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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies, and me, Quentin Rayner. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Tonight: Fashion finds a vohce against fracking. In Westwood will | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
be telling as why she is ag`inst fracking in the East Midlands. `` | :00:19. | :00:32. | |
Dame Vivien Westwood. I havd described the evil episode `s a | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
shambles, it has been going on since the year 2000. More employers tend | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
to higher than fire but it hs not good news for everyone. And the | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Queen's Batten has arrived hn Leicester, we follow its jotrney | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
through the city on its way to the Commonwealth Games. `` baton. Good | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
evening and welcome to the programme. First tonight: Fracking | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
in the East Midlands. The rdgion's been identified as one of the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
hottest spots in Britain for shale and oil gas. But to get at ht, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
companies would have to use the controversial process of fr`cking. A | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
high`profile campaigner is hn Nottingham tonight to add hdr voice | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
to the anti fracking movement. And we'll hear from the fashion designer | :01:36. | :01:49. | |
Dame Vivienne Westwood in a moment. But first, Mike O'Sullivan dxamines | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
why this area is prime fracking country. An icon of fashion design, | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
Dame Vivien Westwood has other worries about the process of getting | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
gas from deep below the grotnd. Tonight she will be at a medting in | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Nottingham aimed at opening up a much`needed debate on frackhng. Much | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
of the country do not even know what fracking is. This is somethhng that | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
is coming to you. It is the process of injecting water and chemhcal deep | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
into rock to extract oil and gas. In the East Midlands there are huge | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
deposits of shale rock. One village in this area is this one and the oil | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
company which identified thd shale say they have no plans to r`ck but | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
who knows if others would bd tempted. We need expert advhce and | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
we need to know whether it hs a good move or a bad move. I would not be | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
happy with it happening herd. If it can supply the energy that @bel say | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
it can then it would be worth the investment. To winning here were | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
opposed to fracking in their own area. We did not get this | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
opportunity in the United States. I would say stop and listen, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
participate in this debate, you are rushing as into something. The | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
expert bodies say risks are manageable when combined with proper | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
regulation. Tonight's meeting at Nottingham Trent University will be | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
addressed by the acclaimed fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood and | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
we can hear from her now. D`me Vivienne, what's your evidence that | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
fracking is harmful in any way? There is overwhelming evidence and | :04:14. | :04:25. | |
until now about... The overwhelming evidence is about the effect on | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
people's health and even de`th. Until now, people have been trying | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
to deny, well, it could havd happened anyway. But the st`tistics | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
are just so overwhelming th`t now, particularly in America, thdy are | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
acknowledging these facts. Xou say the evidence is overwhelming but | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
what exactly is this evidence? As anyone died or had health adversely | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
affected? We have got with odds`on this to a girl from America whose | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
friend did die. She has got real evidence, lots of it, of thd | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
connection between this and what has happened there with the shale gas. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
The waste and all these things. One of the reasons that fracking for gas | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
has peaked in America is th`t there is so much drought there thdy do not | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
have the water to do it with. It is just harmful on every level. There | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
are farmers who are having to import great tankards of water bec`use the | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
water is noise and. It is jtst for the purposes but their anim`ls are | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
eating grass and we know about it. It is really terrible. Haven't you | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
seen these pictures of people lighting their tap water because it | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
has all this is the methane in it? The most important thing in it is | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
the effect it will have on dverybody from global warming, that whll cause | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
death. Thank you for making your points and joining as this dvening. | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
An MP wants the Government to intervene, after calling ond of the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
region's newest community hospitals a "shambles". It's emerged that the | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
new day care unit at St Lukd's Hospital in Market Harborough has | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
only actually been operational for several months, even though it | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
opened 2.5 years ago. Also Harborough's MP, Sir Edward Garnier, | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
claims that specialists are refusing to carry out surgery there. From the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Leicestershire market town, here's our Political Editor John Hdss. | :06:42. | :06:52. | |
Market Harborough likes to see itself as a lively go getting sort | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
of town. For years it campahgned for NHS hospital facilities to latch. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
This is care unit was opened for minor operations but it is not being | :07:04. | :07:13. | |
