:00:13. > :00:14.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.
:00:15. > :00:22.A saleswoman who pressured an elderly couple into parting
:00:23. > :00:24.with their life savings was today told by a judge she'd made
:00:25. > :00:28.The judge was speaking as he gave Barbara Stone a 22-month
:00:29. > :00:30.suspended prison sentence after she admitted fraud.
:00:31. > :00:32.The case was part of the biggest investigation ever led by
:00:33. > :00:35.the East Midlands Trading Standards team into cold calling,
:00:36. > :00:37.which has seen another ten people prosecuted for fraudulent trading.
:00:38. > :00:49.Franny Moyle has spent years fighting for
:00:50. > :00:53.John and Olga Moyle were in their 80s when they became
:00:54. > :01:00.Working for Leicester-based Aspire magazine, she cold-called Mr Moyle
:01:01. > :01:02.in 2010, persuading him to place a rental ad for their
:01:03. > :01:09.It was the start of a 10-month campaign of harassment
:01:10. > :01:15.which ultimately saw the couple lose the home they shared for 50 years.
:01:16. > :01:17.It's quite clear to me that Barbara Stone targeted him.
:01:18. > :01:20.She put him under a huge duress, calling him daily, harassing him.
:01:21. > :01:23.Between January and October, she was managing to secure ?8,000
:01:24. > :01:31.At this stage, John Moyle was nursing his dying wife
:01:32. > :01:34.Despite repeatedly pleading for the ads to stop,
:01:35. > :01:36.Stone took ?73,000 from his account, promising that nonexistent sponsors
:01:37. > :01:40.What did they ever get out of all this money
:01:41. > :01:46.We didn't get a single booking for the house.
:01:47. > :01:49.Franny then discovered her father had also been conned out of another
:01:50. > :01:55.?30,000 by a separate publishing group, Derby-based Wyvern Media,
:01:56. > :02:01.When they realised they'd lost everything, and the house
:02:02. > :02:05.they lived in all their life, it was a moment of great trauma.
:02:06. > :02:08.My father, of course, was a broken man.
:02:09. > :02:14.My mother was ever so brave, and she put the house on the market.
:02:15. > :02:17.But within about a month of the house going on the market,
:02:18. > :02:25.In 2011, the East Midlands scambusters team
:02:26. > :02:31.It was to become the biggest case they'd ever handled.
:02:32. > :02:37.In 2012, they raided nine Wyvern Media offices.
:02:38. > :02:40.They discovered thousands of customers were pressured into buying
:02:41. > :02:44.And in October last year, ten people were sentenced to a total
:02:45. > :02:49.62-year-old Barbara Stone has previously pleaded guilty
:02:50. > :02:54.Her other victim was a dogs' charity in Shropshire, which lost ?14,000.
:02:55. > :03:00.Nottingham Crown Court was told Mr Moyle was at his wit's end,
:03:01. > :03:03.pleading for the ads to stop, drowning in a sea of paper,
:03:04. > :03:12.The judge, Stuart Rafferty QC, said John and his wife, Olga,
:03:13. > :03:16.He sentenced Stone to a 22-month suspended prison
:03:17. > :03:18.sentence and he told her, "You directly made
:03:19. > :03:26.The court was told Stone had apologised, but today
:03:27. > :03:31.Do you want to say anything to your victims, Barbara Stone?
:03:32. > :03:39.Do you think you should apologise to your victims?
:03:40. > :03:41.Earlier I spoke to James Delaney from the team that
:03:42. > :03:44.I asked him if the elderly were typical targets
:03:45. > :04:12.In this case, as in so many others, elderly people are being targeted.
:04:13. > :04:18.In terms of the entire investigation, we have successfully
:04:19. > :04:22.had 15 and a half years of custodial sentences handed down which we are
:04:23. > :04:25.happy with. The result today may be a slight disappointment that we did
:04:26. > :04:31.not see custodial sentences. This was a horrendous case, as we have
:04:32. > :04:35.heard. What good could come of this trial? Hopefully, it will encourage
:04:36. > :04:38.people to come forward if they feel that they've been victimised in this
:04:39. > :04:44.type of scam. It sends a strong committees to any businesses who
:04:45. > :04:53.pursue a line of fraudulent behaviour and activity, targeting
:04:54. > :05:00.consumers and businesses. Will be victims of get rated? There is
:05:01. > :05:04.ongoing investigation. Since the sentencing back in October, we have
:05:05. > :05:10.successfully recovered over ?100,000 which will be given back to the
:05:11. > :05:13.victims of the case. There continues to be an ongoing investigation, so
:05:14. > :05:15.we hope that further money will come forward to pay back some of those
:05:16. > :05:17.victims. Thank you. The NHS has announced it's to start
:05:18. > :05:19.a 16-week-long public consultation into controversial plans to end
:05:20. > :05:25.children's heart surgery The news came on the day a petition
:05:26. > :05:32.AGAINST the closure, was handed into Downing Street
:05:33. > :05:34.by local MPs and campaigners. Our Political Editor
:05:35. > :05:37.Tony Roe reports. The strength of feeling
:05:38. > :05:39.of a community, delivered In the days of e-petitions,
:05:40. > :05:44.where it's easy to add your name from your front room,
:05:45. > :05:47.these red boxes contained over The couriers were East Midlands MPs,
:05:48. > :05:53.Labour and Tory, and campaigners fighting against closure -
