27/06/2014 East Midlands Today

That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from

This is East Midlands Today with Sarah Teale and me, Dominic Heale.

police and care`workers over their handling of a mentally ill lan.

William Barnard was due to be arrested for a robbery on the day he

stabbed his grandfather to death. If you had been arrested, he would not

be at liberty to kill. Also tonight, delays hit knocking Nottingham's new

tramlines. So when will thex be finished? Will it be the 14th of

January? It will be as earlx as we can possibly make it. Will ht be the

14th of February Western markets it will be as early as we can lake it.

Mums Art in Leicester are asked for their views on the shake`up in

maternity services. And how the Imperial War Museum has bright

provided the ammunition for a ashen line. `` a fashion line.

Welcome to Friday's programle. First tonight, the missed opportunities

that led to the violent death of a man described as the "centr`l

figure" in his family. But ht was a family member ` his own grandson `

who killed John McGrath. A coroner today concluded that if mental

health workers and police h`d acted sooner over the care of William

Barnard, he wouldn't have bden free to kill his grandfather. Silon Hare

The family of John McGrath `nd William Banat arrive at the inquest

in Nottingham to hear the coroner APPLAUSE

Findings. A conclusion was simple. If mental

health workers and police h`d done their jobs properly and thoroughly,

William Banat would not havd been free to kill his grandfather. John

McGrath was stabbed to death at his home in Nottinghamshire in July

2009. It has been very frustrating and embarrassing at times, having to

listen to the feeble excuses as to why they didn't do more for

William, and in turn to prevent the deaths. William had been di`gnosed

as a paranoid schizophrenic but hadn't been taking his medication

for months. He had also been the prime suspect any street robbery,

but hadn't been arrested by police. The coroner said:

There were times when the mttation was not as good as it might have

been, organisation of the w`s not as good as it might have been, and of

course we apologise for that. We have, however, put in a number of

changes as recommended by the coroner. An independent enqtiry

found that two police officdrs had a case to answer for misconduct. The

police have since issued thdm with management advice. When Mac we have

had an opportunity to apologise to the family and we would likd to

discuss how we can maintain further contact and assure them that we are

doing everything we can. Mr McGrath's family fought to have the

hearing held but with help from their MP. They say it was m`king

sure that John had not died in vain that had always been their lain

division. Struggling businesses hit bx the

construction of Nottingham's tram extension say they're furiots that

the work won't be completed on time. The ?570

million project should have been up and running by Decelber But

the contractor now says it won't be ready until the first part of next

year and couldn't tell us exactly Mike O'Sullivan's in Chillwdll.

Mike, what's been the reacthon of the City Council, they're the

customer after all? That is right. They say thex are

upset and disappointed that they will not have two new tramlhnes for

Christmas. They are having talks with the contractor to see hf they

can recover some of the timd was, but it is out here at the sharp end

that businesses are feeling. Toiling on the tram extension in

Chillwell High Road. But thd contractors have missed the December

deadline which would see paxing passengers using the tram hdre.

Instead, it will now be ready sometime in the first part of 2 15.

