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This is East Midlands Today with Anne Davies and me, Dominic Heale. | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Our top story tonight - a murder investigation as two bodies are | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
found. The discovery was made at this house in Nottingham. Police | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
have recovered a weapon. Also, a million pounds for charity | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
- the astonishing legacy of marathon women Claire Squires. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Plus, four years in jail for the union boss who stole for sick and | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
elderly miners. And the soldier who served in | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Afghanistan then took his family there to live there. Everybody | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
immediately things you are barking mad. On the face a bid, it is the | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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most crazy thing you can think of. Good evening. Welcome to Friday's | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
programme. And first, a murder investigation's begun in a | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Nottingham suburb after two bodies were found at a house. The man in | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
his sixties and woman in her thirties were discovered yesterday | :01:04. | :01:11. | |
morning. Police confirmed a weapon was found in the property. There's | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
been a major development in this story tonight but first, here's | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Sarah Teale's report. The gruesome discovery was made | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
yesterday morning. Inside this house on North Road in West | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Bridgford. Today police confirmed that that they have found the | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
bodies of a 64-year-old and a 31- year-old woman. A murder | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
investigation will be under way to establish the circumstances | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
surrounding their deaths. Forensic officers have been in and out of | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
the property all morning. Detectives have also been | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
conducting house-to-house inquiries with neighbours. Many of the people | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
we have spoken to said they have no idea it from lived in the House, | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
but they were shocked by what had happened. It is a bit worrying, we | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
heard on the news there was a drugs raid in Nottingham recently as well. | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
So it is all a bit much. I didn't expected in an area like this, I | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
have been told it is one of the most affluent areas in Nottingham, | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
so it is one of the things you try and avoid, I don't think I would | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
want to live here next year. Today, police were trying to reassure the | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
local community. A weapon has been recovered from the scene, only to | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
emphasise to the public we are not seeking anyone else at the current | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
time in relation to this. Two other houses have been cordoned off as | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
part of the investigation, including this one. Formal | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
identification of the people who died he is yet to take place. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Locals who knew them say they are upset and shocked. They have been | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
living here since we have been here, over 20 years. It was a nice -- he | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
was a nice guy, he always chatted with me. Very sad. Post-mortem | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
examinations have been carried out to find out how the two people died. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
In the last few minutes it there has been a new development. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Nottinghamshire police have just told us that they are looking into | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
whether there are any links between those two deaths in West Bridgford | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
with the discovery of another woman's body. She was found in the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
River Trent on April 15th. Police have said tonight it was her death | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
which led them to the man and woman who were found in this property | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
yesterday. Police say they are not formally identifying any of the | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
victims at this stage, but asking anyone with information to get in | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
contact with them. The amount raised in memory of a | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Leicestershire runner who died shortly before completing the | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
London Marathon on Sunday has reached more than a million pounds. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
The donations, plus the associated GiftAid, will go to the Samaritans | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
via Claire Squires' charity web page. Our reporter Carol Hinds | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
joins us now from the newsroom. Yes, it was around five o'clock | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
this afternoon that the donations and the Gift aid contributions made | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
to Claire Squires' Just Giving web page totalled more than a million | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
pounds and even now, is still rising. It's a figure that's more | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
than 20,000 times the amount she had initially hoped to raise for | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the Samaritans. The 30-year-old from Great Bowden in Leicestershire | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
collapsed and died on Sunday as she was approaching the final stretch | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
of the 26 mile race. Since then there's been a huge response from | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
the public, with more than 70,000 donations from the UK and all over | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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the world. It is a stunning total. What has been the reaction? | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Claire's friend Nicola Short said today that they are absolutely | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
overwhelmed by the generosity and messages of support that have | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
poured in. This afternoon, the Samaritans issued a statement | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
saying that although the circumstances under which the | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
donations have reached a million pounds are heartbreaking, they | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
would like to thank everyone for their support. They also plan to | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
sit down with Claire's family in due course, to discuss what they | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
feel she would have liked these donations to fund within their | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
organisation. Thank you. An arthritis patient is furious | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
that the NHS has withdrawn a treatment she says improves her | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
life massively. Sue Harrison from Nottinghamshire has been told the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
knee injections she was getting are too expensive and there isn't | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
enough evidence to prove they work. Here's our health correspondent Rob | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
Sissons. Sue's knees are bad and she says in | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
