16/09/2014 East Midlands Today

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

An inquest hears of a littld girl's desperate attempts to raise the

The seven`year`old run to a neighbour's house but got no

response. Also tonight, angdr in Leicester as roadworks overrun. My

business is 70% down. Also youngsters held by Stephen Sutton's

legacy. We are very proud of what Stephen achieved. Remembering the

great War, Sheila Nitze poppy for the fallen. The aim is to knit one

for each person from the war memorial. I think, I am knitting

yours tonight, George. an inquest's heard how a little girl

knocked on a neighbour's door in a bid to save her mum

and three others from a fat`l house Firefighters found 7`year`old Tia

James outside hours Tonight, they call for people to be

more vigilant and call 999 hf they hear alarms.

Mike O'Sullivan was at the inquest in Chesterfidld.

strong safety message coming out of this tragedy at North Wingfheld

That is right, the message from the Fire Service is to bring thdm if you

hear anything linked to an emergency. They say they wotld

rather have a false alarm than no alarm. Because of the toxic smoke, a

call may not have made a difference in this case. But they say, don t

hesitate. It was a fire that shocked the community. In November, a fire

claimed the lives of this f`mily. Josie's friend also died. The

inquest heard that the child, woken by thick smoke went next door to

raise the alarm at 1:30am. The neighbour, who heard sounds and a

smoke alarm didn't respond. Firefighters found her in the garden

at 5:30am. 'No' it must havd been terrible for the little girl to wait

outside, but now we have thd answers. Up I just think it is a

missed opportunity from the neighbours. The compilation of

hearing a smoke alarm and slelling smoke, if it is unusual, we ask the

community to play their part in looking out for each other `` the

combination. There should bd a call and an investigation of the

incident. The fire was causdd by a papal election in a junction box.

The coroner recorded a verdhct of accidental death. He said the

junction box was a time bomb. The cause of death was inhalation of

toxic smoke. The inquest fotnd the smoke was caused by a fire hn the

junction box. It may have bden generating heat for years. Once it

started smouldering, the smoker built up, it is thought that Tia

survived because she was sm`ller than the others and below the level

of the smoke. Thank you. Traders on Leicester's Golddn Mile

say delays to roadworks could be Work to demolish the

Belgrave Flyover and improve the roads around it was

meant to be finished by next month. But now it could be March

before it's completed. It is a familiar sight for lany

commuters, a gridlocked golden mile as traffic queues to get rotnd the

roadworks. The traffic is a nightmare, you can't get anxwhere.

It takes half an hour, it used to be ten minutes. The work is behng paid

for by a supermarket, which closed its door and opened a bigger one.

The flyover was demolished within weeks and then work began to improve

the area. It was all supposdd to be done before the Diwali

celebrations. The council is now suggesting it would be March next

year before it is completed. The delay is affecting traders. When you

compound my business from l`st year, it is almost 70% down. `` when

you compare my business. Ard you worried? Yes, very worried. We are

having a meeting next week to combat the problem we are facing. There is

frustration and anger but wd are doing our best to combat thd

problem. When finished, it hs hoped it will regenerate the area, the

work will be postponed for Diwali so as not to stop the festival.

We catch up with the teenagdr who's just become the youngest evdr person

Two men from Leicestershire have died after their car hit a wall

The men, Patrick Casey, who was 27, and Martin Casey, who was 17, died

Victoria Hicks joins us now from our Leicester Studio.

What else do you know about the accident?

Yes good evening, well it's unclear at this stage why the car

crashed or why the two men from Leicestershire were in South Wales.

This afternoon we've spoken to Leicestershire Police who told us

they were aware of the crash and were liaising with

their counterparts in South Wales to establish what happened.

Officers in South Wales have told us that the

crash happened in the early hours of saturday morning when thd Ford

Focus car the men were travdlling in, left the road and crashdd into

To give you some idea of geography they had travelled

from Carmarthenshire along the M4 and were heading along the @48,

South Wales Police have told us they have now referred the inciddnt to

the Independent Police Complaints Commission, because officers had

been looking for the car, following reports of suspichous

We will bring you more information on this story as it develops.

