:00:00. > :00:13.they've still got a long way to go. That's all from us.
:00:14. > :00:20.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale, Good
:00:21. > :00:23.evening. A council leader has defended the use of covert lie
:00:24. > :00:30.detector tests on people claiming a council tax discount. Voice analysis
:00:31. > :00:33.software has been used to monitor telephone calls as part of a
:00:34. > :00:36.campaign by a private firm. It managed to recover almost ?3 million
:00:37. > :00:44.for 11 councils. Mike O'Sullivan reports. The firm managed to recover
:00:45. > :00:49.almost ?3 million for 11 councils. On the phone and under investigation
:00:50. > :00:55.the lie detector software was used on telephone phone calls with people
:00:56. > :01:01.claiming a 25% reduction in their council tax bills because they lived
:01:02. > :01:06.alone. The calls were analysed by a private company working on behalf of
:01:07. > :01:11.11 councils in Derby and Derbyshire. One council defended the
:01:12. > :01:18.tactics. The people being monitored did not know about the lie detector
:01:19. > :01:22.tests. It is perfectly legitimate. They were in told that enquiries
:01:23. > :01:30.were being made about their benefit. They were we are the tests were
:01:31. > :01:38.serious ones and they would need to have truthful answers. It helped to
:01:39. > :01:45.claw back around ?3 million in fraudulent claims. There were mixed
:01:46. > :01:53.views in Derby. I think that is right, I really do. There are a lot
:01:54. > :01:57.of people that fraud in the system. It is really an infringement of your
:01:58. > :02:02.pregnancy. If you are not a weed of it you should at least be given a
:02:03. > :02:08.choice as to whether you want to be getting a lie detector test or not.
:02:09. > :02:13.I do battle people were told they were having their ranters recorded
:02:14. > :02:18.for the detection of fraud. The counsellor is no longer funding
:02:19. > :02:23.Council to carry out similar investigations into fraud. Earlier I
:02:24. > :02:25.spoke to Chaminda Jayanetti who carried out the research for the
:02:26. > :02:29.Trade Union`funded campaign group, False Economy. I began by asking him
:02:30. > :02:39.how widespread is the use of lie detectors by councils. I think it is
:02:40. > :02:46.spreading. At the moment it is limited. In 2010 the government
:02:47. > :02:51.piloted the use of these so`called lie detectors in a number of
:02:52. > :02:56.councils and then decided there was no evidence they worked so the whole
:02:57. > :03:01.thing went dead. What is happening is that different councils
:03:02. > :03:05.periodically decide to review one of the companies that bed for those
:03:06. > :03:09.contracts. When the wind that contract very often they will bring
:03:10. > :03:16.in this lie detector software to use on one of the claimants. What is
:03:17. > :03:22.wrong with the council using voice analysing technology? Because it
:03:23. > :03:26.does not work, there is no evidence it is working, when it has been
:03:27. > :03:33.tried and studied in the past it has been found to not work. Ike macro
:03:34. > :03:40.the say it is a useful tool and not one would be prosecuted on the basis
:03:41. > :03:47.of this evidence alone. The way this works is that it is supposedly and
:03:48. > :03:52.allies in micro tremors and intonations in people's voices and
:03:53. > :03:57.decides where there is a high`risk they are lying or a low risk that
:03:58. > :04:04.they are lying. The trouble is that drawing a brazen conclusion on the
:04:05. > :04:11.substance of so little is very confusing. Thank you very much.
:04:12. > :04:14.Police say it's lucky that no one was injured when a gun was fired
:04:15. > :04:18.several times in a city street. Bullets are known to have hit at
:04:19. > :04:22.least two properties in Derby. Armed police were cold to the Normanton
:04:23. > :04:25.area of the city after the incident which is believed to be a revenge
:04:26. > :04:28.attack. They say over the last few days tensions have grown between two
:04:29. > :04:34.groups from within the same community. A firearm has been used
:04:35. > :04:38.and it has actually hit two buildings. It is extremely dangerous
:04:39. > :04:44.what has happened in the early hours of the morning and we are very lucky
:04:45. > :04:46.no`one has been injured. At the moment we have forensic officers
:04:47. > :04:50.recovering the bullets so we can look at where the bullet has come
:04:51. > :04:53.from and what type of weapon was used. The Catholic Church in the
:04:54. > :04:56.East Midlands has stepped into the bitter row over where the remains
:04:57. > :04:59.King Richard III should be placed. The Diocese says he should be
:05:00. > :05:02.reburied in Leicester as soon as possible and says it's crazy the
:05:03. > :05:05.dispute's gone on so long. Protesters in York say the King
:05:06. > :05:09.should be taken there. Tomorrow the arguments will be considered at the
:05:10. > :05:18.High Court in London. Simon Ward reports. Today, protesters in York,
:05:19. > :05:25.including distant relatives of Richard cold for the bones of the
:05:26. > :05:30.king to be taken off. Richard III was buried in Leicester after the
:05:31. > :05:36.Battle was worth where he remained until he was discovered in September
:05:37. > :05:42.2012. That is when the dispute began. The catholic dieses of
:05:43. > :05:45.Nottingham, which also covers Leicester, says Richard was a
:05:46. > :05:52.catholic and he should stay in Leicester. I think it is crazy that
:05:53. > :05:58.the war of the Roses seems to be being fought again over an the
:05:59. > :06:03.whereabouts of his body. I hope the result will be quick and speedy and
:06:04. > :06:12.something which all the interested parties can abide by. Work is well
:06:13. > :06:15.underway to the develop the area in front of Leicester Cathedral in
:06:16. > :06:22.preparation for the planned return of the King. High Court judges will
:06:23. > :06:30.start the two`day hearing to consider the arguments. Will it be
:06:31. > :06:34.here, your, or even further? That's your news. So, it's goodbye from me,
:06:35. > :06:42.but with your weather now, here's Kaye. Thank you. It has been a view
:06:43. > :06:46.to full day today, some lovely sunshine this afternoon. We had to
:06:47. > :06:53.wait a while to get that sunshine but we did get it. It is misty and
:06:54. > :06:58.murky with quite a lot of fog around first thing but that should burn
:06:59. > :07:01.away with brighter skies into the afternoon. Temperatures will be
:07:02. > :07:07.close to freezing for a few spots right now. We will see cloud
:07:08. > :07:10.increasing with some mist and fog forming towards the end of the
:07:11. > :07:17.night. Some of the mist and fog will be quite dense with mist and fog
:07:18. > :07:24.patches expected for rush`hour, a weather warning in force for that.
:07:25. > :07:27.The cloud will break up during the morning with lots of lovely sunshine
:07:28. > :07:32.coming through for the afternoon again. Eyes of 14 Celsius. That is
:07:33. > :07:33.it from us, I will Friday but fog less of a problem
:07:34. > :07:43.over the weekend. Good evening. Step outside in the
:07:44. > :07:48.morning and it feels a bit fresh. Reassure yourself, it could be a lot
:07:49. > :07:53.worse. Exactly a year ago it was extraordinarily cold and snowy.
:07:54. > :07:57.These were some of the scenes. This march is very different. A very
:07:58. > :08:00.pleasant in the sunshine, once the fog has cleared. The fog is
:08:01. > :08:03.re-forming again right now. Nasty patches developing through the
:08:04. > :08:11.night, becoming widespread across England and Wales. In the
:08:12. > :08:16.north-west, rain across Scotland. Temperatures well below these
:08:17. > :08:22.values. We have a yellow warning in force from the Met Office for fog.
:08:23. > :08:23.Could be very difficult patches around and disruption is certainly