:00:02. > :00:11.This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me Quentin Rayner.
:00:11. > :00:15.Tonight BMI Baby will stop flying from September.
:00:15. > :00:22.As a buyer is sought 80 writs will close from East Midlands Airport.
:00:22. > :00:31.Also tonight, after a spate of shootings, Danielle Beccan's mother
:00:31. > :00:35.pleads for them to stop. All power to your elbow, the bad booze put to
:00:35. > :00:40.good use. We have been scratching our heads to find a safe way of
:00:40. > :00:50.getting rid of it. They raise the 900 bottles here. You can't just
:00:50. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :01:00.porridge down the drain. And it is a Dr feel-good, a new take on
:01:00. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.teaching and medicine. Good evening, welcome to Thursdays
:01:04. > :01:08.programme. More airline jobs are under threat tonight - this time at
:01:08. > :01:13.BMI Baby. The company has been trying to find a buyer for several
:01:13. > :01:17.months. But today staff were told that some flights from the East
:01:17. > :01:19.Midlands will be chopped next month and - unless a new owner is found -
:01:19. > :01:22.the airline would close completely in September.James Roberson has
:01:22. > :01:32.been following the story this afternoon - it sounds pretty grim
:01:32. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:41.news from Castle Donington again. It was only last month that the
:01:41. > :01:46.parent company announced it was cutting 1200 jobs, that is a total
:01:46. > :01:52.of 550 at Castle Donington. This followed the takeover of BMI, and
:01:52. > :01:56.BMI Baby, by the parent company British Airways. They have
:01:56. > :02:01.announced that this afternoon that consultation is starting this
:02:01. > :02:09.afternoon with the unions. So far a buyer has not been found for BMI
:02:09. > :02:19.Baby, so BMI is saying that many flights will end by a be ended June
:02:19. > :02:29.
:02:29. > :02:39.-- by it at the end of June. These flights.: not good news for
:02:39. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.passengers. The Unite union is saying they won't be -- there will
:02:49. > :02:53.be no immediate job losses, but the staff will all go up if no buyer is
:02:53. > :02:57.found by September. The union spokesman says he is not very
:02:57. > :03:02.hopeful of a saviour being found. It is not all bad news, we are
:03:02. > :03:12.thinking of the travellers. Absolutely right. Even as BMI Baby
:03:12. > :03:22.made this announcement, And Mark said they would be expanding their
:03:22. > :03:24.
:03:24. > :03:30.flights from East Midlands Airport. -- More. There are a lot of
:03:30. > :03:38.expansions going on in the East Midlands. They could be alternative
:03:38. > :03:41.flight. -- there could be. Next, tonight "stop the shootings".
:03:41. > :03:43.A heartfelt plea from a mother whose daughter was gunned down on a
:03:43. > :03:46.Nottingham street. It's almost eight years since Danielle Beccan's
:03:46. > :03:49.murder prompted a huge backlash against gun crime in the city. But
:03:49. > :03:51.after several more shootings in the last few weeks Danielle's mother
:03:51. > :04:00.agreed to speak exclusively to our Social Affairs Correspondent,
:04:00. > :04:04.Jeremy Ball. Nottingham has made huge progress
:04:04. > :04:09.since the days when Danielle Beccan was murdered when she walked home
:04:09. > :04:14.with her friends. She was only 14, she was killed by a bullet that was
:04:14. > :04:19.fired up from a car and ricocheted off the street. Her mother is
:04:19. > :04:25.worried that it is happening again. It is not a badge of honour. It
:04:25. > :04:30.should be a badge of shame. They should be ashamed. I am concerned
:04:30. > :04:38.about the amount of retaliation. Please don't do it, but the guns
:04:38. > :04:42.and denied his down. It causes so much heartache. It's got to stop.
