:00:47. > :00:52.Yes, that meeting started about an hour ago and the relatives are being
:00:53. > :00:55.told that home is to be given more time to see through improvements.
:00:56. > :01:00.Some improvements have already been noticed, the council say, but they
:01:01. > :01:07.have got to be sustained. To put this into context, there are 180
:01:08. > :01:12.care homes used by this authority, Nottinghamshire, across the county.
:01:13. > :01:16.Five contracts with five homes are currently suspended. That gives you
:01:17. > :01:20.some idea as to the level of concerns. When it comes to meet this
:01:21. > :01:26.home, I went to meet one relative who has already had enough.
:01:27. > :01:30.This is Auntie during the war. Theresa says she has always been
:01:31. > :01:33.close to her aunt throughout her life, and says Irene Shields was
:01:34. > :01:38.doing much better before going into care. Theresa says she picked the
:01:39. > :01:41.home, Eton Park at Cotgrave, in a rush, and soon regretted it. Not
:01:42. > :01:45.happy about the room or the cleanliness. When Auntie got so
:01:46. > :01:49.depressed that she would not get out of bed, they had to bring her a
:01:50. > :01:53.commode in, which she did not like using, but it did not get emptied
:01:54. > :01:56.regularly enough, and it really did smell. The Care Quality Commission's
:01:57. > :01:59.latest inspection found a lot of failures at Eton Park in March,
:02:00. > :02:02.including care not properly assessed, residents did not get
:02:03. > :02:11.enough nutrition and were not always protected from the risk of abuse. In
:02:12. > :02:14.a statement, the home said it was continuing to make improvements and
:02:15. > :02:30.has invested half a million pounds recently at the centre.
:02:31. > :02:36.Irene Shields, who is 97, is now in hospital. Her niece does not want
:02:37. > :02:45.her back in a care home. This is Auntie's room from when she lived
:02:46. > :02:49.with us for six months. This was her room. This is her ensuite. So you
:02:50. > :02:52.want her to come back? I definitely want her to come back, where she
:02:53. > :02:57.will be loved and cared for. Theresa now has a dim view of the care home.
:02:58. > :03:03.The council is giving Eton Park more time to sort things out, but her
:03:04. > :03:09.patience has run out. So how long has the home got to turn
:03:10. > :03:12.things around? I would say months at most. Improvement has got to be
:03:13. > :03:16.sustained. Ultimately, if the regulators were not happy, they do
:03:17. > :03:22.have the power to shut down the home. More widely, big questions are
:03:23. > :03:27.being asked about the care sector. We saw a Panorama programme on the
:03:28. > :03:31.BBC this week. Questions are being asked about the pressures that staff
:03:32. > :03:36.are under on the front line, as well as perhaps the need for cameras in
:03:37. > :03:40.homes. But this remains low paid work for a lot of the people
:03:41. > :03:45.involved in care. Some of them complain of working under huge
:03:46. > :03:50.pressure is. And also, of course, the sector is providing extremely
:03:51. > :03:53.valuable care to people The UKIP leader Nigel Farage called off a
:03:54. > :03:55.planned walk`about in Nottingham this lunchtime after a protestor hit
:03:56. > :04:00.him with an egg. And one day, we might need it.
