:00:03. > :00:06.This is East Midlands Today with Dominic Heale and Anne Davies. Our
:00:06. > :00:13.top story tonight - eight and half years in jail for a former company
:00:13. > :00:15.boss who swindled his way to a fortune. Yes, Max Fraser was the
:00:16. > :00:23.mastermind behind a �100 million fraud which saw hundreds of people
:00:23. > :00:28.lose their jobs. Also tonight, a moment of panic as
:00:28. > :00:32.armed police swoop on a busy shopping street. There was a guy,
:00:32. > :00:36.must have been about five metres away from me. Police surrounded him.
:00:36. > :00:40.There must have been at least 15 of them.
:00:40. > :00:44.Plus... Do people know we have no choice but to close the school?
:00:44. > :00:49.Return of the Iron Lady, but what do they make of the film in Mrs T's
:00:49. > :00:59.home town? Eight, nine, ten... And find out
:00:59. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:08.why they're counting all the Good evening and welcome to the
:01:08. > :01:10.programme. First tonight, a Leicester businessman has been sent
:01:10. > :01:16.to jail for masterminding a fraud involving "staggering" sums of
:01:16. > :01:22.money. Max Fraser conned finance companies into lending him more
:01:22. > :01:25.than �100 million. He enjoyed a luxury lifestyle, driving racing
:01:25. > :01:31.cars and using the company yacht but his deception had far-reaching
:01:31. > :01:34.consequences. It led to hundreds of workers losing their jobs, and
:01:34. > :01:44.devastated the lives of his wife and two young children. Sarah Teale
:01:44. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:52.This is Max Fraser. The mastermind behind one of the biggest frauds of
:01:52. > :01:58.its kind in this country. But his deception had a massive impact on
:01:58. > :02:03.those he employed and the companies he conned. Max Fraser was a very
:02:04. > :02:06.charismatic, intelligent man. Very articulate and very persuasive.
:02:06. > :02:10.to some of the documentation that was generated during the
:02:10. > :02:14.investigation. Leicestershire Police spent four years
:02:14. > :02:21.investigating him to get to the bottom of an extremely complex
:02:21. > :02:25.fraud which darted back in 2001. Fraser and a plastics company based
:02:25. > :02:30.in Leicester. -- ran a plastics company. It is still run today but
:02:30. > :02:35.legitimately. Back then, the, was to get finance for these, expensive
:02:35. > :02:40.extrusion machines. Using false invoices produced by Stoke-on-Trent
:02:40. > :02:45.company H T L, he persuaded more than 30 banks and financial
:02:45. > :02:52.institutions to finance 700 of the machines. In reality, only 111 of
:02:52. > :02:56.them actually existed. In six years, he got finance worth �110 million.
:02:56. > :03:03.What was his motivation for doing all this? Purely to benefit for
:03:03. > :03:08.himself? I suspect he had two motivations. The first was for
:03:08. > :03:13.financial gain for himself but also secondly for the company. He wanted
:03:13. > :03:18.the company to be the No. 1 global company in the world for extruded
:03:18. > :03:22.material. I believe his initial motivation was that and the only
:03:22. > :03:26.way he could obtain finance to build these machines, because they
:03:26. > :03:30.will be in line than themselves, was through fraudulent activity --
:03:30. > :03:34.they were building than themselves. And they were robbing Peter to pay
:03:34. > :03:38.Paul. He would have to get finance at the end of the day to pay off
:03:38. > :03:44.the other financed. Max Fraser had all the trappings of the luxury
:03:44. > :03:49.lifestyle. A �1 million pad here which he used to live in. He also
:03:49. > :03:54.enjoyed the use of the company yacht, raced four different sports
:03:54. > :03:59.cars and is said to have had flying lessons. Over-thirties finance
:03:59. > :04:03.companies have lost over �50 million -- over 30 finance
:04:03. > :04:10.companies. Is there knowing how many people he has had an impact
:04:10. > :04:14.on? There is no way of knowing the full impact but it is fair to say
:04:14. > :04:19.that hundreds of people have lost their jobs. His Finance employees
:04:19. > :04:23.have lost their jobs and other people who were creditor was.
