07/01/2017 East Midlands Today

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

A protest has been held in Sherwood Forest against plans

Exploration is at an early stage, still in negotiations,

but there are fears in the long term it could see fracking of land under

or adjacent to the ancient woodland, although land owners themselves

have confirmed they too are resisting the plans.

No application has been made but the very notion rallied around

They want to protect the area around Edwinstowe as a whole

but in particular the ancient woodland and Sherwood's

We shouldn't be exploiting any more fossil fuel gas

I would prefer if we were putting money into renewables.

They need to do the seismic surveys before they can find out

We're saying it's not safe to frack this area.

The chemical company INEOS Shale wants to carry out seismic surveys

to get a better idea of what the ground in the area

is made up of and insist it is not fracking in Sherwood Forest itself.

Such surveys use sound waves and are already subject to stringent

restrictions around ancient woodlands and any key

The Thoresby Estate, which owns Sherwood Forest Country Park,

says it decided a long time ago not to support either a temporary rig

or a permanent well site on its land, even before

It says if it refuses to grant a licence for the surveys,

that refusal could be legally overturned, leaving it in no

Instead, it plans to liaise with INEOS and other landowners

and managers about the best way to proceed with the testing.

We do know from the seismic surveys done in the ocean and the seismic

surveys done elsewhere that they can cause problems with the ecosystem.

The Thoresby estate says it intends to continue protecting this site

of special scientific interest for generations to come.

A police investigation is underway at a house in Derby.

Officers were called early this morning to Avondale Road in Spondon.

A man and a woman, thought to be in their fifties,

Both are in hospital, where the woman's condition tonight

Police say they aren't looking for anyone else

Leicestershire Police are urging parents to join their children

in watching the force's film about murdered schoolgirl

35 children have so far come forward fearing they've been groomed,

since the film was released online last week.

The five minute video shows how the 15-year-old from Measham had

chatted online with a man for two weeks before she was killed in 2015.

It's not an easy watch because it's not an easy topic.

Kayleigh went in 15 days from meeting somebody online

and along the way there were 2,643 messages exchanged.

Certainly I've watched it as a police officer,

Online there are fantastic opportunities and lots that's good

but there's alsosome risk and that's what this film is about,

trying to demonstrate in a way that's based,

Leicester and Derby's FA Cup campaigns continue,

Leicester beat Everton 2-1, Derby beat West Brom 2-1

The draw for the fourth round will be on Monday.

In League Two, Mansfield beat Crewe 3-0,

while Notts County lost 4-1 at Morecambe.

Let's check the weather now. Lucy has our forecast.

Quite a grey day today, plenty of cloud and a bit of mist

This photo sent in by a weather watcher in Nottinghamshire.

As we move through this evening and overnight,

plenty of cloud around and then we will see a bit of hill fog

developing and that cloud could produce the odd spot of rain.

An overnight low of between five and seven Celsius.

We start off tomorrow with plenty of cloud around again.

But that cloud could be a little bit thin so a little bit more in the way

of brightness, but it could also produce the odd spot

Temperatures at a maximum of nine Celsius.

On Monday, we do have a band of rain coming so heavy rain for a time

but something a little bit brighter into the afternoon.

The Beat's going to be on your local BBC Radio from 6pm.

Tonight it's the "Best of the guests".

A look back at some of the highlights of the past year,

featuring Blossoms, The Shires, Catfish the Bottlemen

More from me and the team here tomorrow at 6:20pm.

Good evening. Our weather can be exciting, just not today. A

predominantly grey day and a murky night to come. If you're on the moon

on the roads, through tonight into the morning, it could be misty and

foggy again in places, especially over the hills, but really just

about anywhere. The cloud is the enough to produce patchy rain or

drizzle, quite a damp night. Clear skies to the Easterling and

anti-stall Scotland and it's here the greatest chance of a touch of

frost, but for most, mild great, dismal start to Sunday morning. The

mist and fog will lift. There will be a few breaks in the cloud, east

of Wales, eastern parts of England and Scotland. A bit of sunshine

here. There should be patchy rain in Northern Ireland and damper to

finish the Dayne Weston Scotland. Overall a mild day for this stage in

January with temperatures are many in double figures. Different on

Monday, a wet and windy start to Scotland and Northern Ireland. It

spread southwards across England and Wales. Still mild in the south-east

but it does