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It's almost 6.30pm - you're watching East Midlands Today. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Tonight - a dramatic rise in hate crimes following the EU referendum. | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
There is no doubt that the referendum result unfortunately gave | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
some people the confidence to behave in a way and use language towards | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
certain groups in our communities which they maybe wouldn't have done | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Also tonight, the death of seven-year-old Shanay walker. Sheep | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
farmers on alert, after a series of attacks by dogs. And the blind | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Alpine skier who is now a crack shot with a rifle. I was dealt a really | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
rough card when I lost my sight years ago but I have played the best | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
hand I could with the deck of card I was given. | :00:58. | :01:09. | |
Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's programme. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
First tonight - the big surge in hate crimes | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
Across England and Wales record levels were recorded by most police | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Here in the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire saw the country's | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
second biggest percentage increase. Geeta's been looking at the figures. | :01:28. | :01:41. | |
Yes, all our police forces saw a rise in reported hate crimes | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Nottinghamshire police saw 189 reports of hate | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
crimes up by 75% compared to the previous three months. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
In Leicestershire there were 213 reports - that's up by 60%. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Derbyshire saw 117 up by 8%. Whilst Lincolnshire was up by 59%. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
The statistics include five types of racially or religiously | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
aggravated offences which range from assaults to criminal damages. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
So can the EU referendum be blamed for this spike? | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Well, Nottinghamshire Police, which saw the second highest | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
percentage increase, says it definitely made an impact | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
but there were also a number of other factors in play. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
There is no doubt that the referendum result unfortunately gave | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
some people the confidence to behave in a way and use language towards | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
certain groups in our communities which they maybe wouldn't have done | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
However, that resulted in some significant | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
increase in media coverage of this issue and some direct government | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
response to the issue of hate crime and there is also | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
increased people's confidence to come forward. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
During this period, Nottinghamshire Police also | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
became the first police force in the UK to introduce | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
misogyny as a hate crime, which was actively | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
Despite these varying reasons, the head of the Equality | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
and Human Rights Commission warned that many people remain anxious, | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
and that the triggering of Article 50 would be the next major milestone | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
and it was vital to support people who may feel at risk. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
A coroner says communication between professionals "failed | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
miserably" before the death of a seven-year-old girl. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Shanay Walker died in 2014 in Nottingham. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Her aunt and grandmother are in prison for cruelty | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
to the girl who was found to have more than 50 injuries. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
An inquest into her death is continuing as Simon Ward reports. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
It is thought at least ten safeguarding referrals were made | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
about Shanay Walker but the inquest into her death talks about missed | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
opportunities from professionals involved to work together. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
She was in the care of her aunt, Kay-Ann Morris who was jailed | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
for cruelty to Shanay, along with Shanay's | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
A week and a half into this inquest, and we continue to hear that | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
concerns were raised about Shanay Walker | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
The coroner Maureen Casey says there is evidence that information | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
was withheld from the local authority in the months | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Shanay's aunt Kay-Ann Morris was said to have dominated | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
interviews with professionals and persuaded them that the injuries | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
were accidental or even self-inflicted by Shanay. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Shanay went Southglade Primary School in Nottingham. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
While safeguarding referrals were made, staff have been | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
questioned about how effective procedures were at the school. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
The coroner said communication channels failed miserably | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
between the school, local authority and health professionals. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Giving evidence today was incontinence nurse Stephanie Joyner. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
She had concerns but said, on reflection, I should | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
She could not explain why she didn't. | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
The aunt Kay-Ann Morris was allowed to bring | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
so-called spiritual guardians to meetings with professionals. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
They were her friends who backed up what she said. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Still to come - an East Midlands MP visits a refugee camp close | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Anna Soubry's there to see how British aid donations are helping | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the victims of Syria's brutal civil war. | :05:19. | :05:36. | |
An anonymous donor has given a girl ?10,000 after thieves | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
stole a collection tin which was helping to fund | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
