04/09/2014 East Midlands Today

This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and me, Anne Davies.

Tonight: Panic at the airport.

Passengers speak of a terrifying emergency landing.

In the wind in the clean's wings to escape as smoke filled the cabin. We

were told to get off of the plane and leave our bags. Also tonight,

why the Chancellor is putting Rolls`Royce in the flame. `` in the

frame. And a kidney donor for dad 's. She did not think twice. And the

villagers fighting to save the historic Victorian signal box from

being bulldozed by network rail. First this evening,

that dramatic scramble for safety after an emergency

landing at East Midlands Airport. An investigation's underway into why

a Jet2 aircraft filled with smoke shortly after landing last night.

The company says the plane ` which had flown from Ibiza ` had suffered

a minor electrical problem. But passengers have told us there

was panic as people climbed out of the emergency exit and jumped to

safety off the plane's wings. Our reporter Tom Brown is at

East Midlands Airport for us this evening.

One passenger told as it was sheer carnage as they tried to get off.

Another feared it would burst into flames. It was only as smoke filled

the cabin that the panic started and people scrambled to get out. This

was taken just after the people had got off of the plane. It shows an

emergency slide at the front and the open door open the wing. There was

an horrendous smell of burning, and electrical smell. We felt we were

trapped, the smell was definitely coming from the back of the plane.

That's when people started screaming, get the kids off, we just

wanted the doors opened to get out, we all wanted out then. The jet came

from Ibiza just after nine o'clock last night. It took two attempts to

land and when it did smoke started to fill the cabin. 26 fire officers

made the way to the plane to help people get out. I thought how much

the people on the wings going to get down? The airline said following a

safe arrival last night they had to be evacuated due to a minor

electrical problem which led to some smoke in the cabin. I do not think

passengers should be worried. There is a high level of checks. They tend

to fly more low cost which means there are some maintenance issues

every now and again but if it is a problem, it is only minor, not

life`threatening. Be a problem, it is only minor, not life`threatening.

The to help passengers and the year accident investigation Branch is

looking into it. Coming up in the programme.

Is a council being picky about litter picking?

Volunteers working to keep their area tidy say they've been

told they need training. Plus:

After three heart attacks and a stroke treatment at hospitals saved

this girl's life. Cue more about it in the programme.

A pioneering scheme to bring Rolls`Royce know`how

into the classroom has been unveiled by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

in Derby. The aero`engine maker is to pay

for up to 70 teachers to help boost science and technology

in state schools. The Chancellor George Osborne said

it would help create a new generation of youngsters

interested in maths and science. From Derby, here's our

Political Editor John Hess. Top of the class. The Chancellor was

having lessons in engine building from these pupils today gobbled the

classroom had shifted to Rolls`Royce. The company needs those

skills for its future workforce which is why it is paying an

educational charity to recruit and train an extra 75 signs teachers or

schools. There have not been enough maths and science graduates, so not

enough teachers, so not enough to get the next generation studying

maths and science. A recent study by Ofsted said the teaching of science

was needed to maintain the studio city of pupils if Britain was to

compete in the world race. It was fine that science was not a priority

for half of primary schools. There are also too few girls studying

science and GCSE exams do not test practical skills enough. If you are

a kid at school you can be inspired by what goes on at Rolls`Royce, look

at the incredible technology behind me. Inspiration certainly but it is

also about funding priorities. Ten years ago there was a massive debt

and the underfunding of signs at university. Not enough people taking

up physics and less physicists and less mathematicians. Because of that

you have less teachers going forward. Could these pupils be the

science and technology teachers of the future? They could well be!

Absolutely! A former world champion body builder

is undergoing a kidney transplant in Leicester this evening `

thanks to his mum. Daz Ball, who's 34, was diagnosed

with acute kidney failure last year. His mother's been able to

donate her own kidney. Katrina says it's terrible

so many people on the transplant waiting list die

before an organ becomes available. Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons

reports. He is a fitness fanatic and even on

is a gem in Leicester. The 34`year`old says it seems his kidney

failure is going to high blood pressure and genetics rather than

body`building. To be told your life is going to change is crazy. His mum

instantly offered a kidney but he still spent a year on dialysis while

his mum was confirmed as suitable to donate. Anybody would do it. If I

can give birth to him once I will give him life again. I know at the

end of this operation I have got to get the smile on his face again.

