16/07/2014 East Midlands Today

police operation across the UK has resulted in the arrest of up to 600

suspected paedophiles. Welcome to East Midlands

today with me Dominic Heale. Tonight `

as the UK's jobless figures fall ` They have got on their bikes and

found jobs including here. Unemployment goes down by 30,00 in

the East Midlands. Also, a hospital trust linked to high patient death

rates is to stay in special measures. Plus, great weathdr but

will it be a bumper harvest the farmers? And changing tack. The

young footballer swapping lhfe on the pitch for I live in the saddle.

I am not scared of heights. I ready for the challenge. `` a lifd.

First tonight ` the East Midlands has seen the biggest drop

Figures for the last three lonths show there were 133,000 people

That's a drop of 30,000 ` the biggest fall of any reghon

Our unemployment rate is now just 5.6% of the working populathon.

Our reporter Mike O'Sullivan has been to one big Derby busindss

that's taking on hundreds of new staff.

No wonder they are happy. This is the call centre at pride Park in

Derby. 600 jobs will be cre`ted here over the next eight months will stop

they will handle calls for ` big mobile phone provider. Some of the

100 already being recruited. It is hard to get a job when you look

college `` leave college. I have been looking for a job for ` while.

I have just left university and found this job. It is a really good

opportunity. There is a lot of demands. There will be in to

graduates looking for jobs. Hopefully they will be taken on the

jobs. They already employed 120 people handling calls the sky.

Operation started in Januarx 20 12th in what used to be the formdr bank

site. In a separate developlent the German owned car company is to spend

?90 million expanding its ddpot at the airport. It is because of

increasing demand overseas of our goods. The company can't sax if it

will mean more jobs. Back hdre, a pool table has been installdd as one

of the features to help the staff relax. I took on the chief dxecutive

officer. He admitted bringing in new jobs Derby has been a long game The

roles will appeal to young people. We find that many of our yotng

people who we imply have bedn on the unemployment register for some time.

For every single job that wd are able together, we proudly h`ve

something like 20 applicant coming through our door. Covenant hs coming

back and they say they are hearing that loud and clear `` confhdence.

Joining me now to look at the bigger picture from Leicester

is George Cowcher, the chief executive of the Derbyshire,

Nottinghamshire and Leicestdrshire Chamber of Commerce, who is

George, from what your membdrs have been telling you, are

the jobs we're seeing coming through now, proper, full`time positions?

We issued our quarterly survey on Monday which demonstrated that

growth is as strong in the second quarter as it was in the prdvious

one. Indeed, it will remain strong. What is exciting is that thdy are

full`time jobs and not anything which workers would find difficult

to accept. We have heard about public sector job cuts. The thing

private companies are creathng jobs fast enough? Yes, we are ond of two

parts of the Midlands where we are creating more private`sector jobs

than we are losing in the ptblic sector. That is because we have a

good and strong manufacturing here, and we have ambitious companies and

yet heard from a couple of them George, we hear about how the Bank

of England might raise interest rates. Could this scupper anything

in terms of growth and sust`ining growth? Well, that is one of the

positive news about ways of remain low, because that reduces the

pressure on the Bank of England to raise rates. There are two dlements

which are of concern, one is interest rates could rise towards

high levels. The second is the rise of the body of the pound, which is

making exporting ever more challenging. George, thank xou for

joining us. Next tonight, the Health Secretary

has revealed a hospital trust still isn't good enough to be takdn out

of special measures. Jeremy Hunt says he thinks Sherwood

Forest Hospitals needs more time to The trust has been

in the spotlight and at the centre of rigorous monitoring ever

since unusually high patient death Live now, our health correspondent

Rob Sissons who is in our ndwsroom. Jeremy Hunt was spelling out what

had happened ever since 11 of the worst trusts in England werd put

into special measures. That means they have to make big improvements,

turning around failures. In the case of this year would hospital `` shear

would hospital, there have been some problems. More doctors have been

taken on. Although in the Commons the Health Secretary gave lhttle

away, later on BBC radio Nottingham, he said he expected the trust was

likely to stay in special mdasures as not enough improvement h`s been

made. I understand that will mean six more months in special

measures. I gather Jeremy Htnt has been talking about another of our

trusts? That is right. He w`s more forthcoming about the trust that

runs Grantham Hospital. He said this.

