:00:00. > :00:00.This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale.
:00:07. > :00:10.An inquest hears of a littld girl's desperate attempts to raise the
:00:11. > :00:32.The seven`year`old run to a neighbour's house but got no
:00:33. > :00:46.response. Also tonight, angdr in Leicester as roadworks overrun. My
:00:47. > :00:51.business is 70% down. Also youngsters held by Stephen Sutton's
:00:52. > :00:57.legacy. We are very proud of what Stephen achieved. Remembering the
:00:58. > :01:04.great War, Sheila Nitze poppy for the fallen. The aim is to knit one
:01:05. > :01:09.for each person from the war memorial. I think, I am knitting
:01:10. > :01:16.yours tonight, George. an inquest's heard how a little girl
:01:17. > :01:22.knocked on a neighbour's door in a bid to save her mum
:01:23. > :01:26.and three others from a fat`l house Firefighters found 7`year`old Tia
:01:27. > :01:50.James outside hours Tonight, they call for people to be
:01:51. > :01:51.more vigilant and call 999 hf they hear alarms.
:01:52. > :01:53.Mike O'Sullivan was at the inquest in Chesterfidld.
:01:54. > :01:59.strong safety message coming out of this tragedy at North Wingfheld
:02:00. > :02:07.That is right, the message from the Fire Service is to bring thdm if you
:02:08. > :02:11.hear anything linked to an emergency. They say they wotld
:02:12. > :02:18.rather have a false alarm than no alarm. Because of the toxic smoke, a
:02:19. > :02:24.call may not have made a difference in this case. But they say, don t
:02:25. > :02:35.hesitate. It was a fire that shocked the community. In November, a fire
:02:36. > :02:42.claimed the lives of this f`mily. Josie's friend also died. The
:02:43. > :02:48.inquest heard that the child, woken by thick smoke went next door to
:02:49. > :02:53.raise the alarm at 1:30am. The neighbour, who heard sounds and a
:02:54. > :03:02.smoke alarm didn't respond. Firefighters found her in the garden
:03:03. > :03:10.at 5:30am. 'No' it must havd been terrible for the little girl to wait
:03:11. > :03:21.outside, but now we have thd answers. Up I just think it is a
:03:22. > :03:29.missed opportunity from the neighbours. The compilation of
:03:30. > :03:35.hearing a smoke alarm and slelling smoke, if it is unusual, we ask the
:03:36. > :03:43.community to play their part in looking out for each other `` the
:03:44. > :03:50.combination. There should bd a call and an investigation of the
:03:51. > :03:57.incident. The fire was causdd by a papal election in a junction box.
:03:58. > :04:04.The coroner recorded a verdhct of accidental death. He said the
:04:05. > :04:11.junction box was a time bomb. The cause of death was inhalation of
:04:12. > :04:17.toxic smoke. The inquest fotnd the smoke was caused by a fire hn the
:04:18. > :04:23.junction box. It may have bden generating heat for years. Once it
:04:24. > :04:28.started smouldering, the smoker built up, it is thought that Tia
:04:29. > :04:32.survived because she was sm`ller than the others and below the level
:04:33. > :04:39.of the smoke. Thank you. Traders on Leicester's Golddn Mile
:04:40. > :04:42.say delays to roadworks could be Work to demolish the
:04:43. > :04:45.Belgrave Flyover and improve the roads around it was
:04:46. > :04:48.meant to be finished by next month. But now it could be March
:04:49. > :04:57.before it's completed. It is a familiar sight for lany
:04:58. > :05:04.commuters, a gridlocked golden mile as traffic queues to get rotnd the
:05:05. > :05:10.roadworks. The traffic is a nightmare, you can't get anxwhere.
:05:11. > :05:17.It takes half an hour, it used to be ten minutes. The work is behng paid
:05:18. > :05:25.for by a supermarket, which closed its door and opened a bigger one.
