:00:13. > :00:17.And now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Sarah Teale.
:00:18. > :00:21.A main commuter route through the East Midlands will be closed for
:00:22. > :00:26.more than a week after a major water leak. A three foot wide pipe burst
:00:27. > :00:29.on the A6 near the M1 junction in Leicestershire. It's left thousands
:00:30. > :00:37.of properties without water. Eleanor Garnier reports.
:00:38. > :00:43.They are mending a water pipe that burst on Boxing Day. It left around
:00:44. > :00:49.10,000 people in the Loughborough area without water. All homes are
:00:50. > :00:54.now reconnected at the A6 at a key junction with the M1 is closed. It
:00:55. > :00:59.will have a lot of impact because we don't have a bypass in this village
:01:00. > :01:05.and it is a main artery towards Loughborough and the East. Its
:01:06. > :01:11.proximity is important to people here so I say it will be a big
:01:12. > :01:15.impact. Me and my father have a petrol station and a fish and chip
:01:16. > :01:21.shop so the impact will be dramatic, we rely on a lot of passing trade so
:01:22. > :01:26.it will be a very bad week. The pipe that burst is three foot across and
:01:27. > :01:32.four metres underground and seven Trent say that is why so much water
:01:33. > :01:36.is gaped. Engineers need specialist equipment to mend it, which has been
:01:37. > :01:40.difficult to get hold of over the Christmas holiday. It is not just a
:01:41. > :01:46.burst pipe engineers are mending. The huge volume of water that is
:01:47. > :01:52.gaped damaged the road and that needs to be fixed as well. ` water
:01:53. > :02:02.that is gaped. It will be at least a week before this busy route to the
:02:03. > :02:07.M1 is open again. `` escaped. A fight early this morning closed
:02:08. > :02:10.part of Derby City Centre. Witnesses say 20 people were involved in the
:02:11. > :02:14.incident. It happened at six o'clock outside the Cantina Bar on The
:02:15. > :02:16.Strand. A man in his 20s suffered head injuries.
:02:17. > :02:18.A Derby MP has started a campaign calling on the government to
:02:19. > :02:21.reconsider an almost million`pound cut to Derby College. Chris
:02:22. > :02:25.Williamson says the college will lose ?800,000 next year due to cuts
:02:26. > :02:28.to the Education Funding Agency. He's written to other local
:02:29. > :02:32.politicians asking for their support.
:02:33. > :02:35.Work to create a huge nature reserve south of Nottingham should begin in
:02:36. > :02:39.the new year. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust says it's on course
:02:40. > :02:48.to raise almost half a million pounds to buy and redevelop the
:02:49. > :02:52.site. Tom Brown reports. Between home Pierpont and the a 52
:02:53. > :02:59.lies one of Nottinghamshire's best kept secrets, bursting with wildlife
:03:00. > :03:03.but relatively untouched by human hand. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
:03:04. > :03:09.has ambitious plans for the site's future. It wants to turn it into the
:03:10. > :03:15.county's third largest nature reserve, with more than 200 species
:03:16. > :03:18.of bird, but far more than a haven for twitchers. Undoubtedly
:03:19. > :03:23.bird`watchers would find it fascinating but equally we want
:03:24. > :03:27.people to have a good day out in the countryside. For the last year the
:03:28. > :03:31.trust has been raising money to buy the site. ?14,000 has come 0
:03:32. > :03:33.trust has been raising money to buy the site. ?14,000 has come from the
:03:34. > :03:38.public and the Environment Agency has donated almost ?300,000. The
:03:39. > :03:44.money we spend, which at the end of the day is public money, is given to
:03:45. > :03:49.an organisation who will manage the site for generations to come. The
:03:50. > :03:52.nature reserve should open in 2015. Onto football, and Leicester City
:03:53. > :03:56.are top of the Championship, with our other local teams in the playoff
:03:57. > :04:01.positions. With a review of an eventful Boxing Day, here's Mark
:04:02. > :04:04.Shardlow. The lights went out at Leicester
:04:05. > :04:08.City. The floodlights failed three times, putting the match in
:04:09. > :04:18.jeopardy, but the generator kicked in and Leicester grabbed the points.
:04:19. > :04:22.It leaves Leicester two points clear at the top. Derby County were fourth
:04:23. > :04:27.but their run of seven victories came to an end. They missed a
:04:28. > :04:32.penalty and plenty of other chances before Huddersfield scored a late
:04:33. > :04:37.equaliser. Nottingham Forest are fifth after they beat Queens Park
:04:38. > :04:43.Rangers. Forest one at home for the first time since September. The goal
:04:44. > :04:46.that wrapped it up was controversial. The assistant flagged
:04:47. > :04:57.for offside and the referee did not agree. In League one it was Notts
:04:58. > :05:02.County's goal that was sandwiched between two penalties as they went
:05:03. > :05:15.down 2`1 to Port Vale and Mansfield have gone 13 games without a win,
:05:16. > :05:21.leading 3`0 at Rochdale. `` losing. It is finally settling down for the
:05:22. > :05:24.week `` the weekend. We have had gusts up to 50 miles an hour but
:05:25. > :05:28.things are coming down and we will have some sunshine. The winds stay
:05:29. > :05:33.quite lively through this evening. They will ease down through the
:05:34. > :05:41.early hours but most of us are dry. Turning a bit chilly tonight, down
:05:42. > :05:46.to one or two Celsius. A cold start to the weekend, some sunshine for
:05:47. > :05:48.the morning" in into the afternoon. The winds are a lot lighter but it
:05:49. > :05:57.will feel chilly. We are back with the late news at
:05:58. > :06:13.10:15pm. Join us then if you can. Good evening. What a week it has
:06:14. > :06:18.been, a stormy start, a law through Christmas, then a wild end to the
:06:19. > :06:24.week, had to keep up, isn't it? This was a vicious area of low pressure
:06:25. > :06:28.last night, but today the winds have been strongest across northern
:06:29. > :06:33.areas, where it is still blowing a gale. That will gradually subside as
:06:34. > :06:37.we go through the night, although a windy night across Scotland with
:06:38. > :06:41.frequent, heavy showers. A few showers whistling in elsewhere, but
:06:42. > :06:45.a lot of dry weather, and temperatures will ease down first
:06:46. > :06:47.thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, a