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