:05:26. > :05:36.The flyover was demolished within weeks and then work began to improve
:05:37. > :05:40.the area. It was all supposdd to be done before the Diwali
:05:41. > :05:45.celebrations. The council is now suggesting it would be March next
:05:46. > :05:48.year before it is completed. The delay is affecting traders. When you
:05:49. > :06:02.compound my business from l`st year, it is almost 70% down. `` when
:06:03. > :06:11.you compare my business. Ard you worried? Yes, very worried. We are
:06:12. > :06:18.having a meeting next week to combat the problem we are facing. There is
:06:19. > :06:22.frustration and anger but wd are doing our best to combat thd
:06:23. > :06:27.problem. When finished, it hs hoped it will regenerate the area, the
:06:28. > :06:33.work will be postponed for Diwali so as not to stop the festival.
:06:34. > :06:38.We catch up with the teenagdr who's just become the youngest evdr person
:06:39. > :06:49.Two men from Leicestershire have died after their car hit a wall
:06:50. > :06:56.The men, Patrick Casey, who was 27, and Martin Casey, who was 17, died
:06:57. > :07:03.Victoria Hicks joins us now from our Leicester Studio.
:07:04. > :07:12.What else do you know about the accident?
:07:13. > :07:15.Yes good evening, well it's unclear at this stage why the car
:07:16. > :07:18.crashed or why the two men from Leicestershire were in South Wales.
:07:19. > :07:20.This afternoon we've spoken to Leicestershire Police who told us
:07:21. > :07:23.they were aware of the crash and were liaising with
:07:24. > :07:35.their counterparts in South Wales to establish what happened.
:07:36. > :07:37.Officers in South Wales have told us that the
:07:38. > :07:40.crash happened in the early hours of saturday morning when thd Ford
:07:41. > :07:43.Focus car the men were travdlling in, left the road and crashdd into
:07:44. > :07:47.To give you some idea of geography they had travelled
:07:48. > :07:50.from Carmarthenshire along the M4 and were heading along the @48,
:07:51. > :07:54.South Wales Police have told us they have now referred the inciddnt to
:07:55. > :07:56.the Independent Police Complaints Commission, because officers had
:07:57. > :07:58.been looking for the car, following reports of suspichous
:07:59. > :08:08.We will bring you more information on this story as it develops.
:08:09. > :08:10.Nottingham is set to receivd the biggest contribution out
:08:11. > :08:14.of the ?5 million raised by a teenage cancer sufferer.
:08:15. > :08:17.Stephen Sutton died earlier this year but his fundraising calpaign
:08:18. > :08:24.Just over ?800,000 is being donated to the Teenage Cancdr Trust
:08:25. > :08:27.in the East Midlands, and in a moment we'll be finding out
:08:28. > :08:31.But first, here's Quentin R`yner with a reminder
:08:32. > :08:38.Stephen Sutton's thumbs`up campaign captured the nation's heart.
:08:39. > :08:40.It was taken up at this year's Download Festival
:08:41. > :08:45.at Donington, when thousands paid tribute to a fellow rock fan.
:08:46. > :08:49.The 19`year`old was irrepressible in his campaigning for the
:08:50. > :08:53.I'm proud of the feeling I get by raising all this money, hn a way
:08:54. > :08:57.I owe a thank you to the Tednage Cancer Trust, they supported me when
:08:58. > :09:03.I needed it, I wouldn't be here today without them, or as confident.
:09:04. > :09:06.Much of the ?815,000 will bd spent at the QMC, to complete
:09:07. > :09:13.Existing facilities will also be improved at the City Hospit`l.
:09:14. > :09:18.He realised how important the Teenage Cancer`funded units were to
:09:19. > :09:23.young people, the support ndtwork, education packages, so the fact that
:09:24. > :09:31.the money Stephen has raised is going to help other young pdople,
:09:32. > :09:36.that makes you proud of what Stephen achieved. Stephen's family say
:09:37. > :09:43.the money is going exactly where he wanted it to be spent.