Whatever he does he does it 100%. Katrina has had to go `` undergo

months of tests to make sure she was well enough to give away one of her

kidneys. It was donated using a keyhole technique. People donating

have much smaller cuts, they have a shorter hospital stays and get back

to work within six weeks. He has never once asked why him. His work

is his passion and he dreams of one more challenge. FI see I am going to

do something I will do it. I will step on that stage again and do my

show and spend the rest of my life with the kids because life is too

short. Do you have any news on the transplants? We know Katrina's

operation went well, he should be back on the ward after his

transpired at eight o'clock tonight. I think it just goes to show how far

this medical of modern science has come. 20 years ago there were just

four transplants in Leicestershire involving organs from living donors,

that is kidneys. Death last year and there were 43. That is because the

anti`rejection drugs are so much better. This means no for example

friends can donate and even strangers sometimes. Most people

waiting for a transplant are those who need an organ from a dead person

and there are 7,000 people across the UK as we speak still waiting,

mostly on kidneys. If that is what you want to do, do need, you should

really carry a donor card. Inquests into two air crashes just

weeks apart in Leicestershire which killed four people, have concluded

the deaths were accidental. Pensioners Robert Moulton

and his wife Lillian died when their light aircraft crashed in a

field near Fenny Drayton last July. The inquest heard he probably

mistook a mown grass strip for a runway.

Meanwhile, a month later, David Newton lost control

of his aircraft and crashed in a field at Wymeswold, killing himself

and his student daughter Rebecca. An endangered bird of prey has begun

breeding again in the Peak District. Five rare hen harrier chicks have

fledged in the upper Derwent Valley. It's the first time

the birds have bred successfully in the Peak District for eight years.

The birds have now been tagged so that more can be learned

about their behaviour. Members

of a group set up to keep their area tidy say they've been told they can

no longer use council`provided equipment to pick up litter.

Derby City Council, which has been criticised for the state of

the streets in Normanton, say the volunteers there need to be trained.

They are a familiar sight on these streets in Derby, volunteer litter

pickers with equipment provided from the city council. He gave me the

equipment and said he could not see any problem with me collecting

rubbish. He said you are not allowed to do it any more without training.

Now they have to get there on equipment or clear up the mess by

hand. Residents say litter and fly`tipping is still a major problem

in the area, despite the efforts of many. It is disgusting, there is

garbage, diapers and everything. We were not brought up that we so I

don't think we should have to live that way. Derby City Council issued

only five fixed penalty notices in the first six months of this year.

That is compared to an annual rate of more than 4000 in Nottingham. I

am still struggling to take it in. I find it unbelievable we have to go

on a training course before we can use a litter picker, it does not add

up. The say they want to encourage people to pick up litter and take

pride in the area but say that health and safety rules means people

need to understand the risks and have adequate training.

People living in a Lincolnshire village are fighting plans to

bulldoze an historic Victorian signal box. They say it's an

important part of their heritage. Network Rail says it needs to go to

make way for a modern fully`automated crossing. Now, as

Sarah Teale reports, the Government has stepped in to try to find a

solution. It has proudly stood on the great

Northern line since 1869 with a signal man responsible for operating

the barriers. But this historic Victorian signal box is now at

risk. Network rail plan to demolish it as part of the 280 million. Read

off the line. Furious villagers have other ideas. They are not going to

take a wee hours signal box that has been here for 100 and years just

because it is in the way of a post. Network Rail see the removal of the

boxes essential to creating a new modern crossing here. This is the

barrier on one side of the crossing and it needs to be replicated on the

other side, exactly cleared the signal boxes. We would like for them

to look at the arrangement to allow the signal box to stay, maybe to

have the one barrier or look at moving it slightly older so the old

signal box can stay. Locals want to turn the building into a heritage

centre. It is EP peas of our history. We think it should stay.

I'd much rather know the department of transport has got involved. The

say the Department of transport must examine all possibilities before it

comes down. How long will you stay for? Until it falls over but we will

not let that happen, we are born to stop it. A great little building.

Fantastic. You're watching East Midlands Today.

Coming up: Sport and art at our great

Country Houses. We had at the Burghley horse trials

and the Chinese art is too has created a little piece of Utopia

here at Chatsworth house. The parents of a little girl who

owes her life to specialist care at the Glenfield Hospital have

pledged to raise ?40,000 to buy a new ECMO machine for the unit.

Just after her first birthday, Willow Page suffered three heart

attacks and a stroke. In the third part

of our exclusive series celebrating the 25th anniversary

of the Heartlink ECMO Centre, we hear how the unit saved her life.

Victoria Hicks reports. She is so happy and full of life it

is hard to believe just over a year ago this child was critical in

hospital. She was that personally one day and when she came home she

was off her food and her breathing was properly. That night she went

into hospital and within 24 hours we saw her have two heart attacks. She

was transferred to another hospital and we lost her for 4.5 minutes

there. She had inflammation of the heart muscle caused by the flu

virus. She had to have ECMO treatment or she would not have

lasted the night. We had not heard anything about it. We did not

understand. They had to explain it until we did understand it. If it

was not for them she would not be here today. It is not just the

machine which saved her life but the people who knew how to work it and

what to do if it was not working properly. She spent ten days on

ECMO, it supported her heart and allowed her to fight the infection.

