:00:00. > :00:00.the News of the World. That's all from the News at
:00:00. > :00:08.This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies.
:00:09. > :00:17.Tonight ` high speed rail. Still on track ` for now. The government wins
:00:18. > :00:25.a key vote on hate shift to but which of our MPs are on`board? The
:00:26. > :00:30.bodies in the back garden `2`macro people are under arrest.
:00:31. > :00:33.Plus they're rock walls for bonfire events to be postponed tomorrow
:00:34. > :00:39.night when firefighters walk out on strike.
:00:40. > :00:41.And in the studio, actress Felicity Kendall on being busy, staying happy
:00:42. > :00:54.and keeping fit. Good evening.
:00:55. > :00:57.First tonight, the government may have won today's vote on building
:00:58. > :01:02.HS2, but is a high speed rail link to the East Midlands any nearer
:01:03. > :01:05.tonight? The Transport Secretary, the Derbyshire Dales MP Patrick
:01:06. > :01:14.McLoughlin, had to face`down Tory backbench critics. And in turn, East
:01:15. > :01:19.Midland Labour MPs were challenged to get off the fence and publicly
:01:20. > :01:27.back the project. Our Political Editor John Hess has been following
:01:28. > :01:33.today's developments in Westminster. From the air, this is the route that
:01:34. > :01:38.high`speed trains will take from the East Midlands heading north that is
:01:39. > :01:46.if HS2 phase two is completed. Waiting to speak on a Parliamentary
:01:47. > :01:49.platform, and HS2 Tory critic. How can she explained that the
:01:50. > :01:56.government are on the fifth revision of the business case and is this the
:01:57. > :02:01.last or will there be another 25 to justify this case? I cannot believe
:02:02. > :02:09.it. The project has gone up by the ?10 billion. This is the biggest
:02:10. > :02:14.work of fiction! The shape of rail travel to come. This is Italy and
:02:15. > :02:17.this week the government claims similar high`speed trains will
:02:18. > :02:24.deliver huge economic benefits to cities like Nottingham and Derby, an
:02:25. > :02:31.extra ?2.2 billion a year but back in the Commons, would ordinarily
:02:32. > :02:36.well users afford to use it? We cannot afford the new rail line to
:02:37. > :02:41.become a rich man's toy. It is absolutely clear that the new
:02:42. > :02:47.network must be available to everyone. It has become a political
:02:48. > :02:52.route map for the transport Secretary, a line he maintains that
:02:53. > :03:04.will spread economic wealth from London. This is the point when the
:03:05. > :03:10.debate moves from if two when. I hope it will do so again this
:03:11. > :03:16.evening. The government way may have won two days vote but the
:03:17. > :03:19.controversy is far from over. Our Political Editor John Hess joins
:03:20. > :03:27.us from our Leicester studio. John, across the first hurdle but did HS2
:03:28. > :03:32.fly over or limp over? I am in the one Midlands city that will not see
:03:33. > :03:37.the tangible economic benefits that were promised in the report.
:03:38. > :03:42.Watching today's debate, I was struck at the serious lack of
:03:43. > :03:47.cheerleaders for this project. I think there may be a coup here
:03:48. > :03:52.because we learn the shadow transport secretary has seen plans
:03:53. > :03:57.of phase two of the route that goes through Birmingham into the East
:03:58. > :04:01.Midlands, that includes a serious number of tunnelling that will have
:04:02. > :04:08.to take place and there is a price tag on that, ?150 million a mile and
:04:09. > :04:15.that is why we're hearing from labour they will not blank cheques.
:04:16. > :04:19.Police investigating the discovery of human remains in the garden of a
:04:20. > :04:24.house in Mansfield have arrested two people on suspicion of murder.
:04:25. > :04:27.Police say they're confident the bodies they found are those of the
:04:28. > :04:31.home's former owners William and Patricia Wycherley. They haven't
:04:32. > :04:42.been seen since the 1990s. Carolyn Moses reports.
