:00:11. > :00:13.Good evening welcome to East Midlands Today with me,
:00:14. > :00:15.Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies. Tonight:
:00:16. > :00:22.Why a council's letting restaurants carry out their own hygiene checks.
:00:23. > :00:29.Some are self certifying because there are not enough food inspectors
:00:30. > :00:38.to do the job. Also rebuildhng motor cycling, Norton welcomes hundreds of
:00:39. > :00:44.new apprentices to a new ac`demy. And a young man with Down's syndrome
:00:45. > :00:53.gets his first job. When he first came in he could not even tdll me
:00:54. > :00:55.his name and now he is loving it. Memories of a moment of history 75
:00:56. > :01:05.years ago. carry out their own hygiene checks.
:01:06. > :01:09.Welcome to Wednesday's programme. First tonight, some restaur`nts
:01:10. > :01:14.and takeaways in Derby are being allowed to vouch for themselves that
:01:15. > :01:18.they've made the improvements needed from a food hygiene inspecthon.
:01:19. > :01:22.The city council says getting proprietors to self`certify that
:01:23. > :01:27.action's been taken will ensure "better use of resources" as its
:01:28. > :01:31.food inspection team copes with cutbacks.
:01:32. > :01:35.Pressure on the team is such that around a fifth of inspections due
:01:36. > :01:42.this year won't be carried out. Mike O'Sullivan has more.
:01:43. > :01:51.A good hygiene rating from Derby's inspection team can mean able to
:01:52. > :01:57.consumers. It is something H would look for when coming to somdwhere
:01:58. > :02:04.new. You want to guarantee that what you are looking at eating is healthy
:02:05. > :02:08.and good for you. If it was a restaurant I had not been bdfore I
:02:09. > :02:18.would definitely go on the hygiene rating. It has highlighted how staff
:02:19. > :02:24.cuts have hit food hygiene. Now some low`risk restaurants are behng
:02:25. > :02:30.allowed to self certify. Thd city council says nearly 1300 prdmises
:02:31. > :02:38.are due to be checked this xear They expect to get to 70% of them,
:02:39. > :02:44.concentrating on high and mddium risk outlets. This means 280 will
:02:45. > :02:51.not be checked. There are now five in the food safety team. We are
:02:52. > :02:57.achieving 100% visits to those high to medium risk establishments to
:02:58. > :03:02.make sure the risk to the ptblic is absolutely minimised. This
:03:03. > :03:08.award`winning cafe and DeLadt would like as many inspections as possible
:03:09. > :03:14.across the city to help maintain Derby's reputation for food. For any
:03:15. > :03:27.in the city centre to be messed out is disappointing. Obviously we want
:03:28. > :03:29.to make sure the restaurants at higher risk of contamination are
:03:30. > :03:31.still being checked. A sample inspection may also be used to help
:03:32. > :03:33.regulate Road beat `` no danger businesses.
:03:34. > :03:34.Mike O'Sullivan has more. Mike O'Sullivan is in Derby
:03:35. > :03:40.for us tonight. Mike, the star ratings
:03:41. > :03:42.from these food hygiene checks are pretty high profile, aren't they?
:03:43. > :03:44.Yes, that's right. Proprietors are being encouraged to
:03:45. > :03:46.literally put the scores on the doors.
:03:47. > :03:49.In the latest round, the pub behind me was awarded 5 stars.
:03:50. > :03:51.But the Chinese restaurant next door got zero stars.
:03:52. > :03:56.Lots of people take notice of them as we heard in my rdport.
:03:57. > :04:00.But behind the scenes, the food inspection team is facing pressures
:04:01. > :04:04.from cutbacks and trying to find new ways of getting the job dond.
:04:05. > :04:06.What about this idea of proprietors vouching for themselves that they've
:04:07. > :04:10.made improvements following a hygiene inspection ` is anywhere
:04:11. > :04:13.else in the region doing th`t? Well we've spoken to Nottingham
:04:14. > :04:17.city council and Leicester city council and they both say it's
:04:18. > :04:21.something that they DON'T do. But Derby city is convinced that
:04:22. > :04:25.this is something that can work It's only being considered
:04:26. > :04:27.for premises that are considered a low risk,
:04:28. > :04:31.based on the type of food sdrved up and the number of customers.
:04:32. > :04:35.What's the Food Standards Agency had to say about this?
:04:36. > :04:40.Well, they say for very low`risk businesses, local authoritids are
:04:41. > :04:46.able to use alternative ways of assessing compliance with
:04:47. > :04:55.hygiene rules, for example, self`assessment questionnaires
:04:56. > :04:59.completed by the business. But they say that the hygiene rating
:05:00. > :05:03.itself can only be done through inspection by the local authority.
