:00:00. > :00:10.Tonight on Inside Out East Midlands, if you've bought a cheap second hand
:00:11. > :00:16.car, just how safe is it? We speak to the victim of one rogue trader
:00:17. > :00:23.who says he's lucky to be alive. If the petrol fumes, it could have
:00:24. > :00:27.exploded at any time. One little spark and the car could have gone
:00:28. > :00:33.up. Also tonight, Des Coleman hops on his bike for a very good cause.
:00:34. > :00:38.Why am I taking part in this cycle ride? It is to help raise funds for
:00:39. > :00:57.this charity that is very close to my heart. And Ben Jackson discovers
:00:58. > :01:00.Leicester's underworld. The number of complaints from people who have
:01:01. > :01:02.bought second hand cars is so high, a national commission is
:01:03. > :01:05.investigating the problem. The Citizens Advice consumer helpline
:01:06. > :01:08.gets more calls about independent used car traders than anything else.
:01:09. > :01:11.And the prosecution of one aggressive Nottinghamshire dealer is
:01:12. > :01:20.a reminder of just how wary we should be. Sarah Sturdey reports.
:01:21. > :01:23.The end of the line for these old bangers. But there are plenty still
:01:24. > :01:30.on the road that shouldn't be. And at what cost? This is the worst case
:01:31. > :01:37.that I have come across in my 25 years with trading standards.
:01:38. > :01:43.Somebody has fitted that tyre onto a wheel that they know should not be
:01:44. > :01:51.used. You would expect the car being sold at that price, to be
:01:52. > :01:58.roadworthy. Some old cars on sale are only fit for scrap. If a car
:01:59. > :02:02.dealer is't honest about how safe the car is to drive, they're
:02:03. > :02:09.breaking the law and putting the driver at risk. Like many people, Ed
:02:10. > :02:13.Taylor is on a tight budget. So he bought a W`reg Ford Focus from a
:02:14. > :02:17.dealer in Sutton in Ashfield with 90,000 on the clock. He paid ?690
:02:18. > :02:25.and set off on the 25`mile drive home. There was not any fuel in it
:02:26. > :02:32.so I asked for directions to the nearest garage. It cost me about ?70
:02:33. > :02:36.to fill it up. On the way home I thought it was odd that the fuel
:02:37. > :02:41.gauge was dropping spectacularly, more than it should have been for a
:02:42. > :02:46.car with a relatively large fuel tank. Ed managed to reach his home
:02:47. > :02:50.town of Bingham and the nearest local mechanic, where Ben Mayall
:02:51. > :02:57.took a look. I have never seen anything as dangerous as that in 30
:02:58. > :03:02.years in the motor trade. The was a whole in the petrol tank the size of
:03:03. > :03:06.my little finger and fuel was spraying across the exhaust, and the
:03:07. > :03:11.whole back of the car was covered in petrol. The petrol fumes could have
:03:12. > :03:16.exploded at any time, one little spark and the car would have gone
:03:17. > :03:21.up. The man who sold the vehicle was a second hand car dealer called
:03:22. > :03:28.Kevin Hempsall. I was so horrified that I spoke to Kevin Hensel about
:03:29. > :03:32.the car and I asked him to come down and sort this out, because it was so
:03:33. > :03:38.dangerous. And he became very abusive on the phone, very serious
:03:39. > :03:44.threats, that he would have my legs taken, and his words were, I have
:03:45. > :03:54.made money off the punter, you are going to make money off the punter,
:03:55. > :04:00.all happy, what the f`ing hell's the problem? Hempsall traded from here
:04:01. > :04:04.in Kirkby in Ashfield. And at a second site, Trade King Car Sales,
:04:05. > :04:07.in Sutton in Ashfield. It's now just a makeshift car park. Mr Taylor
:04:08. > :04:12.bought his car here. So did Tia Ford. She wanted to learn to drive
:04:13. > :04:19.in it. But the ?590 Renault Clio broke down as her mum drove it home.
