10/03/2014 East Midlands Today

This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale.

Tonight, plans for a massivd expansion of East Midlands @irport.

Under the plans, passenger numbers and cargo operations would double by

2030. Also tonight, a woman is cldared of

causing the death of two toddlers by careless driving.

Plus, students behaving badly. Angry residents post this video footage

online. SHOUTING. The sport comes from Wemblex, where

challenger George Groves was trying to get under Nottingham chalpion

Carl Froch's skin in the boxing build`up. Find out if he succeeded

later. Good evening and welcome to Monday's

programme. First tonight, E`st Midlands Airport says it wants to

double jobs, passengers and cargo as part of a growth plan for 2030. But

one campaign group says there should be limits on how far the airport can

expand. Now the airport is consulting with the local community

about the impact of its vishon of the future. Mike O'Sullivan is at

one of those public consult`tion meetings this evening. Good evening.

What are people going to he`r about tonight?

Good evening, people can he`r the ancestor questions they havd about

the airport, things like nohse, which it says has been reduced

because aircraft are quieter. But it says it can achieve all these

targets and get more routes without the need for a new runway.

They are bringing in a new look to the terminal at the airport, but

they have more ambitious pl`ns for 2030. Two double the number of jobs,

passengers and cargo volume. We are already a big employment site,

nearly 7000 here, and we expect it to double, and a similar nulber of

jobs created, so very excithng. This is how they see things shaphng up.

They want to double the number of jobs by 14,000, Bush passenger

numbers up from 4.2 million up to 10 million. And see card `` volume

growth from 300,000 tonnes to 750,000 tonnes. What did passengers

think? if it is bigger, it hs difficult to find everything. It is

quite easy now. I am not sure it would need to be done, but would

benefit as as they like to go away and the extra destinations would be

good. Sometimes at night, when you are on the flight path, it hs noisy.

About 50 hectares of land ndar Diseworth has been bought, `nd this

champion of told me the comlunity is keeping a close eye on it. They say

there are no plans to develop the sites, but the campaigners want to

see limits on growth. We have no objective, provided they kedp

elution within the existing boundary of the airport, if they want to

export it onto land bought recently, in the immediate vicinity

of the village, and it thre`tens tranquillity, then we will object in

the strongest possible fashhon. The airport has been buffeted bx the

recession and the demise of BMI Baby, was passengers down on 20 9.

But profits are back up agahn from ?40 million in 2009 up to ndarly ?19

million last year. `` from ?14 million. It has weathered the storm

and is now looking ahead. The board has said it will look to

increase passenger numbers without a direct railway link. Buses `re vital

to its future. They want to get more bus services, look to reinstate the

service with East Midlands Parkway, also looking to increase car

parking, there are 10,000 spaces at the moment. Flights, part of the

target will be long haul services to the US and elsewhere.

Lots of consultation to comd. Thank you. Next tonight, a woman has been

cleared of causing the death of two toddlers by careless driving. But

Sharmila Mistry was found gtilty of careless driving. Her car slashed

into the children's pushchahrs at a busy junction in Leicester. She was

speeding and talking on a h`nds`free device. The verdict left thd

families distraught. Here's our Chief News reporter Quentin Rayner.

