:00:08. > :00:47.Also shopped for this Derbyshire as this teenager hung on underneath
:00:48. > :00:51.there mortar home. Plus I al at the Somali community in Leicestdrshire
:00:52. > :00:58.weird new reports say the ftture is looking good. And 100 miles from the
:00:59. > :01:10.border Scots from the East Lidlands intent to see and the small hours.
:01:11. > :01:14.First tonight, it's faced criticism for months
:01:15. > :01:16.And today, at a public meethng, it apologised to patients for
:01:17. > :01:18."unacceptable" poor perform`nce In Nottinghamshire,
:01:19. > :01:22.Leicestershire and Rutland the private firm Arriva took over
:01:23. > :01:27.from East Midlands Ambulancd Service transporting non emdrgency
:01:28. > :01:30.patients to and from hospit`ls. That was two years ago.
:01:31. > :01:33.In Leicestershire, it has been under constant fire
:01:34. > :01:36.The firm today insisted it is improving.
:01:37. > :01:42.Far from quitting, it's revdaled ambitions to take over the
:01:43. > :01:43.service across the entire rdgion. Live now to Our Health Corrdspondent
:01:44. > :02:03.Rob Sissons, who's in Loughborough. Good evening. Good evening. This is
:02:04. > :02:08.one of the depots of Arriva. We heard of transport problems, not
:02:09. > :02:15.solutions. That was from sole of the people who have had a bad
:02:16. > :02:19.experience. The Arriva ambulances are a familiar sight across
:02:20. > :02:25.Leicestershire and Rutland. They know they have to get two more
:02:26. > :02:30.places on time and that is something they have to work on. One woman
:02:31. > :02:37.knows about things when thex go wrong, hard late husband had to wait
:02:38. > :02:41.more than eight hours at hospital in the summer, it was a partictlarly
:02:42. > :02:47.busy day but she says it was a terrible experience.
:02:48. > :02:51.It was terrible really, he was due to come home
:02:52. > :02:54.from hospital and he sat wahting in the cheer by his bed and nothing
:02:55. > :02:56.happened, key just waits and waits. I was quite disgusted
:02:57. > :02:59.about the whole system. Something ought to be done
:03:00. > :03:00.about that driver and the pdrson inside the ambulance were epually
:03:01. > :03:13.as fed up with things as we were. Arriva told me they are not asset
:03:14. > :03:19.strippers, they want to invdst and make the service really, re`lly
:03:20. > :03:20.good. Our reporter has been on the front line to see what pressured
:03:21. > :03:26.they really under. Good morning, Arriva transport.
:03:27. > :03:27.Another busy day in the Leicester control centre.
:03:28. > :03:30.Arriva staff take hundreds of calls a day here
:03:31. > :03:33.and coordinate around 800 journeys. It is an incredible challenge.
:03:34. > :03:38.We have to make sure our pl`n is planned up, they know what rotas
:03:39. > :03:41.and what vehicles we have. They have to make sure we h`ve
:03:42. > :03:45.the resources to get patients into the hospital in time.
:03:46. > :03:51.They track 60 vehicles often moving across counties.
:03:52. > :03:55.They transport more elderly and vulnerable patients
:03:56. > :04:03.like this one who is 93 and recovering from a fall.
:04:04. > :04:07.There is nothing more they can do for her at hospital but before she
:04:08. > :04:14.is discharged on she will go for physio and recuperation and get care
:04:15. > :04:17.packages set up within the house. Arriva say they are seeing lore
:04:18. > :04:21.patients who are frail and some of the journeys are longer.
:04:22. > :04:26.Because of patient choice they can decide which hospitals they
:04:27. > :04:35.go to for the appointment. Kettering, Peterborough, Dunedin.
:04:36. > :04:39.She goes back to her care home after her hospital outpatient
:04:40. > :04:56.appointment but for these two there are plenty more journeys in store.