:04:01. > :04:05.His visit comes the day after he refused to stand in the forthcoming
:04:06. > :04:10.by`election at Newark, which will take place on June the 5th. That
:04:11. > :04:13.by`election was triggered when the sitting MP Patrick Mercer resigned
:04:14. > :04:18.after admitting taking cash for questions. And today more details of
:04:19. > :04:23.his part in that scandal were revealed. Our Political Editor John
:04:24. > :04:29.Hess can tell us more. It's the moment every politician
:04:30. > :04:38.dreads. UKIP leader Nigel Farage was hit by an egg. No time for speeches,
:04:39. > :04:41.no time to greet supporters. Simply whisked away, the stage left to the
:04:42. > :04:44.egg throwing protester. They are just a redundant force that
:04:45. > :04:47.represents a redundant force in this country. A lot of people have been
:04:48. > :04:51.hoodwinked into thinking they agreed with their policies, when they don't
:04:52. > :04:54.actually. Inside a city centre pub, Nigel Farage, brushed up and minus
:04:55. > :04:57.yolk. The worry about this is that it is preventing normal democracy
:04:58. > :05:00.from taking place. No walkabout today, and on the day the Newark
:05:01. > :05:08.by`election was confirmed, no regrets either at not standing. In
:05:09. > :05:11.the Commons, the government Chief Whip Sir George Young officially
:05:12. > :05:15.tells MPs Patrick Mercer is no longer the MP for Newark. So to the
:05:16. > :05:19.Speaker, John Bercow, to formally kick`start the by`election campaign.
:05:20. > :05:29.The county constituency of Newark. Polling day, Thursday, June five.
:05:30. > :05:32.The extent of the disgrace of Newark's former MP Peter Mercer was
:05:33. > :05:34.revealed today in a publication of the parliament standards committee
:05:35. > :05:56.report that investigated his conduct. It said he:
:05:57. > :06:01.That was because he set up an all`party Parliamentary group on
:06:02. > :06:04.Fiji on behalf of a paying client, being represented, unknown to him,
:06:05. > :06:07.by undercover reporters. Back in Nottingham, this was the closest
:06:08. > :06:12.Nigel Farage came to the Newark constituency. One of the reasons
:06:13. > :06:15.Nigel Farage gave for not standing in Newark was that he didn't know
:06:16. > :06:18.the East Midlands or Newark particularly well. He will certainly
:06:19. > :06:21.remember his visit to Nottingham now. That is certainly true! You
:06:22. > :06:25.know, I have only been to Newark once in my life. It was supposed to
:06:26. > :06:34.be a campaign visit for the European elections, but Newark and an egg
:06:35. > :06:38.derailed all that. Still to come ` praise for a surgeon who's helping
:06:39. > :06:40.children to walk again. Rohan Rajan and his team from Derby use a
:06:41. > :06:49.technique that's helping youngsters like Fern live life to the full.
:06:50. > :06:53.Full details later. The family of a Nottingham soldier
:06:54. > :06:55.killed on a training exercise in Devon have described him as an
:06:56. > :07:01."amazing, son, brother, boyfriend and expectant father." 20`year`old
:07:02. > :07:08.Cameron Laing was hit by a trailer which was part of a convoy heading
:07:09. > :07:17.to Dartmoor. He suffered head and chest injuries. He was serving with
:07:18. > :07:20.a Royal Logistic Corps regiment based in Rutland. Police say they're
:07:21. > :07:22.continuing to investigate what happened.
:07:23. > :07:24.The mother of the missing Leicestershire girl, Madeleine
:07:25. > :07:27.McCann, says she supports a new campaign to help find missing
:07:28. > :07:30.children. Kate McCann from Rothley has been publicising the Child
:07:31. > :07:33.Rescue Alert system, used in parts of America and Europe. It comes as
:07:34. > :07:36.the McCanns approach the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of
:07:37. > :07:49.their 3`year`old daughter from a holiday resort in Portugal.
