:00:14. > :00:17.Tonight, we are live at the Crich Memorial in Derbyshire as wd
:00:18. > :00:27.commemorate the declaration of war, 100 years ago.
:00:28. > :00:32.And a moment of reflection to remember the fallen.
:00:33. > :00:38.Young and old gather in villages and vowed never to forget those who left
:00:39. > :00:41.to fight and never came homd. It is a poignant reminder to future
:00:42. > :00:44.generations of the courage `nd sacrifice those people gave so we
:00:45. > :00:50.might live in peace. Also tonight, Nottingham's workplace
:00:51. > :00:55.parking tax is here to stay, to pay for more trams.
:00:56. > :01:03.And in sport, we have the l`test on Le sells and Darlow leaving
:01:04. > :01:08.Nottingham Forest. `` Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow.
:01:09. > :01:10.Good evening and welcome to East Midlands Today, live from
:01:11. > :01:18.This tower was built in the 192 s as a permanent reminder
:01:19. > :01:24.of the 11,409 soldiers from the Sherwood Foresters who died
:01:25. > :01:33.in the Great War, which Britain joined exactly 100 years ago today.
:01:34. > :02:38.trees were planted to remember the Hilton men who were lost in three
:02:39. > :03:53.20th`century wars. We have here an hear the taking, I think th`t is his
:03:54. > :04:12.heart. He was on night patrol and he was killed by an explosion.
:04:13. > :04:19.I am delighted, there has bden a real community effort and I am so
:04:20. > :04:25.proud of the community. We came here today...
:04:26. > :04:28.James Roberson reporting thdre on how the residents of Hilton
:04:29. > :04:32.marked the centenary of the start of the Great War.
:04:33. > :04:35.It was one of dozens of events which have been taking placd
:04:36. > :04:42.right across our region tod`y, as Simon Hare reports.
:04:43. > :04:49.Remembering those who died hn a First World War, at Nottingham
:04:50. > :04:56.Castle, the union Jack is lowered to half`mast. Inside, an exhibhtion
:04:57. > :05:00.detailing how the Great War changed Nottinghamshire, as well as
:05:01. > :05:06.commemorating those who lost their lives. We have been thrilled with
:05:07. > :05:11.the response. People seem to be spending a long time in the gallery,
:05:12. > :05:22.we are bowled over by the ilpact of it. At Eastwood, the Memori`l
:05:23. > :05:25.Gardens have become only thd second centenary field in the country, it
:05:26. > :05:29.is now a protected site to lark the offer made sacrifice made bx local
:05:30. > :05:34.people 100 years ago. This particular garden will be a memorial
:05:35. > :05:41.for all the people in the area who died in those wars, and it will be a
:05:42. > :05:45.lasting reminder of what happened. In Leicestershire, this musdum has
:05:46. > :05:50.opened its own Great War exhibition. Researched entirely by volunteers,
:05:51. > :05:54.tells the stories of some of the hundreds of men from the arda who
:05:55. > :05:59.died during the First World War This exhibition represents just a
:06:00. > :06:06.few of the men who died in this area. They represent over 900 people
:06:07. > :06:15.who gave the ultimate sacrifice some of them so young, 15, 06,
:06:16. > :06:22.teenagers, who went for a c`use they believed in and give the ultimate
:06:23. > :06:26.sacrifice. At Stamford, a fdstival of commemoration. It began with the
:06:27. > :06:31.procession of the Mayor through the town. Among its ranks, soldhers of
:06:32. > :06:34.the future from the local Army Cadet Force. Watched by soldiers from past
:06:35. > :06:38.conflicts. And later tonight, there'll be more
:06:39. > :06:40.ceremonies in villages Between 10pm and 11pm tonight,
:06:41. > :06:48.people are being asked to switch off their house lights and light a
:06:49. > :06:52.candle for a moment of refldction. The inspiration for the event comes
:06:53. > :06:57.from the words of the then British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey,
:06:58. > :07:04.who said on this day 100 ye`rs ago: "The lamps are going out all over
:07:05. > :07:07.Europe, we shall not see thdm lit As you'd expect,
:07:08. > :07:30.the newspapers of the time were full This is the day after war w`s
:07:31. > :07:35.declared. On this site, just a tiny little bit about Leicester `nd the
:07:36. > :07:38.war. You can see, there are still adverts very much prominent, they
:07:39. > :07:46.had no idea how the war would take off. The day after the war was
:07:47. > :07:52.declared, automating the Germany. Extraordinary, how the adverts were
:07:53. > :07:55.pushed off the front page. Normally, that was all you would see on the
:07:56. > :07:59.front page, but this is the big news.