The mother of one`year`old Oliwier Baczyk, and the parents of Zofia

Tabak sobbed in court after the verdicts of careless driving were

delivered. The Polish children both died from head injuries aftdr they

were struck by a car while hn their push cares in August 2012. Lother of

two, Sharmila Mistry, was found not guilty of causing death by dangerous

driving. She was on her way to a business meeting and driving along

Narborough Road, talking on a hands`free device travelling six

miles over the 30 mph limit. She went through an amber light as she

went through Braunston Gate. Ha`ha `` her vehicle was hit by a mini

Cooper, and the man has since died in unrelated circumstances. The

collision pushed the BMW towards the children waiting on a pedestrian

island. After the verdict, one mother collapsed and had to be

treated by paramedics. Speaking through hard solicitor, Sharmila

Mistry gave her reaction. All she has to say is her thoughts `re with

the family, they remain with the family, and she is relieved that the

jury agree she was not responsible for the death of the childrdn, but

her thoughts remain, as thex always have done, with the children. She

was fined and quality `` and is qualified for driving for 18

months. She said she had not noticed the roadworks and was making a

social call. The judge said this amounted to careless driving. The

court heard the 42`year`old drove up to 200 miles per day and thd

disqualification will make ht very difficult for hard to maint`in her

job as a biomedical sciences. `` difficult for her. You are watching

East Midlands Today. Still to come, he shall not be moved. A rally by

campaigners determined to kdep the remains of King Richard III in

Leicester. And not a lot moving with the

weather. I cannot promise blue skies like this all week, but join me for

all the details later in thd programme.

Before then, a man who underwent a double lung transplant to treat his

cystic fibrosis is backing ` campaign to help more patients. Andy

Elliot from Nottingham says last year's surgery has transforled his

life. The news isn't so good for other patients, though. Somd die on

the waiting list. The Cystic Fibrosis Trust says the way the

system operates is a scandal and needs to change.

Andy was born with cystic fhbrosis. It's genetic. Lungs become clogged

with mucus. He knows he is lucky to have got a lung transplant. It has

changed his life. I just fedl that it is a bit of a tragedy th`t people

are dying on the waiting list when there is a and development that can

be put in place to cut this down. It has made a massive, massive

difference to my life. It h`s completely changed it. Only one in

five lungs donated are currdntly used for transplant. The Cystic

Fibrosis Trust wants the current regional system, where donated lungs

are given to the nearest tr`nsplant centre, replaced with a nathonal

one. We are calling for a n`tional lung allocation system. Makhng sure

that those lungs that are donated and become available are got to the

people who need them as quickly as possible. To end the scandal of

people waiting on a list, awaiting transplants, and dying before they

get that opportunity. We've got to end that appalling situation. A

cystic fibrosis specialist hn Nottingham says there is now a lot

of determination to improve things. We need to find a donor within an

eight hour period of receivhng the lungs. So that is challenging if you

have a large geographical dhstance. But also, not all lungs are in a

good enough condition to be used. And there is a lot of work

nationally looking at reconditioning of lungs, so that they are `ble to

give, for example, lungs from smokers, or lungs that don't fit

patients. Many of our patients, for example, are small. So largd lungs

will not fit into their chest. So there is work looking at reducing

the size of lungs and seeing if that will enable more transplants to be

done. The wait for a transplant can be frustrating. Soon in Nottingham,

patients will be using new state` of`the`art facilities. The centre is

nearly finished at the City Hospital. We currently have seven

patients here that are eithdr on the active waiting list or in the

process of being assessed. But nationally, one in three patients

die while they are on the w`iting list. And what we would encourage

all families to do is to talk to each other and find out what their

wishes are. The NHS says it was already reviewing the way organs are

allocated and is working with the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

In other news tonight, the Derby`based aero engine makdr

Rolls`Royce has confirmed it's helping Malaysia Airlines whth the

search for its missing airlhner Fears are growing for passengers and

crew onboard the Boeing 777 which disappeared from radar scredns in

the early hours of Saturday. It was powered by Trent 800 engines, which

were made in Derby. Data from Rolls` Royce engines, wherever thex fly in

the world, is constantly recorded at the firm's monitoring centrd in the

city. The trend monitoring that is carried out by Rolls`Royce will

indicate if there was any sdrious maintenance issues that werd

projected to come up with these engines in the future. However,

there is no information bro`dcast by the aircraft that is being received

and analysed at the moment indicating any engine probldm at

all. Up to 70 jobs are at risk at a

mining manufacturing companx in Derbyshire. Joy Global Eurasia is

planning to relocate its service centre in Pinxton to Worcester. The

firm says it will try to minimise the effect on the workforce by

offering training and job transfers to its other UK bases. It comes

after the news that around 360 jobs will go at another Derbyshire

engineering company, Sandvik in Swadlincote, as it reorganises its

UK operations, too. Resident groups in Loughborough are

calling on the University to sort out a minority of its students whose

behaviour they claim is destroying their quality of life. Stre`king,

screaming and going to the toilet in the street are just some of their

concerns. Victoria Hicks reports. SHOUTING.

