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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale.

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Our top story tonight - could the row over Bombardier's lost contract

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end up in the courts? Union bosses accused the Government of breaking

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the rules and deserting Derby. will destroy Derby as a

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manufacturing base. These people have skilled trades to build

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coaches. They will be languishing on the dole queue. A mother accused

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of causing the death of her baby breaks down in court. Plus, the

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cuts are biting. Find out how museums could be closing in the

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winter and libraries could be reducing their hours. What would

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you buy if you won at the bureau Good evening and welcome to

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Monday's programme. It's a big week for Bombardier.

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Pressure is growing on the Government to overturn its decision

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to award a huge rail contract to a German rival. The Transport

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Secretary will be facing rail union officials and there's a public

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meeting planned in Derby. And today, two union heavyweights

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gave their backing to Bombardier. Both claim the Government failed to

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consider the economic impact on Derby of those 1,400 job losses.

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And one of them is now threatening legal action. Mike O'Sullivan

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reports. Backing for Bombardier. National

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union leader Len McCluskey with Bombardier shop stewards at the TUC

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offices in the city. Pressure now mounting on the Government to

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reverse its decision to give the �1.4 billion Thameslink contract to

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the German company Siemens. This simply cannot be right that you do

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not take into their account the impact of the devastating loss of

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jobs in communities, but also the social implications. What does it

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mean to families? What does it mean to communities? Bombardier

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announced 1,400 job losses last week after losing the contract.

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There is now a growing campaign to overturn the Government's decision

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so that the contract can be brought here to Derby. This is the last

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train maker in Britain and it has highlighted the importance of

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manufacturing tear our economy. day I think it will be OK, then in

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the next day's newspaper EC the opposite. But there is believe

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there, because we have a lot of backing. I think there might be an

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outside chance of it being turned round. The support we're getting, I

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am really impressed. The campaign goes on. Rail union officials meet

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the transport secretary in London on Wednesday. The next day there'll

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be a public meeting back home. spoke to Bob Crow, the leader of

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the RMT rail union. He says it will devastate the city. We are arguing

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for a company that is based in Britain. It will destroy Derby as a

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manufacturing base. These people have skills to build trains, to

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build coaches and they will be languishing on the dole queue. We

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do not think that is right. We think the social circumstances and

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the cost to the taxpayer on social security benefits and reduction in

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tax should be taken into account. The Government clearly is not

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bending on it. You have heard the transport secretary saying he just

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followed the rules. We will have to see if he has followed the rules.

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We do not believe that is right. The people of Derby do not believe

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that is right. If this was a company that lost its contract to

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another company, the workers would have to transferred directly over

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to the new company. This means that under the transfer under protection

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employment regulations, these workers cannot transfer to follow

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their work to Germany, because the legislation is each individual's

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domestic law. The companies concerned at some stage will say

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that they cannot afford to pay for redundancy payments. Siemens say

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they will create 2000 jobs, 600 of them highly skilled jobs in this

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country. That will help. We will have to wait and see. We already

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have agencies looking for workers to transferred to Germany. You

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cannot tell me that the vast majority of people will not be able

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to leave their families in Derby and going live in Germany. We

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should be building trains for British Railways in Britain.

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Police and Fire Service investigators are assessing the

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cause of a fire at a scrap yard in Nottinghamshire. Crews were called

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to the Ponderosa yard in Bestwood Village just before five o'clock

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yesterday. They're allowing the 1,000 tonnes of timber to burn out

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safely. It's designed to avoid damage to nearby crops and save

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water. A drug dealer from Nottingham,

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who's been on the run for three years, has finally been jailed for

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his part in a conspiracy to supply heroin with a street value of

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almost �5 million. 50-year-old Michael McNiffe from Bestwood, was

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sentenced to 20 years in prison. He'd been arrested on the Isle of

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Wight in January after his details appeared on the BBC's Crimewatch

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programme. Still to come this evening - a big

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drop in borrowing. Borrowing library books, that is.

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We'll be looking at plans to slash library and museum opening hours.

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A mother who admits that she shook her baby causing its death, has

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broken down in tears at Leicester Crown Court. 24-year-old Jodie Pick

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denies the manslaughter of her 7- week-old baby Courtney in May 2009.

