Nottingham health care company.

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Something that's giving them the chance to save a teenager's life

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thousands of miles away. A blood sample stored at nearly 200 degrees

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below zero has been sent to the Middle East, where it'll be used to

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help a boy who's got bone marrow failure. Mike O'Sullivan has the

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story. High-tech and of high importance.

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The moment a sample of cord blood began its journey from Nottingham

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to the Middle East. The cord blood from a baby girl born 18 months ago

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in Jordan will help to save the life of her 16-year-old brother.

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Very excited. This is the moment we have been waiting for. We have had

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many samples stored, this is the first one, we are praying this will

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be a complete success. The goal's family paid 1500 pounds to store 15

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mm of cord blood and future health in Nottingham. 50,000 samples are

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kept here. They are placed in these huge tanks in liquid nitrogen paper,

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at minus 196 degrees. You can see the ice forming along the outside.

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The girl's cord blood is being sent to the Jordanian capital. He should

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arrive in a sealed container at 2pm tomorrow. The patient has anaemia.

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Bone marrow failure. He hasn't previously been strong enough to

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undergo the treatment. But now his family have hope. They have been

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waiting a long time for the boy to be well enough to receive the cells,

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and I think like everything else, it is fingers crossed, and did they

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look forward to him having a normal lifespan. Now it is a waiting game

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in both Nottingham and Jordan. The company's first a life-saving

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transfusion should be carried out within the next few days.

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Next tonight, the incredible story of a Nottinghamshire soldier, who

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left the army, and then moved to Afghanistan with his family. David

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James thought the military campaign wasn't working, and decided he

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could do more good by helping to build the country's economy. Now

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he's writing a book on what lessons need to be learned from the

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conflict, as our Social Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball reports.

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This footage I filmed in 4002 when I was a soldier in the British Army,

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and this is... David James was first deployed to Afghanistan only

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months after 9/11. He was astonished by how many -- friendly

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the locals were. Fundamentally, we are giving people a huge incentive

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to be violent. You fire a couple of RPGs, the military come along and

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bowled to a school and do well to win over your hearts and minds so

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you reject the insurgency. If you live in a peaceful part of

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Afghanistan, you get nothing. swapped his soldier's uniform for

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civilian clothes and went to live in Afghanistan with his family.

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Their new home was away from the fighting in a place that is so poor,

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some people starved to death. A remote mountain valley. Everybody

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thinks you are barking mad. On the face of it, it is the most crazy

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thing you can think of. We lived in a mud-brick house, we had to

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collect the water from the river, fell to the water, no electricity,

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but once you lie in a mug to the Afghan people, they really look

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after you. They bring you into their houses and homes, entertain

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you with music. Our cat died, they brought one wild tom cat round for

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our two-year-old a year-year-old son. This is why David chose the

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valley, didn't it a mountain -- to develop a mountain tourism agency.

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If they develop 50 porters, $10 a day each, they can survive the

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winter. So their families are not going to die. The matinees did

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start coming, but the BECTU and -- company was a victim of its own

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success. We just couldn't publicise the fact that there are unarmed

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civilians wandering around the Hindu Kush without worrying that

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the Taliban would have a go. I am frustrated about the whole thing.

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After trying so hard, he is pessimistic about Afghanistan's

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future and worried about what will happen to his friends. Before

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leaving, he went to see how much had changed. This is where I used

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to patrol. The thing they used to tell us, every patrol was that the

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Welsh do not work. 10 years on, the Some stories make your own life

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seemed a very mundane. Now it is that support.

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It is not mundane for Nottingham County fans. They have two games

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left to play to make the play-off so tomorrow's trip to Wycombe will

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be huge. They lost to Borrie 42 points of the top set. The captain

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is hoping it does not mean they We did not say that performance

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coming. Everything had been geared up as usual. It was one of them at

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days. We have got two games left and I believe that if we get the

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six points out of them, we will We have had shock results in the

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last two weeks. The only results we can affect is the one at Wycombe

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and Colchester next week. Saturday It is coming at the end of a

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turbulent year. Even Sol Campbell came for a couple of weeks, so it

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was an unreal season. It is positive in some respects. The

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change of manager, up and down, and we went on a fantastic run with

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Steve Cotterill and we have been on Elsewhere, it is nothing but pride

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to play for as Derby entertain Portsmouth, Leicester travel to

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Leeds, and it will be a in -- and emotional game at Fort Steve

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Cotterill. Leicester Riders are in Sheffield

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this evening for the play-off for the quarter-finals. They are taking

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nothing for granted. For we feel good. We have played very well over

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the last six weeks and we have had eight games in 23 days coming into

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the play-offs. We have a nice rhythm right now. There are many

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top teams and if you don't play well, you are going to have trouble

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going through. In cricket, Nottingham's James Taylor will

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captain the England Lions against the West Indies touring side.

