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This is East Midlands Today. Iraq. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I'm Anne Davies and tonight a sad day for everyone | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The Dowager Duchess died today at the age of 94. | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
With an indomitable spirit she's credited with turning Chatsworth | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
into one of Britain's most hmportant tourist attractions Good evdning | :00:20. | :00:36. | |
This and shot dead, two men are under arrest. | :00:37. | :01:05. | |
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire has died. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
She was the main public facd of Chatsworth House in Derbxshire | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
for decades. Known to her family as Debo, | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the famous Mitford sisters, married Lord | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Andrew Cavendish, in 1941 and in 1950 he inherited the title and she | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
became the Duchess of Devonshire. She played a key role in thd | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
restoration of the house and gardens turning the estate into the tourist | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
attraction that it is today. Well, | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
our reporter James Roberson has been talking to people in Derbyshire who | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
witnessed part of that remarkable life, starting with a photographer | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
from Matlock who's 80 next week and worked closely with the | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
Dowager Duchess for half a century. For this man she was part of his | :01:57. | :02:15. | |
life for more than 50 years. As a freelance photographer he covered | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
hundreds of events at Chatsworth house and got to know the Dtchess | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
well. You became friends of the family because they knew thdy could | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
trust you. He covered many of the Duke and Duchess is famous parties | :02:31. | :02:46. | |
including the wedding annivdrsary. It was this indomitable spirit and | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
also the enthusiasm that thd Dodgers put into all things Derbyshhre that | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
the people so appreciated. She would turn up to many of the events she | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
was invited to, would turn tp for local charities and knew wh`t was | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
going on behind the charitids. She always gave time and will bd very | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
sadly missed. It was her close stewardship of the house with her | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
late husband that she will be mostly remembered. It was a great | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
achievement. People were dr`wn not only the public but the people they | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
invited as the house guests. She was one of the personalities of the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
county. She opened up Chatsworth and encouraged people to come there She | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
always said the people who did the most were Derbyshire people from the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
region. She was part of the public life of Derbyshire as well `s the | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
Private life of Chatsworth. She was always her own woman. A few people | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
came and said the Roman heads ought not to have tinsel but the Tencel is | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
staying. She was at ease with state occasions as she was relaxed when he | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
photographed her with her grandchildren. I said you c`nnot be | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
a granny and the Duchess, it she said, of course I can. I'm loving my | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
grandchildren. That, to me, was the Duchess of Devonshire. She was | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
lovely. I think everybody bdlieves she really was an incredibld person | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
with an extraordinary life. She really was an amazing woman | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
one of the IT girls of the thirties and forties, | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
someone who had tea with Hitler and even danced with Jack Kdnnedy. | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
Four years ago she spoke at length to James Roberson and | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
here's some of their conversation. My father`in`law died when he was | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
only 55 in 1950 so then we found ourselves in charge not just of this | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
but of his properties. It w`s a tremendous inheritance to ptt it | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
that way but it was also an enormous responsibility. There was no | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
question of us coming to live here because of this | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
question of us coming to live here because of this huge debt and then | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
slowly it was resolved and the land agent said that house needs a family | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
in it, you have got to go and live there. We were very doubtful but we | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
came and we loved it. Looking back over all the time you have been | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
here, is there anything that stands out? Your amazing wonderful parties | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
that you and your husband h`d four major celebrations? That was | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
entirely and drew, you love the party and the whole spectrul of | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
people in Derbyshire. He thought it would be a good idea to ask all the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
couples who had a golden wedding to tea on the day of our golden wedding | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
so we thought there might bd three or four, 500 possibly. In the end | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
3500 people sat down to tea. It was a wonderful party. In a way it was | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
the best because it was such a surprise. This is one of thd | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
greatest jewels in the East Midlands, does that make yot feel | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
proud? Yes, very. It is verx well for the people at the top to feel | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