:04:23. > :04:28.for Leicestershire Police, this has been one of their most complex
:04:28. > :04:32.investigations. We have recovered over 50,000 documents as a result
:04:32. > :04:39.of the inquiry which all had to be examined individually. That takes
:04:39. > :04:46.time. We took over 200 witness statements, so all the victims. So
:04:46. > :04:52.yes, it was a very complex and time-consuming operation. David and
:04:52. > :04:58.Elizabeth from Hege T L were jailed for five years and three years
:04:58. > :05:01.respectively. Leicester Crown Court was told that he had believed he
:05:01. > :05:05.could trade his way out of trouble but took complete blame for the
:05:05. > :05:10.devastation he had caused his wife and two young children. Mike
:05:10. > :05:14.Fraser's family were not in court today to hear him sentenced to
:05:14. > :05:18.eight years, eight months in prison. The judge told him that he had
:05:18. > :05:25.risked the businesses and the livelihoods of those who had placed
:05:25. > :05:27.A woman who says she has been made seriously ill by the controversial
:05:27. > :05:32.PIP breast implants says the private clinics who put them in
:05:32. > :05:34.should now have to replace them. Tonight though the Government has
:05:34. > :05:39.ruled there isn't enough evidence to recommend the routine removal of
:05:39. > :05:42.the French-manufactured implants. Tara Smith from Newark in
:05:42. > :05:45.Nottinghamshire has set up a Facebook group to campaign to help
:05:45. > :05:52.women caught up in the scandal. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons
:05:52. > :05:57.reports. 700 women have joined this Facebook campaign. She had two set
:05:57. > :06:00.of PIP implants and paid herself in the end to get them removed but
:06:00. > :06:06.believes private clinics should now for others three removal and
:06:06. > :06:09.replacement. I think the clinics should be giving money back and
:06:09. > :06:13.public that the person decide whether they want to go. You have
:06:13. > :06:17.got to remember, we do not trust our clinics any more. She says she
:06:17. > :06:21.did not like her body before the implant and it was initially
:06:21. > :06:31.pleased but told me the first pair ruptured and have the second pair
:06:31. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:36.of PIP replacements removed as concerns were raised. You can see
:06:36. > :06:44.the runny liquid and I can't believe I have them inside me for
:06:44. > :06:49.three years. Some commentators said it would be wrong for the
:06:49. > :06:58.Government to pick up the bill. insurers for the suppliers and for
:06:58. > :07:02.the clinics have been suggested to get together amateur medical
:07:02. > :07:06.removals and perhaps fund the operation. This woman understands
:07:06. > :07:11.the clinic that put the implants in is no longer in business. It took
:07:11. > :07:21.me a lot of time to find a clinic that I trusted. I read into it for
:07:21. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :07:30.a long time and I feel let down now Many of these implants have been
:07:30. > :07:36.put in for aesthetic or cosmetic reasons in the private sector.
:07:36. > :07:40.There have been very few put in by NHS trusts. Certainly in Leicester,
:07:40. > :07:42.University Hospital have never put any of these in so patients who
:07:42. > :07:48.have had reconstructive surgery have nothing to worry about.
:07:48. > :07:55.after spending �23,000 on her breasts on credit cards, Tara
:07:55. > :07:58.Still to come on the programme, the rising costs of renting and buying.
:07:58. > :08:07.As private sector rents rocket, we talk to the couples struggling to
:08:08. > :08:11.afford a home of their own. And after all the excitement of the
:08:11. > :08:20.past few days, the weekend is looking a much calmer affair. All
:08:20. > :08:26.Armed police descended on part of Nottingham city centre this
:08:26. > :08:29.afternoon after reports that an armed robbery was under way. It was
:08:29. > :08:35.just after three o'clock that officers were called to John Lewis
:08:35. > :08:39.in the Victoria Centre as Tom Brown reports.
:08:39. > :08:42.Scenes you would not normally associate with the January sales.
:08:42. > :08:47.This afternoon, Nottingham's bargain hunters were interrupted by
:08:47. > :08:50.armed police following reports of an attempted robbery at John Lewis.
:08:50. > :08:56.I was outside the Victoria Centre going into town. A number of police
:08:57. > :09:03.cars pulled up with blue lights. Being a photographer, I hung about.
:09:03. > :09:08.They were shouting at an individual as tell you be built to stand still.
:09:08. > :09:11.Then they put the weapons and the red dot on his chest. The incident
:09:11. > :09:14.lasted less than one hour. Witnesses say the police were
:09:14. > :09:19.professional but that did was worrying to see them armed on
:09:19. > :09:28.Nottingham Street. There must have been at least 10, 15 of them
:09:28. > :09:33.pointing guns. He did not seem to be armed. It shook me up quite a
:09:33. > :09:37.bit. Police arrested the man on suspicion of attempted robbery.
