:00:00. > 3:59:59Luft III. That is all from us. Don't forget,
:00:00. > :00:18.first Good evening. Now the news for the
:00:19. > :00:23.East Midlands. First tonight, a Catholic priest,
:00:24. > :00:26.who abused children across the East Midlands for four decades, has been
:00:27. > :00:33.jailed for 15 years. Today a court heard claims that the church covered
:00:34. > :00:39.up Francis Paul Cullen's crimes. To some, he was an enthusiastic,
:00:40. > :00:44.charismatic and friendly priest, but to others, a predatory paedophile.
:00:45. > :00:50.Last month, Francis Paul Cullen admitted 21 counts of sexual abuse
:00:51. > :00:56.against seven boys and girls, over a 34`year period from 1957 to 1991. It
:00:57. > :01:02.began here at a church he'd helped to set up Christ the King in Derby.
:01:03. > :01:07.Altar boys and school children in his care were abused. A complaint
:01:08. > :01:15.about his conduct was lodged as early as 1964, but he stayed in his
:01:16. > :01:19.job and later moved to Buxton and then near Nottingham. Many of the
:01:20. > :01:22.victims say Cullen stole their childhood and deeply affected their
:01:23. > :01:27.adult relationships. In a personal letter to Cullen, read out in court
:01:28. > :01:31.today, one told him, "You had a calling from the devil. I'm sure
:01:32. > :01:35.your maker can't wait to meet up with you. I don't know if you're
:01:36. > :01:41.going to rot in hell. I hope you rot in jail." Today's sentence, 15 years
:01:42. > :01:46.in prison, goes some way in providing a degree of closure for
:01:47. > :01:50.the victims of this case. Any sentence passed will never truly
:01:51. > :01:54.reflect the damage that has been caused by Francis Paul Cullen
:01:55. > :01:58.towards his young and vulnerable victims. Confident that the measures
:01:59. > :02:05.we have taken, as a response to what has happened before, have led to the
:02:06. > :02:10.Catholic Church being a much better safeguarder of children and
:02:11. > :02:14.vulnerable adults. On the run from the authorities for more than 20
:02:15. > :02:18.years, living here in Tenerife. While here, he told others he had
:02:19. > :02:22.been a priest in the UK and witnesses say from time to time, he
:02:23. > :02:27.even wore a priest's dog collar. He was finally arrested last summer.
:02:28. > :02:35.It's expected Cullen will be aged almost 96 before he can be
:02:36. > :02:40.considered for parole. Nottingham Forest chairman and
:02:41. > :02:46.owner, Fawaz Al`Hasawi, has asked fans to be patient as looks to
:02:47. > :02:51.appoint a new manager. Billy Davies's reign came to an abrupt end
:02:52. > :02:57.today after an embarrassing defeat at Derby. Forest hadn't won in eight
:02:58. > :03:01.games. There's been intense speculation that Neil Warnock, who
:03:02. > :03:05.started his managerial career at Meadow Lane, will take over at the
:03:06. > :03:10.City Ground. Our sports editor is with me now. Is Warnock the man?
:03:11. > :03:15.Well, it's been quite a saga today. This morning, we were told by
:03:16. > :03:20.somebody very close to Neil Warnock that they were going to be appointed
:03:21. > :03:24.at the City Ground this afternoon. Then Lee Peltier, Warnock's former
:03:25. > :03:28.captain at Leeds United, arrived at the training ground, the club
:03:29. > :03:33.announced that he had signed on loan. Later, the chairman left the
:03:34. > :03:40.training ground and denoid that, even though it had been announced on
:03:41. > :03:43.the club website that Peltier was to sign for the club. This evening Neil
:03:44. > :03:47.Warnock has come out and ruled himself out of the job. There were
:03:48. > :03:53.quotes around saying, "I did not feel the conditions of the job were
:03:54. > :03:58.right for me to manage." Academy manager Gary Brazil is in charge at
:03:59. > :04:04.the moment. It looks likely he will lead the team out tomorrow for the
:04:05. > :04:08.game. So it rumbles on. Thank you very much.
