:00:00. > :00:13.investigating the practicalities, join me on BBC Two right now and
:00:14. > :00:20.Health officials say more ndeds to be done to control the ntmbers
:00:21. > :00:23.of fast food restaurants in the face of growing evidence of a link
:00:24. > :00:30.Figures from Public Health Dngland also show a connection
:00:31. > :00:34.between the number of outlets and higher levels of
:00:35. > :00:39.Now they want to work more closely with council planners to design
:00:40. > :00:46.Alfreton Road in Nottingham is a good example of multiple fast
:00:47. > :00:49.food outlets all very close to each other.
:00:50. > :00:52.Now, Public Health England hsn't saying that all fast
:00:53. > :00:55.food is bad for you, but suggesting the authorithes might
:00:56. > :00:59.want to think about spreading out takeaways when planning othdr areas
:01:00. > :01:04.The figures for fast food ottlets show that Leicester is the highest
:01:05. > :01:11.Nottingham has 364 and Derby with 263.
:01:12. > :01:15.Public Health England says that there are 24 in Rutland.
:01:16. > :01:18.Rates of obesity and overwehght in children are highest in deprived
:01:19. > :01:20.areas and, therefore, perhaps fast-food is contributing
:01:21. > :01:25.towards those levels of obesity and overweight.
:01:26. > :01:28.The manager of this Turkish restaurant and takeaway agrdes
:01:29. > :01:31.with more separation of outlets but also says there is high demand
:01:32. > :01:37.It is very diverse and multicultural in this area ,
:01:38. > :01:39.in Nottingham, really - so there is a demand
:01:40. > :01:44.Whatever they are serving, there is always a demand
:01:45. > :01:46.because people from many different places and countries
:01:47. > :01:50.Health-wise, less takeaways and more healthy options is
:01:51. > :01:59.It is all takeaways and they are altogether,
:02:00. > :02:03.so it would be better to spread them a bit in other places.
:02:04. > :02:07.It's becoming a problem bec`use more and more takeaways are openhng
:02:08. > :02:10.and there is more and more temptation for people to just go
:02:11. > :02:15.and have something quick and not necessarily healthy.
:02:16. > :02:18.Public Health England says it is also working with food outlets
:02:19. > :02:21.to encourage them to reduce sugar, saturated fat
:02:22. > :02:31.The collapse of a Leicestershire firm has put 200 jobs at risk.
:02:32. > :02:35.Hodgson and Hodgson in Melton Mowbray has gone
:02:36. > :02:40.The firm was founded by two brothers from Nottingham and has
:02:41. > :02:45.It was a leading thermal insulation manufacturer,
:02:46. > :02:51.supplying the white goods, car and railway industries.
:02:52. > :02:54.A charity which helps homeldss and vulnerable people says
:02:55. > :02:57.it is desperate to move to larger premises to meet a growing
:02:58. > :03:01.Minnie's Friends in Loughborough provides meals, hot drinks
:03:02. > :03:08.and advice, but it only runs three days a week.
:03:09. > :03:10.Now the charity wants to expand its support,
:03:11. > :03:17.A busy morning at Minnie's Friends, based on Frederick Street
:03:18. > :03:21.People come here, like Andrew Watson.
:03:22. > :03:24.He's been living rough for two months after losing
:03:25. > :03:34.It is the only possessions I've got at the moment.
:03:35. > :03:39.I knew it's just a bag, but to me, it's my world.
:03:40. > :03:41.For Andrew, Minnie's Friends is a place where he can get
:03:42. > :03:46.It's more the warmth, and seeing that there are other
:03:47. > :03:52.It's just comforting because at least I can
:03:53. > :03:57.Alison Smart's been homeless for six years after losing her
:03:58. > :04:03.She's now got a room in local hostel.
:04:04. > :04:05.When you're homeless, you feel like you've got nothing.
:04:06. > :04:10.Minnie's Friends is really good because you can come here, xou can
:04:11. > :04:15.have a hot meal and a good chat socialise and meet people that
:04:16. > :04:19.are just the same, that had been in the same place.
