:00:07. > :00:12.This is East Midlands Today. Our top story: the convicted drugs
:00:12. > :00:17.baron who plotted to flood Britain with cocaine.
:00:17. > :00:21.Russell Knaggs ordered a major Colombian drug shipment from inside
:00:21. > :00:26.his prison cell. If they had been successful, none of them would have
:00:26. > :00:31.had to work ever again. Also tonight, ran over a week before
:00:31. > :00:36.Christmas. Now Simon's widow urges the driver to come forward.
:00:37. > :00:41.Plus, a woman bullied as a child for being a ginger suffers new
:00:41. > :00:48.abuse on the internet. I was gobsmacked. It was message after
:00:48. > :00:55.message after message. I was scared. And getting plastered, how young
:00:55. > :01:05.volunteers are helping to make a military memorial more lifelike.
:01:05. > :01:10.
:01:10. > :01:15.Good evening. Welcome to Wednesday's programme. First, a
:01:15. > :01:19.convicted drugs baron has been found guilty of organising a multi-
:01:19. > :01:22.million-pound smuggling plot while he was locked up in a
:01:22. > :01:26.Nottinghamshire jail. Russell Knaggs tried to flood Britain's
:01:26. > :01:31.streets with cocaine. The trial heard he had met a
:01:31. > :01:41.Colombian drug trafficker inside Lowdham Grange Prison. He then sent
:01:41. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.a accomplice to buy cocaine from a violence South American cartels.
:01:46. > :01:51.Russell Knaggs was once described as Britain's cocaine Mr Big.
:01:51. > :01:55.Getting caught did not deter him. He used his sentence here at
:01:55. > :01:59.Lowdham Grange Prison as a business opportunity to make contacts and do
:01:59. > :02:03.deals with powerful Colombian drug cartels. He arranged to buy cocaine
:02:03. > :02:07.directly from South America and ship it through Costa Rica
:02:07. > :02:11.disguised as consignments of fruit. From the States, it would have been
:02:12. > :02:15.moved as legitimate freight, in huge containers on a major shipping
:02:15. > :02:20.route to Germany. Once in Europe and through the most stringent
:02:20. > :02:25.checks, they would have been driven here in smaller loads. It is a bit
:02:25. > :02:29.like a film script. We are talking millions of pounds of cocaine that
:02:29. > :02:34.they would have brought into the UK. The profits would have been
:02:34. > :02:38.enormous, absolutely enormous. If they had been successful, none of
:02:38. > :02:44.them would have had to work ever again. The streets of the UK would
:02:44. > :02:48.have been flooded with cocaine. Behind it all, sat in prison is
:02:48. > :02:52.will Russell Knaggs pulling all the strings. Knaggs knew his
:02:52. > :02:56.conversations might be monitored so he described the deals as
:02:56. > :03:02.plastering jobs, his coat for smuggling cocaine. The plot was
:03:02. > :03:06.foiled after his cell was searched and they found plans with a list of
:03:06. > :03:11.Colombian contacts and a hidden Sim card for a mobile phone. It
:03:11. > :03:18.identified his accomplices and started a huge surveillance
:03:18. > :03:23.operations. These are under cover pictures of their main targets.
:03:23. > :03:27.This photo was taken in Holland and this is him back at Lowdham Grange
:03:27. > :03:32.Prison. They were trapped on flights too. This is surveillance
:03:32. > :03:36.footage from Belgium. One of them even Trav -- travelled to Latin
:03:36. > :03:40.America. This photo was taken in Colombia where he was overseeing
:03:40. > :03:48.drug shipments for Russell Knaggs. I am hoping that other people in
:03:48. > :03:51.prison will get a clear message... The high level criminals are so
:03:51. > :03:56.arrogant that they think they can run a business from the prison
:03:56. > :04:03.service. It is not going to happen. Knaggs is facing a much longer
:04:03. > :04:06.prison sentence. The other men are now joining him. Another man has
:04:06. > :04:11.admitted his involvement. They thought they would make millions
:04:11. > :04:16.but all they have learnt his time behind bars.
