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This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and Anne Davies. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Tonight ` a budget bombshell for the elderly and disabled in Derbyshire. | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
Thousands of some of the most vulnerable people who receive | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
council care in their own home are told they will no longer be eligible | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
to receive it. Also tonight, our plans for a new | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
HS2 station at Toton heading for the buffers? | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Plus, this is one of two more care homes for the elderly in | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Nottinghamshire that have had their county council contract suspended | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
because of inadequate levels of care. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
And a teenage pianist who has caught the eye of a world`famous rock star. | :00:44. | :01:03. | |
Good evening. Thousands of elderly and disabled | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
adults look set to lose the council`funded support which helps | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
them live in their own homes. And thousands of others face having to | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
pay more for the service. It's all part of a raft of cuts announced by | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Derbyshire County Council today. The authority needs to save ?157 million | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
over the next four years. More now from our reporter, Simon Hare, who's | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
at the council's headquarters in Matlock. Good evening. What's being | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
suggested? We knew that Derbyshire county council was facing some very | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
big cuts and today we got some details about exactly what will be | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
affected. Adult social care, looking after the elderly and disabled | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
people facing some of the biggest cuts. We are 0 | :01:51. | :01:50. | |
people facing some of the biggest cuts. We are told 2700 people who | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
currently qualify for Council subsidised care in their own home | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
will no longer be eligible to receive it. And around 7000 people | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
who pay towards their care, they will have to pay more. The authority | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
says it needs to save around ?57 million in this area towards the | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
total figure of ?157 million worth of cuts over the next four years. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
And the counsellor in charge of adult social care here 0 | :02:22. | :02:22. | |
And the counsellor in charge of adult social care here in Derbyshire | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
had admitted to me earlier that she has had sleepless nights over these | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
proposals. It is really hard. The people that will be impacted are the | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
elderly that are receiving care at home. Also people with learning | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
disabilities and physical disabilities who get support paid | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
for by the county council so it is an incredibly difficult decision to | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
contemplate, never mind go through with. Other savings will see the | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
elderly having to contribute towards the cost of their transport to day | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
centres. Older and younger disabled children will have to pay towards | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
the cost of their school transport and the council also considering | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
ending its contract to the charity called Home Start which helps around | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
200 families in the 0 called Home Start which helps around | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
200 families in the area. These are all proposals at the moment and the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
council will be launching a consultation later this month and a | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
special dedicated helpline for people to ring and get more | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
information but the authority also warning that it will have to | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
announce for major cuts next week and it has defended decision today | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
to increase the salary of its 3000 lowest paid workers. Thank you. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Still to come ` should Leicester's old town become car`free? Yards from | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
where the body of King Richard was found, a modern`day battle is | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
brewing. When plans for HS2 were announced | :03:44. | :03:56. | |
last year, the news put Toton on the map. It was revealed that Toton ` | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
between Nottingham and Derby ` would be home to the new high`speed | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
railway station serving the region. But tonight, there's a question over | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
the whole project. A Government minister says plans for housing near | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
the site could scupper the station. The warning came as MPs debated the | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
economic benefits of high`speed rail. Let's find out more from our | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
John Hess, who's at Westminster for us. So this housing plan is a | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
problem for HS2? Good evening. Yes, and 0 0 0 | :04:34. | :04:34. | |
problem for HS2? Good evening. Yes, and I think what it brings into | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
doubt is whether Toton Sidings will remain as HS2's preferred location | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
for as East Midlands station. And here is why. The backdrop to | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
today's debate on HS2 is about a new pledge to limit the construction | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
costs of the ?43 billion project. The new chairman of HS2, Sir David | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Higgins, says he'll deliver the new high`speed track more cheaply, by | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
building the line more quickly. And with a new generation of specially | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
trained construction engineers for the job. But the proposed housing | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
development at Toton was today seized upon by MPs on opposite sides | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
of the HS2 debate. That was at Westminster today. As an East | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Midlands 0 Westminster today. As an East | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Midlands MP, I can point to other example is of help HS2 could act as | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
a spur to investment. A recent report found that the element in the | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
ED that `` immediate vicinity could build 650`800s defy the and support | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
up to 1500 admonitions of jobs. One Leicestershire Tory said the | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
