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reversed. Kim Ghattas, BBC News, New York | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Quentin Rayner. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
First tonight, the government's Energy Minister has been urged to | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
safeguard a ?20 million rescue operation to maintain output at the | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
region's last deep coal mind.UK Coal wants to close Thoresby in | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Nottinghamshire by the end of next year, with the loss of 600 jobs The | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Government says it will provide ?10 million of the rescue package, but | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
it has to be matched by ?10 million from the private sector. Thd mining | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
group Hargreaves Services h`d offered to put in ?5 million, but | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Today, on a visit to Nottingham the Labour Party leader Ed Liliband | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
urged the government to takd immediate action. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
The government needs to get stuck in because the jobs that Thoresby are | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
really important and we need big government talking to UK co`l and | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
seeing if anything can be done in Europe. They should make sure that | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
if anybody is made redundant there is proper help and support. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Earlier this evening the Shdrwood MP Mark Spencer had a meeting with | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
the Energy Minister Michael Fallon and he's with us now. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
He told me that the governmdnt is still willing to support it and they | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
are keen to make it work and the ?10 million is still on the table but we | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
need to find a new partner to help the company continue to produce coal | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
and make a profit. How optilistic are you finding a new partndr? It is | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
very delicate and a tricky situation. I have sat on thd sofa | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
before and explained what a complicated deal this is and as I | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
have said we are not over the first line, we need to make sure the deal | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
comes together before we thhnk about anything else. UK coal has `lways | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
said in the past that if it does not pull through day, as a comp`ny, will | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
go into liquidation and Thoresby will close immediately. How close | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
are we to the collapse of the deal? We are some way off that because the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
people at Thoresby are workhng very hard and pulling the coal ott of the | :02:14. | :02:49. | |
ground and making a margin so there is enough cash to keep the company | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
going in the short term but in the medium term as it gets more | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
challenging they will be short of cash but that does not mean they | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
will not make a profit but they will run out of money at some pohnt in | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
the future. Wide as the govdrnment not, with a full ?20 million worth | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
of cash. It is not just abott money it is about the expertise. The | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
government cannot said the company to run it itself and we need to find | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
a new partner with mining expertise that will come in and close down UK | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
coal and we can move forward as we wanted. | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
Next tonight fire crews frol across the East Midlands ard | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
about halfway through their latest strike over their pensions. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
They walked out at 9 o'clock this morning for | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
It's the 13th time they've staged industrial action over | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
At nine o'clock this morning firefighters picked up their | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
placards and walked out of their fire stations. Contingency plans to | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
cover emergency is what put into place. Normally we would have 3 | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
fire engines but at the momdnt we have seven and we will remahn at | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
seven throughout the 24 hours of the strike period. On top of th`t we do | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
not have the ability to mobhlise our specialist appliances like platforms | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
that can go up higher and specialist pumping vehicles. We are down to a | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
skeleton contingency arrangdment. At the clock tower in Leicester members | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
of the Fire Brigades Union staged a rally to raise awareness of their | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
fight. Members of the public had mixed views. We are really | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
supportive and the firefighters do a great job. I think they are entitled | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
to a good pension but I am not so happy about them being on strike. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Today is the 13th strike in this dispute and there is no sign of it | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
being resolved. I am not optimistic about an early resolution. @ny | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
strike is worrying and the fact it has gone on for so long and we are | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
now on the 13th industrial `ction period is really not good ndws. In a | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
statement a spokesman for the government believes a soluthon can | :04:39. | :04:52. | |
be reached but not under thd shadow of industrial action. The strike has | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
been going on for three years and the firefighters here are prepared | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
for it to go on for even longer If the dispute is not resolved there | :04:59. | :04:59. | |
will be another strike in tdn days. Well, earlier this evening Phil | :05:00. | :05:00. | |
Coates from the Fire Brigadds Union told us the Government could easily | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
settle this dispute. They have fully costed proposals | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
that they can put on the table and they are refusing to do it `nd it | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
could solve the strike. We `re asking them to do it. This hinges on | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
the retirement age being rahsed from 55 to 60 pension contributions being | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
raised. Plenty of other workers in the country have had their | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
conditions changed but what makes firefighters a special case? The | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
government did report that said that 90% of firefighters would not be | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
able to pass their fitness test at 60, that is logical. If thex have to | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
go then they will have be s`cked. Why are you less fit at 60 than at | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
55? We do not have many Olylpic athletes who run around at 60 years | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
old. It is a strenuous job, not a normal job. We are not talkhng 8 | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
and 16. How comes you are OK 55 and not at 60? It is the fact is that | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
are used, you just cannot you pass the fitness test, the majorhty of | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
firefighters can't and cert`inly women can't because they struggle at | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
50 so we will lose them. Thhs sceptic 's will say you are trying | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
to preserve an early retirelent age. We are paying 14% of our wage into a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
pension, these are not gold`plated pensions, we are paying for them. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
That's your news, so it's goodbye from me, but with your weather now, | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
It has been a lovely summer 's day but very high pollen levels. The | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
weather will be settled tomorrow but they will be high before thdy use | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
towards the weekend. For now it is a fine and settled evening. Wd have | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
clear skies and temperatures are only dropping around 13 degrees It | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
is set to be a fairly mild `nd quite muggy night for some. Tomorrow | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
morning it is the driest st`rt. Plenty of sunshine in the morning | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
and in the afternoon we start to see the cloud bubble up. There will | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
still be sunny intervals and temperatures are about 23 ddgrees. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
We expect a few showers on Friday evening and Saturday morning but | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
then on Saturday it will be a cloudy day and a bit cool about st`ying | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
dry. Here is your outlook for the next few days. | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
turn pressure with temperatures easing back and here is my colleague | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
with the rest of the weekend forecast. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
A day of contrast today. In the Northwest we saw cloud moving in | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
which brought a little bit of rain but it also stopped temperatures | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
from rising too far. 16 or 17 degrees typical, contrasted with 20 | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
degrees in London. We will see the skies clear across the southern half | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
tonight. Some rural spots might dip into single figures and there might | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
be showers, mist and fog in rural spots, but that's about it for | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
England and Wales. Further north, heavy bursts of rain on the west of | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Scotland. Not too much on the eastern side, and some rain getting | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
into Northern Ireland by dawn. In the rush hour across central and | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
western Scotland, not pleasant, it will be wet but not too windy. And | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Northern Ireland is not great. | :08:24. | :08:24. |