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The court ruled that the signs alerting drivers to this bus lane

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are not clear enough. Also tonight. A stand-off in Leicester, armed

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police surrounded a flat as a manned barricades himself in.

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Plus, the 20 year struggle to get people in a wheelchair from this

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side of the station across to the other platform.

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And, campaigners demand justice for Alice, a Derby woman jailed for

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plotting to kill a Prime Minister. Good evening - welcome

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to Friday's programme with Anne Davies and me,

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Dominic Heale. First tonight, a council says it

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won't be refunding thousands of motorists' fines despite a court

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ruling that signs for a city centre bus lane -

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are not good enough. More than 23,000 drivers have been

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fined up to ?60 for wrongly driving up a street outside

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Nottingham Trent University - a street that isn't even

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used by public buses. The City Council went

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to the High Court after a taxi driver won an appeal

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against his penalty. Beware the cameras of

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Shakespeare Street in Nottingham. Outside Nottingham Trent University,

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there's a fine of up to ?60 at a bus gate that isn't used by any

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public bus services. Now a High Court judge

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has upheld an appeal by a cabbie who said he shouldn't

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have to pay the fine. The judge agreed with

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the ruling from the Traffic Penalty Tribunal which said

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motorists probably wouldn't understand signs here that are

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supposed to indicate that a bus gate I came to drive past here,

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and my friend had to say, stop, I've already been fined,

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so you will get fined for this, so I Unfortunately for me it

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all comes down to the driver You need to look out

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for the signage. Unfortunately, there is no

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excuse for saying that the signage isn't clear enough

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because the signage is out there. Last month, we revealed more

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than 11,200 had been issued here Last month, we revealed

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more than 11,200 fines had been issued here

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in the 2015-16 financial year. Figures to the end of

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September 2016 show that Nottingham City Council went

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to the High Court after the taxi driver won his appeal

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at the Traffic Penalty Tribunal. The adjudicator said

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it was highly unlikely a motorist In a statement,

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Nottingham City Council said they wanted the High Court

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to provide clarification. They are now working

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out their next move, but it won't alter cases where people have

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accepted a fine on Today the signs remain in force

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and so do the fines. Mike joins us now from

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Shakespeare Street - So the council saying they won't pay

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back fines although the signs have been criticised -

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have other councils Well, yes, in Hertfordshire back

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in 2012, the council said it would repay around ?1.3 million

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to 36,000 drivers fined in a bus That was after the Traffic

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Penalty Tribunal said signs The council said it was acting

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on moral, rather than In Birmingham, the council there has

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refused to give refunds That was after the

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Traffic Penalty Tribunal It said they were confusing and the

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wrongly placed for the motorist. One councillor in Birmingham said

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people who had paid up had Nottingham City Council isn't

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giving interviews on this. We've had a lot of reaction

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on our Facebook page from people who feel other fines should be

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challenged - what is the procedure? Well the first thing I'd

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advise is the obvious - don't drive down a bus lane,

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watch out for the signs. But the first step is to contact

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the council itself, If you're not happy

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with that you can go They look at cases

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on an individual basis. Now I've looked at ten cases ruled

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on by the TPT by drivers fined One motorist gave the reason

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as following a sat-nav But in four of the cases,

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including the cabbie case, when signs were mentioned the appeal

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was allowed and now there's been what could be

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a definitive ruling on that. And as we mentioned you can

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have your say on this subject Armed police have spent the day

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outside a flat in Leicester Police say he had

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another person with him. This evening officers took the man

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away after long negotiations. Simon Ward is at Keightley Road

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in the New Parks area of Leicester. Simon what do we know

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about what happened? This all started at 7am this

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morning. Officers came to this road as part of an ongoing investigation.

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We are told the man refused to leave his flat, that led to some kind of

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stand-off situation. Armed officers were involved and also trained

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negotiators were brought in. Some people couldn't get into their

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properties around here because both sides of the roads were cordoned off

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and other people who live in the area were told to stay inside for

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their safety. There's been sniffer

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dogs in the back garden And then there's obviously all this

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what's going on around here. I was a bit...

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A bit on edge. I just went outside and went,

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"What's going on?" Normally pretty quiet.

