17/01/2017 East Midlands Today

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

First tonight, bribery and conspiracy to corrupt carried

out over 24 years by one of this region's flagship

For four years, the Derby aero-engine maker's been the subject

of the biggest investigation in the history of the Serious Fraud Office

and will now have to pay a record amount to settle the case.

Grey skies over Rolls-Royce in Derby today, but the cloud of a corruption

and bribery prosecution hanging over the firm has now lifted.

The aerospace firm is set to pay ?479 million plus costs

to the Serious Fraud Office which started investigating claims

Rolls-Royce will also pay ?141 million to the US

Justice Department and 21.5 million to Brazilian regulators.

This type of settlement is known as a deferred prosecution agreement.

They allow organisations to pay huge penalties,

but avoid prosecution, if they freely admit to economic

But the scale of this settlement is unprecedented.

In the Serious Fraud Office's 28 year history, this is the largest

The court heard that the case against Rolls-Royce involves bribery

of senior foreign officials and senior staff, stretching

across the globe and its businesses from 1989 to 2013.

Lawyers said the conduct was carefully planned and led

to large contracts earning as much as a quarter of a billion pounds.

Countries including India, Russia, Nigeria and China were named

as places where there was either conspiracy to corrupt

Rolls-Royce told us nobody was available for an interview

today, but instead released this video which the firm

The behaviour uncovered in the course of the investigations

by the Serious Fraud Office and other authorities is completely

unacceptable and we apologise unreservedly for it.

But the Serious Fraud Office says this may not be the end of legal

The deferred prosecution agreement announced today deals

Human defendants are quite different matter.

We focus our attention on them is our priority, and,

in due course, decide which, if any of them should be charged,

Well, earlier, I spoke to Robert Barrington,

executive director of Transparency International UK,

who welcomed the fine imposed on Rolls-Royce,

but said it was essential that individual prosecutions

Well, on the one hand, it's an eye-catching fine,

a breakthrough moment for the Serious Fraud Office to be

making finds in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

But, in the end, bribes paid by people and individuals need

If there are announcements of prosecutions, we will feel

If it simply you pay the fine and then everything's done,

Do you think it's likely there will be announcements

The Serious Fraud Office said in court today that Rolls-Royce had

cooperated quite markedly in the course of the investigation,

and that means it's likely that information will have been given

And informally I understand prosecutions of individuals may well

But they've really got to be held to account.

What sort of message does this send out to other large companies?

If there are prosecutions of individuals as well as the fine,

it sends out the message if you pay bribes you do so at your peril.

And you might end up in jail personally if either you've paid

a bribe or you're the person who signed off on paying the bribe.

On the other hand, if it's just a big fine, it sends out the message

Briefly, do you think this is an effective

The deterrent has to have two aspects.

It has to have both a financial aspect and an individual

If it's a large amount of money, that's part of the deterrent.

The other part has to be individuals being held to account,

Thanks very much indeed for speaking to us.

Next, we find out how the Prime Minister's big Brexit

speech has gone down in the East Midlands.

We've been to the constituency of one of those rebellious Tory MPs

who have openly disagreed with their leader on Brexit ever

From Loughborough, here's our political editor Tony Roe.

While the Prime Minister made her speech to the diplomats in London,

we watched in a cafe near Loughborough Town Hall.

'We are leaving the European Union, but we are not leaving Europe.'

This is the seat of the former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

She wants us to stay in the single market and said it would be

She is, though, encouraged by the Prime Minister's speech.

And there's clearly been a huge amount of work

going on across Government to think about what that future

There's clearly more details, lots more negotiations,

but I thought the tone of the speech and the awareness of the magnitude

of the important new relationship was very welcome.

We know that Nicky Morgan puts great importance on what people

Well, there is no market today, but plenty of people around

I think any strong Prime Minister should have said,

They say we've got to do this, we've got to do that.

We should be in charge of our own money, we should be

I just don't think we should be tied to the EU and all their rules.

Anna Soubry is in the same camp as Nick Morgan.

For her, the PM's speech did not indicate a hard Brexit.

Andrew Bridgen campaigned harder than most Tory MPs for Brexit.

We're going to be out of the single market.

Her critics for too long have been saying that she has not been

specific about what our aims of negotiations are,

our new relationship with the European Union,

The Prime Minister has been very clear.

She spelt it out rather more clearly.

It was more accepting that this has got to be

in everybody's interests, the way we leave.

And, tonight, the Labour leader in the European Parliament,

the East Midlands' Glenis Willmott, accused the Prime Minister of giving

up on the single market before negotiations have even begun.

Next tonight, the profoundly moving accounts from three parents

They've come together with a powerful message -

Today, the three parents were given knives which Nottinghamshire police

The parents in turn presented the knives to an artist,

who's creating a huge monument to victims of knife crime.

The chap pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed him eight times.

In the heart, in the face, straight through the heart.

He took out a ten inch knife and plunged it in his neck.

They couldn't stop their sons being murdered.

Their mission now to spare other parents their pain.

Having to deal with the fact that your child is no longer

with you and taken away in such a horrible way.

It's been a hard five years and it's not getting any easier.

A danger highlighted by this, created out of 100,000 knives

gathered from police force knife amnesties across the country.

Today, they handed its creator three knives.

It's hoped, when finished, this will occupy the fourth plinth

If we can raise awareness and just stop one person from going outside

with a knife and taking another person's life.

It's a work of art and it's lives, it's souls.

My son will never, ever be forgotten cos it's there.

When I'm dead and gone, it will still be there for people to see.

An exhibition's opened in South Derbyshire to celebrate

a man who was, in his day, one of the most famous

Former British heavyweight champion Jack Bodell is said to have

put his home town of Swadlincote on the world map.

He hung up his gloves in the '70s to run a chip shop,

The exhibition's being held in Sharpe's Pottery Museum

So, it's goodbye from me, but with your weather now, here's Kaye.

Well, it's been quite a cloudy old day-to-day for many of us

A lot of cloud, a little bit damp for some as well,

and that's going to be how it stays as we head through tomorrow as well.

So, a lot of cloud, settled light winds asked the risk of some spots

And that is how it is set today in the evening

Over on the hills, we've got some mist and fog as well.

Because of all that cloud, temperatures really won't drop off

much lower than about three or 4 degrees.

A couple of bits and pieces of light rain and drizzle,

The winds will remain fairly light once again.

And those temperatures will get back up about seven,

I hate to say it but it's a repeat the process performance

A lot of cloud, light winds, most of us dry,

and those temperatures back to about 8 degrees.

With high pressure in charge of our weather, those conditions

will stay very similar towards the end of the week.

That's it from us here on the late team.

I'm going to leave you with the summary,

and then your national forecast will follow.

from time to time. Staying settled still. Nick has the national

forecast this evening. Hello. If you are watching the

football earlier it turned out to be an evening for football fans in

Lincolnshire. This is how it looked at the start of the day. No idea

whether this weather watcher is a football fan, it's a fan of weather

that matters here. All sorts of weather, from 13 in Aberdeenshire to

two, despite the sunshine in Kent. I wonder if this six in the cloud

across the Midlands into northern England and parts of Wales felt

colder, particularly in these misty and foggy conditions in this weather

watcher view. Some drizzly rain around at times still from the

thicker cloud into parts of England and Wales overnight, hill fog too.

Cloud for Scotland and Northern Ireland, although a few breaks in