24/12/2012 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands. Good evening, I'm Kylie

Pentelow. More than 30 flood warnings remain in place across the

East Midlands tonight. The main focus for the Environment Agency's

has been monitoring the River Trent. As you can see, there 24 warnings

in place in Nottinghamshire out of a total of 34 across the region.

This report from Rob Sissons. As the Christmas bells were ringing

out, some were getting out at the sandbags. This garden is already

ruined. Now she is worried about the house. We are moving out what

we can and standing the furniture on beer crates. I do not know what

to do about Christmas this year. I think we will give it a miss.

is too much water at the National watersports centre. The river water

is overflowing. The canoe slalom at his unrecognisable. All you can see

is the tops of the polls. The boat houses are flooding and people are

being warned it is dangerous to stay out. Some roads have been

closed. Here, the river came over but it is this is as usual in the

restaurant. Tonight, the Environment Agency said they did

not expect widespread flooding of homes but pleaded with people not

to mess with a flood defences. have had some problems with people

opening the floodgates. It will not be a white Christmas, but it will

be a wet one. A 27-year-old man has appeared in

court after two people suffered knife injuries at a house in

Beeston at the weekend. It happened on Alexandra Crescent on Saturday

morning. Luke Nicholson, who lives on Meadow Road in the town, was

remanded in custody. He is accused of trying to murder a 25-year-old

man and causing grievous bodily harm to a 23-year-old woman.

A Labour MP wants more to be done to ensure those who hunt with dogs

don't break the law. Chris Williamson, who represents Derby

North, is also a trustee for the League Against Cruel Sports. Mr

Williamson claims many hunts are still using hounds to kill foxes.

But the local Countryside Alliance disputes that. They say the

majority of those who take part make sure they stay well within the

law. A family firm in Nottinghamshire

that's Europe's biggest independent supplier of catalytic converters is

hoping to create more jobs next year thanks to its exports. BM

Catalysts, which is based in Mansfield and Huthwaite, handled

around 30 orders a week in the late 1990s. Now it ships up to 2,000

orders a day. The company says it's now hoping to expand into even more

countries. A Nottingham jewellers has closed

its doors for the final time today after more than 150 years of

trading. Its current owners say parking charges in the area have

forced them out, but as Tom Brown reports, it isn't quite the end for

the business. Back in 1854, Britain had just

declared war on Russia to enter the Crimean War, Charles Dickens had

just written his 10th novel and here in Nottingham, a man called

William Taylor had just opened a jewellery shop. 158 years later, it

is still going, or at least it was until today. After a downturn in

high street trade, the current owners, Andrew Bates and Terry

Marshall, decided to close it down. The economic situation is not

brilliant. Various things, alterations to traffic flow,

parking, that kind of thing, have caused problems. Customers don't

like it. They have difficulty getting into town, getting to us.

The city council says parking charges are now cheaper and simpler.

Customers say the shop will be missed.

Very sorry to see it shut, I've been coming years since I was about

seven with my father and grandfather, and my mother. It is a

family tradition. It is not all bad news, Andrew and Kenny now plan to

run the business from antiques fairs.

But soon the photos will be all that remains of a shop that opened

Good evening. It has been a damp day. The trend now is that things

are drying out for a time, but after all that moisture through the

day, as the temperatures drop, we are likely to see some mist and fog

patches forming across the East Midlands. This is the rain that has

been crossing over us doing the course of the day, brought some

patchy outbreaks of rain on and off through the day. But for now, it is

quite dry with cloudy skies. But that is where the mist and fog will

start to develop. Temperatures around five Celsius. These showers

just hanging around behind me here will be pushing in from the West

through the course of early Christmas morning. Pushing in

during the morning, some sharper ones during the morning, but less

frequent in the afternoon. We might see the odd glimpse of sunshine in

between the showers. Temperatures of eight Celsius tomorrow. An

unsettled picture for the coming week. The best of the dry weather