04/06/2013 East Midlands Today

trolleys are found and taken back to Good evening and welcome to

Tuesday's programme. First tonight, solicitors, barristers and QCs

demonstrated outside one of the region's biggest courts today

against controversial plans to change the legal aid system.

The Government wants to save �200 million but its critics say those

cuts could jeopardise the right to a fair trial. In a moment, we'll hear

the views of the former Solicitor General, but first here's Rebecca

Sheeran. They are normally inside the courts

but today they were protesting against proposed cuts to legal aid.

We work hard to protect people when they find themselves in situations

they did not expect to. We have done our bit for austerity. We have not

had a pay rise since 1997. These cut will result in miscarriages of

justice. Fewer but bigger organisations will provide legal

aid. This man needed legal aid and says if it was not for the choice of

solicitor he believes he could have been sent to prison. It could have

been a major factor. If people are allocated, barristers and

solicitors, though my not have their interests at heart -- they may not

have. It could have a massive effect. They were also protesting

about the rates they would be paid. How much do barristers earn? 65% of

criminal barristers earn less than �50,000 a year. That is equivalent

of an experienced teacher and very close to the salary of a London

underground driver. In a statement, the Justice Secretary said, we have

one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world with about �1

billion a year spent on criminal legal aid. These changes are about

getting the best value for the taxpayer and will not in any way

affect someone's right way the trial. Today these protesters hope

he will change his mind. Earlier I spoke to the Harborough MP

and former Solicitor General Sir Edward Garnier. He met the Justice

Secretary last night. I asked him if Chris Grayling was prepared to

budge. He is waiting to receive the answers to the government

consultation but what he does have to deal with is the oddments bending

problems. One way or the other, he has got to find �220 million of

savings -- he has to deal with the spending problems. You have said the

legal aid system should not be immune to cuts in the past. Have you

changed your view? No, it is not immune to cuts but that does not

mean doing anything, it means doing what is sensible. It is very

delicate. It requires people of skill, people of professional

integrity to perform the task of defending and prosecuting in

criminal cases. But it also requires sufficient resources to enable

professionals to do the job. Do you have reservations? I do at the

minute. I might have to change my mind when is Grayling comes up with

the responses to the consultation. What are the reservations?

concern is that good and practitioners will no longer be able

to afford to do the work. They are not being paid huge sums of money

like commercial barristers. If they leave the profession, we will not

get the young bright people moving on to become QCs and doing the more

complex cases and then we will not get the judges who grow out of the

QCs to try the complex criminal cases. I think it does matter.

are people going to go to get legal aid bearing in mind the number of

firm available will be reduced? the plans go through as currently

advertised, there will be a reduction in the number of

practitioners, as individual barristers or as legal aid

solicitors firms, if you are in market harbour and you are arrested,

you will have to go to Birmingham, you may have to go to London to find

a lawyer to represent you. Justice must be accessible, not just to the

prosecution, but also to the defence. Thank you.

Sport is coming up later in the programme with plenty of intrigue.

We've been at Trent Bridge where the big question is, could Broad be back

as England prepare to save pride against New Zealand?

Next tonight, people living in the Leicestershire village of

Queniborough have spent the day cleaning up after a water main burst

and flooded their homes. The force was so great it created a huge hole

in Main Street. Severn Trent worked through the

night to plug the leak and repair the damaged street. The company has

apologised to villagers for the mess and inconvenience, as Jonathan Cecil

reports. 80 years old and 15 inches wide,

this is the pipe from which 100 cubic metres of water burst out,

flooding Queniborough. At 4pm, enough water to fill a swimming pool

escaped, buckling the road, pouring into homes and side streets. There

was quite a massive explosion type, muffled explosion. He rode lifted

two feet and out came gushing water -- the road. It was flowing like a

river. From our control centre, we knew we had pressure drops in this

area immediately. He calls men started to come through. We

responded from our depot in Leicester and it took us in -- it

took us about an hour to get here. It is thought seeing as though -- it

is thought seasonal ground movement is responsible. Homeowners need to

decide whether to claim of their own insurers or from Severn Trent

themselves. Either way the water company will pay the policy excess.

