03/04/2017 East Midlands Today


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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

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First tonight, big increases in the number of sexual

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predators targeting the region's children online.

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One police force has seen the annual number go up from almost

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But a new law's become active today which widens the range of internet

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It should lead to even more prosecutions.

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James, tell us first a bit more about these figures.

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Well, the internet's largely being blamed by the NSPCC

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for the dramatic increase in the number of abusers

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The charity's analysed four years of Home Office figures

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Nottinghamshire reported the largest increase

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in groomers meeting children, from just one case in

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the year to March 2012, to 27 four years later.

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In Derbyshire, the figure's almost trebled, from six to 17,

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while in Leicestershire, sexual grooming offences more

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It's probably a variety of factors, including the number

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of children actually groomed, and the techniques that

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people can use to contact children have increased -

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social media - but also because people are more willing

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to report it because they see it as more serious than perhaps

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Well, Section 67 of the Serious Crime Act of 2015 has at last today

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become law in England and Wales, and quite simply what it means

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is that where before the police could only arrest someone

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for actually grooming and meeting a child,

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now they can be arrested just for sending them a sexually

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That is something now that we can pursue a perpetrator criminally

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for where beforehand we were unable to do that, so that we are no longer

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going to victims and saying, I'm very sorry but on this occasion

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the person that has abused you has not gone quite far enough

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in the eyes of the law for us to pursue them criminally,

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so the big step that's taken today I think is improving those outcomes

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And the penalties now mean that someone grooming by text or email

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can face up to two years in prison and will be placed automatically

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A Nottinghamshire car dealer says she fears for the future

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of her business after vandals went on a wrecking spree last night.

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Around 60 cars were damaged in the attack at Lowdham Cars

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in Gunthorpe just before midnight, as Giles Taylor reports.

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Just before midnight last night, two hooded men seen smashing

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windscreens, bonnets and headlights with what appear to be hammers.

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Just ten minutes of destruction but the effect on this business

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I thought at first, oh, it's not that bad, but as you walked

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further up the pitch, the site was really mutilated.

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Everything had been completely smashed up.

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They'd thrown slabs through car windows.

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The business has been growing steadily since it was set up 18

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months ago and Melanie says she can't understand why

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We've got a good reputation, people have come back to us

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and recommend us to other people because of our customer services.

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Now dozens of these cars will be sent off for repairs.

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Melanie says the cost of it all could spell

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It could take us under, because obviously we've

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It's coming into our busiest period, especially the camper vans,

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and the school holidays, people are out,

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We employ about eight people and their jobs could be at risk.

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The insurers will be visiting on Wednesday,

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which should provide a better idea of what the final cost will be.

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Meanwhile, Nottinghamshire Police are investigating.

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From today, and for the first time in more than half a century,

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commuters have been able to catch a train from Ilkeston in Derbyshire.

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The first trains have been running through the new ?10 million station,

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with services running north to Sheffield and Leeds,

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The construction of Britain's first new nuclear power station

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in a generation is proving to be good news for one company right

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It's won a ?50 million contract to create on-site accommodation

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for the hundreds of workers building the reactor at Hinkley Point in

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Work has already begun on the ?18 billion Hinckley Point C.

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Over the next six years it'll grow into Europe's biggest construction

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They'll come from all over the UK and many will need accommodation.

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Based just north of Newark, the company operates the UK's

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biggest off-site manufacturing facility on a 40-acre site.

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It won the ?50 million contract to build blocks of bedroom modules

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which can be transported to the Bristol Channel,

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stacked and connected to other amenities built by public companies,

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The first module has just been completed.

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Each bedroom is built to a three-star standard and has

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This is a great success for Caledonian, and for the surrounding

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area of Newark we've created 100 jobs in the last three months.

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We'll create a further 40 jobs over the coming months as a result

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of this contract and more importantly, it's enabled us

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to kick-start our graduate programme and our apprentice

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The speed of construction is phenomenal.