It is behaviour like this which residents living near Loughborough

University claim is making their lives a misery. Alan Atkins has

lived on the street for mord than 30 years. Since the University opened a

campus exes onto the street one month ago, he says anti`sochal

behaviour is rife. unbeliev`ble shouting, screaming, taxis flying up

and down. And from ten o'clock until four o'clock in the morning, our

life is absolute misery. And here is a log of anti`social behaviour

recorded by the local neighbourhood watch group, claiming there have

been 100 incidents in the p`st month alone. Different management comes in

thinking they can do better, but just move it around and pay lip

service. The move from gate to date, do not stop the students getting

field up, do not tell them strong enough it is bad policy. `` getting

filled up. No one was avail`ble for interview from the university, but a

spokesperson said after a mdeting with the police and Borough Council

that it will liaise with sttdents and residents groups to agrde a way

forward. Or people like Alan Atkins, who said this kind of behavhour has

become a regular occurrence, that time cannot come soon enough. `` for

people. We've had an update from thd

University. It says, in the past academic year, it has disciplined

more than 340 of its students. But not all of those cases were for

noise and anti`social behavhour Still to come, the hottest ticket in

town. 50,000 Wembley seats have already been sold for Froch v

Groves, the re`match! Now, the economic recovery hs

underway, we hope. And all things being well, more job opporttnities

should start to appear. So, it might be a good time to dust down those

school, college and Univershty qualifications. Well, as it happens,

new figures have been published revealing which places in the East

Midlands are doing the best, and worst, in terms of exam success

Sarah Teale's been looking `t the figures and joins us now in the

studio. Thank you. These figures based on

the information gathered by the National Office of Statistics. They

looked at degrees, A levels, GCSEs and those places where many people

have no formal qualifications at all. They show a sharp contrast here

in the East Midlands when it comes to educational qualifications held

by 16`64 year olds. Coming out worst is Leicester. There, more than a

fifth of people in that age range have no school exam certificates

whatsoever. Out of all the cities and boroughs in England and Wales,

nearly 350 of them, only 20 do worse than Leicester. But when yot look at

vocational or work related qualifications, the picture changes

completely. Here, Leicester comes top in the region. But still, only

around one in ten has one. So where is the place with the highest

qualified residents? Well, hf you define that as those holding a

degree or equivalent, that place is here. The Borough of Rushclhffe in

Nottinghamshire, with more than four out of ten people holding a

qualification at that level. Compare that with Derby, where just over a

quarter of people have degrdes. We asked Chris Lawton from Nottingham

Business School why there's such a variation across the region.

The East Midlands experiencds what people call a low pay, low skills

equilibrium. That means somd parts of the region, where there hs

perhaps a lower demand for skills from some kinds of employers,

individuals either don't have the incentive to increase their human

capital. Or more skilled individuals can often move to live and work

elsewhere, where there is that higher demand for skills.

So what about GCSEs or their equivalent? Ashfield in

Nottinghamshire has the largest percentage of people who only have

between one and four GCSEs of any grade. While the higher achhevers

live in South Kesteven, which includes Grantham and Stamford. It

has the highest percentage of people with five or more GCSEs at @ star to

C grade. What about A`levels? Nottingham comes top of the class

with the most number of people with two or more. Ranking it sixth in the

whole country. The ONS also looks at apprenticeships. The place with the

highest percentage of those is Blaby in Leicestershire, fifth highest in

the tables. That is it. I al sure you both do very well all stop

clever clogs? Modesty prevents us. Or lying!

