:00:00. > :00:00.almost 80 mph work recorded. In Devon, the storm brought 40
:00:00. > :00:18.millimetres of And now the news for the East
:00:19. > :00:21.Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. The largest deployment of armed forces
:00:22. > :00:24.from the East Midlands is currently spending the winter in Afghanistan.
:00:25. > :00:26.Two regiments that recruit from towns and villages across
:00:27. > :00:31.Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire are in Helmand
:00:32. > :00:34.Province. Some of them are there to close down Camp Bastion. Our Social
:00:35. > :00:45.Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball has been with them. ATM at the
:00:46. > :00:52.operating base in Lashkar Gar, and we are kitted out for a safety
:00:53. > :00:56.briefing that made Sue `` makes you sit up and listen. All this for a
:00:57. > :00:59.short walk to the provincial police headquarters where they have been
:01:00. > :01:05.training the local Afghan uniformed police. They are keeping the local
:01:06. > :01:13.city relatively secure and soon there won't be any British soldiers
:01:14. > :01:17.here to help. As you can see, we they're not taking any chances.
:01:18. > :01:27.Overnight they found two improvised bombs or ie DS macro, that some
:01:28. > :01:31.people waved at us and greet us. People will wonder why we have our
:01:32. > :01:39.full kit but there is always the risk of an IED. Inside police HQ, a
:01:40. > :01:43.Warrant Officer from Loughborough and a corporal from and stay live
:01:44. > :01:50.and work with the Afghan forces. They are here to share intelligence
:01:51. > :01:54.about security threats. It takes time to build a rapport but once you
:01:55. > :01:58.establish that, you can get a good working relationship. They have a
:01:59. > :02:02.similar sense of humour to ourselves, they do enjoy a good
:02:03. > :02:09.laugh. At the main base, they have been waiting up to this, deserts
:02:10. > :02:15.downed protected by frost. Because the kitchens are closed down, this
:02:16. > :02:21.is recovered, hot chocolate in water bottle and born in the bag ration
:02:22. > :02:26.packs. `` ball in the bag. Most bases have been closed. This one is
:02:27. > :02:32.well underway, the Royal Anglian 's will be the last Jewish soldiers in
:02:33. > :02:40.Lashkar Gar. Thousands of British troops have left Afghanistan. The
:02:41. > :02:43.jury in the trial of a man accused of attempting to murder a Sikh
:02:44. > :02:46.spiritual leader with an axe, has been discharged after failing to
:02:47. > :02:49.reach a verdict. Harjit Singh Toor from Oadby in Leicestershire had
:02:50. > :02:52.denied trying to kill His Holiness Sirisat Guru Uday Singh during a
:02:53. > :02:57.religious ceremony at a Leicester temple last August. A decision will
:02:58. > :03:01.be made within the next two weeks whether or not to hold a retrial. Mr
:03:02. > :03:06.Toor has admitted causing grievous bodily harm.
:03:07. > :03:10.The father of a young man who went missing on a night out in Derby has
:03:11. > :03:13.made an emotional appeal for information about his son.
:03:14. > :03:16.Twenty`year`old Nadish Kunwar was spotted on CCTV after leaving
:03:17. > :03:20.friends at the Jurys Inn hotel two weeks ago. Officers say he had been
:03:21. > :03:30.drinking heavily. He hasn't been seen or heard from since. Absolutely
:03:31. > :03:34.nothing to suggest anything untoward happened, it is a missing persons
:03:35. > :03:39.enquiry, we have come to a point at the CCTV where we are appealing for
:03:40. > :03:50.them members of the public to help us. They should be leafleting this
:03:51. > :03:54.area, that area, everyday, we pray and we had no appetite, or can't
:03:55. > :04:01.sleep at night. If somebody walking... Next ` the East Midlands
:04:02. > :04:04.has so far escaped the worst of the winter's storms, but we may get
:04:05. > :04:07.similar weather patterns in the future. Experts have today warned
:04:08. > :04:09.that people can't just rely on outside organisations, but need to
:04:10. > :04:15.protect themselves from future floods. James Roberson reports. With
:04:16. > :04:18.its rippling brook running through the middle, this was a peaceful and
:04:19. > :04:24.just today but these pictures show how constant rain such as weird
:04:25. > :04:29.currently in during having the past turned to brook into a lake. The
:04:30. > :04:36.road has been flooding, the houses, sandbags have been used. It has
:04:37. > :04:39.caused great concern. Today, this man who works for all the East
:04:40. > :04:43.Midlands councils of the climate change expert, was showing me what
:04:44. > :04:50.self`help can do. The brook has been cleared and its banks have been
:04:51. > :04:55.strengthened with local staff. They have provided a labour force of
:04:56. > :04:59.local volunteers who have cleared up the vegetation which was cultured
:05:00. > :05:03.beating to the flooding. Flood preventing can be sorted before
:05:04. > :05:09.flooding. This housing estate was one of the first in Britain designed
:05:10. > :05:13.with a special trading system. What we have try to do is retain the
:05:14. > :05:19.water on`site for as long as possible through a mixture of ponds,
:05:20. > :05:22.so we restrict the flow and water seeps in more slowly, therefore the
:05:23. > :05:30.watercourse doesn't rise rapidly and we don't fly people downstream.
