18/10/2016 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

First tonight, the East Midlands has the worst delays in England when it

comes to patients waiting to be handed over from the Ambulance

The number of people waiting more than an hour has tripled

Our hospitals insist they are working to improve the situation.

Here's our health correspondent, Rob Sissons.

Yes, they call these handover delays.

We are talking about ambulance patients who have got to hospital

but A is typically too busy or does not have the

Now, sometimes the patients wait on the back of the emergency vehicle

or they may have to stay even in hospital corridors.

Well, last year - let's take a look at the figures -

more than 18,000 patients in our region waited over an hour

The numbers have tripled in two years and it does not stop there.

Last year more than 98,000 patients waited more than 30 minutes.

That's up more than a fifth in two years.

Well, these figures were obtained by the Labour Party

and the Shadow Health Secretary, Jon Ashworth, who is

I think that's partly to do with the mismanagement,

the financial mismanagement of the NHS and I also think it's

to do with the crisis that's hitting our social care.

For patients, these delays can mean misery.

Last week we revealed how 83-year-old Hazel Baines

from Grantham was kept waiting for more than two hours outside

Now, that was because A was too busy to accept her.

Quite frequently we require to respond to what we call red

calls, so these are life-threatening emergencies and we are required

So when we are taking sort of one, two, and in excess of three hours

to hand patients over, clearly there is a clear issue why

we cannot respond to patients in a timely manner.

It only takes one particular incident or an influx of patients,

whether that be ambulances or walking patients,

present a real big challenge to your team.

Well, both Leicester's NHS hospitals and the Nottingham Hospitals Trust

would not be interviewed about this today.

Leicester Hospitals did tell us it is "a significant and complex

problem" which has reduced over the past year, however, they say.

Well, the Nottingham Hospitals Trust told us the hold-ups stem

from what they call a "lack of flow" of patients out of the emergency

department and it is looking to speed up decision-making.

Well, the danger is, of course, this could get worse over winter.

The new head of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse says

she won't let victims down by reducing its scope.

It's investigating claims against the former Leicester MP,

Greville Janner, while another strand's looking at historical abuse

at children's homes in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Today MPs heard the inquiry's being reviewed to put more focus

I do not seek in any way to reduce the terms of reference

or the scope of the inquiry, it would be to let down huge numbers

of victims and survivors who have placed their trust and hope

that we will look at where abuse has occurred.

So we simply want to tackle it in slightly different ways.

Teachers in Nottinghamshire are the first in England to get

new training on how to deal with what's become

That's when children and young people send sexually explicit

mesages and pictures of themselves to each other.

It can be a major issue in secondary schools, but it's even

As soon as you hit that button, it's out of our control.

You can't undo and you can't go back.

A dramatic video that shows the only too real consequences of sexting.

This was produced for the Child Exploitation

and Online Protection group, part of the National Crime Agency.

It's children, often teenagers, taking pictures of themselves

and then sending them on their mobile phones or webcams.

It can end up causing misery for those involved,

even if it seems like harmless fun at first.

Today, these teachers in Nottinghamshire got the latest

training in how to deal with the issues.

The old advice used to be, keep your computer in an open area

in the house, we know that all our children have phones,

tablets and mobile devices, which means essentially they can

share images wherever and whenever they are,

so it can happen at any time, which makes it quite complex for us

as adults and parents and teachers, to actually help to protect them.

Teachers also have to take care not to be implicated in some way

and decide whether it can be dealt with in school or whether the police

Every single situation we might come across, you've got

to deal with individually, for that particular student.

Because no student will react the same way and the consequences

It is about providing that support for them and making sure we educate

them in the first place to hopefully not do it.

Unfortunately, the internet encompasses the whole world and not

just people in our own school, so quickly issues can spread

between communities of schools and sometimes we can be affected

by issues in other schools around the county as well.

With internet technology moving ahead so quickly,

teachers and parents have to keep up in order to deal with this

modern-day problem in schools and at home.

Simon Ward, BBC East Midlands Today, Nottinghamshire.

Police say a Romanian woman, rescued from a brothel,

may have been a victim of human trafficking.

