:00:05. > :00:08.This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale.
:00:08. > :00:16.Our top story tonight - could the row over Bombardier's lost contract
:00:16. > :00:21.end up in the courts? Union bosses accused the Government of breaking
:00:21. > :00:25.the rules and deserting Derby. will destroy Derby as a
:00:25. > :00:32.manufacturing base. These people have skilled trades to build
:00:32. > :00:37.coaches. They will be languishing on the dole queue. A mother accused
:00:37. > :00:41.of causing the death of her baby breaks down in court. Plus, the
:00:41. > :00:45.cuts are biting. Find out how museums could be closing in the
:00:45. > :00:55.winter and libraries could be reducing their hours. What would
:00:55. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:03.you buy if you won at the bureau Good evening and welcome to
:01:03. > :01:06.Monday's programme. It's a big week for Bombardier.
:01:06. > :01:10.Pressure is growing on the Government to overturn its decision
:01:10. > :01:13.to award a huge rail contract to a German rival. The Transport
:01:13. > :01:19.Secretary will be facing rail union officials and there's a public
:01:19. > :01:23.meeting planned in Derby. And today, two union heavyweights
:01:23. > :01:29.gave their backing to Bombardier. Both claim the Government failed to
:01:29. > :01:33.consider the economic impact on Derby of those 1,400 job losses.
:01:33. > :01:37.And one of them is now threatening legal action. Mike O'Sullivan
:01:37. > :01:40.reports. Backing for Bombardier. National
:01:40. > :01:46.union leader Len McCluskey with Bombardier shop stewards at the TUC
:01:46. > :01:49.offices in the city. Pressure now mounting on the Government to
:01:49. > :01:59.reverse its decision to give the �1.4 billion Thameslink contract to
:01:59. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:06.the German company Siemens. This simply cannot be right that you do
:02:06. > :02:10.not take into their account the impact of the devastating loss of
:02:10. > :02:15.jobs in communities, but also the social implications. What does it
:02:15. > :02:25.mean to families? What does it mean to communities? Bombardier
:02:25. > :02:30.
:02:30. > :02:34.announced 1,400 job losses last week after losing the contract.
:02:34. > :02:39.There is now a growing campaign to overturn the Government's decision
:02:39. > :02:43.so that the contract can be brought here to Derby. This is the last
:02:43. > :02:49.train maker in Britain and it has highlighted the importance of
:02:49. > :02:54.manufacturing tear our economy. day I think it will be OK, then in
:02:54. > :02:58.the next day's newspaper EC the opposite. But there is believe
:02:58. > :03:03.there, because we have a lot of backing. I think there might be an
:03:03. > :03:13.outside chance of it being turned round. The support we're getting, I
:03:13. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:17.am really impressed. The campaign goes on. Rail union officials meet
:03:17. > :03:22.the transport secretary in London on Wednesday. The next day there'll
:03:22. > :03:29.be a public meeting back home. spoke to Bob Crow, the leader of
:03:29. > :03:34.the RMT rail union. He says it will devastate the city. We are arguing
:03:34. > :03:38.for a company that is based in Britain. It will destroy Derby as a
:03:38. > :03:41.manufacturing base. These people have skills to build trains, to
:03:41. > :03:46.build coaches and they will be languishing on the dole queue. We
:03:46. > :03:50.do not think that is right. We think the social circumstances and
:03:50. > :03:54.the cost to the taxpayer on social security benefits and reduction in
:03:54. > :03:59.tax should be taken into account. The Government clearly is not
:03:59. > :04:05.bending on it. You have heard the transport secretary saying he just
:04:05. > :04:09.followed the rules. We will have to see if he has followed the rules.
