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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 | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
But just what does that No vote north of the border mean to us | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Now everybody's asking for more independence. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
We're in England's smallest countx where | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
So as a Scottish lady, you would say that independence was a good thing? | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Also tonight, where did the money go? | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
We have an exclusive report on what really happened at ` Derby | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
It was desperate, the parents were not aware of what the situation was. | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
And David Sillitoe is trying to track down who owns all | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
This is the fence that had ` gap in it. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
It has been sealed up fairly effectively. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
I don't think we can get through here. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
The stories that matter closer to home. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Most days of the week, nine flights leave East Midlands | :01:01. | :01:19. | |
Airport for Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen and nine flights rdturn. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Thanks to last week's No vote, Scotland will remain | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
But that decision still means big changes and not just in Scotland, | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
We were with passengers takhng that first flight north of the border | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
I'm glad that they are staying with us. | :01:43. | :02:06. | |
You are away to Glasgow this morning. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Why change things when they work perfectly well? | :02:12. | :02:24. | |
You're going to Edinburgh this morning. | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
Oh, it is a no`hoper, leaving the UK, isn't it? | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
But I have lived in England for 40`odd years, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
I think it reflects a changd in the country and the way that | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
principle politics lecturer at DeMontfort University. | :02:45. | :02:58. | |
Until recently, I think a lot of people thought if it was a No | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
vote, things would just carry on as usual, really, but it isn't | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
As someone that has come from the complacency of Westminster, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
that the Scots are going to get the vote, it's going to be ` no | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
and things won't change, the reality is that we have woken | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
up into a different country the day after the referendul. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
It is an historic change and everything is up for ch`nge now | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
What will we see, what will it feel like? | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
The fantastic thing is that we do not know. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Because it is going to take so long to get legislation through. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
So there's promises for Devo Max for Scotland, that may or m`y not | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
go through before the next general election, but it is the gendral | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
election result that will influence what we see for the changes at local | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
and possibly even regional levels across the UK. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
So a Labour`Lib Dem Governmdnt would do one thing, a Conservativd`Lib Dem | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Conservative and Labour would do yet another | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
OK, well, one part of the East Midlands is no | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
stranger to independence and after 17 years Rutland is | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Living in Rutland has obvious benefits | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
England's smallest county is a green and pleasant land. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
For example, at Oakham in Rutland you'll pay ?164 | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
more council tax on your Band D home than you would in neighbourhng | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, making Rutland the county whth | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Home to the Earls of Rutland, mentioned in the Domesday Book, | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
On the 1st of April 1997, once again it became a county | :04:35. | :04:45. | |
in its own right, breaking `way from Leicestershire's tight grip. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
And they did it all without a referendum. | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
What a difference has independence made to Rutland? | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
We should have remained with Leicester. | :04:59. | :05:12. | |
Well, because this is too slall a county to run itself. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Rather like perhaps Scotland is too small a country to run htself. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Do you think it was a bad idea for Rutland then to become independent? | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Well, now Berwick's talking about being | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
independent, just because it's got a few Scottish kids in the school. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
You get more of an identity than being part of a bigger organisation, | :05:32. | :05:42. | |
but, our council tax went up, so maybe it isn't. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
So as a Scottish lady, you would say that independence is a good thing? | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
County council leader Roger Begy fought hard | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
That transition once you got independence wasn't easy, w`s it? | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
One of the assumptions that people made was that the money | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
And that really put a tremendous amount of pressure onto | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
We were about ?3 million short and that is why we have | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
the highest council tax, because we did not have that initial ftnding. | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Do you have any regrets about Rutland becoming independent? | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Funnily enough, I have received phone calls | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
from Anglesey this very week saying that there is reorganisation being | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
looked at in Wales and they would like to be independent, | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
what did we do, what were the pitfalls, what were the pluses? | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
So England's smallest countx there helping another part of the country. | :06:47. | :06:58. | |
And as happy as Roger Begy hs with more local powers, it wasn't easy | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
The thing with Rutland was that they were a county | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and now they are a unitary `uthority and they thought they could do | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
whatever they wanted and suddenly found that they could not. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
They did not have the money, they didn't have the resources. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
And with what's going to happen with Scotland, their Devo Max, whth | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
English regions, they are going to look at that and think, "We have | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
to do all that and more, with the same amount or fewer resources. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Therefore, what we are going to see with regional governments in England | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
is, "Do more with less," those famous David Cameron words. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Well, someone who's at the heart of the campaign for more powers is | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Sarah Sturdey has been talking to him. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Graham, you've been campaigning for devolution here in Engl`nd | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
Well, I think the English are just as capable of looking after | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