Nottingham is set to receivd the biggest contribution out

of the ?5 million raised by a teenage cancer sufferer.

Stephen Sutton died earlier this year but his fundraising calpaign

Just over ?800,000 is being donated to the Teenage Cancdr Trust

in the East Midlands, and in a moment we'll be finding out

But first, here's Quentin R`yner with a reminder

Stephen Sutton's thumbs`up campaign captured the nation's heart.

It was taken up at this year's Download Festival

at Donington, when thousands paid tribute to a fellow rock fan.

The 19`year`old was irrepressible in his campaigning for the

I'm proud of the feeling I get by raising all this money, hn a way

I owe a thank you to the Tednage Cancer Trust, they supported me when

I needed it, I wouldn't be here today without them, or as confident.

Much of the ?815,000 will bd spent at the QMC, to complete

Existing facilities will also be improved at the City Hospit`l.

He realised how important the Teenage Cancer`funded units were to

young people, the support ndtwork, education packages, so the fact that

the money Stephen has raised is going to help other young pdople,

that makes you proud of what Stephen achieved. Stephen's family say

the money is going exactly where he wanted it to be spent.

A little earlier we spoke to Angela Kehoe from the Teenage Cancdr Trust.

She told us what impact Stephen s legacy would have.

It is amazing, he has raised ?5 million for us. It means we can do

so much across the country. Help to fund extra staff. Nottinghal will be

getting a huge amount, that will go towards our two Nottingham tnits. Is

that on improving existing facilities or making new onds? We

are building a unit at the Pueen's medical centre. That will go to

finishing the build. It will improve the facilities at the Nottingham

city unit. It is a huge amotnt of money, but in the greater scheme of

things, you need even more, don t you? Yes, it is a huge amount, it

will do a lot for us, but at the moment, for every young person we

are helping, there is anothdr but we can't. We are only reaching 50% of

people. We want to help everyone diagnosed with cancer. As soon as

they are diagnosed, help and support is there. I guess as well, for young

people and teenagers, they need something, because offering in

hospital you are in with thd grown`ups, not everyone has that

facility for young people. JEERING

Yes, it is quite isolating for that age group `` yes, it is quite

isolating for that age group, they may never meet a other young person

with cancer. Police are asking the public for

help to find a 12`year`old boy who's Tionne Loftman was last seen by his

mum when she dropped him off at a Police say there have been sightings

of him since then at the Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham

city centre. A jeweller in Leicester had

his wrist broken and was robbed of The attack happened

as police started a new campaign warning people to keep valu`bles

safe after a rise in thefts. The thefts have involved thheves

on bicycles, grabbing jewellery The latest theft happened ydsterday

morning in Windsor Avenue as the man and his wife were going to their

jewellery business on Melton Road. Cotgrave colliery once provhded jobs

for hundreds of Nottinghamshire miners

until it closed twenty years ago. Now

though the foundations for hundreds of much needed homes

are being laid on the site, No, this is also

a project to train a whole new Here's our

Political Editor John Hess. The heavy diggers are already on

site, preparing the ground to build 450 new homes. It is 20 years since

the Cotgrove cholerae was blown up. `` colliery we are very happy this

has come into fruition. It hs also a good scheme for apprentices. We need

thousands of people to join the industry, we have a lot of people

retiring. A lot of people h`ve left, we need new blood in the

industry. The project will take ten years, while rebuilding of 450 new

homes is a big deal, as a rdgion, we are still behind demand. Thd number

of households is expected to grow according to the housing

association, but less than 00,0 0 new homes are being built annually.

Since 2008, there have been improvements, an increase in the

supply of homes, but we are not there yet. From coal dust to brick

dust, after a long wait, hotsing, apprenticeships and jobs.

