17/01/2017 East Midlands Today


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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

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First tonight, bribery and conspiracy to corrupt carried

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out over 24 years by one of this region's flagship

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For four years, the Derby aero-engine maker's been the subject

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of the biggest investigation in the history of the Serious Fraud Office

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and will now have to pay a record amount to settle the case.

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Grey skies over Rolls-Royce in Derby today, but the cloud of a corruption

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and bribery prosecution hanging over the firm has now lifted.

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The aerospace firm is set to pay ?479 million plus costs

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to the Serious Fraud Office which started investigating claims

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Rolls-Royce will also pay ?141 million to the US

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Justice Department and 21.5 million to Brazilian regulators.

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This type of settlement is known as a deferred prosecution agreement.

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They allow organisations to pay huge penalties,

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but avoid prosecution, if they freely admit to economic

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But the scale of this settlement is unprecedented.

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In the Serious Fraud Office's 28 year history, this is the largest

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The court heard that the case against Rolls-Royce involves bribery

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of senior foreign officials and senior staff, stretching

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across the globe and its businesses from 1989 to 2013.

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Lawyers said the conduct was carefully planned and led

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to large contracts earning as much as a quarter of a billion pounds.

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Countries including India, Russia, Nigeria and China were named

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as places where there was either conspiracy to corrupt

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Rolls-Royce told us nobody was available for an interview

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today, but instead released this video which the firm

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The behaviour uncovered in the course of the investigations

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by the Serious Fraud Office and other authorities is completely

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unacceptable and we apologise unreservedly for it.

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But the Serious Fraud Office says this may not be the end of legal

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The deferred prosecution agreement announced today deals

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Human defendants are quite different matter.

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We focus our attention on them is our priority, and,

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in due course, decide which, if any of them should be charged,

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Well, earlier, I spoke to Robert Barrington,

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executive director of Transparency International UK,

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who welcomed the fine imposed on Rolls-Royce,

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but said it was essential that individual prosecutions

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Well, on the one hand, it's an eye-catching fine,

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a breakthrough moment for the Serious Fraud Office to be

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making finds in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

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But, in the end, bribes paid by people and individuals need

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If there are announcements of prosecutions, we will feel

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If it simply you pay the fine and then everything's done,

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Do you think it's likely there will be announcements

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The Serious Fraud Office said in court today that Rolls-Royce had

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cooperated quite markedly in the course of the investigation,

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and that means it's likely that information will have been given

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And informally I understand prosecutions of individuals may well

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But they've really got to be held to account.

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What sort of message does this send out to other large companies?

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If there are prosecutions of individuals as well as the fine,

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it sends out the message if you pay bribes you do so at your peril.

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And you might end up in jail personally if either you've paid

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a bribe or you're the person who signed off on paying the bribe.

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On the other hand, if it's just a big fine, it sends out the message

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Briefly, do you think this is an effective

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The deterrent has to have two aspects.

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It has to have both a financial aspect and an individual

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If it's a large amount of money, that's part of the deterrent.

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The other part has to be individuals being held to account,

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Thanks very much indeed for speaking to us.

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Next, we find out how the Prime Minister's big Brexit

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speech has gone down in the East Midlands.

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We've been to the constituency of one of those rebellious Tory MPs

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who have openly disagreed with their leader on Brexit ever

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From Loughborough, here's our political editor Tony Roe.

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While the Prime Minister made her speech to the diplomats in London,

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we watched in a cafe near Loughborough Town Hall.

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'We are leaving the European Union, but we are not leaving Europe.'

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This is the seat of the former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

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She wants us to stay in the single market and said it would be

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She is, though, encouraged by the Prime Minister's speech.

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And there's clearly been a huge amount of work

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going on across Government to think about what that future

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There's clearly more details, lots more negotiations,

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but I thought the tone of the speech and the awareness of the magnitude

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of the important new relationship was very welcome.