:04:20. > :04:21.Carol Phillips started Minnie's Friends after her daughter
:04:22. > :04:28.I knew that there was a lot of call for help out there,
:04:29. > :04:34.When I lost my daughter 11 xears ago, she was 33, I couldn't get
:04:35. > :04:41.But now this charity is helping but says it needs to
:04:42. > :04:49.To take people from where they are now, to giving thel hope
:04:50. > :04:53.and giving them an opportunhty to have a fulfilled life is,
:04:54. > :05:00.And to do that, the charity says it needs permanent larger premhses
:05:01. > :05:10.to help provide longer term solutions to homelessness.
:05:11. > :05:13.A new tattoo studio has opened which offers help to people
:05:14. > :05:16.who are self-conscious because of scars.
:05:17. > :05:19.The man behind the venture has designed tattoos for stars
:05:20. > :05:24.He says clients are often moved to tears when he turns
:05:25. > :05:31.It's covered it really well, hasn't it?
:05:32. > :05:38.The final checks on a tattoo that has changed Annamarie Woolex's life.
:05:39. > :05:40.For nearly four years a deep scar on her arm
:05:41. > :05:46.It was just embarrassing, rdally, so I would always cover-up.
:05:47. > :05:50.Even in the summer I would never wear short tops.
:05:51. > :05:53.But now her scar has been transformed into a beautiful work
:05:54. > :05:58.of art, thanks to celebrity cartoonist Kevin Paul.
:05:59. > :06:02.As soon as I told her I could get rid of it, she had a tear in her eye
:06:03. > :06:06.straight away, so I kind of knew it was going to go well anyway.
:06:07. > :06:12.I have started kickboxing, I go to the gym, I go out
:06:13. > :06:15.I don't just sit at home moping any more.
:06:16. > :06:18.My confidence has just gone sky-high now.
:06:19. > :06:22.Kevin says he gets up to 30 calls a day enquiring about scar tattoos.
:06:23. > :06:25.He is now working alongside his wife in a new studio at Melbournd
:06:26. > :06:29.in Derbyshire, which specialises in skin treatment
:06:30. > :06:34.I don't think a lot of people realise the effect of having a bad
:06:35. > :06:36.tattoo or a scar has on your mental health.
:06:37. > :06:40.It does leave you psychologhcally damaged with it.
:06:41. > :06:43.You do try to cover it and you are very conscious of it.
:06:44. > :06:46.To be able to do that for somebody brilliant.
:06:47. > :06:48.It is a new direction for Kdvin who is world-famous for tattooing
:06:49. > :06:50.a host of celebrities, including singer Ed Sheeran
:06:51. > :06:56.Personally, the whole celebrity thing doesn't do anything for me,
:06:57. > :06:59.but stuff like that, were you get proper emotions
:07:00. > :07:03.That is a nice thing to do for someone.
:07:04. > :07:05.It makes me feel good about myself being able
:07:06. > :07:10.And Annamarie says her new tattoo has given her a new start.
:07:11. > :07:13.Oh, it is absolutely changed my life completely for the better.
:07:14. > :07:20.Tomorrow has been declared Nottingham in Parliament D`y
:07:21. > :07:22.when businesses will descend on the capital to promote the city
:07:23. > :07:27.It's being led by the University of Nottingham which plans
:07:28. > :07:30.to showcase many of its successful research projects.
:07:31. > :07:34.Quentin Rayner has been looking at some of them.
:07:35. > :07:37.Sir Peter Mansfield was the joint inventor of the MRI scanner
:07:38. > :07:41.The horizontal scanner is now indispensable in diagnosing
:07:42. > :07:50.But now there's been a 90 ddgree revolution in MRI technologx.
:07:51. > :07:55.Here at the QMC is one of the few vertical scanners in the cotntry.
:07:56. > :07:58.Now patients can stand, sit or lie using the flexible seat.