:04:20. > :04:24.I remember that night, when it got stranded, on the way home, and it
:04:25. > :04:31.broke down. I am glad to see the back of it. It was on my garden for
:04:32. > :04:38.nine months. Radio cassette, no, the electric windows do not have
:04:39. > :04:50.handles. The advert stated the mileage was 90,000 miles. Tia went
:04:51. > :04:55.back to sort it out. Kevin Hempsall came towards me in an aggressive
:04:56. > :04:59.manner and told me to get off the premises. It was very distressing. I
:05:00. > :05:01.was not convert the premises. It was very distressing. I was not
:05:02. > :05:06.comfortably driving any more. Tia was a 21`year`old recent graduate
:05:07. > :05:08.when she bought the Renault. Insurance premiums are high for
:05:09. > :05:14.young drivers, which can mean less money in the pot for a first car.
:05:15. > :05:19.The insurers is so high for the younger ones now. You expect
:05:20. > :05:25.whatever price that you pay for the car, it should be safe for you to
:05:26. > :05:28.drive on the road. The Nottinghamshire trading standards
:05:29. > :05:38.team, led by Sarah Houlton, built the case against Hempsall. There was
:05:39. > :05:43.a big hall here. Just there. `` hole. This car was bought for ?520.
:05:44. > :05:48.It needed ?2,000 worth of repairs. This is one of the worst cars I have
:05:49. > :05:56.seen, from the sheer number of faults on it any one of which would
:05:57. > :06:00.make it not roadworthy. If that brake pad wares, you have got a very
:06:01. > :06:03.high risk of accident and injury. And you can see that that is almost
:06:04. > :06:10.rotten right through, the suspension, and if that failed, that
:06:11. > :06:13.could quite easily cause a crash. Mansfield Magistrates' Court was
:06:14. > :06:17.told that another buyer who returned to complain was locked in a room by
:06:18. > :06:22.one of Hempsall's salesmen. One single mother went along with her
:06:23. > :06:26.sister and young for your daughter to complain and she ended up getting
:06:27. > :06:30.locked in the office by one of his employees for ten minutes. The
:06:31. > :06:38.police investigated allegations of false imprisonment, but there was
:06:39. > :06:41.insufficient evidence to prosecute. In total, Hempsall was fined just
:06:42. > :06:47.over ?10,000 and ordered to pay compensation of more than ?6,500.
:06:48. > :06:49.The 17 offences included selling unroadworthy cars, misleading
:06:50. > :06:57.customers and using aggressive practices. There was no apology for
:06:58. > :06:59.his eight victims outside court. I think everything has been said in
:07:00. > :07:06.court, I think. Hempsall's still allowed to operate
:07:07. > :07:09.as a used car dealer. Here he is at work. The business is now called
:07:10. > :07:13.Coxmoor Motors in Sutton in Ashfield. Just around the corner
:07:14. > :07:18.from the former Trade King Car Sales. Hempsall's name is on the
:07:19. > :07:21.website. As a result of the case, trading standards checked 20 other
:07:22. > :07:30.dealers. Four were misleading customers like Hempsall. At the
:07:31. > :07:33.moment we are seeing a worrying trend of these older cars being sold
:07:34. > :07:40.where traders are not doing the necessary checks and also trying, as
:07:41. > :07:43.in this case, to evade the possibility and when customers go
:07:44. > :07:51.back to complain, they are not honouring their obligations for the
:07:52. > :07:55.force in the cars, as well. `` the faults. The body which represents
:07:56. > :07:57.second hand car traders, the National Franchised Dealers
:07:58. > :08:00.Association, say they're concerned Hempsall has found it so easy to set
:08:01. > :08:04.back up in business. They're urging buyers to find a dealer who belongs
:08:05. > :08:09.to a recognised trade association. Make sure that you go to a reputable
:08:10. > :08:16.place. Get somebody who knows things about cars, and have a good look
:08:17. > :08:19.over it, first. I have seen some real horror stories out there in the
:08:20. > :08:23.motor trade. So if you're buying a cheap car how do you make sure it's
:08:24. > :08:27.safe to drive? Andy Brosnahan inspects cars for a living. He knows
:08:28. > :08:32.what to look out for. We took Ed Taylor to meet him. The first thing
:08:33. > :08:36.you should do is look at the engine oil and the coolant. It is
:08:37. > :08:42.imperative. If you are getting cross contamination, water in oil, oil and