Struggling businesses are not happy. The whole of Chilwell High Road

is struggling. From very early on we were OK, but now we have had to

close on a Thursday because of the impact because peopld are

frustrated about how to get here. I am absolutely furious,

to wake up this morning and see it in the headlines, and for

them not to have the integrhty to Julie Cameron's gift shop is,

like other businesses, getting compensation

from the city and county cotncils. She is receiving around ?1500 per

month, but she is losing ?4000 Typical of the independent retailers

here, who can only claim back 7 % It has been obvious to anybody who

looks at the mess behind me that this wasn't going to be finhshed

by the end of August, and the trams were not going to be

running by the 14th of Decelber As recently as Monday,

the contractors assured us that they were still on course for about,

but it was clear that they weren't. We have got a number

of opportunities which we are looking to try and

bring that as early as posshble It is not going to be the 14th

of December or 15th of Decelber It will be as early in the New Year

as we can possibly make it. It will be as early as New Xear

as we can possibly make it. It will be as early

as we can make it in the New Year. Things have been

so tough that a special hardship fund has already paid out ?000, 00

with the prospect of more to come. Let's find out more by speaking to

Paul Harris from the contractors. Good evening, Paul. Paul, gdtting

around the utilities have bden a big problem for you, why is that? You'll

Mac this area is particularly challenging, because of the nature

of the underground services. We have had to hand deck extensivelx, and

the services are very conjectured it. It is not practical to bring

large machines in here. Shotldn t we have known about that befordhand? We

did know, we did many survexs to establish we are the servicds were,

but the survey is only told part of the story. It was only when we

opened up that we saw how challenging it was. Financi`l

penalties, are you going to incur them? Yes, there is a series of

financial power penalties that we will incur. Thank you very luch for

that. We will have to leave it there. Tomorrow, the workforce will

be back here to crack on. Thank you, Mike.

Still to come: The former phone magnate who's connecting with

Opera. David Ross founded C`rphone Warehouse. Now he's thrown open his

Plus in sport we are with some of the stars of the future with less

than a month to go until thd start of the Commonwealth Games.

Next tonight : Mothers have expressed concern about the

controversial idea of merging two maternity units in Leicester. As we

revealed last night there's to be a radical shake up of NHS services

across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. And a review of whdre

babies are born is part of that process. Our Health Correspondent

Just three hours old, Leicester General's latest arrival. The proud

parents are the unit's newest bands. After a 27 hour labour, this woman

left her husband to some up his feelings on the suggestion of the

merger. It will be in what busier, which will be difficult. Thd need to

move some services to other hospital sites have been identified. That

threatens maternity continuhng at the General, because there would not

be the right medical back`up on site for all but the most low risk

births. We need to have paediatricians they are. Generally,

of the woman that go into l`bour, about one quarter will need to

transfer in labour because of competitions. The Leicestershire

Royal Infirmary has around 6400 births per year, Leicester General

around 2450, but this month isn t convinced that one unit makds sense.

The Royal is notorious for trying to get to its, and car parking is very

pure. Whatever happens, midwives want to see choice, and scope for

all medical intervention. It is very important that we have thesd result

is for women, because often women don't want a medical life approach

to care. Today, Newbury and services were opened at the General Hospital,

paid for by a charity. The local MP did the honours. Her older sister

was stillborn. Otherwise have never met her, I know that she totched the

lives of my parents. This is the best modernity in anywhere hn the

United Kingdom, and I will fight tooth and nail to ensure th`t the

hospital begins the excellence that it has at the moment. Nothing is

decided, and the review is just beginning.

The promoter of a boxing match in Nottingham, in which a man died is

calling for fighters to havd thorough annual medical checks.

Lance Ferguson`Prayogg, frol Liverpool, died after a so`called

'white collar' fight last Stnday. The Coroner's Service says ht could

take weeks to determine the cause of death. The fight took place at the

Forum Nightclub. The promotdr, Damian Hucker, has decided not to

Police say a teenager who's gone missing from Nottingham could be in

14 year old Sandra Gazikova has not been seen since last Saturd`y. She's

missing from her home at Thd Vistas at Stapleford in Nottingham.

Officers say she has links to Derby and may be in the city.

A takeaway in Nottingham has been shut down after 13 people wdre

admitted to hospital with food poisoning.

Boulevard in Hyson Green was closed by the City Council under an

emergency order. Officials say anyone affected should get ledical

help and contact the council. And customers who still have food from

the premises, even if it's been frozen, should dispose of it

A Nottinghamshire company s`ys it's bringing an estimated 20 million

pounds a year into its local community, and yet many people

barely realise it's there. Center Parcs is based in Ollerton on the

site of the old colliery. Btt it seems the firm's developments `

including a two hundred and fifty million pound investment in a new

leisure park ` aren't widelx known. James Roberson reports.

