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This is East Midlands Today. Tonight: It's been a day of | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
disruption as teachers went on strike. Teachers say in others | :00:10. | :00:19. | |
enough overpay, wages and workloads. The government insists its reforms | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
will drive up standards. Also tonight, a racetrack criticised | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
for being too noisy goes into administration. Plus, at Pride | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
Park, Steve McClaren watches his new Derby County team for the first | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
time. And how Leicester and Leicestershire left their mark on a | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
broadcasting legend. I had a very lucky and full childhood. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Welcome to Tuesday's programme. First tonight, hundreds of schools | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
across the East Midlands suffered disruption today after two of the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
biggest teaching unions went on strike. Members of the NUT and | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
NASUWT say it was a protest about changes to their pay, pensions and | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
workload. Well, as a result almost seven | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
hundred schools in the region were either closed completely or | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
partially shut. That's two thirds of schools in Nottinghamshire, almost | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
half in Derbyshire and just over half in Leicestershire and Rutland. | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
The strike has been condemned by the Education Secretary Michael Gove, | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
who earlier delivered a strong message to the unions. Children lose | :01:32. | :01:43. | |
a day of education, parents have to scrabble to pay more for expensive | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
childcare, and the prestige of the teaching profession, which we all | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
wanted to see reinforced and built up, takes a knock. So I have a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
simple message for the leaders of the militant teaching unions. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
Please, please, please, don't put your ideology before our | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
children's' interests. Tough talk from the government — so why exactly | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
were teachers striking? Here's our chief news reporter, Quentin Rayner, | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
to explain. The teaching unions justify their | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
action as a fight for education's soul. In Nottingham, the estimated | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
up to 800 marched for a protest rally against pension changes and | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
what they say is creeping privatisation. Smaller but equally | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
vocal marches and rallies were staged in other cities. In Derby, up | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
to 300 took to the streets. A similar number gathered at | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Leicester's town square, the focus of the protesters' Bewley was | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
clearly displayed. The government says this strike will damage the | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
reputation of teachers. It says its reforms will drive up standards in | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
schools. It is about dividing teacher against each, school against | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
school. What is worse, paying teachers who are not qualified, we | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
think a good profession is a qualified profession. A spoof report | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
was brought along on the Education Secretary, describing him as a poor | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
and disruptive student. He wants to break down union support in schools, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
he wants to bring in more qualified teachers, at attack us through our | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
pay and conditions. The unions claim the majority of parents support | :03:35. | :03:48. | |
their strike. Disgraceful. We are talking about one days' action. In | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Leicester, this man had no choice but to take his six—year—old son | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
painting and decorating with them. I don't agree with them being on | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
strike because it makes everyone's life more difficult. It makes my | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
life more difficult, it —— there is not a great deal of sympathy for | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
them. I'm very excited and looking forward to being with my dad. We | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
will win if we stand together. Thank you very much. The unions are now | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
planning for a national strike before Christmas. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
In other news, police searching for a missing Mansfield schoolboy have | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
found a body. The 14—year—old went missing more than two weeks ago. A | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
boy's body was discovered this morning. Formal identification and a | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
postmortem are yet to take place. His family have been informed. | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
A pensioner's had a lucky escape in Derbyshire after a bus crashed into | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
the side of his house. The bus collided with a car before smashing | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
into the property on Beresford Road in Long Eaton. Both drivers suffered | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
cuts and bruises but neither had to go to hospital. The bus can't be | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
removed until structural engineers assess the damage to the house. I | :05:05. | :05:14. | |
was in Sheffield Blitz during award, so I am quite used to houses coming | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
down and that sort of thing. I suppose it was a lucky escape but I | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
was probably about ten foot away from the impact anyway. Very | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
stoical, isn't he? There's a warning this evening that | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
if Mallory Park racetrack in Leicestershire closes it will be a | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
severe blow for the local economy. It's after the company operating the | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
circuit went into administration. Mallory Park Motorsport says it had | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
no other option after a loss in earnings following a legal dispute. | :05:45. | :05:56. | |
Eleanor Garnier explains. They have been racing here for more | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
than half a century, but now after a row over noise, the company which | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
