:00:00. > :00:07.the better the chance of a rather wet and chilly day.
:00:08. > :00:10.This is East Midlands Today. Tonight ` a city calls time on
:00:11. > :00:34.spiralling levels of truancy. Forget church moves and railway
:00:35. > :00:40.lines. Thieves have taken his crime is a stretch further.
:00:41. > :00:45.Rescued from a garden shed. Remarkable footage from a World War
:00:46. > :00:50.I munitions factory. And relaxing now, in a few moments
:00:51. > :00:59.time, Carl Froch talks to me about his super fight.
:01:00. > :01:04.Good evening and welcome to Monday's programme. First tonight, we can
:01:05. > :01:08.reveal that thousands of fines have been issued to parents whose
:01:09. > :01:12.children have played truant so far this school year. In one city
:01:13. > :01:16.there's been a steep rise. Pupils at schools in Nottingham are among the
:01:17. > :01:19.worst in the country for truancy. From today the city council wants
:01:20. > :01:24.schools to take a 'zero tolerance' approach with a tough message to
:01:25. > :01:27.parents ` if your child is not in school, you are breaking the law,
:01:28. > :01:36.and could face prison. Jo Healey reports from Bulwell Academy.
:01:37. > :01:43.Although it is one of the worst schools for truancy in Nottingham,
:01:44. > :01:47.many want to be here. If I have 100%
:01:48. > :01:51.attendance, I know employers have a high chance of employing me. I am
:01:52. > :01:55.always at school to get my work done so I can get a good grade on my
:01:56. > :01:59.GCSE. And this school year, they have been taking a tough line on
:02:00. > :02:04.truancy. Our attendance has risen by over 1%. And persistent absentees
:02:05. > :02:08.have gone down by 6%. I can only think that what the council is doing
:02:09. > :02:11.will support what we are doing as a school. Nottingham has slumped to
:02:12. > :02:14.150th out of 152 local authorities in the country's school attendance
:02:15. > :02:17.table. The people of Nottingham would
:02:18. > :02:21.expect us not to be near the bottom of the league table. We do have
:02:22. > :02:24.issues, but not more than the rest of the country. We would like to see
:02:25. > :02:26.more improvements. There have been some but we
:02:27. > :02:29.we would like to step that up. They are doing
:02:30. > :02:33.it by talking to youngsters in schools, out in the street. All
:02:34. > :02:35.staff, council or the police can challenge youngsters. Parents are
:02:36. > :02:38.being fined and ultimately face prison. It
:02:39. > :02:44.is a legal duty for every young person to attend school every day
:02:45. > :02:46.unless they are too unwell to do so. That
:02:47. > :02:52.is our expectation in Nottingham. I will not apologise for
:02:53. > :03:03.using fines. At the end of last year, seven of
:03:04. > :03:06.Nottingham's secondary schools, that is half of them, were put into
:03:07. > :03:08.special measures. One of Ofsted's key
:03:09. > :03:11.issues was poor attendance. Now, the council is hoping that the zero
:03:12. > :03:13.tolerance approach will bring more pupils back into schools and keep
:03:14. > :03:28.them there. So, is this to do with people taking
:03:29. > :03:35.their children out of school because it was go on holiday, because it is
:03:36. > :03:40.cheaper? But some of these absences are children going out of school
:03:41. > :03:44.behind their parents' back. Some parents let their children stay out
:03:45. > :03:48.of school because they are tired, even because they want to go on a
:03:49. > :03:56.shopping trip. For a lot of these children, their education is really
:03:57. > :04:00.suffering. How big is a problem is it? You can see from these figures
:04:01. > :04:14.from the Department for Education. There were more than 3,500
:04:15. > :04:17."unauthorised absences" in the Autumn term alone. Now a lot of
:04:18. > :04:20.those children's parents were fined as a result. In Leicester, they've
:04:21. > :04:23.issued more than 2,000 fixed penalties since last Summer. With
:04:24. > :04:26.over 600 more across Leicestershire and Rutland. The councils in Derby
:04:27. > :04:30.City and Derbyshire both handed out more than 800 fines. And there were
:04:31. > :04:32.over 400 more, across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. All for children
:04:33. > :04:37.missing school without permission. And how much are people being fined?
:04:38. > :04:42.Well it can all add up. Those fixed penalty notices are for ?120. If
:04:43. > :04:50.that doesn't work, they prosecute you. And then fine you up to ?2,500.
