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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Geeta Pendse. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight ` campaigners call for the NHS to scrap its contract with a | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
private ambulance service. Arriva are paid to drive patients to | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
hospital. Clients like Ron say it is in chaos. I would like the contract | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
taken away from them and given to a proper ambulance service who are | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
trained. Plus the student flats building boom | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
in Nottingham, as the city tries to get them to move out of houses that | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
could become family homes. Also tonight, the young Roma | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
students 0 Also tonight, the young Roma | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
students using education to counter Pres `` prejudice. I am better than | :00:49. | :01:01. | |
some of the English people, so I guess I am doing well. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
And the mail centre dealing with all of Notts and Derbyshire's Christmas | :01:05. | :01:04. | |
mail. Welcome to Tuesday's programme. | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
First tonight, tough criticism for a company 0 | :01:16. | :01:15. | |
First tonight, tough criticism for a company given a ?26 million contract | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
to take patients to and from their hospital appointments. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Arriva was awarded the five`year contract in July last year. It's for | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
patients in Leicestershire and Rutland. But it's already been | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
docked more than ?30,000 for its poor performance. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Now some patients and health campaigners are calling for that | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
contract to be scrapped. Jo Healey reports. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
Ron is housebound at his home. He is diabetes and his legs are bad. But | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
every three months he needs to get the Leicester Royal family. He says | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
with Arriva he gets too late. `` Leicester Royal infirmary. I missed | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
one appointment, and I did not get home until 5pm. I had to spend the | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
next two days in bed. An earlier time, when they picked me up, they | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
got me there that late but I had a hypo and finished up in A | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
The report from East Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group found | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Arriva failed to meet all the target times they were set. They criticised | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
them for how they handled complaints, and 0 | :02:40. | :02:40. | |
them for how they handled complaints, and also for how they | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
controlled infection. In a statement today Arriva said | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
they had had to do what `` more than they had been contracted to do. They | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
have now taken on more staff, working longer, 0 | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
have now taken on more staff, working longer, but they recognise | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
there are improvements that need to be made still, and say they will | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
continue making them. Not good enough, says Ron. He and | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
some health campaigners know what the contract scrapped. `` they now | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
want the contract scrapped. Well, earlier I spoke to the health | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
campaigner Zuffar Haq, who also believes the contract should be | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
terminated. He described other examples where patients have been | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
left waiting. I have heard of cases where patients have been left | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
waiting, sometimes for an hour or two hours, and I have had cases of | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
four or five hours as well. What you think happen next? I would | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
like Arriva to lose the contract, it to be re`tendered out, and for | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
another company to take this contract. And run an effective | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
service for these patients. The Clinical Commissioning Group say it | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
would be costly and in effect to describe Arriva's on track because | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
of the lengthy procedure of re`tendering. Is it in the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
patient's' best interest? Of course. You have 0 | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
patient's' best interest? Of course. You have hundreds of patients | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
relying on this service on a daily basis. It should be in their best | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
interest to deliver for those patients and the patients should | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
come first. Arriva say they have made | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
improvements. Have you heard of these improvements? They have, but | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
this service simply is not fit for purpose. This contract needs to be | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
taken away from them, and action needs to be taken. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Next: A student flats building boom in Nottingham. It's a deliberate | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
policy ` designed to coax students out of traditional residential areas | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
so families can move back in. The council says thousands more bed | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
spaces are on the way for students in the city centre. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
One 0 in the city centre. | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
One senior councillor says it's the best place for them ` as they'll | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
help to keep the centre of Nottingham thriving. Mike | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
O'Sullivan's been to see the progress of one huge complex which | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
is currently under construction. 14 floors up on one of Nottingham's | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
latest student accommodation complexes. It is being built for | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
foreign students who will be going to Nottingham Trent University. 450 | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
bed spaces, costing ?30 million. It will be ready in September next | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
year. The developer told me the city Council wants to see more of this | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