decision will add to the HS2 cost and that's another reason he claims | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the Prime Minister should scrap the entire project. I think he will when | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Labour ditch it before the next general election and Ed Balls in | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
charge of making the decision, it is like leaving a vampire in charge of | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
a blood bank. We've had snow on the line and | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
leaves on the line, but could plans for 500 homes near the line really | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
scupper HS2 at Toton Sidings? Here's Mike O'Sullivan. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Precious to local campaigners and others ` these fields 41 hectares | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
formed part of the only remaining green belt in Toton. Now Broxtowe | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
Council has removed that protection, which means that houses could be | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
built here. There's already a plan for 500. Campaigners say that this | :06:33. | :06:46. | |
area should be used for jobs, not homes. And that means that the | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
argument could be scuppered. I don't think we need extra houses, we need | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
something that will bring jobs to the area. We haven't got the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
infrastructure to support another 500 or more houses. When Toton | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
Sidings are transformed into a shiny HS2 station, it could attract huge | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
inward investment to the area. But a third of the site could go to | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
housing. A lost opportunity, say campaigners. Creating housing for | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
commuters to go to jobs out of the region. Weakening the economic case | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
for Toton but strenthening Derby's bid for the HS2 station. But surely | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
it would make more sense to have this whole area declared for jobs | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
and employment? The people in those jobs have to live somewhere. Houses | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
near the jobs are ideal. The council says its Hs2 working | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
group will now be looking at how many jobs can be brought to the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
site. Joining me now is the MP Anna | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Soubry, who's Broxtowe constituency includes Toton. Why do you worry | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
that the HS2 station for Toton Sidings is scuppered? I was at last | :07:55. | :08:09. | |
night's meeting and I listen to the debate in absolute dismay | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
because... This is the council meeting that decided a minimum of | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
500 houses and it is correct, our current and projected cannot support | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
that but what they also failed to grasp is that this minimum of 500, I | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
think it Israeli damaging for the prospect of Toton being the East | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Midlands hub and that is what people want. To be clear, people in Toton | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
and Stableford and other parts of my constituency and greater Nottingham | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
see the real positive benefit of a hub in the East Midlands at Toton. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
The last thing you want is 500 houses or more in the next couple of | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
years. The new chairman of HS2 is talking about cutting costs, could | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
you maybe persuaded to move that East Midlands hub from Toton to | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Derby? I hope not and I hope the council understand that because they | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
are not silly, they know the benefits that HS2 will bring to the | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
area as indeed it 0 benefits that HS2 will bring to the | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
area as indeed it would bring to Toton and greater Nottingham if we | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
have it. I very much hope that it does not happen but I really do | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
think that the borough council and the labour and Lib Dem councillors | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
have sold people out. Now it is a minimum of 500. They cannot be | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
trusted on this. 0 minimum of 500. They cannot be | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
trusted on this. Could that East Midlands hub be moving to Derby? | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Watch this space. From Downing Street this evening, the Prime | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Minister is said to be firmly committed to HS2. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
Meanwhile the biggest single housing development 0 0 | :09:40. | :09:39. | |
Meanwhile the biggest single housing development ever seen in | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
Leicestershire can now go ahead after winning final approval. This | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
farmland in Lubbesthorpe will have more than 4,000 homes as well as | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
three schools, health and leisure centres built on it. Planning | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
permission had already been given but now the developers and Blaby | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
District Council have reached a legal agreement securing the ?40 | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
million needed before work could begin. I am a little disappointed. I | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
cannot say it was unexpected but it has been a long while coming and you | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
begin to wonder and hope that maybe the development will not happen so | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
it is a shame that we have heard the news today. Still to come, standing | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
tall, we have a Leicester Riders contingent here. The BBL Cup is | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
theirs for the second year in a row, coach Rob Paternostro and Anthony | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Rowe join us in the studio to reflect on their stunning victory | :10:35. | :10:35. | |
over Newcastle Eagles. Two more care homes for the elderly | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
have had their contracts with Nottinghamshire County Council | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
suspended after concerns were raised about the quality of care they | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
offer. In response to these and other contract suspensions, a task | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
force has now been set up. It'll provide specialist advice and | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
support, and help to improve standards. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
At Burkitt Care Home in West Bridgford, a recent Care Quality | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Commision inspection witnessed staff ignoring a resident who repeatedly | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
asked for a drink. The inspection also identified other shortcomings. | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
We found that people are not being treated with dignity and respect at | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
all times. I also found that at that time, they were issues with | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
