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