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Like any other estate. After 3pm we could see armed

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officers were preparing themselves in a nearby garden, getting on their

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protective gear, getting their weapons ready and also their body

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armour and masks as well. We could see them creeping up a pavement very

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carefully preparing to get closer to this property, hiding behind a hedge

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for a long time before they eventually moved in to the property.

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And then it was around 5pm, just before 5pm, that we saw a man being

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taken away. Tonight police have said that a 40-year-old man has been

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arrested on suspicion of firearms offences. A 48-year-old woman who

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was in the flat is unharmed and is being treated by police as a

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witness. This whole area has now been opened up and tonight people

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are returning to their homes. Simon Ward, thank you very much

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indeed. Leicestershire Police have

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identified the man who was stabbed to death outside Leicester Railway

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Station. 30-year-old Dilovan Fazil Mohammed,

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of no fixed address, was discovered with serious injuries

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on London Road in the early hours A 30-year-old Leicester man,

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who's been arrested on suspicion of murder, remains in custody

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and is being questioned New figures show Nottingham Prison

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had one of the highest numbers of fires in jails in the whole

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country last year. 78 blazes were recorded

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at the Perry Road site. They include fires that

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were started deliberately The figures were revealed

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in a Parliamentary answer to a question by Tim Farron,

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the Liberal Democrat leader. The 20-year battle

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over disabled access 100 years to the day since a Derby

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woman was convicted of trying to kill the then Prime Minister the

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family campaigners who are still trying to clear her name.

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Police and forensic officers have spent the day investigating

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after a man was found stabbed to death at his

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His body was discovered in a bungalow in Ashby de la Zouch

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A woman had suffered serious stab wounds.

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And a little girl was rescued unhurt.

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A family home that has become a crime scene. Police were called to

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this bungalow on Holland Crescent at around 3:20pm yesterday. Inside they

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found a man stabbed to death, a woman with serious stab wounds and a

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child described locally as a girl aged around two unhurt. People

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living nearby described how this quiet neighbourhood in Ashby became

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anything but. I have seen the street full of police and it was just

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shocking and it was just like, what has gone on? And all of the kids

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were out and it was scary. You would not expect it around here, to be

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honest. It is a shock. It is a real shock. It is just horrendous, very

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chilling, very unnerving, very sad. Allan Blakemore lives doors away

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from the family and he told me he saw them regularly and is shocked.

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When I took the dog for a walk and met the young girl quite a few times

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and she was found by a dog and I met the little girl as well and to me

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they were such a nice little family. It is something totally out of the

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blue. House to house inquiries are under way today as police tried to

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piece together what happened at this bungalow yesterday afternoon. So the

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investigation is at an early stage officers don't believe anyone else

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was involved. As investigations continue the woman found injured

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here is in a critical condition at Coventry's Walsgrave Hospital where

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she was airlifted. The little girl is being looked after by relatives.

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Anyone with any information is asked to contact police. Amy Harris, BBC

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East Midlands today, Leicestershire. Network Rail has apologised

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for delays in improving access for disabled passengers

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at Alfreton Railway station. There's no lift to the footbridge

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at the station, meaning those in a wheelchair can't get

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on to the southbound platform. The family of one disabled boy says

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it plans to take legal action against Network Rail if it doesn't

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improve access soon. 11-year-old Owen Porter has had

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serious health problems since he was born and needs a wheelchair. Doctors

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have told his parents that he is not expected to live to adult hood. When

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he was born with or he was fine and to go from having a healthy baby to

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being told we had a really sick one was traumatic. Owen is under

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constant care at hospital but Britain is his nearest railway

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station. It takes under half an hour on the train to get from here to

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Nottingham. But there is a problem. These stairs are the only way to get

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up to the footbridge. There is no lift here which means that if you

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are in a wheelchair there is no way in this station to get across to the

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southbound platform and catch a train to Nottingham.

