08/02/2014 East Midlands Today

Good afternoon with your headlines for the East Midlands. There are to

be meetings between parents, governors and the City Council in

Derby after the weekend to find new school places for 140 children. It

comes after the city's troubled free school Al Madinah was ordered

yesterday by the government to shut its secondary school. One teacher

's' union says it confirms that claims and fears that the free

school system does not work. The idea that anyone can set up a free

school where ever they like and if it fails, they can just be closed,

it is unacceptable. Schools need to be accountable to the public and the

taxpayer and be run by professional people and parents need to know it

will stay open. A Derbyshire charity has discovered a rare archive film

of its founder Leonard Cheshire in action during a daring World War II

mission. The footage shows a night`time raid on a French factory

that took place 70 years ago today. He gave 500 people in the building

time to escape. It would have caused serious loss of life and injury. I

can only thank God that everybody did escape, except one unfortunate

man who returned for his bicycle. Nottingham skaters Jon Eley led Team

GB into the opening ceremony at Sochi last night. It is the biggest

British team with 56 competitors. Two 0 0

British team with 56 competitors. Two skaters are taking part this

afternoon. Nick Buckland and Penny Coomes go to Sochi as European

bronze medallists with a target to finish in the top eight.

Nottingham Forest hope to stretch their undefeated run as they head to

Blackpool. Leicester are hoping to stretch their lead at the top. Last

night's Premiership 0 stretch their lead at the top. Last

night's Premiership action saw Leicester Tigers return to winning

ways, although only narrowly. A late penalty goal from Toby Flood secured

the win. How is it looking? It has been a

fairly decent morning. But the cloud has been thickening and the wind is

strengthening and that is a key feature of this afternoon. We have

yellow warnings which last until tomorrow morning. Most of the

showers hang back until we reach this evening. The winds make it feel

fresher than those temperatures suggest. Then the showers come in

and they will be quite lively with some hail and thunder and will be

accompanied by some blustery wind. Tomorrow it gets off to a blustery

start. Still wet and windy, but the wind starts to ease as the day goes

on. It remains breezy on Sunday, but it will be a bit brighter by

tomorrow afternoon. We will have more this evening.

evening. -- the winds will ease Good afternoon. It is yet another

stormy day to day with heavy rain around and very strong winds. The

Met office has issued an amber warning for the strong winds. They

could be disruptive and damaging. This is the latest in a string of

storms that we have seen this winter. For southern England, this

looks like one of the wettest winters for 250 years. Scotland saw

the wettest December 4/100 years. Low pressure well in charge of

things at the moment, drifting across the UK to the