08/01/2017

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:00:13. > :00:17.With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

:00:18. > :00:20.A Leicestershire mum says she fears the man who killed her daughter has

:00:21. > :00:32.Colin Pitchfork was given a life sentence in 1988,

:00:33. > :00:35.for the rape and murder of 15-year olds Linda Mann and Dawn Ashworth.

:00:36. > :00:38.But he's been moved now to an open prison, as Giles Taylor reports.

:00:39. > :00:45.It was the first time DNA profiling had ever

:00:46. > :00:48.after thousands of men were screened by police,

:00:49. > :00:50.Colin Pitchfork was caught and given 30 years in

:00:51. > :00:52.prison but now his conditions have been relaxed and families

:00:53. > :01:00.I'm very fearful because in my eyes it is his first step towards

:01:01. > :01:03.I believe he should never have had freedom.

:01:04. > :01:06.How can a man who has done what he did, change?

:01:07. > :01:10.It does not change the fact that he is a

:01:11. > :01:17.In 2009, his life tariff was reduced by two years

:01:18. > :01:20.because of his exceptional progress while in custody.

:01:21. > :01:23.But Cath and her family have continued to campaign against

:01:24. > :01:26.his release, she says the prospect gives her sleepless nights.

:01:27. > :01:29.People will not recognise him now and so he

:01:30. > :01:39.I think he'll come back eventually and I shan't know him.

:01:40. > :01:43.If he walked alongside me, I would not know him and he'd know me.

:01:44. > :01:44.In a letter to the Leicestershire South

:01:45. > :01:47.MP, Alberto Costa, the Justice Minister Sam Gyimah has

:01:48. > :01:51.said Pitchfork's release is in no way guaranteed.

:01:52. > :01:54.I think there are some crimes that are so heinous that you have

:01:55. > :01:57.to ask whether it is ever right to release an individual.

:01:58. > :02:03.What I am doing in my job as a member of

:02:04. > :02:06.Parliament is to make sure the Ministry of Justice

:02:07. > :02:08.and the Prison service are doing their job to

:02:09. > :02:10.safeguard the people of South Leicestershire and indeed

:02:11. > :02:14.The parole board is due to review the case again in

:02:15. > :02:22.Police investigating more than 60 reports of damage to cars

:02:23. > :02:25.in Leicester and Leicestershire, have made five arrests.

:02:26. > :02:28.Tyres were slashed and windows smashed last weekend in areas

:02:29. > :02:31.including Glenfield, Thurmaston, East Goscote,

:02:32. > :02:36.The men, aged between 18 and 23, have been released on bail

:02:37. > :02:43.The aftermath of the Brexit vote has been partly blamed for delaying

:02:44. > :02:46.a memorial to airmen who died in the skies above Nottinghamshire.

:02:47. > :02:48.Forty airmen were killed in crashes around Bleasby

:02:49. > :02:52.But both the cost and number of aircrew who need to be

:02:53. > :02:58.Right, boys and girls, come on, this way please.

:02:59. > :03:06.The village has taken the memorial to

:03:07. > :03:09.its heart, it is already a primary school project and the

:03:10. > :03:12.schoolchildren recently dressed up to experience life as an evacuee.

:03:13. > :03:14.Parts of the wreckage of a Wellington bomber

:03:15. > :03:17.which crashed near the school were recovered by a farmer.

:03:18. > :03:20.The memorial was meant to be in place in

:03:21. > :03:27.We originally had 19 young airmen who were killed

:03:28. > :03:29.here in three incidents, but we've had more information from

:03:30. > :03:41.We now know we had seven crashes and 40 young airmen who were killed.

:03:42. > :03:44.The cost has gone up from six to ?8,000.

:03:45. > :03:46.The granite is imported from India and priced in US dollars.

:03:47. > :03:53.Since the Brexit vote, the exchange rate has gone down by

:03:54. > :03:58.15% so that has probably added ?1000 to the cost of the memorial.

:03:59. > :04:00.Additional costs are due to the additional names we've

:04:01. > :04:02.discovered being put on the memorial.

:04:03. > :04:03.The memorial should be unveiled in two

:04:04. > :04:13.years on the 70th anniversary of the two Lancasters colliding.

:04:14. > :04:15.The University of Derby has a new exhibition -

:04:16. > :04:22.Del Coombs has been working at the University for 20 years

:04:23. > :04:24.and while there has been studying Sustainable Design.

:04:25. > :04:27.He's been working on individual pieces - more than 3,000 so far -

:04:28. > :04:29.which all involve re-using things he finds during his day job.

:04:30. > :04:32.His latest haul, on show at the Deda Dance Centre,

:04:33. > :04:36.is inspired by bar codes on food cans.

:04:37. > :04:39.When I am a cleaner, there are lots of

:04:40. > :04:43.Some of them are called rubbish, some are

:04:44. > :04:52.That's where the balance between the two is.

:04:53. > :04:54.I get all my materials at work and a lot of my

:04:55. > :04:59.ideas at work, listening to people talking and seeing things.

:05:00. > :05:02.In rugby, a fierce-fight back for Leicester Tigers wasn't

:05:03. > :05:03.enough.They lost 22-16 this afternoon at Wasps.

:05:04. > :05:06.Let's check on the weather now - Lucy has our forecast

:05:07. > :05:10.Today seemed like an improved version of yesterday.

:05:11. > :05:13.Still a misty and murky start with plenty of cloud.

:05:14. > :05:18.Into this evening and overnight, more cloud.

:05:19. > :05:20.That will thicken up to produce the odd spot of drizzle.

:05:21. > :05:26.There could be for developing as well.

:05:27. > :05:31.Plenty of cloud around tomorrow from the word

:05:32. > :05:34.Then this band of rain arrives from the north-west.

:05:35. > :05:36.Behind it, clear skies and the chance of the

:05:37. > :05:42.Temperatures reaching a maximum of nine Celsius.

:05:43. > :05:51.Monday night into Tuesday will be cold them

:05:52. > :05:54.-- cooler than recently and temperatures will drop off

:05:55. > :05:55.as we move through the week and

:05:56. > :05:59.Back with more for you tonight, the other side of your national

:06:00. > :06:07.and international news update - at ten to eleven.

:06:08. > :06:14.After a dull weekend for many of us, the weather gets shaken to life this

:06:15. > :06:19.week. The real driver for the first wake-up call is low pressure pushing

:06:20. > :06:21.towards Iceland, it will throw this weather front Alloway and before

:06:22. > :06:27.that we have the south-westerly wind, another misty and foggy night

:06:28. > :06:31.for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland turning wetter

:06:32. > :06:34.earlier -- later on. Frost for England later do tonight but these

:06:35. > :06:35.are the temperatures for most people tomorrow