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And now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Maurice Flynn. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
First-time buyers and people in housing need who are struggling to | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
get on the property ladder are being offered a helping hand in | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Leicester. Ten flats at the Phoenix Square arts complex have gone up | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
for sale with the offer of a government-backed loan to cover 20% | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
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of the asking price. Rob showed me the two-bedroomed | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
flat he has just bought at Phoenix Square in Leicester. His flat cost | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
�140,000. He has a five-year interest-free loan backed by the | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
government to help him pay 20% of the cost. It is called FirstBuy. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
It has worked for me and I am sure it all work for other people. I | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
think FirstBuy is a great scheme for people looking to get on the | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
property ladder who are struggling to find finance to do it. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
10 flats at the Phoenix Square complex went on sale as part of | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
FirstBuy. The cost of the interest free loans is being shared by the | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
government's Homes and Communities Agency and the developer. The it is | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
a regeneration company owned by the agency. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
There is a lot of desire from first-time buyers, particularly | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
young professionals. While they can afford to fund the mortgage while | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
they have got it, they cannot raise the deposit. | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
At Rob's flat, a homely touch, artificial grass on the balcony. -- | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
artificial grass. It's emerged that a gospel church | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
in Nottingham has been fined after people living nearby complained | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
about its services being too noisy. Nottingham City Council brought the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
prosecution against the New Generation Church in Basford | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
following four years of complaints and no sign of improvement. From | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
nearby homes they recorded the level of singing, music and | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
preaching coming from the church and found it was over acceptable | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
levels - often for as long as three hours at a time. The church was | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
fined �360 by magistrates and ordered to pay legal costs of �600. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
A study from the University of Nottingham has made a major | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
breakthrough in the treatment of appendicitis. A team of scientists | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
at the Queen's Medical Centre analysed the results of four | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
patient trials. They found that people with uncomplicated | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
appendicitis could be treated successfully with medicine. In the | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
long run it could mean fewer patients needing invasive surgery. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
An appendicectomy is one of the most commonly performed operations | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
in the UK, obit -- over 40,000 people a year have it. And we could | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
prevent 65% of patients from having this operation, and would be | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
freeing up a theatre space. Thousands of people gathered in | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Leicester earlier today to witness the Passion of Christ. The annual | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
open-air presentation has been taking place since 2003 and sees | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
the cast make their way through the city centre, ending at Humberstone | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Gate. It costs around �40,000 a year to put on, but regularly | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
attracts 10,000 spectators - making it one of the biggest performances | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
of its kind in the country. With the spring lambing season well | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
under way, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust says this year it's selling | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
its lambs to local pubs rather than to wholesalers. Selling its own | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
livestock direct is a simple move, but one that the trust believes | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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will help it raise more money for local conservation projects. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
When Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust said they would deliver effective | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
habitat conservation on a plate, this may not have been what people | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
had in mind. But fear not, this is not the end for the Hebridean sheep, | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
but a way of the trust earning some extra cash. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
We have to sell some cheap to maintain a balance, and hopefully | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
what we intend to do is see a little more money coming back to | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
offset the cost of running the programme. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The sheep I used to manage habitat. The trust has 600 of them in total, | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
and it is thought to be the largest flock in the world. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Over the last 10 years, we have changed some of the site. This used | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
to be dominated by young tree seedlings, the sheep have really | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
changed that quite a lot, and some of the sites are now looking a lot | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
better than they were 10 years ago. You may soon be able to order a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
plate of Hebridean in your local, but for Nottinghamshire Wildlife | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Trust, the regeneration of the county's heathland will still be as | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
important as ever. An unusual military ceremony took | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
place in Nottingham earlier today to mark the 200th anniversary of a | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
famous battle. Troops from the Mercian Regiment, the city's lord | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
mayor and the regimental mascot gathered to remember Badajoz Day, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
the day - In 1812 - that Nottinghamshire troops finally | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
conquered the Spanish town. Without a Union Flag, they ran a British | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Army red jacket up the flagpole instead - an event they re-enacted | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
today. Being the only infantry unit, | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
regular or TA, in Nottinghamshire, we certainly feel a strong | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
connection to it, which is why my platoon is called Badajoz platoon. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
It is all about history and remembering where we have come from | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
and holding that dear to us. On to football, and ahead of a | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
weekend of Championship action, Notts County have been in League | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
One action today. The Magpies scored three goals in the second | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
half to win at Leyton Orient. Vitally, the three points mean they | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
maintain their push for a play-off place. I'll have those goals for | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
you in our bulletins here tomorrow. And in tomorrow's other games, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Derby County are at home to Ipswich, Leicester City play Doncaster at | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the King Power Stadium and Nottingham Forest host Bristol City. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
And Nottingham Forest footballer Garath McCleary goes into | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
tomorrow's game having been named as the Npower Championship player | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
of the month. The winger scored four goals in the Reds' 7-3 win | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
over Leeds at Elland Road last month and has played a key role in | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the club's revival in fortune. Forest's manager praised the team | :06:18. | :06:28. | |
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and the 24-year-old's performance. If you go in to a game and you know | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
you have got goals in the locker, which we know we have, for three | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
months we did not have a clean sheet and a goal, we could not buy | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
a clean sheet and a goal, and now we know we have got both. It is a | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
good recipe, and we are looking forward to the rest of the season. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
If your Easter weekend plans depend on the weather, let's check the | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
Still plenty of snow on the ground in parts - these shots taken | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
earlier by our cameraman Mark show the scene in Wessington in the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Amber Valley area of Derbyshire. No more snow this weekend, but the | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
cloud we've had today is going to be sticking with us tonight. It'll | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
bring a little rain in parts as lows drop to 4 Celsius. Tomorrow | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
will see any rain or drizzle clearing. It'll be dry with some | :07:12. | :07:14. |