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Tonight - an historic day for the Queen and for Leicester.

Her Majesty was in the city to hand out Maundy money of -- to scores of

delighted residents. It is lovely. Not many people get please and I am

so lucky to be one of them. And a damning report reveals how this

seven-year-old was let down by teachers and care workers. Plus, the

search for a family here the Nottinghamshire who could shed light

on a murder going back 36 years. And defeat for the can-mac foxes in

Madrid leaves their Champions League hopes on a knife edge.

Welcome to Thursday's programme with Dominic Heale

First tonight - the Queen - accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh

- has attended this year's traditional Maundy service

to 91 men and 91 women to reflect Her Majesty's age.

Outside the cathedral, it's estimated around

Outside the cathedral, it's estimated around 16,000 people lined

the streets to catch a glimpse of the Royal visitor.

Well, Amy Harris is at Leicester Cathedral for us

this evening, and Amy, history has been made

It has. The Maundy ceremony dates back ceremonies and -- centuries and

it has been hosted at every cathedral across the country, apart

from Leicester. Until today. The last time the Queen visited was in

2012 at the start of a Jubilee Tower. Today, just like then, people

were delighted to see her. -- we start off jubilee tour.

Early morning and a sea of faces in Leicester.

Thousands lined the streets, eager to catch a glimpse

of the Queen as she arrived for the annual Maundy

We were here at 20 past eight this morning.

She looked fantastic and she was waving to everyone as well.

It was lovely to see her and nice to see her in Leicester.

At Leicester Cathedral, the Yeoman of the Guard patrol the grounds,

ready for Her Majesty to carry out this most ancient of royal duties.

The Maundy ceremony dates back centuries and is an important annual

It has been hosted at every cathedral across the country,

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were welcomed at the cathedral

by the Dean of Leicester and the Bishop, delighted to be

The Maundy service happens each year, but this is the last

of the English cathedrals the Queen has been to and she was very aware

of that, very conscious that we had waited a long time.

In her 91st year, the Queen presented 91 men and 91 women

with specially minted money in two leather purses.

It is a ceremony that, over the years, has changed.

The monarch used to wash the feet of pensioners.

Now, Her Majesty prefers to shake hands.

One of the lucky few receiving the purses is Marilyn, who,

like all of those honoured, has spent her life helping others.

There are not that many people who get these.

I am just so lucky to be one of them.

With the ceremony over, the Royals posed for photographs

with local schoolchildren at the end of a service that leaves

all cathedrals now visited and one that many here in Leicester

After the service, just to give you a bit more of a flavour of her

visit, the Queen headed to Saint Martin's house just behind me, where

she enjoyed a three course meal of locally produced food, including

trout from a local river, before being taken home. That left every

cathedral in the country visited, and a Maundy Thursday for Leicester

like no other. Well, the bank holiday weekend

is very nearly upon us. So, stand by for

Charlie's Easter forecast. Yes, if you're expecting this

weekend to be as nice as last weekend, you will be disappointed.

More details coming up for a chilly weekend in a few moments.

Next tonight, chaos, collusion and a lack of professional

curiousity are just some of the findings of a serious case

review into the death of a seven year old girl from Nottingham.

Shanay Walker died in 2014 from a brain injury and was found

Her aunt and grandmother were both jailed for cruelty.

In a moment, we'll be hearing from the chair

of the city's Safeguarding Board, but first, Quentin Rayner has been

In assessment videos, Shanay Walker appeared

to have a good relationship with her aunt, Kay-Ann Morris,

Her guardian was in fact harsh, cruel and abusive to her

Morris was cleared of murder but was jailed for cruelty,

along with Shanay's grandmother Juanila Smikle.

The review found that concerns were raised about bruising to Shanay

And there was a lack of professional cure the city. Safeguarding and

Rangers were described as chaotic at Southglade primary school. A number

of teachers raised concerns about abuse and injuries but they were not

acted upon. One safeguarding form went missing and after Shanay

Walker's death, it was rewritten by a head teacher and teaching

assisting. The serious case review made another of other conclusions.

There was little case discussion and reflection on a melting new

information. Professionals lost sighter Schone. --.

The important role played by schools in safeguarding vulnerable children

needs to be reinforced and any concerns of school staff should be

followed up in writing. Nottingham City Council says many things have

changed over the last two years and it is in a stronger position to

protect children from harm. The council, health services and schools

are working much more closely on safeguarding issues and staff are

being trained to have the confidence to escalate concerns more easily.

