:00:00. > :00:15.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.
:00:16. > :00:19.First tonight, big increases in the number of sexual
:00:20. > :00:22.predators targeting the region's children online.
:00:23. > :00:25.One police force has seen the annual number go up from almost
:00:26. > :00:30.But a new law's become active today which widens the range of internet
:00:31. > :00:37.It should lead to even more prosecutions.
:00:38. > :00:43.James, tell us first a bit more about these figures.
:00:44. > :00:46.Well, the internet's largely being blamed by the NSPCC
:00:47. > :00:48.for the dramatic increase in the number of abusers
:00:49. > :00:53.The charity's analysed four years of Home Office figures
:00:54. > :00:57.Nottinghamshire reported the largest increase
:00:58. > :01:01.in groomers meeting children, from just one case in
:01:02. > :01:04.the year to March 2012, to 27 four years later.
:01:05. > :01:07.In Derbyshire, the figure's almost trebled, from six to 17,
:01:08. > :01:09.while in Leicestershire, sexual grooming offences more
:01:10. > :01:18.It's probably a variety of factors, including the number
:01:19. > :01:20.of children actually groomed, and the techniques that
:01:21. > :01:24.people can use to contact children have increased -
:01:25. > :01:28.social media - but also because people are more willing
:01:29. > :01:31.to report it because they see it as more serious than perhaps
:01:32. > :01:41.Well, Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act of 2015 has at last today
:01:42. > :01:45.become law in England and Wales, and quite simply what it means
:01:46. > :01:48.is that where before the police could only arrest someone
:01:49. > :01:51.for actually grooming and meeting a child,
:01:52. > :01:54.now they can be arrested just for sending them a sexually
:01:55. > :02:01.That is something now that we can pursue a perpetrator criminally
:02:02. > :02:04.for where beforehand we were unable to do that, so that we are no longer
:02:05. > :02:08.going to victims and saying, I'm very sorry but on this occasion
:02:09. > :02:11.the person that has abused you has not gone quite far enough
:02:12. > :02:14.in the eyes of the law for us to pursue them criminally,
:02:15. > :02:17.so the big step that's taken today I think is improving those outcomes
:02:18. > :02:24.And the penalties now mean that someone grooming by text or email
:02:25. > :02:27.can face up to two years in prison and will be placed automatically
:02:28. > :02:34.A Nottinghamshire car dealer says she fears for the future
:02:35. > :02:38.of her business after vandals went on a wrecking spree last night.
:02:39. > :02:41.Around 60 cars were damaged in the attack at Lowdham Cars
:02:42. > :02:47.in Gunthorpe just before midnight, as Giles Taylor reports.
:02:48. > :02:49.Just before midnight last night, two hooded men seen smashing
:02:50. > :02:54.windscreens, bonnets and headlights with what appear to be hammers.
:02:55. > :02:56.Just ten minutes of destruction but the effect on this business
:02:57. > :03:02.I thought at first, oh, it's not that bad, but as you walked
:03:03. > :03:07.further up the pitch, the site was really mutilated.
:03:08. > :03:10.Everything had been completely smashed up.
:03:11. > :03:13.They'd thrown slabs through car windows.
:03:14. > :03:16.The business has been growing steadily since it was set up 18
:03:17. > :03:18.months ago and Melanie says she can't understand why
:03:19. > :03:24.We've got a good reputation, people have come back to us
:03:25. > :03:28.and recommend us to other people because of our customer services.
:03:29. > :03:35.Now dozens of these cars will be sent off for repairs.
:03:36. > :03:39.Melanie says the cost of it all could spell
:03:40. > :03:44.It could take us under, because obviously we've
:03:45. > :03:48.It's coming into our busiest period, especially the camper vans,
:03:49. > :03:50.and the school holidays, people are out,
:03:51. > :03:58.We employ about eight people and their jobs could be at risk.
