10/02/2017 East Midlands Today

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You are watching East Midlands today. The top story, how recurring

fires at a former factory are hitting neighbourhood finances.

Seven fires in two years, with the latest destroying

It's only a few months ago there was a major fire here.

It is impacting the businesses throughout as well,

including our insurance premiums as well.

the thieves targeting this discontinued Land Rover model.

We've seen thefts of Land Rover Defenders absolutely rocket

since they went out of production and they've become

the vehicle of choice for thieves to go for in the countryside.

Plus, I'll be finding out about the Shoe Aid project, which is

collecting thousands of shoes from people

And making the most of the dark, how Nottingham's Light Night

is illumminating new areas as it marks its tenth event tonight.

Good evening and welcome to Friday's programme with Anne Davies

First tonight, the demolition of a derelict knitwear factory

in Leicester began today after it was destroyed

It's the seventh time the former Corah building has been targeted

Meanwhile, fire safety officers have been visiting nearby businesses

today giving advice to owners on how to protect their premises.Emily

Anderson is at the scene this evening.

Emily - a little less dramatic there tonight,

Yes, it really has been a dramatic couple of days here. This evening,

there is little left of the former Corah factory. Police and fire

investigators left the site earlier this afternoon to make way for the

demolition teams to start the process of taking down this historic

building. It's been part of Leicester's

skyline for over 100 years. This building once

housed Corah Knitwear. In its heyday, it was considered

to be one of the world's greatest manufacturers of its kind but less

than 48 hours ago, in the early hours of Thursday morning,

a huge fire all but destroyed it. At its height, the flames

were so intense they spread to another building and caused

damage to dozens of cars We still haven't been able

to identify whether anybody was in the building at the time

of the fire. We do know it was a building

that was sometimes used by rough sleepers, so we are still working

with the police to identify whether anybody was in the building

at the time of the fire. Today, fire safety officers have

been visiting neighbouring businesses to give them advice

on how to protect their buildings. If I just give you this bit

of information from the fire service, just giving some

advice for you to follow. It's the seventh time the former

factory's been targeted in just two years and it's causing concern

for other owners on this site. We should all get together and come

to the bottom of this, make sure these sorts of things

don't happen, because it's affecting business throughout and putting up

insurance premiums as well, because it will impact us,

all these things do affect other businesses because all these things

are taken into account when we get insurance as well

and it is not very right, After years of being

at the forefront of manufacturing, tonight, another piece

of Leicester's history Police cordoned remains here this

evening and is expected to stay here for most of the weekend while

demolition work continues. The joint police and fire investigation is now

complete. At the moment, they are treating this fire as arson. In the

last few minutes, the demolition teams left for the night. They are

expected to return here to continue their work tomorrow morning.

Next, a first for the NHS at one of our busy A departments

Leicester's Emergency Department now has a dedicated team

Spots checks in November 2015 by inspectors from

the Care Quality Commission revealed sepsis patients were not always

The creation of the special team is designed to make sure more

suspected cases are identified and treated as soon as possible.

Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has more.

In Leicester, they see typically between eight and 15 new cases

Sepsis is where the body's immune system, fighting an infection,

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition.

It can happen to anyone with an infection of any kind.

Cases can be complicated, hard to spot.

Sometimes the symptoms seem like flu.

The causes, though, aare simple enough.

It can be a simple chest infection, a skin infection, gastroenteritis.

Intravenous antibiotics are needed, and fast.

The aim in A is to identify more cases sooner.

That's where this new special team comes in in Leicester,

with life-saving kit at their fingertips.

In here is everything we need for the treatment

So we have our antibiotics, we have our culture packs,

we have our fluid and we have our blood bottles that we have if we

It about spotting sepsis quickly, it's about getting the treatment

of antibiotics, fluids, into patients within an hour

and it is about ensuring those patients that are not doing so well,

that they get expert care further on into the hospital.

So how it been for you this week, Claire?

At the end of the team's first week in A, they seem more

At the end of the team's first week in A, they've seen more

Some patients do get worse and do require intensive care support.

Somewhere between ten and 20% of patients that come

in with life-threatening sepsis don't survive.

Everywhere, the NHS is trying to do better when it comes to sepsis.

Role is with us now, you say it is a killer, how dangerous is it the most

people? The UK Sepsis Trust tells us that 150,000 people in the UK die

every year from sepsis, a staggering number, more than breast cancer,

prostate cancer and bowel cancer put together and yet we don't hear much

about it compare to cancer. The NHS is doing its bit, what do we have to

look out for? We are told to look over the symptoms and here they are

on screen, some of the things to look out for.

I think they may have been struggling for something for the I.

