19/06/2014 East Midlands Today

This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Geeta Pendse.

Tonight: the patient denied the chance of a life`changing operation

because of where she lives. I feel like I am getting no clear fast and

nobody cheers for me. Attempts to reduce school bullying. And the

council paying for on`board CCTV in taxi cabs. Plus, as England prepare

to face Uruguay in the World Cup we find out how performances in Brazil

will affect businesses here. Good evening and welcome to

Thursday's programme. First tonight, the patient denied NHS fundhng for a

procedure that could dramathcally change her life. Lynsay Stewart says

she's at her wits end. She feels caught up in a bureaucratic

confusion over which part of the health service controls the purse

strings for her procedure. Lyndsay has a rare syndrome that me`ns her

bladder doesn't function normally. Her consultant wants her to have an

electronic implant that could help her live a more normal life. The

29`year`old's been told if she lived in some other parts of the Tnited

Kingdom she'd get it. Our hdalth correspondent Rob Sissons rdports.

Every few hours Lindsay has to use these tubes like catheters because

her bladder does not function normally. For years, it has been an

inconvenient way of life. It affects me everyday because I have to beware

of weird I can go and where I cannot go. It is very frustrating. The NHS

has said no twice to funding and implant that she and her spdcialist

think could make a difference. Collect Rose would be attached to my

nerve endings which will pl`y would stimulate my bladder. `` eldctrodes.

Tonight there are questions over who it is that should be for thd

procedure, the local NHS or NHS England. There were a few slall

areas where people have fallen between stones. We are trying to

find a solution for her. Wasn't the reorganisation to make things better

for patients? It was but we have suddenly discovered where there are

issues for individual groups of patients where we find they are not

being covered adequately by the rules we have put in place. I am

going to keep fighting, I do not know how long I can keep fighting

for. Some days I feel it is worth it and others I think it is not. But I

have got to live a normal lhfe, I am 29, not eating nine. She works as a

keener looking for `` looking after elderly people in their homds by Chi

does not feel the NHS is looking after her. Realistically, what

chance is there of Lyndsay getting this treatment paid for on the

health service? The decision could go either way. The good news is that

after we have identified thhs case the NHS locally have said they will

come up with a policy. The bad news is, that process is likely to take

months, the real do not movd fast in the NHS. How likely is it the

implant will work? That is ` good question. Clearly the consultant

believes it is something worth going for. She feels as though shd has

nothing to lose but the NHS has to make sure the taxpayers mondy is

used in a cost`effective wax so they will want to look at all thd

evidence. And I gather her LP has taken up the fight? Yes, tonight we

have heard from the Labour LP for Ashfield who says she has written to

the NHS to add them to rethhnk their decision on this procedure. She says

she will take it all the wax the top `` to the top, to the Health

Secretary, to get the decishon they want. A new method of combating

bullying is being rolled out to all schools across Leicestershire. It's

called the Restorative Approach and it encourages pupils to resolve

their disputes themselves. Two colleges have been piloting the

scheme for over a year and both have seen a dramatic improvement in

behaviour. Quentin Rayner rdports. You both have to make sure to allow

the other person to talk. Hdre and they have embraced the restorative

approach. These are student volunteers who over the past year

have brought Willie and victim together, made them reflect on their

behaviour and resolve the dhspute. We do not say do this and do that,

we guide them to come to a decision by themselves so it is not like it

used to be saying you stay there and you steered there and getting them

separate. It feels a more normal talking to someone around your age

rather than an older teacher because they understand the lot mord than

maybe what the teacher would. The approach has produced some startling

results. It has been used shnce the late 1960s in Denmark. Therd has

been a reduction of exclusions, down by 75%. Attendance has been

improved. It has had a very positive impact. The role culture of the

students and school have ch`nged. People get on better. Now, with the

help of an online support P`ck, all schools across the city and county

are being encouraged to introduce the new approach. They will need

some help with their training, schools will be able to look at it

and think where can I start, they will have information and c`n find

out who to contact to get stpport. Where they targeted the schdme in

this school exclusions have half. It is the philosophy that you talk

about it, if you are thinking about doing it, talk about the whole

issue. It is not just about bullying but about behaviour as a whole.

Talking is better than war. Still to come: England v Uruguay. A far`away

game that's good for business back home. Bars and shops are reporting

bumper takings as fans get behind the national team. We'll have a

special report from Leicestdr. In other news this evening.

Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre has been ordered to pay ?8 lillion

in compensation after a babx boy was left with severe brain damage. The

High Court ruled the hospit`l "failed to provide adequate"

post`natal treatment after the boy was born in 2006. Now seven, he has

cerebral palsy and acute le`rning difficulties, needing round the

clock care. The Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has

publicly apologised. The jury has retired to consider its verdict on

seven men and a youth chargdd with murdering four members of the same

family in a botched arson attack. Shenila Taufiq and her thred

children died in the blaze `t their home on Wood Hill in Leicester last

September. It's claimed the fire was a revenge attack for the st`bbing of

the gang's friend earlier that evening. But they'd got the wrong

house. All defendants deny the charges. And the jury has rdtired to

consider its verdict in the trial of a husband and wife accused of

murdering her parents and then burying their bodies in thehr back

garden in Mansfield. Susan `nd Christopher Edwards formerlx of

Dagenham deny murdering her parents in Forest Town in Mansfield in 998.

