:00:14. > :00:16.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.
:00:17. > :00:20.First tonight, a mother of two boys is tonight in custody
:00:21. > :00:23.and being questioned on suspicion of abduction.
:00:24. > :00:26.40-year-old Samantha Baldwin and her sons from Newark,
:00:27. > :00:32.A nationwide hunt for them came to an end this morning
:00:33. > :00:35.when they were found at a secluded holiday park in north
:00:36. > :00:39.Our Social Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball has been
:00:40. > :00:41.following the days events and reports from the county's
:00:42. > :00:46.Nottinghamshire Police held a news conference here at Sherwood Lodge,
:00:47. > :00:48.where they revealed how Samantha Baldwin was arrested.
:00:49. > :00:52.She was discovered this morning with her two sons,
:00:53. > :00:55.six-year-old Dylan and nine-year-old Lewis Madge and they were discovered
:00:56. > :00:58.on a secluded holiday village in a cabin on the edge
:00:59. > :01:03.of Sherwood Forest run by Sherwood Hideaway
:01:04. > :01:09.The officer in charge of the enquiry gave us more detailed supplement.
:01:10. > :01:13.We don't believe they are physically harmed.
:01:14. > :01:23.It's more difficult to tell whether there is long-term,
:01:24. > :01:27.Obviously that will be investigated as part of the enquiry.
:01:28. > :01:30.Police say they got a call last night from someone who recognised
:01:31. > :01:32.the month and the boys from the picture during that
:01:33. > :01:35.You'll remember how that began on Tuesday last week
:01:36. > :01:41.that the month pose a risk before a judge reveals concerns
:01:42. > :01:44.Two days ago a new tactic as Helen Chamberlain made a direct
:01:45. > :01:47.appeal to someone that, mother to mother.
:01:48. > :01:52.The enquiry continues, and officers believe this to be
:01:53. > :01:54.a preplanned attempt to evade authorities.
:01:55. > :01:56.Nottinghamshire Police is now working to establish the full facts
:01:57. > :01:59.of the disappearance, and is putting in place additional
:02:00. > :02:04.support for all people involved in the case.
:02:05. > :02:07.Tonight Samantha Baldwin is in custody, where she is being
:02:08. > :02:09.questioned on suspicion of abducting her sons and two other
:02:10. > :02:19.Jeremy Ball, East Midlands today, Nottinghamshire Police headquarters.
:02:20. > :02:21.Next tonight - A campaign meeting has been told that the widows
:02:22. > :02:24.of some East Midlands miners are having to survive
:02:25. > :02:27.on just ten pounds a week because of problems with the former
:02:28. > :02:31.Ex-miners say the way the fund was set up more than twenty years
:02:32. > :02:35.ago has allowed successive governments to take out
:02:36. > :02:39.Today a national campaign group held its first open
:02:40. > :02:48.More than two decades on, passions were running high
:02:49. > :02:53.at the Mineworkers pension Association meeting in Mansfield.
:02:54. > :02:56.As far as I'm concerned they should be disbanded.
:02:57. > :03:09.When British Coal was privatised in 1994 changes were made
:03:10. > :03:14.In return for providing a guarantee against insolvency it was agreed
:03:15. > :03:16.the Government would share a 50-50 split of any surplus
:03:17. > :03:19.with the scheme, while not having to make any payments into it.
:03:20. > :03:22.Today the Government has received ?3.3 billion in shared surpluses.
:03:23. > :03:27.But ministers say the arrangement gives trustees the freedom
:03:28. > :03:31.to generate surpluses and therefore bonuses for members.
:03:32. > :03:37.We estimate or pensions have been cut basically the Government,
:03:38. > :03:47.our members should be on double what they're actually
:03:48. > :03:50.And what sort of hardship is that causing?
:03:51. > :03:59.We have widows that there are on so little as ?10 a week
:04:00. > :04:00.from the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
:04:01. > :04:04.The meeting was told the campaign has the unswerving support
:04:05. > :04:07.I believe very passionately in what is right and what is wrong.
:04:08. > :04:10.That money belongs in those miners' pockets and if it was,
:04:11. > :04:13.here in Mansfield the money would be spent in for a local
:04:14. > :04:15.economy and that is very important for Mansfield.
:04:16. > :04:18.200,000 former miners and windows are affected by the surplus showing.
:04:19. > :04:23.Today 30,000 people signed it petition calling for at least
:04:24. > :04:24.an 85-15 split in favour of the miners.
:04:25. > :04:34.Quentin Rayner, BBC East Midlands Today, Mansfield.
:04:35. > :04:36.Well, next month a group of coalfield MPs will be meeting
:04:37. > :04:38.Trustees of the pension scheme at Parliament.
:04:39. > :04:40.Among them Ashfield MP Gloria de Piero.
:04:41. > :04:42.She told Quentin Rayner why she thinks the scheme
:04:43. > :04:49.When the scheme was set up, the reality is that nobody
:04:50. > :04:51.anticipated that it would become a multi-billion pound cash
:04:52. > :05:05.It was set up to benefit the miners, obviously.
:05:06. > :05:08.So that 50-50 split which may have been plucked out of the air,
:05:09. > :05:11.but seemed clear at the time, actually has not stood the test
:05:12. > :05:15.To enter into renegotiations with the representatives
:05:16. > :05:18.at the Trustees of the pension scheme and mine workers union,
:05:19. > :05:20.to see if there can be a there a settlement.
