08/07/2014 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands.

First tonight, the hard shotlder of a stretch of the M1 motorwax is to

be converted into a fourth lane in a multimillion`pound project `imed at

The Department for Transport, though, has admitted it's lhkely to

So now the government is looking at a 60mph speed limit at peak times.

It is a plan designed to cut waterway congestion. It is ` stretch

of the people I spoke to living near the M1 said they had not bedn

consulted. We have not been consulted at all. The pollution I

believe, is high, and the non`consultation, not letting people

know what is happening, when it is happening, I do not agree whth it at

all. By next year, there will be an upgrade at a cost of ?225 mhllion.

Then there is a ?142 million upgrade. It will become what is

called a managed motorway, with controls on speed and lanes. To

reduce pollution and 60 mph speed limit could be reduced at pdak

times. The government does not want to slow down traffic for long

periods. The boss of this h`ulage firm is pleased that the outcome. It

is great for business, it is going to any bowlers to get to our

destination is much quicker and obviously time is money in our

industry and we want to get there and get onto the next job. Other

ways of reducing pollution such as barriers at the side of the

motorway, and the Dutch style canopy will be looked at.

Staying with big transport projects, controversial proposals to locate

a rail`freight interchange on farmland near East Midlands

Airport will bypass the norlal local planning procedures.

That's because the plan, which will create 7,000 jobs,

is regarded as an infrastructure project of national significance.

Residents in nearby villages fear it means their concerns will bd ignored

Now the villagers have the backing of a former leader

The planning inspectors will decide nationally on this. It is a

thoroughly undemocratic process I am backing over 1000 people who have

signed this petition, in Castle Donington, they are all up hn arms

about this in all the villages, I am prepared to give them all the

backing. Kate McCann has spoken

of the moment her son asked her about claims that she was involved

in the disappearance The three`year`old disappeared

in Praia da Luz in 2007. Mrs McCann was speaking

at a Portuguese libel case relating to the allegations made by former

police detective Goncalo Am`ral The court heard that her son Sean

asked about whether she hid Madeleine, but she told him Amaral

had said a lot of silly things. A ruling is expected

later this year. Next, the number of people with

dementia in the East Midlands is That was the warning today from

Dame Gill Morgan, Here is our health correspondent

Rob Sissons. Are we on top of dementia? Dame Gill

Morgan sees dementia as the biggest health challenge of our age. It is

increasing as we have an agding and fairly fit population. It is a

challenge because, when you have dementia, it is very demandhng on

your family. Ken wonders how the care system will cope. He looks

after his wife at home. She in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's.

There has got to be a lot more moves and facilities put in place without

a doubt. We can only be counted as a challenge. If think about it, that

is it `` we can only look at it as a challenge. The Alzheimer's Society

have calculated how many people go undiagnosed, and there are big

variations in the region. In Ashfield it is thought to bd 58 2%,

but in shower with it is not be much lower. The evidence is therd now

that if you know you have the condition then you and your carers

can do things. This dementi` specialist in Nottingham saxs that

it is well worth diagnosing away. There is a lot that we can do to

help people start treatment as soon as possible, to make plans for the

future and to live their lives well. Today, the development of a new

blood test offers hope and light lead to much needed treatment.

Patients on two wards at Lehcester General Hospital couldn't shower for

most of today after the leghonella bug was found in the water supply.

The hospital says showers are now back on, but bottled water hs still

being provided for staff and patients to drink.

It says it has taken the me`sures as a precaution and that

the risk of someone contracting Legionnaires? disease remains low.

Enthusiasts are celebrating another ?1 million step towards rejoining

Cuts in the 1960s meant the Great Central Railway's bridge over

the Midland Mainline at Loughborough was demolished.

Now the Great Central are fund`raising to put the bridge back

and the project has just bedn boosted with ?1 million frol

That's it from me, so I'll say goodnight.

We have had some really livdly weather around today, some hefty

thunderstorms. They have cldared out of the way and it is looking pretty

good for tomorrow. Looking pretty good for the start of the cricket,

that only compromise will bd on increasing northerly wind. We are

dry and we will stay that w`y for the rest of the night. It whll turn

a little nippy, temperature sliding into single figures, temper`tures

around nine or 10 degrees in some areas. We will start off drx

tomorrow morning, some decent sunshine, the cloud will brdak up

across some western parts. But it. To come in from the East and we will

see the wind pick`up as well. Some brisk winds developing. Not feeling

quite as high as that 21 or 22 Celsius. As you can see, thd rain

will catch up with us through the next few days into the

weekend. Hot on Saturday with thundery showers.

Good evening, the rain in Rio is matching the mood, I suspect, this

evening. Here, we will take a day off from the rain tomorrow, at least

most of us. There will be sunshine around. The showers will be back for

the end of the week. Dry over night virtually everywhere. Winds easing

down in many places except towards the North Sea coasts. The south west

will keep a breeze going. Not a cold night, temperatures holding 12- 4

degrees typically. A dry day virtually everywhere tomorrow. Cloud

breaking up to allow good spells of sunshine coming through,

particularly to Scotland, northern England, Wales and the south of had

west. Rain