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Good evening. Controversial free schools are back | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
in the education spotlight tonight. It's after the Government turned | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
down an application for a new free school at Newark in Nottinghamshire. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
It was going to be led by the man who used to be in charge of Derby's | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Al`Madinah School which has also seen another major change today. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Simon Hare reports. Well, the trust which helped to | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
set`up the Al`Madinah School in derby has gone. They had come in for | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
a lot of criticism from the Government and its inspectors about | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
how the school was being run. It was branded as dysfunctional. They were | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
given as a deadline of today to step down and now they have. A new is in | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
charge and tonight in a letter confirmation in a letter to parents | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
that the primary school site will be closed and all pupils moved to the | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
site near Derby train station and the school will continue to have a | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Muslim ethos. The man who had been the principal here, he wanted to be | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
the principal of the Newark School of Enterprise, but the Government | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
has said that that proposal didn't reach the high bar we have set so | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
the project will go no further. News welcomed by the man who runs | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Nottingham's local authority schools. I think it is the right | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
decision for Newark. I don't think it was viable because the take`up | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
wasn't there. The numbers of pupils that they claim that they had to | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
start in September was not sufficient. Those behind the Newark | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
plans say they are disappointed and the future of Al`Madinah School is | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
far from secure. It is due another Government inspection very soon. | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
One of the region's former leading Conservatives has announced he is | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
joining UKIP. David Parsons was the leader of Leicestershire County | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Council for nine years until a police investigation into his | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
expense claims. Earlier today, the former Conservative leader and his | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
wife Elizabeth were shaking hands with their new party leader, UKIP's | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Nigel Farage. For the moment, David Parsons has ruled out standing as a | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
UKIP candidate in the next year's general election. They are a new | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
political force. They have got something to say to people. I'm very | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
interested in talking about the European Union. I have no plans to | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
stand. David Parsons brings a wealth of experience, having been involved | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
with the regional assembly, he has seen at first hand the European | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
Union is having not just on national Government, but on Local Government | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
in this country. An inspection has revealed that | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
two`thirds of tanning salons in Derbyshire were breaking the legal | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
ultraviolet ray limits. Council inspectors carried out the checks | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
months ago, but have their results have only just been made public. The | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
council has yet to see if anything has changed. Here's our health | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
correspondent, Rob Sissons. It is one way of getting a suntan, but | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
just how safe are sunbeds? New rules came in in 2009 limiting | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
the level of ultra individual lot rays to 0.3 watts per square meet r, | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
but how many salons are compliant? 45 sunbeds breached the legal UV | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
output limit and five of those had emission ratings double the | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
recommended level. We are working with the local businesses to make | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
sure they are aware of what they need to do to make sure that people | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
are not exposed to risks. It is knowing what the risks are when they | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
go to a tanning salon. Even sunbeds operating at the legal | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
level give the equivalent to an hour's sun in Australia. Shouldn't | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
the checks have been done years ago? We prioritise where we think is most | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
appropriate. We haven't got the capacity to visit every business in | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Derbyshire. Trading Standards told me they want | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
to give businesses time to put things right, but they confiscate | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sunbeds if shops don't comply. A number of people were arrested | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
today in Leicestershire during a police led operation targeting | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
criminals on the road. Nine agencies including immigration and Customs | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
officials joined police in stopping motorists at Beaumont Leys. They say | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
from 40 vehicles checked, they uncovered 23 offences. They included | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
immigration issues as well as driving offences. Police say they'll | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
continue to use mobile patrols going forward as part of what they've | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
called Operation Tiger. It has been confirmed today that | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
work to demolish Leicester's Belgrave flyover should take just | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
over two months. The city council announced the nine week timescale | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
after consulting local people. It says more than two`thirds were in | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
favour of a short, more intense period of work to dismantle the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
structure. The flyover shuts forever at midnight. The East Midlands is | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
seeing a bigger boom in house building than any other part of the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
country. Figures from the national house building council shows the | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
number of new homes built here was up by almost 60% compared to the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
same period the year before. Nationally, the rise was just over | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
half of that. Leicester Tigers were in Cup action | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
against Bath, but were defeated 17`35. In the championship, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Nottingham won at home. They beat London Scottish 15`3. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
As well as being the transfer deadline, it is the last day of | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
January and it has been a month that saw record rainfall for some parts | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
of the UK. Was the East Midlands setting new records? Not here, | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Maurice. Leicestershire had the highest rainfall totals. No surprise | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
that many fields like these in Derbyshire and Leicestershire are | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
underwater. Motorists continue to struggle on roads that a liable to | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
flooding, but at least the swans look to be enjoying themselves. If | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
you are hoping for better prospects for the weekend weather, well | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
tomorrow is looking really quite unsettled. It is going to be very | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
windy and there will be plenty of scattered showers around, but | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Sunday, by far the better day, drier and brighter. So this is the main | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
area of rain. It started to clear away to the east. There will be a | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
few showers around through the night tonight before they clear away by | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
morning. The skies start to clear and the temperatures will drop and I | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
expect it should get low enough for frost in places. Tomorrow morning | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
will be a cold start. It remains very windy with a gusty | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
south`westerly wind throughout the day on Saturday. A dry start. The | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
showers will move in. As I said, a better prospect on Sunday. Drier, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
brighter with lighter winds. Newsnight is starting now on BBC | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Two. For now, good night. Good evening. Today's heavy and | :07:27. | :07:46. | |
persistent rain is disappearing over the horizon. Sadly, the other | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
problems are not. Problems to come tonight include snow over Scotland | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
and Northern Ireland, and tomorrow, strong winds and high tides bringing | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
the potential for flooding. | :08:02. | :08:02. |