04/04/2017 East Midlands Today

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

First tonight, a senior police officer, herself a mother,

has made a direct appeal to a woman missing with her two young

Detectives have decided to adopt a more personal approach

in their investigation, one mother to another.

Samantha Baldwin from Newark disappeared with her boys over

a week ago, and the case is being treated as abduction.

Today police spent hours visiting homes and businesses in the hope

These CCTV images from last Monday in Nottingham are the last sightings

of Samantha Baldwin and her six and manual sons Dylan and Louis.

Today in this appeal from the police.

Sam we need to speak to you directly.

I know that this is a very difficult time for you.

I cannot imagine what you're going through and what you

As a mother of a child of a similar age I

cannot begin to imagine what is happening in your mind.

We desperately need to know that the boys are safe,

that they are in good health and where they are.

I feel very strongly to this, I want to appeal to her as a mother because

a mother will know how it feels to protect their children.

Eight days ago a family court ruled that some of that

pose a risk of harm to the boys, they were removed from her care and

100 officers are working on the abduction case.

The investigation team is sifting through exhibits and

No fresh sightings have been captured on camera anywhere in

Officers continued to search out request CCTV

in new work and focus enquiries around Manchester and Lincolnshire.

Police had this message for anyone who may be

I would appeal to them particularly if they are mothers,

families with children, to do the right thing.

These children will be unsure about what is happening to them.

I know they are with their mother but this is for the long-term

care of the children in the safety of Sam as well.

The police in the fight -- your primary concern

remains the safety of the boys and their mother and the urge

the public to remain vigilant and a reassuring

Samantha Baldwin that her side of the story will be listened to.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was in the East Midlands today

to open the party's local government election campaign.

Many people say the County Council elections will be seen as a test

But in a speech in Newark he rallied his troops and said next

month's vote was a chance to send a message to the Tories

Our political editor Tony Roe has this report.

During the English Civil War, Newark was besieged by

Today it was the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and members of

his Shadow Cabinet, but nobody was talking about civil war.

Front row seats ready for the Shadow Cabinet,

united in this fight for county councils.

In normal times the East Midlands is the battle ground

you would expect Labour to do well in.

Labour-controlled Derbyshire and runs Nottinghamshire without an open

majority, so the reader is keen to use them to illustrate the new

mantra that Labour is standing up for you.

Just west of here is Derbyshire, the Labour council will

the right service has helped local people claim ?18 million

Use your vote for Labour on May the 4th.

You have chosen Newark to launch the campaign today, there

is not a single Labour county council in Newark.

Is that a final optimism despite the polls and

Corbyn wanted to talk about issues, not polls and predictions.

He said voting Labour was the best way of

We want to guarantee market access to

Europe, guarantee jobs on leaving the European Union and that in turn

guarantees the funding for public services.

You want to guarantee your job, don't you?

I am very happy with my job and I enjoy it.

Losing power in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

would be bleak for Labour and make the leaders job even harder than it

So there will be a few eyes on how the East Midlands votes on May fourt

The launch was in the East Midlands because Labour only runs the county

councils in the country, and two of them are here, Derbyshire and in

Nottinghamshire. The Poles, you have to say, he avoided questions about

them today, and that is because they them today, and that is because they

are terrible for Labour. If they do as well as the polls say, it will be

their worst local election performances 1982. The Labour leader

got very irritated about questioning about that, he cites as an attack on

him and what he wanted to talk about 's policies, not opinion polls.

Leicestershire is conservative ruled, Liberal Democrats are in

second place there, they will be looking to try and make some gains

as a centre party sometimes does a local elections. Ukip has two seats

there. The Conservatives may be looking to take those. Labour built

the last election taking six from the Conservatives, they may have

hope of taking some more. The government's given

the East Midlands ?180 million Police are investigating

after a student from the University of Nottingham died after being hit

by a car. He was named today as Andrew

Robertson from Berkshire who was 20. He died at the scene of the accident

on Derby Road in Lenton just Police want any drivers who may have

dashcam footage to contact them. The government's given

the East Midlands ?180 million to help create thousands

of new school places. It's hoped the cash will fund around

20,000 new pupil places in our region between now and 2020,

including more than 6,000 in Leicester, 1,000 in Nottingham,

and 2,000 in Derby. The Department for Education says it

will help pay for 179 projects to expand and improve

school buildings. Next, the ex-servicemen battling

to find somewhere to live. Charity workers say some already

suffer with mental health problems and being homeless can

make them suicidal. But at Coalville in Leicestershire

housing experts are working with a charity called 'once,

We Were Soldiers', to make finding You just don't know where to turn,

being a veteran, it's very hard to But Fergus needed help,

he served in the first Gulf War, Bosnia, Northern

Ireland, and Iraq. After 15 years he left the Army,

he had PTSD and who became You are supposed to survive

but I don't know where they That is because last

September he was This fantastic, it

is actually my first And it is brilliant,

I actually love it. It is thanks to the locally-based

charity, over four years they have supported around 100

ex-servicemen like Fergus. It is a fresh start in life,

the main job is to get them housed and then we can focus

on mental health problems and signpost them to places

like Combat Stress but the main priority is the roof

over their head in to get this In the past year they have

linked up with North West Leicestershire District Council

and between them they have has four It has been really useful

to be able to support ex-servicemen and women who have

done so much for the country, and this is our way of giving a little

bit back to help them through what can be difficult

times in their lives. The all except much more needs

to be done, he lives are slowly being turned around

and Fergus has become a volunteer to help other former soldiers

like him get homes. The procession route has been

announced for the Queen's visit On Thursday morning she'll enter

the city centre at Humberstone Gate and will go past the Clocktower,

before travelling up Her Majesty will then attend

a Royal Maunday service Thousands of spectators

are expected to turn out. On to tonight's football -

and there've been three matches In the Premier League,

Leicester City beat Sunderland 2-0. Whilst in the Championship,

it finished Derby County 4, But Nottingham Forest

lost 1-0 away at Wolves. That's your news, so it's goodbye

from me, but with your weather It has been a fairly

cloudy and dull day today. This picture sent in by one of our

weather watchers capture that It was a cloudy and overcast day,

but tonight is generally clearer overhead, that is going

to allow some of the heat to escape and temperatures to fall away

as a result, so we are looking at lows of around five or six

Celsius. That'll take you through

to Wednesday daytime. A bright start, particularly

in southern parts of the East Midlands, the further north

you are it is just dull and cloudy. For all in the East Midlands,

as the day goes by, Occasionally the odd spot of

drizzle, but otherwise mainly dry. Fairly chilly in comparison

to what we have had of late. As for Thursday daytime,

we might see those temperatures squeeze up

to around 12 of 13 Celsius. Some sunny spells in the mix

with cloud, and again it should be a generally dry day, as it

will be through Friday as well. This area of high

pressure still very much with us, so some light wind

through Friday, plenty of cloud around certainly, we've got some

sunny spells, and then Saturday, some sunny spells in the mix

as well, again with plenty of cloud. That is all from the East Midlands,

I'll leave you now with We'll be back with you first

thing tomorrow morning. bit from the south, so we could get

to 18 or higher on Sunday. Now the national focus. Good evening,

things are looking good in the next few days, some pressure drifting in

from the Atlantic, bringing some finance settled with it. Just some

questions about the amount of cloud we will see under that. The cloud we

saw the sea links gave rise to a lovely sunsets are many areas. This

is the view from one of our weather watchers in Cornwall. Look at the

tones in the sky in Warwickshire this