:09:37. > :09:41.Although they say it there is no evidence that a firearm was used
:09:41. > :09:47.and nobody was injured. Council tax in Leicester could rise
:09:47. > :09:50.by 3.5% from April. The news comes as the City Council reveals its
:09:50. > :09:53.latest proposals to make �40 million of cuts to its budget. �17
:09:53. > :09:56.million could come from adult social care services, whilst the
:09:56. > :10:00.future of Leicester's day care centres is also under threat.
:10:00. > :10:04.There's still no word though on what will happen to the city's care
:10:04. > :10:07.homes for the elderly. CCTV footage has been released of
:10:08. > :10:10.two potential witnesses after a serious assault in Leicester. It
:10:10. > :10:14.happened on the Thursday before Christmas at around 5:30pm on
:10:14. > :10:24.Myrtle Road in the city. 23-year- old Salem Bahrami was stabbed in
:10:24. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:28.the chest. He remains in hospital in a stable condition.
:10:28. > :10:31.There's a warning tonight that the cost of privately renting a house
:10:31. > :10:33.in the East Midlands will rise again in 2012. Demand is increasing
:10:33. > :10:36.because many first-time buyers are struggling with the big deposits
:10:36. > :10:39.needed for a mortgage. All this as the Government and developers try
:10:39. > :10:45.to get more people onto the property ladder with interest-free
:10:45. > :10:55.loans. Mike O'Sullivan looks at the prospects for tenants.
:10:55. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :11:00.This couple are renting a house in Derby. They are both in work but
:11:00. > :11:05.the bigger deposits mean that buying a house is not affordable
:11:05. > :11:12.straight away. It is impossible. For somebody our age, it was not
:11:12. > :11:19.feasible, the amount we are earning. I could not say how many people are
:11:19. > :11:23.even close. maybe a couple of years down the line but at the minute,
:11:23. > :11:27.impossible. Absolutely impossible. The latest figures from the group
:11:27. > :11:30.that owns the property firm in Derby shows that private rents
:11:30. > :11:35.dipped for the first time in 10 months in November. The average
:11:36. > :11:40.private rent in the East Midlands now stands at �542 per month. In
:11:40. > :11:45.one year, high demand has meant that figure has gone up by nearly
:11:45. > :11:49.4%. There's not enough supply for new rental property and we are not
:11:49. > :11:52.building enough houses to begin with. There are not enough
:11:52. > :11:56.incentives for buy-to-let developers to provide the sector
:11:56. > :12:00.enough houses to rent. In Oakham in Rutland, this house and developer
:12:00. > :12:04.told me how they are trying to help struggling first-time buyers.
:12:04. > :12:08.Around 20 new-build homes on the site will be offered for sale under
:12:08. > :12:12.the Government's Firstbuy idea. They will be seeing a five-year
:12:12. > :12:16.interest free loan for up to 20% of the purchase price. The level of
:12:16. > :12:20.interest we have had in a short period of time has been higher in
:12:20. > :12:24.other areas than we operate in. There has not been a lot of new-
:12:24. > :12:33.build development here for the past 10 years so there is a huge demand.
:12:33. > :12:38.Back in Derby, Charlotte and down say they will buy one day. Her --
:12:38. > :12:42.hopefully. I would not want to be renting in two years. Demand for
:12:42. > :12:51.rented property will continue to increase this year according to the
:12:51. > :12:54.property company. We heard in Mike's report there
:12:54. > :12:57.about the Government's Firstbuy idea in which they team up with
:12:57. > :12:59.housing developers to help first- time buyers with deposits. It's run
:12:59. > :13:02.in our region by the East Midlands Housing Association in Coalville.
:13:02. > :13:05.Let's speak to the person who's looking after it, Gail Davies. How
:13:05. > :13:15.much difference can Firstbuy really make to someone who's struggling to
:13:15. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:22.buy? It is there to help first-time buyers get that first step on to
:13:22. > :13:28.the property ladder. To overcome the difficulties that they are
:13:29. > :13:34.finding at the moment with deposits. The scheme is designed to give them
:13:34. > :13:40.the 20% equity loan which is jointly funded by the homes and
:13:40. > :13:45.communities Agency and the developers with them finding 5% to
:13:45. > :13:52.purchase the other 8%. If that makes sense for. You have got 400
:13:52. > :13:57.people who have taken up this form of help. Why are not more people
:13:57. > :14:02.taking up the idea? It is interest free. It is for the first five
:14:02. > :14:07.years. The scheme has only been running since September last year
:14:07. > :14:11.so it is actually increasing all the time with numbers of people
:14:11. > :14:15.that I interested. It is down to the developers really, to promote
:14:15. > :14:20.the schemes more. Some of them are doing sterling jobs on doing that.