:04:09. > :04:11.Next, a controversial scheme in Derbyshire is offering women
:04:12. > :04:15.hundreds of pounds in shopping vouchers to quit smoking during
:04:16. > :04:20.pregnancy and just after giving birth.
:04:21. > :04:26.It's thought to be an East Midlands first, offering financial rewards to
:04:27. > :04:29.help pregnant women who smoke kick the habit. Just over 200 women in
:04:30. > :04:35.Derbyshire signed up. Their challenge ` to be smoke`free from
:04:36. > :04:41.around 12 weeks into pregnancy right the way through to six months after
:04:42. > :04:45.the birth. Their reward, up to ?752 in shopping vouchers. But the prize
:04:46. > :04:50.proved too difficult for most of them. Just 56, only a quarter,
:04:51. > :04:54.managed to stay off the cigarettes all the way through to birth and
:04:55. > :04:58.only 26 resisted smoking all the through to the finishing line, which
:04:59. > :05:05.is six months after the baby arrived. On the face of it, then, a
:05:06. > :05:10.poor success rate, but those behind the experiment insist it's money
:05:11. > :05:14.well spent. The maximum is just over ?700, which is very small when you
:05:15. > :05:19.consider the cost of special baby units and the cost to NHS of smoking
:05:20. > :05:24.in pregnancy is very high, ?6,000 a pregnancy. In my view the cost is
:05:25. > :05:29.small compared to the result. So how does it work? Well to make sure
:05:30. > :05:32.there's no cheating, the women were given regular breath tests. Every
:05:33. > :05:38.time they passed, the vouchers stacked up. Starting at ?8, the
:05:39. > :05:42.incentives went up to a maximum of ?32 for each clear test. The less
:05:43. > :05:46.you smoke, the more you can shop. Now there's talk of expanding it
:05:47. > :05:51.from one part of Derbyshire to the rest. With the risks of smoking in
:05:52. > :05:55.pregnancy well known, should it really take vouchers for women to
:05:56. > :05:59.put down their cigarettes while the taxpayer picks up the tab? It sends
:06:00. > :06:04.out the wrong signal. It's morally wrong. It's wasting taxpayers'
:06:05. > :06:07.money, it doesn't work. It's taking valuable resources from other
:06:08. > :06:12.schemes that might work. In what way is this a good idea? In what way can
:06:13. > :06:17.rolling out the scheme be justified? It can according to those at
:06:18. > :06:21.Derbyshire County Council, ?37,000 has been spent and they say you
:06:22. > :06:28.can't put a price on the health of a baby and its mum.
:06:29. > :06:32.That's your news and sport. Goodbye from me. We leave you with the
:06:33. > :06:36.weather. We had super sunshine around today.
:06:37. > :06:39.But the spinning globe gives the game away, we have rain on the way.
:06:40. > :06:42.It's courtesy of a weather front spilling in from the west as we
:06:43. > :06:46.speak. This one is going to hang around for much of the day tomorrow.
:06:47. > :06:50.So, a completely different feel to things tomorrow. It will be cloudy,
:06:51. > :06:56.it will be damp. Outbreaks of rain and it will feel colder as well. The
:06:57. > :06:58.clouds are starting to thicken now. The rain pushes in over the next
:06:59. > :07:03.couple of hours. It will be light and patchy. There's nothing
:07:04. > :07:07.particularly heavy with the rain. It gives a cloudy and damp night.
:07:08. > :07:10.Temperatures, a milder night than last night. Lows of four or five
:07:11. > :07:15.Celsius. It's a milder start tomorrow morning. But a cloudy, damp
:07:16. > :07:19.start. Outbreaks of rain through the morning. It should start to fragment
:07:20. > :07:23.into the afternoon and become more showery in nature. But it is still
:07:24. > :07:24.going to feel on that chilly side. Highs of around seven or eight
:07:25. > :07:27.Celsius.