10/02/2017 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

First tonight - one of the region's A departments has become the first

in the NHS to have a dedicated team dealing with Sepsis cases.

The blood-borne infection kills more people in the UK than breast,

Following criticism from the Care Quality Commission

in 2015 that Leicester wasn't dealing with sepsis patients

quickly enough, it's now installed a specialist team.

Our health correspondent Rob Sissons has more on this.

In Leicester, they see typically between eight and 15 new cases

Sepsis is where the body's immune system, fighting an infection,

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition.

It can happen to anyone with an infection of any kind.

Cases can be complicated, hard to spot.

Sometimes the symptoms seem like flu.

The causes, though, are simple enough.

It can be a simple chest infection, a skin infection, gastroenteritis.

Intravenous antibiotics are needed, and fast.

The aim in A is to identify more cases sooner.

That's where this new special team comes in in Leicester,

with life-saving kit at their fingertips.

In here is everything we need for the treatment

So we have our antibiotics, we have our culture packs,

we have our fluid and we have our blood bottles that we have if we

It about spotting sepsis quickly, it's about getting the treatment

of antibiotics, fluids, into patients within an hour

and it is about ensuring those patients that are not doing so well,

that they get expert care further on into the hospital.

The programme has been developed from concern about sepsis management

in the NHS as a whole. At the end of the team's first week

in A, they seem more Some patients do get worse and do

require intensive care support. Somewhere between ten and 20%

of patients that come in with life-threatening

sepsis don't survive. Everywhere, the NHS is trying to do

better when it comes to sepsis. Demolition teams moved in today

to take down a building at the centre of a run of fires

Leicester. In the latest blaze,

it saw damage to neighbouring properties and a fleet

of nearby cars. It's been part of Leicester's

skyline for over 100 years. This building once

housed Corah Knitwear. In its heyday, it was considered

to be one of the world's greatest manufacturers of its kind but less

than 48 hours ago, in the early hours of Thursday morning,

a huge fire all but destroyed it. At its height, the flames

were so intense they spread to another building and caused

damage to dozens of We still haven't been able

to identify whether anybody was in the building at the time

of the fire. We do know it was a building

that was sometimes used by rough sleepers, so we are still working

with the police to identify whether anybody was in the building

at the time of the fire. Today, fire safety officers have

been visiting neighbouring businesses to give them advice

on how to protect their buildings. If I just give you this bit

of information from the fire service, just giving some advice

for you to follow. It's the seventh time the former

factory's been targeted in just two years and it's causing concern

for other owners on this site. We should all get together and come

to the bottom of this, make sure these sorts of things

don't happen, because it's affecting business throughout and putting up

insurance premiums as well, The investigation is complete, they

are treating it as arson. A 19-year-old man's in a critical

condition in hospital Officers were called

to Aikman Avenue in the New Parks area of the city last night,

following reports of a fight. Five men have been arrested

in connection with the incident. Police are appealing for any

witnesses to get in touch with them. A jury deciding verdicts on six men

accused of running a scam involving deliberate car crashes in Derbyshire

have been sent home for the weekend. It will return on Monday to consider

evidence against the men, who are accused of making hundreds

of thousands of pounds in insurance claims after targeting mainly older

and lone women drivers. Dharminder Nagra was the director

of the company that managed There's been a big rise

in the number of Land Rover Defender Production of the model came

to an end early last year. New figures from the insurance

company, NFU Mutual show they had almost one claim a week for stolen

Defenders last year - almost twice as many

as the year before. One dairy farmer near Melton Mowbray

has lost six Defenders Very cross. We rely on it on a daily

basis, especially in the summer, part of our livelihood. There is a

huge market across the world for Land Rovers and the parts and

because they are no longer made prices are going up and really

owners of land Rovers -- land Rovers are having to take huge care so they

come down in the morning and find it is still on the drive.

Tonight, saw Light Night returned to Nottingham.

It's the tenth time the festival's been held.

The one night event sees light displays and installations

There's also been free entry to Nottingham Castle,

live music and street markets to enjoy.

It is designed to change the feel of the city on a Friday night. You

normally get groups of young people going to the bars but this brings

grandparents and parents and children in and gets them to carry

lanterns and enjoy themselves and changes the nature. Young people can

join in too. Great for the whole family.

Light snow showers, I nearly called you Dominic! We are going to see

snow showers coming in, coming from the North Sea. We did have a light

dusting of snow first thing this morning, this picture taken by a

weather watcher. Later this afternoon, brightness started to

break through. A mixture today, bitterly cold outside and a cold

night tonight. The showers are all ready coming in across the East

Midlands producing light snow and a mixture of rain, sleet and snow but

we could see ice on untreated surfaces and showers continue

westwards into the early part of tomorrow morning. A bitterly cold

start the day, the showers still present working westwards and

gradually they convert back to rain into the afternoon. It is going to

be a cold day on Saturday, a damp day and temperatures no higher for

Celsius. From Saturday night, early Sunday, further showers coming in on

the breeze, they could turn to snow on higher ground for the Peak

District. The outlook and Louise Lear has

exception to that rule probably over the hills where again there