type of building. And student tastes have changed as well. They always | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
wanted to get out of the institutional halls of residence and | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
go out into the private housing market. But now they much prefer to | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
get into purpose`built, modern design economical accommodation. The | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
City Council says there is around 43,000 students in Nottingham, and | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
around 20,000 of them live in houses of multiple occupancy. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
A senior counsellor told me he would like 0 | :06:05. | :06:04. | |
A senior counsellor told me he would like that 0 | :06:05. | :06:04. | |
A senior counsellor told me he would like that figure reduced around a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
half, although that we probably upset private landlords in what are | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
now student areas. `` that would probably upset. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
In the two years to 2015, the council says another 0 | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
In the two years to 2015, the council says another 3,000 dead | :06:20. | :06:20. | |
spaces will be provided in the city centre as private developers step | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
in. `` bed spaces. This empty office block is part of | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
the boom as well. The challenge is for the city to get students out of | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
residence and into dedicated accommodation. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
If demand for students drops, the developer has a long`term plan to | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
allow conversion for the residential market. But for now, things are | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
looking up. This is East Midlands Today. Still | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
to come: The sport's live from Leicester City's King Power Stadium. | :06:59. | :07:11. | |
There are stars all over here. Manchester City, and Sam Bailey, | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
winner of the X Factor. With Christmas and the New Year just | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
round the corner, our local councils have been looking ahead to 2014. It | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
won't surprise you to learn that there's not a lot of festive cheer | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
about. 0 there's not a lot of festive cheer | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
about. Yes, it's the time of year when local authorities prepare their | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
budgets for the next financial year, and many are warning of big spending | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
cuts. Nottingham City Council is the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
latest: It says 76 jobs will go as it cuts its 0 | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
latest: It says 76 jobs will go as it cuts its budget by ?25 million. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Let's find out more from our Political Editor John Hess. | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
Money is still being squeezed out of council spending as the coalition | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
attempts to reduce the national deficit. Labour leaders at | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Nottinghamshire County Council need savings of ?154 million over the | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
next three years: That's a 23% spending cut. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
But the Conservative leader Councillor Kay Cutts says a proposed | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
council tax increase of just under 2% is unnecessary, and has set up an | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
online petition to demand a further tax freeze. We have had quite a few | :08:15. | :08:27. | |
comments so far, and they have been, my income has not gone up, I | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
cannot afford a council tax increase. That has been the strength | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
of feeling coming over. Labour`run Nottingham City Council | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
is warning of 76 job losses as its attempts to find ?25 million worth | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
of savings. That's a 9.2% annual cut. | :08:45. | :08:45. | |
It says 0 cut. | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
It says library 0 cut. | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
It says library services and arts funding will be hit. The opening | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
hours of children's centres will be reduced. Council tax will also rise. | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
But is that fair? Vulnerable people depend on councils, and it is the | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
vulnerable that are being hit. What makes me more angry is that if I | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
were living down south I would not be hit as hard as if I am living in | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Nottingham or Liverpool or Sunderland. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
So what's the picture, say, in Derbyshire or Leicester? Let's find | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
out, first from BBC Radio Derby's political reporter Chris Doidge. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
The in the city the council says any service it doesn't have to provide | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
is vulnerable to being cut. So street cleaning will be reviews a | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
smack reduced, parking charges will go up. `` street cleaning will be | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
reduced. We will know about the County Council's plans in the New | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Year, but we do know that the mobile library service faces big cats. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
The Leicester the city Council says it has already planned ?21 million | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
in saving from April. `` here in Leicester. In Leicestershire they | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
are still talking about saving ?110 million in the same period. They are | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
putting up council tax by 1.5% over the next few years. `` three years. | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Eric Pickles is the Coalition's Local Government Secretary. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
Tomorrow, he confirms how much spending our councils will be | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
allowed. If he turns into Father Christmas, that WILL be a turn`up. | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Our councils are already budgeting in the knowledge there'll less money | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
around. East Midlands Airport could grow | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
faster than any other small airport in the country, according to a new | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
report. The Airports Commission ` set up to | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
look at Britain's airport capacity ` says passenger numbers at Castle | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Donington could more than treble over the next 35 years. It says the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
