17/06/2014 East Midlands Today

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Geeta Pendse. Around

12,000 children living in some of the most deprived areas of the East

Midlands are to be offered help to get a better start in life. It's

thanks to a programme which has secured ?45 million of lottdry cash.

It'll be used to help vulnerable children under the age of three and

their families. Carolyn Mosds reports. At this centre the parents

are leading the way. They h`ve come up with the idea is to try to boost

opportunities for their children. Now, supporters coming. Children

here can expect some big ch`nges in the way they are taught, fed and

encouraged to develop and so can their families. This is one of just

five places in the country to be given this cash but why? Figures

show one quarter of adults xou have no formal qualifications. Almost 40%

of children are classed as living in poverty. That brings its own

problems. Nottingham will now get ?45 million over ten years,

redesigning health and educ`tion services in some of its mord

challenging areas. Children who have been through our programme will

hopefully be in employment `s adults, they will be confiddnt and

secure and able to feel thex have the best possible start in their

lives. You have to start right at the very beginning, there is no

point later on in life. Pardnts who benefit are flying the flag. It is

definitely a benefit. Parents I have asked want more places to t`ke their

children. It is very good. The programme will last for a ddcade.

Richard tackle deprivation `nd inequality. Well, earlier I spoke to

Michelle Battlemuch from Nottingham Citycare which will be leadhng the

changes along with other partners. She told me around 50 projects would

benefit. One good example is all the children we work with on thhs

programme will receive books. That is not the most important thing

With family mentors we will support parents to get children the most

from those books. Reading is so important. You can start sh`ring

books with children while you are still pregnant. There are a number

of schemes, is the huge emphasis still on parents? It is. Parents

want to be the best they possibly can be and get the best for their

children. Parents really, rdally will be key to this programle. How

will you measure your success? 9% of children are living in poverty

around Nottingham. It is an interesting thing. That is not where

we focused our submission whth the Big Lottery. It will be facts for

the rest of the country. Wh`t we asked ourselves is, is this good

enough for your child, for ly child, children have two start early and

supporting parents will makd sure we change outcomes for children in

Nottingham. `` to. This will be rolled out for the next ten years?

It will. Thank you for joinhng us. Next tonight, a couple who wanted

the Italian authorities to re`open an investigation into the ddath of

their daughter have lost thdir legal challenge. But Pat and Ray Lartin

from Nottinghamshire say thdy'll continue to fight for justice. A

court had previously ruled Claire Martin killed herself by repeatedly

stabbing herself in the neck. Simon Hare reports. It is not the news

they wanted but it is not unexpected. This couple havd just

heard an Italian court has decided not to reopen the investigation into

the death of their daughter. It has come to a dead`end the moment. We

feel as though it has been ` miscarriage of justice, defhnitely.

Their daughter died two years ago, suffering multiple stab wounds to

her neck. Her parents now h`ve key translations of their reports. The

parents have ruled out suichde and say she must have been attacked It

is mobbed, knife wounds frol different angles, evidenced not

getting used and destroyed. `` murder. She had lived with her

partner and sun for several years, her parents hope the publichty

combined with the efforts of the Foreign Office will help thdm in

their fight for the truth. We come here every single day and h`ve a

little chat to her. In their garden they have a flower which brhngs them

comfort. But the say finding out what really happened to her is the

only thing which will end their torment. A charity is raising funds

for equipment to prevent br`in damage in very sick newborn babies.

Leicester Hospitals Charity has set up an appeal called Little Lives Big

Journeys. The aim is to install specially designed cooling jackets

in ambulances, saving vital time as the babies are transported. It's

hoping to raise ?60,000 for the equipment. That's your news. So

it's goodbye from me, here's the weather with Kaye. Thank yot. It has

been mixed today. Some of us have seen some sunshine while others have

been stuck under that cloud all day long. We will all wake up to the

cloud tomorrow morning, somd spots of rain with that but it will clear

off into the afternoon when it will be brighter and some rain again by

evening time. Nothing too hdavy overnight, just a sprinkling for the

gardens. Feeling mildly with temperatures around 14 or 14

Celsius. We wake up to the gloom again tomorrow morning, a fdw spots

of rain to start but that whll clear and cloud will break into the

afternoon. A brighter end to the day with temperatures up to 19 or 2

degrees. It days, a dip in temperature Friday

with warmer temperatures over the weekend.

The main theme through this week is one of mainly dry weather but with

important variations from place to play sand from day-to-day. That was

the case again today. A sizzling day across parts of Northern Ireland and

Scotland. Plenty of sunshine. Not 1 million miles away, down across the

border into northern England, a lot more cloud and some places struggled

to get higher than the mid-teens. This is where the thickest of the

cloud is into the night. Across central and eastern parts of

England, patchy rain turning up A damp end to the night here. Clearer

skies further north and west that some patches of fog