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:00:00. > :00:15.has been away. That is all from us.

:00:16. > :00:18.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

:00:19. > :00:20.First tonight ` the disgusting and dangerous substances

:00:21. > :00:27.Tests by Trading Standards officers in Leicestershire have revealed they

:00:28. > :00:32.can include rat droppings, dead flies ` even arsenic.

:00:33. > :00:34.Today shoppers in Coalville were shown just why

:00:35. > :00:39.they should avoid buying cheap. Tom Brown reports.

:00:40. > :00:41.Hello and welcome to the Leicestershire Trading

:00:42. > :00:47.This was not your usual market cookery demonstration, as

:00:48. > :00:56.We have some arsenic, some floor dust, dead flies,

:00:57. > :01:06.The light`hearted show had a serious message, as this is exactly what

:01:07. > :01:13.It is criminals making it. It's not regulated.

:01:14. > :01:18.They use concrete mixers and factory floors,

:01:19. > :01:22.and they will sweep up the droppings and put them in there as well.

:01:23. > :01:27.They will sell cheap cigarettes to children, just to get them hooked.

:01:28. > :01:29.Are you a smoker yourself? I am a smoker.

:01:30. > :01:31.Would you buy counterfeit cigarettes having seen that?

:01:32. > :01:35.I can understand customers wanting something cheap, because the tax

:01:36. > :01:38.on cigarettes is astronomical, but you have weigh up health.

:01:39. > :01:41.Raids have seen thousands of counterfeit cigarettes

:01:42. > :01:46.but nationally, tens of millions are still being sold.

:01:47. > :01:49.With packaging that looks legitimate, some people may not even

:01:50. > :01:55.If you offer them cheap, and they are not from a recognised

:01:56. > :02:00.retailer, say by someone in a pub or a colleague or someone you

:02:01. > :02:02.bump into in the street, car boot sales.

:02:03. > :02:05.The important thing is to report it to Trading Standards

:02:06. > :02:10.The giveaways are that they are cheap, they are below market price.

:02:11. > :02:13.However they will look like the genuine article.

:02:14. > :02:17.It's only when you smoke them that you realise they're not.

:02:18. > :02:21.This black`market business costs the government billions in lost duty,

:02:22. > :02:24.and undermines reputable tobacco sellers.

:02:25. > :02:27.Trading Standards says this means it is up to both smokers and

:02:28. > :02:30.non`smokers to help end this increasingly costly

:02:31. > :02:41.A Nottingham student will soon be reunited with

:02:42. > :02:48.20`year`old Doaa was stranded in Britain when her dad disappeared

:02:49. > :02:54.But now, thanks to the Red Cross, he's managed to trace her.

:02:55. > :02:58.This exclusive report from our Social Affairs

:02:59. > :03:05.When Doaa travelled here for an English course, she was expecting

:03:06. > :03:07.to return to Syria to study medicine,

:03:08. > :03:13.She was stuck here in Nottingham, and then her father, back in Syria,

:03:14. > :03:19.After a year and a half, we thought he was dead, because no

:03:20. > :03:23.one knew anything about him. We lost the hope.

:03:24. > :03:27.We were very worried, all the time crying and scared.

:03:28. > :03:30.I never thought I would see him again.

:03:31. > :03:33.The war in Syria has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives,

:03:34. > :03:37.but Doaa's dad survived and managed to escape to Sweden.

:03:38. > :03:42.That is until the Red Cross stepped in.

:03:43. > :03:48.They found her here in Nottingham, through their international family

:03:49. > :03:52.Doaa was convinced they had made a mistake.

:03:53. > :03:56.When I received the call I thought maybe it's like somebody has the

:03:57. > :04:02.I did not believe it at all, it's my dad.

:04:03. > :04:07.If it was not my dad it would have broken my heart more.

:04:08. > :04:15.But she needn't have worried, it really was a second chance

:04:16. > :04:20.for Doaa's family, a chance to be reunited.

:04:21. > :04:24.We dialled the number and she spoke to him, and she said the word

:04:25. > :04:29.Then the tears flew, everybody was crying.

:04:30. > :04:34.When I heard his voice, it was my dad.

:04:35. > :04:40.I started crying, and I couldn't speak with him.

:04:41. > :04:48.Doaa is hoping to fly out in the next few weeks to finally meet the

:04:49. > :05:00.A rare glimmer of hope in a brutal civil war.

:05:01. > :05:03.Legal action could be taken against a restaurant where more than

:05:04. > :05:09.The Khyber Pass takeaway in Hyson Green in Nottingham

:05:10. > :05:15.13 people were admitted to hospital after an outbreak of E Coli,

:05:16. > :05:18.prompting an investigation by Public Health England.

:05:19. > :05:21.The city council, which shut the premises,

:05:22. > :05:27.Commercial landlords in Derby say they've seen

:05:28. > :05:30.a dramatic increase in the number of small businesses looking

:05:31. > :05:36.The city has lagged behind its neighbours in attracting

:05:37. > :05:39.entrepreneurs, partly because of the strength of large companies

:05:40. > :05:46.But one landlord says viewings are up by 200% in five months.

:05:47. > :05:50.Despite that Friar Gate Square on the inner ring road, which cost

:05:51. > :05:57.?7.5 million, remains empty more than a year after it was built.

:05:58. > :06:02.Sport now and three games in the Capital One Cup tonight.

:06:03. > :06:05.There was a shock for Leicester City as they were knocked out

:06:06. > :06:13.Nottingham Forest won by two goals away to Huddersfield

:06:14. > :06:15.and Derby County are also through to the third round,

:06:16. > :06:21.And in tonight's big all East Midlands cricket match,

:06:22. > :06:25.Notts Outlaws made it through to the semi`finals of the One Day Cup.

:06:26. > :06:29.They beat Derbyshire Falcons by 85 runs at Trent Bridge.

:06:30. > :06:38.It's goodbye from me but with your weather, here's Kaye.

:06:39. > :06:46.It felt like October had jumped the queue yesterday, it was a soggy bank

:06:47. > :06:52.holiday Monday. Temperatures were suppressed to 12 degrees. Things are

:06:53. > :06:59.warming up over the next few days and we are back to average levels,

:07:00. > :07:03.19/20 degrees tomorrow. Things are improving, the rain has cleared away

:07:04. > :07:08.and we have some breaks in the cloud. Clear spells throughout the

:07:09. > :07:14.night. Temperatures will slide into single figures. A decent looking

:07:15. > :07:19.start tomorrow, dry and bright and there will be some sunshine. We stay

:07:20. > :07:23.that way into the afternoon and the clouds will come and go but a decent

:07:24. > :07:29.looking day and the winds will shift around to the south`east and that is

:07:30. > :07:31.a warmer direction and temperatures back up to 19/ 20 Celsius. I will

:07:32. > :07:37.leave you with the Outlook. weekend but the early signs are,

:07:38. > :07:49.next week will be more settled. Now we get the UK forecast.

:07:50. > :07:57.Not all of us need the weather to change. It has been lovely for the

:07:58. > :08:03.past couple of days. Lovely loose guile in Carlisle. Tomorrow, dry and

:08:04. > :08:12.sunny weather will be widespread across the UK. The last of two days

:08:13. > :08:13.worth of rain is clearing away from Kent and East Sussex. Overnight it

:08:14. > :08:16.could damp in the far south-west Kent and East Sussex. Overnight it

:08:17. > :08:21.with patchy and light rain. Elsewhere it is dry, chilly again

:08:22. > :08:23.for this time a BA in the northern part of the UK where some of us will

:08:24. > :08:24.be