:00:04. > :00:13.This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies.
:00:13. > :00:18.Our top story: One last throw of the dice for Bombardier.
:00:18. > :00:24.200 campaigners came to Westminster to demand a rethink over the
:00:24. > :00:29.Thameslink contract, but their hopes have been dashed. We joined
:00:29. > :00:35.the workers at dawn as they headed to the capital. We are fighting for
:00:35. > :00:40.a future, fighting for the future of rail jobs in this country,
:00:40. > :00:45.trains that should be built in this country by British workers. It is
:00:45. > :00:50.not just the first day for these children, it is the first day for a
:00:50. > :01:00.new type of school across the East Midlands. And the new Strictly Come
:01:00. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:08.Good evening. First tonight, the battle for Bombardier was taken to
:01:08. > :01:10.the heart of Government today. 200 workers, campaigners and
:01:10. > :01:17.politicians left Derby and descended on Westminster, demanding
:01:17. > :01:22.a re-think. They wanted a contract - worth almost �1.5 billion - to be
:01:22. > :01:25.given to the local train-making firm rather than going abroad. Mike
:01:25. > :01:33.O'Sullivan has spent the day with the Bombardier delegation, and
:01:33. > :01:37.joins us now from Westminster. Good evening. This was the day that
:01:37. > :01:41.a lot of Bombardier supporters had been looking forward to. The day
:01:41. > :01:43.when the Government would be put on the spot by MPs at a hearing called
:01:43. > :01:49.by the Transport Select Committee, perhaps leading to a breakthrough
:01:49. > :01:59.in the fight for a re-think. Many left Derby early this morning with
:01:59. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:07.Their name on the train set it off. The spirit of Derby was carrying
:02:07. > :02:13.the hopes of Bombardier supporters to London. On board, workers from
:02:13. > :02:17.the company, business people, City Council politicians. They were
:02:17. > :02:23.going to a transport select committee hearing of MPs. Questions
:02:23. > :02:27.would be asked about how the Thames lank contract went to Siemens. That
:02:27. > :02:34.might Thameslink. Many believed the Government could still reverse the
:02:34. > :02:40.decision. It is affecting everybody in the supply chain. Thousands of
:02:40. > :02:44.households. We are doing this to fight for the future of rail jobs
:02:45. > :02:50.in this country. Trains that should be built in this country by British
:02:50. > :02:54.workers. The campaigners have arrived here at St Pancras station.
:02:55. > :03:01.Can they make a difference? They gathered outside Parliament as the
:03:01. > :03:05.committee hearing got under way. First top, the chairman of
:03:05. > :03:12.Bombardier in the UK. He suggested his company had been beaten when it
:03:12. > :03:19.came to finance. The Thameslink process was defined very narrowly.
:03:19. > :03:25.There was only one outcome. That signify is that finance as played
:03:25. > :03:30.an extremely important part in this deal, as opposed to changing --
:03:30. > :03:34.choosing the best trained first. The Government is considering
:03:34. > :03:41.looking at socio-economic conditions in future. It was too
:03:41. > :03:47.late for Thameslink. There is a nuclear option. The case drew the
:03:47. > :03:51.Secretary of State cannot board this process and this side to look
:03:51. > :03:58.afresh at the affordability of the Thameslink project, and to start
:03:58. > :04:03.over again. The consequences would be significant. I think it has
:04:03. > :04:10.reinforced the message that this campaign goes on. We are not going
:04:10. > :04:17.to accept what we have been given in terms of no renegotiation.
:04:17. > :04:22.had been Derby's Beye in the capital. Many consider -- consider
:04:22. > :04:24.their hopes battered but not beaten. Clearly a disappointing day for the
:04:24. > :04:26.Bombardier workers and their supporters, but what have the firm
:04:26. > :04:29.and, indeed, the Transport Secretary being saying about the
:04:29. > :04:32.day's events? Well, I interviewed the Transport Secretary after the
:04:32. > :04:36.hearing, and put it to him that he had missed the opportunity to make
:04:36. > :04:41.sure that the impact on jobs could have been factored in as part of
:04:41. > :04:45.the contract process. We'll hear from him in a moment. I also spoke
:04:45. > :04:48.to Colin Walton, the UK chairman of Bombardier, who said he was pleased
:04:48. > :04:58.the Government seemed to be on the verge of taking a much wider view
:04:58. > :05:04.