:07:50. > :07:52.Next tonight, the remarkable work of a medical team which is helping
:07:53. > :07:54.children walk again. Orthopaedic surgeon Rohan Rajan has just
:07:55. > :07:58.received a special award from the Mayor of Derby, but used the
:07:59. > :08:01.occasion to recognise the work of his colleagues. He's also been
:08:02. > :08:04.praised by Fern Ironmonger, his first patient to go through a
:08:05. > :08:11.special procedure in order to walk properly, and who now helps others
:08:12. > :08:15.facing the same operation. On yet another hospital visit, the
:08:16. > :08:19.iron monger family are coming to the Derbyshire Children's Hospital in
:08:20. > :08:25.Derby to see a man they now almost count as an old friend. Professor
:08:26. > :08:31.Rohan Rajan has been treating Fern four sevenths years, since she was
:08:32. > :08:33.13. `` he has been treating her for seven years. She was born with a
:08:34. > :08:39.condition where she was missing one of the major bones in each leg, only
:08:40. > :08:42.two toes on one foot and three on the other, and one leg shorter than
:08:43. > :08:50.the other. As she grew, her weakened lower leg started to bow and one
:08:51. > :08:53.foot turned right in. As a result, this leg was six and a half
:08:54. > :08:58.centimetres shorter than the other. The only wayward to correct it was
:08:59. > :09:04.with a frame. So she was my Pioneer, my first patient here in Derby. The
:09:05. > :09:08.procedure involved breaking her leg in two places. I have had two
:09:09. > :09:16.friends on. They rotated my foot back around, and they have
:09:17. > :09:21.straightened the bone in my lower leg. They have also lengthened it by
:09:22. > :09:26.four and a half centimetres. The frame was successful and Fern has
:09:27. > :09:32.had a final ankle operation, but now works full`time. She also advises
:09:33. > :09:37.other patients about the frames. What clothes to wear, what sort of
:09:38. > :09:42.things you can do. How to bathe as well, things like that. Simple tasks
:09:43. > :09:47.become difficult. She is a very good ambassador for the frame, to let
:09:48. > :09:50.other patients know what it is like. Now the professor has won an award
:09:51. > :09:55.from the mayor of Derby for helping over 100 children with foot and leg
:09:56. > :09:59.problems. Every surgeon requires a good team behind him or her, and
:10:00. > :10:05.this award is for the whole team. He has done an amazing job . It is nice
:10:06. > :10:08.that he is getting the recognition. Fern may now be approaching the end
:10:09. > :10:13.of her procedures, but she will be back, like the Professor, to help
:10:14. > :10:16.others. Next tonight, Sir David Attenborough
:10:17. > :10:18.returned to his childhood roots today to kick`start a fundraising
:10:19. > :10:25.appeal for a Leicestershire tourist attraction. The Rotary Club of
:10:26. > :10:35.Leicester wants to raise ?150,000 to build a visitor centre in Bradgate
:10:36. > :10:39.Park. Sir David, who's recovering from knee surgery, said the park is
:10:40. > :10:44.very important to both our past, and our future.
:10:45. > :10:49.Returning to a childhood haunt. Sir David Attenborough and his daughter
:10:50. > :10:55.look out over Bradgate Park. We came here as a family up onto those rock
:10:56. > :11:02.'s, up to the tower, paddling in the street. It was a vision of what the
:11:03. > :11:06.English countryside can be like which has stayed with me for ever.
:11:07. > :11:09.Sir David was visiting the park to help launch a fundraising appeal to
:11:10. > :11:15.build a new visitor centre. The Rotary Club of Leicester needs to
:11:16. > :11:19.raise ?150,000 to convert this ban so visitors can learn more about the
:11:20. > :11:25.history of the park. It was fantastic. He is inspiring. To hear
:11:26. > :11:31.him speak and have his support is amazing. If 10% of that rubs off on
:11:32. > :11:34.the rest of the people of Leicester, I am sure we will get all the help
:11:35. > :11:40.we need to raise the money. We know the Brad Kate park is special to
:11:41. > :11:44.many people, but to get somebody like Sir David saying how important
:11:45. > :11:48.it was to him personally, he said some very encouraging things about
:11:49. > :11:53.the work we are doing. So I am very pleased and I shall share that with
:11:54. > :11:59.the team. Bradgate Park is a very important part of my childhood. And
:12:00. > :12:03.I am sure it is part of the childhood of hundreds of thousands
:12:04. > :12:09.of people who grew up in Leicester, and still are doing so. And in spite
:12:10. > :12:15.of the huge increase in the size of the population, and all the
:12:16. > :12:18.pressures that brings, here it has been for 500 years. It is hoped the
:12:19. > :12:23.visitor centre will be up and running by the summer of 2016, to
:12:24. > :12:28.inspire a new generation of wildlife lovers.