:08:43. > :08:46.water, you have got potentially expensive engine repair. Take the
:08:47. > :08:52.car for a road test and do a minimum of five miles. It is important to
:08:53. > :08:57.check the documents, the V5 registration document, the MOT, and
:08:58. > :09:01.check for evidence of accident damage or damage such as this, and
:09:02. > :09:07.always check it in daylight, in dry conditions. In the meantime, the
:09:08. > :09:10.national commission aimed at giving buyers more protection from
:09:11. > :09:17.unscrupulous second hand car dealers is due to report its findings in the
:09:18. > :09:19.Spring. It is unfortunate that there are plenty of good people in the
:09:20. > :09:24.motor trade who have a bad reputation because of people like
:09:25. > :09:29.Kevin Hempsall, and the way that they carry on their business. When
:09:30. > :09:32.you buy from a trader, you expect that they have done the checks
:09:33. > :09:38.necessary to make sure that it is safe. It does not bear thinking
:09:39. > :09:43.about. I have got a one`year old son, and if I had been out with him,
:09:44. > :09:53.it would not just have been me that died, but a young child would have
:09:54. > :09:56.been taken away. With Government cutbacks to the voluntary sector,
:09:57. > :09:59.many charities are having to rely more and more on donations,
:10:00. > :10:02.generosity and goodwill. But when we heard that our own Des Coleman, not
:10:03. > :10:09.best known for his athletic ability, had volunteered for a charity bike
:10:10. > :10:12.race, we wanted to know more. And it turned out to be an intriguing story
:10:13. > :10:13.about pioneering parents in Nottingham fed up that their
:10:14. > :10:40.children were being marginalised. Well, just ten miles to go. Why are
:10:41. > :10:44.my taking part in this? It is to help raise funds for this ` School
:10:45. > :10:48.for Parents. It is a charity that is very close to my heart.
:10:49. > :10:51.My lad Mitchell was born with cerebral palsy. And, like many
:10:52. > :10:55.parents in that situation, we didn't know where to turn. School for
:10:56. > :11:07.Parents bridges that gap, providing help and support. Cloudy weather.
:11:08. > :11:10.That is it. The charity is based in Sneinton, Nottingham and began their
:11:11. > :11:20.pioneering work more than 30 years ago. Our little strapline is, School
:11:21. > :11:24.for parents enabling children, empowering parents. And I think that
:11:25. > :11:28.is what we do. For mothers like Rachel Lane, who's joined me on the
:11:29. > :11:32.cycle ride, the charity was a godsend. Her daughter Alice was born
:11:33. > :11:41.with paraplegia, a weakness on one side of her body. Rachel's reaction
:11:42. > :11:47.was typical. I've shot all of my family out. I'd tell anyone. I'd
:11:48. > :11:52.kept it quiet for eight months. I couldn't tell anybody until I had
:11:53. > :11:57.come to terms with and then told everybody. `` eyeshot all of my
:11:58. > :12:02.family out. I felt like nobody in the world understood. Just wanted to
:12:03. > :12:05.shock the curtains. Tom was born with Down's Syndrome, and Caroline
:12:06. > :12:12.will never forget the hurtful and dismissive comments of one doctor.
:12:13. > :12:16.Just after his diagnosis, the paediatrician said to me, you can
:12:17. > :12:23.leave him here, you know. You don't have to take him home. And... I
:12:24. > :12:27.thought, good grief, what's child have I got here? Where somebody is
:12:28. > :12:33.saying, you don't have to take him home. But when we came here... It
:12:34. > :12:37.wasn't just what it did for Thomas. It was all the soft things that it
:12:38. > :12:45.did for me. It really made me feel that there was hope. You know, the
:12:46. > :12:49.parents of these kids often say they feel disappointed about the level of
:12:50. > :12:54.treatment that is on offer. They feel lost, marginalised, but here at
:12:55. > :12:58.School for Parents, it is the mums and dads who are put right in the
:12:59. > :13:01.centre of the action and they are the ones regarded as having the most
:13:02. > :13:09.important influence on their child's development. The parents
:13:10. > :13:13.come to us a couple of hours a week. We can't do everything for
:13:14. > :13:17.them so the idea is, we teach them a developer and way they can use
:13:18. > :13:21.within their home, so it is the stuff parents can do at home and the
:13:22. > :13:28.more they do it at home, the better the outcome for the children can be.