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The prosecution says she shook the baby in a fit of anger, but she

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says it was only to revive her. Our reporter James Roberson has been

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listening to the evidence and he spoke to me when the court was

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adjourned for the day. It has been an emotional day in

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court. The jury has been shown a photograph album that the Geordie

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compiled of heard daughter's life. The baby was born prematurely and

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had p thing and feeding problems. The mother broke down in tears when

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she recalled the moment when she found her baby lifeless at their

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home in her Moses basket. She says she picked her up, blew in her face

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to try and revive her, and then when that did not happen, she shook

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her to try and revive her. What sort of questions was she asked by

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her own defence barrister? It is accepted by boss-eyed that they it

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shaking caused the baby's death. The issue is motivation. The

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prosecution says the mother was angry with her daughter. She was

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asked, did you lose your temper with the baby? The answer was No.

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Did you lose your temper about something else and take it out on

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the baby? Know. But you do except that what you did that day killed

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her? Yes, she said, and broke down in tears. I believe she face some

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hard questioning by the prosecution. Yes, indeed. In cross-examination,

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it was put to her that she had had a lot to achieve that day. The

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family was going for its first holiday. She told the court that

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she came in from hanging washing, to find the baby in her Moses

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basket, apparently strangled by her own bed. She was told, the truth is,

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she was not feeding properly and you did not have -- you had too

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much to do. Hospital staff in Leicester could

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hold a vote of no confidence in senior health trust managers. It's

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emerged that the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has

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overspent its budget by a predicted �1 million over the last month.

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That's on top of a �6 million overspend in the first two months

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of the financial year. The hospital management say they are committed

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to addressing the overspend. Meanwhile, staff at Derby's

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hospitals are being asked if they want to reduce their working hours.

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It's one of the ideas being put forward to save money following

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Government cuts. More than 7,000 staff, ranging from kitchen workers

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to surgeons have been asked if they would like to apply to go part time.

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And library opening times could be reduced in parts of the East

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Midlands in an effort to save money. The plan by Leicestershire County

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Council to cut thousands of hours is part of a proposal to save �4

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million. The authority is also considering closing two museums for

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the winter. Helen Astle reports. Welcome to this museum, which

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reopens two months ago after a refurbishment. Now it is one of two

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these teams facing closure for two days a week and a month over winter.

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To save money. When they were planning the new extension to this

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building, it was way before the financial situation this country

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finds itself been developed. What we looked at was, let's look at our

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libraries and museums. Let's look good when people use them and when

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they don't use them. The cuts do not end at the seams. This library

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is one of 22 across Leicestershire which is facing having its opening

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hours reduced. The county council wants to cut 20,000 hours. It is

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really important, because my son is like a little sponge. He loves

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reading different books and I use the internet down here, so it would

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be a real shame. I suppose if it saves money, it is all good at the

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minute. As long as I can get to a library and get bad books out and

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take them back. For a lot of people, it will be difficult, because

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people at work and it did not have time to come in the daytime. At the

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museum, there are features about Leicestershire's history. In the

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future, will these proposed cuts be part of a display?

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So are we going to see more of this from our cash-strapped councils?

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The Government is looking at scrapping some of the statutory

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duties and services that councils are obliged to provide. Our

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Political Editor John Hess has been digging away on an allotment to

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bring us more. These are some of the 1,300

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different rules and regulations that Westminster and Whitehall

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oblige her local councils to carry out legally. Statutory obligations.

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They cover a range of services from adult and child care through to

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planning, road safety, food safety, libraries. Allotments, which is why

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I am at these allotments this evening. The communities secretary

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Eric Pickles believes that a lot of these regulations can be

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streamlined, not only to make them much simpler to understand, but

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also to save money, as well. He takes as an example, the obligation

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of local authorities to advertise certain planning notice in route

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local newspaper. Why not put it online, he says. That would save up

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to �200 million over the next five When will the government come

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forward with this streamlined list of statutory duties? The government

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has already gone out to consultation postop the results

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were not that surprising. Most of us want our councils to be obliged

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to provide adult care, childcare, libraries, the law says local

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councils should provide a comprehensive and efficient library

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service, as well as providing the money for allotments. What is

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happening now is the communities department are taking on board some

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of those consultations and are likely to come back later in the

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year with their own recommendations. Briefly, it will these proposals be

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controversial? They certainly will be. Already Eric Pickles is saying

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that half of these regulations have been introduced since 1997,

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surprise surprise, that is when Labour took power. Labour would

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have argued that what they did was upgrade had modernise and we doubt

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many of the old Victorian regulations that local government

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was obliged to stick do. That list is a bit of a doorstop. Thank you.