airport, which had around four million passengers in 0 | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
airport, which had around four million passengers in 2011, could | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
have up to 14 million in 2050. It adds it's also only using 18% of its | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
runway capacity. Police in Derbyshire have released | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
dramatic footage of a shopkeeper fighting back against three men who | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
ram`raided his store. It happened at the Londis store in | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Ilkeston in October. The first man forces his way in just after 9:00pm, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
but is confronted by a member of staff. When a second man breaks in, | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
the shopkeeper tackles him too. The raiders make off with an empty cash | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
machine cassette. Two men have been arrested in connection with the | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
robbery, and released on bail. Police are appealing for witnesses. | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Severn Trent Water has defended its decision to install wind turbines at | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
some of its sewage treatment plants across the region. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Two now dominate the landscape on the eastern side of Derby after | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
being erected in Spondon. Similar turbines have been erected at Wanlip | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
in Leicestershire and Newthorpe in Nottinghamshire. All four are due to | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
be switched on in the New Year. We understand some people love them and | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
some hate them. We are doing this for good reasons, to reduce our | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
carbon footprint and help keep our customers bills low. `` customers' | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
hills low. They will produce around 25,000 megawatts of power per year. | :12:09. | :12:09. | |
`` Meghan... A college in Leicester's helping | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
schools across the country to integrate Roma people who've come to | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Britain for a better life. Some pupils arrive at Babington without | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
speaking English, but still get good exam grades. | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
Roma parents are being offered English lessons too. And one Roma | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
worker's been tackling community tensions in Leicester. This | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
exclusive report from our social affairs correspondent Jeremy Ball. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Andre is one of more than 80 pupils here who 0 | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Andre is one of more than 80 pupils here who come from European Roma | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
families. He is in the Army cadets and on course to get through `` | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
grades for a teaching career. Some of his friends want to get into | :12:53. | :12:53. | |
business of banking. But 0 of his friends want to get into | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
business of banking. But they usually arrive in Leicester well | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
behind in their studies because the old schools in parts of central | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Europe still segregate Roma minorities. There is one room for | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
Roma, other rooms for whites. They thought that we are not mentally | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
capable of doing education. They think we are stupid so no point | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
giving them work to do. Dominik arrived without speaking a word of | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
English, survey focused on his music skills to get him out `` up to | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
speed. `` so they focused. Just by watching others, I learned. I was | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
looking at them, thinking they are good, so why cannot I be like them? | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
But does that mean diverting teaching away from other pupils? We | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
never take away from other groups. We are very careful to focus on all | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
our children and include all our children. The mistake people make is | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
that `` thanking you must treat everybody the same. The Roma pupils | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
are getting significantly better results than students elsewhere in | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Britain. Now those lessons are being shared with goals in the check | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Republic, `` schools in the Czech Republic. We make sure our lessons | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
are engaging and exciting, that learning is fun, and that the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
aspirations are boosted through the way we teach our lessons, and that | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
helps our Roma pupils to make progress but also helps all of our | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
students to make progress. The school's trying to engage Roma | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
patient `` parents as well. This DVD explains the system in a language | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
they understand. And one Roma worker has set up a youth club to tackle | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
emerging 0 has set up a youth club to tackle | :14:53. | :14:52. | |
emerging tensions 0 has set up a youth club to tackle | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
emerging tensions with the local community. We do not know `` they do | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
not know `` they do not know what the laws are. Now they know that | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
they have to go home at 0 the laws are. Now they know that | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
they have to go home at 10pm. At this primary school, several Roma | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
patients `` parents have been offered places on 0 | :15:22. | :15:22. | |
patients `` parents have been offered places on these language | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
classes. I live in the UK, I need to speak English. This is all about | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
equipping new arrivals to contribute to British society rather than | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
becoming a burden, and if it succeeds they think is extra help | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
will more than pay its way. `` they think this extra help. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Coming up: A bit of high drama ` or should that be Hi`de`Hi drama? Soup | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
and art here. Tune in later and find out what I am holding. `` Su | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