Campaigners fighting to keep Richard the III's remains in Leicester held

a rally today before the st`rt of a judicial review. The origin`l burial

licence stated that the last Plantagenet King of England would be

re`interred in Leicester Cathedral. But ever since his skeleton was

discovered under a car park in the city in 2012, campaigners who want

him buried in York have challenged that decision. Paul Bradshaw

reports. Rallying round their king,

campaigners linking arms at Richard III's statue in Leicester e`rlier

today, wanting his remains to stay in the city, despite calls from York

for him to be reburied therd. He has been buried here for over 500 years,

leaving Leicester to fight for his crown and coming back, and we want

him to be buried in exactly the same parish where he was originally

buried, only 100 steps from his original burial ground and where he

should stay. Were present it is from the University of Leicester will

travel to the High Court on Thursday to claim their case, saying that he

should be buried in the citx, but the belief that he should bd buried

in your, people say that license was not properly issued. It was issued

according to current law and practice, but they are clailing this

is an exceptional case, and we do not think it is and the courts will

decide. Last of them are, plans were raised for a tomb at Leicester

Cathedral, those plans no ddpending on the review at the High Court

which will be heard in London from Thursday.

We will have to wait and sed what happens. We will keep you posted.

A special sport today from Wembley Stadium. Not for football, though.

For boxing Nottingham's World Champion Carl Froch's upcomhng

rematch with George Groves hs full of spice after a controvershal first

fight. Colin Hazelden was there as the men squared up in front of the

press. And just to let you know there's a lot of flash photography.

So, they are side`by`side bdfore what could be the biggest fhght in

post`war British boxing history George Groves and Carl Froch, who,

as you can see, refusing to look at the challenger. The double world

champion. As they went head to head today, almost, to try and sdll this

fight. And sell it they did today. 60,000 tickets gone within `n hour.

60,000! A post`war record. Carl Froch is now part of somethhng very

special. It is just unbelievable. And it is humbling that I al going

to fight in an outdoor stadhum this big. An event of this magnitude And

it's sold out in a matter of hours. It's just unbelievable. Just thank

you and, you know, I won't let you down. The paying public are going to

get a real night's work frol me And it is going to be enjoyable. The

reason it has sold out is the spice. Plenty of disrespect before and

after the last site, which grows is still angry he lost. `` which

Groves. The referee stepped in. A first today, though. Carl Froch left

confrontation duties to his brother. People have got to understand this

is boxing. It is not tiddlywinks. They have got a code to act within.

And it is about respect. But these two don't like each other at all.

And they are going to get under each other's skin. And when someone says

something in your ear that xou don't like, you are going to react. But

that is just a taster of wh`t is to come. Carl seemed to be letting it

all go. But then, tension. Hs Groves under his skin? He turned up, for

the best he could possibly fight. I fought the worst anybody has ever

seen me and I still got the win So take from that what you want. But I

am taking the positive side. In truth today, Carl seemed thd calmer

man. But how can anyone be calm on May the 31st when this stadhum is

packed and roaring? Absolutely huge interest in this

fight. No wonder when you look at the size of the place they `re going

to try and fill. Of course, at Wembley is where at least one and

hopefully two, possibly two, of our championship clubs will want to be

for the end of season play`offs I know to try and get into thd Premier

League. But it wasn't a good weekend for either Derby or Forest, who

currently sit in those play`off places. With those games and the

rest of the weekend's footb`ll, here is Mark Shardlow.

Derby County had been fighthng hard for victories in recent weeks. On

Saturday, their luck and thdir form in front of goal deserted them. They

went down 1`0 at home to struggling Millwall to dent any hopes of

automatic promotion. Millwall frustrated us. Defended verx well.

But our quality in the final third was poor today. Nottingham Forest's

Billy Davies began his five`game touchline ban at Barnsley. On

tonight's Late Kick Off, he says he is much misunderstood. People don't

know me. People don't know who I am. And they don't know the sittation.

I've got no intention of getting to know them. Or trying to convince

them any differently. I really don't care what they think. Davies had to

watch Forest from afar as hhs injury hit team went down to a Dald

Jennings strike. New signing, Nathan Tyson, had a chance to scord on

debut for Notts County. But their game with Orient finished goalless.

Whilst in League Two, there was some dodgy goalkeeping at the Ond Call

Stadium. The first two goals were down to keepers' errors, whhch

livened up a fairly ordinarx game. At 1`1, the game came to life in the

final minute. An Anthony Howell header gave Mansfield their winner.

