:00:19. > :00:23.And now for the news for the East Midlands. Good evening, I'm Kylie
:00:23. > :00:26.Pentelow. It is now just two days until the
:00:26. > :00:29.start of the Paralympic Games in London. More than 2 million tickets
:00:29. > :00:32.have been sold and the profile of disability sport has never been
:00:32. > :00:37.higher. In Leicestershire, people with lower limb injuries are being
:00:37. > :00:42.offered the chance to take to the skies. Geoff Maskell reports. An
:00:42. > :00:47.this is the power of Paralympic sport. Over the weekend, thousands
:00:47. > :00:53.of people came out to welcome the Paralympic flame and try out new
:00:53. > :00:58.sports. Clubs across the region are looking to capitalise on the
:00:58. > :01:06.enthusiasm of London 2012. This gliding club is looking to set up a
:01:06. > :01:10.disabled flying section. We have had lots of people that are going
:01:10. > :01:15.to be disabled and this is a golden opportunity to give them an
:01:15. > :01:21.interest in life. They probably think they cannot play sports but
:01:21. > :01:27.we can adapt at later for them and they can be the same as anyone else.
:01:27. > :01:32.The club has brought in hand controlled blinder -- wider. This
:01:32. > :01:38.offers people with the law Len difficulties to try flying. This
:01:38. > :01:45.man has been flying for more than 20 years. I have found it
:01:45. > :01:49.frustrating some signs that she cannot go to a place with a glider
:01:49. > :01:57.adapted for people with disabilities. You have to travel
:01:57. > :02:02.hundreds of miles to get to a club of were this very simple facility
:02:02. > :02:08.could be made available. Local disabled groups are being invited
:02:08. > :02:11.to visit the club for a trial lesson.
:02:11. > :02:14.Derby City Council could have to pay legal costs of more than
:02:14. > :02:17.�100,000 to the NHS over a planning dispute. The council refused
:02:17. > :02:20.planning permission for the local health trust to redevelop the
:02:20. > :02:25.former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary site. But that decision was
:02:25. > :02:29.overturned by a planning inspector on appeal. Now, the council has
:02:29. > :02:32.been told to pay the Trust's legal costs.
:02:32. > :02:35.Soldiers from the Mercian Regiment will feature in a BBC documentary
:02:35. > :02:40.tonight looking at the reality of life on the front line in
:02:40. > :02:50.Afghanistan. Since it was founded in 2007, the regiment has been
:02:50. > :02:51.
:02:51. > :02:54.deployed to Afghanistan five times. The Mercians recruit from across
:02:54. > :02:58.Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The story of their latest tour of
:02:58. > :03:01.Helmand Province is on BBC three at 9:00pm.
:03:01. > :03:03.A team of volunteers from across Europe have descended on one of the
:03:03. > :03:06.region's most important church buildings to do urgent maintenance
:03:06. > :03:15.work. The young volunteers have been living and working at
:03:15. > :03:20.Southwell Minister in Nottinghamshire. 15 students from
:03:20. > :03:27.across Europe are using their summer break to help clean the
:03:27. > :03:31.Southwell Minister. This is part of a ball and chain jammed it --
:03:31. > :03:35.charity and the camp out on site. everyone has a job list and
:03:35. > :03:41.everyone has a different job and you swap would people to do
:03:41. > :03:46.something different. It is only for a one-week, there is gardening work
:03:46. > :03:50.outside and there is stuff like this, cleaning the roof. There is
:03:50. > :03:56.cleaning in the cathedral and cleaning windows. Had charity has
:03:56. > :04:02.been conserving churches and cathedrals for their tears. This is
:04:02. > :04:06.the first one I have done, so far it has been great fun. This
:04:06. > :04:14.morning's job was to clear pigeon droppings from the roof. It is not
:04:14. > :04:18.the nicest job but it needs doing and she gets and reviews. Some
:04:18. > :04:23.students are volunteering as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Award
:04:23. > :04:31.but others are just doing it to meet new people. I am enjoying
:04:32. > :04:36.making some friends. My English is better than before. I had been have
:04:36. > :04:42.been camping, but I have never done anything like this before. It is a
:04:42. > :04:48.nice experience and we get to make new friends. At the end of the Dane,
:04:48. > :04:53.they need feeding, new skills for some of the volunteers. -- at the
:04:53. > :04:57.end of the day. They hope to make the cathedral a better place at the
:04:57. > :05:01.end of the week. We will have the full forecast in a
:05:01. > :05:04.moment. Despite the poor weather, hundreds of people took a step back
:05:04. > :05:07.in time at Sherwood Forest over the bank holiday weekend. That's
:05:07. > :05:10.because the medieval Knight Hospitallers had set up camp by the
:05:10. > :05:13.Major Oak. Visitors were able to find out what sort of food was
:05:13. > :05:21.eaten around 1250, at the end of the Crusades. There were also
:05:21. > :05:25.demonstrations of weaponry, chain mail making and archery. Hundreds
:05:25. > :05:31.of people have been coming this weekend and we do it because it is
:05:31. > :05:36.educational, but it is a fund education. They get to try things
:05:36. > :05:41.for real. It is a nice way to educate them about the 13th century.
:05:41. > :05:45.It is living history, it is a fabulous we to find out about
:05:45. > :05:47.history, by trying things without history, by trying things without
:05:47. > :05:52.reading them in a book. Now for the weather.
:05:52. > :05:57.Good evening. We are starting to see that band of rain moving across
:05:57. > :06:04.the East Midlands and it is also windy. The winds are strengthening
:06:04. > :06:10.through the afternoon. As we head towards teatime, it is starting to
:06:10. > :06:17.peak and it will gust at times, up to 36 miles an hour. The rain is
:06:17. > :06:22.starting to peter out. Overnight temperatures dropped to 14 Celsius.
:06:22. > :06:28.It does mean that more morning will start to drive. We may get the odd
:06:28. > :06:35.shower tomorrow, but for most of us it will be a rather nice day. Now
:06:35. > :06:40.that the bank holiday is over! With the winds lighter as well, it will
:06:40. > :06:45.feel quite warm in the sunshine. A pleasant day in store for Tuesday.
:06:46. > :06:51.We also have a showery day in store for a Wednesday. There is rain
:06:51. > :06:58.moving up which will produce showers on Wednesday. By Thursday,
:06:58. > :07:01.we also have in area of rain which will be more showery. We had this
:07:01. > :07:08.lovely air of high pressure sitting out in the Atlantic which is
:07:08. > :07:13.working towards this. This will reach us by Thursday night. Cloudy
:07:13. > :07:22.by Friday but it will try to break as the day goes on. Temperatures