:07:59. > :08:02.It will greatly improve the accuracy of lung scans, but it also comes
:08:03. > :08:08.The big advantage of being `ble to scan people in the sitting
:08:09. > :08:11.or standing position is that you're studying them in a natural situation
:08:12. > :08:18.So the bearing of their own weight will affect the joint or thd lower
:08:19. > :08:21.back and that's exactly what we need to scan to understand what causes
:08:22. > :08:24.the pain and then to be able to advise the right
:08:25. > :08:30.We are told driverless cars are just around the corner and the university
:08:31. > :08:35.has a simulator to study how we respond to the technologx.
:08:36. > :08:39.Their levels of trust can bd quite low and they may just carry
:08:40. > :08:41.on touching the steering whdel, but then they build up quitd high
:08:42. > :08:44.levels of trust and acceptance and are more than happy to do
:08:45. > :08:47.a whole range of different activities in the car.
:08:48. > :08:50.Now we need to think very c`refully about the design of the intdriors
:08:51. > :08:53.for future vehicles, including perhaps retracting
:08:54. > :08:56.the steering wheel to allow people more space to use their laptops
:08:57. > :08:59.without feeling the need to push back from the pedals.
:09:00. > :09:02.Nottingham wants to remind parliament that this region
:09:03. > :09:06.is a vital cog in the Midlands engine and it's not
:09:07. > :09:14.That's your news, so it's goodbye from me, but with your
:09:15. > :09:28.Good evening. It is not a b`d forecast for this week conshdering
:09:29. > :09:32.it is the last week in October. We are staying largely drive. Lild
:09:33. > :09:36.temperatures on the way, gohng up by a degree or two as we lose the
:09:37. > :09:44.easterly breeze, turning to a westerly. Plenty of cloud on the way
:09:45. > :09:47.with some sunny spells in the mix. We are staying largely drivd.
:09:48. > :09:51.Looking at this evening we have plenty in the way of cloud. There
:09:52. > :09:59.will be a few breaks through the night, variable levels of cloud and
:10:00. > :10:06.the risk of a shower. A low of seven or eight Celsius. Plenty of --
:10:07. > :10:10.plenty in the way of cloud tomorrow morning, but there will be
:10:11. > :10:15.brightness. Southern parts of the region seeing more low cloud and
:10:16. > :10:19.less of the brightness. A m`ximum of 12 Celsius at the easterly breeze.
:10:20. > :10:23.Moving into Wednesday, that is when we will see a change in the weather.
:10:24. > :10:26.The wind will change from an easterly to westerly directhon and
:10:27. > :10:30.that would bring ghost tempdratures up on what we have seen so far.
:10:31. > :10:33.There is the chance of seeing a bit of Mr Rudd first thing and that
:10:34. > :10:38.could be slow to cure on Wednesday, but then we have plenty of sunny
:10:39. > :10:42.spells as we move through the day. Temperatures at a maximum of 14
:10:43. > :10:47.Celsius with the south-westdrly breeze. But the estate, plenty of
:10:48. > :10:51.the way of cloud. We will sde the chants of some missed the fhrst
:10:52. > :10:56.thing but some brightness as well and some sunny spells likelx. A
:10:57. > :11:01.maximum of 14 Celsius. Frid`y looking like a similar storx, but of
:11:02. > :11:02.Mr Rudd. Sunny spells and temperatures of 14 Celsius. Here is
:11:03. > :11:06.the weekend, more of the same, mainly
:11:07. > :11:11.dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.
:11:12. > :11:17.Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of
:11:18. > :11:22.days, the result being it will turn milder by day and also by night A
:11:23. > :11:26.breeze picking up, a westerly, something we have not seen much of
:11:27. > :11:30.this month. But there will not be a great deal of rain around. We did
:11:31. > :11:35.have rain today across the south-west, leaden skies in Bristol,
:11:36. > :11:39.not much of a sunset here, but the different North of the border. Fiery
:11:40. > :11:40.skies here and it is turning