Chris Cook is chair of Nottingham's safeguarding board,

Can I start by asking you what collectively went wrong

among the professionals who dealt with this case?

Before I answer your question, can I just say that on behalf

of the Safeguarding Board, I would like to express our sincere

condolences to the family and friends of Shanay.

What went wrong, in essence, there was a great deal of difficulty

around information sharing and a lack of

Isn't that key to the role of people working in this field?

It is extremely key, but on this occasion,

There needed to be more professional curiosity.

It is, in this case, a fact that the aunt who was caring

for Shanay at the time was deceitful and she duped the professionals.

Information sharing, deficiencies in people

talking to each other between departments and agencies...

This seems to happen time and time again.

It always seems to be highlighted in serious case reviews.

It is highlighted in many serious case reviews but it

does not surprise me, because where you have cases

being managed by many agencies, I think there is a likelihood that

I accept that and we need to improve on that.

And the Safeguarding Board has a role to do in that

Because that also seems to happen quite rarely in similar questions.

At the moment, there is nobody that has been held to account

You will note from the inquest that the coroner could not find any

one individual culpable for these matters.

And finally, a word about the school.

What was your assessment of the safeguarding arrangements

Safeguarding arrangements were chaotic, and that is what we have

We are working with the benefit of hindsight.

I am now satisfied that safeguarding arrangements,

As they are with many schools in Nottingham.

A man's been jailed for seven years for raping a woman

in Nottingham after last year's Goose Fair.

29-year-old Nasser Ahmed from Basford attacked the woman

at the Forest Recreation Ground last October.

A court heard he'd been drinking in the city

before returning to the Goose Fair site.

Ahmed will also be deported once he's served his sentence.

A man's been charged with causing death by dangerous driving

after an elderly pedestrian was killed in South Derbyshire.

The 75-year-old man died on Main Street in Hilton

24-year-old Matthew Hogg from Etwall appeared in court today.

The incident's also being investigated by

the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

The RMT has announced strike action ahead of the May Bank Holiday on two

rail companies serving the East Midlands.

Staff at Virgin East Coast, which covers Newark and Grantham,

will walk out for 48 hours on Friday 28th April.

RMT members at Arriva Rail North, which serves Nottingham

and parts of Derbyshire, will hold a 24-hour

Both are over changes to on-board staffing.

You're watching East Midlands today. Next tonight...

Detectives investigating the murder of a toddler in Australia nearly 50

years ago are trying to track down an East Midlands family who could

The little girl went missing from a beach just

Police now say they want to speak again

to the Goodyear family, who were there at the time

and are now believed to be living in Nottinghamshire.

The family of Cheryl Grimmer are still searching for the truth

The youngest of four, her family emigrated from Bristol

Two years later, on a day at the beach with her mum

the little girl disappeared from a shower block in Wollongong,

Last month, nearly 50 years on, a breakthrough in the case

when a 63-year-old man was charged with her abduction and murder.

Now Australian detectives are trying to track down a family

from Nottinghamshire that provided crucial statements to the police

Detectives are trying to find the Goodyear family. They believe they

were last living here in Nottinghamshire. In 1970, Peter

Goodyear was 37 and living in Australia with his wife, Mavis, and

their daughters. Karen, six and Jeanette, five. They gave police

racial statements on the day that Cheryl went missing. It has been a

long time, 47 years. We have not spoken to the Goodyear family since

that time and we would like to get in contact with them to go over some

aspects of that day, as best as their memory can remember. It is a

bit of an unusual request but we have not had any contact with them

and that is why we are seeking to speak to them. Like the disobedience

of Madeleine McCann here, the case of Cheryl Grimmer is a -- ingrained

in the mind of every Australian. It changed how parents behaved.