:13:29. > :13:32.Once you have got over the shock, and then you have gone through your
:13:33. > :13:38.own grieving process, then you start to realise that if you don't try to
:13:39. > :13:44.get over it, your child will be missing out and going backwards.
:13:45. > :13:49.This is us here, this is the situation, and it is me and her
:13:50. > :13:56.dad's job to make sure she has as fulfilling life as possible her
:13:57. > :14:00.limitations. It is willing nice to come somewhere here way you see
:14:01. > :14:08.other children and parents so you know you are not the only one. He
:14:09. > :14:13.has cerebral palsy. He was deprived of oxygen at birth so he sustained
:14:14. > :14:17.quite severe brain damage. We are aware that he needs physio and
:14:18. > :14:21.exercises and the guys here give us that and the tools to take home to
:14:22. > :14:27.know we are holding him properly and when we are stretching him, we are
:14:28. > :14:32.doing it properly. Hopefully it will ease the pain he has been in. School
:14:33. > :14:41.for Parents uses the principles of conductive education to unlock the
:14:42. > :14:46.potential of these damaged children. They need to find and build new
:14:47. > :14:49.pathways of doing everyday things, such as eating and sitting and
:14:50. > :14:56.looking and lifting your head. And this is what conductive education
:14:57. > :15:09.does. It helps them to build a new pathway to coordinate movement.
:15:10. > :15:15.Often these kids are effectively excluded from swimming because of
:15:16. > :15:21.their disability, but because of School for Parents, it has thrown
:15:22. > :15:25.that away. It is somewhere where we are not different. We are with
:15:26. > :15:32.people similar to us and they have similar experiences, the lows. When
:15:33. > :15:35.you suddenly discover you have a child who can't quite do all the
:15:36. > :15:36.things you expected that all the other children can do, you don't
:15:37. > :15:53.quite know what to do. I'm having more fun than the little
:15:54. > :15:58.ones! But it has lots of benefits, doesn't it? It is amazing. Something
:15:59. > :16:06.everybody can join in, the whole family, and that is what the
:16:07. > :16:14.children of `` with special needs need. It is hugely beneficial.
:16:15. > :16:20.Well, halfway point! I really should have done some more training and few
:16:21. > :16:25.of the doughnuts! It is a great day out for the family but sadly, some
:16:26. > :16:28.of the children who go to School for Parents will never enjoy the simple
:16:29. > :16:32.joys of a bike ride. When twins Olive and Tilda were born,
:16:33. > :16:36.everything seemed perfect. They were crawling, talking and having fun.
:16:37. > :16:41.But then Olive began behaving rather strangely. Olive was diagnosed with
:16:42. > :16:48.Rett's Syndrome, an extremely rare condition that almost exclusively
:16:49. > :16:52.affects girls. Olive started to have a problem with spatial awareness. I
:16:53. > :16:57.would offer her a biscuit and she would look at it and look back at me
:16:58. > :17:03.and I didn't understand what it was the first thing I thought that was a
:17:04. > :17:06.bit unusual and a bit different. Babies with Rett's develop normally
:17:07. > :17:14.for around 18 months and then parents face the agony of watching
:17:15. > :17:23.their child regress. We literally had to watch live just lose the
:17:24. > :17:28.ability to crawl, lose her words, lose the ability to use her hands.
:17:29. > :17:33.The last word that she lost, and if it was in a film, you would say that
:17:34. > :17:40.is too corny, it was goodbye. And that was cruel. Let Olive choose.