a life-changing operation. Nine-year-old Kareena Hayes | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
from Long Eaton in Derbyshire has cerebral palsy. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
She needs an operation to help her walk unaided. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
But it's not available free on the NHS. | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
A charity box was stolen from a cafe in Borrowash last week. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Now a businessman's putting up the money | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
The number of people out of work in the East Midlands has gone up again. | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Figures from October to December show there | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
That's 6,000 more than the previous quarter. | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
The Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Green says the great news | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
for the East Midlands is that more than two and a quarter million | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
people are in work, which is almost a record. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
East Midlands Airport says it's experienced a 15% increase | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
in passenger numbers so far this year. | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
Last month nearly 220,000 people travelled | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
through the airport. That compares with about | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
190,000 in January last year. | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
New routes and more frequent flights to popular destinations mean | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
the airport's expecting its biggest ever summer. | :06:58. | :06:58. | |
Dog owners are being urged to think before they let | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
their pets off the lead - after a series of attacks | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
At least eight animals died in the latest incident | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
The National Farmers Union says it's a growing problem. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
And just a warning, you may find some of the images in Giles Taylor's | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
The sheep were shut away with dozens of others in this pen, | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
ready for lambing season when it was attacked | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
by two dogs on Friday. We have had dog attacks before | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
but not like this because this was more of a frenzy. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
And we were very lucky we didn't lose more. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
But the ewes at the moment, there are a couple being treated | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
with antibiotics now and the scars are still there and we don't know | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Well, the attack started in this field early on Friday morning | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
But a number of them were chased and caught by the dogs and we can | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
My wife found two in the field where she feeds a cat. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
And we had a drive round and discovered three more had been | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
The National Farmers' Union says there was a 50% rise | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
in attacks last year, costing farmers across | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
It's not just a case of losing a few sheep with a dog attack. | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
It's the follow-up problems you get, the vets bills. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
It is the fact that you've lost maybe your breeding programme. | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Plus all the time and hassle the former has to put up with because of | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
disturbances to his flock. Big dogs are carnivores and if they are on | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
the loose and in a frenzy, they just want to kill. Nick says he won't | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
know the true cost of the attack and to lambing season begins next month. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Nursery children had to be moved to safety | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
after a digger ruptured a gas line in Nottingham this morning. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
The emergency services set up a 50-metre cordon | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
on Carlton Road in Sneinton - and up to 50 properties, including | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the nursery, were evacuated. Steve Orme reports. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Morning rush hour and traffic is brought to a standstill. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
A digger hit a low-pressure gas main causing a severe leak. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
The emergency services were called to deal | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
with the possibility of an explosion. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
There was a very pungent, strong gas smell. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Potentially, it would've been a huge incident if it had exploded. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
We have been working closely with the other emergency services | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
so it has been a joint emergency service project. | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
About 50 homes and businesses were evacuated. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Once we had realised what we'd got, that is when the chaos started | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and it was arranging that chaos to make it calm and that is | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
A sports session was due to take place on the playing fields over | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
the road for around 90 children who are off school for half-term. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
That had to be called off. Among the first businesses to be | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
evacuated was this nursery next to the building site. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
It was breakfast time for around 25 children | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
I literally left with no bag, no nothing. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
I actually nearly walked out with my slippers on. | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
So it was just getting the children out. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
We just put them into pushchairs, an evacu-cart and we took | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
them to a youth centre around the corner which kindly opened up | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
for us, so we could go in there and use the hall. | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
The nursery should be open as normal tomorrow. | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
The National Grid which is responsible for the gas supply says | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
a temporary repair was carried out on the pipes straightaway | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
A Nottinghamshire MP's been speaking to us from close | :10:35. | :10:46. | |
to the Syrian border, where she's gone to see how | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
