15/02/2014 East Midlands Today

That's it for now. We're back with the late news

With your news now for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn.

Councillors are being urged not to turn 0

Councillors are being urged not to turn their backs on a project in

Derbyshire, which has helped hundreds of homeless and vulnerable

young people to change their lives. A meeting has been reviewing the

success of the SAFE scheme which is run by three housing associations.

In its first year, it's helped nearly 600 of Derbyshire's most

vulnerable 16 to 24`year`olds. They've supported me through thick

and thin, through everything that's happened in the short space of time

that I have been with them. They've guided me and given me the skills

that I need, in order to get the best from my life. The proposal at

the moment is to reduce that funding by 85% in the next financial year. I

don't think it would be a very viable service. We certainly

couldn't provide anywhere near the level and breadth of support that we

provide now across the county. The demolition of Leicester's Belgrave

Flyover got underway today. After an informal ceremony, the work to

dismantle the 1970s structure started this afternoon. It'll last

another seven weeks. The City Council have sought to promote how

it can make better use of the Golden Mile. We need to connect it can make

better use of the Golden Mile. We need to connected into the city.

Campaigners in Derby have launched a legal challenge against plans to

build a cycle track on a nature reserve. Planning permission was

granted for the track at Pride Park last week. Derbyshire Wildlife Park

is now seeking a judicial review, and has formally requested work

stops on site immediately or it'll seek a court injunction. A man who's

spent three years running every single street in Leicester, finally

finished 0 single street in Leicester, finally

finished his challenge today. Duncan Clarke started back in 2011, and

finished aptly enough on "every street", as Navtej Johal reports.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. After three years and over 700

miles, this morning Duncan Clark said off on the final part of his

mission, to run every street in Leicester. It was an old joke of my

grandfather, there is a street called Every Street. I thought I

could run down that street. I started the next week. For the last

leg of the challenge, he is running for a local charity which gives

businesses the chance to volunteer a community projects. The 37 Gerald

accountant is in great shape. He has been running for 12 years `` Michael

37`year`old. I will catch up with you later. 0

37`year`old. I will catch up with you later. I am so please, so happy

for him. It has been a brilliant morning. I 0

for him. It has been a brilliant morning. I cannot believe the

support I have had. My family have been great. To sport, and another

contentious day for Nottingham`based speed skater Elise Christie at the

Winter Olympics. She looked to have won her qualifying heat by a

thousandth of a second in the 1500 metre short`track skate earlier, but

was deemed not to have completed the race at all, as she veered too far

inside the track. I was playing safe after what happened the other day. I

was trying not to touch anyone or be near anyone. I haven't got a clue

what has happened ` I'm gobsmacked. I expected this decision the other

day, but, today, I have no idea what's going on. I have seen the

official photo of the going over the line, and she is unfortunately one

centimetre, the smallest margin ever, inside that line. To the

weekend's football, and Notts County were at second`placed Wolves in

League One. It finished Wolves two Notts County nil. And in League Two,

Mansfield were defeated 3`0 at Oxford. Let's check the weather now,

with Sara. It has been changing direction, the

wind, it will start to come from a north`westerly direction. We are in

for 0 north`westerly direction. We are in

for a cold but quieter night, a few showers around, mainly in the far

north, but temperatures in rural areas will drop below freezing.

After 's 12 start to develop. A cold day tomorrow, but it will be

bright. A chilly day, temperatures will reach up to eight degrees. More

wet 0 will reach up to eight degrees. More

wet weather is on the way. The Beat's underway now on your BBC

Local Radio, more from me tomorrow at 6:20pm.

Hello, good evening, finally some quieter weather on the way for the

British Isles for the remainder of this weekend, also somewhat for the

week ahead. More on that in a moment. Tonight, the biggest story

is the winds continuing to ease Into the small hours of Sunday, the

winds will be light. Late showers for Scotland, Northern Ireland and

northern England. A lot of groundwater around elsewhere with a

wide spread rural frost predicted we are looking at the prospect of

patches of ice on Sunday. There is a lot of sunshine to come throughout

the day. With light winds it will feel pleasant. Highs to Scotland and

Northern Ireland of six or seven. To the south, eight, nine or ten in the

south-east of England. To the west, showers will brush into Northern

Ireland through the afternoon. High pressure, as we move from Sunday

into Monday, gives way to an area of low pressure couldn't coming in from

the Atlantic. This is nothing like the bull's-eye beast we have been

looking at in the last week, it s a slacker affair. The wind will be

lighter. That is what we are