:04:51. > :04:52.So they're taking this very seriously. And if your children do
:04:53. > :05:09.miss school, there's a good chance miss school, there's a good chance
:05:10. > :05:12.it'll cost you. Pupils across the East Midlands
:05:13. > :05:16.returned to the classroom today after the half term break, but not
:05:17. > :05:19.at a school in Leicester. Parks Primary has been forced to shut
:05:20. > :05:22.because thieves have stolen pipes cutting off the water supply. Around
:05:23. > :05:30.130 feet of copper piping has been taken. Emily Anderson reports.
:05:31. > :05:36.When staff arrived at school this morning, this is not what they
:05:37. > :05:40.expected to find. During half term, thieves climbed onto the roof using
:05:41. > :05:48.this ladder. They damage the doors into the roof space. Here, above the
:05:49. > :05:52.school reception, they stole 131 feet of copper piping, ripping out
:05:53. > :06:00.all the copper they could find. The pipe supply the water to the school,
:06:01. > :06:06.so there was no option but to close. It is extremely frustrating. You are
:06:07. > :06:10.ready to learn, and you have to close because we have no water going
:06:11. > :06:15.into the toilet. It is not clear at this stage how much the piping is
:06:16. > :06:21.worth, but ?2 of copper normally spells `` normally sells for about
:06:22. > :06:24.?2 50. Police are saying they are investigating the theft and work is
:06:25. > :06:29.going on to get the water supply back on. All the staff can do is
:06:30. > :06:33.wait. There is nothing sadder than an empty classroom for a
:06:34. > :06:37.headteacher. Your job is about teaching children and we have not
:06:38. > :06:41.been able to do that. Just because of a bit of mindless damage and only
:06:42. > :06:46.a small amount gained for the criminals. But a massive problem for
:06:47. > :06:51.the school. The damage is still being assessed, but because there is
:06:52. > :06:54.no water here at the school, it will have to remain closed. Staff hope
:06:55. > :07:16.they can reopen by the end of the week.
:07:17. > :07:22.We will be we will be talking to Carl later on, life.
:07:23. > :07:37.Join me for the details of the weather later on in the programme.
:07:38. > :07:41.In Leicester family is calling for improvements after a man died on his
:07:42. > :07:45.way home. A man died after swerving. His
:07:46. > :07:52.family said the road is blighted by speeding drivers.
:07:53. > :07:59.At the moment, he has 3463 people who have paid their respects.
:08:00. > :08:03.Tributes have flooded in for the popular doorman who died on his way
:08:04. > :08:08.home from work eight days ago. Those people that are put there to beat on
:08:09. > :08:13.Facebook, it has helped me. It has really helped me through one of the
:08:14. > :08:20.worst times of my entire life. He was a wonderful dad, devoted. He was
:08:21. > :08:28.one of the most well loved, well`respected person, Dorman that
:08:29. > :08:33.you could ever wish to meet. He hit the curb, we think you then lost
:08:34. > :08:38.control. He has come up this drop curbs and then he has had the post.
:08:39. > :08:43.He has then continued on and fell in the hedge further on. Cheryl is
:08:44. > :08:47.trying to work out why her partner swerved off the road. The
:08:48. > :08:55.44`year`olds died from head injuries. It is is heartbreaking for
:08:56. > :09:00.us as a family. We want to know why it happened. We may not ever know.
:09:01. > :09:06.This is the second death on this stretch of road in two months.
:09:07. > :09:11.Dale's family says it needs to be made safer. We don't think you just
:09:12. > :09:18.came off. We think he was overtaken. It has got to be made slower. It is
:09:19. > :09:21.too much of a fast road. A County Council spokesman said it would be
:09:22. > :09:27.inappropriate to comment at this stage. Meanwhile, this family
:09:28. > :10:08.1000 people are expected to attend. 1000 people are expected to attend.
:10:09. > :10:13.A car park, badly damaged in Derby has been reopened. The 70 rooms have
:10:14. > :10:16.also been reopened. There has been rebuilding work and it should open
:10:17. > :10:21.again in the middle of this month. The council want to look at all
:10:22. > :10:24.options for the main venue including its demolition. It could be months
:10:25. > :10:29.before any decision is made on the venue's future.
:10:30. > :10:33.Another major part of Nottingham railway station has been reopened.