The owners of this house have packed up and moved out. Their home is

uninhabitable. It has been highly inconvenient. We understand that and

we would like to apologise. It is estimated damage to the water pipes

and the road will cost �20,000 to repair but a final figure to restore

people's homes is still not known. The leader of UKIP in Lincolnshire

says he's to stand down as East Midlands chairman of the party while

the police investigate racists comments posted on Facebook. Chris

Pain told members of UKIP's National Executive Committee yesterday that

his account was hacked. UKIP has issued a statement saying that it's

suspended judgement on the allegations until the conclusion of

a separate investigation by Lincolnshire Police.

A seventh person has been arrested in connection with a shooting at a

pub in Nottingham. A 22-year-old woman was seriously injured after a

gun was fired into the garden of the Vernon Pub in Old Basford last

August. A 28-year-old man has been questioned on suspicion of

conspiracy to murder. Six others have already been arrested and

bailed in connection with the incident.

Nottingham's new tram works are going on apace. But they've left a

group of pensioners feeling like they're trapped in their homes.

Why? Well, those living at the Lark Hill village in Clifton say doors

and windows have been coated in a red dust from the construction site

next door. Geeta Pendse reports. It is like a fog that comes over.

For the last two months, this flat has been covered in red dust.

Overlooking a construction site, Chris new work would take place but

she says the sheer volume of the dust has been shocking. With an

existing breathing problem, she feels trapped inside. I have to be

so careful. It is awful. My bedroom window is there. I cannot open it at

night. I am frightened of breathing the dusting. She is among several

residents who have complained about problems since work began. It came

in everywhere, open windows, under the doors, through the vents, in the

car park, everywhere. It looked like the Australian outback. It was that

red. With weather like it at the moment, open windows, the dust has

gone into the homes, extra cleaning. The contractor says they have put

measures in place to minimise the dust and inconvenience. Here they

have a water browser and they have lined the side of the construction

site with a netting that is designed to trap the dust. The contractor

also says they are working with the home to listen to residents

concerned. Many welcome the chance to have a tram network nearby, but

at the moment they say it is coming at a cost.

As you'll have heard, a special service was held at Westminster

Abbey today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's

coronation. Among the invited guests were two

young cadets from Welbeck Defence College at Woodhouse in

Leicestershire. They've just got back from London and are with Jo

Healey. Hello. Welbeck Defence College is

celebrating its 60th birthday. It was founded in 1953 which is why two

of its cadets were invited down to today's ceremony. Jess and Georgia,

how come you are the lucky ones? is was around the time of exam

preparations so our names were put into a hat and our names were drawn

out. How thrilled where you? It was fantastic to know we would be

spending the day in the presence of the Royal family and lots of amazing

people. You were preparing last night. We did spend quite a few

hours polishing our shoes. But macro describe it for me. It was quite

overwhelming, entering the Abbey and seeing the colours and the people.

It was quite spectacular. An honour to be there. I have never been

inside Westminster Abbey before and it was quite a spectacular place.

What was the highlight? When the quiet started because the trumpets

were amazing and the sound went right through you. A lot of people

were there from the armed forces and some of them were at the original

coronation. How did that make you feel apart from very young? It made

me feel privileged and it was an honour to represent the young. We

are potential officers in the armed services. It was pretty spectacular.

It made you quite aware of your generation but it was fantastic to

share it with people who had seen it in the first place. It was an honour

to be there. After a momentous day, Welbeck Defence College is a sixth

form college, so now they really need to get back and cracked on

revising for their A-levels. Thank you, girls.

Did you hear any of the service? I heard it was fantastic.

