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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
First - a family's unbelievable wait that's still left them | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
It's more than three years now since Kona Gamble from Leicester | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
Despite an inquest there, his family is now relying on an inquest here | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
21-year-old Kona Gamble from Leicester died while on holiday | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
in Ayia Napa in Cyprus with a group of friends in August 2013. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
After around a dozen adjournments, the inquest there has only | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
It's every day, you think about it every day. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
12 times, 13 times it was adjourned, and it's just... | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
It has been really hard, because you think about it every day. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
CCTV from his hotel passed to the Gamble family | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
by the Leicester coroner shows Kona returning alone from | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
The Gamble family lawyer in Cyprus told me the inquest found that Kona | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
got onto the flat roof of the hotel and tried to jump onto his own | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
balcony, where he was found badly injured at an air conditioning unit. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
But he said the judge raised questions about whether the hotel | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
took all necessary measures to prevent guests | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
The lawyer said the judge concluded that there was evidence | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Even though the hotel denies it, the police believe that he must | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
have come through a door that was unlocked, and the judge | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
accepted the police's view on the matter. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Thomas Cook, which organised the holiday, said they were deeply | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
saddened and were continuing to work closely on the highest standards | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
The hotel said it was sorry for the family's loss, | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Many of Kona's organs were donated in Nicosia. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
One recipient thanked the family via social media. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
It was just great, just for one person, and maybe Kona helped | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
eight or nine people, you know, that day, but for just one person | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Dorian Gamble has tattoos to remember Kona. | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
A full inquest will now be held in Leicester, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
giving the family the chance to hear all of the evidence, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
as they could not get to the hearings in Cyprus. | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Mike O'Sullivan, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Online donors have now raised more than ?690,000 | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
for the teenage racing driver badly injured | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Billy Monger, who's 17, has undergone surgery to remove | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
parts of his legs after a collision on the track. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Formula One drivers are among those who've contributed to the fund - | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
set up with the help of his Derbyshire-based racing team. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Women's Super League side Notts County Ladies have folded | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
just two days before the start of their season. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
It leaves a squad, including four England | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
It's heartbreaking, and seeing your mates and people | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
that you know you might not see again, that you've lived with | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
for two or three years, yeah, it's really upsetting. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
That heartbreak was visible this morning as the players | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
of the now-defunct club left Meadow Lane for the last time. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Simply put, the Ladies had huge debts and were spending much more | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Now, Premier League sides' losses are outweighed | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
But new Notts owner Alan Hardy said he couldn't take a nearly | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
We get the situation in terms of that he didn't see it | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
as a feasible kind of business, but to sit down and probably | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
look at his numbers, which he probably has done | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
on numerous times, and to now come to the conclusion two days before | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
we kick off that he doesn't want to do it any more, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
So, yeah, we are all kind of left in a boat | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Well, the situation is, there is a legacy debt that I inherited | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
And the ongoing costs are a ?500,000 a year loss. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
I've been very clear with my management team, | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
we've had meetings almost on a weekly basis, and I've said, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
we've got to drive these costs down, got to get the overheads down. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
If we can get the overheads down to ?200,000 a year loss, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
But at ?500,000, it just wasn't viable. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
This, remember, was a club that went to the FA Cup final | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Some players were so angry, they found it better not to speak | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
today, but this evening, Alan Hardy also promised them | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
that no-one would be evicted from any homes. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
A crematorium is raising thousands of pounds for charity by recycling | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Much of the money from Gilroes Crematorium is going | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
From steel hip and knee joints, to coffin screws - | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
this is what's recovered from crematorium ashes. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
This metal has been collected at Gilroes in Leicester | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
It will be smelted, refined and sold. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
We have been cremating at Gilroes for 115 years now, | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
which has produced an awful lot of metal, and in the past, | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
that metal would have been buried somewhere | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
As environmental awareness has improved, people are more concerned | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
about the environmental impact of cremation, environmental | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
legislation has changed, that has led us to look | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Gilroes is part of a national scheme to recycle metal like this, | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Families choose to give their consent to it | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Around 2500 cremations are carried out here at Gilroes every year, | :05:37. | :05:46. | |
raising thousands of pounds for its chosen charity, | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
The scheme is a really ingenious scheme, I think. | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
It is a way of turning what is a very sad, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
tragic in many cases, time for families into one that | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
As well as raising money for children, the material will be | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
used to manufacture modern orthopaedic implants or turned | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
into a raft of products, giving new life to the metals | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
Mel Coles and I will have your update tomorrow, | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
Not looking too bad, high pressure is in charge. So it is a largely | :06:27. | :06:40. | |
settled weekend. There is one of two spots of rain to look out for as we | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
move through tonight. That cold front is sinking slowly South. But | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
not too much in the way of significant rainfall. A largely | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
cloudy night. A few outbreaks of patchy rain as we move through | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
tonight. Temperatures falling to around seven or eight Celsius. The | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
cloud not letting the temperatures for the way too far. A cloudy sky | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
tomorrow, the cloud could be thick enough to produce some rain but most | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
of us seeing a largely dry day. Bright intervals and sunny spells as | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
we move into the afternoon. Temperatures reaching a maximum of | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
13 Celsius with light winds. A chilly start on Sunday, the chance | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
of seeing a touch of frost in the countryside, but some sunny spells | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
developing in the afternoon. I will leave you with the other. A fairly | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
settled marathon. Here is the outlook for | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
the weather for the next few days and Helen Willetts has the National | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
forecast. While unusual to see snow in May, it | :07:37. | :07:49. | |
will be a shock to the system. We've seen some interesting contrast. 19 | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
degrees cost is in Scotland in the sunshine today. In the sunshine only | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
11. The differences we are behind a cold weather front. Seeing a stepped | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
down in temperatures. The cold air filtering sound so there will be a | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
widespread ground frost across the country. The week weather front | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
still with us so we could cheat patchy mist and fog. The best chance | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
of seeing the meteor shower overnight will be in those clear | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
skies further north. A better chance for south overnight. We start | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Saturday morning with the line of cloud, the weather front from | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Northern Ireland through | :08:29. | :08:29. |