:04:16. > :04:22.Next tonight, a widow is urging the driver of a the killed her husband
:04:22. > :04:28.to come forward and give themselves up. 44-year-old Simon Ware was
:04:28. > :04:34.killed the week before Christmas. A �5,000 reward is now being offered.
:04:34. > :04:42.Simon's widow has been talking to our reporter. I got the telephone
:04:42. > :04:47.call at about 620, it was Leicester Royal Infirmary, they said that
:04:47. > :04:50.Simon was involved in an accident and they told me to get there as
:04:50. > :04:56.soon as possible. I went to my neighbour next door and he gave me
:04:56. > :05:01.a lift to the hospital. I knew he was dead when I got there. This is
:05:01. > :05:06.where Simon was killed on the outskirts of the towns. He was hit
:05:06. > :05:12.by a vehicle which did not stop. Seconds later, a van that drove
:05:12. > :05:17.over him. That driver did stop but it was too late. Simon's widow is
:05:17. > :05:21.urging the driver of the vehicle to go to the police. Anybody who knows
:05:21. > :05:26.anything, I just hope and pray that they have got it in them to come
:05:26. > :05:31.forward. It is a possibility that the driver was not aware that they
:05:31. > :05:35.were involved in a collision or possibly they are aware and they
:05:35. > :05:38.were not fully aware of the full servants -- full circumstances and
:05:39. > :05:44.the severity. I would urge that driver or anyone who knows if they
:05:44. > :05:52.are to make contact with us. I have lost my soulmate. He would do
:05:52. > :05:58.anything for anybody. She is now offering a �5,000 reward for the
:05:58. > :06:04.conviction of the driver. She says and Hill went she cannot move on. -
:06:04. > :06:08.- until then, she cannot move on. Natalie Harvey was bullied as a
:06:08. > :06:12.child and again as an adult and all because of higher rate of frizzy
:06:12. > :06:16.hair. Natalie from Beeston says she spent
:06:16. > :06:18.thousands of pounds trying to tame her hair and she thought she had
:06:18. > :06:22.left that childhood abuse behind her.
:06:22. > :06:29.The 35-year-old had not reckoned on a renewed onslaught via the
:06:29. > :06:35.internet. The style that launched the taunts.
:06:35. > :06:40.She was just a little girl but her frizzy red hair made her a target.
:06:40. > :06:45.I used to be spat at on the school bus. He used to be constant. There
:06:45. > :06:51.was not a day that went by when I would not have several comments
:06:51. > :06:55.about my hair. It was awful. spent a small fortune over the
:06:55. > :06:59.years trying to tame it, even wearing a wig. When she posted a
:06:59. > :07:05.photo of herself as a child on the internet recently, she got more
:07:05. > :07:11.cruel comments, a taste of 21st century bullying. I was gobsmacked.
:07:11. > :07:20.It was message, after message, after message. I was scared. I was
:07:20. > :07:25.upset. I felt like the little gold that I once was. -- the little girl.
:07:25. > :07:32.It has been suggested that as many as 40% of all children and 30% of
:07:32. > :07:34.adults have been cyber bullied. Sometimes it is extreme. This
:07:34. > :07:40.university student suffered a sustained online harassment. Her
:07:40. > :07:43.former boyfriend packed sexually explicit photographs of her on
:07:43. > :07:48.social networking sites. Last October, he was given a four-month
:07:48. > :07:52.sentence. It has had a massive impact on everything I do in my
:07:53. > :07:57.day-to-day life. The main issue has been trust. I have not been able to
:07:57. > :08:00.trust people. Cyber bullying can be a lot more destructive than other
:08:00. > :08:05.bullying, particularly because it occurs in environments were lots of
:08:05. > :08:11.other people can see it. People can feel totally humiliated and get
:08:11. > :08:16.depressed and anxious. They can go back and read it and people do. It
:08:16. > :08:20.can be psychologically devastating. Natalie admits that she found it
:08:20. > :08:27.devastating, even at 35. She reported it to the police who told
:08:27. > :08:30.us they take all incidents like this any seriously. -- very
:08:30. > :08:34.seriously. Leicestershire County Council has
:08:34. > :08:39.confirmed that a thousand jobs are to go as it cuts millions of pounds
:08:39. > :08:44.from its budget. The authority is freezing council tax but has agreed
:08:44. > :08:49.to make savings of �74 million over the next four years. It comes after
:08:49. > :08:54.it recently got rid of 500 posts. More job cuts are expected to be
:08:54. > :08:59.confirmed this evening. Leicester City Council needs to save �40
:08:59. > :09:03.million. It is planning to raise council tax by 3.5%.
