:00:00. > 3:59:59for Mosul underway, there will have to be some follow-through. So what
:00:00. > :00:12.comes next? Join And now the news for
:00:13. > :00:14.the East Midlands. First tonight, striking teaching
:00:15. > :00:18.assistants are more than ten hours into a 24-hour vigil -
:00:19. > :00:22.their latest protest in their eight-month dispute
:00:23. > :00:25.with Derby City Council. They're angry over cuts to their pay
:00:26. > :00:28.and are threatening to continue with industrial action
:00:29. > :00:31.despite council bosses Our reporter Navtej
:00:32. > :00:38.Johal is in Derby Navtej, not huge numbers
:00:39. > :00:40.of protesters there tonight. What's support been
:00:41. > :00:54.like throughout today? Good evening, Anna. Yes, just a
:00:55. > :00:58.handful of protesters here tonight but they have been taking it in
:00:59. > :01:01.shifts throughout today and we will be here until midday tomorrow,
:01:02. > :01:05.making it a full 24 hours outside the council house. However, one of
:01:06. > :01:08.the issues the object be facing at the moment is waning support among
:01:09. > :01:10.parents and I have been speaking to some of those parents earlier today.
:01:11. > :01:12.Parents and school support staff protesting together against Derby
:01:13. > :01:19.But many parents say they've now had enough of both sides.
:01:20. > :01:22.Jemma Walker's son George has severe learning disabilities
:01:23. > :01:25.and relies on teaching assistants.
:01:26. > :01:29.His school has to close with every strike.
:01:30. > :01:31.They were both that the council protest but now
:01:32. > :01:36.They are just using our children as pawns.
:01:37. > :01:44.Without a doubt, you know, they're just using them as pawns.
:01:45. > :01:47.A recent letter from Unison to members urged
:01:48. > :01:50.them to increase disruption and schools.
:01:51. > :01:52.Jemma says that despite still appreciating what the TAs
:01:53. > :01:56.do for her son, it has shaken her trust in the union.
:01:57. > :02:01.Because it was just like, I wish they could see the
:02:02. > :02:03.impact that this has had on their families.
:02:04. > :02:06.I've never felt that my son has been a burden on society before
:02:07. > :02:13.At two schools in the city, almost every parent we spoke to this
:02:14. > :02:18.afternoon had lost at least some sympathy for TAs.
:02:19. > :02:20.Yes, I think I was sympathetic at the beginning, but
:02:21. > :02:23.now it's been going on for quite awhile I think I've lost sympathy
:02:24. > :02:26.Yes, they're thinking of themselves,
:02:27. > :02:27.but they're not thinking of the children.
:02:28. > :02:30.I understand that the teaching assistants are losing money,
:02:31. > :02:32.but at the end of the day, it's the kids' education
:02:33. > :02:36.You still sympathise with them, but just not as much.
:02:37. > :02:38.We're going to be put in the situation where we're
:02:39. > :02:40.going to feel like we shouldn't be behind them.
:02:41. > :02:43.I think that's what they want us to feel like.
:02:44. > :02:47.Meanwhile, for Jemma, this has been the final straw.
:02:48. > :02:50.If Unison came to you and said, we really need your support for
:02:51. > :02:52.our next battle against the City Council,
:02:53. > :02:53.what would you and other parents say?
:02:54. > :03:03.Well, Ali, Unison apologised to I'm doing my own thing.