:05:04. > :05:12.There are some big issues that have arisen from today. The fact that
:05:12. > :05:18.Saussure economics was not put in. The fact that it was financing and
:05:18. > :05:22.trains. It is a case of who offers the best financing. It plays such
:05:22. > :05:30.an important part. These are areas we believe should have been a look
:05:30. > :05:35.that. The de-cobbling of finance away from the trains. We hope that
:05:35. > :05:43.throughout today that is what will happen. That will not affect
:05:43. > :05:48.Thameslink, were lit? It does not affect that decision. I cannot
:05:48. > :05:58.comment on the process. I would like to thank all of her supporters.
:05:58. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:04.It was extremely encouraging for me to see the huge support. From Derby,
:06:04. > :06:10.UK plc manufacturing as well. I would like to thank them. We have
:06:10. > :06:14.ordered a review of public procurement process is. Going
:06:14. > :06:19.forward we can look at a better way of doing this. Whether we're doing
:06:19. > :06:24.things in the same way as our European neighbours. Whether there
:06:24. > :06:28.are issues we can manage better. We would do that. That will not help
:06:28. > :06:34.in relation to the Thameslink contract. In future you will take
:06:34. > :06:39.these wider factors into account. The Government has blundered by
:06:39. > :06:41.allowing this to go ahead. Government has not blundered. The
:06:41. > :06:49.Government continued the process initiated by the previous
:06:49. > :06:53.Government. We used the evaluation criteria they issued. Bombardier
:06:53. > :06:58.will say the Government is the Government is the Government. You
:06:58. > :07:05.could have stopped this and changed things? I could not. Governments
:07:05. > :07:11.may be powerful Bodde they are not omnipotent. We're restrained by
:07:11. > :07:16.European law. We can only do what is legal. It would have been
:07:16. > :07:18.unlawful to change the rules have we through the competition.
:07:18. > :07:22.The select committee meet again next week to discuss today's
:07:22. > :07:28.evidence. Today's hearing has not changed anything as far as the
:07:28. > :07:37.Government is concerned. Coming up, there could be legal action by the
:07:37. > :07:43.United union backed by Derby City Council. -- Utd union. There will
:07:43. > :07:47.be a UK review of the Bombardier operation. All triggered by the
:07:47. > :07:50.loss of the Thameslink contract. Still to come, grappling with a
:07:50. > :08:00.growing sport - it's a mix of old- fashioned wrestling, judo and Jiu
:08:00. > :08:05.
:08:05. > :08:10.Jitsu. Next, how the 9/11 attacks turned a
:08:10. > :08:17.Nottingham student into an "enemy of the state". Rizwaan Sabir was
:08:17. > :08:20.researching al-Qaeda for a PhD study. But it got him arrested as a
:08:20. > :08:30.terrorist suspect. In the final part of this week's series, he's
:08:30. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:40.been speaking to our Social Affairs I was actually in a 6th form. I
:08:40. > :08:45.remember looking at the destruction and wondering who had done this.
:08:45. > :08:50.Why are innocent people being murdered at? I genuinely wanted to
:08:50. > :08:55.understand. What better way than through my studies? That would give
:08:55. > :09:01.me the perfect platform. That is why I started researching. This was
:09:01. > :09:11.the result of Rizwann Sabir's research. A wave of protests after
:09:11. > :09:14.
