07/03/2017 East Midlands Today

Arsenal in Europe. Natalie thank you very much again at the Emirates

Stadium. Natalie Perks. And now the news for

the East Midlands, I'm Anne Davies. An MP has claimed that the Health

Secretary Jeremy Hunt has refused to look at the patient referral

patterns that could undermine the case to save the children's

heart surgery centre in Leicester. We'll hear from Liz

Kendall in a moment. She was speaking after surgeons said

up to 150 patients a year were being sent out of this region,

including to Great The BBC has discovered that waiting

lists elsewhere are bigger Clare from Philby in Lincolnshire's

a mum now but she had a heart operation herself as a baby

at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Last summer, her daughter,

Eloise May needed surgery too. Peterborough City Hospital

wanted to refer Eloise May to Great Ormond Street in London

but Claire chose Glenfield instead. I'm comfortable there and I know

that the doctors, surgeons I was much more comfortable

with that than if she was to go somewhere like Great Ormond Street

where I don't know anybody. NHS England is proposing to stop

children's heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital as part

of a review to raise Last year, Glenfield's three

surgeons averaged 109 operations But the hospital says around 150

patients a year are being sent out They've set a standard

or an activity target let's call it, which says you have to do a number

of certain operations. Now they've set that,

they can see that not We object to the fact that we should

be in the firing line for closure because we've got enough patients

in our region. Figures obtained in a Freedom

of Information request from the BBC to surgery centres that

are currently likely to take Glenfield patients

showed their waiting lists were far Last November, Great Ormond Street

had nearly 160, most other centres Being where we are in the country,

there is a drag to London that perhaps other networks don't have,

but the proposal we have put forward is very simple,

very straightforward. I think anyone can understand that

if a patient lives near a centre, they go to that Centre

for their care. It's obvious isn't it

that they should be sending more to Leicester and then they'd be able

to getting through the waiting lists sooner and less

people would be waiting. NHS England declined our

request for an interview. It says it won't dictate referral

patterns that would take choice away The public consultation

ends in June. Liz Kendall MP, I know you are a big

supporter of the Glenfield, but do you support the patterns? I've

always believed patients should decide what is the best place for

treatment. My concern is that the figures seem to indicate that not

all families many the East Midlands are being given information about

the excellent service that Glenfield provides, and that's got to change.

They say it's about choice, but if you have a sick child and somebody

offers you one hospital, you are not going to ask what the options are?

If parents aren't given information about Glenfield, the excellent

outcomes and brilliant service they provide, how on earth can they

choose what's best for their children? I've raised this issue

with the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and with NHS England to ask

them to look at these referral patterns. So far they've rerefused

to do so, but I hope they take another look. Do you think parents

aren't being told about Glenfield and they are not being offered that

option even if they live within the area? There are concerns that not

everybody is given the information they need and deserve. Some parents

will decide that somewhere else other than the Glenfield is right

for them, but if there's any evidence that parents aren't given

all the information, that's wrong. Parents have the right to decide

with doctors what is best for their children and that's what I've called

for. Thank you very much. Three members of the Grove Rufford

hunt have gone on trial accused The prosecution has been brought

based on photos and video taken The court heard how a fox was seen

being chased by a pack of hounds and there were no attempts

to call them off. On Saturday 30th January last year,

the Grove Rufford hunt met in the Bees' Knees pub.

Huntsman Paul, Peter and Jane Wright are accused of allowing a fox to be

hunted by dogs, which is outlawed. A witness said he saw a fox running

into a field and then he was told where it had run. There was another

fox chased by a pack of 45 hounds. It was a mass of dogs and there was

nothing left of the fox, it was said. Paul and Jane were seen in the

heard a hunting horn or shouts to heard a hunting horn or shouts to

call the dogs off. He said, I did feel in a dangerous position because

people were asking me why I was taking photos. The prosecution

claims no-one saw a trail being laid by Peter White and if one had been

laid properly, then the hounds wouldn't have been seen running

across roads with traffic on. It also said the presence of a terrier

man indicated foxhunting rather than trail hunting. The court was played

a video of the kill showing a mass of hounds together in one place in a

field. Pauline Hogg who filmed it said, nothing that I saw was done to

stop the hounds killing that fox. All the defendants deny the charge,

the trial continues. Next, a part of Derby which has been

derelict for years could become home The city council's ?30 million plans

to redevelop Duckworth Square Here's Victoria Hicks

with more details. Back in the 80s this

was Duckworth Square shopping centre, eventually demolished

in 2003 and it's become a run-down But now the council plans

to build an ice rink, residential and retail units here,

as part of a ?30 million private Not really, not for that price no,

because Derby does waste All good fun for the youngsters,

you've got to invest to keep people A walk-in centre, an Olympic-sized

swimming pool and supermarket have all been planned for this site,

but all have failed due to issues with land ownership and viability,

so will this scheme end up being put That's why the private sector's not

been able to bring forward any scheme for redevelopment

of this area. The vision is to see it lively,

lots of people here and enjoying spending their time

in Derby city centre. The ice rink has been

proposed to Derby before and we never took it,

Nottingham did, so we got the Spending ?30 million on this site

when we've got derelict historic buildings like the Assembly Rooms,

the Hippodrome, Frygate Station, that could use this money,

as well as other services, I think it would be

better spent elsewhere. The scheme will obviously need to be

discussed and approved Then they'll need to find

an operator to run the site. But the plan is to

have it open by 2020. It's being claimed up to 600 jobs

could be created in Leicester by two Artist impressions of the proposals

for the Golden Mile Gateway area, off Belgrave Road have now been

released by developers. They also want to build

on the remaining part of the former Plans for both schemes will be

on display to the public Derbyshire's "least stately" stately

home is giving up more of its secrets as visitors have been

allowed access to rooms never Until now the family apartments

at the National Trust's Calke Abbey had remained firmly out

of public view. Now though, we can all see where

and how the previous owners lived. The area includes a dining room,

drawing room and kitchen. On to tonight's football and the two

games involving our local teams. Derby County were held 1-1

after an equaliser five minutes into injury time from Preston North

End. And at the City Ground, Nottingham

Forest lost 3-2 to Brentford. That is how the news and sport is,

now let's get the weather. We have a band of rain through us as

we move through the night tonight. You can see that on the pressure

chart making its way towards the east. It looks like it will have

largely cleared by tomorrow morning. As we move through tonight, there'll

be heavy bursts of rain on that, plenty of low cloud around as well.

It will become increasingly patchy as we move into the early hours. It

will introduce some slightly milder air, so overnight we are looking at

lows of six or seven. As we move into tomorrow, some rain

around first thing but that'll clear pretty quickly. A largely cloudy

start but then seeing brighter intervals and the chance of seeing

the odd isolated shower the further south you go. The north-east of our

patch doing the best in terms of sunshine levels. Temperatures

reaching a maximum of 11. Into Thursday, it's looking like a

decent day. I think there'll be some cloud around first thing. Another

mild start. Then starting to see some brighter intervals developing.

Largely dry with temperatures reaching a maximum of 12. I'll leave

you with the outlook as we move through the next few days, staying

mild, some rain overnight tonight but that should clear as we move

into the cloud but probably dry, a chance of

rain on Saturday. The national picture now from Nick Miller.

It looks like next week high pressure will become a player again

in our weather, settling things down for some of us for a time but until

then it is low-pressure, rain moving across the UK overnight but not wet

all the time. Many of us at a fine day today, this was at you from West

Yorkshire and Yorkshire and northern England and Northern Ireland will

farewell tomorrow, after this frontal system has pushed on