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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
evening. UK Coal has confirmed tonight that | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
the last remaining deep pit in the East Midlands is to shut next year. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The company is consulting with unions and employees about the | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
planned closure of Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire, which has been | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
operating since the 1920s. Helen Astle reports. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
It has been a sombre day today, the end of an era for deep coal mining | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
in Nottinghamshire. 600 people are employed here, the jobs are under | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
threat. 280 could go by the end of the year. It was last November the | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Chancellor visited the site and there was hope it had a future. It | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
is a different story today. Falling prices and the strength of the pound | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
against the dollar are being blamed. I spoke to several people | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
who work here, no one on camera but they told me they are shocked and | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
saddened. They also say they have been given little information by UK | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Coal as to what is happening and there listening to the radio for the | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
latest news. The site has been here since 1925, almost 90 years old. It | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
is the main employer. Many people have spent most of their lives here. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Today, they tell me they don't know what else they can do. The site will | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
close in the next 18 months. Earlier, I spoke to Andrew | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Mackintosh of UK Coal who confirmed the closure and explained the | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
company's position. A very difficult day for all of us. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
2000 employees, 600 in Thoresby and a sad day for Nottinghamshire. The | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
point about on how the situation is, we tried to keep employees | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
informed, today has been a crunch day weather news has come out with | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
competent `` about consultations. Consultations with unions and Andrew | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Mackintosh from UK Coal speaking to me earlier from our Norwich studio. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Employees, what will you talk about? We will look at the discussions are | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
taking place at the moment involving a wide range of people to see if we | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
can get a package together to make sure we can close the coal mines | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
down safely. At the same time, to make sure employees and suppliers | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
get the appropriate treatment they expect from such a plan. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
A lawyer has called for prosecutions over the death of an elderly care | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
home resident. 87`year`old Betty Arch, who had dementia, was offered | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
solid food despite not being able to swallow it. An inquest heard that | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
neglect at the home in Nottinghamshire contributed to her | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
death. The coroner said the case should act as a warning to other | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
care home owners. Rob Sissons reports. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Do not be fooled by the sign, this was not a quality provider. The | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
inquest heard staff were run ragged, mealtimes chaotic and the needs of | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
dementia patients not met. Betty Arch paid the ultimate price. Betty | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Arch died alone, left unsupervised with sandwiches. She should not have | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
had solid food, it should have been mashed or pureed. The coroner said | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
the attitude was take it or leave it. Take it, sandwiches and | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
biscuits, risked Betty's life, leave it and she would go hungry. This was | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
the owner. The inquest was told she was asked for more staff but this | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
was ignored. The coroner said she controlled the purse strings and the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
purse remained closed. Betty Arch's son left with his solicitor | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
demanding tougher action on care homes. Whilst nothing can bring | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
Betty back, the family hope lessons have been learnt by everyone | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
involved in the care of dementia patients and homes providing care | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
for these vulnerable residents will in future be much more closely and | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
effectively monitored. Tonight, Nottingham social services stressed | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
most of the 170 care homes they say are good or excellent but they do | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
have concerns about a handful. We have established a task force | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
which consists of professionals going in to work with those | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
identified homes to make sure they improve their quality of care. | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
The family don't understand why the facts that were produced at the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
inquest should not form a prosecution by the Health and Safety | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
Executive. Clearly, these residents' lives were put in danger. Concluding | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
the case, the coroner said Betty Arch died from natural causes | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
contributed by neglect. The trust which runs Derby's | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
hospitals is warning services could be cut unless the Government | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
provides it with an emergency financial bail`out. It's currently | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
spending ?66,000 a day over its budget. It had already been left | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
with a ?9 million deficit from the last financial year. And it needs to | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
make savings of ?43 million during this year. Officials say that could | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
have an impact, but there aren't any plans to cut whole services or make | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
any redundancies. But in the short`term it's going to need a | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
financial bail`out. We need to ask the Department of | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
Health for some short`term specialist funding to cover the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
extra costs we won't normally incur. That's so we can make sure we can | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
continue to deliver high`quality services for patients. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Soldiers from our largest local army regiment marched through Ashbourne | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
this afternoon. The Mercian's second battalion have served four gruelling | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
tours of duty in Afghanistan. This was the first of three "freedom | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
parades" in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire this week. Tomorrow | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
lunchtime they'll be marching through Mansfield Town centre. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
That's your news. So, it's goodbye from me but with your weather now, | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
here's Anna Church. We are currently at moderate | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
pollution levels and it continues to rise. The risk of moderate to high | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
levels of air pollution is something to be aware of. Tonight, mostly dry | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
and very mild across the East Midlands. Fairly cloudy, some | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
showers across the North at the moment, some clearer skies in the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
south of Leicestershire. Towards dawn, mist and fog forming in the | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
Peak District but a mild night, lows of eight Celsius. Cloud is quite | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
stubborn try morning, a misty and cloudy start. Any brightness in the | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
afternoon will be across the East and one or two showers starting to | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
push in. A good deal of dry weather. Temperatures, not too bad, a maximum | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
of 17 degrees. be dry. The air pollution has been | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
hitting the headlines today. For more information on that, here is my | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
colleague. Good evening. Very hazy skies in | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
London today and many other towns and cities across the UK. On | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Thursday there is the chance of some pretty high pollution in the | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
south-east and East Anglia but by the time we get towards the end of | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
the week, we will see clearer Atlantique air coming in and we | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
should get rid of the Saharan dust which has been making services | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
grubby in the last few days. You can see the pattern across the | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Atlantic. We also have a weather front. | :08:17. | :08:19. |