The prosecution say they shot dead William and Patricia Wycherley

because they wanted to steal their money. There's been major traffic

disruption on the M1 in Leicestershire today after ` lorry

caught fire. The problems bdgan at 8:30 this morning near junction 23a.

These pictures were taken bx people near the scene. There was stationary

traffic for much of the day after the M1 was closed northbound between

junction 22 for Coalville and the A42 turn`off. Diversions added

around two hours to peoples' journeys. Two lanes of the

northbound carriageway have now re`opened. Tributes have bedn paid

to two men who died when thdir light aircraft plunged into a field.

70`year`old John Gill and 76`year`old Alan Eaves died at the

scene of the crash next to the M1 in Nottinghamshire last Saturd`y.

Witnesses say the aircraft `ppeared to have been deliberately steered

away from the motorway. An investigation into the causd of the

crash is continuing. With more details, here's Simon Hare. The

aftermath of the accident that claimed two lives. The men who died

here on Saturday have now bden named. A 70 and 76`year`old. The

local councillor had known one of the men for many years. He was a

very experienced pilot, it was terrible news. Not only am H shocked

but everybody who knows him too Our hearts go out to his wife for her

terrible loss. And he did a tour of work for the local communitx? It was

his tenacity which pooled as through a very big issue, the prospdct of

having one of the biggest l`ndfill sites in our `` in Europe coming to

our region. Deezer drawn from where the men had

taken off has been closed in the wake of the accident. `` thdy even

withdrawn. `` aerodrome. Anx known medical condition has been ruled out

as a cause. There is an ongoing investigation. They shouldn't be a

problem, but the trouble is, a lot of taxi journeys are. Disputes,

incidents, even assaults can cause serious problems for the drhver or

the passenger, or both. Now, officials in Nottingham are publicly

funding a new scheme to install CCTV cameras in the city's hackndy cabs.

They hope it'll protect drivers from abuse and make passengers fdel

safer. James Roberson reports. This is an area where thousands of

students live in Nottingham and where hundreds of taxi rides per

week are taken from these houses into town. Now they can all be safer

thanks to CCTV at last fittdd into these cabs. It is activated once the

engine is switched on and c`nnot be interfered with by the drivdr. Each

driver pays up to ?250 towards it but the rest is paid for by the

council as a result of action by the Police And Crime Commissiondrs. The

scheme was officially launched at Nottingham University. Studdnts are

the biggest users of taxis hn the city. It is something we felt

strongly about. Sometimes you can be an easy target in terms of getting

ripped off by taxi drivers. We fully support this scheme and are very

proud of it. I have felt a few stories where students have not felt

safe on nights out. This is a good week for them to note that they will

be OK. There has long been ` campaign for better protecthon for

taxi drivers themselves. If you are racially abused in your offhce or

workplace anyone will say that is unacceptable. So how can it be

acceptable for hard`working taxi drivers to be racially abusdd or

verbally attacked? I am surd we are all happy to have this sort of

scheme and cameras in the c`b. Safety for me and my customdr as

well. It is hoped that eventually all 400 cabs will be fitted with the

CCTV system in Nottingham. Dducation officials in Derbyshire say 40

children were stopped and qtestioned about being out of school in just

two days. Council officials carried out the checks in South Derbyshire

last week, stopping children as young as six, in known truancy

hotspots. They say all but one of the youngsters were with adtlts

They're now liaising with schools to investigate whether permisshon was

granted for the absences. Workers at Nottingham's Imperial Tobacco have

voted to accept a redundancx package, described as "substantial"

by the union UNITE. The sitd on Thane Road will close in Max 20`16,

with the loss of 540 jobs. `` 2 16. The first round of redundancies will

be made in December of this year. And the use of new`style hanging

baskets in one part of Notthngham is proving something of a thorny issue.

That's because some of the flowers being used by Rushcliffe Borough

Council in West Bridgford are fake. It says the plastic petals `re part

of a pilot scheme to help it save thousands of pounds a year. But some

community groups in the are` say the baskets have lost their bloom. Now,

we are of course just minutds away from England's second match of the

World Cup against Uruguay. Xes, football fans across the region have

been buying their bunting, flying their flags and now many will be

gathering in pubs ahead of the game. England's involvement in thd

tournament stands to give otr local economy a real boost, but ddfeat

tonight could see them knocked out by next week. Tom Brown reports now

on how the World Cup in Brazil is being embraced, and exploitdd, by

businesses here. Training for tonight's match the

England players knew they c`rried the nation's expectation on their

shoulders. Fans are ready for the latest chapter in England's World

Cup story. They all hope it will not be one of their last. Feeling

confident. I think we will sneak it. Success for England means stccess

for our local pubs. We are dxpecting another busy one, hopefully at

capacity again. We just need England to get those three points so they

have the chance of qualifying and we think people will stay to cdlebrate.

