:00:00. > 3:59:59are out of the way, will the EU start pursuing a common defence
:00:00. > :00:12.policy? Join me on And now the news for
:00:13. > :00:14.the East Midlands. Teachers have criticised
:00:15. > :00:24.the salaries given to the chief executives of some school academy
:00:25. > :00:30.trusts in the East Midlands. It's after a BBC investigation
:00:31. > :00:35.revealed that one here receives more The criticisms come
:00:36. > :00:47.from the National Union of Teachers. But another union that represents
:00:48. > :00:51.school managers says the pay reflects the competition
:00:52. > :01:34.for the best talent. That money, instead of going
:01:35. > :01:37.into the education of individual children, is being removed from them
:01:38. > :01:42.and paid to managers in a system which is not accountable
:01:43. > :01:50.and not consistent. The BBC looked at the pay for chief
:01:51. > :01:53.executives or similar posts at 15 multi-academy trusts operating
:01:54. > :01:55.in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Their pay ranged between
:01:56. > :01:57.?90,000 and ?260,000. The top three earners,
:01:58. > :01:59.all based in Nottingham, were... Wayne Norrie of the Greenwood
:02:00. > :02:01.Academies Trust, earning ?160,000. Diana Owen CBE
:02:02. > :02:14.of the LEAD Academy Trust. Paid the most was John Tomasevic
:02:15. > :02:20.of the Torch Academy Gateway Trust. ?260,000, in charge of six schools,
:02:21. > :02:23.including Toot Hill. All three declined to be
:02:24. > :02:26.interviewed and the trusts The Association of School
:02:27. > :02:29.and College Leaders Here, they say trusts
:02:30. > :02:32.are paying for top talent. ?260,000 could be an appropriate
:02:33. > :02:36.salary given the range, the scale, the complexity of the job
:02:37. > :02:44.that the person is doing. The Department for Education says
:02:45. > :02:46.it's up to individual trusts to set their own pay
:02:47. > :02:51.for school leaders. Lilian Greenwood is Nottingham
:02:52. > :02:54.South's Labour MP and sits on the Education Committee
:02:55. > :02:57.in the House of Commons. The trusts can pay what they like,
:02:58. > :03:00.the Department for Education has said exactly that,
:03:01. > :03:03.so what's the problem? It's the spiral out of control
:03:04. > :03:13.of executive pay at a time when schools are facing huge
:03:14. > :03:15.financial, you could call it a crisis, with having to find
:03:16. > :03:18.at least 8% real terms cuts in this Parliament and Nottingham
:03:19. > :03:21.city losing ?22 million. It's almost inevitable that people
:03:22. > :03:23.are going to be questioning whether we are getting good
:03:24. > :03:27.value for public money, spending large sums in some
:03:28. > :03:30.places on executive pay. It's public money but the whole
:03:31. > :03:32.academies idea was a Labour idea Clearly, when we are talking about
:03:33. > :03:37.the future of all our children, we want to make sure
:03:38. > :03:41.that we have the very best people running our schools, that's right,
:03:42. > :03:44.and sometimes you have to pay in order to recruit and retain those
:03:45. > :03:48.very good people, but it's important that is subject to proper
:03:49. > :03:53.accountability and transparency. I think that's the issue,
:03:54. > :03:55.people want to know that public money going into schools
:03:56. > :04:00.is being spent in the best way. How much of this is just
:04:01. > :04:03.the politics of envy? I don't think that
:04:04. > :04:05.is the case at all. We know our schools are facing
:04:06. > :04:08.huge financial pressures. Headteachers are telling us
:04:09. > :04:11.they are having to contemplate redundancies amongst their teaching
:04:12. > :04:15.staff, teaching assistants, they have to cut back on things
:04:16. > :04:17.we know are really important, whether it's breakfast
:04:18. > :04:21.clubs or school trips, so it's quite right that we
:04:22. > :04:24.think about the money going into our schools,
:04:25. > :04:27.is it being spent appropriately? I think we should benchmark it
:04:28. > :04:33.against other organisations with the same sort of level
:04:34. > :04:36.of number of staff, perhaps, who are being managed, or complexity
:04:37. > :04:40.of the decisions being made. But also evidence about what's
:04:41. > :04:45.necessary to recruit and retain people with the right
:04:46. > :04:47.level of skills. Nottinghamshire Police have tonight
:04:48. > :04:53.released new images of the last sighting of a mother wanted
:04:54. > :04:56.in connection with the Samantha Baldwin and her boys,
:04:57. > :05:00.from Newark, have been Our reporter Sarah Teale has
:05:01. > :05:04.been following events and is at Central Police Station in
:05:05. > :05:06.Nottingham. Sarah, what's happening
:05:07. > :05:10.this evening? Well, this is the fourth day that
:05:11. > :05:13.Samantha Baldwin has been And this evening police issued
:05:14. > :05:19.these new CCTV images of Samantha from Monday,
:05:20. > :05:22.when she was last The 42-year-old doesn't have legal
:05:23. > :05:27.custody of her sons, nine-year-old Louis and six-year-old
:05:28. > :05:31.Dylan and so this has changed from a missing persons investigation
:05:32. > :05:35.and is now being treated Today police officers
:05:36. > :05:39.were carrying out house to house enquiries in Newark,
:05:40. > :05:43.where Samantha has been living in an effort to find out any
:05:44. > :05:45.information which might And Superintendent Richard Fretwell
:05:46. > :05:50.from Nottinghamshire Police Every day that passes,
:05:51. > :05:56.we become increasingly concerned and I would appeal directly,
:05:57. > :06:00.both to Samantha to do the right thing, and also to any members