:04:09. > :04:15.We do not believe that is right. The people of Derby do not believe
:04:15. > :04:21.that is right. If this was a company that lost its contract to
:04:21. > :04:31.another company, the workers would have to transferred directly over
:04:31. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:35.to the new company. This means that under the transfer under protection
:04:35. > :04:39.employment regulations, these workers cannot transfer to follow
:04:39. > :04:43.their work to Germany, because the legislation is each individual's
:04:43. > :04:49.domestic law. The companies concerned at some stage will say
:04:49. > :04:55.that they cannot afford to pay for redundancy payments. Siemens say
:04:55. > :05:01.they will create 2000 jobs, 600 of them highly skilled jobs in this
:05:01. > :05:05.country. That will help. We will have to wait and see. We already
:05:05. > :05:11.have agencies looking for workers to transferred to Germany. You
:05:12. > :05:19.cannot tell me that the vast majority of people will not be able
:05:19. > :05:28.to leave their families in Derby and going live in Germany. We
:05:28. > :05:30.should be building trains for British Railways in Britain.
:05:30. > :05:33.Police and Fire Service investigators are assessing the
:05:33. > :05:36.cause of a fire at a scrap yard in Nottinghamshire. Crews were called
:05:36. > :05:39.to the Ponderosa yard in Bestwood Village just before five o'clock
:05:39. > :05:43.yesterday. They're allowing the 1,000 tonnes of timber to burn out
:05:43. > :05:46.safely. It's designed to avoid damage to nearby crops and save
:05:46. > :05:49.water. A drug dealer from Nottingham,
:05:49. > :05:52.who's been on the run for three years, has finally been jailed for
:05:52. > :05:57.his part in a conspiracy to supply heroin with a street value of
:05:57. > :06:02.almost �5 million. 50-year-old Michael McNiffe from Bestwood, was
:06:02. > :06:05.sentenced to 20 years in prison. He'd been arrested on the Isle of
:06:05. > :06:11.Wight in January after his details appeared on the BBC's Crimewatch
:06:11. > :06:15.programme. Still to come this evening - a big
:06:15. > :06:25.drop in borrowing. Borrowing library books, that is.
:06:25. > :06:26.
:06:26. > :06:30.We'll be looking at plans to slash library and museum opening hours.
:06:30. > :06:34.A mother who admits that she shook her baby causing its death, has
:06:34. > :06:42.broken down in tears at Leicester Crown Court. 24-year-old Jodie Pick
:06:42. > :06:46.denies the manslaughter of her 7- week-old baby Courtney in May 2009.
:06:46. > :06:49.The prosecution says she shook the baby in a fit of anger, but she
:06:49. > :06:52.says it was only to revive her. Our reporter James Roberson has been
:06:52. > :06:58.listening to the evidence and he spoke to me when the court was
:06:58. > :07:05.adjourned for the day. It has been an emotional day in
:07:05. > :07:12.court. The jury has been shown a photograph album that the Geordie
:07:12. > :07:15.compiled of heard daughter's life. The baby was born prematurely and
:07:16. > :07:21.had p thing and feeding problems. The mother broke down in tears when
:07:21. > :07:26.she recalled the moment when she found her baby lifeless at their
:07:26. > :07:30.home in her Moses basket. She says she picked her up, blew in her face
:07:30. > :07:35.to try and revive her, and then when that did not happen, she shook
:07:35. > :07:41.her to try and revive her. What sort of questions was she asked by
:07:41. > :07:45.her own defence barrister? It is accepted by boss-eyed that they it
:07:45. > :07:50.shaking caused the baby's death. The issue is motivation. The
:07:50. > :07:56.prosecution says the mother was angry with her daughter. She was
:07:56. > :07:59.asked, did you lose your temper with the baby? The answer was No.
:07:59. > :08:05.Did you lose your temper about something else and take it out on
:08:05. > :08:11.the baby? Know. But you do except that what you did that day killed
:08:11. > :08:17.her? Yes, she said, and broke down in tears. I believe she face some
:08:17. > :08:21.hard questioning by the prosecution. Yes, indeed. In cross-examination,
:08:21. > :08:25.it was put to her that she had had a lot to achieve that day. The
:08:25. > :08:32.family was going for its first holiday. She told the court that
:08:32. > :08:41.she came in from hanging washing, to find the baby in her Moses
:08:41. > :08:48.basket, apparently strangled by her own bed. She was told, the truth is,
:08:48. > :08:53.she was not feeding properly and you did not have -- you had too
:08:53. > :08:57.much to do. Hospital staff in Leicester could
:08:57. > :08:59.hold a vote of no confidence in senior health trust managers. It's
:08:59. > :09:02.emerged that the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has
:09:02. > :09:05.overspent its budget by a predicted �1 million over the last month.
