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:00:00. > :00:00.Hello from East Midlands Airport, an hour's flight from Scotl`nd,

:00:00. > :00:00.a few miles from the centre of England, and bang

:00:07. > :00:12.But just what does that No vote north of the border mean to us

:00:13. > :00:17.Now everybody's asking for more independence.

:00:18. > :00:18.We're in England's smallest countx where

:00:19. > :00:25.So as a Scottish lady, you would say that independence was a good thing?

:00:26. > :00:32.Also tonight, where did the money go?

:00:33. > :00:34.We have an exclusive report on what really happened at ` Derby

:00:35. > :00:45.It was desperate, the parents were not aware of what the situation was.

:00:46. > :00:48.And David Sillitoe is trying to track down who owns all

:00:49. > :00:53.This is the fence that had ` gap in it.

:00:54. > :00:55.It has been sealed up fairly effectively.

:00:56. > :00:58.I don't think we can get through here.

:00:59. > :01:00.The stories that matter closer to home.

:01:01. > :01:19.Most days of the week, nine flights leave East Midlands

:01:20. > :01:24.Airport for Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen and nine flights rdturn.

:01:25. > :01:26.Thanks to last week's No vote, Scotland will remain

:01:27. > :01:36.But that decision still means big changes and not just in Scotland,

:01:37. > :01:42.We were with passengers takhng that first flight north of the border

:01:43. > :02:06.I'm glad that they are staying with us.

:02:07. > :02:11.You are away to Glasgow this morning.

:02:12. > :02:24.Why change things when they work perfectly well?

:02:25. > :02:25.You're going to Edinburgh this morning.

:02:26. > :02:34.Oh, it is a no`hoper, leaving the UK, isn't it?

:02:35. > :02:38.But I have lived in England for 40`odd years,

:02:39. > :02:44.I think it reflects a changd in the country and the way that

:02:45. > :02:58.principle politics lecturer at DeMontfort University.

:02:59. > :03:01.Until recently, I think a lot of people thought if it was a No

:03:02. > :03:04.vote, things would just carry on as usual, really, but it isn't

:03:05. > :03:09.As someone that has come from the complacency of Westminster,

:03:10. > :03:12.that the Scots are going to get the vote, it's going to be ` no

:03:13. > :03:16.and things won't change, the reality is that we have woken

:03:17. > :03:18.up into a different country the day after the referendul.

:03:19. > :03:22.It is an historic change and everything is up for ch`nge now

:03:23. > :03:27.What will we see, what will it feel like?

:03:28. > :03:29.The fantastic thing is that we do not know.

:03:30. > :03:32.Because it is going to take so long to get legislation through.

:03:33. > :03:35.So there's promises for Devo Max for Scotland, that may or m`y not

:03:36. > :03:38.go through before the next general election, but it is the gendral

:03:39. > :03:41.election result that will influence what we see for the changes at local

:03:42. > :03:43.and possibly even regional levels across the UK.

:03:44. > :03:46.So a Labour`Lib Dem Governmdnt would do one thing, a Conservativd`Lib Dem

:03:47. > :03:50.Conservative and Labour would do yet another

:03:51. > :03:53.OK, well, one part of the East Midlands is no

:03:54. > :03:57.stranger to independence and after 17 years Rutland is

:03:58. > :04:07.Living in Rutland has obvious benefits

:04:08. > :04:10.England's smallest county is a green and pleasant land.

:04:11. > :04:17.For example, at Oakham in Rutland you'll pay ?164

:04:18. > :04:21.more council tax on your Band D home than you would in neighbourhng

:04:22. > :04:25.Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, making Rutland the county whth

:04:26. > :04:34.Home to the Earls of Rutland, mentioned in the Domesday Book,

:04:35. > :04:45.On the 1st of April 1997, once again it became a county

:04:46. > :04:49.in its own right, breaking `way from Leicestershire's tight grip.

:04:50. > :04:56.And they did it all without a referendum.

:04:57. > :04:58.What a difference has independence made to Rutland?

:04:59. > :05:12.We should have remained with Leicester.

:05:13. > :05:17.Well, because this is too slall a county to run itself.

:05:18. > :05:19.Rather like perhaps Scotland is too small a country to run htself.

:05:20. > :05:23.Do you think it was a bad idea for Rutland then to become independent?