So symptoms that could be other things, that is one of the problems,

but it is hard to pick up, but the NHS is putting, as we heard, a lot

more emphasis on it a try and save a lot more lives. Thanks very much.

Other news tonight. A 19-year-old man's in a critical

condition in hospital Officers were called

to Aikman Avenue in the New Parks area of the city, just before five

o'clock last night, Five men have been arrested

in connection with the incident. Police are appealing for any

witnesses to get in touch with them. Police say there have been a spate

of thefts from parking meters in Leicester. This man was caught on

camera attempting to break into one on Morledge Street in the city. The

owners say no money was taken, just a battering. Officers say there have

been three incidents in the past two days.

The jury in a trial of six men accused of running a scam

where they staged deliberate car crashes for false insurance claims

They will return on Monday to consider the evidence

against the men, who are accused of making hundreds of thousands

of pounds in the scam by targeting mainly older and lone women drivers.

Dharminder Nagra was the director of the company that managed

Nice to have you along this Friday night.

Plenty more ahead to ease you into the weekend -

including the charity leaving its footprints on the hearts

Before that, they've long been popular off-road vehicles used

by farmers and workers across the region.

But now thefts of Landrover Defenders have risen dramatically.

Today the insurer NFU Mutual has revealed that, in 2016,

it received almost one claim for a stolen Defender

every week, as demand for the now-discontinued model soars.

An iconic countryside vehicle, but this off-road hero

is increasingly becoming a target for thieves.

Dairy farmer Andrew Stafford from Leicestershire has had a total

of six Land Rover Defenders stolen, the latest seven months ago.

one for the last 40 years, the off road has been very good, they are

very durable. Andrew Stafford spotted parts of his stolen car on

sale online. It was the sixth taken from his dairy farm. I was very

cross, we rely on it on a daily basis, especially in the summer, it

is part of our livelihood. The final Land Rover Defender rolled up the

production line last January. NFU mutual says since then, there has

been a surge in theft claims. Across the Midlands last year, they say

they had almost one claim for stolen defend every week. That is a 42%

increase on the number of claims made in the previous year and an

overall increase of 83% since 2014. There is now a huge market

across the world for both whole Land Rovers and the parts

and because they are no longer being made, the prices are going up

and will probably continue to do so. So really, owners of Land Rovers

are having to take huge care so that they can know in the morning

and find that it is still there Defender owners are now urged to be

on their guard and tighten security in a bid to drive down thefts of

these iconic vehicles. Local authorities face

a collapse of vital services That's a warning which has

come today from a local It says councils are at breaking

point and nine out of ten in the East Midlands

will be increasing taxes. To explain what's going on is our

Political Editor Tony Roe. Why does it appear there's a funding

crisis for councils? The problems councils have up and

down the country is they have had their central Government grants cut

as their contributions towards trying to reduce their national debt

and for unitary councils, they have to pay for social care and social

care costs are going up, while their funding is being reduced. So it is a

struggle. If you look at the council tax proposals for those unitary

authorities in the East Midlands, they are planned to go up by as much

as 4.99%. To explain the top figure, councils have been given permission

to raise the tax by 3%, as long as all that money goes towards social

care and social care alone, so we can see that is happening in Derby,

for instance and in Leicester. That adds roughly about ?1 per week to

the average household. In Leicestershire, they are the same as

Derbyshire and I spoke to the finance chairman at Leicestershire

receiving and he has told them they are keeping it 1% below because they

think the burden is enough already on local Council taxpayers. 1.99%,

if I can explain that bit, it is quite complicated, that is because

that is the maximum any council can raise their council tax bills by

without having a referendum. They don't want that, so they don't do it

more than 1.9 nine. Those behind the state of local Government finance

report, which we spoke about earlier, with those dire warnings,

they say not even the additional 3% is going to be enough to pay for

what is needed for social care. One in ten councils are worried

that they are not going to be able to meet their statutory obligations,

their legal duties to care Yes, I think across local government

there is a general view that something has got to give somewhere

that someone is going to fall over and everyone is just hoping

that it will not be them. So is nothing being done or nothing

able to be done to ease this crisis? I think Government are thinking

about ways of easing the crisis and getting messages from MPs on the

Government side. The chair of the health committee says there has to

be a better way forward for social care in particular. You can do a

couple of things, you can raise taxes, the do we want to pay extra

taxes for social care? Or councils could dip into reserves they have,

that is another way of doing it and if I can leave you with one

anecdote, this money for social care it's the first time that taxes have

been raised for a single thing to pay for, like social care, since

1634 and the last time that was done, it was King Charles I

committee was raising money around the country for a ship tax. It

wasn't very popular and it didn't end well for him. It didn't, did it?

