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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Tonight: A teenager on trial, accused of plotting bomb attacks on | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
his home town. His targets included a mosque and a | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
cinema. Also, the community in shock as | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
police hunting a missing teenager find a body. Dumbstruck. We are | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
waiting to see what happens and what the police say. , plus, the | :00:34. | :00:45. | |
controversial Muslim free school is closed by Ofsted. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
These schoolchildren are getting up close and personal with a | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
masterpiece. Good evening. Welcome to the | :00:53. | :01:06. | |
programme. First tonight, a Leicestershire teenager has gone on | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
trial accused of preparing a terrorist attack. The court heard | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
that his targets included a mosque and two colleges in Loughborough. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
He'd made a plan based on the mass shooting at Columbine High School in | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
America. The jury was shown videos of him testing home—made bombs and | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
threatening to kill Muslims. Our social affairs correspondent Jeremy | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Ball is live at the Old Bailey. Jeremy, what more can you tell us? | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
We heard the teenager suffers from Asperger's syndrome. We cannot | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
identify him because he is 17. He is facing two very serious terrorism | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
charges. When the police went to his home, they found weapons including | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
pipe bombs, a poisons Handbook and a list of targets. The targets | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
included a mosque. We heard he had made notes about fighting what he | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
called the Islamic invasion of Europe. Also on his list, the | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Council, the university, a local cinema and two local colleges. What | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
is he accused of planning to do? We heard he had written plans for an | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
operation referencing the shooting spree at Columbine high school in | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
the US where a teacher and 12 pupils were shot dead in 1999. Here at the | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
Old Bailey, the prosecution said this boy had made notes talking | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
about attacking a secondary school, eliminating pupils and teachers by | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
chaining up the exits and attacking classrooms with bombs and a machete | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
and guns. In the notebook, he had drawn swastikas and written English | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Defence League slogans. What about his motivation? We had quite a lot | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
about his far right views but the prosecution also talked about | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
personal grudges. A very telling recording that he had recorded on | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
his dictaphone. This is the voice of an actor. How could anyone treat a | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
fellow person like anyone has treated me? That is what drives | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
people to do this. Look at all of the things in the past, Columbine, | :03:25. | :03:37. | |
others. All because of William. —— bullying. We saw home—made videos of | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
the boy with friends where des Alpes wearing balaclavas and they identify | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
themselves as the urban revolutionary army —— they are | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
wearing balaclavas. The jury has been told to decide if the teenager | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
on trial was simply a misfit or whether he really was a would—be | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
terrorist. A second man has appeared in court | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
charged with the murder of a football coach from Leicester. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Antoin Akpom who was 20 died from a single stab wound following an | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
attack on Kent Street in the city last month. Earlier today, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
19—year—old Hussain Hussain was remanded in custody to appear at | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Leicester Crown Court on Friday. Another 19—year—old, Abdul Hakim, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
has already been charged with murder. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Managers at the Leicester Royal Infirmary have admitted failures in | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
care. It's after an elderly dementia patient was allowed to walk out of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
its accident and emergency unit in his pyjamas. The 86—year old had | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
walked more than four miles before he was found early in the morning | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
last November, after falling near a police station. The hospital trust | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
has apologised and says new training procedures are being introduced. | :04:49. | :05:00. | |
Still to come: Trying new treatment for a cancer that has no cure. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Mesothelioma is often the legacy of a lifetime's exposure to asbestos. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Now patients who have it are helping test a new drug. | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
People living on the housing estate where a teenage boy went missing | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
have told us they're devastated to hear a body has been found. | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
Ciaran Sweeney who's 14 left his home on the Oaktree Lane Estate in | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Mansfield two—and—a—half weeks ago. His family had appealed for him to | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
come home. But yesterday police told them they've found a body. Jo Healey | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
reports. It is a close community so when the | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
police started searching for Ciaran Sweeney people helped too, putting | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
up posters, combing the heath land near his home. Hole I came to check | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
the hiding I know. With my volunteers, we go out twice a week | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
—— I came to check the hiding places I know. Now I feel sick and very | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
sad. Feelings mirrored by others on the estate. People have come | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
together over this. But you can see and feel the sadness and heartache. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
My daughter went to school with him. She has found it upsetting. She was | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