:05:04. > :05:04.And if they don't think that an authority is carrying out enough
:05:05. > :05:08.inspections, they'll want to know why.
:05:09. > :05:12.And you have been posting comments on our Facebook page
:05:13. > :05:17.about this story. Victoria says it's a seriously bad
:05:18. > :05:20.idea that may put people at risk. David S commented you either
:05:21. > :05:24.do this type of thing properly or you don't do it at all.
:05:25. > :05:35.Joanna says. Bang, there goes my faith
:05:36. > :05:38.in hygiene ratings ! Still to come this evening.
:05:39. > :05:41.Life support from Leicester. The woman saved by Glenfield's
:05:42. > :05:55.world`famous ECMO unit after she contracted legionnaires
:05:56. > :05:58.disease abroad. The Education Secretary
:05:59. > :06:03.and Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan has defended pulling governlent
:06:04. > :06:07.funding from a Sikh free school that was due to open in Leicester today.
:06:08. > :06:11.70 pupils were due to start at the new Falcons primary school.
:06:12. > :06:18.But Department for Education officials were unhappy over how the
:06:19. > :06:21.free school was going to be run Up to ?1 million
:06:22. > :06:24.of public money has already been spent on preparing the school.
:06:25. > :06:31.The issue was raised in the House of Commons this afternoon.
:06:32. > :06:39.Can she give us an explanathon about why it got to this late stage to
:06:40. > :06:46.pull the plug and can she dhscuss an urgent way forward? I very luch hope
:06:47. > :06:53.there will be a seek a forcd school in Leicester. There is another wait
:06:54. > :06:57.until applications open in October but I hope there will be.
:06:58. > :07:00.of Commons this afternoon. Next tonight, the first apprentices
:07:01. > :07:02.started work this week at a new academy ` aimed at rebuilding
:07:03. > :07:04.the British motorcycle industry Hundreds of youngsters applhed
:07:05. > :07:08.for the positions at Norton Motorcycles in Leicestershire.
:07:09. > :07:10.The new intake at Norton is part of a growing tide
:07:11. > :07:13.of apprentices working in all sorts of industries across the region
:07:14. > :07:28.Simon Hare reports. These are two of the first
:07:29. > :07:37.apprentices at the British motorcycle manufacturing ac`demy. It
:07:38. > :07:42.is located directly above the Norton factory floor. The first sttdents
:07:43. > :07:50.started this week. They are not already plans to get bigger. We have
:07:51. > :07:55.applications from Mexico and things. We have recruited a good
:07:56. > :08:02.selection of 40 youngsters but are still open to applications. I have
:08:03. > :08:09.had bikes from as young as H can remember and I was not going to
:08:10. > :08:13.refuse it. It is relaxed and there is no problem asking people
:08:14. > :08:21.questions. Obviously the guxs down stairs are quite ready to h`ng up
:08:22. > :08:25.all the time. It is all the idea of the Norton chief executive who hopes
:08:26. > :08:34.the apprentices will go on to work for him or his suppliers. Wd want to
:08:35. > :08:40.stay authentically British, we are currently 83% parts and we want to
:08:41. > :08:49.continue that or improve it. It is all the racing history. A Norton
:08:50. > :08:54.rider wins the TT race betwden the wars but since the end of the Second
:08:55. > :09:01.World War, Britain has lost much of its motorcycle expertise to other
:09:02. > :09:06.countries. We need to get some of these skills back. Over the last
:09:07. > :09:14.eight years the number of apprentices across the region in the
:09:15. > :09:15.industry has trebled, it is hoped hundreds more will come through the
:09:16. > :09:26.production line here. Simon Hare reports.
:09:27. > :09:28.A police report's found that a Derbyshire teenager
:09:29. > :09:30.and her boyfriend shot themselves dead, after murdering an Amdrican
:09:31. > :09:32.policeman.17`year`old Alex Hollinghurst emigrated to
:09:33. > :09:35.the United States with her family six years ago.
:09:36. > :09:37.Alex went on the run with hdr boyfriend, Brandon, when her parents
:09:38. > :09:42.banned her from seeing him. In March their bodies were found
:09:43. > :09:49.near a Florida car park where they'd shot a US officer who'd
:09:50. > :09:51.stopped them for questioning. A Derbyshire swimming pool will be
:09:52. > :09:53.closed until next year after an arson attack.
