:00:00. > :00:15.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.
:00:16. > :00:18.First tonight, ambulance crdws in Leicester were prevented
:00:19. > :00:21.from reaching a man who'd collapsed in a shop, because of bollards
:00:22. > :00:25.While a paramedic tried to get through,
:00:26. > :00:29.the shopper was revived by ` young first aider, working in the shop.
:00:30. > :00:33.He says if the delay had been any longer, the man may have didd.
:00:34. > :00:36.Here's our Chief News reporter Quentin Rayner.
:00:37. > :00:38.Shortly after 2pm yesterday afternoon a man in his seventies
:00:39. > :00:42.collapsed with a suspected heart attack in a shop on high Street.
:00:43. > :00:45.Staff member and trained first aider, 24`year`old
:00:46. > :00:49.Scott Marshall, carried out CPR for real for the first time.
:00:50. > :00:53.I saw the gentleman collapse on the floor by these army tunics.
:00:54. > :00:56.I immediately checked for a pulse, a sign of life `
:00:57. > :01:00.So I immediately started chest compression and after about five or
:01:01. > :01:04.His colleague dialled 999 immediately and was in constant
:01:05. > :01:09.Within minutes, a paramedic arrived but could not get past
:01:10. > :01:12.the automatic traffic bollards into the pedestrianised zond.
:01:13. > :01:16.BBC Radio Leicester's Martin Ballard witnessed her frustration.
:01:17. > :01:20.As I approached up the high street, I could see she was getting really
:01:21. > :01:23.She was trying to speak to him through the intercom
:01:24. > :01:26.and street cleansing workers were punching in codes, but no avail
:01:27. > :01:30.So for a good five to ten minutes she was sat here with nowhere to go.
:01:31. > :01:35.After the paramedic finally got through, she called an ambulance.
:01:36. > :01:40.But the crew had no luck and had to park in the market and walk to
:01:41. > :01:44.I was very cross when it came, because obviously, they had to
:01:45. > :01:52.In a statement, the city council told us thdre had
:01:53. > :01:55.been a temporary fault with the keypad at these bollards.
:01:56. > :01:57.It has been reset and is working normally.
:01:58. > :02:01.All the emergency services are going to be contacted with
:02:02. > :02:04.the up`to`date passcodes is to make sure they can get through.
:02:05. > :02:10.But a common complaint is that when you press the call button,
:02:11. > :02:22.At this time exactly a week from now, the polls will have just
:02:23. > :02:24.closed in the much`anticipated Newark parliamentary by`election.
:02:25. > :02:27.Today, it was the turn of Green Party leader Natalie Bennett
:02:28. > :02:31.And she had a tough message for energy firms hoping to dxploit
:02:32. > :02:34.Here's our Political Editor John Hess.
:02:35. > :02:37.This is no tourist sightseehng visit to Newark Castle.
:02:38. > :02:39.Greens leader Natalie Bennett has ambitions
:02:40. > :02:43.for her party to scale the political ramparts of this constituency and
:02:44. > :02:49.I think we can be confident of a strong showing in this by`election.
:02:50. > :02:53.We had a strong showing in the East Midlands and around the country.
:02:54. > :02:57.We all had a strong local election result, including Solihull,
:02:58. > :03:03.not far from here, where we are now the opposition on the council.
:03:04. > :03:05.The party's candidate David Kirwen represents NHS staff
:03:06. > :03:10.But after the Euro elections, can the Greens be considered just
:03:11. > :03:16.In the European elections in East Midlands, the Greens polled
:03:17. > :03:19.just under 6%, finishing fotrth and beating the Liberal Democrats.
:03:20. > :03:23.Could they build on that in the by`election?
:03:24. > :03:26.In the Euro elections, the Greens supported anti`fracking
:03:27. > :03:29.protesters who set up a camp near a proposed shale gas drilling
:03:30. > :03:33.site on the northern edge of this Nottinghamshire constituency.
:03:34. > :03:36.The Green party favours a b`n on fracking.
:03:37. > :03:38.This is because the fact is, first of all,
:03:39. > :03:42.we have to leave at least 50% of our known fossil fuel reserves
:03:43. > :03:45.in the ground if we are going to avoid catastrophic climate change.
:03:46. > :03:47.And so we should not be looking for more.
:03:48. > :03:50.But there is also grave and rightful concern about local
:03:51. > :03:52.environmental impacts ` certain ones including lorry movements
:03:53. > :03:56.and water use, but also risks of spillages, risks of disasters.
:03:57. > :03:59.So will the Greens leave more than a passing impression
:04:00. > :04:02.on the Conservative's grip of the constituency?
