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acquitted last week of murdering PC Blakelock. Here on One we can now | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
join the And now the news for the East | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good evening. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Three men who put hundreds of passengers in danger have been | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
jailed for aiming a laser beam at planes landing at East Midlands | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Airport. 21`year`old Luke Walters, seen here | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
on crutches, and Craig Appleby, who's 20, were sentenced to five | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
months in prison. 19`year`old Alex Parker was jailed for seven months. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The judge in the case strongly condemned their actions, as Simon | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Ward reports. These pictures from a police | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
exercise show how powerful laser pointers can be. Officials on the | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
ground aim the laser into the sky. This could affect the vision of a | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
crew at night, and they'd even closer to the laser during landing | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
or take off. The crew heard that three aircraft | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
and the control tower at East Midlands Airport were struck by the | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
laser. `` the court heard. The crew of one aircraft said it was | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
so bright, they covered the glass of the cockpit and landed on | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
instruments only. 20`year`old Craig Appleby from | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Loughborough pleaded guilty with the others. They were caught near East | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Midlands Airport in February last year. He told me he regrets the | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
whole thing. I know what dangers it can cause. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
It's horrible. So on reflection you can understand the danger that there | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
could be to pilots, do you? After I read my statement, I was very, very | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
shocked at what damage it did. Having pleaded guilty, what would | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
you say to people who are concerned by this? All I can say is I'm very | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
sorry for what happened. You know. It'll never happen again. We was | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
unaware at what we was doing. It was one of our Airbus aircraft, | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
an A320, and the main surprise was shock, it was the surprise that the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
pilots have reported. The real danger is flash blindness. A laser | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
encounter comes unexpectedly, and it's extremely bright, and that | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
flash blindness stays with the pilot for a while. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Laser pointing is an offence that's been increasing. The Civil Aviation | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Authority say East Midlands Airport ranks about in the middle for UK | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
airports.. With 70 laser incidents reported for the last year alone in | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
the East Midlands. The latest unemployment figures show | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
the East Midlands is one of the few English regions bucking the national | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
trend, with an increase in its jobless figures. There are now | :02:35. | :02:46. | |
163,000 people out of work. That's a rise of 14,000 on the last quarterly | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
figures, although the region's unemployment rate of 7% is the same | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
as the national average. figures, | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
However, these latest figures won't reflect a recent round of big job | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
loss announcements in the region's more traditional industries. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
However, these latest figures won't reflect a recent round of big With | :02:59. | :02:59. | |
more on that, here's our political editor John Hess. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Well, old industries may go but making things still matters in the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
East Midlands. There are 300, 000 jobs in the region's manufacturing | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
sector, no surprise there maybe, but look at this ` that figure's fallen | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
by 40% over the last 25 years, and in turn, 1.5 million people now work | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
in the service sector; banks, retail, leisure, hospitality. That's | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
increased by an eye`watering 866% in the East Midlands. Now, our world of | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
work is changing. When coal dominated the region's | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
economy two generations ago, the collieries of the East Midlands | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
provided work for more than 60,000 people. It was a way of life. The | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
closure of our last pit, Thoresby, was announced a week ago. Likewise | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
shoemaking in Leicester, bicycle making in Nottingham, textiles in | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
Derbyshire, until yesterday cigarette manufacture at Imperial | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
Tobacco ` they're all part of the sunset industries, gone or going. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
If the industrial landscape of the East Midlands is changing, you see | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
it on estates like this. New companies, smaller companies, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
specialising in IT, pharmaceuticals and precision engineering. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
That's reflected in new research by one of the country's biggest | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
business organisations, the D2N2 Chamber of Commerce for the East | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Midlands. We have got this growth in | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
manufacturing jobs going on locally, but yes, the world of work is | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
changing. More people are being self`employed, taking their own | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
economic destiny into their own hands, more people are doing more | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
than one job, so maybe doing several jobs which is in some respects very | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
helpful, if there is ever a downturn, that they don't actually | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
lose the whole of their employment. Cue Nygel Stevenson. Having worked | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
for an established big`name company, he decided to branch out on his own. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Madcap? He's set up his own cafe business in Kimberley near | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Nottingham, called the Madhatter. He now employs seven people. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
I think if everybody that wanted to own their own business within a | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
community did that, and employed people locally, slowly the economy | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
would get better and the communities would be built ` it's not just about | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the money, it's about the communities and working within the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
communities. All my staff are local. And I love the fact that we're | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
buying into the community and working together. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
The way we work, and who we work for, is changing. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Now, here's another sign of our changing economy ` think science and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
you may think of Cambridge or the Silicon Valley, but the East | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Midlands? Our region's science and technical sector now employs 155,000 | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
people. That's an increase of just under 80% since the late 1990s. Now, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
if that rate of growth continues, forget coal, textiles and tobacco ` | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
we'll be talking of science as one of our traditional industries. | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
Now, as the Easter break approaches, there's a timely reminder to drivers | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
to take special care when towing a caravan. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
These dramatic pictures capture the moment a caravan veers wildly across | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
the M1 in Leicestershire. It narrowly misses other traffic, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
before overturning on the hard shoulder. Last year in the East | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Midlands there were almost 500 accidents involving caravans and | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
other towed vehicles. That's your news. So, it's goodbye | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
from me ` but with your weather now, here's Anna Church. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
here's Anna If you've been enjoying the spring | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
sunshine today, there will be more to come for the Easter break. It | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
looks like we are in for a cloudy day tomorrow. We have had fairly | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
clear skies this evening, but we're starting to see cloud feeding in | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
from the North West. It is fairly thin but it should keep us frost | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
free tonight. Where the cloud is then first thing in might give us a | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
little bit of brightness. Then we will start to see the cloud really | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
thicken. It is largely dry, but be prepared for the odd spot of light | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
rain or drizzle. With the cloud it feels a little bit cooler tomorrow, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
with a westerly breeze. Friday higher pressure is back in charge. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
It will be a dry, settled day with long, sunny spells. I will leave you | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
with the outlook, as we go into Good Friday and Easter weekend. | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
Good evening. The good news is that it will be a reasonably sunny start | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
to the Easter weekend. The bad news is that it will not stay that way | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
for many of us. Overnight tonight, many of us will be dry with patchy | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
rain across Scotland. Some of us will -- some of this will track into | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
northern England and were. Quite patchy in nature. Not a lot of rain. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Dry further south. Maybe a touch of frost across the far south-east. The | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
other end of the UK, blustery showers across the North West of | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Scotland but further south, patchy rain across northern and will. -- | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
North England and were. A sunny start across the far south-east of | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
thing and after | :08:27. | :08:27. |