21/04/2017

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:00:11. > :00:13.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

:00:14. > :00:16.First - a family's unbelievable wait that's still left them

:00:17. > :00:21.It's more than three years now since Kona Gamble from Leicester

:00:22. > :00:27.Despite an inquest there, his family is now relying on an inquest here

:00:28. > :00:34.21-year-old Kona Gamble from Leicester died while on holiday

:00:35. > :00:39.in Ayia Napa in Cyprus with a group of friends in August 2013.

:00:40. > :00:41.After around a dozen adjournments, the inquest there has only

:00:42. > :00:47.It's every day, you think about it every day.

:00:48. > :00:53.12 times, 13 times it was adjourned, and it's just...

:00:54. > :00:58.It has been really hard, because you think about it every day.

:00:59. > :01:01.CCTV from his hotel passed to the Gamble family

:01:02. > :01:04.by the Leicester coroner shows Kona returning alone from

:01:05. > :01:13.The Gamble family lawyer in Cyprus told me the inquest found that Kona

:01:14. > :01:16.got onto the flat roof of the hotel and tried to jump onto his own

:01:17. > :01:21.balcony, where he was found badly injured at an air conditioning unit.

:01:22. > :01:24.But he said the judge raised questions about whether the hotel

:01:25. > :01:28.took all necessary measures to prevent guests

:01:29. > :01:34.The lawyer said the judge concluded that there was evidence

:01:35. > :01:41.Even though the hotel denies it, the police believe that he must

:01:42. > :01:44.have come through a door that was unlocked, and the judge

:01:45. > :01:47.accepted the police's view on the matter.

:01:48. > :01:49.Thomas Cook, which organised the holiday, said they were deeply

:01:50. > :01:53.saddened and were continuing to work closely on the highest standards

:01:54. > :01:58.The hotel said it was sorry for the family's loss,

:01:59. > :02:05.Many of Kona's organs were donated in Nicosia.

:02:06. > :02:07.One recipient thanked the family via social media.

:02:08. > :02:10.It was just great, just for one person, and maybe Kona helped

:02:11. > :02:14.eight or nine people, you know, that day, but for just one person

:02:15. > :02:21.Dorian Gamble has tattoos to remember Kona.

:02:22. > :02:23.A full inquest will now be held in Leicester,

:02:24. > :02:26.giving the family the chance to hear all of the evidence,

:02:27. > :02:28.as they could not get to the hearings in Cyprus.

:02:29. > :02:32.Mike O'Sullivan, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.

:02:33. > :02:36.Online donors have now raised more than ?690,000

:02:37. > :02:38.for the teenage racing driver badly injured

:02:39. > :02:43.Billy Monger, who's 17, has undergone surgery to remove

:02:44. > :02:47.parts of his legs after a collision on the track.

:02:48. > :02:50.Formula One drivers are among those who've contributed to the fund -

:02:51. > :02:55.set up with the help of his Derbyshire-based racing team.

:02:56. > :02:57.Women's Super League side Notts County Ladies have folded

:02:58. > :03:00.just two days before the start of their season.

:03:01. > :03:02.It leaves a squad, including four England

:03:03. > :03:08.It's heartbreaking, and seeing your mates and people

:03:09. > :03:11.that you know you might not see again, that you've lived with

:03:12. > :03:14.for two or three years, yeah, it's really upsetting.

:03:15. > :03:17.That heartbreak was visible this morning as the players

:03:18. > :03:21.of the now-defunct club left Meadow Lane for the last time.

:03:22. > :03:24.Simply put, the Ladies had huge debts and were spending much more

:03:25. > :03:29.Now, Premier League sides' losses are outweighed

:03:30. > :03:34.But new Notts owner Alan Hardy said he couldn't take a nearly

:03:35. > :03:38.We get the situation in terms of that he didn't see it

:03:39. > :03:41.as a feasible kind of business, but to sit down and probably

:03:42. > :03:44.look at his numbers, which he probably has done

:03:45. > :03:47.on numerous times, and to now come to the conclusion two days before

:03:48. > :03:50.we kick off that he doesn't want to do it any more,

:03:51. > :03:53.So, yeah, we are all kind of left in a boat

:03:54. > :03:58.Well, the situation is, there is a legacy debt that I inherited

:03:59. > :04:04.And the ongoing costs are a ?500,000 a year loss.