:09:03. > :09:07.Two men who conned elderly and disabled people out of their life
:09:07. > :09:11.savings have been ordered to pay back the money or face jail. Father
:09:11. > :09:15.and son Shane and Laurence Johnson from Kegworth were jailed in July
:09:15. > :09:21.last year for selling mobility aids that were never delivered. They
:09:21. > :09:24.must now pay back �40,000 or face another prison sentence.
:09:24. > :09:29.New powers are being considered which could mean council tenants in
:09:29. > :09:33.Derby being forced to move house. The city council is looking to
:09:33. > :09:37.introduce fixed term tenancies. They say it would tackle problem
:09:37. > :09:47.neighbours. Tenant groups say they are worried it would lead to people
:09:47. > :09:51.taking less care of their homes. Still to come, the drug that gave
:09:51. > :10:01.Hugh the chance of life. Now he is fighting to make it available to
:10:01. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:07.A father who are convinced judges to free him so he could look after
:10:07. > :10:10.his children is tonight back behind bars.
:10:10. > :10:14.Wayne Bishop from Clifton in Nottingham assaulted a man just
:10:14. > :10:20.three weeks after being released. The judge told him he could not
:10:20. > :10:24.play the children card to avoid going to prison.
:10:24. > :10:28.Last May, it was all smiles for Wayne Bishop on his return home to
:10:28. > :10:32.his children aged between 7 and 13. Despite being convicted of burglary
:10:32. > :10:36.and dangerous driving, 34-year-old Wayne Bishop convinced the appeal
:10:36. > :10:39.court that as a single parent, his eight-month prison sentence
:10:39. > :10:43.prevented him from caring for his children and infringed on their
:10:43. > :10:47.right for a family life. Three weeks later, when Bishop and his
:10:47. > :10:50.brother assaulted a man in a shop and today he was sentenced for that
:10:50. > :10:54.and breaching his licence. He was sentenced to eight months of which
:10:54. > :10:58.he will serve half and the judge told them, children cannot be
:10:58. > :11:03.produced like the ace of trumps to avoid prison. He went on, you have
:11:03. > :11:06.to learn that other people have rights too, the right not to be
:11:06. > :11:09.burgled and a be right not to be subject to a violent attack. The
:11:09. > :11:18.judge was told that his five children will be looked after by
:11:18. > :11:24.his sister who already has six of her own. I truly feel that for his
:11:24. > :11:30.children and people not having the facts... What effect will this have
:11:30. > :11:35.on the family? The effect it has is that they cannot live a normal life.
:11:35. > :11:41.That is it. This was his 17th court appearance which in the past have
:11:41. > :11:44.included charges of violence and Police say a Leicestershire man
:11:45. > :11:50.whose body was found beside of a motorway eight years after he went
:11:50. > :11:52.missing, could have been killed in a hit and run. The remains of 29-
:11:52. > :11:57.year-old Vinny Derrick, from Castle Donington, were found below a
:11:57. > :12:01.flyover near Stockport, earlier this month. He'd disappeared while
:12:01. > :12:11.on a night out in Manchester in 2003. Officers say his death isn't
:12:11. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:18.being treated as suspicious. Seven men have pleaded not guilty
:12:18. > :12:24.on charges relating to the death of a Polish man. 21-year-old Serioza
:12:24. > :12:30.Lawskoski was found dead last April, he died later in hospital. Five men,
:12:30. > :12:39.all from Derby, appeared in court charged with his murder. They also
:12:39. > :12:41.appeared in conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.