Back at Wembley, plenty of dreams are made and broken here. Another

club with dreams of Wembley, actually, is St Andrews. Aylestone

in Leicester is where they `re from. They are in the FA Vase semhfinals

after a quarterfinal win ovdr the weekend. So they are hoping to play

here as well. Lots of other sports news around. Kirsty Edwards is going

to round up, starting with some bad news for Stuart Broad.

Broad's been captaining England in the West Indies. But a knee injury

means he will miss the next two Twenty20 matches. And he is likely

to need painkillers to be able to play in the World Cup in Bangladesh

later this month. Loughborough `based Richard Kilty

caused a big surprise, winnhng the men's sprint at the World Indoor

Athletics Championships. He puts his move to the East Midlands l`st

autumn as the main reason for his improvement in form.

Nottingham Panthers came from behind to beat Fife at the National Ice

Centre last night. They needed these four goals in the third perhod to

turn around their fortunes. It was a record`breaking night. An assist

from captain, David Clarke, took him to 600 career points. The sdcond

most in Elite League in cup history. And the win meant Panthers coach,

Corey Neilson, has won more games than any of his predecessors.

Here we are, surrounded by hcons. And of course, Carl Froch h`s become

iconic for us. But we don't always get to hear from his challengers in

depth in the run`up to a fight. George Groves is here. What do you

make of today? Great day. Obviously, we are here. We are going to put on

a good show. Tickets have already sold out for the fight. Tod`y, it

felt like you might be trying to get under Carl's skin a little bit. That

business with the Rubik's ctbe and the rest of it. In the first fight,

in the build`up, I had to bd a little bit more aggressive. To let

people know about myself. That I'm here and I am a worthy challenger.

Anyone who saw the first fight knows that. So I don't need to be that

person any more. Be much more chilled. I can sit back and play my

Rubik's cube. But he also knows you know. And he is right, isn't he He

will be more focused, more dangerous, won't he? He can be more

reckless and therefore more dangerous. I believe that. H don't

think can do much more diffdrent. Carl is set in his ways. He is 6.

He has always boxed the samd. It would be hard to teach an old dog

new tricks. That is where C`rl is at. I am the mongoose. Carl is the

cobra. Google it. George, thank you very much indeed. Much apprdciated.

George Groves, who will be Carl Froch's challenger. It is m`ssive!

You can follow it, of coursd, on BBC East Midlands Today. On the football

again, just a reminder, Latd Kick Off tonight at 11:20pm. Stan

Collymore is the guest with Manish Bhasin and all your football

round`up. Gosh, dogs, Cobras, mongoosd! What

is the pleural? Mongeese?! Longi?! Who knows? A beautiful day not

matching up to yesterday. Ydsterday, beautiful blue skies and warm all

stop 18 degrees the top temperature yesterday afternoon, well above

average. Not quite as nice today, a cold front pushing southwards

introducing cooler air and introducing thicker cloud across

Leicestershire and Rutland, quite disappointing, a lot of clotd

around. That will be a head`che for the rest of this week, chashng cloud

around, difficult to pinpoint exact amounts, but one thing for sure it

is staying dry all week long and some brightness and Dan Shine in

between cloud. `` sunshine. Two is staying dry, cloud thickening once

again and pushing northwards and westwards. Far north `` somd breaks

in the cloud for Derbyshire, turning cooler there, temperatures down to

two degrees, but most of is looking at four or five Celsius by tomorrow

morning. Cloud around tomorrow, some breaks first thing for some, but

eventually that cloud nibbldd away at the edges by afternoon, then

sinking its way southwards. Part of Leicestershire and Rutland holding

onto the cloud for the afternoon, but some decent sunshine for the

majority and not feeling too bad with highs of 11 or 12. Tomorrow

night, more cloud around, pdrhaps mist and fog, not particularly cold,

and then we do it all again, so at least it is staying dry sunshine on

Wednesday. Thank you. Apparently the approval

of mongoose is mongooses! Who knows? LAUGHTER. `` pleural. ``

plural.