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Charities and local MPs are calling for safeguards for residents at

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care homes run by the company Southern Cross. The family

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currently operates almost 60 care homes in the East Midlands -- the

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company. The MP Stephen Dorrell who chairs the Commons health select

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committee says that it is essential that the care of residents remains

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unaffected. The business advice service for

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Derbyshire says it is seeing an increasing the number of people

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considering self-employment. Business Link Derbyshire says

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hundreds of planned redundancies at Egg, Bombardier and Western Power

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Distribution for all mean it is hearing from more and more people

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who are looking to start their own businesses.

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A small idea to help deal with a very big problem which is

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congestion. Nottinghamshire County Council is opening a string of

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pocket part and rides using existing car parks and bus services

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instead of spending millions on a purpose-built schemes. You are

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looking at the country's first public park and ride scheme. The

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idea is simple. Park for free and then hop on an existing bus service

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for �3 for the rest of the journey into Nottingham, avoiding expensive

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car parking charges and ultimately, the Workplace Parking Levy. I think

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it is brilliant and it saves me a fortune and I read books and I am

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not stressed. �12 a week to get to work, no traffic jams. It is

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brilliant. The council earmarks car parks. It brings them up to scratch

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as well as installing lighting and CCTV. It also pays the landlord

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�1,000 a year. They big park and ride scheme would cost us around �5

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million of capital to build which is on average �5,000 a space. These

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sites cost us initially at �500 NO- SPACE.

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The second scheme is opening in a we's time in a pub car park

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offering 60 spaces. Hopefully, the people who use the car park will

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also use the business. The council expects to increase that to take up

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as it rolls out tender schemes across the county.

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What does the countryside mean it to you? Believe it or not, 86% of

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England is defined as a role. That is according to the government. --

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is find as rural. Today, it is the start of a week-long celebration of

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all things role. It is the brainchild of the Prince of Wales.

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-- all things roles. He wants to highlight the importance of the

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countryside, not only took a our economy, but to our general sense

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of well-being. Welcome to the walk. What better

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way to start national countryside week than with a walk in the

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country. These ramblers are exploring land surrounding -- in

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Nottinghamshire FA I ended up two miles away but I have never been

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here before. The thing to celebrate his the things that if farmers and

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landowners do to enable people like me and this group of people to go

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out walking. Without their maintenance and management of the

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footpaths and the styles, we would not be be able to get the pleasure

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that we do. This showed his local Glassman the chance to sell their

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bids and show off their skills -- local craftsmen. They cannot just

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be a theme park. It has to be somewhere where people live and

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work and are able to make that a living. As I say, it cannot be a

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theme park. They lot of people may struggle to understand what is

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going on in the countryside. Especially city-dwellers. But with

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the interest in food and farming, I think the countryside will spread

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to be found. The ideas will spread to the town. National countryside

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week wants everyone to get out and enjoy their local landscape and to

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spare a thought for the people who live and work there.

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Back in the City, a Nottingham park is to undergo a �5 million makeover.

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The restoration of the historic Forest Recreation Ground which

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hosts the annual Goose Fair what we funded by lottery money and

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Nottingham City Council. It is hoped the money will restore the

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grounds, restore the listed lodge and create new visitor facilities.

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Still to come, decisions, decisions. After another at EuroMillions

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rollover, we have been trying to work out what you could buy with

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I am writing a list. Things I can buy. A few footballers perhaps?

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Leicester City are trying to spend that much. We will start tonight

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with a landmark when for the Latin and jockey, Hayley Turner. -- the

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Nottingham jockey. She became the first woman to have when it a race

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outright. She was thrilled to win. In cricket, Stuart Broad has been

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sent back to Nottinghamshire after being dropped by England for their

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final one-day international. He opened the bowling today in the

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championship match against Somerset. He is facing a battle to retain his

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England place for the first Test. It took one of four early wickets

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but then Somerset went runs mad. On the first day in Derby, there

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was a century which rescued Derbyshire's first innings. With

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Leicestershire, the game is still up for grabs.

