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East Midlands Today. Terror in Berlin -

a chilling eyewitness account from a tourist only feet

away from the tragedy. We heard a massive crash to the left

of us, looked over, thought maybe fireworks going off and then we saw

the top of an articulated lorry going from left to right. Also

tonight, the sky-high prices that were fixed.

East Midlands Airport was fixing prices in its car park but won't pay

any fines over it. Find out why, later. Plus, two mothers facing

cancer together and spear hiding a Christmas cancer charity campaign.

You can forget you've got cancer, you can be absolutely daft. And the

turkey which proved to be a hit. The slow cooker test which has been

viewed a million times online. Good evening and welcome

to Tuesday's programme with Quentin Rayner and me,

Geeta Pendse. First tonight - the Christmas

tourists who narrowly escaped last A journalist who's just joined

BBC Radio Leicester has told us how she saw the lorry plough into market

stalls in the German capital. And a Nottinghamshire woman,

who was in the same market two hours earlier, says it

won't stop her going back next year. They've both been speaking

to our Social Affairs A scene of Christmas cheer

destroyed in an instant. She's visiting Berlin before

starting her new job We heard a massive crash

to the left of us. We looked over and thought maybe

fireworks were going off or something like that,

and then the lights that were hanging at the Christmas market

started to be pulled down and then we saw the top of an articulated

lorry going for our We just didn't know

what was going on. It completely decimated the hut

where we bought the wine from, It's the most horrifying thing

that's ever happened to me. There were people on the floor

bleeding, crying, wooden panels The market is all

around that church... Alison was in Berlin

celebrating her birthday and flew She and her husband were shopping

there before the truck attack. We were at the market about 3:30pm

yesterday afternoon, We got into bed and neither of us

could sleep because suddenly you're thinking, crikey,

if we'd have made it a couple of hours later,

we could have been involved in that. It's devastating to

think it happened, that We'll be back again

for the Christmas market next year. But 12 people lost their lives

and dozens have been injured, and now the questions; why did it

happen and how to stop attacks that Just to try and get away from it,

we had a wander round some of the museums here and I'll stop

and stare at a painting and all of a sudden I'll hear

something or I will see something and I can just feel

myself welling up. I just don't know how this

is going to affect me long-term. Emma Rushton there,

speaking to us from Berlin - East Midlands Airport and a car

parking operator were price-fixing at the Castle Donington site,

it's turned out. There was an agreement not

to undercut the airport's But despite facing an initial fine

running into many millions, the airport will now pay -

well, nothing at all, for breaking Our reporter Simon

Ward is there now. Simon - what lay behind this

price-fixing investigation? What was behind this price-fixing

investigation? This is the first competition investigation by the

Civil Aviation Authority and it found that between 2007-2012 East

Midlands Airport made an illegal deal with a company called prestige

parking limited. The airport said this company, you can come here and

run your car parking business on our site, but in return you can't

undercut the price that the airport charges for its own parking. That

broke competition law, because they were agreeing to fix the prices as

the CAA found. The airport now won't have to pay a penny in is that

right? Absolutely. And it could have been a really big fine. That's fine

could have been ?12.5 million. Bear in mind that East Midlands Airport,

owned by the Manchester Airport group, which owns a number of

airports in this country, here just that this airports their turnover

around ?60 million a year. That's fine could have been ?12.5 million.

This CAA says it's being lenient, working within its leniency

agreements, because the airport and the company involved cooperated in

the investigation, so the charges absolutely zero. They will have to

pay anything at all. The prestige parking company has now gone out of

business. We have been speaking to people in the East Midlands to find

out what they think about what the airport has done.

I'm completely adverse to anything at all where people are ripped

These kind of things don't surprise me much,

I reckon every airport's doing it to some extent.

I think I would encourage people to use public transport.

Simon, have we heard anything from the airport or the competition

authority? I can give you some information from the Civil Aviation

Authority report. It says that the fact...

Of course we would have liked to have spoken to the Civil Aviation

Authority to deny or the competition and marketing authority, to come on

our programme and explain about their so-called leniency

arrangements that can lead to an offender, in this case East Midlands

Airport, escaping all the finds, but none of the agencies would speak to

us on the programme tonight, so it's just what we've heard from the

reports. They are not giving any interviews at all. Simon, thank you.

An inquest has heard how a Derbyshire couple died

Claire Nagle died in hospital on Friday after being found

seriously injured at her mother's home in Borrowash.