:17:41. > :17:46.You have to let Olive choose with her eyes now. It was like we lost
:17:47. > :17:50.her for a while, wasn't it? But we do feel now, through the different
:17:51. > :17:55.communication strategies we are using, that we can communicate with
:17:56. > :18:01.her so much better. You were looking at that one, when shoe, Olive? The
:18:02. > :18:04.friendship song. `` weren't you? School for Parents has taught Paul
:18:05. > :18:07.and Janie how to handle this distressing condition and manage
:18:08. > :18:08.Olive's needs. We bring it all together in a play session to help
:18:09. > :18:10.us 0 together in a play session to help
:18:11. > :18:14.us develop those skills to be able to support our daughter and do it at
:18:15. > :18:19.home. With help, Paul and Janie are coping, but it's hard for Olive's
:18:20. > :18:26.twin sister Tilda. She definitely feels the loss. Because she tells us
:18:27. > :18:30.that, you know, Olive cannot play with her, and she tells us Olive
:18:31. > :18:42.cannot do that with her because she has Rett's syndrome.
:18:43. > :18:49.Being the parent of a disabled child can feel like you're on a punishing,
:18:50. > :18:56.gruelling race that will never end. But at least my charity bike`ride is
:18:57. > :19:02.about to finish. Well, I am glad that is over what it has been fun.
:19:03. > :19:06.Hopefully we've gone some way to raising the ?200,000 a year School
:19:07. > :19:09.for Parents needs to keep going, so it is a never`ending struggle to
:19:10. > :19:24.raise money. But the parents are determined to make it work. Well, if
:19:25. > :19:28.you want to know what his son is doing, he is now a drama student, so
:19:29. > :19:31.he may well be following in his father's footsteps.
:19:32. > :19:38.Finally tonight, not far from here, archaeologists recently found the
:19:39. > :19:40.world's oldest railway tunnel blocked by a rockery. It linked this
:19:41. > :19:43.canal to Derbyshire's limestone quarries, which just goes to show we
:19:44. > :19:47.never know what's right there under our feet. BBC Radio Leicester's Ben
:19:48. > :19:52.Jackson has been investigating some secret subterranean spaces that are
:19:53. > :19:55.shedding new light on the past. I've lived and worked in Leicester
:19:56. > :19:59.and Leicestershire all my life and thought I knew the area inside out.
:20:00. > :20:03.But the discovery of Richard III's skeleton in the city made me wonder
:20:04. > :20:07.` what else might be hidden below us? 0 0
:20:08. > :20:11.With the help of historians and archaeologists, I began to dig
:20:12. > :20:17.deeper and discovered a world once inhabited by kings and servants and
:20:18. > :20:24.witches. A world which has been with us for 2,000 years, and we can still
:20:25. > :20:30.travel through it today. What an amazing place! It was the Romans who
:20:31. > :20:33.built the first known underground network. Excavations under the Roman
:20:34. > :20:42.Baths revealed there were several tunnels. So, Richard, we have come
:20:43. > :20:46.here to look underground at the tunnel. Where is it? Well, we are
:20:47. > :20:49.technically 0 tunnel. Where is it? Well, we are
:20:50. > :20:56.technically underground, in that the Roman period, at that time, in the
:20:57. > :21:00.bathhouse, it would have stood two metres above us, so if you come in
:21:01. > :21:02.from the exercise hall, into the bath block. So, 0
:21:03. > :21:07.from the exercise hall, into the bath block. So, hang on, if arrested
:21:08. > :21:15.over here... The floor would be under here? `` if I stood? Yes.
:21:16. > :21:19.There would be a mass of water stored in a water tower and it was
:21:20. > :21:25.going to flow through the baths, through the plunge barbs and hot and
:21:26. > :21:28.cold rooms. It eventually flows out into the river. This is the Newarke
:21:29. > :21:32.in Leicester, and it was under here that an even more elaborate drainage
:21:33. > :21:39.system was built in the 14th century. The fact is, this hasn't
:21:40. > :21:45.been open for ten or 15 years and we have never seen down here? No,
:21:46. > :21:49.nobody has ever had the chance. We are going to be the first to
:21:50. > :21:54.photograph it. It is incredibly exciting. It is. It will be
:21:55. > :21:57.fantastic to get a record of how the structure has survived. The tunnel
:21:58. > :22:00.here outside De Montfort University is almost four metres deep and we
:22:01. > :22:12.can't go down there because there's simply not enough oxygen. But we can
:22:13. > :22:16.lower a camera into the tunnel. The assumption is, it runs all the way
:22:17. > :22:20.down to the river and there is a whole series of smaller drains.