:03:59. > :04:00.The insurers will be visiting on Wednesday,
:04:01. > :04:04.which should provide a better idea of what the final cost will be.
:04:05. > :04:12.Meanwhile, Nottinghamshire Police are investigating.
:04:13. > :04:15.From today, and for the first time in more than half a century,
:04:16. > :04:18.commuters have been able to catch a train from Ilkeston in Derbyshire.
:04:19. > :04:21.The first trains have been running through the new ?10 million station,
:04:22. > :04:24.with services running north to Sheffield and Leeds,
:04:25. > :04:33.The construction of Britain's first new nuclear power station
:04:34. > :04:36.in a generation is proving to be good news for one company right
:04:37. > :04:41.It's won a ?50 million contract to create on-site accommodation
:04:42. > :04:45.for the hundreds of workers building the reactor at Hinkley Point in
:04:46. > :04:53.Work has already begun on the ?18 billion Hinckley Point C.
:04:54. > :04:55.Over the next six years it'll grow into Europe's biggest construction
:04:56. > :05:04.They'll come from all over the UK and many will need accommodation.
:05:05. > :05:11.Based just north of Newark, the company operates the UK's
:05:12. > :05:15.biggest off-site manufacturing facility on a 40-acre site.
:05:16. > :05:18.It won the ?50 million contract to build blocks of bedroom modules
:05:19. > :05:21.which can be transported to the Bristol Channel,
:05:22. > :05:26.stacked and connected to other amenities built by public companies,
:05:27. > :05:30.The first module has just been completed.
:05:31. > :05:33.Each bedroom is built to a three-star standard and has
:05:34. > :05:38.This is a great success for Caledonian, and for the surrounding
:05:39. > :05:41.area of Newark we've created 100 jobs in the last three months.
:05:42. > :05:46.We'll create a further 40 jobs over the coming months as a result
:05:47. > :05:48.of this contract and more importantly, it's enabled us
:05:49. > :05:49.to kick-start our graduate programme and our apprentice
:05:50. > :05:53.The speed of construction is phenomenal.
:05:54. > :05:58.They're building over 1,500 bedrooms at a rate of 40 a week.
:05:59. > :06:01.All 44 blocks will be built by the end of this year,
:06:02. > :06:06.ready to be transported down to Hinckley Point.
:06:07. > :06:09.When you build a power station, people go for the big
:06:10. > :06:13.We want to bring as much prosperity to small-medium companies throughout
:06:14. > :06:17.the whole of the UK and it's not just building companies
:06:18. > :06:20.like Caledonian, it's engineering and manufacturing companies.
:06:21. > :06:23.Once Hinckley Point is completed, the bedroom modules could be
:06:24. > :06:26.transferred to the proposed Sizewell C nuclear
:06:27. > :06:36.Health experts in Leicester are teaming up with the city's
:06:37. > :06:39.De Montfort University to raise awareness of bowel cancer.
:06:40. > :06:42.They're running a pop-up shop in the Highcross Shopping Centre
:06:43. > :06:45.as a way of spreading the word that early diagnosis through
:06:46. > :06:51.It comes after figures show that Leicester has the lowest testing
:06:52. > :06:57.There is a lot of diversity within Leicester and I think
:06:58. > :07:00.there are a lot of cultural needs that we need to accommodate,
:07:01. > :07:03.and I think that we need to be able to get the word out
:07:04. > :07:07.to all the varying cultures and allow them to be able to talk
:07:08. > :07:10.to us and understand that, you know, this may be
:07:11. > :07:14.a little embarrassing test, but at the end of the day it
:07:15. > :07:21.Gail Curry from the charity Bowel Cancer UK says it's hugely
:07:22. > :07:26.important to be aware of how the disease can develop.