used, why? The specialists `re not coming out to do the operathons | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
because there is not a recovery room for people who have had a gdneral | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
anaesthetic. Most people ard probably like me, concerned it has | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
happened, it is the white elephant if it is not being used. It is no | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
good if it is lying there doing nothing, is it? There are not the | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
facilities especially for checkups and rehab. Since it opened 2.5 years | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
ago it has now been revealed it has only been operational for 4.5 | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
months. It seems absurd we spend millions and millions of public | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
money. Then we are in this state of affairs now. The issue was raised | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
with the health minister. Wd will look into these concerns but we must | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
ensure these facilities are used. The NHS body responsible sax they | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
are we are of public concerns and want to reassure people but patient | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
safety and providing the best key services are their prioritids. There | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
are plans to expand this facility but it could be a while yet. Plenty | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
more to look forward to on the programme including the Comlonwealth | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
comes to Leicester as the b`ton relay takes in the city as part of | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
its world tour. Delighted, ht came as a big shock and surprise. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Fantastic. One of the prouddst moments of my life so far. @nd it | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
has been decent weather for this, shower clouds are starting to build | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
up now but after this lot it is plain sailing for the rest of the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
week. Join me later in the programme. But next, the latest on | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the jobs market here in the East Midlands. A new survey says there's | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
increasing demand for workers, with companies right across the region | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
looking to take on more staff. But it's also revealed that the recovery | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
isn't as fast or as lucrative for everybody. Anne's been examhning the | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
detail. Well, let's start whth the good news. The jobs agency Lanpower | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
has released its influential Employment Outlook survey today | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
They asked more than 2,000 dmployers across the country if they hntended | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
in the next three months to hire people or fire them. And here's what | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
the survey says about the E`st Midlands. The net number of bosses | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
planning to take staff on wdnt up on the previous quarter, from 00% to | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
11%. That's the highest levdl of employer optimism since 2012. But | :09:55. | :10:08. | |
it's not quite that simple. That surge in demand for workers doesn't | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
apply across the board. It's mainly skilled workers who are wanted. And | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
the key industries where thdy're wanted is manufacturing and | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
engineering. The East Midlands continues to look positive. It is | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
really in the engineering and manufacturing areas of industry | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
within the East Midlands th`t has the most growth. A lot of that work | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
goes on in Derby, at Rolls Royce for example. Or Bombardier. But in | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Nottingham and Leicester, the survey paints a different picture. In those | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
cities, says Manpower, therd's a noticeable shortage of skills being | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
reported by employers. And hn their hurry to get skilled people quickly, | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
competition for those highlx valued roles is getting fiercer and | :10:46. | :10:57. | |
fiercer. Leicester and Notthngham continue to have a skills shortage, | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
particularly in things like engineers and metal workers. We are | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
really looking for those types of skills at the moment in the region. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
So, a tale of three cities dmerging, perhaps. But where does the region | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
stand in relation to other places? With 11% more bosses reporthng an | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
intention to hire rather th`n fire, the East Midlands lies third in the | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
national table, below the E`st and the South West. That 11% gives the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
East Midlands a stronger intention to hire than the booming Sotth East, | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
down here at only 9%. Great news if you've got skills, a trade, training | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
or qualifications. It remains to be seen how quickly the demand for | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
workers will widen out further. A plane from East Midlands Airport has | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
had to land in Paris after developing a technical fault. The | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
diversion was a precautionary measure. The aircraft landed safely | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
and all passengers have been looked after by the crew. The fight is | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
expected to continue to Spahn later on. `` flight. A decision on whether | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
children's heart surgery will continue at Glenfield Hospital has | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
been delayed. The Safe and Sustainable Review had proposed to | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
end operations at the hospital in Leicester. But it was overttrned | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
last year after the governmdnt announced the decision had been made | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
on flawed analysis. Consult`tion was due to begin next month, but has | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
been postponed until later this year. The Department for Work and | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Pensions says it IS providing support for miners facing | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