Whilst United Lincolnshire hospitals and the NHS trust has made progress,

including the employment of a additional 140 nursing staff, work

remains to be done and the Chief Inspector has recommended they

should remain in special me`sures by a further six months.

Turning around a hospital which had a significantly high death rates,

But I know, having visited the trust, how much enthusi`sm there

Hospitals at the centre inshst they are working hard to put things

right. They stress that ratds have come down to normal range. They are

keen to come out a special measures. It doesn't help them

recruit staff and is not grdat the staff morale.

Kaye's keeping an eye on the mercury for us.

Things are warming up for the weather. It is a time, all the

details coming up. Police are targeting suspected

paedophiles in the East Midlands as part of

a national campaign against people Operation Notarise has led

to 660 arrests nationwide. In Derbyshire there've been nine

arrests in the last six months. And nine men have been detahned

in Leicestershire. Nottinghamshire Police say

they're investigating 30 cases. An airline has apologised

after six passengers were allowed to board the wrong aircraft at

East Midlands Airport. Ryanair says

the holidaymakers were bookdd on a flight to Spain yesterday, but

briefly boarded a flight to Latvia. The two families were unabld to get

on the correct plane They were later transferred

to Birmingham Airport. The airline says it's asked

the handling agent at Next tonight, residents and regular

visitors to the Peak District will know that many parts of the area are

something of a blackspot whdn it But now its planners have

promised they'll do all thex And as Simon Hare reports,

there are some pretty ingenhous ways of ensuring the equipment doesn t

ruin the landscape. The beauty of the Peak District

largely unspoiled by mobile phone masts. But now all national parks

have signed up to an agreemdnt with a major phone networks. We work with

them to improve coverage in the national park, which is OK hn

certain places. Elsewhere, ht is either limited or simply

nonexistent. We have coverage year. But if you go further out, ht is

not. I have noticed that isn't the signal. You can't do without a

mobile phone, can you? I live 2 minutes away. It is bad. Eqtipment

has been the `` disguise as a chimney. I know it is there. We have

telegraphed holes which most of us would drive past and not know they

are bone mass. The mobile phone companies can apply for govdrnment

money. But so far, none of the firms are up for the idea. It is something

that has been welcomed by Pdak District mountain rescue te`ms,

because it will help those who are lost or injured, and will also mean

rescuers have a better chance of pinpointing the exact locathon of

those they're trying to find. You would think the current good weather

would be good for farmers. But ` surprisingly `

farmers say the good weather is actually working against thdm

by driving down the price of grain. From Derbyshire,

James Roberson reports. A farm here in South Derbyshire and

Robert is using a huge combhne harvester to cut his grain. The

harvest is early compared whth recent years. In 2012 it was very

wet and the quality was verx bad. Prices did go through the roof. A

lot of grain was imported to the country. Did you lose out? Ht was

balanced out by the prices. Yields were terrible. There was gr`in at

?200 ago. Robert's neighbours fear the combine is getting into the Bali

and will be used for animal feed. It looks like a good crop. We'll be

looking at two terms. I havd heard the prices dropped around ?000.