:05:31. > :05:36.Residents also pay for maintaining the system. Government and emergency
:05:37. > :05:42.organisations no longer have the money or staff to provide all the
:05:43. > :05:46.help. As we have seen, people are standing around waiting for someone
:05:47. > :05:52.to turn up in the UK don't have the staff to do that, so individual
:05:53. > :05:56.resilience is important. It is up to a local business to assess risk and
:05:57. > :06:01.put in place things which will help improve and reduce that. Children at
:06:02. > :06:04.a primary school in Nottinghamshire received a surprise visit from the
:06:05. > :06:07.Paralympian Richard Whitehead today. The gold medallist, who's competing
:06:08. > :06:10.in tomorrow's final of the TV diving show, Splash, popped into Candleby
:06:11. > :06:19.Lane school after receiving messages of support from pupils on social
:06:20. > :06:24.media. One of the biggest things I have done. I'm having to overcome
:06:25. > :06:30.obstacles, with my disability, just getting onto the boards, the ten
:06:31. > :06:40.meter board. I was gobsmacked when he came through the door. How will
:06:41. > :06:42.they do in the final? He will win. That's your news from me for now.
:06:43. > :06:53.Here's Kaye with your weather. The good news is that we have got
:06:54. > :06:57.some winter sunshine on the way for the weekend for Sunday, but we have
:06:58. > :07:02.got to wait until Sunday because it is staying unsettled for the next
:07:03. > :07:11.24`hour is also. The showers will continue overnight. The winds will
:07:12. > :07:14.be gusting up to 60 mph so we have a yellow warning in force across
:07:15. > :07:20.Lincolnshire. Temperatures not falling very far. Tomorrow morning,
:07:21. > :07:24.we kicked off wet and windy once again, some showers from the word
:07:25. > :07:31.go. These will slowly but surely diminish. The winds will ease as
:07:32. > :07:33.well, that takes us into a super sunny Sunday.
:07:34. > :07:37.and bright after a chilly night. I will leave you with the weekend
:07:38. > :07:45.summary for London. Let's go to the weather centre to get the national
:07:46. > :07:49.forecast. Our love hate relationship with the
:07:50. > :07:54.weather has become unbalanced this winter, I suspect there is not a lot
:07:55. > :08:00.of love left. Today's storm has not helped. It gave us 20 to 30
:08:01. > :08:04.millimetres of rain. Snow in the past few hours at lower levels in
:08:05. > :08:06.eastern Scotland. That should turn to rain again but the blizzards in
:08:07. > :08:11.the Scottish mountains will continue. This evening, it has been
:08:12. > :08:14.the wind which has been most disruptive in southern England. Met
:08:15. > :08:19.Office amber warning remains in force with gusts up to 80 miles an
:08:20. > :08:24.hour along the south coast producing big waves crashing into the
:08:25. > :08:29.shoreline. Dangerous conditions and more coastal flooding. Inland, winds
:08:30. > :08:33.50 to 60 miles an hour up the Bristol Channel and other southern
:08:34. > :08:38.counties. Trees have come down and plenty of disruption. This weather
:08:39. > :08:43.continues for a few more hours. There are weather warnings. The
:08:44. > :08:45.number of flood warnings has risen through the day and more detail
:08:46. > :08:46.about that