:04:43. > :04:46.Giving up its secrets. This is the garden were earlier this month
:04:47. > :04:50.police discovered two sets of human remains and what they described as a
:04:51. > :04:57.grave. They were found in the back garden of a house here in Forest
:04:58. > :05:01.town. Police brought in the bone experts to try to age the remains.
:05:02. > :05:06.They identified them as those from an elderly man and a woman a little
:05:07. > :05:12.younger. William and Patricia Wycherley who used to live here
:05:13. > :05:17.would now be aged 100 years old and 79 years respectively. There has
:05:18. > :05:25.been no trace of them alive or dead since 1998. The couple first moved
:05:26. > :05:30.into number two in 1987. Neighbours say they kept to themselves so when
:05:31. > :05:36.they vanished in 1998, it was assumed they emigrated. Then this
:05:37. > :05:42.month, detectives received an tip`off shortly before discovering
:05:43. > :05:47.the remains but what happened to the couple still remains a mystery? Last
:05:48. > :05:52.night a development. Two people were arrested, and man aged 57 and a
:05:53. > :05:59.woman aged 55 in London. They have been brought to Nottinghamshire for
:06:00. > :06:04.questioning on suspicion of carrying out two murders in 1998. How did
:06:05. > :06:12.this home then come to be sold years later?
:06:13. > :06:15.Still to come: a first glimpse inside the East Midlands newest
:06:16. > :06:18.sporting venue. We look round the velodrome being built in Derby in
:06:19. > :06:29.the company of British cycling's Performance Director Sir Dave
:06:30. > :06:33.Brailsford. The family of a woman who died after
:06:34. > :06:36.being given penicillin by a hospital, despite warnings she was
:06:37. > :06:41.allergic to it, say they're still seeking justice. Susan Hammond from
:06:42. > :06:46.Nottinghamshire died four years ago at Lincoln County Hospital. This
:06:47. > :06:50.week at the inquest into her death, the coroner called on the family to,
:06:51. > :07:00."draw a line under it". Quentin Rayner reports.
:07:01. > :07:06.65`year`old Susan Hammond died in July 2009 from a heart attack after
:07:07. > :07:10.a violent anaphylactic shock. She had been given penicillin prescribed
:07:11. > :07:16.by a doctor at Lincoln County Hospital. An inquest heard that when
:07:17. > :07:21.she was admitted, high notes stated she was allergic to the antibiotic
:07:22. > :07:25.and she was wearing an allergy band. A narrative verdict was recorded and
:07:26. > :07:31.the coroner called for a line to be drawn under the whole affair. How
:07:32. > :07:37.can you draw a line when it is your mum and she has been taken from you?
:07:38. > :07:44.Anyone else would be in prison. Why is it different for a doctor? Upset
:07:45. > :07:47.that the doctor is still working in the medical profession. In a
:07:48. > :08:13.statement, the hospital said: We have had no apology, none
:08:14. > :08:21.whatsoever. We got a letter a week before we came here and it said the
:08:22. > :08:27.accept liability for Malm's death, that is all we have had in four
:08:28. > :08:31.years. The family say they are talking to the legal team about what
:08:32. > :08:34.steps they can now take. A teenager who's accused of plotting
:08:35. > :08:38.a terrorist attack on targets in Loughborough has told a court he had
:08:39. > :08:43.an urge to shoot at a children's nursery in the town. A jury at the
:08:44. > :08:46.Old Bailey heard that the 17`year`old would sometimes walk to
:08:47. > :08:51.college from his home carrying a knife and, on some occasions, a
:08:52. > :08:55.pistol. Our reporter Eleanor Garnier is at the Old Bailey. Eleanor, when
:08:56. > :09:08.exactly did the teenager have this urge to shoot at a nursery? The
:09:09. > :09:14.defendant who is too young to be named was being asked about a day
:09:15. > :09:18.last year, December nine ten, when he had been walking in Loughborough
:09:19. > :09:23.and he told the court he had the urge to shoot at a children's
:09:24. > :09:28.nursery. Asked if he was targeting children or adults, he said, I do
:09:29. > :09:33.not know because I would not have done it. The jury heard how he then
:09:34. > :09:39.told a friend about this urge and in a message she said, I nearly gave in
:09:40. > :09:44.but fought it. During cross`examination, counsel for the