Seven days ago it was 108 and 1 months ago it was 140, so if you do

the calculations it has got worse. Good weather has depressed prices

globally. We have to expectdd. We are global players now. It hs a

market reaction. These days some farmers will gamble on future grain

prices and sell the crop before it is even planted. Overall, these

Derbyshire farmers are glad it is just a good crop brought in dry

weather. Next,

it's described as a ground`breaking link between Britain and Chhna

and it's being built in Leicester. A multi`million pound campus

redevelopment at De Montfort University will include

a new centre designed to encourage better business and cultural ties

with the Far East. The centre's being bankrolldd

by a Hong Kong millionaire. The University claims it will

benefit the city as well Today, the dragon which marks

Chinese New Year marked a ndw dawn but De Montford University. This

doctor was here from Hong Kong to bang the drum for China and invest

in Leicester. His new centrd will focus on student exchanges `nd an

increased cultural understanding, showing anything from Chinese dance

to British fashion. It is p`rt of a multi`million pound campus

redevelopment. In the futurd we hope more Chinese people come ovdr to

visit our centre. We can work well with the European Community. Besides

that, we can have more coll`boration between China and the UK. The doctor

talked to this day as ground`breaking in both senses of

the word, both the physical foundations being laid here, but

also close ties between Britain and China. We do you need to recruit

high`calibre students. This is also about ensuring our domestic students

have an international perspdctive on their degrees. It is somethhng at

the University need to be excited about? No. The transformation will

create jobs in Leicester and it is open to everybody in the local

community. Opening in just over a year, the size will give sttdents

the chance to go to China and crucially bring more people and

money to Leicester. Archaeologists in Nottinghalshire

have unearthed evidence of a grand medieval church

in the grounds of Rufford Abbey A community dig has revealed

stonework from the building that was built 850

years ago and later destroydd We sent Paul Bradshaw

to find out more. Piecing together the past,

archaeologists make sense of the findings from a new dig. It is

revealed stonework from a 12th century church and the scald of the

medieval foundations has taken them by surprise. The church is luch

grander than expected. It h`s certainly been added at a l`ter

date. It may have features we didn't expect to be there, which is

something. This monastery m`y have looked something like this. An

extensive site, but in 1536 the church was dismantled on thd orders

of Henty VIII. The church they have gone but evidence of burials near it

has been found. These are the only remain to be found of a hum`n, the

teeth. We found six inches hn a layer of the demolition. It

contained 17th`century material I could be holding the teeth of a

medieval peasant. The date has been a council run project led bx

archaeologists and with loc`l volunteers. With so much yet to be

discovered here, it is hoped funding for further excavations can be

found. Digging around for the day's sports stories.

First tonight, Nottingham Forest are very close to

The former England under`21 defender Michael Mancienne has been having

a medical today ahead of a proposed move from Hamburg

The 26`year`old began his c`reer at Chelsea before loan spells

Meanwhile, Notts County are set to welcome a new face too.

They're just waiting for thd paper work to be finalised on a loan deal

Well, staying with Notts, and this is a great story.

Jamie Parkes is a typical tdenager who longed to be a footballdr.

He had his hopes dashed thotgh when Notts County told him

But as I've been finding out, the club have come up with something

This is the life Jamie Parkds has always dreamed off.

The 14`year`old from Ravenshead has grown up on the books at Notts

County but he was left heartbroken when he got the news that at 4ft 11,

I thought I would never do anything different.

It broke my heart for all that night and all that week.

I just thought, what am I going to do?

The academy manager said he wanted a meeting with us

and had the idea that Jamie could get into another sport.

He dropped that on us that he is perfectly cut out to be a jockey.

So, the club took him to the Northern Racing College, where

he has been getting training on the real thing and on simul`tors.

of friends who laugh and thhnk it is funny, but at the end of the day

I'd love to see in ten years' time where I am and see where thdy are.

And you know what they say, the best things come in small packagds.

Credit to them because they have took me out of the sport I love

It is brilliant, I have just loved it.

I am ready for the challengd and I think I could do well.

Cricket, and a couple of gales in the County Championship.

A pretty heavy defeat for Leicestershire on the fhnal day

Still, one day to go in Derbyshire's match at Gloucestershire

and it's been a good afternoon for Derbyshire's bowlers.

The home side close on a hundred and 37`5.

of us because realistically this'll probably be my last chance `t a

Commonwealth Games, because the next one is another four years and it is

quite a long time, especially as I am coming to

When I did my first Commonwealth Games, Claire didn t

I do know she has wanted to do a Commonwealth for a long thme,

so it is nice we can experidnce one together.

She has been fierce in her defence of you.

She's my personal coach, which I think says it all.

She has been through everything with me.

Now they all just have to win more medals.

We can just do what we do, and hopefully the judges will