:00:00. > :00:26.That's all from us. Don't forget a first look at the
:00:27. > :00:32.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Geeta Pendse. Around
:00:33. > :00:35.12,000 children living in some of the most deprived areas of the East
:00:36. > :00:39.Midlands are to be offered help to get a better start in life. It's
:00:40. > :00:42.thanks to a programme which has secured ?45 million of lottdry cash.
:00:43. > :00:45.It'll be used to help vulnerable children under the age of three and
:00:46. > :00:50.their families. Carolyn Mosds reports. At this centre the parents
:00:51. > :00:54.are leading the way. They h`ve come up with the idea is to try to boost
:00:55. > :01:01.opportunities for their children. Now, supporters coming. Children
:01:02. > :01:05.here can expect some big ch`nges in the way they are taught, fed and
:01:06. > :01:12.encouraged to develop and so can their families. This is one of just
:01:13. > :01:20.five places in the country to be given this cash but why? Figures
:01:21. > :01:26.show one quarter of adults xou have no formal qualifications. Almost 40%
:01:27. > :01:35.of children are classed as living in poverty. That brings its own
:01:36. > :01:41.problems. Nottingham will now get ?45 million over ten years,
:01:42. > :01:47.redesigning health and educ`tion services in some of its mord
:01:48. > :01:52.challenging areas. Children who have been through our programme will
:01:53. > :01:58.hopefully be in employment `s adults, they will be confiddnt and
:01:59. > :02:03.secure and able to feel thex have the best possible start in their
:02:04. > :02:08.lives. You have to start right at the very beginning, there is no
:02:09. > :02:19.point later on in life. Pardnts who benefit are flying the flag. It is
:02:20. > :02:30.definitely a benefit. Parents I have asked want more places to t`ke their
:02:31. > :02:35.children. It is very good. The programme will last for a ddcade.
:02:36. > :02:42.Richard tackle deprivation `nd inequality. Well, earlier I spoke to
:02:43. > :02:45.Michelle Battlemuch from Nottingham Citycare which will be leadhng the
:02:46. > :02:49.changes along with other partners. She told me around 50 projects would
:02:50. > :02:53.benefit. One good example is all the children we work with on thhs
:02:54. > :03:00.programme will receive books. That is not the most important thing
:03:01. > :03:06.With family mentors we will support parents to get children the most
:03:07. > :03:11.from those books. Reading is so important. You can start sh`ring
:03:12. > :03:15.books with children while you are still pregnant. There are a number
:03:16. > :03:23.of schemes, is the huge emphasis still on parents? It is. Parents
:03:24. > :03:28.want to be the best they possibly can be and get the best for their
:03:29. > :03:37.children. Parents really, rdally will be key to this programle. How
:03:38. > :03:43.will you measure your success? 9% of children are living in poverty
:03:44. > :03:53.around Nottingham. It is an interesting thing. That is not where
:03:54. > :03:57.we focused our submission whth the Big Lottery. It will be facts for
:03:58. > :04:00.the rest of the country. Wh`t we asked ourselves is, is this good
:04:01. > :04:04.enough for your child, for ly child, children have two start early and
:04:05. > :04:13.supporting parents will makd sure we change outcomes for children in
:04:14. > :04:18.Nottingham. `` to. This will be rolled out for the next ten years?
:04:19. > :04:21.It will. Thank you for joinhng us. Next tonight, a couple who wanted
:04:22. > :04:25.the Italian authorities to re`open an investigation into the ddath of
:04:26. > :04:27.their daughter have lost thdir legal challenge. But Pat and Ray Lartin
:04:28. > :04:30.from Nottinghamshire say thdy'll continue to fight for justice. A
:04:31. > :04:34.court had previously ruled Claire Martin killed herself by repeatedly
:04:35. > :04:42.stabbing herself in the neck. Simon Hare reports. It is not the news
:04:43. > :04:49.they wanted but it is not unexpected. This couple havd just
:04:50. > :04:54.heard an Italian court has decided not to reopen the investigation into
:04:55. > :05:02.the death of their daughter. It has come to a dead`end the moment. We
:05:03. > :05:08.feel as though it has been ` miscarriage of justice, defhnitely.
:05:09. > :05:15.Their daughter died two years ago, suffering multiple stab wounds to
:05:16. > :05:21.her neck. Her parents now h`ve key translations of their reports. The
:05:22. > :05:28.parents have ruled out suichde and say she must have been attacked It
:05:29. > :05:36.is mobbed, knife wounds frol different angles, evidenced not
:05:37. > :05:45.getting used and destroyed. `` murder. She had lived with her
:05:46. > :05:49.partner and sun for several years, her parents hope the publichty
:05:50. > :05:53.combined with the efforts of the Foreign Office will help thdm in
:05:54. > :06:01.their fight for the truth. We come here every single day and h`ve a
:06:02. > :06:06.little chat to her. In their garden they have a flower which brhngs them
:06:07. > :06:10.comfort. But the say finding out what really happened to her is the
:06:11. > :06:15.only thing which will end their torment. A charity is raising funds
:06:16. > :06:18.for equipment to prevent br`in damage in very sick newborn babies.
:06:19. > :06:21.Leicester Hospitals Charity has set up an appeal called Little Lives Big
:06:22. > :06:24.Journeys. The aim is to install specially designed cooling jackets
:06:25. > :06:28.in ambulances, saving vital time as the babies are transported. It's
:06:29. > :06:33.hoping to raise ?60,000 for the equipment. That's your news. So
:06:34. > :06:42.it's goodbye from me, here's the weather with Kaye. Thank yot. It has
:06:43. > :06:46.been mixed today. Some of us have seen some sunshine while others have
:06:47. > :06:51.been stuck under that cloud all day long. We will all wake up to the
:06:52. > :06:57.cloud tomorrow morning, somd spots of rain with that but it will clear
:06:58. > :07:05.off into the afternoon when it will be brighter and some rain again by
:07:06. > :07:10.evening time. Nothing too hdavy overnight, just a sprinkling for the
:07:11. > :07:18.gardens. Feeling mildly with temperatures around 14 or 14
:07:19. > :07:23.Celsius. We wake up to the gloom again tomorrow morning, a fdw spots
:07:24. > :07:27.of rain to start but that whll clear and cloud will break into the
:07:28. > :07:31.afternoon. A brighter end to the day with temperatures up to 19 or 2
:07:32. > :07:35.degrees. It days, a dip in temperature Friday
:07:36. > :07:40.with warmer temperatures over the weekend.
:07:41. > :07:46.The main theme through this week is one of mainly dry weather but with
:07:47. > :07:51.important variations from place to play sand from day-to-day. That was
:07:52. > :07:56.the case again today. A sizzling day across parts of Northern Ireland and
:07:57. > :08:01.Scotland. Plenty of sunshine. Not 1 million miles away, down across the
:08:02. > :08:06.border into northern England, a lot more cloud and some places struggled
:08:07. > :08:10.to get higher than the mid-teens. This is where the thickest of the
:08:11. > :08:13.cloud is into the night. Across central and eastern parts of
:08:14. > :08:21.England, patchy rain turning up A damp end to the night here. Clearer
:08:22. > :08:22.skies further north and west that some patches of fog