:12:29. > :12:31.It probably hasn't escaped your notice ` but parts of the East
:12:32. > :12:41.Midlands have some of the highest number of roadworks in the UK.
:12:42. > :12:45.According to a new survey, Leicestershire's the second busiest
:12:46. > :12:51.area in the country ` with more than 1200 road improvement schemes on the
:12:52. > :12:53.go. Derby was third with 930 and Nottingham fifth with almost 600. 91
:12:54. > :12:57.UK councils provided information, with unfinished projects totalling
:12:58. > :13:01.around 10,000. Expectant mothers will now have to
:13:02. > :13:08.pay if they want a picture of their ultrasound scan in Nottingham. The
:13:09. > :13:10.NHS trust, which runs both Nottingham City Hospital and the
:13:11. > :13:14.Queen's Medical Centre, has introduced a ?5 charge for one scan
:13:15. > :13:16.print`out, or ?10 pounds for three. The Trust says it's to cover the
:13:17. > :13:23.costs of the thermal imaging paper. If you saw any sunshine today, you
:13:24. > :13:32.were lucky. So, is the grey here to stay? There will be many different
:13:33. > :13:34.shades of grey. However, I have at a news for the bank holiday weekend,
:13:35. > :13:49.later. I was lucky, I saw some sun. And
:13:50. > :13:56.Colin is here to bring some sunshine. I will try. Good news for
:13:57. > :13:58.Leicester City fans. The Thai owner and vice chairman at
:13:59. > :14:02.Leicester City, Aiyawatt Raksriaksorn, says he is talks with
:14:03. > :14:06.Nigel Pearson over a new contract. He says he wants him to stay and
:14:07. > :14:09.hopes the deal will be signed in the coming weeks. Aiyawatt, who is known
:14:10. > :14:14.as Top, rarely gives interviews, but today he said he gets on well with
:14:15. > :14:17.Nigel and would like him to be his manager in the Premier League.
:14:18. > :14:22.Pearson is out of contract in the summer and Top says they are in the
:14:23. > :14:27.middle of negotiations. There will be more information soon. I cannot
:14:28. > :14:33.say an individual, because it is not fair for anyone. In the next few
:14:34. > :14:40.weeks, you will see more. But I would prefer him to stay, of course.
:14:41. > :14:44.Top explains too why he wants to keep Nigel. Tune in tomorrow night
:14:45. > :14:49.to see more and for a special feature ahead of a celebratory
:14:50. > :14:53.weekend for the Foxes. One other bit of football news `
:14:54. > :14:57.Notts County Ladies kept up their brilliant start to the season with a
:14:58. > :15:03.5`0 drubbing of Aston Villa in the Continental Cup.
:15:04. > :15:05.It's the biggest fight in British history and today another 20,000
:15:06. > :15:12.tickets for Carl Froch's rematch with George Groves sold out in just
:15:13. > :15:15.a few minutes. It means there will be 80,000 fans inside Wembley
:15:16. > :15:18.stadium later this month to see the most eagerly`anticipated fight in
:15:19. > :15:21.decades. There's some flash photography coming up.
:15:22. > :15:25.Today Carl Froch and admitted to feeling worried, not about the
:15:26. > :15:31.fight, but about this. His first`ever helicopter flight. I am
:15:32. > :15:34.going on a short trip to London. I have no chance of making it in the
:15:35. > :15:39.traffic am so I will take a helicopter down there. Bit nervous.
:15:40. > :15:44.No nerves about his challenger, George Groves. The fierce rivalry
:15:45. > :15:49.between them and the controversy about that last fight helped sell
:15:50. > :15:53.20,000 tickets in minutes today. It has sold out. It is safe to say that
:15:54. > :15:59.Wembley stadium will be full. It is unbelievable. I am just glad to be
:16:00. > :16:04.part of it. It is a platform for me to showcase my skills and show
:16:05. > :16:08.people that any queries over the first fight which are hovering, I
:16:09. > :16:13.can set the record straight. Groves has waged a war of words with frogs,
:16:14. > :16:17.who is taking little notice. When you have got kids, there is this
:16:18. > :16:22.noise all the time. I put it on a similar level as that, because he is
:16:23. > :16:27.very childish. So it is not about him, this fight. It is about me.