millions of refugees are living in freezing camps. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Anna Soubry's visiting Jordan with a leading charity, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
that's using British aid donations to keep victims of the war alive. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball, managed to get | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
through to her this afternoon, and he joins us now. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
She's gone to a huge camp called Zaatari, | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
with the charity Oxfam. It's a place where tens of thousands | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
of refugees are surviving in appalling conditions. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
And Anna Soubry says she wants to see if Britain | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
can do more to help. Today she's been meeting several | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
people whose homes were bombed in Syria's civil war. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Who've fled across the border escaped across the border, | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
They're now stranded in the desert, often | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Some have been there for several years. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
And I got through to Anna this afternoon, on a rather | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
This is basically like a great big piece of rubble. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
There is no vegetation, there are no trees, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
there are no bushes, there are no plants. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
And they are surviving. It is absolutely freezing. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
These people want to go home and they want to go back | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
to Syria but at the moment, the reality is, I think | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
it is going to be many years before they can. | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
The government's already supporting some Syrian refugees | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
So why's she worried about what's happening in Jordan? | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
The numbers here are miniscule by comparison. | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
The Government's focussing Britain's support | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
And we're spending a lot on foreign aid to deter those | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
refugees from trying to get trafficked into Europe. | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
But Anna Soubry says they desperately need more help. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
It is like as, if my constituency in Kimberley suddenly had bombs | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
hitting it and people flee for their lives. | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
They literally take whatever they can. | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
These people did not create the situation that they are in. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
And they are genuinely just like you and me. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
But they have lost their home, lost everything, because of war | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
And many of them are still traumatised by it. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
And she got a bit teary - just before we lost the signal. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
As she told me about a Syrian accountant, who she met today. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
His family was about be resettled in the States. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
But for now - he's stuck - in the camp. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
A man from Leicestershire says his life has been transformed | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
thanks to a device which acts like an emergency response service. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Sean Fitzpatrick from Loughborough said he used to barely | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
leave his home because he worried about his health. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Now thanks to a monitor installed in his flat, | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
Sean, who has diabetes, is the youngest person | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
in Charnwood with the condition to have the monitor. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
For Sean Fitzpatrick, this monitor has changed his life. | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
The device prompts him to press a button to show he's well | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
and if he misses the prompt, a family member or a | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
How can I help you? Hello, I am checking my activity button to make | :13:51. | :14:04. | |
sure it is working. Yes, that has come through perfectly fine, thank | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
you. Today was just a test, | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
but if Sean needed help, Sean has heart problems | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
and type one diabetes - He can fall unconscious if his blood | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
sugar levels get too low. Before he had the device installed, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
life was very different. It has made me more confident that I | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
will be fine if something does happen. I'm not scared or petrified | :14:29. | :14:29. | |
which are used to be. The checks to make sure Sean's | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
OK, come from here - Sean is the only person in Charnwood | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
with diabetes to have the monitor. Often people think it is more of an | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
emergency response and only for old people. Sean is quite different | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
because he is younger but it shows the service can be used for people | :14:54. | :14:54. | |
with disabilities and illnesses. 1,700 people have signed | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
up to the Lifeline project in Charnwood. | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
The council offers a 24/7 response, 365 days a year. | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
And the cost? Just under ?4 a week | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
for each household. It gives him a bit more lease of | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
life because we don't have to keep checking up on him and he doesn't | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
have to keep telling us if he is going out. Before this I used to sit | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
in all day with the curtains closed and got depression. But no, I am | :15:23. | :15:23. | |
happy. Sean is now looking forward | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
to spending more time, out of his flat with his family | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
and his new baby niece. Still to come on the programme - | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
a warming trend. Lucy's standing by with our | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
East Midlands weather forecast. Plus a new campaign to raise money | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
for vital research to help children It is time for sport and Colin, | :15:44. | :16:02. | |
quite a few goals last night. Just a few, it was busy, married, | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