:09:45. > :09:47.prosecution asked the defendant, when you get angry, do you feel like
:09:48. > :10:16.hitting people? What was said in court about the
:10:17. > :10:21.weapons that the teenager had? The 17`year`old admitted today that he
:10:22. > :10:27.did sometimes carry a knife and on some occasions a pistol. Earlier it
:10:28. > :10:33.in the proceedings, the jury was told the teenager had been diagnosed
:10:34. > :10:38.with asthma is syndrome after he had been arrested. The dependent has
:10:39. > :10:44.admitted possessing explosives but he has denied using them and other
:10:45. > :10:49.weapons to carry out terrorist attacks on a number of sites in
:10:50. > :10:52.Loughborough. Kate and Gerry McCann have refused
:10:53. > :10:56.to comment on speculation that a leading suspect in the hunt for
:10:57. > :10:58.their daughter has died. Madeleine McCann, from Rothley, disappeared
:10:59. > :11:01.six years ago while on holiday with her parents in Portugal. Today, some
:11:02. > :11:05.national newspapers quote Portuguese press reports saying a former member
:11:06. > :11:08.of staff at the resort from where the three`year`old was abducted was
:11:09. > :11:15.a suspect. But he died in a road accident a few years later.
:11:16. > :11:18.A Derbyshire school has been put into special measures just two years
:11:19. > :11:21.after it was rated outstanding by Government inspectors. Ofsted says
:11:22. > :11:26.Heanor Gate Science College has declined since becoming an academy.
:11:27. > :11:28.It gave the school the lowest possible rating of inadequate in
:11:29. > :11:32.three of the four categories assessed. The school says a meeting
:11:33. > :11:39.with parents will be held next month.
:11:40. > :11:43.Fire chiefs are warning the public not to hold bonfire and firework
:11:44. > :11:45.events tomorrow night because of the fire`fighters' strike. Members of
:11:46. > :11:48.the Fire Brigades Union are taking action between 6.30 and 11pm. The
:11:49. > :11:51.fire service says contingency plans are in place to deal with any
:11:52. > :12:02.emergencies but they're urging anyone with displays planned to
:12:03. > :12:06.reschedule. Sarah Teale reports. Last month, thousands of
:12:07. > :12:09.firefighters walked out over changes to their pensions. They had hoped
:12:10. > :12:15.the four hour strike was the first and last in their battle with the
:12:16. > :12:19.government over changes to pensions. But now more industrial action has
:12:20. > :12:25.been called by the Fire Brigades Union. The first happening tomorrow
:12:26. > :12:30.night between 6:30pm and 11pm. The union said it had decided against
:12:31. > :12:36.taking action on November the 5th itself. There will be events
:12:37. > :12:46.happening on Friday, surely that is dangerous to the public to go one
:12:47. > :12:49.strike that night? It is but we will do prevention work right up to the
:12:50. > :12:52.moment we go on strike. Unfortunately we are in the
:12:53. > :13:01.situation where we have to call the strikes, we hope people will not get
:13:02. > :13:06.hurt. If people can move the event to Saturday, that would be
:13:07. > :13:14.beneficial for us and we want to Mena flies the risk. `` minimise.
:13:15. > :13:21.That advice has been heeded by Boots. It was due to host its annual
:13:22. > :13:26.bonfire event tomorrow night for thousands of its staff, but bosses
:13:27. > :13:31.their third in the light of the firefighters strike they had decided
:13:32. > :13:35.to postpone. Duffield Parish Council has also rearranged its display in
:13:36. > :13:39.Derbyshire and several schools across the East Midlands are
:13:40. > :13:44.cancelling their events. Their Iraq until the plans to deal with 999
:13:45. > :13:53.calls but the level of cover will be significant register. ``
:13:54. > :13:56.significantly richest. It's emerged today that the East
:13:57. > :14:00.Midlands gets less money than any other region for arts. A report into
:14:01. > :14:03.arts funding also highlighted a huge imbalance between London and the
:14:04. > :14:06.rest of the country. Over the past year, our region got around ?10.5
:14:07. > :14:10.million of funding from Arts Council England, less than anywhere else. We
:14:11. > :14:24.got ?2.33 in arts funding per person. London got ?69. But why?