:05:54. > :05:55.including mothers who have seen for themselves
:05:56. > :05:59.what the heart unit can do. He had heart-saving surgery
:06:00. > :06:04.at five months old. While we were in there,
:06:05. > :06:07.they didn't just operate on him, The care while you're
:06:08. > :06:12.there is amazing. I just think it would be
:06:13. > :06:18.a travesty if they shut it. There is absolutely no reason
:06:19. > :06:21.on God's earth to close this unit, It has the best outcomes
:06:22. > :06:24.for children, probably Two hours before the petition
:06:25. > :06:33.was handed in, NHS England, which wants to close the congenital
:06:34. > :06:35.heart unit, open the public Campaigners now know
:06:36. > :06:43.the real fight starts here. I would say to anybody watching
:06:44. > :06:54.this programme who wants to save children's heart surgery
:06:55. > :06:57.at Glenfield - get involved, come along to Leicester Tigers
:06:58. > :06:59.on March the eighth between 6-8pm Make sure your views
:07:00. > :07:02.and voices are heard. Campaigners will be on the march
:07:03. > :07:05.again this weekend in Leicester, The key now is to get
:07:06. > :07:08.the decision-makers to take There will be a public
:07:09. > :07:15.consultation exercise, which runs until June,
:07:16. > :07:17.and key politically is the fact that this has the backing of both
:07:18. > :07:21.conservative and Labour MPs It's believed that a large fire
:07:22. > :07:28.at a derelict building near Leicester city centre
:07:29. > :07:30.was started deliberately. The blaze at the former Corah
:07:31. > :07:32.textiles factory broke out It spread to a car dealership
:07:33. > :07:37.across the road damaging A number of roads were closed
:07:38. > :07:41.as dozens of firefighters Fire officers say the buildings
:07:42. > :07:45.will have to be demolished. Tributes have been paid
:07:46. > :07:47.to the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Sir Peter Mansfield,
:07:48. > :07:49.who has died aged 83. He invented the MRI scanner
:07:50. > :07:52.at the University of Nottingham and continued to develop
:07:53. > :07:53.the technology Quentin Rayner looks
:07:54. > :08:03.back on his life. For someone who failed his 11-plus
:08:04. > :08:06.and was told as a teenager that science wasn't for him,
:08:07. > :08:08.Sir Peter Mansfield's Nobel Prize He received it for his work 40
:08:09. > :08:15.years ago, developing MRI scanner technology
:08:16. > :08:17.at the University of Nottingham. Back then he couldn't be
:08:18. > :08:20.completely sure it was safe The worst thing that could have
:08:21. > :08:25.happened would be a cardiac arrest. Working alongside Sir Peter
:08:26. > :08:29.then was his Ph.D. Student, Peter Morris, who is carrying
:08:30. > :08:31.on the pioneering research He expected things
:08:32. > :08:39.to happen quickly. We've lost the rock on which MRI
:08:40. > :08:42.was founded, and the whole world MRI scanners are now commonplace
:08:43. > :08:47.in major hospitals across the world. They've helped save thousands
:08:48. > :08:53.of lives by diagnosing cancers far One is looking at poor quality
:08:54. > :09:01.images and trying to understand If there is a problem, then it
:09:02. > :09:05.stands up very, very clearly. It's nice to hear that there
:09:06. > :09:08.is still some interest. Not just locally, but that there
:09:09. > :09:10.are some interests in MRI Few people's lives leave
:09:11. > :09:15.such a legacy on others. Football now and Nottingham Forest
:09:16. > :09:18.announced earlier tonight that interim manager Gary Brazil
:09:19. > :09:22.will take charge of the club Brazil and his assistant Jack Lester
:09:23. > :09:26.have been given the job on a permanent basis
:09:27. > :09:28.until the summer. Brazil replaces Phillippe Montanier,
:09:29. > :09:31.who was sacked last month. That's your news, so
:09:32. > :09:33.it's goodbye from me. But with your weather
:09:34. > :09:49.now, here's Sara. We have the cold easterly winds with
:09:50. > :09:54.us at the moment and an ice warning as well. The gritters have been
:09:55. > :10:00.working hard this evening and we have issued an eye watering --
:10:01. > :10:10.warning and the showers will continue and into tomorrow. The grey
:10:11. > :10:16.day-to-day. -- a grey day today. It will be a cold and frosty start to
:10:17. > :10:20.the day and the night-time temperature in rural areas will be
:10:21. > :10:26.-2 macro. Other just around freezing within towns and cities. Snow
:10:27. > :10:30.flurries continue through the morning gun into the afternoon
:10:31. > :10:36.tomorrow, so it will be a very cold day. The winds, from a North East
:10:37. > :10:41.direction. The daytime temperature is no higher than three Celsius. It
:10:42. > :10:44.could be interesting on Friday night into the early part Saturday. We
:10:45. > :10:48.will see a fewer showers coming in from the North Sea and as they come
:10:49. > :10:51.in, they will meet with cold air and have the potential to produce a
:10:52. > :10:56.little more snow at times for the other part of Saturday morning. By
:10:57. > :10:59.the afternoon, reverting back to rain. I will now leave you with the
:11:00. > :11:00.outlook and in a moment, the national weather.
:11:01. > :11:02.sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday will turn a bit less cold again. All
:11:03. > :11:10.the way up seven Celsius.