Pollard. If you thought you were busy this | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
Christmas, spare a thought for Royal Mail. This week they're handling | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
more post than at any other time this year. | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
In one mail centre they're sorting millions of items a day, and it | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
seems sometimes we're not much help to them. Here's Quentin Rayner. | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
Any letter or parcel with NG Ord E.ON its postcode comes through | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
here. This is where all of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire's | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
mail is sorted. Yesterday and today are the busiest | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
in the year for the centre. Up to 2 million items of mail are handled | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
each day. An extra 250 staff are taken on, bringing the 24`hour | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
workforce up to 1000. How is it going? Great. I like it when it is | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
busy. Do you think it has been this busy this year? I do. Busy sorting | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
cards 0 busy this year? I do. Busy sorting | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
cards and helping people make their Christmas for them. | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
Staff say they have not noticed any difference since Royal Mail's recent | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
privatisation, and the increase in the price of stamps has not put | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
people off. We are seeing comparable volumes 0 | :17:19. | :17:19. | |
people off. We are seeing comparable volumes in credit `` business cards. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
An increase in parcels this year, and a healthy growth in that area. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
`` Christmas cards. No sorting office Christmas would be | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the same without the impossible clients to deliver. Name, but no | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
stamp or address. At least here, there is a stamp, but | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
no address. And what about this? ! | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
It is anticipation of all the vague mail that we get, mail that is not | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
addressed properly. You have to use all your knowledge to be sort that | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
male. Second`class items have to be posted by tomorrow, first class by | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Friday, but all Royal Mail wants for Christmas is a postcode. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Sport now, and Leicester City are not just our leading East Midlands | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Club, they also have a really exciting cup tie tonight. Colin's at | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
the King Power Stadium. These 0 | :18:18. | :18:17. | |
the King Power Stadium. These are the weeks you want as a | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
football fan. Tonight's glamour match for Leicester City against the | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Premier League stars of Manchester City, just one of three huge games | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
in eight days. Of the three, tonight's Carling Cup quarterfinal | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
probably matters the least. But of the three, it's definitely 0 | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
probably matters the least. But of the three, it's definitely the most | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
exciting. The stadium is going to be sold out, and Manchester City have | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
just beaten Bayern Munich and thrashed Arsenal. | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
But I am delighted to say I can introduce you to the winner of the X | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Factor, Sam Bailey. Huge Leicester City fan. You have a senior Dutch | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
back season to get. Yes, and I have not been for ages. `` you have a | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
season ticket. You are singing on the pitch. I am, singing at | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
half`time, my new single. It is my chance to give something back. How | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
much are you looking forward to the game? I am so excited to be actually | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
watching a foot or match. I have not watched TV for ten weeks. `` foot | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
all match. You have not had the chance to follow anything? I have | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
not had time, but I have put this in my schedule to make sure I was here. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
I want to chat to you again in a second. | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Dzeko, Toure, Silva, Negredo ` Manchester City have no shortage of | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
star names. They won't all play. But that doesn't mean Manuel Pellegrini | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
doesn't want his team to win this. He just has a squad so strong, he | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
can change it for games at every level. That is why we went last week | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
to play against via Munich with five or six players, and we made six or | :20:07. | :20:20. | |
seven changes. Tomorrow for me, we will make some changes again. | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
There he is putting Leicester City on it power with Bayern Munich. `` | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
on a par. Intimidated prospects for Leicester City. It is going to be | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
tough, but I have high hopes for the boys. I have not watched a game in | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
ages, but I think the boys are going to be all right. I think they are | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
going to be good. Never mind the foot or, number one download, | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
prospect 0 foot or, number one download, | :20:57. | :20:56. | |
prospect of a 0 foot or, number one download, | :20:57. | :20:57. | |
prospect of a Christmas number one, are you thinking about that? No, I | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
just want people to buy it or download it. It would be amazing to | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
have a Christmas number one, I just really excited. | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
Thank you for talking to us. I heard Sam's sound check, she sounds | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
amazing? `` she sounds amazing! We're starting to buzz for it in | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
here. Let's get a taste of how things have been building up | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
outside, with Mark Shardlow. River Place Manchester City will be | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
expensive, world`class players, but do not roll out a shock. In the last | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
five seasons I have seen three times East Midlands club 's bring these | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