close to him and close to his sister as well. People are dumbstruck. They | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
are waiting to see what happens and what the police are going to say. We | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
are waiting for answers. My thoughts and love go to the family and | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
friends. A police underwater search team recovered the body of a teenage | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
boy yesterday at a quarry. The body will not be formally identified | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
until the end of this week. Here is what the chief inspector said. We | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
appreciate it is an emotional and trying time for the local | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
community. Until we can make a formal identification, we ask for | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
patients and sensitivity to all those involved. | :07:17. | :07:29. | |
A Muslim faith school remains closed tonight, 24 hours after Ofsted | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
inspectors moved in and shut it down. At the end of one day of | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
inspection, the Al—Madinah School in Derby was ordered to close | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
immediately on health and safety grounds. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
In the past, the school has been accused of imposing strict Islamic | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
practice on staff and pupils and there have been allegations of | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
financial irregularities. More now from our reporter James Roberson. | :07:47. | :07:56. | |
Today at the primary part of the school in Derby, there was a sign | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
saying there was an ongoing Ofsted inspection but nothing about school | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
closure will stop North could the staff enlighten us. Do you know what | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
is happening? I cannot comment. On the school's website, the interim | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
principal has put this statement for the parents. Owing to a health and | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
safety issue, I have taken the decision to close the school until I | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
am confident all children are safe. Ofsted themselves issued this | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
statement. We agreed to bring forward our planned inspection of | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
the school. As a result, we understand the principle has written | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
to the parents informing them the school will be closed to children | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
today. Half a mile away at the secondary school site of the | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Al—Madinah School, parents were coming to the school to try to find | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
out for themselves why it had closed. They are happy with the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
school. We do not know what is going on. Obviously, with the teaching | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
side, we are really happy. Really happy. We do not want it to | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
shutdown. Not without any specific reason. We are really happy and I | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
would definitely send my child to the school. Principal says he hopes | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
the school will reopen in the very near future. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Joining us in the studio now is Nick Raine, the regional officer for the | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
National Union of Teachers. Thank you for coming in. We have heard | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
claims that teachers have been told what to wear, that girls have been | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
told to sit at the back of the class and claims of financial | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
irregularities. Are you hearing this? We have had members contacting | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
us with concerns about contracts and practices in the school, to the | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
governments of the school. They have raised serious concerns. Hence the | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
ongoing inspection. What do you think is the possible health and | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
safety aspect? I do not know. It could be one of a number of things. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
It is virtually unprecedented for a school to be closed the day after an | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
Ofsted inspection. The nature of free schools is that no one is | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
accountable. Have you tried to contact the people behind the | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
school? I have had many journalists asking me who is in charge. This is | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
inherent with free schools. You have a situation where schools are not | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
accountable. The some of the parents seem very happy. They want the | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
school to reopen. We all want the school to reopen but we also need to | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
think about the future of schools up and down the country. This could | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
well be replicated in other places. We will leave it there. Thank you. | :11:11. | :11:26. | |
Cuts have been voted through at Nottinghamshire County Council. It | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
has to save £157 million. In Matlock, the big picture is | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
emerging. Five years of cuts voted through today at Derbyshire county | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
council. Labour blame lack of funding from the government. The | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Conservatives Shepp 1200 jobs when they were in power. Now they say | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
labour has slowed down the pace of the cuts. The greatest concern today | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
in the report is the failure to maintain the momentum of making | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
savings in this authority. It is something that has been going on now | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
for the four years of our administration. This is the scale. | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
£157 million over five years. Up to 1600 jobs at risk. These are some of | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
the budgets being targeted this year alone. Nonsense to suggest they are | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
not being tough enough says the Labour Party. We do not have sofas, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
we are cutting money on the civic budget, —— chauffeurs. We are | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
finding money in all kinds of ways. The union is worried. From what we | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
know, it is going to be the most abominable people within Derbyshire, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
particularly adult care. Those services are going to be affected | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
