:00:14. > :00:17.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.
:00:18. > :00:21.A coroner has criticised two staff at a Nottingham primary school
:00:22. > :00:23.who she says undermined the safety of a little girl who died
:00:24. > :00:27.because they failed to pass on concerns about abuse.
:00:28. > :00:31.Seven year old Shanay Walker died three years ago.
:00:32. > :00:34.Her aunt and grandmother were jailed for cruelty.
:00:35. > :00:36.Today the coroner overseeing Shanay's inquest delivered
:00:37. > :00:42.Shanay Walker's mother, Leanne, suffered anxiety and postnatal
:00:43. > :00:45.depression after giving birth to another child.
:00:46. > :00:51.Shanay went into care at the age of four.
:00:52. > :00:57.I go to my friend's house and had a midnight feast.
:00:58. > :00:59.And eat my breakfast and go to sleep.
:01:00. > :01:01.People started noticing a change in Shanay.
:01:02. > :01:03.Eight months after getting permanent guardianship,
:01:04. > :01:05.this video was taken by child psychologists as they assessed
:01:06. > :01:10.how Shanay and her aunt got on together.
:01:11. > :01:12.They roleplayed different games given to them by the assessors.
:01:13. > :01:15.The experts thought they had a good relationship but the inquest heard
:01:16. > :01:25.Kay-Ann Morris recorded a meeting with Shanay's teacher at school.
:01:26. > :01:28.As they walked away after the meeting, her own recording
:01:29. > :01:37.continues as she shouts abuse at Shanay.
:01:38. > :01:42.Shanay was at Southglade Primary School in Nottingham.
:01:43. > :01:44.At the inquest, assistant headteacher Lisa Hyland said
:01:45. > :01:53.Multiple child safeguarding concerns were raised when Shanay lived
:01:54. > :01:55.at her aunt's home but throughout the inquest, questions were asked
:01:56. > :01:57.about information not being passed on effectively.
:01:58. > :02:00.In September 2013, the inquest heard Shanay told her school she had been
:02:01. > :02:03.beaten with a belt and hit over the knuckles with a wooden
:02:04. > :02:11.Kay-Ann Morris, who had experienced violence from her mother,
:02:12. > :02:15.was allowed to dominate meetings with professionals.
:02:16. > :02:18.She was even permitted to bring so-called spiritual
:02:19. > :02:23.They were her friends who backed up what she was claiming about Shanay
:02:24. > :02:28.It emerged during the inquest that soon after Shanay's death,
:02:29. > :02:32.Southglade School headteacher Peter Smalling and teaching
:02:33. > :02:34.assistant Laura Shreeves recreated a child safeguarding document.
:02:35. > :02:37.It had gone missing, the inquest was told,
:02:38. > :02:44.Shanay's aunt, Kay-Ann Morris, was cleared of murder.
:02:45. > :02:46.She and Shanay's grandmother, Juanila Smikle, were jailed
:02:47. > :02:56.The Nottingham coroner, Maureen Casey, gave a narrative
:02:57. > :02:58.conclusion, saying that Shanay Walker died by
:02:59. > :03:02.She was critical of the headteacher of Southglade Primary School
:03:03. > :03:04.in Nottingham, Peter Smalley, and teaching assistant
:03:05. > :03:06.Laura Shreeves, saying they failed to pass on child safeguarding
:03:07. > :03:08.concerns, despite other teachers at the school coming forward
:03:09. > :03:14.with those concerns, having seen the bruises on Shanay.
:03:15. > :03:21.When she died, she had more than 50 injuries on her body.
:03:22. > :03:23.Alison Michalska is the Nottingham City Council corporate director
:03:24. > :03:32.She said changes have been made since Shanay's death.
:03:33. > :03:35.One of the things that we have improved as the local authority
:03:36. > :03:38.working with all the schools in the city is improve the strength
:03:39. > :03:41.and training of the designated safeguarding lead in schools,
:03:42. > :03:43.but we've also introduced a professionals phone
:03:44. > :03:49.line whereby teachers, nurses, GPs, anybody working
:03:50. > :03:52.with children who is concerned can ring and speak to one
:03:53. > :04:00.A Serious Case Review report is due to come out soon and the coroner
:04:01. > :04:03.said any changes from that to child safeguarding and improvements
:04:04. > :04:08.Simon Ward, BBC East Midlands Today, Nottingham.
