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First tonight, many of our most valued council | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
services in the East Midlands are facing some of the biggest spending | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
A new report says the budget squeeze is particularly noticeable on road | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
The findings come from the Chartered Institute of Publhc | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Our political editor, John Hess reports. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
They wanted their voices he`rd as councillors inside voted | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
on big budget cuts to counchl services for the homeless. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
What this means in real terls is going from working with 400 young | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
people over a year to actually 0, for the whole of Derbyshire. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
The protesters were invited to make their case. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
Our local politicians have been trying to make | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
their case over what they s`y is the disproportionate impact | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Over four years on East Midlands Today, | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
we have reported on the warning and impact of austerity budget cuts that | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
have dominated the decision`making of our local councillors. | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
For example, at County Hall, Nottingham, they've shed allost 800 | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
posts in recent years and this new report confirms the | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
extent of the budget cuts and which services in particular right across | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Total spending is expected to fall by 4.1% this year, | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
That compares with 2.9% in the West Midlands and what 1.8% | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Only the Northeast, at 5%, has a bigger cuts. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
The national average for England is 3.3%. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
But this is the big figure, 29. % ` when adjusted | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
for inflation this is a redtction in local authority spending | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Leicester City mayor Sir Peter Soulby says it's time | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
local councillors councils were less dependent on Treasury grants to | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Local authorities ought to have the flexibility to raise their revenue | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
To be fair, we are generating more cash, but it | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
is fair to say we are still in a difficult place with the Government | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
It continues to expand and we need to continue to spend taxpaydrs' | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Police spending in the Midlands is down 2.4$. | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
highways. Those potholes will take longer to repair. | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
Police have released a photo of the seven`year`old girl who was | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
found dead at a flat in Nottingham last week. | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
Shanaye Walker's aunt has been charged with her murder. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Our social affairs correspondent, Jeremy Ball, reports. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
A little girl barely old enough for primary school, posing hn pink | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
But today she is at the centre of a murder inquiry. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
It's five days since her body was found here at Bestwood Park, a crime | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
scene marked out with tributes for a victim who was only sdven | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Someone has left a doll next to these cuddly toys. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Now it has emerged that her own aunt is under arrest on suspicion | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Kay`Ann Morris was due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court today | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
She was not present for the hearing but her barristdr said | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
She's been ordered to appear before a judge here in a fortnight's time. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
The investigation into Shan`ye's death is still at an early stage. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
The death of a girl who shotld have been enjoying her summer holidays. | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
Children's heart surgery in Leicester could move | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Managers in charge of the city's hospitals say they now | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
want to base all their paediatric care on ond site. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
It's part of their campaign to keep children's | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
Instead it'll be based at the Royal Infirmary. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
The trust's decision follows new recommendations by NHS Engl`nd who | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
are carrying out a UK`wide review into children's cardiac card. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Now, you've probably seen the remarkable images today of thousands | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
of ceramic poppies placed in tribute around the Tower of London. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
The World War One centenary display is the work of a team from Derby | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
who've been busy producing the poppies around the clock. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
Designed by a Derbyshire artist each flower represents a soldier | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Our arts reporter Geeta Pendse reports. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
They've been working night `nd day since January to produce more than | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
888,000 poppies designed by the Derbyshire artist Paul Cummhns, | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
keen to involve the local community in Derby where he studied. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
The team range from art graduates to local tradesmen. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Each of the poppies represents a British or colonial soldidr who | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Whilst it's a repetitive process, everyone here in the factorx has | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
the mental attitude that thdy are making something that represents | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Once the poppies are moulded into place they are ready to be set. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
This is heated to about 1180 Celsius. | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
The poppies are then taken out. They will then be glazed. | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
At the moment they are prodtcing 30,000 poppies every week. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Many of the raw materials are sourced from Derbyshire, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
and the red paint developed by a company in Coalville. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
This morning, the first instalment of poppies was viewed by thd royal | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
family, a proud moment for `n artist who graduated just four years ago. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
For me it was really import`nt to get people together | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Once they got to know about it, once they started making thdm, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
they have then literally taken ownership of everything, | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
down to realising if they break one it represents somebody's life. | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
The last poppies will be pl`nted on Remembrance Day, a memorhal that | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
has its roots in Derby but is now shared with the world. | :06:20. | :06:32. | |
I leave you with the weather. A few showers around today but they | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
were just the start of it. Tonight fairly and persistent rain pushing | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
in. Most of it will clear ott of the way quickly tomorrow morning. Cryer | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
and brighter as the morning progresses. Pushing into thd South | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
West and Wales. Ahead of th`t a few showers at the moment but the main | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
event pushing through tomorrow morning. In the early hours of the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
morning, the rain gets pershstent and heavy. A mild night. If you are | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
up early tomorrow morning, there will be some rain around. It is | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
clear through fairly quicklx. By the end of the morning it will have left | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
all of us. There will be a couple of showers following on behind that | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
generally brighter and drier with some sunshine. The outlook. | :07:27. | :07:40. | |
There's been a fair bit of talk about what weather is heading our | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
way for the weekend. We will touch on that at the end of the forecast. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
In terms of the weather here and now, it is a lot of rain on the way. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
So plenty of rain already affecting south-western parts of the country. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
That will sweep across the UK as we go through the course of the night. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
On top of that, it is not going to be wet, it will be a warm night | :08:04. | :08:05. |