:07:27. > :07:28.Well, the biggest risk factors for bowel cancer
:07:29. > :07:32.are age and family history, but there is growing evidence
:07:33. > :07:35.that diet and lifestyle can impact on the risk,
:07:36. > :07:41.so for example, people who eat large amounts of red meat are more at risk
:07:42. > :07:45.and people who are very overweight and do no exercise, and smokers
:07:46. > :07:49.and drinkers, as well, could be more at risk.
:07:50. > :07:53.Early diagnosis is really key and that's why Bowel Cancer UK does
:07:54. > :07:56.the work that it does, to really raise awareness
:07:57. > :07:59.amongst communities, amongst healthcare professionals
:08:00. > :08:02.to help people get diagnosed at those earlier stages, because,
:08:03. > :08:05.as I say, people can survive long term if they are caught
:08:06. > :08:13.And just before we go to the weather with Sara,
:08:14. > :08:15.part of Nottingham was lit up for the first time tonight
:08:16. > :08:19.by a huge new artwork which, believe it or not, is linked to two
:08:20. > :08:24.Corona is the creation of artist Wolfgang Buttress
:08:25. > :08:27.and Dr Martin Bencsik from Nottingham Trent University.
:08:28. > :08:34.It illuminates the outside of the ?30 million Bio City building
:08:35. > :08:37.with fibre-optic lighting, reflecting the sun's activity.
:08:38. > :08:42.The facade is animated with colours which are glittering,
:08:43. > :08:45.and the colours glittering are a representation
:08:46. > :08:48.of the status of the sun, so as the sun changes state,
:08:49. > :08:53.the facade will change colour coding accordingly,
:08:54. > :09:05.so you will see a representation of the state of the sun.
:09:06. > :09:11.That's it from me. Now a look at the weather.
:09:12. > :09:18.It's been a lovely day today in the sunshine and it felt quite warm in
:09:19. > :09:22.the sunshine. Our weather watchers have been capturing some lovely
:09:23. > :09:27.pictures of what was happening. This was captured this morning, the sun
:09:28. > :09:32.glistening on the water. Thank you for sending that in. But we will
:09:33. > :09:38.find the weather changing overnight. Two weather fronts are coming in,
:09:39. > :09:42.gradually working eastwards, producing showery outbreaks of rain
:09:43. > :09:48.into the early hours and bringing quite a lot of low cloud, so misty
:09:49. > :09:55.and murky conditions with hill for developing -- Hill fog. A great
:09:56. > :10:02.start to the day on Tuesday and also quite slow to clear, those showers,
:10:03. > :10:06.so brightness only coming into the Peak District area late into the
:10:07. > :10:09.afternoon. It could brighten up quicker but for a good percentage of
:10:10. > :10:14.the morning and the afternoon, holding onto the mist and quite damp
:10:15. > :10:20.as well. Temperature is not quite as good as today but we still have high
:10:21. > :10:24.pressure in charge. Tuesday into Wednesday, just the opportunity
:10:25. > :10:27.through the daytime on Wednesday of seeing the odd light shower around
:10:28. > :10:33.but it will be quite bright in between the showers with cloud
:10:34. > :10:37.thickening up a bit into the afternoon tomorrow and Wednesday as
:10:38. > :10:43.well, so temperatures in the region of the mid-to high teens. A bright
:10:44. > :10:49.start on Thursday but the cloud amounts vary through the daytime. A
:10:50. > :10:54.bit of drizzle possible on Thursday morning but mainly a dry day with
:10:55. > :10:58.temperatures remaining very similar. Again, for Friday a cold night into
:10:59. > :10:59.the early part of Friday but the cloud starting to thicken up. Now
:11:00. > :11:03.the outlook. is remaining settled. It will feel
:11:04. > :11:15.fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in
:11:16. > :11:19.across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh
:11:20. > :11:26.Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop
:11:27. > :11:31.but the temperatures will also drop. Some rain to go with the cloud. It
:11:32. > :11:33.is moving its way from west to east. Drying up in not an island and
:11:34. > :11:34.eventually