:04:57. > :05:05.They have a mix of vehicles, a modern fleet. Matching the right
:05:06. > :05:09.vehicle to the right job is obviously one of the challenges The
:05:10. > :05:14.managing director of the service told me they are determined to
:05:15. > :05:19.improve things and are turnhng things around. We have had some
:05:20. > :05:24.difficulties and no`one is lore frustrated than I am. This was not
:05:25. > :05:31.the beginning of the contract, these are cases in the summer. And things
:05:32. > :05:37.continue to move. The needs of patients continued to changd. We
:05:38. > :05:42.need to make sure we respond to the needs and expectations of p`tients.
:05:43. > :05:47.When will people get the service they are appealing for? People are
:05:48. > :05:54.already seeing the improvemdnts we have made. In August eight out of
:05:55. > :06:01.ten arrived on time for hospital and on discharge nine out of ten arrived
:06:02. > :06:05.on time. Is the job more delanding than you expected? The changes we
:06:06. > :06:11.have seen to the contract whll be the lifetime we have had to react
:06:12. > :06:19.to. We have not just sat on our hands. We have continued to invest,
:06:20. > :06:24.we have 14% more vehicles, 20% more staff and we have to manage that
:06:25. > :06:29.relationship with our staff and hospitals. It is the 24 hour
:06:30. > :06:36.contract and the needs change on a daily if not hourly basis. Some
:06:37. > :06:46.people have suggested in thd vote should lose its contract, is there
:06:47. > :06:52.any likelihood of that? The art critics of privatisation who have
:06:53. > :06:58.said I told you so. Arriva have been given more time by the NHS to meet
:06:59. > :07:05.the targets. Arriva say thex would like to compete to take over the
:07:06. > :07:08.contract that are coming up in Derby, Lincolnshire and
:07:09. > :07:15.Northamptonshire. To do that they will have to prove themselvds here.
:07:16. > :07:18.They could face competition from East Midlands ambulance service who
:07:19. > :07:25.I expect will compete for those contracts. Thank you for th`t.
:07:26. > :07:31.Still to come: Charlie's been chasing the sun.
:07:32. > :07:40.And I have not been able to find any so I came back inside! The weather
:07:41. > :07:49.coming up later in the programme. Next tonight, the Derbyshird family
:07:50. > :07:51.who returned from a week`long trip to Europe with a stowaway.
:07:52. > :07:54.As they dropped off their rented motor home off with
:07:55. > :07:57.the hire firm, an exhausted Sudanese teenager climbed out from under the
:07:58. > :08:00.vehicle and dusted himself down He's believed to have tied him
:08:01. > :08:10.self to the chassis in Calahs. Carolyn Moses reports.
:08:11. > :08:20.This man and his family are used to wheels. His daughter is a trail bike
:08:21. > :08:23.champion with team GP but when he and his family travelled back from
:08:24. > :08:29.and order on Monday morning they found an extra passenger clhnging to
:08:30. > :08:33.the wheels. This young man had spent hours dicing with death clinging to
:08:34. > :08:43.the axle of the more troubld than they hired as they crossed from
:08:44. > :08:48.France to Kent. When I lookdd down I saw two eyes looking up at le from
:08:49. > :08:53.between my feet. Then a bodx appeared and he stood up in front of
:08:54. > :09:02.me. It was very unnerving and surreal. Something you do not really
:09:03. > :09:06.expect. The family were so stunned the film the uninvited guest who was
:09:07. > :09:13.later taken away by police. He was handed over to immigration
:09:14. > :09:18.officials. There are similar cases linked to the French port and this
:09:19. > :09:25.family say they will now take extra care when travelling. He must have
:09:26. > :09:31.been on the back axles, there was no way to hang on at the front. He must
:09:32. > :09:37.have wedged himself across the back axles. You do not expect solebody
:09:38. > :09:44.climbing out from under a mortar home. His daughter and her team took
:09:45. > :09:47.away a gold medal from Andorra but what the family did not expdct was
:09:48. > :09:50.to bring something else back with them.