:09:14. > :09:20.he and a friend were arrested at Nottingham University. I think Al-
:09:20. > :09:26.Qaeda's tactics are morally reprehensible and Tokely on
:09:26. > :09:32.productive. -- totally. It has ruined my life. I am the collateral
:09:32. > :09:38.damage in this war. I am angry. I became enemy of the state. Why? It
:09:38. > :09:44.is not because I downloaded a document. It tied into who I was,
:09:44. > :09:48.the way I look and appear. I'm a thick somebody's stereotypical
:09:48. > :09:56.image of a terrorist, a young Muslim man with brown skin and
:09:56. > :10:02.appeared. I could have been sent to prison for doing what? My job as a
:10:02. > :10:04.researcher. Rizwann and his friend were released for an emotional
:10:04. > :10:10.reunion after police decided there was insufficient evidence to charge
:10:10. > :10:17.them. That was not the end of it. 9/11 changed my life quite
:10:17. > :10:23.drastically. I have been stopped on the street. I have been arrested as
:10:23. > :10:30.a terrorist. I never have been a terrorist. I any response Nice to
:10:30. > :10:33.be proportionate. We must make sure that we do not create anger among a
:10:34. > :10:36.community that will help to quash this threat. Police investigating
:10:37. > :10:39.the murder of a man in Derby have arrested 15 people. Serioza
:10:40. > :10:42.Lawskowski, who was 29, was found with head injuries in April, and
:10:42. > :10:45.died later in hospital. Five men previously questioned have been re-
:10:45. > :10:47.arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit grievous
:10:47. > :10:53.bodily harm. Others are being questioned about assisting an
:10:53. > :10:58.offender, drugs offences and obstructing the police.
:10:58. > :11:02.A Leicester charity whose minibus was destroyed in last month's
:11:02. > :11:05.disturbances can apply for compensation. Age Concern was
:11:05. > :11:11.originally told it could not claim compensation because it had
:11:11. > :11:13.insurance. Now the charity has been told it can apply. The number of
:11:13. > :11:17.students starting classes at the Gedling school near Nottingham has
:11:17. > :11:20.fallen to fewer than 50. Only 48 pupils have started Year 7 - that's
:11:20. > :11:22.a quarter of its capacity. The school was earmarked for closure
:11:22. > :11:25.because of under performance. It's now being taken over by a
:11:25. > :11:31.charitable trust, which wants to open it as an academy next
:11:31. > :11:36.Staying with education, and a newly-opened school in Leicester is
:11:36. > :11:40.promising to lead the way with its teaching methods. The Krishna-
:11:40. > :11:43.Avanti Hindu school is the first free school to open in the East
:11:43. > :11:53.Midlands. The Government hopes it will be the first of many. Helen
:11:53. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:04.Welcome to the Krishna-Avanti Hindu school in Leicester. Morning begins
:12:04. > :12:10.with meditation. The children do yoga every day. It is good for
:12:10. > :12:14.discipline, help and the mind. Each class will have their own vegetable
:12:14. > :12:18.garden allotted to them so the children can learn the important
:12:18. > :12:23.relationship with the Earth. It is one of 24 free schools across the
:12:23. > :12:29.country. They are state funded but independent from the local
:12:29. > :12:35.educational authority. Lester has not always had the best reputation
:12:35. > :12:39.for education. -- Leicester. This school gives all children the
:12:39. > :12:44.opportunity for a higher standards. It has a greater degree of freedom
:12:44. > :12:51.and latitude to Taylor to the children's needs. It has a
:12:51. > :12:54.distinctive Hindu ethos. At the moment, there are just 34 children.
:12:55. > :13:01.In the next few years, staff hope to attract more so that ultimately
:13:01. > :13:09.more than 400 pupils will come here. The we have had a good response for
:13:09. > :13:19.next year. We have well over half on our books. And for subsequent
:13:19. > :13:25.years. What do the pupils think? like my school. I am going to draw.
:13:25. > :13:29.I have done the biggest one ever. I had made lots of new friends.
:13:29. > :13:34.National Union of Teachers say free schools are divisive and
:13:34. > :13:38.unaccountable. Staff here Corp the school will have a bright future.
