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Here in the East Midlands: Seven cyclists killed so far this | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2246 seconds | :01:36. | :39:03. | |
year. Now a campaign has won new Seven cyclists killed so far this | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
year. That's the terrible toll in one county of the East Midlands. We | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
meet the schoolchildren campaigning for improvements after the death of | :39:10. | :39:19. | |
a friend. If you are riding a bike, you have to wear a helmet. And if | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
not, don't ride a bike. And "read all about it". The sale | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
of our biggest local newspapers. Hello, I'm Marie Ashby. Joining me | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
this week, the Conservative MP for Harborough, Sir Edward Garnier, and | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
Lilian Greenwood, Labour MP for Nottingham South. | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
We've been banging on about it for long enough. Now our MPs have | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
cottoned on, too. They've decided to hold a summit to discuss why | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
we're doing so badly when it comes to getting our hands on Government | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
cash. In the recent round of Regional Growth Fund handouts, the | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
East Midlands came bottom of the East, and our neighbours in the | :39:52. | :39:59. | |
This week, our MPs heard from the author of a report which we | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
featured last month outlining the scale of the problem. | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
Some people will say it's about time you all got your heads | :40:05. | :40:12. | |
together. Well, there will be many things we disagree about in terms | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
about political party but we want to get the best for our region and | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
for our counties and constituencies and if there is government money | :40:21. | :40:26. | |
going, we want to get out dips on it. How important is it for you to | :40:26. | :40:36. | |
join forces on this? Very important. We have collaborated, for example, | :40:36. | :40:40. | |
under Glenfield Heart Hospital. And on a railway line through Sheffield | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
into our two areas. Of course some might say there are some obvious | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
and tedious political battle lines which we fired across but on an | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
issue like this, if there is government money either coming from | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
Whitehall or in directive from the European Union, we want to get our | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
hands on it. The work at the meeting, Lilian. How did it go? -- | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
you were at the meeting. We need to make sure we are singing from the | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
same hymn sheet but it was worrying the East Midlands is ready losing | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
out, both when it comes to a regional growth and money but also | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
on the building of affordable homes, which we know are desperately | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
needed here because we have a rapidly growing population. | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
desert not tell the story, actually, that there were so few MPs at the | :41:30. | :41:40. | |
meeting? -- does it not? You say this is very important. Meetings | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
are arranged at short notice and the summit will take place in the | :41:43. | :41:51. | |
new year, when we can all get there. But it is no good pressure groups | :41:51. | :41:56. | |
as saying, turn up tomorrow. Our diaries do not work like that. | :41:56. | :42:06. | |
I do feel we are feeling the loss of the development agencies. | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
let's see how things go. A worrying rise in the number of | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
cyclists who've been killed in one of our counties this year has led | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
to calls for stricter safety rules for people out cycling and for | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
improvements to our roads to make it safer for them. There have been | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
seven deaths so far this year in Nottinghamshire, compared to two | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
last year. Rebecca Sheeran's been to a school where two of their | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
pupils have lost their lives. More and more people are taking up | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
cycling but some shocking statistics show just how dangerous | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
the roads are in Nottinghamshire, so now a new campaign that has | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
started says wearing one of these and selling bikes with these should | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
be compulsory. Lessons in cycling safety have an | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
added poignancy at this school near Nottingham. Two children have been | :42:52. | :42:58. | |
killed in separate cycling accidents this year. Jack and Corey | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
or waiting for their friends to turn up for a game of football. He | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
never arrived. He was killed in an accident with a car on his way to | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
join them. Now they are campaigning for cycling safety. Nobody could | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
believe it. Everybody was just grieving, crying. When you came in, | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
it was horrible. Tears in their eyes. What happened to Harrison, it | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
was horrible. And now what is reality and realising what had | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
happened and we cannot bring him back. You have got to be safe on | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
the road. The deaths of two pupils from the school are part of | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
alarming increase in the number of cycling deaths in Nottingham. The | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
toll began in January, with the death of a cyclist in colic. Two | :43:45. | :43:51. | |
were killed in separate accidents. In May a cyclist was killed by a | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
train at a level crossing in Mansfield, and then another died on | :43:55. | :44:01. | |
