07/02/2014 East Midlands Today


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50 years on, it is still being felt. That's all from us.

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A controversial free school in Derby has been ordered by the government

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to close its secondary school. Last October, Ofsted put Al`Madinah into

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special measures, saying it was in chaos. Its primary school however

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will stay open. This Muslim school has been widely

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condemned for some time before offering a poor quality of teaching.

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The schools minister has now written to the new trustees confirming the

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secondary school must close at the end of this summer term. In a

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letter, he says he is concerned at the poor quality of teaching and

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lack of breadth in the curriculum. Today, parents gave this reaction

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outside the school. I was going to move my son anyway because he was

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not happy there and was not making any progress. I am quite disgusted

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that this decision has been made because they have not taken our

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children into consideration. When Ofsted inspected the school in

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October, they called it in chaos and dysfunctional. The man in charge now

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agrees with those findings. He says it was the right decision to shut

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the secondary school down so they can focus on the primary school.

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Setting up a primary school and secondary school simultaneously,

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despite the community giving them strong advice as to not being the

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thing to do, it is damaging. People will judge all schools `` all three

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schools based on Al`Madinah School. It is my job now to prove that this

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turn can `` this school can turn itself around. In the meantime, the

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focus is the 140 pupils left at the Al who must now find new schools by

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September. Two brothers have been jailed for

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trafficking vulnerable men into the East Midlands to exploit them for

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tens of thousands of pounds. The modern`day slavery racket in Derby

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was only discovered when one of the victims sought help from church

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workers. Cramped conditions where some of the

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men were discovered living, mattresses invested `` infested with

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bugs. It came to light when police raided a number of houses in Derby

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last July. They found evidence that a dozen check and Slovak men were

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being explored for `` exploited for benefits. Victims were lured to the

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UK with promises of work and money. There was plenty of money but they

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saw very little money. When I was in Prague, I met with these people and

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they promised they would give me ?50 a week. When they turned up and

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started talking about England, I thought, I have never been there,

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let's go. It ended up the way it ended up. I ended up with ?10

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instead. Brothers Igor Marcin and Marek Marcin and human trafficking

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and today were jailed for 14 months and 50 months respectively. Some

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evidence that this gang were looking at trafficking more people?

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Absolutely, you heard of the evidence today where they were

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talking to potential victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

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Their wives admitted fraud and were given ten and eight month sentences

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but what free from court having served already half of their

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sentence on remand. It is estimated the family made ?150,000 from the

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scam. A hearing to determine is what happens to their assets including

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prestige cars is due to be heard it. Elections to the European Parliament

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may be four months off but UKIP was in Nottingham today for the start of

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its regional campaign. Leading its list of candidates for the East

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Midlands, Roger Helmer, a former Conservative MEP who defected.

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The Lions might have lost their raw in Nottinghampos`mac historic square

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but politically, UKIP plans to make a big noise in the build`up to the

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election for the European Parliament. Leading the way, Roger

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Helmer, a Conservative MP who is now standing for UKIP. We say Europe is

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damaging Britain, it is causing `` costing us money and we want a

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referendum now. UKIP is pinning its hopes on some of these candidates

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getting elected. At present, UKIP has two out of the five MEPs that

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represent our region. In the last European Parliamentary elections

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here, UKIP came third, beating the Liberal Democrats and almost

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knocking Labour from second spot. That cost enough other political

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sensation. This time, UKIP hoping to do even better. There's been a sea

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change in British politics and UKIP are at the top of that sea change. I

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think we have every chance of winning in the East Midlands. By

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this staging such an early launch, they hope to set the pace up to

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polling day in May. In tonight's rugby, Leicester Tigers

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beat Worcester 23`22 thanks to a late Toby Flood penalty goal.

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Finally, a really big moment for Nottingham speed skater Jon Eley. He

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led Team GB into the Winter Olympics opening ceremony earlier. He is at

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his third games and led in the biggest British team for almost 30

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years. 56 competitors, among them several serious medal contenders.

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That's the news and sports, I'll be back with more for you across the

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weekend. The weather is next. The rain is back and it is said to

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be quite an unsubtle weekend. Blustery showers tomorrow and strong

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winds of up to 50 miles an hour possible. As we go through the rest

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of the evening, we have started to see the rain pushing. It will turn

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heavy and persistent for a time into the early hours of Saturday morning

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before keeping `` leaving with just a few showers. Tomorrow morning will

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be a dry and bright start but then the rain pushes injuring the

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afternoon. Very strong and gusty winds during the afternoon. This is

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the outlook for the next few days. Hello again. Nelson's flag ship HMS

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victory, was launched in 1765 and you can still see it today in

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Portsmouth Harbour. But through the whole of that history, you will

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struggle to find a wetter winter than this one across southern

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England. Scotland has already been in the record books. Their December

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was the wettest since standardised records began about 100 years ago.

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There's plenty more where that came from. Another storm is knocking on

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the door and will affect the whole of Western

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