:00:00. > :00:16.And now the news for the East of the UK is governed.
:00:17. > :00:21.And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Maurice Flynn. A
:00:22. > :00:25.murder trial's heard how a lother and her three children died in a
:00:26. > :00:28.fire at their home in a bungled revenge attack. Nottingham Crown
:00:29. > :00:31.Court's been told a gang of men deliberately set fire to a house in
:00:32. > :00:40.Leicester because they wantdd to avenge the death of a friend. Jurors
:00:41. > :00:44.were told they got the wrong house. Sarah Teale reports. The fire ripped
:00:45. > :00:47.through the house in Woodhill in Leicester in the early hours of
:00:48. > :00:50.September 13th last year. Inside, sleep and unaware were Shehnila
:00:51. > :00:59.Taufiq, Zainab, 19, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamil, 15. Prosecutor
:01:00. > :01:07.Richard Latham QC told the lurder trial at Nottingham Crown Court it
:01:08. > :01:11.was a botched arson attack. He said it was part of a revenge pl`n for
:01:12. > :01:15.murder just seven hours earlier of 20`year`old football coach @ntoin
:01:16. > :01:19.Akpom. He was stabbed in thd back a mile away. A gang, friends `nd
:01:20. > :01:25.associates had witnessed thd attack and they believed 19`year`old Abdul
:01:26. > :01:29.Hakim had been involved. As retribution, they had intended to
:01:30. > :01:33.set fire to the home of Hakhm's mum but she lived two doors up from the
:01:34. > :01:42.family home and they simply got the wrong house. It was a tragedy. The
:01:43. > :01:49.court heard how petrol had been poured through the letterbox of the
:01:50. > :01:52.terraced house and was ignited. The fire took hold swiftly and dngulfed
:01:53. > :01:57.the stairs, the family's only means of escape. One of the firefhghters
:01:58. > :02:03.said it was the worst domestic fire he had seen in 15 years. Despite
:02:04. > :02:07.valiant efforts from neighbours and the courage of fire crews, nothing
:02:08. > :02:13.could be done to save Shehnhla or her children. The husband and
:02:14. > :02:19.father, Dr Mohammed was in Dublin at the time where he worked as a
:02:20. > :02:22.consultant neurosurgeon. Thd jury was told he had spoken to hhs wife
:02:23. > :02:28.and use child individually just before the fire claimed thehr lives.
:02:29. > :02:30.The gang on trial, Kemo Porter, Tristan Richards, Nathaniel
:02:31. > :02:36.Mullings, Shaun Carter, Jackson Powell and Aaron Webb are all from
:02:37. > :02:41.Leicester. Akeem Jeffers is from Leeds and another youth cannot be
:02:42. > :02:46.identified. They all deny four counts of murder.
:02:47. > :02:49.Detectives investigating thd disappearance of a Polish m`n,
:02:50. > :02:53.missing now since January, have now started a murder investigathon.
:02:54. > :02:58.22`year`old Bogdan Nawrocki was last seen in Radford. Police say they've
:02:59. > :03:02.found forensic evidence which has prompted the change in the nature of
:03:03. > :03:04.their investigation. Four mdn have been arrested.
:03:05. > :03:07.Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine LcCann
:03:08. > :03:12.now know of six new incidents ` since an appeal was made last month.
:03:13. > :03:15.Madeleine from Rothley in Leicestershire vanished nearly seven
:03:16. > :03:19.years ago in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve region. Police
:03:20. > :03:22.are now looking at 18 potentially`linked cases, where a
:03:23. > :03:28.lone intruder broke into villas in the region. The new cases include an
:03:29. > :03:32.assault on a 10`year`old in 200 in Praia de Luz.
:03:33. > :03:37.Next, the machine that recycles and returns patients' blood durhng major
:03:38. > :03:42.surgery. It's called the He`mosep ` and it's made using techniqtes honed
:03:43. > :03:45.in Nottinghamshire's lace industry. Jo Healey reports.
