14/02/2014 East Midlands Today

almost 80 mph work recorded. In Devon, the storm brought 40

millimetres of And now the news for the East

Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. The largest deployment of armed forces

from the East Midlands is currently spending the winter in Afghanistan.

Two regiments that recruit from towns and villages across

Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire are in Helmand

Province. Some of them are there to close down Camp Bastion. Our Social

Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Ball has been with them. ATM at the

operating base in Lashkar Gar, and we are kitted out for a safety

briefing that made Sue `` makes you sit up and listen. All this for a

short walk to the provincial police headquarters where they have been

training the local Afghan uniformed police. They are keeping the local

city relatively secure and soon there won't be any British soldiers

here to help. As you can see, we they're not taking any chances.

Overnight they found two improvised bombs or ie DS macro, that some

people waved at us and greet us. People will wonder why we have our

full kit but there is always the risk of an IED. Inside police HQ, a

Warrant Officer from Loughborough and a corporal from and stay live

and work with the Afghan forces. They are here to share intelligence

about security threats. It takes time to build a rapport but once you

establish that, you can get a good working relationship. They have a

similar sense of humour to ourselves, they do enjoy a good

laugh. At the main base, they have been waiting up to this, deserts

downed protected by frost. Because the kitchens are closed down, this

is recovered, hot chocolate in water bottle and born in the bag ration

packs. `` ball in the bag. Most bases have been closed. This one is

well underway, the Royal Anglian 's will be the last Jewish soldiers in

Lashkar Gar. Thousands of British troops have left Afghanistan. The

jury in the trial of a man accused of attempting to murder a Sikh

spiritual leader with an axe, has been discharged after failing to

reach a verdict. Harjit Singh Toor from Oadby in Leicestershire had

denied trying to kill His Holiness Sirisat Guru Uday Singh during a

religious ceremony at a Leicester temple last August. A decision will

be made within the next two weeks whether or not to hold a retrial. Mr

Toor has admitted causing grievous bodily harm.

The father of a young man who went missing on a night out in Derby has

made an emotional appeal for information about his son.

Twenty`year`old Nadish Kunwar was spotted on CCTV after leaving

friends at the Jurys Inn hotel two weeks ago. Officers say he had been

drinking heavily. He hasn't been seen or heard from since. Absolutely

nothing to suggest anything untoward happened, it is a missing persons

enquiry, we have come to a point at the CCTV where we are appealing for

them members of the public to help us. They should be leafleting this

area, that area, everyday, we pray and we had no appetite, or can't

sleep at night. If somebody walking... Next ` the East Midlands

has so far escaped the worst of the winter's storms, but we may get

similar weather patterns in the future. Experts have today warned

that people can't just rely on outside organisations, but need to

protect themselves from future floods. James Roberson reports. With

its rippling brook running through the middle, this was a peaceful and

just today but these pictures show how constant rain such as weird

currently in during having the past turned to brook into a lake. The

road has been flooding, the houses, sandbags have been used. It has

caused great concern. Today, this man who works for all the East

Midlands councils of the climate change expert, was showing me what

self`help can do. The brook has been cleared and its banks have been

strengthened with local staff. They have provided a labour force of

local volunteers who have cleared up the vegetation which was cultured

beating to the flooding. Flood preventing can be sorted before

flooding. This housing estate was one of the first in Britain designed

with a special trading system. What we have try to do is retain the

water on`site for as long as possible through a mixture of ponds,

so we restrict the flow and water seeps in more slowly, therefore the

watercourse doesn't rise rapidly and we don't fly people downstream.

Residents also pay for maintaining the system. Government and emergency

organisations no longer have the money or staff to provide all the

help. As we have seen, people are standing around waiting for someone

to turn up in the UK don't have the staff to do that, so individual

resilience is important. It is up to a local business to assess risk and

put in place things which will help improve and reduce that. Children at

a primary school in Nottinghamshire received a surprise visit from the

Paralympian Richard Whitehead today. The gold medallist, who's competing

in tomorrow's final of the TV diving show, Splash, popped into Candleby

Lane school after receiving messages of support from pupils on social

media. One of the biggest things I have done. I'm having to overcome

obstacles, with my disability, just getting onto the boards, the ten

meter board. I was gobsmacked when he came through the door. How will

they do in the final? He will win. That's your news from me for now.

Here's Kaye with your weather. The good news is that we have got

some winter sunshine on the way for the weekend for Sunday, but we have

got to wait until Sunday because it is staying unsettled for the next

24`hour is also. The showers will continue overnight. The winds will

be gusting up to 60 mph so we have a yellow warning in force across

Lincolnshire. Temperatures not falling very far. Tomorrow morning,

we kicked off wet and windy once again, some showers from the word

go. These will slowly but surely diminish. The winds will ease as

well, that takes us into a super sunny Sunday.

and bright after a chilly night. I will leave you with the weekend

summary for London. Let's go to the weather centre to get the national

forecast. Our love hate relationship with the

weather has become unbalanced this winter, I suspect there is not a lot

of love left. Today's storm has not helped. It gave us 20 to 30

millimetres of rain. Snow in the past few hours at lower levels in

eastern Scotland. That should turn to rain again but the blizzards in

the Scottish mountains will continue. This evening, it has been

the wind which has been most disruptive in southern England. Met

Office amber warning remains in force with gusts up to 80 miles an

hour along the south coast producing big waves crashing into the

shoreline. Dangerous conditions and more coastal flooding. Inland, winds

50 to 60 miles an hour up the Bristol Channel and other southern

counties. Trees have come down and plenty of disruption. This weather

continues for a few more hours. There are weather warnings. The

number of flood warnings has risen through the day and more detail

about that