:06:01. > :06:03.of the public that have any information to come forward,
:06:04. > :06:07.give that one bit of information that might be a little bit
:06:08. > :06:10.in the jigsaw that helps us find those boys and return
:06:11. > :06:17.them back safe and well. Today on social media police began
:06:18. > :06:23.using a hashtag #findlouisanddylan in an effort to get any
:06:24. > :06:26.new information from the public. And they're appealing for anyone
:06:27. > :06:29.with information to contact They say they just want
:06:30. > :06:35.Samantha and her sons to be Two men are in hospital tonight
:06:36. > :06:43.after an incident in Loughborough. Police were called to a car wash
:06:44. > :06:47.on The Coneries in the town earlier. The road was cordoned off
:06:48. > :06:52.for forensic examinations. A man's still in hospital
:06:53. > :06:55.after a serious road crash saw him and an elderly driver needing rescue
:06:56. > :06:59.from a Derbyshire canal. It happened last night
:07:00. > :07:02.on the A514 near Swarkestone. A car collided with a van and then
:07:03. > :07:05.plunged into the canal, knocking the pedestrian
:07:06. > :07:08.into the water as well. A nearby resident saw them
:07:09. > :07:11.being rescued by a passerby. I could see a car had
:07:12. > :07:15.gone into the canal. There was two people
:07:16. > :07:17.on the side of the canal, an elderly lady
:07:18. > :07:20.that was sat all wrapped up and a gentleman that was lying
:07:21. > :07:23.alongside the canal. The lady was actually the driver
:07:24. > :07:27.of the car which somebody had gone into the canal to get her out
:07:28. > :07:31.because she was trapped in the car. No regard for himself,
:07:32. > :07:36.just dove straight into the canal Now, it's not every day a school
:07:37. > :07:41.gets a visit from a war hero. But today the only surviving British
:07:42. > :07:45.member of the famous Dambuster raid of World War II returned
:07:46. > :07:48.to the Nottinghamshire school Our reporter James Roberson
:07:49. > :07:52.went to meet 95-year-old but the mind of Johnny Johnson
:07:53. > :07:59.is as sharp as ever. I'm the head girl
:08:00. > :08:04.of Highfields School. Today he was greeted
:08:05. > :08:06.by the head pupils He was helped through the door
:08:07. > :08:11.that he first entered as a teacher But it's for his role in the famous
:08:12. > :08:16.Dambuster raid in 1943 At the school today,
:08:17. > :08:22.the crew photo from 1943, his medals, a Lancaster model
:08:23. > :08:26.and even the switch he pressed There was a petition
:08:27. > :08:30.to give you a knighthood, It's to remember the 58,861
:08:31. > :08:42.of my comrades who gave their lives Perhaps more poignantly,
:08:43. > :08:47.last month he went back to the dam he bombed in 1943 and met a German
:08:48. > :08:52.survivor of that night. What was it like after
:08:53. > :08:54.all of this time? They remembered as well as I
:08:55. > :08:58.remembered and eventually, a presentation from the museum
:08:59. > :09:03.there, which sits on my desk at the moment, very much a reminder
:09:04. > :09:14.of what it was all about. To the strains of the Dambuster
:09:15. > :09:17.March, Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, celebrated
:09:18. > :09:20.by a new generation of admirers for his, and his RAF colleagues'
:09:21. > :09:32.bravery 74 years ago. It's goodbye from me, but with your
:09:33. > :09:56.weather now, here's Lucy. Today has been the warmest day of
:09:57. > :10:04.the year so far in Britain. Highs of 22 Celsius. The average for this
:10:05. > :10:09.time of year is more like 13. As we move into tomorrow, it will be
:10:10. > :10:14.slightly cooler. Temperatures in the teams. Some sunny spells around and
:10:15. > :10:18.one or two showers to look out for. Tonight, a few outbreaks of patchy
:10:19. > :10:23.rain. That cloud will thicken up as we go through the night. Overnight
:10:24. > :10:28.lows of around 11 Celsius. It will be a mild night. Tomorrow, a fairly
:10:29. > :10:32.cloudy start of the day. A few outbreaks of rain first thing. But
:10:33. > :10:37.that cloud thinning and breaking in the afternoon. Some sunny spells but
:10:38. > :10:43.always the risk of an isolated shower. Temperatures not doing too
:10:44. > :10:47.badly with a maximum of 16 Celsius. As we move into the weekend, a
:10:48. > :10:52.slightly fresher feel to our weather. Saturday looking more
:10:53. > :10:58.unsettled. The chance of seeing an April shower on the first day of the
:10:59. > :11:01.month. Temperatures reaching 14 Celsius. On Sunday we see high
:11:02. > :11:03.pressure building in. I will leave you with the Outlook.
:11:04. > :11:11.time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.
:11:12. > :11:18.Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not
:11:19. > :11:24.unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had
:11:25. > :11:27.the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in
:11:28. > :11:32.the south-east. It was much warmer than recently in north-eastern
:11:33. > :11:35.Scotland, but in between we had a zone of outbreaks of rain. It's
:11:36. > :11:39.pretty wet in south-west Scotland and North West England at the
:11:40. > :11:44.moment. This was the scene earlier, with rainy skies. There's more rain
:11:45. > :11:48.to come overnight. We could see a few splashes running eastwards into
:11:49. > :11:51.England, but most of the wet weather is further west. We will see heavy
:11:52. > :11:56.rain arriving in Northern Ireland. Further training north-west England
:11:57. > :12:02.and also for Scotland. -- further rain. It will stay very mild for the
:12:03. > :12:04.time of year. Tomorrow, there may be a little early sunshine for East
:12:05. > :12:05.Anglia and the south-east, but we