Sir John Rose, the former chief executive of Rolls-Royce,

has declined to comment after reports that he's been

interviewed under caution as part of an investigation into corruption

Sir John left Rolls-Royce after 15 years in 2011.

Last month, the company settled corruption cases in China,

It agreed to pay ?671 million to authorities in the UK,

Also today, the Serious Fraud Office has declined to comment or confirm

that dozens of others had been questioned.

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have used

state-of-the-art technology to uncover the secrets

The Selden Map of China is the world's oldest

It's thought to depict ancient trade routes through Asia.

Scientists in Nottingham, think is origins are Persian,

although it's been drawn like a typical Chinese watercolour.

They now believe it was created in Sumatra.

An East Midlands project that collects both old and new shoes

for people in need is hoping to expand across the country.

Shoe Aid has collection points in schools and in

Since it began six years ago, Shoe Aid has received

Simon Ward has been finding out more.

It doesn't matter if the shoes are slippers...

In less than a week, the children at Cloudside school

in Sandiacre have collected all this footwear.

It's going to the East Midlands project called Shoe Aid,

to help people without proper shoes in other countries

I think it's a great idea because some people in, like,

less-developed countries who haven't got shoes and live in poverty just

really hurts and it wouldn't be nice to not have any shoes.

I brought in some wellies because we are helping children

Shoes of all types are sorted in a warehouse in Nottingham.

Others are end-of-line stock given by shoe manufacturers.

The shoes that go overseas are transported by the

We want to get into a lot of schools, educate the kids

as to why we should recycle shoes, but also what we want to do

We are Midlands-based and we are proud to be Midlands-based,

but what we want to do is get into every sort of corner

of the UK and make this a national organisation.

Back at school, the headteacher's pleased at the support

They've loved it, they've enjoyed the idea of sort of helping children

all around the world, yet also those

Shoe Aid hopes more and more people will step up and give

away their old shoes, instead of throwing them away.

Colin's up next with the weekend's sport, and Sara's here soon

with details of snow and a chilly weekend ahead.

Particularly of interest if you're planning anything outside.

And you will definitely want to wrap up if you are coming to Light Night

in Nottingham. Hundreds of thousands of bulbs are lighting the city up

but not making it warm. It looks chilly out there.

It is, it is bad. It is warm in here and it is Colin.

I will plan to huddle around my single light bulb.

We start with Leicester City, who have a match that looks

The teams are level - one point above the relegation zone.

But the Swans' Paul Clement has just won Manager of the Month.

Leicester City are in their worst form for a long long time.

It is one of our important matches from now until the end. We have to

achieve our points to be safe at the end of the season.

It is only February - so are we guilty of

To find out, we got former Leicester Captain Steve Walsh into the studio.

And I started by asking him just how big this game was .

A huge game, yeah, everyone knows that at the football club.

I don't like to use that word but it is,

The stats don't make pretty reading, do they?

The lack of goals, so many hours of football without a goal,

At the moment, let's look at it in perspective,

a couple of wins and if we can beat Seville and beat Millwall in the FA

Cup, then things are great, it's a great season.

Don't forget, last year was a miracle, it was

a clear miracle and, you know, we are up against it.

I think everybody in the football club realises that now and it comes

from within the dressing room to get out of this trouble.

They've done it before and I'm sure they can do it again.

OK, well, you're sounding confident but there's been a lot of talk

about that dressing room and about whether maybe Claudio

A lot of rumours flying around, but at the end of the day,

it comes down to the players in that dressing room.

They've got to roll their sleeves up, they've got to get

stuck into this fight and deficit this trouble.

stuck into this fight and get us out of this trouble.

So how does the dressing room do that, then?

Well, these players have been in that position as well and they've

We've just got to, you know, work it out, work a plan,

get the game plan right, get the shape of the team right

because obviously there's been a lot of changes.

The squad rotation's been very difficult.

At a club that just got themselves into the Champions League,

Let's talk about individuals, because the big loss from last

season was N'Golo Kante and he has been directly replaced now

almost with Wilfred Ndidi, who scored that spectacular goal,

Does he look to you like it might be a key part of this jigsaw now?

I've seen him two or three times now and he certainly

You will never replace Kante, you see what he's doing

You know, so, yeah, we've got a good squad on the whole and that balance

and that fine rotating and getting the right players, resting

them at the right time, it's a difficult, difficult job.

So is it a must-win game this weekend?

Every game now is a must-win game and it is one of those games

where we could get some confidence and it would be great to win.

So I'm sure that we'll have a very good go at it.

Steve, thank you very much for joining us.

Derby County hoping to make the most of home advantage -

their next three games all at Pride Park.

Which is where we start our weekend round-up.