retirement, her health is going downhill. She blames the NHS for | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
stopping the osteoarthritis jab she had the years, because it says they | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
are not cost-effective. At home, she cannot even ride a horse these | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
days. The injunctions they took away from me, it causes a lot of | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
reaction. -- injections. They made my joints so they would move freely. | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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Why has the NHS stopped the The couple reckon the scrap | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
medication cost of �300 a year per patient. She says the replacement | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
steroids don't work as well for her and there are side-effects. Change | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
of weight, daft as a side-effect! The medication maybe band in the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
character, but is given to patients in Nottingham city. That is now | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
being reviewed. At this arthritis charity's headquarters in | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Derbyshire, there is sympathy. of people have osteoarthritis and | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
find it very difficult to get the right treatment. If she is lucky | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
enough to find something that works, to have it taken away... On the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
other hand, the treatment hasn't been proved to be cost-effective. | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Sue used to enjoy trekking. Now she says she faces having to go private | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
for the medication or overturn a maze of Anne Rogers decision making | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
it she is ever to make it through the jungle. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Still to come on the programme - some record-breaking rainfall - and | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
rising river levels. Yes, we have broken a number of rainfall records | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
for April. So these live shots will come as no surprise. I will have | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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all the details and your fault "Calculated and sophisticated | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
greed." That's how a judge described the actions of Neil | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Greatrex, the former president of a Nottinghamshire miners union. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Earlier this month he was convicted of stealing almost �150,000 from a | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
charity for sick and elderly miners. Today he was jailed for four years. | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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Simon Hare reports. Neil Greatrex's family leave court | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
without him. He gave them a wave goodbye as he was led away to start | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
his sentence. The court heard his family have suffered harassment | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
since his conviction. Have you could anything to say about | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
betraying the miners? Nerve. jury had found him guilty of | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
stealing almost �150,000. He sprinted on improvements to his | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
home and his previous home, which included a new kitchen plus a | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
replacement windows and doors. He persuaded the white man to provide | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
false invoices which said they were repairs -- to work men. He was a | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
trustee of the charity, and claimed he had taken the improvements in | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
loo of a salary, but the judge today said he was already well paid | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
for his role as president of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Sentencing him to four years, the judge told him, "you saw an | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
opportunity to make personal profit at the expense of those less | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
fortunate than yourself, whose interest you had agreed as trustee | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
to protect. This was calculated and sophisticated read". He was in a | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
position of trust, and instead, he stole real -- money, he had no real | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
need to. He stole money from sick and ill miners. A hearing which | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
will determine how much money has to pay back will be paid in -- held | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
in June. Nottinghamshire police say that | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
more than 60 officers are investigating the murder of Malakai | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
McKenzie, almost a week after the teenager was killed. The 19-year- | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
old suffered fatal injuries in a shooting in the car park of the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Hubb in Sherwood in the early hours of last Saturday morning. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Detectives are continuing to follow-up several lines of enquiry | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and have searched four addresses with a number of vehicles being | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
seized. A train driver and passenger were | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
taken to hospital with minor injuries after a train was derailed | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
by a mudslide in North Nottinghamshire. 17 other | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
passengers walked clear of the incident that happened at the exit | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
to the Clarborough Tunnel near Retford this lunchtime. Rail | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
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services through the tunnel have been suspended. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
And now - a first for a high-tech Nottingham health care company. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Something that's giving them the chance to save a teenager's life | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
thousands of miles away. A blood sample stored at nearly 200 degrees | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
below zero has been sent to the Middle East, where it'll be used to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
help a boy who's got bone marrow failure. Mike O'Sullivan has the | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
story. High-tech and of high importance. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
The moment a sample of cord blood began its journey from Nottingham | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
to the Middle East. The cord blood from a baby girl born 18 months ago | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
in Jordan will help to save the life of her 16-year-old brother. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Very excited. This is the moment we have been waiting for. We have had | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
many samples stored, this is the first one, we are praying this will | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
be a complete success. The goal's family paid 1500 pounds to store 15 | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
mm of cord blood and future health in Nottingham. 50,000 samples are | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
kept here. They are placed in these huge tanks in liquid nitrogen paper, | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
at minus 196 degrees. You can see the ice forming along the outside. | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
The girl's cord blood is being sent to the Jordanian capital. He should | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
arrive in a sealed container at 2pm tomorrow. The patient has anaemia. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
Bone marrow failure. He hasn't previously been strong enough to | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