cleanliness and maintenance of the home. | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
Burkitt Care Home is run by the Elder group. The group also runs | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Eton Park Home at Cograve. Concerns over care at both homes have led | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Nottinghamshire County Council to suspend their contracts at them. For | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
Eton Park, it is the second time it has had its county council contract | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
suspended in two years. It means county council and NHS | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
health care commissioners will not place residents at Burkitt or Eton | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Park until care standards have improved. What we want to do is to | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
give a very clear and strong message that we are not continuing to fund | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
services in those homes that are persistently failing to make good | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
quality care. Elder Homes say they are now working | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
with organisations to raise care standards, have retrained or changed | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
staff, and have extensive redevelopment plans under way. They | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
told us: Meanwhile, Nottinghamshire County | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
Council now has a task force to help homes that are struggling to excel | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
to emulate the practices of the best homes. | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
I visit 0 homes. | :12:38. | :12:38. | |
I visit many 0 homes. | :12:39. | :12:39. | |
I visit many residential homes and see really good quality care and I | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
want all the residential care for older people to be of that standard. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
A man from Leicester has pleaded guilty to murdering his mother. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
Katrina Wardle's body was found in her home on Ottawa Road in St | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Matthew's in July last year after a message was posted on Facebook | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
saying that Mark Howe had stabbed her. 21`year`old Howe has been | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
sentenced to life with a minimum of 21 years in prison. | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Staff 0 21 years in prison. | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
Staff at a Leicester college say they've been left with no option but | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
to go out on strike. Unions claim around 60 out of a total of 80 | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
teachers at Gateway Sixth Form College have been taking industrial | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
action. It's the first in a series of walk`outs in a dispute about a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
rise in the number of teaching observation sessions. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
More than ?2 million was spent in one year on locum doctors at | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Leicester's A department. The figures for 2012 contrasted with | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
just ?350,000 spent three years earlier at the Leicester Royal | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Infirmary. Nationally, spending on temporary staff in casualty units | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
has risen by 60% in three years to more than ?80 million a year. The | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
Government says it's creating extra training places to tackle staff | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
shortages. A row has broken out over plans to | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
pedestrianise Leicester's old town. The city council wants to revamp the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
area around historic St Martin's near the place where Richard III's | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
body was discovered. But many people are opposed to the scheme and now a | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
Government inspector has been brought in. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
A well established restaurant in the city centre, The Case has been in | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
business for more than 20 years. It will be directly affected by plans | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
to pedestrianise the area and manager David Hartshorn says that | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
will be bad for business. Car parking is essential to this area | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
and it is to everybody. Take John Lewis, which has been in the city | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
for five years. We would 0 Lewis, which has been in the city | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
for five years. We would not have that without a massive car park | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
bolted onto the side so likewise, we need our parking just as much if not | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
more. But the city council disagrees. It | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
says extending pedestrian`friendly routes to Greyfriars, St Martin's | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
and Hotel Street will greatly benefit the area and businesses | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
alike. The independent shops are the lifeblood of Leicester, they are | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
what makes shopping here different, why is the City Council not | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
listening to the traders? We are listening, we believe that what we | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
are doing will significantly improve their trade. It is in the vicinity | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
of the richer the third visitor centre and we anticipate more | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
visitors and they will need high`quality pedestrian areas to | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
walk through, it is a great opportunity for businesses and we | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
want to work with them. An independent inspector has spent the | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
day sitting here listening to the arguments both for and against | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
pedestrianisation. Once he has heard all that evidence, he will then | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
write up his report and give it to the city council. If that report | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
does recommend pedestrianisation, then 0 | :15:51. | :15:50. | |
does recommend pedestrianisation, then it will still need to go to the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
Secretary of State who will make the final decision. | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
After a stressful commute by bike into the city, what could be better | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
than a 0 into the city, what could be better | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
than a restorative session of physiotherapy and a meal and all | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
while their bike is being repaired? Those are just three of the services | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
that will soon be available at a brand`new cyclists centre under | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
construction in the centre of Derby. A fine morning for a bike ride | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
through Derby. But for Simon, managing director of Bennett 's | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
department store in the city centre, he is as comfortable in his cycling | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