Ethan Butress from Nottingh`m, who we had on the programme last

week, is the youngest person to have donated bone marrow under

The rules changed recently so youngsters aged

from 16 can sign up to the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow rdgister.

Now Ethan hopes more schools and colleges will get involved.

Our Health Correspondent Rob Sissons has been finding out

about the joy a successful transplant can bring.

After his extraordinary gift, he is back at college for study

Ethan donated his bone marrow in London and is

the youngest person to do so under general anaesthetic to a stranger.

He is not sure about the outfit but has no regrets about donation.

I managed to get off really easily, actually, I haven't any big wounds

or anything, the wound is just a pin prick.

He says the hospital treated him like royalty, and he hopes one day

so many teenagers donate, it won't be a big deal.

It is definitely going in the direction that peopld my age

more and more will be donathng bone marrow and perhaps other thhngs that

Alive and kicking in his hole in Draycott, living proof of the

joy a bone marrow transplant can bring.

These 12`year`old identical twins had their life`saving transplant

Becoming a donor will give someone a chance they wouldn't

have have had if you haven't become one, it is nice to think yot could

save someone's life in five minutes or so.

It is good to hear now that these donors have gone

Our donor in Australia has been sending us e`mails about how he

The twins met their donor nine years ago.

He saved two lives and changed another.

I had looked after two really poorly children

I enjoyed doing it and wanted to put something back.

The twins agree with Ethan on transplants,

but the Rams fans don't see eye`to`eye with the Forest fan about

Our goal was a lot better than theirs so it was a moral victory.

Strong talk, and we'll have sport for yot in just

a moment and also a poppy for every name on a World War One memorial.

Sheila's taking part in BBC Radio Nottingham's Big Poppy

Knit appeal, and in the process she's learnt a lot more

In Sport, a big honour for the City of Nottingham.

Nottingham has been given the status of city of football. Beating off

competition from Manchester and Portsmouth for the honour. H am

here, this game going on behind me in a nontraditional football space.

This is a pilot project to try and get more people playing football and

using these nontraditional spaces. Let's talk to a few people `bout it.

John Collins, leader of the City Council. It is ?1.6 million coming

to Nottingham to put into grassroots football. That is about invdsting in

facilities and infrastructure around encouraging young people, btt

actually, people of all ages. How would you spend it? We have too

worked up a programme with sport England. `` Haft to work up. It will

be about big events, a festhval of football. There is a range of things

people are proposing. It's not about the organised side of footb`ll so

much as coming down and tryhng it. It doesn't matter how old, when you

played last, it is about coling up and having a chance. Let's talk to

some people who will make this work. Steve is Nottingham Forest, Graham

from Notts County. As a Nottingham lad, it is great to be part of the

first city of football. We `re turning it upside down, getting

people who have played then stopped playing, people who don't h`ve the

opportunity to buy. Giving `ccess to people who want to play but can t.

Participation rates have bedn dropping, can this turn it `round?

Yes, we are excited about this, it gives is a chance to try new things.

Things that can encourage other people to play football. Th`nks for

joining us, all three of yot, good luck with the project.

Onto the professional game and the nasty injury sufferdd

by Forest midfielder Chris Cohen in Sunday's match.

It's yet another knee injurx for the player and could me`n

He was having a scan today and coach Brian Eastick says Cohen

We are all hoping that it isn't too serious, it isn't as bad as

Chris is an outstanding professional player, he is going to respdct

the manager, coaching staff and all the players since wd have

Let's keep our fingers crossed that it won't be too bad.

And at Leicester another pl`yer with serious injury trouble.

Young Defender Zoumana Bakaxogo has already had one cruciate ligament

injury and last night in an Under`21 game it lookdd

Two matches to mention tonight. If you're nearby you will still have

time to make it to the Leagte One game at Meadow Lane where Orient

visit Notts or the League Two game at Field Mill,

But in cricket this time rather than football.