redundancy. It follows crithcism from Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Work | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
and Pensions Secretary who let miners at Thoresby. They sax they're | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
being denied speedy access to retraining programmes. But the DWP | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
say advice has been given on skills training, career advice, and help | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
with job searches. One in three adults in England are on thd verge | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
of developing type two diabdtes according to latest research from | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
the University of Leicester. We re talking about prediabetes. That s | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
blood sugar rates above norlal but not high enough for a diabetes | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
diagnosis. As our health corresponent Rob Sissons reports, | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
doctors are hoping the latest findings in the British Medhcal | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Journal will serve as a wakd up call for people to take up a healthier | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
lifestyle which can stave off the condition. This man here in Derby | :13:19. | :13:32. | |
has a fight on his hands to control his diabetes. He had been dhagnosed | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
for years ago. He had been overworking and ignoring sylptoms. I | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
was feeling tired, thirsty `nd going to the toilet regularly. I put it | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
down to working long hours. I lost weight and I put it down to | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
exercising and walking more. Others may follow in his footsteps without | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
intervention. Studies make for grim reading. Cases of prediabetds rising | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
rapidly. These are going to be people who are more overweight, have | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
a raised body mass index, pdople who are older. It is also possibly more | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
comments from people from significant minority groups which is | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
important locally. We are jtst going to have a tidal wave of people with | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
type two diabetes and the NHS will not be able to cope. Around 200 000 | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
people are currently diagnosed with type two diabetes. It is up 15, 00 | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
from three years ago. There is a tool available. If you go to the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Diabetes UK website there is a self assessment tool which can bd a | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
helpful assessment about an individual's risk of developing | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
diabetes. There are complic`tions affecting the eyes, kidneys, feet, | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
heart attacks and strokes. H'd battle we need to move more and eat | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
healthily to prevent a lifelong condition having a serious hmpact. | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Investigations are underway after a train hit a shopping trollex in | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
Nottingham. No`one was hurt, but the train was damaged. British Transport | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
Police say the trolley had been deliberately placed on the railway | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
line underneath the footbridge near to Rosedale Drive and Wollaton Vale | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
on Friday night. Officers are also appealing for information after a | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
wheelie bin be great to see it reopened. It has | :15:37. | :16:16. | |
the huge history and is a place that people in the city now. We do not | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
want to see it close for good. It is not belong to go | :16:24. | :17:38. | |
was carried by six different Batten breeders `` baton beaters. They were | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
joined by the first woman to present the baton in a robotic suit. It then | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
moved over to Abbey Park for an afternoon of sporting activhties. To | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
be a baton Baylor is a great achievement for myself. The | :18:01. | :18:13. | |
Commonwealth Games is fantastic `` bearer. Yell macro I thought it was | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
very nice and it was very slooth when I touched it. It makes our city | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
stand out. Normally people do not really recognise us but this makes | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
us stand out. I'd macro Leicester is part of the journey that has so far | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
taken the baton 269 countrids and territories around the world. What a | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
remarkable journey it has bden. I am with Ross Davenport who won two gold | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
medals in Melbourne 2006. What is it like to compete in the games? It is | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
fantastic. They call it the friendly games and it is. It was the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
highlight of my swimming ye`r and it is a huge compliment to be chosen to | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
be here today. It is a huge honour to carry the baton. It is an honour | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
to represent your country at the Commonwealth Games but to bd | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
recognised eight years later for your achievements and to st`nd here | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
in Leicester today is a hugd honour and privilege. It is somethhng to | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
remember for a long, long thme. Inside the Batten is a mess`ge from | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
the Queen which will be read out loud at the Commonwealth Gales | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
opening ceremony on July 23. The hope is that having the batting here | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
will inspire many more sports men and women of the future. Th`nk you | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
for that. I bet she was tempted to take it out and read the message. | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
You would be sent to the tower! Now we go to the World Cup. Comhng up, | :20:10. | :20:29. | |
hockey victories and the first of our World Cup week reports but some | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
quick news to start because Nottingham Forest have confhrmed the | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
signing of striker Matty Frxatt He turned down an offer from ctrrent | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
club Hull City so he could come to the City Ground on a three`xear | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
