08/02/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.

After days of passionate speeches on both sides MPs have finally voted

on the bill which paves the way for Britain's exit

The outcome was never in doubt with the government winning

A short time ago I spoke to our political editor

I asked him who from the East Midlands didn't toe the party line.

Well as you would expect Ken Clarke the Conservative MP for Rushcliffe

was the only conservative to vote against the bill. For Labour Graham

Allen and Lee Greenwood both followed what they did in their

first vote a week ago and voted against. And when the votes came

through there were some sarcastic remarks from Graham Allen who voted

against and said because the government had not accepted any of

the Labour amendments, the government plan for Brexit must

indeed be perfect. Chris Leslie expressed his frustration at the

fact he had 35 amendments to be considered a parliament today and

none of them were he called it, a farce. What happens now? It's full

steam ahead but in two years. The bill now goes to the House of Lords

and if there are no objections there, which seems unlikely because

the House of Lords made that there are in existence in danger if they

were to vote this down, then the PM will be able to stick to her plan

and an act bill and go for a Brexit at the end of March.

A hospital has admitted it was to blame for the death

of a woman who died 16 days after giving birth.

Alison Taylor from Syston in Leicestershire had a blood clot

Now her husband has been awarded a six figure sum in compensation.

Our Health correspondent Rob Sissons reports.

Darren and his daughter who will never know his mother. He was left

with three children to bring a .29 with three children to bring a .29

yard Alison died in 2010. She had been sent to the Leicester Royal

Infirmary were a junior doctor hadn't followed procedures. He

should have anything, if it's written on paper and someone comes

in to set the problem, that should be looked at before they are let

out. Simple really. You take a car to a garage and you don't drive it

away until it's fixed or you know what is wrong. No blood test, no

ultrasound was done. The blood clot was diagnosed. The family solicitor

frustrated it has taken six years to get justice. What's hard is that in

2011 we had an inquest and the pathologist concluded that it

probably, if a scan had been done, it probably would have picked up the

blood clots. And had it been picked up Alison would have been given

anticoagulation which probably would have saved her life. I think it's

desperate. It's desperately tragic for Mr Taylor and his family. I can

understand his distress being a father and husband myself. It's

difficult to comprehend how he's dealing with the circumstances of

not having his wife. Mr Taylor says this case feels like it was defend,

deny and delay. Why did it take six years? Unfortunately the legal

process revolves around a claim process revolves around a claim

having to be made and then quite an exhaustive process. Darren says the

pay-outs mean he can spend more time with his family. I could be at home

for my children and the mum and dad. It won't bring Alison back and I

would give all the money to have her back and the kids would say the

same. The hospital stresses lessons have been learnt.

Lincolnshire's new Chief Constable has been talking about his

Bill Skelly was previously Deputy Chief Constable

He says he will talk to communities first before committing resources.

Lincolnshire is one of the lowest funded forces in the country,

but he believes the service is sustainable and a case can be

Two big things we want to see in the new arrangements are really haven't

featured too much in the past are plurality, the sparse geography area

we have two cover and seasonal population increases. So I'm

optimistic that this time around those two arguments of rurality and

seasonal increases will be listened to. Whether or not they will

translate into increased funding is another challenge.

Nottinghamshire's Police Commissioner has told us that major

internet firms should be prosecuted, if they don't do more

It's after a so-called "survivalist" called Roger Smith downloaded

He was jailed under terrorism laws at Nottingham

Paddy Tipping says online retailers should also be held responsible

This is Roger Smith who saw himself as a modern-day crusader.

They are providing material that is dangerous and it is, if they not

perverts to take it down voluntarily through code of practice then

ultimately we will get to the position where companies can and

should be prosecuted and I think companies like Amazon will face

prosecution for providing dangerous material.

An investigation by this programme has found that more than 11 thousand

drivers have been fined in the course of a year

at a camera-enforced bus lane in Nottingham that isn't used by ANY

One highways expert says the signs for motorists need to be clearer,

but the city council says all the fines ARE enforceable.

Shakespeare Street in Nottingham, outside this university,

a camera enforced bus lane were more than 11,200 drivers were fined

The bus lane isn't used by any public bus services.

There are specific powers in relation to bus lanes

and they are appropriate in certain circumstances but if the bus isn't

running through the area then you have to question why there is no

The council say the ?60 fines are enforceable.

They say the bus lane is used by student buses to take them

to things like sports events and to protect up pedestrian zones.

The number of bus lane fines rose to more than 60,000 last year.

Bringing in ?1.7 million for transport related spending.

On Shakespeare Street there appears to be some confusion over

the sign which alerts people there is a bus lane enforcement.

The tribunal has upheld a fine from a GP from Liverpool.

They said the signage was inadequate and they had concerns of the limited

It would be more cost-effective to improve the signage rather

than spending a lot of money the legal process.

This expert told me that the camera signs in Nottingham should be

People across the country should understand what the signing

is about and therefore there is a clear duty.

That has not been done and I think they are on dodgy ground.

The council says the policy complies with the Department.

On to football and Leicester City have beaten Derby County to move

The Scores were level at 1 each after 90 minutes.

But Leicester went on to win 3-1 in extra time.

Mark Shardlow reports from the King Power Stadium.

With 18 team changes between them both teams clearly had more than an

eye on the coming league games. And on a cold night, it showed. The game

fired up in the second half when Andy King fired the game for

Leicester. Derby's repast had a touch of luck as the shot was

deflected just enough to leave the keeper helpless. Extra time was

needed, and moment of magical four and it came supplied by the

substitute for Leicester. Derby were competitive throughout but the match

was sealed as the game neared the end. Gray who had been impressive

throughout the night sending Leicester into a fifth round tie.

And that's the news, goodbye from me but with the weather forecast now

here's Simon. -- Sara. It's cold enough for the next few days and

that cold wind has been with us to day and we have seen the odd sort of

break in the cloud capped by weather watcher. Where the holes in the

cloud appeared tonight it mean to the lowest temperatures are likely

to be, we have high pressure starting to be in charge of our

weather so it is keeping any France at bay and all that wet and windy

stuff will be sitting out staying there. We do have a weak weather

fronts with us so is that cold air starts to come in it will be meeting

with the weather fronts and will start to produce one or two snow

showers for us. Overnight and into the early hours of tomorrow a lot of

it really is confined into the eastern part of the region and we

will see a widespread frost developing overnight and

temperatures within the towns and cities only just hovering around

freezing. -1 or two in rural areas so cold and frosty start tomorrow,

the easterly breeze starts to strengthen a bit more into the

afternoon and it gives it a stronger chance overnight into the early

hours of bringing in a few wintry showers may be a light dusting for

some of us and a cold day tomorrow with a temperature of no higher than

two or three. cloudy and Ben Rich will take you

through the bigger picture. Good evening. Over the next few days

I suspect it's going to feel like we have been plunged into the deep

freeze. Cold weather on the way and not necessarily crisp cold weather,

with blue skies. A lot of cloud, there was some sunshine today across

parts of west Wales, for instance. That lifted temperatures up to