proud but it is the people who have done the work who should fedl proud | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
and I they do. The work he was made absolutely wonderful by the support | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
of the staff who are second to none. The luck of living and workhng with | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
all those people is something that will never diminish. That I suppose | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
is the thing I really take `way with me, from the garden to the farms, to | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the inside of the house, evdrything. They were just amazing. The ones | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
that are still alive became lifelong friends. What a beautiful rdflection | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
of the house in the water there It was the house and county th`t were | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
very close to the heart of the Duchess. When news of her ddath | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
people they were so touched by it. people they were so touched by it. | :07:36. | :08:15. | |
For me it is always impresshve to see these houses. They have been | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
doing a lot of good for a Lord of people, I think everyone loved her. | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
Many here at the farm shop, one of the first of its kind, had `n | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
opinion. When doing things on a mass scale standards sometimes stffer but | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
this was really impressive. She used to come in when we were shopping, | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
with the family. She spent the last couple of years living here on the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
estate but it is this house and the Chatsworth brand which she helped | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
welled up which will mean the life and works of Deborah Devonshire live | :08:58. | :09:09. | |
on. Now let me introduce yot to the head of marketing here at | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Chatsworth, it is a sad day, isn't it? Absolutely. We have books of | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
condolence out which people can sign. What about if anybody brings | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
flowers? We would love people to lay flowers down the North front drive | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
of the house. She really st`rted the wave of turning stately homds like | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
this into proper businesses? Absolutely, if she was an | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
inspiration and people really loved to work for her, she was fantastic. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
A true inspiration. That's it from us here at Chatsworth | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
in Derbyshire. Our thoughts are with | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the family tonight and with everyone who loved and will miss her. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
It was a long life and a great life and Deborah Duchess | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
of Devonshire will be remembered for an even longer time to come | :10:04. | :10:13. | |
Back to you in the studio, Dom. Now the rest of the day's ndws. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
And there's another sign th`t more manufacturing firms in the region | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
are expecting to grow and rdcruit. A survey to be unveiled next week | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
will show a big increase in firms saying business is on the up. | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
It comes as one engineering firm opens a new | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
?5million steel`cutting plant. Mike O'Sullivan reports. | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
The future is looking bright for this engineering company in | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Nottinghamshire. The managing director told me the companx has | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
invested ?5 million in what they called the cut shack kitted out with | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
state of the art steel cutthng equipment. We will take people on | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
further if the market improves and we saw six apprentices arrive this | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
week. The company now emploxs 2 0 people. They have at healthx order | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
book. A survey by the government's Manufacturing advisory servhce will | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
show that 64% of small firms expect to recruit staff, up 22% on last | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
year. 73% expect to grow ovdr the next three months, up 10%. There is | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
definitely a good future if your company is willing to progrdss you | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
through. I started on the shop floor as a welder and am now a qu`ntity | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
surveyor. Our company has a very strong future. There a grant from | :11:55. | :12:06. | |
the regional growth front. `` fund. We took the view things cannot stay | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
this bad for reversal at sole point we have to make a move and reinvest. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
That was triggered by the rdgional growth fund. The company st`rted out | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
as a blacksmith in the 1970s. Now they are turning over ?40 mhllion | :12:24. | :12:24. | |
per year. Two men have been arrested | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
on suspicion of the murder of a taxi driver from Nottingham | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
almost twenty years ago. Ethsham Ghafoor was shot de`d while | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
sitting in his cab back in 0994 The motive for his killing | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
has never been discovered. Carolyn Moses reports. | :12:43. | :12:54. | |
Police called it an execution style murder, cold`blooded and | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
premeditated. A taxi driver sitting in his cab shot dead near a | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
children's nationally. That nursery is now a football park and changing | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
rooms but it was here that the man was shot twice in his black and | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
white Ford Sierra almost 20 years ago. He was 26. Please help me. He | :13:19. | :13:33. | |
suffers. My son is gone. Thd family are campaigning and have set up a | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
page online hoping to find `nswers. Now there has been some devdlopment, | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
two men, both in the 40s, arrested this morning. They are being | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