:09:05. > :09:09.That's on top of a �6 million overspend in the first two months
:09:09. > :09:13.of the financial year. The hospital management say they are committed
:09:14. > :09:18.to addressing the overspend. Meanwhile, staff at Derby's
:09:18. > :09:21.hospitals are being asked if they want to reduce their working hours.
:09:21. > :09:24.It's one of the ideas being put forward to save money following
:09:24. > :09:32.Government cuts. More than 7,000 staff, ranging from kitchen workers
:09:32. > :09:35.to surgeons have been asked if they would like to apply to go part time.
:09:35. > :09:40.And library opening times could be reduced in parts of the East
:09:40. > :09:43.Midlands in an effort to save money. The plan by Leicestershire County
:09:43. > :09:46.Council to cut thousands of hours is part of a proposal to save �4
:09:46. > :09:56.million. The authority is also considering closing two museums for
:09:56. > :10:00.
:10:00. > :10:04.the winter. Helen Astle reports. Welcome to this museum, which
:10:04. > :10:08.reopens two months ago after a refurbishment. Now it is one of two
:10:08. > :10:14.these teams facing closure for two days a week and a month over winter.
:10:14. > :10:18.To save money. When they were planning the new extension to this
:10:18. > :10:27.building, it was way before the financial situation this country
:10:27. > :10:30.finds itself been developed. What we looked at was, let's look at our
:10:30. > :10:36.libraries and museums. Let's look good when people use them and when
:10:36. > :10:39.they don't use them. The cuts do not end at the seams. This library
:10:39. > :10:45.is one of 22 across Leicestershire which is facing having its opening
:10:45. > :10:50.hours reduced. The county council wants to cut 20,000 hours. It is
:10:50. > :10:53.really important, because my son is like a little sponge. He loves
:10:53. > :10:58.reading different books and I use the internet down here, so it would
:10:58. > :11:03.be a real shame. I suppose if it saves money, it is all good at the
:11:03. > :11:10.minute. As long as I can get to a library and get bad books out and
:11:10. > :11:17.take them back. For a lot of people, it will be difficult, because
:11:17. > :11:21.people at work and it did not have time to come in the daytime. At the
:11:21. > :11:27.museum, there are features about Leicestershire's history. In the
:11:27. > :11:30.future, will these proposed cuts be part of a display?
:11:30. > :11:33.So are we going to see more of this from our cash-strapped councils?
:11:33. > :11:36.The Government is looking at scrapping some of the statutory
:11:36. > :11:39.duties and services that councils are obliged to provide. Our
:11:39. > :11:49.Political Editor John Hess has been digging away on an allotment to
:11:49. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:56.bring us more. These are some of the 1,300
:11:56. > :12:02.different rules and regulations that Westminster and Whitehall
:12:02. > :12:07.oblige her local councils to carry out legally. Statutory obligations.
:12:07. > :12:13.They cover a range of services from adult and child care through to
:12:13. > :12:18.planning, road safety, food safety, libraries. Allotments, which is why
:12:18. > :12:22.I am at these allotments this evening. The communities secretary
:12:22. > :12:27.Eric Pickles believes that a lot of these regulations can be
:12:27. > :12:33.streamlined, not only to make them much simpler to understand, but
:12:33. > :12:37.also to save money, as well. He takes as an example, the obligation
:12:37. > :12:44.of local authorities to advertise certain planning notice in route
:12:44. > :12:52.local newspaper. Why not put it online, he says. That would save up
:12:52. > :12:56.to �200 million over the next five When will the government come
:12:56. > :12:59.forward with this streamlined list of statutory duties? The government
:12:59. > :13:04.has already gone out to consultation postop the results
:13:04. > :13:11.were not that surprising. Most of us want our councils to be obliged
:13:11. > :13:15.to provide adult care, childcare, libraries, the law says local
:13:15. > :13:19.councils should provide a comprehensive and efficient library
:13:19. > :13:23.service, as well as providing the money for allotments. What is
:13:23. > :13:27.happening now is the communities department are taking on board some
:13:27. > :13:31.of those consultations and are likely to come back later in the
:13:31. > :13:37.year with their own recommendations. Briefly, it will these proposals be
:13:37. > :13:41.controversial? They certainly will be. Already Eric Pickles is saying
:13:41. > :13:46.that half of these regulations have been introduced since 1997,
:13:47. > :13:51.surprise surprise, that is when Labour took power. Labour would
:13:51. > :13:54.have argued that what they did was upgrade had modernise and we doubt
:13:54. > :14:01.many of the old Victorian regulations that local government
:14:01. > :14:05.was obliged to stick do. That list is a bit of a doorstop. Thank you.