:04:05. > :04:07.I've been very clear with my management team,

:04:08. > :04:10.we've had meetings almost on a weekly basis, and I've said,

:04:11. > :04:13.we've got to drive these costs down, got to get the overheads down.

:04:14. > :04:16.If we can get the overheads down to ?200,000 a year loss,

:04:17. > :04:19.But at ?500,000, it just wasn't viable.

:04:20. > :04:22.This, remember, was a club that went to the FA Cup final

:04:23. > :04:27.Some players were so angry, they found it better not to speak

:04:28. > :04:29.today, but this evening, Alan Hardy also promised them

:04:30. > :04:32.that no-one would be evicted from any homes.

:04:33. > :04:38.A crematorium is raising thousands of pounds for charity by recycling

:04:39. > :04:44.Much of the money from Gilroes Crematorium is going

:04:45. > :04:52.From steel hip and knee joints, to coffin screws -

:04:53. > :04:56.this is what's recovered from crematorium ashes.

:04:57. > :04:59.This metal has been collected at Gilroes in Leicester

:05:00. > :05:06.It will be smelted, refined and sold.

:05:07. > :05:09.We have been cremating at Gilroes for 115 years now,

:05:10. > :05:12.which has produced an awful lot of metal, and in the past,

:05:13. > :05:14.that metal would have been buried somewhere

:05:15. > :05:18.As environmental awareness has improved, people are more concerned

:05:19. > :05:22.about the environmental impact of cremation, environmental

:05:23. > :05:25.legislation has changed, that has led us to look

:05:26. > :05:31.Gilroes is part of a national scheme to recycle metal like this,

:05:32. > :05:36.Families choose to give their consent to it

:05:37. > :05:46.Around 2500 cremations are carried out here at Gilroes every year,

:05:47. > :05:49.raising thousands of pounds for its chosen charity,

:05:50. > :05:55.The scheme is a really ingenious scheme, I think.

:05:56. > :05:58.It is a way of turning what is a very sad,

:05:59. > :06:02.tragic in many cases, time for families into one that

:06:03. > :06:08.As well as raising money for children, the material will be

:06:09. > :06:12.used to manufacture modern orthopaedic implants or turned

:06:13. > :06:16.into a raft of products, giving new life to the metals

:06:17. > :06:24.Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.

:06:25. > :06:26.Mel Coles and I will have your update tomorrow,

:06:27. > :06:40.Not looking too bad, high pressure is in charge. So it is a largely

:06:41. > :06:44.settled weekend. There is one of two spots of rain to look out for as we

:06:45. > :06:49.move through tonight. That cold front is sinking slowly South. But

:06:50. > :06:53.not too much in the way of significant rainfall. A largely

:06:54. > :06:57.cloudy night. A few outbreaks of patchy rain as we move through

:06:58. > :07:03.tonight. Temperatures falling to around seven or eight Celsius. The

:07:04. > :07:07.cloud not letting the temperatures for the way too far. A cloudy sky

:07:08. > :07:11.tomorrow, the cloud could be thick enough to produce some rain but most

:07:12. > :07:17.of us seeing a largely dry day. Bright intervals and sunny spells as

:07:18. > :07:20.we move into the afternoon. Temperatures reaching a maximum of

:07:21. > :07:26.13 Celsius with light winds. A chilly start on Sunday, the chance

:07:27. > :07:29.of seeing a touch of frost in the countryside, but some sunny spells

:07:30. > :07:31.developing in the afternoon. I will leave you with the other. A fairly

:07:32. > :07:34.settled marathon. Here is the outlook for

:07:35. > :07:36.the weather for the next few days and Helen Willetts has the National

:07:37. > :07:49.forecast. While unusual to see snow in May, it

:07:50. > :07:53.will be a shock to the system. We've seen some interesting contrast. 19

:07:54. > :07:58.degrees cost is in Scotland in the sunshine today. In the sunshine only

:07:59. > :08:03.11. The differences we are behind a cold weather front. Seeing a stepped

:08:04. > :08:09.down in temperatures. The cold air filtering sound so there will be a

:08:10. > :08:12.widespread ground frost across the country. The week weather front

:08:13. > :08:18.still with us so we could cheat patchy mist and fog. The best chance

:08:19. > :08:22.of seeing the meteor shower overnight will be in those clear

:08:23. > :08:26.skies further north. A better chance for south overnight. We start

:08:27. > :08:28.Saturday morning with the line of cloud, the weather front from

:08:29. > :08:29.Northern Ireland through