:14:20. > :14:27.Very briefly, have you got enough money for the demand for this
:14:27. > :14:32.scheme? There is not a budget as such as far as the area is
:14:32. > :14:39.concerned. We are looking to help 10.001st time buyers on to the
:14:39. > :14:46.property ladder nationwide up until 20th March 13 -- 10,000 first-time
:14:46. > :14:55.buyers. That is good news, let's hope the scheme has more success in
:14:55. > :14:57.the future. Thank you. Leicester City fans travelling to
:14:57. > :15:01.Nottingham for tomorrow's FA Cup third round match against Forest
:15:01. > :15:04.have been warned by police not to go to pubs around the stadium. Away
:15:04. > :15:07.fans will be allowed to drink within the City Ground and at the
:15:07. > :15:10.bar inside Notts County's Meadow Lane. But police say pubs between
:15:10. > :15:19.the station and the stadiums will not be letting Leicester fans in,
:15:19. > :15:22.before or after the match. Police in Leicester say they're
:15:22. > :15:24.worried about the number of arrests for drink-driving over Christmas.
:15:24. > :15:27.119 people were charged during the force's month-long campaign.
:15:27. > :15:29.Officers say the number of young people drinking and driving is
:15:29. > :15:31.particularly worrying. They're warning motorists that they will
:15:31. > :15:34.continue to target drivers who are over the limit.
:15:34. > :15:38.The Derbyshire student aiming to become the youngest Briton to ski
:15:38. > :15:41.to the South Pole says her expedition has been delayed. 21-
:15:41. > :15:46.year-old Bryony Balen had hoped to arrive by 17th January, exactly 100
:15:46. > :15:49.years after the first British expedition reached the pole. Bryony
:15:49. > :15:59.and her team have had to face temperatures as low as minus 20,
:15:59. > :16:00.
:16:00. > :16:03.but she says the trip's still been a great experience.
:16:03. > :16:05.Just like the lady herself, it seems that the new Hollywood
:16:05. > :16:08.portrayal of Lady Thatcher is dividing opinion. Today one group
:16:08. > :16:12.in Derbyshire staged a protest to claim that the new Meryl Streep
:16:12. > :16:15.film The Iron Lady manages to rewrite history. But as you might
:16:15. > :16:25.imagine, it's received a much warmer reaction in her home town of
:16:25. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:32.The honourable gentleman knows very well that we have no choice but to
:16:32. > :16:36.close the school. It is time in and its cinematic quality have already
:16:36. > :16:44.been questioned but today, it was the film's portrayal of Margaret
:16:44. > :16:48.Thatcher as a champion for women that was being queried. Maggie,
:16:49. > :16:54.Mikey, Out, Out, out. These women claim they are the real Iron Lady's.
:16:54. > :16:58.They supported miners in the North Derbyshire area during the miners'
:16:58. > :17:02.strike and together they came together to stage a protest outside
:17:02. > :17:07.their local cinema which is showing the new film. I have to protest at
:17:07. > :17:10.a film that appears to be rewriting history, that presents her as a
:17:10. > :17:15.heroine and her feminist icon. She, as far as I was concerned, never
:17:15. > :17:19.stood up for women at all. We do not want to sensationalise the life
:17:19. > :17:23.of a lady who caused so much trouble and devastated the lives of
:17:23. > :17:26.so many people in the past. And we think it is it too serious a
:17:27. > :17:29.subject to be trivialised by Hollywood. But unsurprising the
:17:29. > :17:35.pout, The Iron Lady which goes on general release today has received
:17:35. > :17:39.a much warmer reaction in muddy's home town of Grantham. It is good
:17:39. > :17:42.they made a film about her because it put Grantham on the map. We have
:17:42. > :17:48.got to be proud that she is from Grantham. It has not got a lot
:17:48. > :17:51.going for it so at least she was here at the right time. There is an
:17:51. > :17:59.argument for it being left until she has died but I think it is fair
:17:59. > :18:02.I am sure Grantham has got a lot more going for it.
