27/08/2012 East Midlands Today

And now for the news for the East Midlands. Good evening, I'm Kylie

Pentelow. It is now just two days until the

start of the Paralympic Games in London. More than 2 million tickets

have been sold and the profile of disability sport has never been

higher. In Leicestershire, people with lower limb injuries are being

offered the chance to take to the skies. Geoff Maskell reports. An

this is the power of Paralympic sport. Over the weekend, thousands

of people came out to welcome the Paralympic flame and try out new

sports. Clubs across the region are looking to capitalise on the

enthusiasm of London 2012. This gliding club is looking to set up a

disabled flying section. We have had lots of people that are going

to be disabled and this is a golden opportunity to give them an

interest in life. They probably think they cannot play sports but

we can adapt at later for them and they can be the same as anyone else.

The club has brought in hand controlled blinder -- wider. This

offers people with the law Len difficulties to try flying. This

man has been flying for more than 20 years. I have found it

frustrating some signs that she cannot go to a place with a glider

adapted for people with disabilities. You have to travel

hundreds of miles to get to a club of were this very simple facility

could be made available. Local disabled groups are being invited

to visit the club for a trial lesson.

Derby City Council could have to pay legal costs of more than

�100,000 to the NHS over a planning dispute. The council refused

planning permission for the local health trust to redevelop the

former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary site. But that decision was

overturned by a planning inspector on appeal. Now, the council has

been told to pay the Trust's legal costs.

Soldiers from the Mercian Regiment will feature in a BBC documentary

tonight looking at the reality of life on the front line in

Afghanistan. Since it was founded in 2007, the regiment has been

deployed to Afghanistan five times. The Mercians recruit from across

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The story of their latest tour of

Helmand Province is on BBC three at 9:00pm.

A team of volunteers from across Europe have descended on one of the

region's most important church buildings to do urgent maintenance

work. The young volunteers have been living and working at

Southwell Minister in Nottinghamshire. 15 students from

across Europe are using their summer break to help clean the

Southwell Minister. This is part of a ball and chain jammed it --

charity and the camp out on site. everyone has a job list and

everyone has a different job and you swap would people to do

something different. It is only for a one-week, there is gardening work

outside and there is stuff like this, cleaning the roof. There is

cleaning in the cathedral and cleaning windows. Had charity has

been conserving churches and cathedrals for their tears. This is

the first one I have done, so far it has been great fun. This

morning's job was to clear pigeon droppings from the roof. It is not

the nicest job but it needs doing and she gets and reviews. Some

students are volunteering as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award

but others are just doing it to meet new people. I am enjoying

making some friends. My English is better than before. I had been have

been camping, but I have never done anything like this before. It is a

nice experience and we get to make new friends. At the end of the Dane,

they need feeding, new skills for some of the volunteers. -- at the

end of the day. They hope to make the cathedral a better place at the

end of the week. We will have the full forecast in a

moment. Despite the poor weather, hundreds of people took a step back

in time at Sherwood Forest over the bank holiday weekend. That's

because the medieval Knight Hospitallers had set up camp by the

Major Oak. Visitors were able to find out what sort of food was

eaten around 1250, at the end of the Crusades. There were also

demonstrations of weaponry, chain mail making and archery. Hundreds

of people have been coming this weekend and we do it because it is

educational, but it is a fund education. They get to try things

for real. It is a nice way to educate them about the 13th century.

It is living history, it is a fabulous we to find out about

history, by trying things without history, by trying things without

reading them in a book. Now for the weather.

Good evening. We are starting to see that band of rain moving across

the East Midlands and it is also windy. The winds are strengthening

through the afternoon. As we head towards teatime, it is starting to

peak and it will gust at times, up to 36 miles an hour. The rain is

starting to peter out. Overnight temperatures dropped to 14 Celsius.

It does mean that more morning will start to drive. We may get the odd

shower tomorrow, but for most of us it will be a rather nice day. Now

that the bank holiday is over! With the winds lighter as well, it will

feel quite warm in the sunshine. A pleasant day in store for Tuesday.

We also have a showery day in store for a Wednesday. There is rain

moving up which will produce showers on Wednesday. By Thursday,

we also have in area of rain which will be more showery. We had this

lovely air of high pressure sitting out in the Atlantic which is

working towards this. This will reach us by Thursday night. Cloudy

by Friday but it will try to break as the day goes on. Temperatures