12/03/2014 East Midlands Today

they've still got a long way to go. That's all from us.

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale, Good

evening. A council leader has defended the use of covert lie

detector tests on people claiming a council tax discount. Voice analysis

software has been used to monitor telephone calls as part of a

campaign by a private firm. It managed to recover almost ?3 million

for 11 councils. Mike O'Sullivan reports. The firm managed to recover

almost ?3 million for 11 councils. On the phone and under investigation

the lie detector software was used on telephone phone calls with people

claiming a 25% reduction in their council tax bills because they lived

alone. The calls were analysed by a private company working on behalf of

11 councils in Derby and Derbyshire. One council defended the

tactics. The people being monitored did not know about the lie detector

tests. It is perfectly legitimate. They were in told that enquiries

were being made about their benefit. They were we are the tests were

serious ones and they would need to have truthful answers. It helped to

claw back around ?3 million in fraudulent claims. There were mixed

views in Derby. I think that is right, I really do. There are a lot

of people that fraud in the system. It is really an infringement of your

pregnancy. If you are not a weed of it you should at least be given a

choice as to whether you want to be getting a lie detector test or not.

I do battle people were told they were having their ranters recorded

for the detection of fraud. The counsellor is no longer funding

Council to carry out similar investigations into fraud. Earlier I

spoke to Chaminda Jayanetti who carried out the research for the

Trade Union`funded campaign group, False Economy. I began by asking him

how widespread is the use of lie detectors by councils. I think it is

spreading. At the moment it is limited. In 2010 the government

piloted the use of these so`called lie detectors in a number of

councils and then decided there was no evidence they worked so the whole

thing went dead. What is happening is that different councils

periodically decide to review one of the companies that bed for those

contracts. When the wind that contract very often they will bring

in this lie detector software to use on one of the claimants. What is

wrong with the council using voice analysing technology? Because it

does not work, there is no evidence it is working, when it has been

tried and studied in the past it has been found to not work. Ike macro

the say it is a useful tool and not one would be prosecuted on the basis

of this evidence alone. The way this works is that it is supposedly and

allies in micro tremors and intonations in people's voices and

decides where there is a high`risk they are lying or a low risk that

they are lying. The trouble is that drawing a brazen conclusion on the

substance of so little is very confusing. Thank you very much.

Police say it's lucky that no one was injured when a gun was fired

several times in a city street. Bullets are known to have hit at

least two properties in Derby. Armed police were cold to the Normanton

area of the city after the incident which is believed to be a revenge

attack. They say over the last few days tensions have grown between two

groups from within the same community. A firearm has been used

and it has actually hit two buildings. It is extremely dangerous

what has happened in the early hours of the morning and we are very lucky

no`one has been injured. At the moment we have forensic officers

recovering the bullets so we can look at where the bullet has come

from and what type of weapon was used. The Catholic Church in the

East Midlands has stepped into the bitter row over where the remains

King Richard III should be placed. The Diocese says he should be

reburied in Leicester as soon as possible and says it's crazy the

dispute's gone on so long. Protesters in York say the King

should be taken there. Tomorrow the arguments will be considered at the

High Court in London. Simon Ward reports. Today, protesters in York,

including distant relatives of Richard cold for the bones of the

king to be taken off. Richard III was buried in Leicester after the

Battle was worth where he remained until he was discovered in September

2012. That is when the dispute began. The catholic dieses of

Nottingham, which also covers Leicester, says Richard was a

catholic and he should stay in Leicester. I think it is crazy that

the war of the Roses seems to be being fought again over an the

whereabouts of his body. I hope the result will be quick and speedy and

something which all the interested parties can abide by. Work is well

underway to the develop the area in front of Leicester Cathedral in

preparation for the planned return of the King. High Court judges will

start the two`day hearing to consider the arguments. Will it be

here, your, or even further? That's your news. So, it's goodbye from me,

but with your weather now, here's Kaye. Thank you. It has been a view

to full day today, some lovely sunshine this afternoon. We had to

wait a while to get that sunshine but we did get it. It is misty and

murky with quite a lot of fog around first thing but that should burn

away with brighter skies into the afternoon. Temperatures will be

close to freezing for a few spots right now. We will see cloud

increasing with some mist and fog forming towards the end of the

night. Some of the mist and fog will be quite dense with mist and fog

patches expected for rush`hour, a weather warning in force for that.

The cloud will break up during the morning with lots of lovely sunshine

coming through for the afternoon again. Eyes of 14 Celsius. That is

it from us, I will Friday but fog less of a problem

over the weekend. Good evening. Step outside in the

morning and it feels a bit fresh. Reassure yourself, it could be a lot

worse. Exactly a year ago it was extraordinarily cold and snowy.

These were some of the scenes. This march is very different. A very

pleasant in the sunshine, once the fog has cleared. The fog is

re-forming again right now. Nasty patches developing through the

night, becoming widespread across England and Wales. In the

north-west, rain across Scotland. Temperatures well below these

values. We have a yellow warning in force from the Met Office for fog.

Could be very difficult patches around and disruption is certainly