:09:44. > :09:47.A little earlier we spoke to Angela Kehoe from the Teenage Cancdr Trust.
:09:48. > :09:56.She told us what impact Stephen s legacy would have.
:09:57. > :10:04.It is amazing, he has raised ?5 million for us. It means we can do
:10:05. > :10:14.so much across the country. Help to fund extra staff. Nottinghal will be
:10:15. > :10:19.getting a huge amount, that will go towards our two Nottingham tnits. Is
:10:20. > :10:26.that on improving existing facilities or making new onds? We
:10:27. > :10:31.are building a unit at the Pueen's medical centre. That will go to
:10:32. > :10:36.finishing the build. It will improve the facilities at the Nottingham
:10:37. > :10:40.city unit. It is a huge amotnt of money, but in the greater scheme of
:10:41. > :10:47.things, you need even more, don t you? Yes, it is a huge amount, it
:10:48. > :10:50.will do a lot for us, but at the moment, for every young person we
:10:51. > :10:56.are helping, there is anothdr but we can't. We are only reaching 50% of
:10:57. > :11:02.people. We want to help everyone diagnosed with cancer. As soon as
:11:03. > :11:11.they are diagnosed, help and support is there. I guess as well, for young
:11:12. > :11:14.people and teenagers, they need something, because offering in
:11:15. > :11:20.hospital you are in with thd grown`ups, not everyone has that
:11:21. > :11:23.facility for young people. JEERING
:11:24. > :11:33.Yes, it is quite isolating for that age group `` yes, it is quite
:11:34. > :11:39.isolating for that age group, they may never meet a other young person
:11:40. > :11:45.with cancer. Police are asking the public for
:11:46. > :11:48.help to find a 12`year`old boy who's Tionne Loftman was last seen by his
:11:49. > :11:53.mum when she dropped him off at a Police say there have been sightings
:11:54. > :11:58.of him since then at the Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham
:11:59. > :12:00.city centre. A jeweller in Leicester had
:12:01. > :12:08.his wrist broken and was robbed of The attack happened
:12:09. > :12:11.as police started a new campaign warning people to keep valu`bles
:12:12. > :12:14.safe after a rise in thefts. The thefts have involved thheves
:12:15. > :12:17.on bicycles, grabbing jewellery The latest theft happened ydsterday
:12:18. > :12:23.morning in Windsor Avenue as the man and his wife were going to their
:12:24. > :12:34.jewellery business on Melton Road. Cotgrave colliery once provhded jobs
:12:35. > :12:36.for hundreds of Nottinghamshire miners
:12:37. > :12:37.until it closed twenty years ago. Now
:12:38. > :12:41.though the foundations for hundreds of much needed homes
:12:42. > :12:44.are being laid on the site, No, this is also
:12:45. > :12:49.a project to train a whole new Here's our
:12:50. > :12:59.Political Editor John Hess. The heavy diggers are already on
:13:00. > :13:17.site, preparing the ground to build 450 new homes. It is 20 years since
:13:18. > :13:25.the Cotgrove cholerae was blown up. `` colliery we are very happy this
:13:26. > :13:30.has come into fruition. It hs also a good scheme for apprentices. We need
:13:31. > :13:34.thousands of people to join the industry, we have a lot of people
:13:35. > :13:39.retiring. A lot of people h`ve left, we need new blood in the
:13:40. > :13:44.industry. The project will take ten years, while rebuilding of 450 new
:13:45. > :13:55.homes is a big deal, as a rdgion, we are still behind demand. Thd number
:13:56. > :13:57.of households is expected to grow according to the housing
:13:58. > :14:02.association, but less than 00,0 0 new homes are being built annually.
:14:03. > :14:07.Since 2008, there have been improvements, an increase in the
:14:08. > :14:18.supply of homes, but we are not there yet. From coal dust to brick
:14:19. > :14:24.dust, after a long wait, hotsing, apprenticeships and jobs.
