01/05/2014 East Midlands Today

And now the news for the East Midlands. I'm Dominic Heale. Good

evening. First tonight, social services bosses are to give a

failing care home more time to improve after meeting residents'

families. They haven't paid for new people to go there since December

after serious concerns were raised. And problems were still evident at

the Eton Park Care Centre at Cotgrave in Nottinghamshire during

the latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission. Our health

correspondent Rob Sissons reports. This is her in the war. To either so

she has always been close to her aunt. She says she was doing much

better before going into care. She picked the home Eton Park Care

Centre in a rush and soon regretted it. Not happy about the room, the

cleanliness. She got so depressed she would not get out of bed and

they had to bring her ray commode. It did not get emptied regularly

enough. It's not. `` they brought her a commode. A lot of failures

were found by the CQC. Residents did not get enough nutrition and were

not always protected from the risk of abuse. The home said it was

continuing to make improvements and has invested half ?1 million

recently. Many of the problems have been caused by management and staff

issues and they have now been fully addressed. We are continuing to work

hand`in`hand with the Care Quality Commission and the council to

improve the facility. Irene is now in hospital. Her niece does not want

her back in a care home. This is her room. She lived with us for six

months. This is her ensuite. You want her to come back as you might I

do. Where she is going to be loved and cared for. `` you definitely

want her to come back? The council is giving the home more time to sort

things out. A meeting was called to night to try to reassure residents

that the council and the CQC is on the home's case. They have been

given more time to put things right. The authority says they have

seen improvements already but the challenge will be sustaining them.

The family of a Nottingham soldier killed on a training exercise have

described him as an amazing son, brother, boyfriend and expectant

father. 20`year`old Cameron Laing was hit by

a trailer which was part of a convoy heading towards Dartmoor. He

suffered head and chest injuries. He was serving with a Royal Logistic

Corps regiment based in Rutland. Police are still investigating what

happened. The mother of Madeleine McCann is

supporting a new campaign to help find missing children. Kate McCann

from Rothley has been publicising the child rescue alert system which

is already used in parts of America and Europe. It comes as the McCanns

approach the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of their

three`year`old daughter from a holiday resort in Portugal.

The UKIP leader Nigel Farage called off a planned walkabout in

Nottingham this lunchtime after a protestor hit him with an egg. His

visit came a day after he refused to stand in the forthcoming by`

election at Newark which it's been announced will take place on fifth

June. Our political editor John Hess can tell us more. It is the moment

every politician drags. `` dreamt. They are redundant. A lot of people

have been hoodwinked into thinking they agree with their policies when

they do not. Inside this pub, Nigel Farage brushed up. The worry is it

is preventing normal democracy. On the day the Newark by`election was

confirmed, no regrets about not standing. In the Commons, the

government's Chief Whip officially tells MPs Patrick Mercer is no

longer the MP for Newark. The speaker formally kick`starts the

by`election campaign. The county constituency of Newark... Polling

day, Thursday, the 5th of June. The disgrace of the former MP was

revealed today in the committee report that investigated his

conduct. He had said he deliberately evaded Commons rules on registering

money received for consultancy services. The investigation also

condemned him for repeatedly denigrating fellow MPs and using

racially offensive language. He had also brought the house into

disrepute by involving other MPs. That was because he set up an

all`party parliamentary group on behalf of a paying client being

represented unknown to him by undercover reporters. Back in

Nottingham, this was the closest Nigel Farage came to the Newark

constituency. One of the reasons he gave for not standing was that he

did not know the East Midlands particular well. He will certainly

remember his visit to Nottingham now. That is certainly true! I have

only been to Newark once. It was supposed to be a campaign visit for

the European elections, but Newark and an egg derailed all of that.

Finally, if you're on the road early tomorrow for the morning commute,

good luck. It turns out the East Midlands is one of the worst places

in Britain for roadworks. According to a new survey, Leicestershire's

got the second highest number in the country with more than 1,200 road

improvement schemes on the go. Derby was third with 930 and Nottingham

fifth with almost 600. 91 UK councils provided information, with

unfinished projects now totalling around 10,000.

That seems a lot. Now your weather. You may have been caught out in one

of the showers today. You will be pleased to hear it looks like

tomorrow will be largely dry, as will the bank holiday weekend.

Tomorrow feeling colder. Showers dying out tonight. Largely dry

throughout the night. A lot of cloud staying with us. The cloud could be

thick enough for like terrain. A little bit cooler tonight. `` light

rain. We are hopeful in the morning that the rain will sink to the south

and behind it it is drier and brighter in the afternoon with long

spells of sunshine. However, with the north`easterly breeze, it is

feeling colder. Much fresher with a high of just 11 degrees. High

pressure is in charge Saturday and for the rest of the bank holiday

weekend. Not looking too bad. Here is your outlook for the next

on that at the moment, that there will be some sunshine around. More

on that in the national forecast. Our weather is taking a turn for the

colder. You would be forgiven for thinking that does not bode well for

the Bank Holiday Weekend. But as we go through the weekend, temperatures

will be performing a U-turn, and recovering, as we will see. England

and Wales has borne the brunt of some heavy