:18:02. > :18:05.Still to come on the programme, a head-count down at the zoo. Do they
:18:05. > :18:08.have more meerkats or are they minus a meerkat or two? Apparently,
:18:08. > :18:18.it's not easy to tell, so at Twycross Zoo they're having a
:18:18. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:31.Colin is here with the sport. Foxes, Rams... Meerkat as well apparently.
:18:31. > :18:34.Very good! It's one of the biggest weekends of
:18:34. > :18:37.the season for football fans, the third round of the FA Cup. And we
:18:37. > :18:40.have a mouthwatering game in prospect as Nottingham Forest host
:18:40. > :18:43.Leicester City. Leicester are certainly going to make a game of
:18:43. > :18:45.it and so are their fans. The Foxes will be taking 8,000 supporters
:18:45. > :18:54.which, incredibly, should be almost half the crowd. Here's Ross
:18:54. > :18:59.Leicester against Forest always arouses the passions but this FA
:18:59. > :19:04.Cup tie has really captured the imagination of those in blue.
:19:04. > :19:07.Forget about comparing the meerkats, this is about comparing the
:19:07. > :19:11.Leicester and Forest fans. Foxes are taking double the normal
:19:11. > :19:18.allocation to the City Ground and cove -- could even out in the home
:19:18. > :19:23.faithful. It is because of the Rover, it is incredible. Sport at
:19:23. > :19:28.heart. Bragging rights, the East Midlands want to beat them. We will
:19:28. > :19:32.definitely make a massive difference. Forest are struggling
:19:32. > :19:35.to sell that many tickets so for us to have got that many and fought
:19:35. > :19:40.them being the home side, it is showing what great support we have
:19:40. > :19:46.got. The Foxes may well need big backing. They have not won at the
:19:46. > :19:49.City Ground for 39 years. Throwing away a two goal lead at there in
:19:49. > :19:57.August but in Nigel Pearson, they have a manager who is going all out
:19:57. > :20:03.for Cup success. I still have huge respect for our domestic support.
:20:03. > :20:07.In the days now where European football I think is taking centre
:20:07. > :20:14.stage, I think for a majority of football fans in this country, the
:20:14. > :20:19.FA Cup still has huge meaning for. The League may be the priority for
:20:19. > :20:26.Leicester this season but try telling that to the 8,000 fans at
:20:26. > :20:32.So clearly down that end of the A46, they are more than up for it. What
:20:32. > :20:34.about the Reds? Well, they've had the perfect start to 2012. A
:20:34. > :20:37.victory, finally, ending a miserable run of results. And in
:20:37. > :20:47.Steve Cotterill's sqaud is a man very keen to make his comeback.
:20:47. > :21:02.
:21:02. > :21:06.A familiar face, he is back where Over the years, I am trying to keep
:21:06. > :21:11.an eye on them, but I am back there. It was not planned that way but it
:21:11. > :21:14.is nice to come back to this situation. He spent seven years in
:21:14. > :21:23.his first spell at the City ground scoring for fun and now he has
:21:23. > :21:27.returned wiser but with one thing on his mind. I am always determined.
:21:27. > :21:30.It is extra special for me to try to do it well whenever I play and
:21:30. > :21:34.try to score as many goals as possible. His career has seen him
:21:34. > :21:38.play in the Premier League and in China recently. Now he has returned
:21:38. > :21:45.to familiar ground, rejoining his boyhood club until the end of the
:21:45. > :21:55.season. It will bring us that physical strength, and he has a
:21:55. > :22:05.happy thing of getting a goal or two. Mal is a man on a mission.
:22:05. > :22:06.
:22:06. > :22:09.The man who scored Derby County's winner in the 2007 play-off final,
:22:09. > :22:17.Stephen Pearson, has left the club. He's joined Bristol City on a free
:22:17. > :22:20.transfer. Meanwhile, the Rams face Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
:22:21. > :22:24.They go into the game as the form team in the country. Derby were the
:22:24. > :22:31.only side to win all three of their matches over the Christmas and New
:22:31. > :22:34.Year period but they face a side with great cup pedigree. The win at
:22:34. > :22:39.Old Trafford was stunning. They have got the semi-final coming up
:22:39. > :22:42.and I hope they have got one eye on that but I am sure they will keep
:22:42. > :22:45.their good form. Notts County travel to Doncaster
:22:45. > :22:49.for their FA Cup tie and there's full match commentary on all those
:22:49. > :22:52.games on your BBC local radio station.
