04/10/2011 East Midlands Today

Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. Our top story tonight:

The baby boy born on a bench in Belper.

This is baby James. This is his proud mum, who have now up -- who

have no idea she was pregnant and will he popped up in the street.

Also tonight, Ken Clarke's verdict on the riot. Aware of feral

underclass is too big, has been growing and now needs to be

diminished. Plus we are at one school that has found out it can

apply for cash to repair its crumbling classrooms. And the proof

of the pudding - can Holly whip up a winner in the Great British Bake

Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight, a life-

changing shock for Jane Eadie from Belper in Derbyshire. Jane felt

unwell while she was out shopping. She thought perhaps it was food-

poisoning. Then the 44-year-old staggered to a bench in the street

and gave birth. Jane had no idea she was pregnant. Well today,

recovering from the shock and back home with a beautiful baby son,

Jane spoke to Jo Healey. It is just amazing. A amazing to

have him home, even more surprising for Jane to have him at all. --

amazing. This is why. Jane was shopping in Belper and fair -- felt

ill. She thought she had food- poisoning, but she was in the last

stages of labour. She got some painkillers from the chemist and

staggered over here and gave birth. It must have been such a shock for

you? You have no idea, did you? didn't. Just an amazing feeling to

see him been born like that, in the street. Everyone kept running up to

last and congratulating us. We were just shocked. But what about the

last nine months? Jenice 44 and thought she had been starting the

menopause. She had come of tablets and thought that is why she was

putting on weight. Being pregnant did not cross her mind. I could not

believe it. It was like a dream. He is ever so gorgeous. He is my

little brother. Elizabeth also has a little son, Jane's grandson. Here,

he gets to know his newborn uncle. He will be a talking point in the

family for generations to come. Next, dozens of crumbling schools

have been given a glimmer of hope this evening after been earmarked

for new money. Nottinghamshire County Council has put in a bid for

55 of its schools to be rebuilt. Sarah Teale is at County Hall this

evening. Sarah, it sounds as though this could be good news for some

schools? Well, yes, it is good news for some,

and while I don't want to be a party pooper, of course not all of

the schools being put forward will actually get rebuilt. In fact just

a handful of those 55 probably. The government has made �2 billion

available to rebuild some of the most run-down schools across the

country. This is their replacement of the scrapped Building Schools

for the Future programme. Only those urgently in need are likely

to get the cash. Which is great news for one secondary I went to

They have papered over the cracks pretty well here, but even the

children can point out which parts of the buildings are trash. We have

got a hole where the roof has been leaking. The even the walls move.

Every way you go it is clear to see just how run-down this court is. In

fact, it was due to be completely knocked down and rebuilt, but those

plans were scrapped. Another victim of the axe coming down on the

Building Schools for the Future programme. However, the council has

now applied for new money to rebuild it. What would it mean for

the staff and children to have a new school and to be taught

somewhere modern? It will mean everything. They are desperate to

have a learning environment that matches their hopes and aspirations.

The council has also a bit of cash for another 10 secondary schools

and 40 primary schools to be rebuilt. Not all of them will be we

build, will they? We have got money set aside and a long list of

schools will get something. And all the schools will find out whether

their bids have been successful in December. So those schools that are

successful will find that building work actually start this time next

year and anywhere between 103 schools will be rebuilt. Thank you.

Still to come, after the heat wave I am sorry to say there is a

distinct chill in the air. You are certainly right. The

temperatures have been dropping. Autumn has well and truly returned.

Thousands more women are to be offered the chance to save a life

by donating blood from their baby's umbilical cord. Leicester's NHS

hospitals have already collected over 700 donations of blood which

can be used for stem cell transplants. Now the service is to

be offered 24 hours a day. This little girl is at the start of her

life, but she could have saved one already. That is because the blood

from her umbilical cord was collected after her birth. Her

mother is pregnant again and hopes to donate once again. It will be

discarded as clinical waste anyway and rather than just being thrown

away, you can possibly throw lives -- save lives. Years ago I had a

young cousin who had leukaemia and unfortunately this kind of thing

was not around then. Minutes after birth, blood is extracted from the

umbilical cord that contains the stem cells. Samples can be stored

for years at Nottingham Trent University. Now be less a

hospital's collection service will be around the clock. We have nearly

11,000 births a year. We are aiming that by about the very next year we

will be doing collections from 40% of that women who deliver here.