:05:24. > :05:29.Well, now Berwick's talking about being

:05:30. > :05:31.independent, just because it's got a few Scottish kids in the school.

:05:32. > :05:42.You get more of an identity than being part of a bigger organisation,

:05:43. > :05:45.but, our council tax went up, so maybe it isn't.

:05:46. > :05:49.So as a Scottish lady, you would say that independence is a good thing?

:05:50. > :05:57.County council leader Roger Begy fought hard

:05:58. > :06:04.That transition once you got independence wasn't easy, w`s it?

:06:05. > :06:07.One of the assumptions that people made was that the money

:06:08. > :06:14.And that really put a tremendous amount of pressure onto

:06:15. > :06:20.We were about ?3 million short and that is why we have

:06:21. > :06:26.the highest council tax, because we did not have that initial ftnding.

:06:27. > :06:29.Do you have any regrets about Rutland becoming independent?

:06:30. > :06:33.Funnily enough, I have received phone calls

:06:34. > :06:38.from Anglesey this very week saying that there is reorganisation being

:06:39. > :06:43.looked at in Wales and they would like to be independent,

:06:44. > :06:46.what did we do, what were the pitfalls, what were the pluses?

:06:47. > :06:58.So England's smallest countx there helping another part of the country.

:06:59. > :07:03.And as happy as Roger Begy hs with more local powers, it wasn't easy

:07:04. > :07:08.The thing with Rutland was that they were a county

:07:09. > :07:12.and now they are a unitary `uthority and they thought they could do

:07:13. > :07:14.whatever they wanted and suddenly found that they could not.

:07:15. > :07:17.They did not have the money, they didn't have the resources.

:07:18. > :07:20.And with what's going to happen with Scotland, their Devo Max, whth

:07:21. > :07:23.English regions, they are going to look at that and think, "We have

:07:24. > :07:26.to do all that and more, with the same amount or fewer resources.

:07:27. > :07:30.Therefore, what we are going to see with regional governments in England

:07:31. > :07:35.is, "Do more with less," those famous David Cameron words.

:07:36. > :07:40.Well, someone who's at the heart of the campaign for more powers is

:07:41. > :07:45.Sarah Sturdey has been talking to him.

:07:46. > :07:50.Graham, you've been campaigning for devolution here in Engl`nd

:07:51. > :07:56.Well, I think the English are just as capable of looking after

:07:57. > :07:59.themselves as the Scottish people are and congratulations to what they

:08:00. > :08:03.did in Scotland, but we havd the most over centralised systel of any

:08:04. > :08:05.of the Western democracies `nd I think people in Nottinghamshire

:08:06. > :08:11.or Leicester or Derby, are much more capable of making the

:08:12. > :08:14.right decisions in the localities than the men in Whitehall.

:08:15. > :08:18.Let us in England have exactly what they have in Scotland, unless

:08:19. > :08:22.someone has done something hn the water that means the English have to

:08:23. > :08:25.be told what to do from Whitehall on every single minor issue.

:08:26. > :08:27.So if the local councils have mord power,

:08:28. > :08:33.I think what I would like to see for local councils is indepdndence,

:08:34. > :08:38.You could have, let's say, ` tourist tax where a lot of tourists come

:08:39. > :08:42.through, put a pound on the price of a bed in Nottingham, that go to

:08:43. > :08:46.I would also to see on everybody's wage slip,

:08:47. > :08:49.the exact amount of money that goes to local government in Engl`nd

:08:50. > :08:54.so that you could see precisely what you are paying locally.

:08:55. > :08:57.I think that would be a lot more people interested in local politics,

:08:58. > :09:01.more people involved in polhtical parties and single issue groups

:09:02. > :09:03.So is this going to happen any time soon?

:09:04. > :09:05.Well, the people in Westminster and Whitehall,

:09:06. > :09:11.It is up to us to have as determined a campaigners as the

:09:12. > :09:14.Scots had to be able to run their own affairs in the East Midlands.

:09:15. > :09:19.It's sounds like when it comes to devolution here

:09:20. > :09:21.in England, more power here in the East Midlands, there's still

:09:22. > :09:31.Well, believe it or not, not everyone's turned on

:09:32. > :09:35.by local politics but talk about pride in our regional identity

:09:36. > :09:38.Robert Shore from Mansfield, you're an author,

:09:39. > :09:43.This, by the way, this selection of produce here isn't our dinndr, it's

:09:44. > :09:51.Do we have a strong sense of identity in our region,

:09:52. > :09:56.Well, I think if you ask people from Nottingham what's Nottinghal about,

:09:57. > :10:01.But if you're talking about the East Midlands more generally, thdn no.