:10:34. > :10:40.`` has been opened. The main concourse is the part which will
:10:41. > :10:45.link to the car park. It will also link to the extended tram system. It
:10:46. > :10:49.is part of ?1 million that of a multi`million pound station
:10:50. > :10:53.overhaul. A sixth defendant accused of
:10:54. > :10:57.murdering a family of four in a botched arson attack says he lied to
:10:58. > :11:01.police because of fear. Jackson Powell said he was scared to put his
:11:02. > :11:10.family in danger if he named the man who he believed was in danger. The
:11:11. > :11:15.family killed was in Leicester. On trial for murder, Jackson Powell
:11:16. > :11:20.joined his co`accused in blaming Tristan Richards. To be fatal fire
:11:21. > :11:25.at Woodhill in Leicester last September. The 20`year`old said he
:11:26. > :11:29.was outside the terraced house when he saw 23 older Richards pour petrol
:11:30. > :11:34.over the front door. The prosecution claim it was a revenge attack, but
:11:35. > :11:43.on the wrong house. It killed a woman and T3 teenage children.
:11:44. > :11:48.Powell, who had spent a few years in the Army was due to start a business
:11:49. > :11:52.degree at University. The jury heard he cried in police interviews
:11:53. > :11:57.because he said he had no idea there would be a fire. His barrister asked
:11:58. > :12:00.him, why do you lie about two movements that night? Powell
:12:01. > :12:04.replied, I was trying to distance myself from the situation and from
:12:05. > :12:09.what I have seen, knowing what at least one of my co`defendants was
:12:10. > :12:15.capable of, I did not want to put myself or my family at risk. Jackson
:12:16. > :12:19.Powell said he was so frightened, he initially did not give police
:12:20. > :12:24.Tristan Richards' name. He said he feared it would put him or his
:12:25. > :12:28.family in serious danger because Richards had a big repetition. He
:12:29. > :12:31.said he had heard he had stabbed people and owned guns. That is
:12:32. > :12:37.something that Tristan Richards has consistently denied. Powell denies
:12:38. > :12:47.four charges of murder as to all the other defendants.
:12:48. > :12:53.Now, turn around in Europe these days, `` in Newark, these days and
:12:54. > :12:57.you are likely to bump into someone who run the country. The Prime
:12:58. > :12:59.Minister is in town but he was not the only big beast. You might have
:13:00. > :13:46.found the Shadow Chancellor Today's electioneering destination,
:13:47. > :13:51.you're a's biggest employer, this distribution centre. Prime Minister,
:13:52. > :13:52.your fourth visit in Newark in a few weeks, you must be particularly
:13:53. > :14:57.concerned? Farage said that he thought they
:14:58. > :15:01.were 80% of the way to getting the swing they need to win. That would
:15:02. > :15:06.open the door to getting the balance of power in the general election
:15:07. > :15:10.next year. No Nigel Farage in town today, perhaps a good thing with one
:15:11. > :15:17.stallholder willing to sell eggs for 50p a throw. It was of a laugh
:15:18. > :15:25.today, a bit of a farce. But it certainly put Newark on the map. And
:15:26. > :15:29.the high`profile nature of the Prime Minister's visit did not deter one
:15:30. > :15:34.man from showing his entrepreneurial visit. Have you heard of the
:15:35. > :15:41.cashback for any television over ?1700?
:15:42. > :15:43.And many candidates are standing in the by`election. He is a list of all
:15:44. > :16:14.11 standing on Thursday. taken. Emily Anderson reports.
:16:15. > :16:17.Well, here he is. The man of the moment. Carl Froch. On Saturday
:16:18. > :16:20.night he took on George Groves in front of 80,000 at Wembley and
:16:21. > :16:26.millions around the world on television. A grudge match. A score
:16:27. > :16:37.Have you absorb what you were part of, Carl Froch? I do. Reality hits
:16:38. > :16:42.me in the morning. I had one decent night's sleep. Wembley Stadium,
:16:43. > :16:47.80,000, phenomenal. It will take a bit longer than a couple of days to
:16:48. > :16:52.sink in. Let's reflect on it ourselves. There is a fight, on DVD.
:16:53. > :17:17.We will have more from Carl in a few moments. Let's relive it.
:17:18. > :17:22.Groves. One punch from the champion which settled this feud once and for
:17:23. > :17:25.all. Wembley was simply electric as Carl Froch and Groves came
:17:26. > :17:32.face`to`face. The time for talking was done. Time to finish business.