operates the track has gone into administration. Mallory Park | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Motorsport ended up being taken to court by the local council, accused | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
of breaching noise levels. The company was found guilty and says it | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
has suffered significant losses, having been forced to reduce track | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
days to just two a week. And it is not | :06:27. | :10:15. | |
Police have made a fresh appeal for information about a violent sex | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
attack in Mansfield at the weekend. Racecourse Park in the town was | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
cordoned off for most of Sunday. A woman was punched in the face and | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
then attacked on Saturday evening as she walked her dog. A 32—year—old | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
man was released without charge. The preconception in people 's mind will | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
not fit our young image. But that is what we are looking for. Lots of | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
local dog walkers use here, this is a really unusual attack. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Two of the region's leading women Conservative MPs say old fashioned | :10:46. | :11:09. | |
you certainly need plenty of stamina to keep ahead in the political race | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
and during the party conference. This Loughborough MP believes many | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
women have the dry and determination to become MPs but are being put off. | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Unfortunately there is still a glass ceiling, women need to be better | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
about setting out where they want to go, their goals and having faith in | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
themselves. Speaking at the Conservative party, Theresa May is | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
now the Tories' most prominent women's since Margaret Thatcher. But | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
she remains one of only 49 women Conservative MPs. At a fringe | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
meeting, Nicky Morgan was backed by Health Minister, who have been | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
promoted by David Cameron and praise his rejection of some old—fashioned | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
attitudes often found when candidates are selected. I think we | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
need to start breaking some of those moulds. We need to do that to | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
encourage everybody to get more involved in politics and more | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
involved in our party. This woman hopes to become the next MP for | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Derby South. She also heads up the party's women's organisation. I'm a | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
great believer that it should always be about who is best for the role, | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
be that a public appointment or an MP. That I do believe that women | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
have an off a lot to offer Parliament. Nicky Morgan is setting | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
pace for getting more women in Parliament. Getting more women | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
around the Cabinet table may require more effort. Last day of the | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
conference tomorrow. A new vision for the future of | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Newark Hospital has been revealed. The proposals include extra day | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
surgery, and more outpatients are likely to be seen there. But | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
campaigners say the changes simply don't go far enough. There's still | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
resentment in the town over the loss of the hospital's Accident and | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Emergency department. Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons reports. | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
There is a new direction, that no one said it was ever going to be | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
easy. You are depriving the people of Newark their loved ones! Now the | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
ideas include seeing more outpatients there and a GP out of | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
hours service. We are bringing GPs together with the doctors and nurses | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
in minor injuries units. In future Newark could look after more | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
patients like this man, on the mend after two heart attacks. I live in a | :13:40. | :13:51. | |
flat and I got a duck —— I got a visit from a doctor. Protesters say | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
many emergencies are going to far away in the first place and it can | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
take too long to get there. It doesn't look like we're going to get | :14:02. | :14:10. | |
20 47 admissions. This man is undergoing treatment for bladder | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
cancer. He backs the idea for more day surgery here. For things that | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
can be done locally and not need all the enterprise of a huge hospital. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Operations involving an overnight stay are likely to be sent | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
elsewhere. There was an argument coming through that was | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
demonstrating that some of the more complex work we were doing should | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
not have been done at new cost little. —— Newark Hospital. Final | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
decisions are expected later this year. | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
Same with health, more than three people every day are dying in | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Nottinghamshire alone because they smoke. Yet still one in five of us | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
carries on smoking. And in Mansfield that number's a lot higher — at | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
nearly one in three. Today marks the start of Stoptober, a campaign to | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
get people to quit the habit. Jo Healey reports. | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire's biggest hotspot for smoking. But can | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
Stoptober stop them? If I could pack up, I would do. Why can't you? It's | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
an addictive habit. I keep trying. Do you think you'd ever stop? No. | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
Across the country, 20% of the country smoke. In Mansfield, that | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
figure is much higher. This is the number of people who die in | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Nottinghamshire each year because they smoke. That is more than three | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
people every day. How can Stoptober help? John used to be a 20 day man. | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