:10:02. > :10:03.Obviously identity is useful when it gets to certain scale.

:10:04. > :10:05.If you want to demand something of a government,

:10:06. > :10:09.then you need a certain number of people to be subscribing to that.

:10:10. > :10:12.So to have an East Midlands identity would be a really useful thhng.

:10:13. > :10:16.But we should be more proud of what we have got, because we havd a lot.

:10:17. > :10:19.Yes, there is an awful lot to base that on, absolutely,

:10:20. > :10:27.In the past, we have producdd most of the clothes that people

:10:28. > :10:30.What would've happened without the knitwear industry of thd

:10:31. > :10:34.Throughout the Second World War with our oil reserves,

:10:35. > :10:39.If we wanted to govern oursdlves, could we?

:10:40. > :10:42.Of course we could and the first thing we need to do is

:10:43. > :10:45.to take control of the M1 and bring the country to its knees.

:10:46. > :10:47.Charge a toll, we would be very wealthy straightaway.

:10:48. > :10:51.Not very popular, but then `gain, are we at the moment?

:10:52. > :10:55.Next tonight, the Al`Madinah free school in Derby hit the headlines

:10:56. > :11:01.Female staff had to cover their heads, even if they weren't Muslim.

:11:02. > :11:05.But while much of the media focussed on that, it now

:11:06. > :11:08.appears there are now more pressing questions about how public loney was

:11:09. > :11:14.Inside Out understands that details of a five`figure transaction are due

:11:15. > :11:34.The end of another day for pupils at the Al`Madinah free schooling Derby,

:11:35. > :11:38.which was set up two years `go with a Muslim ethos. Parents frol across

:11:39. > :11:46.the region sent their children, and at first, all appeared to bd well.

:11:47. > :11:50.Then, last September, this. Tonight, an investigation begins into the

:11:51. > :11:53.running of a free school. Allegations centre on possible

:11:54. > :11:58.irregularities in the awardhng of contracts. The subsequent rdport

:11:59. > :12:02.said there were conflicts of interest between some governors and

:12:03. > :12:07.companies supplying the school. One contract for providing staff,

:12:08. > :12:13.including cleaners and midd`y supervisors, was worth six figures,

:12:14. > :12:17.and almost ?20,000 of irregtlar payments had been made. To date

:12:18. > :12:20.unlike other three schools, there hasn't been a police investhgation

:12:21. > :12:28.into Al`Madinah, but that could be about to change. It concerns one

:12:29. > :12:35.transaction concerning founding trustees of the school. This woman

:12:36. > :12:40.has experience of struggling schools, but could not belidve what

:12:41. > :12:45.she found 20 started as a primary teacher. Because of the fact that I

:12:46. > :12:49.had previously volunteered to work in a school that was in special

:12:50. > :12:52.measures, and helped turn it round, I recognised immediately th`t what

:12:53. > :12:57.was going on there was far worse than I had ever encountered. There

:12:58. > :13:01.were just no resources for the children. I had to provide

:13:02. > :13:08.personally, as did other st`ff, pencils, paper, glue, crayons, and

:13:09. > :13:15.textbooks didn't exist. The only text books that were there were a

:13:16. > :13:20.view donated books, which wdre really not of any worse at `ll.

:13:21. > :13:27.There was certainly no school library.

:13:28. > :13:30.There were even so few readhng books that she had to use hdr own

:13:31. > :13:33.library card to ensure the children had something in the classroom.

:13:34. > :13:37.The parents were not aware of what the situation was and

:13:38. > :13:42.when they asked about where are reading books for the children,

:13:43. > :13:48.And every time we asked where are the reading books and materhals

:13:49. > :13:55.for us to use, we were told there was no money

:13:56. > :13:58.Another former member of staff agreed to talk to ts.

:13:59. > :14:01.We have concealed her identhty for fear it may affect her

:14:02. > :14:07.It was sold to me as having high morals,

:14:08. > :14:11.high ethics and a really good vision and I hoped to be part of that.

:14:12. > :14:15.And at the end of the day, it was for the children,

:14:16. > :14:18.to give them an environment where they could have their Islamhc

:14:19. > :14:25.learning as well as their academics and hopefully do well in both.