Fully focused on their promotion hopes know they are out of the FA

Fully focused on their promotion hopes now they are out of the FA

Cup, nine league games unbeaten at home, hoping for more

I think the supporters have been absolutely fantastic.

You know, it's always been a great atmosphere,

full house and I think we are using that and we are feeding

off that and we've got to do that the next game.

The job is his until the end of the season after winning

Gary Brazil says the feel-good factor is back at Nottingham Forest.

The players are at it, the players are desperate to get the shirt,

squad there to pick from, so we got some real decisions

A new face at Notts County, former Newcastle United

striker Shola Ameobi, reunited with his old

Obviously I've known Kevin a long time and we've always worked

well and got on well, so it was something that really

excited me, so obviously I jumped at the chance to come down.

Stags boss Steve Evans says he is loving life with Mansfield.

Little wonder, his team are seven games unbeaten and on the brink

Confirmation of those matches tomorrow and as ever, the best

coverage is on your BBC local radio station.

While rugby eyes focus on the Six Nations, Leicester Tigers

have crucial games to play if they want a place

Tomorrow, they're home to Gloucester.

And what a weekend ahead for Nottingham Panthers.

Tomorrow, the Ice Centre is all but sold out -

well over 7,000 will watch them play Sheffield.

And on Sunday, they're at the league-leading Cardiff Devils.

And finally congratulations to Cricket's Stuart Broad -

And finally congratulations to cricket's Stuart Broad -

grown in Leicestershire, matured in Nottinghamshire,

He scrubs up nicely, too. Thanks, Colin.

So, Light Night has returned to Nottingham.

It's the tenth time the festival's been held in the city.

As well as light displays, there'll also be free entry

to Nottingham Castle, live music and markets.

To mark this special anniversary, celebrations

Elise Chamberlain can cast some light on that for us.

She's there live now - it's looking bright

I'm here in the city centre where the festival is in full flow.

You can see the iconic wheel of light behind me -

That is just one small part of this big event. There are art

installations in place across the city tonight. There are also crap

sessions for children and poetry readings. And as you say, it has

expanded this year. It now includes a candlelit walk at the William

Booth birthplace Museum and the Arboretum is also involved. Joining

me is councillor David Trimble. While we look at some of the events

going on, tell us about the scale of this event. There are over 53 events

all over the city from north to south, east to west, right around

the city, all there for people to enjoy themselves. What is this event

designed to do, what is the aim? It is to change the city on a Friday

night, groups of people going from bar to bar and this brings in

grandparents in, parents, children, gets them to carry lanterns, enjoy

themselves and it changes the whole nature. Those young people can join

in, it's a night for everybody. What about bringing the city to light,

that is a lot of work, isn't it? An awful lot of work and there are

hundreds, possibly over a thousand people, community groups, church

groups, all over the city coming to perform live in front of people and

have a great time and do it in the city they love. Thank you very much.

As you can see, crowds are building here. Events only take place tonight

and most of them will be finished by 9pm. Last year, there were 51,500

people here. Despite the cold, organisers are hoping for more this

evening. Well it will be one more, because I

will be going to say Merry's church all lit by candles.

I wonder how they will cope with some snow, what you reckon?

We did see some snow flurries today, and it has been captured quite

nicely by our weather watchers today. This is Glenn Parva, just a

light dusting of snow. Earl Shilton, it was perfectly there the day and

into parts of Derbyshire Nottinghamshire, bitter brightness

of the cloud started to break. What we have this evening is a weather

front gradually starting to coming from the North Sea. It will bring

wintry showers on the north-easterly wind and it is a very cold night out

there tonight, but though showers, as they start to come in, they will

be us were rain along the coastline because they come inland, they start

to convert to smirk and certainly parts of Derbyshire, the Peak

District, over 200 metres, 3-5 centimetres of snow. Even at lower

levels, you could wake up to a covering of snow first thing.

Temperatures in towns and cities around freezing, in a country, as

low as minus two. We will see a widespread frost and it could be icy

on untreated surfaces tomorrow morning. The wintry showers continue

proton through Saturday morning, so we don't wake up to a light covering

of snow but they may be with you through the mourning period for a

time but they convert back to rein in the afternoon, so daytime

temperatures, with quite a brisk north-easterly wind, around three or

four Celsius. There is another opportunity overnight, Saturday

night into the early hours of Sunday, are seeing some more snow

showers coming in, but at the moment, it is more for the Peak

District and a little bit further north, but that could change, so

keep an eye on the forecast. It will be bitterly cold on Sunday, very

strong easterly wind with us then but also a bitter brightness, and

then more southerly wind which will give us more sunshine.

Three children on this back Sauber, as soon as the snow was mentioned,

yes! Wagon airline will it affect the matches?

Wouldn't have thought so. That is it until the late show.

Goodbye.