:12:41. > :12:44.A woman who threatened residents and caused numerous disturbances in
:12:44. > :12:47.one area of Nottingham has been given a three year anti-social
:12:47. > :12:51.behaviour order. Amanda Rollinson, has been banned from going into the
:12:51. > :12:54.Aboretum area of the city. It follows a number of the calls to
:12:54. > :12:56.the police after the 36-year-old was seen shouting in the street and
:12:56. > :13:00.smashing bottles to gain entry into people's homes.
:13:00. > :13:03.Still to come on the programme tonight - kicking out homophobia.
:13:03. > :13:13.Why are there no openly gay professional footballers? And
:13:13. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:17.should the FA do more? A man who says his life has been
:13:17. > :13:24.transformed by taking a new drug to treat prostate cancer is now
:13:24. > :13:26.fighting to secure its future funding by the NHS. Hugh Gunn from
:13:26. > :13:30.Leicestershire says the drug Abiraterone has given him a new
:13:30. > :13:40.chance of life. Now he wants that opportunity to be given to ALL
:13:40. > :13:41.
:13:41. > :13:45.prostate cancer sufferers. Just ten weeks ago Hugh Gunn was so
:13:45. > :13:53.poorly he says he couldn't even put the rubbish out. After a failed
:13:53. > :14:00.course of chemotherapy, his life had changed completely. I had pains
:14:00. > :14:07.in my pelvis, and down my legs, and my third was numb -- my third to
:14:07. > :14:10.warn us numb. It was difficult to climb the stairs, after five
:14:10. > :14:18.minutes I was in pain. Blood tests told doctors his condition was
:14:18. > :14:25.worsening. He was approved great test of the drug Abiraterone. His
:14:25. > :14:29.blood test now shows the can say is no longer active. I started to take
:14:29. > :14:34.Abiraterone on December 13th, and within two days I felt better. My
:14:34. > :14:38.pain has just about gone completely, I cannot go for as long as you
:14:38. > :14:43.would like, I can climb the stairs, I could do anything that a normal
:14:43. > :14:50.man can do. It is just like being given your life back. It is quite
:14:50. > :14:56.incredible. Abiraterone only has NHS funding for another two years.
:14:56. > :15:04.After that, draft guidance by Baba Amr says the drug does not provide
:15:04. > :15:12.enough benefits to justify the cost. The fact that they have an made an
:15:12. > :15:18.interim report, and it is an interim one, that is refusing
:15:18. > :15:21.Abiraterone, is condemning many people to death. It will not that
:15:21. > :15:27.everyone, that it will work for some of them. They should be given
:15:27. > :15:33.that chance. It is so sad that those men are being written there.
:15:33. > :15:39.They have battled to stay alive, it seems so terrible that they can be
:15:39. > :15:42.told are to go away and die. That's how they feel, that they're not
:15:42. > :15:50.worth anything. We have to fight hard to make sure that doesn't
:15:50. > :15:55.happen. The treatment cost �3,000 a month, but the NHS pays a lot less.
:15:55. > :15:58.This couple say it is a small price to pay for a chance at life.
:15:58. > :16:01.Well the organisation that decides which medicine's are available on
:16:01. > :16:06.the NHS are asking for your feedback on its decision not to
:16:06. > :16:11.approve that drug for prostate cancer. You can give your views on
:16:11. > :16:21.it by visiting NICE's website. Better do it tonight though because
:16:21. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:25.the consultation closes tomorrow. Coming up the debate about gay
:16:25. > :16:29.footballers and news to disappoint marathon runners. But we start
:16:29. > :16:32.tonight at Notts County. And what a few days it's been. Their new
:16:32. > :16:35.manager only met the players yesterday. Tonight Keith Curle's in
:16:36. > :16:45.the dug out as Notts play Stevenage in League One. Kirsty Edwards is at
:16:46. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:52.Meadow Lane, where it's all change again!
:16:52. > :16:59.It really is. This that doubt will see another new manager tonight.