:14:26. > :14:28.We were just told that monex wasn't available

:14:29. > :14:37.and we're going to have to lake do with the resources that we have

:14:38. > :14:39.It was just a complete shambles to be honest.

:14:40. > :14:42.It definitely did not stand for what they said at the start

:14:43. > :14:46.you know, to entice us, and it just wasn't what it was set up for.

:14:47. > :14:51.I can't believe I worked thdre for over a year, to be honest.

:14:52. > :14:58.So where were the hundreds of thousands of pounds that came

:14:59. > :15:03.Auditors from this firm in Derby had to reconstruct

:15:04. > :15:10.The school's financial accotnts for its first year have only just been

:15:11. > :15:15.Just like the government inspection rdport,

:15:16. > :15:20.it says the school's financds hadn't been properly managed and

:15:21. > :15:26.that no`one can guarantee exactly where all the money was spent.

:15:27. > :15:29.The auditor's report also s`ys there was an overtime payment madd to

:15:30. > :15:34.an individual which current school bosses believe

:15:35. > :15:41.We understand that that was for more than ?12,000 and that ht was

:15:42. > :15:49.As well being a co`founder of Al`Madinah, he went on to bdcome the

:15:50. > :15:55.school's Director of Facilities on an annual salary of up to ?45,0 0.

:15:56. > :16:00.Earlier this year he was sacked from that position for clailing the

:16:01. > :16:05.He's lost an appeal against his dismissal and h`s

:16:06. > :16:18.We also understand that the disputed payment had been authorised by the

:16:19. > :16:28.She's said to have signed it off during her final hours

:16:29. > :16:32.She'd already effectively bden made to stand down by the Governlent

:16:33. > :16:35.And it was Shahban Rehmat that read out her resignation statement to

:16:36. > :16:39.I plan to step down from my position as Chair of the Governing Body

:16:40. > :16:45.as soon as a transition is over and this is clearly for

:16:46. > :16:54.Shazia Parveen declined to be interviewed but she says shd only

:16:55. > :16:57.ever authorised payments which had already been agredd

:16:58. > :17:00.by the school's board of governors, accounting officer,

:17:01. > :17:07.Shahban Rehmat also declined to be interviewed

:17:08. > :17:13.He says he's involved in legal proceedings with the school.

:17:14. > :17:17.A claim denied by the new trust in charge at Al`Madinah.

:17:18. > :17:21.But it's understood that he's claimed he was entitled to

:17:22. > :17:28.In 2010 he received the Chief Constable's special award

:17:29. > :17:31.in a community awards ceremony, from Derbyshire's top policd

:17:32. > :17:41.Details of Mr Rehmat's alleged unauthorised overtime payment are

:17:42. > :17:44.due to be passed to Mr Creedon's officers to investigate further

:17:45. > :17:47.I think it's a damning indictment of a system that we have crhticised

:17:48. > :17:50.There's no financial accountability, there appears to be no oversight of

:17:51. > :17:53.it and there are payments in there that clearly need to be looked into

:17:54. > :17:57.by appropriate authorities with large amounts of public mondy that

:17:58. > :18:01.have been spent with no justification as we can see there or

:18:02. > :18:05.for the reasons we are unsure of, so it's an absolutely appalling use

:18:06. > :18:12.Last week, the new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan chosd Derby

:18:13. > :18:19.Her department says all fred schools are held to rigorous account and are

:18:20. > :18:24.even subject to greater scrttiny and financial accountabilitx than

:18:25. > :18:30.The Department for Education monitors free school spending,

:18:31. > :18:32.in fact it monitors all school budgets very, very closely.

:18:33. > :18:36.And of course Ofsted will also be looking at how

:18:37. > :18:38.the schools are being managdd and also the Education Funding @gency.

:18:39. > :18:41.So there are plenty of checks and balances and accountability

:18:42. > :18:46.But I think that an important point is that nationally we are sdeing

:18:47. > :18:49.that free schools are offerhng a good and outstanding educ`tion

:18:50. > :18:56.It's said that proper accounting systems are now in place

:18:57. > :18:58.at Al`Madinah and that the school's making reasonable progress,

:18:59. > :19:04.Its secondary school has closed but it's hoping to increase

:19:05. > :19:08.its number of primary pupils and possibly move to

:19:09. > :19:21.But questions about its past remain unanswered.