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Tara doesn't drive so instead they have to take a two hour bus journey

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to get to Owen's appointments. It's very frustrating. You know,

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obviously we were promised the funding for this for it not to

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happen is frustrating. Alfreton has been campaigning for 20 years to

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improve access to the station and it is difficult to understand how in

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2017 we are still having this debate, we have a fully designed

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scheme on the table ready to be built. Work to provide step free

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access here has been delayed until 2019 at least but the Derbyshire Law

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Centre says it is planning to take legal action against Network Rail

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for disability discrimination. When we were first approached about the

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case we it unbelievable at Danac that this day and age there is a

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station where the service provider has not made reasonable adjustments

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for access by wheelchair users. We are sorry that the plans we had in

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place for the station have been delayed, the funding is not

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available as we stand. The station was built over 150 years ago when

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there was no legislation around disabled access and we have plans to

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do the work at Alfreton station. In a statement the Department for

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Transport has said it is sorry to learn of the family's difficulties

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and urged it to speak to East Midlands Trains which runs the

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station about arranging alternative transport such as a taxi at no extra

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cost. Navtej Johal, East Midlands Today, Alfreton.

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Plans for a new helipad on top of a car park

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at the Queens Medical Centre have been approved.

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Hospital bosses say it's "an important milestone"

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in the project which will cost more than ?3 million.

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The Trust behind the scheme claims it'll cut patient handover times

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It's hoped the helipad will be in use from early 2018.

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The Conservatives have scored a major victory

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Steve Willoughby took the Tories from fourth place to win the Derwent

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Labour came second and Ukip, the party that had previously held

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The result doesn't change control of the City Council with Labour

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Thousands of counterfeit goods have been seized during a three-day

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Next night, the woman who signed up to the organ donor register more

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than 40 years ago and ended up as the recipient of a life-saving liver

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transplant. Janet Tilford is on something of a

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mission now. She's speaking to local community groups sharing her

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transplant story to encourage more people to register as potential

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donors. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has more.

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Janet agrees with this, the best things in life are free. It was the

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commitment of an anonymous stranger to join the organ donation register

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before she died that saved her life. Janet carried a donor card herself

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for years. I've been on the register from being a team so I have been on

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40 years and quite happy to give away anything if I was ever in that

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position but you never really think you're going to need one, not for

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any reason that you're special or you should never be poorly, but just

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for everything to happen so quickly, I woke up in intensive care like,

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what's happened? Some people watching this will think a liver

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transplant, I bet it was to do with alcohol. No! The world's worst

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drinker. Definitely not. Something so rare, they've never seen it in

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Nottingham. These numbers give you an idea of how many people are

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typically waiting for a transplant. In these three East Midlands cities

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alone it is getting on for nearly 300. Janet and her husband Dave in

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Hucknall know people Dai Whittingham the transplant. Trying to get people

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on the register and making sure their relatives know. At Kings Mills

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dialysis unit Michael knows what it is like to wait for a kidney donor

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and has been on the transplant list for nearly two years. Got to stay

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fit and well and wait for the phone call. About one Dummett one in three

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of us has signed the online register and many say they will do it but

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don't get round to it. You can't control that, we can only control

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that we are ready, fit and able and then that day comes. Janet now

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assures story doing talks for community groups. It seems to be the

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only way I can thank my donor family and other donor families, to promote

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the register because I think if they hear a personal story it makes

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people think more than just a little generic poster somewhere. Rob

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Sissons, East Midlands Today. It's been described by supporters

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as a major miscarriage of justice - the conviction exactly 100 years ago

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today of Alice Wheeldon. Alice - from Derby -

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was accused of trying Today, her great granddaughters,

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with 30 other supporters, demonstrated outside

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the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where they hope

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eventually her conviction All the way from Australia Chloe and

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Deirdre Mason, the great granddaughters of Alice Wheeldon, at

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the Royal Courts of Justice today. They want to see Alice and her

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daughter Winnie Mason and Winnie's husband Alfie Mason cleared. In 1916

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Alice and her family from this house in Derby were against World War I

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and helping conscientious objectors. A man called Alex Goode and

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pretended to sympathise with them. In fact he was an MI5 spy who

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claimed they were planning to poison the Prime Minister Lloyd George. On

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the 11th of March 1917 the family were convicted at the Old Bailey and

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jailed. It's really partly because of the conviction of people in Derby

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itself who have given us huge support to say this is a case of a

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grave miscarriage of justice that we need to rectify. It's the end of a

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long journey for us coming here. With done it in Derby before but

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we've never been in London doing something like this so it is

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fantastic. Alex was released in jail in 1917 and returned to Derby, a

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social pariah -- Alice. My grandmother knew Alice and she is to

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take food to her after dark because there was a lot of hatred in Derby

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for the Weald ands so people were fearful of being seen to help her

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out but she did. Campaigners turned out in 1917 clothing today to

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support the Masons sisters, including British relatives. I know

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we say the past is another country but even then a court case like that

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should not have been allowed and she should not have been put to trial in

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the first place. Alice died in Derby in 1919 believing in her innocence.