:16:59. > :17:03.There have a fair share ideas. Keith Curle arrived earlier today,
:17:03. > :17:13.just down the tunnel. I managed to catch up with them to find out how
:17:13. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:17.he's feeling. -- catch up with him. I'm a bit nervous. I want to make
:17:17. > :17:21.sure I get the response from the players, the staff and the
:17:21. > :17:29.supporters. What kind of reception the think you'll get out there
:17:29. > :17:33.tonight? It is always a sensitive time, a change of management.
:17:33. > :17:38.will soon give you a team talk to the players, what what you say to
:17:38. > :17:46.them? I will tell them to be relaxed, to express themselves, and
:17:46. > :17:51.to think about giving a good account of themselves. I need to
:17:52. > :17:57.know exactly what they're about. Keith Curle will be working out of
:17:57. > :18:03.this tunnel in less than one hour's time, for the first time, here at
:18:03. > :18:07.Meadow Lane. They take on Stevenage tonight. A tough game. It will be
:18:07. > :18:17.interesting to see how the fans react. Martin Allen was a big
:18:17. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:25.character he has -- be carried to hear that Meadow Lane. One way to
:18:25. > :18:33.get them on side will be to get a win tonight. We will oppose what on
:18:33. > :18:37.all the goals tonight in a late bulletin. Thank you their match. --
:18:37. > :18:41.thank you very much. Calls have been made for the
:18:41. > :18:44.football association to offer more support to gay footballers. We've
:18:44. > :18:49.two of the country's leading gay friendly teams in this region, the
:18:49. > :18:52.Leicester Wildecats and the Nottingham BallBois. There are no
:18:52. > :18:53.openly gay British professional footballers. And last night
:18:53. > :19:03.campaigners, players, administrators and fans gathered in
:19:03. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:10.Nottingham to debate the subject. There are 5,000 professional
:19:10. > :19:14.footballers in the UK, not one of them is openly gay. The last player
:19:14. > :19:21.to come out was Justin Fashanu, 20 years ago. He played for Nottingham
:19:21. > :19:25.Forest, before announcing he was day after his career. He committed
:19:25. > :19:31.suicide. There have been calls for the next Justin Fashanu to get him
:19:31. > :19:38.more support. His homosexuality was part of his death. Benn is no part
:19:38. > :19:46.of that. His suicide note felt that he wears a mask and to the family.
:19:46. > :19:49.He had a very difficult time when he came out. This to a permanent --
:19:49. > :19:55.this team are predominantly gay. The feeling is that it is becoming
:19:55. > :19:59.less than issue. I don't think people are that they have any more.
:19:59. > :20:03.Quins have none of them. They say they welcome a professional player
:20:04. > :20:09.coming out. Will anyone be brave enough? And Environment has not
:20:10. > :20:17.been created by raid a player can come out of he wants to. Someone
:20:17. > :20:27.has to break the taboo. When Gareth Thomas came out in that we, there
:20:27. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:33.is a great opportunity. - back came out in the map the world. Back at
:20:33. > :20:38.Nottingham University, there are calls to put the support networks
:20:38. > :20:42.in place. If it does happen, I think it will be Miliband and
:20:42. > :20:46.player. Safety in numbers. There will be not as much attention on
:20:46. > :20:49.one person. Nottingham Rugby Club have been
:20:49. > :20:52.forced to play a Championship match on their training pitch. The re-
:20:52. > :20:54.arranged game clashed with football at their usual home, Meadow Lane,
:20:54. > :20:59.with the rugby authorities insisting they pressed ahead with
:20:59. > :21:02.it. So special arrangements were made at the Lady Bay Sports Ground
:21:02. > :21:05.in Nottingham. And the team's ran out with a temporary marquee and
:21:05. > :21:08.crowd barriers around the training pitch. There was a strong wind and
:21:08. > :21:18.it was wet. Not ideal conditions but Nottingham went on to beat
:21:18. > :21:21.Leeds by 24-11. One of the oldest marathons in the
:21:21. > :21:27.country is not being held this year. The Robin Hood Marathon in
:21:27. > :21:29.Nottingham has been going for more than 30 years. Last year the
:21:29. > :21:33.Festival of Running had 12,000 entries, with 1,500 doing the
:21:33. > :21:36.marathon. But the organisers say busier roads and an increasing
:21:36. > :21:39.population means the event isn't a safe or viable option. They say
:21:39. > :21:49.they're committed to re-staging the race over a different course in the
:21:49. > :21:56.
