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over on BBC Two in a moment. Now, on BBC One, it's time | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for the news where And now the news | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
for the East Midlands. First, a report out today | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
suggests business is booming. The Royal Bank of Scotland says | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
the economy here is now 4% bigger than it was a year ago, growing | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
at the fastest rate in the country. The future is looking bright for | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
this zip manufacturer in Leicester. Zipex supplies major | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
high street chains. They are recruiting more staff and | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
have seen a big increase in orders. Two years ago, | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
we hardly had any orders. Now, they're three, | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
four months in advance. RBS says the economy put on an | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
impressive 0.9% this quarter, And just as impressive, | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
it's growing twice as fast Hotspots include the counties | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
of Leicestershire and Rutland, Also going strong are | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
South and West Derbyshire, so it's not the cities | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
leading the way. Leicester, Derby and Nottingham also | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
grew their output, but for now, the In the last three months, | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
we have seen So, East Midlands has a very strong | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
retail and distribution sector that accounts for nearly 20%, a fifth | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
of output from the region. It is almost a year since | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, gave | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
a speech to business leaders, citing that this region was a bellwether | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
for the UK's economic recovery. It was here, at the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
University of Nottingham, And on the surface, | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
it does seem like things have improved, but underneath, the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
picture is a bit more complicated. Whilst unemployment has fallen, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the region has seen the biggest drop in wages in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
the country, a loss of around ?36 a So what do today's growth figures | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
actually mean I'm feeling the pinch more than I | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
would say about four or five years ago, obviously | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
because everything is going up. We have been relatively lucky, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
my husband has had a little bit Normally I don't go on holiday | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
but this year I've been Today, the Chamber of Commerce | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
said the figures demonstrate that the region has moved from | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
bellwether to national leader. For companies like Zipex, it's | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
looking like a promising road ahead. The charity Crimestoppers is | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
offering a ?1,000 reward for information about a number | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
of burglaries that followed a huge Three houses | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
and a service station in Melton Road were ransacked after they'd been | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
evacuated during the factory fire. Cash and jewellery were | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
among the items taken. The A453 | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
in Nottinghamshire is closed tonight as traffic is switched over to | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
a brand new section of the road. From 5:30am tomorrow, drivers | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
will be diverted down part of Cars will remain in | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
single lanes, though. It's the longest bit of the new road | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
to be opened so far and drivers are being warned to take extra care | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
approaching the new layout. They need to be aware that this | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
new road is actually two`way, They need to pay attention to | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
the signs that remind them of that and there is a bit of a | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
revised layout at Parkway Junction. So they just need to drive | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
carefully, pay attention to the signs until they they get used | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
to the new road layout. Transport | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
of the two`wheeled variety now and cycling campaigners claim Nottingham | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
is too dangerous to ride around. They say deaths | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
among cyclists are up by a third. Our political editor John Hess took | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
to the roads of the city to see Most days, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Jessica Beyer`Lyons cycles to work. She is a project manager at | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Boots in Nottingham. It can be quite stressful | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
because there are no dedicated cycle lanes and drivers don't appreciate | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that, as a cyclist, you have nowhere We meet up with | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
the cycling journalist Mark Patterson, near where a cyclist | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
in her 20's was killed last month. A so`called "ghost bike" | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
marks the spot on the corner There is, of course, | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
a lot of hype from the City Council about what a great cycling city, | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
what a green city it is. The reality for cyclists | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
on the ground is that We are heading | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
about two miles through the city. Our destination is the former | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Raleigh Cycle Works, to meet the officer in charge of Nottingham | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
City Council's cycling policy. Over the past four years, | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
cycling levels have increased by about 30% so obviously there is | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
going to be more casualties because Nationally, cycling casualties, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
totally about 19,500, In Nottingham last year, there was | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
one death among the 130 casualties. Leicester's casualty toll was 172. | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
Derby's was 94. We are looking at | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
a route that goes north`south in particular, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
across the city centre itself. But ask any driver or pedestrian | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
and they will tell you that when it comes to safety on wheels, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
not all cyclists tend to adopt I think it is very important that | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
drivers accept that cyclists are there, and likewise, cyclists | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
accept that drivers are there This is a dedicated lane | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
for cyclists, Cyclist campaigners say they want to | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
see more of this so it is safer for So, it's goodbye from me, but with | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
your weather now, here's Mel Coles. August continues to play it cool | :06:19. | :06:33. | |
and it could feel fresher still tomorrow because | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
the breeze will also pick up. We had a few showers around this | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
evening but they have cleared away. The skies are also beginning to | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
clear, which means the temperatures We are looking at overnight lows | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
of about nine Celsius, that is in In the countryside, they could be | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
as low as four or five Celsius, A fresh start to Thursday morning, | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the best of The cloud will increase | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
from the northwest and there will be By the afternoon, it looks | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
like many places will be overcast. Not everybody will see a shower, | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
but we will all notice that south`westerly breeze, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
making it feel a bit fresher. I will leave you with the outlook | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
for the next few days, it will be remaining fairly cool with showers | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
and sunny spells throughout. The national forecast is up | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
in a moment. Good evening. For many of us a bank | :07:30. | :07:47. | |
holiday looms large and so does a change in the weather patterns. Is | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
the that good or bad news? Only you can decide that. For the time being | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
we've got similar weather patterns. Another chilly day tomorrow, with | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
some sunshine but probably more showers. Today's showers are fading | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
from the east but we are seeing outbreaks of rain in parts of | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and later in the night northern | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
England. You won't be as cold | :08:09. | :08:09. |