:13:38. > :13:48.-- hope. With us is Ian Leaver from the National Union of Teachers,
:13:48. > :13:49.
:13:50. > :13:56.which opposes free schools. Why does the NUT oppose free schools?
:13:56. > :14:01.We oppose them for a number of reasons. We believe it is taxpayers
:14:01. > :14:05.money that is being used to fund private education. We also believe,
:14:05. > :14:09.despite some of the things Nick Clegg and Michael Gove have been
:14:09. > :14:16.saying, there is no reason to suppose they will not be run for
:14:16. > :14:19.profit in the future. We also believe that we have an alternative
:14:19. > :14:23.which is better, and that is the kind of approach that we believe
:14:23. > :14:29.happens in the rest of the world. There is collaboration between
:14:29. > :14:35.schools, schools sharing expertise, for the good of all the children in
:14:35. > :14:42.Leicester. But if state education was a success we wouldn't even be
:14:42. > :14:50.talking about free schools, would we? In Leicester and across the
:14:50. > :14:55.country there have been improvements in GCSE results. We
:14:55. > :14:58.would argue that that approach, with the support of a
:14:58. > :15:06.democratically accountable local education authority, provides the
:15:06. > :15:10.best approach. Isn't it worth letting them have a chance? OK, yes.
:15:10. > :15:15.It would be nice to have some evidence to suggest that it is
:15:15. > :15:20.likely to work. We believe it is an expensive ideologically driven
:15:20. > :15:28.experiment. Expensive at that time in Leicester when teachers and
:15:28. > :15:31.hundreds of other Council workers A Nottinghamshire aid worker who
:15:31. > :15:34.has just returned from Somalia, says the disaster there is the
:15:34. > :15:37.worst he's ever experienced. The country is in the grip of its
:15:37. > :15:40.harshest famine for 60 years, following a drought and years of
:15:40. > :15:46.civil war. Now the Muslim Hands charity - which is based in
:15:46. > :15:49.Nottingham - says it plans to do as much as it can to help. Its project
:15:49. > :15:52.team spent two weeks last month in the capital Mogasdishu looking at
:15:52. > :16:02.aid work there. It also took supplies to a large refugee camp at
:16:02. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:10.Dadaab, to the west. Carolyn Moses reports.
:16:10. > :16:15.In the centre of it overrun refugee camp on the Somalia border, 600,000
:16:15. > :16:21.starving people and more arriving by the day. He's nodding and
:16:22. > :16:29.charity workers at 600 bags of food, QC welcome first some. But they
:16:29. > :16:35.admit it is a drop in the ocean. have been to Haiti after the
:16:35. > :16:44.earthquake. I have also work in Pakistan after the floods. What an
:16:44. > :16:51.have experienced in Mogadishu was beyond my expectations. I saw what
:16:51. > :16:56.the scale of the destruction was. It was massive. This old man, when
:16:56. > :17:03.I asked him where he was coming from and how long it took, he
:17:03. > :17:08.explained there were 20 families walking from one part of Somalia.
:17:08. > :17:17.It took them to mums to get here. On the way there were six people
:17:17. > :17:27.who died. There was no assistance. At the hospital in the capital,
:17:27. > :17:37.worse was to come. Six kids waiting on one table for drips. There was a
:17:37. > :17:40.
:17:40. > :17:47.young lady who came running towards us, crying. We saw to little bodies.
:17:47. > :17:52.-- two. The charity has already raised �1 million in recent weeks,
:17:52. > :17:58.hoping to put more food in mouths and build anew aid camp. It warns
:17:58. > :18:01.more is needed to make a lasting impact. And for more information on
:18:01. > :18:11.the famine in East Africa go to the Disasters Emergency Committee
:18:11. > :18:17.
:18:17. > :18:22.Still ahead, bright and breezy does it. Mostly breezy. Sally is braving
:18:22. > :18:31.the elements. Yes, it is rather blustery at the National
:18:31. > :18:41.Watersports Centre. The white water canoeists are out in force. A full
:18:41. > :18:47.