gear as he is in a suit. And his eagerness for life on two wheels | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
does not stop there, he has teamed up with the City Council to convert | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
a former warehouse behind the store into a brand`new cycling super hub. | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
Cycle commuters and visitors to Derby city centre need something to | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
store their bikes. We are doing a project which provides free, | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
indoor, secure cycle parking for anybody riding into Derby city | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
centre. The warehouse is currently being converted with old waste | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
substances being taken out so that a brand`new interior can go in. This | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
includes secure parking downstairs for bikes and then an accessory | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
shop, repair service and eight bistro on the next four up. The | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
scheme is being backed with ?200,000 of council funds. I think it is | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
great because we will build a business out of 0 | :17:28. | :17:28. | |
great because we will build a business out of the back of it. We | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
are supporting it in two ways. It is a win`win situation and four Derby, | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
it comes as the fact we are opening a velodrome later this year. Back, | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
the top floor will have showers and even a physiotherapy service. We are | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
trying 0 even a physiotherapy service. We are | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
trying to make cycling as accessible as possible. Encouraging people onto | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
bikes. The people are new to bikes, they might develop niggling faults | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
and we have got somebody able to get them back on their bike again. It | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
should create about ten jobs and see some Derby bicycle companies | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
relocating there and be open for business in May. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
I wonder if they would mind if you pop it in if you did not have a | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
bike. No, you need a bicycle. Time now for the sport. And breaking | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
football news. It has been busy, our big guests on the way but first, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
last night we told you that Nottingham Forest were close to | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
agreeing a deal to keep hold of Jack Hobbs, the defender and today it | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
seems to have happened. Forest chairman has said he has agreed a | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
deal for the defender with the chairman of 0 0 | :18:33. | :18:32. | |
deal for the defender with the chairman of Hull City. Jack Hobbs | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
arrived in a season on loan from Hull. Social media received an | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
update today say there is no official details from the club yet. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
There is a definite departure to mention at Derby County. Midfielder | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Kalifa Cisse hasn't made the impact everyone hoped and has been | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
released. Rugby, and Leicester Tigers are | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
being linked to the Gloucester fly half Freddy Burns. It's been | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
confirmed he's 0 half Freddy Burns. It's been | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
confirmed he's leaving his club at the end of the season and he's being | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
touted as a possible replacement for the France`bound Toby Flood. But | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
Tigers head coach Tony says they will take their time is over | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
decisions. We get linked with lots of players so we know that it is | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
common 0 of players so we know that it is | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
common knowledge that Tony is leaving so we need to replace him. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Freddie will be one of the guys that will come into that bracket. Along | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
with other guys. We need to make sure they are the right fit when | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
they come in and Freddie is a quality English player and we always | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
like to have them here. So time to meet our special guests. | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
At the weekend, the Leicester Riders basketball team picked up where | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
they'd left off last season ` winning trophies. They won the BBL | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
Cup for the second year running, after looking like the Newcastle | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
Eagles had them completely beaten. Coach 0 0 | :19:54. | :19:53. | |
Eagles had them completely beaten. Coach Rob Paternostro and forward | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
Anthony Rowe are here. Amazing stuff, guys, but you made it hard on | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
yourselves. Let's look back. Newcastle going 11 points clear just | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
a few minutes to go, talk us through what happened next. For us, Drew got | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
hot, he hit a few shots from behind the line but I don't think we ever | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
thought that we were done, I think part of the allure of this group is | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
that we play for the full 40 minutes and once we got going, our | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
confidence and our belief was there. Drew Sullivan described you as "just | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
too stupid" to know when to give up. He is relentless and he keeps going, | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
and 0 He is relentless and he keeps going, | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
and trust is a big word we have in one another and we kept going. You | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
still had to defend, but we will look at this, the moment of victory | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
after this hard defence. How does it feel to win it? That was a big shot, | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
but here, the final defensive play, will holding onto the lead and they | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
made a great defensive switch and absolutely jubilation from us. We're | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
really do 0 absolutely jubilation from us. We're | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
really do work hard and to win with a group of guys like that is super | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
special. Last season, Anthony, which is due to win more, can you go on | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
and win more this season? Yellow matter I will not break any promises | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
today but we accept the challenge and that is what we live for. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Everybody who is part of this organisation, we want this challenge | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
and we want to do the best we can. How do you build on this in a | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