:03:04. > :03:09.Well, Ali, Unison apologised to parents for a business option but it
:03:10. > :03:13.has room for the fact that its members have lost up to 25% of their
:03:14. > :03:16.pages to changes in contracts. Meanwhile, the council says we are
:03:17. > :03:21.committed to ending the dispute and want to see Unison suspends their
:03:22. > :03:25.action and that action is five days of strike next week as those bitter
:03:26. > :03:26.dispute shows no sign of ending. Live in Derby, thank you very much
:03:27. > :03:27.indeed. Two men are tonight starting jail
:03:28. > :03:29.sentences totally 41 years and six months for the brutal murder
:03:30. > :03:33.of a man in a Leicester park. 23-year-old Brendan Mason
:03:34. > :03:36.suffered 99 injuries at the hands of his killers,
:03:37. > :03:41.two men he considered to be friends. Leicester Crown Court heard how
:03:42. > :03:44.Joshua Hack and Keith Lowe then stripped Brendan naked before
:03:45. > :03:47.dumping his body in a pond Shocked and devastated
:03:48. > :03:53.is an understatement on how we felt when we had the police at our house,
:03:54. > :03:57.telling us they had recovered a body It is not right how
:03:58. > :04:02.two evil can do such a horrific thing and leave
:04:03. > :04:05.amassive hole in our lives A doctor who was sent
:04:06. > :04:12.into a Nottingham school to support staff after a pupil died,
:04:13. > :04:14.has told an inquest how so many teachers raised child
:04:15. > :04:16.safeguarding concerns, that she advised them
:04:17. > :04:18.to call the police. Seven-year-old
:04:19. > :04:21.Shanay Walker died in 2014. Her aunt and grandmother are serving
:04:22. > :04:25.jail terms for child cruelty. Dr Gail Holliman visited
:04:26. > :04:28.South Glade Primary School following Shanay's death
:04:29. > :04:30.and was told by staff they feared safety issues
:04:31. > :04:32.weren't being passed on. Drivers are being asked
:04:33. > :04:37.what they think of plans to extend the smart motorway network
:04:38. > :04:40.in the East Midlands. The system already runs
:04:41. > :04:43.on the M1 in Nottinghamshire with overhead signs indicating
:04:44. > :04:45.variable speed limits and instructing drivers to use
:04:46. > :04:47.the hard shoulder at busy times. Now Highways England wants our views
:04:48. > :04:50.on bringing the smart motorway south between junctions 25 and 23A
:04:51. > :04:53.to cope with increasing traffic. Career advisers in Nottingham have
:04:54. > :04:55.spent today paying home visits to some of the city's NEETS to offer
:04:56. > :05:00.face-to-face tips on job hunting. NEETS stands for "Not in Employment,
:05:01. > :05:04.Education or Training." And today's initiative comes
:05:05. > :05:07.after the City Council guaranteed a job, training or place in further
:05:08. > :05:10.education for every Earlier, I spoke to Michelle Wright
:05:11. > :05:17.from the careers service, Futures and asked if there's
:05:18. > :05:21.a risk of stigmatising We've had a really
:05:22. > :05:26.positive response today. Particularly parents are
:05:27. > :05:30.so welcoming that somebody's coming The thought is, you know,
:05:31. > :05:38.they have only just left school. Should this be happening
:05:39. > :05:40.before they leave school? And most of it does
:05:41. > :05:43.happen before they leave school. I mean, we've got 94% of young
:05:44. > :05:47.people aged 16 to 18 are in work or learning, so we're looking
:05:48. > :05:52.at a tiny percentage. It's actually 5.6%, just
:05:53. > :05:55.less than 300 people which in a town the size of
:05:56. > :05:57.Nottingham I think is pretty good. We're going out and
:05:58. > :06:01.reaching out to those And how do they get
:06:02. > :06:04.into their situation where they just kind of fall
:06:05. > :06:08.through a gap somewhere? I think a lot of it can be maybe
:06:09. > :06:11.family influences, maybe not having good role models that
:06:12. > :06:13.other people have got. Sometimes they start
:06:14. > :06:15.something that just doesn't work out for them and then
:06:16. > :06:18.it's hard to sort of admits that All sorts of different
:06:19. > :06:21.reasons really. And if there's anybody
:06:22. > :06:32.watching here tonight who maybe know
:06:33. > :06:34.somebody or is that person who is on the situation
:06:35. > :06:37.between 16 and 24 who hasn't got employment, who hasn't got any
:06:38. > :06:38.training, I think anybody who is
:06:39. > :06:41.unemployed, either if they're 16 to 24 or any age really,
:06:42. > :06:44.Futures, we can help people. We can help people with
:06:45. > :06:46.advice and guidance, We can give them
:06:47. > :06:49.pre-employability training. It's there to help
:06:50. > :06:52.people get into work. Thank you very much
:06:53. > :06:55.for speaking to us. Throughout this week,
:06:56. > :06:58.we're taking a look at sugar. With a controversial sugar tax
:06:59. > :07:01.on soft drinks looming we'll be examining some of the health
:07:02. > :07:03.arguments, but first, where And you might be surprised to learn
:07:04. > :07:07.that much of it is grown and processed here
:07:08. > :07:09.in the East Midlands. We've been given rare access to
:07:10. > :07:12.the British Sugar plant in Newark. And our reporter Rob Sissons has
:07:13. > :07:15.been following the origins of sugar A lot of sugar beet is grown
:07:16. > :07:23.in the East Midlands. There are 600 growers
:07:24. > :07:25.supplying the new factory. They've been growing it
:07:26. > :07:29.here since the 1950s. They're getting more
:07:30. > :07:31.sugar from these fields The 1990s, compared with today's
:07:32. > :07:37.crop, we've probably got Why is that? Investment in varieties
:07:38. > :08:02.and plant breeding. The it is washed, topsoil is
:08:03. > :08:06.removed, the beat is then shadows and then threw boiling processes
:08:07. > :08:10.crystallised. It has taken approximately eight hours to get
:08:11. > :08:14.Bromley field, to where we picked up the sugar beets to the final product
:08:15. > :08:16.here at the factory. Nearly 100 years old, then threw boiling
:08:17. > :08:18.processes crystallised. It has taken approximately eight hours to get
:08:19. > :08:21.Bromley field, to where we picked up the sugar beets to the final product
:08:22. > :08:25.here at the factory. Nearly 100 years old, the new super consumption
:08:26. > :08:28.has declined slightly proud of R in the last 15 years or so but
:08:29. > :08:33.population is, so total sugar reserves Smith about the same. A
:08:34. > :08:36.controversial tax on sugar in soft drinks is looming. What impact it
:08:37. > :08:39.will have is not square and every night in East Midlands today this
:08:40. > :08:44.week, we'll be looking at the health arguments around sugar.
