15/09/2014 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Anne Davies.

First tonight, work is underway to establish what

caused Nottinghamshire's biggest fire in a decade.

In fewer than five hours, the world's first carbon`nettral

laboratory on the Universitx of Nottingham's Jubilee Campus had

Today, investigators began the task of

This shows what was becoming a world`beating beacon of a btilding.

Instead, overnight, this is what it became.

We've been watching it develop over the past six months and it's just

a bit shocking, really, to see that it's burned to the ground.

It was a beautiful building, it was fascinating.

To see what's left of it now is just really sad.

You can see how charred bits of the building have landed

on this roof from the site of the fire over there.

The blaze on Friday night could be seen for miles.

Buildings under construction are more vulnerable to fire.

60 firefighters brought it under control.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt and no other buildings destroyed.

The initial reaction was ond of shock and horror, really,

that this wonderful new building was being consumed by flames.

But there was sadness about what had been lost but then,

immediately, a determination to continue and find a way through it.

We can't be drawn into whether or not it was suspicious but at this

time, I want to emphasise that the scale of this incident was huge

You can see the devastation behind us.

There was a considerable buhlding here that has been lost.

It's not something we can rtsh into in regard to a cause.

And investigators are working closely together to do that.

While they do, part of Triulph Road remains cordoned off.

One business here says that's costing them at least ?2,000 a day.

We're usually working flat out, all day long.

But the fire, as you can sed, affected us on Saturday and is

But the university insists its green research work and its

We've got, still, outstanding scientists workhng

They will continue to do their research in other buildings

around the university and we will bounce back frol this.

Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Commissioner has called for an

independent review of alleg`tions of historic abuse at children's homes.

Beechwood in Mapperley is one of more than a dozen homes

in the county where there'vd been allegations of physical

Operation Daybreak has becole one of Nottinghamshire's most complex

Paddy Tipping says an indepdndent review should be carried out

Jobs could be lost after Phones 4U announced it had

The mobile phone retailer operates seven stores across the

All mobile contracts bought through the company will remain unaffected,

and the networks will continue to provide mobile services to dxisting

Next tonight, we can reveal that Bombardier says it would buhld

trains for HS2 in Derby if ht won the contract for the rolling stock.

This news comes as firms in the East Midlands are told that more

than ?10 billion worth of contracts are up for grabs

in the first phase of construction for the new high`speed rail line.

After winning a ?15 million Network Rail contract to supply

gantries, this long established family firm of steel fabric`tors

in Loughborough now has its sights on getting work on HS2.

It offers real opportunities and that is to supply the lhkes

of this steelwork into major national infrastructure projects on

a scale, really, that hasn't been seen in the construction industry,

Work on phase one, the London`to`Birmingham leg,

It should result in more th`n ?10 billion worth of contracts.

Two supply chain conferences are being held next month

and 40 firms from our region are said to be going along.

What we are putting together ` and this will all be revealdd

at the supply chain conference ` is a series of contracts for the

civil works, so that's the tunnels, the bridges, the embankments,

This recruitment firm speci`lising in the rail industry says there are

fantastic opportunities but getting the right staff could

Some of the average ages within the rolling stock sectors are 5 ,

60, and there's not enough talent coming through.

Back at the Adey Group, thex say they are investing in the ftture

This is a firm that's always found new markes after starting ott

as an ironmonger's shop in the town in the 1920s.

The supply chain for HS2 is a vital part of them

succeeding in the delivery of the project and they recognise that

which is good to see, so early involvement in the supply chain is

something we would welcome from the word "go".

Tonight, Bombardier said that if it was successful

in winning the HS2 rolling stock contracts, yet to be put out to

tender, then their current hntention was to build the trains in Derby.

Contracts for rolling stock could be worth up to ?7.5 billion.

People in a Nottinghamshire village have welcomed the return

of extra health care today but say it's still not enough.

A health visitor has begun a trial clinic in Bestwood Village

But villagers say they're concerned the 90`minute service just once a

month won't be able to accolmodate all the families waiting to use it.

Renovation work will start later this week on an historic buhlding

in Leicester, which was badly damaged by fire

The Friars Mill site was botght by the city council for ?500,00

The authority plans to convert it into offices.

Work should be completed in just over a year.

That's your news, so it's goodbye from me.

But with your weather now, here's Anna.

It doesn't look too bad for the rest of the week. It felt a bit warmer

today and that's the theme for the next few days. It will turn of the

week. It felt a bit warmer today and that's the theme for the next few

days. It will turn a bit hulid for now, some clearer spells and we are

expecting the cloud to becole quite extensive, low cloud through the

night. We're also seeing sole mist where we get clearer spells and hill

fog into the Peak District. It's all acting as a blanket, holding

temperatures up, so a minimtm of 12. Cloudy, misty, murky starts to your

Tuesday but I'm hoping that the mist will start to clear, the cloud will

thin and break so we'll start to see it getting a bit brighter in the

afternoon and, hopefully, a few sunny spells. A high of 20. I'll

leave you with the outlook for the next few days,

week, with a greater risk of showers.

When you compare it to what is happening over in the Americas. This

is a hurricane and it is slamming into this peninsula right now. It is

the most powerful hushry cane to hit this part of Mexico in 23 years The

biggest impact could come from the rain. We could get two years rain in

two days. S compare that to the wettest place in the UK today -

Edinburgh. We had 11 mms of rain. Rain in Scotland. The heaviest is up

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