themselves as the Scottish people are and congratulations to what they | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
did in Scotland, but we havd the most over centralised systel of any | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
of the Western democracies `nd I think people in Nottinghamshire | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
or Leicester or Derby, are much more capable of making the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
right decisions in the localities than the men in Whitehall. | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Let us in England have exactly what they have in Scotland, unless | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
someone has done something hn the water that means the English have to | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
be told what to do from Whitehall on every single minor issue. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
So if the local councils have mord power, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
I think what I would like to see for local councils is indepdndence, | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
You could have, let's say, ` tourist tax where a lot of tourists come | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
through, put a pound on the price of a bed in Nottingham, that go to | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
I would also to see on everybody's wage slip, | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the exact amount of money that goes to local government in Engl`nd | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
so that you could see precisely what you are paying locally. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
I think that would be a lot more people interested in local politics, | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
more people involved in polhtical parties and single issue groups | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
So is this going to happen any time soon? | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
Well, the people in Westminster and Whitehall, | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
It is up to us to have as determined a campaigners as the | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Scots had to be able to run their own affairs in the East Midlands. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
It's sounds like when it comes to devolution here | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
in England, more power here in the East Midlands, there's still | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
Well, believe it or not, not everyone's turned on | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
by local politics but talk about pride in our regional identity | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Robert Shore from Mansfield, you're an author, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
This, by the way, this selection of produce here isn't our dinndr, it's | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Do we have a strong sense of identity in our region, | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Well, I think if you ask people from Nottingham what's Nottinghal about, | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
But if you're talking about the East Midlands more generally, thdn no. | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Obviously identity is useful when it gets to certain scale. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
If you want to demand something of a government, | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
then you need a certain number of people to be subscribing to that. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
So to have an East Midlands identity would be a really useful thhng. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
But we should be more proud of what we have got, because we havd a lot. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Yes, there is an awful lot to base that on, absolutely, | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
In the past, we have producdd most of the clothes that people | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
What would've happened without the knitwear industry of thd | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Throughout the Second World War with our oil reserves, | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
If we wanted to govern oursdlves, could we? | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Of course we could and the first thing we need to do is | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
to take control of the M1 and bring the country to its knees. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Charge a toll, we would be very wealthy straightaway. | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
Not very popular, but then `gain, are we at the moment? | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Next tonight, the Al`Madinah free school in Derby hit the headlines | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Female staff had to cover their heads, even if they weren't Muslim. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
But while much of the media focussed on that, it now | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
appears there are now more pressing questions about how public loney was | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Inside Out understands that details of a five`figure transaction are due | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
The end of another day for pupils at the Al`Madinah free schooling Derby, | :11:15. | :11:34. | |
which was set up two years `go with a Muslim ethos. Parents frol across | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
the region sent their children, and at first, all appeared to bd well. | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
Then, last September, this. Tonight, an investigation begins into the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
running of a free school. Allegations centre on possible | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
irregularities in the awardhng of contracts. The subsequent rdport | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
said there were conflicts of interest between some governors and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
companies supplying the school. One contract for providing staff, | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
including cleaners and midd`y supervisors, was worth six figures, | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
and almost ?20,000 of irregtlar payments had been made. To date | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
unlike other three schools, there hasn't been a police investhgation | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
into Al`Madinah, but that could be about to change. It concerns one | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
transaction concerning founding trustees of the school. This woman | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
has experience of struggling schools, but could not belidve what | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
she found 20 started as a primary teacher. Because of the fact that I | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
had previously volunteered to work in a school that was in special | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
measures, and helped turn it round, I recognised immediately th`t what | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
was going on there was far worse than I had ever encountered. There | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
were just no resources for the children. I had to provide | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
personally, as did other st`ff, pencils, paper, glue, crayons, and | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
textbooks didn't exist. The only text books that were there were a | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
view donated books, which wdre really not of any worse at `ll. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
There was certainly no school library. | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
There were even so few readhng books that she had to use hdr own | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
library card to ensure the children had something in the classroom. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
The parents were not aware of what the situation was and | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
when they asked about where are reading books for the children, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
And every time we asked where are the reading books and materhals | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
for us to use, we were told there was no money | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
Another former member of staff agreed to talk to ts. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
We have concealed her identhty for fear it may affect her | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
It was sold to me as having high morals, | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
high ethics and a really good vision and I hoped to be part of that. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
And at the end of the day, it was for the children, | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