:19:22. > :19:24.Now, there are thousands of empty and boarded`up buildings

:19:25. > :19:28.It seems they are everywherd, and if you work or live near them,

:19:29. > :19:34.Well, now there are calls for the owners to be penalised,

:19:35. > :19:36.and at the same time, as photographer David Sillitoe's

:19:37. > :19:39.been finding out, entreprendurs are trying to bring some of those

:19:40. > :19:51.We're descending into one of the many places where time stands still.

:19:52. > :19:54.It's always exciting and intrepid, taking those first steps through

:19:55. > :19:57.into a dark, dank space that has potenti`lly sat

:19:58. > :20:07.Rob Howie Smith's job is to bring life back into old buildings.

:20:08. > :20:09.Nobody probably even knows it's here.

:20:10. > :20:12.There's places like that all over, isn't there?

:20:13. > :20:15.So much has been abandoned, much of it by owners whose plans to

:20:16. > :20:21.They wait, waiting for a tile when riches can be reaped, and councils

:20:22. > :20:29.It's easier for us to get someone to cut their hedge and to sort their

:20:30. > :20:32.garden out than it is for us to get developers to look after thdir

:20:33. > :20:37.And that is not fair, and it's not right.

:20:38. > :20:41.Some houses have not been lhved in since the 19th`century.

:20:42. > :20:47.It is our oldest house, so it's worth looking after,

:20:48. > :20:57.A rather more modern set of homes can be seen on Nottingham's skyline.

:20:58. > :21:00.Empty for nine years, Burrows Court towers over

:21:01. > :21:05.the houses around it, like a nosy neighbour casting a shadow.

:21:06. > :21:08.We don't know what's happenhng, whether it's just going to stay

:21:09. > :21:11.like that for another X amotnt of years, and it's always h`rd when

:21:12. > :21:14.you're trying to sell a property and you can't give someone a definitive

:21:15. > :21:17.answer as to whether or not it's going to be standing for

:21:18. > :21:20.whether or not it's going to be you know, brought down.

:21:21. > :21:24.We have dealt with several people who have come forward with plans,

:21:25. > :21:26.and none of them have come to fruition.

:21:27. > :21:28.The other problem is, the longer it goes on,

:21:29. > :21:31.the more derelict it becomes, and the more derelict it becomes, the

:21:32. > :21:34.less value it is, and it actually may even get to the stage where

:21:35. > :21:40.the cost of demolition is worth far more than the land it's on.

:21:41. > :21:44.It's sealed off by a fence, and should be empty,

:21:45. > :21:49.but as I walked around the perimeter with Matt, who, like

:21:50. > :21:56.me, is a photographer, a water tank was hurled from the roof by kids.

:21:57. > :22:06.I've spoke to people that s`id that there is a squatters in thehr,

:22:07. > :22:09.I've spoke to people that s`id that there is squatters in there,

:22:10. > :22:12.which is one reason why I'm quite reluctant to obviously go in with

:22:13. > :22:15.I think a lot of photographers get interested

:22:16. > :22:18.in dereliction, decay, and the effect that the abandoned btildings

:22:19. > :22:25.And certainly with Burrows Court, I only got in by pure chancd.

:22:26. > :22:29.I chanced upon a guy who was doing some work in there,

:22:30. > :22:40.I got as far as the seventh floor, and I didn't see anybody.

:22:41. > :22:54.Within sight of Leicester Chty centre is the old factory bding

:22:55. > :23:00.explored by Rob Howie Smith and potential users of the spacd.

:23:01. > :23:03.Well, these guys are quite interested in setting up a sound

:23:04. > :23:09.This space, I thought, might work perfectly for thdm.

:23:10. > :23:12.It's already sort of built `s a nightclub, so it's solid, it's going

:23:13. > :23:15.to be quiet in here, so you're not going to get traffic noise coming

:23:16. > :23:19.in, and equally, you're not going to get live music noise going out.

:23:20. > :23:21.Rob finds and negotiates the cheap rent with

:23:22. > :23:25.owners who've realised that it's better to have a building used than

:23:26. > :23:32.This is, like, four floors of an old warehouse

:23:33. > :23:46.It was, you know, an old amtsement arcade that dated probably back to

:23:47. > :24:03.Over in Nottingham again, this is land between Alfreton

:24:04. > :24:10.Another group have taken on an old factory, against all advice, not put

:24:11. > :24:20.There is a sizeable community here of Kurds and Afghans, who now have

:24:21. > :24:27.I was working with the different communities,

:24:28. > :24:36.and I said, well, these people need some place to relax and chill.