:04:42. > :04:51.Today detectives investigating a murder revealed it might be linked
:04:51. > :04:57.to another shooting on March 30th. More shots were fired days ago
:04:57. > :05:02.through the windows of this car. They were also two recent shootings
:05:02. > :05:06.that for the victims into hospital. We are very concerned, the number
:05:06. > :05:11.of firearms offences had gone down over the years, there are a number
:05:11. > :05:20.of incidents, we are concerned about it. We need to work with
:05:20. > :05:24.young people, to stop them getting involved in gang activity. That is
:05:24. > :05:28.something they tried in Derby, when she things became a problem there.
:05:28. > :05:33.The authorities acted quickly to be put in the bulb. There was a
:05:33. > :05:38.dedicated team targeting gangs with guns. Nottingham is going to use a
:05:38. > :05:44.similar approach. The violence just breeds more violence. It's got to
:05:44. > :05:50.stop somewhere. Why can't you be the one who stops it? Why do other
:05:50. > :05:57.families have to suffer? Here in Sherwood, floral tributes are being
:05:57. > :06:01.left to the victim of the latest shooting. Detectives asking for the
:06:01. > :06:04.information -- asking for information, and to stop the
:06:04. > :06:07.censors violence. A taxi driver has described how he
:06:07. > :06:10.was viciously assaulted by three passengers. Raja Khan says the two
:06:10. > :06:13.women and a man punched him repeatedly leaving him with cuts
:06:13. > :06:16.and bruises. The private hire association says the number of
:06:16. > :06:19.attacks on taxi drivers is increasing. Mr Khan says he's been
:06:19. > :06:29.left so traumatised by the attack he's not sure he'll be able to work
:06:29. > :06:33.
:06:33. > :06:38.nights again. Taxi driver Raja Khan is slowly
:06:38. > :06:45.recovering from his injuries. They were inflicted by two women and a
:06:45. > :06:48.man who jumped into the -- into his car in the early hours of Sunday
:06:48. > :06:52.morning. When he explained he couldn't drive them because they
:06:52. > :06:58.had not been booked, they attacked him. One of them are grabbed me,
:06:58. > :07:04.they started hitting me on my back and face. I managed to get out of
:07:04. > :07:10.the car, and I started running. They followed me, and they hit me
:07:10. > :07:15.on the pavement. They left me lying on the floor. He suffered severe
:07:16. > :07:22.cuts and bruises to his head, his hands, and his legs. I was shocked.
:07:22. > :07:27.It was a brutal attack. It is difficult for me to work at night,
:07:27. > :07:35.especially, because I feel insecure. Taxi drivers are vulnerable to
:07:35. > :07:39.being attacked. Yesterday, we reported on this actress he was
:07:39. > :07:47.given a suspended jail sentence after attacking a taxi driver in
:07:47. > :07:53.Derby. The number of attacks on drivers is increasing. In the whole
:07:53. > :07:59.of last year 170 drivers reported being assaulted, already this year
:07:59. > :08:08.230 drivers say they have been attacked. We do the best to improve
:08:08. > :08:14.the situation. All of our cars are fitted with CCTV. There are still
:08:14. > :08:18.situations where a man and a woman is alone in a car. The police say
:08:18. > :08:27.investigations are ongoing, but no arrests have been made.
:08:27. > :08:30.Plenty more on its way here on BBC East Midlands Today. Later we
:08:30. > :08:38.really put you in the picture in Leicester with a fifty foot image
:08:38. > :08:41.of the city centre. The body of a soldier who grew up
:08:41. > :08:44.in Nottinghamshire has been returned to the UK. Guardsman
:08:44. > :08:48.Michael Roland was shot in Afghanistan on Friday. The
:08:48. > :08:58.headteacher of his former school paid tribute to Michael today. He'd
:08:58. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:12.been in Afghanistan for less than Carefully, and with respect, the
:09:12. > :09:19.body of guardsmen Michael Rowland was brought to it Brize Norton. He
:09:19. > :09:25.served with the Grenadier Guards. He lived in Worthing, but grew up
:09:25. > :09:31.in Tollerton. He was shot while on patrol in Helmand province. Today,
:09:31. > :09:36.the headteacher of his school paid tribute to him. He joined us in
:09:36. > :09:43.2000, and left in 2005 with a great set of GCSE results. Teachers
:09:43. > :09:47.remember him, a conscientious, hard-working student with a strong
:09:48. > :09:53.work ethic. He had strong academic ability, determined to get the job
:09:53. > :09:57.done. Current pupils will be thinking about what happened to him.