:17:33. > :17:36.With so much at stake, Little wonder the opening rounds were cagey. No
:17:37. > :17:40.clue as to what was to come. Round eight started slowly but finished in
:17:41. > :17:44.breathtaking style. A stunning finale from the world champion with
:17:45. > :17:50.his devastating right hook. Groves has been knocked out! He has
:17:51. > :17:53.successfully followed those world titles and settled a score with
:17:54. > :18:00.George Groves. He's promised to deliver and did so in some style
:18:01. > :18:06.here at Wembley. That is the biggest occasion I have been
:18:07. > :18:10.involved in, boxing wise. And the biggest I will be involved in for
:18:11. > :18:15.the next 20 years. This means everything to me in terms of my
:18:16. > :18:25.Boxing career. I can't wait to tell my kids what I did last night. He
:18:26. > :18:30.demolished groves and proved his doubters wrong. His latest title
:18:31. > :18:33.defence, his most satisfying. I would have had to listen to the
:18:34. > :18:39.whole saga for the rest of my life if I did not give in the rematch. I
:18:40. > :18:44.gave him the pasting he is in good health. But he had that coming. It
:18:45. > :18:52.was amazing, one punch and he was gone. The best results! You not out,
:18:53. > :18:58.we knew you would do it. It job well done, time for the people who does
:18:59. > :19:02.it all for. They are my family. They mean the world mean the world to me.
:19:03. > :19:08.I would give up all this fame and fortune for them. I do know how you
:19:09. > :19:14.give `` I do know how you cope with all this, Carol. Beforehand, it was
:19:15. > :19:20.like the world was on my shoulders. But he has won the world title. I'm
:19:21. > :19:28.so pleased. Was that a proposal for Rachel? Sort of. I went down on my
:19:29. > :19:35.knees. I said, will you marry me, Rachel. So ring shopping for you
:19:36. > :19:40.next time. He got down on one knee and said Rachel, I did have a ring,
:19:41. > :19:47.but will you marry me! You can't say no in front of 20,000 `` 80,000, can
:19:48. > :19:51.you? Exactly. No wonder he called the greatest night of his life as
:19:52. > :19:52.the boxing world was witness to a great champion on the best night of
:19:53. > :20:12.his life. everything to me in terms of my
:20:13. > :20:15.Some other sports news quickly. Mansfield's sidecar racing Birchall
:20:16. > :20:19.Brothers have suffered a spectacular crash at the Isle of Man TT Races.
:20:20. > :20:22.They were trying to build on last year's win but hit a wall at
:20:23. > :20:24.extraordinary speeds. Somehow they both walked away ` but driver Ben
:20:25. > :20:32.Birchall suffered a broken hand and That will be the end of it for this
:20:33. > :20:37.year. So, Carl will that be the end of
:20:38. > :20:41.boxing for this year? It will be have `` it will have to be something
:20:42. > :20:45.really big to get the motivation. I'm not a young athlete, but I'm
:20:46. > :20:55.still young enough to do what I need to do. I have proven that. I have
:20:56. > :20:59.box nearly ten years. I am not 46, I'm 36 but I am towards the end of
:21:00. > :21:03.my career. I have been a professional for 12 years. I need to
:21:04. > :21:08.be drawn in by something big. What is going to be bigger than the
:21:09. > :21:11.Wembley Stadium, the National Stadium? The only thing that takes
:21:12. > :21:17.the box will be something I've never done before in my career. And that
:21:18. > :21:24.is, boxing in Las Vegas. The public will follow you, one day? I know,
:21:25. > :21:29.I'm looking forward to trip and I will enjoy it. Actual former club,
:21:30. > :21:33.they are so behind you. The supporters phenomenal. They spend
:21:34. > :21:36.their hard and money to travel and support me. I like to think I
:21:37. > :21:41.entertain them and give them value. I put it all on the line. I don't
:21:42. > :21:45.give half a performance. I make sure that when I'm in there, I leave
:21:46. > :21:51.everything in the ring, heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears if
:21:52. > :21:56.necessary. You don't sound like a man who is ready to walk away from
:21:57. > :22:00.this. I love the game so much, I love every aspect of it. The
:22:01. > :22:05.training can be hard, brutal at times. I put my body through it. But
:22:06. > :22:11.when I have a couple of weeks off, I know what my mind is like. I have a
:22:12. > :22:18.bag in the garage and I punch of the bag every morning. I enjoyed
:22:19. > :22:24.training. I enjoy the physicality of it. Some people would have been
:22:25. > :22:29.scared of the other night, but I enjoy it. The bigger the better. I
:22:30. > :22:35.will miss the game if I walk away from it. While I can do it, I will.
:22:36. > :22:37.The public would love to see it. Carl, a true champion and a true
:22:38. > :22:49.warrior. Remarkable new footage from World
:22:50. > :22:52.War One has been discovered in a garden shed in Long Eaton. The film
:22:53. > :22:55.contains images of the men and women who filled artillery shells with
:22:56. > :22:59.high explosives at Chilwell near Nottingham. It was uncovered by the
:23:00. > :23:01.BBC during the making of a film with Kate Adie which is broadcast this
:23:02. > :23:09.evening. Faces of women doing dangerous work.