questioned by detectives. Police say this murder case has never been | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
closed, all the years they have continued to search for news and | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
information. It is hoped today's arrests could mean a major step | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
forward towards finding the truth from one of the ADL's most lengthy | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
murders. Legal proceedings have begun against | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
the former leader of Leicestershire County Council over an unpahd debt. | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
The local authority says David Parsons has stopped p`ying | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
monthly instalments to clear the costs of trips he made tsing | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
the council's chauffeur`driven car when he was leader. | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
It will take a fortnight for the courts to process the council's | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
application to recover the loney. East Midlands Trains say a strike by | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
maintenance staff later this month will affect some services. Lanagers | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
say members of the Unite unhon will strike from the 28th of September to | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
the 4th of October, in a dispute over pay. There will be a rdvised | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
timetable, but train companx bosses are pledging to keep most sdrvices | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
running. Labour leader Ed Miliband s`ys our | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
East Midlands cities will gdt new devolved powers over transport, if | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
they win the next general election. So could that mean Nottingh`m's | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
controversial local tax on workplace parking will bd | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
extended to other cities? And what | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
about local tax`raising powdrs? On that | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
the Labour leader's more cattious. Mr Miliband's been speaking to | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
our Political Editor John Hdss. The most important thing is to be | :15:21. | :15:34. | |
led by people and make sure we reverse all the centralisathon we | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
have seen. Too much power ordered at Westminster and not enough devolved | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
throughout England. One thing that is really important is powers over | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
transport spending. All of that spending at the moment is spent in | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Westminster it should be devolved to regions and sub regions. All of | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
those things are the kind of things that can make a real differdnce to | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
people in the East Midlands. Nottingham is a good exampld where | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
it is building the tram but part of the funding for that has bedn a levy | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
that is a local parks. I am cautious on tax but we should look at all | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
people's ideas. We have alrdady have an agenda to devolved millions of | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
pounds of spending to England away from Westminster. There has been one | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
of the biggest drops in unelployment but recently there were surveys | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
which showed wage rates havd also fallen very low indeed. Is that the | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
inevitable price of economic recovery? I do not think it should | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
be sought. We have announced plans to raise the minimum wage and to | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
build homes again creating jobs in construction, apprenticeships. But | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
we have got to create a decdnt economy with good wages. Thd | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
government says the economy is fixed but I do not believe it is. We all | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
remembered the equal towns plan parts of rural Leicestershire was | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
allocated, it all ended in tears. Isn't that the danger with these big | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
plans for a future Labour government? We cannot go on as we | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
are, how to build in is at hts lowest level since the 1920s. `` | :17:28. | :17:37. | |
house`building. Both my wifd and I will be out on the campaign trail. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
We are looking forward to it. You're watching East Midlands Today. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Still to come: Derbyshire fire service signs up | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
its newest recruit. Dexter the cocker spaniel whll help | :17:51. | :17:51. | |
investigate suspected arson attacks. And I will be investigating the | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
fireball in the sky and finding out how much longer it will be gracing | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
us with its presence. The sport now and here's Natalie. | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
First a big night for Nottingham Forest in the capital. | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
The Reds are unbeaten and top of the league in the Championship. | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
But now it's league cup timd at Tottenham Hotspur. | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
And there really has been some famous cup battles against | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
these two teams in the past. Kirsty Edwards has been rolling | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
back the years with Stuart Pearce. Piers possibly lining up a left foot | :18:24. | :18:39. | |
shot for Forest. He is alwaxs a danger here. What a splendid shot. I | :18:40. | :18:51. | |
think on occasions like that you end up saying that is for fans, that | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
occasion but it is the call of the game because you get beaten. He | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
still has not won the FA Cup. It would be fantastic for us as a | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
football club to deliver at the trophy to Brian Clough. It was a | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
real driving ambition for mxself and the rest of the players to deliver | :19:17. | :19:28. | |
that. It was not to be. While Brian Clough certainly played a htge role | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
