27/01/2014 East Midlands Today

upheaval of August 1914. That is all from us,

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies.

First tonight, five people have denied murdering four members of the

same family in a house fire in Leicester.

In a separate case, two men pleaded not guilty to the murder of the

football coach Antoin Akpom in the same city a few hours earlier.

In the early evening of September 12 last year on Kent Street in

Leicester, Antoin Akpom, a 20`year`old football coach was

killed by a single stab wound. Today at Birmingham Crown Court, two

19`year`old men from Leicester, Hussein Hussein and Abdul Hakim both

pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. They remain in custody.

In the early hours of 13 September last year, Shehnila Taufiq and her

three teenage children were killed in a fire in their house in the Wood

Hill area of Leicester. Today, five of those accused on four counts of

murder entered pleas. They are all aged between 17 and 24. Shaun

Carter, Jackson Powell, Akeem Jeffers and Tristan Richards and a

youth who cannot be named because of his age, all pleaded not guilty to

all charges. They were remanded into custody.

A mistake meant that three other men who faced the same charges were not

brought to court today. They will now enter pleas in March. The High

Court judge ruled there was enough self contained evidence for both

cases to be heard at separate trials. The stabbing case is being

set for the beginning of April and the house fire trial will start

three weeks later. The first is expected to last up to three weeks,

the second could take up to eight. A woman suffered multiple injuries

after falling down stairs while sleepwalking. Morag Fisher needed

two emergency operations. Experts at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre

say they see two or three cases a year of people being badly hurt

because of sleepwalking. The right wrist has healed well...

Morag's injuries were life threatening. Sleepwalking, she fell

downstairs at her partner's home. I was in a strange house, not my own

home, which I think was a major factor in the accident.

Having heard she fell down a flight of stairs I am not surprised that

she had a catalogue of injuries. Facial injuries, broken nose,

cheekbone, ribs, damaged vertebra in her back, broken wrists.

I'm very lucky to be here. This is where your girlfriend fell

down. At 5am I heard a massive crash and

she had hit the door. I came out of the bedroom and found her where we

are standing now. If she had banged her head or twisted her spine in the

wrong way, it could have been a lot worse.

She spent ten days in the East Midlands major trauma unit at

Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre. I think she must have gone

headfirst, given the way she landed and her injuries. She must have

landed on her face with her arms outstretched. She had some pretty

nasty injuries. It's thought one in three children

will sleepwalk at some point and an American study revealed that one in

30 adults reported sleepwalking in the previous year. It usually occurs

during deep sleep and in the first few hours after falling asleep.

They can't see, even though their eyes are open. They don't go around

with their hands in front of them, as you see in cartoons. They

sometimes forget where they are in the house.

The NHS gets so much bad press. But I would not have gone the treatment

I got anywhere else in the world. And with her body healing, Morag has

now fitted stair gates at home. The full effects of the weekend's

storms are still being assessed across the region. Roofs and fences

were damaged with some people claiming a mini hurricane had ripped

off tiles. But the most dramatic incident was caught on CCTV when

lightning struck a temple in Leicester.

Cameras capture the dramatic moment lightning strikes.

It looked as if the whole area had been eliminated by the flash of

lightning. As the ceiling crashes down, a group

of worshippers have a very narrow escape.

The rear wall and the roof where literally blown off.

And from the outside, CCTV cameras capture the debris flying across the

road. The force is so great, it knocks the camera on its side.

There was a particular car parked there and one of the beams went

through the windscreen like a javelin. It was lodged inside the

dashboard. There were three people in it, but one of them had a glass

cut, that was it. Today the full extent of the damage

to the Ramgarhia Sikh temple can be clearly seen. Structural engineers

are working out how and when it can be repaired. Despite the rubble,

there's relief that only the building bore the brunt of the

storm. People were very fortunate not to be

injured. If that had happened while the congregation hall was full, then

we would have had fatalities. And still with the weather ` it

could be another six months before a council report into last summer's

floods in the Southwell area is made public. Last July, dozens of homes

and businesses were swamped when three inches of rain fell in a few

hours. Nottinghamshire County Council says it has gathered a huge

amount of information about the town's water courses, which is

helping them draw up more robust anti`flooding measures.

Hello. There is more rain to come in the next 24 hours. This time, in the

form of showers. We will also have some brisk south`westerly winds.

These will form in bands of showers. There could be a wintry element

across the Peak District from time to time. Tomorrow morning we had

showers from the word go and they will be coming in thick and fast

through the morning. Some dry places in between if you're lucky. But it

feel quite cold. A possibility of some hail and Thunder thrown in for

good measure. Fewer showers on Wednesday but it is turning a lot

colder. It's going to get colder than it's

been all winter. Ahead of that, though, the showers keep going and

going through tonight and into tomorrow. Some of them heavy,

possibly thundery too. Here's the satellite. We can pick out the swirl

of cloud here. The bands of shower clouds that have been streaming into

the UK. All driven and wrapped around an area of low. That is the

driving force for the showers that we have at the moment. The centre

close to Northern Ireland, which is why it's been so wet earlier in the

evening. As the low drifts south, it takes more showers into England and

Wales. With fewer breaks in the cloud overnight,