:09:54. > :09:55.The fire badly damaged the plant room at
:09:56. > :09:58.Ashbourne Leisure Centre in July. It was originally expected to
:09:59. > :10:01.re`open in the autumn but repair work will now take longer
:10:02. > :10:02.than expected. Staff are making alternativd
:10:03. > :10:53.arrangements for its 100 melbers. We all remember our first d`y in the
:10:54. > :11:01.office. For one young man it is very special. Josh has just started work
:11:02. > :11:05.in the catering department here His new bosses showing him some of the
:11:06. > :11:16.jobs he will be doing here. His wasteland has been organised by
:11:17. > :11:19.Project Search it gives people with disabilities experience in the world
:11:20. > :11:25.of work and helps with the transition from school. He will be
:11:26. > :11:30.working with a good group of people who will support him, look `fter him
:11:31. > :11:38.and at the end of his coursd help him find good employment. Vdry
:11:39. > :11:48.quickly he is getting to grhps with his first task of the day. There it
:11:49. > :12:00.goes down there. Through thhs and to the wrapping. I can put on the
:12:01. > :12:03.sticker. When he first came in he did not even tell me his nale and
:12:04. > :12:14.now I asked how he liked dohng it and he said, love it. Soon time for
:12:15. > :12:23.a well earned break. At the end of his first day, it Josh is fdeling
:12:24. > :12:30.positive. It is also about feeling good about myself. If all goes well,
:12:31. > :12:36.it next year, his placement could lead to a full`time job herd. It
:12:37. > :12:44.looks like he was having a good day. He does. Well done, Josh.
:12:45. > :12:46.arrangements for its 100 melbers. It's world renowned
:12:47. > :12:49.for its work saving patients on the life support system known as ECMO.
:12:50. > :12:52.And to celebrate 25 years of specialist care at the Glenfield
:12:53. > :12:59.Hospital, we've been given dxclusive access to the Heartlink ECMO Centre.
:13:00. > :13:01.Alethea Parker from Hampshire owes her lifd to
:13:02. > :13:02.the team in Leicester, after she contracted legionnaires disdase
:13:03. > :13:16.Victoria Hicks reports. A happy reunion as she meets the
:13:17. > :13:22.nurses who helped save her life after she contracted Lee Junior 's
:13:23. > :13:28.disease while travelling in Italy. Into the second week of the holiday
:13:29. > :13:32.I was feeling really lethargic, and a headache, was not sleeping well
:13:33. > :13:39.and was being sick. We thought it was food poisoning. As she posed for
:13:40. > :13:46.this picture she was starting to feel ill and proved positivd for me
:13:47. > :13:57.Juniors disease. They never find out who she believed then the infection.
:13:58. > :14:02.The consultant explained to the family the only way to leavd her
:14:03. > :14:10.life was to send a mobile m`chine from here in Leicester, connector to
:14:11. > :14:14.that machine and get her back to the Glenfield Hospital for further
:14:15. > :14:20.treatment. If she did not gdt that further treatment it was likely she
:14:21. > :14:28.would die. She spent three `nd a half weeks on this machine which
:14:29. > :14:33.oxygenated her blood, giving her time to recover. Problems mdant she
:14:34. > :14:42.had to have her lower legs `nd left arm amputated as well as having four
:14:43. > :14:48.fingertips on her right hand. If it was not for that machine I would not
:14:49. > :14:54.be here now, it is excellent that I survived. My whole family praised
:14:55. > :14:59.the hospital here all the thme. Now the couple planned to return to
:15:00. > :15:08.Tuscany, she is more determhned than ever to live life to the full. I
:15:09. > :15:13.think I have done well, I c`n drive, I do Pilates, I go on the treadmill.
:15:14. > :15:21.I go to an infant school and help children read once per week. Life is
:15:22. > :15:27.pretty good at the moment. @nd this child was also saved after three
:15:28. > :15:39.heart attacks and a stroke, she her story on tomorrow's programle.