:08:45. > :08:46.Finally tonight, how many rugby players does it take
:08:47. > :08:49.Well, an East Midlands ambulance crew found out
:08:50. > :08:52.at the weekend when their vehicle got stuck in the mud next
:08:53. > :08:56.Players from Aylestone Athletic and Aylestone Saint James had
:08:57. > :09:02.That's your news, so it's goodbye from me.
:09:03. > :09:12.Thank you. Good evening. Having mild start to the week today.
:09:13. > :09:17.Temperatures well above the average we would expect that this time of
:09:18. > :09:21.year. We recorded a maximum of 15 degrees across the East Midlands.
:09:22. > :09:23.But as we go through this week, we asked going to start to see more
:09:24. > :09:28.unsettled and changeable weather, some spells of wet and windy
:09:29. > :09:33.weather, particularly as we go into Thursday and it will turn that it
:09:34. > :09:36.bit colder. Putting the detail onto the map then, plenty of cloud around
:09:37. > :09:40.as we move to tonight. Outbreaks of rain as we move into the early
:09:41. > :09:44.hours. Temperatures falling to an overnight low of between eight and
:09:45. > :09:48.nine Celsius so a mild night on the way. It will be a cloudy start to
:09:49. > :09:51.the day tomorrow. Rain fizzling out towards the south through the
:09:52. > :09:54.morning. The best of any brighter intervals in the north-east of the
:09:55. > :09:59.region but it will be a fairly cloudy afternoon with temperatures
:10:00. > :10:02.reaching a maximum of 12 Celsius, cooler than we have seen to date
:10:03. > :10:07.with that south-westerly breeze. We will see some rain coming through
:10:08. > :10:11.overnight on Wednesday. That will clear out through the morning but
:10:12. > :10:15.could be quite heavy at times. Into the afternoon, brighter intervals.
:10:16. > :10:19.Temperatures slightly down again, a maximum of 11 Celsius but does look
:10:20. > :10:23.as if it will be quite a breezy day. As we move into Thursday then, all
:10:24. > :10:27.eyes on this low-pressure system coming in from the Atlantic, it does
:10:28. > :10:30.look as though it is going to bring a spell of wet wet and windy weather
:10:31. > :10:35.for a time. As usual, we are a little bit uncertain to its track
:10:36. > :10:39.and the depth of that low-pressure, so stay tuned to the forecast and
:10:40. > :10:42.we'll keep you updated as we get closer to the time. Cooler air
:10:43. > :10:46.tracking in as we move through into Thursday so feeling noticeably
:10:47. > :10:51.cooler than we have seen to begin the week. As we move into Friday, we
:10:52. > :10:54.will seize on sunny spells. I think we could see one or two wintry
:10:55. > :10:58.showers. Those temperatures closer to what we would expect to see for
:10:59. > :11:02.the average for this time of year with a north-westerly breeze. I will
:11:03. > :11:03.leave you with the outlook. Changeable and unsettled
:11:04. > :11:14.As you have just seen, after a day in which some of you have been
:11:15. > :11:17.shedding the layers, you will be putting them back on for the rest of
:11:18. > :11:21.this week. Big changes ahead, all down to where the air has been
:11:22. > :11:27.coming from. Today, it originated in the Caribbean, hence the name
:11:28. > :11:28.tropical maritime air. Temperatures peaked