undergo the treatment. But now his family have hope. They have been | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
waiting a long time for the boy to be well enough to receive the cells, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
and I think like everything else, it is fingers crossed, and did they | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
look forward to him having a normal lifespan. Now it is a waiting game | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
in both Nottingham and Jordan. The company's first a life-saving | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
transfusion should be carried out within the next few days. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Next tonight, the incredible story of a Nottinghamshire soldier, who | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
left the army, and then moved to Afghanistan with his family. David | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
James thought the military campaign wasn't working, and decided he | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
could do more good by helping to build the country's economy. Now | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
he's writing a book on what lessons need to be learned from the | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
conflict, as our Social Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball reports. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
This footage I filmed in 4002 when I was a soldier in the British Army, | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
and this is... David James was first deployed to Afghanistan only | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
months after 9/11. He was astonished by how many -- friendly | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the locals were. Fundamentally, we are giving people a huge incentive | :13:22. | :13:29. | |
to be violent. You fire a couple of RPGs, the military come along and | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
bowled to a school and do well to win over your hearts and minds so | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
you reject the insurgency. If you live in a peaceful part of | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Afghanistan, you get nothing. swapped his soldier's uniform for | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
civilian clothes and went to live in Afghanistan with his family. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Their new home was away from the fighting in a place that is so poor, | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
some people starved to death. A remote mountain valley. Everybody | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
thinks you are barking mad. On the face of it, it is the most crazy | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
thing you can think of. We lived in a mud-brick house, we had to | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
collect the water from the river, fell to the water, no electricity, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
but once you lie in a mug to the Afghan people, they really look | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
after you. They bring you into their houses and homes, entertain | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
you with music. Our cat died, they brought one wild tom cat round for | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
our two-year-old a year-year-old son. This is why David chose the | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
valley, didn't it a mountain -- to develop a mountain tourism agency. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
If they develop 50 porters, $10 a day each, they can survive the | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
winter. So their families are not going to die. The matinees did | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
start coming, but the BECTU and -- company was a victim of its own | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
success. We just couldn't publicise the fact that there are unarmed | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
civilians wandering around the Hindu Kush without worrying that | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
the Taliban would have a go. I am frustrated about the whole thing. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
After trying so hard, he is pessimistic about Afghanistan's | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
future and worried about what will happen to his friends. Before | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
leaving, he went to see how much had changed. This is where I used | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
to patrol. The thing they used to tell us, every patrol was that the | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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Welsh do not work. 10 years on, the Some stories make your own life | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
seemed a very mundane. Now it is that support. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
It is not mundane for Nottingham County fans. They have two games | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
left to play to make the play-off so tomorrow's trip to Wycombe will | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
be huge. They lost to Borrie 42 points of the top set. The captain | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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is hoping it does not mean they We did not say that performance | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
coming. Everything had been geared up as usual. It was one of them at | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
days. We have got two games left and I believe that if we get the | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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six points out of them, we will We have had shock results in the | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
last two weeks. The only results we can affect is the one at Wycombe | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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and Colchester next week. Saturday It is coming at the end of a | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
turbulent year. Even Sol Campbell came for a couple of weeks, so it | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
was an unreal season. It is positive in some respects. The | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
change of manager, up and down, and we went on a fantastic run with | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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Steve Cotterill and we have been on Elsewhere, it is nothing but pride | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
to play for as Derby entertain Portsmouth, Leicester travel to | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
Leeds, and it will be a in -- and emotional game at Fort Steve | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Cotterill. Leicester Riders are in Sheffield | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
this evening for the play-off for the quarter-finals. They are taking | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
nothing for granted. For we feel good. We have played very well over | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the last six weeks and we have had eight games in 23 days coming into | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
the play-offs. We have a nice rhythm right now. There are many | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
top teams and if you don't play well, you are going to have trouble | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
going through. In cricket, Nottingham's James Taylor will | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
captain the England Lions against the West Indies touring side. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Bad light affected play today in not an inch a's game against | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Worcestershire, and in Leicestershire's game Hampshire on | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
out chasing their first innings total. -- art now chasing. | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
Now we have the next Elsey was going through the Olympic sports. | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
Today it is Hamble, which few people know about. -- of the next | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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A cross between basketball and five-a-side football, fast, high- | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
scoring and often stings a bit. is like five-a-side football. It is | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
better. It is likely unknown. People don't know what they are | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