:14:25. > :14:28.Most of the largest arts organisations are based in
:14:29. > :14:35.Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds. We do not have one of
:14:36. > :14:40.those major arts centres. The second reason would be that on balance, we
:14:41. > :14:44.receive a lower number of applications for our funding from
:14:45. > :14:49.organisations based in the East Midlands than other parts of the
:14:50. > :14:52.country. Joining us now from the Nottingham
:14:53. > :14:55.Playhouse is the theatre's Artistic Director, Giles Croft. Giles, London
:14:56. > :14:58.has a huge number of theatres ` the National Theatre, the opera houses,
:14:59. > :15:06.galleries ` you name it, it's in London. So it stands to reason much
:15:07. > :15:11.more money goes there, doesn't it? I do not think anybody would argue
:15:12. > :15:15.with the fact that there should be a degree of bias towards London. It is
:15:16. > :15:23.the level of bias that people have found shocking. The figures make
:15:24. > :15:26.that clear, it is extraordinary the East Midlands is so poorly served.
:15:27. > :15:30.OK. Well, we get the least amount of money for arts. Arts Council England
:15:31. > :15:40.says we're not applying for it. Whose fault is that? I can well
:15:41. > :15:45.believe there are few applications from within the region but I do not
:15:46. > :15:52.think that accounts for the discrepancy. The person interviewed
:15:53. > :15:58.also said there are also major art institutions. We work with
:15:59. > :16:03.individual artists, new companies, emerging companies. There are a lot
:16:04. > :16:12.of people who require funding. A lot of the issue is people are not sure
:16:13. > :16:20.how to go about applying. Thank you very much indeed. Now it is time for
:16:21. > :16:23.us to go to sport. First tonight, a new signing for
:16:24. > :16:26.Nottingham Forest. The Reds have secured Wales international David
:16:27. > :16:29.Vaughan on a three`month loan deal from Premier League side Sunderland.
:16:30. > :16:32.Vaughan is a midfielder and trained for the first time with his new
:16:33. > :16:35.team`mates today. He brings experience of success in the
:16:36. > :16:38.Championship to the City Ground, having helped Blackpool get to the
:16:39. > :16:41.Premier League in 2010. Forest play the Seasiders this weekend and you
:16:42. > :16:47.can see a full interview with Vaughan ahead of the game with his
:16:48. > :16:51.old team on the BBC Sports website. So one new face at Forest today, but
:16:52. > :16:54.there's also been a departure. Midfielder Simon Gillet has gone on
:16:55. > :16:58.loan to Bristol City where he'll link up with former Reds boss Sean
:16:59. > :17:02.O'Driscoll. At Leicester they are looking
:17:03. > :17:05.forward to a quarterfinal tie in the League Cup against Manchester City.
:17:06. > :17:09.It will be on Tuesday the 7th of December. The draw was last night
:17:10. > :17:14.and the Foxes are the only Championship side left in the
:17:15. > :17:17.competition. Onto cycling, and tonight we are
:17:18. > :17:20.focusing on the sport because tomorrow the world's best track
:17:21. > :17:23.cyclists take part in the World Cup. The man at the top is Britain's
:17:24. > :17:26.cycling performance director, Sir David Brailsford. Dave was born in
:17:27. > :17:29.Derby and lives in Ilkeston. He's the man who inspired historic
:17:30. > :17:33.victories in the Olympics and the Tour de France and wants the East
:17:34. > :17:43.Midlands to be the best when it comes to facilities for cycling. At
:17:44. > :17:50.the back of Derby County's Pride Park, there is a new stadium under
:17:51. > :17:53.construction. It is costing ?27 million and according to those at
:17:54. > :18:00.the top of British cycling, this place holds the key to the future of
:18:01. > :18:07.the sport. I am super excited by it all. I have seen a lot of
:18:08. > :18:12.velodromes around the world. They are all different. The way this has
:18:13. > :18:18.been designed and the multipurpose aspect makes it very exciting. Sir
:18:19. > :18:24.David Brailsford was born in the city and yesterday saw inside the
:18:25. > :18:29.velodrome for the first time. In the middle you can have badminton,
:18:30. > :18:38.football, any sport in the centre well people compete in the cycling
:18:39. > :18:42.on the outside. The scale of the flooring is impressive. If you were
:18:43. > :18:51.to lead all the wood out for the track here, then two and it would go
:18:52. > :18:56.from here to Leicester. It is a boom sport with British cycling
:18:57. > :19:01.membership at record levels. It would be a fantastic original icon
:19:02. > :19:05.to get more and more people cycling and within a few decades we will
:19:06. > :19:11.have Olympic and Paralympic champions that would have started
:19:12. > :19:16.here. The paint around the sides shows the steep track taking shape.