:23:10. > :23:15.According to the factories to produce dangerous shells which would
:23:16. > :23:17.win the war. Many would die within the year of the shot when a huge
:23:18. > :23:25.blast tore apart the building where the explosive was `` the explosives
:23:26. > :23:30.were being mixed. 139 died and hundreds more were injured and few
:23:31. > :23:37.could be identified. The newly discovered film shows women working
:23:38. > :23:41.with the explosives. This is one of the most important films I've seen
:23:42. > :23:48.in many years at the museum. It is a major find. This film was discovered
:23:49. > :23:54.when the BBC tracked down one of the families of the 1918 explosion.
:23:55. > :24:03.Pleased to meet you, come in. Joe Trude Coseley died, leaving behind
:24:04. > :24:11.four children. `` Gertrude died. The family were left behind. This was in
:24:12. > :24:18.a jumble sale. My aunt put it in the loft of the building she lived in.
:24:19. > :24:22.Then when we knew it was nitrate film, we realise it could be
:24:23. > :24:28.inflammable. So his nephew took possession of it and put it in his
:24:29. > :24:31.shed. And here it is. Rescued from a leaking garden shed in Long Eaton.
:24:32. > :24:37.Clearly showing the chill bar factory. Nitrate film is highly
:24:38. > :24:42.dangerous because it can combust and if I cannot be extinguished. A
:24:43. > :24:48.specialist courier to give from the BBC in Nottingham to the payroll War
:24:49. > :24:56.Museum at Duxford. Six months later, Peter was able to see what the
:24:57. > :25:03.experts had found. Basically a film which has had water damage. As it
:25:04. > :25:10.came out of the shed, it seemed so gummed together, I thought they
:25:11. > :25:16.would never be able to undo it. The negative was also found. It is
:25:17. > :25:20.planned to restore the film by combining the two. The film has been
:25:21. > :25:26.damaged by rainwater and technology has been used to copy it so it can
:25:27. > :25:31.be seen. This is a really exciting discovery for us. Very rarely have
:25:32. > :25:37.we had discoveries like this. This factory had very important part to
:25:38. > :25:40.play in the war effort. The family hope that eventually they may be
:25:41. > :25:46.able to find Gertrude in the restored footage. We may find her.
:25:47. > :25:53.She's very distinctive. She could be in there somewhere. The story of the
:25:54. > :25:58.munitions factories and how the women who worked in them helped win
:25:59. > :26:02.World War I can be seen in BBC One in the East Midlands tonight at 7:30
:26:03. > :26:04.p.m.. That is well worth a watch. As
:26:05. > :26:17.indeed is the weather! Difficult to pin down any details.
:26:18. > :26:23.Low pressure to the north and east in the UK. A weak one but not
:26:24. > :26:29.influencing us too much. Some more persistent rain heading our way on
:26:30. > :26:39.Wednesday but it is a picture of not all doom and gloom. We saw some
:26:40. > :26:43.lovely sunshine this morning. Cloud increasing into the afternoon. Some
:26:44. > :26:47.evening sunshine around but also a line of showers off to the west.
:26:48. > :26:53.They will push their way in this evening. A cloudy night with bits
:26:54. > :27:00.and pieces of rain around. Turning misty. Some hill fog around. A murky
:27:01. > :27:06.night and a muggy one. 13 degrees or 40 degrees. It will feel quite
:27:07. > :27:11.humid. Tomorrow morning, we start of the white grey and misty. Some rain
:27:12. > :27:18.around first thing in the morning. Cloud. To break out in the
:27:19. > :27:23.afternoon. `` cloud will start to break up in the afternoon. Light
:27:24. > :27:30.winds tomorrow and feeling pleasant enough. We will get attacked from
:27:31. > :27:34.the South with an area of low pressure on Thursday `` on Wednesday
:27:35. > :27:41.and Thursday afternoon. It will be quite wet on Wednesday.
:27:42. > :28:04.Stop saying summer is here because it has not quite arrived! Excellent.
:28:05. > :28:11...then... ..he landed...
:28:12. > :28:24...and in a flurry of feathers, they were gone.
:28:25. > :28:25.But that isn't quite the end of the story.
:28:26. > :28:27.Perhaps you'll dream of a great adventure.
:28:28. > :28:39.'I'm going on an adventure.' Wow.
:28:40. > :28:43.That is a long way. Quite a bit of it is on bikes.
:28:44. > :28:44.What are you going to do about your hair?
:28:45. > :28:48.They told me I had good technique, I'm quite happy with that.
:28:49. > :28:53.Is this the most adventurous thing you've ever done? Without a doubt.