:14:05. > :14:09.Charities and local MPs are calling for safeguards for residents at
:14:09. > :14:13.care homes run by the company Southern Cross. The family
:14:13. > :14:20.currently operates almost 60 care homes in the East Midlands -- the
:14:20. > :14:23.company. The MP Stephen Dorrell who chairs the Commons health select
:14:23. > :14:26.committee says that it is essential that the care of residents remains
:14:26. > :14:29.unaffected. The business advice service for
:14:29. > :14:33.Derbyshire says it is seeing an increasing the number of people
:14:33. > :14:37.considering self-employment. Business Link Derbyshire says
:14:37. > :14:40.hundreds of planned redundancies at Egg, Bombardier and Western Power
:14:40. > :14:43.Distribution for all mean it is hearing from more and more people
:14:43. > :14:47.who are looking to start their own businesses.
:14:47. > :14:51.A small idea to help deal with a very big problem which is
:14:51. > :14:55.congestion. Nottinghamshire County Council is opening a string of
:14:55. > :15:02.pocket part and rides using existing car parks and bus services
:15:02. > :15:07.instead of spending millions on a purpose-built schemes. You are
:15:07. > :15:12.looking at the country's first public park and ride scheme. The
:15:12. > :15:16.idea is simple. Park for free and then hop on an existing bus service
:15:16. > :15:21.for �3 for the rest of the journey into Nottingham, avoiding expensive
:15:21. > :15:25.car parking charges and ultimately, the Workplace Parking Levy. I think
:15:25. > :15:30.it is brilliant and it saves me a fortune and I read books and I am
:15:30. > :15:36.not stressed. �12 a week to get to work, no traffic jams. It is
:15:36. > :15:41.brilliant. The council earmarks car parks. It brings them up to scratch
:15:41. > :15:47.as well as installing lighting and CCTV. It also pays the landlord
:15:47. > :15:51.�1,000 a year. They big park and ride scheme would cost us around �5
:15:51. > :15:55.million of capital to build which is on average �5,000 a space. These
:15:55. > :16:00.sites cost us initially at �500 NO- SPACE.
:16:00. > :16:05.The second scheme is opening in a we's time in a pub car park
:16:05. > :16:15.offering 60 spaces. Hopefully, the people who use the car park will
:16:15. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:23.also use the business. The council expects to increase that to take up
:16:23. > :16:28.as it rolls out tender schemes across the county.
:16:28. > :16:32.What does the countryside mean it to you? Believe it or not, 86% of
:16:32. > :16:42.England is defined as a role. That is according to the government. --
:16:42. > :16:45.
:16:45. > :16:49.is find as rural. Today, it is the start of a week-long celebration of
:16:50. > :16:53.all things role. It is the brainchild of the Prince of Wales.