Cheryl's mother felt perfectly safe letting her brothers take Cheryl to

the shower block after going to the beach to watch the sand. They were

out of sight 30 seconds but that is all it took. Cheryl's parents died

never knowing what happened to her. It affects all the family because I

cannot leave my children alone for one second. Attempts to trace the

Goodyear family have so far proved unsuccessful. Detectives are now

urging the family or anyone who might know them to get in contact

with the police. One of the biggest questions

about Brexit is what happens to all the EU nationals and other

foreigners living in Britain. And what's the likely

effect on British workers? New official figures show exactly

how many foreign workers there are in this region,

so Anne's been crunching the numbers and asking,

what's next for them? We hear a great deal about people

from other EU countries and beyond living

and working in the UK. But how many are

there actually here? New figures from the Office

of National Statistics answer The first headline number

is this - 116,000. That's how many EU citizens

of working age are in our region. are here from outside the EU -

that's 2.7 per cent. So, altogther, 170,000

foreign workers. So what proportion of

the workforce is that? Well, there are around two million

workers in the region, so the percentage of foreigners

in jobs is around eight And many of them work

in industries like catering: It is not seen as an area that many

people want to go into, catering. But there is a tendency to move away

and not work within that tertiary sector.

Nearly one in three foreign workers, some 49,000,

are engaged in what the ONS calls "elementary occupations."

Lower paid, lower skilled jobs, many of them in manufacturing,

Only about one in ten UK citizens do those kinds of jobs.

The big question then - will any restrictions on foreign

workers post-Brexit be good or bad for the region's economy?

I think that we would lose a lot of talent from the University. I think

that there are some more personal impacts as well. The staff that we

have have joined the university because they wear their best person

for the job at the time that we did that recruitment process. It would

have a devastating impact, not just on them, but on colleagues and

students that they work with. With one in 16 in our workforce

from other EU countries, employers and politicians in this

region will certainly be hoping for as smooth

a transition as possible. Leicester City says its working

with UEFA and the Spanish authorities to establish the "full

facts" of disturbances involving of the capital before last

night's European Champions Spanish police say some fans

were causing trouble But Leicester City supporters

have accused officers Police say that they are growing

increasingly concerned for the welfare of a Derbyshire man has been

missing more than a fortnight. 22-year-old Peter was last seen at

the end of March and it is thought he might have gone to a gaming

convention in Birmingham but has not been seen since. Officers are

appealing for help to trace him. The number of people

trespassing on railway tracks across the East Midlands

is at a five-year high. British Transport Police says

more than 400 incidents In the past decade, more

than 150 people have died across the country,

trespassing on the railway. A programme of cultural events

and exhibitions in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire has boosted

the region's economy Research shows The Grand Tour

appealed to international tourists, as well as those living

in the East Midlands, and now organisers are

planning another jaunt. Chatsworth House, home

to one of the most Chatsworth House, home to one

of the most significant art In the 17th and 18th

centuries, young aristocrats, including the Fifth

Duke of Devonshire, travelled the continent

on In the last couple of years,

a taste of that has been created a little

closer to home. Alongside Chatsworth, The Grand Tour

wanted to showcase the cultural treasures of

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in The Harley Gallery, Derby Museum,

other fringe venues and here at the Nottingham Contemporary welcomed

more than 1.5 million visitors over the history of the grand

tour and what it was way of packaging it, making it

contemporary and interesting for Dozens of items, some never

before seen on public display, were brought

to the Contemporary from Chatsworth. Standing alongside new works

by 21st-century artists. It was one of ten projects

in England where arts and tourism organisations collaborated

to boost cultural tourism. With the tour bringing

in more than ?32 million to the local economy, it is no wonder

that is coming back. This money comes from the likes of

the Arts Council, can-mac visit England... Because the campaign was

so successful, it is coming back in 2018.

The next year's programme is to be announced in

It looked brilliant. Andrea is here on the sofa with us. The address is

probably give away as to what we are leading on tonight. No prizes for

guessing where we begin tonight. So Leicester City's European dream

is still alive despite a refereeing decision that left manager

Craig Shakespeare saying his A 1-0 defeat at the 10

times Spanish champions - Athletico Madrid -

was down to a penalty - and a The fans left the stadium hopeful

but frustrated and there was only one talking point. Was it a penalty?

Norway. Never penalty. I said it was never a penalty. It looked like it

was outside the box. It should have been 0-0. If not for the penalty,

which is totally uncalled for! Was a penalty? The referee thought so but

replays showed it wasn't. Atletico Madrid talisman Antoine Griezmann

made no mistake from the spot but that refereeing decision left the

players, and manager Craig Shakespeare, furious. I think we

were hard done by. It is one of the major decisions in the game. It is a

definite foul but it is outside the box. It was a balmy evening in

Madrid and there was a spine tingling atmosphere before kick-off.