Last October, he quit. With the help of friends, family and the new | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
service, I was really focused, got that support, used nicotine | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
replacement therapy and I have done really well and I'm feeling better, | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
healthier and wealthier because of it. People can go along to the | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
service, go to their GP, community pharmacy. There are lots of | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
programmes out there that can help you provide friendly support for you | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
to help you stop smoking. And they are hoping Mansfield will listen. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Health workers will be at Mansfield town football club, their goal to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
persuade some of the fans there to kick the habit. | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
Sports now, it has been a pretty mad few days in the East Midlands. The | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
big local game, a manager sacked, and a familiar face returning. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
All centred on Derby County. So Colin and the team are at Pride Park | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
tonight. Yes, that is because there is | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
actually a football match, believe it or not, in the middle of all the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
craziness surrounding the arrival of Steve McClaren, as the new head | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
coach. That is his title here. Caretaker boss Darren Wassall has | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
prepared the team, but today the squad are meeting their new boss for | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the very first time. But not until after he had spoken to me about the | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
past and the future here. It was the swiftest of arrivals, Steve | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
McClaren, approached at the weekend, had his coaches lined up. But he is | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
a familiar face year, he was a coach when Derby were being promoted in | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
the mid—1990s. He feels like a Derby man, and in person he is amenable, | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
ambitious and very enthusiastic. We know what they want. We want to put | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
players out there who get them off their seats, they are excited about, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
and they want to come and play, they want to watch them play. And | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
hopefully, success will follow. That's what happened when I was here | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
with Jim Smith. When this town gets rocking I know what it can do. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Football people say Steve really stands out. He has had success and | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
failure as a manager. The failure that stands out locally, his ill | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
starred ten games at Nottingham Forest. Instead of building | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
something, why can't we win tomorrow? I was too anxious, too | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
ambitious. I made mistakes. The man who will live or die by this | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
appointment is Derby's chief executive. You going to be | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
challenging Sam to be backing and supporting you in your ambitious —— | :18:36. | :18:47. | |
ambitions? Every day. That's my job. I think the fans expect that. He has | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
money available, we spent in the summer £4 million on transfer fees. | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
So Steve will have the money available and I am looking forward | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
to seeing how he does. Helping Steve will be hugely experienced coaches, | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
both ex—Derby men. Neither needed any persuading. It literally will | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
take a lick of polish on the boots and I will be there. As soon as I | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
can do that I will be in the car. Fantastic stuff. You cannot buy | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
desire like that. It is worth pointing out that every one of the | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
coaching staff year has gone out of their way to praise the former | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
manager Nigel Clough. Nigel Clough has put himself on record, thanking | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
the fans for their support through this period. But it has been a crazy | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
few days. Time to take a bit of a breath and assess things a little. | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
Kirsty can do that for us. There hasn't been a moment to breathe, has | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
there? Joining me as the former Derby midfielder. It has been a | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
dramatic few days, hasn't it? It's been absolutely mad. It's been | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
buzzing all over the place. The phone has not stopped. Sad to see | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
Nigel go? Yes, could I take the opportunity on behalf of the fans to | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
thank Nigel. He was sacked after that defeat at Forest at the | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
weekend. But Steve has come out and praised the work he has done here. | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
The squad he has assembled. What do Steve need to do now to improve | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
things? He has inherited a young side, a very talented side. He needs | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
to use his experience and coaching skills to get the best out of these | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
lads and take them to the next level. He will be watching from the | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
stands. The players will want to make a good first impression, would | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
they? Yes. You start from scratch when a new manager comes in. It is a | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
bit of excitement for everyone. The players will give an extra 10% | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
tonight. There has been one addition to the squad since Nigel's | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
departure. The club Broughton a player on loan from Leicester | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
yesterday. He has already trained with the side and he says he had no | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
hesitation in joining the club. It was a bit rushed over the weekend. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
But it was good to come down and join the lads. It is a great | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
opportunity, a massive club. The club is doing well, a decent start. | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
A great opportunity for me to play. I was delighted. The defender goes | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