:04:09. > :04:11.Police say they're now treating the search for a mother who's
:04:12. > :04:13.vanished with her two young sons as an abduction.
:04:14. > :04:15.Samantha Baldwin, who's 42 and from Newark,
:04:16. > :04:24.Jo Healey has been at a police briefing tonight -
:04:25. > :04:34.Good evening, Morris. As you say, this has gone from being a missing
:04:35. > :04:38.persons appeal to an abduction investigation. Samantha Baldwin is
:04:39. > :04:44.now wanted on suspicion of abducting her two sons. Lewis, nine, and
:04:45. > :04:49.Dylan, six. She has no legal custody of them. I can tell you that the
:04:50. > :04:54.police admit to make arrests. Two children delete them women aged 62
:04:55. > :04:57.and 36 are in police custody tonight accused of assisting an offender.
:04:58. > :05:05.But they need to find the mother and the boys. My first appeal would be
:05:06. > :05:10.to some answer. For her to return the two boys safe and well. My
:05:11. > :05:15.second appeal is for anybody who has any information about the
:05:16. > :05:19.whereabouts of Samantha and the two boys to contact us on the numbers we
:05:20. > :05:20.have given. Our primary focus is to get those two boys back safe and
:05:21. > :05:27.well. There are now 100 officers well. There are now 100 officers
:05:28. > :05:33.from the region and nationally who are working on this. There have been
:05:34. > :05:37.thousands of calls and messages and eight sightings. Six have been ruled
:05:38. > :05:41.out. Two are still being investigated. But the police say
:05:42. > :05:49.they need more help to find those young boys.
:05:50. > :05:50.They do very much, Jo. -- thank you very much.
:05:51. > :05:52.A retired teacher from Nottinghamshire has taken
:05:53. > :05:55.the witness stand to deny a string of historical child sex offences.
:05:56. > :05:57.Christopher Metcalfe's accused of raping a teenager,
:05:58. > :05:59.Our Social Affairs Correspondent, Jeremy Ball,
:06:00. > :06:08.Christopher Metcalfe was asked in detail about allegations that go
:06:09. > :06:12.repeatedly denied sexually abusing repeatedly denied sexually abusing
:06:13. > :06:17.19-year old girl who was in his class in Mansfield. She said that
:06:18. > :06:20.Christopher Metcalfe kissed her and touched inappropriately. She says he
:06:21. > :06:28.did it at a swimming pool during a story time class and at his own
:06:29. > :06:32.farm. Today he told a jury that pupils sometimes visit there but
:06:33. > :06:36.that was to see animals, he said. He also explained why he took a
:06:37. > :06:40.teenager home after he moved onto the street in Ashfield. He said he
:06:41. > :06:44.was simply stopping to drop his dogs off after agreeing to give her a
:06:45. > :06:49.lift from the children at home where she was a resident. To college
:06:50. > :06:53.nearby. His barrister said, did you rape her, Mr Metcalfe? He replied,
:06:54. > :06:59.clearly and confidently, no, I did not. Under cross-examination this
:07:00. > :07:03.afternoon he was challenged over why he had changed his initial account
:07:04. > :07:07.of what happened, telling the police that he was not aware of whether he
:07:08. > :07:11.had kissed the girl in the shower. Christopher Metcalfe told the jury
:07:12. > :07:14.that was because he had only just been arrested. I was suffering from
:07:15. > :07:16.shock, he said, I had a panic attack and I did not know what was going
:07:17. > :07:22.on. So that letter has been signed,
:07:23. > :07:24.sealed and sent ... Britain's separation
:07:25. > :07:26.from the European Union "It's happened -
:07:27. > :07:28.and there's no turning back." That's what Theresa May said
:07:29. > :07:31.as she formally triggered Brexit. Our Political Editor Tony Roe
:07:32. > :07:43.has been in Westminster The Article 50 process is now
:07:44. > :07:48.underway. The moment long awaited by those so-called Eurosceptics. Now we
:07:49. > :07:51.have what they have always wanted. This is a historic day for our
:07:52. > :07:55.country and our democracy. On the 23rd of June we had a vote which the
:07:56. > :07:59.majority of people in the UK voted to leave the European Union. The
:08:00. > :08:03.overwhelming majority of people in the Midlands voted to leave the
:08:04. > :08:08.European Union and the will of the British people is being enacted. We