you might say. 22 goals in all, an average of 5.5 per match and they | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
were all close. Roller-coaster of comeback late goals. It is perhaps | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Derby's defeat that would have the most impact. This is the story of | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
the Championship. Here's the story of the Championship | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
through commentators, Derby have scored! Darren Bent runs | :16:37. | :16:49. | |
away to claim it. That is when the wheels came off leaving manager | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Steve McClaren frustrated. The goal before half-time... We said, keep | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
doing what we're doing at half-time and make sure we get the next goal. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
Great fighting spirit. We still go forward and we go for it. We | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
equalise. It is just poor defending. We will keep fighting. We will keep | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
playing football and doing the right things and if we get in there, we | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
deserve to and if we don't, we don't deserve to. Nottingham Forest were | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
also quick to take the league. -- lead. He has challenged. Nottingham | :17:27. | :17:39. | |
Forest have scored. Fulham scored twice before Nottingham Forest | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
equalised. Caretaker manager Gary Brazil would have settled for that | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
but was fuming at what happened next. Just one little bit of a | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
switch off where we don't track our runner. And we find ourselves 3-2 | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
down. Just another note | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
on Nottingham Forest - where the accounts for | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
2015-16 have revealed an operating loss | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
of over ?23 million. Owner Fawaz Al Hasawi | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
has written off nearly Which means the official | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
loss is ?2.2 million. Exeter's David Wheeler | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
had put the visitiors into the lead in the first half. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
So far, so ordinary. In fact, it stayed 1-0 | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
until Exeter had a man sent off and then still managed | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
to double their lead in the 88th. So deep into injury time, | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
surely this from Richard Duffy was mere consolation | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
for the Magpies? It was last night, and that | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
meant another Notts goal within seconds of the first. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
George Grant getting it. An astonishing point | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
from the jaws of defeat. Now, in a way we've saved | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
the best till last. Mansfield Town had a proper see-saw | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
match against Accrington. They'd fought back | :19:03. | :19:18. | |
from 2-0 and 3-1 down to level things at 3-3 | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
with this penalty. But the match was far | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
from over and Accrington took the lead again - | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
also from the spot. So it was 4-3, going | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
into the final minute. COMMENTATOR: Forward | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
up towards White. Good header on. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
He is going to try his luck. What a finish from Johan Arkin. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
What a game. It is a 4-4 and are we done yet? | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
Who knows in this game? There will be no challenge cup final | :19:42. | :19:59. | |
for ice hockey's Nottingham panthers this year. After winning the trophy | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
for six years out of the last seven, panthers were knocked out by | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
Sheffield in the semifinal last night. | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
Changes at the top of Derbyshire county cricket. Chairman Chris | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
Grande resigning to prepare for an election bid at the England and | :20:15. | :20:15. | |
Wales cricket board. All of the top level women's road | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
racing teams coming to Derbyshire this summer. It has been announced | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
that the winning's talk's fourth stage will focus on the country's | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
peaks. One man's determination to do is | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
sport at the highest level. Jamie Weller was in the Royal Navy when he | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
went blind and three years ago he took up skiing. Now he has added | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
shooting to his skills to complete in biathlon. He is representing | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Great Britain in the forces Paralympic sport team. This is his | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
home story in his own words. If you were to put your hands | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
in front of my face and that blind Once I lost my sight, | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
I thought to myself, doing something as crazy as outpoint | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
skiing, downhill skiing, I join the Armed Forces | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
para-snowsports team and I learnt to ski with a guide. | :21:11. | :21:25. | |
So my guide skis in front of me. He has communication on him, | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
so he has a microphone on his back and a microphone across his mouth | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
and he is giving me instruction I had quite a bad accident | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
and ended up in hospital. My comms failed and I came out | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
of the course for safety reasons and then I went straight | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
into a pillar. So I took the slightly safer option | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
of cross-country skiing and started biathlon. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
It is two sports in one. It is a combination | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
of shooting and skiing. And people say to me, how do you | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
shoot as a visually-impaired person? The gun is connected to the target | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
and I have a control box with some headphones on and as I come up | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
on to target, the closer I get to the target, | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
there is a pitch that comes through my ear and it starts beeping | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
and as you get closer to the target, the pitch goes higher | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