Her husband Vincent Nagle was killed later that day after being hit

Police arrived at his home in Borrowash on Friday morning

to find 38-year-old Claire Nagle lying on the kitchen floor seriously

She was taken to the Royal Derby Hospital.

Half an hour later her husband, 44-year-old Vincent,

a heating engineer and plumber, jumped from a bridge on the M1,

near the Trowell Services, and hit a lorry before his body fell

onto the middle lane of the southbound carriageway.

Today, here at the opening of the inquests into their deaths,

Detective Constable Barry Hall from the East Midlands Major Crime Unit

said the provisional cause of death for Claire Nagle was pressure

The pathologist also found ligature marks and bruising around her neck

and haemorrhages on the eyes, showing signs of asphyxia.

Vincent's provisional cause of death was an injury to the neck,

The court heard that he died instantly.

The couple had been living separately at

Earlier on Friday, her son Nathan, who was living nearby,

Eyewitnesses said he'd told them he'd been attacked with a nail gun.

The police have said the three incidents are linked and they're not

A murder investigation has been launched into Claire's death.

The 38-year-old was studying mental health nursing

It's said her loss will be felt deeply.

Meanwhile, a fundraising page set up for Claire's children has

The senior coroner, Doctor Robert Hunter,

adjourned the inquests, which were opened separately,

as the police investigation into Friday's tragic

BBC East Midlands Today, Derby coroner's court.

Part of the M1 is still closed this evening after a collision

The Southbound carriageway has been shut between Junction 20

and Junction 21 since lunchtime today and traffic is being diverted.

One person has been airlifted to hospital and the road will remain

closed for some time while police carry out an investigation.

People are being advised to avoid Derby's A E department

where possible today, as they face up to four hour waits.

The hospital says it's extremely busy at the moment and that it

could take three to four hours to carry out assessments.

It's asking that only people with real emergencies attend

and advise that anyone with non urgent issues should consider

Experts at the University of Leicester believe they've made

a breakthrough which could improve memory in Alzheimer's patients -

Researchers have been giving a new drug to mice over

the last four years, and say the treatment improves

Previous medication had led to a large number of side effects.

Project leaders say it's an extremely significant development.

Council taxpayers in Nottingham could be asked to pay

The city council blames cuts and the rising cost

In total, the local authority needs to save ?27 million next year.

Our political reporter, Peter Saull, has been guaging

Christmas may be a time for giving, but local councils

Year after year, tax payers are being asked for more.

I think it's ridiculous, really, to be honest,

because they're upping it and upping it and people can't afford it.

Yes, I know our old people need looking after, but at the same time,

I don't think it's great we all have to pay for it that.

I don't necessarily like it, but I just have to put up with it.

As it stands, council tax in Nottingham will go

up by just under 4%, the equivalent of ?70 a year

And there's every chance the eventual rise will be just

The City Council says it has no choice but to do this.

Costs are rising, while the amount it gets

We've been forced to possibly put up council tax.

We are having to make cuts, and even the service we're trying

to protect for the elderly is not going to be as good as it should be.

The council tax rise won't be enough to balance the books,

so that means there will be more cuts next year to children's

centres, for example, who could see their opening hours reduced.

There'll also be a review of on street parking charges,

the Medilink and Centrelink buses, currently free, will cost ?1,

and the cost of cremations is also set to rise.

They're cutting things like children's centres,

but at the same time they're spending half a million,

certainly last year, on the refugee forum.

We need to look after the people of Nottingham first.

Across the region, local authorities are feeling the pinch

and its increasingly up to you to foot the bill.

Well, that service - adult social care -

is perhaps the funding headache for many councils.

And there are question marks in the care industry over

whether councils are paying enough for it.

On the day it laid out its budget plans, Mike O'Sullivan's been

looking at how Nottingham's justified paying what were -

until recently - the lowest rates to care companies anywhere

Caring is the business of this company in Nottingham. It supplies

carers who support older or disabled people, helping them to continue to

live in their own homes. At one time the company was getting ?12.20 an

hour from Nottingham City Council. Then the lowest rate in the East

Midlands. I think the government need to look at it as a whole.

