29/09/2014 East Midlands Today

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

Rolls Royce is fined for a nuclear safety breach.

Also tonight, drug wars. Violent criminals are targeting cannabis

growers. We are talking abott people going into properties with lachetes

and baseball bats and using violence. Ministers unveil

improvements to a crowded commuter line. A team of young enginders are

preparing to rocket into thd record books.

Good evening and welcome to Monday's programme.

First tonight, Rolls Royce has been fined ?200 000,

with a similar amount in costs, after four workers were exposed to

radiation at one of its nuclear submarine sites in Derby.

The workers are said to havd a "very, very small" increased

The company has now made ex gratia payments to them.

Mike O'Sullivan is outside Rolls Royce at Sinfin Lane, where the

Good evening. The workers at the time were panicked and now have

long`term health anxieties. 1 man said that he left work a different

person. They were all highlx skilled who were helping to make colponents

from the killer submarines. ``. These men came to court with a union

representative. The company was fined ?200,000 and was ordered to

pay the employees were exposed to radiation that was higher than the

permitted limit. We accept the findings of the court and wd regret

that this incident took place in 2011, particularly because of the

impact that it had on the individuals. We take out and safety

very seriously and the impact on the environment. We treat these things

as the highest IRT. It happdned here. Welders said the work

overnight for checking in the mediation Bay. The radiation source

was used to look for a minute the facts. When it came back to the

welders the next day they noticed and objects. They did not know what

the item was and they passed it around. 1 man awaited on his

overalls. In mankind into the room and his radiation alarm went off.

years later, no one has any health problems but one man has bedn taking

sleeping pills. Fortunately there have been no immediate effects from

the radiation on their hands. The amounts of radiation were qtite

small. They have a very small chance of developing cancer. The jtdge said

that the case fell into the negligent category. The company says

it is now changed its procedures. Mike,

the court heard about the p`youts to the workers, but what else hs

the company doing to help them? The judge said that he did not make

a compensation order today because of the pay`outs that the colpany

have already made. The staff have had medical advice and counselling

to help them cope. Some said that they have lost confidence. However,

the judge said that he was hmpressed with the way that the company had

investigated. The union is looking at the outcome of the case today but

it would not comment. The police say criminals who are

trying to steal home`grown drugs are Last year, the Nottinghamshhre force

dealt with well over 100 so`called "home invasions" by cannabis thieves

targeting growers. Now, it is appealing

for people to report their Our social affairs correspondent,

Jeremy Ball, has more. He tried to come into my bedroom.

The man who smashed his way into this man's home was trying to steal

his neighbour's cannabis crop. He had targeted the wrong propdrty It

was very terrifying. They are high on drugs and you do not know what

they are hiding. They might have a knife or a gun. The attacker was

looking for a crop like this. That is home`grown cannabis. Producers

have started to spread the risk by hiding plans across a number of

homes. However, because drugs are a valuable commodity, they ard being

targeted by gangs. Sometimes they get it wrong and they end up

invading houses where there are young children and decent mdmbers of

the public. We are talking `bout people coming into propertids are

and using violence against people. We treated very seriously. Ht is a

growing problem. 127 home invasions were reported to the police last

year in Nottinghamshire. In 50 of those raids people were injtred

Today, the police are starthng a campaign to tackle on growing

cannabis. They want people to report cannabis growing. They are `lso

warning landlords that they could face jail if they allowed pdople to

grow cannabis in the flats. Sometimes people are made to produce

cannabis under duress. Sometimes the people who are organising the people

who are organising this will arrange for the cannabis to be stoldn and

they will hold the people that were growing it in debt for longdr. There

are warns that there will bd more raids as this industry becoles a

policing priority. Coming up, some good news for rail

commuters on the Castle Lind between Celebrating 100 years of pl`ying

with a call to get more children out on the street. September has been

the perfect month for playing on the street. What does October h`ve in

store. I will tell you later in the programme.

From next year, there will be more trains

and shorter journey times on the Castle Line ` the rail link between

Details of the ?3`million`pound schdme

emerged as the Transport Secretary and Derbyshire Dales MP, Patrick

McLoughlin, was making his speech to the Conservative Party confdrence.

Our political editor, John Hess is at Birmingham's Internathonal

Convention Centre for the conference.

A little earlier, I asked hhm if the announcement was a strprise?

You will recall that the poor state of Castle Line, and its years

of under`investment, was an issue during the recent parliamentary

So today, as Conservatives were told of the economic benefits of HS2

despite its multi`billion pound price tag, Patrick McLoughlhn also

stressed the need to improvd smaller rail connections ` like the Castle

Line ` together with other rail improvements.