It is 20 years since the last meeting took place at Ollerton

pit, but its sudden closure in 994 traumatised the village that had

relied on it for employment for seven decades. Today, the pht site

is thriving once again as a business site. Center Parcs HQ was one of the

first to move on. Now it employs 200 people who come from all ovdr the

area. I think it has been hugely

important. I think such a bhg company, to have it on your

doorstep. Especially with the pit closures and those sorts of things,

it has meant that there has been plenty of opportunity for elployment

in the local area. There have been a lot of ex`miners working since I've

been here that have come out of some states. Yes, a of ex`miners work

here. I came up here and I fell in love with it. It is just lovely

isn't it? But it is the firm's latest

development, the ?250 million Woburn Park in Bedfordshire, just

opened, that seems to surprhse Ollerton people. Do you know which

Ollerton`based company has just invested ?250 million? No, H do

know, honestly. That is the first I have ever known about it. No. No,

we don't. Center Parcs boss, whose office overlooks Ollerton

village, says the East Midl`nds people forget that what the

Nottinghamshire`based busindss HQ and leisure site bring to the local

economy. Sherwood Forest, just three and a half miles down the

and we have another 1500 employees there as well. So very important for

jobs in the local area. We have estimated something like ?20 million

of money goes back into the local economy every year as a restlt of

is thriving once again as a business site. Center Parcs HQ was one of the

first to move on. Now it employs 200 people who come from all ovdr the

area. I think it has been hugely

important. I think such a bhg company, to have it on your

doorstep. Especially with the pit closures and those sorts of things,

it has meant that there has been plenty of opportunity for elployment

in the local area. There have been a lot of ex`miners working since I've

of money goes back into the local economy every year as a restlt of

Center Parcs' presence, so we are really significant in this part of

the world. Center Parcs now turns over over

?300 million per year, and the Woburn site may not be its last

development. It is considerhng another, possibly in Ireland, in the

Now fashion designers often seek inspiration from the past and that's

certainly been the case for the Leicestershire company Reall and

Empire. From t`shirts to knhtwear ` all their designs have been based on

archives held at the Imperi`l War Museum. In the last of our series on

local designers, Geeta Pendse has been finding out how military life

Founded in 1970, the Imperial Royal Museum has bden a

vital resource for visitors keen to learn about our military past. But

for one Leicestershire comp`ny, it also provided the inspiration for a

brand`new fashion label. Ex`mining an American bomber jacket ftrther

next collection. This is ond of several trips Norman and Richard had

made to the Imperial War Museum in London. From badges to stitching,

their clothes are inspired by design techniques from the past. So this is

a jacket that would have bedn warned by an American pilot in the Second

World War. What is it you look for? With this leather jacket, you

have got little poppers unddrneath the collar which is a nice detail.

You got these beautiful little bits of stitching. Just a really simple

thing that brings your colldction together. Although it is such a

small thing in a jacket, it is actually just a really nice detail.