:16:28. > :16:34.Good luck with that and with the helicopter flight. I am more nervous
:16:35. > :16:39.about the helicopter! So, Froch, the challenger, is off to face his
:16:40. > :16:45.challenger, Groves. The countdown to the biggest fight in British history
:16:46. > :16:48.is definitely on. Other news ` Nottinghamshire bowler
:16:49. > :16:51.Harry Gurney has been included in the England Cricket Squad to face
:16:52. > :16:54.Scotland in next week's One Day International. It was the first
:16:55. > :16:56.squad influenced by new selector and Notts Director of Cricket Mick
:16:57. > :16:59.Newell. Onto rugby, and Leicester Tigers sit
:17:00. > :17:03.on the edge of the Premiership Semi`Finals this week. A win away at
:17:04. > :17:07.Sale on Saturday should be enough to take them over the line. And as I
:17:08. > :17:10.found out this week, the team returned to training in determined
:17:11. > :17:15.mood. They had a week off. And they came
:17:16. > :17:18.back ready, with enough fire in their bellies to take it out on each
:17:19. > :17:22.other. Quite a few boys have clearly been sitting on the beach and
:17:23. > :17:26.getting worked up. They are used to smashing into each other and have
:17:27. > :17:32.had nothing to do for a few weeks, so it was feisty in training, which
:17:33. > :17:38.was good to see. Oh, the harlequins defeat. So narrow, so dramatic. It
:17:39. > :17:43.means Tigers cut honestly hope for a home semifinal now, but they are not
:17:44. > :17:47.the tin that deterred them. We want to win every week. That is our goal.
:17:48. > :17:57.We don't plan on taking any weeks off. Every time we put on the green
:17:58. > :18:03.jersey, we want to win. There is still competition for the third and
:18:04. > :18:07.fourth spot. You can win it. You are away from home in the semis, but we
:18:08. > :18:12.are good enough to win. Fans will travel away, and they will always go
:18:13. > :18:16.with Twickenham on their minds. With the mindset that the players have
:18:17. > :18:21.got, there is no doubt we will be mentally ready for four games. BBC
:18:22. > :18:24.radio Leicester have commentary this weekend.
:18:25. > :18:26.Already in their play`off semi`finals are the Leicester
:18:27. > :18:30.Riders' basketball team. The defending Champions must get past
:18:31. > :18:32.League winners Newcastle. Tonight, Riders are back at Loughborough
:18:33. > :18:36.University and hoping for another big crowd for the home leg of their
:18:37. > :18:46.tie, after seeing off Cheshire in the quarters there at the weekend.
:18:47. > :18:50.Here we go, Newcastle again. Both teams have great respect for each
:18:51. > :18:55.other. The games are credit to our league. We know it will be a tough
:18:56. > :18:58.match and we know we have to play well. And finally, all the best to
:18:59. > :19:02.Leicester's snooker star Mark Selby, who begins his World Championship
:19:03. > :19:05.semifinal in a few minutes. The opening frames against Neil
:19:06. > :19:14.Robertson are live on BBC Two from seven.
:19:15. > :19:17.A football fan has just completed a mammoth charity challenge ` cycling
:19:18. > :19:20.3,500 to every Leicester City away game this season. Foxes supporter
:19:21. > :19:24.Richard Page has been raising money to find a cure for a rare medical
:19:25. > :19:30.condition which has left his son unable to walk or talk. Emily
:19:31. > :19:45.Anderson has been to meet the family.
:19:46. > :19:48.Six`year`old Ellis has a condition called MEC P2 duplication syndrome.