:03:46. > :03:50.Julie needed major open`heart surgery. To have it she would
:03:51. > :03:53.normally need blood transfusions but she is a Jehovah witness. Ghving
:03:54. > :03:59.blood other than her own is against her beliefs. It was important for me
:04:00. > :04:02.to have the surgery done without anybody else's blood as a
:04:03. > :04:06.transfusion into my body. That is where this machine helps. It is
:04:07. > :04:17.ground`breaking but how does it work? During any procedure, there
:04:18. > :04:21.will be an element of blood loss. You can take this blood, concentrate
:04:22. > :04:24.it in a concentrator bag, p`ss it into the blood bag and give it to
:04:25. > :04:28.the anaesthetist to transfuse back into the patient. It is extremely
:04:29. > :04:31.useful for patients because they are getting their own blood back and
:04:32. > :04:35.their own clotting factors. In the past, they would have only got red
:04:36. > :04:40.cells and the clotting cells would have been lost. This process is
:04:41. > :04:45.quicker. It could also benefit costs.
:04:46. > :04:50.Intriguingly, it has been m`de by a family firm at Kirkby in Ashfield
:04:51. > :04:54.once known for its textiles and lace. It has used their expdrtise to
:04:55. > :04:57.develop the filters and microscopic meshes needed to help patients like
:04:58. > :05:05.Julie. It is wonderful. The device itself helped my surgery, mx
:05:06. > :05:10.recuperation afterwards. Shd is one of the first patients to usd the
:05:11. > :05:14.machine. Doctors in Nottingham are part of its first ever UK trials but
:05:15. > :05:16.interest is growing across the world.
:05:17. > :05:19.A Nottinghamshire police officer wrongly convicted of rape h`s been
:05:20. > :05:22.suspended from the force despite an order to reinstate him. Trevor Gray
:05:23. > :05:26.was sacked and jailed beford clearing his name during a retrial.
:05:27. > :05:29.Earlier this month, the Polhce Appeals Tribunal ruled he could
:05:30. > :05:32.return to his job. The Forcd says he's been suspended from duty
:05:33. > :05:36.pending a gross misconduct hearing later this year.
:05:37. > :05:39.A safety warning tonight about e`cigarettes. A fire chief says some
:05:40. > :05:44.might overheat during battery charging. Kim Taylor's car was set
:05:45. > :05:49.alight by an e`cigarette. It caught fire in Leicester after she left the
:05:50. > :05:55.device charging on the back seat. Fire officers believe some
:05:56. > :06:01.e`cigarettes could pose a rhsk. Their savings to be no safety cutout
:06:02. > :06:09.which prevents them to `` there seems to be no safety cutout which
:06:10. > :06:11.preserve `` prevents them from exploding. Celebrations to lark St
:06:12. > :06:15.George's Day have seen parades and bell ringings across the region `
:06:16. > :06:17.they've also, in some places, seen a joint celebration to mark
:06:18. > :06:20.Shakespeare's birthday St Gdorge himself made an appearance hn
:06:21. > :06:23.Nottingham city centre. And in Derby, they were marking thd 45 th
:06:24. > :06:33.birthday of the bard with some patriotic verse. Followed your
:06:34. > :06:36.spirit and upon your charge cry God for Harry, England and St Gdorge.
:06:37. > :06:38.That's your news. So goodnight from me. Here with your weather now, it's
:06:39. > :06:48.Anna Church. We had a largely dry day today but
:06:49. > :06:52.we have very few sharp showdrs as you head out in the afternoon
:06:53. > :07:00.tomorrow. The rain will be clearing the way to the East over thd next
:07:01. > :07:12.few hours and given this a dry end to the night. Tomorrow mornhng, the
:07:13. > :07:16.mist and fog will lift and clear and slowly that cloud will break through
:07:17. > :07:21.the morning to give us some sunshine as we go into the afternoon. It is
:07:22. > :07:28.largely dry. You just need to allow for one or two showers starting to
:07:29. > :07:29.build. You are fairly lucky if you do get caught up in them. Hdre is
:07:30. > :07:36.the outlook. unsubtle, so for the time being the
:07:37. > :07:40.weekend doesn't look grey. Here s Nick Miller with the national
:07:41. > :07:51.outlook. The weather is going downhill, and
:07:52. > :07:53.here is why. Weekend weather developments are now to the
:07:54. > :07:58.south-west of us, low-pressure forming, and this has the weekend
:07:59. > :08:05.whether written all over it. But first to the weather front we have
:08:06. > :08:06.now. Still some heavy bursts, maybe with a rumble of thunder,