the road. In July and September came the deaths of the two school | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
children, bringing the total to seven so far. By comparison, | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
Leicestershire has had two fatal cycling accidents and Derbyshire | :44:08. | :44:14. | |
has had none. There was already a cycle safety campaign under way | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
here and Ashfield but the two tragic deaths of children from this | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
school added urgency to that campaign and now it has been taken | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
all the way to Whitehall for government support. And the | :44:25. | :44:30. | |
campaign has won the backing of a local MP, who helped campaigners | :44:30. | :44:36. | |
take their case to the Department for Transport. I think we need to | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
begin a serious debate. I do not want to impose anything on anybody. | :44:40. | :44:46. | |
I want people to think about how motorists and cyclists can be safer, | :44:46. | :44:52. | |
improving road junctions, improving speed limits, wearing helmets. | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
Let's come to a national consensus on how we can reduce the number of | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
deaths -- of deaths, particularly young people. We need to make it | :45:00. | :45:07. | |
safer. A Jack and Corrie have raised �3,500 for safer cycling | :45:07. | :45:14. | |
equipment. Now they want to see a change within the law. We are | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
fighting to get the legalisation of helmets to be repulsed. If you are | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
riding a bike, you have got to wear a helmet. And if not, you don't | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
ride a bike. We should make it clear that those deaths are being | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
investigated. Pam Shaw is the Road Safety Officer | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
for Nottinghamshire County Council. That was a very powerful film from | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
people deeply affected, but many cyclists will say it's motorists | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
that are the problem? But many cyclists will say it is motorists | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
who are to blame. I'd can understand that they might. We | :45:42. | :45:49. | |
would like to think that every bomb road-users have some responsibility | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
for their actions on the road. -- that all road-users. Any death is | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
one too many but these figures, seven so far, are horrific. What | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
are you doing about it in Nottinghamshire? They are extremely | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
shocking and our sympathies go to the family and friends of any who | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
have died this year. They are extremely high numbers. However, | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
the trend for all casualties in Nottinghamshire in the first nine | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
months of this year have reduced on last year. It is just the | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
circumstances around these deaths and accidents are such that the | :46:25. | :46:30. | |
people have died, which is unfortunate. We are constantly | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
during campaigns and training. We do a lot of training in primary | :46:34. | :46:42. | |
schools. But you want a change in the law? We would like to see the | :46:42. | :46:50. | |
encouragement and introduction of wearing helmets. Car seatbelt | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
wearing was not so popular until a few years ago but now nobody thinks | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
twice about putting those on. We would like the same to happen with | :46:58. | :47:08. | |
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cycle helmets. Sue has got a point. -- she has got a point. Should not | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
be that everybody on the road on a bicycle should wear a helmet? I | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
were encourage people to wear a helmet. I always wear a helmet and | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
I get my children to do so as well. We know three of those deaths were | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
caused by HGV vehicles and wearing a helmet in those circumstances | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
would not save you. We need to tackle the major killers and one of | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
those is drivers going too fast and junctions not being safe, not | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
having the right cycle infrastructure like cycle lanes and | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
looking at junctions and making them safe for cyclists. It does not | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
mean we should not about those things. All of those things help | :47:51. | :47:56. | |
but those schoolboys say you should not get on a bike if you don't wear | :47:56. | :48:05. | |
a helmet. You are not -- you are saying it should not be compulsory. | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
We are saying that other road users need to become aware of bicycles | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
and slow down. The main problem in at most accidents is not the | :48:14. | :48:24. | |
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cyclists, it is the driver. What about legislation? Is it the way to | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
tackle the problem? These easy solution to every problem is to say | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
to pass a law. Actually, it is common sense. Those boys have got | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
the message. If you want to ride a bike, wear a helmet. It strikes me | :48:38. | :48:45. | |
that if a 15-year-old boy can't wear that, so can a 25-year-old, | :48:45. | :48:52. | |
35-year-old, 45-year-old adult. Talk to a head injury doctor or the | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
head injuries tragic -- charity. Is it enough to him to let people make | :48:58. | :49:04. | |
their own minds up on this? -- is it enough to let people make up | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
their own minds? Yes. Look after yourself because it is the sensible | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
thing to do. Wearing his seatbelt is the sensible thing to do and we | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
have a law on that. I think a lot of motorcyclists would be thankful | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