Next tonight, there is no doubt they are an eyesore, discarded shopping

trolleys dumped on waste ground and in waterways. It is a problem that

could be solved. By using smartphone technology, a Derbyshire company is

out to trap them down. -- track them down. Not only will it clear up the

countryside, it will make it green as well.

Shopping trolleys that have been dubbed after being used. 400,000 of

them go missing in the UK every year. But now everyone who owns a

smartphone has the power to get them cleared away. You simply download a

free trolley app and then use it to take a photo of the errant trolley.

That marks its location using GPS technology and within 24-hour

someone takes it away. 47 teams of trolley trackers are on call to

collect them. If they are in good condition, most will go back to the

supermarket where they came from. Any which are in need of repair are

brought to this facility in Derbyshire. It is a great

opportunity for the British public to get involved and I would really

like to encourage everybody to get out there, download the app, help us

locate those trolleys and get them back where they need to be. That

image of the shopping trolley sticking out of the canal or

hedgerow, that should be a thing of the past? Like you say, it is a big

problem and we have got to tackle it as best we can. For every trolley

that is traced, a donation will be made to a charity that plants trees

in cities, helping to turn an environmental eyesore into a green

benefit. Meanwhile, the recovered trolleys that are in need of TLC

will be getting their own makeover here. This is trolley heaven. Is

this the trolley capital of Britain? It is the trolley capital of the

world! Things you don't know! The trolley

capital of the world! Talking of clever gadgets, a student

may have found a way to make roadsigns more eye-catching and less

cluttered and confusing. A student from Nottingham Trent University has

got a patent for holographic roadsigns.

Charlie Gale had his Eureka moment about holographic roadsigns.

I saw a lenticular poster of children moving and I thought why is

that not used for roadsigns? It pulses as drivers approach. Charlie

hopes it will change Britain's road signage, which has been criticised

for being confusing. It conveys the information in a much clearer way.

This will just bring roadsigns up-to-date. Charlie has ordered

spoken to the Department for Transport about his sides and is

confident we will see them on the roads. After he graduates he is off

to work for another company famous for innovation, the vacuum and a

factor Dyson. Hospitals in ligature that are being

investigated for hi-def rates are -- he death rates are to get more

staff. There will be more ward sisters spinning their time on the

supervisory role. More efforts are being made to get

children to take up swimming. It is part of the National

Curriculum but some schools do not offer it.

Now sport is limbering up with Stuart Broad and the boys practising

at Trent Bridge in the sun. They have had beautiful blue skies

and sunshine for it today. There will be more swing tomorrow as it

gets cloudier and cooler as well. Jonny for the details later. -- join

me for the details. It is sport in. A fabulous day for

it. We have football news coming up. We're going to start out in the

cricket. Stuart Broad took full part in England's training session. It

looked like his knee problem was well in the past. Now it is a case

of whether he will be risked in the final one-day international against

New Zealand tomorrow. There is no doubt England have

missed Stuart Broad. His injury was one of the barriers to success

against New Zealand. On his home territory, he would love to be back.

He plays good cricket here. I remember the test match here with

the hat-trick. It is or is good to have that confidence and everyone

has grounds that they play well at. It is that much better when it is

your home ground. I am sure he will be champing at the bit to get out

here. It is technically a dead rubber, as New Zealand have ordered

one. They want the joy of winning. love taking wickets for New

Zealand, taking them for my country. It is really enjoyable and to

contribute to a win is fantastic. For Trent Bridge itself, this is

more about the cricket that will go on on the field of play. This is

about the ground, the city, the world, he that -- showing the world

that they have the ability to win. It is vital that we take care of

everything that we can for the public and the media. New Zealand

are eyeing up Trent Bridge greedily. We have had some good times here.

When you come to Nottingham, it is a good place to come and bat. We are

all looking forward to a good opportunity of putting things right.

