:00:00. > :00:17.Thank you very much. That is all from Edinburgh. There
:00:18. > :00:20.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.
:00:21. > :00:25.The BBC has learnt that nind care homes are under investigation
:00:26. > :00:27.following allegations of historic child abuse.
:00:28. > :00:29.But some former residents s`y it's "too little too late".
:00:30. > :00:32.Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball has this exclushve
:00:33. > :00:48.They have been covering it tp since 2003! Anger boiling over after
:00:49. > :00:53.almost 50 years as campaigndrs forced the council meeting to be
:00:54. > :00:57.abandoned. Leading the protdst was Mickey Summers. He says he was
:00:58. > :01:01.physically and sexually abused as he was passed around the care system
:01:02. > :01:06.but most of his records havd been destroyed and now he's demanding
:01:07. > :01:10.someone is held to account. I was just someone who was there `s a
:01:11. > :01:17.plaything, raped by a social worker in a car park. I am an emothonal
:01:18. > :01:21.wreck, it haunts me, terrifhes me. He was 12 when he was sent to the
:01:22. > :01:25.children's home which is at the centre of one of the Notts's largest
:01:26. > :01:32.police enquiries, but now it has emerged that a tough establhshment
:01:33. > :01:36.have been investigated. Thex have all been named in a compens`tion
:01:37. > :01:39.claim. They are all homes where former residents claim they were
:01:40. > :01:43.abused as children but it's more than a decade since Mickey Summers
:01:44. > :01:47.first went to the police and he s convinced they should have done much
:01:48. > :01:53.more. This enquiry is now going to be repaired by the IPCC. I feel
:01:54. > :01:59.disgusted and let down. I bdlieve the police weren't interestdd. They
:02:00. > :02:05.think of the little boy cryhng wolf, the associate kids with attdntion
:02:06. > :02:10.seeking. I feel they have abused me for the last ten years. I don't care
:02:11. > :02:16.if individuals are deceased, make someone accountable. Beechwood is
:02:17. > :02:19.one of five homes are still being investigated but after so m`ny
:02:20. > :02:26.years, some suspects have dhed and so far there have been no
:02:27. > :02:30.persecution is. Tonight we have a confirmation that Mickey Sulmers's
:02:31. > :02:34.records were destroyed, but far from being a cover`up, the counchl says
:02:35. > :02:37.it was standard procedure at the time because the rules on ddstroying
:02:38. > :02:43.records didn't come in until the 1990s. I have apologised to him for
:02:44. > :02:46.destroying those records and say they are now working with hhm to try
:02:47. > :02:51.to establish exactly what h`ppened at those children's homes. They are
:02:52. > :02:55.stressing that all allegations of child abuse, whether current or
:02:56. > :02:58.historic, always treated extremely seriously.
:02:59. > :03:01.One man is dead and another is seriously injured in hospit`l
:03:02. > :03:03.after a stabbing in Ilkeston in Derbyshire this morning.
:03:04. > :03:06.Police were first called to an armed robbery then to
:03:07. > :03:11.Friends have described the lan who was killed as a lovely person
:03:12. > :03:23.Dozens of parents were taking their children to school
:03:24. > :03:27.as normal this morning, many of them unaware that this busy
:03:28. > :03:31.street in Ilkeston had becole the focus of a murder inquiry.
:03:32. > :03:35.Police were called to the One Stop shop on Charlotte Street at 5:3 am
:03:36. > :03:38.to reports of an armed robbdry. Just ten minutes later,
:03:39. > :03:41.police received calls to sax two men had been stabbed at a nearbx address
:03:42. > :03:43.in the same street. A 30`year`old man was found
:03:44. > :03:47.deceased and there were two other individuals in that address.
:03:48. > :03:51.One was arrested and one has very serious injuries and he has been
:03:52. > :03:53.taken to a hospital Nottingham. That man is now being treatdd
:03:54. > :04:01.for life`threatening injurids at the Queen's Medical Centre.
:04:02. > :04:15.The man who died has been n`med by friends as Paul Avril. Colldagues at
:04:16. > :04:21.work described him as an incredible person. Such a tragic loss, so
:04:22. > :04:27.unfair. What could possibly have happened to him? The only thing I
:04:28. > :04:33.can say is he might have disturbed something. From what we havd pieced
:04:34. > :04:37.together, it turns to me th`t he has disturbed something or heard
:04:38. > :04:40.something going off at the shop The major crime unit is now that are
:04:41. > :04:42.getting exactly what happendd here to leave one man dead and another
:04:43. > :04:49.seriously injured. Holidaymakers are being warned
:04:50. > :04:51.tonight about robbers who t`rget tourists while they're sleeping
:04:52. > :04:53.in motor homes and caravans abroad. Two families say they could have
:04:54. > :04:57.died after they were gassed by thieves
:04:58. > :05:12.at a French motorway servicd area. Safely back in Derby, the Chadwicks
:05:13. > :05:17.and the willows. The two cotples used this motorhome in France this
:05:18. > :05:23.summer. As they drove to thd ferry port of Calais, the stopped at a
:05:24. > :05:28.service area around midnight for rest. Darren made sure the doors
:05:29. > :05:35.were securely closed and thdn they all fell unusually soundly `sleep. I
:05:36. > :05:42.looked up, saw a car, that's I can remember. I woke up at six `nd we
:05:43. > :05:46.had all been robbed. The falilies alerted the police and were taken to
:05:47. > :05:51.hospital but tests confirmed they had been poisoned with carbon
:05:52. > :05:54.monoxide or another toxic g`s. I was just dazed and shaky, we re`lised we
:05:55. > :06:00.had been gassed and robbed because of the way we felt. We were told
:06:01. > :06:05.that if they were children hn the vehicle, the children wouldn't have
:06:06. > :06:09.survived. The family say thd French police believe the robbers probably
:06:10. > :06:12.used an exhaust. Similar incidents have also been reported by other
:06:13. > :06:17.British travellers in Francd. They have got to get caught otherwise it
:06:18. > :06:22.will keep going on until soleone dies. The camping and carav`nning
:06:23. > :06:29.club say the members have not reported any gas related incident
:06:30. > :06:32.but say it is safer to use campsites rather than server stations when
:06:33. > :06:46.travelling abroad. Another stunning day, plentx of
:06:47. > :06:53.high`pressure staying in ch`rge for the rest of the week. It will be dry
:06:54. > :06:59.and some sunshine around, wd have the gradual increase in clotd so far
:07:00. > :07:05.this evening, we will continue that through the night, but they will be
:07:06. > :07:11.some holes, so a few clearer spells and isolated mist and fog p`tches. A
:07:12. > :07:15.cloudy start to Friday, a lhttle bit of mist around the battle qtickly
:07:16. > :07:17.clear. We will start to see the cloud finning to give some bright
:07:18. > :07:25.spells through the morning but then it will break to give decent spells
:07:26. > :07:28.of sunshine. Where we get the sunshine, highs of 20 so fedling
:07:29. > :07:32.quite pleasant for this timd of year.
:07:33. > :07:53.freshening breeze and fine and dry. The national picture is with John
:07:54. > :07:59.Hammond. This was the scene in south Dakota
:08:00. > :08:03.earlier, the earliest snow for well over 100 years.
:08:04. > :08:09.We have had a plunge of cold weather from the Arctic, coming down to the
:08:10. > :08:12.plains of the US. Brought about about I a kink diving to the south.
:08:13. > :08:13.Let's follow