:15:40. > :15:42.Victoria Hicks reports. A Derbyshire cancer charity has had
:15:43. > :15:43.its offer to pay for five`ydar`old Ashya King's proton treatment
:15:44. > :15:46.accepted. The five`year`old's parents were detained in a Spanish
:15:47. > :15:49.prison after taking Ashya, who has a brain tumour, from a Southalpton
:15:50. > :15:52.hospital against medical advice As you may have heard on the n`tional
:15:53. > :15:55.news they've been freed and have now visited their son in hospit`l. Well,
:15:56. > :15:57.joining us now is Mike Haym`n from the Kids N Cancer charity who made
:15:58. > :16:16.the offer to fund Ashya's therapy. Around 30,000 people will h`ve
:16:17. > :16:22.beards DNA tested as part of a genetic project. They will be
:16:23. > :16:28.sequenced by the end of 2014 and the data will then be compared with that
:16:29. > :16:36.of healthy tissue to develop treatment. Derby's Royal mahl
:16:37. > :16:41.delivery offices to start opening on Sundays. It is part of a national
:16:42. > :16:49.trial which will see 100 sorting offices around the UK open hn seven
:16:50. > :16:55.days per week. The scheme ahms to make it easier for online shoppers
:16:56. > :17:01.to pick up the parcels. A fhlm that was shot in Derbyshire makes its
:17:02. > :17:08.big`screen debut later this month. It is a love story and detahl of
:17:09. > :17:15.time travel all in one. It hs one of 100 and short films to be screened
:17:16. > :17:17.in London at a festival. It has become Europe's largest inddpendent
:17:18. > :17:24.film Festival. the offer to fund Ashya's therapy.
:17:25. > :17:26.Coming up a little later on the programme:
:17:27. > :17:29.The day war was declared. We meet Maurice, a bell ringer
:17:30. > :17:43.with a very clear memory of the morning 75 years ago when Britain
:17:44. > :17:49.entered the Second World War. First tonight, rugby is back.
:17:50. > :17:51.Leicester Tigers are getting ready to kick off their Premiershhp
:17:52. > :17:54.campaign this weekend. And joining them for the se`son is
:17:55. > :17:59.a true legend of the game. 39`year`old Brad Thorn has had an
:18:00. > :18:02.amazing career and now he's starting another chapter at Leicester.
:18:03. > :18:19.Kirsty Edwards reports. They have seen some stars rtn out at
:18:20. > :18:23.Welford Road over the years and at the age of almost 40 this Ndw
:18:24. > :18:30.Zealand legend cannot wait to join them. I already have one se`son
:18:31. > :18:38.behind me, that is why I am here. It is not about the money, I jtst love
:18:39. > :18:43.rugby. By the time I retire I will be 40 or 50 years and I will not be
:18:44. > :18:54.able to smash on a tackle. H will be done, it is finished. There is no
:18:55. > :18:58.getting away from it, he is 39, turning 40 this season. If xou want
:18:59. > :19:04.an easy time the premiership is not the place to come. He is not going
:19:05. > :19:11.to retire on the money he e`rns here in the next nine months. His
:19:12. > :19:17.achievements in the game ard incredible. The first player ever to
:19:18. > :19:23.win rugby union's World Cup, eat super rugby title and most recently
:19:24. > :19:30.the Heineken Cup. Despite all that, he says it is a real privildge to
:19:31. > :19:35.come to Tigers. When I think of Leicester I think of the success
:19:36. > :19:39.there has been, they are always in the finals. To be part of even
:19:40. > :19:46.casting club, one of the best in Europe, it is the real privhlege. We
:19:47. > :19:52.have got one of the greatest players in both cords, he is going to spend
:19:53. > :19:55.the last nine months of his career in the Tigers environment and we are
:19:56. > :19:58.going to get every bit of experience out of that, off of the field as
:19:59. > :20:08.well. Kirsty Edwards reports.
:20:09. > :20:10.Onto football and at good ndws for Derby County, midfielder
:20:11. > :20:12.Jeff Hendrick will NOT be ndeding surgery on his shoulder, after
:20:13. > :20:15.dislocating it at the weekend. The club hope Hendrick will be back
:20:16. > :20:18.and available for selection by the end of the month.
:20:19. > :20:21.At Mansfield Town manager P`ul Cox admits he's hurt by the calls
:20:22. > :20:22.from fans for him to be sacked. Last night Stags lost 2`0
:20:23. > :20:30.down the road at Notts County. Some supporters were calling for
:20:31. > :20:41.corks to go during the game last night. Mansfield lost 2`0 at Notts
:20:42. > :20:48.County. Paul Cox has been in charge for over three years. Some fans are
:20:49. > :20:54.unhappy with the style of football, especially when Jake Cassidx got
:20:55. > :20:58.this second goal to get Notts back to the winning ways.
:20:59. > :21:01.down the road at Notts County. Cricket and promising all`rounder
:21:02. > :21:03.Shiv Thakor has turned down a two`year contract at Leicestershire
:21:04. > :21:06.to join Derbyshire from next season. And on the field Leicestershire
:21:07. > :21:09.dismal season in the County Championship continues as they lost
:21:10. > :21:12.by an innings and 34 runs at Hampshire today. In Division One
:21:13. > :21:30.Notts lost by 54 runs to Durham at Chester`le`Street.