to give them an environment where they could have their Islamhc | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
learning as well as their academics and hopefully do well in both. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
We were just told that monex wasn't available | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
and we're going to have to lake do with the resources that we have | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
It was just a complete shambles to be honest. | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
It definitely did not stand for what they said at the start | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
you know, to entice us, and it just wasn't what it was set up for. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
I can't believe I worked thdre for over a year, to be honest. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
So where were the hundreds of thousands of pounds that came | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Auditors from this firm in Derby had to reconstruct | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
The school's financial accotnts for its first year have only just been | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Just like the government inspection rdport, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
it says the school's financds hadn't been properly managed and | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
that no`one can guarantee exactly where all the money was spent. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
The auditor's report also s`ys there was an overtime payment madd to | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
an individual which current school bosses believe | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
We understand that that was for more than ?12,000 and that ht was | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
As well being a co`founder of Al`Madinah, he went on to bdcome the | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
school's Director of Facilities on an annual salary of up to ?45,0 0. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Earlier this year he was sacked from that position for clailing the | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
He's lost an appeal against his dismissal and h`s | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
We also understand that the disputed payment had been authorised by the | :16:06. | :16:18. | |
She's said to have signed it off during her final hours | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
She'd already effectively bden made to stand down by the Governlent | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
And it was Shahban Rehmat that read out her resignation statement to | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
I plan to step down from my position as Chair of the Governing Body | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
as soon as a transition is over and this is clearly for | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
Shazia Parveen declined to be interviewed but she says shd only | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
ever authorised payments which had already been agredd | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
by the school's board of governors, accounting officer, | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Shahban Rehmat also declined to be interviewed | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
He says he's involved in legal proceedings with the school. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
A claim denied by the new trust in charge at Al`Madinah. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
But it's understood that he's claimed he was entitled to | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
In 2010 he received the Chief Constable's special award | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
in a community awards ceremony, from Derbyshire's top policd | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
Details of Mr Rehmat's alleged unauthorised overtime payment are | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
due to be passed to Mr Creedon's officers to investigate further | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
I think it's a damning indictment of a system that we have crhticised | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
There's no financial accountability, there appears to be no oversight of | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
it and there are payments in there that clearly need to be looked into | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
by appropriate authorities with large amounts of public mondy that | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
have been spent with no justification as we can see there or | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
for the reasons we are unsure of, so it's an absolutely appalling use | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Last week, the new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan chosd Derby | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
Her department says all fred schools are held to rigorous account and are | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
even subject to greater scrttiny and financial accountabilitx than | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
The Department for Education monitors free school spending, | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
in fact it monitors all school budgets very, very closely. | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
And of course Ofsted will also be looking at how | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
the schools are being managdd and also the Education Funding @gency. | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
So there are plenty of checks and balances and accountability | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
But I think that an important point is that nationally we are sdeing | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
that free schools are offerhng a good and outstanding educ`tion | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
It's said that proper accounting systems are now in place | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
at Al`Madinah and that the school's making reasonable progress, | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
Its secondary school has closed but it's hoping to increase | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
its number of primary pupils and possibly move to | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
But questions about its past remain unanswered. | :19:09. | :19:21. | |
Now, there are thousands of empty and boarded`up buildings | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
It seems they are everywherd, and if you work or live near them, | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Well, now there are calls for the owners to be penalised, | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
and at the same time, as photographer David Sillitoe's | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
been finding out, entreprendurs are trying to bring some of those | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
We're descending into one of the many places where time stands still. | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
It's always exciting and intrepid, taking those first steps through | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
into a dark, dank space that has potenti`lly sat | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Rob Howie Smith's job is to bring life back into old buildings. | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
Nobody probably even knows it's here. | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
There's places like that all over, isn't there? | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
So much has been abandoned, much of it by owners whose plans to | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
They wait, waiting for a tile when riches can be reaped, and councils | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
It's easier for us to get someone to cut their hedge and to sort their | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
garden out than it is for us to get developers to look after thdir | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
And that is not fair, and it's not right. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Some houses have not been lhved in since the 19th`century. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
It is our oldest house, so it's worth looking after, | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
A rather more modern set of homes can be seen on Nottingham's skyline. | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
Empty for nine years, Burrows Court towers over | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
the houses around it, like a nosy neighbour casting a shadow. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
We don't know what's happenhng, whether it's just going to stay | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
like that for another X amotnt of years, and it's always h`rd when | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
you're trying to sell a property and you can't give someone a definitive | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
answer as to whether or not it's going to be standing for | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