:08:00. > :08:03.It also says, if you want the latest war news served up in attractive
:08:04. > :08:07.style, you must get this newspaper. That really reflects the wax that
:08:08. > :08:13.people approached war, they thought it was an adventure. They h`d no
:08:14. > :08:14.idea how it would turn out. Attitudes changed. They did, huge
:08:15. > :08:15.amount. Following the declaration of war,
:08:16. > :08:18.the regular Army was mobilised These pictures were taken at Newark
:08:19. > :08:24.in early August 1914 as the Sherwood Foresters began
:08:25. > :08:27.their march to war, boarding trains, There was a cheerfulness about them,
:08:28. > :08:30.perhaps anticipation And this picture taken at the time
:08:31. > :08:36.shows how some of those left behind felt towards thd
:08:37. > :08:39.Germans. Martha Ainsworth from Loughborough
:08:40. > :08:43.watched all her sons go off to war. They, like hundreds of thousands
:08:44. > :08:46.of men, answered the call to 100 years ago, Europe was dominated
:08:47. > :08:57.by Emperors, a Kaiser and a Tsar. Closer to home, Britain's
:08:58. > :08:59.second city wasn't Birmingh`m. It's difficult to comprehend how
:09:00. > :09:07.different everyday life was in 914. Our political editor John Hdss has
:09:08. > :09:10.been discovering how our MPs then He starts his report in
:09:11. > :09:27.Downing Street. Imagine what it must have bden like
:09:28. > :09:32.100 years ago as the then Prime Minister faced the prospect of
:09:33. > :09:36.Britain at war with Germany. Asquith was Prime Minister of a coalition
:09:37. > :09:40.Government, Sandra Miller? He led a Liberal Government in coalition with
:09:41. > :09:44.the Irish Parliamentary party. There was economic crisis and the issue of
:09:45. > :09:50.independence, not Chris Coldman but the demand was for Irish hole rule.
:09:51. > :09:54.MPs were more concerned abott a looming civil war in Ireland than
:09:55. > :09:59.the drumbeats of war in Europe. That changed when Sir Edward Grex warned
:10:00. > :10:02.MPs that the Army of the Kahser sweeping through Belgium wotld
:10:03. > :10:08.oblige Britain to defend Belgian neutrality. An MP from Leicdster was
:10:09. > :10:14.not convinced. Ramsay MacDonald is probably better known as thd first
:10:15. > :10:18.Labour Prime Minister after the four `` after the war. But he was also
:10:19. > :10:23.elected to represent Leicester in 1906. In the Commons, MacDonald told
:10:24. > :10:27.Sir Edward Grey he was not convinced of the need for war and the verdict
:10:28. > :10:33.of history may eventually agree with him and not so read word. Whthin 24
:10:34. > :10:36.hours, Britain declared war, and Sir Edward Grey from the windows of the
:10:37. > :10:41.Foreign Office made his prophetic warning, the lamps are going out all
:10:42. > :10:45.over Europe, they will not be lit again in our lifetime. Mobilisation
:10:46. > :10:51.was not without problems. Lord Kitchener needed recruits. The MP
:10:52. > :10:54.for Mansfield, a Liberal, g`ve national prominence, campaigning
:10:55. > :10:59.against underage boys being enlisted. In Leicester, recruitment
:11:00. > :11:04.was amongst the lowest in Britain because of the strong anti`war
:11:05. > :11:12.sentiment. MPs had other concerns. Why had Army recruits not bden
:11:13. > :11:20.issued with razors and spoons? Why were retired medical officer is not
:11:21. > :11:27.getting a full kit allowancd? And one of the new Derby MPs exposed
:11:28. > :11:32.businesses that were still trading with Germany, despite a Govdrnment
:11:33. > :11:36.trade ban. The war to end all wars may have been 100 years ago, but the
:11:37. > :11:43.concerns of our MPs seem strangely familiar now.
:11:44. > :11:46.There was a belief that the war would soon be over by
:11:47. > :11:51.In fact, it dragged on for lore than four long and bloody ydars
:11:52. > :11:53.Years which really changed British society like never before.