:14:25. > :14:28.Ethan Butress from Nottingh`m, who we had on the programme last
:14:29. > :14:30.week, is the youngest person to have donated bone marrow under
:14:31. > :14:34.The rules changed recently so youngsters aged
:14:35. > :14:37.from 16 can sign up to the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow rdgister.
:14:38. > :14:40.Now Ethan hopes more schools and colleges will get involved.
:14:41. > :14:43.Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons has been finding out
:14:44. > :14:49.about the joy a successful transplant can bring.
:14:50. > :14:53.After his extraordinary gift, he is back at college for study
:14:54. > :14:56.Ethan donated his bone marrow in London and is
:14:57. > :15:01.the youngest person to do so under general anaesthetic to a stranger.
:15:02. > :15:07.He is not sure about the outfit but has no regrets about donation.
:15:08. > :15:11.I managed to get off really easily, actually, I haven't any big wounds
:15:12. > :15:13.or anything, the wound is just a pin prick.
:15:14. > :15:20.He says the hospital treated him like royalty, and he hopes one day
:15:21. > :15:23.so many teenagers donate, it won't be a big deal.
:15:24. > :15:27.It is definitely going in the direction that peopld my age
:15:28. > :15:31.more and more will be donathng bone marrow and perhaps other thhngs that
:15:32. > :15:40.Alive and kicking in his hole in Draycott, living proof of the
:15:41. > :15:41.joy a bone marrow transplant can bring.
:15:42. > :15:45.These 12`year`old identical twins had their life`saving transplant
:15:46. > :15:49.Becoming a donor will give someone a chance they wouldn't
:15:50. > :15:52.have have had if you haven't become one, it is nice to think yot could
:15:53. > :15:56.save someone's life in five minutes or so.
:15:57. > :16:00.It is good to hear now that these donors have gone
:16:01. > :16:05.Our donor in Australia has been sending us e`mails about how he
:16:06. > :16:15.The twins met their donor nine years ago.
:16:16. > :16:17.He saved two lives and changed another.
:16:18. > :16:22.I had looked after two really poorly children
:16:23. > :16:26.I enjoyed doing it and wanted to put something back.
:16:27. > :16:28.The twins agree with Ethan on transplants,
:16:29. > :16:31.but the Rams fans don't see eye`to`eye with the Forest fan about
:16:32. > :16:42.Our goal was a lot better than theirs so it was a moral victory.
:16:43. > :16:45.Strong talk, and we'll have sport for yot in just
:16:46. > :16:50.a moment and also a poppy for every name on a World War One memorial.
:16:51. > :16:53.Sheila's taking part in BBC Radio Nottingham's Big Poppy
:16:54. > :16:57.Knit appeal, and in the process she's learnt a lot more
:16:58. > :17:14.In Sport, a big honour for the City of Nottingham.
:17:15. > :17:27.Nottingham has been given the status of city of football. Beating off
:17:28. > :17:33.competition from Manchester and Portsmouth for the honour. H am
:17:34. > :17:39.here, this game going on behind me in a nontraditional football space.
:17:40. > :17:44.This is a pilot project to try and get more people playing football and
:17:45. > :17:50.using these nontraditional spaces. Let's talk to a few people `bout it.
:17:51. > :17:55.John Collins, leader of the City Council. It is ?1.6 million coming
:17:56. > :18:03.to Nottingham to put into grassroots football. That is about invdsting in
:18:04. > :18:07.facilities and infrastructure around encouraging young people, btt
:18:08. > :18:14.actually, people of all ages. How would you spend it? We have too
:18:15. > :18:26.worked up a programme with sport England. `` Haft to work up. It will
:18:27. > :18:32.be about big events, a festhval of football. There is a range of things
:18:33. > :18:37.people are proposing. It's not about the organised side of footb`ll so
:18:38. > :18:42.much as coming down and tryhng it. It doesn't matter how old, when you
:18:43. > :18:51.played last, it is about coling up and having a chance. Let's talk to
:18:52. > :19:00.some people who will make this work. Steve is Nottingham Forest, Graham
:19:01. > :19:07.from Notts County. As a Nottingham lad, it is great to be part of the
:19:08. > :19:12.first city of football. We `re turning it upside down, getting
:19:13. > :19:16.people who have played then stopped playing, people who don't h`ve the
:19:17. > :19:23.opportunity to buy. Giving `ccess to people who want to play but can t.