We did not know she would be coming back year like this. The fact she is

here and happy and doing fantastic is something I did not think was

ever going to happen. When she was on ECMO we were told her treatment

was costing ?10,000 per day and we decided then we wanted to give

something back. We have eased in 11 months just over ?22,000 which we

are very proud of. We have another 18,000 to go and that will be our

way of saying thank you. Even that is never enough. Nothing we can do

good ever repeat them for giving us our daughter back. Absolutely. We

will have more on that tomorrow. We are cleared the top equestrian

stars come to compete. Behind me is lie in, just one of the fences on

the cross country course. It is a celebration of the English

countryside four days a massive shopping destination. We are here

for the sport. Let's first bring you the rest of the day's sports news.

First player and manager of the month categories, Nottingham Forest

are up for them. Stuart Pearce is is up for manager of the month award,

much of it is down to his new signing who has scored three goals

and is nominated for player of the month. The Derby skipper led his

country to victory in the man match last night. The burly horse trials

attract a crowd that is unlike any other sport but it is an excellent

enormous cloud. `` crowd. One of our competitors is giving up. Andy

Turner is hanging up his spikes, one last race to come in the Gateshead

city games this weekend. Our reporter went to see him to talk

about the end of his career. In 2010 Andy Turner won ball in the European

Championships and Commonwealth Games. On Saturday he will put on

his spikes for the very last time. At 33 he is ready for retirement. I

have done far more than I ever could have imagined. I do not think I

could exceed what I have done but I am thankful for what I have achieved

and excited now about the future. He is now the European and Commonwealth

champion in the high hurdles. When you are watching hurdles on live TV

it does not do it justice to how high they are. Three, I am not the

tallest guy, just don't work at height. There are also waits on the

bottom so when you hit one you certainly know about it. Sadly, that

is what happened to Andy at the Commonwealth Games this summer. He

was his own harshest critic. Schoolboy, absolute idiot! I wanted

it so much I lost my focus. On Saturday he is at the great North

games in Gateshead, and eventually won four years ago. It is very

enclosed and personal and four it to be my final race, I cannot think of

another stage I would like to compete on for my last race. At the

Nottingham Forest fan quitting will have some perks. I am always racing

on a Saturday so now I will be able to watch the games. He has picked

the right season if that is what he wants to do. Back here the event is

in full swing. We have the director of the horse trials. Give us an

idea, the Torquay wrote about this as an event but we're as it in the

sporting calendar? It is the pinnacle of the sport. There are

only four events in the world and this is the one they all aspire to

compete at. On Thursday we have the pony club team jumping weird teams

from 40 local pony clubs compete. Some are now competing in the top

three day events. It is very much weird the start, yes. How many are

you expecting? 150,000. There is the a lot of international interest this

year as well. Thank you for joining us. There is another big event in

the East Midlands this weekend, the British superbikes. We will cock

about that in some depth tomorrow. Did you see those shopping bags? A

great place to shop! Now it may seem a little ironic,

but a vision of Utopian equality has just been created in front

of one of the grandest houses, not only in the East Midlands,

but in the whole of the country! Yes, it's an art installation

at Chatsworth by one of China's leading artists, Zu Bing.

His is one of 22 major pieces by the world's leading sculptors that

are on show in a new exhibition. James Roberson reports.

All the way from China, Zu Bing has flown in to see how his work has

been treated at Chatsworth. It is the vision of the perfect life that

we all dream of. Today we always work hard to try to find utopia in

our village. How do you feel about having your front lawn dug up?

Luckily it is very shallow so they have just taken the turf off and

made this wonderful display. It is very intricate. Normally this is the

closest the public can get to the front lawn but they will be able to

get close up to see the detail on it. I feel it was born to be here, a

perfect setting, surrounded by beauty and nature. This is one of 20

sculptors by leading artists around Chatsworth Gardens. The RPC is

clearly fascinating and perhaps less so. Some smaller, some larger,

depending on where they are in the garden. If you put an ordinary thing

it looks ditzy because it is such a large garden, monumental is the key.

I do not think I have ever seen a bad photograph of Chatsworth. I like

the incongruity of the art worth. That is a big word!

I am hopeful the cloud should start too thin and break to at least give

some bright spells during the afternoon tomorrow. Judy we were

under a blanket of cloud while some parts of the UK had decent spells of

sunshine. We will stay with the cloudy theme as we head through this

evening and overnight tonight. We may see the quite break to get a few

clearer spells. There is the potential for less than four with

light winds. It is not a cold night with the law of 13 Celsius. A cloudy

and misty start for some on Friday. It does look like the quote well

then to give us sunny spells into the afternoon. You could be a few

spots of rain but for most of you it will stay dry. It could be a high of

21 Celsius. Friday night into Saturday, we have had high pressure

but low pressure is coming in. We will see a low`pressure sinks

southwards into Saturday morning. That will give a cloudy start with

patchy light rain first thing. Once that clears we should see some

beautiful sunshine into Saturday afternoon. Temperature is a little

down on Saturday and that is the game on Sunday, another dry day with

sunny spells and it looks settled heading into the new week. We will

take sunshine over cloud regardless of the temperature. We will, just

put on another layer. That's all for now. Goodbye. Goodbye.