:22:21. > :22:24.Doesn't it make you want to get down there with a sledgehammer?
:22:25. > :22:29.Absolutely! If we could take that all down and see what was behind
:22:30. > :22:33.there... It is incredible! We have no idea how extensive the network of
:22:34. > :22:37.tunnels and passages was in medieval Leicester. What we do know is that
:22:38. > :22:40.they are shrouded in legend and tales of the unexpected. The
:22:41. > :22:40.best`known involved a witch called Black 0
:22:41. > :22:44.best`known involved a witch called Black Annis who lived in a cave just
:22:45. > :22:47.outside the medieval city boundary. She would use the subterranean
:22:48. > :22:57.system to travel into the city, coming out under Leicester Castle.
:22:58. > :23:02.This was a storage area under what used to be the kitchens in Leicester
:23:03. > :23:13.Castle. Wow! It is a very gloomy, dank space. There is a story that
:23:14. > :23:17.Black Annis was a witch or demonic figure living in the hills where the
:23:18. > :23:21.sandstone came from, so the sandstone itself has a connection to
:23:22. > :23:24.the myth, and she would hang around outside the castle looking for small
:23:25. > :23:28.children to capture. The underground passages are not all as scary as
:23:29. > :23:32.that. Right under where I work there is a remarkable example of a quite
:23:33. > :23:40.different hidden network from the 12th century ` cellars which were
:23:41. > :23:46.sometimes linked by secret passages. This is amazing. Yes! I have talked
:23:47. > :23:54.about this so much, and to actually be in it! So, tell me, what is this
:23:55. > :24:00.cut in the wall? This is the original entrance inside. We have
:24:01. > :24:05.one side of the doorway here and the other side marked by the larger
:24:06. > :24:15.stones. What would that leads to? Well, there was a passageway that
:24:16. > :24:18.run along for at least five metres and we think either there was a
:24:19. > :24:21.flight of steps or a ramp that gave access. So, again, we have a third
:24:22. > :24:29.underground, two thirds above ground and used for what? Probably buy for
:24:30. > :24:33.`` probably for storage of goods by merchants and so on. More and more
:24:34. > :24:37.uses were found for the hidden spaces down below. At Ashby de la
:24:38. > :24:41.Zouche, a tunnel linked the castle and the kitchens and utility areas.
:24:42. > :24:44.As the Parliamentarians laid siege on the Royalists in the castle in
:24:45. > :24:55.1645, the tunnel played a crucial role in the year`long battle.
:24:56. > :25:02.So this was absolutely central to the castle surviving? That is
:25:03. > :25:05.right. We're walking along and you could have had a whole trail of
:25:06. > :25:09.soldiers walking along. There wouldn't have been any lights when
:25:10. > :25:16.the soldiers were coming through. It would have been absolutely pitch
:25:17. > :25:25.black for them. Here... Into the tunnel. So it is aided for bit dark
:25:26. > :25:27.here! `` a little bit. We believe it was extended during the Civil War as
:25:28. > :25:28.a route 0 was extended during the Civil War as
:25:29. > :25:30.a route underground from 0 was extended during the Civil War as
:25:31. > :25:33.a route underground from this particular tower to the Hastings
:25:34. > :25:38.tower so that people could escape through here all soldiers could use
:25:39. > :25:41.it to move from one side of the castle to the other, safely
:25:42. > :25:46.underground, without muskets firing at them from the opposition forces.
:25:47. > :25:49.The tunnel at Ashby is impressive. But for sheer scale and size, the
:25:50. > :26:00.mile`long railway tunnel at Glenfield, buried deep in the
:26:01. > :26:06.countryside, is breathtaking. It must have been a feat of engineering
:26:07. > :26:10.to build this 180 years ago. It is difficult for us, particularly
:26:11. > :26:14.within our health and safety culture, to have any kind of concept
:26:15. > :26:19.on the conditions that were experienced by people here. You have
:26:20. > :26:24.a darkness that is absolute lack. You have miners working with
:26:25. > :26:32.candles, a couple of guys working at the coal face, three or four working
:26:33. > :26:38.the `` behind, people got run over by wagons, crushed by ground
:26:39. > :26:41.movement. The contractor fell down a constructor shaft in 1831 and was
:26:42. > :26:45.killed. It was the Victorians who created the most complex underground
:26:46. > :26:49.system in Leicester. They built miles of sewers. We know they reach
:26:50. > :26:53.out in all directions across the city from the clock tower. And the
:26:54. > :27:10.sewage was processed at Abbey Pumping Station.