:05:21. > :05:22.A very simple ask, enter into negotiations.
:05:23. > :05:25.Now, we have a meeting with the trustees of the miners
:05:26. > :05:32.With coalfield MPs, representatives of the NUM,
:05:33. > :05:35.What sort of settlement are you looking for?
:05:36. > :05:38.I'm not going to pluck a figure at the air.
:05:39. > :05:40.It is clearly unfair at the moment that 50-50 share isn't working
:05:41. > :05:46.And so that split, that 50-50 split needs to be reviewed.
:05:47. > :05:52.Miners, ex-miners and their widows must get a decent share.
:05:53. > :05:57.They say they have invested in a way that has generated surplus,
:05:58. > :06:13.But the reality is that the kind of surplus that this
:06:14. > :06:14.scheme has generated, nobody anticipated that sort
:06:15. > :06:19.of billion pounds of cash that has been going into the scheme.
:06:20. > :06:21.A fairer distribution of that will benefit the miners,
:06:22. > :06:24.and their widows, so they can get a decent pension.
:06:25. > :06:27.The Prime Minister was in the region today.
:06:28. > :06:31.Theresa May was making the Conservative case
:06:32. > :06:34.for the forthcoming local elections - with the East Midlands likely
:06:35. > :06:41.Her visit follows Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's earlier in the week.
:06:42. > :06:49.Our political editor Tony Roe went to see what Mrs May had to say
:06:50. > :06:51.This is the day a Conservative Prime Minister came
:06:52. > :06:55.Calverton closed in 1999 but it is now the kind
:06:56. > :07:01.of community the Conservatives want to try to win over.
:07:02. > :07:06.They say they are the party for the ordinary working people.
:07:07. > :07:08.The Prime Minister was in Nottinghamshire to launch
:07:09. > :07:11.the Tories' local election campaign, 48 hours on from the Labour
:07:12. > :07:17.East Midlands MPs, council election candidates and supporters were here.
:07:18. > :07:20.There is only one party in our country today which has
:07:21. > :07:29.The Conservative slogan is a Plan for Britain.
:07:30. > :07:32.She admitted councils have, in recent years, had to cut costs.
:07:33. > :07:43.After the speech, a brief chance to question.
:07:44. > :07:49.For better quality of life. That's our message. Let's get out to beer
:07:50. > :07:52.Let's get out to beer and deliver it.
:07:53. > :07:54.After the speech, a brief chance to question.
:07:55. > :07:59.A question raised by Jeremy in Newark.
:08:00. > :08:06.How'd you answer Mr Corbyn's claims that 40% cuts to local Government
:08:07. > :08:09.funding is the reason council tax bills are going up in both Labour
:08:10. > :08:13.And that you are running the country down?
:08:14. > :08:17.First of all, let's be clear, local councils have had
:08:18. > :08:23.to play their part, as I said, in dealing with Labour's deficit.
:08:24. > :08:27.The Conservatives were clearly staking their claim to win voters
:08:28. > :08:29.in former industrial areas, trying to capture the centre
:08:30. > :08:38.Millions of pounds is being made available to improve
:08:39. > :08:44.The cash will be for schemes to tackle congestion
:08:45. > :08:50.County councils have to bid for the money from the National
:08:51. > :08:52.Productivity Investment Fund which aims to improve
:08:53. > :08:59.local economies by enhancing transport links.
:09:00. > :09:01.And finally, East Midlands Ambulance Service says requests to help
:09:02. > :09:11.with pets were among the more bizarre nine nine nine calls it
:09:12. > :09:15.Users of the service asked for help to treat a sick cat,
:09:16. > :09:18.advice on dandruff and for a lift home from someone who'd been
:09:19. > :09:20.kicked out of a nightclub and had no cash left.
:09:21. > :09:23.EMAS says it wants to remind people ambulances are only
:09:24. > :09:30.So, it's goodbye from me, but with a look ahead to the weather
:09:31. > :09:32.for tomorrow and the weekend, Here's Lucy.
:09:33. > :09:36.Warming up as we move through the weekend.
:09:37. > :09:43.By the time we get to Sunday, we've got high pressure
:09:44. > :09:48.It starts to make its way towards the east.
:09:49. > :09:55.More southerly, and we draw in warmer air from the south.
:09:56. > :09:58.Add in the sunshine and we started to see temperatures creeping
:09:59. > :10:05.Through tonight, variable amounts of cloud, most of us staying dry.
:10:06. > :10:09.Clear spells, also temperatures falling away.
:10:10. > :10:18.The potential for one or two patches of mist developing.
:10:19. > :10:22.It could be slightly cooler in rural parts.
:10:23. > :10:25.Now, as we move into tomorrow, a dry start, a little bit more
:10:26. > :10:29.cloud to begin with, but sunny spells developing.
:10:30. > :10:35.Temperatures reaching a maximum of 13, 14 Celsius.
:10:36. > :10:38.We haven't got too much in the way of breeze.
:10:39. > :10:47.We've got sunny spells and warmer temperatures,
:10:48. > :10:54.I leave you with the outlook, as we move into Sunday,
:10:55. > :10:56.that's when we'll see prolonged sunshine and warmer temperatures.
:10:57. > :10:58.That's it from us in the East Midlands,
:10:59. > :11:01.at the next is the National forecast with Darren.