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And now the news for the East Midlands. | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
First, a new crackdown on home`grown drugs. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
East Midlands Today can revdal that Nottinghamshire Police have set up | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
the region's first specialist team to tackle cannabis gangs. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
This exclusive report from our Social Affairs | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Searching for illegal cannabis grows has become a full`time job. The | :00:31. | :00:45. | |
tell`tale pungent smell led the police to this house today. They did | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
not need to force their way in, because the tenant was out, and the | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
door was not locked. Downst`irs they found a typical family home, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
littered with toys and baby photos. But in the bedroom, a very different | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
story. As you go up the stahrs here, these now gets stronger and | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
stronger, and as you can sed in here, this is a growing tent, with | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
several cannabis plants inshde, already harvested, cropped `nd | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
hanging out to dry. But finding cannabis is just the start. Police | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
had to prove that drugs are being sold. That is where | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
Nottinghamshire's Nou `` new cannabis recognition team comes in. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
The whole process is greatlx reduced in time. Police use to find a lot of | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
cannabis being grown in large factories. These days, the drugs are | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
becoming harder to bind as Camilla gangs become more sophistic`ted | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Crime gangs are now approaching people in residential areas, and | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
they are having multiple sm`ller grows throughout the communhty is, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
or renting addresses themselves so if they do lose one or two of those | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
grows, they don't lose the lajority. There are fierce disagreements about | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
the damage cannabis causes, but for the police, it is very simple. It is | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
illegal, and growers who get caught could end up in jail. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
This new team came into operation on the day another drug has been | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Khat acts as a stimulant and is very popular among Somalis. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
The ban has been welcomed bx the Somali community in Leicester. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Here's our Chief News reporter Quentin Rayner. | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
Imported from Africa, khat hs a leafy plants which, when chdwed | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
acts like a less powerful and that you take it, you are very h`ppy It | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
makes you happy. You are thd boss will stop can you imagine somebody | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
who doesn't eat for three d`ys, who is chewing 24 hours? Who is talking | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
24 hours? It is mad. I am tdlling you. I have lost five children and a | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
beautiful wife. That is bec`use of khat. Where are you? I'm at the | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
mosque, where I'm cheering. From today, khat is illegal. Somd | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
information here about the ban. It is thought at least a third of | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Leicester's Somali communitx uses khat, including women. The community | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
itself wanted the ban. I welcome it very much, the community welcomes | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
the ban. It has a huge impact on our community, including familids and | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
children. It has consequencds financially, culturally, economic | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
way and socially. It is likd banning smoking overnight. We will offer | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
users support, and there will be a range of reaction ranging from a | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
ticket to find, and possiblx prosecution towards the end. Opinion | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
is divided as to the risks of khat use. The Home Office societx oppose | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
the ban, because it believed there was little evidence of a link | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
between news and psychosis. Captain large doses can cause mental illness | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
in people. The main things `re that that high doses, it can cause a | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
psychosis. And then when people stop taking it, they can get a ddpressive | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
illness as well. It is hoped Somalis themselves ensure the ban is | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
effective. One of our largest hospitals is | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
about to undergo its biggest The plan is for a new research | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
centre and a multi`storey c`r park, complete with a rooftop helhpad | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
for air ambulances. The changes to | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre Our health correspondent | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
Rob Sissons reports. On top of Queen 's medical centre, | :04:30. | :04:43. | |
and a fantastic view of what is going to change. A multistorey car | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
park will be built here, and the idea is to fund raise millions to | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
put a helipad for air ambul`nces on the roof of it. Sybil Joe M`ttok | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
they reduce that transfer thme for the injury of patients arriving in | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
the major trauma centre. Wires are not ideal at the moment, thd | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
situation you have? At the loment, helicopters land on two sitds, the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
University site which they let us use, and another. Both take about 20 | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
minutes to get the patient through to the emergency department. So that | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
delay could be costing lives at the moment due macro potentiallx, if you | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
have unstable patients, you wonder nearer as soon as possible. Karen is | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
one of 250 patients per year now airlifted to the major traula unit. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
She left control of their c`r in rain, ending up in a ditch, and | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
knows the benefits of ambul`nces. The gentleman who was supporting the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
air ambulance said it would take about 20 minutes to get to hear | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
whereas, if you are driving to Nottingham, it would probably take | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
two and a half hours. These are the biggest redevelopment plans for the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
medical centre in years, and followed a ?5.5 million grant from | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
the government. It will see more scientific research nearby. It is a | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
really exciting development for us and for the university and for the | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
city, and preparing a site which means that Nottingham can attract | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
really cutting edge health `nd health technology research. So, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
there is going to be 100 next a hospital car park spaces, the tram | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
is being built there, there will be a new entrance alongside it. All | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
told, it is the start of a new dawn for the Queens medical centre. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
So, it's goodbye from me ` but with your weather now, here's Kaxe. | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
Thank you very much. The we`ther is on a change, and you can fedl it | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
already. Pressure already. @ cold front moved southwards todax, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
bringing cloud and if you showers this afternoon. It clears w`y to the | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
south, but behind that, a mtch cooler and fresh air. Showers | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
continue to push away through tonight. It is a dry night with | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
clear spells. Cooler air st`rting to dig in. A fresher, less humhd night. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Temperatures as low as seven or eight Celsius in rural spots, but we | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
stay figures in the towns and city centres. Tomorrow morning, we start | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
of dry, lots of sunshine through the morning. The cloud filled then again | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
in the afternoon, cloudy skhes later. We will stay dry, sole | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
brightness later on, although it feels a bit cooler and pressure | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
temperature is just about gdtting up to 17 or 18 Celsius. As you can see | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
from the outlook, it will stay quite cool and cloudy on Thursday, but the | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
rain catches up with us on with the summary. Turning more | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
unsettled as we head towards the weekend. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Good evening. After what has been a glorious few weeks of summer | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
sunshine for many of us, things are about to change over the next 2 | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
hours. We are seeing the change marked by the weather front on the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
satellite image. To the south of that, 25 degrees, in Bournemouth for | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
instance, but in the north and east, cooler, fresher air. That sets the | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
scene for tomorrow. A cooler day. We will have hazy sunshine on offer, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
although cloudier skies than we have been used it over the past week | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Tonight we have thicker cloud bringing more two spots of drizzly | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
rain for some southern areas. Many parts dry, but we have the rain | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
heading in towards the far north-west for the early hours of | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Wednesday. A cool night ahead. Many | :08:25. | :08:25. |