27/01/2017 East Midlands Today


27/01/2017

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Quentin Rayner.

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A couple caught up in the devastating earthquakes

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and avalanches which have hit Italy say they've lost everything

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after moving from Derby to start a new life.

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It should have been a fresh start for Peter Fletcher and his partner,

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Clair, but instead they've fled their Alpine home and returned

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Trapped for four days as the snow slowly buried their home,

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Clair and Peter were meant to be starting a new life

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when they move to Italy but, as the weather got worse,

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We were petrified, that is probably an understatement.

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You've got no choice - you've to go, you can't stop.

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When it's chest high and falling through the snow, you can't do it.

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If we make it to the road, no one will know we're there.

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What you do when you're in that situation where,

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whatever way you turn, that could be it?

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The bad weather in the region has caused devastation.

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At a nearby hotel, rescuers have been pulling bodies out

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after the earthquake caused an avalanche.

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Clair and Peter were only rescued after they managed to get

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They know they are lucky to be alive.

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When they came to rescue us from the house, they didn't

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We literally had to still make our way to the top of the drive.

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The family put their life savings into the move abroad and aren't yet

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sure how bad the damage is but they are not holding out

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much hope after such a traumatic experience.

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Our family pet got killed, we had animals that got killed.

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Everything we own is in that house in Italy.

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We came away in what we were standing up with.

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For now, the family is living with relatives as they try to work

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out their next move but they say, after the events of the last few

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Lucy Vladev, BBC East Midlands Today, Derbyshire.

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A woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter

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of her seven-month-old niece in Leicestershire.

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Leicester Crown Court heard Chaun-fang Zheng violently shook

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Phoebe Go to stop her crying, leaving her with a

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It happened while she was babysitting the infant at her flat

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The 31-year-old will be sentenced next month.

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The latest round of consultations with communities which will be

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People living along the proposed route say local beauty spots will be

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They're upset over plans to construct a viaduct for the railway

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It's a view which is now under threat.

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A proposed new 16-metre high viaduct to be built as part of the HS2 route

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will go through this green belt land.

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Campaigners say it will obstruct the view of this beauty spot

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I've travelled a lot round the world and I think these views are some

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of the most beautiful I've ever seen and I'd hate them to be lost.

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Helen Thompson has lived in the area for nearly 30 years.

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She's leading the campaign against the current plans,

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which will see the viaduct built here.

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Instead, she's calling for it to be built on the other side

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of the canal, making use of the existing railway line.

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There's lots of existing tracks and the corridor seems quite wide,

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and we'd like them to see if they can get it in there.

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At this HS2 consultation event, there was concern

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Local people going there in the summer,

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enjoying the environment, and it's destroying it.

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We believe that the current route is the right balance in terms

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of the impacts on people and the environment.

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Is there any hope that the viaduct could be changed from where it

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currently is going over two the existing railway line instead?

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We're not expecting at this stage to move it.

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We will always, as we go forward, seek to improve the design,

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if we can, but we don't expect at this stage to move it

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because we think we've struck the right balance.

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Another event takes place tomorrow in Long Eaton with a consultation

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on this part of the route closing in March.

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Navtej Johal, BBC East Midlands Today, Sandy Acre.

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Football now and it finished all square in the big

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And what a game - four goals, a cracking atmosphere and late drama

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as Derby County drew 2-2 with Leicester City.

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An entertaining night as they battled for local pride. Derby the

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better side in the first half and even scored Leicester's golf. An

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awful own goal! But 12 minutes later and all was forgiven. He does what

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he does best. Could Derby pull off an upset against the Premier League

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champions? He is still going. Gives Derby the lead. But in the second

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half, the foxes fought back in the last five minutes, the Leicester

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captain born in Nottingham forced a replay. A big role in the last five

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minutes. So MacLeod and Ranieri must do it all again in the cup to decide

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who goes through to the fifth round. It was pouring with

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rain at Pride Park. Very different night tonight. One of

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the fountains in Derby actually froze. Captured by one of our

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Weather Watchers. And some of the countryside looked very pretty. It

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is wet out there. We have got an area of rain. Through the evening,

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it has produced a lot of standing water on the roads. It is still

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quite chilly. Missing is developing, hill fog to the Peak District. That

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weather front still present first thing tomorrow morning. It will take

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its time to clear to the data on Saturday. Another very wet day but

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milder air starts to comment so it will be a different temperature

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tomorrow. Wet out there. Seven Celsius the maximum into the

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afternoon. And a breezy south-westerly wind with more rain

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on the way to the daytime on Sunday. I will leave you now with the

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outlook.

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