in Stuart Pearce's Kadir thd fans have set off with shirts to Wear for | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
the match. The Reds have won three of the games. We are acutelx aware | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
that on paper we will be underdogs but you probably would not want to | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
play a team at the top of the division below doing extremdly well | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
but it is the game we should be relishing and the fans should be | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
enjoying. We will be going to partner in an attempt to win the | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
game and go through to the next round. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
Well already through to the last 16 are Derby County and thex more | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
than deserved their 2`0 win over fellow Championship side Re`ding. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
Steve McClaren had made six changes to his side. When he receivdd the | :20:28. | :20:39. | |
ball we were all on the edgd of the seat. It is effective. The | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
ball we were all on the edgd of the seat. It is effective. The | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
breakthrough finally came mhdway through the second half. Thd | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
substitute set up Donny Russell for his first goal of the season. Then | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
this cross hit the reading defender whose own goal secured the win. The | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
draw for the fourth round tonight and McLaren knows full well what it | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
means to progress in the competition. It is one of the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
greatest moments as a managdr and winning at Cardiff do I know this | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
competition is important to us and we will keep going as far as we can. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Rugby and the bad news just keeps on coming for injury hit | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Leicester Tigers. Scrum`half David Mele's been | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
suspended for a week after his red card in the record defeat at Bath. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
He was sent off for a stamphng incident and becomes yet another | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
player unavailable this weekend Cricket and three Nottinghalshire | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
players have made England's One day squad for the tour of Sri L`nka | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
James Taylor, Alex Hales and Harry Guernex. | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
In the County championship Derbyshire go into day thred on | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
162`1 against Leicestershird. And well done to the | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Nottingham Panthers. There brilliant win over Halburg | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
in the Champions League was their first win at the top level | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
of European Hockey. Panthers won 3`1 at the | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
National Ice Centre. Derbyshire Fire and Rescue | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
service has a new recruit to help it solve suspected arson attacks. | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
Senior officers presented Ddxter the Cocker Spaniel puppy with his | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
staff identity badge this morning. Emily Anderson reports. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
He is the new boy and the l`test any line of fire investigation dogs for | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
the East Midlands. They are to detect things like Excel we're | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
things have been used to help start fires. Before dogs are used in fire | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
scenes, as part of the training they are taught to find tennis | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
balls. We then teaching FP can find petrol he will get his tennhs ball. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
He likes playing with that `nd searches around quite well `t home. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
We will just develop that as he grows up. He takes over frol this | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
dog, Freckle, dogs like thel can play a vital role in solving | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
suspected arson attacks and these boots can be an important p`rt of | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
the armoury. This protect hhs feet in a fire scene. He will be given a | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
few months to settle in before he starts training, that is whdn the | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
hard work begins. We have had another decent day | :23:36. | :23:47. | |
today, quite a lot of sunshhne around. We have had high prdssure | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
through today. Perfectly tiled for the daylight hours stopping the | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
cloud from building. It will start to erode tonight allowing some clout | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
to pick up and the these. Not a lot in terms of rain over the ndxt few | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
days or so. It will be mostly dry but cloudy and easy. Things will | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
warn up as we go into the wdekend. `` breezy. It will be mostlx clear | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
on Thursday night allowing temperatures to fall away. `` | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
through tonight. Tomorrow morning will start off dry. The clotd will | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
continue to increase from the north and west as we head through the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
afternoon. There could be a little light rain or drizzle later on in | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
the day but for most of us ht will be mainly dry. It will feel similar | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
to today with highs of around 1 Celsius. A weather front crossing | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
through on Friday but withott much rain. It is dry and bright `nd | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
warming up towards the weekdnd. That's about all from us | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
on the day when the death w`s announced of the Dowager Duchess | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
of Devonshire, the woman who transformed Chatsworth Housd | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
into the one of the most important stately homes in all of England | :25:25. | :25:25. | |
Goodnight. | :25:26. | :25:34. |