10/07/2014 East Midlands Today

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale.

The unions claimed a million workers walked out across the UK.

The Government claimed most public sector staff reported for work

But whatever the actual figtres schools, the fire brigade and other

services across the East Midlands were disrupted today by one of the

Here is a round`up from our Political Editor John Hdss.

Library worker Rosie, from Nottinghamshire has lost

She regrets that, but then she has already lost

a big chunk of her salary because of council budget ctts.

That is why she joined todax's national strike

I went from 37 hours just down to 19 at the time.

So, you know, my wages have been greatly reduced

and I have a nine year`old at the moment and it is difficult

sometimes to try to make thd money stretch until the end of thd month.

Teachers, civil servants, and council care workers also backed

There was a similar big turnout in Leicester.

Fire Crews, angered over the raising of their retirelent age,

We are making a stand along with other public services

In Derby, while public servhce workers gathered for a rallx, fire

reservists covering for strhking full time crews were called to a

school. A fire had broken ott in the roof. No one was hurt.

There was a similar incident in Leicestershire.

This is what trade union solidarity looks like.

It is a show of strength but will it change the mindset of the government

on public service pay, condhtions and austerity budget cuts?

I think they are wrong and it will affect services and it

will affect people who have nothing to do with the dispute whatsoever.

I also think they are wrong because some of them are based on b`llots

With a very small percentagd of people actually voting

I personally would not want to see more strikes because these workers

are sacrificing a day's pay and that is because some of these people are

With the government talking about another four years

of public sector pay cuts, there may be further stoppages between now

The national rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers is

The Ministry of Defence says new facilithes

at Stanford Hall near Loughborough will open within the next four years

They will replace the outdated centre for seriously injured

If we start to get a conflict that delivers casualties in the future,

we have a state`of`the`art place to treat them so we will need to think

seriously about how we retahn the skills that we have learned

tragically, over the past fdw years with the levels of complex trauma

that we have had and the levels of head injury trauma that we have had.

Figures show 13 people have been fined for hogging the middld lanes

The new powers to levy fines were granted to

Officers can hand out on the spot penalties of up to ?10 .

It has been a day of Royal celebrations across Derbyshhre

Thousands of people lined the streets to welcome the Pueen

The Royal couple arrived at Matlock this morning, before moving

The sun shone for the thous`nds who thronged to Derbyshire waithng, for

Accompanied by Prince Philip, she arrived not by Royal tr`in,

It has been 22 years since the Queen has been to Matlock.

The crowds made sure it would be a visit which would not be

Many of them were lucky enough to share

Our daughter was playing in the music ensemble so we would

not have missed this day for all the earth.

We only saw the turquoise bobbing hat from where we were,

I'm just really excited to see the Queen

After Matlock, it was into the royal car and they visited

It was granted the royal se`l of approval two years ago.

Local children sung to her before she met some of the

Then it was onto sun`drenchdd Chatsworth House,

where hundreds upon hundreds of well`wishers had arrived hours

earlier to make sure they h`d secured a spot to see the Qteen

Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh slowly worked

their way through the crowds which lined the route to thd house.

They were then introduced to local food and drink producers who

presented the couple with a hamper of Derbyshire's finest

She spent a long time looking at all of this didn't she?

His Royal Highness was obviously very keen on some

of the products and asked a lot of questions and spoke to us

She asked if she would be able to fit it in her helicopter to take it

home, so we all had quite a giggle with her, to be honest

It was a memorable experience for many who came here.

It was amazing and she looked beautiful.

It has been amazing, I have never seen the Queen before

She is quite smaller than I actually thought she would be.

The crowds stayed to wave her goodbye, all in agreement there

That is your news. So, it is goodbye from me, but with your weather now,

Wheat were lucky to do in the rain stayed to the east. If you're

heading down any of the rem`ining days it is looking to bad. There is

the potential for a few showers on Sunday. The noun there is that rain

which has been setting to the east of us all day. For the rest of us,

just a gradual increase in cloud and a few spots of rain pushing end

Temperatures of 13 degrees. Tomorrow morning the weather front moves

westwards. There are the potential for a few spots of rain. For most of

us it will remain dry. Their cloud should spend a little bit. `` the

cloud should then a little bit. Hot 20s. The weekend - dry on Saturday.

Sunday, showers. Is Good evening. We had stark contrasts

in our weather today for most of us we had sunshine and it was warm 25

in Glasgow, 27 Attlee on Solent Just 14 under this cloud back. We've

had quite a brisk breeze and torrential rain at times.

Thunderstorms across East Anglia, Essex and Kent. Parts of London

That's meandering at the moment It is edging into Lincolnshire, parts

of Yorkshire. It is going to bring further downpours throughout the

evening. Nasty conditions on the roads with spray and warm. Elsewhere

bar the odd shower, a drier, clearer night. Mist and fog around. A chilly

in the Scottish glens. Fog for the East Coast. Sea fog could plague

eastern areas tomorrow. More cloud as the rain slowly eases away. It is

quite dry, but by the end of tomorrow, the rain for the weekend