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They're building over 1,500 bedrooms at a rate of 40 a week.

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All 44 blocks will be built by the end of this year,

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ready to be transported down to Hinckley Point.

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When you build a power station, people go for the big

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We want to bring as much prosperity to small-medium companies throughout

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the whole of the UK and it's not just building companies

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like Caledonian, it's engineering and manufacturing companies.

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Once Hinckley Point is completed, the bedroom modules could be

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transferred to the proposed Sizewell C nuclear

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Health experts in Leicester are teaming up with the city's

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De Montfort University to raise awareness of bowel cancer.

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They're running a pop-up shop in the Highcross Shopping Centre

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as a way of spreading the word that early diagnosis through

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It comes after figures show that Leicester has the lowest testing

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There is a lot of diversity within Leicester and I think

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there are a lot of cultural needs that we need to accommodate,

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and I think that we need to be able to get the word out

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to all the varying cultures and allow them to be able to talk

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to us and understand that, you know, this may be

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a little embarrassing test, but at the end of the day it

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Gail Curry from the charity Bowel Cancer UK says it's hugely

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important to be aware of how the disease can develop.

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Well, the biggest risk factors for bowel cancer

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are age and family history, but there is growing evidence

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that diet and lifestyle can impact on the risk,

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so for example, people who eat large amounts of red meat are more at risk

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and people who are very overweight and do no exercise, and smokers

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and drinkers, as well, could be more at risk.

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Early diagnosis is really key and that's why Bowel Cancer UK does

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the work that it does, to really raise awareness

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amongst communities, amongst healthcare professionals

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to help people get diagnosed at those earlier stages, because,

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as I say, people can survive long term if they are caught

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And just before we go to the weather with Sara,

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part of Nottingham was lit up for the first time tonight

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by a huge new artwork which, believe it or not, is linked to two

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Corona is the creation of artist Wolfgang Buttress

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and Dr Martin Bencsik from Nottingham Trent University.

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It illuminates the outside of the ?30 million Bio City building

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with fibre-optic lighting, reflecting the sun's activity.

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The facade is animated with colours which are glittering,

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and the colours glittering are a representation

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of the status of the sun, so as the sun changes state,

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the facade will change colour coding accordingly,

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so you will see a representation of the state of the sun.

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That's it from me. Now a look at the weather.

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It's been a lovely day today in the sunshine and it felt quite warm in

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the sunshine. Our weather watchers have been capturing some lovely

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pictures of what was happening. This was captured this morning, the sun

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glistening on the water. Thank you for sending that in. But we will

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find the weather changing overnight. Two weather fronts are coming in,

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gradually working eastwards, producing showery outbreaks of rain

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into the early hours and bringing quite a lot of low cloud, so misty

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and murky conditions with hill for developing -- Hill fog. A great

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start to the day on Tuesday and also quite slow to clear, those showers,

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so brightness only coming into the Peak District area late into the

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afternoon. It could brighten up quicker but for a good percentage of

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the morning and the afternoon, holding onto the mist and quite damp

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as well. Temperature is not quite as good as today but we still have high

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pressure in charge. Tuesday into Wednesday, just the opportunity

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through the daytime on Wednesday of seeing the odd light shower around

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but it will be quite bright in between the showers with cloud

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thickening up a bit into the afternoon tomorrow and Wednesday as

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well, so temperatures in the region of the mid-to high teens. A bright

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start on Thursday but the cloud amounts vary through the daytime. A

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bit of drizzle possible on Thursday morning but mainly a dry day with

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temperatures remaining very similar. Again, for Friday a cold night into

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the early part of Friday but the cloud starting to thicken up. Now

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the outlook. is remaining settled. It will feel

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fairly warm and dry as well. Good evening. Some rain spreading in

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across the Atlantic overnight. As it does so we will see some fresh

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Atlantic air following on from behind. The pollen levels will drop

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but the temperatures will also drop. Some rain to go with the cloud. It

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is moving its way from west to east. Drying up in not an island and

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eventually

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