:19:17. > :19:21.In another year, Derby's belligerence will be complete.
:19:22. > :19:24.Now, it's not just the velodrome and Dave doing the East Midlands proud
:19:25. > :19:27.when it comes to cycling. Grantham's Rod Ellingworth may not be quite so
:19:28. > :19:30.well`known, but he's been credited for much of the sports
:19:31. > :19:40.transformation. And that's by none other than the former world champion
:19:41. > :19:46.Mark Cavendish. This is the moment that inspired the
:19:47. > :19:51.man who trained a generation. In the crowd, a ten`year`old Rod
:19:52. > :19:55.Ellingworth. 29 years later he was the power behind the Brit at the top
:19:56. > :20:02.of the world. British cycling is building. I felt that it just needed
:20:03. > :20:10.somebody to get hold of it, getting people together and believing in one
:20:11. > :20:15.thing. There was never much doubt about Rod's sport after a childhood
:20:16. > :20:22.of wrapped up in cycling. When you love the sport like we do it is
:20:23. > :20:27.huge. Road cycle professionally and he did well but when the injuries
:20:28. > :20:34.came, so did the decision to give back to his sport. He is key man in
:20:35. > :20:42.the background of Team Sky's Tour de France triumphs. He pushes super
:20:43. > :20:48.hard. I totally respect his work ethic. The way he goes around
:20:49. > :20:54.things, he supports but he is pretty strong. Together they have
:20:55. > :21:00.transformed British cycling. I am really proud of him. To think he can
:21:01. > :21:06.get a full`time job out of a sport he likes, it is very good. Knowing
:21:07. > :21:12.he has come from the same place as me is inspiring and the people he
:21:13. > :21:19.has met and train, it is just incredible. If this was all in front
:21:20. > :21:27.of me at 13, I would take this every step of the way. Every step of the
:21:28. > :21:31.way is there now. Cycling in great shape in the East Midlands and that
:21:32. > :21:39.velodrome will be something special when it is done.
:21:40. > :21:42.Next tonight, she's officially a national treasure, loved, in
:21:43. > :21:49.particular, by men of a certain age, and with an acting career that spans
:21:50. > :21:54.decades. Felicity Kendall became a familiar face on TV thanks to The
:21:55. > :21:57.Good Life and Rosemary and Thyme. But her stage career is also one of
:21:58. > :22:01.the most enduring in British theatre. At the moment she's
:22:02. > :22:05.performing opposite Simon Callow in Chin Chin at the Theatre Royal in
:22:06. > :22:17.Nottingham. She came in earlier and we asked her how it was going.
:22:18. > :22:23.Going really well, wonderful audiences, they are laughing a lot.
:22:24. > :22:28.They are not getting too shocked by the surprise ending because it goes
:22:29. > :22:35.deep and dark. It is a great piece and a beautiful theatre. With the
:22:36. > :22:46.lovely Simon Callow and we love working together. We started years
:22:47. > :22:53.ago in television. You combined TV and theatre. Had you ever had that
:22:54. > :23:00.desire to cross the pond and do big movies? I did at one point a long
:23:01. > :23:06.time ago but I soon realised I would probably have the career I wanted if
:23:07. > :23:11.I stayed in the theatre and worked solidly in the theatre in England. I
:23:12. > :23:17.wanted to do new plays more than I wanted to be a film star and I ended
:23:18. > :23:24.up doing what I wanted to do. Strictly come dancing, how was that?