:09:51. > :09:53.Two councils have suspended their contracts with
:09:54. > :09:56.a Nottinghamshire care home after concerns over standards of care
:09:57. > :09:58.A relative of one of 70 reshdents at Acer Court in Nuthall passed
:09:59. > :10:00.surveillance footage to loc`l authorities and police.
:10:01. > :10:02.Both Nottingham city and the county council say they re
:10:03. > :10:06.now providing extra support for residents they're responsible for.
:10:07. > :10:10.A recent Care Quality Commission report flagged up problems
:10:11. > :10:17.at the home. Owners Avery Healthcare
:10:18. > :10:18.haven't commented. King Richard
:10:19. > :10:21.the Third suffered THREE potentially fatal injuries during the B`ttle of
:10:22. > :10:25.Bosworth, according to new research led by the University of Lehcester.
:10:26. > :10:29.The results come from scans which have been carried out to
:10:30. > :10:33.analyse the 500`year`old relains. They reveal that Richard's skeleton
:10:34. > :10:38.sustained 11 wounds at or near the time of his death,
:10:39. > :10:40.nine of them to the skull. Unemployment in
:10:41. > :10:45.our region has fallen to levels not seen since the boom days of 200 .
:10:46. > :10:49.And one factor in that decrdase may be the discretionary grants
:10:50. > :10:52.Job Centres are handing out to help people get back into work.
:10:53. > :10:57.In one area alone, that amounts to ?170,000 a lonth.
:10:58. > :11:05.One single mum says the funding she received has changed her life.
:11:06. > :11:08.Mike O'Sullivan reports. With the jobless figures falling
:11:09. > :11:13.in our region this single mtm of three has been given
:11:14. > :11:16.a helping hand back into work. She trained to become a cardr,
:11:17. > :11:22.calling at the homes of elddrly and vulnerable people.
:11:23. > :11:27.I can actually provide for ly family rather than living of benefhts
:11:28. > :11:33.which I feel is so much better, the children look up to me lore
:11:34. > :11:49.Unemployment fell by 12,000 between May and July getting
:11:50. > :11:55.an unemployment rate of 5.6$. Gemma was helped back into work
:11:56. > :11:58.by Job Centre Plus which paid a discretionary grant
:11:59. > :12:01.of up to ?1,000 for child c`re costs while she was training.
:12:02. > :12:03.I am told that they pay ?170,000 per month.
:12:04. > :12:10.For some it could be childc`re issues, for others it could be
:12:11. > :12:13.getting an interview suit. Gemma says you have to be
:12:14. > :12:16.prepared to work hard. They have to pick
:12:17. > :12:20.and choose who they are doing it with because they do not want to pay
:12:21. > :12:27.for training for people who are not going to be looking for work.
:12:28. > :12:38.Gemma now pays 30% of her childcare costs from her own wages.
:12:39. > :12:40.Last month on East Midlands Today we revealed that
:12:41. > :12:43.a report had strongly criticised the running of the official
:12:44. > :12:45.travellers' site in Leicestdr. It said relations
:12:46. > :12:50.between managers at Meynell's Gorse and the residents had broken down.
:12:51. > :12:54.But it also praised the operation of the Aston Firs site
:12:55. > :12:56.in Leicestershire. Today, our reporter Simon W`rd
:12:57. > :13:09.was given exclusive access. This travellers site in Leicester
:13:10. > :13:15.today is blocked off with rdsidents living in other places. It has
:13:16. > :13:19.finally been redeveloped after a critical report. This site hs being
:13:20. > :13:27.held up as a great example of how a travellers site should the run.
:13:28. > :13:32.Rebecca has spent most of hdr life travelling the country in a caravan.
:13:33. > :13:37.She came off of the Lord three years ago and only came here this summer.
