30/12/2016 East Midlands Today

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There's a stark warning from emergency workers this weekend,

Last New Year, East Midlands Ambulance service took more

This year they're expecting even more but stress

they don't have an endless supply of ambulances.

New Year's Eve, the fireworks and the fun and the flip side. In the

first six hours 2016, they received more than 1000 emergency calls, one

every 18 seconds and twice the number they expect on a normal

night. Yet many so-called emergency is simply do not need to be taken by

ambulance to hospital. That is what this mobile treatment centre is

about. We base this in the town centre at the clock tower, there

were nurses and a paramedic and we treat anybody been injured or drunk

too much, two beds and the idea is we avoid sending patients to

hospital. That is welcome news to the overstretched A departments.

We are challenged at this time of year, large numbers of unwell

patients and all we want is for the right patients to get the right

place and if you are not as unwell, look at the triage centre. Those

centres like this one have secure back-up. This allows us to have a

police person working with the ambulance person to make sure we can

work safely and deliver the best care to the patient. Of the patients

treated on this unit in Leicester over Christmas weekend, 50% avoided

being taken to hospital. They expect a huge spike in call-outs this

weekend but hope the warning to drink responsibly will allow more

people to have a happy New Year. A postmortem has failed to find the

cause of death for 17 discovered on Christmas Day.

The body of Han Lam was found near Heanor Memorial Park, and identified

The Coroner is now asking for the public's help

in finding his next of kin, while further tests are carried out.

Meanwhile Police want to hear from anyone who saw a dark grey

Toyota Avensis in the area, at any point over the festivities.

A Derby mum is looking forward to 2017, after surviving

a near-fatal brain bleed while on holiday in Greece.

Katy Head says she's been delighted to be able to share

Christmas with her family, after falling critically

That is where we live, we got on a plane in Birmingham. Back home in

Derby, Katie and her son recall the traumatic moment last October when

on holiday in Greece she suddenly fell ill. As I was swimming, got a

pain on the right-hand side of my neck and I knew something wasn't

right so I shouted out to Craig and he realised something was wrong and

that is the last thing I remember. During a boat trip, an aneurysm

burst in her brain while swimming. She had to be airlifted to a

specialist hospital in Athens where Greek surgeons operated to save her.

Everybody told me what a great job they did and if it wasn't for them,

and acting cabbie did, I would not be here for my boys. Christmas was

amazing, we made the most of it this year. Last month, she was flown home

and is slowly recovering and looking forward to next year and enjoying

family time. All I wanted was how to behave Christmas so we can have

dinner and played together. No going on holiday or any boat trips!

Definitely not. But, no, we are doing all right. Looking forward to

it. Back to normal. A new MRI scanner is being used

in the East Midlands specifically The mobile facility is one

of only two mobile scanners One is in Cambridge,

the other in Derbyshire from where our Health Correspondent

Rob Sissons reports. If you'd ever had an MRI scan, you

know it can be noisy and it can feel claustrophobic. This new mobile

scanner fund by care UK doesn't eliminate the noise, but it is

quieter and quicker than its Because it's new and bright

and airy, the patients feel It helped diagnose

a hole in his ankle. When you are like

this, with the hands up, you think yourself,

like you're in a tunnel. I can understand people

getting frightened. It's been confirmed,

that a woman from Nottingham has broken the world record

for the furthest distance cycled Endurance sportswoman Kaizer Tylen

travelled over 50,000 kilometres, beating the record set in 1938

by Billie Fleming. Kaizer's year long journey has

seen her travel through England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands,

Sweden and Finland. In sport, Nottingham Forest

play their final game of 2016 tonight -

and it's a tough one - Forest haven't won in four matches

but surprised everyone by beating Newcastle at home less

than a month ago. Weather time now -

and all this fog has seen East Midlands Airport accepting

flights diverted from But there's still a fog warning

for us, isn't there Kay? Yes, I warning has been issued valid

until ten o'clock tomorrow morning so if you are travelling later

tonight, do take it easy. Some dense fog patches, less than 100 metres

visibility. It is further south and east, further north and west you

will see the fog rising. It is quite bad through this evening and

overnight. It is dry, we import more cloud but it will be broken and with

breaks, you are looking at a patchy frost forming and you run the risk

of freezing fog patches as well. Not ideal through the evening. Again,

tomorrow morning, a bit misty but murky, the fog should start to lift

into low cloud and we will get it brightening up from the north as we

Temperatures tomorrow, I'm excited, Temperatures tomorrow, I'm excited,

the fireworks are amazing, highs of 10 degrees and feeling milder. But

then the cold front will sink down from the north as we had overnight

so past midnight we should see fireworks but the southern parts of

first thing it will be cloudy and damp and New Year's Day will be

chilly. Loving the silent fireworks. More from us at ten to 11. Good

night. Good evening, fog has been a problem

in recent days, slow changes over