16/04/2014 East Midlands Today


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acquitted last week of murdering PC Blakelock. Here on One we can now

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join the And now the news for the East

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Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good evening.

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Three men who put hundreds of passengers in danger have been

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jailed for aiming a laser beam at planes landing at East Midlands

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Airport. 21`year`old Luke Walters, seen here

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on crutches, and Craig Appleby, who's 20, were sentenced to five

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months in prison. 19`year`old Alex Parker was jailed for seven months.

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The judge in the case strongly condemned their actions, as Simon

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Ward reports. These pictures from a police

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exercise show how powerful laser pointers can be. Officials on the

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ground aim the laser into the sky. This could affect the vision of a

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crew at night, and they'd even closer to the laser during landing

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or take off. The crew heard that three aircraft

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and the control tower at East Midlands Airport were struck by the

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laser. `` the court heard. The crew of one aircraft said it was

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so bright, they covered the glass of the cockpit and landed on

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instruments only. 20`year`old Craig Appleby from

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Loughborough pleaded guilty with the others. They were caught near East

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Midlands Airport in February last year. He told me he regrets the

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whole thing. I know what dangers it can cause.

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It's horrible. So on reflection you can understand the danger that there

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could be to pilots, do you? After I read my statement, I was very, very

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shocked at what damage it did. Having pleaded guilty, what would

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you say to people who are concerned by this? All I can say is I'm very

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sorry for what happened. You know. It'll never happen again. We was

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unaware at what we was doing. It was one of our Airbus aircraft,

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an A320, and the main surprise was shock, it was the surprise that the

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pilots have reported. The real danger is flash blindness. A laser

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encounter comes unexpectedly, and it's extremely bright, and that

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flash blindness stays with the pilot for a while.

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Laser pointing is an offence that's been increasing. The Civil Aviation

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Authority say East Midlands Airport ranks about in the middle for UK

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airports.. With 70 laser incidents reported for the last year alone in

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the East Midlands. The latest unemployment figures show

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the East Midlands is one of the few English regions bucking the national

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trend, with an increase in its jobless figures. There are now

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163,000 people out of work. That's a rise of 14,000 on the last quarterly

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figures, although the region's unemployment rate of 7% is the same

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as the national average. figures,

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However, these latest figures won't reflect a recent round of big job

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loss announcements in the region's more traditional industries.

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However, these latest figures won't reflect a recent round of big With

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more on that, here's our political editor John Hess.

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Well, old industries may go but making things still matters in the

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East Midlands. There are 300, 000 jobs in the region's manufacturing

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sector, no surprise there maybe, but look at this ` that figure's fallen

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by 40% over the last 25 years, and in turn, 1.5 million people now work

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in the service sector; banks, retail, leisure, hospitality. That's

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increased by an eye`watering 866% in the East Midlands. Now, our world of

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work is changing. When coal dominated the region's

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economy two generations ago, the collieries of the East Midlands

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provided work for more than 60,000 people. It was a way of life. The

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closure of our last pit, Thoresby, was announced a week ago. Likewise

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shoemaking in Leicester, bicycle making in Nottingham, textiles in

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Derbyshire, until yesterday cigarette manufacture at Imperial

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Tobacco ` they're all part of the sunset industries, gone or going.

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If the industrial landscape of the East Midlands is changing, you see

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it on estates like this. New companies, smaller companies,

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specialising in IT, pharmaceuticals and precision engineering.

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That's reflected in new research by one of the country's biggest

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business organisations, the D2N2 Chamber of Commerce for the East

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Midlands. We have got this growth in

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manufacturing jobs going on locally, but yes, the world of work is

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changing. More people are being self`employed, taking their own

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economic destiny into their own hands, more people are doing more

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than one job, so maybe doing several jobs which is in some respects very

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helpful, if there is ever a downturn, that they don't actually

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lose the whole of their employment. Cue Nygel Stevenson. Having worked

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for an established big`name company, he decided to branch out on his own.

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Madcap? He's set up his own cafe business in Kimberley near

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Nottingham, called the Madhatter. He now employs seven people.

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I think if everybody that wanted to own their own business within a

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community did that, and employed people locally, slowly the economy

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would get better and the communities would be built ` it's not just about

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the money, it's about the communities and working within the

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communities. All my staff are local. And I love the fact that we're

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buying into the community and working together.

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The way we work, and who we work for, is changing.

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Now, here's another sign of our changing economy ` think science and

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you may think of Cambridge or the Silicon Valley, but the East

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Midlands? Our region's science and technical sector now employs 155,000

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people. That's an increase of just under 80% since the late 1990s. Now,

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if that rate of growth continues, forget coal, textiles and tobacco `

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we'll be talking of science as one of our traditional industries.

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Now, as the Easter break approaches, there's a timely reminder to drivers

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to take special care when towing a caravan.

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These dramatic pictures capture the moment a caravan veers wildly across

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the M1 in Leicestershire. It narrowly misses other traffic,

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before overturning on the hard shoulder. Last year in the East

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Midlands there were almost 500 accidents involving caravans and

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other towed vehicles. That's your news. So, it's goodbye

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from me ` but with your weather now, here's Anna Church.

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here's Anna If you've been enjoying the spring

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sunshine today, there will be more to come for the Easter break. It

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looks like we are in for a cloudy day tomorrow. We have had fairly

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clear skies this evening, but we're starting to see cloud feeding in

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from the North West. It is fairly thin but it should keep us frost

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free tonight. Where the cloud is then first thing in might give us a

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little bit of brightness. Then we will start to see the cloud really

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thicken. It is largely dry, but be prepared for the odd spot of light

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rain or drizzle. With the cloud it feels a little bit cooler tomorrow,

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with a westerly breeze. Friday higher pressure is back in charge.

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It will be a dry, settled day with long, sunny spells. I will leave you

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with the outlook, as we go into Good Friday and Easter weekend.

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Good evening. The good news is that it will be a reasonably sunny start

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to the Easter weekend. The bad news is that it will not stay that way

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for many of us. Overnight tonight, many of us will be dry with patchy

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rain across Scotland. Some of us will -- some of this will track into

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northern England and were. Quite patchy in nature. Not a lot of rain.

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Dry further south. Maybe a touch of frost across the far south-east. The

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other end of the UK, blustery showers across the North West of

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Scotland but further south, patchy rain across northern and will. --

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North England and were. A sunny start across the far south-east of

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thing and after

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