And curators at the museum have also been surprised by the way Realm

and Empire have reimagined their artefacts. The most impresshve thing

I have seen is the item of wallpaper. That was taken from a

German trench during the First World War by a British soldier. This has

inspired a whole collection based on the First World War. The colpany

based in Leicestershire and Nottingham, where Norman designs

each garment. The bulk of the outfits are made in the UK, with

their knitwear produced at ` Leicester factory. It has bden nice

when it was done properly. @nd kind of try to capture that look. Of you

know, although we are a moddrn company and every thing we take is

revamped to appeal to the modern diet, it has still got that love

attached to it. With celebrhties endorsing the

brand, realm and Empire want to fashion the modern man with designs

Time for sport now and Derbx County have signed up defender Crahg

Forsyth on a four year deal this afternoon, meanwhile Colin has been

Well, it is summer, even though it doesn't feel like it. It is an

extraordinary summer of sport ahead. By way of a warm up, we camd to this

school sports day. Over 1000 pupils here and lots of sports. We wanted

about the hockey, and we want to talk about the Commonwealth Games,

because today team England `nnounced their squads for the Commonwealth

Games hockey, and they are both packed full of people from the east

Midlands, as Christie reports. They are still in the process of handing

out, not games gets to the role of team England. Amongst those in the

changing rooms today, the mdn's and women's hockey teams. There is no

one more excited for the gales than Holly Webb. It is going to be 8 to

dream that has come true. As a child, I have always wanted to

compete in major competitions, and I didn't ever really think it would

happen. It means everything. Colin Love games, like the Olympic Games,

they are things that you watch every four years on the television, and

you see great icons taking part and to be part of it will be incredible.

Tim is one of three players in the men's team along with Harry Martin

and Adam Dixon. A man looking to book penalty heartbreak behhnd

inform the last Commonwealth Games. If you put that penalty misdry

behind him, and take a lot of inspiration from him and thd way

that he approached sport, so for me it is just to get on with it and to

try to bury those demons. They got their official get started today,

then, and there photographic memento is, complete with some very serious

props. Time for some fun photos today. But in just 26 daytile, these

guys will be flying the flags for England for real. Kirsty Edwards,

BBC East Midlands Today, St George's Park. Now, if you pick will

close attention to this programme, you will remember Lucy Garndr, who

is double world junior road race champion, a real star in cycling.

This is her sister Grace, who is also going to be a cycling star

What do these do for the chhldren? It gives them a really great

opportunity to get involved with competitive sport, I mean you don't

get anything like this in Leicestershire. It is reallx good to

get involved in. And is it important, do you think, for

children to get used to the idea of competition, because it is vital to

what do you do? Yes, definitely It will help progression. We whll let

you get on with that. The khds are very pleased is the EU. Another area

where there is great, edition is in the world of motorsport. Especially

in Sidecar racing, where we have the former world champions the Burchill

brothers, who are astonishingly back on the track this weekend. Despite

having suffered an absolutely horrible smash in the Isle of Man TT

just a few weeks ago. Natalhe Jackson reports.

This, the moment Ben Birchall was fired out of his bike at 120 mph. We

both got thrown off the thing and ended up in a big heap. One each

side of the road. You don't have to think very hard or for a very long

about what's involved with that race and what could have bedn.

Brothers Ben and Tom from Mansfield were leading the race at

of June at the Isle of Man TT when the crash happened. The first

my mind is, where is Tom? And I could see that he was, therd was a

bit of movement there, and he was making some noises, so... That was

good enough. And then when Ben went to see Mark Eaton, the spechalist

there, in Wigan, well he got on a level with Ben, I think, and said, I

realise what you want to be doing, you want to be racing, but we need

time to put it right. For what he has done, Mark Eaton is incredible,

really. Some of the stories Ben s told us after, what he to gdt into

his head, that he possibly could lose the power of his hand. It took

a bit of revaluation that d`y, it gives you a bit of a slap in the

face. This is it, and it cotld have been a lot worse.

really race again, but astonishingly, tomorrow, he and Tom

are back out on the track at the world Sidecar Championships in the

Netherlands. I can certainlx ride, as to what level, we will fhnd out

when we get there, but a bit of red mist about that, I'm sure. We will

give it 110%. I'll tell you that, but we'll see what the points are

like, you know, it is a long year, anything could happen. We h`ve

already proved that. We will be trying. We will be trying otr best.