:19:24. > :19:28.Participation rates have bedn dropping, can this turn it `round?
:19:29. > :19:34.Yes, we are excited about this, it gives is a chance to try new things.
:19:35. > :19:38.Things that can encourage other people to play football. Th`nks for
:19:39. > :19:42.joining us, all three of yot, good luck with the project.
:19:43. > :19:44.Onto the professional game and the nasty injury sufferdd
:19:45. > :19:46.by Forest midfielder Chris Cohen in Sunday's match.
:19:47. > :19:48.It's yet another knee injurx for the player and could me`n
:19:49. > :19:53.He was having a scan today and coach Brian Eastick says Cohen
:19:54. > :19:58.We are all hoping that it isn't too serious, it isn't as bad as
:19:59. > :20:02.Chris is an outstanding professional player, he is going to respdct
:20:03. > :20:05.the manager, coaching staff and all the players since wd have
:20:06. > :20:10.Let's keep our fingers crossed that it won't be too bad.
:20:11. > :20:12.And at Leicester another pl`yer with serious injury trouble.
:20:13. > :20:16.Young Defender Zoumana Bakaxogo has already had one cruciate ligament
:20:17. > :20:19.injury and last night in an Under`21 game it lookdd
:20:20. > :20:27.Two matches to mention tonight. If you're nearby you will still have
:20:28. > :20:31.time to make it to the Leagte One game at Meadow Lane where Orient
:20:32. > :20:33.visit Notts or the League Two game at Field Mill,
:20:34. > :20:41.But in cricket this time rather than football.
:20:42. > :20:49.Last week we featured Sandi`cre Town as they built up to their
:20:50. > :20:58.Well, I wonder if you can guess what happened?
:20:59. > :21:05.Indeed, victory, not just in that, but also in the cup on Saturday A
:21:06. > :21:12.double win. They must have been something? Yes, amazing, evdrything
:21:13. > :21:18.went perfectly. We couldn't be more happy with how it went. Let's talk
:21:19. > :21:27.about the final moments. Yes, it was easier for me being out there in the
:21:28. > :21:37.middle. People were crying, head in hands. Easier being pared down on
:21:38. > :21:46.the balcony. A narrow thing. `` easier being a dad down on the
:21:47. > :21:51.balcony. You were there at hn 2 03 last time they won it. It w`s very
:21:52. > :21:57.exciting, it went into the last over, the same emotions frol then.
:21:58. > :22:07.Fantastic, I know you're not bitter about being run out. No, not at all.
:22:08. > :22:14.I mentioned celebrations. Rob, you pitch head in your hands. W`s it a
:22:15. > :22:24.rough time? Yes, if you blank spots of the night. A bit of a bltr. Can
:22:25. > :22:33.you put the emotions into words No, not really. People cried, people
:22:34. > :22:38.were sick, awful, but amazing. Thank you gentlemen. Show us the trophies.
:22:39. > :22:40.Magnificent there, Sandiacrd Town are the champions.
:22:41. > :22:42.The County season's drawing to a close
:22:43. > :22:45.and it's with massive performances from two young players In Dhvision
:22:46. > :22:48.One, Jake Libby became the first player to score a century on his
:22:49. > :22:51.Notts in pursuit of the Chalpionship runners`up spot. While at Ddrby
:22:52. > :22:53.18`year`old wicketkeeper Harvey Hossein is only the third
:22:54. > :22:57.Derbyshire player in a hundred years to take ten catches in a match.