:19:49. > :19:53.It is a chromosomal abnormality which affects developed. Ellis is
:19:54. > :19:57.one of only 30 children in the UK who have been diagnosed with the
:19:58. > :20:03.condition. He is unable to walk or talk, and suffers daily from
:20:04. > :20:07.epileptic seizures. Luckily, they are coming more under control. The
:20:08. > :20:12.big goal is to get him to do those things that every other six`year`old
:20:13. > :20:17.boy can do. It gets tough at times, especially when he suffers with his
:20:18. > :20:20.chest. We are always wary about the weather and taking him out. Since
:20:21. > :20:24.Leicester City's championship campaign began last August, Richard
:20:25. > :20:28.has joined the Foxes on their journey, cycling to each of their
:20:29. > :20:32.away games. He has clocked up thousands of miles an hour to get
:20:33. > :20:36.the matches, and at times, he says it has been really tough. When I
:20:37. > :20:43.first started, I had never actually ridden a bike since I was young.
:20:44. > :20:49.Then we waited for the fixture list to come out. Middlesbrough was 186
:20:50. > :20:54.miles. On Saturday at Leicester City's final game of the season,
:20:55. > :20:59.Richard will be presented with a cheque for ?23,000 from the club's
:21:00. > :21:04.Thai owners. ?1000 for every away game he has travelled to the season.
:21:05. > :21:09.Richard has raised over ?75,000 so far but he says he will keep
:21:10. > :21:16.fundraising until a cure for his son's condition is found.
:21:17. > :21:26.We salute you. Time for the weather now, with the
:21:27. > :21:31.rainy old and. Things are improving! But you are right, there
:21:32. > :21:41.has been heavy rain around for some of us today. The cloud has proved
:21:42. > :21:45.stubborn. We are expecting it to be cloudy for much of the day
:21:46. > :21:49.tomorrow, but mostly drive. You will notice it feeling colder. That is
:21:50. > :21:54.down to this cold front which is moving south as we go through the
:21:55. > :21:58.day on Friday. Behind it, there will be much colder air from the north
:21:59. > :22:06.bringing a change to things tomorrow. Tonight, the showers will
:22:07. > :22:10.clear away during the evening. The cloud might be thick enough to
:22:11. > :22:16.produce a few spots of light rain or drizzle. A slightly cooler night
:22:17. > :22:20.that we have been used to. It is a cloudy and dull start of the day. A
:22:21. > :22:25.bit of light and patchy rain around through the morning. As the cold
:22:26. > :22:34.front clears south, behind it it becomes drier and brighter in the
:22:35. > :22:41.afternoon. Feeling fresher in the north`easterly breeze. For the
:22:42. > :22:44.weekend, high pressure is in charge for Saturday and it remains in
:22:45. > :22:49.charge as we go into Sunday. So it looks like a fine, settled and dry
:22:50. > :23:00.weekend. Not wall`to`wall sunshine, but there will be plenty of it
:23:01. > :23:07.around. And for the weekend, there will be temperatures of 12 or 13
:23:08. > :23:11.Celsius. On Monday, there will be warmer air and temperatures in the
:23:12. > :23:15.mid to high teens. I take it back, I will not call you rainy again!
:23:16. > :23:17.Now, time to tell you about an exciting opportunity. If you've
:23:18. > :23:20.fancied being a broadcaster, this might be for you. This month, the
:23:21. > :23:24.BBC is offering apprenticeships in its local radio stations and
:23:25. > :23:26.applications will be taken until May the 12th. Successful candidates will
:23:27. > :23:29.start their 15 month apprenticeships in September and after training,
:23:30. > :23:30.they'll work as Apprentice Broadcast Assistants in English local radio
:23:31. > :23:36.stations. If you're over 18 this September, a
:23:37. > :23:47.non`graduate ` and you want to find out more ` visit the BBC website.
:23:48. > :23:52.Who knows, you could be joining our colleagues in BBC local radio later
:23:53. > :23:59.this year. That was how we started. Have a go!
:24:00. > :24:04.I shall be back with the latest news. Enjoy your evening.