But like back in 1997, when the two clubs met in the Uefa Cup, the night

will be remembered for controversial referee decisions. I was here 20

years ago when we got robbed. I never thought we would have the

opportunity for payback. We were robbed again, same as 1997. Cheated

again. Leicester defended well and worked so hard to stay in the Thai.

-- stay in the game. On balance, fans for this was a good result. It

could have been 3-0 down by the end of this late, so I am optimistic.

2-1 at our place, we could not alone. It is a breakaway bardic

call, happy days. The European dream is still on? Absolutely. Is the Pope

Catholic? They don't know what will hit them. Champions of England, we

know what we are! The fans are far from downhearted and feel that they

were only beaten by a controversial penalty. There is everything to play

for back at the King Power Stadium in six days' time.

Elsewhere, a busy fixture list and important games

this Easter weekend - fixtures that will help decide

Forest expect the second highest league attendance of the season

tomorrow and a win over Blackburn will put them eight points clear of

the Championship relegation zone and pretty much says. The significance

of the game is clear for all to see. There's a huge gap at this stage of

the season with other teams playing themselves. It looks very good for

Nottingham Forest, but focus on that performance and have a good level

performance and hopefully get three points and move forward. With Derby

County can keep alive their slim hopes, they could do with making it

four wins in a row. The focus is on trying to get the training balance

right and the team spirit as good as we can get it. Most importantly, the

results have backed up some of the hard work done by the players. With

Notts County as good a safe only two, the striker took time out ahead

of the game at Crewe, demonstrating an NFL -- to an NFL player to take a

plane at -- penalty. It is nice to show him what the deal thought ball

-- football is all about. In rugby, there's another massive

game for the Leicester Tigers. Just three matches left

in the league this season - they face Newcastle Falcons and it

looks like the fight for the all important play-off

places will go right down That's it from Eurosport. -- from

your sport. We need to know about the weather

now. Because it is Easter and it is supposed to be niceties that!

Supposed to be, but more likely to get snow at Easter than Christmas.

It will be called a than what it was on Christmas Day. It was about 14

cells is on Christmas Day, it is probably going to be about 11 cells

is on Easter. It has been a tale of two stories and to Haas today. We

had sunshine first thing this morning but in the afternoon, it

clouded over. That has been a theme as we have gone through the last

week or so. High pressure is still with us but plenty of cloud to chase

will stop that is the way of it tonight as well. Lots of cloud

around, the odd spot of drizzle into the early hours of Friday morning.

Generally dry night, apart from parts of the Peak District.

Temperatures of around six, seven, eight Celsius. That takes us through

to the weekend, bank holiday weekend, Easter weekend. It will be

a little bit chilly, as I mentioned. There will be some rain around as

well but also plenty of dry weather. By no means is it right off this

weekend weather-wise. Going through the daytime on Good Friday, cloud

around, not a huge amount of brightness, the odd glimmer here and

there. ) through the daytime. Again, a couple of showers, the majority

started division from the north-west into the afternoon. Temperatures of

12, 13 Celsius. That is OK. Compared to last weekend, you'll only be

disappointed I was exceptional then. This is much closer to average.

Saturday daytime, looking OK. That is probably the best of the four

days. Good amount of dry and fine weather alone. It is a bit chilly

with a cold breeze coming from the north and north-west. Certainly good

amount of dry and bright weather through daytime through Saturday. On

Sunday, we kind of hang onto this high-pressure here. Good amount of

dry weather and through the daytime on Sunday and then into Monday, but

still a couple showers to look out for their Azelle. It will not be

completely dry weekend. There will be some showers at times but for

your Easter egg hunts on Sunday and things like that, plenty of dry

weather to get out and about in. Maybe just take a little umbrella.

You'd do need the big umbrella, the golf umbrella, but the little

emergency umbrella. As we go through the next few days, temperatures are

around 11, 12, maybe 13 Celsius at absolute test. That is not much rain

in the outlook boxes so that should reassure you a little bit that we

have dry weather to come. You should be a politician. You know

why? Yet been managing expectations. I feel reassured! What a wonderful

day to remember investor with Her Majesty's visit. We will leave you

with some visitors -- images from Leicester Cathedral. We're back at

10:30 p.m.. the most that have ever voted for

anything in this country,