21/04/2017 East Midlands Today


21/04/2017

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

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First - a family's unbelievable wait that's still left them

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It's more than three years now since Kona Gamble from Leicester

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Despite an inquest there, his family is now relying on an inquest here

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21-year-old Kona Gamble from Leicester died while on holiday

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in Ayia Napa in Cyprus with a group of friends in August 2013.

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After around a dozen adjournments, the inquest there has only

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It's every day, you think about it every day.

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12 times, 13 times it was adjourned, and it's just...

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It has been really hard, because you think about it every day.

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CCTV from his hotel passed to the Gamble family

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by the Leicester coroner shows Kona returning alone from

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The Gamble family lawyer in Cyprus told me the inquest found that Kona

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got onto the flat roof of the hotel and tried to jump onto his own

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balcony, where he was found badly injured at an air conditioning unit.

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But he said the judge raised questions about whether the hotel

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took all necessary measures to prevent guests

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The lawyer said the judge concluded that there was evidence

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Even though the hotel denies it, the police believe that he must

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have come through a door that was unlocked, and the judge

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accepted the police's view on the matter.

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Thomas Cook, which organised the holiday, said they were deeply

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saddened and were continuing to work closely on the highest standards

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The hotel said it was sorry for the family's loss,

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Many of Kona's organs were donated in Nicosia.

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One recipient thanked the family via social media.

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It was just great, just for one person, and maybe Kona helped

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eight or nine people, you know, that day, but for just one person

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Dorian Gamble has tattoos to remember Kona.

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A full inquest will now be held in Leicester,

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giving the family the chance to hear all of the evidence,

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as they could not get to the hearings in Cyprus.

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Mike O'Sullivan, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.

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Online donors have now raised more than ?690,000

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for the teenage racing driver badly injured

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Billy Monger, who's 17, has undergone surgery to remove

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parts of his legs after a collision on the track.

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Formula One drivers are among those who've contributed to the fund -

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set up with the help of his Derbyshire-based racing team.

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Women's Super League side Notts County Ladies have folded

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just two days before the start of their season.

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It leaves a squad, including four England

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It's heartbreaking, and seeing your mates and people

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that you know you might not see again, that you've lived with

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for two or three years, yeah, it's really upsetting.

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That heartbreak was visible this morning as the players

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of the now-defunct club left Meadow Lane for the last time.

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Simply put, the Ladies had huge debts and were spending much more

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Now, Premier League sides' losses are outweighed

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But new Notts owner Alan Hardy said he couldn't take a nearly

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We get the situation in terms of that he didn't see it

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as a feasible kind of business, but to sit down and probably

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look at his numbers, which he probably has done

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on numerous times, and to now come to the conclusion two days before

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we kick off that he doesn't want to do it any more,

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So, yeah, we are all kind of left in a boat

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Well, the situation is, there is a legacy debt that I inherited

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And the ongoing costs are a ?500,000 a year loss.

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I've been very clear with my management team,

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we've had meetings almost on a weekly basis, and I've said,

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we've got to drive these costs down, got to get the overheads down.

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If we can get the overheads down to ?200,000 a year loss,

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But at ?500,000, it just wasn't viable.

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This, remember, was a club that went to the FA Cup final

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Some players were so angry, they found it better not to speak

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today, but this evening, Alan Hardy also promised them

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that no-one would be evicted from any homes.

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A crematorium is raising thousands of pounds for charity by recycling

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Much of the money from Gilroes Crematorium is going

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From steel hip and knee joints, to coffin screws -

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this is what's recovered from crematorium ashes.

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This metal has been collected at Gilroes in Leicester

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It will be smelted, refined and sold.

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We have been cremating at Gilroes for 115 years now,

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which has produced an awful lot of metal, and in the past,

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that metal would have been buried somewhere

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As environmental awareness has improved, people are more concerned

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about the environmental impact of cremation, environmental

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legislation has changed, that has led us to look

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Gilroes is part of a national scheme to recycle metal like this,

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Families choose to give their consent to it

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Around 2500 cremations are carried out here at Gilroes every year,

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raising thousands of pounds for its chosen charity,

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The scheme is a really ingenious scheme, I think.

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It is a way of turning what is a very sad,

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tragic in many cases, time for families into one that

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As well as raising money for children, the material will be

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used to manufacture modern orthopaedic implants or turned

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into a raft of products, giving new life to the metals

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Amy Harris, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicester.

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Mel Coles and I will have your update tomorrow,

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Not looking too bad, high pressure is in charge. So it is a largely

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settled weekend. There is one of two spots of rain to look out for as we

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move through tonight. That cold front is sinking slowly South. But

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not too much in the way of significant rainfall. A largely

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cloudy night. A few outbreaks of patchy rain as we move through

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tonight. Temperatures falling to around seven or eight Celsius. The

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cloud not letting the temperatures for the way too far. A cloudy sky

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tomorrow, the cloud could be thick enough to produce some rain but most

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of us seeing a largely dry day. Bright intervals and sunny spells as

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we move into the afternoon. Temperatures reaching a maximum of

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13 Celsius with light winds. A chilly start on Sunday, the chance

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of seeing a touch of frost in the countryside, but some sunny spells

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developing in the afternoon. I will leave you with the other. A fairly

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settled marathon. Here is the outlook for

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the weather for the next few days and Helen Willetts has the National

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forecast. While unusual to see snow in May, it

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will be a shock to the system. We've seen some interesting contrast. 19

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degrees cost is in Scotland in the sunshine today. In the sunshine only

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11. The differences we are behind a cold weather front. Seeing a stepped

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down in temperatures. The cold air filtering sound so there will be a

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widespread ground frost across the country. The week weather front

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still with us so we could cheat patchy mist and fog. The best chance

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of seeing the meteor shower overnight will be in those clear

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skies further north. A better chance for south overnight. We start

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Saturday morning with the line of cloud, the weather front from

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Northern Ireland through

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