We have ordered thousands of new train carriages so commuters can get

a seat. We have rebuilt stations like Manchester Victoria, Rdading,

Nottingham, and Wakefield. We have started a electrifying the rail line

so they are faster and cheaper to run. They will also be more

environmentally friendly. George Osborne, in his confdrence

speech, again warmed to the idea of creating a "northern powerhouse and

investing in the northern chties. And we in danger of losing out

in the East and West Midlands? That has been a real concern

of many of our council leaddrs. Nottingham's Jon Collins and the

leader of Derbyshire, Anne Western, are linking up with Birmingham City

Council to present a joint Lidlands Today, there was a hint that

George Osborne might be aware of those Midland concerns about

his northern powerhouse rhetoric. The answer is to build up the rest

of the country. To create a northern Para house of the cities across the

Pennines. To connect up the South West and to pick the Midlands at the

centre of our great manufacturing revival.

With me is Andrew Lewer, one of the Conservatives' electoral

The former leader of Derbyshire County Council was elected to

the European Parliament to represent the East Midlands region in May

Do you think political and business leaders in the Midlands

need to have worries about the Chancellor's enthtsiasm

I don't think there is any reason to be concerned. The mothers should be

pleased that there is so much talk about spreading the wealth `nd

providing more opportunities for the rest of the country. George Osborne,

in one of his best speeches, was very careful to mention the the East

Midlands in his speech. Today's announcement

about the Castle Line improves east`west rail connections

in one part of the East Midlands, but the Chancellor is talking about

improving east`west rail connections Leeds to Manchester,

Newcastle to Liverpool. I think it is a package of

infrastructure investment. Ht is good news for the Midlands. It would

be a mistake to interpret t`lking about the North meaning that we will

be missing the Midlands it. It is part of the package. It will do us a

lot of good in this area. The Scottish result has opened tp this

debate and I think there ard great opportunities for local govdrnment

and the Midlands to benefit. Tomorrow,

the conference concentrates Leicestershire's police and crime

commissioner says he has ordered a review into the force's h`ndling

of historic child abuse clahms. Sir Clive Loader says it follows

high profile cases in Rotherham He says he wants to reassurd victims

and the public that all child abuse allegations,

whether historic or current, A report on cases,

dating back to the 1990s, should be Nottinghamshire Police is to start

putting its stop Last month, the Home Secret`ry

announced measures to improve the way police use stop and search

powers and make it more transparent. One of the steps was to present

more detailed information online. Nottinghamshire Police is one of two

forces taking part in the trial They will establish what data is

important to the public A mother is pleading to

an education authority to ldt her daughter attend the same school

as her brother and friends, which The primary school, near Lehcester,

is oversubscribed and the family missed the application

deadline by a fortnight. Officials say they cannot

show any leniency. The four`year`old child is

now being schooled at home. This family live close to the local

school. However, this big's sisters application was missed out `nd she

missed out on a place at thd school. It is heartbreaking to see

her face when all friends are going to school and she has to go another

school. What is the hardest thing? Not being able to play with my

friends. Back at home, this girl is now being home`schooled by her

mother. The family said that they missed the deadline for the

application because the famhly's batter fell ill. We know th`t we

should have got the application in on time. But please look at the

situation and see how it is affecting our daughter and our

family. In a statement, the council said that they did not have the

power to overcome the decishon of the independent appeal panel. They

do not have the ability to grant a place. They say that places have

been offered at other local schools. But this mother says that she cannot

drive and she is not willing to put her daughter in a taxi. She is at

the top of the list, but until a place becomes available she will not

be able to go to this local school. Later tonight on BBC One, Inside Out

will be paying tribute to the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who

died last week at the age of 94 She helped turn Chatsworth

into one of the nation's favourite But, because of her family

connections, there were somd The Duchess had been a guest of

Jack Kennedy And two years later, months

before he was assassinated, JFK interrupted a flying visit to Prime

Minister Harold Macmillan to visit Is there were only a few visitors.

It was not a nice day. They looked at the man coming up the st`irs and

then they looked at him agahn. It was a double take. They could not

believe it. And there is more extraordinary

footage in tonight's Inside Out tribute to the Dowager Duchdss

that is at 7:30PM Do you know she actually called

Harold MacMillan "uncle Harold" There are calls today for pdople

to close off their streets to The calls come

from the charity PlayWorks, which has been working with

youngsters for nearly thirtx years! Today,

they celebrated a century of play at their home building in Nottingham

by closing off their own street They have closed this street so that

these guys can play safely. This is just one of the ways that they are

celebrating. I like playing outside on my bike. I like playing football

outside. I like playing on ly scooter outside. The building has

been somewhere for children to play for 100 years. It contains `

treasure trove of donated goods for them to play with. It is a

completely different world from the adult world. It is an essential

stage for them to develop. Now we are in the computer age, we will

lose the skills if we are not careful. This is how streets used to

be and they are hoping that some communities may

the country where people apply for temporary road closures to get young

people and children outside playing. You hope that that will

happen in Nottingham? We hope it will happen. That is all in the

pipeline. Today is about celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the

building. That is child's play. First tonight,

what a difference a week can make. From an extraordinary win over

Manchester United to defeat at Crystal Palace, Leicester City

certainly came back down to earth They had been the focus of huge

media attention. However, things did not happen the way it was expected.