:21:31. > :21:42.In motor sport, great news for fans. Donington Park will stage next
:21:43. > :21:47.year's British Moto GP for the first time in six years. There have been
:21:48. > :21:58.construction delays and for the past five years the event has bedn held
:21:59. > :22:02.at Silverstone. In squash, the European club Championships are
:22:03. > :22:08.being held in Nottingham thhs week. It is like the champions le`gue of
:22:09. > :22:13.squash. It all started todax at the Nottingham club and features the
:22:14. > :22:21.world champion. 20 teams from European countries are taking part.
:22:22. > :22:29.This week the Derbyshire pl`yer is playing for the French champions. I
:22:30. > :22:34.am very proud of my year so far and to top it off with the Commonwealth
:22:35. > :22:39.Games was an amazing week. Not quite cold wet you always want as an
:22:40. > :22:49.athlete but all in all, two silvers was good. Yes, good times for
:22:50. > :22:54.squash. Now, while we have been commemorating the beginning of the
:22:55. > :22:59.great War we must not forget it was a mere 21 years after the end of
:23:00. > :23:06.that conflict that the Second World War broke out. That happened at 11
:23:07. > :23:10.in the morning exactly 75 ydars ago today. A reporter has been to meet a
:23:11. > :23:16.Leicestershire bell`ringer who remembers it as if it were
:23:17. > :23:21.yesterday. 82`year`old Maurhce Halifax arrives at his local church
:23:22. > :23:36.and climbs the stairs for bell`ringing practice. Judy's was a
:23:37. > :23:45.practice with a difference. Exactly 75 years ago at 11am War was
:23:46. > :23:51.declared. At the time, Morrhs was seven. But that Sunday he w`s
:23:52. > :24:09.ringing the bells at another East Midlands church. `` Maurice. Morris
:24:10. > :24:17.was at a local farm and he came in. As from 11 o'clock we are at war
:24:18. > :24:26.with Germany. Els will only be wrong to signal war to the population in
:24:27. > :24:34.event of invasion, we were told From that moment on the bells ceased
:24:35. > :24:43.for almost the entirety of the war. It did ring once when Churchill said
:24:44. > :24:53.we must celebrate Alamein. Today, Morris run up to 11 o'clock just
:24:54. > :25:01.that he had done 75 years ago. Now! Very proud to be able to do it for
:25:02. > :25:08.Morris being as he did it 74 years ago, to the day, the time and the
:25:09. > :25:14.minute. It is worth remembering these things. It is something I will
:25:15. > :25:18.never ever forget. There were lots of tears in the village that day.
:25:19. > :25:34.The adult population of remdmbered the First World War. `` old
:25:35. > :25:41.remembered. Not everyone happy. No, not all those remedies. Beattiful
:25:42. > :25:46.skies in Leicester today. Yds. We have had quite the Lord of cloud
:25:47. > :25:51.across the East Midlands. What you see is what you get for the next few
:25:52. > :25:56.days. High pressure over Sc`ndinavia at the moment. It is keeping things
:25:57. > :26:01.settled. There are some warl southeasterly winds being drawn in
:26:02. > :26:08.but little in the way of ch`nge as we head into tomorrow. Dry `gain
:26:09. > :26:14.with quite a lot of cloud around. Temperatures peaking at 18 degrees.
:26:15. > :26:18.Perhaps the road 20s. Come thick cloud across northern and wdstern
:26:19. > :26:26.parts today but we did get some brightness early on across
:26:27. > :26:29.Leicestershire. Then there hs a feed of dry year which will start to push
:26:30. > :26:36.northwards as we head through tonight. We will see some clearer
:26:37. > :26:40.spells for the first part of the night but once again the cloud will
:26:41. > :26:43.be dragged back including the early hours of the morning. It will
:26:44. > :26:53.current mistake and there whll be some hill fog by tomorrow morning.
:26:54. > :26:57.We will wake up tomorrow to list and low cloud first thing. It whll
:26:58. > :27:02.slowly start to left and we will struggle to break up the cloud
:27:03. > :27:10.during the afternoon. It is still the afternoon. It is still. Similar
:27:11. > :27:14.story heading into Friday, dry and fairly cloudy. A weather front will
:27:15. > :27:20.come in during the weekend which will introduce a little bit of rain.
:27:21. > :27:45.It will current colour as wdll. Typical, I have the feet on
:27:46. > :27:48.Saturday! Join us for the l`te news. Goodbye. `` fete.