21/02/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands -

A little earlier than usual, we are joined by Alex on the sofa because

there are things happening out there? Yes, Storm Doris is coming on

Thursday, we have an amber warning in place for wind on Thursday, gusts

potentially a 50-80 mph, we are crossed that at the moment and the

full forecast is later in the programme. Thank you.

But first tonight - a new specialist team could be set

up to handle young unaccompanied refugees across the East Midlands.

Councils are struggling to cover the cost of caring for the children

and teenagers who reach these shores as refugees.

Here's our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball.

Scattered across Europe in winter, tens of thousands

of unaccompanied children, many fending for themselves.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says Britain must do more and has warned

that child refugees face being exploited or even killed

after the Government announced one relocation programme

This man told me his 16-year-old brother was stranded

in the notorious Jungle near Calais but he has been refused permission

to bring Solomon to Nottingham under family reunion rights,

so now he is offering to take a DNA test.

TRANSLATION: All his friends have left.

Like most unaccompanied children, he does not have a family

here so he was age assessed to check he is under 18 and taken into care.

Today this report from the campaign group Nottingham Citizens has urged

the city and county councils to take in more teenagers.

It wants them to reach the Government's maximum limit

for unaccompanied children - one for every 1400 youngsters

It also want those children to get school or college

We really believe that we are up for this challenge, working together to

make a difference for these young children. This is one way they are

helping, this course starting at Nottingham University, there are

seven unaccompanied children here. The Home Office says it bought more

than 900 unaccompanied children from the continent last year,

but it needs to balance their needs with local

councils capacity to cope. There will be more calls

for Government action Well, around ?100 a day

from the Government for every one of the 150 unaccompanied youngsters

adds up to ?5 million Earlier, I spoke to Stuart Young

from the group representing councils in our region and asked him

whether that money really isn't We don't know. Because, within that

?100 roughly per day, you need to pay for the fostering costs,

education, health, and also hiring social workers because all of these

vulnerable young people need looking after, and with it comes a

significant amount of cost. ?100 per day is not enough. We've done some

work and the terror from the government barely covers half of the

costs. -- Pete -- the tariff. The government need

to understand the true cost of looking after these children. Local

authorities are looking at ways of driving down costs like joint

procurement of places potentially, or advanced purchasing of the

placements, that's another way of driving down costs. Alongside that,

we are looking at potential joint arrangements, because the more

arrangements you Johnny procures another way of driving down costs.

Looking at different options in terms of can we do this more

effectively and efficiently to get down costs? What happens to these

children in the end, do they ultimately go back to where they

came from or are they here for keeps? It's another question in

terms of seeking clarity from the government. We have an obligation to

look after them for a number of years but in terms of long-term

arrangements for these child refugees, and refugees coming over

for the serious game, what are the long-term expectations of

government, and how will authorities be expected to look after them? Many

questions that would take a long time to answer, thank you for

speaking to us. You are welcome. People in the village of Kegworth,

near East Midlands Airport, have been meeting tonight

to voice their views on the new The change to the high speed train's

route has now brought it a lot closer to the village

and could threaten the plans Our reporter Navtej Johal's been

in Kegworth tonight. It's the village which is no

stranger to big transport projects, located near East Midlands Airport

and the M1, but Kegworth wasn't supposed to be

significantly affected by HS2. Original plans showed the line

would go under the airport, but in November it was changed

and will now go around it and threw but in November it was

changed and will now go One of the casualties of the change

could be two proposed new housing developments,

based here, providing 300 The plans for HS2 run straight

through the two developments. No idea what impact that will have,

but it puts them at risk, I guess. At this meeting, held by the parish

council tonight, villagers came to express their views

on the new route for the final time. People need places to live,

that will be a much better use Then, all of a sudden, they've

decided to swap it to our side, what impact will it have

on the village? I think it's a bad thing,

they should be creating homes. It will be going through

housing, proposed housing, I've spoken today to the developer

behind most of those planned new homes but it says that it

will not be commenting on the change of route until after

the consultation is over, Next - flytippers have poured two

lorry loads of rubbish on the side These piles were dumped

near Hinckley, just off the A47. The local council believes

its commercial waste. The eyesore was called

in to the council on Saturday morning and officials think it

will cost about ?6,000 They want anyone with

information to get in touch. A group of tenants at a Derbyshire

caravan park have been told to leave immediately and take their holiday

homes with them. Some tenants are angry at the way

they were told to go. The owners said the park

wasn't safe - though it This small caravan site is used by

about 50 people as a getaway but out of the blue last week, they received

a letter from the owners telling them to remove their holiday homes

and possessions with immediate effect. It was shocking, that anyone

could treat anybody like that, not just ask all these people, but to

treat anybody like that. An abrupt letter like that. Most of these

caravans have been here 30 years or more, some of them. I'm afraid that

if they were moved, most of them would collapse. Many people here

have already cleared out the have already cleared out the

caravans, afraid that otherwise their belongings could be lost. For

people like Pat, this site holds happy memories. We've been coming

here for years, the grand kids love it. We spend a lot of time here,

it's been a second home. Residents say that they struggled to get

answers from the new owners, Countrywide Park homes, but in a

statement they told us... Furious! Why can they contact... Why

was there no contact with us? Why have they let us go through all

this? Onto sport and Derby County hosted

Burton Albion for the first time A return to Pride Park

for Nigel Clough who was sacked by the Rams four years ago -

and the final score. So, it's goodbye from me -

but with your weather As we go through the next 48 Hours

so there is lively whether on the way. If you were looking for the

sunshine, you had to get up first being, thank you to our Weather

Watcher for getting that sunrise. We will be looking at the flowers for

brightness in the weather. Beautiful pictures, thank you Weather

Watchers. Over the next day or so, this system is in charge of our

weather. Bringing rain across the region, it will feed into tonight,

and be with us tomorrow. Looking at details tomorrow, the rain comes in,

a cloudy night ahead. Lows of about eight Celsius, mild for this time of

year. As we go through tonight and into tomorrow morning, we expect

more rain to feed across the region. It's slowly sink southwards through

the day and there is brighter weather in the north of the region

in the afternoon. Highs of 12 degrees. On Thursday, this amber

warning is in force for the wind, take care and be prepared. We are

expecting to see Storm Doris working across the region. At two PM- 3pm is

the current thinking on Thursday. We expect to see the strongest gusts of

wind, could be up to 80 mph over higher grounds and in exposed areas.

Elsewhere, 30-60. Still, it could cause travel disruption and again,

temperatures of 9-10 . So, make sure you are prepared through the next

few days. I will leave you with the Outlook. Next, the National

forecast. the day, particularly up towards the

evening rush hour. It calms down on the Outlook toward the end of the

week and then milder again from the wheel them. More on storm Doris now

with Matt Taylor.