27/04/2014 East Midlands Today

to you. There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel. I'm

back with With your news now for the East

Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. An Italian judge will begin considering

tomorrow whether an investigation into the death of a young

Nottinghamshire mother should be reopened. Claire Martin's family say

they cannot accept a verdict of suicide for their daughter ` who

died two years ago from multiple stab wounds to the neck. Carol Hinds

reports. More than two years on from the

death of their daughter Claire, her parents from Sutton in Ashfield

still have many unanswered questions about how she died. I would like to

know the official time of death that my daughter died, the time that she

was first discovered. The time that the paramedics were actually called.

Who identified my daughter? Why we weren't involved or told until

3:30pm the following day? She was found in March 2012 with 24 stab

wounds to her neck at the home near Naples that she shared with her

partner and her son. A local magistrate declared her death

suicide and closed the case. Tomorrow, a judge in Italy will

decide whether to reopen the investigation. We hope that the

judge actually reads the paper. It is quite a lengthy document. And

then agrees to the case not being closed. For every question, there

are two, maybe three different answers and there should only be

one. One answer to each question. This weekend, they took a break from

the paperwork to hold their first fundraiser. It was a night of comedy

and music. Two of Claire 's favourite pastimes.

You'll hear more from the Martins, and their story, on BBC Radio

Nottingham's Breakfast tomorrow morning.

Police have described as "cowardly" two men who attacked a pregnant

shop`worker with a baseball bat. The woman, who's 36 weeks pregnant, was

working at the Johal General Store on Park Street in Kirkby in Ashfield

on Friday night when it happened. She told us she was hit in the

stomach, while trying to block their bat with her arms. The men fled with

nothing. She's unharmed, but shaken. Around 30 people have been moved

from their homes, after a fire on a modern retirement village in

Nottinghamshire. It broke out within the Lark Hill complex in Clifton

this afternoon. More than four hundred people live on the site

within its flats and bungalows. It was quickly brought under control.

There'll be no changes to school holiday patterns in Leicestershire.

It's after 86% of people who responded to a County Council survey

voted to keep the status quo. From September 2015, all state schools in

England will be able to decide their own term dates.

Football and a good weekend for three of our teams. Leicester, Derby

and Notts County all securing wins. Kirsty Edwards rounds up the action.

Not content with the title, Leicester City want to break the 100

point barrier and they're almost there after Gary Taylor Fletcher saw

them take the lead at Huddersfield. The job was finished off by captain

Wes Morgan. Derby County have secured third place despite falling

behind to Watford. Jeff Hendrick got them back on level terms. They then

edged ahead, this time through Craig Forsyth. Watford had had a man sent

off and scored an equaliser before Jeff Hendrick had his second of the

day. A cracking strike too. And Chris Martin ensured a fifth

straight win for the Rams. No chance of Nottingham Forest joining Derby

in the play`offs, there were already 2`0 down when Greg Halford headed

in. Any chances were dashed when Yara gave away a penalty.

Bournemouth scored it and added another later on to see Forest go

down 4`1. Notts County are in with a great chance of escaping relegation.

Alan Sheehan with their opener against Swindon. The visitors had

two men sent off late on for an off the ball incident and the resulting

fracas. When the Swindon goalkeeper went up front corner, Nott

capitalised on an empty net with Calum MacGregor's goal making sure

of a vital three points. I'm really proud of them. Nothing is achieved

yet. I have been in too many last day dramas to feel that everything

is done and dusted by now. It definitely isn't. It will go down to

the very last day. A disappointing day for Mansfield Town. A 3`1 defeat

to Torquay. Notts County ladies beat Portsmouth

Ladies two nil in the sixth round of the Women's FA Cup, seeing them

through to the semifinal. And in the women's Premier League, Forest

Ladies drew one all at Sheffield. In the weekend's basketball, Leicester

Riders are through to the semi final of the play`offs. They beat Cheshire

by 77 points to 56 in the second leg of the quarterfinal. So they won by

33 points on aggregate. Let's check the weather now, Mel has your

forecast. Good evening, some places have

remained dry and bright with one or two showers around, but they will

fade as the night goes on. Increasing cloud. Some shells would

be heavy this evening before they clear. One or two dotted around

before the early hours of the morning. In most places dry with

increasing cloud. Not a cold night with low`temperature is of a turn

nine Celsius. Grade to start on Monday, that allows them for some

bright and sunny spells. 12 showers in southern parts but a bridge is

not too bad and the wind will be quite light.

We're back later this evening at 22:15.

Good evening. After an unsettled weekend, the same culprit will be

staying with us through the early part of the new week. No pressure is

set to continue producing a fair number of showers across England and

Wales. Still some hefty ones to come through this evening, particularly

across the Midlands, South Wales and south-west England. Rain will spread

from the south-west of Scotland into Northern Ireland by dawn. A mild

enough night. Monday, after a gloomy start for many of us, the cloud and

Risley rain across Northern Ireland. A reasonably dry start

across England and Wales but come the afternoon, that low-pressure

centre is still close by and it looks like it will start generating

some pretty hefty thundery showers. A few for south Wales, certainly

across southern England and into East Anglia. Some areas will miss