:22:52. > :22:55.In rugby, Leicester Tigers will be shorn of another star player for
:22:55. > :22:58.tomorrow's Premiership game with Wasps. Fly half Toby Flood will be
:22:58. > :23:07.out for up to six weeks with a knee injury, joining fellow England
:23:07. > :23:10.internationals Manu Tuilagi and Louis Deacon on the injury list.
:23:10. > :23:14.And that complete my animal run with the Tigers.
:23:14. > :23:20.Just in time for our Animal list. There's a new census taking place,
:23:20. > :23:25.but it's not to count people. Instead, it's a tally of animals.
:23:25. > :23:35.It's all happening at Twycross Zoo. So are they missing meerkats? Have
:23:35. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:43.a few monkeys gone over the wall? Right, one, two, 3, four elephant.
:23:43. > :23:49.Going pretty well so far. The big count is on. Exactly how
:23:49. > :23:52.many animals are there at Twycross Zoo? Meal, or to the point of
:23:52. > :23:56.counting the animals? It is important for us to know how many
:23:56. > :24:03.we have got in the zoo so the end- of-year stocktaking is a good way
:24:03. > :24:06.of doing that. I expecting any surprises? The keepers keep a check
:24:06. > :24:11.on a daily basis so they do know what is going on each day but we
:24:11. > :24:21.have had quite a few births that we have not found. Some of the
:24:21. > :24:28.
:24:28. > :24:38.There should be about 180 different species and they all have to be
:24:38. > :24:38.
:24:38. > :24:44.counted. That is around 1,000 This is a very unusual enclosure.
:24:45. > :24:51.The leaf cutter ants marched right through the toilet building.
:24:51. > :24:57.3,000,001, 3 million and 2, keep still! 3 million and six leaf
:24:57. > :25:03.cutter ants, there you go. thanks, but we can't one whole
:25:03. > :25:13.colony as one. -- we count one whole Colin Nish. It will take
:25:13. > :25:20.
:25:20. > :25:30.It is a bit like counting your outfit, an impossible job! And now
:25:30. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:35.I love counting the near cats. I am sure all the animals have enjoyed a
:25:35. > :25:37.much quieter day that we have had today. We have certainly had
:25:37. > :25:42.lighter winds and the weekend as a whole will be a calmer affair than
:25:42. > :25:50.we have been used to. This was the sun rise this morning, absolutely
:25:50. > :25:57.stunning. Thank you to rob descending this in. It almost looks
:25:57. > :26:02.like the bird was jumping for joy as the sun was coming up. Send your
:26:02. > :26:07.e-mails in with your pictures. This morning, we woke up with the
:26:07. > :26:11.glorious sunrise and a much nicer way to start the day. We gradually
:26:11. > :26:14.saw an increase in cloud as we went through this afternoon. Bigger gaps
:26:14. > :26:18.between the isobars and that is why we have had these light of winds
:26:18. > :26:21.but we have still got a warm front followed by this cold front and
:26:21. > :26:25.this will be pushing through this evening. We could see some
:26:25. > :26:28.outbreaks of rain as we go through the next few hours. The cloud has
:26:28. > :26:34.increased this evening and with it, we are starting to see the light
:26:34. > :26:37.rain and drizzle at times with the wind strengthening with gusts of up
:26:37. > :26:41.to 35 mph, nothing as strong as what we had earlier in the week. It
:26:41. > :26:46.will become drier towards tomorrow morning and we will even see some
:26:46. > :26:52.clear skies before the end of the night. Temperatures dropping down
:26:52. > :26:57.to 6 or seven Celsius. Her as we start Saturday, we are in for a
:26:57. > :27:00.promising start. Lots of sunshine, particularly in the east towards
:27:00. > :27:03.Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. They keep most of the sunshine
:27:03. > :27:07.tomorrow and you will notice that cloud coming in and with it, you
:27:07. > :27:13.might just get some showers across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, the
:27:13. > :27:17.Peak District. For most, it will stay dry feeling a bit breezy at
:27:17. > :27:21.times but not particularly windy. Sunday it should stay mostly tribal
:27:21. > :27:24.with temperatures around nine Celsius put into the new week, we
:27:24. > :27:34.keep hold of the cloud but the temperatures are in double figures
:27:34. > :27:35.