and to a particular point when you then shoot... | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
And the you fire off. Because you are aiming using your | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
ears rather than your eyes. It is a new skill | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
you have to develop. With biathlon, you ski, | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
you shoot, you ski, you shoot And for every shot you miss, | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
you then have to do a penalty loop. I was dealt a really rough card | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
when I lost my sight, some years ago, but I played | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
the best hand I could with the deck I see educating people | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
that have an impairment, have a disability or whatever | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
you want call it, it doesn't stop you from doing | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
something you want to do. I don't see myself | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
as a disabled person. I see myself as a person | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
who can't see very well. We should get Charlie Slater out to | :23:13. | :23:26. | |
tell him to take a bow! Extraordinary. And he tells his | :23:27. | :23:27. | |
story really well. Families affected by childhood | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
cancer have come together today to They're celebrating 20 years | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
of Nottingham University's Children's Brain Tumour Research | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Centre. Life Cycle aims to raise half | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
a million pounds for more research into one of the most common causes | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
of cancer deaths in children. 12-year-old Eloise Mills is one | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
of hundreds of young patients treated at the Children's Brain | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
Tumour Research Centre based at the Queen's Medical | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
Centre in Nottingham. I don't remember anything | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
about when I was being ill She was fine for a couple of years | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
but then gradually she has been having follow-up scans | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
and they noticed that there was a teeny tiny little bit that | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
must have been missed and they decided that it | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
would gradually start causing problems so they decided | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
that they had better take that out. Brain tumours kill more children | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
in the UK than any other cancer. The University of Nottingham | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
and the Queen's Medical Centre are at the forefront | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
of tackling the disease. We are less able to treat children's | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
brain tumours than we are some of the children's tumour types, | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
so that every month, ten children in the UK die | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
from a brain tumour. Today, families and staff got | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
together to launch Life Cycle, the latest fundraiser | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
for the Children's Brain At the moment, we're now able | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
to cure to seven out of ten children diagnosed with a brain tumour | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
and I think our next big focus apart from early diagnosis is causing less | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
harm while The current campaign aims to raise | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
half a million pounds for research but a further ?3 million | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
is needed for a new scanner It is hoped a cure for this | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
disease will be found Excellent work. Time now for the | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
weather with Lucy. We are firmly into the milder air | :25:21. | :25:43. | |
and it was quite soggy end to the day today. Tomorrow, it will be | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
largely dry with a couple of showers to look out for and plenty in the | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
way of sunny spells. Today, the further east you were, the Betty | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Yufei in terms of brightness and there was plenty of coming from the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
south-west which locally was quite heavy. As we move through the day, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
it was this occluded front producing all the cloud and it will clear out | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
to the north east as we move through this evening. Looking at this | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
evening and overnight, it will be largely dry for the majority and | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
once we see the end of that band of rain. Some patchy cloud and clear | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
spells. Temperatures falling to about five Celsius. Slightly cooler | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
than last night but still quite mild. A frost free start to the date | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
and could be some miss and fog patches but they should lift quite | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
quickly and then plenty of brightness around. A chance of | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
seeing a couple of showers but most of seeing dry day and plenty sunny | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
spells. Temperatures at a maximum of 10 Celsius. In the double figures | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
with a south-westerly breeze. Friday, we start to see high | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
pressure building up from the south, this ridge of high pressure which | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
means things will be quite dry. There will be some mist and fog | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
first thing, particularly over high ground and OECs brightness as we go | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
into the afternoon. Temperatures still in the double figures. As we | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
move towards the weekend, staying mild, plenty of cloud around and we | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
will see some brightness on Saturday. Could be thick enough to | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
produce the odd spot of drizzle and Sunday, looking similar, plenty of | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
usable weather. Not a bad weekend on the way once we get all of that rain | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
out of the way and plenty of brightness tomorrow. | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
10 degrees is almost balmy! Nice to have more female company on the | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
sofa. Week I will be back with a late bulletin, hope to see you then. | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
Goodbye. when farmers leave | :27:45. | :27:56. | |
their daily routines behind... Right, here we come, Dorset! | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
..for a show day. | :28:00. | :28:03. |