:09:57. > :10:03.Myself, and the rest of the staff will take the opportunity to
:10:03. > :10:10.discuss it with students in assemblies. We will talk about the
:10:10. > :10:14.sacrifice he made, and what that means for the community. His family
:10:15. > :10:17.said he was a caring and loving son, who always wanted to join the Army.
:10:18. > :10:21.A demand has been made for a judicial inquiry into what happened
:10:21. > :10:24.to thousands of children who were sent to Australia in a child
:10:24. > :10:26.migration scheme. Many were dispatched without their parents
:10:26. > :10:29.knowledge and were terribly abused in a scandal uncovered by a
:10:29. > :10:39.Nottinghamshire social worker twenty five years ago. Tony Roe
:10:39. > :10:40.
:10:40. > :10:45.reports. Two years ago former migrants were
:10:45. > :10:49.here in large numbers to hear an apology from the British government.
:10:49. > :10:59.This time a handful are in the same room. The apology from Britain and
:10:59. > :11:00.
:11:00. > :11:05.Australia was long awaited, those who witnessed it made that clear.
:11:05. > :11:14.Money was taken from the health budget to mark the second year of
:11:14. > :11:20.the apology. The abuse we suffered at the hands of those who had set
:11:20. > :11:26.out to destroy the lives of young children is now documented. Still
:11:26. > :11:32.there is no judicial inquiry. government's decision is
:11:32. > :11:36.restitution, not an inquiry. What I think we need to do, and we are
:11:36. > :11:42.focusing on that, is to accept the responsibilities that flow from
:11:42. > :11:48.that as a government and a country, just as the Australian government
:11:48. > :11:54.does, and through that restoration fund, recognise we can do some one
:11:54. > :11:58.-- something as a consequence of that. Those who lied and abused
:11:58. > :12:02.children remain unpunished, there will be something missing. It is
:12:02. > :12:12.about understanding what happened and who did it. But those to suffer
:12:12. > :12:13.
:12:13. > :12:17.the abuse, they often say to me, perpetrators three walk free.
:12:17. > :12:24.the apology, the government has helped 300 families in Australia
:12:24. > :12:26.and here, but there are still more the need support. -- that need
:12:26. > :12:29.support. A leisure complex in Nottingham has
:12:29. > :12:32.been sold for �50m. Land Securities has bought the Cornerhouse from the
:12:32. > :12:34.BP Pension Fund. The complex includes a multiplex cinema, 11
:12:34. > :12:37.restaurants and a casino. The Cornerhouse opened 12 years ago. It
:12:37. > :12:43.attracts more than four and a half million visitors each year and
:12:43. > :12:47.employs about 750 staff. Train drivers have denied that
:12:47. > :12:49.their industrial action is politically motivated. Members of
:12:49. > :12:54.the ASLEF union went on strike again today, disrupting East
:12:54. > :12:57.Midlands Train services across the region and to London. The company
:12:57. > :13:06.has claimed that the action, which will continue next week, is not
:13:06. > :13:11.just about pension issues.. As for being politically motivated, I
:13:11. > :13:15.don't think it is politically motivated, but the government's
:13:15. > :13:21.involvement by propping up East Midlands trains with their revenue,
:13:21. > :13:23.makes the strike political. Hundreds of litres of fake alcohol
:13:23. > :13:26.are being used to generate electricity. The counterfeit whisky,
:13:26. > :13:29.vodka and gin was all seized by trading standards officers in Derby
:13:29. > :13:32.just before Christmas. The problem was how to dispose of it safely.
