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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Carolyn Moses. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
First this evening. Thousands of pounds have been raised for two | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
teenagers whose parents and younger sister died during an incident at | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
their home. It's believed former police officer Toby Day attacked | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
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his family before killing himself. Three weeks on from the tragedy, | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
and the police don't know what exactly happened. It is believed | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
that Mr Day stabs his family. His wife, and his six-year-old daughter | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
died. The older children, 13-year- old Adam, and 15-year-old Kimberly, | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
survive the attacked. -- survived. They were taken to hospital, and | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
had been discharged, spending Christmas with family. The children | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
are slowly recovering, the police are yet to interview them, though | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
family liaison officers have been on hand. The local community has | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
raised thousands of pounds for the teenagers. The funerals are | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
expected to take place next month. The headquarters of Leicester City | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Council is to be demolished. The city's Mayor has revealed that two | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
New Walk Centre towers will be bulldozed. It follows an inspection | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
last year which revealed the offices are structurally unsafe. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
There's a call for Nottinghamshire County Council to re-think plans to | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
switch off some of its street lights to save money. The | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
opposition Labour group on the authority says the scheme has led | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
to fears over public safety. The council says it'll listen to | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
feedback from the public. Next - A Derbyshire soldier who was | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
almost killed, twice, says he's missing life on the front line. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Chris Parrott was blown up in Afghanistan, two years after being | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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shot. Let's have a look at your leg? | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Martin Whitely was 18 when he got his first war wound. A bullet | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
shattered his leg, in a battle which claim to two of his comrades | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
lives. His next tour of duty left in even more injured, fragments of | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
a grenade had to be removed from his head. There was a tiny gap | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
which the traveller went into. They went into my brain. -- shrapnel. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
could have been in his grave. making a new start, studying | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
horticulture, studying to become a landscape architect. He would | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
prefer to be back in Afghanistan. He by no chance, I would go back, I | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
miss the camaraderie. You cannot get adrenalin anywhere else. I know | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
it sounds weird, being shot that, things like that, but the adrenalin | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
is unbelievable. The army gave him opportunities he will never have | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
again. His parents are relieved, and delighted Batty's say. -- that | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
he is safe. An MP is warning the East Midlands | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
could lose out on future government funding because the region's voice | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
struggles to be heard. Now local MPs are being urged to form a | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
powerful new group to speak up for the East Midlands. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
On BTO to a production line, the Prime Minister on a high-profile | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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visit. -- Toyota. Does the region need to raise its profile? That is | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
the opinion of Jon Ashworth. think all the politicians need to | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
come together. We need to pressurise the government to get a | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
better deal for the East Midlands. The region is the have its own | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
government minister, but that role, along with the regional assembly, | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
all created by Labour, there was scrapped by the coalition. -- was | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
scrapped by a coalition. Has the East Midlands lost its voice? | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
think the government had missed a trick by abolishing them. We have | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
some issues that we need to discuss and debate. By the time the Prime | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
Minister next visits the the region, the next parliamentary group will | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
be off the production line. Electric cars could become a more | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
common sight on Leicester's roads in the future. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
New mums at Leicester's hospitals are being shown a specially | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
designed DVD before they're discharged. Around 15 mothers and | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
their babies are sent home from the Leicester General maternity ward | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
every day. The short film was the brainchild of one of the hospital's | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
midwives to give them more time to spend with each patient. The DVD | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
advises on the care of their baby and explains which health | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
professionals will visit them over the next few weeks. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Onto sport - and Derby County's teenage defender Mark O'Brien will | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
miss the rest of the season after getting injured in training on | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Tuesday. He damaged his cruciate ligament. O'Brien has made 21 | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
appearances this season and won a long term contract. Two years ago | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
he had a long lay off after heart surgery. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Now - This time of year many birds and mammals have the right idea of | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
hibernating or migrating to warmer climes but, of course, many choose | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
to spend winter here in the East Midlands. And there is plenty for | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
US to do to look after them - as the Sally Goes Wild team has been | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
finding out. Over the winter months there are | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
plenty of things you can do to help your winter wildlife. We asked our | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
experts for tips. I will the ensuing mess material at the these | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
boxes. They are puller parasite. It is vital you do this. -- they are | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
full of parasites. I'll put a zinc sheet on the floor. Plant cuttings | :06:26. | :06:34. | |
over the top. It is nice, warm and insulated. It is easy to feed the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
birds in your garden, a dozen need to be expensive. It can mean the | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
difference between life and death. Our experts have given you some | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
useful tips, by doing them, you cannot help encourage more visitors | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
your back garden. For more ideas, log on to your local BBC website. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Well should we be hibernating perhaps for the rest of this year | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
perhaps for the rest of this year or not. Sara can tell us. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
A very blustery day. Quite a lot of showers. Some standing water on the | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
roads. Take care if you're travelling anywhere. Gradually we | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
start to see those showers fizzling out. Clearer skies later on tonight. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Temperatures down to two Celsius. A little more cloud around, that is a | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
head of a band of rain coming in tomorrow. That will keep us very | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
wet, well into the afternoon, and partly overnight as well. A lot of | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
partly overnight as well. A lot of water on the roads. A cold day, | :07:49. | :07:52. |