directly by this. Much of the detail of the cuts has yet to emerge. | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
We hear there has been another development this evening. That is | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
right. Councillors have voted not to accept a 1% increase in their | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
allowances. They say it will say something like £7,500 a year. In | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
2012—2013, the allowances totalled around £1 million. Not a huge saving | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
but the councillors say they are showing solidarity. They also voted | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
through a new package of increased allowances for a slimmed down | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
cabinet. Other councillors will get a reduction. There will be less paid | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
out over all and it is claimed it will save the authority around £3600 | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
overall. Looking for savings everywhere. Thank you. | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
Two new treatments for an aggressive form of cancer are being tested in | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
the East Midlands. At the moment, mesothelioma, mainly caused by | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
exposure to asbestos, can't be cured. | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
More and more cases are being diagnosed each year and doctors at | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Leicester's Glenfield Hospital are predicting numbers could peak in the | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
next six or seven years. Here's our health correspondent Rob Sissons. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
It is the past that is destroying this man's future. He is convinced | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
he developed me Cecilio in the working as an engineer 40 years ago | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
—— developed cancer. He was exposed to asbestos. We were going down into | :14:33. | :14:44. | |
a stone storm —— snowstorm. A very dusty room. There were no masks or | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
anything. The jagged edge around his long, cancer. Note you but there is | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
hope. At this hospital he is the first to test a new drug —— there is | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
no cure. We have had not had any treatments. What we plan to do is | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
get the scan. You have the combination on the first day... The | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
drug he is trying out is designed to prevent the growth of tumours. The | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
university is leading an international trial into another | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
drug to reduce reliance on chemotherapy. Even if it does not do | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
me good, it is going to help other people in the long run. It can take | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
15 to 16 years —— 15 to 60 years to develop cancer after exposure to | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
asbestos. 2500 cases a year are diagnosed in the UK. We have seen in | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
other cancers where survival is improved is that the more treatments | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
you have got, the longer people live. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Still to come, schools get a masterclass in art. Works by leading | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
painters are being taken into classrooms across Nottingham, giving | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
children a chance to see their work up close. | :16:14. | :16:28. | |
It is sport time now. What a night at Derby County. They will take | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
their time to make the right appointment when it comes to wait | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
technical director to work alongside new head coach Steve McClaren. And | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
what an introduction to his team for him last night. McClaren was in the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
stands as he saw the Rams go 4—1 down by half time against Ipswich. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Derby were so bad he was forced to intervene and inspired a dramatic | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
comeback. Kirsty Edwards was there. And so the new era began as Steve | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
McClaren and his coaching team met the players for the first time last | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
night. Darren was in temporary charge for the game with Steve | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
McClaren watching in the director's box. With the new boss watching, | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
these players will be desperate to make a good first impression | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
tonight. And desperate for their first home win. As first impressions | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
go, the first half was a masterclass in how not to do it. He has scored | :17:25. | :17:42. | |
in his own net! Terrible defending. It is four. Oh, dear. Derby were | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
four — one down. Steve McClaren had enough. He did an unexpected team | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
talk. Everyone knew that we would be told what they thought of us. He | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
came down and he changed the shape of it and told us to believe in | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
ourselves. Whatever he said, it obviously worked. Derby have got | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
another one back! Into the net! Derby have a third goal. He puts it | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
in the net! Derby have an equaliser. Down from the director's | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
box, Steve McClaren watched on. They tried to snatch a late winner but | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
time just eluded them. That is what you call a game of two halves. What | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
an amazing comeback. Unbelievable. Great atmosphere. We liked doing it | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
the hard way. What do you think Steve McClaren will have learnt from | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
tonight? He will have learnt we need to defend better, from set pieces | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
particularly. We need to play as we did in the second half. | :19:07. | :19:17. | |
At Leicester City their excellent form continues. Last night they beat | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Yeovil by 2—1. So tonight, this is how the Championship table looks. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
The Foxes are third but only goal difference separates them from | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Burnley and QPR. Leicester are our best place team in the Midlands. | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
They have won seven out of their first ten league games. It was a | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
night for Leicester when their quality shone through. They had the | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
better chances and could have won by more. They deserved the lead on 54 | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
minutes . Their power and pace was too much for Yeovil Town. David | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