:11:54. > :11:56.With me now is Colin Hyde from the Centre for Urban Hhstory
:11:57. > :12:12.Did it happen overnight?, no, the changes did not happen overnight. We
:12:13. > :12:14.have some example is here. Several companies started to make things
:12:15. > :12:20.that had previously been made by German companies. But they needed a
:12:21. > :12:26.workforce and many men had gone away to the front. They had to start to
:12:27. > :12:29.recruit women. This is one of the major social changes. Women started
:12:30. > :12:33.to do jobs that had previously been done by men. Whether it was in
:12:34. > :12:39.factories or offices or working on the trams, they went in and took up
:12:40. > :12:42.the slack. A huge out of diversification, but when the men
:12:43. > :12:47.came back, if they were lucky enough to come back, whether women allowed
:12:48. > :12:51.to keep the jobs? Well, the men wanted their drugs back. A lot of
:12:52. > :12:57.women were expected to go b`ck and look after the family. `` the men
:12:58. > :13:02.wanted their jobs back. It was a symbolic defence and in 1918 and
:13:03. > :13:06.2028, women eventually got the vote and the fact they had done such a
:13:07. > :13:09.good job in the First World War contributed to the feeling towards
:13:10. > :13:14.that. So, the genie was out of the bottle. Thank you very much for
:13:15. > :13:16.joining us. So many more stories and melories on
:13:17. > :13:20.the BBC website. For the moment, that's all
:13:21. > :13:22.from us here at Crich Stand. Geeta's in the studio with
:13:23. > :13:27.the rest of the day's news. A 23`year`old woman has appdared in
:13:28. > :13:30.court charged with the murddr of a The body of Shanaye Walker was found
:13:31. > :13:34.at a house This morning, Kay`Ann Morris
:13:35. > :13:40.was remanded back into custody. Our reporter Tom Brown was
:13:41. > :13:52.at Nottingham Magistrates Court Kay`Ann Morris entered the court
:13:53. > :13:56.just after 11 this morning. The hearing was over within fivd
:13:57. > :13:59.minutes. The 23`year`old from Bestwood Park in Nottingham is
:14:00. > :14:05.charged with the murder of ` young girl, a girl who was named `s
:14:06. > :14:08.seven`year`old Shanaye Walkdr. Her body was found by police last
:14:09. > :14:14.Thursday at a house in Bestwood Park. A postmortem showed she died
:14:15. > :14:18.of a head injury forced polhce say they want anyone with any
:14:19. > :14:23.information to come forward. Kay`Ann Morris was not asked to entdr any
:14:24. > :14:28.play. The district judge told her he had no power to grant bail `nd that
:14:29. > :14:29.she would remain in police custody. She will appear again at Nottingham
:14:30. > :14:33.Crown Court tomorrow. A leading councillor says
:14:34. > :14:34.Nottingham's controversial workplace parking levy is a permanent tax that
:14:35. > :14:37.could fund more tram extenshons Those could include a line to
:14:38. > :14:39.East Midlands Airport. It comes as the council revdals
:14:40. > :14:42.the money raised last year, in its second year of operation
:14:43. > :14:44.was nearly ?8.5 million. But there were fewer
:14:45. > :15:02.taxable parking spaces. Commuters in Nottingham havd had a
:15:03. > :15:05.couple of years to get used to the city's workplace parking levy.
:15:06. > :15:10.Employers and organisations with 11 or more spaces have to pay tp. The
:15:11. > :15:19.money will go towards the tram extensions. A leading counchllor
:15:20. > :15:23.says the tax is here to stax, and there are no ambitions to use it to
:15:24. > :15:39.pay for more tram extensions to the airport. We have to look at whether
:15:40. > :15:43.we will require a tramline for HS2. There are bits from people hn
:15:44. > :15:48.Kimberley who want the tramline The cost of the tax last year w`s ? 34
:15:49. > :15:54.per space. In the second ye`r of operation. It raised ?8.4 mhllion,
:15:55. > :15:58.getting on for a percent more than the year before after a price rise
:15:59. > :16:04.on your one. But the number of liable spaces dropped to just over
:16:05. > :16:09.25,000. This money `` this company in Nottingham passes on the cost of
:16:10. > :16:16.the tax to its workforce. Around ?13,500 for 40 spaces. The boss told
:16:17. > :16:20.me he is not surprised to ldarn today that the levy is regarded by
:16:21. > :16:24.the council as permanent. It is no great surprise. We were told it was
:16:25. > :16:35.going to be for two extensions. After that, depending on a vision,
:16:36. > :16:44.it could go up again to arotnd 379. After weeks of warm sunshind,
:16:45. > :16:46.water levels on one of our rivers have become so low,
:16:47. > :16:49.some fish have become trappdd. Today a rescue operation's taken
:16:50. > :16:51.place on the River Lathkill in Derbyshire to move them to
:16:52. > :17:06.an area that flows all year. Old mine workings mean this stretch
:17:07. > :17:09.of the River Lathkill is susceptible to drying out during the sulmer
:17:10. > :17:15.months. After several weeks of warm weather, this year is no exception.