this woman is living proof of how precious the blood is. She had

eight success for stem cells transplant. The mother has made a

tremendous decision. A small child has given me life and saved my

family's life. That child is a hero. And now we can reveal that

Nottingham maternity units are in talks to become collection centres

as well. A schoolboy has denied murdering a

woman who was found dead in her burnt out home. Firefighters

discovered Jacqueline Bartlam's body at Redhill in Nottinghamshire

on Easter Monday. A post mortem examination found she died from

head injuries. The boy who's accused of killing her was only 14

at the time. He's due to stand trial in January. The University of

Nottingham wants to put up three wind turbines and a blimp is being

flown to illustrate how tall it will be. The structure could be as

high as 126 metres. Ken Clarke warned today of a feral underclass

that is too big and still growing. The Justice Secretary was speaking

at the Conservative Party conference about the summer riots

which in Nottingham led to police stations been firebombed. Our

political editor was listening to the speech. What else did Jan --

Ken Clarke had to say? He battled of some sobering figures. He said

each prisoner costs the taxpayer �40,000 a year and there are 80,000,

which is an all-time high. So how do you reduce the prison

population? Three-quarters of adults who were charged work repeat

offenders. One in four of them had been convicted of 10 crimes or more

already. They were real offenders, career criminals. I had a few other

Troy's words for them at the time when I analysed the first results

coming in. The feral underclass in this country is to be, has been

growing and now needs to be diminished. -- is too big. With me

now is Conservative MP and her Soubry, a former or criminal

barrister. With prisons at bursting point, what do we do? We need to

change the sentencing Act. Those people who could be on community

sentences need to be on community orders that will rehabilitate them

and punish them. And is there a feral underclass in a city like

Nottingham? I feel there is. And number of my clients came from that

background and it exists in other cities. It is a cliche, but it is

part of that broken society. So how do we deal with those persistent

offenders? There are different types of offenders. One of the

things we know from the statistics emerging from the disturbances in

Nottingham is that we see some of those have committed offences at a

lower rate. We need to get hold of them earlier in their offending

behaviour. It's also about saying to people, we need to get you

sorted out before you commit other crimes and by that time you are

looking at several years in prison. Thank you. Tonight Kenneth Clarke

is that the centre of other headlines over a rift with the Home

Secretary over human rights. Market Harborough without its

market just wouldn't be Market Harborough, would it? But it seems

that after 800 years on the same spot the market might be on the

move. To save money the council is thinking about moving its

headquarters to the indoor site and relocating the stallholders. As you

can imagine, it's caused quite a stir.

Since being granted its well charter in the 13th century, the

town has enjoyed a market. But the community is not happy the council

might move in. We have nothing in the town. If they take this away,

they take a part of our heritage. Be it is a crazy idea. They have

got good offices now, haven't they? Why spend money changing this?

indoor market is owned by the council. It believes it will be

cost-effective to move from its current accommodation. The council

says it is reviewing its assets. With fewer stop it has double the

amount of floor space it needs. It will cost �2 million to renovate

the building. If we move in here we can rent out hour space in the

headquarters building and that will raise a lot more income for the

council and the taxpayer. How much? Probably up to half a million

pounds a year. But the traders say the uncertainty is affecting

business. We have not had an order for over four weeks because they

will not get their extended warranty if we're not here. We have

got full-time staff with mortgages and families. It is a concern.

understand they have got to make cuts, everyone has, but this is the

wrong place to do it. The market brings a lot of revenue into this

town. A decision is expected in the middle of November. Still to come

on the programme - the hunt for Britain's best baker. Could it be

Leicester hope for Holly Bell. The final of the great British Baker is

on BBC Two tonight and we will be speaking to Holly live in the

studio. Today a memorial was revealed dedicated to the miners in

Bilsthorpe. This lamp is symbolic, shedding

light on memories of those who lost their lives at Bilsthorpe colliery.

Paul Smith knows how risky life is down the pit. He survived the last

accident there in 1993. Three men died when the roof collapsed on

them. It was horrific. I was trapped for three and-a-half hours.

This day it reflects on the memory of those who got lost in the

Connery and the families who are still suffering today. Patricia's

uncle died in 1927 when shafts were blooded two years after it opened.

He had come over from Ireland as a teenager, technically too young to

mind. Quite a few of them had to lie to get a job down the pit and

we think this is what happened to him. It was a great tragedy for the

family and this village. There would not have been a village if it

had not been for the pit, so how can they be get it? They have not.