Last week we featured Sandi`cre Town as they built up to their

Well, I wonder if you can guess what happened?

Indeed, victory, not just in that, but also in the cup on Saturday A

double win. They must have been something? Yes, amazing, evdrything

went perfectly. We couldn't be more happy with how it went. Let's talk

about the final moments. Yes, it was easier for me being out there in the

middle. People were crying, head in hands. Easier being pared down on

the balcony. A narrow thing. `` easier being a dad down on the

balcony. You were there at hn 2 03 last time they won it. It w`s very

exciting, it went into the last over, the same emotions frol then.

Fantastic, I know you're not bitter about being run out. No, not at all.

I mentioned celebrations. Rob, you pitch head in your hands. W`s it a

rough time? Yes, if you blank spots of the night. A bit of a bltr. Can

you put the emotions into words No, not really. People cried, people

were sick, awful, but amazing. Thank you gentlemen. Show us the trophies.

Magnificent there, Sandiacrd Town are the champions.

The County season's drawing to a close

and it's with massive performances from two young players In Dhvision

One, Jake Libby became the first player to score a century on his

Notts in pursuit of the Chalpionship runners`up spot. While at Ddrby

18`year`old wicketkeeper Harvey Hossein is only the third

Derbyshire player in a hundred years to take ten catches in a match.

On a more downbeat note, Leicestershire's miserable xear is

From me and the champions of Sandiacre Town, and the people in

the city of football, a good night to you, a good day all round here.

You couldn't get much more hnto sport. Well done to Sandiacre Town

and Nottingham. and Nottingham.

Next tonight the woman who has knitted thirty poppies,

each one for a soldier from the village of Keyworth who

What started as Sheila Colman's contribution to

BBC Radio Nottingham's 'Big Poppy Knit' appeal

has become a much more personal tribute, as Jo Healey discovered.

There are poppy tributes on an almighty scale and there ard those

To start with, you start knhtting, it is the poppy that is

But then you think, George, I am knitting your poppy now.

George Brown was a butcher, he married Alice at Plumtred church,

These are the 30 men that the village lost in the gre`t War.

Among them, four from the s`me family, an uncle and three brothers.

One of them, Arnold Disney, was wounded in action in 1908

You do reflect while knitting on the lives and loves

She is able to reflect, thanks to this book

He has painstakingly chronicled the fallen from the village.

Like Charles Wright, who was just 21, he died in 1916, towards

In knitting a poppy for each of the 30 local heroes, Shehla is

They are real people with rdal lives in this community.

That is the amazing thing, people have really connecting with the

soldiers. It has meant something. It is a life. Two CV 's names, it is

beautiful. `` to see these names. There are, of course, all those

puppies that were made in Derbyshire, outside the towdr of

London. Time for the weather. We have had a great start to the day, a

lot of low cloud present, it is cleared a little bit, a bit of

brightness. It will soon ch`nge again overnight and into thd early

hours. A north`easterly bredze with cloud coming in from the North Sea.

The chance of a bit of fog `ffecting the Peak District. Not as foggy as

this morning, but a lot of list and Merck out there. A mild night

though, temperatures dropping to 14 Celsius. A great start to the day

tomorrow, low cloud present. The cloud will clear across the south

and west of the country, debatable how much sunshine we will sde at all

tomorrow. That is due to thd fact that the wind brings it frol the

North Sea. Temperatures arotnd 0 or 21 Celsius. We might have to wait

into the afternoon before the crowd thins. The daytime temperattres

still in the lower 20s, above average for the time of year. On

Thursday, more fog, but skids brightened in the afternoon. The

chance of a fewer showers on Thursday. The low pressure that is

being kept at bay starts to work its way northwards, the outlook will be

misty mornings. Warmer than normal, thunderstorms on Friday. Not too bad

all in all. These flowers are lovely. We are back with thd late

news, goodbye. There's so much more to this story

than I thought. Wow.