:23:25. > :23:31.It was one of the things I did entirely for myself. A lot of people
:23:32. > :23:37.asked why I was doing it. I said I wanted to do it, I wanted to be part
:23:38. > :23:52.of that and I have never been so fit, so fatty happy. `` happy.
:23:53. > :23:56.Without Vincent I cannot put a foot in front of another but it was just
:23:57. > :24:02.a wonderful experience, life enhancing because you went in not
:24:03. > :24:08.being able to move but at the end of three months you could do things you
:24:09. > :24:22.were not able to do before. You were also in Doctor Who? I think that was
:24:23. > :24:29.three or four years ago now. One of the nation's favourite programmes.
:24:30. > :24:36.Yes, it has its own little bubble. The people that send photographs
:24:37. > :24:42.from Doctor Who to side have no interest in the other aspects of my
:24:43. > :24:47.career. But with other things, you get a combination of programmes. You
:24:48. > :24:53.were very fit for Strictly Come Dancing but you are generally known
:24:54. > :25:03.for being fit and keeping trim. What is your secret? Exercise. I do
:25:04. > :25:09.yoga, waits, structuring, I have to wonderful trainers in yoga and
:25:10. > :25:15.Pilates. Whatever suits you but you have to do something. It is the
:25:16. > :25:25.hardest thing and there is always a reason you do not have to do it. You
:25:26. > :25:32.look fabulous. Thank you so much. I said she was incredibly fit but I
:25:33. > :25:45.meant, you know what I meant! US smitten! She was the loveliest
:25:46. > :25:49.person. Now the weather forecast. Lots of tricks but not many treats
:25:50. > :25:56.with the forecast over the next few days. The weather is very mobile at
:25:57. > :26:01.the moment. Low pressure after low`pressure system coming through.
:26:02. > :26:05.Brief windows of dry weather in between the first one heads way
:26:06. > :26:11.tomorrow. We are back with the rain tomorrow. It will be fairly light
:26:12. > :26:19.and patchy but it will be on and off and with us through much of the day.
:26:20. > :26:22.The showers stayed away today. Pleasant afternoon but we will see
:26:23. > :26:30.showers developing as we have through this evening. Not many, some
:26:31. > :26:34.places will stay dry, but we keep a lot of cloud and there will be a bit
:26:35. > :26:40.of mist and fork forming for the early hours of the morning. Seven
:26:41. > :26:44.and eight degrees the loan. Tomorrow morning will start off drive but the
:26:45. > :26:47.cloud of the morning. Seven and eight degrees the loan. Tomorrow
:26:48. > :26:50.morning will start off drive but the cloud will thicken up. Nothing
:26:51. > :26:55.particularly scary, fairly light and patchy in nature but I would not
:26:56. > :27:03.rule out the odd heavy blast in northern parts. The rain sticks
:27:04. > :27:07.around for most of the day. 11 or 12 degrees our top temperature. We get
:27:08. > :27:17.rid of one weather system on Friday night. But then another weather
:27:18. > :27:23.system moves in later on Saturday. A dry start to the weekend. The cloud
:27:24. > :27:30.will thicken up, showery rain later on Saturday. A breezy night on
:27:31. > :27:34.Saturday. There will be rain around and it will feel quite cool.
:27:35. > :27:42.Hopefully something little drier and brighter by Sunday. I realise
:27:43. > :28:25.November is tomorrow! Trick or treat. Have a good one. Goodbye.
:28:26. > :28:29.Planet Earth - it's unique. It has life.
:28:30. > :28:37.To understand why, we're going to build a planet...up there.
:28:38. > :28:40.These were the objects that were making the Earth.
:28:41. > :28:44.We're now weightless. That's how our planet started.