People that need care and need our assistance to get in and out of bed

in the morning, they need to be looking at where they are going to

get that money from because raising council taxes and putting a minimum

rate that doesn't work. Is by the government saying council tax can be

increased to help pay for social care, there is still a shortfall,

according to the local government Association. To add to the

pressures, the UK's social care companies claim some of the prices

being paid by the councils themselves are already too low. They

want a minimum of ?16.70 an hour. The range of minimum prices paid by

councils in the East Midlands were shown in a report by the UK care

Association. It was a snapshot of the market in one week of April,

revealing how care companies agreed different rates. Then Nottingham

City Council emerged as paying the lowest. Now the City Council says

they have upped the lowest price by ?3 an hour, following a recent

minimum wage rise. Some other councils have also made increases.

We're getting quite good value for money, but what's happened since is

the minimum wage has been increased, so we've had to increase the amount.

So it's now gone up to ?15.20. Otherwise he would have had firms

providing care going bust and we couldn't possibly have had that. The

issue of so-called flying Finn it's 15 minutes or less was highlighted

in a series of Freedom of information requests by the home

care Association. In one week in April there were 202 such visits in.

Less than 2% of all visits. In Nottinghamshire, around 10%.

Nottingham, 15%, and in Derby, 20%. I'd love to stop doing 15 minutes,

but it would mean doing fewer people people because the money is not

there and the government is cutting our budgets. There's a massive

increased demand from elderly people and from disabled people living

longer. I don't agree with 15 minutes, you can't do anything in 15

minutes. By the time you've said hello to the client and completed

any paperwork, what have you done for that client in that time? 30

minutes should be a basic minimum. Midlands home care says it is now

negotiated a ?14 an hour deal with the council, but would ideally like

?16 plus. It's a startling statistic but half

of people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some stage

in their lives. But the good news is,

more people than ever before So to raise more funds,

Cancer Research UK has highlighted a touching friendship between two

Leicestershire mums to front Mandie Stace and Jude Price

are both patients at the Leicester Royal Infirmary

where they've been Victoria Hicks has

been to meet them. It's the end of the year Jude Price

and Mandie Stace want to see the back of back together they've helped

each other cope with cancer. I think when we're together, OK, we both

have had cancer but when we're together laughing... We just

clicked, it's like I've known you for ages. So yeah. You can forget

you've got cancer, as well. You can be absolutely daft. LAUGHTER

It's nice, it's nice to be able to have a laugh. The pair were filmed

chatting at Jude's bedside. You did, I'd seen it! LAUGHTER

As they share a joke about their hair falling out during

chemotherapy. Wasn't that a wonderful example of the courage of

women who have faced difficult circumstances, gone through arduous

treatment but maintain their sense of humour. Their commitment to

research and persuading others to raise funds so we can't continue our

fight against cancer? This do and it cost us nothing. It's easy, we just

having a laugh while we do it. If it's going to make a difference to

anybody, even if it made a difference just one person, I'd be

really chuffed. I know cancer is serious, and it's a sad thing to

thing to have to go through, but to know you can have a laugh... We just

normal people. And you have normal days. Normal lives, not everything

is so sad all the time. It was lovely to just have a laugh and

giggle. You didn't stop laughing at my misfortune! I'm looking forward

to Christmas, and next year is a brand-new year and I want to say

goodbye to this one. For me, I got here, I got to this Christmas, which

is great, and I'm assuming I'm going to get to the next one.

What an inspirational power of friends. Did you notice they had

identical tops? Totally in sync!

Time for some sport and jolly hockey sticks.

Absolutely. You usually use this as your moment to make a cup of tea,

don't go anywhere. We have an interview with Helen Richardson

Walsh, looking back on a stunning 2016 coming up.

We start with Leicester City

and Jamie Vardy because the appeal against the red card he was given

It means he'll be suspended for three games over the crucial

Yesterday there was the news of a takeover at Notts County

and there's a huge night ahead on the pitch tonight,

as they try to earn a mouth-watering FA Cup third round tie

First, though, they need to beat Peterborough away

tonight, after coming from 2-0 down a couple of weeks ago

Adam Campbell got the first and then late on in the game Louis Laing

scored the equaliser to keep the Magpies in with a chance

of playing the Premier League leaders in round three.

A lot of them will never get the opportunity to play there again.

I would love to go there, I've been there loads of times.

Mark Crossley would love to go there.