:16:53. > :16:57.-- all things roles. He wants to highlight the importance of the
:16:58. > :17:02.countryside, not only took a our economy, but to our general sense
:17:02. > :17:06.of well-being. Welcome to the walk. What better
:17:06. > :17:13.way to start national countryside week than with a walk in the
:17:13. > :17:16.country. These ramblers are exploring land surrounding -- in
:17:16. > :17:21.Nottinghamshire FA I ended up two miles away but I have never been
:17:21. > :17:25.here before. The thing to celebrate his the things that if farmers and
:17:25. > :17:29.landowners do to enable people like me and this group of people to go
:17:29. > :17:33.out walking. Without their maintenance and management of the
:17:33. > :17:39.footpaths and the styles, we would not be be able to get the pleasure
:17:39. > :17:48.that we do. This showed his local Glassman the chance to sell their
:17:48. > :17:51.bids and show off their skills -- local craftsmen. They cannot just
:17:51. > :17:57.be a theme park. It has to be somewhere where people live and
:17:57. > :18:01.work and are able to make that a living. As I say, it cannot be a
:18:01. > :18:06.theme park. They lot of people may struggle to understand what is
:18:06. > :18:12.going on in the countryside. Especially city-dwellers. But with
:18:12. > :18:17.the interest in food and farming, I think the countryside will spread
:18:17. > :18:20.to be found. The ideas will spread to the town. National countryside
:18:20. > :18:28.week wants everyone to get out and enjoy their local landscape and to
:18:28. > :18:33.spare a thought for the people who live and work there.
:18:33. > :18:37.Back in the City, a Nottingham park is to undergo a �5 million makeover.
:18:37. > :18:42.The restoration of the historic Forest Recreation Ground which
:18:42. > :18:45.hosts the annual Goose Fair what we funded by lottery money and
:18:45. > :18:49.Nottingham City Council. It is hoped the money will restore the
:18:49. > :18:56.grounds, restore the listed lodge and create new visitor facilities.
:18:56. > :19:00.Still to come, decisions, decisions. After another at EuroMillions
:19:00. > :19:10.rollover, we have been trying to work out what you could buy with
:19:10. > :19:17.
:19:17. > :19:20.I am writing a list. Things I can buy. A few footballers perhaps?
:19:20. > :19:30.Leicester City are trying to spend that much. We will start tonight
:19:30. > :19:37.with a landmark when for the Latin and jockey, Hayley Turner. -- the
:19:37. > :19:41.Nottingham jockey. She became the first woman to have when it a race
:19:41. > :19:45.outright. She was thrilled to win. In cricket, Stuart Broad has been
:19:45. > :19:48.sent back to Nottinghamshire after being dropped by England for their
:19:48. > :19:53.final one-day international. He opened the bowling today in the
:19:53. > :19:57.championship match against Somerset. He is facing a battle to retain his
:19:57. > :20:04.England place for the first Test. It took one of four early wickets
:20:04. > :20:12.but then Somerset went runs mad. On the first day in Derby, there
:20:12. > :20:14.was a century which rescued Derbyshire's first innings. With
:20:14. > :20:22.Leicestershire, the game is still up for grabs.
:20:22. > :20:27.In football, we understand that Leicester City are interested in
:20:27. > :20:30.Paul Konchesky. As for Forest, Steve McLaren says he may not go on
:20:30. > :20:33.the club's pre-season tour but will stay in England to help search for
:20:33. > :20:39.players. The clock was rolled back yesterday
:20:39. > :20:42.when a biker in his 70s from Derby trip on a 69-year-old from Italy.
:20:42. > :20:48.When they raced at Mallory Park in 1971, more than 50,000 people were
:20:48. > :20:53.there to watch it and thousands more weather again this weekend. --
:20:53. > :20:58.where there again this weekend. It was called the Festival of 1000
:20:58. > :21:01.bikes. Old bikes and old bikers were reunited. Event some of the
:21:01. > :21:07.machines had has seen better days and some of them never quite took
:21:07. > :21:14.off as racing machines, the fans loved it. There were the greatest
:21:14. > :21:18.names from bike racing in the 60s, 70s and 80s, including a track
:21:18. > :21:23.appearance by American Kenny Roberts. And a re-run of one of the
:21:23. > :21:28.greatest races ever. Back together again, Italian Giacomo Agostini and
:21:28. > :21:31.Derby's John "Mooneyes" Cooper. In 1971, more than 50,000 people
:21:31. > :21:41.turned out at Mallory Park to watched and they were almost as
:21:41. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:47.popular yesterday. I am very happy to come back here. It is fun.
:21:47. > :21:51.69, Giacomo Agostini was the unbeatable world champion. Now 71,
:21:51. > :21:55.John "Mooneyes" Cooper was the local boy who finally beat him.