A powerful motivator. It should be a good one. Meanwhile, the man who has

led New Zealand to victory for the last two one-day internationals will

not be coming here. He hit centuries last week but he has confirmed that

he is joining the new verbal macro in the Caribbean. He says he hopes

to play for the Derbyshire at somebody and the future. Onto the

football and Nottingham Forest will be making a new signing within the

14 days. It will be a new player, it won't be either West Ham teenager

Robert Hall or Spanish winger David Lopez, despite reports. The two

clubs are in talks about Jonny Russell.

Kasper Schmeichel has says he wants to stay where he is. A big summer

ahead for our Tigers outwith the Lions.

The British and Irish Lions arrived yesterday. Dan Cole says they have

had a warm welcome. We don't seem to be able to hear from Dan Cole there.

If you want some amusement at the end of the Australians, check out

their warmup game against India today. Out for 65, which is a great

score on the golf course but that is the only place.

Very harsh! Good luck. It has been a perfect day to get out and about

with the garden in the sunshine. More of us are growing our own fruit

and veg. A new project set up by BBC Radio Leicester is hoping to show us

how easy it can be. Lady Damon -- Lady Aidid . This rhubarb is doing

fantastically well on the primary school plot. But so are the

dandelions! All of this will be transformed over the summer with

what the children are growing over the road. There are only 23 children

at this school and they are being encouraged and port out of garden

their own fruit and veg. Is everyone ready to get growing their own? You

are going to do the broad beans, you're going to get planting the

sweetcorn if that is all right and, Jack, you are growing the Beanstalk.

OK! It is a sore place within the Jessica teachers and students.

grow your own project has been brilliant for the school. We were

contacted in the BBC to get involved. They have really enjoyed

the whole experience of gardening and being outside. What else have

you been growing? Tomatoes, sunflowers and runner beans. I love

digging holes and watering the plants. And getting how hands mucky

X macro -- and getting our hands mucky! I love broccoli!You don't

need a lot of space for growing. Even if you have a balcony, you can

grow something like a fruit pot. This one has a daughter apple tree

in it. You can grow a pasta sauce pot, which has tomatoes and herbs

and even a hanging basket is ideal for cut and come again letters. We

will see how things progress but in the meantime there is a lot of work

to be done on this allotment. Lucky for me, I have some little helpers.

Get stuck in! That is what I needed over the

weekend. I was doing battle with ground elder. Terrible stuff! Never

heard of it! We want to see some of your summer

pictures. It has been a lovely day today and hopefully for the rest of

the week. We will hear from K in a moment. Why don't you e-mail us or

you can tweet as. -- or you can tweet us. Is the weather going to

What a scorcher we have had today. It is all thank to this big slab of

high pressure that has been settled across us for the last few days. It

has been giving us that lovely sunshine and it is staying dry and

settled. It is slowly on the move. It is getting a little restless. It

will move northwards through tonight, allowing us to pick up a

north-easterly breeze. We'll pick up a bit more cloud tomorrow. Not quite

as warm or sunny for us tomorrow. There will be a bit more cloud

around and those temperatures will be pegged back eight degree or two.

Still not feeling too bad at all. On the sat like picture, you can see

weather low cloud is, it is toppling over the high-pressure and it is

starting to move in across the East Coast. A fine enter the day for most

of us with a lot of sunshine to come in the next few hours will stop that

cloud will spread westwards. It is a cloudy night for us. It is still a

little misty and murky overnight, and temperature wise, it is quite

mild, with temperatures of nine or ten. Tomorrow is a different look do

things to start with. A lot of low cloud around, a little bit misty and

murky. Things will slowly improve as we head into the afternoon. The

cloud will break up and a lot of sunshine returns towards the end of

the day and the winds will be light as well. Because of that slow start,

temperatures would be quite so high. 16 or 17 degrees. Fear not, because

things are warming up again towards the end of the week. This area of

high pressure builds back in across us, so things settle down once again

for Thursday and Friday. It stays dry with these and spas of sunshine

and the temperatures are on the up. It will be a bit breezy toward the

end of the week, knocking the age of the temperatures. Highs of 21