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The campaigners hope an appeal can be heard here this year that might

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at last prove that. James Robinson, East Midlands Today, London.

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We will keep you posted. Coming up later in the programme -

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the weekend weather with Sara. Reach into a museum cabinet and take

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the items out. At this exhibition in Leicester augmented reality allows

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you to do just that. Sorry about the sound on that, we

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lost a bit at the top. Let's start with tonight's football

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and the toughest of tests for Derby County as they try

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and recover some sort of form. They've only won once

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since the start of February - and the play-offs look

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a distant dream. They're at Brighton -

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who are odds on for promotion. A little earlier I spoke

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to BBC Radio Derby's Ed Dawes A little earlier I spoke

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to BBC Radio Derby's Craig Ramage and asked him what Derby will want

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from the end of the season. I think it's about the players

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playing for their futures now, Colin, and showing what they can

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really do and really going for it. Ten games to go, all cup finals,

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and can they produce now It must be so disappointing

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for the fans to be going to Brighton who are

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in the place I think Derby will have

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hoped to have been in. It's a familiar

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story once again, Colin. After Christmas they seemed

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to lose their wheels, the wheels We lacked that form,

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consistency, and dropped off. fans when we conceded against

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Preston. They weren't too

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disappointed, they went away So its body language for you almost?

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It's about impetus. Yeah, definitely.

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You could feel it in the air. So much disappointment and spent

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a lot of money over the last four years, has Mel Morris,

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and the players haven't produced on a consistent level

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and I think there will be questions asked

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at the end of the season if they don't finish well in

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the next ten games. There will be a test tonight. Craig,

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thank you. We will keep an eye on it.

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Forest also in action this weekend and it's a fixture

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They're away at Burton Albion, managed by former Forest legend

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and potential managerial candidate Nigel Clough.

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And with the potential to drag Forest back

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Fantastic. Fantastic job there.

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On the resources that they have I think their story and what they have

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been able to achieve and to be a Championship football club is a

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They are punching above their weight.

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It's our job to go over there and give a very

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Hopefully the quality we have in the side will

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give us the opportunity to

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And two huge games in League Two at either end of the table.

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Play-off chasing Mansfield Town host second placed Plymouth.

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Relegation threatened Notts County have Hartlepool -

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just one point and one place above them.

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Whichever game you're following, BBC Local Radio

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Now ,what a topsy turvy season it has been at Leicester Tigers -

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in the Premiership they have been struggling.

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This weekend a chance to put all that pressure

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behind them and focus on securing some silverware.

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They are through to the semi-finals of the Anglo Welsh Cup and Angela

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went along to ask some key questions ahead of the big game.

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Been very good in patches, disappointing in others.

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COMMENTATOR: The Tigers remain firmly in the chasing pack.

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CORRESPONDENT: Tigers are still smarting from their heavy home

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When you come to a club like Leicester you

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are aware of the pressure to finish in that top four and the

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expectations from both the playing group and the supporters as well.

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No one hurts more than the players and coaches.

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For now the prospect of a semifinal against Saracens, the

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reigning champions in the Anglo Welsh,

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at a ground where Tigers have

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You know, I think they've got a really strong record at home

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We know what quality they have in depth.

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But in saying that we've just got to go there.

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We know the way Saracens like to play.

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It's not something we have to do a lot of

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We just have to execute when we get our opportunities,

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and make sure that we play with no fear.

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A blend of youth and experience for the game

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itself and a chance for the

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It's exciting for the guys that are selected to go and play.

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They get to pull on the Tigers shirt and they get to go away and

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it's probably as tough a fixture as they will face.

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Not many people will expect us to win but that's the way

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that sometimes you make the sweetest victories.