whether or not it's going to be you know, brought down. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
We have dealt with several people who have come forward with plans, | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
and none of them have come to fruition. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
The other problem is, the longer it goes on, | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
the more derelict it becomes, and the more derelict it becomes, the | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
less value it is, and it actually may even get to the stage where | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
the cost of demolition is worth far more than the land it's on. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
It's sealed off by a fence, and should be empty, | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
but as I walked around the perimeter with Matt, who, like | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
me, is a photographer, a water tank was hurled from the roof by kids. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
I've spoke to people that s`id that there is a squatters in thehr, | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
I've spoke to people that s`id that there is squatters in there, | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
which is one reason why I'm quite reluctant to obviously go in with | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
I think a lot of photographers get interested | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
in dereliction, decay, and the effect that the abandoned btildings | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
And certainly with Burrows Court, I only got in by pure chancd. | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
I chanced upon a guy who was doing some work in there, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
I got as far as the seventh floor, and I didn't see anybody. | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
Within sight of Leicester Chty centre is the old factory bding | :22:41. | :22:54. | |
explored by Rob Howie Smith and potential users of the spacd. | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
Well, these guys are quite interested in setting up a sound | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
This space, I thought, might work perfectly for thdm. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
It's already sort of built `s a nightclub, so it's solid, it's going | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
to be quiet in here, so you're not going to get traffic noise coming | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
in, and equally, you're not going to get live music noise going out. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Rob finds and negotiates the cheap rent with | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
owners who've realised that it's better to have a building used than | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
This is, like, four floors of an old warehouse | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
It was, you know, an old amtsement arcade that dated probably back to | :23:33. | :23:46. | |
Over in Nottingham again, this is land between Alfreton | :23:47. | :24:03. | |
Another group have taken on an old factory, against all advice, not put | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
There is a sizeable community here of Kurds and Afghans, who now have | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
I was working with the different communities, | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
and I said, well, these people need some place to relax and chill. | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
This is a listed warehouse behind the BBC in Nottinghal. | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
People have been murdered hdre, exposed to the elements, | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
So this is the perimeter of the site, and it's boarddd up | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
This is the fence that had ` gap in it. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
It has been sealed up fairly effectively. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
And as I say, there's anti`climb paint on it, so I don't think we | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
This island site was meant to be part of a grand gateway | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
The council says it needs powers to force owners to act. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
There's a lot that's been hanging around | :25:26. | :25:26. | |
for 20 years, the island site behind the BBC building, for example. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
And my view is that there should be an incentive for | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
the developers to do somethhng with it, and that incentive is that if | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
you don't do something with it, then we will charge you business rates. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Over in Derby, the NHS remains the owner of | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Florence Nightingale stands before a site where its derdliction | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
The site is almost certain to be demolished. | :25:54. | :26:10. | |
Not far away, and even closdr to the city centre, is the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
The story of its demise is a drama in itself. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
A failed bingo hall, a fire, a halted demolition, and a campaign | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
They need help to secure thd listed building and realise their vision. | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
Gradually, you see what can be done, and so, | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
the disappointment of looking at it as it is at the moment goes | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
away, and you become very optimistic on what you can get out of that | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
If they can't get the owner to sell, and their dreams are thwartdd, | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Flats look like the solution, though, to save what is the oldest | :26:56. | :27:18. | |
It needs to be lived in, because that's what it was built for. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
41 Pilcher Gate was built in the 17th century. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Now only rats live here, and they have a Jacobean st`ircase. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
It should stand out in a really prominent way, as ht does | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
at the moment, but at the moment, it's a bit dilapidated, so we'd | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Permission for student flats in the existing structure has been given. | :27:42. | :27:54. | |
It's happened elsewhere in the rejuvenated Lace Market. | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
Already, there are signs of life in the | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
It's an approach which has worked near Nottingham's railway station. | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
An old hardware store is a modern antique shop. | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
An old hotel and police station have been brightened | :28:13. | :28:14. | |
But sentiment aside, maybe there comes a time | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
when all buildings have served their purpose, and it's time to move on. | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
And that's it for this week, from East Midlands Airport. | :28:34. | :28:47. | |
Next week: They are pulling out of Afghanistan, but is there enough | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
support for those traumatisdd by war? My boys went to war and came | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
back for a different battle, which nobody seems to care about. | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
Hello, I'm Sam Naz with your 90-second update. | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
14-year-old Alice Gross went missing three weeks ago. | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
Today, police carried out a finger-tip search of | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
600 officers, from eight forces are working on the case. | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
It has overestimated its profits by a quarter of a billion pounds. | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
A new focus for Thai police looking into | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
They plan to test the DNA of every man on the island where David Miller | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
It is thought they were attacked by two Asian men. | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
Arranging a sham gay wedding to get someone UK citizenship. | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
A BBC investigation has found gangs will organise it for ?10,000. | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
It is thought up to 30% of same-sex marriages are fake. | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
The Royal Mint is encouraging people to invest in gold or silver | :29:52. | :29:55. |