26/03/2017 East Midlands Today


26/03/2017

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We're back with the late news at ten.

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Amy Harris.

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A new study has found councils are struggling to find

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and pay for accommodation for homeless people.

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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says its survey reveals a "bleak"

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picture and the number of cases councils are having to deal

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Here's our Political editor Tony Roe.

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Raising awareness of the work the YMCA does in Derby.

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Since this event last year, the numbers sleeping

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rough in the city has more than doubled.

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On Friday night, they will sleep out again.

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They have helped around 300 here in the last 12 months - a roof,

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a place to start again, a place to find work.

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It was really hard accepting that I was homeless and

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that I had nowhere to go, because I was sleeping

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New research says that almost two thirds of responding councils

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across England said they are struggling to find social tenancies

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It is even harder helping those aged between 25 and 34.

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Labour say there is nothing in the local government settlement

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to help stop the rise in homelessness and the doubling of

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rough sleeping which has happened since 2010.

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The local Conservative MP will be sleeping out again with

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More money is going towards rough sleeping and more houses are being

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built, but charities have always existed,

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I have transformed my life around, completely.

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From walking in the door, the staff are brilliant,

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it gives you every help and they give you all

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that you need to reform your life.

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Most of those helped by the YMCA, which does this to raise

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funds, have moved on to their own place to live,

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or, through mediation, have returned to their families.

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A man's died after being injured in what the police believe

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The man, who was in his twenties, was found early this morning

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He had life-threatening injuries and died in hospital.

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Police have conducted a forensic examination of the street.

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Officers want to hear from anyone who saw what happened or who has

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information about how the man was injured.

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Only days before Theresa May triggers Article 50,

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two politicians have clashed over the financial impact

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The former Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie believes the region's ability

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But Conservative Euro MP Emma McClarkin says Britain will be

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able to use millions of pounds that won't be sent to Brussels in any way

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We need to concentrate on making sure we get the best deal when we

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leave Brexit, and with the funds that we have about here in the UK,

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that we are using them for the priorities each part

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I think there is a risk now that we have gone from austerity

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When you see what the office for budget responsibility

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and the Treasury have been projecting, it is going to start

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hitting public services, because if your economy isn't

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as strong, you don't generate those revenues, you

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cannot have it for the schools and hospitals.

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Health campaigners have carried a bed around Derby to protest

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at the planned loss of more than 500 hospital beds across the county.

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They're angry at proposals to close wards and hospitals,

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including those in Bakewell and Darley Dale.

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NHS bosses say they want more patients treated in their homes.

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We want to challenge the cuts proposed to the local health plan

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and tell all those in charge at the local clinical

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commissioning group, councillors, MPs, we're not prepared

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Two local authorities are joining forces to try to tackle fraud.

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Derby City and South Derbyshire District Councils say they'll share

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resources and intelligence, to investigate things

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like council house tenancies, illegal sub-letting and requests

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They say the partnership should make it easier to spot fraudulent claims.

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Bus and tram fares in Nottinghamshire have

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Nottingham City Transport has revised ticket prices because of

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Many have gone up for the first time in several years.

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The company says it's absorbed cost increases in the past,

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but now it's had to pass some of them on to customers.

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Meanwhile, East Midlands Trains has announced an improved Sunday service

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There'll be an hourly service between the two stations

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An earlier service will also be available between

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The new timetable will begin on the 21st of May.

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Weather time now - it's been lovely today, hasn't it,

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It has been a lovely weekend, some really decent spells

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of sunshine, but as we go through the next few days,

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Through this evening and overnight, clear spells

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developing, a little bit of cloud pushing in from the east.

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A few patches of mist and fog around from

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Temperatures dropping down to around four or five Celsius.

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A few spots may well see a touch of frost.

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A misty start tomorrow morning, a lot more in the

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way of cloud, but we will see bright if not sunny spells developing and

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temperatures will still get up to around 13 or 14 Celsius.

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Still pleasantly warm despite the fact

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that we woun't have quite as much sunshine as we have seen

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Tuesday, a little bit more unsettled, a few showers in

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the forecast and further outbreaks of rain on Wednesday.

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That's it for now, we're back later at 10:20pm,

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For the first time this year, the temperature reached 20 Celsius, the

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highest recorded in Highland Scotland, lovely picture from

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