:17:16. > :17:22.Today, the Environment Agency began a rescue operation to move fish that
:17:23. > :17:25.have become stranded. There will be a lot of water flowing past, but
:17:26. > :17:42.now, the water levels have dropped to a really low level. So, the
:17:43. > :17:46.official suffer as a result. They are determined to catch every fish.
:17:47. > :17:51.If ewe we will go through and we are using a very effective technique,
:17:52. > :17:54.which puts a small electric`l current into the water to
:17:55. > :17:59.temporarily stunned fish, so we can get them out and move them
:18:00. > :18:02.downstream to a safer locathon. The operation is paid for by fishing
:18:03. > :18:07.licences, protecting and improving native fish stocks.
:18:08. > :18:10.The Commonwealth Games may be over, but hundreds of athletes ard
:18:11. > :18:12.descending on Nottingham for a competition with plenty of sparkle.
:18:13. > :18:14.The city's hosting the World Baton Twirling Championships `
:18:15. > :18:17.the first time the event's been held in thd UK
:18:18. > :18:18.Team England gave an impromptu performance
:18:19. > :18:32.First, Nottingham Forest Manager Stuart Pearce says he can't lie to
:18:33. > :18:35.the supporters, he is disappointed with the manner in which go`lkeeper
:18:36. > :18:39.Karl Darlow and defender Jalaal Lascelles were sold to Newc`stle.
:18:40. > :18:42.Pearce is in our building tonight and spoke to Natalie Jackson just
:18:43. > :18:58.Great to see you here at BBC Nottingham. First, are they leaving
:18:59. > :19:06.for Newcastle? They are, thd deals have been done. What is your
:19:07. > :19:20.reaction to it? Disappointed, I did not want them to go, to be honest.
:19:21. > :19:27.But the deal has been done on the upside is, we have them back for a
:19:28. > :19:33.few years. 7 million or whatever the fee is, will that be investdd back
:19:34. > :19:42.into your team? Etiquette h`s to be. It will not be new faces, I have
:19:43. > :19:47.always said. We need to enh`nce other areas of the team. I `m quite
:19:48. > :19:52.happy to move players who I think might have a future at the club For
:19:53. > :19:56.my sake and for theirs. But we have to hang onto the better plaxers You
:19:57. > :20:01.are clearly not happy, you `re in dispute with the Chairman? H am not
:20:02. > :20:05.in dispute with anyone, I al just disappointed at in the manndr in
:20:06. > :20:10.which it was going ahead and I am not prepared to smoke screen
:20:11. > :20:14.anything. I have too much loyalty to the supporters to stay here and tell
:20:15. > :20:18.a falsehood. We appreciate xour honesty. You can hear more from
:20:19. > :20:22.Stuart Pearce on BBC Radio Nottingham.
:20:23. > :20:24.On to Derby County, and confirmation today of a new face.
:20:25. > :20:27.They've signed striker Leon Best on a season long loan from Blackburn.
:20:28. > :20:30.The 27`year`old scored five goals in 16 games on loan at
:20:31. > :20:34.He was training with the Rals this morning and says working under
:20:35. > :20:49.I had to work with him, and, again, I keep saying I am delighted to be
:20:50. > :20:56.working with him and the pl`yers. Unfortunately, did not get promoted
:20:57. > :21:02.last season. And a major signing for Notts County, who have brought in
:21:03. > :21:09.the former keeper Carroll. He will make his debut at the weekend. There
:21:10. > :21:15.was to 20 `` Twenty20 quartdrfinal heartache. An astonishing rtn chase
:21:16. > :21:22.for the visitors. It wrecked the campaign yet again. Disappohnting
:21:23. > :21:31.stuff. Some beautiful skies this evening.
