05/04/2014 East Midlands Today

more throughout the evening on the BBC News channel. We are back with

the late news With your news now for the East

Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. First tonight, Leicester City have

been promoted to the Premier League. After ten years out of it, last

night's win for the Foxes, plus this afternoon's results for QPR and

Derby County, sees City back up. Our sports editor Natalie Jackson's with

me now. 21 games unbeaten ` it was a matter of when not if, wasn't it?

Yes, Maurice, Leicester City have been utterly dominant in the

Championship. Top of the league every week since boxing day. It's

been a recording breaking season. We were with fans at the Bull's Head

pub in Countesthorpe near Leicester and they couldn't have been happier.

With them too was Liecester former captain Steve Walsh.

It's been a long time coming. It was 20 years ago in May that I actually

scored two goals against Derby County to take us into the Premier

League for the very first time. So, you know, I've got special memories

of that. I was there last night to see them beat Sheffield Wednesday.

Just being with the fans and seeing the results come in, you know, it's

a great feeling. I'm amazed it's all gone our way today but what a

feeling. I can't wait to get back in the Prem next season and go to some

of these big grounds. We've been better than everyone and goals,

goals, goals. Premier League! It's a strange way for them to go

up, watching today's results and not in front of their home fans.

It is issue that they weren't at their owners Stadium but they won't

care. They have been through relegation, administration and two

play`off heartbreaks so this means everything.

There'll be huge celebrations tonight, but when do you think the

promotion party will be? They play on Tuesday night and there

will be a massive promotion party. If they win the next six games they

will have the highest points total ever for a championship team.

To more of the day's news now, and police investigating the

disappearance of a teenage girl in Leicester have made another arrest.

15`year`old Ana Simeonova was last seen by her family in the Lee Circle

area of Leicester on March 25th. Police arrested a 29`year`old man

last night. He's the eighth person to be held in connection with the

teenager's disappearance. A Derbyshire cricketer has been

injured in a crash, which also killed his father. A statement from

Derbyshire County Cricket Club confirms wicketkeeper Tom Poynton is

in hospital after last night's crash. As a mark of respect,

tomorrow's county match between Derbyshire and Leicestershire has

been postponed until June. Back to sport now, and to today's

results. As we saw earlier it was a 1`0 defeat for Derby County at

Middlesbrough. And Forest went down 2`1 at home to Millwall. It's now 11

games without a win for Forest. In League One, Notts County lost 3`1 at

Brentford. There was a win for one of our sides ` in League Two

Mansfield Town beat Morecambe 1`0. In rugby, the Tigers were in

European action this afternoon but failed to cause an upset at Clermont

Auvergne. Leicester lost 22`16. Good evening. The rain has been

quite hit and miss today. Quite patchy at times. Into this evening,

there will be further showery outbreaks. Between the showers,

there will be some dry spells but quite a bit of cloud around. That

will stop the temperatures dropping too far. A mild night. Tomorrow we

are going to see more rain. It will be breezy but temperatures are not

doing badly at all. At first it will be showery but the rain becomes more

persistent over the day. We may see some moderate bursts before it

starts to clear eastwards towards the evening. It will be breezy but

temperatures doing as well as today. Monday will also be fairly

unsettled, too. The beat is already underway on your

local BBC Radio station and up next here on BBC One. Look out for the

Leicestershire mum, who could be named The Voice! Sally Barker from

Lutterworth is joint favourite with the bookies to win a record deal in

the BBC singing show. She's being mentored by Tom Jones. Fingers

crossed for her. We'll have a full round`up of

today's footy action for you when we're back same time tomorrow ` ten

to seven. On the Sunday Politics this week,

the fight to save our last pit. With 600 jobs at stake, a miners' leader

meets a Treasury minister to ask what the Government is doing. Plus a

lost generation. How do we find jobs for our young people and do they

have the skills for work? Good evening. We may have got to 18

Celsius today in parts of East Anglia but it was the bright spot in

an otherwise cloudy day and it is the cloud that will dominate

tonight, bringing splashes of rain and dryer moments as well

particularly in the north-east of Scotland but heavy bursts can't be

ruled out in the West, where it will be misty and murky and breezy later

in the night. The breeze is south to south-westerly and temperatures in

the morning higher than they should be in the afternoon this time of