straight into the squad for tonight's game. If you're not here, | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
you can get Coventry —— commentary. There are other games going on | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
tonight, back to Colin to tell you all about them. | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
It is easy to get lost in everything that has been going on tonight. | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
Leicester City are in action are we at Yeovil, Nottingham Forest are | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
way, going off to the valley to play Charlton. Both games those two sides | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
will expect to win. Mansfield town manager Paul Cox has been managed —— | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
has been nominated for Manager Of The Month. I'm sure Steve McClaren | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
will be hoping for a few nominations. We will watch his rain | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
with interest. He is not looking after the team tonight but he will | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
be looking to see exactly what he can do with this Derby County team. | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
Thank you very much. I guess we will have the result on the late—night | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
news. He's a broadcaster who's known | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
around the globe — but Sir David Attenborough says his upbringing in | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
Leicester provided a launch pad for his love of natural history and | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
music. Tonight — In the first of our new series entitled 'Made in | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
Leicester' — Sir David explains to our Arts reporter Geeta Pendse how | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
the city's culture shaped his future. | :23:10. | :23:22. | |
In 50 years of programme making, I have been lucky enough to explore | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
the living world in all its splendour and complexity. For | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
decades, Sir David Attenborough has been the face of natural history. In | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
many ways, it was his childhood in Leicester in the 1930s and 40s, that | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
formed the building blocks for his love of wildlife and music. I grew | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
up, it was easy to get into the countryside. I knew quite a bit | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
about birds and foxes and badgers and hedgehogs and newts. I also knew | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
about the fossils. That was important. I also knew about music. | :23:58. | :24:07. | |
I also knew about theatre. David's father was the principal at | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
University College Leicester. Wandering through the nearby former | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
lunatic asylum was a constant source of adventure. My brother Richard | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
shut the door on me once. It is very alarming because there is no handle | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
to adore. Nobody could hear you. Whilst Richard Attenborough is famed | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
for his work as a director and actor, Sir David was also deeply | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
influenced musically after spending time here. I belong to a Boy Scout | :24:41. | :24:56. | |
troop there. I handed out programmes. It meant that you heard | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
all of this orchestral work. There were visiting orchestras as well. At | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
the age of 12, I knew all of the Beethoven symphonies. I knew the | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
standard programme very well. There is no denying Sir David's greatest | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
passion is the natural world. Yet Leicester's cultural landscape has | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
also left an indelible mark. And you can see that interview again | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
by visiting our website — then click on Made in Leicester. | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
The site also has an array of other interviews exploring Leicester's | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
cultural scene and we'll have plenty more in the coming weeks. | :25:41. | :25:52. | |
Lots to see on there. Shall we have a look at the weather? After quite a | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
period of dry weather over the last few days, if not weeks, we will now | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
start to see a change in the weather. A couple of bands of rain | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
are working their way in. Tonight, still a lot of cloud and also quite | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
windy night as well. Quite a strong southeasterly wind with us for next | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
couple of days. The rain is coming in across the South West, which is | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
kept as quite cloudy through the day. Quite mild tonight, a breezy | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
one at that. Temperatures falling lower than 12 Celsius. The first | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
area of rain moves on in the early hours of the morning, working its | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
way across towards the north—east. This will produce heavy bursts as it | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
works its way towards the Lincolnshire coast line. The skies | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
try to Brighton for a time, but there will be quite a few showers, | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
the odd sharp shower is well likely into the afternoon. A daytime | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
temperature of 16 Celsius. An early weather warning in force, regarding | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
the rain that is likely to come through on Thursday. This is causing | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
a little bit of a headache because it is slowing down the moment. At | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
present, it is likely to arrive in the evening across the East | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Midlands. We will certainly know when it arrives, because it will | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
come heavy and thundery and produce quite a bit of rainfall in a short | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
period of time. We will gradually see the back of it by Friday. This | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
is what is looking as if it's going to start happening for the weekend. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
At the moment, it is high pressure pushing up from the south—west, | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
working its way across, and we should hopefully see a more settled | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
picture for and even Sunday. I'm off to the farmers market | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
tomorrow morning. You need to buy a brolly if they sell them. See you on | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
the late news. | :27:46. | :27:47. |