30/03/2017 East Midlands Today

are out of the way, will the EU start pursuing a common defence

policy? Join me on And now the news for

the East Midlands. Teachers have criticised

the salaries given to the chief executives of some school academy

trusts in the East Midlands. It's after a BBC investigation

revealed that one here receives more The criticisms come

from the National Union of Teachers. But another union that represents

school managers says the pay reflects the competition

for the best talent. That money, instead of going

into the education of individual children, is being removed from them

and paid to managers in a system which is not accountable

and not consistent. The BBC looked at the pay for chief

executives or similar posts at 15 multi-academy trusts operating

in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Their pay ranged between

?90,000 and ?260,000. The top three earners,

all based in Nottingham, were... Wayne Norrie of the Greenwood

Academies Trust, earning ?160,000. Diana Owen CBE

of the LEAD Academy Trust. Paid the most was John Tomasevic

of the Torch Academy Gateway Trust. ?260,000, in charge of six schools,

including Toot Hill. All three declined to be

interviewed and the trusts The Association of School

and College Leaders Here, they say trusts

are paying for top talent. ?260,000 could be an appropriate

salary given the range, the scale, the complexity of the job

that the person is doing. The Department for Education says

it's up to individual trusts to set their own pay

for school leaders. Lilian Greenwood is Nottingham

South's Labour MP and sits on the Education Committee

in the House of Commons. The trusts can pay what they like,

the Department for Education has said exactly that,

so what's the problem? It's the spiral out of control

of executive pay at a time when schools are facing huge

financial, you could call it a crisis, with having to find

at least 8% real terms cuts in this Parliament and Nottingham

city losing ?22 million. It's almost inevitable that people

are going to be questioning whether we are getting good

value for public money, spending large sums in some

places on executive pay. It's public money but the whole

academies idea was a Labour idea Clearly, when we are talking about

the future of all our children, we want to make sure

that we have the very best people running our schools, that's right,

and sometimes you have to pay in order to recruit and retain those

very good people, but it's important that is subject to proper

accountability and transparency. I think that's the issue,

people want to know that public money going into schools

is being spent in the best way. How much of this is just

the politics of envy? I don't think that

is the case at all. We know our schools are facing

huge financial pressures. Headteachers are telling us

they are having to contemplate redundancies amongst their teaching

staff, teaching assistants, they have to cut back on things

we know are really important, whether it's breakfast

clubs or school trips, so it's quite right that we

think about the money going into our schools,

is it being spent appropriately? I think we should benchmark it

against other organisations with the same sort of level

of number of staff, perhaps, who are being managed, or complexity

of the decisions being made. But also evidence about what's

necessary to recruit and retain people with the right

level of skills. Nottinghamshire Police have tonight

released new images of the last sighting of a mother wanted

in connection with the Samantha Baldwin and her boys,

from Newark, have been Our reporter Sarah Teale has

been following events and is at Central Police Station in

Nottingham. Sarah, what's happening

this evening? Well, this is the fourth day that

Samantha Baldwin has been And this evening police issued

these new CCTV images of Samantha from Monday,

when she was last The 42-year-old doesn't have legal

custody of her sons, nine-year-old Louis and six-year-old

Dylan and so this has changed from a missing persons investigation

and is now being treated Today police officers

were carrying out house to house enquiries in Newark,

where Samantha has been living in an effort to find out any

information which might And Superintendent Richard Fretwell

from Nottinghamshire Police Every day that passes,

we become increasingly concerned and I would appeal directly,

both to Samantha to do the right thing, and also to any members

of the public that have any information to come forward,

give that one bit of information that might be a little bit

in the jigsaw that helps us find those boys and return

them back safe and well. Today on social media police began

using a hashtag #findlouisanddylan in an effort to get any

new information from the public. And they're appealing for anyone

with information to contact They say they just want

Samantha and her sons to be Two men are in hospital tonight

after an incident in Loughborough. Police were called to a car wash

on The Coneries in the town earlier. The road was cordoned off

for forensic examinations. A man's still in hospital

after a serious road crash saw him and an elderly driver needing rescue

from a Derbyshire canal. It happened last night

on the A514 near Swarkestone. A car collided with a van and then

plunged into the canal, knocking the pedestrian

into the water as well. A nearby resident saw them

being rescued by a passerby. I could see a car had

gone into the canal. There was two people

on the side of the canal, an elderly lady

that was sat all wrapped up and a gentleman that was lying

alongside the canal. The lady was actually the driver

of the car which somebody had gone into the canal to get her out

because she was trapped in the car. No regard for himself,

just dove straight into the canal Now, it's not every day a school

gets a visit from a war hero. But today the only surviving British

member of the famous Dambuster raid of World War II returned

to the Nottinghamshire school Our reporter James Roberson

went to meet 95-year-old but the mind of Johnny Johnson

is as sharp as ever. I'm the head girl

of Highfields School. Today he was greeted

by the head pupils He was helped through the door

that he first entered as a teacher But it's for his role in the famous

Dambuster raid in 1943 At the school today,

the crew photo from 1943, his medals, a Lancaster model

and even the switch he pressed There was a petition

to give you a knighthood, It's to remember the 58,861

of my comrades who gave their lives Perhaps more poignantly,

last month he went back to the dam he bombed in 1943 and met a German

survivor of that night. What was it like after

all of this time? They remembered as well as I

remembered and eventually, a presentation from the museum

there, which sits on my desk at the moment, very much a reminder

of what it was all about. To the strains of the Dambuster

March, Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, celebrated

by a new generation of admirers for his, and his RAF colleagues'

bravery 74 years ago. It's goodbye from me, but with your

weather now, here's Lucy. Today has been the warmest day of

the year so far in Britain. Highs of 22 Celsius. The average for this

time of year is more like 13. As we move into tomorrow, it will be

slightly cooler. Temperatures in the teams. Some sunny spells around and

one or two showers to look out for. Tonight, a few outbreaks of patchy

rain. That cloud will thicken up as we go through the night. Overnight

lows of around 11 Celsius. It will be a mild night. Tomorrow, a fairly

cloudy start of the day. A few outbreaks of rain first thing. But

that cloud thinning and breaking in the afternoon. Some sunny spells but

always the risk of an isolated shower. Temperatures not doing too

badly with a maximum of 16 Celsius. As we move into the weekend, a

slightly fresher feel to our weather. Saturday looking more

unsettled. The chance of seeing an April shower on the first day of the

month. Temperatures reaching 14 Celsius. On Sunday we see high

pressure building in. I will leave you with the Outlook.

time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.

Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not

unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had

the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in

the south-east. It was much warmer than recently in north-eastern

Scotland, but in between we had a zone of outbreaks of rain. It's

pretty wet in south-west Scotland and North West England at the

moment. This was the scene earlier, with rainy skies. There's more rain

to come overnight. We could see a few splashes running eastwards into

England, but most of the wet weather is further west. We will see heavy

rain arriving in Northern Ireland. Further training north-west England

and also for Scotland. -- further rain. It will stay very mild for the

time of year. Tomorrow, there may be a little early sunshine for East

Anglia and the south-east, but we