because, again, it was unpopular to wear a motorcycle helmet and about | :49:21. | :49:30. | |
his role. Now there are many. Some people need that extra | :49:30. | :49:38. | |
encouragement. -- and now it is the law. I know my sons were not so | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
keen on that. Yes. We need to get national education and awareness | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
raising programmes. All of their it is perfectly true that every parent | :49:47. | :49:53. | |
should ensure their child never lose their house without a helmet | :49:53. | :50:01. | |
on. You cannot rely on Parliament to mollycoddle you. Of course it is | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
medically extremely sensible to wear a helmet, and she would have | :50:04. | :50:12. | |
to be an idiot not to wear one. -- and you would. It depends on the | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
facts of every case. HGV and car drivers often fail to pay proper | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
attention to other road users and cyclists are very often the victims. | :50:21. | :50:28. | |
Bear in mind, if you are a cyclist, the chances of you being seriously | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
hurt or killed are very high. If you're in a tin box, you are | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
probably OK. If your eyes cyclist, where high-visibility clothing, put | :50:38. | :50:47. | |
your hat on and just be sensible. - - if you are a cyclist. They is | :50:47. | :50:57. | |
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some research that -- there is some research that some drivers give | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
cyclists wider berth if they are not wearing a helmet. If they are | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
competent cyclists they will be using the road appropriately. | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
Though that can be true. We want to encourage the drivers to think | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
about the other road users and cyclists in particular, to make | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
sure they are giving them sufficient room, not squeezing them | :51:20. | :51:30. | |
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in. What more can be done? think we have seen a huge increase | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
and interest in cycling safety. Compulsory helmets is not something | :51:35. | :51:43. | |
on the list. There are many things, including making HGVs is safer and | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
junctions and increasing cycling infrastructure, like cycle lanes, | :51:46. | :51:53. | |
and that is what we need to be doing. Frankie for joining us. -- | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
thank you. Here's a story to bring a bit of | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
warmth amid all the cynicism of politics. Stephen Green, the first | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
person with Down's syndrome to become a councillor, has taken up | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
his post at Nuthall Parish Council. Stephen attended his first meeting | :52:06. | :52:14. | |
earlier this week, and we were there. A war welcome and a first | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
for local democracy, as Stephen Green takes his seat at the parish | :52:19. | :52:25. | |
council in Nottinghamshire. Stephen will be helped at meetings | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
by his father, Grenville. Steve Ben decided he wanted to do it because | :52:31. | :52:37. | |
I asked him if he would like to do it. -- Stephen. It is a learning | :52:37. | :52:44. | |
curve for Stephen. It is a learning curve for the council and hopefully | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
we will all get something out of it, something positive. I think it is | :52:48. | :52:55. | |
brilliant. I think you will be an asset to the council. -- I think he | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
will be. I have been trying for this for ages are welcome to him. | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
among the items on the agenda are keeping the fees of a local bowls | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
club at the same level as last year and offering more work experience | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
to local youngsters. Routine parish council stuff. But it was a small | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
slice of history at this meeting in the making. | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
Stephen's appointment made headline news and our local papers have been | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
making some of their own. Six of our regional newspapers, including | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
the Nottingham Post, Derby Telegraph and Leicester Mercury, | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
have a new owner. The Daily Mail and General Trust is selling a | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
majority stake in its regional newspaper division to Trinity | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
Mirror. The new media group Local World includes over 70 regional | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
titles and local websites. Richard Baker is a duty editor at | :53:39. | :53:47. | |
the Nottingham Post. How's the news going down in the newsroom? I think | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
it has gone down reasonably well. It has been a very uncertain time | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
because we are facing historic change and it is important for us | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
we tried to take positive steps to give people what they want through | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
the routes they want to consume their news. We no new owners are | :54:04. | :54:12. | |
planning to invest heavily so we are pleased with that. What | :54:12. | :54:16. | |
difference do you think a change in ownership will mean to the readers | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
of your paper? Will they notice a difference? And not really. What we | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
have to keep arise on is what our audiences are up to because our | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
decisions are entirely based on what audiences are doing. -- keep | :54:32. | :54:39. | |
our eyes on. There is a massive audience for the website. We have | :54:39. | :54:47. | |
to look at that and follow where the audience is going. Our MPs like | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
yourselves concerned about the future of newspapers? Do you care | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
what happens? At salute reef. I have been working in the trade | :54:56. | :55:06. | |
because I was a newspaper lawyer. - - absolutely. I do care as a Member | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
of Parliament because people care at a local level about their local | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
