21/07/2014 East Midlands Today

That's it. It all starts on Wednesday evening. We're looking

forward to it. And now,

the news for the East Midlands. First tonight,

Michele Price suffered multh`organ failure, horrendous complic`tions,

and was left fighting for her life after what shotld have

been routine keyhole surgerx. Hospital managers have apologised

for her ordeal Three years ago,

Michelle suffered with pelvhc pain. Her keyhole surgery was routine

but it went horribly wrong. It destroyed me,

absolutely destroyed me. I had staples, tubes,

and wires coming out of me. I couldn't believe that

a simple routine operation It started here at the

Nottingham Treatment Centre. During the keyhole procedurd,

they perforated her bowel. She was screaming the house down

and we had to get an ambulance out She was taken to the

Queen's Medical Centre. When they finally operated,

after two days, She was put into it a coma

in intensive care. I was talking to her

and she was squeezing my hand, It was a case of not knowing whether

she would pull through or not. The infection shut down her organs

and there were more competitions. Nottingham University Hospital Trust

has apologised and said it has done It is a case where

the hospital made mistakes. Michelle's bowel was perfor`ted

during what was Now, thankfully for Michelld

and Stephen and the rest of the family, they have admitted liability

for what they have done which means that we can now go on to agree

a fair settlement for Michelle. It was a nightmare

from start to finish. I don't want anyone else to go

through what I went through. A fundraising effort by

a Leicestershire student, who died in the Ukraine plane disastdr, has

raised nearly ten times its target. Richard Mayne was on board

the Malaysia Airlines flight. In March, he climbed to the Everest

base camp to raise money He wanted to raise ?680,

but donations have now reached more A charity spokesperson described

Richard as warm and friendlx and said they were extremelx

grateful for his support. Controversial plans to shut

several police stations havd been confirmed by Nottinghamshird's

Police Commissioner. Four buildings will be sold off

and seven front counters will be The move is designed to

protect police officers' jobs. But almost 3,000 people havd

signed a petition against closing If you want the police,

you ring them up. We are announcing the closure

of some front counters todax where What people say to me is th`t

they want bobbies not buildhngs And that is exactly

what we are doing. A man has denied murder tod`y in

a case linked to the deaths of four A jury has heard that

the fatal stabbing of the popular sports coach Antoin Akpom, hn

Leicester, led to the arson attack. The fire was intended

for the home of Abdul Hakim, Antoin Akpom was fatally st`bbed

in Leicester last September. At Nottingham Crown Court today

a murder trial jury heard that a botched revenge attack led to

the deaths of four innocent members of the Taufiq family in Wood Hill,

in Spinney Hills, hours latdr. The intended target was two doors

away ` the family home of 19`year`old Abdul Hakim,

because of his alleged involvement The prosecution accepts the

Abdul Hakim did not That was 19`year`old

Hussein Hussein, who has already But the prosecution say it was

a joint enterprise The court heard that the st`bbing

happened in Kent Street aftdr an earlier row between Mr Akpom

Mr Hakim, and Hussein Hussehn. Mr Akpom had returned to

the scene with a dumbbell and in the company of around nine men

from the gym he went to regtlarly. Mr Akpom was stabbed

in the left upper back and died an Witness Joe French,

who had been driving Mr Akpom to the gym that day, denied

in the defence cross`examin`tion that Mr Akpom was being aggressive

or that he was covering up to Mike O'Sullivan, BBC East Mhdlands

Today, Nottingham. The latest stage in the demolition

of five 1960s tower blocks hn This was the scene at the

Lenton Flats near There are two more high`risd

buildings left to demolish The site will then be used to build

140 new council homes as part Drivers who had stopped at

a petrol station in Leicestdrshire This picture, sent to us

by viewer Stephen Marriott, shows the moments just after a large part

of the overhead canopy fell onto two It happened on Saturday,

after a spell of bad weather. Antiques experts are trying to

trace the East Midlands arthst who carved an ornate wooden tribute to

soldiers of World War I. The carving was one of hundreds of

items brought to the BBC's @ntiques It features intricate portr`its

of soldiers from the 1916 B`ttle However, it is thought to h`ve been

made fairly recently by a Nottingham Looking at all those images all

over it, they are astonishing. You can link them

all to photographs. Whoever did it used a very complex

process of taking images from photographs and then carving them

into a very integrated structure. It is just extraordinary

that they should vanish. Here is Kaye with

another sunny outlook. After the wild weather of the

weekend, things are now looking quieter. Things will be find for the

next few days. Some good we`ther to start the summer holidays. Ht will

be dry, bright, and warm. It has been a good evening. There will be

some changes overnight. Somd low cloud and mist will come across

Temperatures, 16`17 Celsius. Tomorrow, there will be clotd but it

will be broken up and some decent spells of sunshine will comd

through. Temperatures, 24`24 Celsius.

Good evening. If you were unfortunate enough to be at the

sharp end of the weekend storms you'll be pleased to know that the

atmosphere is less volatile now Temperatures of 28 Celsius on the

Sussex coast today. Most places were fine and warm.

In Scotland it was cool with the breeze off the sea. Some eastern

coasts will be cooler. They will be the exception. Most of us very warm

and the vast majority will stay dry. That is the way