09/03/2014 East Midlands Today


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four x 400 m relay team. That's it. We're back

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Hello there. Now the news in the East Midlands. I'm Jo Healex.

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Farmers here are stepping in to help the community in Somerset hht by the

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winter floods. Record rainf`ll has left many needing financial help

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but, as Navtej Johal reports, the farming community here is also

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suffering because of the extreme weather over the last few ydars

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Ready, set, plough. Forget the FA Cup or the Six Nations, tod`y there

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was only one match people hdre were interested in. This ploughing match

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in Leicestershire has been organised to raise money for farming families

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affected by the winter flooding in Somerset. Absolutely heartbreaking.

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It is not just a job with these people, it is a life commitlent To

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see it destroyed so instantly must be heartbreaking and heart`rending.

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It is hoped the match will raise around ?1000. Some of the money will

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go to help local farmers as well. It may be a beautiful day here today

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but the picture is not as stnny for farmers in our region. The charity

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benefiting from the event today says the number of calls for help it has

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received from the East Midl`nds has doubled in the last year. In

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Leicestershire we distributdd ?30,000 in grants to 27 farling

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families, and that is set to increase with the bad weathdr we

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have seen and the threat of animal disease and ill`health. Firstly the

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worst I ever had was 2012. 2013 was a bit better and I hope 2014 will

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get better. That is how things go. Hope for the best.

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A woman has been left severdly shaken after she was tied up during

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a robbery at a Leicester supermarket. It happened at the

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Co`op in Clarendon Park Road at six this morning when three masked men

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forced the shop worker to open the safe before restraining her in a

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storeroom. The men escaped with money and cigarettes. After a short

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time the woman managed to free herself and call the police.

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More than a thousand Ukrani`ns have attended a national celebration in

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Leicester today. Families g`thered for a special concert to mark the

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200th anniversary of the birth of their national poet Taras

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Shevchenko. Organisers say the current political crisis in their

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country means it's important for the community here to support e`ch

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other. It is very important here Leicester and across the East

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Midlands. We have a large Ukrainian community here who have alw`ys been

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very close. This has certainly brought them closer together but all

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we can do is show our support for our native Ukraine and fellow

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Ukrainians over there in Ukraine. It is not just Kiev, it is right across

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Ukraine as well. Young patients at a hospital in

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Nottingham have been helping to brighten up the wards. The project,

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called Tina's Tiles, has already seen patients decorate hundreds of

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ceramic tiles which are being put up at the Children's Hospital. Angelina

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Socci reports. This 11`year`old is enjoying her new`found skill. During

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her time as a patient at Nottingham Children's Hospital, she has already

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designed a number of tiles `nd hopes to do more. It is a flower. I love

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colouring. It is for the we`ther and stuff. Tina came up with thd idea to

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help brighten up the bathrooms. That was the main thing to start with.

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Now it has gone on to the corridors. It has been a massive thing.

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Amazing. Every tile is amazhng. It is pretty popular with everxone who

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has taken part. They have enjoyed doing them and it gives thel

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something to focus on. If you give them something to focus on other

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than their illness, it speeds up their recovery time. 200 tiles have

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been decorated so far but it does not stop here. The plan is to start

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designing them for other wards and corridors in the hospital.

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Onto football and it was a disappointing day for most of our

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teams. Derby County and Nottingham Forest lost. Notts County got a

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point. But Mansfield saved the day with a win at home to Newport.

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Here's Natalie Jackson. A frustrating weekend for our teams at

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the top of the championship table. Third placed at Derby Countx missed

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out on the chance to close the gap at Burnley with defeat at home to

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more wall. Steve Morison's header was the only goal of the gale.

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Nottingham Forest lost 1`0 `way to strugglers Barnsley, the thhrd

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successive defeat in the ro`d. The Reds remain fifth. Notts Cotnty

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deserve more than a point in their goalless draw against Leyton

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Orient. A battling performance gave hope but they stay bottom of League

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One. In League Two, a great win for Mansfield town at home to Ndwport.

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Goals from Ryan Tafazolli and Anthony Howell.

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The weather has been gloriots. Let's see if there is more to comd.

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Good evening. What a beautiful day. Temperatures up to 16 and 17 with

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widespread sunshine as well. As we go through the night, it st`rts off

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clear and then cloud feeds down from the North West. We get some drizzly

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showers in parts of North Ddrbyshire and Nottinghamshire as well. A mild

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night as well. Into tomorrow, if you are comparing it to today, xou be

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disappointed. More cloud but brightness mixed up as well. Much

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cloudier. Milder feel. Tempdratures to ten or 11. I am pleased to say

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that the high pressure stays with us so the mild, settled staff `lso

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does. We are back tonight at 10:15pm. Have a lovely evenhng.

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Aggro in good and Wales had warm weather today with the hotspot

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Gravesend in Kent. For Scotland and Ireland, your

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weather will improve this week. It wasn't there today with the cloud.

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Some rain in Northern Ireland pushing across more of Scotland and

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the next few hours. This weather front is moving south overnight but

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by the end of the night is nothing more than a bit of cloud. Behind

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it, skies clear by the end of the night in Scotland and Northern

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Ireland, so a touch of frost, patchy ice and fog. Tomorrow brings a

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complete reversal of fortunes. The northern half of the UK will be

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sunny once any patchy fog clears away. Not much warmer numerically

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but in the sunshine, it will feel warmer, whereas much of England and

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Wales will be cloudy and cooler compared to today, especially along

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the North Sea coast, with cloud and a brisk north-easterly

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