:13:32. > :13:42.And as Geoff Maskell explains, it was Severn Trent Water that came up
:13:42. > :13:47.A trading standards officer examining a van load of hundreds of
:13:47. > :13:52.bottles of fake alcohol. The legal bottles or all seized by officers
:13:52. > :13:57.in raids in Derby last December. Because they all contain dangerous
:13:57. > :14:02.industrial chemicals, it was a problem how to get rid of them.
:14:02. > :14:07.were trying to find a safe way to get rid of it. Three could not just
:14:07. > :14:12.pour it down the drain. Severn Trent have stepped in to help but
:14:12. > :14:16.their sewage and treatment works have anaerobic Digest does return
:14:16. > :14:20.waste into methane gas this can then be used to generate
:14:20. > :14:25.electricity. Any industrial products need to have care for
:14:25. > :14:30.treatment to make sure they are treated safety. Essentially pouring
:14:30. > :14:35.it down the sewer could cause damage. The real bonus is we can
:14:35. > :14:39.use this product to produce renewable energy. Severn Trent uses
:14:39. > :14:44.a huge amount of renewable energy to provide our water services so if
:14:44. > :14:49.we can take these alternative Wace and generate electricity, that has
:14:49. > :14:57.to be good for the environment. Trading standards and Severn Trent
:14:57. > :15:05.of bad the alcohol is being disposed of safely.
:15:05. > :15:09.Amazing! Next tonight, the singing talent that has emerged at
:15:09. > :15:13.Glenfield Hospital. Tapas Mukherjee is a specialist doctor in
:15:13. > :15:18.respiratory medicine and he has a whole new way of training medical
:15:18. > :15:24.students about asthma. It is a video filmed on his smartphone
:15:24. > :15:27.where he sings his way through advice. It is a big hit on YouTube
:15:27. > :15:37.and Rob Sissons has been to meet him.
:15:37. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:48.He is the singing doctor. Breakfast For their posters, lectures, retain
:15:48. > :15:54.staff, Tapas is hitting the right note getting the latest asthma
:15:54. > :15:59.guidelines over two medical students. Putting them to music, a
:15:59. > :16:02.challenge. We got most of the lyrics in about an hour. The
:16:02. > :16:11.hardest part was co-ordinating everyone to BA in the same place at
:16:11. > :16:16.the same time. -- be in. The phone has been everything for this video.
:16:16. > :16:20.It was filmed on it and I have put it on Facebook and Twitter.
:16:21. > :16:25.thought he was a professional singer not a doctor. It is very
:16:26. > :16:30.catchy, all the staff and patients enjoy it. We are not making light
:16:30. > :16:40.of asthma but drawing more attention to the fact we could be
:16:40. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:50.managing it better. Where will this lead? A talent show? Who knows?
:16:50. > :16:59.
:16:59. > :17:09.Tapas Mukherjee! And he is not short of advice from the patients.
:17:09. > :17:18.
:17:18. > :17:28.Like his voice? Yes, I do. You sing a bit? Yes I do. That his horrible!
:17:28. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:40.Did he say horrible? He did. Now the sport. No, it is just
:17:40. > :17:45.around the corner! With a shock for the Stags. And the Bank Holiday
:17:46. > :17:50.weather, we will have a bit of a surprise. We say goodbye to the
:17:50. > :18:00.rain but it is a cold wind with a widespread frost. More weather
:18:00. > :18:06.
:18:06. > :18:09.towards the end of the programme. It is now the sport. Football first.
:18:09. > :18:13.Mansfield Town were in play-off action last night. The Stags came
:18:13. > :18:18.away with a draw in the semi-final first leg but the football was
:18:18. > :18:24.overshadowed by goings-on off the pitch.
:18:24. > :18:30.The action did not just kick-off on the pitch last night. In fact, it
:18:30. > :18:33.events were getting pretty heated elsewhere in the stadium.