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Two games in Belfast this weekend for Ice Hockey's

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They want some good form going into the play-offs. In Edmonton on the

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BBC sport website with the Adcocks in action.

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A new interactive exhibition in Leicester is bringing an under

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told era of British and Sikh history to life.

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The Sikh Museum is using modern technology to showcase unseen relics

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from the Sikh wars of the 19th Century.

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They were sparked by conflicts between the Sikh Empire

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and the East India Company, as Elise Chamberlain reports.

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The Anglo Sikh wars were fiercely fought between the Sikh Empire and

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the East India company through a number of battles leading to the

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annexation of the Punjab in 1849. This exhibition at Newark houses

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Museum is bringing the history of them as well as relics and artefacts

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that have never been displayed before to life. We have Sikh

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Scriptures, weapons, swords, maps, from the actual battlefield and how

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the empires, the Sikh Empire which was also expanding up towards

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Afghanistan and Tibet, clashed with the British Empire, and how the

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Empire, the great Empire was lost. On this tablet visitors can take a

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360 degrees look at the equipment used, and even the diamond given up

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to the British following the 19th-century wars. Gamers may

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recognise this prized jewel from the assassins Creed franchise. As well

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as 3D technology this exhibition also features augmented reality so

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if you have a look at one of these tiles they feature information on

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the weaponry and some of the armour that would have been used in the

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wars and if I turn around you can see exactly what they would have

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looked like. It is definitely more fun and that is what we want to see

:24:41.:24:44.

as part of the exhibition. While it is a serious subject we still want

:24:45.:24:47.

to get younger audiences engaged with it so they can learn more about

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the history in this new modern way. Items have come from museums across

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the country to feature in this lottery funded exhibition which

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opens tomorrow. It is hoped it will prevent this era of British and Sikh

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history being forgotten. That looks interesting.

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We could have an augmented reality forecast, just reach in and touch

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the rain. Don't say that, it will be coming!

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You will be able to do that soon. It would be nice to be about to turn

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We have a bit of rain coming but if you were up early enough you might

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have seen the nice sunrise, our weather watcher pictures showing

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that in style, and in Arnold the skies looked very vibrant first

:25:40.:25:43.

thing. It's been quite a cloudy day and very different to yesterday. The

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cloud, although it hasn't produced a lot of rain could just offer a bit

:25:48.:25:51.

of drizzle through the evening and misty conditions, so some hill fog

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possible. It also might thin and break into the early hours and if it

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does we could see the odd for patch developing tomorrow morning. The

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minimum temperature tonight eight Celsius across the East Midlands and

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tomorrow a cloudy start initially, and it is a mild day on Saturday but

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the cloud will try and pin and break across southern parts of the region

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so you might see some sunshine and that will lift temperatures, the

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maximum 14 Celsius tomorrow with a very light southerly breeze. Still

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more cloud the further north you go linked to a weather front that will

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work in overnight Saturday into Sunday. Sunday is a different day, a

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wet start on Sunday morning, some heavy rain forecast. Another weather

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front coming in closely behind in between the two the skies could

:26:39.:26:43.

brighten but the second one brings in cooler air behind and that will

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impact on how it feels for the early part of next week. It brings clear

:26:49.:26:53.

skies on Sunday night into the early part of Monday so it will be a cold

:26:54.:26:58.

start on Monday but we have a ridge of high pressure building in. In the

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early part of next week it should remain dry. The temperatures will

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stay in double figures but it will feel a little fresher outside at

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times. Rightly or wrongly I like it when it says high and it is heading

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this way. It is cold a window, a device where you can reach out and

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touch the weather. Great way to end the week. Back

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later with the news. Bye. So, like, you get sponsored to swap

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clothes with somebody for a day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

:27:56.:27:57.

OK, I don't get that. So, maybe... I don't get that.

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..you wear your mother's clothes? I don't get it. What does she wear?

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No, no, she wears someone else's. OK, I don't get that, it's

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too complicated. Do another one. So, like, you get sponsored

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to let people lick stuff No, but, like, you get

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these flavoured... Cool, yeah. Not going to happen.

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Peanut butter. Do another one. For better ideas,

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get your free fundraising kit now. Let's Sing And Dance exploded onto

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our screens, setting the stage

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alight...literally.

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