Other shops have benefited from the desire of fans to look the part

They cannot get enough of the bunting. Once we put it out, it is

gone. The chamber of mercy says the World Cup will be worth ?100 million

to our local economy. `` ch`mber of core mercy. Defeat for Engl`nd cooed

see them exit the competition by next Tuesday which would not just be

bad news for Rooney and call but for businesses here. What would it mean

for you if England got knocked out early? Disappointing. We wotld have

to start taking things down in the shop but we still have Brazhl

bunting. We are showing every single game and have good responses from

other teams as well. Nothing appears to the atmosphere in an England

World Cup match. We hope thdy will be extending their stay in Brazil.

Staying with the World Cup ` and later in the programme, Navtej Johal

has been picking up a few thps from the home nation Brazil. Yes, these

kids may have been learning how to play football the Brazilian way but

tonight they are all cheering on one team. Now sport. First, Leicester

City midfielder Danny Drinkwater is backing former Manchester United

team mate, Wayne Rooney, to perform for England against Uruguay, in

their crucial World Cup gamd tonight. Drinkwater signed ` new

four year contract at Leicester this week. Natalie Jackson reports.

Leicester City's player of the year, Danny Drinkwater, says now the

fixtures are out the Premier League dream feels real. This year he

signed a four`year contract with Leicester. They want eventu`lly to

get weird they want to be in the higher half of the Premier League. I

just want to be a part of that. He joined in January 2012 in a ?1

million deal. His contract was due to expire next year and he says he

is confident that over the summer the club can retain their

championship winning team. Ht is a tight`knit club so keeping the

players were we are, as strong as we are, it is something I would

definitely back. He scored dight goals last season and believes his

team have a good chance of staying in the top flight. Obviouslx we

would love to finish as high as we possibly can but staying in the

Premier League we would be happy with for sure. He says he would

happily stay with Leicester for the rest of his career. At Notthngham

Forest, Stuart Pearce has m`de his third new signing as the Reds

manager. 21`year`old former central defender Louis Laing has agreed a

one`year deal. He was released by Sunderland at the end of last season

and is a former England youth player. Meanwhile, at Notts County

confirmation captain Alan Sheehan has turned down a new deal `nd

signed for League One rivals Bradford City today. Cricket, and

Leicestershire host Nottinghamshire at Grace Road in the T20 Bl`st this

evening, with the Foxes still looking for their first win, since

their opening victory against Derbyshire. The foxes took `n early

wicket. Stunning batting saw two men make half centuries. Leicestershire

going well in the case `` Chase Commentary of the game is on your

BBC local radio station. Kick`off is just under ten minutes away, but

before we go, we have just the thing to whet your appetite ahead of the

England match. Yes, we may be 6 000 miles from Brazil, but in a little

corner of Nottingham a group of children have been learning football

skills inspired by the five`times world champions. Could therd be a

future England star among them? Navtej Johal has been to sed them in

action. Flex, tricks and glorious free kicks. This is football

Brazilian style but we are not in Sao Paulo, we are in Saint @nne 's.

For over two years now the central Brazilian soccer school has been

teaching kids how to play the beautiful game. Here the pl`y the

skill `based version of football played in Brazil with a smaller

ball. It is different. We spent a more time on the ball encouraging

kids to be expressive, take risks and be comfortable on the b`ll.

Children come here never having played football before in their

lives and progressing directly through football academies like

Nottingham Forest. I like playing in matches and playing with my friends.

They help you learn and do not just say do this and do that, thdy

actually teach you and if you cannot do stuff, they help you. I tsed to

not be able to pass the ball properly but now I can. The skills

are all well and good but tonight they are only cheering on one team.

England are going to win, it is going to be 2`0. 2`1 to England 2`1

to Uruguay. Why Uruguay? Because England are rubbish. So the mood may

be mainly, mainly optimistic for now. What a fantastic place and

doesn't he have the moves? He certainly does. They are all

brilliant and impressive. Now the weather. It is the settled condition

this week. Much warmer here in the East Midlands. Now complaints

temperature wise but if you are suffering he Fever at the moment you

may have some complaints thdre. Pollen levels are set to relain high

for the rest of the week. Tomorrow is a dry day and I am expecting

plenty of sunny spells. Thex may take the time to arrive in the

morning. The cloud proved qtite so `` star burn as you can see on this

satellite image. `` stop earn. `` stubborn. On Friday there is a lot

of cloud around first thing but that will start to thin and break and we

will start to see some sunnx spells. More in the way of sunshine

into the afternoon. In the sunshine there will be a more westerly wind

tomorrow. Temperatures should reach the high of 22 Celsius. Feeling more

warm as we go into the day. Saturday will see high pressure still with

us. A fair amount of cloud `nd we yet again are expecting a dry day

with sunshine appealing particularly in the afternoon. Highs of 20

Celsius. The settled theme heading into Sunday. A similar storx as we

go into the new week. Things staying calm and settled on the weather

front. Whatever the outcome tonight, at least good weather tomorrow.

That's all from us for now. Goodnight.