:27:11. > :27:18.This is big, meaningful, gigantic Victorian engineering, isn't it?
:27:19. > :27:23.That is right. It is almost like being inside a giant car engine.
:27:24. > :27:30.They did build these things to last as well, didn't they? They could not
:27:31. > :27:33.afford them to break down. If these engines stopped, the city would
:27:34. > :27:33.drown in its own sewage. The interest 0
:27:34. > :27:33.drown in its own sewage. The interest in 0
:27:34. > :27:35.drown in its own sewage. The interest in Leicester's history
:27:36. > :27:38.reached fever pitch last year, with the discovery of the remains of
:27:39. > :27:44.Richard III. The Leicester underworld has many secrets which
:27:45. > :27:48.have not yet been uncovered. It is a very exciting time for Leicester.
:27:49. > :27:52.Since the remains of King Richard were found, it has really captured
:27:53. > :27:56.the public imagination, so maybe the next big story will be Cardinal
:27:57. > :28:00.Wolsey at Abbey Park or perhaps there is a story as well about King
:28:01. > :28:04.Lear and the fact that he might be entombed somewhere in the River
:28:05. > :28:07.soar, so we never know what will be the next big story of Leicester. Now
:28:08. > :28:10.the hope is that archaeologists and historians will get the funding to
:28:11. > :28:15.go deep into these impressive underground wormholes. And that may
:28:16. > :28:15.tell us much more about how we've been living 0
:28:16. > :28:18.tell us much more about how we've been living and working on two
:28:19. > :28:23.levels for at least two thousand years.
:28:24. > :28:28.Ben Jackson revealing a side of Leicestershire we've never seen
:28:29. > :28:30.before. Remember, if you've got an untold story, you can always email
:28:31. > :28:40.me. Next Monday, an energy special.
:28:41. > :28:50.We're with the British Gas detectives as they hunt down the
:28:51. > :28:54.power thieves. All the power used to these two meters has not been billed
:28:55. > :29:04.as it appears. They are getting it for free... For now.
:29:05. > :29:09.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90-second update.
:29:10. > :29:13.The PM has backed fracking. He's promised councils incentives if they
:29:14. > :29:16.let companies drill for shale gas. Critics have called the offer a
:29:17. > :29:19.bribe, but the Government claims the process will give us cheaper energy.
:29:20. > :29:22.More at 10pm. The biggest public inquiry into
:29:23. > :29:25.child abuse in the UK has begun in Northern Ireland. It's looking at
:29:26. > :29:30.care in church and state-run homes over 70 years. More than 400 people
:29:31. > :29:34.have asked to give evidence. Mark Bridger was convicted of
:29:35. > :29:38.murdering April Jones last May. Today, he dropped his plan to appeal
:29:39. > :29:41.a whole-life sentence. The five-year-old's body has never been
:29:42. > :29:44.found. Is Britain on the verge of an
:29:45. > :29:48.obesity crisis? The National Obesity Forum says the problem is worse than
:29:49. > :29:51.thought. It wants urgent action to change eating habits and called for
:29:52. > :29:54.doctors to be more proactive. A hat-trick for American Hustle at
:29:55. > :29:57.the Golden Globes. It picked up three awards including Best Actress
:29:58. > :30:01.and Best Supporting Actress. British film 12 Years A Slave won Best Film
:30:02. > :30:04.Hello, I'm Simon Ward in the East Midlands.
:30:05. > :30:07.Tributes from friends of a Leicestershire man who died saving
:30:08. > :30:10.his two sons from drowning in Australia. Andrew Priestly from
:30:11. > :30:12.Market Harborough pulled them out of a rip tide.
:30:13. > :30:15.And people in Nottingham say they are shocked funding for an
:30:16. > :30:16.insulation scheme has been pulled. British Gas