Well, after all, they are two of the best in the world. Natalie Jackson,

Back here at the school gamds, the matches are still going on. I have

two things to mention to yot. Follow the cricket action on the BBC sport

website, and a huge well done to Jocelyn Rae, who won mixed doubles

gold in the column of games. Now they have got to the first round of

Wimbledon. So well done to them Let's talk to the young people

you're been taking part tod`y. You had been playing basketball, has it

been fun? I have really enjoyed myself, especially with all my

friends, it has been an amazing experience. Is this really

competitive? Yes, it is really nerve wracking. Well done. Whatevdr you're

doing for the summer of sport, enjoy it too. That was a quality cheer.

Finally tonight, he made a fortune from mobile phones and

the trappings of success. D`vid Ross, the former Carphone W`rehouse

tycoon, is a noted philanthropist whose roots, he says, are fhrmly in

the East Midlands. For one week a year he opens up his countrx mansion

in Leicestershire to host a lavish opera production. And today he

allowed us a very rare glimpse behind the scenes at his hole.

For one week a year, the sound of opera fills thd air

at this spectacular country mansion in Leicestershire.

Carphone Warehouse entrepreneur David Ross opens his grounds

So it was opening night last night, how did it go?

think it was a triumph. It `ll went very well and I think the

audience... All the feedback I got was that it was the best show we

have ever had here. We've still got three more nights of La Boheme,

and then we've got two nights of Turn Of The Screw.

And your son is in this production. What is it like watching, when

you're watching as a dad as well? Just to realise what it is hnvolved

and I'm delighted he's enjoxing it. I think Neville Holt is, for me

It's not a traditional country house.

The gardens, they're not traditional country gardens.

You come across Mark Quinn sort of hiding,

or in the case of Mark Quinn, not hiding in the middle of the lawn.

David Ross grew up in Lincolnshire and was educated in Ovinghal

and studied law at the Univdrsity of Nottingham, where he still

He went on to set up Carphone Warehouse with a friend.

We always imagined everyone would want to have one, but I don't think

we were envisaging, back in 198 , 1981, that people would be tsing

them for sending e`mails, sending texts or taking selfies

I guess we always thought there was the opportunity there, but H don't

big the opportunity was to become. How proud are you? Very protd. But

He ploughs much of his forttne into charity projects are partictlarly

His other big passion is collecting art, much of

And how important is it to xou to do something like this

and welcome people into your home and your grotnds

I think the house comes alive when we have the opportunitx to have

people enjoying, not only the opera, but also the garden and the ambience

enjoys all there are only a few tickets left, so snap them tp. I

thought you looked very at home there. Shame I had to leave. Things

brightened up a bit in terms of the weather. Yes, but the rain `rrived,

as we expected, which wasn't great news for the cricket. I don't think

these sheep are very happy, either. There will be some dry weather

around, even though there whll be plenty of showers first thing in the

morning. It will gradually hmprove, and Sunday looks like it will be

mostly dry, with sunny spells. For now, we do have a Met Officd warning

in place by rainfall. It will be for the next 24 hours, with a rhsk of

torrential downpours and thtndery showers, which may lead to some

localised flooding. I expect that the showers will be concentrated

butter south, which I will tell you more about any moment. For now, low

pressure is in charge, keephng the crowd and the rain with us. Adding

to the north of the region `s we head through the evening, and it

will linger there throughout the night time, also a few showdrs

pigeon into the South East. As we head towards dawn, the rain starts

to come lighter and fairly patchy, with minimum night`time temperatures

of 11 Celsius. A bit of mist tomorrow morning. As we head through

the day on Saturday, a cloudy start, the rain that we have in thd

morning, like an patchy, but the weather will gradually start to push

the rain further south and then the improvement starts. So we should see

some bright or sunny spells as we head through the afternoon, with

just the risk of the odd isolated shower. Temperature is still a

little bit disappointing for this time of the year, with maxilum of 18

Celsius. An improvement on Sunday, with high pressure in chargd, so it

should be largely dry and I am hopeful we will see plenty of

sunshine, soul and improvemdnt across the weekend. At least we will

see some sunshine on Sunday. By goodness. Whatever you're doing this

weekend, have a great time. Goodbye.