:21:56. > :22:01.future. Seven student soldiers at Welbeck
:22:01. > :22:05.Defence College volunteered for active plaster-casting today. All
:22:05. > :22:08.in the name of art. The trainees were having plaster-casts made of
:22:08. > :22:10.their faces by an artist who will use them as models for a new
:22:11. > :22:20.memorial sculpture. As Jonathon Cecil now reports the finished
:22:21. > :22:22.
:22:22. > :22:31.version will feature four life-size members of the armed forces.
:22:31. > :22:37.This is Ben, he is hoping to be an army officer. He is one of seven or
:22:37. > :22:42.students who are being cast in order to create a bronze memorial.
:22:42. > :22:50.I want something believable. I want something that reflects the group
:22:50. > :22:57.of people that we are sending up to the Armed Forces. I wanted to take
:22:57. > :23:01.a lot of information from the uniformed. We are taking a lot of
:23:01. > :23:05.photographs as well. Those photographs are being taken in the
:23:05. > :23:14.neighbouring room. It is not just the faces that are important, the
:23:14. > :23:21.different types of uniform are as well. They are trying to
:23:21. > :23:23.commemorate servicemen and women who lost their lives. To have a
:23:23. > :23:32.students' modelling for such an important memorial in
:23:32. > :23:39.Leicestershire, and one -- her home county, it is great. A seaweed base
:23:39. > :23:43.material is applied first, and then covered by plaster bandages.
:23:43. > :23:53.paste felt very cold and tingly, it was quite relaxing. I could have
:23:53. > :23:55.
:23:55. > :24:00.fallen asleep. It is quite, and tingly, like a face mask. The four
:24:00. > :24:10.life-size bronze soldiers, costing �75,000, will be unveiled this
:24:10. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:18.autumn at the county will. Does it exfoliate at the same time?
:24:18. > :24:24.We must try it. You could be at We must try it. You could be at
:24:24. > :24:34.Madam Tussauds! We have milder temperatures under
:24:34. > :24:35.
:24:35. > :24:43.way. It felt cold today, that was due to the wind. Some snowdrops has
:24:43. > :24:52.started to appear. Thank you very much for taking that picture. Send
:24:52. > :24:57.your photographs into the address below. A reminder of the average
:24:57. > :25:05.temperature, usually around seven Celsius, by the time we get to
:25:05. > :25:14.tomorrow, if the cloud breaks, we could reach 16 degrees. Today has
:25:14. > :25:19.been very wet and windy. It has been quite a dusty south-westerly
:25:19. > :25:24.wind. That will leave us a lot of cloud cover, quite a loud overnight
:25:24. > :25:27.temperature as well. It will drop to nine Celsius tonight. That is
:25:27. > :25:32.just above the average for this time Libya. The wind is starting to
:25:32. > :25:37.die down in the early hours of the morning. Early on tomorrow, quite a
:25:37. > :25:43.cloudy start, we should start to see that cloud thinning at times. A
:25:43. > :25:46.little bit of sunshine. Maybe a bit hit-and-miss. Along the
:25:46. > :25:53.Lincolnshire coast line, if you are thinking of heading to Skegness,
:25:53. > :26:00.the daytime temperature could reach 17 degrees. It should feel quite
:26:00. > :26:06.pleasant tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow, quite a cloudy day
:26:06. > :26:15.instead of the Friday. That will produce a fair amount of rain. The
:26:15. > :26:20.wind will be quite light. Some high pressure pushing up from the south.
:26:21. > :26:24.It will be a draw at weekend, cloudier times. We are hopeful to
:26:24. > :26:25.see a few breaks in the cloud. Temperatures going back to what