:21:55. > :22:01.People are coming today and they say they were here for 40 years ago.
:22:01. > :22:05.I cannot believe how many have come to see it again! This time, Giacomo
:22:05. > :22:15.Agostini led the way around but it did not matter because it was not a
:22:15. > :22:20.
:22:20. > :22:26.race but a biking homage. It is a question many of us have
:22:26. > :22:31.pondered, what would we do if we won the lottery? 166 million it is
:22:31. > :22:41.up for grabs in tomorrow's EuroMillions. We have been finding
:22:41. > :22:43.
:22:43. > :22:48.You have won the jackpot, what is the first thing you might want to
:22:48. > :22:52.do? By a property, perhaps. This one you would be easily able to
:22:52. > :22:57.afford. �3 million for the Grade 1 listed building. If you want
:22:57. > :23:01.something a bit more modern, what about this contemporary one. Just
:23:01. > :23:05.over �2 million. Or maybe you want city living. This one was set you
:23:05. > :23:15.back just over a million pounds and it is only a stone's throw away
:23:15. > :23:20.You have bought the million-pound house, or what about a special
:23:20. > :23:30.treat? A girl can never have enough jewellery and this rain, bracelet
:23:30. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:37.and necklace will cost you about And of course, if you have got the
:23:37. > :23:45.nice house and the Naz jury, you will also need a nice car. --
:23:45. > :23:51.denies the jewellery. What we do do if you want the lottery? I would go
:23:51. > :23:59.on holiday with the wife. Give it away. Would you? A yes, I would.
:23:59. > :24:09.would set myself up a recording studio. Carry on working, it keeps
:24:09. > :24:18.your mind going. I would go on holiday. I would do research to
:24:18. > :24:23.save the world. Have some really nice luxury holidays. With me?
:24:23. > :24:32.have decided that I want the house, the car and all of the jewellery. I
:24:32. > :24:39.had better get a ticket. Birthday? Man's birthday? Anniversary?
:24:39. > :24:44.It always helps to buy a ticket. We have been very hard at work of
:24:44. > :24:49.figuring out what you can spend the money on. You could splash out on
:24:49. > :24:53.110 Bugatti Veyron sports cars postop or if you prefer a more
:24:53. > :24:59.modest form of transport, how about 1,748 Ford Fiestas. Whatever you
:24:59. > :25:04.drive, you can afford approximately 122,900 million litres of fuel.
:25:04. > :25:09.That is of course, 27 million gallons in old money. How about
:25:09. > :25:14.staying at the seven star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai? You could live
:25:14. > :25:24.there in a two-bedroom apartment for almost 300 years. Why would you
:25:24. > :25:27.
:25:27. > :25:37.want to live there for so long? Does money buy you happiness? No.
:25:37. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:51.It will stay dry overnight. What a beautiful photo! Please do send us
:25:51. > :25:55.your photos. I think we will speak another red sky it tonight. It is
:25:55. > :25:59.due to the high pressure that has been trying to keep a hold of
:25:59. > :26:02.things and keep things settled across the UK. We will see the low-
:26:02. > :26:09.pressure working its way through from France during the course of
:26:09. > :26:13.tomorrow. It will be cloudy with showers. We have seen quite a bit
:26:13. > :26:18.of cloud through the afternoon. Now, as we go through the rest of the
:26:18. > :26:22.day, we will see the clouds and melt away. Some good clear spells
:26:22. > :26:30.overnight. One or two showers in the north that could trickle-down
:26:30. > :26:37.during the course of the night. Mainly staying dry. Temperatures of
:26:37. > :26:41.around 11 degrees minimum. We start Tuesday morning, like this morning,
:26:41. > :26:47.on a nice bright and sunny note. The cloud will increase again,
:26:47. > :26:52.bringing with it the risk of the odd shower. If you have got plans
:26:52. > :26:58.to be out and about, it is worth bearing in mind. A little cooler do
:26:58. > :27:02.to the north-easterly breeze. The high pressure keeps things dry and
:27:02. > :27:07.settled through Wednesday, bringing more warm sunny spells. Thursday is