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Bad light affected play today in not an inch a's game against

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Worcestershire, and in Leicestershire's game Hampshire on

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out chasing their first innings total. -- art now chasing.

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Now we have the next Elsey was going through the Olympic sports.

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Today it is Hamble, which few people know about. -- of the next

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A cross between basketball and five-a-side football, fast, high-

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scoring and often stings a bit. is like five-a-side football. It is

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better. It is likely unknown. People don't know what they are

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doing, and it is a whole heap of fun. They this was the evening they

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launched the ladies' team. It was low key. In Hungary, for girls, it

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is the main sport and everyone knows about it and follows it.

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your wrist straight behind the ball. But it was all new to Lucy. It is

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good to have a few tips towards the end about how to hold the ball and

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where to handle it from. I will be back to learn more. It may start

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small, but as the growth of the men's sideshows, it is something to

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build on. We have one and that keeps people coming back. Traps

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await the unwary. The new boy discovered the dangers of this

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stuff! Sticky hands and gulls are marked with tape. British handball

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is claiming 600% growth. It is all ages and abilities and everybody

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can get involved. It is still a long way from Olympic standard, so

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I wonder whether we can learn to love handball.

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If you fancy a go at British handball, it is coming to

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Nottingham this weekend. It will be at the Victoria Shopping Centre

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tomorrow and the Broadmarsh Centre tomorrow -- on Sunday. We know from

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the weather pictures how much everybody loves a wildlife and

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nature so, like us, you may be interested to hear about a special

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anniversary. The Notts Wildlife Trust, along with other UK trusts,

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is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. It bills itself as the

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county's first line of defence for wild species and habitats and Erin

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McDaid from the Organisation is with us. How did the trust begin?

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It all started with the vision of one man, Charles Rothschild, in

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1912. He came off with the idea that to protect wildlife, we need

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to create what we now know as nature reserves. Let's bring it

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back up to today. What are the talent is facing the reserves, 100

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years on? We now manage over 200 sites in the East Midlands. We need

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lots of support and volunteers. We have around 2000 volunteers in this

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region alone. You have 50,000 members - it is extraordinary! Is

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their concern that in hard economic times, people will care less and

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give less? We are not seeing that. It is about protecting wildlife on

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people's doorsteps. The funds are invested in the local area.

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there different pressures now, with climate change, people wanting to

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build on land and so on? Yes, it all start with nature reserves,

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which are important to us, but we realise we need to link those in

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better to the wider countryside. We are trying to work with landowners

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and create a living landscape all people and wildlife. You have had

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some great campaigns. I remember the dawn chorus. People got up at

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an ungodly hour to appreciate the dawn chorus. The Ospreys are

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brooding at Rutland Water. We have key wildlife in the East Midlands.

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The work over the nature centre or has put us in the public eye.

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your view of the future a good one? Do you think that despite the way

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technology is going, that we all care about our wildlife in of?

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the moment, we are inundated with new volunteers. People really seem

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to care. People want to come and help and do their bit. Hopefully,

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the more support we have, the more we can do to protect wildlife.

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Thanks for joining us. And now for news of what our

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politics team is up to on Sunday, here is Mary.

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Lunch at a -- on The Sunday Politics, the controversial plan to

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move people from London to our cities. Is it human trafficking?

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And should not in them have an elected mayor? A fan and a fierce

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opponent get their chance to present their own political

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We saw the pictures early of the River Trent having burst its banks.

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It has been raining here and further north.

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Yes, we have the April rainfall statistics in place now up to the

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27th. The most notable record we We have more rainfall forecast for

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the weekend so the level will actually just rise. No surprise

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that some of our rivers have flooded their banks, including the

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River Derwent. These pictures were taken this afternoon. These are

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live pictures of the River Trent, which has burst. These are pictures

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from Radcliffe. We have a number of flood alerts in place right across

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the weekend. With that in mind and with more rainfall forecast, if you

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are concerned about the levels near you, you can keep up to date with

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the Environment Agency website. Back to the weekend forecast,

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Saturday is looking like a dry day but Sunday is looking very

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unsettled. Heavy rain and strong gusts of wind. We are expecting the

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wind to pick up between 40 and 50 mph gusts. We will keep you up to

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date over the weekend. Through much of the day, we have had rain

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sitting across the East Midlands. Leicestershire had dry weather for

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a while but as we go through the night, that will start to ease and

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there will be a bit of rain. Saturday morning will see the rain

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continued to ease out and although we have a lot of dry weather

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throughout the day, allow for a few spots of drizzle if you are heading

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out and about. Across Derbyshire and into the Peak District, you may

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get some sunshine. Temperatures struggling nine Celsius on Saturday

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and for Sunday, it will turn #ColourWhite and windy as the band

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