:21:32. > :21:36.Not much changing but we have rain on the way later this week. A ridge
:21:37. > :21:41.of high pressure which is whth us for the time being and it whll stay
:21:42. > :21:46.put through tomorrow, so another dry for `` Friday for us. The cloud will
:21:47. > :21:50.be starting to increase as we go through the afternoon but staying on
:21:51. > :21:56.the one side. Temperatures back up into the 20s. A couple of rogue
:21:57. > :22:01.showers this evening but thdy are starting to fade away. Clear skies
:22:02. > :22:04.once again and light winds `s well. And a bit chilly tonight for the
:22:05. > :22:09.time of year. I haven't said that for a while! Temperatures down to
:22:10. > :22:24.around eight or nine, so slhding into single figures. Tomorrow, a bit
:22:25. > :22:30.nippy. Most places staying dry and bright with the wind coming up from
:22:31. > :22:35.the South. It looks as though we will get wet on Tuesday night with
:22:36. > :22:38.an area of low pressure devdloping in the south`west. That pushes
:22:39. > :22:42.northwards as we had through Tuesday. A bit of a wash`out start
:22:43. > :22:48.to the day on Wednesday. Solething drier and brighter later in the day.
:22:49. > :22:52.That is all from us here. Now back to the memorial in Derbyshire.
:22:53. > :22:56.Welcome back to the Crich Mdmorial in Derbyshire, where we've been
:22:57. > :22:59.commemorating the 100th annhversary of Britain joining the Great War.
:23:00. > :23:02.As the mobile war of the first few months turned to
:23:03. > :23:07.stalemate, in France and Belgium, both sides dug in for a war
:23:08. > :23:10.of attrition and it became clear that recruits would have to undergo
:23:11. > :23:26.Believe it or not, there was a purpose`built camp at Clipstone in
:23:27. > :23:30.Nottinghamshire, were up to 30, 00 men at a time could be trained in
:23:31. > :23:36.trench warfare. This report from Sarah Teal.
:23:37. > :23:40.Deep in the heart of Sherwood in Nottinghamshire at the historic
:23:41. > :23:46.remains of a training camp where novice soldiers prepared for the
:23:47. > :23:50.brutality of trench warfare, and a century later, the zigzag of
:23:51. > :23:53.trenches can still be made out in the forest undergrowth. This shows
:23:54. > :23:57.exactly what they would havd been like, back then. The Forestry
:23:58. > :24:02.Commission has built a replhca trench to commemorate the role this
:24:03. > :24:07.site played in training troops for the First World War. We wanted to
:24:08. > :24:12.show people how the trenches would look at the time of the
:24:13. > :24:18.construction. Kind of messy, not regimented at all. It is as
:24:19. > :24:22.authentic as we can get it. Up to 30,000 men and women at the time
:24:23. > :24:23.were living at Clipstone, the original machine`gun ranges and
:24:24. > :24:45.battle sites are depressions and things like that
:24:46. > :24:50.which at first sight look lhke drainage ditches, but when xou
:24:51. > :24:54.realise what they are, it comes to life. This is one of the orhginal
:24:55. > :24:57.trenches, which was built to give soldiers are flavour of what life
:24:58. > :25:04.would be like on the Western Front. But there was a world of difference
:25:05. > :25:07.between these zigzag trenchds, deep in the Nottinghamshire countryside,
:25:08. > :25:12.and the muddy, bloody reality of the real thing in France and Belgium. I
:25:13. > :25:13.do not think anything could prepare people for that. I suppose looking
:25:14. > :26:58.at the shots here, must pay our respects. I thhnk we
:26:59. > :27:05.always will do. I think it will continue for another 100 ye`rs.
:27:06. > :27:09.Thank very much indeed. That is just about it from us here in Crhch. But
:27:10. > :27:14.events, commemorations and services will go on into the night. @nd
:27:15. > :27:21.tonight, there is a special event which we can all get involvdd in,
:27:22. > :27:25.the Lights Out campaign. Today, it is our chance to turn off the house
:27:26. > :27:30.lights, light a candle and think of those who lost their lives hn the
:27:31. > :27:35.Great War will stop if you do have pictures or memories you wotld like
:27:36. > :27:40.to share, please go to our website. We will put a selection of them up
:27:41. > :27:44.on our Facebook page. It has been an amazing day of commemoration, join
:27:45. > :28:09.me for a special late news. Good night.
:28:10. > :28:12.We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks
:28:13. > :28:18.Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!
:28:19. > :28:39.Nana Lyndsay, this. Nana?! I'll have less of the Nana, you ..
:28:40. > :28:39...and their motley crew of lads and lasses.
:28:40. > :28:46.You put metal in...and out pops the money.
:28:47. > :28:50.Nana Lyndsay, this. Nana?! I'll have less of the Nana, you ..