Today's Memorial was designed by primary school children, a sign

that future generations don't plan to forget the price paid in the

past. Time now for the sport. We're starting with the chaos at

Nottingham Forest and another extraordinary moment. As they hunt

for a new manager, we had two senior players get in touch with us

today. They don't want to be named, but they did tell us that the

majority of the squad would like Billy Davies back. They claimed

that that point of view was almost universal among those who played

under Billy. This afternoon I took the chance to work out what was

going on, in the company of a former Forest striker.

It is the place for speculation, Twitter. It's amazing the players

would get the media involved? were happy with Billy, he got the

best out of the players. I am sure he is available and the players

would love him to come back. other big thing is this idea of a

technical director and a first team coach. Can you see that? It works

at other clubs abroad and Nottingham Forest is a big club,

well supported. A lot of players have moved on and become managers.

It seems to work on the Continent, but fails here. People seem to fall

out. It would be able to work at Nottingham Forest, they just need

to get the right people in charge, the right technical director of

football and it will work. Who do you think would be ideal? Frank

Clark would be good, but if the manager isn't right and he doesn't

get on with the director of football, it will not work. Time

pressure is on to get this done. There are good managers out there,

but they have to get their technical director in first and

then the manager. David Johnson speaking to me earlier.

Now, news from Notts County - the new contract for Lee Hughes that

Martin Allen talked about the other day has been signed. 18 months with

the option for another year for the striker. They have got a game

tonight as well. You can get live BBC Radio Nottingham commentary on

Notts County's Johnstones Paint Trophy clash with Chesterfield from

seven o'clock. At the Rugby World Cup the

Leicester Tigers player Manu Tuilagi has been fined for wearing

a gumshield showing a sponsor's logo, a week after his brother

Alesana was fined for the same offence. Manu was fined 10,000 New

Zealand dollars by the International Rugby Board for

wearing the gumshield during England's pool game with Georgia.

All the things that have happened bring us tighter it together as a

team and a Scot. Sometimes bad things are good. Rules are rules

and you have to follow them. They are quite strict on how they want

things done. $10,000 for wearing the same -- wrong gumshield?! Just

imagine if you did something really bad.

Now, a reminder that it's the time of year when we ask for you to

nominate your Sports Unsung Hero. We want someone from the East

Midlands who helps others take part in sport. Someone who goes that

extra mile to make a big difference. The awards recognise people like

hour 2011 winner who has spent 43 years developing net ball in their

region. -- netball in the region. We are also looking for people like

John, who has run community football. It doesn't matter which

sport they are involved in, we just want to hear about the people who

go that extra mile way you live. Get your nominations in as soon as

you can. Now, the BBC's Great British Bake

Off. Tonight is the grand final. Just three top bakers are left to

battle it out for the title. One of them is our guest in the studio.

Before we meet her, let us have a look at her in action, coming to

grips with the infamous Genoese sponge. Holly is struggling to

create the necessary for a meat texture. I do not know what has

happened there. It is terrible. I could have got away with that in

week one, but not in weeks seven. I would love to be in the final.

Holly is with us and you have made it. You are in the final tonight.

know. Who would have bought it? have seen some of the things you

have made and I am not surprised you are there. That is something

coming from you because you can bake. My mother used to work on a

biscuit store and she has never touched one since. His River Seine

with cakes? In our house, I think we are sick of bait goods. I have

to practise. They were literally hundreds of all sorts of things

coming out of the kitchen. I approach it like a job. This is

what I am going to do for the next six weeks whilst we are filming, so

I thought I'd just needed to keep practising. It was like homework

and for me, it was the only way to do it. Do you think some people

just turned up and did it on the spot. Some of them did. There was a

lot of pressure. It has to be good television, so how much of it is

produced and what is real? It was jolly at the start because there

are top of you and the pressure is less because there is less chance

of you going home, actually. But as it carried on, you are more

invested in it and you want a bit more. And it is building up to the

Are you going to be watching tonight? I am. Fingers crossed. And

now for the weather. Well, Alton has returned. It is quite chilly

down here. -- autumn has returned. Today, 17 Celsius. Ten degrees

below what we had yesterday. Wednesday is going to be rather

cloudy and very windy. Let us look at the pressure chart. You can see

the high pressure has well and truly moved away. That is allowing

whether funds to me through. Sorry, I forgot about the weather picture.

Thank you very much for that, Brian. Now we can look up the pressure.

The fronts are pushing through and the isobars are tightening. That

means we will have very windy conditions over the next 48 hours.

The cloud has increased, just giving one or two breaks for

brightness, but we will go through the remainder of the evening with

increasing cloud. It may be fit enough to bring one or two spot of

light rain at times and temperatures dipping down to 11

Celsius tonight. Tomorrow, we may have brown -- rain to the west of