:22:58. > :23:00.On a more downbeat note, Leicestershire's miserable xear is
:23:01. > :23:17.From me and the champions of Sandiacre Town, and the people in
:23:18. > :23:27.the city of football, a good night to you, a good day all round here.
:23:28. > :23:28.You couldn't get much more hnto sport. Well done to Sandiacre Town
:23:29. > :23:35.and Nottingham. and Nottingham.
:23:36. > :23:37.Next tonight the woman who has knitted thirty poppies,
:23:38. > :23:40.each one for a soldier from the village of Keyworth who
:23:41. > :23:43.What started as Sheila Colman's contribution to
:23:44. > :23:45.BBC Radio Nottingham's 'Big Poppy Knit' appeal
:23:46. > :23:49.has become a much more personal tribute, as Jo Healey discovered.
:23:50. > :23:55.There are poppy tributes on an almighty scale and there ard those
:23:56. > :24:01.To start with, you start knhtting, it is the poppy that is
:24:02. > :24:09.But then you think, George, I am knitting your poppy now.
:24:10. > :24:19.George Brown was a butcher, he married Alice at Plumtred church,
:24:20. > :24:28.These are the 30 men that the village lost in the gre`t War.
:24:29. > :24:34.Among them, four from the s`me family, an uncle and three brothers.
:24:35. > :24:38.One of them, Arnold Disney, was wounded in action in 1908
:24:39. > :24:47.You do reflect while knitting on the lives and loves
:24:48. > :24:51.She is able to reflect, thanks to this book
:24:52. > :24:57.He has painstakingly chronicled the fallen from the village.
:24:58. > :25:01.Like Charles Wright, who was just 21, he died in 1916, towards
:25:02. > :25:08.In knitting a poppy for each of the 30 local heroes, Shehla is
:25:09. > :25:23.They are real people with rdal lives in this community.
:25:24. > :25:32.That is the amazing thing, people have really connecting with the
:25:33. > :25:43.soldiers. It has meant something. It is a life. Two CV 's names, it is
:25:44. > :25:48.beautiful. `` to see these names. There are, of course, all those
:25:49. > :25:55.puppies that were made in Derbyshire, outside the towdr of
:25:56. > :26:03.London. Time for the weather. We have had a great start to the day, a
:26:04. > :26:09.lot of low cloud present, it is cleared a little bit, a bit of
:26:10. > :26:14.brightness. It will soon ch`nge again overnight and into thd early
:26:15. > :26:20.hours. A north`easterly bredze with cloud coming in from the North Sea.
:26:21. > :26:27.The chance of a bit of fog `ffecting the Peak District. Not as foggy as
:26:28. > :26:34.this morning, but a lot of list and Merck out there. A mild night
:26:35. > :26:42.though, temperatures dropping to 14 Celsius. A great start to the day
:26:43. > :26:46.tomorrow, low cloud present. The cloud will clear across the south
:26:47. > :26:53.and west of the country, debatable how much sunshine we will sde at all
:26:54. > :26:57.tomorrow. That is due to thd fact that the wind brings it frol the
:26:58. > :27:03.North Sea. Temperatures arotnd 0 or 21 Celsius. We might have to wait
:27:04. > :27:11.into the afternoon before the crowd thins. The daytime temperattres
:27:12. > :27:18.still in the lower 20s, above average for the time of year. On
:27:19. > :27:21.Thursday, more fog, but skids brightened in the afternoon. The
:27:22. > :27:29.chance of a fewer showers on Thursday. The low pressure that is
:27:30. > :27:34.being kept at bay starts to work its way northwards, the outlook will be
:27:35. > :27:43.misty mornings. Warmer than normal, thunderstorms on Friday. Not too bad
:27:44. > :27:45.all in all. These flowers are lovely. We are back with thd late
:27:46. > :28:18.news, goodbye. There's so much more to this story
:28:19. > :28:26.than I thought. Wow.