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In football, we understand that Leicester City are interested in

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Paul Konchesky. As for Forest, Steve McLaren says he may not go on

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the club's pre-season tour but will stay in England to help search for

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players. The clock was rolled back yesterday

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when a biker in his 70s from Derby trip on a 69-year-old from Italy.

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When they raced at Mallory Park in 1971, more than 50,000 people were

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there to watch it and thousands more weather again this weekend. --

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where there again this weekend. It was called the Festival of 1000

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bikes. Old bikes and old bikers were reunited. Event some of the

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machines had has seen better days and some of them never quite took

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off as racing machines, the fans loved it. There were the greatest

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names from bike racing in the 60s, 70s and 80s, including a track

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appearance by American Kenny Roberts. And a re-run of one of the

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greatest races ever. Back together again, Italian Giacomo Agostini and

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Derby's John "Mooneyes" Cooper. In 1971, more than 50,000 people

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turned out at Mallory Park to watched and they were almost as

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popular yesterday. I am very happy to come back here. It is fun.

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69, Giacomo Agostini was the unbeatable world champion. Now 71,

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John "Mooneyes" Cooper was the local boy who finally beat him.

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People are coming today and they say they were here for 40 years ago.

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I cannot believe how many have come to see it again! This time, Giacomo

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Agostini led the way around but it did not matter because it was not a

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race but a biking homage. It is a question many of us have

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pondered, what would we do if we won the lottery? 166 million it is

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up for grabs in tomorrow's EuroMillions. We have been finding

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You have won the jackpot, what is the first thing you might want to

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do? By a property, perhaps. This one you would be easily able to

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afford. �3 million for the Grade 1 listed building. If you want

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something a bit more modern, what about this contemporary one. Just

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over �2 million. Or maybe you want city living. This one was set you

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back just over a million pounds and it is only a stone's throw away

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You have bought the million-pound house, or what about a special

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treat? A girl can never have enough jewellery and this rain, bracelet

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and necklace will cost you about And of course, if you have got the

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nice house and the Naz jury, you will also need a nice car. --

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denies the jewellery. What we do do if you want the lottery? I would go

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on holiday with the wife. Give it away. Would you? A yes, I would.

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would set myself up a recording studio. Carry on working, it keeps

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your mind going. I would go on holiday. I would do research to

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save the world. Have some really nice luxury holidays. With me?

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have decided that I want the house, the car and all of the jewellery. I

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had better get a ticket. Birthday? Man's birthday? Anniversary?

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It always helps to buy a ticket. We have been very hard at work of

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figuring out what you can spend the money on. You could splash out on

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110 Bugatti Veyron sports cars postop or if you prefer a more

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modest form of transport, how about 1,748 Ford Fiestas. Whatever you

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drive, you can afford approximately 122,900 million litres of fuel.

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That is of course, 27 million gallons in old money. How about

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staying at the seven star Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai? You could live

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there in a two-bedroom apartment for almost 300 years. Why would you

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want to live there for so long? Does money buy you happiness? No.

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It will stay dry overnight. What a beautiful photo! Please do send us

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your photos. I think we will speak another red sky it tonight. It is

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due to the high pressure that has been trying to keep a hold of

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things and keep things settled across the UK. We will see the low-

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pressure working its way through from France during the course of

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tomorrow. It will be cloudy with showers. We have seen quite a bit

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of cloud through the afternoon. Now, as we go through the rest of the

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day, we will see the clouds and melt away. Some good clear spells

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overnight. One or two showers in the north that could trickle-down

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during the course of the night. Mainly staying dry. Temperatures of

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around 11 degrees minimum. We start Tuesday morning, like this morning,

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on a nice bright and sunny note. The cloud will increase again,

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bringing with it the risk of the odd shower. If you have got plans

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to be out and about, it is worth bearing in mind. A little cooler do

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to the north-easterly breeze. The high pressure keeps things dry and

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settled through Wednesday, bringing more warm sunny spells. Thursday is

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