:18:47. > :18:54.forecast later. We like Our weather presenters wind-blown! Now the
:18:54. > :18:56.sport. First, there's more speculation about Nottingham Forest
:18:56. > :18:59.manager Steve McClaren. The national newspapers are reporting
:18:59. > :19:02.today that he will quit after all if he doesn't get the emergency
:19:02. > :19:05.loan players he requires. The loan widow opens tomorrow, and McClaren
:19:05. > :19:10.is linked with a number of players from Ryan Bertrand to West Ham
:19:10. > :19:13.defender Craig Dawson and Spurs winger Andros Townsend. McClaren
:19:13. > :19:15.has looked a bit fraught on the touchline of late, but we
:19:15. > :19:23.understand today's stories are without foundation and he's going
:19:23. > :19:25.nowhere. He's due to speak to the media on Friday.
:19:25. > :19:28.Meanwhile, Derby manager Nigel Clough also has targets in the loan
:19:28. > :19:33.window, but there won't be any players coming in before this
:19:33. > :19:37.weekend's game with Coventry. Clough was speaking at the club's
:19:37. > :19:40.training ground today. Derby have won four out five and had a great
:19:40. > :19:43.start to the season. But after making 10 new singings, they need
:19:43. > :19:46.to offload two or three players. Clough wouldn't name names, but it
:19:46. > :19:56.looks like Stephen Bywater, Stephen Pearson and Dean Leacock are
:19:56. > :20:02.
:20:02. > :20:08.Yes, we envisage that some of them would have gone during the contract
:20:08. > :20:10.window. That did not transpire. We will work on it in the long window.
:20:10. > :20:14.Now, take the old Saturday afternoon wrestling on World of
:20:14. > :20:17.Sport, mix it with Judo and Jiu Jitsu, then add a crowd of 6,000 -
:20:17. > :20:19.and you get something of a feel for what will be happening in
:20:19. > :20:23.Nottingham later this month. It's the Submission Wrestling World
:20:24. > :20:33.Championships. They're backed by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. And
:20:33. > :20:39.today the absolute champion was in Mansfield. Mark Shardlow reports.
:20:39. > :20:45.It is martial arts to the point of Submission. He will ask you to stop
:20:45. > :20:52.to not get injured. When Payne can be taken no more. If I know I
:20:52. > :21:02.cannot get out, I will stop. This class is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. These
:21:02. > :21:08.guys are fit. It is something different to going to the gym.
:21:08. > :21:15.is hard to describe. It is really good. There is no heating, kicking,
:21:15. > :21:19.no special kit. It is pure strength and skill. We are like a family.
:21:19. > :21:28.Good team spirit. It is great to learnt something different, a new
:21:28. > :21:32.skill. It is relatively new in the UK. It is the next big thing.
:21:32. > :21:36.of the best Denise Jiu-Jitsu, judo, wrestling and mixed martial arts
:21:36. > :21:40.will travel to Nottingham at the end of the month for the Abu Dhabi
:21:40. > :21:44.combat clubs' submission World wrestling Championships. This
:21:44. > :21:53.tournament is equivalent to the Olympic Games. The best fighter
:21:53. > :22:00.will come at on top. At the moment that is Braulio Estima, a Brazilian
:22:00. > :22:04.living in Birmingham. He will top the bill in Nottingham. 6,000
:22:04. > :22:10.people screaming, playing at home against a top contender that is my
:22:10. > :22:20.biggest rival. It will be like the World Cup final. It is the first
:22:20. > :22:22.