:18:33. > :18:37.Mansfield's chief executive was arrested and cautioned for using
:18:37. > :18:41.threatening words and behaviour during the game. A statement from
:18:41. > :18:47.the Mansfield chairman claims it is all being blown out of proportion
:18:47. > :18:51.and it was a light hearted, hot- headed quip. On the pitch, things
:18:51. > :18:56.were event for also. Mansfield went into this type on the back of six
:18:56. > :19:06.straight wins and were looking to take a result to the one called
:19:06. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:13.Stadium next Monday. After a nervy start, the stacks took the lead. --
:19:13. > :19:18.Stags. It was not to be. The only contribution. Diverting this cross
:19:18. > :19:21.past his own keeper. It was to be the last goal of the night but not
:19:21. > :19:26.the last talking point as striker Matt Green were shown a second
:19:27. > :19:32.yellow for this hand ball. referee said he handled it. The
:19:32. > :19:36.cameras show he did not. But you need referees in big games to make
:19:36. > :19:41.big decisions and he made quite a few of them wrong last night.
:19:41. > :19:48.Saying that, it is a tough job and we hope the one we get on Monday
:19:48. > :19:52.will make the big decisions, the correct ones. We have not played
:19:52. > :19:57.grade. We have had a debrief and realised where we went from. We
:19:57. > :20:03.have to put that to bed and get back here in front of a full house
:20:03. > :20:12.and go about our business and our game plan. All to play for in the
:20:12. > :20:15.second leg on Monday. Notts County are hoping to follow
:20:15. > :20:21.in Mansell's footsteps and to make the play-offs in League One. They
:20:21. > :20:26.need a point against Colchester. But whatever happens, they say it
:20:26. > :20:30.is a big achievement just to be challenging. A few months back we
:20:30. > :20:38.were 10 points of the play-offs so it has been a great run of results
:20:38. > :20:41.to get us to this position. If you give us the opportunity to take it
:20:42. > :20:47.to the last game, to be end up with a shout of the play-offs is
:20:47. > :20:52.brilliant for us. Cricket and what a performance it has been from
:20:52. > :20:56.Notts bowler Andre Adams. He took seven wickets at Lancashire and
:20:56. > :21:03.Notts are looking to build a healthy lead their. In Division Two,
:21:03. > :21:07.Derbyshire are boiled in their command in their match against
:21:07. > :21:12.Leicestershire. But just to cheer Leicestershire fans up there has
:21:12. > :21:16.been good news. Captain Matthew Hoggard has signed a one-year
:21:16. > :21:22.extension to keep him at Grace Road and till next year. He is not
:21:22. > :21:26.playing at the moment because of a dislocated finger. Now he H for
:21:26. > :21:30.hockey which is appropriate because this is the week the first games
:21:30. > :21:34.were being played at the Olympic parks riverbank arena. We have been
:21:35. > :21:44.enjoying the test event action. Just watched this for the freak
:21:45. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:55.goals the German men's score after That is a brilliant goal! She makes
:21:55. > :22:02.the goalkeeper do something. It is massive having the Games here in
:22:02. > :22:05.this country. Great Britain hockey are doing so many things. They are
:22:05. > :22:10.trying to inspire the nation to pick up the sticks and go out and
:22:10. > :22:20.play hockey. We are aiming to try to get 30,000 new participants in
:22:20. > :22:28.
:22:28. > :22:38.The Germans already very quick. We were about 10 or 15 seconds late
:22:38. > :22:48.for the start. The ball get so fast in hockey. A very finely taken goal.
:22:48. > :22:48.
:22:48. > :22:57.People cheered us on all the way through the game. 1-0 Great Britain.
:22:57. > :23:01.Richardson again. Finally! Playing the Olympics is the pinnacle of our
:23:01. > :23:08.sport and to see those the screaming children in the stadium,
:23:08. > :23:18.it will be fantastic. How fantastic to those pictures Look? If you
:23:18. > :23:18.
