17/02/2017 East Midlands Today

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And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Emily Anderson.

First tonight, fertility clinics have criticised a decision to put

new restrictions on IVF in parts of the East Midlands.

As we reported last night, NHS bosses in Newark, Sherwood,

Mansfield and Ashfield have decided to change the rules.

Our health correspondent Rob Sissons reports.

His mum, Railene, says the latest decision is ridiculous.

She got pregnant through IVF first time aged 40 and the NHS

I think it's a very disappointing decision.

Ultimately, I wouldn't have been able to have that treatment.

I was 41 when I had Matthew, 40 when I was going through the cycle.

Obviously it would have deprived me of the chance and will deprive other

women my age of the chance to have a lovely baby,

Railene met the NHS criteria in place everywhere

across the East Midlands that women need to be 18 to 42 years old,

not obese, not smoke and have no previous children.

She's dismayed now Newark, Mansfield and Ashfield NHS bosses

have broken ranks and are changing the age for women to 25-34

and putting in an age limit for men, a maximum of 40 years old.

Nottingham's two fertility clinics, CARE and Nurture, have

We would like to be able to offer some sort of equity

A national strategy would be far better, where everybody

It comes back to the value of a family or of a child.

People have different views that depend on their own circumstances.

Fertility experts are wondering where the rationing will end.

A Derby man's been given a life sentence for the brutal murder

74-year-old Satnam Singh was walking to his local Sikh Temple

That's how Satnam Singh's family described the 74-year-old

killed by a man who was once his step grandson.

In July 2015 at around 4:30am, Satnam Singh was on his way

to open his local gurdwara, where he volunteered -

his daily morning routine for the last decade.

Yards from the gates on Princes Street in Derby,

he was subjected to a brutal and merciless assault

His injuries were so severe that police initially thought

The judge told Sukhraj Atwal, the attack must have involved

you jumping or stamping on the victim whilst

He said, you left him for dead, like a bag of rubbish.

He had no enemies and I don't understand why he was killed.

I still don't understand why he killed him.

He was an inspiration to all volunteers.

There is still no match to his dedication.

Even the judge said that the motive remains obscure at best.

It's thought it might have been due to a family dispute but Atwal

As he was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison,

Two men have admitted murdering another man in Leicester last year.

23-year-old Brendan Mason was found with 99 separate injuries

after being lured to Abbey Park last July.

Today 22-year-old Keith Lowe of Rockingham Close changed his plea

21-year-old Joshua Hack of St Helen's Drive had already

Both men will be sentenced on Monday.

Six teenagers, aged between 13 and 15, have been arrested

after a man was critically injured in Leicester.

The 27-year-old was taken to Queen's Medical Centre

Police are investigating an assault on Middleton Street,

which is behind me just beyond the police cordoned area.

Officers were called here to the historic village

They found a 27-year-old man, who was taken to hospital

in Nottingham where his condition is described as critical.

Three boys, aged 13, 14 and 15, and three girls,

one aged 13 and two aged 14, have been arrested in connection

with the incident and are currently in custody.

This police cordon has been in place for much of the day -

although I'm told it will shortly be removed and the road

will be reopened - as police try to piece together exactly

As you can imagine, it's shocked neighbours.

One simply told me, you don't expect something like this to happen here.

A young woman from Mansfield who's battling a mystery illness says

she's frustrated at the time it's taking for her to be referred

Adele Uden's desperate to find a diagnosis for her condition,

which leaves her bleeding uncontrollably.

She also has blue patches on her face and around her neck.

I've got two consultants at London that have agreed to see me

and they've been agreed to see me since November, so why hasn't

What is so difficult and what is holding it up?

It's incredibly annoying and frustrating because obviously

And police in Derby are trying to find the owners of some

The pictures were discovered in Chaddesden Park

on Valentine's Day by volunteers who were litter-picking.

They were found in this red jewelry box.

Anybody who recognises them is being urged to contact

So, it's goodbye from me - but with your weather

Thank you. Earlier run today, be Saudi snowdrops on East Midlands

today. More pictures sent in. It's not just the flowers that the mild

weather is bringing out. This is a weasel or perhaps a stock that was

sent in. We have a cold front coming in over night, that will bring some

grisly showers. These showers are working their way across the region

and more to the north of other patch than the self, loss of 5 degrees.

Over the course of tonight, brighter spells here and there and more rain

to the north of the region than the south. Some are missed and hows of

11 Celsius. Similar picture for Sunday. Brighter spells and shall

review and. A full national forecast in a few

moments but for now I'll leave part of next week, we could see 16

Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit with the National output.