28/10/2016 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

One of the biggest cases evdr dealt with by the East Midlands

Scambusters Team today saw ` company director jailed for six years.

Jonathan Rivers, from the Wyvern Media Group in Ddrby

was among ten people sentenced for the scam that prompted

The man at the centre of wh`t the court heard were

55-year-old Jonathan Rivers from Coleshill in Birminghal

was the owner of publishing company Wyvern Media Group, based in Derby.

He is believed to have earndd ?1.7 million between 2007-2012.

Under his direction, employees focused on cold c`lling

small firms to sell advertising space in its publications,

like these, which were poor quality, mainly made up of adverts

Staff misled customers into thinking the publications would be promoted

at high-profile events or that they'd won awards that they'd need

to pay to receive along with the associated advertising space.

Unauthorised withdrawals were also made from customers' accounts.

What they'd do on occasions when people made complaints

is they would then threaten those individuals with legal action.

Indeed, on occasions, they sought to take individtals

through the County Court to recover the money they thought

Over 500 people complained to Trading Standards

One of them was this Uta Patterson from Shropshire who owned a dog

rescue centre and died of ltng cancer last year.

She lost over ?5,000 to the company, whom bombarded her with calls.

She just said she wasn't hungry or...

But that affected her a lot, not being to sleep.

In total, ten people were sentenced today,

all of whom pleaded guilty to their part in the fraud.

Five were given jail terms ranging from six years to 16 months.

The remaining five received suspended prison sentences,

ranging from two years to three months.

They were not happy to talk to the media as they left court

this afternoon but one of them did apologise for her role.

I am very sorry, and I regrdt everything about everything.

The man accused of killing Derbyshire backpacker

Mia Ayliffe-Chung has been charged with a second murder.

Mia, from Wirksworth, died in Australia in August.

Frenchman Smail Ayad, already charged with her murder

has now been charged with the murder of Tom Jackson.

He reportedly tried to protdct Mia, and died a week later

The overnight closure of Grantham's A could continue.

Despite local opposition, the unit has been shutting hts doors

When it started in summer, it was meant to be a trial.

But the United Lincolnshire Hospital's Trust is now recommending

A former care worker's been jailed for sexual activity

Robert Roberts from Sutton in Ashfield, here on the right,

pleaded guilty to eight offdnces against a female inpatient.

They took place in 2014 at the Millbrook Mental Health Unit,

Roberts claimed he was in shock at the time, after his wife

An exhibition is bringing b`ck memories of a firm that oncd

The British Shoe Corporation had once been at the heart

of the country's shoe industry, distributing millions

If you bought a pair of shoes in the 1980s,

there's a good chance they came from here.

This is British Shoe Corpor`tion's distribution site in Leicester,

filmed at its height, when around 2 million pairs

of shoes arrived most weeks, destined for hundreds

The British Shoe Corporation was a very importnat

company to Leicester, probably one of the biggest employers,

maybe the biggest companies, 2,500 people would actually

The building had a floor arda of 1 million square feet,

the equivalent of 11 football pitches.

It was the largest single-storey warehouse in Europe.

The warehouse closed in 1998, and, as you can see,

the site is being bulldozed to make way for a new development.

He worked for the company for 3 years and had the emotional job

You closed the door, you looked through and you could see

an empty warehouse, a very empty feeling.

But, this week, a chance to remember happier times.

This display in Leicester charts the corporation's history.

It's attracted hundreds of former workers.

It's open for the final time tomorrow.

We're hearing tonight about an industrial fire

It's at the Boughton Industrial Estate near Ollerton.

The fire service advises anxone living nearby to keep

doors and windows closed, as smoke may contain traces

Nottingham's unveiled plans for how the city might mark

2018 will be 100 years since fighting stopped

Proposals up for considerathon include a new statue

in Nottingham's memorial gardens, and projecting the names

of Nottinghamshire's 14,000 fallen soldiers onto the existing war

memorial to create the city's own Menin Gate.

Everyone deserves a place in history.

But, for the past century, many of these stories have remained

submerged on memorials, in `rchives, in people's private collecthons

So we think it would be a fhtting climax to that process to project

the entire list onto this mdmorial which, for nearly a century,

has commemorated the Great War loss without the names appearing on it.

More from me tomorrow, but Kaye's here right now.

It is looking a bit dull but at least it's quite. It has bedn dried

today and mild but we have had a lot of cloud in the sky. It's bden very

Drewery for much of the aftdrnoon and little change through the

weekend. We stay dry and mild, not much in the way of sunshine. With

light winds, we will see sole mist and fog through the nights. Maybe a

spot or two of rain through the night but it's mostly dry. We will

see some mist and fog forming in the early hours of the morning but it is

a very mild night with a minimum of 13. It is a grey start the weekend.

But fog could be slow to cldar but it will lift up to the low cloud.

You'll be lucky to get some brightness but we are drier and mild

with temperatures up to 15. But is it from us. I'll leave you with the

outlook for the to come into the beginning of next

week as well. Now the national picture.

Hello, it's been a pretty good week for getting out and enjoying the

autumn colours, especially if you have seen autumn sunshine. What

sunshine,