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We know that Nicky Morgan puts great importance on what people

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Well, there is no market today, but plenty of people around

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I think any strong Prime Minister should have said,

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They say we've got to do this, we've got to do that.

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We should be in charge of our own money, we should be

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I just don't think we should be tied to the EU and all their rules.

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Anna Soubry is in the same camp as Nick Morgan.

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For her, the PM's speech did not indicate a hard Brexit.

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Andrew Bridgen campaigned harder than most Tory MPs for Brexit.

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We're going to be out of the single market.

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Her critics for too long have been saying that she has not been

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specific about what our aims of negotiations are,

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our new relationship with the European Union,

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The Prime Minister has been very clear.

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She spelt it out rather more clearly.

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It was more accepting that this has got to be

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in everybody's interests, the way we leave.

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And, tonight, the Labour leader in the European Parliament,

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the East Midlands' Glenis Willmott, accused the Prime Minister of giving

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up on the single market before negotiations have even begun.

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Next tonight, the profoundly moving accounts from three parents

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They've come together with a powerful message -

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Today, the three parents were given knives which Nottinghamshire police

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The parents in turn presented the knives to an artist,

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who's creating a huge monument to victims of knife crime.

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The chap pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed him eight times.

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In the heart, in the face, straight through the heart.

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He took out a ten inch knife and plunged it in his neck.

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They couldn't stop their sons being murdered.

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Their mission now to spare other parents their pain.

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Having to deal with the fact that your child is no longer

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with you and taken away in such a horrible way.

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It's been a hard five years and it's not getting any easier.

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A danger highlighted by this, created out of 100,000 knives

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gathered from police force knife amnesties across the country.

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Today, they handed its creator three knives.

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It's hoped, when finished, this will occupy the fourth plinth

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If we can raise awareness and just stop one person from going outside

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with a knife and taking another person's life.

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It's a work of art and it's lives, it's souls.

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My son will never, ever be forgotten cos it's there.

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When I'm dead and gone, it will still be there for people to see.

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An exhibition's opened in South Derbyshire to celebrate

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a man who was, in his day, one of the most famous

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Former British heavyweight champion Jack Bodell is said to have

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put his home town of Swadlincote on the world map.

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He hung up his gloves in the '70s to run a chip shop,

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The exhibition's being held in Sharpe's Pottery Museum

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So, it's goodbye from me, but with your weather now, here's Kaye.

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Well, it's been quite a cloudy old day-to-day for many of us

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A lot of cloud, a little bit damp for some as well,

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and that's going to be how it stays as we head through tomorrow as well.

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So, a lot of cloud, settled light winds asked the risk of some spots

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And that is how it is set today in the evening

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Over on the hills, we've got some mist and fog as well.

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Because of all that cloud, temperatures really won't drop off

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much lower than about three or 4 degrees.

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A couple of bits and pieces of light rain and drizzle,

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The winds will remain fairly light once again.

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And those temperatures will get back up about seven,

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I hate to say it but it's a repeat the process performance

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A lot of cloud, light winds, most of us dry,

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and those temperatures back to about 8 degrees.

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With high pressure in charge of our weather, those conditions

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will stay very similar towards the end of the week.

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That's it from us here on the late team.

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I'm going to leave you with the summary,

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and then your national forecast will follow.

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from time to time. Staying settled still. Nick has the national

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forecast this evening. Hello. If you are watching the

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football earlier it turned out to be an evening for football fans in

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Lincolnshire. This is how it looked at the start of the day. No idea

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whether this weather watcher is a football fan, it's a fan of weather

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that matters here. All sorts of weather, from 13 in Aberdeenshire to

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two, despite the sunshine in Kent. I wonder if this six in the cloud

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across the Midlands into northern England and parts of Wales felt

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colder, particularly in these misty and foggy conditions in this weather

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watcher view. Some drizzly rain around at times still from the

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thicker cloud into parts of England and Wales overnight, hill fog too.

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Cloud for Scotland and Northern Ireland, although a few breaks in

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