:08:09. > :08:12.will take back control of our laws. In Parliament, many European
:08:13. > :08:17.languages could be heard among the journalists where a media village
:08:18. > :08:22.had sprung up. Sorting out you can work in the UK from the EU is a
:08:23. > :08:25.priority for those who are not Eurosceptics. People like the East
:08:26. > :08:29.Midlands chamber, local businesses, they need to be very clear and the
:08:30. > :08:33.NHS and public services, about the labour that they need from overseas,
:08:34. > :08:37.the people that are coming, the contribution that they are making,
:08:38. > :08:41.so that we can have a proper understanding of the immigration
:08:42. > :08:44.needs of the East Midlands. As detail emerges, will be Prime
:08:45. > :08:47.Minister ensure that everyone in her team stops the practice which has
:08:48. > :08:52.been so prevalent of claiming that every awkward question is evidence
:08:53. > :08:58.of a desire to overturn the will of the British people. Because nothing
:08:59. > :09:02.will no more surely destroy that unity that she seeks. Echoing the
:09:03. > :09:09.words from EU, not a happy day for everybody. One MP said she fears
:09:10. > :09:13.that the country has lost the plot. She is worried about the future. The
:09:14. > :09:18.Prime Minister said that now the process is underway, it is time to
:09:19. > :09:26.come together as a nation. We are all Eurosceptics now. A week on from
:09:27. > :09:26.the attack at Westminster, vigil has been held in Leicester.
:09:27. > :09:29.Dozens of people from all faiths gathered on Welford Road this
:09:30. > :09:33.It's one of a number of events being held
:09:34. > :09:35.across the country to mark the attack, which left four people
:09:36. > :09:48.Good evening. After a fairly cloudy and damp day today, it looks like
:09:49. > :09:52.things will improve as we move into tomorrow. Those temperatures
:09:53. > :09:56.creeping up into the high teens. That is thanks to a shift in the
:09:57. > :10:00.wind direction from a south-westerly to a southerly. We still have low
:10:01. > :10:05.pressure in charge of our weather. As we go through tonight, it will
:10:06. > :10:12.stay fairly cloudy, with outbreaks of rain particularly as we move into
:10:13. > :10:16.the early hours. But a mild night, with temperatures falling to an
:10:17. > :10:20.overnight low of 11 degrees. That is how we start the day tomorrow.
:10:21. > :10:28.Fairly cloudy but wild. Some outbreaks of rain. After we move
:10:29. > :10:32.into the afternoon, things are brightening up with a fair amount of
:10:33. > :10:35.cloud around. Some sunny spells with temperatures reaching a maximum of
:10:36. > :10:41.18 or 19 Celsius. Feeling warm in any sunshine. Moving through Friday,
:10:42. > :10:44.we've got a cold front making its way across from the West. That will
:10:45. > :10:50.introduce some cooler air and showery outbreaks. There will be a
:10:51. > :10:54.fresher feel to the weekend as we again April with some showers.
:10:55. > :10:59.Temperatures on Saturday not doing quite as well. Still roundabout
:11:00. > :11:01.average. A maximum of 14 Celsius. I will leave you with the Outlook.
:11:02. > :11:06.That is far. The outlook for the next few
:11:07. > :11:09.days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of
:11:10. > :11:14.year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather.
:11:15. > :11:20.The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from
:11:21. > :11:23.Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the
:11:24. > :11:28.high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and
:11:29. > :11:31.sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the
:11:32. > :11:35.temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. Quite
:11:36. > :11:40.wet in Pembrokeshire for much of the day. More rain overnight tonight,
:11:41. > :11:43.some rain and drizzle in northern and western areas. Wetter weather
:11:44. > :11:47.moving northwards across Scotland. Some rain in the south-west,
:11:48. > :11:51.shuffling towards the Midlands. Overnight, a lot of cloud around. It
:11:52. > :11:56.is going to be very mild indeed for the time of year, 11-12 in many
:11:57. > :11:57.parts of the country. This is an sunshine beginning