She was found as part of a crackdown on modern slavery

Officers also checked several car washes for signs

Three workers were arrested on suspicion of breaking

The Education Secretary has been at the University of Derby today

discussing how to improve social mobility in the city.

It comes after Justine Greening announced earlier this month that

Derby would be one of six "opportunity areas" in the UK.

It will receive a share of ?60 million, which aims

to help young people achieve their potential.

Trying to get people moving up the social ladder.

That's the mission for the Education Secretary,

and she's been visiting one of the first places highlighted

as part of her "opportunity areas" programme, where she wants

There are still too many pockets where children don't do

We want to work to support those schools to improve and to work

We also want to work outside schools with parents,

with local communities, with mentoring, with

The University of Derby will be part of the discussion in how to improve

But the challenge could be greater than expected.

Sonia Rowbottom has been running a community project in one

of the poorest parts of Derby for a number of years.

It is such a problem because inequality has grown.

A lot of jobs have completely disappeared.

We have a low-wage economy, we have overcrowded housing.

The Education Secretary has ?60 million to spend on the problem.

Derby stands to get around ?6 million over the next few years.

Navtej Johal, BBC East Midlands Today, Derby.

Onto sport now, and what a night for Leicester City.

They made it three wins out of three in the Champions League

Natalie was there and she's live for us now in Leicester.

Yes, it has been sensational. For both Leicester City and finds.

Leicester City's form and European Cup is simply perfect. They have not

lost a match, they have not conceded one goal, they are top group G and

are incredibly just one victory away are incredibly just one victory away

from the last 16. The Danish champions did provide a stern test

but just before half-time, Jamie Vardy's cross phone has striking

partner, any and the little Algerian, Riyad Mahrez, flicked it

into the back of the net. They were proving their worth once again. The

capacity crowd cranked up the noise but Leicester City Hong Kong and

their Danish keeper, Kasper Schmeichel, pulling off a

match-winning saves in the dying minutes. You can see exactly what it

meant to him, the manager, the other players and the fans. So, Leicester

City are running away with group G, as there special European dream

continues. Thank you for that report, Natalie,

it must have been brilliant to be present at that match.

Well, there have been games in the Championship tonight.

Returning Derby manager Steve McClaren couldn't quite make

it two wins out of two as the Rams drew 0-0 against Brentford.

Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest lost 2-1 away at Blackburn.

I will say goodbye and leave with the weather.

Thank you, I will pick up the positives because we saw some really

lovely sunshine this afternoon, here is the group in Preston at around

2pm. But we saw poorer parts of the day as well thanks to a weather

front that gave us two blows today. Some wet and windy weather in the

morning it came back for round two in the evening! But it is clearing

away and it will continue to do so tonight and tomorrow. Under the

ridge of high pressure building in from the West, that will do two

things, kill of those showers and ease down those winds. There will be

a few showers across the Eastern parts tomorrow and a lot of places

however will see dry and bright weather. The bins will ease and it

should feel warmer. Tomorrow we have some showers from that weather front

but it is clearing through tonight so we will be drier with clear skies

for much of the latter part of the night and it is a recipe for a cold

night normally but the winds are staying breast for tonight saw

temperatures will get down to around five or 6 degrees in some sheltered

spots. Tomorrow morning, lots of beautiful sunshine first thing,

still quite breezy and blustery through the morning and as I have

said, there will be showers pushing into the Eastern areas as we head

into the afternoon. Many places saying drier and brighter weather

throughout the day tomorrow and the winds will ease as the

Good evening. As you've just seen from your local outlook, not a huge

amount changes over the next few days. The weather patterns will be

blocked again. What is driving that? It's a deep area of low pressure,

the remnants of hurricane Nicole in the Atlantic. That's heading towards

Greenland. Set to pile up the snow here, metres of it in the next few

days. It's dragging a lot of warm air into the North Atlantic on the

Eastern flank. What that does is build this, high pressure. That's

not going to move a great deal over the next few days. To the east, low

pressure in place. That means Eastern England always prone for

further showers through the rest of this week. For the rest of the UK,

largely dry, some sunny days, but also rather