Nugent has scored six times from the penalty spot this season and again, | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
he made no mistakes. Yeovil Town got a penalty of their own but Leicester | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
were dominant and are unbeaten in five games and joint top of the | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
championship. Onto Nottingham Forest who are still | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
in talks with Wolves about bringing in winger Bakary Sako to the City | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Ground on loan. Discussions have been ongoing for a long time so the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
club could be forced to go elsewhere. On the pitch, Forest have | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
only lost one of their first ten games. Last night, they drew 1—1 at | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
Charlton. Mark Shardlow reports. Forest in the grey started the night | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
in style. Andy Reid's free kick gave them the lead after three minutes. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Soon after, he had a half chance for a second. But Charlton gave notice | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
this would not be an easy night as they gave them a fright. This was | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
probably the moment when Forest should have racked up the points but | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
they could not quite finish it. In the second half, Charlton | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
equalised. As the game neared the end, the home side look for the | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
winner. First, the woodwork saved Forest. Then it was some scrambled | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
defending to desperately clear. The ball was staying out of the net to | :21:32. | :21:43. | |
Forest's relief. Finally, gymnastics. One of our top Olympic | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
stars is hoping to reach the finals of the World Championships this | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
evening. Nottingham's Becky Downie competes on the bars and beam. She's | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
hoping for better fortune than Sam Oldham who's also from Nottingham. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
The medal winner from the London Olympics failed to make the finals | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
in the competition which is being held in Belgium. Hard luck, Sam. | :22:05. | :22:17. | |
From the gallery to the classroom. Today, hundreds of school children | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
in Nottingham were given the chance to see a masterpiece up close. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
As part of the BBC's Your Painting project, works by leading artists | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
are being taken into schools in an attempt to introduce children to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
art. Geeta Pendse reports. It is not every day you have a | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
security man at the doors. These children today got the chance to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
have a close encounter with an original piece of artwork. Ella | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Macri you have the nail varnish. Can you see, is it just on the floor? —— | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
you have the nail varnish. Owned by Nottingham Castle Gallery, curators | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
were on hand to chat to the children. The purpose behind it is | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
making artwork more accessible and it could not be more accessible than | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
being in your own home for the day. A great opportunity for the children | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
to look up close at the artwork. Then we find out more about it, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
particularly because it is a local artist. It is one of 27 paintings | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
being taken to schools across the UK. It is not just about | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
appreciating the artistic merit, but also exploring a moment of history. | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
We do not get many trips to the gallery to see famous paintings. I | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
thought it was amazing. Really cool to have a real painting in the | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
school. It is not like cartoons, it is realistic, like a real person. I | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
like the painting. The painting will be returned to Nottingham Castle | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
where it is also hoped these children will venture in the future | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
to take another look. And you can get more information | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
about this project by logging onto our website. | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
I thought that was really lovely. Pretty as a picture, here is the | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
weather. Such a long time since we have seen | :24:26. | :24:37. | |
significant rainfall, but we had lots overnight and first thing this | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
morning. Nottingham sought 17 millimetres of rain over the past 12 | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
hours —— Nottingham saw. The cloud will be with us overnight. The risk | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
of one or two outbreaks of rain, particularly through western parts, | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
the Peak District and western parts of Leicestershire. Further east, it | :24:59. | :25:11. | |
is a dryer picture. Overnight lows of around 14 degrees. Tomorrow, it | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
will start dry for most places. Quite cloudy. Do not be fooled for | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
thinking the rain is not with us, it will just take a while. Not too bad | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
they start to the day. Some brightness. In the sunshine, | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
temperatures will reach 19 degrees. Breezy. The rain will edge its way | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
and in the afternoon. It will become more heavy and persistent as we go | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
into the evening. Gradually, it. To work its weight used. It will be | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
heavy and persistent for a time —— gradually, it will start to work its | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
way eastwards. Further showers on Friday. By Saturday, a ridge of high | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
pressure will build and that will help to settle things down. We will | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
not see Wall to wall sunshine. It will be quite a cloudy affair. We | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
will see some sunshine at times. And temperatures will not do too badly | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
either. After Thursday night, it looks like it will be an improving | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
picture. I do not think we can remember wall | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to wall sunshine. Thinking really hard! | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
That is it for us. Good night. | :26:30. | :26:31. |