:13:38. > :13:44.We have been reared in the travelling life all of our life but
:13:45. > :13:51.then there comes a time you like a bit of comfort and that is why I
:13:52. > :13:57.have come here. This man spdnt 0 years on the road when he w`s
:13:58. > :14:03.younger. Sometimes I pine to get back on the road but everybody gets
:14:04. > :14:06.on with each other. We watched that nobody comes on the camp who should
:14:07. > :14:16.not be here and we'll look `fter everybody else. This man works for
:14:17. > :14:23.the county and welcomes the changes. It is very easy to blame thd
:14:24. > :14:31.management and the residents. There are a number of factors, thhngs
:14:32. > :14:37.needing to be done. This falily are mainly based year but somethmes go
:14:38. > :14:41.on there travels. We went away for the summer, went away for fhve or
:14:42. > :14:45.six months but came back. There have been changes to the site ovdr the
:14:46. > :14:53.last few years which are for the better. This has been held tp as
:14:54. > :14:55.something they could do with other travellers sites.
:14:56. > :14:59.It's estimated 15,000 Somalh people live in Leicester ` one of
:15:00. > :15:02.the largest communities in the UK. A report out today considers how
:15:03. > :15:04.they fit in, and what can be done better.
:15:05. > :15:07.As Jo Healey discovered, it shows the Somalis
:15:08. > :15:08.in the city have a strong sdnse of belonging and believe passionately
:15:09. > :15:22.in educating their children. School is important to me so that
:15:23. > :15:30.everybody can have an education and learning new stuff. Children from
:15:31. > :15:36.Somali families make up a bhg percentage of the pupils at this
:15:37. > :15:46.school. You need an education to get a job. It helps us develop with our
:15:47. > :15:51.learning skills and get a bdtter lifestyle. The community will do
:15:52. > :15:57.anything at all in an educational sense for the children. We have
:15:58. > :16:14.meetings in the school about reading and mathematics, they are p`cked
:16:15. > :16:18.out. That has been backed up by our report out today. The community has
:16:19. > :16:23.said today they want to work hard and not rely on others helphng them
:16:24. > :16:32.but do things for themselves. So, the very `` they are very
:16:33. > :16:37.optimistic. Also optimistic as the business spirit. As the bushness
:16:38. > :16:43.spirit. This man was alreadx running a small business. Now he runs this
:16:44. > :16:50.cafe and a small shop. Death is one of the best cities in the UK. I feel
:16:51. > :16:52.like it is my second home. Ht is that sense of belonging that is
:16:53. > :17:04.highlighted by many. On the eve of the big indepdndence
:17:05. > :17:07.referendum in Scotland, senior MPs from the East Midlands
:17:08. > :17:09.have been north of the borddr campaigning to retain the union
:17:10. > :17:12.Meanwhile back here, people have been telling us
:17:13. > :17:12.which way they want the votd to go. Here's our
:17:13. > :17:22.Political Editor John Hess. The flags are up and the referendum
:17:23. > :17:30.debate, even in this pub in Derby, is far from over. My heart says yes
:17:31. > :17:34.but my head says no. Members of the city's land Derby will be g`thering
:17:35. > :17:41.here to see the results to cleared into the small hours. We argue for a
:17:42. > :17:48.party, no doubt, whatever the outcome may be. East Midlands today
:17:49. > :17:57.has reflected on how we see it from here. Because this Scott sotth of
:17:58. > :18:06.the border in Ashbourne he does not get the referendum vote. So, on day
:18:07. > :18:13.of the poll what is the view in the East Midlands now? I think they
:18:14. > :18:20.should stick with us. I agrde with that. I think it would be bdtter for
:18:21. > :18:29.all of us to stay together. Together would be better, together wd stand,
:18:30. > :18:36.divided we fall. Independence, yes! Big constitutional change is on the
:18:37. > :18:40.cards whatever the outcome, say MPs. I am concerned somebody spe`ks up
:18:41. > :18:45.for England in the aftermath of the referendum. I want to see England,
:18:46. > :18:54.Wales and Northern Ireland get an identical settlement to Scotland. It
:18:55. > :19:01.is perfectly possible to have the income tax assignment powers in
:19:02. > :19:06.England as they have in Scotland. In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army
:19:07. > :19:12.got as far as Derby to forcd through his constitutional changes, those
:19:13. > :19:18.views faded away. Tomorrow's referendum vote is already shaking
:19:19. > :19:21.the walls of Westminster. Whatever the outcome it will be an
:19:22. > :19:25.interesting few months I reckon You are probably right there.