The Foxes had their chances but they did not reach the heights of

previous performances. They were on down `` they ran done by thdse

goals. It was a disappointing day, but it was just the second Premier

scumbag premiership defeat. I thought we started the game well.

Unfortunately we were not able to make the best of those chances. We

had shown some promising signs this year and I think we have thd

capabilities of getting Some good news on the injurx

front for Nottingham Forest. Striker Matty Fryatt is back

in training and available The Reds will go there second in

the Championship after Saturday s The city ground has been

buzzing this season. Expectations are sky`high after such

a bright start to the campahgn. On paper,

Forest are favourites for this. But ultimately it was

a performance that fell flat. Defensively certainly `

our two central defenders and I was a little bit disappointed

with our performance. They needed to win the ball back out

of possession and keep it But it wasn't there today

for whatever reason. We feel as though in this ldague,

on our day, But if we are 5% or 10%

off you do not win matches. Both sides turning to apply that

killer touch in front of go`l. Now Derby, who look a lot lhke they

are finding the form that took them A win against Bolton that w`s much

more comfortable than The story of the game now

from the BBC Radio Derby Colmentary We controlled the game well and

in the end we deserved the win. It is no doubt that we are playing

a very good team today. It could be the best team

in the division. I believe that it is a flukd that

we are still in this division. The referee is giving

a penalty to Derby. I think it gets his anger up and I

think we ought to do that every Just to get him psyched up

for the rest of the game. We continue to get results

and performances because people step Elsewhere, news from Notts County

that they have signed Stephdn That is

after a weekend where they took a It all look good for Notts County

when Blair Adams fired them in front They could have easily gone

on to get another. In the second half, they were denied

time and again by the goalkdeper As for Mansfield,

they conceded two goals in the first five minutes at Stevenage

and simply never recovered. Manager Paul Cox said it was the

worst performance of the se`son The final scoreline

suggests he is right. And well done to

Notts County Ladies, who secured their place in the first

division of the Women's Supdr League A much better performance

than last week ` but beaten. And at home too, for

the first time since last November. London Irish were

the team to inflict the dam`ge. Veriki Goneva scored what h`d looked

a very important try for Tigers keeping them level with

the visitors. But with just two minutes to go

one of those margin calls, and Shane Geraghty, spoiled the day

for thousands inside Welford Road. Tigers, of course,

battered by injuries. And so are ice hockey's

Nottingham Panthers. It showed over the weekend `

two games, two defeats. The most painful was a home thumping

from Hull on Saturday night. Not a team

the Panthers are used to losing to. And not a performance

the fans are used to seeing. The Panthers could use

some key players back. Much better for

Basketball's Leicester Riders. They started their season

proper with wins home and away. This demolition of Manchestdr Giants

in front of over 1,300 fans on Saturday evening getting them

off to the best possible st`rt. we also had a man from

Nottinghamshire who won the Ryder Cup.

Pupils at a Nottinghamshire school are preparing to set

The young engineers, from the Joseph Whitaker School

in Rainworth, are attempting to break the current record for the

But they have not got long to go ` the attempt takes place next

Paul Bradshaw went along to their test`track in Hucknall to sde the

Students with a need for spded. This group of young engineers were

running final test on a rocket powered car ahead of the world

record attempt next weekend. It is the commendation of months of work.

We built the alias different machines. We tested a new dxnamics.

We were involved with every aspect of trying to understand how to get

faster. We have had difficulties and explosions during testing. They are

designed with the least drag that we can get. The group have alrdady

caught the eye of David Camdron and Vince Cable, winning the national

club of the year. They also impress royalty when they met Princd Andrew.

The current record stands at 27 mph. Here are the group getting

ready for the first test run. We have a guaranteed speed of 464.

mph. That is perfect. Brillhant A second run page is the same speed.

With such impressive results, the group will be confident of breaking

the world record next Saturday. If you want to take another, slower,

look at those test runs, we have put a couple of thel

on our Facebook page. It has been quite quiet this month

with hardly any rain. It felt like summer yesterday as they re`ch 3

Celsius. This is far above the average. Today we have seen more

cloud and rain. However, thdy will clear over tonight and therd is a

small ridge of high pressurd that will protect us tomorrow. Tomorrow

it will be dry with lots of sunshine in the morning. There will be more

cloud in the afternoon. It will stay warm with temperatures in the 2 s.

You can see on the satellitd that there are some showers still to

come. The showers will move northwards tonight. There m`y be

some mist and fog in the morning. Temperatures of 13`14 Celsits.

Tomorrow morning, the mist `nd fog will clear quite quickly. There will

be some sunshine in the morning with clouds coming and going in the

afternoon. It will stay dry and bright. It will start to get more

windy in the evening and thd clouds will start to come in as well.

Temperatures of around 20`20 Celsius. The wind will pick up

tomorrow evening. And watch this weather fronts which will move

across the country bringing some light showers. On Wednesday we are

between weather fronts. There will be some dry and bright weather but

it will turn colder and that is a taste of things to come by the

weekend. I suppose it is getting tow`rds

October.