contract. The deal for Dutch striker Lars Veldwijk still has "technical | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
issues" to sort out. In Rugby, Leicester Tigers face a tough group | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
in the first European Champhons Cup. They've ended up with Heineken Cup | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
champions Toulon, Welsh sidd Scarlets and Ulster. County | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Championship games are at the end of day three. In the old East Lidlands | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
match, Derbyshire are the tdam on top. So, onto the hockey. And a | :21:01. | :21:10. | |
double success to report. Englands men, with four local players in | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
their ranks, are through to the World Cup semi`finals. And, as you | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
may have seen at the end of last night's programme, Leicester Ladies | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
have finally laid their hands on a European Gold Medal. Two huge | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
games, won here and one in Holland and two huge victories decided on a | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
penalty stroke. For England's men only victory would take thel to the | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
semifinals. There was a broken farm but the man managed to clear the | :21:42. | :21:53. | |
ball before revealing the p`in. As the game seesawed, it was the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Belgians in the semifinals bought with just seven minutes left and | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
then came the big moment. It might have been an England goal btt | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
instead a penalty stroke was awarded. This moment was huge. I do | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
not think I have kissed as lany men before. Just ecstatic. I am so | :22:19. | :22:30. | |
proud. The semifinal? Yes, H believe it is all and it is going to be | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
incredible. Some of the best in Europe were in Loughborough. The | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
ladies came out victorious. Once again it was a penalty stroke which | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
one it. `` won it. There were tears of joy after what has been ` tricky | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
season. We were close to it this year. It is hopefully a sign of | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
things to come. Whether this confidence, you would not w`nt to | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
bet against Leicester becomhng top of the core keep idle. And now with | :23:11. | :23:26. | |
the World Cup getting closer we have been to meet the Derbyshire school | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
girl who will be playing a starring role of her own. The England boys | :23:32. | :23:48. | |
are getting ready for their Brazilian adventure and 6000 miles | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
away on this playing field so, to is 14`year`old George Hynde. She has | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
never been abroad but tomorrow heads of board the Brazilian jungle. I | :24:03. | :24:14. | |
have always loved football. I want to meet all the players in the next | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
year. I want to see Steven Gerard. I feel happy and excited. She was | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
chosen to be a flag Baylor because of her coaching achievements and | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
encouraging girls in her arda to take up football. She would see | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
people in the park and ask them to come and play. It is a great | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
opportunity. She is an amazhng young girl and is always playing football. | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
So, when Steven Gerard and Cork line`up in the tunnel on Saturday | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
for that huge game, George will be alongside them ready for thd biggest | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
in her life. It will stay whth her throughout her life, if she can pass | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
it on. It is an amazing achhevement. I am so proud of her. So, wd may not | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
have any players here in thd East Midlands to watch out for on | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Saturday but keep your eye out for George for what is sure to be a day | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
she will never forget. I cannot imagine what that is going to feel | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
like. I have drawn Italy in the office sweepstake. I think H would | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
go with Italy if I were you Pessimism all around. Such ` huge | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
person! When is the kick`off? 1 o'clock Saturday night for | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
England's game. And you are a football fan? Yes! Not quitd | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Brazilian weather forerunners but it is getting wetter `` better. What | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
has been most impressive has been the size of the heel. This was taken | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
yesterday afternoon in our region. This is where we have certahnly seen | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
the worst of the weather. Wd have had some thunderstorms developing | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
but pressure is starting to build from the side note though the end is | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
in sight. A lot of dry weather to come. Some brightness and some | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
sunshine around. Day in warl. Highs around 22 Celcius by Friday. We | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
thought we had got away with it this morning. Cloud starting to build and | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
we have a line of showers ptshing eastwards. We will be drier with | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
some clear spells towards the end of the night. Cooler and freshdr later. | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
We will start dry and write once again tomorrow morning. The lot of | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
cloud developing as we head into the afternoon. It will stay dry all day | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
tomorrow. Not feeling too b`d in the brightness with temperatures back up | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
to the 20s tomorrow afternoon. Staying settle into Thursdax and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Friday with that high presstre remaining. Weather fronts to the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
north. A lot of dry weather to come on Thursday. Temperatures starting | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
to creep up, reaching 21 Celcius, 22 on Friday. So, we know ours, who | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
have you got in the sweepst`ke? I have not got one. I think not having | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
one is better than side could yet! We will see you on the late news. | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
Goodbye. | :27:48. | :27:48. |