:19:26. > :19:29.Now the sport. First the former England
:19:30. > :19:32.and Leicestershire wicket`kdeper Paul Nixon says he's sad to see
:19:33. > :19:34.the state of his former club. Three promising young players have
:19:35. > :19:35.left Leicestershire in as many weeks.
:19:36. > :19:38.They haven't won a County Championship game all season
:19:39. > :19:39.again and he fears without change the club won't survive.
:19:40. > :19:50.Kirsty Edwards reports. They have experienced real highs
:19:51. > :19:56.over the years but if Leicestershire do not win at Derbyshire ovdr the
:19:57. > :20:01.next week he will have gone two years without a championship win.
:20:02. > :20:08.The critics are calling for a major shake`up on and off the field. There
:20:09. > :20:13.has to be, everybody is leaving these are new kits, the unddr 1
:20:14. > :20:19.captain, they are wanting to go That is a big message to people out
:20:20. > :20:25.there that things are not as rosy as they think they are. Dismantled me
:20:26. > :20:32.today he will always cherish being captain of his home club but he just
:20:33. > :20:38.had to go. It is the club close to my heart but some changes rdquired,
:20:39. > :20:43.some fresh blood. With me ldaving it might not be a bad thing. It is
:20:44. > :20:49.about looking to the future. The ambition they showed was solething
:20:50. > :20:53.that excited me and then in the last month the sleepless nights. It was
:20:54. > :21:01.an effort I had to make for my own good. I want to make a plea to ``
:21:02. > :21:06.make a push to play for England in the future. I have to go to a club
:21:07. > :21:11.with the structure in place to take me forward. I feel Derbyshire have
:21:12. > :21:17.that. Hopefully Leicestershhre can look at it and rebuild themselves.
:21:18. > :21:25.The question is, our appears problems here? We have been in play
:21:26. > :21:29.in difficulties before but we will get through it. There do not
:21:30. > :21:33.necessarily have to be wholdsale changes, let's get to the end of the
:21:34. > :21:39.season and look at what has gone right and wrong and what should
:21:40. > :21:45.happen at that stage. Leicestershire aren't the first club to slhde away
:21:46. > :21:46.into the abyss, let's will be can drive it forward and put it back on
:21:47. > :22:06.the map. Onto football.
:22:07. > :22:08.Stuart Pearce's Nottingham Forest are at home tonight to Fulh`m.
:22:09. > :22:10.Ahead of the game owner and chairman Fawaz Al Hasawh has
:22:11. > :22:20.been speaking to Colin. How have you felt about the start of
:22:21. > :22:28.this season? It feels like ` fresh start. This season we startdd very
:22:29. > :22:32.good from day one. We played maybe six games and won four of them. This
:22:33. > :22:41.is a good start for us for the season. So far, so good. We have a
:22:42. > :22:47.long way to go. One of the things about Stuart Pearce is that you can
:22:48. > :22:54.tell he is ferociously honest. Is it too much honesty? Is it hard
:22:55. > :23:01.sometimes? Now, here's alwaxs straight. Some people do not do this
:23:02. > :23:10.even if they are honest but he is a straightforward guy. What does the
:23:11. > :23:14.new Chief Executive make to how the club is run? He has a good
:23:15. > :23:20.connection with everybody and everybody likes him which whll be
:23:21. > :23:25.helpful, I can relax more and stay more at home. Is there monex
:23:26. > :23:31.available? Will Stuart Pearce have the backing if he needs it to bring
:23:32. > :23:35.in more players over time? H will support him and be with him.
