30/03/2014 East Midlands Today


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You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

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A permanent tribute was unveiled today in Mansfield for a former

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soldier. Lee Bonsall took his own life. His family believe he suffered

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from post`traumatic stress disorder. Amy Harris reports.

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On a sunny spring morning, family and friends of Lee Bonsall gathered

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at Mansfield Heroes Memorial. Two years to the month after the former

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soldier took his own life, a stone has been laid here to remember him.

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It means everything. It's just lovely, just really, really nice.

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Makes me feel so proud. Private Bonsall served in Afghanistan but

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was discharged from the Army in 2007. His family believe he suffered

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from post`traumatic stress disorder after a friend he fought alongside

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was shot dead. It's really, really important that we remember people

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like Lee, because there are far too many people that are coming home

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from serving their country in war`torn places like Iraq and

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Afghanistan and taking their lives. This ceremony was an opportunity for

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those who knew Lee Bonsall best to say a final farewell, and in this

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quiet corner of Carr Bank Park, he will for ever be honoured alongside

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Mansfield's fallen heroes. Lincolnshire police say they are

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treating as "unexplained" the death of a man in Grantham this weekend.

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He was found dead inside a house on Oxford Street. Police believe the

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44`year`old suffered a head injury. It will be decided this week if

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buses will be allowed into Loughborough's newly revamped town

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centre, even on a trial basis. Jo Healey reports.

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Buses are welcome into Loughborough, just not through its marketplace.

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The town is undergoing a ?20 million face`lift, and most people living

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here want the centre to be fully pedestrianised. We've got the old

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side over here, which is Churchgate, who are complaining there's not

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enough business for them, and then you've got buses running through

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here, 49 an hour, which are trundling down the high street at a

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rate of knots. So we're trying to make the town centre a better,

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safer, more beautiful place to live in. Their bid is backed by retail

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guru Mary Portas, and 1,300 people answered a county council survey.

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The responses showed that just over 35% of people would prefer the road

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to stay as it is, with buses going up and down here. But more than 54%

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of people want the town centre to be a bus`free zone. There has to be

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some way that we can find it that meets what the county council needs

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to have as its duty as highways authority and what people in the

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town want. The decision on the bus trial will be made on Tuesday.

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Former Nottingham rugby star David Jackson led a charity cycle today

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ahead of afternoon's game. The group cycled 80 miles from Leeds to

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Nottingham before the two sides met at Meadow Lane. Money was being

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raised for Headway. It's after serious concussion on the pitch saw

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him leave the sport. I had to retire through a brain injury, and I wanted

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to do something for people in far worse situations than I am. I can

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complain about getting the odd headache and seeing stars when I'm

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cycling over 80 miles, but for some people, it's devastating for their

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life. In the game, Nottingham lost to Leeds 20`27.

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Nottingham Panthers crashed out of the Elite League play`offs this

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weekend after a mauling at the hands of Braehead Clan. Panthers were 4`0

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down after the first leg of the quarterfinals then lost 5`1 last

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night in the second leg. It saw them finish 9`1 on aggregate.

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Discussing the weekend's Football League action, Late Kick Off is here

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on BBC One tomorrow. Stan Collymore and Eric Steale, Derby County's

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goalkeeping coach, join Manish in the studio at 11:20.

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Now the weather, with Charlie. Good evening to you. Well, we start

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the night dry, but unfortunately we're probably not going to end the

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night dry, because as you can see, although it's clear at the moment,

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the cloud starts to move up from the south and in behind it some showers.

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Now, the majority of them are light and drizzly, but there is a chance

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that we might get the odd little slightly heavier pulse mixed up in

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there in those showers. But as you can see there from those

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temperatures, it is certainly going to be a mild night. As we go through

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into Monday, then, we have to put up with those showers through the

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morning. It's generally a drying theme as we go into the afternoon. I

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wouldn't want to guarantee a completely dry afternoon. There

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might be the odd spot of drizzle around, but it is mainly dry in the

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afternoon, if not overly bright, and that is reflected there in those

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temperatures. But thankfully, don't worry, things will get better as we

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go through the rest of the working week.

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The southerly winds of this weekend will maintain some warmth into next

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week. The air pollution index in England and Wales is set to reach

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