broader sense? You are selling out all the time with the crowds, how do | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
you build on this? Up and down the country, we have been close to a | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
sell out wherever we play. It is not just a regional thing that is | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
happening here, but for us it is continuing to pass 0 | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
happening here, but for us it is continuing to pass the word of mouth | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
on the street to let people know where we are at. But the excitement | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
is huge in Leicester now and everybody was to talk to me about | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
basketball. Especially the Riders. You were supposed to bring in the | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Trophy today, what happened there is Jim `` what happened there? Elinor | :22:18. | :22:27. | |
Barker I can say it was a logistical problem but it is in a safe place. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Can you do as a spin live on the screen. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
We got a bit out of them there! Is brilliant. It's likely makes up | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
for the fact he forgot the trophy. `` it slightly. | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
It's not everyone who catches the eye of top music judges, but that's | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
what's happened to one Nottingham schoolgirl. 0 | :22:51. | :22:50. | |
what's happened to one Nottingham schoolgirl. Isata Kanneh`Mason is | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
about to be plunged into the national spotlight, reaching the | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
piano finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
And, as Carolyn Moses reports, she's also won over one of the world's | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
most famous rock stars. She's still a teenager but already | :23:03. | :23:14. | |
Isata achieved more than many musicians. Not only has she been | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
short listed for one of the country's top accolades, the | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
17`year`old's played alongside a legend. Isata's shared the stage | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
with none other than Sir Elton John. He used to go to the same music | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
school I go to now, so they put the Ford for it and I found myself doing | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
a documentary with Elton John! It was released Gary, I had to play the | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
piano for in and I had to go to Los Angeles to play Violetta in his | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
band. `` to play by Ola `` play the violin. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
And now Elton's backing her. He was so impressed he's offered to pay her | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
fees at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music. I am really | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
grateful for his help and really happy. | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
It's a far cry from the everyday life as a sixth former at | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Nottingham's Trinity School. But her friends there say her growing | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
success is well deserved. To be able to play with such a legend. It is | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
inspirational at this young age and she is really inspirational and | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
modest. It makes you feel that your achievement is worthless! But it is | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
very good for her. Even her home life's harmonious. | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
This is the way she, her brothers and sister get on ` in a chamber | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
music band. Now with the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
looming, Isata admits there's everything to play for. It is really | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
nerve wracking but I am normally OK once I get on stage and start | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
playing. I normally forget about everything else. | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
What a wonderful, wonderful pianist she is. It makes my creepy Crawley | :25:00. | :25:11. | |
looked a bit sad. Now, a look at the weather. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
Some lovely winter sunshine in the past couple of days and it has sent | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
you all at snapping. Some beautiful pictures sent in. Keep them coming | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
in, thank you to Ian for that. You normally get two choices at this | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
time 0 0 normally get two choices at this | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
time of year, cold and sunny, or cloudy and mild. We have had plenty | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
of the former in the past few days but we are moving on to the latter, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
all changed now. Much more clout but it is turning more mild. | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Temperatures into double figures. `` much more cloud. The cloud is | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
thickening up and it feels like Groundhog Day. It is a wet end to | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
the day, that cloud will be with us throughout the night and it will be | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
on and off. The winds will pick up towards the end of the night and we | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
will see some hill fog across the tops of the Peak District but the | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
temperatures, look at them. They will be starting to rise, at around | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
seven Celsius by 0 will be starting to rise, at around | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
seven Celsius by Dawn. The rain then moves away fairly swiftly. There | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
will be a few showers moving in across southern parts of | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Leicestershire moving in behind that but generally most places will stay | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
dry but we will keep the cloud. So quite 0 | :26:35. | :26:34. | |
dry but we will keep the cloud. So quite a dismal day in terms of | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
sunshine. The winds are starting to come in from a southerly direction | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
so it is a much milder feel the temperatures getting into double | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
figures, ten or 11 Celsius. Yet again, a weather front moving in for | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
tomorrow evening and this one moves through quite quickly. We have got | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
low pressure in charge for the end of the week and that. It out towards | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
the West but it means a mix of sunshine and showers for Thursday | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
and Friday but staying on the mild feel. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Here on down to some! Let's stay positive! It is important to be | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
positive. We will see you at 10:25pm. Good night for now. | :27:14. | :27:27. | |
Telling you about the stories and digging deep to uncover the stories | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
that are important to you. On BBC Radio Leicester. All very well | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
saying you will do it, but Nottinghamshire is still waiting. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
You with BBC Radio Nottingham. Take your local Radio with you. | :27:44. | :27:48. |