:23:36. > :23:40.Everything he is going to ask about I will they OK, no problem. We would
:23:41. > :23:47.like to take this club Wear it should be, to the right place. I am
:23:48. > :23:48.sure Stuart Pearce understands that and will take us to the Prelier
:23:49. > :23:55.League. Elsewhere in the Championshhp Derby
:23:56. > :23:57.County play at Blackburn tonight with Head Coach Steve McClaren keen
:23:58. > :23:59.their preparations aren't lost after the drama of the East Midlands
:24:00. > :24:11.derby game last weekend. That is the danger, we have got to
:24:12. > :24:16.be focus quickly. That was ` tough game physically and mentallx. We
:24:17. > :24:20.have to recover both the body and the mind and hopefully we whll do
:24:21. > :24:24.that and have the same kind of attitude we had on Sunday.
:24:25. > :24:28.And finally from me angry and emotional words from thd
:24:29. > :24:30.Notts County manager Shaun Derry. He says football has gone bonkers
:24:31. > :24:32.after another good manager hs left clinging onto his job.
:24:33. > :24:34.Notts County where playing Leyton Orient.
:24:35. > :24:38.The manager is Russell Sladd, the former Notts County boss, a man
:24:39. > :24:41.with the good footballing rdcord. He's the best manager statistically
:24:42. > :24:46.that Orient have had for 40 years but last night he said
:24:47. > :24:51.goodbye to the fans after the game because he was told he had to win
:24:52. > :24:56.this match or he would be s`cked. It left Shaun Derry fuming.
:24:57. > :25:00.I think it is an absolute ottrage. An outrage to the game.
:25:01. > :25:11.Someone like that, not having it, Someone like that, the game's gone.
:25:12. > :25:18.The game finished 1`1. This penalty was scored in
:25:19. > :25:22.the first half before an eqtaliser in the second, also from thd board.
:25:23. > :25:24.It was enough to keep Slade in a job for now.
:25:25. > :25:29.What he has done for Leyton Orient and all his other teams,
:25:30. > :25:32.you do not treat someone like that. I am so hurt.
:25:33. > :25:35.I have known him for years and years, it is a disgrace.
:25:36. > :25:45.At Mansfield Paul Cox was under pressure a few weeks ago.
:25:46. > :25:52.Despite taking the Stags up in 2013 and losing a number
:25:53. > :25:54.of key players of late. Last night they beat Morcambe 1`0.
:25:55. > :25:56.It is only September but already managers are fighting
:25:57. > :26:05.for their jobs. They always get a hard time, the
:26:06. > :26:09.managers. Just like weather presenters!
:26:10. > :26:21.Lots of cloud around as we go through tonight. There is football
:26:22. > :26:27.and it looks like being clotdy. Take a light jacket because it whll stay
:26:28. > :26:32.quite warm. The cloud will spill into the rest of the East Mhdlands
:26:33. > :26:38.as we go into the early hours of Thursday morning. Missed or fog
:26:39. > :26:45.patches developing. Very mild. Into Thursday it will be a very, very
:26:46. > :26:54.cloudy day. Quite stoppered Cloud, a little bit of sunny spells. There
:26:55. > :27:00.will be a misty and marquee start. With the help of sunshine 23 Celcius
:27:01. > :27:06.is possible. Just a little breezy going into Thursday afternoon.
:27:07. > :27:11.Friday will stay settled, dry and that time is bright. The warm here
:27:12. > :27:22.will start to slip southwards as we go through the weekend repl`ced by a
:27:23. > :27:29.cold year Mass. `` Hermas. Ht will be not too cold however. Thd
:27:30. > :27:31.temperatures will drop into the weekend. But largely dry and settled
:27:32. > :27:40.with brightness at times.