paper. It is their paper and they want to see it survive. There is | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
something missing in their lives if they do not have their local paper | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
reporting on local stories. But few of them are going out to buy their | :55:23. | :55:33. | |
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paper? Many a using social media define their news but undoubtedly, | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
the Nottingham Post plays a role. They like to know what is happening | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
in their city and their neighbourhood and it is a way for | :55:43. | :55:53. | |
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us to tell people what we are up to. And what your constituents up to. | :55:54. | :56:01. | |
More and more people are consuming venues via a different media. | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
we are also doing is making news available via laptops and | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
smartphones because it is important to us we continued to serve people | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
with news in the means that they want. We have to keep our eyes on | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
what the audience wants. We are a business and we have to make money. | :56:17. | :56:27. | |
The way to do that is to follow the audience. For we have already seen | :56:27. | :56:35. | |
a local paper go from a daily paper to a weekly? Are if the broad side | :56:35. | :56:42. | |
they're not going to have their newspapers everyday -- if people | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
decide, we could then give them every week. I think what they are | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
interested in is staying in the business they are part of. And why | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
on thing that is so important is that it is a centre of professional | :56:56. | :57:02. | |
journalism. -- and one think that is so important. Lots of people are | :57:02. | :57:08. | |
not proper journalists. You why professional journalist and so is | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
he. It is important there is a local source of professionally | :57:12. | :57:21. | |
reported years. An important thing to make clear is that the | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
Nottingham Post has purely in nursing and journalists. If they do | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
not live in Nottingham they work in Nottingham. We have to stay | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
connected where local communities and I do not know of any other | :57:35. | :57:45. | |
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organisation with SMA local journalists. -- with so many local | :57:45. | :57:53. | |
journalists. Nothing stays the same forever. We have been around in | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
this community for 140 years. We have not managed to stay in | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
business that way by staying the same. It is nonsense to say we can | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
stay the same as we were 40 years ago, 100 years ago. But were you | :58:08. | :58:18. | |
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suffer more job losses with these changes? -- but will you? We have | :58:18. | :58:25. | |
no indication this is what is going to happen. A lot about the future | :58:25. | :58:31. | |
for local papers? People get their local news in so many ways. -- what | :58:31. | :58:41. | |
about? Of encase strength of local news is how we can focus on its | :58:41. | :58:51. | |
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local neighbourhoods. -- I think a strength. We now have an app where | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
we can look at what they are reporting even if I do not get the | :58:59. | :59:07. | |
newspaper. A you paying for it?! Are I have to get it through my | :59:07. | :59:15. | |
assistant because he has a smartphone and I don't! Fend you. - | :59:15. | :59:25. | |
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Time now for our regular 60-second round-up of some of the other | :59:26. | :59:28. | |
political stories in the East Midlands this week, with our | :59:28. | :59:30. | |
political editor, John Hess. Accommodation for the homeless | :59:30. | :59:38. | |
could be halved if Leicester City Council gets its way. The council, | :59:38. | :59:41. | |
which needs to reduce its homelessness services budget by | :59:41. | :59:43. | |
�3.7 million by 2015, says new proposals aim to support people | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
into independent living. A consultation period will run until | :59:46. | :59:54. | |
February. It already gives �174 million worth of work to local | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
firms or wants to do more. The Tory deputy leader on Harborough council | :59:58. | :00:03. | |
has been sacked for opposing controversial plans for 1,800 new | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
homes. The council says there will decide next month whether to press | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
ahead with a fresh appraisal of the district's future housing needs. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
And Jon Ashworth picked up a gong this week. The Labour MP for | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Leicester South has won Total Politics magazine's MP of the Month | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
award for his campaign to reinter the suspected bones of Richard III | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
We haven't seen you since you became a sir in September. You lost | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
your job as Attorney General and got knighted. Did it feel a bit | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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like compensation? And don't think the Prime Minister put it quite | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
like that! -- I don't think. It sweetened the pill. Is that why it | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
happened? Tell me a member of Parliament who does not like a bit | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
of attention and getting a knighthood. My children call my | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
wife Lady GaGa! So that is all right! A lot of rubbish is talked | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
about the honours system. It is free, it doesn't cost anything and | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
it gives a lot of people a lot of pleasure, not least me this | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
September. It is a way for the country to say thank you. If his | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
right it should be used to recognise fantastic service when | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
people have gone over and above. -- it is right. What about | :01:40. | :01:47. |