:23:18. > :23:23.fancy getting out there again? Playing hockey? Let's move on. A
:23:23. > :23:28.unique photograph of Leicester has gone on show. You cannot call it a
:23:28. > :23:31.snapshot because it is 50 ft long. The street view of the city centre
:23:31. > :23:37.is probably the stand-out feature of the show at a newly opened
:23:37. > :23:42.gallery. It is the work of Keith Cooper who explained just how he
:23:42. > :23:46.produced the image from loads of different angles. It is actually a
:23:46. > :23:51.collection of smaller images assembled together taken over three
:23:51. > :23:57.successive nights. It is at the same time on each night so the
:23:57. > :24:00.lighting level is the same. The production of it is such that the
:24:00. > :24:05.picture is you could not stand in one place and see all of what to
:24:05. > :24:15.see in the picture, but the idea is as you walk along the picture you
:24:15. > :24:22.
:24:22. > :24:26.get the presence of moving through First time I saw the picture
:24:26. > :24:31.complete his when it was up on the wall and up until that time, I was
:24:31. > :24:38.not sure it would actually work. I love it! Even though I spent
:24:38. > :24:42.several weeks working on it, it is great. I love things like you can
:24:42. > :24:48.see the moon and the nurse. It is so different. You walk round
:24:48. > :24:53.Leicester, you don't really see it. You - from one shop to the other,
:24:53. > :24:58.you don't get time to take it in. It is the sheer detail in it and I
:24:58. > :25:04.liked the way when people look at it, they see things they had never
:25:04. > :25:07.seen before. I want people to realise Leicester is quite a pretty
:25:07. > :25:17.place. I like it, I like living here.
:25:17. > :25:18.
:25:18. > :25:23.Amazing. You love that, don't you? Yes. Keith's photos along with the
:25:23. > :25:30.other works of other contributors can be seen at the Leicester
:25:30. > :25:35.People's Photographic Gallery on Wellington Street. Now the weather.
:25:35. > :25:41.A nice picture on the weather as well when we had the brighter skies
:25:41. > :25:47.earlier on in the week. I think it was Monday. Thank you for that
:25:47. > :25:51.Keep them coming in. We are quite cloudy and damp at the moment. A
:25:51. > :25:57.band of rain that has been working its way northwards. It is starting
:25:57. > :26:01.to produce heavy bursts across parts of the region and it will sit
:26:01. > :26:07.there for quite a while in the evening before plodding northwards
:26:07. > :26:10.and it weakens slightly as we go into the morning. It will keep a
:26:10. > :26:16.sweat overnight with a minimum temperature of six Celsius. That
:26:16. > :26:21.rain band working its way southwards through tomorrow. More
:26:21. > :26:28.of a showery theme to the day and a lot of cloud remaining with us and
:26:28. > :26:33.a cold wind starting to come in. Temperatures around nine, maybe ten
:26:33. > :26:37.Celsius. Making it feel that colder if you are outside. The band of
:26:37. > :26:41.rain sitting across the south for the weekend, that will keep us
:26:41. > :26:46.cloudy through the early part of Saturday but each skies should
:26:46. > :26:50.brighten and we have that cold when continuing but it is Saturday night
:26:50. > :26:56.into Sunday we start to see the skies clearing and the temperatures
:26:56. > :27:01.really will drop. Minus two Celsius, so a widespread frost developing
:27:01. > :27:07.and a cold and frosty start to the day on Sunday but light winds
:27:07. > :27:12.remaining on Sunday. Feeding chilly but a many bright day and then for
:27:12. > :27:16.the Bank Holiday Monday, cloud developing as we get closer to Bank
:27:16. > :27:19.Holiday Monday. It will keep us quite cool and temperatures just
:27:19. > :27:23.quite cool and temperatures just recovering a little bit more at
:27:23. > :27:27.night time. Before we go, don't forget there is full coverage of
:27:27. > :27:31.the local elections and the referendum on Nottingham's the