:04:03. > :04:12.And here's the list of 11 candidates standing in the
:04:13. > :04:20.Polling takes place on June the 5th ` that's next Thursday.
:04:21. > :04:23.And finally, Del Boy ` Peckham's finest ` today sw`pped
:04:24. > :04:27.He was here to talk about his love of flying.
:04:28. > :04:30.Sir David Jason is, in fact, an experienced pilot and is supporting
:04:31. > :04:34.a scheme to help air cadets learn to fly, whatever the weather.
:04:35. > :04:43.Arriving at RAF Syerston in Newark, the pilot Sir David Jason.
:04:44. > :04:47.Of course, as an actor, he is most famous for Open @ll Hours
:04:48. > :04:59.He was there to meet RAF yotngsters who use Syerston and want to learn
:05:00. > :05:05.to fly unpowered gliders and powered ones like this Vigilant
:05:06. > :05:09.He has come to hand over a cheque from an RAF charitable trust for
:05:10. > :05:16.Get off the television, get off the iPhones and the iPad.
:05:17. > :05:26.Sometimes when the weather is bad, a flight simulator will help to
:05:27. > :05:33.Then it was time to try to Vigilant simulator himself.
:05:34. > :05:38.People know you as an actor, I don't think many knew you were a pilot.
:05:39. > :05:42.Some things we have to keep to ourselves, as it were.
:05:43. > :05:45.I used to fly, many years ago I used to fly gliders.
:05:46. > :05:51.It was the cheapest way I could get to throw myself into the air
:05:52. > :05:56.It was a way to fulfil my love of flying.
:05:57. > :06:01.More recently somebody challenged me and said the most difficult thing to
:06:02. > :06:05.fly was a helicopter and would I try and learn to fly one of those.
:06:06. > :06:13.It says Trotter's Independent traders on the side.
:06:14. > :06:18.If you want any hooky gear, you know where to come.
:06:19. > :06:20.Always up for a challenge, Sir David successfully landed
:06:21. > :06:36.That's your news, so, it's goodbye from me.
:06:37. > :06:44.But with your weather now, here's Kaye.
:06:45. > :06:50.It is in pretty cold, cloudher miserable all day. But things are
:06:51. > :06:51.slowly improving over the next 24`hour is also. The rain whll
:06:52. > :06:55.24`hour is also. The rain will eventually fizzle out so it'll be a
:06:56. > :06:58.dry and hopefully a bit brighter later in the day. We still have a
:06:59. > :07:02.fewer spots of rain are that the moment, they will fade away late in
:07:03. > :07:04.the night, so we drive out through tonight. Quite a lot of clotd again
:07:05. > :07:05.tonight. Quite a lot of cloud again and I will hope the night, so we
:07:06. > :07:08.drive out through tonight. Puite a drive out through tonight. Quite a
:07:09. > :07:11.lot of cloud again and that will be temperatures up, so not longer than
:07:12. > :07:12.ten or 11 Celsius. Tomorrow morning, most of the starting of dry. There
:07:13. > :07:15.will be one or two showers `cross will be one or two showers across
:07:16. > :07:18.eastern parts, but these will fade away late on in the day. Hopefully,
:07:19. > :07:24.there will be some breaks in the cloud later, too. We have got
:07:25. > :07:26.lighter winds tomorrow, so will feel a bit warmer with highs of around 15
:07:27. > :07:29.a bit warmer with highs of `round 15 or 16 degrees.
:07:30. > :07:36.In a few moments we will have a full national forecast, but for now,
:07:37. > :07:42.Good evening. Most of us look like ending the week on a dry note. Some
:07:43. > :07:47.of us end it today on a particularly wet note. Notably across parts of
:07:48. > :07:52.south-west England and up into the Midland, a line of vicious storms
:07:53. > :07:57.and thunder in there too. They have been spreading further west in parts
:07:58. > :08:01.of Wales and southern counties. They'll tend to fade away the rest
:08:02. > :08:06.of the night, but one or two lingering on. Most other places
:08:07. > :08:10.having a quiet night. Cloud and mistiness out there.
:08:11. > :08:13.Across the glens of northern Scotland, temperatures will get well
:08:14. > :08:18.down into single fir. But for most of the rest of us, a relatively mild
:08:19. > :08:21.night staying in double digits. One or two showers from word go across
:08:22. > :08:24.the south-west which will be the focus for any showers tomorrow.
:08:25. > :08:27.There won't be that many. Most of the country will have a quiet day,
:08:28. > :08:35.albeit rather cloudy. Through the afternoon, a snapshot,
:08:36. > :08:36.mid