The attraction of going to Chelsea, it would be a game where it

We have learned from this art he will be on the touchline, he was

banned for five matches after being sent off ten days ago in the Wycombe

game. Away from football, Nottingham

gymnast Becky Downie says she's going to compete for another four

years, to try and make At 24, Becky was the oldest

member of the team that finished fifth in Rio,

but believes she can rise Staying with Olympic sport,

but not someone heading for Tokyo. Nottinghamshire's Helen

Richardson-Walsh is already Part of the Team GB hockey team that

won Gold in a dramatic penalty shoot out to delight

and thrill the country. Helen came in to see us yesterday,

after going to the Sports Personality show -

and gave me one of my She's candid and emotional

and I began by asking if events I mnea, every time I open this box

and look at this medal, it just brings back so many memories

and so much emotion, there's so much At this distance, can you remember

the moment Holly scored and can you remember the emotion,

can you still feel it? When that goal went in, I think,

there was just nothing in my head, It was most amazing feeling,

and I remember looking at certain players, particularly Alex,

I remember looking at Alex and we were just like,

we're Olympic champions, Yeah, I know, over so many years,

and to have that dream come true, And to be on the same

field as your wife. First married couple since 1920

to win on the same team. Yeah, you know, it's

incredible to share what I do with my team-mates, but to share it

with your wife as well There's so many ups and downs,

and we've been through so many things as individuals

and as a couple, and to be able to be on that podium

with Kate was really magical. Let's talk about that Sports

Personality of the Year, shall we? What was that like

for all of you guys? It was the first time

since Rio we've been You share something with a group

of people and you don't often get to be together,

so that was really lovely. I'm so proud to be part

of what at the moment is, our nation's sporting generation

is just amazing. You didn't win Team of the Year,

beaten to the post by Leicester City, a bit

disappointed by that? We were disappointed,

I'm not going to lie. I think what we've

achieved as a team and how When we came back from Rio

and hearing that so many people had watched us and supported us,

the stories that we've heard, how many people have been

inspired by what we do So hopefully we can really build

on this in the future. Is there another

Helen Richardson-Walsh, I went back to the club a few weeks

ago and saw so many people. It was a men's team, just a men's

club all those years ago. To see, I think they've got

five women's teams now. If there was another girl that came

through those ranks, that would be amazing,

I would so love to see that. For a well earned career in hockey.

Proving it can absorb mumps to appreciate that winning a medal.

Now, it's the turkey dinner that's proving a big hit.

Our online reporter, Anna Allatt, has written a feature on why people

are falling in love with their slow cookers all over again.

Yes, she's even cooked a Christmas dinner in one,

and the film of her preparing and slow cooking the bird has had

For a day it topped the BBC's national online pages

This year's the first year that I'm really cooking Christmas dinner

for my whole family, and I'm a little bit nervous.

There's a lot of pressure, there's not much time,

either, so I thought - could you fit a whole

turkey in a slow cooker and end up with something

Put one in the front cavity and the other one the other end.

Pick up the turkey, pop it in the slow cooker...

I've had incredible feedback from everybody and I've had

lots of people say they're going to give it a go.

I think the stress-free factor and the risk-free factor really,

really have contributed to this success of the piece.

Right, I'm just going to have to go for it.

I wish you could smell it, as well, it's fantastic.

It's really stress-free, hassle-free.

I feel so hungry. Brian in the gallery says he's hungry too.

You don't want it to mice? Anna said it's very tasty. -- you

don't want it too moist. Time for a check on the weather.

A lovely day today, some great spells of sunshine. Thank you for

sending this picture in, Martin. Clear blue skies. A bit of a change

on the way overnight tonight. We are looking at some rain pushing in.

But for now still dry. Temperatures around 2-3, but you can see cloud

increasing fast outbreaks of rain start to push in. Most of this as we

head overnight tonight will be light and patchy. It starts to sink down

to the south. Temperatures 3-4 by the end of the night. First thing

tomorrow, cloud and outbreaks of rain in the south. Then it will

brighten up a little bit. You should see some spells of sunshine, head of

the next band of showery rain. The further north and west you argue

could hear the odd rumble of thunder. That could sink down to the

South as we had through the afternoon. Temperatures 8-9, the

temperature is picking up. We start to have it clear by the end of the

day. That will continue overnight into Thursday. Set for a chilly day

on Thursday, a frost to start but then dry and fine. Let's let's push

things forward bit into Friday. It looks a right, because of Barbara.

Friday, gusts of 50 or 60 miles an hour. That wind will stay with us as

we had through into Christmas weekend. If you are travelling, make

sure you keep posted on the forecast.

I am not happy about Barbara she's not welcome.

And you have a slow cooker! Yes, love them.

We will be back later, see you.