teams down to earth. Three years ago Leicester City drew two to two. Five | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
years ago Forest beat them three 2`0 in Manchester. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
The first sell`out for three seasons. What are you thinking? Very | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
excited. Who is going to win? Leicester. Leicester City. Are you | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
equally confident? Yes, Leicester is going to win. It is going to be a | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
shock tonight. `` the fans say it is going to be a shock. | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
Thanks, Mark. Tonight's game here is live on BBC Radio Leicester. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
There is another big cup game tonight. Mansfield replay Oldham in | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
the second round of the FA Cup. The prize there is a trip to Liverpool! | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
BBC Radio Nottingham have full live commentary from the One Call | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
stadium, starting in just a few minutes. | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
But here, it is all about the glamour boys. Manchester City, here | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
to play Leicester City. Let us not forget Leicester's history in this | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
competition. Three times finalists in the late 1990s. They have won it | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
three times overall. So there is an awful lot to take into this game, | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
but they are the big names of Manchester City. Follow it here on | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
East Midlands Today, we will have a report in our late bulletin. And all | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
the goals and a full report tomorrow evening. You can already feel it | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
here this evening. How exciting! | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
It's nearly half a century since an actress from Nottingham began | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
learning her craft before going on to achieve national fame. | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
Su Pollard 0 to achieve national fame. | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
Su Pollard ` who's currently appearing in panto at Nottingham's | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Theatre Royal, was presented with a drama award for best performance | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
when she was just 16. But for the past 30 years, that trophy has been | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
kept in the back of a cupboard. That is until now. Angelina Socci | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
reports. 0 Thank you so much. It is such a | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
wonderful surprise. It is 47 years since Su Pollard was | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
presented with this award. Today pupils at this primary School had | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
the honour of reuniting the two. It has been lying around all this | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
time, but in beautiful condition. It was found in an office in Nottingham | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
by John Clayton. His daughter taught at the school, but she sadly died of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
cancer last year. It was always her wish to reunite the trophy with the | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
past winner. We wanted to keep that association with the school, to do | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
the things she found important in terms of actually giving them the | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
chance to experience different things. For these pupils it was | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
certainly a unique day. She was amazing and really, really nice. It | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
is weird because I have never met a celebrity and it is the first time. | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
I am gobsmacked, because I did not know she was coming in. The only | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
thing left to decide is whether to keep it. Wherever it is, it will | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
just be pride of place. I am thrilled to bits. And thank you! | :25:27. | :25:38. | |
Time now for the weather. We had a super day today, and that | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
deserves a super photo. Some lovely festive holiday shining in the | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
sunshine. Beautiful blue skies in the backdrop. `` Holly. | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
Our final day today is thanks to a ridge of high pressure, but | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
yesterday's front is reluctant to clear away. Eventually it clears out | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
of the way, we dry up for a time, and you can see what is waiting in | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the wings tomorrow, another weather front which will liven things up for | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
tomorrow. The majority of the daylight hours should not be too | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
bad, but we are going to be seeing some very wet and windy conditions | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
as we head on into tomorrow evening. We have some rain for this evening, | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
across 0 We have some rain for this evening, | :26:32. | :26:31. | |
across southern parts. 0 We have some rain for this evening, | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
across southern parts. Clears out of the way quickly, some clear spells | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
and light winds as well, so a little bit of mist and fog, and turning a | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
little chilly for some of us as well. A dry start tomorrow morning, | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
a bright start across eastern parts, but the cloud thickens up very | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
quickly. The winds will be picking up through the morning, and we will | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
see some rain as we head through the afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon's rain | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
light and 0 afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon's rain | :27:01. | :27:00. | |
light and patchy, 0 afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon's rain | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
light and patchy, just an average wet and breezy afternoon, and | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
bridges not much to write home about, but warmer than today. `` | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
temperatures. Tomorrow evening a second weather front moving in, | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
turning really windy for tomorrow evening. Gusts of up to 45 mph. For | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
Thursday it is a much drier, brighter afternoon, temperatures | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
around to six `` up to six Celsius. But at least we will have some | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
sunshine by Thursday. Never a dull moment! | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Back with the late news. | :27:42. | :27:46. |