:22:23. > :22:31.time the tournament has been held If you want to see the best of the
:22:31. > :22:34.action, not in a marina, end of the month. -- Nottingham arena. Onto
:22:34. > :22:37.cricket - and the season's drawing to an end with the penultimate
:22:37. > :22:39.round of championship matches. It's been slow progress for title-
:22:39. > :22:43.chasing Warwickshire at Edgbaston, but Notts could only take three
:22:43. > :22:46.wickets as the home side neared 300. A century for Wes Durston has put
:22:46. > :22:49.Derbyshire in a strong position in their game against Kent at the
:22:49. > :22:59.County Ground. And Matthew Hoggard and Nathan Buck have been amongst
:22:59. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:05.the wickets as Leicestershire's Now, it's that time of year again.
:23:05. > :23:08.Yes, Strictly Come Dancing will be back on our screens from this
:23:09. > :23:12.weekend. It all means an exceptionally busy time for a
:23:12. > :23:15.Derby-based web designer - she runs one of the most popular Strictly
:23:15. > :23:18.sites in the country. Katie Cory says this series has particular
:23:18. > :23:28.interest for us, because three of the celebs have local connections,
:23:28. > :23:39.
:23:39. > :23:44.The excitement is mounting again as this year's line-up is revealed.
:23:44. > :23:50.Nobody is more excited than Katie Cory. She got hooked on Strictly
:23:50. > :23:55.Come Dancing in 2004. There was nothing else out there. There were
:23:55. > :24:01.no fan site. I want to collect all of the information. It ran from
:24:01. > :24:06.there. Seven years on, she is busy updating last year's contestants
:24:06. > :24:16.with this year's. There is all sorts of local interest. Edwina
:24:16. > :24:20.Currie, still well known here. Nancy Kallio, the former partner of
:24:20. > :24:25.Leicester manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. And former Derby captain
:24:25. > :24:30.Robbie Savage. What do his former colleagues think? I could never
:24:30. > :24:36.imagine him dancing, yet alone live on telly. He will approach it in
:24:36. > :24:42.the competitive way that he does. He will a love the at fit. He will
:24:42. > :24:50.thrive on it. How does the expert rate than? I would like to see
:24:50. > :25:00.Robbie Savage de well. I worry that he might fall into the Anne
:25:00. > :25:06.Widdecombe on the camp. Katy has had over 8 million hits on the
:25:06. > :25:11.website since she started. I get so much traffic, especially on
:25:11. > :25:21.Saturday night and Sunday night. I have to make sure the site is
:25:21. > :25:24.
:25:24. > :25:34.Nancy from the East Midlands, who would have thought it?! Now the
:25:34. > :25:35.
:25:35. > :25:40.It is very windy here at the moment. We are at the National Watersports
:25:41. > :25:46.Centre. I am joined by the general manager. It has been closed for the
:25:46. > :25:51.last couple of days. Why? The wind has been so bad we have had to
:25:51. > :25:56.close it. It affects the sailors and the row worse and the Qana
:25:57. > :26:02.lists. The waves make it impossible for them to Pavel safely.
:26:02. > :26:08.Presumably you hope it will be open for the weekend? Yes. We have a
:26:08. > :26:13.regatta this weekend. It is all part of the Olympic preparations.
:26:13. > :26:22.Fingers crossed. We have a little rain still around the East Midlands.
:26:22. > :26:27.It is mainly Dowdie and Mauro. Most places turning dry. Gradually
:26:27. > :26:31.through this evening the winds with ease. Good news for money. On the
:26:31. > :26:38.satellite picture, through the day we have seen plenty of cloud across
:26:38. > :26:42.the UK. We have seen some breaks in that out. They will be fewer and
:26:42. > :26:48.further between. As we go through this evening, there is plenty of
:26:48. > :26:55.cloud. We could see some showers over the Peak District.
:26:55. > :27:03.Temperatures dipping to 12 Celsius. As we going to Thursday, it stays
:27:03. > :27:09.rather cloudy. Cloudy through the day. Some showers still around.
:27:09. > :27:15.Mainly dry. Temperatures getting up to 18 Celsius. That is probably
:27:15. > :27:20.being optimistic. Less blustery tomorrow. If you look ahead for the
:27:20. > :27:25.next few days, certainly Friday we start to see the winds pick up