doing, and it is a whole heap of fun. They this was the evening they | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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launched the ladies' team. It was low key. In Hungary, for girls, it | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
is the main sport and everyone knows about it and follows it. | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
your wrist straight behind the ball. But it was all new to Lucy. It is | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
good to have a few tips towards the end about how to hold the ball and | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
where to handle it from. I will be back to learn more. It may start | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
small, but as the growth of the men's sideshows, it is something to | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
build on. We have one and that keeps people coming back. Traps | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
await the unwary. The new boy discovered the dangers of this | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
stuff! Sticky hands and gulls are marked with tape. British handball | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
is claiming 600% growth. It is all ages and abilities and everybody | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
can get involved. It is still a long way from Olympic standard, so | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
I wonder whether we can learn to love handball. | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
If you fancy a go at British handball, it is coming to | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Nottingham this weekend. It will be at the Victoria Shopping Centre | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
tomorrow and the Broadmarsh Centre tomorrow -- on Sunday. We know from | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the weather pictures how much everybody loves a wildlife and | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
nature so, like us, you may be interested to hear about a special | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
anniversary. The Notts Wildlife Trust, along with other UK trusts, | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. It bills itself as the | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
county's first line of defence for wild species and habitats and Erin | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
McDaid from the Organisation is with us. How did the trust begin? | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
It all started with the vision of one man, Charles Rothschild, in | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
1912. He came off with the idea that to protect wildlife, we need | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
to create what we now know as nature reserves. Let's bring it | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
back up to today. What are the talent is facing the reserves, 100 | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
years on? We now manage over 200 sites in the East Midlands. We need | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
lots of support and volunteers. We have around 2000 volunteers in this | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
region alone. You have 50,000 members - it is extraordinary! Is | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
their concern that in hard economic times, people will care less and | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
give less? We are not seeing that. It is about protecting wildlife on | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
people's doorsteps. The funds are invested in the local area. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
there different pressures now, with climate change, people wanting to | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
build on land and so on? Yes, it all start with nature reserves, | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
which are important to us, but we realise we need to link those in | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
better to the wider countryside. We are trying to work with landowners | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
and create a living landscape all people and wildlife. You have had | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
some great campaigns. I remember the dawn chorus. People got up at | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
an ungodly hour to appreciate the dawn chorus. The Ospreys are | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
brooding at Rutland Water. We have key wildlife in the East Midlands. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
The work over the nature centre or has put us in the public eye. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
your view of the future a good one? Do you think that despite the way | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
technology is going, that we all care about our wildlife in of? | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the moment, we are inundated with new volunteers. People really seem | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
to care. People want to come and help and do their bit. Hopefully, | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
the more support we have, the more we can do to protect wildlife. | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
Thanks for joining us. And now for news of what our | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
politics team is up to on Sunday, here is Mary. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Lunch at a -- on The Sunday Politics, the controversial plan to | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
move people from London to our cities. Is it human trafficking? | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
And should not in them have an elected mayor? A fan and a fierce | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
opponent get their chance to present their own political | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
We saw the pictures early of the River Trent having burst its banks. | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
It has been raining here and further north. | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
Yes, we have the April rainfall statistics in place now up to the | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
:24:20. | :24:31. | ||
27th. The most notable record we We have more rainfall forecast for | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
the weekend so the level will actually just rise. No surprise | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
that some of our rivers have flooded their banks, including the | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
River Derwent. These pictures were taken this afternoon. These are | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
:24:56. | :24:57. | ||
live pictures of the River Trent, which has burst. These are pictures | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
from Radcliffe. We have a number of flood alerts in place right across | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
the weekend. With that in mind and with more rainfall forecast, if you | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
are concerned about the levels near you, you can keep up to date with | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
the Environment Agency website. Back to the weekend forecast, | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Saturday is looking like a dry day but Sunday is looking very | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
unsettled. Heavy rain and strong gusts of wind. We are expecting the | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
wind to pick up between 40 and 50 mph gusts. We will keep you up to | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
date over the weekend. Through much of the day, we have had rain | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
sitting across the East Midlands. Leicestershire had dry weather for | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
a while but as we go through the night, that will start to ease and | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
there will be a bit of rain. Saturday morning will see the rain | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
continued to ease out and although we have a lot of dry weather | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
throughout the day, allow for a few spots of drizzle if you are heading | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
out and about. Across Derbyshire and into the Peak District, you may | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
get some sunshine. Temperatures struggling nine Celsius on Saturday | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
and for Sunday, it will turn #ColourWhite and windy as the band | :26:15. | :26:20. |