:24:37. > :24:45.This is a listed warehouse behind the BBC in Nottinghal.

:24:46. > :24:48.People have been murdered hdre, exposed to the elements,

:24:49. > :24:56.So this is the perimeter of the site, and it's boarddd up

:24:57. > :25:00.This is the fence that had ` gap in it.

:25:01. > :25:06.It has been sealed up fairly effectively.

:25:07. > :25:10.And as I say, there's anti`climb paint on it, so I don't think we

:25:11. > :25:18.This island site was meant to be part of a grand gateway

:25:19. > :25:25.The council says it needs powers to force owners to act.

:25:26. > :25:26.There's a lot that's been hanging around

:25:27. > :25:31.for 20 years, the island site behind the BBC building, for example.

:25:32. > :25:34.And my view is that there should be an incentive for

:25:35. > :25:38.the developers to do somethhng with it, and that incentive is that if

:25:39. > :25:44.you don't do something with it, then we will charge you business rates.

:25:45. > :25:47.Over in Derby, the NHS remains the owner of

:25:48. > :25:53.Florence Nightingale stands before a site where its derdliction

:25:54. > :26:10.The site is almost certain to be demolished.

:26:11. > :26:13.Not far away, and even closdr to the city centre, is the

:26:14. > :26:19.The story of its demise is a drama in itself.

:26:20. > :26:23.A failed bingo hall, a fire, a halted demolition, and a campaign

:26:24. > :26:32.They need help to secure thd listed building and realise their vision.

:26:33. > :26:38.Gradually, you see what can be done, and so,

:26:39. > :26:43.the disappointment of looking at it as it is at the moment goes

:26:44. > :26:50.away, and you become very optimistic on what you can get out of that

:26:51. > :26:55.If they can't get the owner to sell, and their dreams are thwartdd,

:26:56. > :27:18.Flats look like the solution, though, to save what is the oldest

:27:19. > :27:22.It needs to be lived in, because that's what it was built for.

:27:23. > :27:25.41 Pilcher Gate was built in the 17th century.

:27:26. > :27:28.Now only rats live here, and they have a Jacobean st`ircase.

:27:29. > :27:37.It should stand out in a really prominent way, as ht does

:27:38. > :27:41.at the moment, but at the moment, it's a bit dilapidated, so we'd

:27:42. > :27:54.Permission for student flats in the existing structure has been given.

:27:55. > :27:58.It's happened elsewhere in the rejuvenated Lace Market.

:27:59. > :28:01.Already, there are signs of life in the

:28:02. > :28:09.It's an approach which has worked near Nottingham's railway station.

:28:10. > :28:12.An old hardware store is a modern antique shop.

:28:13. > :28:14.An old hotel and police station have been brightened

:28:15. > :28:24.But sentiment aside, maybe there comes a time

:28:25. > :28:33.when all buildings have served their purpose, and it's time to move on.

:28:34. > :28:47.And that's it for this week, from East Midlands Airport.

:28:48. > :28:53.Next week: They are pulling out of Afghanistan, but is there enough

:28:54. > :28:58.support for those traumatisdd by war? My boys went to war and came

:28:59. > :29:06.back for a different battle, which nobody seems to care about.

:29:07. > :29:08.Hello, I'm Sam Naz with your 90-second update.

:29:09. > :29:11.14-year-old Alice Gross went missing three weeks ago.

:29:12. > :29:14.Today, police carried out a finger-tip search of

:29:15. > :29:18.600 officers, from eight forces are working on the case.

:29:19. > :29:23.It has overestimated its profits by a quarter of a billion pounds.

:29:24. > :29:29.A new focus for Thai police looking into

:29:30. > :29:35.They plan to test the DNA of every man on the island where David Miller

:29:36. > :29:38.It is thought they were attacked by two Asian men.

:29:39. > :29:41.Arranging a sham gay wedding to get someone UK citizenship.

:29:42. > :29:46.A BBC investigation has found gangs will organise it for ?10,000.

:29:47. > :29:51.It is thought up to 30% of same-sex marriages are fake.

:29:52. > :29:55.The Royal Mint is encouraging people to invest in gold or silver